A wee rant

Well at least you're paying the TVL fee, not riding on the backs of others.
TBF it's not generally understood that it's the receiving apparatus at an address that's licensed, rather than the content viewed on it.
The BBC isn't entirely heartless. It did suspend the licence fee as a one-off to allow venues to screen the live coronation ceremony and concert in May without needing to buy a TV licence.
Not so forgiving on other fronts though.:confused:
www.theguardian.com

BBC to tackle high proportion of women prosecuted for licence fee evasion

Measures include ability to spread cost over small instalments and free debt advice
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
Sinistral said:
Well at least you're paying the TVL fee, not riding on the backs of others.
TBF it's not generally understood that it's the receiving apparatus at an address that's licensed, rather than the content viewed on it.
The BBC isn't entirely heartless. It did suspend the licence fee as a one-off to allow venues to screen the live coronation ceremony and concert in May without needing to buy a TV licence.
Not so forgiving on other fronts though.:confused:
www.theguardian.com

BBC to tackle high proportion of women prosecuted for licence fee evasion

Measures include ability to spread cost over small instalments and free debt advice
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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"A BBC review led by the crossbench peer Lola Young concluded that the gender disparity in licence fee prosecution was due to societal factors outside the BBC’s control, including greater financial hardship faced by women; women making up more than 60% of single-adult households; and women being more likely to be at home and responsible for domestic bills"

Assuming this is true, then there's nothing further for the BBC to do here. The causes for the gender disparity are further high up in the chain, and have to do with how our society is made up.

It's clearly not the BBC's role to reduce the number of single mothers or transfer the household's financial responsibility from women to men, etc.

If the BBC do try and 'address the issue', then they are morons (personal opinion). What next? The majority of the prison population is made up of men, so in future courts will 'address the issue' by handing out more lenient sentences to men, and harsher sentences to women.....? Sheer lunacy. The whole thing is totally illogical.
 
markj1 said:
"A BBC review led by the crossbench peer Lola Young concluded that the gender disparity in licence fee prosecution was due to societal factors outside the BBC’s control, including greater financial hardship faced by women; women making up more than 60% of single-adult households; and women being more likely to be at home and responsible for domestic bills"

Assuming this is true, then there's nothing further for the BBC to do here. The causes for the gender disparity are further high up in the chain, and have to do with how our society is made up.

It's clearly not the BBC's role to reduce the number of single mothers or transfer the household's financial responsibility from women to men, etc.

If the BBC do try and 'address the issue', then they are morons (personal opinion). What next? The majority of the prison population is made up of men, so in future courts will 'address the issue' by handing out more lenient sentences to men, and harsher sentences to women.....? Sheer lunacy. The whole thing is totally illogical.
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I would be interested in how many of these people smoke and claim they can't pay the licence fee. 1pkt @ £10.00 a day= 3.5k a year or £159.00 for the licence fee.
 
Last time I bought a pack of fags was when an old homeless man outside my local corner shop asked me to buy him one, I said OK but then had to fork out £14 to keep my word......
 
markj1 said:
Last time I bought a pack of fags was when an old homeless man outside my local corner shop asked me to buy him one, I said OK but then had to fork out £14 to keep my word......
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Now then, there's a tenuous link. BBC, fags, extortion...
 
markj1 said:
"A BBC review led by the crossbench peer Lola Young concluded that the gender disparity in licence fee prosecution was due to societal factors outside the BBC’s control, including greater financial hardship faced by women; women making up more than 60% of single-adult households; and women being more likely to be at home and responsible for domestic bills"

Assuming this is true, then there's nothing further for the BBC to do here. The causes for the gender disparity are further high up in the chain, and have to do with how our society is made up.

It's clearly not the BBC's role to reduce the number of single mothers or transfer the household's financial responsibility from women to men, etc.

If the BBC do try and 'address the issue', then they are morons (personal opinion). What next? The majority of the prison population is made up of men, so in future courts will 'address the issue' by handing out more lenient sentences to men, and harsher sentences to women.....? Sheer lunacy. The whole thing is totally illogical.
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At the moment, women get approximately half the sentence a man gets for the same offence!

David.
 
markj1 said:
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If the BBC do try and 'address the issue', then they are morons (personal opinion). What next? The majority of the prison population is made up of men, so in future courts will 'address the issue' by handing out more lenient sentences to men, and harsher sentences to women.....? Sheer lunacy. The whole thing is totally illogical.
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You did bring up a very important point here, as most prisoners now have the availability of a TV in their cell, the question is surely, Should they have to pay a Licence fee?, or is it as it seems that the normal law Abiding Citizens of this free society are once again shat upon, Oh to be a criminal or an illegal Migrant and to be looked after, by the State, no Mortgage, Electric Bills, fed, ease of medical and Dental attention, it's a no brainer.
 
Fadcode said:
You did bring up a very important point here, as most prisoners now have the availability of a TV in their cell, the question is surely, Should they have to pay a Licence fee?, or is it as it seems that the normal law Abiding Citizens of this free society are once again shat upon, Oh to be a criminal or an illegal Migrant and to be looked after, by the State, no Mortgage, Electric Bills, fed, ease of medical and Dental attention, it's a no brainer.
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My guess is that HM Prison Service are paying a business license fee per location, same hotels do, and same as we do for the TVs in our office, but who knows...
 
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