Petition · past parliament
BBC TO GO INDEPENDANT AND SCRAP THE TV LICENCE MAKE MONEY BY ADVERTISING
Rejected
14 signatures
What the petition asks
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
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
£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.
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.
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 23 Nov 2018 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 3 Dec 2018 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
14
Status
Rejected
Rejected
3 Dec 2018
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.