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Tory MP Backs Call for Referendum on Defunding the BBC
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30 May 2021
A Member of Parliament (MP) from Britain’s governing Conservative Party has backed calls for a referendum on defunding the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Jonathan Gullis MP issued the call in the wake of Martin Bashir, a now-former BBC journalist, being found to have used fake bank statements to persuade the late Princess Diana to give what proved to be a highly damaging interview about the Royal Family’s private life to the
Panorama programme.
Princess Diana’s eldest son Prince William said that the fake bank statements, which appeared to show that someone was being paid to surveil his mother, and the resulting interview “contributed significantly” to her sense of “fear, paranoia, and isolation” in her final years.
As Warner and Discovery team up to create yet another global streaming giant, European broadcasters feel the heat. Politicians, tech giants and US peers are hacking away at their business models.
They need to make us MPs earn our money. We need to try and effect change through the parliamentary process and that s always the best way to do it. The best way to do that is to get as many people and the over 75s to campaign, to lobby their MPs, contact in any way you can and put pressure on us to earn our wages so we can go to Government and put pressure on Westminster.
A Tory MP has called on the British public to campaign against the BBC TV licence fee (Image: GETTY)
Lee Anderson has hit out at the BBC following its decision to make the over-75s pay the licence fee (Image: Defund the BBC)