BBC Four & CBBC to close

[all new Phil]

I'm going to phrase this carefully bearing in mind what Rob has said, but I do wonder if there is an element of the BBC playing politics here in announcing this so far ahead of time?

By the time it takes effect we'll have had a General Election, so I wonder if there is an element of announcing the worst case scenario in the hope that opposition parties will pick it up as an election issue?

A repeat of the 6 Music closure U Turn in the offing?

I don’t think this is the case at all. There is a cost of living crisis - no party is going into the next election pledging to increase the license fee, which is what this would need. I seriously think people here are massively overestimating the attachment that viewers have to these things.