David Cameron claims that the ‘Tories’ will ‘freeze’ the BBC licence fee for one year in response to recession.

Whilst this may be welcome news and, more to the point, party political electioneering on behalf of the Conservative Party, it will in reality do little or nothing in either preventing the effects of the recession or the bias monopoly that provides the BBC with a perpetual platform from which all competition is rendered irrelevant regardless of their performance.

Where does one think our licence fee actually goes? Nowadays BBC services are accessible throughout just about the world over!

Folk from Albania to Zanzibar can gain free access to both BBC radio and television services. Free access, that is, unless you happen to live in Britain! That’s right, the British licence-payer provides the services of the BBC to the rest of the world free of charge and with no obligations.

The British National Party would not allow the BBC to charge any licence fee in order to maintain its position within the broadcasting community. Not a ‘freeze; not for one year, but permanently.

In order to survive, the BBC must compete with the competition. Perhaps we could then see some real progression and accountability?

One thing is for sure, financially we will all be better off in Britain and not constrained and bound by a licence fee that pays for what is nowadays a relatively insignificant proportion of the services we access through our televisions.

ROBIN JAMES EVANS, British National Party.