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What does it have to do with them?

Tuesday, 18th December 2007

This (via Comment Central) is why it doesn't matter which of the two muppets running for leader of the LibDems wins:

The Liberal Democrats have calculated that over the three-day Christmas holiday, the number of repeats on all channels is up by 25% on last year and the proportion of children's programmes already shown at least once is 80%. On the BBC's terrestrial channels, that rises to more than 90%.
As Daniel Finkelstein writes:
Why? Why did the Liberal Democrats calculate this? What's it got to do with them? Are they suggesting that the scheduling of Porridge and Dad's Army should now be determined by Parliament?

If you think Labour interferes in areas in which it has no business getting involved, just try the LibDems.

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Lee Jakeman

December 18th, 2007 8:28pm

In the world of mediocre politics, I guess this is what passes for a "burning issue".

Tony

December 19th, 2007 12:14pm

As the BBC trumpets its commitment to new programming constantly and uses this as a basis to argue for increases in the licence fee these stats are useful in demonstrating the organisation's failure to live up to its promises. As it is a publicly funded organisation why is it not acceptable for a politial party to point this out? The Lib Dems are arguing for fewer repeats not trying to control what is actually tranmitted. That seems a pretty laudable aim to me

Bruce

December 19th, 2007 5:14pm

license Fee halved then? A vote winner?

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