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Old 9th November 2009, 22:15   #5 (permalink)
Furious George
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Originally Posted by ThatOldRedMagic View Post
The gist of it is that he has found that there is little the BBC can do to enforce the payment.

Why so different in another part of the UK?
It's a bit of sensationalist journalism.

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Originally Posted by Article
A local woman has spoken of her distress after cops arrived at her home and arrested her – over a TV licence.
This just isn't true. The plod in this case are not acting as BBC goons. She's been fined by a court and they're just enforcing that. It'd be no different for any other kind of fine handed down by the court.

Pay your council tax and pay your court fines, everyone else can wait.

You've got to question anyone who gets busted without a tv licence. If the BBC licence blokes come a knocking on your door, just tell them to fuck off and shut the door in their faces. They have no special powers. If they ask you if you've got a telly, you say no, and that's the end of it.

Oh, and those detection vans are an Orwellian scare story too.
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