Sorry to get all political on you but when I read UKIP's plans for the BBC they alarmed me (I know there are already plenty of other reason's to be alarmed by UKIP's policies but in the context of a Doctor Who forum this is probably the most important):

Mr Farage said: "Do I think the BBC needs to involve itself and engage itself in many other fields of entertainment and sport, given the whole world has changed with cable television and satellite television? No."

"I would like to see the BBC cut back to the bone to be purely a public service broadcaster with an international reach, and I would have thought you could do that with a licence fee that was about a third of what it currently is."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32390436

What do you think? Would Doctor Who survive such drastic cuts at the BBC? I know it's a cash cow for BBC Worldwide but that's the commercial arm of the Beeb and it seems to be the very thing that Farage is wanting to cut down on.

UKIP won't get in anyway. Doctor Who is safe.

Nigel Farage . . don't you think he looks tired.

Given the amount of guff, I 'd be looking for a compression field device.

Actually, heard the old chancer does break wind a lot. Thought it was all that beer, but could he be....?

Is the Chairman of the North Sea Boating Club a member of UKIP?

I can't see Nigel Fa-rage's lot liking Doctor Who - someone treats everyone equally.

Fa-rage is more like the Daleks (ex-terminate the foreigners). That's more his plan. Given the chance, Fa-rage will take-over Doctor Who, and become a more dangerous version of Davros - and order the daleks (fellow UKIP supporters) to exterminate all of the foreigners.

No chance of that happening though, as UKIP are irrelevant now.

He's looking more and more like Davros everyday.

Well, he probably would be a tinpot dictator if he was somehow prime minister by this time next year.

Yes, very similar policies.

The title of this thread had me in stitches.

Meanwhile, the BNP would bring back The Black & White Minstrel Show.

Farage is probably still bitter that the audience were not on his side on the leaders debate, although as David Bumblebee pointed out that had nothing to do with the BBC.

Where does it say anything about killing off Doctor Who? If anything it suggests he approves of it because it has an international reach.

Oh, I don't know. You start with a happy, settled, native population and along come the Daleks! And they're all bronze coloured and talk in funny staccato accents and haven't even bothered to lean some basic English words like 'pity'!

Wave after wave of them arrive, destroying the established way of life, ruining the infrastructure and start turning the natives into walking zombies to help them literally suck out the centre of the Earth and leave the country ruined! Even their boss is one of those people who's permanently seen going around in a mobility scooter, probably claiming every kind of benefits available - AND YOU'RE PAYING FOR IT!!!

Then along comes a middle-aged white guy, rounds them all up and sends them all back where they came from.

Does anyone know if Nigel Farage has a hat and scarf already?

Farage does't specifically mention any programmes but he talks about the BBC not be being involved in other fields of entertainment and sport and being stripped back to a bare bones public service broadcaster with two thirds of it's license fee removed. It's hard to see how entertainment programmes such as Doctor Who would fit in with this new vision. Sure he talks about international reach, but I assumed by that he was talking about things like the Word Service and news.

This had me in stitches. Every time I see Davros in future I'll think "Benefit Scrounger!" I bet he could walk if he tried.

You can call The Clash Synth Prog or whatever you like after that post, IB.

Not to mention make new TV versions of "Bulldog Drummond" and "Sanders of
the River".

I have to say, much as I dislike UKIP, I can't see a UK UKIP govt. specifically trying to get
the BBC to stop making a particular program.

True, a mere entertainment programme isn't remotely on their RADAR (probably) but they would change the BBC (the way it's funded) so that it wouldn't be able to sustain said programme.

The BBC has many faults and but at least it tries (and is supposed to be by its charter) fair and impartial in news and current affairs, unlike almost all other news outlets. For me that's worth the license fee on its own. Check out Fox News or any newspaper if you want to see something that's pushing an agenda.

Its detractors usually fall into three categories: those with vested interests who want to make money for themselves from the BBC's market share, or those who have political reasons to dislike the BBC's impartiality, or those who simply object to the way it's funded by the license fee. The license fee, to be fair, is pretty draconian, or rather what happens to you if you fail to pay it, is pretty draconian, but I've not yet seen a way of funding it that preserves the BBC's impartiality.

That's what would be at risk from UKIP's stated policy.

Sorry for the soapbox. Definitely off topic in this forum.

Actually, a few years ago, I remember there was a DWM editorial implying people
shouldn't vote Tory because the Tories would damage the BBC and hence, our
favourite show.

Now, while I don't like the Tories either, DWM was wrong to do that, because it's supposed to serve the DWM fan community as a whole-which includes everything from anarcho-syndicalists to monarchists.

Well The Indrprndent seems to have been reading this thread!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-10193051.html

Sixth Doctor mode: "Frivolous? Frivolous?? Frivolous?!!"

How dare they!

Come on then. Own up. Who is working for The Independent on this forum? I have a few ideas...

I've often thought that the BBC would be better off if it was funded from the national lottery, rather than the license fee. No sending letters out to people cos according to some massive database, they haven't bought a license, or trying to convince people that detector vans actually exist. The license fee is a massive tax on the poorest, and SHOULD be looked at by any incumbent government.
But you know Dr Who will carry on, however the BBC is funded.