SIR - Helen Mead writes in her Monday column "...there's nothing remotely watchable in today's (television) offerings." Well said! I am not surprised that what I see as Labour's public communications wing is approaching our totalitarian Labour Government, for more of our money.
BBC Television is mostly garbage. I long since gave up watching what I now call, "The Labour Broadcasting Corporation."
Isn't it time the television licence fee, which is set to perhaps rise to £180, was abolished? Isn't this "licence fee" now a rapidly rising Labour tax, on the freedom of people to communicate, especially when it applies, as it does, to multi-media computers? Why should we pay a Labour Government tax to use computers?
Does industry and commerce possess "television licences," for each of the millions of "internet capable" computers it uses across our nation? Noit does not!
So why isn't the Television Licensing Authority pursuing industry and commerce, with the same zeal it is targeting students? Shouldn't the BBC be forced to earn its income in the market place?
N TAYLOR,
Worcester.
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