Comments on: Digital Britain: what you need to know, and what it means

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:06:01 +0000

The problem is the government won’t be asking. I wouldn’t have any problems with taxation, BBC licence fee etc, if it were just a matter of the government asking. Unfortunately though, like the Mafia, the government prefers to make offers you can’t refuse. It’s only a contribution if you can tell them to sod off. Otherwise it’s legalised extortion.

By: Tony Kiernan

Tony Kiernan — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:31:57 +0000

If the government asked would I like to contribute £6 a eyar to ensuring there was decent countrywide coverage, I’d be up for it. Even as a 17% bump in my bill it seems ok.

By: mupwangle

mupwangle — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:25:07 +0000

While waiting for something to finish installing, I had a glance at the Daily Mirror. It had a front page headline saying that there was “Fury” about the 50p tax – details on Page 8 and 9. Funnily enough, other than the phrase “is set to anger the taxpayers” there was no indication of any such fury.