[Vicky.]

Again, should just be abolished completely. Rather than this argument that everyone else should still have to pay it under threat of prosecution, but those who have too high of a private pension to claim pension credit..should not pay. That sounds odd to me.

The only people who say it shouldn't be abolishied, tend to be those who will go on about how great BBC content is, so people who actually use what the bulk of the license is to pay for. They never seem to get that not everyone watchs BBC. Its amusing watching tv license arguments sometimes as it generally turns into the bbc people caling non bbc people greedy and stingey because they don't want to pay for something they don't use (or do use but would prefer BBC just used adverts like all others for funding, rather than taking 65 year olds to court to extract hundreds from them for a day of not being licensed..) but it tends to turn out that they think the TV license would be too expensive if it was opt in and only a few people paid. So, people are greedy for not wanting to pay it, however, if those who don't want it don't pay it stop having to pay it, those who do would have to pay more, so really they are kicking off to try and make others keep subsidizing it so that what THEY pay does not go up. So whos greedy really?

Similar to when you go for a meal with a group of friends, and that one dickhead orders the most expensive thing on the menu, multiple cocktails or expensive drinks while others eat/drink more moderately. Then when the bill comes, the overindulgent person will without fail say 'we are just splitting equally' as its 'easier'. And throw a proper strop if they are made to pay for their own, so others don't waste money on their expensive tastes..its always 'you are stingey, its only a few quid' or whatever. But yeah, greedy and selfish for only wanting to pay for what you eat/watch. Its cheeky really, for those who think that way to try and make out that the reasonable people are the ones being tight.