F1 Fanatic

I posted something similar yesterday, but it was swapmed by the masses of posts.
I have set up an e-petition on the direct.gov website asking for the f1 coverage to remain free-to-air. as long as it gets 100,000 signatures, the topic will be debated in the house of commons.
The petition is due to be released on August 8th, when I shall post again to alert people to this fact.

Well done mename2332, however Prisoner Monkeys does have a point. This though, I think, is one of the better ideas as, if it gets enough names, then there will be a guaranteed outcome.

mename2332, posting a link would be most useful to technophobes such as me should you have time.

Prisoner Monkeys, although I respect your opinions it is unhelpful simply to slate the actions of those trying to actually do something about what they see as an injustice. Picking holes in posts, having a defeatist attitude and criticising those of us attempting to be proactive achieves nothing. As an intelligent F1 fan please suggest a course of action, support or offer advice to those taking action or be silent and let those with heart and hope continue to try.
If you’re not a help you are a hinderance. Please help.

How many threads do we need? How many petitions?

Thousands of people have set up petitions all with pitiful members in. If and it’s a big IF, anything will ever work you need to one petition rather than everyone trying to set one up themselves.

I would like to hear about your petition mename2332 as soon as it is live, so i can sign it and follow up all my current links to sign my petition. I was going to send my petition to everyone involved, but if the government will get involved, then great! Hope we can do something before F1 loses loyal fans that simply can’t afford. If it goes ahead and the BBC don’t get enough viewers next year, then F1 will be lost completely off free to view tv ;-(

We need to try, but we need to get all the petitions to everyone and the only way to do this is for everyone to pass it on. I’m not bothered whose petition we use, but at the mo, it’s better to make sure petitions get signed. It’s a hard task, but I’m not giving up so easy, I’ll sign as many petitions as there are running!

The petition won’t work for the simple reason that none of the parties involved have done anything wrong, F1 is not a protected sport on British TV and there is no reason to involve any of the regulators.

Whilst it is frustrating to lose the coverage we currently have, it is, unfortunately, completely above-board. Of course, I would love all my F1 on free-to-air TV, but I’d like it for my cricket too, and plenty of other things.

I do agree with the sentiment of all these things, but there simply is no need or justification for anyone in Parliament or otherwise to interfere in what is essentially a straight commercial decision which has been brought about of the BBC’s own doing, and the BBC have to cut something…

Clearly, they feel the F1 is better to cut than something like BBC Four, and whilst I don’t like that, within their remit as a public service broadcaster, strictly speaking, something like BBC Four fits in with their remit more than F1.

Sorry to be such a realist, but when I remove my own personal vested interest in not wanting to pay for F1, there’s not really much else wrong with this.

Ok, I have another petition, with a lot more signatures, the signatures are adding up, we just need links to all the petitions, so we can merge them

http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/keepf1onthebbc

Thank You for your support

Whilst online petitions, protest groups, writing to your MP etc. are all very laudable I’m afraid in this case I think it’s very unlikely to make any difference.

I was involved in a long and expensive campaign to fight a change to a tax law for self-employed computer programmers many years ago.

A group was created with many thousands of members contributing 50 pounds each to a fighting fund. Online petitions organised, MP letter writing, an Early Day Motion and even with a team of lawyers managed to get a Judicial Review in the High Court.

We lost !

Sorry if it sounds cynical, but we are stuck with it. Been there, got the T-shirt (and it was an expensive T-Shirt)

I’ve missed one race in over 20 years, so I’m gutted.

You are better off spending your time and money on a cheap digital satellite box and dish and pointing it at Astra 19.2E and watch it free on Austrian, German or French TV. Listen on R5 and switch channels between the adverts !