As you doubtless know, the government has passed the funding of TV licences for people aged over 75 to the BBC. It is iniquitous that what is in essence a form of universal benefit should be dumped on our national broadcaster. The reason is obvious: if the BBC decides it cannot afford to administer the concession, as seems likely, it will be blamed rather than the government that decided that a national concession introduced by one of its predecessors should now be paid for by a media corporation.
This is ministerial cowardice of the first order: deliberately ducking responsibility for one's own official actions.
The NPC is organising a demo in London on 7 March - details on the right.
They have also produced a petition (below).
- Right-click on the petition.
- On the menu that appears, click on 'Save image as...'
- Click 'save' to download to your computer
- You can then print it in the normal way.
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