2.84 million viewers are refusing to pay the BBC licence fee – a 360,000 increase from last year. It looks increasingly as if the BBC cannot survive on its current funding model and should become a subscription-based service like Netflix and Amazon Prime. The Mail has more.
The BBC is facing a revolt from millions of television viewers who are no longer willing to pay the television licence fee.
A record 2.84 million people now insist they are no longer obliged to fork out £159 for the annual charge because they don’t watch BBC channels or any kind of live TV.
This figure is an increase of more than 360,000 on the previous twelve months.
This abandonment of the BBC will exacerbate the debate about the future of both the broadcaster and the licence fee.
Toby Young, the Founder and Director of the Free Speech Union said: “These figures show that the TV licence fee is not a viable funding model for the BBC going forward.”
He added: “The obvious alternative is to become a subscription-based service like Netflix and Amazon Prime. Given the BBC’s global brand recognition and its reputation for producing premium content, it could become the largest and most profitable streaming service in the world.”
The increase in the number of people claiming they are not liable to pay the charge is one of the factors driving a fall in the number of licences sold.
Last year TV Licensing (TVL) which collects the licence fee on behalf of the BBC sold 23.50 million licences.
That was a drop of around 420,000 on the previous year’s figure.
Of course, any reduction in the number of licenses sold has implications for the BBC’s finances.
The Corporation is already having to cut services following the Government’s decision in 2022 to freeze the licence fee for two years.
Last year the BBC earned £3,741 million from the licence fee compared with £3,800 million the previous year.
That is a fall of £59 million.
At the same time the public service broadcaster is also having to deal with an increase in licence fee evasion from people who are eligible to pay but don’t.
The estimated evasion rate, which in part is being driven by the cost of living crisis, has increased to over 10% for the first time since 1995.
It is believed the current rate of licence fee evasion is costing the BBC £430 a million a year.
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The Strep A problem may be being caused by the Nasal Flu spray being given to school children ! Apparently in trials with Mice this was the result ! Could this be true ??
The paper mentioned “significant increases” in Streptococcus pneumoniae rather than Strep A, they cause different diseases. Also increased Staphylococcus aureus. But the mechanisms that the authors suggest are not necessarily specific to those two; if Strep A happens to be doing the rounds at the time of vaccination then maybe it could promote that as well. The fact checkers will tell you there’s “no evidence” of course, but that’s “no evidence” in the sense that nobody’s looked for any.
Mark Steyn must be on the mend if he’s able to talk about his experience. Glad he’s doing well though.
https://www.gbnews.uk/news/mark-steyn-speaks-out-on-suffering-two-heart-attacks-as-gb-news-host-reveals-he-was-15-minutes-from-death/409720
Do you have a link to his talk, Mogs? This just takes you to a picture of the great man without any video.
No sorry, I couldn’t find one. I did find this however, lead singer of The Specials dead after a ”brief illness”.
Gutted. Everyone knows some corkers that The Specials did. Ghost Town, A Message To You Rudy, You Done Too Much, being 3 faves of mine. Very sad.
https://www.gbnews.uk/entertainment/terry-hall-lead-singer-of-the-specials-dies-aged-63/409913
I saw this last night. Very sad. Terry Hall was a wonderful singer and songwriter and I have been a fan throughout his career.
Lead with The Fun Boy Three.
Personally I think his greatest work was the album “Virgins and Philistines” when he fronted The Colourfield. Some of it is a touch dark but as an album it is sublime. One of my all time favourites.
I liked Fun Boy Three also. “It ain’t what you do it’s the way that you do it…” Only know them as I was a Bananarama fangirl.
But 63yrs is way too young to go. Another mystery, though maybe more details will emerge over time.
The Lunatics, surely. Written in the 1980s but topical today: –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWLdZFCMx8Y&t=11s
LOL. I’ve never heard of that one. I was probably a bit young to appreciate them back in the day. I think if he’d grown his hair and went crazy with the hair spray, worn red lipstick, eye liner and big, baggy jumpers he’d pass for Robert Smith’s brother, haha! Obviously a very different style of music but still. I did dig The Cure back in the ’80s though.
Now, you’re just making me feel old!
I sincerely wish Mark Steyn all the very best. A highly credible man and class one journalist.
Reading the blurb he had his second heart attack in France…lucky man! He’s staying there while he is being cared for and recovering…and so would I….!!
The New York Times reputation for insightful journalism is now below The Beano.
Does that mean it is on a par with the Sunday Times?
“A leading think tank says Government should highlight benefits of people coming to work legally while cracking down on small boat crossings”
So, you need a think tank to tell you of laws that already exist? Oi veh!
I have a simpler mechanism to offer. When a boat arrives, if people who have travelled far and risked much to come and try to build a better life here through hard work and enterprise, we should get 20 lardy career benfit claimants, and holders of non-jobs in the Public Sector to go back the other way. One in, one out….
We could call it ‘Refugee Swap’ and make it into a TV programme…
I know that we have all read about HCQ and Ivermectin…and one of the greatest miscarriages in this whole charade has been the way people were left to die ‘because there was no treatment’ for Covid when we all know there were numerous early treatments that were used successfully….
Jikky the Mouse had a huge Twitter following but of course she was subsequently banned….she has now been re-instated ….!
She claims here, and I believe it’s true, that three tablets of Azithromycin would have saved thousands of elderly lives, if not more….
If they hadn’t used the useless PCR and been diagnosed with ‘Covid’ they would have got the treatment…which is shocking…..
Jikky the mouse https
@TheJikky
For every person who had an elderly relative die “of Covid” and who never received a single antibiotic go back to the treating doctor and ask them what the treatment is for post viral pneumonia.
Then ask why they didn’t treat your gran.
#3tablets was all it took.
3 tablets.
That’s what they withheld from the elderly that were diagnosed with “COVID pneumonia” because they were told not to treat. It was bacterial pneumonia. They died.
If they hadn’t had the test they would have had the tablets.
Instead of “two weeks to slow the spread” which became “3 years and an experimental gene therapy whether you like it or not” it would have just taken #3tablets to stop the majority of the deaths in the elderly.
Please keep this going.
Tag every COVID post with #3tablets twitter.com/TheJikky/statu…
More devastating evidence. As if any where needed.
Jikky’s been great in uncovering all of this viral pneumonia stuff. And people doubt the depopulation theory. It’s gathering more and more evidence by the day!
From a post just seen over at TCW:
The latest proposed terrorism legislation states that ANY venue capable of holding more than 100 people must produce a plan detailing how it will respond in the event of it coming under a terrorist attack.
Well we do suffer alot of those don’t we? Usually instigated by our own government.
Let’s see – churches, sport stadiums, theatres, gyms, supermarkets, factories etc.
(I can’t seem to copy and paste from the TCW site.)
They’re learning: https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2022/12/hydrogen-will-not-play-a-major-role-in-uk-decarbonisation-science-committee-says/
JC’s Yellow Card https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb9E3cOPi-c How to fill out a form.
A long read on the links between the Wellcome Trust & DARPA. Makes the appointment of Sir Jeremy Farrar to the WHO even more concerning
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/06/investigative-reports/a-leap-toward-humanitys-destruction/
Thanks BB. A long and disturbing read and as usual with these psychopaths nothing to do with improving the health of the world population, in fact just the opposite.
A thoughtful piece discussing the Pearl Harbour attack & the current war trade embargos on Russia.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/history/they-never-teach-the-truth/
It’s not enough for them…provoking Russia and threatening China…I fear that Serbia is going to be pushed into conflict by USA/NATO, as they were before…
The future for Europe is looking decidedly bleak while ever they follow the orders coming from the USA…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voL3aJqSagg
NATO, Serbia, Russia; Second front and conflict in the Balkans
The Duran: Episode 1458
A terrific short piece. Thanks.
Impact of covid injections on menstrual cycles & the signal from the Orthodox Jewish community
https://dailyclout.io/covid-vaccines-affect-jewish-marriages/
What a dreadful catalogue of adverse events.
Michael Shellenberger on Twitter: “46. The FBI’s influence campaign may have been helped by the fact that it was paying Twitter millions of dollars for its staff time. “I am happy to report we have collected $3,415,323 since October 2019!” reports an associate of Jim Baker in early 2021. https://t.co/SmNse97QxK” / Twitter
So, the FBI using taxpayer cash to pay twitter to work for them.
Any sign of dirty politics, given what this MP has achieved so far re the drug promotion? https://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2022/december-2022/independent-expert-panel-dismisses-appeal-by-andrew-bridgen-mp/
“We’ve penetrated the cabinets…”
Sounds about right.
Said Klaus ! …
Andrew Bridgen MP banned from HOC ! Amazing that !!!…
Again?!
The bloke’s a hero and is showing up his colleagues for the collective sociopaths that they are, because they all didn’t just snub him when he gave his speech to an empty hall, they snubbed the entire British public that they are supposed to serve! F***ers!
TPTB are desperate to stifle the truth !!
Spot on.