Topic: UK TV License Fee

[dave400]

But it does come as a shock to hear about a TV tax and how its regulated.  Have sales of polarized wire grids taken off in the UK by any chance?  

The TV licence people have every address in the country and if you don’t pay the money they can come in the house and have a look, they use the police to do this…..no licence will result in a fine or jail even if they just find a receiver like an aerial on the roof or loft.

 The Faraday cadge would not work.

Thatcher would have implemented some of the other tax scams you mention had she stayed in power (she never started the BBC scam) (b) itch 

Cheers

[edbikerii]

TV Gestapo!!!     Bwaaaahaaaaaa!!!  You people need to get your guns back so the government is afraid of the people instead of the other way around!

But it does come as a shock to hear about a TV tax and how its regulated.  Have sales of polarized wire grids taken off in the UK by any chance?  

The TV licence people have every address in the country and if you don’t pay the money they can come in the house and have a look, they use the police to do this…..no licence will result in a fine or jail even if they just find a receiver like an aerial on the roof or loft.

 The Faraday cadge would not work.

Thatcher would have implemented some of the other tax scams you mention had she stayed in power (she never started the BBC scam) (b) itch 

Cheers

[dave400]

TV Gestapo!!!     Bwaaaahaaaaaa!!!  You people need to get your guns back so the government is afraid of the people instead of the other way around!

The well trained police here will shoot you dead if they even think you have a gun, I’ll pay the licence fee …it’s a easy option. 

Cheers

[edbikerii]

That's why you've slid down that slippery slope to the point where you have freakin TV Gestapo.  Take back your human rights, man!

TV Gestapo!!!     Bwaaaahaaaaaa!!!  You people need to get your guns back so the government is afraid of the people instead of the other way around!

The well trained police here will shoot you dead if they even think you have a gun, I’ll pay the licence fee …it’s a easy option. 

Cheers

[eldar]

How many police compared to how many people? Even simple weight of numbers would do the trick.  Your parliament needs a kick in the ass.

[dave400]

That's why you've slid down that slippery slope to the point where you have freakin TV Gestapo.  Take back your human rights, man!

If only fella ……..you would know what I’m talking about if you lived here since you guy’s got hit by some aeroplane’s, we are just about as close as it gets a police state as Russia was during the cold war.

[edbikerii]

I'm sorry for you.

I haven't been to London since August 2001, but I was pretty surprised that the British people were so complacent about government control even then.  I cannot fathom the people accepting 4UKP per LITER of gasoline due to the excessive taxes the government imposed even back then.

That's why you've slid down that slippery slope to the point where you have freakin TV Gestapo.  Take back your human rights, man!

If only fella ……..you would know what I’m talking about if you lived here since you guy’s got hit by some aeroplane’s, we are just about as close as it gets a police state as Russia was during the cold war.

[tortelvis]

But at least you get something worthwhile to watch!!!! Over here it's "200 channels and nothing on".

[Bob Wessner]

But at least you get something worthwhile to watch!!!! Over here it's "200 channels and nothing on".

With very few exceptions, this is sadly true.

[edbikerii]

Admittedly, I didn't watch too much TV in London on my trips there, but the two nights or so when I did, I felt the programming was roughly as bad as it is here.

But at least you get something worthwhile to watch!!!! Over here it's "200 channels and nothing on".

[nickjtc]

I cannot fathom the people accepting 4UKP per LITER of gasoline due to the excessive taxes the government imposed even back then.

The government has to tax the middle classes heavily to pay for the skyrocketing pensions (index linked) that they have handed out to all of the government employees.

[ghost]

TV Gestapo!!!     Bwaaaahaaaaaa!!!  You people need to get your guns back so the government is afraid of the people instead of the other way around!

The well trained police here will shoot you dead if they even think you have a gun, Ill pay the licence fee &its a easy option. 

Cheers

  wait y'all don't have the right to keep and bear arms?  i'd rather have my firearms than a tv any day. maybe that's just me though

[my78k]

You guys in the UK may want to keep your mouths shut or the U.S. may have to invade to protect your rights and to protect you from your own government!






Oh wait you don't have to worry about that.....you don't have any oil!

Dennis

[nickjtc]

Oh wait you don't have to worry about that.....you don't have any oil!

.................but they do have weapons of mass destruction.

[dave400]

Oh wait you don't have to worry about that.....you don't have any oil!

Dennis

We did have oil/natural gas in the North Sea but Maggie Thatcher sold it all off to the highest bidder… silly woman.

[my78k]

British women with bad teeth don't count as weapons of mass destruction Nick!!

Dennis

[eldar]

I dont know, have you ever gotten head from one? That could be called mass destruction I think! But i do not know.

[azuredesign]

France also imposes a yearly tax on television ownership, about 115. euros for us. We've had an ongoing struggle to stop receiving this tax bill as we don't own a tv set, but it's not very easy to sway French bureaucracy, as it's mired in reams and reams of paperwork!

[edbikerii]

Hey, watch that!  The British have the finest teeth that socialized dentristy can buy!

British women with bad teeth don't count as weapons of mass destruction Nick!!

Dennis

[TwoTired]

Hey, watch that!  The British have the finest teeth that socialized dentristy can buy!

British women with bad teeth don't count as weapons of mass destruction Nick!!

Dennis

Didn't the British develop the stiff upper lip simply to hide the teeth?
















 

[dave400]

Didn't the British develop the stiff upper lip simply to hide the teeth?

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I think the stiff upper lip thing came from WWII when our country got absolutely smashed by 100’s of German bombers every night but ordinary people just got on with their lives amongst all the death and destruction.

[azuredesign]

Hey, watch that!  The British have the finest teeth that socialized dentristy can buy!

British women with bad teeth don't count as weapons of mass destruction Nick!!

Dennis

Our friend Teri from Oxford calls Britain "The Land Orthodonture Forgot"

[nickjtc]

Our friend Teri from Oxford calls Britain "The Land Orthodonture Forgot"

I can refute that, wholeheartedly.  I was one of the first kids in England to be fitted with braces, in the mid-60's. And it was free! And it worked!

[rhos1355]

Getting back to the UK TV licence thread, I've read an article recently about a story where someone was charged with a fine for not paying his TV licence here in the UK. Problem was he didn't even have a TV in his flat!! But no, the powers that be wouldn't accept that. So they kept on pestering him with threatening letters and he kept answering back "But I don't own a TV!" . He even invited the licencing authorities to visit his flat to see for themselves. But no, they would'nt come round. So to cut a long story short he was hauled before the beak (magistrate) who laughed so hard he threw the case out of court.
Did the guy get and apology from the licencing authorities?  No.
Did he get an explaination?   Yes.


Computer error!!

[nickjtc]

Did he get an explaination?   Yes.

Computer error!!

If in doubt blame the machine, not the person inputting the information.