TO SAY I LIKE THE BBC....but the near £300 license fee needs questioning..Lets question

[ScousyFogarty]

BBC and COMPULSORY LICENSE FEE...(Paid by rich and poor alike.)

It has been suggested that the Beebs automatic cash-flow from rich and poor, should be looked at as the fee gets closer to £300 a year.

Victoria Derbyshire mentions this on her TWITTER site. (Dont know if she has ever done it on her programme.?)

You will notice that when a big name has a book out; they get interviewed on many BBC TV and radion shows. (They are usually rich and could be charged a fee for the free book plug.)

There will be many other ideas as to how the license could be REDUCED or the money RAISED by other means.

Do you have any ideas. ? Or are we going to sit back and watch the license fee go to £300 a year? (Its food for thought.

Victoria Derbyshire and Gabby Logan may well have ideas on this . Ask them if you feel like doing so.

I find the radio much better company. You don't need a license for that, even if you only listen to the BBC.

TV isn't that good for you you know. No one is being denied anything they can't do without.

it's not sodding compulsary. Just don't watch live TV and you don't need to pay it.

And I watch The Apprentice and Dr Who - I just wait until they're available on iplayer non-live.

Yes if they are over 75. But if they are poor and 65 they shouldn't have to pay the full rate, it should either be waived or reduced or they should be offered teh free choice of whether they want to watch it or not. Isn't it a free country? Why should they be forced to pay if they don't watch it.

Al Capone didn't believe in free choice; it seems the BBC doesn't either.

''Yeah, right. Shelter, water, food, television. Essential.'

A pensioner who is unable to leave their home might well see it as quite essentail to their mental well-being. But of course, if they're poor, fuck 'em. To the wall with 'em. It's their fault for being poor, anyhow.'

Seems you're assuming I don't give a fuck about poor people.

We live in the land of the free. If someone wants to avail themselves of the generous, free services of good old ITV, then why should the BBC stop them?

'Seems you're assuming I don't give a fuck about poor people.'

would you prosecute them like the BBC does?

I think the 'Land of the Free' is the US claig. Aren't we still subjects of the Crown?

Probably not. I'm not the BBC. I just think risking prosecution to watch TV without a license is inadvisable and unnecessary.

Yet again we have to look at the paper that defends the public, the paper that opposes Al Capone - the redoutable Daily Mail

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1121523/Meet-pensioner-TV-1978--licence-police-STILL-her.html

Yes you're right TimeWasting. But they tell us that we are free. They said "you're the bosses" and the press sang their praises.

Why do you keep referencing the Daily Mail? I thought you were being ironic about it before.

Who said that?

Who's 'they' I mean?

'The pensioner, a former shorthand typist who lives on her own, said: 'I told them to search every nook and cranny of my house because they wouldn't find what they were looking for.

'I also told them that they could meet my solicitor at Swansea Crown Court to discuss damages for harassing me.'

''I think it must be amusing them to keep harassing me like this. Am I a criminal now because I don't own a television set?'

They say even Al Capone had a heart sometimes. He didn't terrorise old women. That was against his code of honour. He couldn't have looked his mother in the face again.

Nick Clegg said "you're the bosses" and the press were wowed. The Guardian even backed him "enthusiastically".

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1184474/BBC-chief-demands-charge-iPlayer-stop-viewers-getting-free-ride.html

The Daily Mail is the paper that exposes hypocrisy. That's why the Islingtonistas and media intelligentsia don't like it.

'He made the speech at a Broadcasting Press Guild lunch in London after the BBC Trust, which oversees the broadcaster, said TV licensing laws needed to be changed because of the internet.
If he were to have his way, possible changes to the fee could include:
Viewers having to buy an extra licence just for the iPlayer
Increasing the cost of the current TV licence to include the iPlayer
Forcing viewers to pay a subscription to use the iPlayer service'

The BBC, it's so good, you may have to pay twice.

I love the BBC. I would happily pay twice as much for the priviledge.

Oh hang on! I already am according to scousy

I listen to r4, r6, r4 extra (lots). bbc1,2, and 4. And iplayer all the time. And the website. There is so much available and FFS who said they should show adverts? That would mean I could watch no tv at all!

The Daily Mail is hate-filled and so misogynistic that I couldn't with all conscience take anything it prints seriously.

Who told you that? Those who didn't want you to open it and find out the truth?

The devil says similar things about the Bible.

"The Daily Mail is the paper that exposes hypocrisy."

The Daily Mail is a knee jerk rag that exists purely to stop rabbit right wingers self imploding into a foaming mass of reality.

I have private health insurance, yet i pay NI to fund the NHS. I'm happy to do so. The BBC is one of , if not THE best broadcaster in the world. It is a sourse of comfort and badly need information to many of the most oppressed people in the world. If it became commercial it wouln't be the BBC.

If you don't like paying for it, it's easy in todays world to find options to continue watching tv without paying the licence fee.

Claig , you're either a troll or completely bonkers

Claig, you are joking aren't you? Aren't you?

ShellyBooBs, there's no reason to be shocked at the truth. Once the fog of lies has cleared, you will see that you have been lied to about the Daily Mail.