08-12-2023, 10:30 AM
In the context of the cost of living the minimum wage is going up as much per hour as the licence fee is going up per month.
People will moan whether the rise is £10 or £15 anyway, so going for the higher amount which costs people an extra 38p a month but means less BBC cuts would be worth it - and as we've seen this week with so much else going on the announcement is somewhat unnoticed anyway.
A decade ago the BBC having to save £90m didn't seem too big a deal - now it feels like it could be critical. It's not so much this lower increase that hurts the BBC but the freeze over the last two years at a time of very high inflation.
People will moan whether the rise is £10 or £15 anyway, so going for the higher amount which costs people an extra 38p a month but means less BBC cuts would be worth it - and as we've seen this week with so much else going on the announcement is somewhat unnoticed anyway.
A decade ago the BBC having to save £90m didn't seem too big a deal - now it feels like it could be critical. It's not so much this lower increase that hurts the BBC but the freeze over the last two years at a time of very high inflation.
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