Petition Decriminalisation of non-payment of the BBC license fee.

In 2015, the former justice secretary said the crime should be downgraded to a civil offence due to the huge strain placed on the courts by license fee cases.
BBC bosses are desperate to keep it a criminal charge for fear that droves of people will not pay if there is no longer a jail threat.

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33 signatures

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Date closed 6 November 2019
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