Rejected petition Stop government funding of the BBC and TV licence fees.

Recently, the BBC has come under intense scrutiny for both biased media and sloppy, borderline illegal journalism.

The time has come for the BBC to lose its public funding. People should not be paying TV license for a below-par service.

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Examples of the recent issues include

-Biased coverage of Scottish independence
- Biased coverage of the EU referendum
- Abbhorent treatment of Cliff Richard -where they were fined £200,000

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Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/216642

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Date submitted 18 July 2018
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