Free T V licences

In my opinion TV licenses should not be taken away! It's the thin end of the wedge

I watch very little non-BBC content, and no other News channels, So, do not begrudge my 145 pound a year licence fee.Think it it is money well spent, so as not to have to watch stupid adverts. Even  subscription channels like SKY(spit) still have adverts. Thank goodness for the BBC.

If you think that overpaid executives are only in the BBC then you are in cloud cuckoo land. Think Murdoch and crew.

Was it perhaps a case of Mr Osborne looking for a way to do away with the 'pensioner perk' without getting the adverse publicity, knowing that the BBC would probably eventually do their dirty work for them.

I've just noticed on another thread that it's been reported the Beeb have increased Mary Berry's salary to £600,000 a year. I wonder if she'll forego her free licence? 

The whole tv licence setup should be scrapped.The BBC should stand on its own feet and then it might stop paying so called stars such idiotic salaries with licence money.The BBC is just a gravy train.More people each year are now refuseing too pay for a tv licence.Its an outdated concept and long past its sell by.

peter.

Won't be giving up mine, but where did you get this info Ruby, no one has contacted me ?

I started to give my reasons for saying NO NOT UNDER ANY circumstances answer but after a few minutes it was clear that my loathing for much of this bloated beast was going to get out of hand...hey ho pity really because my spleen is due for a good old venting.

I watch very little non-BBC content, and no other News channels, So, do not begrudge my 145 pound a year licence fee.Think it it is money well spent, so as not to have to watch stupid adverts. Even  subscription channels like SKY(spit) still have adverts. Thank goodness for the BBC.

If you think that overpaid executives are only in the BBC then you are in cloud cuckoo land. Think Murdoch and crew.

Write your comments here...Yes but you have a choice to subscribe or not with the Licence Fee you have none!

BBC are asking the over 75s to give up their Free T V licience's are you giving up yours ? or would you give it up if you were entitled to a free one

me no I wouldn't , 

Write your comments here...If they improved the quality and variety of programmes I might consider it.But in fairness due to our ages we have paid over and over again to see now what we were seeing years ago so why ask us to pay again?.SG2

I don't really understand why people of 75 and over actually get free TV licences. I could understand if it were restricted to pensioners on a basic state pension but otherwise I think they should be scraped. Unfortunately its one of those things that have been given in the past and , I suspect, almost impossible to take away. One solution might be to announce that anyone currently get the benefit would keep it but no new free licences would be given. I say all this as someone who in five years will benefit but equally I am a great fan of the BBC and I would prefer to do without it rather than the BBC having to compromise on quality.

David