But for how long? On 19 May, the Tory motion to freeze any increase in the BBC licence fee was defeated by 334 to 150 votes in the House of Commons. The compulsory tax of £11.62 per month on every household with a TV or radio, enforced by highly democratic ‘we know where you live’ [...]
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Hurrah! BBC licence fee increase preserves a bourgeois Pravda
May 22, 2009 – 3:06 pm
By John Kelly
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Posted in British identity, Culture, Media, Political spin, Politics, consumers
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Also tagged Alastair Campbell, Andrew Gilligan, Barack Obama, BBC, BBC Licence fee increase, British Broadcast Corpration, Culture Secretary Andy Burnham, Dr David Kelly, Gavyn davies, Graham Norton, Greg Dyke, Jeremy paxman, John birt, jonathan Ross, Mark Thompson, Neo-Stalinist Birtism, Pravda, public service broadcating, Radio 4, state-subsidised media, Tory motion to freeze BBC licence fee increase defeated, Weapons of Mass Destruction Dossier
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