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5th February 2020, 05:55 AM
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This report on the British TV Licences could well be a really good move for all concerned,i hope that it is scrapped like here we dont Pay for TV or Radio Licences ,and why should anyone aftr all one Pays enough to buy the damn things in the first place,and secondly we and everyone else pays enough Tax to all Governments . This is not a Political Thread so keep it that way please.
Its just News that i think is Important
Cheers and good luck to all you in the UK on the outcome
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...cid=spartandhp
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5th February 2020, 06:13 AM
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I often wonder why the Australian gumbyment finances the ABC, a biased left wing outfit with 99% crap on it most of the time.
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5th February 2020, 08:21 AM
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Originally Posted by
Doc Vernon
This report on the British TV Licences could well be a really good move for all concerned,i hope that it is scrapped like here we dont Pay for TV or Radio Licences ,and why should anyone aftr all one Pays enough to buy the damn things in the first place,and secondly we and everyone else pays enough Tax to all Governments . This is not a Political Thread so keep it that way please.
Its just News that i think is Important
Cheers and good luck to all you in the UK on the outcome
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...cid=spartandhp
There are a couple of things that come to mind Vernon (i) Pie in the Sky (ii) Elephants might fly and if they do they can have the pie
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5th February 2020, 10:29 AM
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I don't know where you read that about TV licences here in the UK Vernon. Two days ago it was announced that the licence fee was to be increased in April to £157.
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5th February 2020, 11:08 AM
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The only good thing you can say about the BBC tv, is that you can watch a program without the constant adverts , which drive you mad. The dramas and doccu,s are very good, wildlife etc, but also a large amount of garbage, including their news programs, repeats etc, kt
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5th February 2020, 12:16 PM
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The only good thing you can say about the BBC tv, is that you can watch a program without the constant adverts , which drive you mad. The dramas and doccu,s are very good, wildlife etc, but also a large amount of garbage, including their news programs, repeats etc, kt
I totally agree Keith, but I think that not paying your license should be a matter for civil law not criminal law, if you don't pay you are a criminal, but for goods and services it is a matter for the civil courts not the criminal courts.
They also use private contractors to chase up non payers and they use bully tactics to frighten people into paying. I know from personal experience having omitted to pay (memory issues) a while back, two heavies turned up making threats about what would happen if I didn't let them in.
I ordered them off my property (using Anglo Saxon terminology which they readily understood without an interpreter) as they have no right of entry.
ended up paying after a couple of months as the threatening letters were starting to upset my wife.
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5th February 2020, 02:35 PM
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As I recall Noel Edmonds had no T.V. Licence, He had no internet feed no Ariel's no type of recorder and no radio in his home, He won his case in court, Terry.
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5th February 2020, 03:40 PM
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I believe they will prosecute even if you only have a compo and internet access now.
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5th February 2020, 06:45 PM
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John Callon
I don't know where you read that about TV licences here in the UK Vernon. Two days ago it was announced that the licence fee was to be increased in April to £157.
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Read it n the Link i supplied JC Do you not see it??
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6th February 2020, 05:19 AM
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I suspect the BBC is like our ABC, so far biased to the left they may well meet themselves on the way back.
Like to watch the mid day news, about the only bit I do, but that is now more like a magazine than a news bulletin.
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