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Election 2024

Discussion in 'The Premier League' started by brb, Jan 18, 2024.

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How are Labour doing after their first 12 months

  1. Give Keir a dinghy

    35.0%
  2. The Afghans are coming

    20.0%
  3. Duggie wants his winter fuel payment back

    25.0%
  4. BobbyD to take over

    40.0%
  5. Tax, tax, tax and more ****ing tax coming

    15.0%
  6. We want Farage...

    10.0%
  7. Stop the triple lock

    25.0%
  8. Leave my pension alone

    25.0%
  9. brb is **** at polls

    40.0%
  10. Sucky is an Afghan

    60.0%
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  1. brb

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    Exactly my point.
     
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  2. PINKIE

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    Yeah it doesn't make any sense

    You pay for Sky
    You pay for Amazing Prime
    You watch a ton of ads on Youtube

    All of these have live streaming, so why should you have to pay for a TV licence to view it ?
     
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  3. PINKIE

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    Knuckle draggers in all walks of life mate.
     
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  4. brb

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    I just don't get the mentality of it mate, I'd like to think someone has done it in error over all this flag stuff. So ****ing disrespectful though.
     
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    Yeah I don't know what the mentality is.

    It could be somebody mistakenly thinking it's some kind of flag shagging
    It could be a misjudged anti war statement that has completely missed the point
    It could be somebody thinking that whilst there is still war then why do we say 'Never again'
    It could be somebody trying to whip up anti left wing hate by deliberately sabotaging it

    Whoever did it is a nob head. For whatever reason really.
     
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  6. Libby

    Libby Derby County, we're coming for you

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    Just don't pay the tv licence chaps.
     
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    FosseFilberto Pizzeria Superiore and some ...
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    The human capacity to sink to the lowest levels of respect and decency shouldn't really surprise us ... unfortunately...
     
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  8. Star of David Bardsley

    Star of David Bardsley 2023 Funniest Poster

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    Pretty sure you’re meant to have one even if you only watch those through a laptop. It’s just a dumb stealth tax most pay without thinking about. The missus is convinced we’ll be carted off to prison if we (I) don’t but I’m 100% ****ing it off when we move next year. They’re a disgrace of an organisation.
     
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  9. PINKIE

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    I think the BBC is a decent outfit personally, not infallible, not perfect, but still produces very good content. And I mean that across different platforms and radio etc. I think journalistic credibility has been challenged a couple of times recently, but that doesn’t make the whole organisation a rotten apple

    That said, I’m pretty sure they could survive with a different model that isn’t taxpayer funded. The issue there is that they are then open to all sorts of commercial influence which sways content, I guess you could say the same for ITV, Channel 4 and Sky and they all produce decent news.

    I’ve not paid for a TV licence at home for probably 20 years as I didn’t even have a TV there for most of that time. I’ve got one at my unit where I have my business, but that’s paid for by somebody else. There’s no way I’ll be buying one, for the few minutes of news or motd that I watch

    I’m just fundamentally opposed to the idea that I need to buy a TV licence to watch live TV on Amazon prime which I already pay for.
     
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  10. brb

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    Top bod at BBC resigned.

    Oh two people gone, News and Current Affairs chief gone as well.
     
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