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[m g @michaelgoddard]

Wee Ethy and Stefan on the shop run yesterday morning😂😂

[A View From Yorkshire @models_by_Russ]

The BBC Doesn’t Want Viewers — It Wants Hostages

So let me get this straight.

I pay Netflix for Netflix.
I pay YouTube for YouTube.
I do not watch the BBC.

And yet the BBC still thinks it has a divine right to rummage around in my wallet?

This isn’t public service broadcasting anymore.
It’s institutional arrogance wrapped in nostalgia.

The licence fee was built for an age of three channels, static screens and enforced national attention.
That world is dead. Buried. Gone.

Instead of competing like everyone else, the BBC’s response to losing relevance is essentially:

👉 “If people won’t choose us, we’ll force them.”

Charging people because they watch Netflix or YouTube isn’t modernisation —
it’s a state-backed shakedown.

And what really grates?
The moral superiority.

This organisation still talks down to the public like it’s the nation’s conscience, while repeatedly failing to get its own house in order.
Maybe before demanding more compulsory cash, it should stop posturing as the moral compass of Britain and start asking some very hard questions about itself.

How many scandals does it take?
How many internal failures quietly managed, minimised, or brushed aside?
How many times does the public have to be told “lessons have been learned” before trust is completely gone?

You don’t get to lecture the country, alienate huge swathes of the audience, pump out bias, repeats and self-regard…
…and then demand payment from people who’ve actively walked away.

That’s not public service.
That’s monopoly thinking on life support.

Imagine Tesco billing you because you shopped at Aldi.
Imagine Spotify invoicing you because you bought a CD.
You’d call it insane — because it is.

If the BBC’s content is good, people will pay voluntarily.
If they won’t, you don’t get to threaten, guilt-trip, or criminalise them for refusing.

The future is choice.
The BBC hates choice — because choice exposes irrelevance.

No more reverence.
No more compulsory funding.
No more pretending this is about anything other than control.

[m g @michaelgoddard]

@gotrice2024 If you think that’s passive aggressive then you need to have a word with yourself. Can almost guarantee he set it up just to get views though.

[m g @michaelgoddard]

@BROKENBRITAIN0 Who cares?! Santas just been

[Andrew @andy_cov93]

Ambulance wait times are the longest they’ve ever been. People are lying in hospital hallways for 24+ hours waiting for beds

But this fucking muppet is demanding an ambulance as a taxi, because a terrorist sympathiser won’t eat her dinner?

[m g @michaelgoddard]

@FPLMattW

[m g @michaelgoddard]

It’s here. A recap of my #SpotifyWrapped https://t.co/7Ya5cSmtKr

[Robbie Moore MP @_RobbieMoore]

The message from the Chancellor today couldn’t be clearer:

👉 Don’t save for your future or your pension – Labour will tax it

👉 Don’t take the leap of setting up your own business – Labour will tax it

👉 Don’t work hard to get that pay rise – Labour will tax it

👉 And don’t you dare die holding assets either - Labour will tax it.

Just about the only thing today’s Budget does properly incentivise…is not working at all.

[m g @michaelgoddard]

WOW SCOTLAND! FUCKING GET IN THERE 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[m g @michaelgoddard]

@joextweet His obvious issues are that he’s a fucking virgin

[m g @michaelgoddard]

@paddybagger @marknelsoncomic Because he’s talking down to people who enjoy a pint in the pub and he’s being a prick about it so he’s receiving abuse and rightly so.

[m g @michaelgoddard]

It should be illegal to talk shit from a faceless profile. Too many nerds talking shit. I can’t imagine making one and thinking you’re the big man. Strange behaviour. The punishment should be 100 birthday bumps

[m g @michaelgoddard]

@FPLMattW

[m g @michaelgoddard]

@petercrouch 02

[m g @michaelgoddard]

@HawkesAFC Couldn’t agree more. Money talks

[m g @michaelgoddard]

Not being allowed to wear shorts on a construction site has got to be one of the worst rules going! Betty swollocks!

[m g @michaelgoddard]

@OisinMul_ Can’t see anything wrong with what he’s saying.

[Steady @DeanoGorton]

NO Laughing it's not BIG ☹️

[m g @michaelgoddard]

What a show MobLand is! It’s up there!

[m g @michaelgoddard]

@ThrillaRilla369 Yes, had to come home when the street lights came on. Went to knock on friends doors to see if they were home or get told which direction they headed in by their parents.