“The BBC collects the (licence) fee, creating a personal contract with every household”. Patricia Hodgson, a Dame Commander of the British Empire and British Broadcasting Corp. trustee writing in The Financial Times.
“This is an official warning that the TV Licensing Enforcement Division will be proceeding with a full investigation of the above address. This is because there is still no record of a TV licence at this property, despite our previous letters”. Letter from the BBC to a householder who has not asked its permission to watch television.
If “Dame” Hodgson is right the relationship between victim and protection racketeer must also be a “personal contract” created by the gangster’s visits.