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RE: Pensioner TV Licence Fees will be means tested from 2020

Si Wooldridge (Reviewer) posted this on Wednesday, 12th June 2019, 06:22

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sj says...
"We give almost that to the EU in a fortnight don't we?...."

Well maybe if we actually left, I'd advocate the government picking that back up...

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RE: Pensioner TV Licence Fees will be means tested from 2020

bandicoot (Elite) posted this on Wednesday, 12th June 2019, 08:31

Look on the bright side, The BBC bill would have been a lot higher if Terry Wogan was still alive.

RE: Pensioner TV Licence Fees will be means tested from 2020

Jitendar Canth (Reviewer) posted this on Wednesday, 12th June 2019, 11:42

When did entertainment become a fundamental human right?

Mind you, our glorious leaders are failing on the real ones, food, warmth and shelter. People using food banks, priced out of housing by artificially inflated prices, housing stock sold off to Russian oligarchs, hardly any new builds, people living in their parents' homes until they're of pension age. Homelessness goes up, and old people forced to sell their homes for non-existent care supplied by the lowest abusive bidders. And warmth... people forced to choose between heating and food...

Then the second tier, care, community and communication...

Austerity has killed the NHS and destroyed social care, communities are dying, the elderly left to fend on their own, the pubs, clubs, bingo halls, bowling greens, churches and high streets all gone, no more post offices and banks within walking distance, bus routes and train lines all taken away from where they are needed, and the older generation now expected to be computer literate to function in a modern world.

Bless his shrivelled little heart, but Gordon Brown was doing a nice thing when he gifted the Golden generation free TV, but it was a misplaced idea. It turned a luxury into a entitlement, and then a right. It wasn't bad when nu-Labour were in power, as they were taxing and spending, so the NHS worked pretty well, and services and care was there. Say what you will about illegal wars and public private partnership, but no one was waiting six months for a hospital appointment.

But then the Tories, and even with the Lib Dem brakes applied, they managed to do to the NHS in two years what it took Thatcher 15. Austerity meant stripping away the care and the infrastructure, and they turned the free TV license into Dignitas. Keep the elderly numbed and silent in front of their boxes until they fade away. Come 2015, George Osborne sees a chance to stick it to the BBC and save a pittance on the budget at the same time, after all, every government in power hates the BBC.

And now the BBC can't afford it. so they pull the plug. And suddenly every pensioner's euthanasia drug supply is yanked out. Agnes in middle England looks up to see her high street dead, her home a mess, she's suffering from heart disease with no one to care for her, wrapped up in blankets and clutching two hot water bottles, staring at the box in the corner of the room, and she just wants her drugs back to numb the pain with Bargain Hunt and Eastenders.

As said, 20% of the BBC budget equals two Boris-buses, but this is just a sticking plaster over a fetid, mouldering corpse. There are far bigger problems to deal with than a free TV license.

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RE: Pensioner TV Licence Fees will be means tested from 2020

Si Wooldridge (Reviewer) posted this on Wednesday, 12th June 2019, 17:57

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Jitendar Canth says...
"Bless his shrivelled little heart, but Gordon Brown was doing a nice thing when he gifted the Golden generation free TV, but it was a misplaced idea."

You could also argue the same thing for tax credits and minimum wage.

Personally I've not convinced that anyone who has retired should pay for anything, but that's just me.

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RE: Pensioner TV Licence Fees will be means tested from 2020

Si Wooldridge (Reviewer) posted this on Wednesday, 12th June 2019, 18:10

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bandicoot says...
"Look on the bright side, The BBC bill would have been a lot higher if Terry Wogan was still alive."

So Gary Lineker's BBC salary is £1.75m per annum.

Why?

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RE: Pensioner TV Licence Fees will be means tested from 2020

Jitendar Canth (Reviewer) posted this on Wednesday, 12th June 2019, 18:25

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Si Wooldridge says...
"Personally I've not convinced that anyone who has retired should pay for anything, but that's just me."

My dad will have a Lamborghini, and my mum wants a diamond necklace...


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RE: Pensioner TV Licence Fees will be means tested from 2020

Si Wooldridge (Reviewer) posted this on Wednesday, 12th June 2019, 18:32

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"My dad will have a Lamborghini, and my mum wants a diamond necklace..."

Nicely done...

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RE: Pensioner TV Licence Fees will be means tested from 2020

RJS (undefined) posted this on Wednesday, 12th June 2019, 20:02

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Si Wooldridge says...
"So Gary Lineker's BBC salary is £1.75m per annum.

Why?"

Going rate for a flag ship football presenter? Compared to what Sky and BT pay maybe? I have no idea, but I imagine that's it.


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RE: Pensioner TV Licence Fees will be means tested from 2020

sj (Elite) posted this on Wednesday, 12th June 2019, 21:06

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Si Wooldridge says...
"So Gary Lineker's BBC salary is £1.75m per annum."
While it's obviously a high salary in comparison to mere mortals, it's not in the role he fills.
I recall similar things about other presenters that actually at the BBC are tiny compared to other broadcasters.  I think Ant and Dec were on about £30m a few years back.

I can't disagree with this either fr Labour Tom Watson:
"The government had the breathtaking gall to blame the BBC for this mess, but passing the buck won't work.
"The BBC is not the DWP [partment for Work and Pensions]. Public broadcasters should never be responsible for social policy."

And as for the Lineker salary, or any other of the high earners, this is what the BBC have to say:
"We've reduced the costs of senior managers by £38 million and our spend on talent pay is also coming down," the spokesman said. "It's been well reported that some talent have taken pay cuts but in any event, it's simply not the case that senior talent and management pay cuts would make up anywhere near the difference.
"If we capped talent pay at £150,000 and got rid of every senior manager, that would only make up a fraction of the cost of continuing free licences for all over-75s."
£750m, 20%, easy to find.  Naaah.

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RE: Pensioner TV Licence Fees will be means tested from 2020

admars (Elite) posted this on Thursday, 13th June 2019, 05:45

its a bit like the situation with the heating allowance the elderly automatically get, some need it, some don't. My mates mum gives the money to him to treat his kids as they don't need it.

As the report says, there's a lot of older ppl who have saved their entire lives for their twighlight years, and are luckily comfortable enough to not need hand-outs.

Maybe means test it for everyone, but the admin costs may outweigh the saving ;)

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