[joeysteele]

I am not happy with the BBC, they are nowhere near the leaders in programming they were decades ago.

I would scrap the TV Licence tomorrow and I think it's ridiculous anyone has to pay this dinosaur tax now in the 21st century.
It is one of the most unfair payments anywhere too, someone on jobseekers allowance or someone between 65 and 74 who likely only have at best £100 to £140 coming in every week have to pay this accursed £145,I think it is now every year,by the same token, a multi millionaire with a mansion with a TV possibly in every room also just has to pay the same £145 yearly.

The BBC should be put where all the other channels are and have to compete now,they are as a company a minority now rather than the majority they were as to transmission of programmes, people who have sky etc, have to pay a monthly subscription to that company and in addition to that still have to pay this ridiculous Licence fee to watch a TV they have had to buy,they cannot get one without BBC on it and they have to pay for the power to watch it as to electricity too.
Decades ago when there was only BBC and ITV in the main it may have been in some way justifiable but not now and for me, this daft tax on people should be abolished completely.

As for TV licensing, I and a group of other students have done some research as to people dealing with them, people who have any difficulty paying for this licence get all sorts of intimidating and unsavoury threatening letters from this Comapny too.TV Licensing is empowered by the BBC to get the fee in so the blame for that lies with the BBC too.

If I read that the Licence was going to be abolished tomorrow,I would really celebrate that and if I learned TV Licensing,the company was also to be abolished tomorrow,I would celbrate that too and not lose a single second of sleep for the staff losing their jobs there.

If,when I finish Uni, I do go into active Politics, one my main aims and campaigns will be to do all I can to get this pathetic and, in my view, totally wrong tax,that is the Licence fee,removed from peoples lives for good.

No, it is time the BBC was dragged kicking and screaming into the modern age and forced to be where all other TV companies are,competing in the real world and not handed funding on a plate.