Monday 17 February 2020

Subscription, Service

When the licence fee was first introduced, then there was only one television channel, so it was for all practical purposes a subscription service.

But it would now be technologically impossible to end the BBC's universality. You can set up a subscription service, but you cannot turn an existing universal service into one. It cannot be done.

Making the licence fee voluntary would make the BBC like ITV. But without the adverts. The possibilities for reorganisation would be endless.

The Left and the working class need to bypass both the municipal Labour Right and the Liberal Establishment both in education and in the media.

The EU referendum result and the two subsequent General Election results have confirmed that the workers, and not the liberal bourgeoisie, are now the key swing voters who deserve direct representation on local public bodies, on national public bodies, in the media, and at the intersection of the public and media sectors.

They have confirmed that Wales, the Midlands and the North are the areas that determine the outcome of national referendums and of General Elections, entitling us to direct and prominent representation both culturally and politically.

I will be standing for Parliament again here at North West Durham next time, so please give generously. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.

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