Thursday 5 August 2010

What's the catch?

I read this with baffled confusion:

David Miliband and Tessa Jowell have come up with an idea to reconnect the licence payer with the BBC.

In a joint blog today, they will say*:

“The mutual principle could play a role in strengthening the democratic accountability of the BBC, as one of most treasured and important public institutions"

“Owned by the British public and paid for directly through each household’s TV licence, it is only right that ordinary members of the public should have a real say in how it is run”.

"Under a mutual model, membership of the BBC could be open to everyone who pays the licence fee. Members could have the right to elect representatives to a Member’s Council that would elect a majority of members of the BBC Trust. This would give licence fee payers a way to democratic voice in the priorities of the BBC.

“Greater public engagement with members could also take place via the website, to ensure the BBC was providing responsive services. With those running the BBC directly accountable to their members, they would have a clear mandate to canvas license fee payers on all major policy decisions.”


Fuck me. Bananaman and the arrogant, boot-faced cunt have come with an idea I support entirely.

If you pay the license fee, you get a better say in how the BBC is run. Increased accountability and transparency. Fucking genius, brilliant idea. So, apart from the near-breakdown in cognitive function caused by reading something quite sensible from a pair of power-crazed, dysfunctional buttmunches, I wondered how I might be misinterpreting this.

And then it dawned on me: this wouldn't be a voluntary co-op. We'd all still be forced with menaces to spunk our money out on twattish BBC cuntishness, the ability to vote and "participate" would just be an additional sweetener to help us accept the tax by another name. And because it would be driven by the BBC, the mutuality and co-operativeness would be about as much use as Network Rail is to rail commuters.

So, once again, Labour fail.

Epically.

*How the fucking fuck do they do this? I never know what my blog posts are going to say when I sit down to write them.

20 comments:

microdave said...

"Greater public engagement with members could also take place via the website"

Which would work just like the Coalitions recent effort - ask what people want, and then totally ignore them...

sixtypoundsaweekcleaner said...

They're a total load of tosspots. Sack the lot.

Anonymous said...

Let's have a media machine like the States!

Obnoxio The Clown said...

We already have a media machine like the States. Unfortunately, it's funded by extortion.

Anonymous said...

You are obsessed, get out there and do something useful with your life. Do you believe this predictable blog will change anything? It seems to be read by a few like minded people, so in essence preaching to the converted. If I hated this country as much as you do I'd leave. What would the obno news agency look like?

Anonymous said...

I loath the BBC. I detest the 'TV license' and I hate Labour.
Whatever these two charlatans say will be corrupt.

Obnoxio The Clown said...

"What would the obno news agency look like?"

You're looking at it.

"Do you believe this predictable blog will change anything?"

No. Anybody who believes their blog will change anything is mad.

Anonymous said...

Bin your TV, Labour are not in power. Your problems are solved!

Anonymous said...

No. Anybody who believes their blog will change anything is mad.

Why the fuck do you bother then? Does it massage your ego?

Obnoxio The Clown said...

"Why the fuck do you bother then? Does it massage your ego?"

I write to vent my frustration and because I enjoy writing.

I'm baffled as to what some people think about blogging, really.

Anonymous said...

More to the point anon why the fuck do you bother reading this shit and asking the fucking question in the first fucking place?

Anonymous said...

I think the answer to your question is in my question. I am intrigued why people spend so much time writing blog posts when they know it does not change anything. Obno has politely answered the question now. That is the reason I asked. No need to carry on reading "this shit" as you put it.

Kingbingo said...

"What would the obno news agency look like?"

Christ, even I would go out and buy a TV if Obnoxio started running a news channel.

That really would be something to behold.

Kingbingo said...

""Why the fuck do you bother then? Does it massage your ego?"

I write to vent my frustration and because I enjoy writing.

I'm baffled as to what some people think about blogging, really."

Don't feed the trolls!

You do not need to justify yourself to this shit, you have a first rate blog and a loyal fan base.

Rationalist said...

Pop.

Fascist Hippy said...

Fuck anon and the BBC, both CUNTS!

Leg-iron said...

I still can't get my head around how they manage to 'leak' a blog post in advance.

Like you, I have no idea what's coming up on mine until I'm typing it.

And sometimes it changes halfway through.

Have they abolished the passage of time now?

Bayard said...

"I still can't get my head around how they manage to 'leak' a blog post in advance."

Or why they bother, I mean, ffs, why don't they just post it, or does everything have to be leaked first. Numptiness of the highest order.

AFAIAC the BBC should be a subscription channel, like Sky. OTOH the government would then want to throw some taxpayers' money at it so it would be their mouthpiece, so I would end up paying for a service I don't use (I have no TV).

Anonymous said...

Perhaps this is where you're going wrong then, Obo ? You need to issue a Press Release announcing every Blog Post before the blog post is released? So that the story is released by the MSM, who link people to the blog post that doesn't exist yet?

I don'ts thinks they've really got the hang of this Interwebby stuff yet.


Captcha: Ballus - How appropriate.

The Grim Reaper said...

Anonymous said "What would the Obno news agency look like?"

Fucking hell, I'd gladly pay to watch that news channel.

"Here's our top story this hour. The Royal Bank of Scuntland has revealed today that it has made a pre-tax profit leap to £1.14 billion in the last six months. This contrasts with just £15million from one year earlier. The money-grabbing fuckers reported an operating profit of £1.6 billion for this year. In 2009, they made a fucking great big loss of £3.4 billion. We own 84% of this shit-infested bank, you know. The fat cunt who runs the bank said the bank was "making good progress with disposals and overall business restructuring.". The wombat-felcing cunt..."