to think that TV license fees are a bloody con?

[GregBishopsBottomBitch]

£145.50 I gotta pay for shit TV, feels like a legal mugging.

As someone who moved here aged 26 I cant confirm that the BBC is the BEST TV EVER!!!! Life here would be much worse without it.
I've just paid my TV licence too - and I feel great about it because it's amazing and no where else do you get brilliant scheduled TV with no fecking advertisements!

I reckon I save at least £145 annually by not being brainwashed to buy XYZETC.

The licence fee works out at 39p a day. There are three or four BBC programmes I follow regularly - it's worth it just for those! And no adverts...

£143 when you are watching every penny is a lot of money. I love the bbc but if it wasn't for DH's input, would only watch on Iplayer, and save the pennies.

£145 even

It makes me smile every time I see a rant about the TV licnence and how unfair it is.

If only folk stopped to think - just a bit - they'd see how even more ruthlessly unfair commercial ad-funded TV is.

Let me show you:

In 2011 (latest figures I could get) TV advertising revenue in the UK was £4.36bn and the number of households 26.1million

I make it that each and every household is contributing, directly or indirectly, £165 per year to independent "free" TV, whether or not they even have a television

Don't have a licence. Watch our beeb programmes on iplayer. Agree it's better than most foreign TV but until they make it illegal to watch it on catch up I won't be paying for a licence any time soon...