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She's linked to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee report.
Politicians can't transfer a large percentage of funding from a direct Foreign
Office Grant in Aid to the licence fee, a compulsory flat rate tax on every
household in the UK backed up by an enforcement system and then issue a report
complaining about World Service Funding. If they were that concerned they
shouldn't have transferred funding over in the first place. I'm having
difficulty recalling any objections to this from politicians when this was
forced onto the BBC without consultation with anyone during a period of 72
hours. 180,000 people appear before magistrates every year for non payment of
the licence fee, one in 10 of every criminal prosecutions in the UK, most from
families who are financially struggling.
The idea that UK households would agree to increase the proportion of the
licence fee budget allocated to the World Service is unrealistic, those who pay
the piper call the tune. Not only have politicians transferred the BBC budget
over to licence fee payers they've also frozen the licence fee. All in the name
of austerity cuts. The BBC can't be expected to increase funding for the World
Service and at the same time make visible cuts in domestic services.
Mike
On Monday, 7 July 2014, 1:11, Art Preis <[email protected]> wrote:
Come across this thoughtful opinion piece by Judy Dempsey, Nonresident Senior
Associate, Carnegie Europe
http://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/?fa=56077
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