TV Licence Super Thread

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413x said:
Can't be long before it gets bundled into council tax or broadband.

If this happens under labour I'd say they've lost my vote. But they never had it
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I think they will be afraid to open a bag of worms and they will just kick the can down the road.

My own personal take on this is that they should reduce the licence fee by £30 a year until it's zero, starting 2028. At the same time, the BBC can raise money any way it wishes - just like it does in the USA.
 
SpellowHouse said:
I think they will be afraid to open a bag of worms and they will just kick the can down the road.

My own personal take on this is that they should reduce the licence fee by £30 a year until it's zero, starting 2028. At the same time, the BBC can raise money any way it wishes - just like it does in the USA.
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I don't think they'll go for it.
The government that is.

They could literally carry on as is.. Rise in charge year on year.. But more they do this more will ditch it until the ditching out weighs the increase.
 
413x said:
I don't think they'll go for it.
The government that is.

They could literally carry on as is.. Rise in charge year on year.. But more they do this more will ditch it until the ditching out weighs the increase.
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No, I don't either, it's wishful thinking.

The BBC spends an obscene amount of money, for what?

Perhaps the answer will be to break it up in to different units. The licence fee funds a much smaller community BBC.

But the entire licencing process has really broken down. This concept of charging anyone who watches live TV is just ridiculous. Once upon a time it was a given that anyone who watched live TV would be watching the BBC, but now that assumption is unsound.
 
Yeah it's ridiculous.
If we move it into some sort of tax. That's it, there's no going back. It can waste money it can balloon with costs and just pass those on to tax payers. It'll be like water companies etc with some corrupt toothless watchdog saying what it can't and can do.

Looks like Labour have the job of deciding what happens too.

Anyone who doesn't pay it now, if it gets whacked into tax is in for a nasty surprise if that happens.

CT will go up at least 5-10 percent anyway + license fee.
I'd be looking at a 200£ increase for CT and probably 200-300£ for TV licence.
Will be like a 500 £/Yr increase. Lovely.
 
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413x said:
Looks like Labour have the job of deciding what happens too.
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Which is very unfortunate because they have already hinted that their plan is to do nothing. Typical.

To be honest, I don't see how anyone could ever justify doing nothing. It strikes me very much as a "too afraid to change anything in case it upsets three voters".

It's a case of really bad timing. Wrong government at the wrong time.
 
SpellowHouse said:
Which is very unfortunate because they have already hinted that their plan is to do nothing. Typical.

To be honest, I don't see how anyone could ever justify doing nothing. It strikes me very much as a "too afraid to change anything in case it upsets three voters".

It's a case of really bad timing. Wrong government at the wrong time.
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Yes. That is a problem with successive govs.

I'd be fine with sticking to what we have now.
Much better than the likely alternative for me personally!
 
SpellowHouse said:
It strikes me very much as a "too afraid to change anything in case it upsets three voters".

It's a case of really bad timing. Wrong government at the wrong time.
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I think dealing with the TV licence is the least of their problems at the moment, although imo doing nothing would be preferable.
 
Just cancelling mine now, used to have to call them to cancel but seems now you can cancel through the portal. Maybe they got overwhelmed with the cancellation calls.

edit: wow the number of times it threatens me about cancelling.
 
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Tomorrow probably. Genuinely don't actually watch any live tv at all. Kids all play roblox or youtube brain rot. I dj or play games in my spare time. Plus there is only about 9 channels I get (in SD I might add) when i connect the aerial cable. Pointless these days on a 4K tv.
 
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If they send out a minion to your house, just remember that they're salesmen at the end of the day. I don't see Netflix coming round to my house, demanding I subscribe to them. Why should we pay for something we don't use?
 
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Fee should be reduced and BBC split between public service stuff and entertainment.

Don't mind paying for public service stuff (news, educational stuff and so on), but stuff like escape to the country where every episode is "We have £500k to spend, we want a 3 bedroom detached house and X acres of land for our 17 horses" shouldn't be publicly funded.
 
Liquid_Entity said:
Just cancelling mine now, used to have to call them to cancel but seems now you can cancel through the portal. Maybe they got overwhelmed with the cancellation calls.

edit: wow the number of times it threatens me about cancelling.
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Yes I got that. Then I called instead and got treated with suspicion (guilty until proven innocent). So I put the phone down and just cancelled my direct debit. There is no legal requirement to tell them.
 
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