Off Topic The Politics Thread

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

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    Votes: 56 47.9%
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    Votes: 61 52.1%

  • Total voters
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The only reason Farage has a TV programme is that some shady bunch of right wing billionaires decided that Britain needed a TV news channel for racists and bigots.

O'Brien wasn't sacked, he resigned because he wanted to express his own views (which are not at all extreme) and couldn't under BBC impartiality rules.

He can't get his own TV show though. As I've said before, only one or two compliant pussies go on his show for interview because he's known as a crafty ambusher.
 
Has Jobbie got a TV program then? Last I heard, the BBC had sacked him for his extreme left wing views. Which is saying something, given the BBC's lean to the left.
So left wing they had a super gammon QT special from the gammoniest town in Gammonshire featuring Ben Habib and John Redwood.
 
Water companies planning to put bills up by 40% to pay for their lack of investment in infrastructure and dumping sewage in rivers and the sea.

This morning our water pressure has collapsed due to a burst water main a couple of hundred yards away, so I’ve got my credit card at the ready.

Now I’m not a massive fan of nationalised industries, at least not the way that the U.K. used to run industries in public ownership. But I’m struggling to think of any of the formerly nationalised now privatised industries that can be described as a success, certainly not for the consumer. They are either failed/failing and being bailed out by the taxpayer, long ago disappeared like British Leyland, or no longer actually British, like Jaguar and British Airways.

Still, we’ve had a lot of fun spending billions pretending to ‘regulate’ these industries and a few people have got rich through dividends and share trading, so it probably has worked exactly they way the policy intended.
 
Water companies planning to put bills up by 40% to pay for their lack of investment in infrastructure and dumping sewage in rivers and the sea.

This morning our water pressure has collapsed due to a burst water main a couple of hundred yards away, so I’ve got my credit card at the ready.

Now I’m not a massive fan of nationalised industries, at least not the way that the U.K. used to run industries in public ownership. But I’m struggling to think of any of the formerly nationalised now privatised industries that can be described as a success, certainly not for the consumer. They are either failed/failing and being bailed out by the taxpayer, long ago disappeared like British Leyland, or no longer actually British, like Jaguar and British Airways.

Still, we’ve had a lot of fun spending billions pretending to ‘regulate’ these industries and a few people have got rich through dividends and share trading, so it probably has worked exactly they way the policy intended.

Did you mot see my post yesterday about Thames Water ?
 
Did you mot see my post yesterday about Thames Water ?
Yes I did. This is not just about them though, they are yet another example of the cesspit. Turns out they are mostly owned by pension funds, so of course we will have to bail them out not only so Londoners have water but also so that some pensioners can eat.
 
Yes I did. This is not just about them though, they are yet another example of the cesspit. Turns out they are mostly owned by pension funds, so of course we will have to bail them out not only so Londoners have water but also so that some pensioners can eat.

It was an example…a massive example…of what you are saying.
Instead of profits being used to repair leaks and improve infrastructure, they have been handed out to investors.
Of course they should be renationalised
 
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