The government wants to privatise Channel 4 – 27 comebacks worth tuning in for

John Plunkett. Updated April 5th, 2022

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Channel 4 is publicly owned, not publicly funded. It doesn't cost the tax payer a penny. It also, by charter, commissions content but doesn't make/own its own. It's one of the reasons we have such a thriving indy sector in places like Glasgow. This is the opposite of levelling up

— Ruth Davidson (@RuthDavidsonPC) April 5, 2022

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C4 has been the lifeblood of UK diversity. Skins, It’s A Sin, Ackley Bridge, Desmond’s, Undateables, Paralympics, This Is England, Britz, Eastern Eye, Black on Black, The Word, Brookside, Dispatches, Bandung File, Queer As Folk, My Beautiful Laundrette..we owe them everything 🤛🏾

— Adil Ray OBE (@adilray) April 4, 2022

16.

The Channel 4 move is petty, cynical and self-serving. No surprise there then. It doesn't help that Nadine Dorries has the intellect of battenberg cake.

— Richard Littler (@richard_littler) April 4, 2022

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Nothing remotely complicated about what the government is doing. They don't like critical questioning. They believe in the nonsense culture war gibberish about liberal metropolitans controlling the media. Channel 4 privatisation is a punishment for doing its job properly.

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) April 5, 2022

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Nadine Dorries asking why Channel 4 can't compete with Amazon or Netflix is daft, they're completely different things, it's like asking why a Tory can't compete with an ethically minded, compassionate human being

— HappyToast★ (@IamHappyToast) April 5, 2022

19.

From November 2019. pic.twitter.com/HCoPSfuL3J

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) April 5, 2022

20.

Nadine Dorries wrongly claimed last year that Channel 4 was “in receipt of public money”. Now she claims selling off free-to-air Channel 4 will allow it to compete against streaming giants Netflix and Amazon. The level of ignorance is as disturbing as the casual vandalism

— Lionel Barber (@lionelbarber) April 5, 2022

21.

https://twitter.com/TobyonTV/status/1511265171162996736?s=20&t=HtygEGZvn5TvSTJ9ftn5Hw

22.

The reason Channel 4 is being destroyed is because – it's good. This is a government that wants to drag everything down to its own pathetic level.

— Otto English (@Otto_English) April 5, 2022

23.

Would Ali G have been made by a privatised Channel 4? Would Brass Eye? Would the 11 O’Clock show? The Last Leg? I very much doubt it.

— Jolyon Rubinstein (@JolyonRubs) April 4, 2022

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Channel 4 is publicly owned, not publicly funded. It’s also banned by charter from making any of its own content – meaning any original programming it commissions comes from the private, independent, sector. Those private companies are happy with that current model.

— James Ball (@jamesrbuk) April 4, 2022

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Selling @Channel4 would be economically illiterate, culturally devastating and a hammer blow to the independent production industry. Selling it saves no taxpayer money, it harms creative diversity and undermines a great British export. It’s vandalism.

— Chris Bryant (@RhonddaBryant) April 4, 2022

26.

I’ve fixed that for you. You’re welcome. pic.twitter.com/QBgE6thMi0

— Nick Harvey (@mrnickharvey) April 4, 2022

27.

I just signed this petition: Boris Johnson: Stop the privatisation of Channel 4 – Sign the Petition! https://t.co/kFgS5rjqMe via @Change

— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) April 5, 2022

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