Quote: Scottidog @ April 29 2010, 11:09 PM BSTI know. It's not meant too.
Right.
Election; what would your policies be? Page 7
Quote: Nogget @ April 29 2010, 5:44 PM BSTMate, countries would be envious because something of the statue of the BBC would make for a powerful propaganda tool. The BBC is a powerful diplomatic weapon.
Yes, against Britain.
The Left have known about the propaganda tool that is the BBC since the days of George Orwell. There are not references to the BBC in 1984 for nothing.
Quote: zooo @ April 29 2010, 11:12 PM BSTRight.
Ha ha.
A Badge government would rename the BBC the BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBC in an attempt to reduce the amount of debate on its role and future.
Quote: Cheesehoven @ April 29 2010, 11:12 PM BSTYou must consider the possibility that the lack of innovation in this country's TV is due to the presence of the BBC? It is rather like having a state funded grocery which stifles other people starting their own grocers. A well-funded state monolith actually destroys the free market ethos.
I thought it was because we had free market mayhem in which the BBC plays safe and goes down market to maximise audience share; whereas when we only had three or four channels the BBC felt able to do its own thing and in doing so set a benchmark for competitors to aim at.
The BBC could do a lot better, but it still accounts for about four fifths of the telly I watch. Most of the rest is made overseas. Without the BBC we would not have a television industry.
Quote: Timbo @ April 29 2010, 11:29 PM BSTWithout the BBC we would not have a television industry.
You mean the BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBC.
Quote: Timbo @ April 29 2010, 11:29 PM BSTThe BBC could do a lot better, but it still accounts for about four fifths of the telly I watch. Most of the rest is made overseas. Without the BBC we would not have a television industry.
This.
Quote: Cheesehoven @ April 29 2010, 11:12 PM BSTOne does not need a BBC to produce Dr. Who.
Does one not?
Dr Who has the Beeb writ large all over it. What other organisation ever had its own radiophonic workshop? How else would the fragile innovative genius of someone like Delia Derbyshire ever been nurtured?
Quote: Cheesehoven @ April 29 2010, 11:12 PM BSTThe BBC has done its best actually to prevent Dr Who returning.
That's not quite true. Also, if it didn't want it to return, it wouldn't have returned.
Has anyone done a postal vote? I'm wondering if it's been designed to be deliberately confusing, to ensure that only the best-organised people's votes count. There are a set of instructions to read, you do your 'cross', then you have to put the voting slip in one envelope, put your signature and DoB on a separate slip, fold it up, and put both envelope and slip in another envelope, with the address showing through the window.
OK, so the average person should be capable of doing that, but by definition about half the voters are below average intelligence anyway, and that's before you factor in things like poor eyesight and simple slovenliness.
Good. Maybe all voting should be like that. Who wants thick peoples' votes to count?
Quote: zooo @ April 30 2010, 11:11 AM BSTGood. Maybe all voting should be like that. Who wants thick peoples' votes to count?
That's a slope of slipperyness. Next you'll be wanting to stop thickos from joing the BCG! 
There's no thickos here!
Quote: Nogget @ April 30 2010, 9:11 AM BSTHas anyone done a postal vote? I'm wondering if it's been designed to be deliberately confusing, to ensure that only the best-organised people's votes count. There are a set of instructions to read, you do your 'cross', then you have to put the voting slip in one envelope, put your signature and DoB on a separate slip, fold it up, and put both envelope and slip in another envelope, with the address showing through the window.
I've only ever done a postal vote, and never had anything about my address in a window.