Car Boot

You do understand that economic globalisation has not happened randomly by chance due to any natural law of nature? The primary driver of globalisation has been the political decisions made by institutions such as the EU. Political decisions that have decided if globalisation is forbidden, encouraged or eagerly embraced, and the EU has eagerly embraced globalisation. Globalisation has been the primary driver of all major EU legislation since the 1980s. Globalisation is the dog that wags the EU tail. Expecting the EU to do something against the adverse effects of globalisation demonstrates a deep misunderstanding of the purpose of the EU. The EU exists to increase globalisation, not curtail it.

The EU will not protect us from the adverse effects of capitalist globalisation. The EU is the main force for capitalist globalisation!

Some Remainers on here are portraying the EU as a protection against capitalist globalisation. When in fact the EU has been one of the main, if not THE main, players in the drive for the globalisation of capital, goods and services, and the free movement of a nomadic, poorer class of workers.

We must consign the EU's four freedoms (for business) to the dustbin of history. We want rid of the sacrosanct four freedoms, completely and utterly. These false freedoms must go so that we can change the social Balance of the UK towards labour, not Capital as under EU rule. To do this we must make ALL EU law illegal in the UK. The road to a new socialism requires strict controls over the flow of goods, services, money, and labour. Thatcher's Single Market must be rejected and we must rebalance the economy away from Thatcherite services and towards industry and manufacturing.

We've removed an entire tier of surplus politicians from the public purse, the members of the fig leaf EU parliament. How is this not a win? It gets better. We no longer have to obey the laws passed by the EU parliament and we no longer have to help finance it. Definitely a Brexit benefit!

There was no false equivalence. There is no requirement for me to make a declaration that I don't own a firearm with any firearms authority. Just as there is no requirement for me to make a declaration that I don't watch or record live television broadcasts or BBC iPlayer with the TV Licensing authority. BBC TV Licensing do threaten me with a home visit, large fine and criminal record if I do not get in touch with them. The firearms authority do not.

That's true. But the BBC (and it's supporters) are extremely resistant to any change to the current licence fee system.

Oh dear. You seem to have the weight of the world on your shoulders. Very bitter personal attacks and insults on a forum reveal more about the mentality of the person making them than they do the individual being attacked.

The Daily Mail did not manufacture the appalling TV Licensing letter, it is genuine: There is no legal requirement for non-customers to respond to TV Licensing demands for information about private households. The contents of this letter are chilling, and reveal that TV Licensing (a trademark of the BBC) is sending people to visit the homes of non-customers of the BBC TV licence fee during the Coronavirus pandemic (when infections are rising) and using extremely threatening letters that cause alarm and distress - especially to vulnerable people. When the BBC uses such desperate tactics to force people to pay for the licence fee, then anti-BBC campaigners don't need to try very hard. It seems the BBC is making the case for decriminalisation and abolition of the licence fee all by itself.

Your posts just reinforce the opinion of many Leave voters that we were correct to support Brexit and be rid of the arrogant, out of touch EU. We knew Brexit wasn't going to be easy, with the EU desperate to set an example and punish the UK for voting to Leave. But we did know it would be worth it.

You don't seem to care that the most regressive tax in the UK, the BBC TV licence fee, is enforced by home visits and frightening letters that instruct non-customers to obey or they face being interrogated in their own home, guilty until proven innocent, a large fine and a criminal record. 'Defund the BBC ' a campaign group that wants to decriminalise the BBC TV licence fee has seen rapid growth since it was launched on 29 June 2020 and has managed to raise over £65,000 so far from people donating as little as £5 or £10. This is truly magnificent for grass roots people power, taking on the mighty BBC upper class Establishment behemoth. The people VS the BBC. The people will win.

What does owning a television have to do with the legal requirement to purchase a BBC TV licence? Absolutely nothing. I've owned televisions for years and have never been required to buy a BBC TV licence. I watch the majority of my Netflix and YouTube on streaming devices, none of which are a 'tv set'. Owning a 'TV set' to watch live television broadcasts is sooo twentieth century. Even the term 'tv set' is old fashioned and out of date. Just like the BBC and it's feared and hated TV licence fee.

BBC 'terrifies' the elderly with 'threatening' licence fee letters warning viewers of a £1,000 fine if they do not stump up the £157.50-a-year cost The BBC has been accused of 'terrifying' the elderly with 'threatening' licence fee letters warning viewers of a £1,000 fine if they do not pay the £157.50-a-year cost. Social media users complained online after receiving the letters, which are emblazoned with red capital letters and informed recipients they could face prosecution. The letter reads: 'Our records show your property has no TV licence. I visited today, to find out why. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8859237/BBC-terrifies-elderly-threatening-licence-fee-letters-warning-viewers-1-000-fine.html The outside of the envelope. The BBC under its trademark 'TV Licensing' is still harassing non-customers for payments with the use of doorstep visits and threatening letters. I don't have a rod fishing licence because I don't fish, can I expect a visit from the Environment Agency to find out why? I also don't have a firearms licence, because I don't have any firearms (never have, never will). Will the police visit me to find out why I don't have a firearms licence? Wicked Auntie Beeb has sent me hundreds of threatening letters and visited me at home to demand money with menaces although I don't watch or record live television broadcasts or iPlayer... In 2020 these threats and intimidation are not acceptable. Defund the BBC.

Once we are free of the EU's globalising agenda we can rebalance the economy towards productive industry and manufacturing and away from unproductive labour such as speculative financial services. A modern economy cannot provide for all if it doesn't have a long term manufacturing and industrial Base. Financial services provide a quick return for the few, a form of medieval alchemy of making money out of thin air in which production has no part to play but gambling on the money markets is its essence. No wonder financial collapse is always just around the corner when a society is reliant upon this form of money speculation. There must be strict controls on the export of capital to protect our currency and economy. Pressure to increase wages is excellent news for the worker - a direct benefit of Brexit. 'Getting on your bike' to look for work was exploitative and unacceptable when Norman Tebbit demanded unemployed workers move home to seek jobs elsewhere. Then under the EU and the dreadful Single Market it became the accepted norm for migrant workers, low pay and zero hours contracts. A labour market plan for full employment, skills development and high tech manufacturing can only happen once employers are deprived of their dependency on cheap unskilled European migrants.

The right wing of the Tory Party, 'Austerity Osbourne' and 'Cuts in benefits Cameron' supported our EU membership. These EU rich boys didn't do a lot of good for the working class.

Thank you. Together we shall Defund the BBC!

So you recognise that the majority of the people who made their voices heard democratically voted to Leave the EU. That's good then.

I have many devices that can receive live television broadcasts but I am NOT required by law to purchase a TV licence simply for having these devices. The law states quite clearly that "You only need a TV licence if you watch or record TV as it's being broadcast or use iPlayer". I watch on demand streaming services, Netflix, You tube etc. on my devices that are capable of receiving live television broadcasts, but I do not watch live television broadcasts or BBC iPlayer on them. I do not have a TV licence. I do not need a TV licence.

Why do you assume that 65 million people in the UK have the right to vote?

I think its interesting that a Remain voter actually care's about what may advantage the working class. One thing that's become patently obvious since the referendum is the high level of disdain most remain voters have for the working class and the underclass. Brexit was a working class revolt against the establishment that will advantage the working class by: 1. Ending the control of the unelected EU Commissioners and the anti-trade union, anti-worker, European Court of Justice. So Brexit frees our elected Parliament from the control of those we don’t elect. 2. It will advantage the working class by bringing our borders back under national control, enabling us to begin proper labour market planning. Free movement is a capitalist con trick that makes slaves and nomads of the poorest to suit the short term needs of big business. 3. We have the chance to rebalance the economy away from financial services to manufacturing and production. State aid, negotiating trade deals that benefit the UK, renationalising major utilities are ALL incompatible with membership of the Single Market.

There is a law that forces people who watch non-BBC live television broadcasts to purchase a TV licence from TV Licensing (a trademark of the BBC). Over 90 per cent of licence fee funding goes to the BBC. I don't understand what point you are trying to make with your last statement.

The June 2016 referendum exposed the gaping class divide in British society and gave a voice to the working class and the underclass for the first time in generations - much to the shock and horror of the status quo supporting affluent middle class and the rich. The working class are now visible again, thanks to the outcome of the vote, but are hated and feared for daring to vote anti-capitalist Leave. The supposed benefits of our EU membership have always been invisible to the poor. The middle class have reaped huge personal benefits from the EU in ways that have simply never been available to less privileged working class people. Leave was generally a working class vote. Remain was generally a middle class vote. The fact that working class people voted against the interests of the middle class, despite being lectured and bullied by the full weight of the establishment to support Remain, makes me believe that the working class Leave voters are heroes. Brexit is just the beginning. Perhaps they shouldn't have attempted to punish the UK for democratically expressing it's opinion to Leave?

Did you hear about the June 2016 referendum? Do you know the result? To Leave the EU is exactly the will of the people who cared to make their voices heard democratically.

Over fours years later and the will of the people has only strengthened against EU membership. Elections have been lost by those who sought to overturn the referendum result. Affluent middle class people have marched on the streets to cancel the votes of the majority Leave side. To Leave the EU is what I voted for. I still believe that this was the correct choice, over four years later. No part of the EU in that time has said, or done, anything to introduce any element of doubt to that belief, that I may have voted the wrong way. In fact, it seems to me, the EU has since June 2016 been working hard to convince me that I voted correctly. Its shocking that the EU has done so little in the four years since the vote to persuade Leave voters that they would be better in the EU. It only makes me think the EU really doesn't care about the UK, in which case we are Better Off Out.

Thank heaven I voted to Leave when I see that the EU has lowered its food safety requirements. Your EU - exposing consumers to an avoidable risk of eating diseased meat. Why? Because the EU cares more about maximising profit for the few, than protecting the many. Better Off Out.