tv licence

SWP's back said:
doots said:
marco said:
2999 because they missed me
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And me,think it's cos the detector van couldn't get down my road,so there you have it,move to a cul de sac,problem solved.
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I'm sure the 12,000 prosecuted in December were saying the same thing last October.
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12000 lemons a month admitting it instead of saying come back with a warrant! - beggars belief. It's also difficult to believe such a large wedge of households get done every month, yet hardly anyone seems to actually know of one. I'm not doubting your stats are from what would appear to be a trustworthy source SWP, but I just think it's lies or bollocks. I have a 'mate' on about year twelve in a row of laughing at the licencing bods actually on the doorstep with the telly on in the background (and visible through the window). Just gets the same letters and visits every so often with no further action. Just ignore the letters tell the jobsworths to fuck off and that you are watching dvd's on a set incapable of recieving broadcasts and enjoy for free.
It may be worth putting a pointy tin-foil hat on in case the 'detector van' comes round - snigger!
They are just like meter readers, they come round and if they don't get anywhere they just tick the box to say they made a visit and you go back to the bottom of the pile - unless you are soft enough to either buy a licence or stand their signing bits of paper to say you are watching without.
I say if people send radio waves and other signals through the air on your property without asking you have every right to look and listen to them - enjoy.
 
Sack that. The letters don't stop, the calls don't stop and you have to act like a high and mighty ****. For the sake of a tenner a month. They all had a TV otherwise they would let them in for 2 minutes and that would be the end of it.
 
Whilst we have a right to disagree with the TV License and the principles upon which it is founded, I do find a lot of the treatment of the door knockers to be a bit over-the-top. They're just doing their job and it might be the only one they can get.

They aren't the lawmakers, they're ordinary folk like you or I trying to get by on what is probably a really shit job. No doubt there are some that are complete arse holes, but name a profession that doesn't have the odd one of them.
 
If you are worried about being rude to a TV licence person who probably hates his job the best thing to do is write to the BBC informing them they do not have the right to enter your property.

This means they can't enter your garden or drive if you have one.

Write directly to the Director General at Broadcasting House.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.televisionlicence.info/info/rights" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.televisionlicence.info/info/rights</a>
 
urmston said:
If you are worried about being rude to a TV licence person who probably hates his job the best thing to do is write to the BBC informing them they do not have the right to enter your property.

This means they can't enter your garden or drive if you have one.

Write directly to the Director General at Broadcasting House.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.televisionlicence.info/info/rights" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.televisionlicence.info/info/rights</a>
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But that video shows that they still do time and time again and everytime you have to act like a twat.
 
This is all kicking off now, especially with non payment becoming a civil offence. Some Lord on Radio 4 just said it should be added to the Council Tax bill - fucking arsehole!
 
malg said:
This is all kicking off now, especially with non payment becoming a civil offence. Some Lord on Radio 4 just said it should be added to the Council Tax bill - fucking arsehole!
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Well if you poke the dog with a stick enough times
 
I'd be more inclined to pay it if they weren't scrapping one of the only BBC channels I do occasionally watch to save money to fund a channel I don't watch, I don't like BBC radio stations so listen to either cd's I like or local stations, I find it annoying I have to pay for something I don't need or want to be honest.
 
Blue Hefner said:
How do they know who does/doesn't have one in a block of flats?
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They send out a lot of letters suggesting that they know you have a tv.
I've never had a license , only put the telly on for streaming films or games through laptop.

Have had the occasional knock on the door possibly from them but only open it if I know the person knocking so never had any trouble.
 
It's pretty much a monopoly from the BBC. Surely you should have the choice of service you want like with any other product or service out there? I find it criminal that you pay a tv license then another fee for sky or BT on top of that. The BBC should be made to compete with sky, virgin etc..

If the BBC actually provided some good entertainment then I'd feel happy about paying it but these days it's mostly shite. Sports coverage is generally shite, Top Gear is hit and miss these days, there are some great documentaries but are few a far between and the news is simply patronising where they assume the audience has the mental age of a 12 year old.
 
The fact that there are people who think the only things worth watching are Top Gear, BBC3 and sport is the greatest argument for keeping the licence fee. Making the BBC subscription only would be a race to the bottom and goodbye to anything of cultural value.

A change is coming soon anyway.
They could do what France does, own a TV then you pay whether you watch TV or not.
They're talking about scrambling the signal and a licence purchase unscrambling it, don't know how feasible that is.
I reckon they will definitely change the law to include iPlayer whether or not you watch only time shifted TV.
 
The BBC these days is absolute rubbish. Any argument that may have existed in the past for them not to have advertising is null, because what they put on is indistinguishable from what is on ITV and the other commercial channels. (It didn't use to be so, the BBC has gone a long way downmarket, in newspaper terms from Independent to Daily Star.)
 
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