The BBC, despite growing evidence, simply do not understand just how vehemently they are despised. So when there is growing unease about the TV licence, their proposed solution is to rob everyone.
TV Licences could be replaced by a new ‘household tax’ that would include council tax bills and be mandatory for everyone, a top BBC boss has warned.
BBC director-general Tony Hall, who steps down on Friday, said the broadcaster should consider all options for reform – including rolling the charge into council tax when the current contract ends.
The French have a similar system where the licence fee is included with the taxe habitation. However, you can opt out by telling them that you don’t have a set – at least that was the case when I was living there. It might have changed sine.
These vile scumbags simply do not comprehend why they are so disliked – their incessant woke agenda, their outright bias in favour of the orthodox leftist line – pro BLM, anti-white, anti-male, anti-British, for example. But having faced a backlash over the licence fee by people who do not want to pay for their output, their proposed solution is to make even more people who don’t want to watch their output contribute?
What is it with these people? When did self-awareness leave the room? Can anyone be that stupid? Evidently, yes.
The BBC needs to be defunded now. If they want to survive, let them do it on the open market. There can be no compromise here. They must not – absolutely not – be allowed to pick the pockets of the nation to fund their propaganda.
There was a petition about this. The gov response was words to the effect that it was OK until 2027 when the charter was up for review. That’s incredibly spineless considering all the BBC output seems to be repeats on weekdays all day. New stuff Sunday night some crap about an Indian love affair in which I am totally uninterested. All their decent TV out put is now on BBC4. If I just record what I want to see or download it which I currently do I don’t need a licence. I do the same with the smaller Sky channels too. News I get from elsewhere. This proms thing and the backlash propelling Dame Vera Lynn into the iTunes No1 spot might show the government which way the wind is blowing coupled with the BBC being the broadcasting arm of BLM.
If you record live broadcast TV or watch iPlayer I believe you need a license. Haven’t had one for about 12 years now myself, don’t miss it at all, BBC or otherwise.
Still watch some output through boxed sets Netflix etc, but there is very little being produced currently that I want to watch. Mostly I stick with output from the 80s and 90s, I mostly find something worthwhile therein.
The license fee is hardly good value these days in comparison to prime and Netflix anyway.
So yes there should be a tax to fund the BBC, not. Greedy bastards.
It is an absurd anachronism that you need to pay the BBC so that you can watch any television at all. At our house we do watch a tiny amount of the BBC’s output but definitely not enough to justify the licence fee. I’m pretty sure that they are fully aware that, if subscribing to the BBC was voluntary, they would attract almost no punters. That makes their desire to continue to be funded by legalised robbery even more criminal.
Maybe the way to go before they introduce a non-opt out system is for mass cancellations of the licence fee so that the Govt wouldn’t dare tie people’s hands. In fact isn’t some group already agitating to encourage people to maliciously comply by withdrawing payments temporarily, sending cheques unsigned and so on?
I stopped watching live BBC ages ago because I can’t stand the wokeness. I utterly loathe it now because of its insistence that over 75s pay because there’ll be many OAPs just above the threshold for exemption whose only ‘company’ will be the telly. A charity like AgeUK would be doing them a service if it ran workshops for them to explain how you legally cancel your licence and to show them how to buy a cheap laptop and how to stream on-demand services.
The trouble with the BBC is groupthink which starts with its recruitment of People Like Us.
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https://lockdownsceptics.org/2020/08/27/latest-news-116/#and-finally
Haven’t paid BBC for ~15 years
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Maybe we should have a referendum tied to the next council elections, with the only question being “Should the TV License be abolished”.
That would answer the question about whether Auntie Beeb is really beloved of the nations (she ain’t).
Although Tony Hall and the rest of the bubble inhabitants might fail to see it that way, I think the answer from the rest of the nation would be a resounding “No” to put Dirty Dom’s 2004 “North East Assembly” referendum victory to shame.
We’ve got enough to do fending off the people who want the Brexit one rerun, surely!?
Likewise gave up on the BBC 15 years ago, once I went online the only thing I watched in 6 months was 8 hours of Dads Army so that must have been on a pay channel.
Can’t see local Councils wanting to get involved in collecting revenues on their behalf, they have difficulties just collecting their own.
Blojo is too much of a great big pantswetter to do anything useful.
Funny really cause the Been hate him as the wrong kind of wet lefty.
Just returned from the anti lockdown demo in Trafalgar Square (which at the time of writing, 20:07, still isn’t even mentioned on the BBC website), and there were a considerable number of ‘Defund the BBC’ type placards. A groundswell of opinion that it’s now. just the propaganda arm of the globalist, Woko Haram elite.
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