To be fair to those who pay? What’s fair about forcing them to pay? Take this philosophy across the pond.. try and tell the American’s they should pay, see what response you get. I pay my license on time every time, but I never voted for it including making it a ‘law’. What are we receiving anyway..most of it is just propoganda yet they still have us over a barrel, one way or another. No wonder the Yanks didn’t want our tea – pity they didn’t finish the job and save us from ourselves.

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RECENT NEWS HEADLINES!!!!!
“A total of 74 senior managers earned more than £160,000 in 2009-10, the BBC says”
“But those figures do not include packages for executives such as director-general Mark Thompson, who earned a total of £838,000 in 2009-10”
“He admitted the corporation was finding it ‘extremely hard’ to fill senior roles because of the low wages it pays for management jobs” ????????
Low wages, try existing on the minimum wage of £12.000 a year or £4.000 a year if you’re on the dole!!!!!!
A total of 4,200 people were caught by inspectors and issued with £1,000 fines across the region between January and June,

So we have millions of people struggling to manage on the minimum wage being fined a £1.000 for not having a lecence, that’s probably 2 thirds of their fuel bill for the year, so to ensure the snouts in the trough top BBC Executives get their bank accounts topped up, children living in poverty are having to live without heating through the winter.

A recent comment “Mark Whitehouse, TV Licensing spokesman, said: “While the vast majority of people in the UK pay their licence fee, to be fair to those who pay, we have to be firm with those who try to get away without paying”

I think what he really means is that if some of us have to get ripped off by greedy snouts in the trough, top BBC executives, who are being paid telephone number salaries, for serving up a constant rehash of rubbish programs, then everyone should get ripped off.

Strange, Maggie Thatcher sold off everything else, why didn’t she sell off the BBC? Suppose she had to save some cushy jobs for the countries elite!!!!!!

Privatise the BBC and make these clowns work to get their salaries paid for by giving quality programs.

Jim of Bearwood

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there has to be something in the human rights book which means that having to pay to watch TV is against the law!!!

if voted on I think that 80-90% of people would have it abolished immediately

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I pay mine by directdebit every month because i have to. I wouldn’t mind if it was worth it but there’s so much rubbish on and what realy gets me is when you hear how much some of the so called stars get paid and then jump channel because it’s not enough money. Greed greed greed

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There is no law that requires one to pay their tv licence.

I have had a tv all my life and never had a tv licence.

The only way you can get fined for no tv licence is by inviting the tv man in your home and then signing his report to say you have no tv licence.

Don’t invite him in your home, you don’t have to answer any of his questions, tell him to get off your property asap.

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