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Petition update, 04 November 2008

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Independent economic research analysis and investigations by consumer protection organisations such as the National Consumers Council have consistently concluded, for many years, that the UK TV licence is a levy which is regressive in its financial impact on the poor. This gross iniquity is perpetuated in essence by the UK Government upon its most vulnerable citizens. This situation is even more outrageous in an age when the poor may receive only 5 terrestial TV channels, for which the TV licence contributes to the cost of only BBC output, yet the more wealthy within the UK tend to enjoy dozens, or even hundreds of digital or satellite TV channels at comparatively little extra cost to them per channel. This petition accordingly urges the Government to abolish the UK TV licence and allow the BBC to make use of all lawful, reasonable, modern means of capital and revenue generation including share issues, property equity stakes and loans and advertising on BBC TV, radio and internet broadcasts.

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• Dan Brace
• Kevin Eden
• Peter Morrison
• lee morgan
• Rhonda Morrison
• kevin
• k.buxton
• Clive Gates
• Steven Holgate
• L Crooks
• Samantha Packman
• Jon Bonner
• Timothy Older
• Alexander Robert Duncan
• Eamonn Mooney
• Michael Wilson
• mrs julie simpson
• Richard Crowther
• Darren Allen
• John Campbell
• Peter
• scott gilbert
• Matthew Thomson
• BEN FITZPATRICK
• Andy Jepson
• alex mac
• Jennifer Lesley Rayner
• Margaret McNicol
• Kerry Edees
• Ben Northwood
• Ashlee Rowlands
• Danny Batten
• paula allan
• Craig McBride
• Matt Fryer
• D McMillan
• GLENN OLIVER
• stephen bolam
• Chris Watson
• Amy Bendall
• Aaron Hill
• Helen Robson
• Diane Robson
• Lord Jonas Smith
• Martyn J Williams
• nicola bentley
• Brian Ronald
• Stephen Moss
• G.Sengari
• Nadine
• Scriea Estephane
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• Mike Reavell
• Daniel Millard
• Damien McKeever
• simon bradley
• christopher james
• Alex Evans
• janette nicol
• Helen Bartlett
• Stephen Kidd
• Clare Laycock
• Karl Allinson
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• Laura Baker
• Craig Knowles
• fleur newman
• Kelly Reynolds
• Christine Brathwaite
• Mark Cann
• Martin Lewis O'Neill
• Susan Parkin
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• charles finden
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• kendra dunn
• Catherine Davies
• Steven Bilton
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• kelly roberts
• Julie Gorse
• Daniel Patterson
• Kate Woods
• james woods
• Mandy Webber
• T Syed
• Barbera Vermillio
• Andrew Scott
• jacqueline church
• Angela Love
• Barbara Hewitt
• fiona walker
• fiona donohue
• S Abidi
• Liz Bull
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• Jo Hennessey
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• graham christopher
• Andrew Charlesworth
• Terry Elden
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• suzanne rose
• Ben Wibrew
• stephen corkett
• Natalie John
• Jamie Reed
• Paul Hambling
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• Keith Lloyd
• Martin Murkin
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• valerie grove
• Harry Bate
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• Mark Caldwell
• Emmerson Walgrove
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• Colin Gough
• Terry Collins
• audrey seaton
• Steve Snape
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• M. Ward
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• Anthony Farrell
• Charlene Coates
• Tracy Nuttall
• Rebecca Fox
• Will Jordan
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• Elizabeth Evans
• Annette Raybould
• Michael Burgess
• marc vass
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• Julian Nassar
• dave ponter
• Katherine Corbett
• Pip Willomina
• lizi sheath
• Lucy Preston
• Phillip Page
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• Ricky Hammond
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• keith stewart
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• caroline
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• vivienne wardell
• Carl Jones
• Hilary Saunders
• Anne Radcliffe
• Sally Howes
• gavin koch
• Paul R Milsom
• Darren Mutch
• fiona mason
• Stephen Aldridge
• Harry Taggart
• Adam Yates UKIP
• Toni Anderson
• Gillian Crawley
• Maria Bandcroft
• Toby Attwood-Wright
• I. Norton
• I Thomas
• Vicky Owen
• Sean Jones
• David Booth
• Alan John Duncan
• Elvis Mills
• Tristan Perry
• stuart whyte
• Wesley Rice
• Stuart Rice
• dayo iloyi
• deb cameron
• Sophie
• THROBBIN 8 INCHER
• John and Christine Dodd
• Julie Tucker
• Stephen Cole
• Rob Spier
• Richard Thomas
• sarah kirby
• Kevin Hayward
• Kate Dawson-Brown
• James Grove
• Simon Walker
• Dan Spencer
• Robert James
• Anne-Marie Bryant
• Rachael Howard
• paul wormstone
• Richard Boughey
• Steven Noble
• nina reynolds
• paul dodd
• Vincent Chung
• matthew weigham
• nicole van
• Conrad Van-Landewyck
• sharon booth
• Stephen Smith
• Peter Beeley
• John Ray
• Diane Sturgess
• Stuart Leather
• Ruth Da Silva
• Chris Taylor
• Screaming Lord Such (RIP)
• eric hepper
• byron hopkins
• W Matthew Everington
• John Cole
• Matt Bates
• David Penycate
• Andrew Smith
• Julian McAuslan
• Paul Ibberson-Groves
• Rebecca Gore
• josh nicholas

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