I think they only did Brexit as a novelty, the public will love us for letting them decide even though it's going to be a vote to stay... I think it backfired somewhat when "vote leave won" and they could not run away fast enough... Even some of those that appeared to support leave. And that fishy woman in Scotland, my thoughts.. she was going to have referendum after referendum until they all got fed up and voted independence just to shut her up.
Someone else that is past their sell by date. I liked his early stuff, but it becomes more of the same. And I am afraid that Attenborough bored me after his first series! All the best
Snap, it was BBC radio Kent, an announcer Julia was so filled with hate against leave voters it was vicious. Thanks Julia, I cancelled, havent regreted it.
Lies and propaganda about Rona made be think about leaving. Then the blackening of TV content. The straw that broke the camels back was the rainbow BS and the HUGE lies surrounding gender types.
I think that you will find that there's 'the truth' (verifiable hard fact) and 'the truth' (perception based opinion and hearsay). In your vernacular use of the phrase "armed with the truth", I suggest that the latter definition is most applicable.
Notice the drive on the phoney Ukraine war has gone quiet. They pushed it as an agenda to much and people were waking up. So rarely hear now. Even today they reported on a Ukrainian warplane training practice crash. So fackin what. All this crap would of been ended had the world not fueled the fire😊
Cancelled the Tv licence over 3 years ago thanks to your videos. You convinced my husband that we wouldn’t be breaking the law if we cancelled, only had one letter and it went straight into the bin. Big thumbs up & thank you xx
Same as me thanks to Jon’s videos. Jon’s saved me almost £500. Capita are really cranking up the harassing & bullying letters to me now, I’m under investigation like I’m a criminal etc, etc. 😂 All sent over to Jon’s website.
Between 2005-2020 mainstream media died a slow death for me as I became frustrated with personalities on ridiculous inflated wages, decreasing quality of programming and certain agendas being pushed. Then the events of 2020-2022 were the final straw for me. I’m done with the BBC, I suspect many other people are too.
They got infested with commies in the early 2ks, the wages of all celebs were ramped up to get them controlled and pushing out endless lies and ganda to the nation.
Media are not in the business of empowering ordinary people, no one feels better, stronger, or improved after watching news or "serious" programming, you are more likely to feel worried, confused, upset, fearful. The fact that media now fully embrace left ideology and all sorts of -isms makes them even worse
Really goes to show how little faith the people working at the BBC have in their programming when they insist you must be forced to pay, instead of letting the free market decide what's good and bad.
It is ROBBERY on a vast scale so why is it not treated as such. Why do we need a licence to watch live ITV or Freeview programmes when they are financed by advertising?
I remember during the Brexit referendum when they were getting scared they'd lose they wheeled out Cameron and Osbourne as the other people from the Stronger In campaign weren't having any real effect
Theroux probably knows where a few bodies are buried, considering how long he's been with the BBC. He ought to be concerned about the BBC's history of employing wrong 'uns.
I noticed that he made some remark about boldly speaking the truth only didn't he admit he knew about Jimmy Saville but when he filmed him he just made a few sly illusions to which Saville smirked in a kind of "I know and you know" complicit way. I never saw the programme but I saw that clip.
@@janebaker966 Saville was repulsive. In the program,as I recall, he inferred that he had friends high up in the police. He was cagey in his answering of questions, but now we know how far up the ladder he was being protected.
I've been getting very threatening letters since cancelling my TV licence. Trying to scare me & saying ignoring the letter could cost me a lot more than the licence fee. I had no need for it & never will, as I'd not watched the TV stations for a long time. Indeed I'd been stupid in paying for it for a long time, when not needing. My last letter of yesterday says an investigation into my property has begun. Good luck to them. I DON'T NEED A TV LICENCE.
Just ignore them. If you answer the door to one, just shut it in his/her smug face. Don't say a word. Eventually they will have to drop the name from the address and it will come addressed to the Occupier. The threats come in waves, every 6 months or so. Ranging from will you be in on this day to red letters assuming that you are breaking the law. If you check the reverse and is says Darlington return address just throw it in the fire/bin. Just think how much money they are wasting in postage/paper and envelopes. I reckon they have wasted a TV licence or two sending me threats for the past 13 years!!
@@andrewsingleton2710 Maybe they put you down as No Licence Needed? That suppresses the letters for a certain amount of time. I'd reckon they'll be in touch soon. But if I was you, I'd just ignore them. By saying you don't need a TV License gives them the legal right to hold your name and address on file.
You can have a tv etc. Is just how you use it. I have a cable connector to my house that I have never used. The last dweeb that came round said cos I had it I had to have a tv licence. To which I said the company that owns the cable is rubbish and as I don't actually watch TV I don't need one and continued my interrupted conversation in the garden ignoring him. Before that I had a go at them for their wording so they left me alone for a bit.
If the BBC's Goon department showed courtesy and respect to potential customers, instead of writing threatening letters and using cold calling with harassment and deception to force sell, they would have been better received.
Exactly. Wouldn’t it be nice to receive a letter from the BBC listing all the great programmes they have and why you should come back. The only issue with that is, they’d need to actually produce some quality content first.
It was actually the News that put me off watching TV ,its so depressing and so full of propaganda,so i get my news from the likes of you john and the internet .
Same here. They only show bad news. I certainly across an article online from the U.S about a massive mine opening in the UK. Its going to make millions upon millions in exports of a natural and organic fertiliser and from the outside the place looks like modern famr buildings. Its an absolute triumph.... not a word in MSM here.
You are absolutely right. I myself don't own a tv, got rid of it 8 years ago but, I visit my elderly mother most evenings and she has her tv on 24/7 as she lives alone. Every night I have to endure listening to the news which I purposely don't look at and try to avoid listening to but it can be hard when your elderly mother is hard of hearing. I sit thinking how awfully depressing it is, story after story and to top it all of, it's usually followed by another programme on a docu about someone who was murdered or someone who is dying from some illness etc etc. How she sits and listens to that day in, day out, I don't know. I've tried pointing out how ruddy depressing it all is but she always says she loves her tv, especially the soaps, geez, don't get me started on them, I feel like cutting my throat lol after listening to all that tripe. Just something I've gotta put up with while I'm there I guess.
They not only show depressing propaganda but they actually only report on 0.5% of what’s happening. My mum gets her news exclusively from TV and she’s SO uninformed (misinformed).
I never thought two phrases, "big guns" and "Louis Theroux", would ever be paired. I have never considered that individual anything more than something I occasionally find sticking to the sole of my shoe.
I got a letter, offering me a ten day window to pay my tax, they promised, I would not receive a visit from one of their agents during this time. I was gutted, look forward to visitors, even baked a cake, in anticipation.
I've worked from home for the last decade, maybe longer, haven't paid the license in about 8 years now, loads of letters, not a single visit. I don't mind them coming round, there is no aerial in my apartment, and I've gone out of my way to block bbc addresses on my windows hosts file so I cant access them accidentally, i know thats a bit techy but I am a software engineer.
No idea those programs are still on! Stopped MSM years ago. Im 72 since I retired the internet is my playground. Rumble is doing better than you tube for veracity and no bias
I have to say it's good to see so many people out and about in the local Park. That's where you want to be spending your money, on old fashioned outside entertainment, not on some brain rot produced by the corporate agenda.
What does he mean a Brexit from the license fee? A public vote on it ? We had that with Brexit but were still waiting to take back control. Weve tried voting in the past but they still do there own thing regardless of what the electrate voted for.
And in Medievel England news was pinned to the church door in each parish. This was considered the fastest and most official way of distributing information. We don't do that anymore either. Take note, BBC. You're the church door of old
@@enkisdaughter4795 but the culture was to have items read to them, and more importantly to have them interpreted for them. We would call this ‘spin’ now I assume.
I think the TV Licence is probably the best situation. At least this way, we can choose not to pay. The alternative could very well be worse, such as through general taxation.
I see what your saying but why can’t the bbc just be a subscription model like Netflix etc, if they’re such a great service they’ll have no problem getting subscribers
Agreed paradox. Cancelling the TV licence in one hit will lead to immediate funding from central government. So the gravy train continues and the chosen few live in luxury forevermore at our expense. Far better is the slow, steady decline we see today. As the mainstream slowly disappears up its own back passage the lies and propaganda become more desperate, so even more wake up to how obvious their BS is.
@@arthurmackrell8154No it doesn't. What's to stop you watching whatever whenever you like - BBC, ITV, Channel 4/5 etc. as it doesn't require a TV licence to do so? You simply watch. What's the problem?
i have had two visits from goons in two weeks i have called tv licensing people and they said if i dont have a tv license i cant watch ANY tv at all and they will send a detector van round to check if they pick up a signal i will get a visit from them with police present and will be taken to court they are a joke keep up the great work you do and take care
well the girl on the phone said they have a machine that can detect a signal from a tv and they would check on me to see if im watching any channels at all @@brimkathstampex2306
Who is this Theroux person? I don't have anything to do with MSM. I'm 72 and an internet pic'n'mixer. He's obviously without relevance to Rumble and You Tube. Not on my algorithms
@@robertfarrow5853- Theroux is an investigative journalist, one of the few left in the MSM. He specialises in one-hour documentaries interviewing highly controversial people, like Mexican cartel bosses and Jimmy Savile.
I think we must be the only country in the world where you can go to prison for not paying a tv tax.I stopped paying the tv tax around fifteen years ago when my tv packed up and have'nt seen the need to buy another.there's plnty of information and entertainment available on the web
You don't go to prison for not paying the tv tax. It's a fine that's given out by the court. It's when people do not pay the fine given by the court, is when they get sent to prison for non payment of a fine.
It's like a TV ad: Are you feeling chipper, upbeat, life of the party and you don't want to be like that anymore? We have the solution, watch EastEnders and Coronation st. That'll sort you out. (Disclaimer: watching these shows can cause severe depression).
One of the reasons I divorced my ex wife. F'ing sofa operas on all day 7 days a week. She complained I was working long hours, I said you watch sh!t TV all the time.
They need to be so heavily defended because they are fighting a losing battle. The BBC, who kept mum about Jimmy Saville, the BBC who pay astronomical amounts of money for talentless presenters, the BBC who are the wokest platform of all in the way they deliver their news to how they want the public to hear it - totally unbiased (NOT!!!). I feel a new video coming on to reiterate these points. Good to see that you’ve looked up from the porn and come back to the real world 😂😂
The BBC also did their best to get Cliff Richards into trouble which was low even for them. I don't recall any apologies forthcoming from anyone, but I doubt they would ever offer a sincere one.
Louis lives down the road from me I remember walking past him and his children telling his kids what a legend their Dad is, now I might just walk past no comment.
Oh dear Lord ... I agree TikTok and BBC!, well maybe they were made for each other ... I deplore both of them tbh but unfortunately the kids love it ... and the fact it is not right ... when was the last time the BBC did anything right!? They don't care. Got me on a bad day lol but great to see you out and about again. :o)
I don't even watch mainstream tv or news programmes as we have it on our mobile phones and online. I watch boxsets, the odd documentary and sometimes dramas, the rest I don't care much about ad it's too much fake and contrived content filled with fake celebrities.
Just ignore completely, anything and everything that TV Licencing sends to you. They cannot and will not do anything about it - unless of course you're stupid enough to let them in to your home and speak to them.
I wonder how much the Beeb pay Alexander Armstrong for Pointless. They offer a jackpot of £1250 for contestants who win. Likely putting the woeful prize money down to being publicly funded, yet I bet they're paying Alexander a wee smidge more than 1300 quid per show.
If there ever was a more ironically named show, it's Pointless. So difficult to win, and if you are fortunate to win, you might just win your train fair back.
It's probably safe to say Armstrong wouldn't describe his fee as pointless. Shame it isn't enough for him to afford a few ties. Nowadays, the news anchors are about the only people on TV who dress smartly.
I've no idea as I don't watch MSM. That is why I don't. Overpaid jobs for friends and family . A garden program with kids groomed to take the next job, without the talent to do it? Intermarried,uni friends, establishment hooray Henriettas ,not a normal person of public view among them. The glitteratti of pap pushers.
Enjoyed that 👌 still make me laugh and to be honest we have the same issues with our main broadcaster here in ireland.... useless for the most part as its too institutional and chronic memory loss when queried on its finances... go figure! Keep it up greets from Dublin
He,s obvious speaking from the side where he s made a bundle off the bbc.,And its always something for him to fall back on in hard times ,Once his latest tired docu,s flop its called SELF INTEREST.
I remember seeing a BBC reporter and a camera crew in Johannesburg in the run up to the elections in 1994, they were filming an African chap who was passed out drunk under a tree in a park and saying that just minutes before 2 white policemen had come past and beaten him to death for being in a white neighborhood... Opposite the park was a row of houses with all of the occupants standing outside wondering what was going on, 3 of the 6 families stood there were black...the reporter and crew very quickly packed up their gear and legged it when I walked over and woke the drunk guy up...he was less than amused at the situation and started attacking the crew with a beer bottle... The BBC doesn`t report on news, it creates it to further it`s disgusting agenda!
BBC documentary crews have been caught doing similar things on multiple occasions, most famously when trying to fabricate ‘white supremacists’ in football supporter groups during the Euro and World Cup.
BBC documentary crews have been caught doing similar things on multiple occasions, most famously when trying to fabricate ‘white supremacists’ in football supporter groups during the Euro and World Cup.
You bet! Just came home to a big RED envelope on the mat. Addressed to "The Present Occupier" and my flat No etc. Apparantly, since I didn't reply (ignored) to their previous one, "An investigation has begun". I'm s**ting my pants..... with laughter! I took the trouble to register "no licence needed" with them.... And they don't even know my name. What's the chance they can even find my front door?
Naga Munchetty gets paid £329k pa for sitting on a sofa being obnoxious and reading an Autocue. How does that job warrant that salary? She should be on £15k max for that imo. And Gary Lineker on £1.75 MILLION for MOTD! Absolutely outrageous.
It's a relic from the 1950s, and fewer and fewer people (especially those under 30) are watching or listening to their stuff, but it's part of our 'heritage' and an 'indispensable' part of our day-to-day lives, so it 'must' stay, and the funding model 'must not' be changed.
It doesn't matter who is doing the pr(propaganda) if what there saying is crap then I don't listen to them which has become anybody talking about the bbc or any one from government 😂😂
Hi. Same thing here in Ireland we are on a TV licence strike \ dispute only difference being " you can go to prison for refusing to pay " over 3,500 up in court this year alone, last year 2022 205 in prison, 2021, 234 back in 2014 ,411 sent away ,,,,,,,, paying a TV licence to listen to government propaganda ,I stopped watching TV and any news media and my mind is so clear and i have a health outlook on life both physical and mental
I don't watch any of the BBC channels so why should I have to pay a licence fee? And Netflix is a subscription service so why should we have to pay for it twice? I also don't watch ITV, C4 or C5 nor any of the + channels.
If the BBC did provide us with good news coverage, showing both sides of every issue, this type of channel wouldn't have been necessary. It's thanks to the likes of your and others channels telling us what's going on, that has kept us informed. Thanks
I'm 88 years old, have never watched Eastenders since the first episode as I disliked it right away. However, Corrie and Emmerdale I've watched from the start and continue to enjoy both. They contain drama and humour which is good stuff. As for the BBC, I've not watched anything since the final of Strictly, last December. So they can sling their hook. I pay my licence grudgingly. The soaps I watch do raise issues that are important so I would be sad if they where taken off ITV.
I do not have TV or receive BBC broadcasts in any other way. Even when an occasional BBC programme appears on You-Tube I refuse to watch it. I click the not interested menu. I really don't want to be brainwashed. To be told how to think. Especially by them and their ideologues and or masters. Perhaps I'm lucky but I have other things to do. BBC really has grown into something terrible. Incidentally when I lived in USA, I was told place I resided in could receive over 300 channels. Some dedicated this or that too. Some free to air, some by subscription. I lived quite happily, as did many others, without TV. Shrug.
There is absolutely no justification for the bbc as it stands. Channel 4 is exactly the same as bbc (public broadcaster) and they don’t receive a single penny of the licence fee. I can’t believe they are cutting the eastenders budget after spending I think it’s in the realm of £130 million on the eastenders studio. Just for one show not including production costs. BBC is an absolute disgrace and needs investigating financially because they have a lot of fingers in pies funded by the licence fee but separate entities like BritBox and bbc America both subscription services then they have Dave, gold, yesterday and uk tv which all receive advertising revenue and then you have the production companies like bbc studios which don’t have to produce tables of extortionate salaries even though it’s licence fee funded, and now as well you have bad woof production part owned I think by Sony who are also now receiving money from licence fee for doctor who and other russell t davis shows
Jon, thank you so much for encouraging me to bin my TV licence I've been licence free for nearly 3 years now God bless you mate and keep up the great work 🙏
U tube is already regulated, can't say what you want,thats why iv joined rumble and other platforms,iv even seen you stopping yourself from saying what you think, so I would not worry about it Jim Davidson u stream is brilliant and don't mind the couple of pounds a month for good old fashioned comedy 👍
Quit watching BBC/Broadcast TV 5 years ago and cancelled my license 3 years ago. Not missed it at all! The quality dropped massively with the advent of Freeview. I think Fry & Laurie did a sketch about it 25 years ago where the minister for TV or whatever states increased choice is better and then he asks for a spoon to stir his coffee they dump 500 plastic coffee stirrers on his table. "is more choice really better Minister?"
If you do not want the BBC product, then you should not need to pay for it. If others actually do want it, let them pay. Compulsory payment is little more than theft.
I always take the hotel soaps. We only took one Towel from our Mallorca hoilday in 2001. The towel was nice with THB Hotels branding it has been throw out now sadly.
The BBC only tells us what they want us to hear! They definitely leave important information out. I've not watched it for 2 years and haven't missed it. I don't have Netflix, sky or anything else either. TH-cam ( a few favorites) and alternative media is all I need. There's still SO many things to watch although I like to listen to podcasts and do things at the same time.
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Conflating the license fee with Brexit is bizarre.
Some people will drag Brexit into any discussion.
@@englishciderlover7347 Despite it going so well...
Louis Theroux is a weird guy i would never believe anything he says
@@pipster1891 Let's judge Brexit if it ever happens.
The BBC and its supporters are obcesed with Brexit and obviously Theroux is as well.
I find it VERY interesting that Louis Theroux refers to a "BREXIT from the licence fee". In one expression, he betrays his politics, and his agenda.
I think they only did Brexit as a novelty, the public will love us for letting them decide even though it's going to be a vote to stay... I think it backfired somewhat when "vote leave won" and they could not run away fast enough... Even some of those that appeared to support leave.
And that fishy woman in Scotland, my thoughts.. she was going to have referendum after referendum until they all got fed up and voted independence just to shut her up.
I agree. Anyway, Theroux is just another BBC "luvvie" completely detached from the vast majority of the people he, and they, broadcast to.
And he is clearly worried about his pay check.
Someone else that is past their sell by date. I liked his early stuff, but it becomes more of the same. And I am afraid that Attenborough bored me after his first series! All the best
By associating removal of the licence fee with Brexit they are attempting to paint the idea as "thick as mince" to the middle class.
It was the BBC's awful treatment of Leave voters that convinced my wife to cancel our TV Licence . . . and she voted Remain !
Wow - that straight up? Good for her and bless you for having a level-headed sounding woman. Hats off to her.
That's exactly why I cancelled my TV licence too
Snap, it was BBC radio Kent, an announcer Julia was so filled with hate against leave voters it was vicious. Thanks Julia, I cancelled, havent regreted it.
Lies and propaganda about Rona made be think about leaving.
Then the blackening of TV content.
The straw that broke the camels back was the rainbow BS and the HUGE lies surrounding gender types.
She is definitely a keeper get down the pub and buy her a couple pf pints 🍷🍷🍷
The TV Licence is Unlawful and STOP PAYING THE TV LICENCE
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Nonsense, it is lawful. Stop watching live TV if you want to stop paying.
It's Unlawful
@@EdMcF1so how do the bbc have a monopoly on other broadcasters that are independent like itv?
Lawful, but definitely not morally right.
Of course you can compete Jon. You’re armed with the truth. Every lie they tell only damages them more.
he wont be armed with the truth if ofcom are allowed to regulate the internet
I think that you will find that there's 'the truth' (verifiable hard fact) and 'the truth' (perception based opinion and hearsay). In your vernacular use of the phrase "armed with the truth", I suggest that the latter definition is most applicable.
@@michaellee9743 Oh dear. I think you know exactly what I mean but choose to overthink it. 🙄
No one needs "good" news coverage, we need accurate un-opinionated news coverage.
Just news would be a start. Instead of the regurgitated dross we have to endure.
North East West South...casting!
Agreed. Sight of ALL if it, un-filtered by woke bias would be nice too.
We actually dont need news at all. That was a myth generated by journalists to create a market for their content.
Notice the drive on the phoney Ukraine war has gone quiet. They pushed it as an agenda to much and people were waking up. So rarely hear now. Even today they reported on a Ukrainian warplane training practice crash. So fackin what. All this crap would of been ended had the world not fueled the fire😊
Cancelled the Tv licence over 3 years ago thanks to your videos. You convinced my husband that we wouldn’t be breaking the law if we cancelled, only had one letter and it went straight into the bin. Big thumbs up & thank you xx
Same as me thanks to Jon’s videos. Jon’s saved me almost £500. Capita are really cranking up the harassing & bullying letters to me now, I’m under investigation like I’m a criminal etc, etc. 😂 All sent over to Jon’s website.
Don't expect this, or any other Government, to get rid of the DISGUSTING TV TAX LICENSE !
They will!
How much are you paying Sky and Netflix?
@@pipster1891If you watch Sky broadcast TV, you also have to pay the atrocious BBC. What a con job.
@@pipster1891 NOTHING
@@firestar7774 OK !
Between 2005-2020 mainstream media died a slow death for me as I became frustrated with personalities on ridiculous inflated wages, decreasing quality of programming and certain agendas being pushed.
Then the events of 2020-2022 were the final straw for me.
I’m done with the BBC, I suspect many other people are too.
They got infested with commies in the early 2ks, the wages of all celebs were ramped up to get them controlled and pushing out endless lies and ganda to the nation.
Paying an ex footballer silly money did me. Can't stand football and there's lots i know like me but that's never representwd on tv is it!
Yep
That's the same thoughts I have. I don't engage in any mainstream output now, because of they pursue an agenda that is alien to many.
Media are not in the business of empowering ordinary people, no one feels better, stronger, or improved after watching news or "serious" programming, you are more likely to feel worried, confused, upset, fearful. The fact that media now fully embrace left ideology and all sorts of -isms makes them even worse
Really goes to show how little faith the people working at the BBC have in their programming when they insist you must be forced to pay, instead of letting the free market decide what's good and bad.
They're showing their true authoritarian colours, not to mention the fact that they don't have the talent or work ethic needed in the real world.
Louis is the original bottom feeder with his tv shows.
Always remember that doc he did on Saville. He / the BBC thought is was adequate to simply 'mark his card'. No.
That's good
No Eurotrash, but yeah, and he does it very well.
I love loads of the docs he's done
He is the s in the fish tench.
It is ROBBERY on a vast scale so why is it not treated as such. Why do we need a licence to watch live ITV or Freeview programmes when they are financed by advertising?
If you are deemed a 'Nutter ' by mainstream media , it means that you are doing something right !
Take it as a compliment Jon! He thinks your effort will have as much impact as Brexit.
I remember during the Brexit referendum when they were getting scared they'd lose they wheeled out Cameron and Osbourne as the other people from the Stronger In campaign weren't having any real effect
Louis Theroux is a disingenuous cheerleader for the beeb. His meeting with Jimmy Saville was a joke.
Theroux probably knows where a few bodies are buried, considering how long he's been with the BBC. He ought to be concerned about the BBC's history of employing wrong 'uns.
Theroux makes his money from bbc and channel 4. Can’t say I have ever seen him on itv.
I noticed that he made some remark about boldly speaking the truth only didn't he admit he knew about Jimmy Saville but when he filmed him he just made a few sly illusions to which Saville smirked in a kind of "I know and you know" complicit way. I never saw the programme but I saw that clip.
@@janebaker966 Saville was repulsive. In the program,as I recall, he inferred that he had friends high up in the police. He was cagey in his answering of questions, but now we know how far up the ladder he was being protected.
I've been getting very threatening letters since cancelling my TV licence. Trying to scare me & saying ignoring the letter could cost me a lot more than the licence fee.
I had no need for it & never will, as I'd not watched the TV stations for a long time.
Indeed I'd been stupid in paying for it for a long time, when not needing.
My last letter of yesterday says an investigation into my property has begun.
Good luck to them.
I DON'T NEED A TV LICENCE.
Remove right of access. They can't even cross your property boundary.
I cancelled mine about 10 months ago and haven't received any letters from them. What am I doing wrong as I feel left out
Just ignore them. If you answer the door to one, just shut it in his/her smug face. Don't say a word. Eventually they will have to drop the name from the address and it will come addressed to the Occupier. The threats come in waves, every 6 months or so. Ranging from will you be in on this day to red letters assuming that you are breaking the law. If you check the reverse and is says Darlington return address just throw it in the fire/bin. Just think how much money they are wasting in postage/paper and envelopes. I reckon they have wasted a TV licence or two sending me threats for the past 13 years!!
@@andrewsingleton2710 Maybe they put you down as No Licence Needed? That suppresses the letters for a certain amount of time. I'd reckon they'll be in touch soon. But if I was you, I'd just ignore them. By saying you don't need a TV License gives them the legal right to hold your name and address on file.
You can have a tv etc. Is just how you use it. I have a cable connector to my house that I have never used. The last dweeb that came round said cos I had it I had to have a tv licence. To which I said the company that owns the cable is rubbish and as I don't actually watch TV I don't need one and continued my interrupted conversation in the garden ignoring him. Before that I had a go at them for their wording so they left me alone for a bit.
Ofcom = Makes sure you get just their agenda.
Censorship is a weak move, it's admitting they are getting hurt.
Weird how all the people making lots of money off the tax called the TV licence don't want their gravy train to die.
If the BBC's Goon department showed courtesy and respect to potential customers, instead of writing threatening letters and using cold calling with harassment and deception to force sell, they would have been better received.
Exactly. Wouldn’t it be nice to receive a letter from the BBC listing all the great programmes they have and why you should come back. The only issue with that is, they’d need to actually produce some quality content first.
It was actually the News that put me off watching TV ,its so depressing and so full of propaganda,so i get my news from the likes of you john and the internet .
Same here. They only show bad news. I certainly across an article online from the U.S about a massive mine opening in the UK. Its going to make millions upon millions in exports of a natural and organic fertiliser and from the outside the place looks like modern famr buildings. Its an absolute triumph.... not a word in MSM here.
You are absolutely right. I myself don't own a tv, got rid of it 8 years ago but, I visit my elderly mother most evenings and she has her tv on 24/7 as she lives alone. Every night I have to endure listening to the news which I purposely don't look at and try to avoid listening to but it can be hard when your elderly mother is hard of hearing. I sit thinking how awfully depressing it is, story after story and to top it all of, it's usually followed by another programme on a docu about someone who was murdered or someone who is dying from some illness etc etc. How she sits and listens to that day in, day out, I don't know. I've tried pointing out how ruddy depressing it all is but she always says she loves her tv, especially the soaps, geez, don't get me started on them, I feel like cutting my throat lol after listening to all that tripe. Just something I've gotta put up with while I'm there I guess.
I only watch GB. News and Talk TV now ,
They not only show depressing propaganda but they actually only report on 0.5% of what’s happening. My mum gets her news exclusively from TV and she’s SO uninformed (misinformed).
The more desperate they get, the more they lash out.
"When you start getting flack, you know you're over the target".
I never thought two phrases, "big guns" and "Louis Theroux", would ever be paired. I have never considered that individual anything more than something I occasionally find sticking to the sole of my shoe.
Agreed. He peddles gloom and despair.
It was the national broadcaster. Now they are angry that they cant control what we watch. At the minute anyway.
Thank you for the walkabout, I really enjoyed it. Felt like we were having a chat before going for a beer!
True, especially as I grew up not far from there and used to Kayak from the Prom and up the Chelmer and Blackwater. Fond memories
3 years with threatening letters, but again they said there would be an inspector last Thursday and there wasn't!
Same here!
I got a letter, offering me a ten day window to pay my tax, they promised, I would not receive a visit from one of their agents during this time. I was gutted, look forward to visitors, even baked a cake, in anticipation.
I've worked from home for the last decade, maybe longer, haven't paid the license in about 8 years now, loads of letters, not a single visit. I don't mind them coming round, there is no aerial in my apartment, and I've gone out of my way to block bbc addresses on my windows hosts file so I cant access them accidentally, i know thats a bit techy but I am a software engineer.
Me too. Same empty threats. I have a bundle of these letters but really tempted to give them back to the inspector and tell them to clear off!
Same here
Only a fool pays the tv licence. And you know what they say about a fool and his money.
Nice to see you again Jon, always look forward to seeing your posts.
Cant even imagine anyone still watching the likes of depressing enders and that joke woke coronation st.
You Aving a laff. Corrie's not woke, eastenders is. But that's your opinion. x Have a 😊 day
Arseenders and Constipation Street.?
Even the weather in Eastenders is depressing lol
@@bexsta7766no coronation street is too now
No idea those programs are still on! Stopped MSM years ago. Im 72 since I retired the internet is my playground. Rumble is doing better than you tube for veracity and no bias
I have to say it's good to see so many people out and about in the local Park. That's where you want to be spending your money, on old fashioned outside entertainment, not on some brain rot produced by the corporate agenda.
'The BBC trying to please all the people' they never please me.
*Remember: if the situation was truly hopeless, their censorship wouldn't be necessary.*
Also having the ministry of truth.
true and the reason we canceled
What does he mean a Brexit from the license fee? A public vote on it ? We had that with Brexit but were still waiting to take back control. Weve tried voting in the past but they still do there own thing regardless of what the electrate voted for.
I got a visit yesterday, opened the door, he said tv licence, I said nothing, just closed the door in his face! It felt good! 😎
top work
Correct answer. Say nothing because it will be used against you, and shut the door
@@SpareSomeChange8080 If I'm not expecting visitors, I don't answer the door at all.
And in Medievel England news was pinned to the church door in each parish. This was considered the fastest and most official way of distributing information. We don't do that anymore either. Take note, BBC. You're the church door of old
Which was funny, because the majority of people back then couldn’t read.
@@enkisdaughter4795 but the culture was to have items read to them, and more importantly to have them interpreted for them. We would call this ‘spin’ now I assume.
I stopped paying the licence fee years ago.
Me too.
Definitely rattled. Mainstream media is dying.
I think the TV Licence is probably the best situation.
At least this way, we can choose not to pay.
The alternative could very well be worse, such as through general taxation.
I see what your saying but why can’t the bbc just be a subscription model like Netflix etc, if they’re such a great service they’ll have no problem getting subscribers
@@roccoparks That would be ideal. But we all know that's probably never going to happen.
Agreed paradox. Cancelling the TV licence in one hit will lead to immediate funding from central government. So the gravy train continues and the chosen few live in luxury forevermore at our expense. Far better is the slow, steady decline we see today. As the mainstream slowly disappears up its own back passage the lies and propaganda become more desperate, so even more wake up to how obvious their BS is.
What's not right is that not paying the BBC Licence stops you watching other TV Channels.
@@arthurmackrell8154No it doesn't. What's to stop you watching whatever whenever you like - BBC, ITV, Channel 4/5 etc. as it doesn't require a TV licence to do so? You simply watch. What's the problem?
youre down to earth, decent bloke. thats it.
That's what we're like in Essex. Mind you, I was born and bred in Essex, so I would say that.
@@englishciderlover7347 i love english people. my best mates family was english. that was years ago.
At the very least they should decriminalise non payment of the licence fee.
I don't pay it
Thats the carrot which Boris Johnson used to get more votes - they never intended to do it and don't now.
If they decriminalised it, most people would simply stop paying. Effectively it would become a charity donation.
"When you start getting flack, you know you're over the target".
i have had two visits from goons in two weeks i have called tv licensing people and they said if i dont have a tv license i cant watch ANY tv at all and they will send a detector van round to check if they pick up a signal i will get a visit from them with police present and will be taken to court they are a joke keep up the great work you do and take care
I doubt very much that they said that they will send a detector van round, as detector vans do not exist.
well the girl on the phone said they have a machine that can detect a signal from a tv and they would check on me to see if im watching any channels at all
@@brimkathstampex2306
Since watching your walkabout videos, I've started buying Maldon Sea Salt. You should get a sponsorship deal!
Please just keep doing what you're doing.
Good to see you back. Nice to have a wander and a chat.☺
It's not a public service provider.
It's a government service provider.
That's why they will never get rid of the licence fee.
Don’t watch telly any more -it’s simply woefull!!
Theroux is just defending his job. As an American citizen why doesn't go to America?
My guess is that no network over there will pay him what the BBC pays.
Who is this Theroux person? I don't have anything to do with MSM. I'm 72 and an internet pic'n'mixer. He's obviously without relevance to Rumble and You Tube. Not on my algorithms
@@robertfarrow5853- Theroux is an investigative journalist, one of the few left in the MSM. He specialises in one-hour documentaries interviewing highly controversial people, like Mexican cartel bosses and Jimmy Savile.
I haven't paid the tv licence for over 3 years, and never will ever again.
Imagine the BBC fact checking this channel on their Fact Checking programme 🤡😂. Keep up the good work, keep the light of truth shining bright 🙌
I think we must be the only country in the world where you can go to prison for not paying a tv tax.I stopped paying the tv tax around fifteen years ago when my tv packed up and have'nt seen the need to buy another.there's plnty of information and entertainment available on the web
You don't go to prison for not paying the tv tax. It's a fine that's given out by the court. It's when people do not pay the fine given by the court, is when they get sent to prison for non payment of a fine.
In many (most?) countries, the national TV network is paid via a direct government tax. Stop paying that and you’ll also go to prison.
It's like a TV ad: Are you feeling chipper, upbeat, life of the party and you don't want to be like that anymore? We have the solution, watch EastEnders and Coronation st. That'll sort you out. (Disclaimer: watching these shows can cause severe depression).
One of the reasons I divorced my ex wife. F'ing sofa operas on all day 7 days a week. She complained I was working long hours, I said you watch sh!t TV all the time.
@@0skar9193 With drool coming out one side of her mouth. 😂😂
They need to be so heavily defended because they are fighting a losing battle. The BBC, who kept mum about Jimmy Saville, the BBC who pay astronomical amounts of money for talentless presenters, the BBC who are the wokest platform of all in the way they deliver their news to how they want the public to hear it - totally unbiased (NOT!!!).
I feel a new video coming on to reiterate these points. Good to see that you’ve looked up from the porn and come back to the real world 😂😂
The BBC also did their best to get Cliff Richards into trouble which was low even for them. I don't recall any apologies forthcoming from anyone, but I doubt they would ever offer a sincere one.
@@bernardm2312disgusting how they treated Cliff, an innocent man versus how they treated one of their own that they wouldn’t even name.
@@DMC888 Only one of their own? As Andrew Lawrence said in a recent vid, the BBC is a noncing club.
Just had my eighteenth TV tax letter they still intend to pay a visit shock horror I've been waiting 2 year's
I have 87 of them. As you say, it's all gibberish
Lovely park you're in. Glad to see you back. I really value your point of view
Louis lives down the road from me I remember walking past him and his children telling his kids what a legend their Dad is, now I might just walk past no comment.
Oh dear Lord ... I agree TikTok and BBC!, well maybe they were made for each other ... I deplore both of them tbh but unfortunately the kids love it ... and the fact it is not right ... when was the last time the BBC did anything right!? They don't care. Got me on a bad day lol but great to see you out and about again. :o)
Coming up to two years & six months licence free. No visits and no correspondence at all!
I feel deprived 😂.
I don't even watch mainstream tv or news programmes as we have it on our mobile phones and online.
I watch boxsets, the odd documentary and sometimes dramas, the rest I don't care much about ad it's too much fake and contrived content filled with fake celebrities.
Any one who recives pay or pension payments from the BBC can be label under ' vested intrest ' and ignored
Just ignore completely, anything and everything that TV Licencing sends to you. They cannot and will not do anything about it - unless of course you're stupid enough to let them in to your home and speak to them.
The BBC’s talent lab on TikTok will no doubt not result in the best talent, but one that ticks it's boxes.
Thanks for the presentation Jon. Take care 👍👍👍
Over £500 better off thanks to you chilli,3 year's tax free from the useless toerags at the BBC,cheers John.
Once they scrap the soaps, they should axe The Soap awards as well
So if it's 'Like Bexit' as Louis says, does this mean the general public get to vote on scraping the license fee? You know, like a democracy.
I wonder how much the Beeb pay Alexander Armstrong for Pointless.
They offer a jackpot of £1250 for contestants who win. Likely putting the woeful prize money down to being publicly funded, yet I bet they're paying Alexander a wee smidge more than 1300 quid per show.
If there ever was a more ironically named show, it's Pointless. So difficult to win, and if you are fortunate to win, you might just win your train fair back.
It's probably safe to say Armstrong wouldn't describe his fee as pointless. Shame it isn't enough for him to afford a few ties. Nowadays, the news anchors are about the only people on TV who dress smartly.
@@SpareSomeChange8080 BFH. Bus fare home.
Even Bullseye prizes were more valuable back in the 80's.
I've no idea as I don't watch MSM. That is why I don't. Overpaid jobs for friends and family . A garden program with kids groomed to take the next job, without the talent to do it? Intermarried,uni friends, establishment hooray Henriettas ,not a normal person of public view among them. The glitteratti of pap pushers.
Enjoyed that 👌 still make me laugh and to be honest we have the same issues with our main broadcaster here in ireland.... useless for the most part as its too institutional and chronic memory loss when queried on its finances... go figure! Keep it up greets from Dublin
He,s obvious speaking from the side where he s made a bundle off the bbc.,And its always something for him to fall back on in hard times ,Once his latest tired docu,s flop its called SELF INTEREST.
I remember seeing a BBC reporter and a camera crew in Johannesburg in the run up to the elections in 1994, they were filming an African chap who was passed out drunk under a tree in a park and saying that just minutes before 2 white policemen had come past and beaten him to death for being in a white neighborhood...
Opposite the park was a row of houses with all of the occupants standing outside wondering what was going on, 3 of the 6 families stood there were black...the reporter and crew very quickly packed up their gear and legged it when I walked over and woke the drunk guy up...he was less than amused at the situation and started attacking the crew with a beer bottle...
The BBC doesn`t report on news, it creates it to further it`s disgusting agenda!
BBC documentary crews have been caught doing similar things on multiple occasions, most famously when trying to fabricate ‘white supremacists’ in football supporter groups during the Euro and World Cup.
BBC documentary crews have been caught doing similar things on multiple occasions, most famously when trying to fabricate ‘white supremacists’ in football supporter groups during the Euro and World Cup.
Ps your a good man. Take care.
I like your strolls of chat and of the local scenery Chills.
If they are throwing our money at PR companies ,instead of providing decent entertainment something is wrong.
Even the BBC licence fee discussion is not impartial 😂
You bet! Just came home to a big RED envelope on the mat. Addressed to "The Present Occupier" and my flat No etc.
Apparantly, since I didn't reply (ignored) to their previous one, "An investigation has begun".
I'm s**ting my pants..... with laughter!
I took the trouble to register "no licence needed" with them.... And they don't even know my name. What's the chance they can even find my front door?
Louis is worried about his career 😆
I really liked his early stuff too
Naga Munchetty gets paid £329k pa for sitting on a sofa being obnoxious and reading an Autocue. How does that job warrant that salary? She should be on £15k max for that imo. And Gary Lineker on £1.75 MILLION for MOTD! Absolutely outrageous.
THEY are realising we are waking up and that's not good for the richest...
SELL THE BBC and give the money to the owners The Licence Fee Payers .
You must have recorded this before today, the playing field was covered in vans setting up for some fair a few minutes ago when I came through!
The BBC has had it’s day in my opinion
It's a relic from the 1950s, and fewer and fewer people (especially those under 30) are watching or listening to their stuff, but it's part of our 'heritage' and an 'indispensable' part of our day-to-day lives, so it 'must' stay, and the funding model 'must not' be changed.
The TV tax generates billions of pounds every year for the BBC and they are never going too give that up all the while they have a royal charter
It doesn't matter who is doing the pr(propaganda) if what there saying is crap then I don't listen to them which has become anybody talking about the bbc or any one from government 😂😂
Hi. Same thing here in Ireland we are on a TV licence strike \ dispute only difference being " you can go to prison for refusing to pay " over 3,500 up in court this year alone, last year 2022 205 in prison, 2021, 234 back in 2014 ,411 sent away ,,,,,,,, paying a TV licence to listen to government propaganda ,I stopped watching TV and any news media and my mind is so clear and i have a health outlook on life both physical and mental
I don't watch any of the BBC channels so why should I have to pay a licence fee? And Netflix is a subscription service so why should we have to pay for it twice?
I also don't watch ITV, C4 or C5 nor any of the + channels.
If the BBC did provide us with good news coverage, showing both sides of every issue, this type of channel wouldn't have been necessary. It's thanks to the likes of your and others channels telling us what's going on, that has kept us informed. Thanks
I'm 88 years old, have never watched Eastenders since the first episode as I disliked it right away. However, Corrie and Emmerdale I've watched from the start and continue to enjoy both. They contain drama and humour which is good stuff. As for the BBC, I've not watched anything since the final of Strictly, last December. So they can sling their hook. I pay my licence grudgingly. The soaps I watch do raise issues that are important so I would be sad if they where taken off ITV.
Keep up the honest work Chilli
I do not have TV or receive BBC broadcasts in any other way. Even when an occasional BBC programme appears on You-Tube I refuse to watch it. I click the not interested menu. I really don't want to be brainwashed. To be told how to think. Especially by them and their ideologues and or masters. Perhaps I'm lucky but I have other things to do. BBC really has grown into something terrible. Incidentally when I lived in USA, I was told place I resided in could receive over 300 channels. Some dedicated this or that too. Some free to air, some by subscription. I lived quite happily, as did many others, without TV. Shrug.
There is absolutely no justification for the bbc as it stands. Channel 4 is exactly the same as bbc (public broadcaster) and they don’t receive a single penny of the licence fee. I can’t believe they are cutting the eastenders budget after spending I think it’s in the realm of £130 million on the eastenders studio. Just for one show not including production costs. BBC is an absolute disgrace and needs investigating financially because they have a lot of fingers in pies funded by the licence fee but separate entities like BritBox and bbc America both subscription services then they have Dave, gold, yesterday and uk tv which all receive advertising revenue and then you have the production companies like bbc studios which don’t have to produce tables of extortionate salaries even though it’s licence fee funded, and now as well you have bad woof production part owned I think by Sony who are also now receiving money from licence fee for doctor who and other russell t davis shows
I heard a statistic from the BBC recently claiming that 90% of households still have a TV license...wonder how true this is?
It’s probably true. Most people still watch an inordinate amount of TV, like five or six hours a day.
Jon, thank you so much for encouraging me to bin my TV licence
I've been licence free for nearly 3 years now
God bless you mate and keep up the great work 🙏
The licence fee doesn't need to exist.
Louis now works through his own company.
That enables him to pay corporation tax, roughly half what he'd have to pay in the PAYE system.
U tube is already regulated, can't say what you want,thats why iv joined rumble and other platforms,iv even seen you stopping yourself from saying what you think, so I would not worry about it Jim Davidson u stream is brilliant and don't mind the couple of pounds a month for good old fashioned comedy 👍
Quit watching BBC/Broadcast TV 5 years ago and cancelled my license 3 years ago. Not missed it at all! The quality dropped massively with the advent of Freeview. I think Fry & Laurie did a sketch about it 25 years ago where the minister for TV or whatever states increased choice is better and then he asks for a spoon to stir his coffee they dump 500 plastic coffee stirrers on his table. "is more choice really better Minister?"
If you do not want the BBC product, then you should not need to pay for it. If others actually do want it, let them pay. Compulsory payment is little more than theft.
They will do anything to protect the "Licence Fee (Tax)". The Labour Party will introduce a "Media" Tax. Mark my words.
I always take the hotel soaps. We only took one Towel from our Mallorca hoilday in 2001. The towel was nice with THB Hotels branding it has been throw out now sadly.
The BBC only tells us what they want us to hear! They definitely leave important information out. I've not watched it for 2 years and haven't missed it. I don't have Netflix, sky or anything else either. TH-cam ( a few favorites) and alternative media is all I need. There's still SO many things to watch although I like to listen to podcasts and do things at the same time.
Another RED letter today, threatening me with a search warrant as I haven’t complied with their requests. 😂😂😂
I've had over 20 search warrant letters. It's hilarious
Enjoyed the chat and information. Thanks.
I am 5 yrs 'Clean' now from the fee :D. That place where you are looks real nice.