Sell off of Channel 4

No ... I think the clue is in their title Gill57. ... GB NEWS ?

Maybe GB news could buy the rights Urm. Have a whip round or ask their Russian backers.

I’m enjoying ‘The Simpler Life’ (living like the Amish) and its on Ch.4
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Sorry, just noticed this video has been posted before. (I seem to have skipped a page of comments).

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Nadine Dorries not understanding how Channel 4 operates. Just embarrassing.

Because we are governed by a party with a huge parliamentary majority gained by a minority of votes, we are virtually powerless to stop even the most outrageous acts.

Nadine Dorries could only be stopped by at least 40 Tory MPs rebelling. Good luck with that.

Of course, it’s ridiculous. Of course they must have a pal who wants to buy it. Of course, it should be left as it is. Why on earth does Nadine Dorris get to decide such a big decision on behalf of all of us? The question is what can we do about it? We are all outraged about Partygate, Boris in general, huge price rises for everything etc etc and we still haven’t got any answers or any reversal of decisions or help towards the bills so how can we get this changed?

This Russian backed Tory government is following the example of its oligarch donors. Steal what belongs to the people and line the profits of the billionaires.

Media companies are top targets. Channel 4 News gave us a balanced non partisan hour long daily news program, but committed the crime of criticising brexit, unlike the tame docile Brexit Broadcasting Corporation - and that cannot be tolerated.

Truth hurts and must not be allowed.

You so clearly don't have a clue about how a national economy works, Ug. They don't need to sell one thing to finance something else. It's not like a household or a business. ut I know I'm wasting my energy...

I'm finding it interesting that our right wingers think that the 'state broadcaster' should parrot the government propaganda. How very Putinesque...

Don't you know that the ability to hold the government to account is one of the basic freedoms of a democratic society.? It's a freedom that applies to every single media outlet.

Let's hope this fails. A question for Urmonstongran and Kandinsky; if you don't watch C4, if it doesn't cost you a penny, why do you want to deny it to people who do enjoy it? I loathe the very idea of GB news, don't watch it but wouldn't dream of stopping you from watching it. This is called democracy

Whitewavemark2

Dont bother to answer, it is the government. I was clutching at straws wondering if it might be a trust or something

At a guess I imagine that this sale will have to be approved by both the HoC’s and Lords, let’s hope that it doesn’t get through.

Gin

The only channel worth watching in this house. I suppose Saturday night Scandi dramas will be a thing of the past or on a subscription channel. I am becoming desperate, why does everything change? If it works it does not need fixing.

Aren’t Saturday night Scandi dramas on BBC4? They certainly used to be.

Dont bother to answer, it is the government. I was clutching at straws wondering if it might be a trust or something

Who legally owns C4?

I can't wait for the May elections; I will vote anything rather than Johnson's Tory Party. If the results are bad, he will go and his sickly sycophants with him.

nahsma

volver Doris is thicker than a thick thing on a thick day, isn't she? And it would appear that she is even less able to read her briefing notes than ABdePJ. I despair.

On the planet thick.

I suspect our esteemed Culture Secretary wouldn't even get this reference...

volver Doris is thicker than a thick thing on a thick day, isn't she? And it would appear that she is even less able to read her briefing notes than ABdePJ. I despair.

Dorries is a Moron; part of a Moronic Government whose supporters think potholes more important than the Arts!!!

Ach then, hardly worth the effort. Let's just hold on to it.

Urmstongran

The government can sell it and pocket over a billion ££s. Every little helps the economy? At present, yes we have a channel but the taxpayer gets nothing out of the arrangement.

The money people are saying they aren’t going to get anywhere near a billion.

Some are saying they should take what’s on offer.

Urmstongran

Am I? I’ve not listened to her. ?

unfortunately for you, she is usually three sheets to the wind

vegansrock

Nadine Dories didn’t even know it doesn’t receive any public money.

she doesn't know where her own constituency is, so it is hardly a surprise

Ask the question - if Channel 4 did not exist now, would the Government establish it?

God, I hope so.

Well, not this government, obviously.

Urmstongran

Am I? I’ve not listened to her. ?

Here you go. La Dorries opining about Channel 4. Only one or two little details she got wrong...

the bit where she says they get taxpayers money and the bit where she says it receives public money.

Don't know about you lot, but I'm not convinced she knows what she's doing. ??‍♀️

Yeah. And. That. (watch to the end)

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Or cronies ..?