Submitted on Saturday 17th March 2012
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Ban TV Licence Fee
The Government should force the BBC to scrap the Licence Fee and accept advertising. A lot of TV is subscription based now giving viewers a CHOICE of whether to subscribe or not. The Licence Fee is an ENFORCED UNFAIR TAX, whether you want to watch BBC or not, and should be scrapped forthwith.
UK households receiving pay vs free TV on their main TVs
Free 50.4% {13,033,440} viewers Total, Freesat, Freesat from Sky, Freeview, analogue terrestrial TV
Pay 49.6% {12,826,560} viewers Total
Sky TV, Smallworld Cable, TalkTalk TV, Top Up TV, Virgin Media, Wightcable
UK households by broadcast/reception system on their main TVs
Terrestrial (free) 47.6% {12,300,000} viewers, Analogue terrestrial, Freeview
Cable (pay) 12.0% {3,100,000} viewer total
Smallworld Cable, Virgin Media, Wightcable
So why are we still paying this Fee, that goes up every year, When i'm already paying £23 pm for my TV service. That comes into my house via cable.
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
18.188.59.124 Thu, 21 Nov 2024 22:32:34 +0000
