Eadwig
22 Feb 2020
Brexit Wars 3 jackdawsson: I must disagree that the BBC are any longer that left-wing. Maybe they were to a significant degree in former times, that I’d concede, but not the current crop I wonder if it has anything to do with soaring salaries within the BBC?
Eadwig
22 Feb 2020
Brexit Wars 3 Sir_Buns-Up_Knealing: nothing changes with regard to the rules governing and privileges of British citizens until at least the end of the year… Amazing! It is a trait. Like that guy who stood in the non-EU citizen queue in Amsterdam and tweeted he’d been wait 55 minutes already and this wasn’t the Brexit he voted for, when clearly it was. What made it extra funny was if he’d just gone down the EU, EEA lane he’d have been through in minutes.
Eadwig
22 Feb 2020
Brexit Wars 3 john.a.reeves: Good idea … just did. IMF World Economic outlook, January 2020 Expected growth EURO Area 2020 1.3% (downward revision of 0.1 % ) 2021 1.4% UK 2020 1.4% 2021 1.5% JAR As @HuwJarse says, he isn’t intereted in projections as we all know they’re wrong. I’ve provided the latest world bank and the latest IMF ACTUAL figures (IMF still subject to revision) and both say it is @HuwJarse’s contention that the UK has been outgrowing the EU that is wrong.
john.a.reeves
22 Feb 2020
Brexit Wars 3 JW - agree J_Westlock: Ofcom already regulates BBC content. But doesn’t monitor and report on bias - or can’t you read? JAR
J_Westlock
22 Feb 2020
Brexit Wars 3 john.a.reeves: As I said earlier: As OFCOM is the organisation responsible for the media (and is an independent body), it should be tasked with monitoring the output of the BBC and reporting quarterly on the content which would show any ACTUAL bias (either way!). This could in no way be projected as interfering with the independence of the BBC as they would continue be free to commission and broadcast anything it wants. Ofcom already regulates BBC content.
Uncle_Doug
22 Feb 2020
Brexit Wars 3 Sir_Buns-Up_Knealing: Good idea. Going anywhere nice? Yes. I aim to retire to Spain in 5 years. I speak the lingo. I’ll try Cadiz - beautiful area and fewer Brits. Brexit has (I suspect) ruined the healthcare rights but we’ll see what “deal†if any gets done. If the deal is bad then I will reluctantly apply for Spanish citizenship.
john.a.reeves
22 Feb 2020
Brexit Wars 3 JD - good afternoon jackdawsson: I must disagree that the BBC are any longer that left-wing. Maybe they were to a significant degree in former times, that I’d concede, but not the current crop. Not by a long stretch & not for years now, of which there are ample recent examples. Obviously, I hold a different opinion and in a wider context people disagree whether there is bias left or right - or indeed if any exists at all. As I said earlier: As OFCOM is the organisation responsible for the media (and is an independent body), it should be tasked with monitoring the output of the BBC and reporting quarterly on the content which would show any ACTUAL bias (either way!). This could in no way be projected as interfering with the independence of the BBC as they would continue be free to commission and broadcast anything it wants. In this way the debate would be based on current facts - not opinions (perhaps historic and out of date). Why is that not better? Best wishes JAR
Uncle_Doug
22 Feb 2020
Brexit Wars 3 Pete, I recently had to get my passport renewed and was determined to get the burgundy one. So I’m now on a passport valid until 2029 by which time I’m sure the UK (or what’s left of it) will wish they were back in the EU.
Sir_Buns-Up_Knealing
22 Feb 2020
Brexit Wars 3 Job opportunity for Eadwig down at his local Passport factory? New 11 year contract for blue paspsorts: Made in Poland By a French company Causing 200 job losses at De La Rue Colour of passport has always been a UK choice Tories chose burgundy And is now a badge of national stupidity. So no better person to model it than the Smirky Thick Psycopath Patel. (Courtesy of THE Paul May on twitter). IMHO, SBK
Sir_Buns-Up_Knealing
22 Feb 2020
Brexit Wars 3 At least the truth about matter can still be found on the BBC website, such as the one below about job losses. Right now the Welsh are up in arms about the Government’s lack of interest in the terrible floods they are enduring, compounded by a C4 interview with David Davies the arrogant and cretinous Tory MP for Monmouth who said it was all the responsibility of the Welsh Government not that of the UK one. So much for the solidarity of the union spouted by Liar Johnson. BBC News Honda axe impact for 12 Welsh firms The decision to close Honda's UK factory will have strategic impact on Welsh suppliers, the industry warns. IMHO, SBK
Sir_Buns-Up_Knealing
22 Feb 2020
Brexit Wars 3 jackdawsson: So I welcome keeping the licence fee for those who can afford to pay, ie. the vast majority. Though I watch relatively little TV, it’s most BBC News, BBC 2, BBC4 & the rest is mostly movies or documentaries. For eg. Film 4 is also highly regarded by me. But basically I watch about 7 or 8 channels. The rest hardly at all. Almost half of that is BBC because I still have reasonable faith in their overall objectivity, despite some obvious below-par lapses in recent years. - Regards. I agree, all my life when something serious is happening the Beeb has been the first port of call. Alarmingly since Liar Johnson victory it has clearly been cowed by the Government’s threats and being ignored as per Cumming’s instructions. This is very dangerous. IMHO, SBK
Sir_Buns-Up_Knealing
22 Feb 2020
Brexit Wars 3 fynne: … or knowing how extremely bigoted an individual is, pick them to create the impression of a brexit voter. … how many millions voted brexit and that’s the best they can get … seriously haha but it was QT and obviously wouldn’t be biased at all Being in Greece you probably haven’t watched it much. I gave up on it a good while ago because it was - as is well documented - critically biased towards Brexit supporters. Hence why Farage got on it more than any other panellist. Several times now far right activists have been planted in the audience and the woman who selects them is apparently a hardline Brexiteer. Anyway the people in the audiences are mostly unrelentingly stupid so are perhaps indeed a fair representation of the general public. IMHO, SBK
Sir_Buns-Up_Knealing
22 Feb 2020
Brexit Wars 3 fynne: ? Sorry buns, I fully understand that the status quo remains in place with the E111 card still being valid. That was in my comment… “Told by a UK citizen who has just taken out Greek residency using his E111? Apparently it’s still valid†Do you understand sarcasm? … I’m not You are lying now fynne. You obviously thought that the UK had left the EU and health care was going to continue forever. You are not forking out for health care in Greece now but you may well be after the 31st December which was my clear point. IMHO, SBK
Sir_Buns-Up_Knealing
22 Feb 2020
Brexit Wars 3 petethenovice: Thanks Almost no arguments left for this fraud Last cry is Blue Passports made in Poland by a French company… Little Britain, the MUPPET show and Monty Python… couldn’t write a nuttier script… 81 countries in the world have blue passports. What a joke. Fortunately I have 8 years left on my nice maroon EU one. And hope somehow to get another. Maybe Albanian in time? IMHO, SBK
Sir_Buns-Up_Knealing
22 Feb 2020
Brexit Wars 3 john.a.reeves: Some people might say the BBC is full of overpaid, left-wing, out of touch, urban intellectual elitists. I couldn’t possibly disagree! JAR Translates as: "the BBC should be run by ignorant, retired, gammon golfers with totalitarian tendencies from Dartford, Kent. IMHO, SBK
