Surely what this debate is about is the irresistible need, in modern Britain, for openly biased broadcast media. Unlike in the past, the technology and capacity now exists to easily make this a reality.
As a nation, we cannot continue deluding ourselves that the monolithic BBC somehow represents a 'balanced' overview of the political and cultural issues which interest and affect the British public. This organisation murders debate, ignores ideas and is sickeningly crass in its obsession with managing expectations of a population towards its own leftist, emasculated world-view.
It's fine to have a national broadcaster which is no different in tone and outlook to the Guardian newspaper - but let's not pretend this in any way represents an 'unbiased' middle ground. The nation needs access to a broadcast counter view... free to challenge ideas and free to present and defend alternatives. Releasing Sky to become this (along with scrapping, or sharing the licence fee) can only be healthy for the nation.