The Financial Times has reported that the BBC is “relieved” that the government has decided to extend for another ten years its licence to extort billions of pounds from TV viewers. The newspaper reported that a green paper to be published soon will recommend that the state media giant should be able to continue to finance its empire by refusing permission to watch other TV chanels to those unwilling to pay it £112 a year.
Enforcement agents for the corporation use the threat of £1000 fines to intimidate TV viewers who decline to pay the broadcaster for permission to watch TV broadcast by other channels.