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The BBC should lose the license fee and be forced to operate like any other streaming service after the complete destruction of trust this week

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SingleSexSpacesInSchools · 09/11/2025 19:44

Thats it really, the BBC lied to us, all of us.

They edited a Trump speech to make him look like he said something he did not.

They pushed one side of the transgender debate relentlessly, deliberately hiding negative stories on detransitioners, the US WPATH file and thousands of more cases

https://archive.ph/wWdMS

https://archive.ph/uiEKW

They have cancelled people for wrong-think at every opportunity, pushed drag queens over women, turned woman hours into mens hour, constantly attacked anyone who does not share their extreme liberal left wing views and kept them off the news cycle

They have utterly and completely lost all trust, they ARE biased they DON'T give balance in the news

Everyone thought it was a conspiracy, now we know it's actually true and we have PROOF

Today the BBC Director and News Director have both quit in absolute disgrace.

It is time the BBC was consigned to the dustbin because we are never getting back to the BBC I loved and trusted, the one that ran programmes to inform and entertain and educate, that BBC is long gone.

Replace it, completely.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd9kqz1yyxkt

BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign - live updates

Davie says "there have been some mistakes made and as director general I have to take ultimate responsibility".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd9kqz1yyxkt

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NoWordForFluffy · 09/11/2025 22:09

This is the message I get when I try to cancel online.

The BBC should lose the license fee and be forced to operate like any other streaming service after the complete destruction of trust this week
Onmytod24 · 09/11/2025 22:09

Trump and musk are trying to control what we British people see read and hear and you are applauding it and think that’s a good thing.

NoWordForFluffy · 09/11/2025 22:11

The way they perpetually harass people to try to scare them into paying for the licence is appalling as well. They also mislead people about what rights they have in relation to entering people's homes (they have NO right of entry / access).

Onmytod24 · 09/11/2025 22:11

SingleSexSpacesInSchools · 09/11/2025 20:34

Except we have the proof that actually, it has proven left wing, liberal clique views, to the core. Proof.

The BBC used to be called auntie because it had a middle class conservative views to say their views are left is ridiculous.

Namechanged999999 · 09/11/2025 22:12

Yes. BBC is captured. Now itv is being bought by sky tv. We all need to be vigilant in what we are told. Keep abreast of all the awful tribunals that are going on just now. I personally feel the world is very unsafe just now. We must all do what we can. Believe what we believe in. Everyone’s beliefs are valid. Even mind :-)

Namechanged999999 · 09/11/2025 22:12

Onmytod24 · 09/11/2025 22:11

The BBC used to be called auntie because it had a middle class conservative views to say their views are left is ridiculous.

you need to read up on stuff. It’s not the 60s!

Namechanged999999 · 09/11/2025 22:14

NoWordForFluffy · 09/11/2025 22:09

This is the message I get when I try to cancel online.

You can just cancel your direct debit. They will keep hassling you forever. You can just ignore them so long as you don’t watch bbc or iPlayer. Don’t let them into your house if they call. They have no right of entry.

user90276865197 · 09/11/2025 22:15

I’d miss BBC radio. The TV stuff, not so much - make it a subscription service I say!

MidnightColours · 09/11/2025 22:15

Heads have rolled, but clearly there is a sizeable minority that will not be satisfied until the BBC has been destroyed. Go abroad and you will realise that the BBC is one of the last British institutions that inspires respect and admiration. Sad people can't see what is uniquely British and absolutely worth preserving.

NoWordForFluffy · 09/11/2025 22:16

Namechanged999999 · 09/11/2025 22:14

You can just cancel your direct debit. They will keep hassling you forever. You can just ignore them so long as you don’t watch bbc or iPlayer. Don’t let them into your house if they call. They have no right of entry.

It specifically says that cancelling the DD doesn't cancel the licence. And you have to pay 6 months up front to then pay monthly, so I want my refund! I'll call them up tomorrow (I wonder if the lines will be busy!).

Namechanged999999 · 09/11/2025 22:16

MidnightColours · 09/11/2025 22:15

Heads have rolled, but clearly there is a sizeable minority that will not be satisfied until the BBC has been destroyed. Go abroad and you will realise that the BBC is one of the last British institutions that inspires respect and admiration. Sad people can't see what is uniquely British and absolutely worth preserving.

You are sad that you haven’t looked at what they are currently doing.

Dappy777 · 09/11/2025 22:17

Nigellastwinklylights · 09/11/2025 19:50

Here we go…

Yeah, don’t people get it? It’s OK for a left-wing organization like the BBC to be biased and dishonest. That doesn’t count. But if GB News did exactly the same thing, well, that would be different. Now that would be wrong.

Same goes for flags and national identity. It’s OK for an Irish person to fly their national flag IN ENLAND. That’s cool. But when an Englishman flies an English flag in England, it’s ‘problematic’ and they should be torn down.

Equally, if someone moves to the U.K. and goes on about how proud they are of their home nation, the left pat them on the head and say “quite right, you should be proud,” (especially if they’ve come from somewhere poor that was oppressed by European colonialists). But if an Englishman says he is proud to be English and identifies with the literature of Chaucer and Shakespeare and Jane Austen and Dickens, and so on, he’s small-minded little bigot and should be mocked and shamed.

When Europeans set sail and destroyed people’s cultures and identities, that was immoral and shameful. But when the modern left use mass immigration to destroy our identity, it’s enrichment. Imposing a new identity on a people is only bad when the right do it. When the left do it, it’s OK.

Namechanged999999 · 09/11/2025 22:17

NoWordForFluffy · 09/11/2025 22:16

It specifically says that cancelling the DD doesn't cancel the licence. And you have to pay 6 months up front to then pay monthly, so I want my refund! I'll call them up tomorrow (I wonder if the lines will be busy!).

I’ll be doing the same. Good luck.

Bollihobs · 09/11/2025 22:18

mumofoneAloneandwell · 09/11/2025 21:18

Their license fee goes towards

Education
Radio
Tv
Documentaries
News (whether you like the bbc) from around the world
Weather
Sports coverage

The news is relatively reliable, although mistakes are made, I dont think they should lose the license fee because of it 😭

But the people who made that edited version of the Trump speech didn't "make a mistake" - they did it carefully, knowingly and deliberately.

Do you really, hand on heart, want to listen to, and fund, 'news' that has been prepared like that?

SingleSexSpacesInSchools · 09/11/2025 22:18

NoWordForFluffy · 09/11/2025 21:59

I tried to do it online earlier, but apparently you have to ring to cancel because you don't need a licence. So that's a job for tomorrow.

Just cancel the direct debit and never answer the letters they send. screw em

EDIT I might be wrong, either way cancel the damned thing at source

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Namechanged999999 · 09/11/2025 22:19

Dappy777 · 09/11/2025 22:17

Yeah, don’t people get it? It’s OK for a left-wing organization like the BBC to be biased and dishonest. That doesn’t count. But if GB News did exactly the same thing, well, that would be different. Now that would be wrong.

Same goes for flags and national identity. It’s OK for an Irish person to fly their national flag IN ENLAND. That’s cool. But when an Englishman flies an English flag in England, it’s ‘problematic’ and they should be torn down.

Equally, if someone moves to the U.K. and goes on about how proud they are of their home nation, the left pat them on the head and say “quite right, you should be proud,” (especially if they’ve come from somewhere poor that was oppressed by European colonialists). But if an Englishman says he is proud to be English and identifies with the literature of Chaucer and Shakespeare and Jane Austen and Dickens, and so on, he’s small-minded little bigot and should be mocked and shamed.

When Europeans set sail and destroyed people’s cultures and identities, that was immoral and shameful. But when the modern left use mass immigration to destroy our identity, it’s enrichment. Imposing a new identity on a people is only bad when the right do it. When the left do it, it’s OK.

You think a tricolour in England would be accepted? You think it was ever accepted in northern Ireland. Luckily i don’t talk politics.

Namechanged999999 · 09/11/2025 22:19

Namechanged999999 · 09/11/2025 22:19

You think a tricolour in England would be accepted? You think it was ever accepted in northern Ireland. Luckily i don’t talk politics.

My first ever fuck away off!!!

MidnightColours · 09/11/2025 22:20

Dappy777 · 09/11/2025 22:17

Yeah, don’t people get it? It’s OK for a left-wing organization like the BBC to be biased and dishonest. That doesn’t count. But if GB News did exactly the same thing, well, that would be different. Now that would be wrong.

Same goes for flags and national identity. It’s OK for an Irish person to fly their national flag IN ENLAND. That’s cool. But when an Englishman flies an English flag in England, it’s ‘problematic’ and they should be torn down.

Equally, if someone moves to the U.K. and goes on about how proud they are of their home nation, the left pat them on the head and say “quite right, you should be proud,” (especially if they’ve come from somewhere poor that was oppressed by European colonialists). But if an Englishman says he is proud to be English and identifies with the literature of Chaucer and Shakespeare and Jane Austen and Dickens, and so on, he’s small-minded little bigot and should be mocked and shamed.

When Europeans set sail and destroyed people’s cultures and identities, that was immoral and shameful. But when the modern left use mass immigration to destroy our identity, it’s enrichment. Imposing a new identity on a people is only bad when the right do it. When the left do it, it’s OK.

Immigration exploded after Brexit under a Conservative government. But I guess they were the "modern left"?

WildLimePoet · 09/11/2025 22:21

The left wing woke mid virus really is being found for the scam that it is.

The perpetuation or trans ideology.

The gaslighting over mass immigration.

Trump derangement syndrome.

The police, the judiciary, politics itself needs purging of this dangerous, toxic ideology.

MidnightColours · 09/11/2025 22:22

Namechanged999999 · 09/11/2025 22:16

You are sad that you haven’t looked at what they are currently doing.

In the meantime little England becomes ever littler?

Sampler · 09/11/2025 22:22

@WildLimePoet get thee back to the white house

Namechanged999999 · 09/11/2025 22:24

MidnightColours · 09/11/2025 22:22

In the meantime little England becomes ever littler?

is that what you are afraid of?

littlbrowndog · 09/11/2025 22:25

TempestTost · 09/11/2025 22:03

I'm inclined to agree. Though for a long time I was a huge proponent of public broadcasting. I still feel very nostalgic about it.

But the video splicing - I am not sure people really understand how egregious that was, from a journalistic standards POV. It's not just about the underlying bias it reveals. People seem to think it's normal to do that kind of thing on the news, but it absolutely isn't. You are not supposed to edit that kind of material without making it clear there is a time lapse. And especially for something so potentially important, the job of the journalist is to present the material and allow the viewers to make their own decisions about what it means.

This is basic, 1st year journalism student stuff. And back before they had degrees, journalists knew this. The idea that this was somehow a misjudgement is bs, it is much worse than that.

Plus, it looks like electoral interference. What the fuck were they thinking?

But as far as the bigger picture - I can't help notice that it was the fact that the UK has quite a varied and good quality media, with various good papers of differernt kinds and differernt political approaches, that allowed the deadlock on the gender stuff to come to the public attention at all. Had it been up to the BBC, none of it would have come out. And they have traded on their reputation to try and make it look like a fake story.

I also can't help noticing that the public broadcasters in at least three other English speaking countries are equally captured and untrustworthy.

It's shaken my belief in public broadcasting at a fundamental level.

Totally agree.
feel like they are untrustworthy to deliver news

it’s very important that when news is delivered to out nations that it’s not been manipulated or meddled with by the staff who work within our state broadcaster

SingleSexSpacesInSchools · 09/11/2025 22:27

WildLimePoet · 09/11/2025 22:21

The left wing woke mid virus really is being found for the scam that it is.

The perpetuation or trans ideology.

The gaslighting over mass immigration.

Trump derangement syndrome.

The police, the judiciary, politics itself needs purging of this dangerous, toxic ideology.

100%

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Namechanged999999 · 09/11/2025 22:28

I do think that the trans ideology has set us all against each other. Bloody trump going against it means that any of us that are against it for legitimate reasons are seen as trumpists. It is absolutely godsend for him. When there are real legitimate womens’ reason for being against trans ideology. That are absolutely nothing to do with trump. It’s something he doesn’t care about either but he’s using it obviously like many other things. I am against trump and against trans ideology. There we go.