The TV licence fee is going up.
Labour have given the green light to the BBC charging higher licence fees just as millions of households face higher energy bills and having their winter fuel allowances cut.
Lisa Nandy trumpeted the dire news for penny-watchers today (Friday, November 29) declaring that “the BBC provides much-needed programming for households across the country”.
It means the price of a TV licence will rise by £5, from £169.50 to £174.50, from next April.
I don’t pay it, so it won’t be going up for me. I expect the haemorrhaging will continue as people wise up to it. My only worry is that they do away with it and replaces it by some sort of blanket tax that we can’t avoid. The bit about much needed programming is a laugh. Bullshit woke propaganda more like.
Payback to the Pravda of the Labour Party
Not had a tv licence for the past 5 years, and could have papered the toilet with the number of “We’re coming for you” letters from Crapita – not seen anyone yet, but looking forward to the meeting).
I wonder how many more will join me after this rise.
It would be a good game, if it wasn’t for Crapita SS division concentrating on the elderly and vulnerable.
I also wonder how many MPs claim the cost of their tv licences on expenses?
Just cancelled the direct debit!
#MeToo
You wrote: “My only worry is that they do away with it and replaces it by some sort of blanket tax that we can’t avoid”.
That is what happened in France. There used to be a box that one could tick on ones Tax Return; but not any longer.
P.S. I may be the person who holds the record as the longest refusal to have a TV. It was in 1965 that I realised that TV and children was not a good mix. I could see the way things were going, only to find that they have gone further and faster than I imagined.
There’s a similar situation in Italy. All residents under 75 have it added to the electricity bill of their principle home. Those who fill out an online form declaring that they do not have a TV/VCR are exempt. If there are inspectors, I haven’t seen one. . . .
Same here. Not paid since 2008 and despite enough “Threatograms” to wallpaper the house, never had anyone actually turn up at the door.
Yes, I was worried that BBC Charter renewal was going to dump the Telly Tax in favour of some charge on something that is harder to avoid like as an element on Council Tax or Electricity Bills (Greece do that one I seem to recall).
As it is, Labour have nurtured their personal nest of Marxist vipers at the BBC by giving them exactly what they wanted, an easy bump in the license fee and screw the rest of us (just like the unions, train drivers and the rest).
“The bit about much needed programming is a laugh.”
It’s coming up for four years since I last watched or listened to anything on the BBC. Can’t say I miss it.
(I always used to say the only thing I’d really miss when they abolish it is Round Britain Quiz, but they managed to louse that up too, so fuck it.)
No increase here.
Haven’t watched telly for years, it was crap 20 years ago and it sure as hell won’t have improved.