This petition was submitted during the 2017 to 2019 Parliament
Rejected petition Abolish the BBC element of the TV license fee and make it subscription based.
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The majority of the people of the UK hereby call upon the government to abolish the BBC element of the TV licence fee, they keep putting up price hikes at a time when a lot of the general public can’t afford it, with the already inflated taxes.
A lot of people already have turned to streaming through other sites to stop paying the fee, because they already pay a fee to watch their content.
In this modern age, we need to either abolish this fee altogether, or make it into a packaged fee, where there is a small fee for the performing arts sector, and those who want to watch BBC can pay the higher fee.
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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/231342
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