From James Cleverly MP :

"I’m black. My mum was black. I have black family. I have black friends. I have black colleagues. I have black constituents.
Number of times that the Last Night of the Proms was raised with me as an issue before this BBC nonsense?:
Zero"

Shame on the dastardly BBC (My words not his)

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‘Land of Hope and Glory’ with Dame Vera Lynn
Number 2 in the charts already.

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COYP

I simply do NOT accept the pitiful reason about "No singers". I fully accept the reasons for no audience but there could have been a single singer proudly bellowing out the words.

Another nail in the coffin for the BBC as they cowardly buckle & remove the lyrics to patriotic songs such as Rule Britannia at the Proms to satisfy the woke brigade.Cultural vandalism.

We have polarised views and will have to agree to disagree on this matter.
I shall be on my 'Soapbox' tonight when I meet up with like-minded chums.

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But it is not just the news channels. It is the drama with box ticking taking precedence over story, it is Gary Lineker being paid millions for talking about football, it is about a whole host of other issues.

I had always defended the BBC arguing that the good outweighed the bad until Brexit. Then it became Remainer central with its constant biased coverage, its barely concealed contempt for people who voted Leave and then the coverage of the night we left.

Final straw for me. In this modern media age there is no justification for its funding model. If it wants to function via taxation then it needs to be seen as just another branch of the civil service and certainly not paying people the salaries that it does for jobs that it could fill much much cheaper.

Its days are over. A dead man walking.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

And part of the reason the BBC became egotistical, is because of Brian Hanrahan "I counted them all out, and I counted them back" (Falklands)

And Kate Adie in Tripoli in the late 1980's.

At this point, the reporter became more important than the news.

Kenneth Baker should have made £millions. That was professionalism.

I disengage, I turn the page.

I could be wrong but I thought one quarter of all cases at magistrate courts relate to non payment of the licence fee which is why there is an argument to decriminalise it as it is clogging up the legal system.

But I am with you defund the BBC.

One more point