TV licence thread

[Car Boot 10]

BBC GREED

 

Sending threatening letters demanding money and home visits by aggressive large men to a vulnerable elderly person near you.

 

SOON.

[Car Boot 10]

Deeply ashamed of the BBC.

 

It's greed is a stain on our nation.

[Magilla 510]

23 minutes ago, Car Boot said:

Deeply ashamed of the BBC.

 

It's greed is a stain on our nation.

Welcome to Brexit "everyone for themselves" Britain!

[ECCOnoob 1,021]

40 minutes ago, Car Boot said:

BBC GREED

 

Sending threatening letters demanding money and home visits by aggressive large men to a vulnerable elderly person near you.

 

SOON.

Greed my backside.   The UK is not alone in having a television licence and we are certainly not the most expensive.

 

Letters of increasingly threatning nature is exactly what businesses and organisations do when you dont pay them.    Threatening letters is what you deserve when you break the law and dont pay a fee which is a mandatory legal requirement. 

 

If a pensioner walks into Tesco and takes things without paying - should the store detectives just ignore them just because they are "vulnerable elderly" people???

 

If a pensioner racks up £1000 on a credit card and refuses to pay because they cannot afford it should the bailiffs leave them be just because they are "vulnerable elderly" people???

 

What about it that pensioner fails to pay a speeding or parking fine.   Should the authorities just let it lie because they are "vulnerable elderly" people???

 

What the hell is the difference with the TV licence.

 

THE LAW passed in our parliament by our elected representatives is clear.    Sec 363 (1) of the Communications Act 2003 is clear.   "...A television receiver must not be installed or used unless the installation and use of the receiver is authorised by a licence..."   Sec 363 (4) also emphasises  "...A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine..."

 

Now if you can just put your stupid and tiresome anti-bbc anti-tory knuckle headed bias to one side for a moment and see the facts.   Its not the BBC demanding the licence.  Pensoners are not being oppressed by Huw Edwards or Graham Norton or Hacker the CBBC dog.    Its the law.  Law set by our politicians and our parliament.  

 

Young or old - you break the law there are consequences.

 

What part of this are you failing to understand. 

 

Edited June 14, 2019 by ECCOnoob

[Car Boot 10]

11 minutes ago, ECCOnoob said:

Its what business do when you dont pay them.    Threatening letters is what you deserve when you break the law and dont pay a fee which is a mandatory legal requirement. 

 

If a pensioner walks into Tesco and takes things without paying - should the store detectives just ignore them just because they are "vulnerable elderly" people???

 

If a pensioner racks up £1000 on a credit card and refuses to pay because they cannot afford it should the bailiffs leave them be just because they are "vulnerable elderly" people???

 

What about it that pensioner fails to pay a speeding or parking fine.   Should the authorities just let it lie because they are "vulnerable elderly" people???

 

What the hell is the difference with the TV licence.

 

THE LAW passed in our parliament by our elected representatives is clear.    Sec 363 (1) of the Communications Act 2003 is clear.   "...A television receiver must not be installed or used unless the installation and use of the receiver is authorised by a licence..."   Sec 363 (4) also emphasises  "...A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine..."

 

Now if you can just put your stupid and tiresome anti-bbc anti-tory knuckle headed bias to one side for a moment and see the facts.   Its not the BBC demanding the licence.  Pensoners are not being oppressed by Huw Edwards or Graham Norton or Hacker the CBBC dog.    Its the law.  Law set by our politicians and our parliament.  

 

Young or old - you break the law there are consequences.

 

What part of this are you failing to understand. 

 

I am not a customer of the BBC. 

 

I do not pay any money to the BBC and I don't break any laws. I do not watch live television broadcasts, I have Netflix. Cheaper and far superior content.

 

Yet the BBC sends me monthly threatening letters demanding payment for services I have no desire to receive. It also sends large men to my home to harass and intimidate me into paying for BBC content I have no desire to consume,

 

What business in the 21st century could get away with harassing and demanding money with menaces from people who are not, and have no desire to be, it's customers? None. Not a single one. But why equate the BBC with a business, when it has always claimed to be a public service anyway?

 

What part of this are you failing to understand? 

 

 

Edited June 14, 2019 by Car Boot

[Car Boot 10]

As for the Tories, there is not a single good reason why the entire leadership of that party shouldn't be rotting in a prison cell for the crimes they have committed against the working class and the poor of this country. 

[ECCOnoob 1,021]

13 minutes ago, Car Boot said:

I am not a customer of the BBC. 

 

I do not pay any money to the BBC and I don't break any laws. I do not watch live television broadcasts, I have Netflix. Cheaper and far superior content.

 

Yet the BBC sends me monthly threatening letters demanding payment for services I have no desire to receive. It also sends large men to my home to harass and intimidate me into paying for BBC content I have no desire to consume,

 

What business in the 21st century could get away with harassing and demanding money with menaces from people who are not, and have no desire to be, it's customers? None. Not a single one. But why equate the BBC with a business, when it has always claimed to be a public service anyway?

 

What part of this are you failing to understand? 

 

 

Why,  if it is happening so regular in both correspondence and personal visits, you have put up with it for so long to be honest? 

 

Surely by now given your obvious innoncence you should be looking at legal action against this harrassment. 

 

Im pretty surprised.   I thought you were more assertive to be honest.   You certainly give it out enough on here.

3 minutes ago, Car Boot said:

As for the Tories, there is not a single good reason why the entire leadership of that party shouldn't be rotting in a prison cell for the crimes they have committed against the working class and the poor of this country. 

Which are what exactly?  

 

Breached Acts and their accompanying statutes which can be referred to the DPP please.

Edited June 14, 2019 by ECCOnoob

[Car Boot 10]

1 minute ago, ECCOnoob said:

Why,  if it is happening so regular in both correspondence and personal visits, you have put up with it for so long to be honest? 

 

Surely by now given your obvious innoncence you should be looking at legal action against this harrassment. 

 

Im pretty surprise.   I thought you were more assertive to be honest.   You certainly give it out enough on here.

I don't have access to £billions of public money to fight my legal battles.

 

But the BBC does.

[ECCOnoob 1,021]

3 minutes ago, Car Boot said:

I don't have access to £billions of public money to fight my legal battles.

 

But the BBC does.

Let me give you some quick pro bono.

 

Harrassment is a criminal offence under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997. 

 

A call to the police will do.   No need for expensive legal fees.

 

Go knock yourself out.    Do keep us posted how you get on. 

Edited June 14, 2019 by ECCOnoob

[Magilla 510]

55 minutes ago, Car Boot said:

As for the Tories, there is not a single good reason why the entire leadership of that party shouldn't be rotting in a prison cell for the crimes they have committed against the working class and the poor of this country. 

... but then, you wouldn't have got your precious Brexit

 

Every problem aimed at the EU was a result of those policies! If we're to believe your "working class" rhetoric regarding Brexit... then they clearly benefitted more than most!

 

Given your solution for those poor old pensioners on this thread would mean that ultimately, they will end up paying more... for less....

 

doesn't do much for your socialist creds....

 

Edited June 14, 2019 by Magilla

[Car Boot 10]

9 hours ago, Magilla said:

Welcome to Brexit "everyone for themselves" Britain!

Brexit hasn't happened yet.

 

The BBC TV licence fee is nothing to do with Brexit at all. It is everything to do with Tory austerity and a greedy out of touch BBC.

 

It was the BBC Director General, the well lunched Tony Hall (Lord Hall of Birkenhead) who in clandestine talks that lasted less than a week agreed with the Tories back in 2015 that the BBC would receive a funding boost in return for taking the responsibility for providing free services to the over-75s. Lord Hall went further and wanted the BBC to have the responsibility for deciding whether the benefit should exist at all (surprise surprise this very wealthy man doesn't want it to exist at all).

 

The Tories 2015 manifesto pledge to keep the BBC TV licence fee free for over-75s was copied word for word into the party’s 2017 general election manifesto. Never trust a Tory OR a rich BBC Lord, they are both the ruling class and have nothing but hatred for the workers and the poor.

 

 

Edited June 15, 2019 by Car Boot

[melthebell 862]

2 hours ago, Car Boot said:

Brexit hasn't happened yet.

 

The BBC TV licence fee is nothing to do with Brexit at all. It is everything to do with Tory austerity and a greedy out of touch BBC.

 

It was the BBC Director General, the well lunched Tony Hall (Lord Hall of Birkenhead) who in clandestine talks that lasted less than a week agreed with the Tories back in 2015 that the BBC would receive a funding boost in return for taking the responsibility for providing free services to the over-75s. Lord Hall went further and wanted the BBC to have the responsibility for deciding whether the benefit should exist at all (surprise surprise this very wealthy man doesn't want it to exist at all).

 

The Tories 2015 manifesto pledge to keep the BBC TV licence fee free for over-75s was copied word for word into the party’s 2017 general election manifesto. Never trust a Tory OR a rich BBC Lord, they are both the ruling class and have nothing but hatred for the workers and the poor.

 

 

Did rich and middle class over75s not get it free then? What about those poorer ones on pension credit that will still get it?