Disabled mum’s ‘terrifying’ prosecution over non-payment of TV licence

https://news.sky.com/story/disabled-mums-terrifying-prosecution-over-non-payment-of-tv-licence-13221776

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4 Comments

  1. Vondonklewink on

    500,000 people stopped paying it last year. I haven’t paid it for more than eight years. It’s extremely easy to cancel it and not get prosecuted.

    1. Cancel it
    2. Tell the goons they send to your door to fuck off and never come back

    I sympathise with her, it looks like she wasn’t even in charge of the finances at the time the payments stopped, and she’s vulnerable. Inevitably, that’s who gets caught out, elderly and vulnerable people. The BBC has been shit for years, it’s not worth what they charge. If it were a streaming subscription service, it would be dead already, hardly anyone would buy it. It’s only alive because they scare people into paying with prosecution threats.

  2. Everybody is suddenly “vulnerable” as soon as they get caught for something they shouldn’t have done.

  3. Formal_Ant_5579 on

    They’re just bullies, plain and simple. They sent letters through my door that made it sound like they were police, which I clearly know they’re not.

    But if you’re old, vulnerable or just naive, you could mistake it for a serious threat and panic.