How do I hate thee? Let me list the ways... Well, a couple of them anyway.
I despise our current government. This is not a plain and stupid left versus right type of post. Soon they will put forward a bill which defines two or more people in a public space as a 'meeting'. That in itself is pretty unarguable, but they are giving the police the power to decide for themselves whether or not the meeting looks to be shaping up into a demonstration or protest.
If this bill goes through and the police decide that the noise levels of a protest are too loud, or that the participants are likely to annoy shopkeepers or anyone else, they will be able to issue orders to disperse the meeting or protest, and anyone who does not obey will be liable for quite a lengthy prison sentence. Any car which is stopped by the police which contains a placard likely to be used at a demonstration or protest will make the driver and passengers liable for a six year prison sentence without any appeal.
At last, they are about to physically destroy the BBC (as darkly warned of recently) because it is 'too left-wing'. The first step is to freeze the licence fee. It's going to happen.
I find it incredible how many left-wingers think the BBC has a right-wing bias, and how many right-wingers think the exact opposite. They both cannot be right. Maybe the truth lies somewhere in the middle where it belongs? Most free-thinkers would go along with that, but it is surprising how many 'free-thinkers' think that they are invulnerable to brain-washing.
I don't just want to see the back of Boris, I want to see the back of the lot of them.
And these are just two of the things that they have been getting through behind the smokescreen
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DeleteI expect we'll see a much reduced and dumbed down BBC funded by subscription at double the price (or more), or one in which programmes are broken up by advertising.
ReplyDeleteYep. And no more World Service.
DeleteAll I can think of is how I can change things at the next election
ReplyDeleteI think that may be too late. Wind of change, and all that.
DeleteThere have been three men in the news constantly over the past 10 days - two down, one to go.
ReplyDeleteThere ought to be more, really.
DeleteI see a Town Councillor in Lichfield has today resigned from the Conservative Party because he just doesn't feel he can support them over this Party thing when most of his vonstituents disagree with their behaviour - let's hope more follow suit.
ReplyDeleteThe worst thing about all the party stuff is the lying about it. It is an insult to everyone. He has never been P.M. material, as everyone is now finding out. He has the mentality of a schoolboy.
DeleteIt's not pretty anywhere.
ReplyDeleteI think it is going to get a bit uglier too.
DeleteWe all seem to live in an era where anything can happen. The concept of decorum seems not to exist.
ReplyDeleteObviously lying and sticking to the lies whilst blaming everyone around you is the exact opposite of decorous behaviour. Worse for him in the long run is the total lack of dignity.
DeleteI agree with Joanne: It's not pretty anywhere.
ReplyDeleteWe see a lot of news about GB now. Not amusing. The BBC is for me a pillar of my image of England.
It has been mine too. To see it destroyed by the bunch of immoral schoolchildren currently at Number 10 is sickening. Once it has gone it will never be replaced. Rupert Murdoch will have his way.
DeleteI wonder how many of the general public realise what a loss the BBC will be. They have all the news and views they like on social media, all the time, and seem happy to fork out many times the annual cost of the TV licence to stream stuff they want to watch in monthly subscriptions.
ReplyDeleteWhen you think of how many of the general public voted for the very people who would make their lives worse in the name of making them better, I for one do not have much confidence in them ever realising that they had anything to lose in the firt place. They haven't got an effing clue.
DeleteSo with you here Jean. In Oz we pay about 8 cents a week each for the ABC and they are getting hammered by the government for producing what one PM called 'unAustralian' content (otherwise known as critical thinking and accountability).
ReplyDeleteBloody hell. It's not long until a group of rowdy drunks on the street will get a free pass because they're just "boys will be boys" while a serious protest about the destructive behaviour of said boys will be a big deal and get the protestors locked up. We know this because this is what Facebook and Instagram do when they apply a blanket rule but give their staff discretion. BLOODY HELL.
ReplyDeleteThe policing bill did not get through the House of Lords... yet.
Deletewe are in a race to the bottom. The more click bait and outrage they can write about they are happier for the numbers. I fear for the future.
ReplyDeleteBoris Johnson is now sacrificing the future of the NHS and the BBC for the sake of the popular vote. The sooner he is gone the better.
DeleteI'll join your club anytime you ask me.
ReplyDeleteYou have life membership already, Weave - unless you decide to cross the floor!
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