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  • should completely lock us down immediately and fook up all our Christmas'

    Votes: 3 12.5%

  • let the bodies stack high

    Votes: 13 54.2%

  • lock us down from the 29th to fook up Treble's plans

    Votes: 8 33.3%
  • Total voters
    24
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'Around half' of newest Tory MPs submit no confidence letters
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Laura Kuenssberg

Political editor

A Tory MP has claimed to the BBC that "around half" of the group of about 20 MPs elected in 2019 have this morning submitted letters of no confidence in Boris Johnson in an attempt to trigger a leadership contest.

The MP says that quotes from ministers that they were "idiots" and "fools" had hardened their attitude, and that some of them were threatened with losing their seats under planned boundary changes last night.

MPs submit their letters secretly so it is impossible to confirm the number that have already been submitted.

Only MP Sir Graham Brady, chair of the Conservative backbench 1922 committee - who receives and counts up the no-confidence requests - knows the exact number.

But they are required to reach a threshold of 15 percent of the Tory Parliamentary Party, or 54 in this case, before a vote is triggered.
 
The BBC story was just red meat lobbed to the base to deflect away from Johnson’s crisis. That vacuous hoofclunge Dorries back peddled from the ‘end of the licence fee’ bollocks when questioned in the house. It all of a sudden became a matter for future debate.
 
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Tobes said:
The BBC story was just red meat lobbed to the base to deflect away from Johnson’s crisis. That vacuous hoofclunge Dorries back peddled from the ‘end of the licence fee’ bollocks when questioned in the house. It all of a sudden became a matter for future debate.
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Companies like Netflix operated with something like a $17bn debt. But they sell programmes like Squid games which keeps their cash flow charts viable.

I can't see anybody really wanting to take on that sort of debt to run the BBC, if that is the long term plan, to sell it off.
 
PINKIE said:
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Companies like Netflix operated with something like a $17bn debt. But they sell programmes like Squid games which keeps their cash flow charts viable.

I can't see anybody really wanting to take on that sort of debt to run the BBC, if that is the long term plan, to sell it off.
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Any discussion about the future of parts of the BBC and whether they should be commercialised or not, is one that should take place cross party and with the consensus of the public, as it’s a British institution renowned across the globe.

It’s future shouldn’t be based on whether the headlines on the 6 O’clock news are flattering enough for the Tories.

It’s incredible that the talentless twat that is Nadine ****ing Dorries has somehow ended up as culture Secretary ffs. Laughable.
 
Tobes said:
Any discussion about the future of parts of the BBC and whether they should be commercialised or not, is one that should take place cross party and with the consensus of the public, as it’s a British institution renowned across the globe.

It’s future shouldn’t be based on whether the headlines on the 6 O’clock news are flattering enough for the Tories.

It’s incredible that the talentless twat that is Nadine ****ing Dorries has somehow ended up as culture Secretary ffs. Laughable.
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Agreed.

The same thing should have happened when the Tories also sold off other parts of our national infrastructure

Will they **** though.
 
brb said:
I rarely watch anything on the BBC and when I do it's football related. Oh and one programme I watch on BBC4 I think it is. I begrudge paying them that money every year, when I'm either freesat or paying for Sky Sports.

I get the service for ex pats, but as you said, make them pay for it then, although not technically minded enough to know how they could achieve that. Maybe do the same as NOW TV, make it a monthly pay as you go subscription service, then I'd only have to pay, when I want to watch it.
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BBC World has adverts so presumably is at least partly funding itself. Its my go to Channel for news as they don't build their journalists up as actually more important than the news, like CNN or Fox, and still have plenty of reporters, on the ground around the world.

Also they have Yalda Hakim reporting on Afghanistan, who comes across as not only smart but dirty as well.

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I’ve got that task in mind for later, thieving ****s.
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My business does well in the run up to Christmas. I work like a muthafuka for it though. Always come off the back end of the year thinking I'm quids in

And then I have to do my Tax return :(
 
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My business does well in the run up to Christmas. I work like a muthafuka for it though. Always come off the back end of the year thinking I'm quids in

And then I have to do my Tax return :(
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The bulk of my income is on PAYE, I have a K tax code, yet I still end up owing the ****ers a wedge every year. It’s a black art.
 
JakartaToon said:
BBC World has adverts so presumably is at least partly funding itself. Its my go to Channel for news as they don't build their journalists up as actually more important than the news, like CNN or Fox, and still have plenty of reporters, on the ground around the world.

Also they have Yalda Hakim reporting on Afghanistan, who comes across as not only smart but dirty as well.

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Remember highlighting the forum to the delights of Yalda Hakim earlier in the year.

Ione Wells is another :emoticon-0152-heart

And as for the BBC itself, I know people accuse it of being biased and to a degree you're never going to escape that. But when you compare it to the commercial news channels likes Fox, CNN, or god forbid GB News, you begin to get an idea of how partisan news can actually be.

I tend to listen to Radio 4 more than TV news tbh. And some of the depth that their programmes go into is first class journalism.
 
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The bulk of my income is on PAYE, I have a K tax code, yet I still end up owing the ****ers a wedge every year. It’s a black art.
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I just have a UTR for self employment, so have to pay it, along with my NI in one lump sum at the end of Jan.

Always a ****in stinger.
 
Christian Wakeford defected, hang in there Boris, don't let them bully you bro.
 
brb said:
Christian Wakeford defected, hang in there Boris, don't let them bully you bro.
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Strong rumours that the 54 letters of no confidence being lodged is now a formality. This is the beginning of his demise, he’s toast.
 
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