Reply to: BBC Reporter Call Farage a c**t on live TV!

[Zero Liability]

Well it wouldn't really be a tax if decriminalised; more of a fee. Perhaps they just want people to continue thinking they have to pay it, even if no action is taken against those who don't. I'd be happy to see it go altogether.

As for Sky, I just go for NowTV, saves the licence fee as I don't watch live TV at all.

[VectraMan]

Slightly misleading, you have to pay if you watch live tv over the air this is to fund the BBC, at the same time channels with adverts are broadcast.

Now you don't have to pay for SKY.

You have to pay the 40p a day to watch ITV even though ITV is funded by adverts was my point. So you can't pay the 40p a day to avoid adverts, assuming you want to watch ITV.

The thing is if all the Sky channels are crap, you can choose not to subscribe and they lose money. If ITV/C4/Five/whatever are crap, you can not watch them and they don't get the money from the advertisers and they lose money. If the BBC are crap, and nobody watches, they get the money anyway.

Now if only we decriminalise the Beeb tax we could save many women being convicted.

It's a tax and not paying your taxes is a crime. What are we saying by decriminalising the licence fee? That tax evasion isn't a crime, or that it's not really a tax?

Now if a government had any sense they would have ruled every tv and Freeview / freesat module should have a CI module fitted during the freeview upgrade and then encrypted the BBC. It could charge what it likes and stop this cat & mouse game.

Or just kept ITV Digital.

Putting encryption in would have made all the boxes more complicated and more expensive, whereas pushing the free unencrypted service opened the way for cheap as chips set top boxes and cheaper tellies with it built in. And of course the BBC were quite happy to promote this.

[vetran]

You have to pay the 40p a day to watch the channels with adverts.

Slightly misleading, you have to pay if you watch live tv over the air this is to fund the BBC, at the same time channels with adverts are broadcast.

Now you don't have to pay for SKY.

Now if only we decriminalise the Beeb tax we could save many women being convicted.

Now if a government had any sense they would have ruled every tv and FReeview / freesat module should have a CI module fitted during the freeview upgrade and then encrypted the BBC. It could charge what it likes and stop this cat & mouse game.

[SlipTheJab]

You have to pay the 40p a day to watch the channels with adverts.

I'll pay it for Doctor Who and Sherlock.

[VectraMan]

I'll pay it for no adverts.

You have to pay the 40p a day to watch the channels with adverts.

[VectraMan]

Indeed they do have some sane points but all this infighting makes them look like nutters and if they are not careful they will go the way of BNP and end up as a comedy party.

Without Farage they pretty much are a comedy party. Whoever else they picked would have made a racist gaffe within a week or two, and that would be that for UKIP. By resigning and then unresigning Nige has made that clear.

[SlipTheJab]

I called the local drug dealers mum a f*****g c**t, half the locals thought I was mad to stand up to the scrotes, the other were too afraid of them to dare

RIP When he catches up with you

[eek]

That's what the press would like you to believe but it's manufactured news and not true.

This news is manufactured

[SlipTheJab]

40p a day to watch live telly. Or we send the boys round.

I'll pay it for no adverts. Sky take ths p!ss with a subscription fee and a load of ads, thank god for Sky+, I never watch anything live always on catch up.
Got the letter telling me they we're putting up the package by 3 quid a month, (not to pay for the billions they have splurged on football according to the lady when I phoned to tell them to cancel). Told them to shove it regardless, a a few days later their retentions teams ring up, 50% off for ever and 50 quid credit. result

[pjclarke]

Which ever party you subscribe to and whatever beliefs you hold, you should have the choice to switch this stuff off.

And that's the point here, we are forced by threat of law to pay for this. and that aint right

40p a day to watch live telly. Or we send the boys round.

[SlipTheJab]

Indeed they do have some sane points but all this infighting makes them look like nutters and if they are not careful they will go the way of BNP and end up as a comedy party. Cameron needs checks and balances otherwise this referendum will go the way of the Irish one on Europe (ie keep having one until you get the answer you want!)

[BrilloPad]

Which ever party you subscribe to and whatever beliefs you hold, you should have the choice to switch this stuff off.

And that's the point here, we are forced by threat of law to pay for this. and that aint right

I disagree. Not enough people vote. Particularly the young.

UKIP making themselves look like idiots. Shame as their underlying principal is a good one. But one has to laugh....

[Lockhouse]

Or a Freudian slip, looks like UKIP are imploding anyway, power struggle between Carswell and Nige, as Robert Kilroy Silk would say 'should they share or shaft'

That's what the press would like you to believe but it's manufactured news and not true.

[EternalOptimist]

Which ever party you subscribe to and whatever beliefs you hold, you should have the choice to switch this stuff off.

And that's the point here, we are forced by threat of law to pay for this. and that aint right

[Zero Liability]

Sounds like so much pissing in the wind. BBC reporters tend, one and all, to be c**nts, so case of the pot calling the kettle black, at worst.

Their beloved Labour party is in shambles, and so are the LDs, so lets instead focus on Ukip.