The knives are out for the BBC

So the knives are out.  

We were worried about the NHS, perhaps large cuts in welfare but we never thought of the BBC.

The new Media Minister has let slip (and they never let anything slip) that he wishes to make changes to the way the BBC is funded.
It's a glittering prize for the City who have long had their sights set on this Jewel in the Crown of what is left of the old Britain. The country has changed enormously in terms of its demographic and listening to some of the people who phoned in to a talk show they ranged from people who don't find the program's the BBC offers interesting, others who rely on the Internet and have no sense of what the BBC stands for, for people of my generation.
It's hard to fully put into words the value of a broadcaster of the breadth and scope which the BBC offers. For a cost of £3 a week you receive such a plethora of programming, programs made by the BBC and costing large sums of money but programs which set the bar right across the world.
The world of nature was revealed in a series of tremendous programs showing a marvellous symbiosis which exists in the environment between land, sea, and air.  No other organisation has the skill base or organisation to come close to Aunty.
672 hours of television programming and at least as much on radio for £3 per week !!! 
What is there to complain about.
If you wish to compare the BBCs program output with that of Sky's subscription or ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 which is funded solely by advertising.  I once counted the minutes in an hour taken up by advertising. Between 20 and 25 minutes are spent each hour watching, not the material you have paid for, (if you support the subscription, £16 to £20 per week), but a repeated bombardment of puerile sycophantic trash to make us open our wallets and buy things we never knew we needed. To have to pay for this rubbish is bad enough but what it does to our brains to be treated like one of Pavlov's dogs with repeated commands, buy me, buy me ,buy me !!! 

It probably a mental health question and it says a lot about how contrived our lives have become to accept this mental imposition as if it were normal.
Anyway the dear old Tories true to form have burst out of the traps with the mouth watering concept of the eventual privatisation of the BBC with the equally distasteful concept of subscription. They won't be happy until they have Americanised us both in health and recreation.

I wonder what the Europeans think of Perfidious Albion as she throws out "Aunty" for Fox and the NHS for, "can I see your credit card first sir before we start treatment" health service !!
The problem with democracy is perhaps, the fools who are given the vote !