What is that quote at the end of King Lear? I think it is something like
“the wheel has come full circle”. I felt a sense of that wheel with the announcement by Mr Miliband yesterday that the BBC should be democratised and become some sort of mutual
co-operative.
I have been campaigning for democratisation of the BBC licence fee for a while now, first writing about it on ConservativeHome in 2008 and most recently tabling an Early Day Motion, only a couple of weeks ago.
Inevitably a few brickbats were thrown. My idea was loftily dismissed when I suggested it to BBC staff and Danny Finkelstein called it the “worst idea he had ever heard”, after I had dared to propose that licence fee payers should have had the chance to vote on whether Nick Griffin should appear on Question Time.
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