tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959111893158321335.post1636336462252753190..comments2024-03-15T09:20:12.565+00:00Comments on TV Licensing: Osborne: TV Licence Fee "Had Its Day"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959111893158321335.post-23229474312203286572015-05-26T11:17:23.017+01:002015-05-26T11:17:23.017+01:00WOIRA instructions to the BBC have increased massi...WOIRA instructions to the BBC have increased massively in the last year - almost as many have been made in the last year as in the previous 6 years combined. The BBC have stopped accepting WOIRA instructions in Scotland, however, (the legal system there differs from the rest of the UK) presumably because they've had a surge of WOIRA instructions there as well. Fred Bearnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959111893158321335.post-45344651426110607722015-05-21T16:09:29.597+01:002015-05-21T16:09:29.597+01:00I see that the petition to end the TV Licence on t...I see that the petition to end the TV Licence on the 38degrees website is closing in on 150,000 signatures:<br /><br />https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/end-the-bbc-licence-feeFred Bearnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959111893158321335.post-26196888916029027122015-05-19T19:35:50.418+01:002015-05-19T19:35:50.418+01:00I worry that the people thinking about the license...I worry that the people thinking about the license's replacement only seem to consider the idea that everyone currently needs a license (and those who don't are evading it) so therefore the replacement had better cater for everyone too.<br /><br />This neglects the large number of people who currently do not need a license - these people never get mentioned, it's always "the correctly licensed" and "the evaders". Even when the media reports on how to avoid the license it's reported incorrectly as "a loophole".<br /><br />Good on Osborne but does he fall into the same trap of not even understanding that many people are legally license free and simply have no need of one no matter what form it takes?<br />Chrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959111893158321335.post-36752293809353956552015-05-19T15:09:45.719+01:002015-05-19T15:09:45.719+01:00What's really going to spook the BBC is the su...What's really going to spook the BBC is the sudden increase in households without a TV. This means a big drop in their income and there's nothing they can do about it until the new Royal Charter. <br /><br />I don't think they will try to recoup the money by harsher enforcement methods because the adverse publicity that would generate at a rather ticklish time for them politically.Fred Bearnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959111893158321335.post-88190585125703858542015-05-17T13:07:09.060+01:002015-05-17T13:07:09.060+01:00Well spotted and corrected.
Thanks for the heads ...Well spotted and corrected.<br /><br />Thanks for the heads up.<br /><br />Apparently Osborne's TFA membership application is still being processed!Adminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07732399111583086465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959111893158321335.post-16007815330227748302015-05-17T12:48:51.380+01:002015-05-17T12:48:51.380+01:00Minor correction: the article states that John Whi...Minor correction: the article states that John Whittingdale is a member of the Freedom Association, not George Osbourne. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com