Is He Mad?

[Bobbisox1]

Nobody surely would volunteer to pay their TV licence ?
Would they?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/gary-lineker-bbc-licence-fee-voluntary-a9305076.html

[ToraToraTora]

//// Perhaps the rules have now changed. I mean there is nothing stopping you watching freeview on DTV right? //
I meant nothing but your honesty gromit!

[New Judge]

And I forgot to add that, since consideration is currently being given to de-criminalising non-payment of the licence fee (which will almost certainly be agreed) it will virtually be a voluntary payment anyway. It will become a civil debt and the BBC will have to pursue their debtors through the County Court.

[Gromit]

Tora,
My TV is not connected to an aerial, nor is my Virgin TV box which came with my broadband (and isn’t plugged in anyway). So I cannot get Freeview. As I do not buy a TV Guide, I have no idea what programmes are on in advance.

[ToraToraTora]

well fair enough, you've gone to a lot of effort to save £3 a week!

[Zacs-Master]

I would imagine Gromit's additional trips to the pub cost him far more than the TV license.

[Gromit]

Tora, Yep.

Zacs, Yep.

[jourdain2]

We don't currently have to pay the rather large sum which a T.V. licence costs and it is large enough to mean that we will have to trim back a little bit (just a little bit, but still) on other leisure expenditure. Our meal out a month will be reconsidered and perhaps a newspaper less per week. Quite do-able, but it's a shame for our local pub and the newspaper. We don't pay for any subscription services (Sky etc.) and we don't really watch films much(no Netflicks )unless they are on BBC or ITA. In other words, all we have is a TV with Freeview and radio. Problem is that, increasingly, there is little that we want to watch - it's all jumpy, glitzy, hilarious to younger audiences … and rubbish to us. That's OK, but why should we have to pay for something which increasingly does not cater for us?

[david small]

Several years ago I refused point blank to ever pay the BBC for a TV license. I have rigidly adhered to that statement. My on the other hand disagrees, so she pays it.

[david small]

Wife

[oldgreyweird]

When you consider all the services it provides and compare it with other subscription channels, the BBC licence fee is excellent value. The Government is anti-BBC because they don't like its neutrality; they only want you to watch propaganda.

[Bobbisox1]

Being neutral isn’t something I’d attribute to the BBC
Oldgreyweird

[emmie]

I bet that went down a storm at the BBC Boardroom..
what a plonker.

[Mamyalynne]

Reading further into his words in the link, there is some logic but it's skewed logic.

He's happy for those who volunteer to pay a fee to pay an increased amount to help out those who can't (over 75s etc).

What he hasn't factored in are those who constantly decry the BBC's content but want to watch it for free anyway.