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@Catogrande said in British Politics:
@Bones Fuck you Bones, now I have waking nightmares.
you missed the "n"
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@Bones said in British Politics:
@Catogrande said in British Politics:
@Bones Fuck you Bones, now I have waking nightmares.
You missed out an 'n'.
haha snap!!
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@Crucial said in British Politics:
@jegga said in British Politics:
Everyone humble bragging about having hair GFYs
No wonder you are so bitter at the world
I save a bloody fortune in shampoo mate .
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@MajorRage said in British Politics:
I think the comments sum up my thoughts.
Gold. Doyle has quite the gift in summing up these issues in so few words.
To paraphrase Douglas Murray, In the grand scheme of things woke ideology only came about last week, the rules are undefined, constantly changing and breaking these rules can have significant negative consequences on someones life and freedoms.
I listened to this interview the other day with Paul Embery who is a firefighter, trade unionist and die hard Labour supporter in regards to the divide in the Labour party between the traditional working class and the middle-class urban wokeists. I see this as reflective of the existing media (including the BBC) whose content might be disproportionally put together by this loud minority of wokeists who may be generally disconnected from audiences who don't view the world through their lens.
(This 5 minute clip is a good summary)
From what I understand despite the Sun's headline discussion at the moment regarding the license fee is just to decriminalise non-payment, its not until 2027 that there can be any removal of the fee. Just because it may be decriminalised won't mean they won't still receive their funding but I don't see any harm in the BBC getting a bit of a shakeup (and maybe that is all Boris et al are trying to achieve here) and reminder that their security isn't guaranteed if they are to venture away from impartiality guidelines or into too much London centric representation. I would think the election result should also be a bit of a wake-up call as to the UKs views as a whole.
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@Rembrandt yeah, I thought the general dissatisfaction of the BBC was more around governance than content. A lot of taxpayer money spent on achieving superficial equality with men getting pay cuts and women getting staggering compensation payouts. Perhaps another example of get woke, go broke.
Similar to the labour and lib dems parties
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@mariner4life said in British Politics:
@Bones said in British Politics:
@Catogrande said in British Politics:
@Bones Fuck you Bones, now I have waking nightmares.
You missed out an 'n'.
haha snap!!
#booboo
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@Siam said in British Politics:
@Rembrandt yeah, I thought the general dissatisfaction of the BBC was more around governance than content. A lot of taxpayer money spent on achieving superficial equality with men getting pay cuts and women getting staggering compensation payouts. Perhaps another example of get woke, go broke.
Certainly that too. It's not something that's easily tabulated but there is certainly at least the perception by some (rightly or wrongly) that the BBC doesn't represent views fairly. Get woke go broke tends to only work when an institution isn't propped up by tax dollars and that's where the rub is.
Aussies ABC is another shocker with calls to reduce funding, remember this gem?
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I just don't think the BBC is actually very good. It is not that entertaining and it cannot really be trusted to be informative .
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in British Politics:
I just don't think the BBC is actually very good. It is not that entertaining and it cannot really be trusted to be informative
It's subjective of course. The closer your views are to the BBC's the less of an issue you'll have with it
In the decade I lived there I got limited value out of them. The news coverage was hostile to my views and the only show I regularly watched was University Challenge
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I don't watch any of their news or current affairs stuff at all but use iPlayer quite a bit. Usually find something new or re-watchable on it.
Probably helps my perception that I never paid a licence fee.
BTW the licence fee is dependent on watching any broadcast TV as (or nearly as) it is being shown i.e.broadcast
Doesn't matter if you are watching BBC, ITV, C4 or whatever.
Yes, the Beeb is funded from the licence but paying the licence is not dependent on watching/receiving the Beeb...and here's a weird anomaly of the ever changing rules trying to keep up with technology.
A battery powered TV or receiving device (e.g. phone, iPad) can only by watched away from the licensed home when not connected to the power.
Also you cannot legally watch TV in the UK if you live in a motor home or canal boat and have no fixed address covered by a licence. -
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in British Politics:
I just don't think the BBC is actually very good. It is not that entertaining and it cannot really be trusted to be informative .
Supporting the BBC and licence fees is often more about elitism than actually enjoying the channel, kinda television virtual signalling.Eh? Labelling people who see value in something where you don't.
So all the people that happily pay their licence and watch 'Strictly Come Dancing' are virtue signalling what? Hasbeen 3rd rate celebs prancing in costumes?
Shows like The Young Ones and Monty Python only got a start because of the TV Licence environment. That alone is good enough for me.
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The BBC does History documentaries far better than anyone else in the world apart from Ken Burns. So the licence fee is worth it IMHO.
Most of their mainstream political coverage is excellent (David Dimbleby, Michael Cockrill, Laura Kuennsberg, Jeremy Paxman, Andrew Neil, Chris Mason, Nick Robinson, Fiona Bruce, Faisal Islam & John Pinner are all great), although I avoid the Andrew Marr show and their local London news because of the obvious and ridiculous PC/lefty bias.
Think the BBC website is superb for Sport news. Enjoy their coverage of the Olympics, athletics, tennis and soccer. Their Rugby coverage is a mixed bag, Gabby Logan, Brian Moore and Martin Johnson are very good, less keen on John Inverdale or Jonathan Davies. Enjoy Test Match Special on the radio, shame they abandoned televised Cricket.
They have introduced some outstanding comedy over the years: the Goons, Hancock's Half hour, Monty Python, Dad's Army, Fawlty Towers, Young Ones, Yes Minister, Blackadder, Alan Partridge, The Office, Little Britain, Fleabag.
I'm more concerned with the increasingly dire, woke and irrelevant Channel 4 (edit: receiving public money) being publicly owed. Clearly needs to be privitised.
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