They are haemorrhaging money and suggesting they should be funded from general taxation when the licence fee review comes up next year.

Fitted new gate yesterday. Had it a while but had to wait on weather as its wood and I needed to protect it.  Got fed up with rubbish blowing in off the street - lots of footfall from school shops and bus stop, There are bins but I guess just dropping rubbish is the norm here. Hope they were just dropping it and not chucking it in.

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Quote from: Raven on Yesterday at 10:01:23 AMThe cheek of the man. 

https://www.gbnews.com/politics/trans-indian-migrant-msp-scottish-taxpayers-reparations-palestine

Cheek?
I'd say it is the stupidity of the Scottish electorate.

In other matters, it seems to me that perhaps the majority of Scots vote for any party which supports Scottish independence.
Don't they realise that Scotland is financially supported by England?  I'm not sure how well they'd be able to finance their own country if they ever did gain independence.
I should add that I have nothing against the Scots; we have relatives living near Glasgow.

I'll come to the pub, I'd love to meet
My forum friends, that would be sweet  
We'll wear a name badge, so we know
Who is who and Fred is not Joe

Quote from: klondike on Yesterday at 07:17:50 AMI asked how it is funded

• The "Big Five": France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom are the EBU's biggest financial contributors. Because they shoulder the largest chunk of the overall funding, their broadcasters automatically qualify for the Grand Final.

Obviously licence fee payers chip in big yet I bet few here actually watch it still. I certainly haven't in years even before I opted out of the BBC tax

Marge pays the TV licence (I wouldn't in principle), though we never watch the Song Contest as it is rather boring and, as mentioned above, primarily political.
If the BBC want to pay, that's up to them.  It will help to deplete their finances!

Apart from any of that, it is certainly not a song contest.  As others have said, it is a political support contest!

The cheek of the man. 

https://www.gbnews.com/politics/trans-indian-migrant-msp-scottish-taxpayers-reparations-palestine

Morning all.  
Just bathed Liffey  ( much to her disgust),  and once she's dry, she'll be ready for her trim.

Quote from: klondike on Yesterday at 07:17:50 AMI asked how it is funded

• The "Big Five": France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom are the EBU's biggest financial contributors. Because they shoulder the largest chunk of the overall funding, their broadcasters automatically qualify for the Grand Final.

Obviously licence fee payers chip in big yet I bet few here actually watch it still. I certainly haven't in years even before I opted out of the BBC tax

Marvellous how we've got money to throw away on rubbish like that,   yet so many others can barely pay for their weekly shop.