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Sep 12th, 2015, 11:21pm
 
Will Hutton in a "Comment Is Free" column expresses his point-of view that:-

"The BBC belongs to the British public, not to a transient Tory cabinet aiming for the country’s Torification. The British are notoriously poor at stewarding their great institutions. Only the British public can now protect the BBC. There is a “we” and it’s time to show it."

"How about a sequence of citizens’ marches on Westminster and Whitehall?"



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Reply #1 - Sep 13th, 2015, 2:35pm
 
If I honestly thought that this set of Tory b*****ds would acknowledge - let alone listen to - any voices that were ranged against their dogmatic ideology then I'd be more than happy to join in.
The sad fact is that even a million signatures on a petition, a 2 million person march through London, and surrounding the HoC in a peaceful protest at what they are doing to this country as a whole, nothing that we can do or say is going to sway their thoughts on what is to happen to the BBC - that institution that we (mostly) love and wish well with all our hearts, having given most of our lives to - so I genuinely feel it is not worth an attempt.
There's only one course of action that would do anything to change the course of the future for the institution now - and Guy Fawkes tried (unsuccessfully) to do it once before!!
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Reply #2 - Sep 14th, 2015, 10:34am
 
The broadcasting policy of the new Labour Shadow Cabinet will-I assume-tend towards full public ownership/state control of the BBC?
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