MPs call to end TV badge auctions

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MPs call to end TV badge auctions

Two MPs have tabled a Commons motion demanding that internet auction sites ban the sale of Blue Peter badges.
Liberal Democrats John Barrett and Andrew George have condemned what they say is an "unscrupulous" practice.

They say the badges "should be earned, not bought or sold", and selling them will "devalue their status".

The BBC has suspended free entry to 200 UK attractions for badge holders because so many badges have been sold via the internet.

The sought-after emblems are awarded to children for endeavour and as prizes, and to adults who appear as guests on the long-running programme.

The BBC's investigations unit has spent several months monitoring the sale of badges online and large numbers have been removed from the eBay site following its intervention.

A spokesperson said the BBC was examining ways to verify that a badge did actually belong to the person wearing it.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:08 (twenty years ago)

Two MPs have tabled a Commons motion demanding that internet auction sites ban the sale of Blue Peter badges.

Because, you know, it's not like there's anything more important in the news at the moment. I mean, if the government was trying to pass a bill that would let it make virtually any laws by decree, I'm sure they'd be doing something about that instead.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:11 (twenty years ago)

getting them in a couple of days early are the Beeb?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:12 (twenty years ago)

This is much bigger than you realise FP. The Blue Peter Badges For Loans scandal could rock the very heart of government! And don't get me started on the child labourers making fake badges in Thai sweatshops.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:15 (twenty years ago)

But this has been a raging scandal in the Metro for days!

― Coffee, Pizza and Boris Johnson Playing In My Smoke Free Living Room, Pls (kate), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:16 (twenty years ago)

god, i hope they don't extend this. i'm hoping to inherit my uncle's blankety blank chequebook and pen.

meanwhile, i shall add "liberal democrats john barrett and andrew george" to my list of "pea-brained publicity-seeking wankwads who'll eventually get their turn against the wall several years after the revolution has come".

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:21 (twenty years ago)

I actually agree with them though. What sort of soulless git would sell their Blue Peter badge?

― Robocock (noodle vague), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:23 (twenty years ago)

me. if i had one. and hadn't lost it first.

good god, i own a medal for sand-yachting - which i, umm, "borrowed" from a lad in the year below me at school, two hours after he'd won it, while he was, er, "refreshed" following some heavy "celebrating".

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:32 (twenty years ago)

grim, I'm SHOCKED.

― Robocock (noodle vague), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:34 (twenty years ago)

this was in, what, 1992? i should maybe track him down and give it back. assuming i haven't lost it recently. it should be in the box under my bed along with old copies of the beano and the NME.

a brief google suggests the chap in question is now playing rugby, football and squash in buckinghamshire. the big sporting cheeser.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:43 (twenty years ago)

"wankwad"?

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 30 March 2006 14:06 (twenty years ago)

yes. as in a soiled wad of tissues that ... oh, you can work it out.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 March 2006 14:51 (twenty years ago)

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