the TV license in UK is not a dumb law.

i believe we have over a thousand channels in the UK, and the standard of tv has not risen in the fifteen or so years, since we only had four channels. the good tv is just more spread out now & you waste time searching for it.
Quote: 'Unlike the commercial TV channels of the United States the two major stations in the UK are government paid for (BBC1 and BBC2) and have no commercials. This is also the case for the 4 government stations of Sweden as well. It has only been recently that commercial TV channels have been available to the public.'
and we have had commercial tv channels for 30 - 40 years. please do better research. we have hundreds of ridiculous laws in this country, no need to make them up. (illegal to make out)

[The Horseman]

'The TV license is not a dumb law'. Oh I don't know. You seen much of what they're putting on the BBC recently?

And have you seen ITV recently?

BTW, how is a 120kph motorway limit in Switzerland a dumb law - isn't it just about normal?

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If the license fee was cut by half, more people would probably get one.

Lander.

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Which of the royal blood-suckers gets part of the license fee ?

None of the royals get anywhere near the licence fee.

And cutting the fee in half to double the take-up? Are you really claiming that there's 15 million-ish housholds out there without licences?

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