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Topic History of: Why pay for TV license
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Irene Knee |
Mr Reason wrote:
Can't work out if you are being serious?
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Mr Reason |
Can't work out if you are being serious?
So education should be 'discretionary'.....and the lessons of education for the masses from the late 1800's are to be reversed on the grounds of the thick people should remain thick if they want to?
Not sure that fits with original trade union thinking of progress, or with the suffrage movement for women (not many women are bothered for the vote and want equality cos they like homemaking and talking to to other women all day) or the open university , or generally the support for opportunities to better yourself?
So the recent John Major statement about lack of social mobility being shocking in the current Government is actually the future, because we are going to allow the 'opportunities' to be turned down..........people can and do change, so the opportunity has to remain to be educated otherwise a backward step will be taken as a nation as a whole....people change, and the opportunity to see the light should be extinguished..... |
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Duncan Wood |
You are so right Andrew. The same should go for schools. Not everyone wants to go to school. Some want to exert their inalienable right to remain stupid. Not everyone wants to be educated. So why should the rest of us be expected to pay for these places? It's madness. Okay, so the market, left to its own devices, systematically excludes a large section of the public from a wide range of cultural experiences. So what? Why should I care about things I've never experienced? I just want to watch re-runs of Yus My Dear and On the Buses on good old FREE ITV2. And I think your whole argument about the BBC - that you don't like its programmes - is absolutely watertight and, if I may say so, beautifully expressed. In fact, I think, and hope, it's the last word on the subject. |
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andrew |
Keeping Up Appearances on first BBC then Gold, BBC again and Drama TV it's repeated over and over. The harsh reality is our TV licence just pays for BBC repeats just look at Really or Discovery Home, OFAH is repeated constantly and repackaged DVD's every couple of years and still edited to pieces. Government should really consider to privatise the BBC or BBC offer subscription service and then we have real FTA TV.
www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/tv-licens...-tv-in-your-own-home |
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Mr Reason |
From your list of shows you don't ike, sounds as if you need to get rid of your TV, stop paying a license (as you seem to want to do) and rely on Internet Streaming..........from the sounds of it, you won't be needing the BBC Iplayer.......but if you do, we'll all subsidise you 
you just need to prove you don't own a TV reciever of any sort (rules out video and HDD recorder)
The fact that the law is written that you have a TV terrestrial tuner, so must pay a licence, wether its used or not, there is no way to prove or deactivate a TV from recieving the terrestrial........unless you only have a sattelite feed and can prove the tuner on the TV is inactive........provided the sat box doesn't recieve signals covered by the LAW .... |
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