tv licence guess what ?

[cjmillsnun]

Originally Posted by Stuart W

BBC is not part of UK infrastructure!
If the BBC were to suddenly stop, we could all still live our lives in much the same way, except those working for the BBC of course.
The roads are infrastructure, but we pay road tax for it. If I don't have a car, I don't pay road tax. As for the railway, correcdt me if I am wrong, but don't you need to purchase a ticket to use it?
As for Big Ben, I don't want to see it go, but if I had to pay over £100 a year to keep it, my opinion would soon change.
Big Ben is not worth £100PA to me. It's only a frikkin bell after all. It could be replaced.


I think the TV lisence is an out and out CON. I do watch BBC and I agree they do make some damn fine programmes, but I only watch BBC1 & BBC2. I don't listen to the radio (except sometimes internet radio, which is comercial) and I don't have digital TV.

The Beeb **is** part of the UK infrastructure - they fund the TV transmitters (except NTL's) and radio transmitters and own most of Crown castle (who maintain said transmitters)

BTW is £2.33 a week a con for just BBC1 and BBC2??

Also yes you pay for a train ticket, but most of the money ends up as profit for the long distance operators like Richard Branson.

I could get into a long debate about renationalising the railways but I'm already

[cjmillsnun]

Defiant

You don't like spam....

What is spam - it is adverts. And you want to scrap the licence fee so the bbc can introduce...... more TV SPAM! I don't ask for the channels and the product manufacturers to make adverts and put them on, but they do and I end up PAYING (by buying products and food etc) for them - just like spam.

Originally Posted by SMHarman

You buy road tax to use the roads

Erm, no, you don't! Road fund licence was abolished after WWII. You pay "vehicle excise duty", ie a tax on owning a car.

Originally Posted by cjmillsnun

BTW is £2.33 a week a con for just BBC1 and BBC2??

And the £100 million they spend on websites plus the £650 million they spend on all there radio stations. Who knows what else they spend on