On 09/08/2020 15:20, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Bob Eager wrote:
On Thu, 06 Aug 2020 09:25:00 +0100, bert wrote:

In article , Bob Eager
writes
On Wed, 05 Aug 2020 21:40:00 +0100, bert wrote:

Conspiracy theory again. Just a simple case of government trying to
reduce cost of welfare and hence budget deficit.

And being careful to shift the apparent blame onto the BBC.

No blame involved if BBC had stuck to their side of the bargain.

They were shoved into it.

This way, the giovernment saves money and the BBC are on a hiding to
nothing. Either they:

a) Charge over 75s and get hammered

b) Cut programming and get hammered

Exactly what the several BBC haters on here want.

After all, services like TV etc are something to make a profit from. The
end user doesn't matter a toss.

Top Gear earned the BBC tens of millions of pounds, which they used to
cross-subsidise those programs that few people watch or listen to.