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Re: A dream to see JAM life

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Steve KenrickApr 20, 2010
 
 

Ok, I was going to give you the long response, but if you’re not going to play (i.e. respond) any further, you’ll have to make do with the short version.

 

It doesn’t matter what you call it or how the Lords classify it, in reality, the license fee is a payment for entertainment (or education etc,…..that should satisfy the pedants).

If I thought that compassion would help you in your financial situation, I would get it delivered to your place in a tanker……………with no cost to yourself.

Don’t compromise your rights.  Throw away your TV and listen to the radio.  That’s free and you’ll be even happier knowing that the BBC material you listen to is being paid for by philanthropists like me.

Like most complainers of certain issues, you criticise the existing solution, without offering a viable alternative.  Unless………?  No…………!   I can’t believe you would propose the BBC going commercial.  You would?  Well, if you’re going to use bad language, then it is the end of the conversation.

 

 

 


From: just-a-minute@... [mailto: just-a-minute@... ] On Behalf Of Oz
Sent: 20 April 2010 10:43
To: just-a-minute@...
Subject: [just-a-minute] Re: A dream to see JAM life

 

 

--- In just-a-minute@ yahoogroups. com, "Steve Kenrick" <steve.kenrick@ ...> wrote:

> It's not a tax, but payment for entertainment.

"The licence fee is classified as a tax, and evasion is a criminal offence" - House Of Lords, BBC Charter Review 3/3/06

And I can't select something cheaper, as you so compassionately suggest, because if I choose to watch, say, New Delhi news, I still have to pay the BBC, as I do if all I watch is live sessions of the UK parliament (or any other parliament in the world, come to that).

And before you suggest I throw my Tv away, I believe access to communications is a basic human right - in line with the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

I'm sure you'll have more to say on the subject, but I wont respond any further as the debate could go on for ever as previously noted. I see both sides of the argument and can see that the license fee is unsustainable and while it exists the BBC loses ground on future delivery platforms and is restricted from how much it can make from its enormous back catalogue. So while I love much about the BBC, I'm not prepared to love it to death, as you appear to be.

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