[RayChuang88]

This is a HUGE problem for the BBC since the British government has a say in how the BBC is funded (Parliament sets the rules on the yearly per-TV license fee). In short, it's a British government problem.

[granada]

One thing’s for sure, they can’t blame it on Rupert Murdoch.

[Doogle]

..he always struck me as an odd duck back in the early 70’s...

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The government is probably terrified of upsetting the LGBT&P (pedophile) vote.

Operation Ore, in 1999, identified some 8,000 British pedophiles, so the political party demographers probably figure that there are hundreds of thousands of Brits with pedophile tendencies — and they vote.

Plus, this particular deviant had been knighted, so would be a further embarrassment to the crown, knighthoods in recent decades becoming as ridiculous as the appointment of wacko CofE Bishops.