{"id":23508,"date":"2026-05-09T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/23508\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T07:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:00:36","slug":"national-shame-bbc-sparks-fury-with-ominous-tv-licence-scheme-as-brits-living-in-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/23508\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;National SHAME&#8217; BBC sparks FURY with &#8216;OMINOUS&#8217; TV licence scheme as Brits &#8216;living in fear&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"&#039;National SHAME&#039; BBC sparks FURY with &#039;OMINOUS&#039; TV licence scheme as Brits &#039;living in fear&#039;\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d9JK4lBMboE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n&#8216;National SHAME&#8217; BBC sparks FURY with &#8216;OMINOUS&#8217; TV licence scheme as Brits &#8216;living in fear&#8217;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nBrits trying to cancel their TV licences are tearing their hair out over the hoops put in place for them to jump through, just to free themselves of the now \u00a3180 yearly charge.<\/p>\n<p>Documents obtained by Freedom of Information Request show TV licensing has been deploying a &#8216;web deflection test&#8217; to reduce the number of cancellations. <\/p>\n<p>Brought in in January 2024, the test was initially shown to 10% of users, but was quickly ramped up to 33% by 1st February and 100% of of users shortly after that. The contractor, in the documents, has found the test very effective at reducing cancellations.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as the BBC receives criticism for its &#8216;invasive&#8217; tactics of Licence fee collection, as Brits say they are &#8216;living in fear&#8217; of a knock on the door after receiving a series of &#8216;threatening&#8217; letters.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Whitfield from TV Licence Resistance tells Nick Dunning there is a &#8216;constant flow&#8217; of fearful members of the public contacting his organisation for help.<\/p>\n<p>#politics #bbc #bias #freespeech #labour <\/p>\n<p>By Nicholas Dunning<\/p>\n<p>Keep up to date with GB News at gbnews.com or on X @GBNEWS<\/p>\n<p>Become a Friend of GB News: gbnews.com\/friend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;National SHAME&#8217; BBC sparks FURY with &#8216;OMINOUS&#8217; TV licence scheme as Brits &#8216;living in fear&#8217; Brits trying to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[417],"tags":[473,176,26217,26214,236,6914,442,471,472,263,264,26216,31,474,247,475,824,26215,279,235],"class_list":{"0":"post-23508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gb-news","8":"tag-analysis","9":"tag-bbc","10":"tag-bbc-bias","11":"tag-bias","12":"tag-breaking-news","13":"tag-free-speech","14":"tag-gb-news","15":"tag-gb-news-live","16":"tag-gbn","17":"tag-keir-starmer","18":"tag-labour","19":"tag-licence-fee","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-news-update","22":"tag-politics","23":"tag-reports","24":"tag-tax","25":"tag-tv-licence","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116543446258156160","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}