Guest essay by Eric Worrall
British members of Parliament Sir Christopher Chope and Peter Bone have introduced legislation to eliminate the special powers the BBC enjoys to coerce license fees out of poor people.
TORY MPS TABLE BILLS TO DECRIMINALISE NON-PAYMENT OF LICENCE FEE, PRIVATISE BBC AND MONITOR IMPARTIALITY
Looking down the legislative agenda there are three Bills coming up for a second reading in this parliamentary session which will warm the hearts of co-conspirators:
BBC Licence Fee (Civil Penalty) Bill
Public Service Broadcasters (Privatisation) Bill
British Broadcasting Corporation (Oversight) Bill
These are, at the moment, Private Members Bills – from Peter Bone and Christopher Chope – so not likely to become law unless the government takes them up. Guido reckons the decriminalisation of non-payment of the BBC licence fee is actually likely to happen.
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Read more: https://order-order.com/2020/08/26/tory-mps-table-bills-to-decriminalise-non-payment-of-licence-fee-privatise-bbc-and-monitor-impartiality/
BBC climate bias has been well documented by WUWT, including a recent nasty attempt to smear the reputation of Dr. Willie Soon. This abuse all stems from a meeting a decade ago, in which the BBC accepted advice from a secret panel of experts whose names they refused to release, which concluded that the BBC could ignore their normal charter requirement to be impartial when it comes to discussing climate change.
But trouble for the BBC has been brewing on another front.
The BBC uses license fee collection methods which in my opinion are nothing short of brutal. They enforce their special privilege to collect mandatory license fees even if you don’t watch the BBC. The BBC exercise their “implied right of access” to intrude into people’s homes without a warrant, and they demand money from people who refuse to pay on pain of criminal prosecution.
Plenty of people have released youtube videos detailing the bullying tactics allegedly used by BBC enforcers.
If the BBC are stripped of their special fee collection privileges, they will finally face a genuine test of how popular they really are; only people who actually like the BBC will have to pay their license fee.
For some reason the BBC and their supporters are very opposed to removal of the BBC’s special fee collection privileges.
The Guardian alerts it’s readership about an ‘opinionated’ threat to the BBC-
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/aug/29/rivals-plan-fox-news-style-opinionated-tv-station-in-uk
The ban on the singing of Rule Britannia is striking.
The words date from the early 1740s. There had been an internal struggle in Britain from 1630 or so on. The question was whether the country would be ruled by an absolute and Catholic monarchy, or by Parliament and a constitutional monarchy.
The matter was initially settled in the civil war, and then finally settled by the Revolution of 1688. However, it was not secure. There was the first 1715 Jacobite Rebellion, and there was to be another in 1745. The main security against Spanish invasion, in the late 16th century, and French invasion in the late 17th and 18th centuries, was the navy and the Channel. As it was to remain through the Napoleonic wars. Napoleon assembled an invasion force on the Channel coast, and the threat of invasion really only ended with the battle of Trafalgar.
Some idiots, unacquainted with history, have purported to find that the words ‘…rule the waves, Britains never shall be slaves…’ somehow carry the meaning that its fine for others to be slaves! Of course they did not!
In fact, they simply meant and were understood to mean that ruling the waves, being a dominant sea power, was the only real protection against the real threat from Continental powers of invasion followed by abolition of British liberties, identified with constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy. This was the ‘slavery’ referred to. And the song celebrates the strength of that protection as it seemed to be in 1740.
The words of the song reflect this.
The BBC management however are obsessed with their weird woke agenda, determined to find something offensive in anything wherever possible, ignorant of their own history and culture, but bent on educating the country to an ignorance equal to their own, and they desperately looked around to find someone who would share their view of the offensiveness of the words. And found to their delight a young Finnish conductor, a woman no less, who would ignorantly opine about the meaning of a poem whose background she had no idea of.
Well said!
Is this a British usage? I thought ‘table a bill’ means they have taken the bill off the schedule.