[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Pyramid*

Someone who takes something fraudualanty is a cheat. Whether it be Government Benefits, or a service that is provided. I'd have thought that was clear to be honest. It is not santicmonious, it is fact.

As for your 'neighbour' vs the fiddling expenses or defrauding with comparison: You do realise (I already mentioned this pages ago) - that there have been Government members who have been charged and imprisoned having been found guilty of such - and made to pay back monies. Perhaps not in high numbers: but that still remains a fact.

In answer to your political party: no one needs question where your political allegiance lies: given that regardless of topic Kizzy - you condemn and criticise the current Government at every slight turn - whether it has to do with the subject matter or not.


Re your questions on the BBC, I've provided more than enough links. I shall not repeat doing that, nor repeat what both I and other posters have mentioned time and time again in respect of what the BBC offer. There are more than enough posts for you to have gleaned what else the BBC offer.



To use comparisons that are necessary to explain: before privitisation came into play:- Railways were government owned: they ran as business. Local Electricity companies: government controlled, ran like businesses. Local Gas companies - government controlled, ran like businesses. Royal Mail - government owned: ran and operates like a business. No holes, just reality. The BBC falls into the same bracket - it is ran like a business -and businesses need money, they also need power and people in power - to make the difficult decisions, to organise, to manage, to recruit, to train, hire staff, to look after the finances, to ensure Laws and Legislations are adhered to and every other little thing that is needed to keep any such organisation ticking along.

How many people now complain bitterly about the ever increasing cost of these now private services - and the quality of the services? Far more I suspect than when they were all overseen by the Government.

You want the BBC to become privitised and not use public funds? Do you also want the same with the NHS for example? Would you like the government to butt out of there too? What about the DWP - should that be taken from the Government and run as profit based organisation in the same way that private employment / recruitment agencies do?


Charities are not regarded as 'businesses' - but they still run for a profit.

Like I said, no holes Kizzy - just plain talking and common sense.

Yes they were, yet it still happens..how they ended up in prison when they had not committed any crime is a mystery, a couple of scapegoats to appease the public.....

Supposition, as I said I was not party specific.

Is the BBC owned by the government?
BBC worldwide who broadcast News24, Cbeebies, BBC HD, BBC GOLD, Dave, really, and yesterday to name a few do so with the help of Virgin Media.....


The rest of your post is so off topic and has no bearing on the discussion whatsoever.