When you think of the sheer amount of infrastructure that we used to build in this country and now we cannot even maintain the infrastructure that is already there.
@Fat Controller I don't understand how you are forced to pay for the BBC? My daughter lives in her own house and has her own TV and has never paid for a TV License because she never watches the BBC - she mainly streams Amazon Prime. She has not yet suffered a custodial sentence!
The main reason we are technically required to have a tv licence, is that OH likes to watch live Formula 1, on a channel he has to pay for! Ludicrous.
If you have never paid, you are not on their radar. If you stop paying because you no longer watch live TV or iplayer, they tend to chase aggressively. Most prosecutions are of single mothers on benefits. Wealthy foreigners never get prosecuted ... just as they don't get done for speeding when racing their expensive cars through central London in the small hrs. Poorer folk are easy targets. @shiney, just imagine, all that building managed to take place without one single reversing lorry alarm!
I am always amazed at the amount of infra structure erected by "Paddy Power" before they moved into gambling.
I have never paid for a TV licence or had a TV in my house and I'm harassed, bullied and threatened by the licencing authority every couple of years. This lasts until I find the obscure part of their website allowing you to confirm you watch no TV or streaming service that would require a licence; this involves answering a quiz designed to catch you out and entering your personal details: note you have to enter your unique identifier from the letter to get as far as this part of the website.
It would be nice to have a time machine and go back and see the conditions those people were working under. I bet not many people these days would be able to keep up with those workers. When you consider their living conditions and their nutrition it must have been hard, and probably dead by 50.
West of Waterloo - took them four years to complete that part. I wonder how hard the horses worked. Bayswater station just as they completed it in 1866 And they opened it just afterwards
Thank you @Ergates, and apologies @Fat Controller, I was not aware that you needed a license to stream live TV on any channel. I thought it was only BBC channels.
It's not just us. I was watching a documentary last night about the state of the infrastructure in the US; the state of their bridges is terrifying.
This vehicle ... is reversing! It's got worse lately, they tell you when they're going to turn as well.
