[Stuart]

I find it amazing that the government is able to add all sorts of money to various taxes (VAT being charged at a different rate on online purchases for example) and people say nothing, then suddenly they add £5 (which is, after all, the cost of a packet and a half of cigarettes) to the licence fee and people start crying "rip off britain"..

Yet, those same people are paying up to £100 a month to recieve satellite and/or cable and get a load of channels that 90% of the time they probably won't watch. Yes, I do count myself in this group. I have about 120 channels and I watch maybe five or six regularly..