THIS Is The Real BBC Scandal 

Not my money either 😊

Nor my money it's disgusting. ❤x

Same here. Three years happily licence free.

Me too. Stopped my Direct Debit and haven't received a single demand letter in 5 years.

I'm 9 years living at my current property with never having paid a licence fee.

Haven't in over 5 years and never will again

I've only ever paid for one year and I'm 47 now. Never had a threatening letter, just some reminders. I did go online and declare I didn't use BBC a couple of times, but I haven't even done that for years now.

I agree with CJC sentiments on foreign reporting - use foreign reporters where possible. But I believe in some countries this is not possible, e.g. China. In those cases the only option for genuine English schooling is via an international school. Which cost money (private).

Probably have to pay security for them as well

keep paying as they use it as hush money tor all the other seedy goings on at b.b.c.

Err! what was his crime? He hasn't been charged with anything.

So why is Edwards being paid for doing nothing? It's shady as F*ck. Nothing new from BBC

Did that make you feel better? Because there's no sign of anything changing at the BBC!

It was scraped in 2018 for me I say thank you 🙏

As long as it doesn’t go on the council tax. At least we can all opt out at the moment and save our £170

No, don't scrap the licence fee, if they add it to a tax on broadband or some other media tax you'll be paying it again!

@@pow1983exactly, if it goes on income tax I’ll be fine because I’m retired and loving it 😅

Liebour will make it a tax​@@MultiSueH

@mickman0073 & supposedly so it would look better in HD....WTF !!!!

…and all the money siphoned out to BBC Studios Ltd

Back when that show started in the mid-1980s, they could have hired someone who wrote it correctly (East Enders).

Eastenders lol, another load a crap that still way past its use by date 😂😂

@@MYBIGKINDHEART And just like Lineker on MOTD and his huge salary, a huge amount wasted on a ‘flagship’ program that is of niche interest where only a very small proportion of the population are interested in. In fact, if it was asked in a poll, I bet an overwhelming proportion would actually express hatred of Eastenders.

Nor I. I just dislike what the so called BBC has become, 31 letters so far and £600 quid better off.

​@melviniq1169 jeez, I'm only on my 8th letter, the last 4 have been telling me to expect a visit from the "enforcement officer" 😂 good job they send me the toilet paper as I'm shitting myself (not) ah well, looking forward to the next 23+

Same here

Weldone you 👍👏👏🤣🤣

MP won't reply anyway. All rats.

I have. And he did. Took him a page to say exactly that.

Cos its from our

Money tree

Great work if you can get it.

He's paid mote than an "inmate" at the House of Lords!

that sounds like the job for me i hate working😂

They are paying it if they watch it or they could have fear from them they need to lose the fear first it’s not hard just block them out simple lose the fear save ya money I have

Mugs and there are plenty of those

Is there a shortage of people who can talk about football?

@@asumazilla The real talent is to make a boring game sound exciting.

Sack linekar

​@@dinaworkman306who's Liner lol 😂

He is a big Welsh Nonce!

Don't know if it's funny. It's certainly - and fraudulently - expensive.

Did you know you can have a mental illness without knowing?

So you've never received sick pay, then? I expect it's in his contract, which can be messy things to extricate yourself from. I think maybe the BBC should learn how to negotiate better contracts. But don't hold people to standards you yourself can't meet: we've _all_ been paid for not working at some point in our careers.

​​@@dizwellNot been paid half a million pounds for being off work for a whole year! Funny he didn't have "mental health issues" until the allegations. Plus it's outrageous to be paid so much from the licence fee to someone for "Reading out Loud" for goodness sake! I wonder, do you work for the BBC by chance?

​@@winifredrobinson5132 No, I'm retired. And I don't pay the TV licence. And I don't receive state pension nor any other state benefit. Of course you haven't been paid half a million quid for being off work. Neither have I. But if that's what his contract says, that's what happens. The scale of the payment is in any case irrelevant to the point I was making. We've all been paid for not working at some point. The quantum of cash we've been paid at such times doesn't change the principle involved: if you're sick, you still get paid. In all the jobs I ever had, if I'd been sick for a long time, the company could bring in their own doctor for an assessment. After more time off, they could move to dismiss. These are the rules that no doubt apply to Huw just as much as they ever applied to me or you... and they completely refute the suggestion that "if he doesn't work, he shouldn't be paid", which was the proposition I was replying to. In passing, it isn't a good look going around accusing people of things, just because you don't like what they say. Resorting to the "do you work for the BBC" line displays an inability to reason or debate on your part, basically. Aim higher. Likewise, complaining that all Huw ever did was "read a teleprompter" is an appeal to ignorance: he did far more than that (narrating the queen's funeral, for example) and even reading a teleprompter requires a set of skills that I certainly don't possess. If it was trivially easy, Mandy from Maldon would be doing it for fifty knicker a night.

When was he ever working? Too many people these days (And It has been like this for a long time) have absolutely no concept of what real work entails. Sitting down and talking Is work? NO IT ISN'T.

@garylovell6017 Of course it's "real work", whatever that phrase is meant to mean. No, it's not bricklaying or truck driving, but it's apparently worth nearly half a million to someone, so it's real enough. I personally think that playing Mother Goose at the Christmas panto isn't exactly _useful_ work ...and how hard is it to memorise some lines and recite them, badly, anyway?! But I'm not going to dismiss it as "not real work", just because I have no idea of the actual effort and skillset involved. A moment at Wikipedia tells me Huw Edwards has a degree in mediaeval French along with a PhD and was a professional journalist long before he took up the teleprompter. And his narration and handling of the queen's funeral demonstrated to me, at least, a reasonable degree of journalistic and literary competence. I assume the BBC concluded that _that_ and a tendency *not* to, like, umm and, errr, you know, like, ummm are skills worth paying for.

Same as this government then!

@marylauder3374 all governments....all parliaments.

@@marylauder3374 If you think the current government invented waste and extravagance, I have a couple of bridges for sale.

That's why I don't pay it

It's an optional subscription. I don't subscribe so I pay nothing

@@MikeEves yep never anything I want to watch anyway, prefer to be able to watch what I want when I want

It's anachronistic in the C21st with the way the media has changed. Back when there were only a few channels it kinda made sense...not anymore!

In the luxury carriage next to that big-eared potato snack salesman

They even have a special annual bring your wife and kids to work at the BBC for the rest of their lives day. Nepotism run riot.

@mygreatbigfoot1679 exactly. The BBC has always been a nest of nepotism.

@@davidbetts9332 Just look at how many TV or radio presenters follow their parents onto the airwaves. I'm surprised the children of Fiona Bruce or Huw Edwards haven't followed that well-worn path.

You?, as it certainly isn't me!

@rugbynut-ar it's the same as that glove puppet (I.e :- BBC director-general Tim Davie) saying they have to make another £200 million in cutbacks, then spend a huge amount of money on that crapy "Race Around The World", another phoney non-reality TV pile of shit with all usual per-rehearsed dialogue & cry on camera routines over sod all. Double standards as per bloody usual 😡

@@robtheplod nope not me 5 years licence free.

Not me

Not me either. 🤣

I have no words 😢

I've never paid the rv tax and never will

Done 😂😂😂😂

For OUR sake!

Stop then or have they put the frighteners on you ?

It’s like paying me to use someone else’s product when it comes to live tv.

And retired people who don't get that a year are hauled into courts...

👏👏👏

Well done 👍👍👍👍.

I had my third visit in 12 months just last week. She wouldn't even tell me who she was so I closed the door. I knew who she was though, they have that look about them lol.

Cash rolls in no matter what they do...no budgetary responsibilty or accountability required!

Well,I'm sure his wife and children still need money to live on.

@@janebaker966 Thought that was what the Social Security was for?

MOD

@@robtheplod Fair point. Just had a quick look and apparently 10 years ago MoD spent £58m on private school fees. And in 2022 according to gov website military families benefitted from £3K per child per year in child care costs. So I guess it's not just the BBC

​@@jasonuren3479Still taxpayers money, BBC or MOD.

@@xxxx-ep1tj Oh absolutely I know that

​@@jasonuren3479 MOD is "a little different" I think. They are posted around the world in their jobs relating to the protection and defence of this country. As a result, their children need a stable education. H/E reads out aloud for a living on half a million pounds a year, sitting down in a comfy chair in a studio in this country with a camera pointing at him!! All paid for by the licence fee. In return, the public receive lots of rubbish BBC programmes and more repeats than ever before. The standard of programming is appalling and has declined continually for at least the last two decades. What has increased however, is of course the BBC Licence fee and the huge salaries paid to many of their under talented "stars", such as people reading out loud or someone who is paid three times H/E's salary as Gary Lineka for talking football!!!!!

Become a virtue signalling woke activist....submit your employment application...sorted!

Become an mp!

Reading out loud is a very stressful occupation. The salary is really £30,000 a year - rest is compensation for stress caused by such a dangerous job!🤪😲😀🤔🤬🤬🤬

@garyhope3731 it could've been worse....Jack Regan could've uttered those immortal words "Get yer trousers on so, you're nicked" 😆

@@stevenoneill7166 😂😂😂😂good one👍

Just happened to us. We did the same.

Go and knock on huw edwards door get him to pay ...mans got enough money to pay for 2500 homes lol.

He must know things to get such a nice deal

There must be Hurty words there someware but plods looking the other way 😮😮😮😮😮

Your thinking of MPs, I think a bit more goes into being a news anchor. You could always apply for a role then tell us first hand.

Same here got to 75 no more licence.

I would imagine the BBC would certainly consider partnering up with another organisation to spy on addresses not paying the licence fee. Sky would make sense. The Post Office perhaps. Meter readers maybe. Don't let anyone in, and if they do somehow get in lock them up in the cellar.

£60 each should sort that out.

Even when they retire they still get paid by the BBC, pensions take up an obscene amount of licence fee money, it's yet another BBC scandal that many people are unaware of.

Keep it going for, oh, five years I reckon. Plod did that once somewhere in the UK - on full pay...

He's pretty adept at "pulling things off" apparently

Because there's a lot of gullible (indoctrinated) idiots about that think if they don't pay it they'll go to prison... And I'm talking younger than 25....

No you don't, either ignore the door or say no thanks an close it, it really is that simple as they are just playing on ignorance an fear which they know is running out fast as more an more wake up to the con.

Why do you have to get a license?

I'm a pensioner ain't had a licence for four years now. It's not a thing I think about anymore. Just bin the letters along with all the other junk mail.