Announcements from the UK Parliament about the proposed decriminalisation of so-called TV licence “evasion” has been a news item in the various media recently. Many readers would think that TV Licensing Watch would welcome such announcements from the UK Parliament. Unfortunately we do not. The first thing which drew our attention in the announcements from the UK Parliament was the main reason given for the proposed decriminalisation of TV licence "evasion". Namely, "to stop the clogging up of courts" by tv licence evasion prosecutions brought by BBC main TV Licensing™ contractor Capita BBC TV Licensing. In 2012 alone, 193,049 prosecutions yielding 164,932 convictions in courts of England and Wales according to the Ministry of Justice. TV Licensing Watch are not bothered in the least whether the courts of England and Wales are clogged up with tv licence "evasion" prosecutions. TV Licensing Watch are more bothered about the victims of the BBC and Capita BBC TV Licensing and the enforcement abuses that lead to prosecutions and more importantly that the "crime" of tv licence "evasion" even exists at all to be a prosecutable "offence". We believe that the UK Parliament would serve the interests of the UK electorate a hell of a lot better by being more concerned about those than whether the courts are clogged up by Capita BBC TV Licensing prosecutions brought on behalf of the BBC.
Until the day he died, John Reith, first Director General of the BBC, believed the introduction of radio licensing and then television licensing were serious mistakes. He did not understand why people who did not and do not want to fund the BBC should ever have been subjected to investigation, enforcement and penalty. The British Broadcasting Corporation started out as the British Broadcasting Company. A notable feature of the British Broadcasting Company was that it was subscription funded. Subscription funding is the very inevitability that the British Broadcasting Corporation is currently fighting to delay. This is ironic since that is how its predecessor British Broadcasting Company was funded and subscription is also a very successful funding model for Sky and other television programme and media service providers. The dispute between John Reith and the Postmaster General at the time regarding subscription(Reith) versus licence fee(Postmaster General) and its outcome is a matter of historical record.
TV Licensing Watch has little difficulty in fully agreeing with John Reith. We do not understand why people who do not want to fund the BBC are subject to or ever should have been subjected to investigation, enforcement and penalty.
TV Licensing Watch have never seen or heard anything from our detractors, the BBC and its supporters that could or does properly explain and justify why people who do not want to fund the BBC are subject to or ever should have been subjected to investigation, enforcement and penalty.
TV Licensing Watch believe that people should have the freedom to choose not to fund the BBC if they so wish without being subjected to investigation, enforcement and penalty.
TV Licensing Watch believe that any form of enforced live television broadcast receiving licence should simply be abolished at the termination of the current BBC Charter and replaced not with a media licence but with voluntary subscription.
TV Licensing Watch wants to bring to the earliest possible end:
“Please note that “TV Licensing” is a trade mark used by companies contracted by the BBC to administer the collection of television licence fees and enforcement of the television licensing system. “
TV Licensing Watch does not believe that TV licence decriminalisation is sufficient to address and deal with the fundamental problems and enforcement abuses of the current TV licensing regime. Further, TV licence decriminalisation opens up the prospect of new and modified enforcement abuses and abusers when the inclusion of debt collector and bailiff terrorism are taken into account. We believe that the UK Parliament have badly misjudged the proposed TV licence decriminalisation so TV Licensing Watch urged the UK Parliament that television licence abolition is the only moral, social, economic, political, just, and acceptable objective to eliminate television licensing enforcement practises and procedures that have become so debased and corrupted that they are beyond redemption and reform.
The value of domestic cctv surveillance and handheld video camera can prove invaluable in gathering evidence of the serial abuses and misdemeanours perpetrated by employees of Capita Business Services under cover of the BBC TV Licensing™ contract. TV Licensing Watch advises anybody who has the misfortune to have face to face dealings with Capita Business Services TV Licensing™ to make an audio-visual record of those dealings in their entirety covertly or overtly with cctv and handheld video cameras.
For people who have not exercised their right to remain silent, TV Licensing Watch advise anybody who has had the misfortune to have face to face dealings with Capita Business Services TV Licensing™ and have received a summons as a consequence to contact a licensed law practitioner if: there is the slightest discrepancy between the actual situation regarding viewing habits and/or what actually happened during the interview compared with what has been written on the TVL178 Record of Interview self incrimination form.
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