Unputdownable

Fellow blogger, TV Licensing Blog, has created this wonderful reference work for people who are sick to death of the BBC, and the deceitful harassment that passes for the “operation” of the BBC TV Licensing™ contract. You are urged to take the time and trouble to download and study “TV Licensing Laid Bare”. Unputdownable.

Over the last few days the TV Licensing Blog has been producing its first information book about the TV licence system here in the UK.

TV Licensing Laid Bare begins by identifying the key players in the TV licence system. The emphasis then shifts towards the legal basis of the fee, and clearly explains circumstances in which a TV licence is required. After a short analysis of how the licence fee is spent the book gives detailed information about how the TV licence is enforced. The book concludes with practical words of advice for the thousands of legally licence free people, who are regularly harassed by TV Licensing's correspondence and employees.

TV Licensing Laid Bare, can be downloaded at the TV Licensing Blog.

The value of domestic cctv surveillance and handheld video camera can prove invaluable in gathering evidence of the serial abuses and misdemeanours perpetrated by employees of Capita Business Services under cover of the BBC TV Licensing™ contract. TV Licensing Watch advise anybody who has the misfortune to have face to face dealings with Capita Business Services TV Licensing™ to make an audio-visual record of those dealings in their entirety covertly or overtly with cctv and handheld video cameras.

For people who have not exercised their right to remain silent, TV Licensing Watch advise anybody who has had the misfortune to have face to face dealings with Capita Business Services TV Licensing™ and have received a summons as a consequence to contact a licensed law practitioner if: there is the slightest discrepancy between the actual situation regarding viewing habits and/or what actually happened during the interview compared with what has been written on the TVL178 Record of Interview self incrimination form.

Doing it by the book?

We at TV Licensing Watch suspected we would not have long to wait for yet more video evidence of Capita Business Services “operation” of the BBC’s TV Licensing™ contract to become public. The BBC “have overall responsibility” for TV Licensing™ and the operation of the TV Licensing™ contract by its contractors, such as Capita Business Services. So, presumably the BBC will ultimately take responsibility for the actions of this miserable, shabby-looking TV Licensing™ field operative specimen.

We at TV Licensing Watch think that the BBC will hide behind the usual excuse that “disciplinary matters relating to TV Licensing™ field operations (sic) are a matter for our contractor Capita Business Services”. So, BBC, not so much “arms length management” as “completely hands-off management” of the BBC TV Licensing™ contract.

Apart from parrotting "you're being silly" to the video camera, here are some of TV Licensing™ miserable specimen’s more memorable quotes:

“You are watching television and you don’t have a television licence”(zero proof of that)

“I don’t trust your word, TV Licensing™ don’t trust your word”(tell us something we don't know)

“we will come back with police”(tv licensing is not a police matter)

Straight from the BBC TV Licensing™ Visiting Procedures manual? We at TV Licensing Watch do not think so. We think we know who's being "silly" but will leave others to make that decision. Verbally making threats and accusations on the basis of no evidence whatsoever; aggressive, argumentative and abusive behaviour; not complying with the requirements of TV Licensing™ visiting procedures.

If such behaviours are permitted under the terms of the BBC TV Licensing™ contract perhaps someone at the BBC would care to come here and explain.

The value of domestic cctv surveillance and handheld video camera can prove invaluable in gathering evidence of the serial abuses and misdemeanours perpetrated by employees of Capita Business Services under cover of the BBC TV Licensing™ contract. TV Licensing Watch advise anybody who has the misfortune to have face to face dealings with Capita Business Services TV Licensing™ to make an audio-visual record of those dealings in their entirety covertly or overtly with cctv and handheld video cameras.

For people who have not exercised their right to remain silent, TV Licensing Watch advise anybody who has had the misfortune to have face to face dealings with Capita Business Services TV Licensing™ and have received a summons as a consequence to contact a licensed law practitioner if: there is the slightest discrepancy between the actual situation regarding viewing habits and/or what actually happened during the interview compared with what has been written on the TVL178 Record of Interview self incrimination form.

Show trials

Among the mail delivered today was a missive addressed to "Legal Occupier". Being one of the legal occupiers, I read the missive. It was from TV Licensing™. For those of you who don't know, TV Licensing™ is a trademarked umbrella trading name created by the British Broadcasting Corporation Ltd (BBC). It is under the umbrella of TV Licensing™ that companies contracted by the BBC operate the BBC's TV Licensing™ contract. The missive concerned is but one product of many of the BBC TV Licensing™ contract. I am not unique, the postman regularly delivers several hundred at a time; so he tells me and I have no reason to disbelieve him.

The missive I read had the subject heading "What to expect in court" and it contained a direct threat to the person who read it. Failure to procure a television licence would lead to prosecution, a fine of up to £1,000 plus costs. The missive and the threat it conveyed got TV Licensing Watch wondering.

What have the BBC and repressive political regimes got in common? Both use a judicial system as a means of control and repression. Another feature in common between, for example, the show trials of past totalitarian Marxist regimes and prosecutions brought by TV Licensing™ is, that for successful conviction, both rely on confession and not on actual exhibited evidence presented to a court.

Rather than rely on actual physical evidence presented to a court, TV Licensing™ rely on what is known as a TVL178 Record of Interview form. Under the BBC TV Licensing™ contract, employees of Capita Business Services visit unlicensed addresses door to door completing these record of interview forms getting people to sign them and then the completed forms are processed by the Capita Business Services TV Licensing™ prosecution sausage machine. Under the TV Licensing™ contract public relations companies boast in the press how many hundreds of thousands of people every year get prosecuted for and on behalf of the BBC.

Whenever you pass a magistrates court think about the BBC's show trials that take place within. The chances are that apart from magistrates, court staff and TV Licensing™ prosecutor the court itself will be deserted. The BBC doesn't like its dirty work in the magistrates courts to be witnessed by anyone; so make some time, go in and see for yourself how the BBC likes its show trials to be conducted. It will be more informative than reading TV Licensing™ template newspaper articles in the local press.

The value of domestic cctv surveillance and handheld video camera can prove invaluable in gathering evidence of the serial abuses and misdemeanours perpetrated by employees of Capita Business Services under cover of the BBC TV Licensing™ contract. TV Licensing Watch advise anybody who has the misfortune to have face to face dealings with Capita Business Services TV Licensing™ to make an audio-visual record of those dealings in their entirety covertly or overtly with cctv and handheld video cameras.

For people who have not exercised their right to remain silent, TV Licensing Watch advise anybody who has had the misfortune to have face to face dealings with Capita Business Services TV Licensing™ and have received a summons as a consequence to contact a licensed law practitioner if: there is the slightest discrepancy between the actual situation regarding viewing habits and/or what actually happened during the interview compared with what has been written on the TVL178 Record of Interview self incrimination form.