Since 2015, the BBC has faced massive changes to its funding and structure. This has led to cutbacks and controversial decisions such as the axing of free TV licences to over 75s, without consultation with viewers and listeners. Now, the Government has announced that it will be freezing the BBC’s funding and looking into axing the licence fee. This could threaten the future of our public broadcaster as we know it.
The Co-operative Party and many others believe that it should be viewers and listeners who decide its future, not the current government’s Ministers or opaque committees.
Join this Zoom event as we hear from Philippa Childs – Head of BECTU – Andrew Pakes – Deputy General Secretary Prospect and Emma Foody – Assistant General Secretary Co-op Party – on what’s being done by the Co-op Party and unions representing those in the entertainment industry to lead the campaign to keep the BBC publicly-owned, and to give licence fee payers a say and stake in its future.
You can sign up to our campaign by clicking here: https://party.coop/a-peoples-bbc
This online event will be live captioning for increased accessibility.