Yet more proof, as if that were needed, that the entire British state runs on conveyor belt bureaucracy punctuated by written and verbal horseshit designed to legitimise and justify its total inadequacy and impropriety.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/feb/29/tv-licence-fee-scandal-1000-people-week-casually-criminalised

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The TV licence fee scandal: why are 1,000 people a week being casually criminalised?

Each year, tens of thousands of UK citizens are charged with non-payment of their TV licence fee – from the man who missed payments while in hospital, to a woman with a brain injury who forgot to pay

The Guardian