Off Topic The Politics Thread

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Should the UK remain a part of the EU or leave?

  • Stay in

    Votes: 56 47.9%

  • Get out

    Votes: 61 52.1%
  • Total voters
    117
  • Poll closed .
Ffs we live in a society that has examples of cheating, lying and corruption at its heart. Might aswell join them. What do you pay for a tv licence nowadays?
 
Infact, with all the hundreds if not thousands of tv channels and streaming capabilities nowadays, im suprised that anyone finds anything decent to watch on the bbc.
 
bobmid said:
Following example mate, if you cant beat them and all that. In all seriousness, i dont watch live bbc, just stream things so havent paid a licence in about 5 years i think.
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I do watch stuff on BBC TV and I do listen to BBC radio. Even if I didn't, I'd be happy to pay my license fee because I think the BBC is something to be cherished and maintained.
 
Goldhawk-Road said:
No one wants the NHS sold off that I've ever come across.

The Left think the BBC's a great national institution because it's full of middle class socialist wannabe's .

"The BBC broadcaster Andrew Marr, has pointed to the diverse nature of the BBC, which he describes as employing, “an abnormally large proportion of younger people, of people in ethnic minorities and almost certainly of gay people”, which is what he suggests fuels the BBC’s “innate liberal bias”."

It's good to have that mix but it's gone too far and it doesn't represent the population as a whole. The BBC is no longer a great national institution. It's malfunctioning badly in certain areas and has a lack of impartiality (look at the antisemitic approach on the Muslim bus attack in Oxford St). People just aren't going to pay for that and there's a crisis coming unless there's a change to fairness.
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Two words - Andrew Neil.
 
Stroller said:
I do watch stuff on BBC TV and I do listen to BBC radio. Even if I didn't, I'd be happy to pay my license fee because I think the BBC is something to be cherished and maintained.
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Anything else that even if you didn't have to pay for you would still pay for
 
kiwiqpr said:
It's not like tax or rates
If you don't use something and no one's going to ask you for money to pay for it then why would you pay for it
If you got rid of sky would you continue to pay for it
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Read that back to yourself and see if you think it's worthy of an answer.
 
Stroller said:
Read that back to yourself and see if you think it's worthy of an answer.
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Heres an organization that wouldn't mind some of your spare money


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Liz Truss has warned she is willing to trigger Article 16 - unilaterally overriding parts of the post-Brexit agreement on Northern Ireland - if the negotiations she is now leading fail.

Blimey, is this just a repeating job description for a brexit negotiator?
 
Sooperhoop said:
The BBC is a once but no longer great institution that has been discredited year by year...
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Agree. It used to be a good organisation now it’s a box ticking yogurt knitting mess. The freaks they now employ is laughable. That Breakfast show in the morning with Naga…<yikes>
Loads of my friends that have and still do work there think it’s unrecognisable theses days. They will lose their funding at some point and I’m sure Stroller and co will be happy to pay and watch the content they have to offer.
 
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