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 Wisbech Eagle  Truro Cornwall 15 Jul 24 11.00am |
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Originally posted by Behind Enemy Lines
Non payment?! Put them in jail! It’s not illegal not to pay. It’s illegal to watch live TV without a licence and impractical to try to find transgressions. Which is why an alternative will be found, which responds to today’s situation and not yesterday’s. How this is done whilst ensuring the government of the day is kept at arms length is yet to be determined.
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| Behind Enemy Lines Sussex 15 Jul 24 12.02pm |
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
It’s not illegal not to pay. It’s illegal to watch live TV without a licence and impractical to try to find transgressions. Which is why an alternative will be found, which responds to today’s situation and not yesterday’s. How this is done whilst ensuring the government of the day is kept at arms length is yet to be determined. Is that just the for the TV licence, or can I not pay my taxes and not go to jail?
hats off to palace, they were always gonna be louder, and hate to say it but they were impressive ALL bouncing and singing. |
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| The Dolphin 23 Jul 24 3.58pm |
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Fancy getting a pay rise while under suspension for possible sexual offences - work for the BBC!
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Forest Hillbilly  in a hidey-hole 23 Jul 24 4.07pm |
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Originally posted by The Dolphin
Fancy getting a pay rise while under suspension for possible sexual offences - work for the BBC! A rise of £40,000.
I disengage, I turn the page. |
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| EverybodyDannsNow SE19 23 Jul 24 4.18pm |
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Originally posted by The Dolphin
Not much reporting by Auntie about Labour allowing 70,000 or more asylum seekers to stay here, nor of them being allowed to bring families over which could attract another 500,000 people - hmm - wonder why! It probably has something to do with the fact they've been in power for two and half weeks. Take some deep breaths and you'll be ok - ranting less than a month into a new government is just silly - nothing they have done has had any significant impact yet. Edited by EverybodyDannsNow (23 Jul 2024 4.18pm)
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Teddy Eagle  23 Jul 24 4.23pm |
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cryrst  The garden of England 23 Jul 24 6.45pm |
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Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow
It probably has something to do with the fact they've been in power for two and half weeks. Take some deep breaths and you'll be ok - ranting less than a month into a new government is just silly - nothing they have done has had any significant impact yet. Edited by EverybodyDannsNow (23 Jul 2024 4.18pm) Seemed to work for labour voters in 2010 !
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| Behind Enemy Lines Sussex 23 Jul 24 6.58pm |
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Originally posted by The Dolphin
Not much reporting by Auntie about Labour allowing 70,000 or more asylum seekers to stay here, nor of them being allowed to bring families over which could attract another 500,000 people - hmm - wonder why! On BBC’s Politics Live this lunchtime, one of the topics was about the 70,000 claims for asylum that would now result. There was some Labour bint that persisted in saying that failed asylum seekers would be sent back to a country they traveled from and when challenged could only remark that was the natural course of events and that somehow it would magically work that way. If she was challenged by the Tory she would talk over her words. Even the chairwoman said “if you don’t mind me saying, it appears a bit vague”. Labour have no idea how to solve this; all they can do is undo whatever the previous government put in place.
hats off to palace, they were always gonna be louder, and hate to say it but they were impressive ALL bouncing and singing. |
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| cryrst The garden of England 23 Jul 24 7.22pm |
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Originally posted by XKudu
Labour and the Democrats will always get an easy rise from the BBC. They’re ‘“their guys”. I just wish they’d be impartial but they’re incapable of it at that level. I had a mate who worked for the BBC and was a middle to left Tory. He felt bullied and ostracised and was constantly labelled ‘right wing’ or ‘far right’ although that was not true and he only mentioned his political leaning in passing. The BBC is like Universities. They’re stuffed with the liberal left who are the biggest bullies in the world. Staff who want a career or keep their jobs are brow beaten into accepting the status quo. We can all see it. Edited by XKudu (23 Jul 2024 7.17pm) Wissie incoming
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| cryrst The garden of England 23 Jul 24 8.11pm |
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Originally posted by XKudu
Is Wissie the guy who hates Trump so much he called Biden words to the effect ‘a bit forgotten, like me at times’, but is completely sharp and focused and has his marbles’. I could trawl back but I can’t be arsed. Edited by XKudu (23 Jul 2024 7.47pm) Yup and FYI he says the BBC is totally unbiased, straight down the middle and doesn’t take sides. I doubt he knows many or any who have worked for them though like you do. Be careful how you write though as you may get a lemon very quickly.
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| cryrst The garden of England 23 Jul 24 8.24pm |
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Originally posted by XKudu
I just hope the US get’s someone (Republican or Democrat) who will stand up for American standards, grow the economy, cut the crazy ‘free for all’ immigration, be tough on crime and help health care. Is that to much to ask? I lived off the Hamilton Road in Baltimore in the late 1980’s and worked in Fell’s Point in the docks. It was wonderful, cosmopolitan, edgy and soul giving. Listening to old friends’s (black & white) it’s not the same now and you’d probably get shot doing what I did. We make excuses for politicians but the failure is a case of a bad local political management over the last 40 years. Mostly dare I say from failed left & liberal policies. Who suffers most under these policies? The black community. Disgraceful. Yup but some are too dumb to realise you can make it without food stamps. There are two wonderful role models amongst 100s to prove it and both will certainly give their opinion. Denzel and Morgan are but two.
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| XKudu The Midlands, England 23 Jul 24 8.31pm |
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what’s a lemon? Is it like free speech ban?
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| cryrst The garden of England 23 Jul 24 9.13pm |
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Originally posted by XKudu
what’s a lemon? Is it like free speech ban? Pretty much as there is a report button which goes to the mods who decide if you have overstepped the mark. I find them quite liberal in their decisions ( in a language sense not political
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| XKudu The Midlands, England 23 Jul 24 10.20pm |
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Thanks. Good advice and I think a fair policy.
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| Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 23 Jul 24 10.32pm |
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Originally posted by cryrst
Yup and FYI he says the BBC is totally unbiased, straight down the middle and doesn’t take sides. I doubt he knows many or any who have worked for them though like you do. Be careful how you write though as you may get a lemon very quickly. I have a good friend who is the executive director of one of the BBC’s most successful long running dramas. He has won a BAFTA. So I am reasonably well informed on how the BBC approach their responsibilities. Previous to this he wrote scripts for several of the longest running shows and the lengths that were gone to to get inside the subject are very impressive. Deciding story lines that illuminate areas of current interest is treated very seriously and then great effort is made to present all viewpoints.
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