{"id":77649,"date":"2024-09-10T07:22:32","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T06:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=77649"},"modified":"2024-09-10T07:22:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T06:22:32","slug":"labours-quiet-plan-to-get-the-bbc-into-the-private-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/09\/10\/labours-quiet-plan-to-get-the-bbc-into-the-private-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour’s quiet plan to get the BBC into the private sector"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the FT notes<\/a> this morning:<\/p>\n

Ministers will explore mutualising the BBC as part of a review of funding options for the UK national broadcaster ahead of licence fee talks expected to begin next year, culture secretary Lisa Nandy said.<\/p>\n

During her campaign for the Labour leadership in 2020, Nandy called for the corporation to be mutualised in order to give direct ownership and control to licence-fee payers who fund its work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am sure the story is very well-sourced.<\/p>\n

I suspect that this is very firmly on the agenda.<\/p>\n

So let's not, for one moment, be taken in by any of this. The aim here is not mutualisation to give people control of the BBC. It is to turn the BBC into a corporation where, in due course, every licence fee payer can be offered a lump sum to sell their share to a company wanting to take it over (let's assume it's a Murdoch enterprise) with Labour then hugging themselves in glee that they will have done a privatisation that will send a bung in the direction of millions of grateful people at no cost to themselves, whilst achieving their aim of providing an opportunity to one of their sponsors.<\/p>\n

Please forgive my cynicism, but I cannot conceive of any other way to respond to this.<\/p>\n

Do they really think we are stupid enough not to see what is going on here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the FT notes this morning: Ministers will explore mutualising the BBC as part of a review of funding options for the UK national broadcaster
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