Hello all,

as some of you might have already heard, the UK government wants to
cut the BBC World Service.

Please sign the petition to protest against this step at
http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/savews

Thank you and kind regards,
DAC324


JP

Hello,

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:25:30 +0000, Hils wrote:

Please sign the petition to protest against this step at
http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/savews


As a UK taxpayer whose broadband charges are about to rise 30%, you'll
excuse me if I don't. But gov.uk would probably take more notice of
listeners/customers anyway.

Do not mix both problems...

BBC world service is a real service for a lot of people around the world.
In a lot of countries it is difficult to get real information about what
is occurring on earth...

The fact that taxes are about to raise in UK is probably due to the fact
that companies did not pay enough taxes in the past...

Sebastien.

On Feb 18, 10:05*am, Sébastien MEDARD wrote:
Hello,

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:25:30 +0000, Hils wrote:
Please sign the petition to protest against this step at
http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/savews

As a UK taxpayer whose broadband charges are about to rise 30%, you'll
excuse me if I don't. But gov.uk would probably take more notice of
listeners/customers anyway.

Do not mix both problems...

BBC world service is a real service for a lot of people around the world.
In a lot of countries it is difficult to get real information about what
is occurring on earth...

The fact that taxes are about to raise in UK is probably due to the fact
that companies did not pay enough taxes in the past...

Sebastien.

So why should the British [UK] Taxpayers Pay For
The News and Information of Other Nations ?

Shouldn't the Citizens-of-the-World "UN"
Be Paying for the BBC then . . .

On Feb 18, 11:59*am, RHF wrote:
On Feb 18, 10:05*am, Sébastien MEDARD wrote:





Hello,

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:25:30 +0000, Hils wrote:
Please sign the petition to protest against this step at
http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/savews

As a UK taxpayer whose broadband charges are about to rise 30%, you'll
excuse me if I don't. But gov.uk would probably take more notice of
listeners/customers anyway.

Do not mix both problems...

BBC world service is a real service for a lot of people around the world.
In a lot of countries it is difficult to get real information about what
is occurring on earth...

The fact that taxes are about to raise in UK is probably due to the fact
that companies did not pay enough taxes in the past...

Sebastien.

So why should the British [UK] Taxpayers Pay For
The News and Information of Other Nations ?

Shouldn't the Citizens-of-the-World "UN"
Be Paying for the BBC then . . .
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Well, that's all for the last episode of the Shortwave Radio Show!
Thanks for joining us! Those radios will make swell trebuchet
counterweights! So long now!

Off-the-air.

On 02/18/2011 11:59 AM, RHF wrote:


So why should the British [UK] Taxpayers Pay For
The News and Information of Other Nations ?



Maybe the British don't want to live in a world full of idiots. The
World Service is something they can be proud of.

On Feb 18, 4:33*pm, Hils wrote:
bpnjensen wrote:
On Feb 18, 1:58 pm, dave wrote:
On 02/18/2011 11:59 AM, RHF wrote:
So why should the British [UK] Taxpayers Pay For
The News and Information of Other Nations ?
Maybe the British don't want to live in a world full of idiots. The
World Service is something they can be proud of.

Yes, but conservative governments rarely believe in educating the
masses. *Idiots are their best friends.

20 years ago the World Service may have been educational; I recall it
being the most "highbrow" of all of the BBC's radio channels. What I've
heard of it recently has sounded increasingly like ratings-chasing. And
I haven't become conservative with the passing years: much the opposite!
The World Service is not what it was: I object to paying for substandard
broadcasts.

Anyway, from 2014 it will be funded from licence revenue, not from a
direct government grant.

Sebastien's point about tax evasion is a fair one. The UK government
has been colluding in it for years.

That's right - the British conservative government has lost interest
in educating.

On 02/18/2011 02:44 PM, bpnjensen wrote:
On Feb 18, 1:58 pm, wrote:
On 02/18/2011 11:59 AM, RHF wrote:



So why should the British [UK] Taxpayers Pay For
The News and Information of Other Nations ?

Maybe the British don't want to live in a world full of idiots. The
World Service is something they can be proud of.

Yes, but conservative governments rarely believe in educating the
masses. Idiots are their best friends.

The "conservatives" (not like Dirksen or Goldwater) need the zombie army
of idiots to vote for them. The queers are gonna take your guns away!

On Feb 18, 5:44*pm, bpnjensen wrote:
On Feb 18, 1:58*pm, dave wrote:

On 02/18/2011 11:59 AM, RHF wrote:

So why should the British [UK] Taxpayers Pay For
The News and Information of Other Nations ?

Maybe the British don't want to live in a world full of idiots. The
World Service is something they can be proud of.

Yes, but conservative governments rarely believe in educating the
masses. *Idiots are their best friends.

Idiots are naturally born . Ignorance is cultivated artificially .

On Feb 18, 7:27*pm, wrote:
On Feb 18, 5:44*pm, bpnjensen wrote:

On Feb 18, 1:58*pm, dave wrote:

On 02/18/2011 11:59 AM, RHF wrote:

So why should the British [UK] Taxpayers Pay For
The News and Information of Other Nations ?

Maybe the British don't want to live in a world full of idiots. The
World Service is something they can be proud of.

Yes, but conservative governments rarely believe in educating the
masses. *Idiots are their best friends.

Idiots are naturally born . Ignorance is cultivated artificially .

Well, there IS that too... ;-)

Hello,

On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 02:47:21 +0000, Hils wrote:

Sébastien MEDARD wrote:

If you switch off the BBC World Service, you will have no tool, ever,
to be used when you will be facing a problem.

I wouldn't switch it off completely, I'd focus it much more on news, and
get rid of the feminist propaganda and ratings-chasing.

It would be a good compromise.

Russia's and Romania's external radio programmes are more interesting
IMO.

I should listen to them, for a try.

If only there was an Al Jazeera Radio on shortwave. :-)

I don't watch Al Jazeera but probably I should...

The EU, and member governments, are backing away from tackling the
problems of global capitalism.

The EU, and member governments ideology is more extreme than in the US....

Sebastien.