This is the moment I’ve been waiting for. As the BBC lies on the flat of its back, it’s time to replace the corporation’s funding with subscription rather than taxation.
It’s quite clear the BBC can no longer be a news-led organisation as it can’t even trust its journalists not to doctor a speech by the President of the United States.
And if they will do that to President Trump, with all his power, what might they do to the views of a greengrocer in Durham?
So, the exit of Director General Tim Davie and the boss of news is a big opportunity. The reality is that the BBC make good entertainment television. Traitors, Strictly and that spellbinding David Attenborough series are quality, and their viewers love them.
The BBC also make news. And many viewers, including me, hate that output. To the point I was sick of shouting at the TV and gave up watching BBC News.
The reality is that BBC reporting on migration, or trans, or any cultural issue, always comes through the prism of the left. And as you can tell from the polls (Reform at 33 per cent, Tories around 19 per cent), the Right has a view and it’s not being factored into the coverage.
The answer is simple.
Dump the licence fee and go to subscription. For the entertainment and sport, you pay a certain fee, but if you are mad enough to require a lefty reporter explaining how vile capitalism is or how great trade unions are, then you pay a little more for the news output.
And if you don’t want to subscribe? No problem and no going to jail.
My bet is that the entertainment revenues would be very similar, but with one big change. Millions would not be buying news.
Tim Davie's exit should usher in the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing subscription era - Kelvin MacKenzie
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It's hard to envisage anybody paying good money for that doctored, lefty, tosh.
The good news is that change, thanks to Netflix and the like, is being forced on the BBC.
The next person to go into deep carpet land will be the chairman, Samir Shah. Another political journo type.
The BBC needs to be run like a business, instead of a liberal arts club in the Islington area. News needs to be pushed right down the agenda. The reality is that most viewers are trying to avoid news as it is both upsetting and likely to make you poorer.
The sooner the BBC understands subscription will be its saviour, the better.
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