"Free TV licences for over-75s and other "outdated" age-related benefits should be scrapped, a group of peers has said, with money spent instead on increasing our parliamentary salaries, attendance allowances, travel allowances, maintenance of duck houses, clearing moats, pensions, and . . . oops, er, we mean with money spent instead on housing and training for young people." lol Honestly, you couldn't make up this **** couldja? 'housing and training for young people' - lucky them eh? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48046595
Given that the BBC itself is having to pay for this. I would think a more honest idea would be to let them spend the money as they see fit. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/06/bbc-pay-cost-free-tv-licences-over-75s-fee-deal It did used to be paid for by the Government. Has this Lord gone into his dotage.
Yeah, the BBC 'sees fit' to spend tens of thousands of pounds a year to someone for reading the news.
They threatened to remove my telly when I refused to pay. I said, 'Oh yeah - try it! Not only do I have a receipt for my television which makes it my legally-owned property, I don't watch the dumbed-down trash the BBC pumps out all the time: so if you expect me to buy a license either put out less trash and more good programs or don't pester me again. The choice is yours.'
If you do not watch the BBC you do not need to pay your licence fee but do your own search on how to do this. I have other things to do.
Serves the old buggers right. As I've heard them say over and over, they know Brexit will be hard, but we can all tighten our belts and get through it...blah blah. I warned my neighbours it could mean losing their freebies. Good. Cerberus, all they need do is prove you're watching TV from your address, which is simple. Bluster all you like, they won't go away and leave you alone.
In my case it isn't simple - I live on the top floor of an 8-storey apartment building. But that's beside the point, and without getting into the technicalities of it - there's nothing inside those so-called detector vans, which are only to frighten gullible people like you who believe that there is. And I've been 'blustering' for years now, and apart from a short polite note every couple of years asking if I still reside here, and that I still don't watch tv, they've left me alone. They know better than try to bully me!!
Makes no difference at all. They can see when students are watching TV in their individual rooms. You're so full of it. There's certainly something inside those detector vans. I always rejoice when someone gets caught.
...do they still have detector vans...??? I thought they only worked on the old CRT tellies by picking up the signal backscatter
It probably worth a fortune - ask diamond lil if she want to buy if off yer? Tell her it's worth a million smackeroos - she'll snap it up, then we'll go 50-50?
I guess the economy has changed and now people that age have more money than the working age on Job Seekers and Housing Benefits or Universal Credit. It's an interesting notion to call it out of date giving it was for a time when this segment had no money; their circumstance has changed, but this exemption hasn't. So now it's like giving people money who don't need it and people who need it still have to pay.
Yep, they still use detector vans along with handheld devices. They can see which addresses don't have a licence at the touch of a button on their database. 3,500 TV licence dodgers were caught in Hampshire alone. A trip to court and £1000 fine for them. Nobody believes you, Cerberus.
I'd always believed that detector vans are a hoax. Wiki is inconclusive. I'm still not convinced but they made some pretty vans. This one is in the science museum.
Well if you choose to believe all the PR and not my own experience then I guess there isn't any more to be said?
