Edmonds begins TV licence boycott

[Sweetpea]

Presenter Noel Edmonds has stopped paying his TV licence fee as he does not like the BBC's "threatening" manner towards those who evade the charge.
"Auntie's put boxing gloves on. I'm so incensed by the idea that I'm guilty of something that I actually cancelled my licence fee a few months ago," he said.
No organisation would threaten him, he added. "They haven't found me, and nobody's come knocking on the door." TV Licensing said "the law was clear" that evaders risked a £1,000 fine.

Edmonds, a former BBC Radio 1 breakfast DJ and host of BBC TV shows such as Noel's House Party, said there was now "an aggressive culture" in the UK. "There are too many organisations - and the BBC is a fabulous organisation - that seem to think it's OK to badger, hector and threaten people," he told BBC One's Breakfast.

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I am a bit suss about his motives but good on him. The BBC do send out some really quite threatening letters.

[Churchill]

No matter what his motices are, he's bloody too right. Look at those nasty TV adverts about road tax where they crush cars? Menacing and unecessary. And the ones on the radio saying landlords need a 10K licence or they'll go to prison.

They've criminalised everything and everyone.