Abolish The TV Licence Fee

I hate this stereotype of students having silly amounts of money, being able to go out and get ratarsed every day of the week, then sitting down, watching TV and never doing anything. I actually find it offensive.

I go out once, maybe twice a week, once down the SU where I spend not more than a tenner.

There are maybe 2 show I watch on TV, which I can watch just as easily on iPlayer or 4oD. And contrary to popular belief, students do actually have work to do. Whether they bother to do it or not is their business but while we’re not out with a drill or bricks and mortarfor 12 hours every day, nor are we bored out of our mind flipping burgers or boxing teacakes (not fruitcakes, breadcakes or fruit teacakes, the regular bread rolls you eat a chip butty in) or buns or whatever, but the average student does actually get the books out and does their essays. And you call centre jocks can bugger off anall, 50% of you assheads do less work than the least conscientious student! If you did, I wouldn’t be sat in a 3-hour queue on an 0845 number just to get through to your sorry ass to tell me that your company screwed up my gas bill AGAIN (which I already knew, or else I wouldn’t have called), but that there’s nothing you can do about it. And I know for a fact the student bar-workers will love getting some bugger else to pour THEIR drinks for them, while showing the barkeep the same contempt as they themselves are shown by every Tom, Dick and Harry who loves to badmouth students’ drinking habits.

We’re paying through the nose to try and better ourselves. And we go out a damn sight less than your average factory/call centre jock, and probably drink a lot less too, contrary to the crap the Daily Mail or the Mirror or the Sun (the ‘old favourites’) will tell you. Your average town centre on a Friday and Saturday night is NOT filled with students. Indeed, your average Wednesday night isn’t either in most places.

It’s all a pile of crap that those who have never been to uni like to spew. Like those who work at the TVLC/BBC. They’ve never been to uni. Oh wait, they studied Extortion at Oxford.

I agree, students shouldn’t have to pay TV license. Mostly because I think NOBODY should have to pay one. And yes, to bring it back to the ORIGINAL point, that ‘crappy excuses’ and the ‘ways to pay’ patronising bullshit is utterly offensive to students. I consider it an insult to my intelligence and I know many other students feel the same.