TV Licence Super Thread
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BBC is quite blatantly Labour biased. Anyone with half a brain can see that. They are a bunch of champagne socialist luvvies. I don't want to pay to hear their propaganda. I'll make my own mind up thanks.
And I do pay for my TV, I have a TV package with virgin.
Why do I have to pay again? Surely virgin should be paying a fee to BBC to broadcast it? I'm paying twice for the same thing?
The whole system is outmoded and archaic.
And I do pay for my TV, I have a TV package with virgin.
Why do I have to pay again? Surely virgin should be paying a fee to BBC to broadcast it? I'm paying twice for the same thing?
The whole system is outmoded and archaic.
lol, the irony XD
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Use the other half of your brain and realise:
1. Your paying virgin media does not pay for BBC services, Since you have access to those services with virgin Media, then you still require to pay the license.
2.The BBC is a fairly centrist media outlet with tamed views aimed at grabbing the masses. They, like all media outlets, aim their content at their audience. The BBC audience is more varied than most and so must take a more central, less extreme view to not alienate their main audience. If you find them incredibly left, that is simply because you are a far right outlier and their content is simply not catered to outliers
Anyone with a full brain can see the BBC just goes for the tamest popular opinion.
Not sure how much more lefty you want the BBC to be, they constantly give all the airtime to Labour and always go easy on them in interviews and QT is a complete farce these days as it's just descended in to a 1984's 5 mins of hate for anything Tory. They block conservative voters from being the audience and deliberately choose Labour activists
I don't want them to be left I'm perfectly happy with them being relatively balanced
The irony I was referring too is that both the left and the right wing moan endlessly about how the BBC is biased against them, "anyone with half a brain can see it", etc etc. Yet if they had half a brain they would realised that if both the left and the right claim the BBC are biased against them that means it's actually relatively balanced and their real complaint is that a balanced source does not align with their personal bias. It gets funnier still when they say that they don't want propaganda/etc and will make up their own mind/etc because what they actually mean is that they would rather find a source that tells them what they want to hear XD
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BBC are supposed to be unbiased.
Yet we are paying for a labour propaganda mouthpiece.
Yet we are paying for a labour propaganda mouthpiece.
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Not at all, just that public opinion is swinging in labours favour and so pro-labour stories have suddenly become more palatable. This certainly wasn't the case a few years back.
The BBC's opinion pretty much echoes the general audiences view.
Stop spouting all this BS about paying for propaganda. The only person you are convicncing with this anti-TV license argument is yourself. Don't like the BBC's opinion? then pay it no head. Want to have access to BBC channels, then pay the license or risk not paying.
Don't want to have access? Then dont watch TV. Simple as that.
It is not like it's even difficult to avoid paying
The BBC's opinion pretty much echoes the general audiences view.
Stop spouting all this BS about paying for propaganda. The only person you are convicncing with this anti-TV license argument is yourself. Don't like the BBC's opinion? then pay it no head. Want to have access to BBC channels, then pay the license or risk not paying.
Don't want to have access? Then dont watch TV. Simple as that.
It is not like it's even difficult to avoid paying
That is nonsense their view hasn't changed in years during which people were writing off Labour altogether.
You need to only use your eyes to compare them to other news sites every freaking day to see it, whether you're right or left wing.
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See, I would like Virgin to have BBC as an opt in service subject to additional cost.
I can then get rid of it and the stupid fee.
Stop paying it then, the worst that can possibly happen in the very unlikely event you ever got prosecuted, is a £1000 maximum means tested fine, and a non-recorded offence.
On the other hand me and plenty of others on here have done just that and had nothing but issues. Its a gamble when you contact them. Sometimes you are ok sometimes it makes things worse even if you are doing everything correctly. Sometimes they are ok for years then for no apparent reason stop believing you.
TV LICENSE IS ILLEGAL!!!
THEY SHOULD BE PAYING ME TO WATCH TV AND COMPLAIN ABOUT WHAT IS ON THE TV
No one is force to watch TV and buy a license. You have three choices:
1. Watch and pay
2. Dont watch and dont pay
3. Watch and dont pay
4. Don't watch & pay.
5. Watch in a hospital & pay a ridiculous amount. (seriously, £20 a day!?)
Serves me right foor replying before reading the next two pages, I listed that too lol.
There's something I don't understand.
ROW Beeb stuff shown online is generally blocked over here, despite it already being paid for by adverts.
Other thing, is they've shown they can exist through advertisements, so why not just get shot of the licence & make life easier (& cheaper) on themselves & stop harassing everyone?
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Yup, anecdotally at least it seems like a pretty even split between no issues and loads of issues.
Again...anecdotally, i've now got 5 family members in different parts of the country who've done the same as me with no issues.
Another letter through the door today. They must be bored. 
Saw some statistics posted on twitter earlier.
Saw some statistics posted on twitter earlier.
Just to show how capitca (the tv licence chasers) are scummy...
Capita told graduates to pay £21,000 for leaving unpaid training scheme.
Some that refused, didn't get their last wage packets upon leaving.
Capita told graduates to pay £21,000 for leaving unpaid training scheme.
Some that refused, didn't get their last wage packets upon leaving.
have heard of other low end companies trying that sort of thing, the grads signing up for that sort of stuff must be pretty desperate
it's basically like a modern form of indentured servitude
I can understand a company wanting to have a clawback if they pay for some external training course you chose to attend but to do so for their mandatory in-house training is a bit of a joke.
Got a confirmation email earlier I've cancelled my TV license, had it for almost 4 years.
I am so very, very looking forward to a visit from their fraud guys, I'll let them in and show them all of my disconnected coax cables, and give them a proper hear full of what a... white stain their company is.
I am so very, very looking forward to a visit from their fraud guys, I'll let them in and show them all of my disconnected coax cables, and give them a proper hear full of what a... white stain their company is.