Want to feed your family? Got to pay Big Brother first!
The state broadcaster in the UK demands that its unfortunate subjects pay a tribute in excess of the cost of 67 chickens every year to fund its dreary propaganda. Seen in the past as a mere tax on TVs, the TV Licensing thugs have now expanded their remit to cover video or DVD recorders, computers and mobile phones. If you live in what’s ludicrously termed “an unlicensed property” (ie an address that is not in their database) you are subject to surveillance and attempted home invasion by Gestapo-like “Enforcement Officers”. But look on the bright side! No need to travel to third-world banana republics to experience state repression: you can now enjoy it without leaving home!
February 27th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
“computers and mobile phones”
Only if they can prove that you’re using them to watch live TV broadcasts on. Which they can’t.
February 27th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
True. But it’s the simple assumption that these devices fall naturally under their remit that is galling.