The Tories have the BBC in their line of fire. Don’t let them destroy it | Polly Toynbee
Boris Johnson made an angry threat to abolish the licence fee, blaming the BBC for reporting the story of the sick child on a hospital floor. Nothing new: the BBC is always in the firing line of the Tory right. Boris Johnson threatens BBC with two-pronged attack Read moreAll that ammunition might justify the left’s incandescent Twitter-raging against the BBC. Play Video 1:25 Johnson says he is 'looking at' scrapping BBC licence fee – videoThe BBC tries its damnedest: it self-critiques, analyses and agonises. Rapid diminution beckons if it is cut and cut again as the licence fee comes up for renegotiation in 2022, or decriminalising non-payment turns it into a voluntary contribution.
Source: The Guardian December 17, 2019 07:01 UTC
