BBC TV Licence Is a Poll Tax – Time to Scrap It?
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Jon Gaunt
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🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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BBC TV Licence Is a Poll Tax – Time to Scrap It?
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Is the BBC TV licence still worth paying in 2025 — or is it an outdated poll tax on British households?
We debate whether the BBC’s funding model should be scrapped in the digital age. I worked inside the BBC for years, winning three Sony Awards in one night as a top talk radio presenter. But I’m now ashamed of what it has become — from political bias and overpaid talent to a shrinking audience and competition from streaming giants like Netflix, YouTube, and Spotify.
We discuss: BBC bias and impartiality — including their own admissions in recent controversies Whether BBC Radio 1, Radio 2, Radio 4, and Radio 5 Live could thrive in the private sector.
The streaming revolution — Netflix, YouTube, Spotify vs the BBC
The Glastonbury coverage controversy.
The reality of the TV licence “poll tax” — and why refusal to pay can lead to prison
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to the John Gornbord broadcast, podcast, whatever you want to call it. |
| 0:07.1 | The BBC TV licence is a poll tax. |
| 0:12.1 | It's time to scrap it. |
| 0:14.1 | Why are we forced to pay 159 quid a year to the BBC. |
| 0:21.6 | Well, I know they do it through a proxy service, |
| 0:23.3 | but to the BBC or go to prison. |
| 0:27.0 | It can't be right. |
| 0:28.8 | So I want your views. |
| 0:30.8 | Is the BBC TV license a fair way to fund the state broadcaster? |
| 0:36.2 | Or is it a poll tax for TV in a new streaming world? |
| 0:41.5 | Is the BBC just a propaganda arm of the government? |
| 0:47.1 | Do you think they're fair and equal? |
| 0:49.8 | Do you think they still educate, entertain and inform? |
| 0:56.8 | Or do you think they're full of lefty, |
| 1:03.8 | woke twats who don't want your opinion on their screens, but want you to pay for it? |
| 1:05.2 | My name's John Gorty. I want your views. |
| 1:06.4 | Your views are very important within this whole debate. |
| 1:14.1 | So get them in. So the basis of the program is this. Is the BBC TV license still worth paying in 2025? Welcome to the show. I'm John Gorn, |
| 1:22.7 | by the way. You can make comments just write them at the bottom of your screen and I'll read out the best ones and it all becomes part of the debate. |
| 1:31.2 | If you are watching live, please stream it out to other people as well. |
| 1:36.3 | And if you really love it, why don't you tell other people to start watching as well? |
| 1:40.8 | So the TV license, is it an outdated poll tax on British households? |
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