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  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    Bedsit_Bob wrote: »
    Except, of course, you don't need to SORN a car you don't own.

    You're not that familiar with whole "analogy" thing, are you. ;)
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    Bedsit_Bob wrote: »
    Is there?

    Do tell.

    The DVLA, the police, the local councils.

    ETA:

    VOSA
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    Bedsit_Bob wrote: »
    What viewing :huh:

    Anything made by the BBC.
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • Flyboy152 wrote: »
    The question was, "what else does the licence fee pay for?" The licence fee pays for the radio and iPlayer.

    But it is unfair to say that using these services without having a licence is "freeloading", because you do not need a licence to use them. Hell, would you say anyone who doesn't have a licence who browses the BBC website for news is a free loader? Of course you wouldn't!
  • Flyboy152 wrote: »
    The DVLA, the police, the local councils.

    ETA:

    VOSA

    I've never had any of those "drop round" to check I'm not breaking the law.
  • Flyboy152 wrote: »
    Anything made by the BBC.

    What makes you think I watch anything made by the BBC?
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    Bedsit_Bob wrote: »
    I've never had any of those "drop round" to check I'm not breaking the law.

    Cornucopia wrote:

    "There's no other agency that just "drops round" to check that you aren't breaking the law...."

    I said there was and you asked who. I told you who. I did not say that they called around to you, did I.
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • But it is unfair to say that using these services without having a licence is "freeloading", because you do not need a licence to use them.

    Quite.

    Is a pedestrian "freeloading", when they walk across the road?

    I mean, they have bought a VEL, so what are they doing using the road? :mad:
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    Bedsit_Bob wrote: »
    What makes you think I watch anything made by the BBC?

    You mean to say that you never, ever, ever watch or listen to anything made by the BBC or Chanel Four?
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    Bedsit_Bob wrote: »
    Quite.

    Is a pedestrian "freeloading", when they walk across the road?

    I mean, they have bought a VEL, so what are they doing using the road? :mad:

    VEL is not to pay for roads.
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
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