Does anyone in the UK have a TV licence?

I don't have one because I don't need one. As a result, I receive a letter from TV licencing every few weeks threatening "enforcement visits" and "hearings in my local court" unless I buy a TV licence or explain why I don't need one. I just throw the letter in the bin.

One I received today stated that they carried out 10101 enforcement visits [b]every day[/b] last year. As they claim to visit at weekends as well as weekdays that makes a total of 3 686 865 enforcement visits. As there are approximately 28 million homes in the UK ( http://visual.ons.gov.uk/uk-perspectives-2016-housing-and-home-ownership-in-the-uk/ ) that means they visit approximately 1 in every 7.6 homes. I've never had such a visit so obviously they don't visit everyone who doesn't have a TV licence. I also presume they don't visit people who do have a TV licence.

The figures suggest hardly anyone has a TV licence - or are TV licencing's claims just more bullshit?

MartinII · 70-79, M

It's a scandal. In my view the licence fee should be abolished and the BBC either privatised or funded directly from general taxation. A side benefit would be to stop the appalling waste of money involved in licence "enforcement".

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@MartinII:

Privatising the BBC would destroy it. Entire tax-funding would risk making it a plaything of politicians who love to run services they don't understand.