I pay a TV tax in the UK - its paid to fund the BBC and is an obligatory licence fee . Non payment has traditionally, as a last resort, been punishable by a prison sentence.
Why the hell am I being forced to pay the wages of a man like Jeremy Clarkson ? The man is a reactionary bigot playground bully bore and now, it would seem, a racist to boot.
I'm sick of him. He's a pompous smug bloated twat. I want my money back.
I was once of the mind that the licence fee was needed to provide an impartial media, free from vested interest. But as time has gone on it has become clear the BBC is a puppet of the Government (remember Greg Dyke getting the push for daring to question the validity of the Iraq "weapons of mass destruction" BS) - and it seems to me that if The Guardian can function on advertising revenue and still maintain an impartiality that, quite honestly, puts the BBC to shame, then maybe there would be a good arguement for abolishing the licence fee altogether.
