[Stuart]

There’s plenty of justification for doing it this way. My bins being emptied isn’t politicised because my council tax pays for it.

I don’t have kids, but I don’t begrudge my taxes going towards education because it’s in our interest that we have a country of educated people. Likewise I don’t watch much BBC, but society benefits from its existence so I accept paying.

The council tax option for BBC funding is the best way of doing it.

You missed my point that the BBC isn't a service provided by the state.

All the others you mention most definitely are, which means that one way or another, they get funded through some form of general taxation.

Trying to justify that the BBC is a 'benefit to society' would be a hard task to convince people who neither use it nor meet the criteria of a TVL. It just wouldn't work. They need a different solution.