The government wants to axe the BBC licence fee in 2027 – 27 top-rating comebacks
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Hey @NadineDorries – so as your government was dithering about schools and how to provide education for millions of school children and refusing free school meals for the vulnerable, the BBC were providing lessons for no extra cost and at the last minute. #SaveOurBBC
— devillefilm (@devillefilm) January 16, 2022
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Greater love hath no man than that he lay down his staff/friends/BBC/desperate asylum seekers for his political life. #TheGospelAccordingToJohnson
— Chris Bryant (@RhonddaBryant) January 17, 2022
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https://twitter.com/EmmaKennedy/status/1482706060913917956?s=20
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Everyone has parts of the BBC they're not fussed about keeping. But the key thing is that just about everyone has a part of the BBC they'd be gutted to lose.
— David Whitley (@mrdavidwhitley) January 16, 2022
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Just for note -Nadine Dorries accused the BBC of “nepotism”, having employed one of her daughters at £45,000 pa from her public expenses
— Brian Moore (@brianmoore666) January 16, 2022
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First you come for @channel4 because you don’t like its reporting of events. Now you come for the BBC because you don’t like its reporting of events. Have you ever considered whether it’s the events themselves that are the problem? https://t.co/T3P91H1Lzt
— Armando Iannucci (@Aiannucci) January 16, 2022
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I am well aware that the BBC makes mistakes and needs to change but the media landscape would be much poorer without it.
Those 3 letters are trusted and respected around the world.
— Dan Walker (@mrdanwalker) January 16, 2022
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Support the BBC, even when it’s being attacked as a distraction from this dirty meringue of a government. Support the BBC as if Attenborough is dying, which he is, which we all are. Support the BBC, even as they note you into despair. Support the BBC.
— Lucy Prebble (@lucyprebblish) January 16, 2022
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Dear Nadine
Good to see your plans to give the BBC a kicking. I thought of Herodotus pinning Hannibal to the Golden Fleece. Nation shall speak unto nation but not via Broadcasting House, eh babe?
Repressio pressio
Boris— Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 (@MichaelRosenYes) January 16, 2022
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One week into lockdown the BBC launched the biggest educational programme in its recent history to ensure children had learning support. No other platform could/would do that https://t.co/MLutBnXUvW
— Greg Jenner (@greg_jenner) January 16, 2022
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Michael Grade has just (inadvertently) explained that all the options for funding the BBC are worse than the licence fee. Ending the licence fee will just dismantle the cornerstone of UK culture and silence our most respected voice around the world.
— Chris Bryant (@RhonddaBryant) January 17, 2022
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It bears repeating, the UK’s Culture Secretary ate an ostrich’s anus on TV for money.
Culture Secretary.
— Olaf Falafel (@OFalafel) January 17, 2022
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What has the BBC ever done for us? pic.twitter.com/cHFiNaes0r
— Adil Ray OBE (@adilray) January 16, 2022
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