she sings and sighs as the shuttle flies

I guess that I don't really have a right to be outraged as I don't pay the TV tax, but I do think that (a) it was a stupid idea and (b) I can't really blame people who are against the BBC for jumping on this bandwagon (if they're going to lob easy balls they can't complain if people knock them all around the pitch). So many things seem to have gone wrong here simultaneously that I interpret the conflation of issues as just not being sure which one to pursue first.