I don’t pay my license fee, as I do not watch the BBC or any live broadcasts or utilise the BBC Iplayer. As long as you don’t do any of those things you do not have to pay the license fee. I stopped paying 5 years ago and I get threatening letters from them but they are meaningless as long as I am not watching the BBC products, or as rightly said above I do not allow anyone in to check (I don’t even have a cable box connected to my telly and am not signed up to the Iplayer so I just ignore the letters) The first year I went online and informed them properly and my reasons (the covering up and therefore support of child predators and blatant bias towards the left) but they then expect you to “opt out” every year and send the threatening letters in the hope people will pay. One of the sneakiest things they do is warn you that they will be deleting your Iplayer account for lack of use, just log in to make sure it isn’t deleted, at which point you are liable for the license fee!

BBC used to be respected but certainly in England they are seen now as a propaganda channel - same as any other state tv channel