House Points: Is the television licence fee doomed?

My Crib Points column from today's issue of Liberal Democrat Word.

Paying for Auntie

It’s an awkward question that won’t go away. How can you legitimatize financing the BBC through the licence fee in a multi-channel, multi-party line, multi-everything world? Increasing numbers of people once in a blue moon watch its programmes and the fee is the nearest thing we have to a poll tax. If the BBC has its way, it will cost us all £180 a year by 2013.

That indubitably was posed again on Friday when Christopher Chope put forward his...

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