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Boris...

  • 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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brb said:
But you say 'little people' but was it 'little people' at the Downing St parties mate? Because no one has stuck their neck out to say they were there. I agree he's a buffoon, I don't agree that he is arrogant though, someone like Cameron I might class as arrogant. Yes the public school system, gets peoples backs up, I understand that.

Cummings back in my day would have had a slap by now, never thought I'd live to see the day a non important person, who's nowt more than a slimey slug called the tune of the nation.

I agree with a lot of your upset I've read in the past, at least I could see why you were upset with him.
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By little people I'm meaning the rank and file ... those attending the Downing St parties would not have included many, if any, of those... senior civil servants and ministerial aids are often public school educated themselves ... point I was trying to make was that Boris and his cronies would have been publicly condemning a rave in Croydon during the lockdowm whilst happily taking part in 'works drinks' after a 'hard day's graft' in office... without a modicum of self awareness or recognition of irony ...
 
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brb said:
It's like with the BBC, I've had countless people tell me the media is bias, against Labour. Yet now Labour are crying over the BBC....I'm like hang on, I'm not getting this, one minute they are a bunch of bias shhites, now every fooker wants to save them. Sorry but I'm confused!
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The BBC is Arcaic, pointless and very expensive (look at what they pay most of their "big" names)
There are so many other channels now putting out better programs and more educational content than them which makes them pretty useless.
I heard an argument today about all the overseas broadcasts they do for ex-pats etc, great, do all overseas listeners pay the license to receive them?
 
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FosseFilberto said:
By little people I'm meaning the rank and file ... those attending the Downing St parties would not have included many, if any, of those... senior civil servants and ministerial aids are often public school educated themselves ... point I was trying to make was that Boris and his cronies would have been publicly condemning a rave in Croydon during the lockdowm whilst happily taking part in 'works drinks' after a 'hard day's graft' in office... without a modicum of self awareness or recognition of irony ...
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Fair enough. See I don't mind a reasoned balanced opinion. All that will happen though is he will be replaced by another Tory, and heaven help us when it comes to another GE unless Labour sort their act out. Imagine if they had been in power now, how would people have reacted to being locked down the same as Wales and Scotland over Christmas, would we have seen violence on the streets that were seen in some European Cities before Xmas. Just so many different angles to look at this from I feel.
 
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Diego said:
The BBC is Arcaic, pointless and very expensive (look at what they pay most of their "big" names)
There are so many other channels now putting out better programs and more educational content than them which makes them pretty useless.
I heard an argument today about all the overseas broadcasts they do for ex-pats etc, great, do all overseas listeners pay the license to receive them?
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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.
 
brb said:
I know Boris is getting loads of shhite, quite deservedly over these parties, and probably will lose his premiership as a result, but what I don't get is what he personally gained from them, I'll assume nothing, other than being too soft as a boss.

Also how come only Boris' name is in the frame for this, who were the 50-100 guests, no politician has yet stepped forward and claimed to being at one of the Downing St parties, so was it all backroom employees?
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The reason Boris is getting the heat is because he's in charge (at least he's supposed to be) and the buck stops with the boss.

As for the others, they are culpable, but they've obviously been given the green light by those in Boris' chain of command, so the whole thing demonstrates that he either doesn't give a ****e, or he's simply doesn't have a handle on what his ministers are doing and saying. It's sloppy at best, and that doesn't give the public confidence.

I actually don't think having a few drinks with work colleagues is the most heinous crime committed, but it's the fact that he's been at these parties personally, whilst at the same time telling everybody else they can't go and see dying loved ones, is why there's so much anger about it.

The one thing us Brits really take umbrage to, is the sense of unfair play. One rule for them and another for everybody else.
 
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PINKIE said:
The reason Boris is getting the heat is because he's in charge (at least he's supposed to be) and the buck stops with the boss.

As for the others, they are culpable, but they've obviously been given the green light by those in Boris' chain of command, so the whole thing demonstrates that he either doesn't give a ****e, or he's simply doesn't have a handle on what his ministers are doing and saying. It's sloppy at best, and that doesn't give the public confidence.

I actually don't think having a few drinks with work colleagues is the most heinous crime committed, but it's the fact that he's been at these parties personally, whilst at the same time telling everybody else they can't go and see dying loved ones, is why there's so much anger about it.

The one thing us Brits really take umbrage to, is the sense of unfair play. One rule for them and another for everybody else.
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Sure that everyone who thinks he has taken the piss didn't bend/break the rules (not people on here, all law abiding citizens)

This isn't the worst thing that happened during or even before the pandemic. I still can picture that coach driver who drove the people from Italy to isolation.
 
Peej said:
Sure that everyone who thinks he has taken the piss didn't bend/break the rules (not people on here, all law abiding citizens)

This isn't the worst thing that happened during or even before the pandemic. I still can picture that coach driver who drove the people from Italy to isolation.
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No doubt there’s been all sorts of rule bending and breaking. But those people (who got caught) were subject to fines and reprimands.

Not the PM and his cronies though it seems. Although they might still yet…

I just think that if you’re in charge and you’re the one dishing out the rules, then you’d better make sure that you’re whiter than white and sticking to those rules religiously.

If you’re seen to be flagrantly disregarding them, then how can you expect others to follow them ?
 
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PINKIE said:
The one thing us Brits really take umbrage to, is the sense of unfair play. One rule for them and another for everybody else.
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So who made you the voice of the nation, you don't speak for me.

As for one rule for them and another for everyone else, you made an unneccessary journey during lockdown, driving hundreds of miles to collect a vechicle, then collected and took the virus all the way back to Cornwall. What was even more reckless, you gave no thought for the elderly people, you told us you kept helping during lockdown, so maybe you was on a mission to kill off the older population. Funniest part was you binning off said vehicle only weeks later, because it cramped your style. You like thousands of people across the UK, broke covid guidelines and never got fined. So the only fair play you care about is the ones that don't include YOU.
 
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brb said:
So who made you the voice of the nation, you don't speak for me.

As for one rule for them and another for everyone else, you made an unneccessary journey during lockdown, driving hundreds of miles to collect a vechicle, then collected and took the virus all the way back to Cornwall. What was even more reckless, you gave no thought for the elderly people, you told us you kept helping during lockdown, so maybe you was on a mission to kill off the older population. Funniest part was you binning off said vehicle only weeks later, because it cramped your style. You like thousands of people across the UK, broke covid guidelines and never got fined. So the only fair play you care about is the ones that don't include YOU.
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<laugh> You've got a vivid imagination I'll give you that.
 
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PINKIE said:
<laugh> You've got a vivid imagination I'll give you that.
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Have you rode pass them starving kids yet on your pushbike?

If you put a basket on the front of it, they could pretend to be ET.

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brb said:
Have you rode pass them starving kids yet on your pushbike?

If you put a basket on the front of it, they could pretend to be ET.

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We don't like refugees down here, so they ain't getting in my basket

and I ain't phoning home for them either.
 
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PINKIE said:
We don't like refugees down here, so they ain't getting in my basket

and I ain't phoning home for them either.
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I see you will be legally able to watch the BBC in future mate, what with the Tories plan to scrap the TV licence. You'll be able to watch it along with the rest of 'us Brits' that's always paid - sense of fair play and all that.
 
brb said:
I see you will be legally able to watch the BBC in future mate, what with the Tories plan to scrap the TV licence. You'll be able to watch it along with the rest of 'us Brits' that's always paid - sense of fair play and all that.
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I've got a TV licence. And I don't even own a TV <laugh>
 
brb said:
Which is good news for the Tories if he goes, I just hope I don't have to become a Gove supporter to keep you on the straight and narrow. <laugh>
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You can support whoever you want fella. Don't make any odds to me.

But yeah, I'm hoping he stays <laugh>

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That was the case Inspector Clouseau <laugh>

But I watch loads of it tbh. BBC News, Iplayer, MOTD etc.

I actually think the BBC offer pretty good value for money, given the content they produce.
 
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