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Old 03-01-2015, 16:23   #270
Anonymouse
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Angry Re: TV licence non payment could be made a civil offence

I am heartily sick and tired of those TVL thugs. I've received yet another love letter from them - this one states they're going to "start a full investigation" after the 8th.

What exactly does that mean? They're addressing me as "The Legal Occupier", which is odd because at one point they'd somehow obtained my surname but got the initial wrong - it's K, not C, so as far as I was concerned, even if they knew my first name it was misspelled and therefore they weren't addressing the right person in a legal sense.

I should mention in passing that I do not in fact have a TV or any equipment capable of receiving or recording a live broadcast. But telling them that does no bloody good whatsoever, as they don't believe you. They simply do not believe that 2% (or is it more now?) of the UK population don't watch TV.

I'm almost inclined to just let 'em visit; I've nothing to hide. Besides, I may not even be there much longer; I'm debating moving down to Crewe, nearer to my workplace, so as to cut my travelling expenses from £240 per month (train) to nil (bicycle).

There is no way that a refusal to pay the TV licence should be a criminal offence. Civil, yes, because allegedly it's just another bill, not a tax...or so they say, anyway. The sooner TVL is defanged or even abolished, the better!

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