|
Post by banjo on Jan 7, 2022 13:19:06 GMT
A good example of English brevity: "narcissists".
でつ e&oe ...
|
|
|
Post by banjo on Jan 14, 2022 15:08:55 GMT
Mr. Postie has just delivered my monthly threatening letter from the telly licence goons. Apparently I can prevent an enforcement visit on the 27th inst. (although it could be any other day dependent upon workload) if I telephone the maggots and state that we do not watch TV (or something along those lines?)
The trouble is, that would cost me a 'phone call and I find it mighty presumptuous of them to assume that I am going to be out of pocket in any small way to fascilitate their requirements. In short, I am disinclined to acquiesce to their request.
There's more! Apparently (according to today's missive) they make 8,000 visits each day on average based on work hours.) If one assumes that an enforcement team makes let's say ten visits a day, that amounts to 800 "officers". An army no less. If they each earn 25K per annum, that's 20 million a year. If there's two "officers" at each visit, we could maybe double that figure? Given that a proportion will be off on the tom and dick, or off to Torremolinos, it is probably a yet even higher statistic. I think that like much of the diarrhea that pours from them, what we have here is yet more blatant lying.
New Year and new job for BoJo then? TV licence authority head honcho?
でつ e&oe ...
|
|
|
Post by nob on Jan 14, 2022 16:52:15 GMT
Boris would be good at that, I like the Youtubes where the goons visit and the publics response.
|
|
|
Post by banjo on Jan 15, 2022 11:38:58 GMT
I am aware that they can apply to magistrates for search warrants. What they do is put in let's say a dozen such requests at a court and it gets rubber stamped at the scrag end of the day's hanging sessions much in the manner of "any other business".
If those bottom feeders pull a stunt like that on me, I shall demand to see the warrant and try to keep hold of it, or at least photograph it. This is because I shall then do my my best to take the hapless magistrate to task for granting such invasive powers to jumped up thugs with no evidence whatsoever that any "crime" has been committed. This is because as everyone on here knows, we haven't had a telly since the (black and white) licence renewal demand in January 1988. Moreover, when the scumbags "so included" any iPlayer shenanigans a couple of years ago, we promptly ceased watching that too. In addition, we don't watch live streams on YouTube, so there is no evidence. They could apply to a court for a warrant to allow access to my ISP, but it would cost them to do that and then they would still find no evidence.
These people are stinking shysters. I can understand that they have a mandate to apprehend licence dodgers whatever the merits in that, but to treat everyone as a criminal and send out monthly obfuscated threatening letters just stinks and they deserve all the grief they get.
Phew!
でつ e&oe ...
|
|
|
Post by nob on Jan 16, 2022 8:39:15 GMT
We let us hope peter Bones bill gets some traction and the licence is de-criminalised.
|
|
|
Post by banjo on Jan 17, 2022 0:18:40 GMT
Looks like the longest redundancy consultation period ever for that army of licence fee goons. Now they can update their sparce CVs in readiness for finding a real job. No sympathy from Château Hippy.
でつ e&oe ...
|
|
|
Post by duyuthinkysaurus on Mar 8, 2022 16:47:33 GMT
|
|
|
Post by banjo on Mar 8, 2022 23:11:14 GMT
At last, someone with the cojones and for once the beak displays common sense in interpretation of the law. youtu.be/ezUmZGKhrUAThe whole court process is so stressful, designed to exclude ordinary decent folk by grossly overpaid educated legalised sharks who trade on others' invidious situations. Whilst I cannot condone violence in ordinary terms, I take my hat off to the fella. でつ e&oe ...
|
|
|
Post by egg on Mar 9, 2022 21:15:55 GMT
Beautiful. Thanks for posting Dinks. Did you watch the silly Pillock who's destined to be King, almost drop his cheese ?? Priceless !! (as you may gather I have no respect for Bonnie Prince Charlie who IS a right Charlie IMHO )
|
|
|
Post by nob on Mar 10, 2022 16:50:26 GMT
Got the property tax letter today. A quid off 2k.
|
|
|
Post by banjo on Mar 11, 2022 0:44:52 GMT
I've given up with the brain dead idiots nob. Although it's true that we have three bedrooms, the third is what's left after a bathroom conversion carried out by a previous owner in a property that wasn't originally built with one. The third "bedroom" is a "box' room where unfortunately, because it has an airing cupboard door on one wall, there's nowhere you can put a bed without obstructing one of the doors. Effectively it is a two bedroom building. Margaret effin' Thatcher wax so bull-headed about her poll tax, that when she caved in and The Rates V.2.1 was introduced, she authorised sodding estate agents to re-assess all properties for Council Tax. Faced with such an onerous task and armed only with their special local knowledge, they cruised around the streets in their cars, charging thd guvmint for all their specialist local nous, and arbitrarily allocated bands to properties. We were awarded band "E". I tried the appeal process and was directed to stand in the Far Queue. I loathe them. To add insult to the overcharging balls-up, we don't even benefit from the bands A-D grants. "There's nowt so certain as death or taxes".
でつ e&oe ...
|
|
|
Post by nob on Mar 11, 2022 7:04:10 GMT
Steve, my parish tax has gone up 31.3% and nothing has changed as I can see. Its just one big rip off.
|
|
|
Post by banjo on Mar 11, 2022 9:57:09 GMT
"The party of low taxation". Well I guess it is when you reduce rates precepts amd strangle the councils. Every time the same tired old obfuscation and blatant lies. Fear, fear, uncertainty and BS. And doesn't it work well on all the lemmings?
でつ e&oe ...
|
|
|
Post by duyuthinkysaurus on Apr 14, 2022 12:21:47 GMT
|
|
|
Post by nob on Apr 15, 2022 6:59:23 GMT
Taking off the pensioners to give to themselves and illegals. Its going to be an interesting May5th election results.Signed Dinks.
|
|