TV licence fee consultation opens

121,000From June, only over-75s who are claiming pension credit will be eligible for a free TV licence.

In a statement, the BBC said"a detailed government-commissioned review found the current system to be the fairest and most effective". There were around 26 million TV licences being used in the UK last year, generating £3.69bn in income for the BBC. A previous government review in 2015 looked into whether a fine for non-payment could be issued under civil law instead, similar to the fees for breaking parking, bus lane and congestion charge rules.

For months, the left wing lunatics have incredibly been whinging the bbc is biased against them, yet here is the arch left wing harridan supportingvthem. You couldnt make it up

...and also since when has a consultation been so offensive!

Can anyone explain why non payment of the TV tax (funds entertainment) should be a criminal offence, but non payment of Council Tax (funds social care) should not. We do love our sacred cows in this country don’t we!

Poor old Polly... not successful .... not owned by all of us... just a propaganda channel owned by a bunch of anti democracy racists

I watch maybe 1 or 2 programs a year on bbc, I don't listen to their radio stations anymore and the only other content I have from them is the news on here/their website. Why should I pay £150+ a year for that

I was once a staunch BBC supporter. Now I will fight all I can for public funding to stop. Their bias for Remain was disgusting. They are finished.

Is it true that 30% of women prosecuted do so because of the BBC licence fee?

The left wing party is over. The money is being cutoff. ScrapTheLicenceFee

Time for change

“Tremendously successful” Well if thats the case COMPETE like everyone else

If the BBC is owned by all Britainers, why is the BBC’s rhetoric only representative of the progressives?

Ideological right wingers eh? I'd gladly scrap the BBC and nationalise the railways.

Oh I do so hope the Tories decriminalise the TV licence , to see the life blood slowly drain from the BIased fraudcasting corporation would be a joy to behold. Hoping to see it’s death rattle in my lifetime fingers crossed 🤞

Good idea. The BBC is our of touch.

Here's to its success! 😎👍🏻 DefundTheBBC

The BBC used to be an organisation we were all proud of until it became Politicised. It has now become an embarrassment that no longer deserves our tax funding!! The people in the BBC are now all VASTLY overpaid. They have far to many separate stations and are very biased!!

I think the public are speaking...👍

It needs to be scrapped altogether. Why should I have to fund the biased bloated BBC even if I never watch it? ScrapTheLicenceFee

Oh, wanting rid of the fee is limited to right of centre politics? Typical Toynbee Grauniad writer.

Can we stop paying for the royals. No longer a national treasure politically biased and ridden with sex offenders.

End the tv tax completely.

GovHowardDean Licence* anyone check the post before pressing send

i don't want to pay for something i don't watch and fear prosecution for not paying for the BBC

BBC tweeting 'full frontal assualt on BBC' is the reason i want the org thrown in the bin

And who actually cares?

Not watched BBC for ages. Saturday evening is just full of wanna be programs wasteofmoney

BBC - Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Correction, you mean TV tax. Decriminalisation would be a good first step to getting rid of it altogether.

Get rid of it. We are basically funding the Tory appreciation society whether we like it or not 😒 bbclicencefee

Where's the consultation

Go Woke, Get Broke.

Getting in on the act now. BBC had it too good for too long time for the licence fee to be axed Newsnight

put the price down then

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