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Hurrah! BBC licence fee increase preserves a bourgeois Pravda

May 22, 2009 – 3:06 pm

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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