I cannot go along with the knee-jerk opposition by Daisy Cooper to removing an offence from the list of those for which ordinary people can be sent to prison. Receiving television pictures without a licence is hardly a crime for which offenders need to be taken off the streets. (See a previous post.)
I take Ms Cooper's point about the consequences of not repaying a civil debt but surely these are not as degrading as being sent to one of our drug-ridden, over-crowded gaols.
We should rather be fighting for a fairer means of funding a national broadcaster.The flat-rate licence fee is regressive, bearing down more on us poorer members of society while hardly being noticed by the richest.
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