Put the BBC licence fee into COUNCIL TAX! | Shock proposals to fund Beeb as fee hike incoming

GB News Senior Political Commentator, Nigel Nelson, has proposed integrating the BBC license fee into council tax, and charge households depending on how large they are, and therefore making it an opt OUT scheme, rather an an opt IN, like it currently is.
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[@solschwarz5169]

No, we don't need to find a different way to fund the BBC. They need to be DEFUNDED!

[@randomuser4201]

They are funded by fee payers, dimwit.

[@backcountrymon]

Or find it the self's

[@azillliasmith2734]

Or get a proper job.....

[@stevec6427]

Ok, so just cancel your license. Then you are doing your bit to defund it

[@jayaitch2194]

If they're so confident about the quality of their programming they shouldn't have any problem finding advertising revenue.

[@graemewilliams6697]

You only have to pay the licence fee if you watch LIVE TV and BBC iPlayer. Council tax is for local services not the BBC.

[@roadwarrior7401]

undercut services now

[@awhisperinthewind4253]

and our council 'services' are getting less and less

[@kitcat4512]

The BBC now questions any live programs you watch on you tube !!

[@thesaltybrit9321]

⁠@@kitcat4512 yes, any live TV even on KZbin requires a licence, key word being TV, not to be confused with watching a live stream by a streamer/content creator, you are not required to have a licence to watch live streams by your favourite content creator). So if ITV had a live feed of its broadcast on KZbin or any streaming service, you would need a licence. It’s all in law. What they will try to do next is blur the lines to get more money and essentially have a media tax… if we allow it to happen. Quote from TV licence Q&A in regards to Do I need a licence to watch KZbin? “A licence is not required to view user generated content, clips and videos on KZbin. This includes live streamed content that is not part of a television broadcast. Or being broadcast at the same time by other means.”

[@timkelly5602]

@@thesaltybrit9321 pretty sure you don't need a licence to watch ITV, it was the BBC that held the patent on the Cathode Ray tube which is what the licence was originally for... operating a piece of licenced kit... now unless they had a 'serial' copyright on the CRT, (serial - all derivatives) then their actual legal reason for charging at all is long past as there are very few CRT TVs left in use... so i am guessing the Government mandated it for another reason and obfuscated why the BBC ever had the right to charge at all...

[@rayvinloony2322]

Abolish it and like all the other streaming services, if you want it you subscribe to it!! 🤬 Stop going around the houses to pander to the once British institution, now a bias anti British embarrassment.

[@rayvinloony2322]

@RedHeadNINTY9T9 Good !!! 👍🏻

[@chrissymc886]

Nobody should be forced to pay for those scumbags.

[@apollo2276]

It's simple, people just need to say NO.

[@richarddickson6559]

I refuse to pay for something I don’t use. I will be quite aggrieved if the government find another way to force me to pay.

[@hestisa956]

I don’t have a tv license. I don’t watch tv so they know I don’t pay.

[@randomuser4201]

​@@hestisa956you don't need a license even with a TV. Look up the rules.

[@Edithae]

​@hestisa956 They wouldn't even know you were watching TV if you didn't tell them. The notorious detector vans were a Hoax designed to intimidate.

[@tillyt4054]

How about the TV license is totally abolished, the BBC adopts a subscription model and we get to chose if we want to be indoctrinated or not

[@joprocter4573]

Yeh let's see who sponser them

[@burnaardnufc3173]

Even the left won't buy that shit.

[@jab-gn3sw]

Time the BBC fee was abolished completely! All asylum seekers deported , as the UK wasnt the first safe country !

[@NellsMechanicalManCave]

The BBC should be pay to view. No more court cases, enforcement officers or letters sent via the mail. You don't pay, you can't watch. Simple😊😊😊😊

[@jayjay-xk1zn]

The tv tax shouldn't be put on council tax bill. As far as i am aware we pay council tax for the services the council provide. They do not provide tv channels

[@Lisa-ey3gt]

They don’t provide services either.

[@redbeard3923]

​@@Lisa-ey3gtdefinitely crap service for a staggering amount of money

[@G-ra-ha-m]

Look into the sort code on your council tax bill. It's HMRC.

[@Lisa-ey3gt]

@G-ra-ha-m I’m going to look into it ..thanks very much 👌

[@S.Trades]

They force "services" upon us, then make us pay for them.

[@johnwilliamcollins8064]

No . Putting this awful tax into the council tax is not on . Make the hated bbc earn its own money . Subscription or advertising is the way to go . Be independent . Putting his tax into council tax will cause an uprising in ill will towards them . I shall not pay any tax to the bbc . It’s disgusting .

[@grimdicer152]

Make the BBC subscription only like all the other steaming services

[@G-ra-ha-m]

After Saville - half a century of shelter and access to small children, it chould have been closed down. It's only the propaganda arm of MI5 anyway. They even had an office there.

[@bren333]

Council tax pays for rubbish removal, not the reverse.

[@SmartCookie2022]

Great comment😂

[@fastyaveit]

If I don't use the BBC or live TV, why on earth should I pay for it?

[@michaelburnhill123]

Why should we pay for a service which is Pr o EU pro WEF anti British.

[@Circa1692]

Ironic as BBC stands for British Broadcasting Corporation

[@janb4876]

No way do I want to pay for this rubbish licence in my council tax. Thank you very much.

[@mydogeatspuke]

Excellent idea, overwhelm the courts with all the people who will justifiably stop paying their council tax, making it even easier for crime to continue to rise.

[@tomround8271]

You know when someone is an out of touch POS when they tell you the price per day, like you're supposed to be happy about your propaganda being cheap

[@Lisa-ey3gt]

Stark raving mad the lot of them. Lunatics.

[@redbeard3923]

​@@Lisa-ey3gtrather go to prison then pay the bum boys club

[@mydogeatspuke]

Didn't a politician in recent years claim that it was possible to live on just one great British pound a day? 47p on an opt out BBC tax doesn't leave much to pay for your food, housing, utilities, and travel to the job you're forced to stay in because nobody can afford to pay more than minimum wage anymore, and whilst wages haven't increased in line with inflation, the various taxes we're all forced to pay (often to bail out someone who couldn't manage their own money) or face legal action certainly have.

[@mydogeatspuke]

​@@redbeard3923prisons are practically full now. It's why crime is so leniently punished, if at all. There's plenty of police officers, but they aren't interested in doing their jobs because it's a lot of paperwork only for the CPS to refuse to pursue it as the most they'd get is a few months suspended.

[@jamonit7169]

Good spot, that was nice of him I can now say at the end of every day "that's another 43p still in my bank account..."

[@GlenAldcroft-dh1vs]

If the put the tv license in the council tax, we need another Poll Tax riot

[@ruthcollins2841]

More than that the BBC buildings in Manchester & Shepherds Bush may NOT REMAIN SAFE!

[@Lisa-ey3gt]

Agreed. This has to end ..these greedy pigs are out of control.

[@G-ra-ha-m]

Council tax IS poll tax, but to become 'liable' (i.e. your ALL CAPS name to become liable), you need to do something forbidden - like live inside. Council (poll) tax is basically a tax on seeking shelter. I.e., unlawful.

[@timg1246]

The Metroplitan Police Commissioner had made public order offences optional for Muslims climbing on our war memorials. We should declare the TV licence law optional.

[@jessicahollinghurst36]

I haven't had a TV for over 26 years why do I have to pay for something I don't use. It's like having a Ford and having to pay Suski for the privilege.

[@timg1246]

This man is a fantasist. You could not check on whether anyone was watching the BBC any better than you can now. Where does GB News get these people from. If it goes on council tax it will be compulsory. But I, for one, would cross theough the TV tax and force the council to pursue me through the courts for a relatively small sum. The councils would never allow this to go through. They would all rebel against it before it could get through parliament.

[@aquarius5461]

Do the migrants pay council tax and or a TV license!! Of course they don’t. Everything is handed to them on a plate! It is very frustrating 😡

[@alanthecat59]

defund the BBC full stop

[@jonathanaikman2285]

Then I'll just have to subtract the BBC fee from the Council Tax before paying. What's the worst that could happen? Not paying for something I don't need or use anyway? How would that stand up in court?

[@apollo2276]

1000% agree. I'd do exactly the same. Knock off the TV licence fee when paying the council tax and I'd tell them, I'll see you in court.

[@JonDingle]

The council tax is extortion as it is, but to be forced to pay a TV BBC licence fee within that is unfair, unreasonable and a con trick. If you don't have TV, you are forced to buy a licence, that is clearly extortion or fascism or both because you have no choice.

[@vascobrighton1364]

I do agree with you. Just calling this "fascism" it is not 100% right. It is an authoritarian measure,no doubt, but fascism it is different. Under fascism tyranny we couldn't even voice an opinion. However it is wrong all the same.

[@theequaliser8026]

It will bring down the government should they do that

[@stephfoxwell4620]

Council Tax pays for barely 40% of local services.

[@petersmith2522]

​@@vascobrighton1364i agree though they are trying to bit by bit stop us having a voice if it goes against what they want

[@alexedwards6509]

Because many people have stopped watching broadcast TV and don't pay the licence fee, this government or the next socialist government will make it a part of council tax or taxpayer funded. That way the BBC can be as anti-white, anti-British working-class hating bigots as they want while still keeping the funding that they use to attack us.

[@alanhindmarch4483]

Stop financing the BBC completely.

[@Displays.1234.]

Nobody should be paying a licence fee, it's already a totally disgusting tax.... Make the BBC self funding.......

[@OllyO-gt8pg]

that clown with all his favourite countries flags on his lapel...the whole problem of parliament- too busy supporting anyone but their own...i will never pay the licence in any shape or form...shouldn't have to.

[@ronniekeight311]

Put the TV Licence in with your council Tax? well that wouldn't work because I for one would deduct the fee before paying my council tax, and I would be will to go to prison for not paying it.

[@robpalwrites]

Me too

[@carllockpick6179]

Why would you pay bbc tax, in your council tax, if you do not use it. Its like paying car tax, and not having a car.

[@nigelhutt9921]

Just deduct it and pay the remainder. The TV tax has nothing to do with the council so it shouldn't matter. Plus what about everyone who doesn't need a licence surely that's exactly what they'll do.

[@easyonenow]

Have not watched or paid for years. Somehow I manage to get through the day. Scrap the fee, any imposed fee. You want it, you pay for it.

[@derekcooper1831]

If I don't watch the BBC why should I have to pay for it, either by the current TV licence, subscription or for some reason added on to my council tax?

[@colinrowe7593]

Pay for the service directly. Don't hide it as a tax. If I don't want the service, I should not need to pay for it. I don't want the BBC or any other legacy media in my home.

[@rachb373]

Your guest is SO wrong. If the licence fee was added on council tax, civil disobedience would be appropriate. DEFUND THE BBC!!!!!!!

[@IslandLife273]

I don’t watch pissing BBC. DO ONE!!!!

[@johndean1634]

What put on Council Tax. They can Shove that right where the doesn't Shine. Think Nigel better keep his gob shut.

[@james-i7p2g]

Nigel is as thick as two short planks.

[@matthewst537]

BBC have lost the right to have that licence

[@francescostello1377]

Really council tax, which is illegal in itself. Might want to report on where the council tax money really, goes, what it's used for, and it's most certainly not into the pockets of individual councils. All info on alternative, for those with critical thinking.

[@theequaliser8026]

Get rid of the TV license it should be made illegal nobody wants the BBC yet we are told we have to have it shocking

[@johndean1634]

How's about for filling there Manifesto on Abolishing the TV Licence. Or is that just another one to add to list of the Tory Failures.

[@tooyoungtobeold8756]

Instead of importing incoherent nurses and doctors etc, why not train our own? And how do students have dependents? You don't have to have a TV licence if you don't watch live tv or BBC iPlayer.

[@PaulHeath-k8d]

Not going to work, they will never let us opt out.

[@Ballinalower]

GB News has 140 employees. ITV has 6,273. BBC has 21,281. That is the problem.

[@SJ-dm3eb]

The BBC would love this idea. Just scrap the license nobody wants it.

[@dazp6002]

Wasn't it part of the conservative Manifesto to cancel the TV Licence?

[@SmartCookie2022]

No, the government promised to fund free TV Licences for our over 75s in the Manifesto but broke that pledge.

[@paulm2339]

If they put the TV licence fee on the council tax then you stop paying council tax

[@nezuko6208]

I pay £60 a year for the streaming service I use and KZbin is free, no way am I paying £173 to a broadcaster that hates me

[@IslandLife273]

Good reason to not pay council tax. I don’t watch it. How can it be legal to charge for a “service” you never need or choose.

[@traceybentham6214]

Well that Nigel should be a politican. Fancy suggesting that people with a house should pay more licence fee because you'd have more tv's in your house! He should be suggesting doing away with the licence fee!

[@VivianWilliams-iv1ls]

I like to know how much he is on and indeed what i his expenses are a year -which will invariably include the TV licence (to do his job etc as politicians do. The trouble is that those who can afford to pay do not or indeed claim it back from us.

[@SmartCookie2022]

He's GBN's very own Senior Political Commentator. Tha man's an overpaid buffoon.

[@routeman680]

Abolish the TV licence and don't raise funds for it any other way except voluntary subscription. I for one don't want it. The licence transfers money from the poor to the rich.

[@Elizabeth-jd3mn]

Just take away the license fee and leave it to market forces. The idea we need to pay for a national broadcaster when people are abandoning them for social media, Netflix, Sky and Spotify. It's outdated, let it go.

[@lindastone6868]

Adverts! Channel 4 seems to manage, why can't the BBC?

[@leighshelton1246]

they don't understand the ordinary people and their struggles.

[@stequality]

They do and are doing it on purpose

[@Keepingthefaith72]

I think adding BBC funding to the council tax would be a major mistake by any party that introduced it. It shows how out of touch these politicians are with the general public .....

[@RickP2012]

The problem with the BBC is the poor quality of content. They need to fix this first............and then privatise it. The solution is simple!

[@trace40]

Nobody should be paying for the BBC. It should be a service that people who want it should pay for. In other words a subscription channel. I won't bother with it after so many inaccurate biased reports on various things. I don't want to pay for propaganda and that's all it is.

[@gherkamum]

The public would love to see the back of Mr Lineker, who is payed £1.350,000 Million PA from our BBC tv licence fee, and so many people I’ve seen on other sports programs are just so much better than him…..No presenter is worth that sort of money…..

[@chrismccormick4178]

That would give people a good reason to not pay council tax

[@keithg1xfl]

NO WAY should it be added to Council Tax, WE should NOT be Forced to pay the BBC

[@lesleywild8706]

If it is added to the Council Tax it will be increased every year along with the CT - how fair is that? Anyway it is a different independent service.

[@robpalwrites]

I'll just start paying my council tax by manual payments and not pay the portion related a service I don't need or use. If they want my money for this, then they'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands.

[@chrissmith-wq6gr]

So to make it even easier, subscriptions only. Scrap the BBC.

[@trickyfocus]

Who in there right mind would subscribe to the BBC

[@mda5003]

He doesn't know what he's talking about - it is NOT just a licence to watch the BBC! If you want to watch or record any live broadcast from any TV company you need a licence. And as for adding it to Council Tax - no way! Of course I would 'opt out' and so would most people so my concern would be adding it without being able to opt out and as you are legally compelled to pay Council Tax that would mean heavy fines and possibly prison for not paying the full amount.

[@paulpratt1227]

Poll tax by stealth didn't work out to well for Maggie

[@S-Ltd1000]

I'll be one of many that will remind you that you definitely do not require a TV licence unless you watch or record live TV or watch iPlayer.

[@phucknuts.7065]

I would be in favour of guy Fawkes making a comeback if they try and pull this crap to make people pay for the bbc and their shite.

[@mishkatown8625]

TV is not something I watch, so why should it be included in Council Tax? In addition to the biased narratives that the BBC news puts out and only reports on certain stories that fit in with the narrative, I don't watch television because most of the stuff on it isn't worth the TV License fee. It has been 9 years since I stopped watching and I am proud of myself.

[@Diamondmine212]

The BBC must become a subscription service.

[@phillipdavies9233]

No TV Licence means: 1. No watching or downloading BBC programmes on iPlayer. 2. No watching or recording live TV on any channel, not just BBC. 3. No watching or recording live TV from paid-for TV services like Sky, Virgin Media or BT. 4. No watching or streaming live TV shows from online TV services like ITV Hub, All 4, Amazon Prime Video, or KZbin. This applies to any device, including a TV, computer, laptop, mobile phone, tablet games console, digital box or DVD/VHS recorder. If they add any TV Tax / Licence Fee to people's Council Tax then there needs to be a revolt. That would be a line drawn in the sand as far as i'm concerned.

[@enkisdaughter4795]

Nope. I don’t watch the rubbish the BBC puts out - they haven’t done decent programming for decades. Don’t see why I, and millions of others, have to pay for this crap. Make it like Sky, Virgin and BT, where you can decide whether or not you wish to purchase their product.

[@primusstovis3704]

Why the eff should I have to pay for a service that I do not use? Make the BBC subscription only, then if their product is any good they will survive. But, if they keep making the rubbish that they have been doing then they will fail.

[@thatveteran888]

can I have a refund for all the court cases BBC have had to pay ?

[@jayden3759]

Then stop paying council tax by the millions

[@stequality]

The labour voters will be happy to pay

[@reefermark5298]

please some one tell me WHY SHOULD ANYONE PAY FOR ANYTHING THEY D O N T W A N T

[@Edithae]

I refuse to pay for a Licence Fee because I oppose the BBC. By rolling it into my Council Tax, I will be forced to nlt pay my Council Tax.

[@personalcheeses8073]

The licence fee is not cheap. Especially if you are forced to pay for something you don’t use

[@Mostly_Richard]

On the BBC license fee -- no one should be forced to pay for a TV service they don't use or want! Why should we have to 'opt-out' rather than opting in?

[@HellRainGod]

thats not a council service so putting onto council tax IS ACTUALLY ILLEGAL BECAUSE ITS NOT A COUNCIL SERVICE, I NEED A SPECIAL LAW TO PROTECT MYSELF FROM SUCH TYRANTS AND MUCH MORE

[@daveyoung9090]

To force people to pay for something they neither want or use is theft....nothing less!

[@thesneak536]

Why should anyone be forced to pay for something they dont watch, I don't even have a working aerial to use. The assault on common sense gets worse and worse.

[@tomsmith8511]

Forced public funding of the BBC must end,enough is enough and times have changed since it was created. It should be a choice of the householder if they wish to pay for it.

[@christineross4155]

Absolutely not. This is not sbout how to pay for the BBC. Its about having a choice of whether we support them financially or not. We need a choice.

[@masterstuffing]

Lol conservatives had how long to stem migration.

[@kitcat4512]

Not had TV for 10 years, I will have to stop paying full council tax if they try to charge me for freeloaders' licences. We are charged for UN SDGs which have no value to most of us.

[@phillipwatson9906]

Make the BBC subscription simple as that

[@1320613]

They should make the bbc a subscription channel. Why should we be forced to pay for that dog faeces that does not in any way represent the citizens of the UK.

[@colincharlton9339]

Sell it off...let them get advertisements in, Other media companies have to stand on there own two feet...bbc should become the same..

[@tonynyland4719]

BBC advertising would solve the problem and not cost people anything I'm not interested in the BBC

[@Ghhft33]

Adding the tv licence to council tax is a massive assumption that everyone watches the BBC, streams or even watches regular tv. I for one do not and Im sure I’m not the only one. Totally unfair and Massively ignorant for this to be proposed….Get real and wake up to reality. The TV licence is a joke…..,!

[@alunjones3860]

How about an automatic opt out and one has to opt in, if they want the BBC, like every other pay per view service?

[@Cheezus-Crus7]

With how bad the BBC is, they should be paying us to watch their garbage.

[@keithlear9100]

I totally disagree with the idea of paying more Council tax by including TV in it. I have not had a TV licence for the last few years. I do not need a TV licence as I do not watch live broadcasts or BBC iPlayer. I watch ITVX, Amazon Prime, Netflix and KZbin. I could afford a TV licence but I object to the woke, left wing bias of the BBC, and the careless way it wastes money in many ways, including the exorbitant salaries it pays to some of its presenters. The thing I really want to hear is that the TV licence will become the BBC licence - in other words that you only need this licence in order to watch BBC programmes. The BBC should be more open and honest about the fact that you do not need a licence to watch streaming services. The way their threatening letters are very deceptive in the message they convey and many people pay for a TV licence because they think it is illegal if they do not have one.

[@wendymudkins8208]

Im not paying for something i dont watch i dont own a tv i dont have bbc i player i watch nothing of the bbc its all rubbish but i still get threatening letters defund the bbc put it to subscription

[@tonynyland4719]

Shows how important the MP's think this issue is by the amount of them attending

[@evgeniynagornyak1150]

😂illegals want to watch tv.We should pay.

[@dondarkblade1460]

then i wont be paying any council tax.

[@rjw4762]

Given that the BBC has lost 25% of its audience this past 20 years, I'd be happy to carry on paying 'the license fee' IF it was reduced by 25% (and they got rid of Lineker). I still wouldn't watch it much - and the biased News is to be avoided at all cost. As it is I see that it might be going UP - total disgrace, frankly.

[@joeblogs5163]

GTF, why should I be forced to pay for something, I have no intentions of using, it's blackmail.

[@SmartCookie2022]

Hang on a second. So GB News Senior Political Commentator, Nigel Nelson, has proposed integrating the BBC license fee into our council tax and this is somehow their own headline news?!! What the hell, GBN. You need to sack your Senior Political Commentator as he has worse ideas than Jeremy Hunt.

[@Wigthewoodbutcher..]

if you live in a three bedroom house on your own why should you pay more because you have a tv in each room. madness.