Conservatives making things up and getting angry about it
TV licence is a real thing though
It’s just a way of funding the BBC that was devised before a TV was something that essentially everyone had. Since it’s delivered OTA it seemed easier to tax the device itself then it was to tax everyone unfairly. So calling it a “license” is fairly outmoded, it’s really a tax. You also don’t have to pay it if you don’t actually receive TV channels.
It should just be rolled into regular taxes now, but who is going to propose and approve a new tax in this day and age? So it’s easier not to touch it.
I wish we had a TV tax in Canada. The funding of the CBC is a political football, so I sometimes feel like CBC News has to walk a tightrope to avoid having the government slash the budget.
It’s probably better that there’s just a tax on the device. Sure the UK government could meddle with that tax to cut the budget of the BBC, but it feels like it would be less likely since people would rightly ask why they’re meddling with it. People are less likely to ask questions if the government is cutting a budget because “gotta pay off the national debt!”
This reminds me of how Brits were always totally obsessed with all the regulations that the unelected EU bureaucrats were supposedly inflicting on us all the time, and then you’d go to France and see kids diving off a high-board into a shallow pool contaminated with battery acid with absolutely no lifeguards to be seen, and generally no-one seems to give a shit.
Not all of France is like Paris, and the Seine is not a pool. (Plus, battery acid would probably count as a good attempt to clean it up, not as contamination.)
French people let their dogs shit absolutely everywhere and nobody cares. That was the really surprising thing for me.
Paris is beautiful but you better keep an eye on where you’re stepping.
American flag checks out.
I know Anons are dumb, but are they voting for Nigel Farage dumb?
Well of course! Facism is the solution to an overbearing government, right?
Which is worse, Thatcher or Farage?
Thatcher, may she burn in hell, was far better than Farage. She at least had significant political skill, and an actual plan for the UK.
Farage is a grifter of Trump’s mindset, but a few more braincells.
Thatcher’s thangs were thangin’ though.
Ew.
What do you expect from the gaseous and liquid excrement of Satan?
Every time Thatcher sexily spoke about fiscal responsibility I got an inch and a half of blue steel in my sweatpants.
Oi! Where’s your greentext permit?
Tell me about it, it’s like, every time I want to get some grilled prawns there’s always someone who goes “Oi mate, where’s yer Barbie license?”
This reads like a satire of those greentexts that satirize the knife laws in Britain.
It definitely reads like it was written by an American.
Queen’s dodger can mean
- someone who lives with the queen
- someone who performs crimes on behalf of the queen
- someone who finds those called for the draft but have not registered on behalf of the queen
Which is it?
Surely a fruit filled biscuit is another possibility.
someone who lives with the queen
Surely that would be the Queen’s lodger?
rhyming slang, me ol China
But in rhyming slang, you use the non-rhyming word (e.g. “china” = “china plate” = “mate”)