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Broadcasters must stop cheating us all

For a few hours the high-ups at the BBC might have enjoyed the latest scandal to hit ITV.

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SCARY LICENSE FEE ADS

16.05.08, 12:23am

Yes, I have noticed how threatoning they are. We know where you live! They know if you gave your name and address when you bought a TV set.

When I trusted the BBC I knew it was important for them to be well funded with out the need for every program to be 'popular'. They can afford to make excellent programs just because...

However after all that David Kelly related sackings I nolonger trust them and don't see why I would give money to people so they can lie to me better.

• Posted by: Wayland • Report Comment

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING US

12.05.08, 8:37am

Anyone else see that creepy advert for the TV licence "you cannot get away with it......we have you on the database"
And the car tax one "we have the power to CRUSH your car" NuLab think 1984 was an instruction manual, not a chilling warning. Just when did a free proud nation become sheeple?

• Posted by: redwhiteandblue • Report Comment

TV LICENCE POLICE STATE

12.05.08, 8:17am

One cannot help but contrast the ruthless efficiency with which the authorities pursue any householder without a TV licence with their apparent indifference towards illegal immigrants who can disappear here, get free NHS treatment, send their children to our schools etc? Perhaps its time to get the army of snoopers and detector vans doing a proper detection job - redirect them to immigration control.

• Posted by: panadero • Report Comment

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REUBENMOHAWALI

10.05.08, 10:05pm

"A post by Veltro205 stated: "I don't even use the BBC for anything". I wonder why Veltro205 is paying the TV license fee?

It is well cemented in the vaults of TV licensing that I have NEVER held a TV license - AND NEVER WILL. I refuse to pay for something that is forced upon me".

ReubenMohawali
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Good for you Reuben, but no matter how much I disagree with the licence fee (it stinks), I will stay within the law until something better comes along, ie they scrap this insidious 'tax' and replace it with something fairer (a pay per view service or advertisement-based). I'd just be likely the one to get caught.

The BBC (Blair/Browns Broadcasting Corporation) is now nothing better than a mouthpiece for NuLabour to spread their skewed, hippy, multicultural politically correct propaganda. Along with NuLab, the BBC have completely decimated this nations national, historical and cultural identity.

And I know I'm equally as guilty by paying the licence tax, but you see, at least I won't be waiting for the knock on the door.

• Posted by: Veltro205 • Report Comment

LICENCE FEE, COMPULSORY TAX, MUST GO

10.05.08, 9:50pm

The BBC is arrogant, complacent, left-winged biased to an amazing degree and I support if by my licence as we all have to do. As long as it has the money from a tax on everyone who has a television set, it will never change. THE EXPRESS is an excellent newspaper. If everyone who wanted to read any newspaper had to pay a licence fee to the express, then its high standards would soon go down.

• Posted by: voter • Report Comment

THE BBC'S 1ST FUNCTION

10.05.08, 7:23pm

is to promote left wing propaganda.

• Posted by: redwhiteandblue • Report Comment

NO SURPRISE AT ALL. WHERE THERE IS PILES OF CASH, YOU CAN BET SOMEONE HAS THEIR STICKY FINGERS ATTACHED TO IT

10.05.08, 6:45pm

A post by Veltro205 stated: "I don't even use the BBC for anything". I wonder why Veltro205 is paying the TV license fee?

It is well cemented in the vaults of TV licensing that I have NEVER held a TV license - AND NEVER WILL. I refuse to pay for something that is forced upon me.

Other countries seem to manage very well, without the need for a TV license.

Even banana republics in Africa can watch 220 channels for FREE.

It is about time this banana republic/Police State followed the example of others.

AND STOP RIPPING OFF THE PUBLIC.

• Posted by: ReubenMohawali • Report Comment

BROADCASTERS MUST STOP CHEATING US ALL

10.05.08, 6:42pm

Every day of every week BBC/Capita's PRIVATISED TVLicensing 'agents', some of whom are violent, spy on the citizenry of this nation whilst trying to entrap people into paying the TVTAX - dragging almost 1/2 a million into PRIVATE courts often relying on fabricated evidence. "Demanding money with menace" is a criminal offence, yet they get away with it and commit the crime of Aggravated Trespass to do so. TVTAX 'agents' that are convicted of violent assault are, for instance, are "Bound over to keep the peace for a year in the sum of £50" while single mothers go to jail for not having paid the TVTAX. FIND: TVLicensing's Crimes and Thuggery http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4WtgVbXbrc [youtube.com]
Ron Sinclair, assaulted by David Clark, a BBC tellytax goon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKRyNYChYjI [youtube.com] also Check out: www.tvlicensing.biz for more info about the scale of the scams.

• Posted by: Righteous • Report Comment

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"THE BBC IS THERE TO SERVE THE VIEWERS AND LISTENERS, NOT FLEECE THEM".

10.05.08, 6:27pm

One would have thought with the quite ridiculous and outdated licence fee (TV tax), that we're forced to pay (or face dire retribution), coupled with the total dross and politically correct crap the BBC dish out these days, that is exactly what they ARE doing!

I don't even use the BBC for anything, yet I like everyone else, still have to pay them (by force) for something I don't use. If I tried something similar, I'd be under arrest for running an extortion racket.

Ain't 'democracy' wonderful?

• Posted by: Veltro205 • Report Comment

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