"The majority of the UK who voted in the way we did at the last election would no longer be obliged to fund a politicizied metropolitan left-wing pseudo-intellectual cult."... Colmc54, that majority is 46% of the electorate.
Gromit >"Since 1922 successive Government have seen the need for a public service broadcaster. It gives politicians the power to set the national agenda and project their view on the nation and abroad. The BBC is the instrument that disseminates the Governments power and as such is an important tool for them.
It is for that reason that I doubt there will be any major changes."
I see no reason why this is the case Gromit according to 'Copy of Royal Charter for the continuance of the British Broadcasting Corporation' :
>>>3. The BBC’s public nature and its objects
(1)The BBC exists to serve the public interest.
(2)The BBC’s main object is the promotion of its Public Purposes.
(3)In addition, the BBC may maintain, establish or acquire subsidiaries through which commercial activities may be undertaken to any extent permitted by a
Framework Agreement. (The BBC’s general powers enable it to maintain, establish or acquire subsidiaries for purposes sufficiently connected with its Public Purposes – see
article47(3) and (4)).
4. The Public Purposes. The Public Purposes of the BBC are as follows—
(a)sustaining citizenship and civil society;
(b)promoting education and learning;
(c)stimulating creativity and cultural excellence;
(d)representing the UK, its nations, regions and communities;2
(e)bringing the UK to the world and the world to the UK;
(f)in promoting its other purposes, helping to deliver to the public the benefit of emerging communications technologies and services and, in addition, taking a leading role in the switchover to digital television.
5.How the BBC promotes its Public Purposes:the BBC’s mission to inform,educate and entertain
(1)The BBC’s main activities should be the promotion of its Public Purposes through the provision of output which consists of information, education and entertainment, supplied by means of—
(a)television, radio and online services;
(b)similar or related services which make output generally available and which may be in forms or by means of technologies which either have not previously been used by the BBC or which have yet to be developed.
(2)The BBC may also carry out other activities which directly or indirectly promote the Public Purposes, but such activities should be peripheral, subordinate or ancillary to its main activities. Overall, such peripheral, subordinate or ancillary activities of the BBC should bear a proper sense of proportion to the BBC’s main activities, and each of them should be appropriate to be carried on by the BBC alongside its main activities.
(3)The means by which the BBC is, or is not, to promote its Public Purposes within the scope described in this Charter may be elaborated in a Framework Agreement (see
article49).
6.The independence of the BBC
(1)The BBC shall be independent in all matters concerning the content of its output, the times and manner in which this is supplied, and in the management of its
affairs.(2)Paragraph (1) is subject to any provision made by or under this Charter or any FrameworkAgreement or otherwise by law."