Reform.

[Dextrous63]

Read James Ball on page 22

https://app.inews.co.uk/full_page_image/05-11-2025-page-22_559107f4/content.html

I'd be more than happy to pay the licence fee just for the Arts alone (Proms, drama etc)

James Ball is a commie pinko, so no point listening to him.

[Vlad]

Having skim read the article, seems that Reform are no worse than anyone else, and are having to pick up the long term dire mess that others have left behind.

They scare me, their links to Putin and Trump doesn't fill me with joy.

[klondike]

I'm  surrounded by Philistines!! 😄🥳🤣

Whereabouts is that? Mostly Eastern Europeans here  

[Dextrous63]

Whereabouts is that? Mostly Eastern Europeans here 

As far as I can make out, Philistia is sort of where Gaza is.  Unless Ruthio's been opening her doors to any old asylum seeker that comes knocking (she's like that 😬), she might be having a holiday over there. 

Currently sunny at 28C, so some nice winter sun.  Bit premature as a Benidorm sort of place, if you ask me, but I guess it's cheap accommodation nowadays.

[Ruthio]

DEAR ALL,
HAVING A LOVELY TIME
WISH YOU WERE HERE!
LOVE ruthio xxxxx 

[Dextrous63]

Did you drive over in your camper van?

Or perhaps you cadged a lift (or stowaway'd) on one of Greta's flotillas?

[JBR]

It won't change to 2028 at the earliest. That's when the new charter starts. That will be negotiated before then though while Labour will still probably be in charge and they run several years.

I don't care if they get funded by a licence for them but won't buy one and object that without one I can't watch any other live TV. Not that much of it is worth watching anyway.

I used to watch Last Night of the Proms. It had gone woke before I dumped my licence and not being able to watch now is no great loss.

Quite so, and I'm sure that Labour (with their dying breath) will happily grant the BBC's new charter.
Fortunately, that will not help the BBC one bit.  People are becoming fed up with them for the reasons already discussed, but now it is on the news that the BBC have been falsifying their news reports, the most specific being Trump's speech which they cut and altered to make it sound as if he is saying something which he never did.  A lot of people have been saying that doing this was showing just how evil the BBC is now becoming.

Yes, Labour will certainly ensure that we all need a TV licence (in order to support the BBC), but more and more people are opting for two directions:
- choosing not to watch the BBC or live television, both to save money and also to avoid funding the BBC;
- ditching their TV licences and watching live TV 'illegally'.

I suspect that there are many people using the second option, and it is perfectly easy to tell the 'licence enforcers' that you don't need a licence because you don't watch live television.  Unless they can come inside your home AND the television is turned on, they can't prove anything.
Those mobile TV detector vehicles are now known to have been a con.

[Alex]

I hope President Trump sues Panorama and the BBC for the shameful 'doctoring' of his speech on JanuaRY 6TH.
The programme spliced clips together from sections of his speech to make it appear he told supporters he was going to walk to the US Capitol with them to "fight like hell". 
How anyone can actually believe what they read on the BBC is beyond me.  This isn't new, they've been at it since Brexit.

[Scrumpy]

I'm not a great lover of Reform and Farage... and I don't know why..
There is something about him...

I will vote Reform .. I have little choice..

[Dextrous63]

While the likes of the imbecile Lammy are allowed to be in relatively high position in government, the UK will remain to be ill-served.

I can't quite get the Mark Anthony quote from Shakespeare to fit as well as I'd like, but I hope you get the gist of where I'm going with it...

"Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more"

[JBR]

While the likes of the imbecile Lammy are allowed to be in relatively high position in government, the UK will remain to be ill-served.

I agree.  On the other hand I think we are lucky that TwoTierNeverHereKeir, though also in a 'high position', is never actually in the country!

[Dextrous63]

I agree.  On the other hand I think we are lucky that TwoTierNeverHereKeir, though also in a 'high position', is never actually in the country!

... even when he is physically here.

Off with the fairies, that lad is.

[muddy]

I'm not a great lover of Reform and Farage... and I don't know why..
There is something about him...

I will vote Reform .. I have little choice..

I know there is something a bit slimy ( although this is a characteristic of most politician ) about him .
I did however vote reform for my MP z last time becaue I knew they were no hopers and the Raving Lunny Party packed up years ago .