[Gllug] BBC looking for campaigners

[Rev Simon Rumble]

On Mon 28 Jul, Formi bloviated thus:

>  What I find really amusing about a lot of people in this country is the
>  huge fuss they create about things like ID cards, and the other side
>  things like the TV license are considered acceptable. I wonder how much
>  information about households is kept by the BBC and their "vigilante"
>  system.

No more than any other taxation system.  What's more it's not "guilty
until proven innocent" any more than someone driving out of a pub car
park being breathalised.  It's called "reasonable suspicion".

I guess most British people don't object to having a world-class
public broadcaster.  The alternative is Australia's ABC, which gets
its funding cut every time it criticises the current government, to
the point that most of its current affairs programming is now BBC and
Channel 4 material.

Sorry, but I like the Beeb.  Having a special, direct taxation
collection system is far from ideal, but it keeps it further out of
the grubby mitts of politicians.

-- 
Rev Simon Rumble <simon at rumble.net>
www.rumble.net

Isn't it strange that the same people that laugh at gypsy fortune
tellers take economists seriously?
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