Originally Posted by joeysteele

Sometimes though people have to wake politicians up, the Licence fee,even more so at these difficult times is a big burden as well as being ridiculous.

On the estimated figures I put above in my post, someone on jobseekers allowance or a pensioner with only the guaranteed £ 130-140 a week coming in have to hand over yearly a full weeks income or more just to pay this thing. That is wrong in my book.

My Dad has always said, had people not protested and just paid the poll tax that was introduced by Margaret Thatcher then it would never have been abolished in its form.
He said people were now paying it, becasue they couldn't and some wouldn't but it did get rid of it

TV should be a right for people in this day and age,Politicians woulds be lost for instance trying to get their messages across without people having TVs.
It should be completely wrong in this present age to be forced to pay a fee for one company's channels only, on a TV you have had to purchase as yours anyway and also looking at the BBC a channel where at least a third of it's programmes and transmissions are repeats anyway.

The BBC is not as great as it was and also not as relevant as it was either,in the interests of fairness it should be made to get its business like all other companies and not be taking a full weeks income every year from some people who likely only have one TV while someone who has literally thousands coming in weekly with multiple TV sets in their homes pays as much as them.
I am not getting at those people though for that,I just believe 'no one' should have to pay this ancient tax anymore,I really detest this Licence fee and the fact it even still exists in the UK and just what would they do if everyone who did actually stopped paying,like many people did with that poll tax.