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Fuck em in the Ass Boris! Fuck these Creeps!

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/12/16/panic-at-the-bbc-boris-johnson-demands-accountability-at-taxpayer-funded-broadcaster/

Relected British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has set his sights on the publicly funded British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), promising a slew of changes in the mechanisms that previously guaranteed the broadcaster immunity from fiscal accountability.

The BBC is commercial-free and funded by the compulsory licence fee, payment of which is legally required from all those who watch live television, even if they do not watch the BBC, or iPlayer.

Failure to pay the licence fee can result in a £1,000 ($1300) fine, a court appearance, prosecution, and even imprisonment.

During the election campaign, Johnson threatened to take the BBC’s licence fee away as he called into question its status as a publicly funded broadcaster.

The prime minister suggested the licence fee, which is guaranteed to continue until at least 2027, was a general tax that could no longer be justified when other media organisations had found other ways of funding themselves.

The BBC has already pleaded it will have at least £200M ($267M) less to spend on TV shows if the incoming government makes good on threats to decriminalize non-payment of the fee.

Johnson was asked last week if the licence fee “still makes sense,” and now his government has said it is going to look into sweeping away criminal sanctions for people who watch television but do no pay the £154.50 impost.