Sep 1, 2024 11:00 AM
On the "Building a New Truthful Media" panel, speakers urge Britons to quit the £160 licence fee and describe advertising boycotts and regulator pressure on independent outlets.
On the "Building a New Truthful Media" panel, speakers urge Britons to quit the £160 licence fee and describe advertising boycotts and regulator pressure on independent outlets.
CPAC UK's media panel — featuring voices including Dan Wootton, Mike Graham, Paolo Emilio Zanini and Michał Rachoń — framed legacy public broadcasting as structurally hostile to dissenting coverage, while independent outlets face advertising boycotts and regulatory chill.
One speaker put the UK's TV licence in blunt terms: about £160 a year, required by law to watch terrestrial television, with the advice to "stop paying that" — arguing that if millions refuse, enforcement collapses. Panelists also described Stop Funding Hate-style advertising pressure on GB News and compared patterns of economic boycott against media companies in Poland and elsewhere.
“But what people who be stung to know we still have a poll tax for the BBC rights. You have to pay a hundred and sixty pounds a year for the BBC by law… my advice to everyone is stop paying that.”
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