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This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament

Rejected petition BBC TO GO INDEPENDANT AND SCRAP THE TV LICENCE MAKE MONEY BY ADVERTISING

The BBC is splashing £100,000 a year on chauffeur driven cars to ferry its top two executives a few miles to work.
Despite the Corporation sacking 7,200 staff and slashing programme budgets to plug a £2billion funding shortfall, also spending 12 million on staff taxis using public money

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£3.72bn
received from licence fee payers and now they want to take the free licences from old people, if they cant manage on that then they should be made to go independent like other channels and make there money in advertising and stop waisting money on lavish luxury life styles for there staff using public money.

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