There are many disgruntled licence fee payers, many have their own
individual campaigns running alongside this one, I thought I would use this profile as a hub to
them all, any links that are made known to me I will include......
No problem, I liked the video, did you do it? Last week it was announced that the government anti-smoking advert received more complaints than any other, but personally I would have to vote for those damn TV licensing adverts! It's false advertising, their empty vans have no idea who has a television connected to an aerial and tuned in to receive broadcasts.
I signed your petition on the Downing Street website. I noticed there are lots of others on their site too, but whilst they are for specific issues, like abolishing the licence for the blind, yours is the most encompassing. It would seem sensible to merge all the related petitions into just one.
The BBC's domestic broadcasting services are financed by the TV Licence.
The Government sets the level of the licence fee.
The current fee, from 1 April 2007, is £135.50 for colour and £45.50 for black and white.
The licence fee pays for:
the television channels BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four, BBC News 24, BBC Parliament, CBBC and CBeebies;
five network radio services, plus the BBC Asian Network, and digital radio services 1Xtra, BBC 7, 6 Music, and Five Live Sports Extra;
regional television programmes and Local Radio services in England;
national radio and television in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland;
BBCi and bbc.co.uk.
Anyone aged 75 or over is entitled to a free TV Licence for their principal address.
Blind people only pay 50% of the full licence fee.
The Accommodation for Residential Care (ARC) Concessionary Licence is available to those who live in certain types of accommodation and are either retired and aged over 60, or are disabled or mentally disordered.
An ARC Concessionary Licence costs £7.50 for each person's home in the accommodation.
The BBC became the Licensing Authority with responsibility for the administration of the television licensing system in 1991.
In turn the BBC subcontracts the collection to third-party suppliers.
The first licence fee - for radio - was issued in November 1922. The amount was 10 shillings (50p).
The first combined Radio/TV licence - for £2 - was issued in June 1946.
Radio only licences were abolished in February 1971.
The first supplementary licence fee for colour TV was introduced in January 1968.
Broadcast Receiving Licences: 1922 - 2006
Date Radio TV B&W (with radio) TV Colour (with radio)
November 1922 10s -- -- June 1946 £1 £2 -- June 1954 £1 £3 -- August 1957 £1 £4 * -- October 1963 £1 £4 + -- August 1965 £1 5s £5 -- January 1968 £1 5s £5 £10 January 1969 £1
There are not enough people on your friends list we need to get so many more to be taken seriously. I am going to think of ways to get more poeple signed up over the next few days. So hopefully you may have a few more friend requests soon.
Greetings from flooded Sheffield! Thanks for your comments!
Propaganga found The Mother of all Campaigns to be the the only MySpace site dedicated to covering a propaganga issue sadly overlooked by many people who simultaneously tolerate harassment by TV Licensing and wasting of money by the BBC.
If you make a revolution, make it for fun,
don't make it in ghastly seriousness,
don't do it in deadly earnest,
do it for fun.
Don't do it just because you hate people,
do it just to spit in their eye.
Don't do it for the money,
do it and be damned to the money.
Don't do it for equality,
do it because we've got too much equality
and it would be fun to upset the apple-cart
and see which ways the apples would go a-rolling.
Don't do it for the working classes.
Do it so we can of all us be little aristocracies on our own
and kick our heels like jolly escaped asses.
Don't do it, anyhow, for international Labour.
Labour is the one thing a man has had too much of.
Let's abolish labour, let's have done with labouring!
WORK CAN BE FUN, SO LET'S ENJOY IT; THEN IT'S NOT LABOUR.
LET'S HAVE IT SO! LET'S MAKE A REVOLUTION FOR FUN!
....
LABOUR OF LOVE!!!
http://labouroflove999.blogspot.com
THIS TIME LET'S ACTUALLY DELIVER ON OUR PROMISES:
http://www.labourpolicywatch.co.uk/index.html
First a TV License, and then what next a PC License tax as well? Orwell was having a wet dream when he came up with 1984 - the truth is worse than anyone can imagine, as the stuffy politico-suits of this so-called democratic world close their talons on the real freedoms... the right to share information and communicate without restriction!
Fuck the system, and keep on fighting until Hell blows dust into their eyes.
thanks for the accept... as we pay for the BBC I believe that it should represent the people, but as it stands it's a huge vehicle for government propaganda, with hardly any real issues covered.... I fail to see why I should pay for my head to be filled up with their drivel... keep up the good work, will spread the word :)
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