[jambutty]

Originally Posted by Cyfr

Jambutty your post is rather pedantic and misguided.

If the BBC were to be made private, we wouldn't have to pay so much in licence fees. I think everyone understands that the TV licence fee is the same as paying the BBC in all but its name.

Your calculations are quite simply very theoretical. It might well be cheaper if you watch one film a day, but who does watch one film a day on the BBC? The point is you're forced to pay £130 no matter how much you watch it.

Cyfr you are spouting a load of crap as usual and you could do well to determine the meaning of pedantic and misguided before using them.

However it is comforting to know that you are privy to government thinking in that if the BBC was made private the license fee WOULD BE REDUCED. The arrogance? Sheeesh!

That is the problem with people - they have made the connection between the license fee and the BBC and just refuse to accept that it is tenuous at best. THE LICENSE MONEY GOES TO THE GOVERNMENT. IT COSTS A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF MONEY TO RUN THE BBC AND THE GOVERNMENT MAKES A GRANT TO THE BBC TO ENABLE IT TO RUN. THERE IS NO DIRECT CORRELATION BETWEEN THE LICENSE FEES AND BBC FUNDING.

Calculations theoretical eh? Now let me see dividing the license fee of £135.50 by the number of days in a normal year (365) is a fraction over 37p per day. To be really pedantic about it, it is 37.1232877p per day. No theory there, just plain FACT. But then you do seem to have difficulty from distinguishing between fact and theory. Your comments are quite simply theatrical.

Try one film per week. It would still be cheaper (£2.60) than one ticket in a cinema.

The real point is, that you cannot seem to grasp, the law of the land decrees that in order to have apparatus that can receive TV programmes installed in your house you must have a TV license. Whether you watch it or not or which channels, is completely irrelevant. If you have a working apparatus you must have a license. If you don’t want to pay the license fee then don’t have such an apparatus. It’s not rocket science.

Now toddle off to mummy and get your nappy changed.