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To: Abundy
license for a TV.

I doubt it will last long. The BBC is being heavily scaled back right now, with massive job cuts. The removal of the license is seriously on the agenda. On that front at least, there is a little progress.
73 posted on 02/24/2005 4:54:57 AM PST by pau1f0rd (a British citizen)
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To: pau1f0rd

The problem with the Beeb is that 27,000 mostly left of centre shiny bums rely on it for their living.

If it is forced to live in the real world and earn its own living, there will be redundancies and those people and their families friends and sympathisers are unlikely to back the government which wields the axe.

Turkeys tend not to vote for Christmas.


77 posted on 02/24/2005 4:59:05 AM PST by oursouls
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