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Old 21-04-2015, 23:36
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Come on then. Own up. Who is working for The Independent on this forum? I have a few ideas...
Damn, my secret's been rumbled.

(Actually I don't work for them, honest, although if I were to change career and start working for the press it would probably be my paper of choice).
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Old 21-04-2015, 23:39
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Well The Indrprndent seems to have been reading this thread!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-10193051.html
I saw that one of the comments on that article mentions Murdoch giving UKIP money. I don't know about that but I did read that Richard Desmond, (Express owner and former Channel 5 owner) gave them a £1m recently. Pure coincidence I'm sure...
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Old 22-04-2015, 00:10
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Old 22-04-2015, 00:23
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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.
Personally I just hope that I never have to watch first run Doctor Who with commercial breaks in it.
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Old 22-04-2015, 00:27
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Well The Indrprndent seems to have been reading this thread!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-10193051.html
Well, it wouldn't take much research to see that Doctor Who, Strictly and Top Gear are the BBC's big international successes.

Also, "The Indrprndent"? Are you working for The Grauniad?
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Old 22-04-2015, 01:35
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I think there are lots of things the UKIP would rather kill off than Doctor Who.
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Old 22-04-2015, 02:22
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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.
David Tennant was doing voice overs for the Scottish Labour Party at the time as well.

Can't see UKIP winning more than 2 seats anyway
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Old 22-04-2015, 11:38
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Well, it wouldn't take much research to see that Doctor Who, Strictly and Top Gear are the BBC's big international successes.
What about "Call the Midwife?" Watched in 200 territories!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ariel/26296924
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Old 22-04-2015, 13:24
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Well, it wouldn't take much research to see that Doctor Who, Strictly and Top Gear are the BBC's big international successes.

Also, "The Indrprndent"? Are you working for The Grauniad?
Made me chuckle...
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Old 22-04-2015, 13:29
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What about "Call the Midwife?" Watched in 200 territories!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ariel/26296924
I think it's referring to the international commercial success, along with the Natural Planet brand. They make up the top of that list. Call the Midwife is much further down (ie: it doesn't bring in anywhere near the revenue for BBC Worldwide).
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Old 22-04-2015, 13:45
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This is the kind of thing that really frustrates me about this particular brand of right wing politics. They claim to be patriotic but clearly have no pride in state owned, British institutions that are an international success and envied throughout the world.

What Farage is proposing is that the BBC becomes like PBS is in America. Guess what happens there? The right wing nutters with no BBC type broadcaster to focus on claim all the news media apart from Fox news is liberal and biased against them!
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Old 22-04-2015, 16:10
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Damn, my secret's been rumbled.

(Actually I don't work for them, honest, although if I were to change career and start working for the press it would probably be my paper of choice).
Careful, now! As moderate, unbiased people we're supposed to let facts speak for themselves and not push our agendas! We're not supposed to have agendas!
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Old 22-04-2015, 16:17
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To be honest I think that Doctor Who or the BBC is not going to even be on the agenda of any of the political parties at the moment.
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Old 22-04-2015, 16:21
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To be honest I think that Doctor Who or the BBC is not going to even be on the agenda of any of the political parties at the moment.
DW is not, but the method of funding the BBC is. It's indirect (or at least unintended) at best (nobody in politics is "out to get DW") but don't you see a connection?
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Old 22-04-2015, 16:24
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As an illegal alien no doubt Mr Farage would ask him leave
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Old 22-04-2015, 17:01
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Surely Farage wouldn't be that bothered about The Doctor as long as he didn't use the NHS or get AIDS-ey blood all over the TARDIS console?

Seriously, the casual racism I can deal with. He's just a caricature of this big evil monster people seem to paint him as. But hating on Doctor Who? Officially worse than Hitler.
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Old 22-04-2015, 17:55
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DW is not, but the method of funding the BBC is. It's indirect (or at least unintended) at best (nobody in politics is "out to get DW") but don't you see a connection?
I think the method of funding the BBC will be up for some debate regardless of who gets in because the Royal Charter comes up for renewal at the end of 2016. Unfortunately none of the parties seem to view it particularly favorably but as far as I know UKIP are the ones who want to chuck the whole lot out with the kitchen sink.
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Old 22-04-2015, 18:22
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Nigel Farage . . don't you think he looks tired.
Ha! Ha! Nice one!

I can see what you did there.
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Old 22-04-2015, 18:27
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As an illegal alien no doubt Mr Farage would ask him leave
What about this then?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_61hzuGGJX0

This sums up the Doctor very well!

Edit - this is performed by Genesis, which means 'birth', or 'beginning'. The Doctor stole the Tardis and became an 'illegal alien' at the start of his travels.
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Old 22-04-2015, 18:39
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This is the kind of thing that really frustrates me about this particular brand of right wing politics. They claim to be patriotic but clearly have no pride in state owned, British institutions that are an international success and envied throughout the world.

What Farage is proposing is that the BBC becomes like PBS is in America. Guess what happens there? The right wing nutters with no BBC type broadcaster to focus on claim all the news media apart from Fox news is liberal and biased against them!
Yeah. It made me laugh when I saw him "answering" the question about the BBC's future funding.

"Fifty quid sounds about right" He made it sound like he'd just plucked the number out of thin air!
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Old 23-04-2015, 12:00
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Yeah. It made me laugh when I saw him "answering" the question about the BBC's future funding.

"Fifty quid sounds about right" He made it sound like he'd just plucked the number out of thin air!
A lot of their policies are plucked out of the smoke filled air of the pub smoking rooms they wish to bring back.
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Old 23-04-2015, 12:10
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We wouldn't need Doctor Who. UKIP would stop our open door policy to Daleks, Cybermen and any other alien invaders who fancied coming here.
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Old 23-04-2015, 12:15
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We wouldn't need Doctor Who. UKIP would stop our open door policy to Daleks, Cybermen and any other alien invaders who fancied coming here.
But what happens when the UKIP Silurians vote to send all us apes back to Africa?
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Old 23-04-2015, 13:37
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But what happens when the UKIP Silurians vote to send all us apes back to Africa?
They get outvoted by the other 648 elected MPs?
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Old 26-04-2015, 00:56
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UKIP are essentially leftover Thatcherites. Like Thatcher, they would be a disaster for culture.
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