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Originally Posted by garinda

Currently 67.39% of us think the licence fee should be scrapped.

An overwhelming majority, by any stretch of even the most blinkered imagination.

A trend which is representative of the findings of poll after poll, such as the 2001 Mori poll on the subject.

Campaign to Abolish the tv Licence

So what if 67.39% AccyWeb members who bothered to vote think that the licence fee should be scrapped. It’s not as if the rest of the UK hangs onto every word published on this forum, even if some people seem to think that it does or should.

The Mori figures add up to 101%. That fact alone invalidates it.

In any case Mori polls are usually samples of no more than 5,000 people and that can hardly be called representative of the nation. Neither is a poll some 7 years old.

The only people with blinkers are those who just refuse to accept the reality of the TV licence issue and try to twist it to back up their own incorrect view.

This guy Rob Godfrey, the founder of CAL, gets all emotive by publishing inaccuracies to back up his case. No one has ever been jailed for not having a TV licence. Those who have been jailed were put away for contempt of court by refusing to pay the fine imposed for breaking the law with regard to the TV licence fee. And that is a totally different issue.