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However, I would happily pay double the license fee if it meant a properly funded and watchable BBC.

This is, though, a very unusual position, which neither reflects public opinion or changes the fact that the licence is currently frozen at a time of significant inflation, with the BBC in no position to change that, meaning the BBC's real terms income is falling by £100ms every year and cuts do have to be and are being made.

The BBC received over 5 and a half billion pounds in the last year. Hardly underfunded.

Utterly meaningless. A context shorn datapoint tells you nothing and just because something is a big number has no bearing on whether something is underfunded or overfunded. The reality is, for the levels of services and original programming the BBC was providing in the mid-2000s, before the era of cuts, the BBC is objectively underfunded as it is no longer anywhere near financially able to provide those levels anymore. Now you can argue that it shouldn't provide those services or the public shouldn't expect them, but that isn't the same as saying 'they have £5bn, stop complaining' if the expected service provision would cost more than £5bn to do adequately.