Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has strongly opposed the suggested £15 hike in the BBC licence fee, deeming it “absolutely” excessive and a further strain on the cost of living. Here’s an excerpt from the BBC’s report:
The licence fee has been frozen for the last two years at £159 but is due to rise in April in line with inflation.
It’s currently expected to increase to £173.30 a year, but Ms. Frazer said she was looking at which measure of inflation to use to calculate the rise.
Asked by BBC Breakfast whether the Government was looking at whether £15 would be too much of an increase, Ms. Frazer replied: “Absolutely. I think that is quite a significant rise, so that is exactly what we are looking at.”
She added: “We froze the licence fee for two years to help households with their daily payments. That freeze has come to an end and the licence fee is due to rise with inflation but we’re looking at ways to make sure that is sustainable for families across the country.”
The Sunday Times reported that Ms. Frazer is considering using September’s consumer price index (CPI) rate of inflation, rather than the higher 12-month average, to calculate how much the cost of the licence fee should rise by.
Using September’s inflation rate of 6.7%, the licence fee would be expected to rise by £10.65 to £169.65 per year.
The Culture Secretary confirmed she would make the final decision on what the fee should be soon.
Ms. Frazer also said she was also looking at how “we fund the BBC going forward”.
“It’s unsustainable because 400,000 people did not renew their licence fee over the last year. The media landscape is changing. We’re not consuming the BBC like we used to consume it, so I’m also looking at a broader review,” she said. …
Members of the public have been sharing their opinions on the planned increase to the licence fee on BBC Radio 5 Live.
Craig from Oxford told broadcast Nicky Campbell he does not watch enough BBC content to justify the cost of the licence fee and would “much rather pay less to stream just what I want, it’s about offering people choice”.
Janey from Northampton agreed, and added “to take away people’s choice is not how we should be running the law of the land”, saying the licence fee is not value for money as she does not watch any BBC programmes on the TV.
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I shared this story the other day so I’ll post about this instead. It would seem the German coalition government has got the same idea as the Demtard party in the U.S;
”More than 500,000 newly naturalized German citizens will cast ballots for the first time in the upcoming federal election on Feb. 23, a record figure driven by the traffic light coalition government’s progressive citizenship reforms.
Many of these new voters, primarily Syrian nationals, have been granted citizenship in the last year, facilitated by government legislative reforms to fast-track citizenship by allowing naturalization after just five years of residency (and in some cases three years), down from the previous eight-year requirement.
This unprecedented influx of new voters has resulted in significant increases in naturalizations across federal states, according to data compiled from all 16 regions.
North Rhine-Westphalia alone has naturalized over 121,000 people since the last federal election in 2021, including 22,720 Syrians in 2023. Berlin saw the sharpest year-over-year growth, with 16,470 foreigners naturalized in 2024 — nearly double the annual average prior to the reforms.
Remix News reported earlier this year that 200,000 migrants had become German citizens in 2023 alone, according to the Federal Statistical Office — and that was before the citizenship reforms entered into force.
Of those 200,000, by far the largest group was made up of Syrians with 75,485 naturalizations. In second place were migrants from Turkey, who received 10,735 German passports, while Iraq came in third place with 10,710 new citizens.
The inclusion of these new citizens is expected to influence the political landscape, particularly as many of them hail from immigrant communities traditionally supportive of progressive policies.
This change could bolster left-leaning parties like the SPD and the Greens, both of which have formed two-thirds of the federal coalition government since 2021 that has been supportive of Germany’s open-door immigration policy.”
https://rmx.news/article/over-500000-foreigners-have-acquired-voting-rights-ahead-of-germanys-snap-election/
A Tottenham player has just been banned for 7 games for sarcastically suggesting to a reporter in an interview that he might not recognise his Korean team mate’s relative because they all look the same. He claims he was joking.
Even if he wasn’t, you aren’t allowed to have that opinion even if it happens to be true for you.
(Hilariously, I was told the same thing about white people by a Chinese person in China, that we all looked the same and it didn’t offens me one bit. I found it hilarious.)
We are being trained and conditioned like little animals to behave in the way our self appointed masters deem appropriate. A few exemplary public punishments will go a long way to getting the masses to behave.
It’s a (sad) moot point whether Germany is even more f@cked than England.
There or thereabouts, I’d say.
Germany has become an ‘All you can eat’ shit sandwich buffet. The amount of bad news and general crapola coming out of that country is unreal and it just doesn’t stop. Take this video clip. Is he from Nigeria or Zimbabwe? Either way, he’s obviously not a native but look at his attitude towards German women just going about their business. And the fact he’s filmed and uploaded the footage of himself harassing passengers tells me we’re not dealing with a highly educated person here. ( sound on );
”I will beat you till you die… Look at your pig skin.”
A migrant makes sexist, racist, and anti-LGBT remarks against young women in the Berlin train system near the Tempelhof stop.”
https://x.com/RMXnews/status/1858816011987828977
”While Berlin’s crime statistics obscure foreign perpetrators, Germany as a whole keeps such statistics, which reveal the overwhelming number of foreign suspects. Foreigners only make up about 15 percent of the German population, but these same suspects account for and tremendous 59 percent of all sexual crimes at German train stations, according to federal police data obtained by the NIUS outlet.
In short, foreigners are terrorizing the German populace through sexual violence, all during a time when the ruling left-liberal government has promoted public transportation as a “green” alternative to automobiles.
The situation is deteriorating so quickly in Germany that the police are turning against the far-left interior minister, Nancy Faeser (SPD), who is responsible for security in Germany but appears to be focusing her efforts on fighting her political foe, the Alternative for Germany (AfD).
“It must not be the case that train stations become spaces of fear for women. Women must be able to travel safely in Germany. The risk of becoming a victim continues to increase every month. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser must finally wake up,” Heiko Teggatz, the federal chairman of the federal police union DPolG, told Bild newspaper in May this year.”
https://rmx.news/article/germany-foreigners-commit-59-of-all-sexual-crimes-in-trains-and-train-stations-sexual-crimes-double-since-2019/
Gays and Jews aren’t safe either. We never seem to hear about how Muslims don’t feel safe though do we? Well, unless it’s due to hurty words or any sort of criticism, that is;
”Berlin’s police chief Barbara Slowik considers certain districts of the German capital to be too unsafe for Jews and homosexuals, warning them to avoid parts of the city.
While she claims that there are ‘no no-go areas,’
By admitting parts of the capital are unsafe for ‘openly gay’ and Jewish people, the operational leader of the local police is, in effect, admitting she has lost control of her city.”
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/berlin-police-chief-tells-jews-and-gays-to-avoid-specific-districts/
If the lady was honest, she’d also advise people who are openly female to stay out of these areas unless they desire some close-contact multicultural entertainment.
Maybe satire is the answer. Then again, this is Germany and a sense of humour is an oxymoron.
Habeck is also on record for stating that Germany never meant anything to him and that the thought of patriotism always made him want to puke.
The ‘dumbest foreign minister in the world’ is German? Who knew?
Like all other Greens, Annalena Baerbock (Baerbock meaning bear-ram in English) is German by unfortunate accident of birth and because she really can’t help it. During the so-called pandemic, she was worried about public health in countries hundredthousands of kilometers away from us, ie, somewhere in space between earth and moon, and another of her famous dictums was the demand that Putin must change course by 360⁰ for a chance of peace in Ukraine.
Most her really embarrassing brain-farts are unfortunately untranslatable (Wir verenden Europa!).
Lammy has competition then.
In Germany. “Democracy dies in darkness”
I’m sure Farmer-Harmer-Starmer, Keir Stalin, Two-Tier-Free-Gear-No-Idea-Keir is watching and learning from his authoritarian buddies in German …. and China.
Germany is a bit of a lab environment where (certain¹) woke ideas are tested and experimentally refined before being applied to anglosphere countries.
¹ Due to resistance by the general population, celebration of sexually alternate lifestyles is still somewhat behind in Germany. Stuff like “drag queen story time” is not yet a mandatory part of elementary school education despite the Greens are itching for that because “It’s so beautiful.”
Why doesn’t “EUGYPPIUS” start a Free Speech Union in Germany, with advice from our fearless leader Toby, and moral support from our “RW”?