[Radio_man]

The BBC has been cut to the bone son there really isn't anything left to cut. Personally If I was them I would threaten cut services like radio 3 or 4 then the people in government who enjoy listening to them will cause an uproar but the beeb could say this is your fault and then the government might give the BBC a break knowing that they are in a difficult financial situation

The government won't give the BBC a break, because as far as the Conservatives are concerned, the BBC is a public broadcaster that must be privatised. The government are following the classic model of privatisation with the BBC - freeze the license fee and starve the BBC of funding so programme quality and output suffers, people then begin to question the value of the BBC, further cuts strip back output even more, leading to calls for privatisation and for it to become a subscription service as the only way to 'save' the BBC, when all that was needed was for the BBC to be adequately funded by the license fee in the first place.