It’s becoming a bit cool to slag off the licence fee since Brand/Ross. Thankfully, the Guardian has come out in support with an editorial. Don’t expect the Daily Mail to.
“Mr Moore would no doubt be ready to unleash a columnist’s fury on any peacenik who dared withhold their income tax payments until Britain scrapped Trident, or pulled troops out of Iraq. He probably objected, too, to all those rebels who refused to pay the poll tax introduced by his beloved Margaret Thatcher. This fogeyish wheeze is both selfish, since he will now benefit from services that others must pay for, and unnecessary, since if he really wanted to stop funding the BBC he could do so by getting rid of his television.”
