cancelling the tv licence

If they are going to Cancel the licence payment  for those on UB plus the Thousands stopping paying  , where is the Funding going to come from

There are millions on Benefits and Last count was 2 million non Payers , I smell a Rat as in Back door funding Via TAXES

If Trump happens to Win and they owe him 5 Billion , What happens then ?

The edit in the programme was not a 'mistake' or accident as so many of the BBC staff or certain government ministers have said. It was a deliberate act to mislead, that speech could have been spliced in a million ways and yet it was the most damaging outcome that occurred.

Time to scrap the TV licence and move to a subscription model, the BBC worth saving disappeared 20 years ago.

The simpering BBC continuity announcers get my goat when in between programmes they thank all us mugs for paying the licence fee as "all of this is only possible due to being funded by you "

Good luck Foyles (and any others), i doubt you will face serious repercussions. Given the news that free licences could be on the cards for benefits claimants then many more may follow your example.

I agree badbodie and it is so clear and simple a fact that it is difficult to comprehend the support for their continued political machinations.

Nothing happens really. The letters can go into recycling, anything to 'the occupier'. It's just made up autogenerated nonsense.

I had one visit in ten years, only answered the door as I was expecting a parcel and didn't look. they have no more rights than a Johovas Witness. No need to answer the door, definitely never let them in. If you feel like talking to them, explain that you only use netflix.

Thanks again Cider. 

If you watch terrestrial tv just pay up, otherwise do not watch tv or incur the wrath of licence officials turning up at your door or risking being reported by others. Just pay for what you use is my motto whether you agree or not agree to it.

foo kem  I don't agree with their woke agendas andnt to be funding the jolly ups !

wont be ^^^

exactly, nothing to do with saving a few quid. I'm not going to fund an organisation that hates us. Even nominally.

I do not inconvenience the NHS or education yet I still pay taxes. What is the difference? Personally, I'd report any neighbour watching terrestrial tv without a licence or chose not to have a tv licence just because they did not agree with the political stance of the BBC. The BBC funds other programmes too eg investigative journalism, dramas, etc, most I've rarely watched. The guilty party can explain themselves to the officials.

Up to you. But in my case it's an ethical stance. If they were biased the other way then there would be mass demand to boycott them from the chattering classes, as there is with gb news.

If you inform them you dont need one then its highly unlikely anyone will bother you.

That's when they visit, counterintuitively

You could make a list of over 100 reasons, but right at the top would be ramping up covid fear and helping to make the country potless, whilst terrifying half of the people living in it.

probably trying it again with flu, since I had a text from my docs to say you need to wear a mask if attending.

The license fee would be better spent if it was all given to Yackety Yaxley. Yaxley has done far better investigative journalism than the beeeeeb. He's the guy who exposed their deceptive practices when they investigated him on panorama.

if they felt they could do it to a president could they have also done similar to others without the means to challenge them?

Exactly.  How often has it been done before, undetected?  A once respected and respectable organisation now mired in odium.

Look what Bashir did, and they still gave him another job.

Back in the you paid it the same as your powrer Bills , Not a thought of not paying

All started going Downhill 20 years back then we have the Likes of Saville and Edwards 

Add its riddled with Wokery and so called Diversity , folks have had enough

What are ye gonna do if you plug out the telly? Ok,seen netflix above,watch youtube and emmmm dvds?.

Not against it in theory btw,it must be simple technology to exclude a person from watching BBC and able to watch everything else(like the levels of SKY) and be allowed ITV,CH4 etc and the rest of ad TV.

I personally know a foreigner couple who have a tv. The bloke claims that the BBC is fake news, and then states he gets his news from Youtube. This is his sole qualification for not getting a tv licence.

He also has 6-green recycling boxes, 2 rubbish trolley bins, 2 recycling trolley bins and 2 outside caddy food bins. But, he does not have a bin in his kitchen. He also rents out 3 (out of 4) rooms in his property. The property is a former council 3-bed with a loft conversion in the worst and most deprived area in Sutton. He does not work, and, he's not even 50 yrs old.

He claims he's an online retail business. Yet, historical financial accounts filed showed less than £12k revenue annually. This is what he used to acquire a mortgage on his property.

1) What is the chance of him paying income tax on the rental of the rooms?
2) Does his property need 6-green recycling boxes, 2 rubbish trolley bins and 2 recycling
   trolley bins?

A semi-detached in a non-council owned property in a much better area in Sutton only has 2 green recycling boxes, 1 rubbish trolley bin, 1 recycling trolley bin and 1 kitchen and 1 external caddy food bins.

I'd not think so. He's them because they are free. But, no thought about the bin men having to do 3x more work emptying the boxes on his property.

It's only a matter of time the BBC licence fee is replaced to reflect the digital age and various sources of news and entertainment. It cannot exist in its present form.

Am open to correction but I think , without a license you can watch any normal terrestrial TV channel recorded as long as what you record is not live . So films would be fine for example . It doesnt worry me I just watch Amazon Prime .

netflix fine, catch up fine (aside from i player), anything that was broadcast live on delay fine, you tube fine as long as it's not streaming a live UK tv broadcast.

Cancel TV altogether

I goaded a friend into it for one month and he was hopping around the place without it. One solitary month in a lifetime and it did his head in

Shows how dependent you are on it

imp, anyone can rent out rooms in their own property for up to £7,500pa without declaring it. As long as no contract exists, the lenders will turn a blind eye too.

I've been renting out a room for years, but stopped a few years back for a bit of peace. Nevertheless, it was a tidy tax-free income for a while.

Cider only wants to read and watch  stuff that he agrees with. Doesn't like his view of the world questioned.

Who does?

'Aspro', I think he does not pay tax on the income from renting out the rooms.

The Nepalese bloke bought the property on a commercial mortgage; his online retail business is registered at the same address possibly as a ruse for hmrc. It never had more than £12k revenue according to historical tax filings.

if it's under £7.5k he doesn't have to pay tax. Probably not under but proving it is another matter. It is a genuine tax-free perk if you can handle lodgers in your own home.

As for his online business, that could possibly be discovered, but clearly keeping it under the tax allowance.

Dec 18, 2025 -- 4:38PM, Johnny The Guesser wrote:

Cider only wants to read and watch

who is going to pay the 5 billion then lads ?

hold on .....not the u k tax payer ??????

He's trying it on. What the BBC did was wrong and unprofessional. Nonetheless, it did not stop President Trump winning the election, did it? It showed little influence of the BBC on the American electorate; the unprofessionalism and twisted behaviour of the senior management at the BBC was an embarrassment.

May I suggest the senior people at the BBC should be asked to cough up for any remuneration for President Trump for their incompetence on this matter.

Well said.  Blame those who set the agenda.  The propaganda chiefs who have steered the BBC in a political directive.

whispers the Vote was r1ggged in Strictly to get Rid of Mr Skinner 

why would they have wanted him Shifted , Will agree his dancing was poor

It did not stop President Trump winning the election but it might stop him winning in 28.

I thought he's unable to run for a 3rd term, correct?

He will change the rules if he has to.... its the art of the deal

Trump could run as a vice-presidential candidate in 2028, and if the elected president immediately resigned, Trump could take office by succession.

Seriously? I thought "succession" is only practised in horseracing in Ireland where the reserve runner will deputise if a declared runner does a houdini at the last second.

Dec 21, 2025 -- 9:27PM, Ronaldmcdonald wrote:

Trump could run as a vice-presidential candidate in 2028, and if the elected president immediately resigned, Trump could take office by succession.

Why would anyone resign though after they successfully used Trump to get into the highest office?

got my 1st letter from em today, expect a few more then a visit !

If you follow the Rules and declare what you are watching there will be no Visits , plenty to watch  without needing a Licence 

Who is going to pay the Fees for those who are on Benefits that wont be paying , How will that work out , 4 million more non payers

Back door BBC TAX payments  from us .

Or will Donnie and the lads be doubling up ?

FOYLES I'm sure you're well aware of this but the tv tax goons have no authority. No need to answer, no need to talk to them and most definitely do not invite them in. They will try to talk their way in.

Talk in Urdu .. immediate immunity

They will try to talk their way in.

Strange anyone let's anyone into their homes. The only people who pass my threshold are those that I know or who are doing work here. Everyone else stands at the doorstep, whatever the weather.

yes cider have watched several of those yootube vids ,tried to reply earlier but the mods stopped it (no swear words ) so no idea why , saw one vid where someone left a front door open for (think a young girl went out or something and the tv licence bloke walked right into the front room ! if you have one of those spy holes on your door they can try tricks like holding a parcel to get you to open the door but even if you open the door, just  i dont watch live tv etc say not interested and shut the door. ill update any visits or news .
was at my local supermarket a week or so ago and saw the headlines on a newspaper on the shelf estimated  bbc  24/7 cabs bill for  stars and staff this year up to 63 million pounds .

just say^^

It's only families, vulnerable or low IQ types they play on. I don't have any fear of dropping my foot in it, so I engaged with him initially. Only as I was expecting a parcel and opened the door without checking. He tried some bull shine about coming in to verify that my aerials were unplugged, so he didn't have to come back. Yeah right

The take out is that there's nothing to fear, but you need to be on guard so to speak. I mean they are just earning a coin so I'm not aggressive or anything, it's not personal.

The BBC licence is great value for the price of a a pint.

The majority are not ok breaking the law just because they can get away with it.

..pint a week...

As if I would care about what the majority are doing! It's not about the pocket money at all. I just don't want my pocket money lining the pockets off BBC types that hate England and most English people. Other people ae likely to have their own reasons. I'm happy to share my experience if it helps others.

What a society we would live in if we all only followed the laws that we agreed with.

Do it properly tell them you dont need one and they will leave you alone.

Cider spamming forum for commission saving a few squids
on TV licence

Hard times.

I like easy money. A lot. Nobody on here wants £50 for downloading an app it appears. Or they don't have the £1K available for the 5 minutes needed to get it

Jan 21, 2026 -- 3:35PM, Dotchinite wrote:

Do it properly tell them you dont need one and they will leave you alone.

Actually if you tell them you don't need one, it triggers a visit. They go to any addy that was paying the tax, then stops. Whether you inform them, or just cancel the dd.

Yeah, saying "I'm not paying my way" is such a weird flex. Ok, cheapskate. Remind me never to get in a round with you.

It's not neuro surgery. The bbc uses the funding it gets via a pseudo tax to push its high status agenda. I have no interest in assisting them in their project, not that they will miss my pennies.

BBC broadcasting tory/refuk ( 2 chheks of same arse) propaganda
since spaffer stacked board with tories.

But they want to shut down BBC so kgb knews has less
competition for brainwashing central...

Tight wads

perhaps the liberalists will boycott it too. we won't be holding our breath ;)

We need a licence to watch strictly

We do. We also like dancing with the devil from time to time.

I heard Don is about to make a move with the 5 Billion raid on Aunty , Donny and the lads will be paying 2 Bags a year

Needs the dosh for the Greenlanders

Free in Russia for USA football fans
and 8% betfair punters

If you check your Account Donnie you might find your Paying  9 % Donnie  , Must be a long time since you had a Bet

9 6 and 2 When I checked

You stated which markets you were betting on.

Hey ho, maybe you just made it up.

I only really bet on Dogs and NFL, Horses Saturday or big meets Pastime wise Dont know enough about them

I know sweet fa about footie

Exchange mainly for Doggies   , Nfl I usually play fixed odds else where , Multiples I want BOG to play

not sure what bets I mentioned  , Very small bets on Politics That would be on Exchange

You appear to know nowt about the markets you are betting
on based on your ignorance of the comm rates on those
markets.

How do i know nowt about the Comm rate I have been betting dogs on here for 20 years

The Markets themselves are Shyte  , Forecast markets Gone to pot ,Win market not much Better

As for horses I will often leave a short lay in Play , 8/9 % on top of the lay would make that a no goer

Play Dogs 3 4 nights a week Not big 50 a biggish bet these days But I can turn over a few quid one Night

What was the Promo based on turn over back in the Day ,I can't remember its name , Think Was Bronze Silver or Gold awards Never made the Gold but came close   

that was on the Exchange it was a good Promo  Spec the way I was betting

What is coom rate on the Aussie dogs you are punting on?

Not a regular ozzie player donnie think its around 8%

Can play exotics else where which I have done on Occasions

When I say nights I mean evening ,I would hardly be playing 4 nights on Australian dogs

So betting into 8% markets

Got there in the end

Play someone else's card Donnie, I know little about ozzie dogs  , Wasnt that Long ago we were all betting into 9 % markets 

Only surprise your mob have not brought back the Betting Tax for orses and dogs

Stay off the booze and drugs

certainly drugs

is ninny playing with a marked card on aussie dogs with a massive take out and limited liquidity?

if so fair play

Lot of people were on Drugs at the last Election Donnie IMVHO

Look at what happened , Will the same Junkies for Woke be going down the same route next time I wonder ? 

Imagine someone Voting for Starmer , and then Voting for him Again , deary me , Hopeless cases

YO is justifiably humble

wHY DO you introduce ranDOm capitalisation In every pOst?

Mentle Illness Busy  , Keyboard Tourettes

Causes spelling problems as well

thats mantle

in that CASE givitup, lower or higher. you aint making much sense

putin has a cure-all. murder

Yer Man, lasted 25 Seconds at the WEF Busy , Before the mention of Monies ,hardly ever here a word about the poor souls being slaughtered on the front line .....

you certainly dont on russian tv

please give us your ideal solution to this terrible war

ntia

2 letters and a 75 squid refund so far ,latest letter says i can pay £3 a week or it will trigger a visit from one of our enforcement agents .

had 5 visits from the licencing  agents  so far and a few threatning letters ......................

young couple who live next door no licence for over 3 years not had a visit at all according to them.^^^

5 visits, would you not have a case for harassment?

They must have foyles' hh down as a viable mark. Have you or anyone at the property engaged with them?

no all i said was not interested and shut the door

wondering if its my age ? pensioner

All you have to do is go to the website and say you don't watch Live TV, then the letters will stop.

The letters are recycling anyway.

Repeat visits are quite interesting though. If you're confident enough, engage the next time and explain you only watch films, series, and docs on netflix through apps on your telly. Don't let them in, of course.

Release the Hounds

If they actually turn up, first thing you do is whip out your phone and start filming them, they will soon scarper, a lot of these people have family and friends who don't know what they do for a living, because why would you want to tell them that, last thing they want it so be on social media going viral.