The Telly-Tax Collects Another Victim
It is things like this which make the blood pressure hit unmeasurable levels and will regrettably require the ingestion of a glass of red wine to compensate.
“I’ve just watched my husband driven away in a police car. Not because he is a murderer, or a rapist or even a theif (sic) but because the T.V Licensing people decided to take him to court without informing him of that fact and getting him fined. Then, without telling him that he had been fined, they had a warrant issued for his arrest for non-payment of fines.”
This is what happened the next day at the trial.
It’s hard to remember that British justice was not only respected across the world but the Police were invited to train the Forces of new and emerging nations. That was before Labour politicised our once great Police Force, gave them Ian Blair and taught them to shoot at random swarthy-looking chappies in tube stations causing a Health and Safety incident due to acute lead poisoning.
News via Biased BBC (declaration of interest…TheEye is an active contributor there)
Portable Transistor Radios made it impossible for the BBC to enforce the Radio License, which was scrapped for that very reason.
I don’t have a telly because telly-vis-ion is soooo 20th century, boring and rubbish. When I tell my American friends that I need to pay for permission to watch it they initially think that I am joking, ” British sense of humor “. LOL
Entertainingly, according to the rules if I access any BBC content via my mobile or laptop or television from a friend’s house in Prague or Paris or Madrid then they and I are in theory criminals and open for the Police to take action.
Against a hostel room in Berlin maybe…lets see that lawsuit fly, sunshines.
TheEye has for the last lotsofyears extended a finger to the BBC and no magistrate has yet raised an objection.
Those 100GBP’s a year have paid for a bottle of red wine or two….
£100,000pa to whoosh just two top execs from their London train termini to BBC HQ !