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It's hard to see how anyone could disagree
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Here we go again ...
I just wish that someone in government would grasp the nettle, stop all the nonsensical semantics of what constitutes 'watching TV' and say :
** "If you have a TV, or computer, or any other way of watching either live or 'catchup' TV then you must have a licence" **
By all means campaign to have the BBC funded from general taxation (or indeed advertising) - just don't dress up your pathetic avoidance of a properly and legally imposed licence fee with some sort of "martyrs against the establishment" carp.
< and for the avoidance of doubt, none of my vitriol is directed at people who genuinely don't have a TV - they should be left alone once they have confirmed that they don't need a licence.
Ironically the main reason they can be subject to undue harrassment is precisely because of the need to root out the freeloaders >
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sounds good to me, sunny-dave
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RebelSouls,
"Fascists"??? What are they when they're at home, then?
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Exactly. What has fascism got to do with it? I suppose if we had a marxist government we would all be able to watch what we want, when we want, all for free?
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Couldn`t have put it as well as Sunny-Dave but I`m glad that there is so much more in my life than the pathetic issues that seem to consume the likes of Mr Shakespeare and his supporters.
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I know a couple of people well who don't have a TV (they just watch on catch-up on computer) and they have never encountered a problem with 'fascists'.
I read dozens of your threads R_S last year and I never managed to work out what the issue was.
By the way, I am in favour of scrapping the TV licence and funding it in other ways. It is an inefficient tax (expensive to collect) and the honest subsidise the dishonest
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Methinks RSouls is apt...
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And what political ideology lies behind TV licensing, Rebel Souls? Can you enlighten us?
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sunny-dave
< and for the avoidance of doubt, none of my vitriol
is directed at people who genuinely don't have a TV -
they should be left alone once they have confirmed
that they don't need a licence. >
Never works it is best NOT to speak to them
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More news to come soon ?
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Utterly pathetic. When you think of the genuine hardships people have had with actual fascism etc.
Would this be an appropriate place to say thanks BBC for memorable coverage of the Olympics?? :-)
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I am sure some non-payers have an agenda and play 'cat and mouse' with the enforcers. The enforcers often know they are being messed about.
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factor30 Get a decent camera and keep them locked out |
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ps That is not my video
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Is it not just stealing by another name
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It's the fine line between tax avoidance (via legal nitpicking) and tax evasion (by telling whacking big lies).
If I knew any of the 'rebels' (which thank god I don't) I'd be very interested to know whether they managed to restrain themselves from watching any live Olympics action. I hae me doots ...
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What on earth is the point of that video, RebelSouls? It looks as if it was made by some bitter and twisted person who just wants to make life as awkward as possible for the licence investigators.
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