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Come on then. Own up. Who is working for The Independent on this forum? I have a few ideas...
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Well The Indrprndent seems to have been reading this thread!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-10193051.html |
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Blah blah blah
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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.
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Well The Indrprndent seems to have been reading this thread!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-10193051.html Also, "The Indrprndent"? Are you working for The Grauniad? |
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I think there are lots of things the UKIP would rather kill off than Doctor Who.
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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. Can't see UKIP winning more than 2 seats anyway |
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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.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ariel/26296924 |
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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? |
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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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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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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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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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As an illegal alien no doubt Mr Farage would ask him leave
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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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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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Nigel Farage . . don't you think he looks tired.
![]() I can see what you did there.
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As an illegal alien no doubt Mr Farage would ask him leave
![]() ![]() 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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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! "Fifty quid sounds about right" He made it sound like he'd just plucked the number out of thin air! |
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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! |
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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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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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But what happens when the UKIP Silurians vote to send all us apes back to Africa?
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UKIP are essentially leftover Thatcherites. Like Thatcher, they would be a disaster for culture.
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