TV LICENSE EVASION WILL BE DECRIMINALISED

One again with unfailing regularity the question of the decriminalisation of TV license evasion is a subject for much of the media. This saga will have only one end; the law will be changed when the bargaining over the renewal of the BBC charter is concluded. Early comments here were on 9th March 2014 around the time of a previous government review of the subject although when I was blogging at another host [2009-2013 and now bankrupt and unavailable] that topic received more comments than any other. Last December I commented on the current situation. Questions are now being asked in the House of Lords and in particular that of yesterday querying whether transferring to the civil court would remove the threat of custody for non payment of an imposed fine. 

With the feeble opposition across from the government benches it is now the case that for whatever the cabinet wants to legislate it will be almost a foregone conclusion that it will be enacted.  TV license evasion will be decriminalised; it is just a matter of when, not if.