OT. The futures Bright, the Futures Brexit!!!

[ramAnag]

I’m sure you’re right about Ford and I have never tried to make the problems in the car industry about Brexit.

As for the ‘majority’ bit...I’m sorry you find it ‘boring’...it’s also true and the maths are very simple. I agree Farage has significant support - over Brexit if nothing else - but he is also an object of derision amongst an equally ‘huge’ number...hence my contention that he is the most divisive figure in an increasingly disunited country.

Anyway, I’m not looking for any ‘tit for tat’ nonsense. I am interested in why you think you’ll benefit from Brexit though.

[AngryRam]

I’m sure you’re right about Ford and I have never tried to make the problems in the car industry about Brexit.

As for the ‘majority’ bit...I’m sorry you find it ‘boring’...it’s also true and the maths are very simple. I agree Farage has significant support - over Brexit if nothing else - but he is also an object of derision amongst an equally ‘huge’ number...hence my contention that he is the most divisive figure in an increasingly disunited country.

Anyway, I’m not looking for any ‘tit for tat’ nonsense. I am interested in why you think you’ll benefit from Brexit though.

Being in the 1%, I’m quids in..
You need to work in your maths..

[ramAnag]

‘Work in my maths’...hmmm!

[AdiSalisbury]

Managed to last 20 minutes of lecturing by BBC news at 10 this evening, reminded me of why I stopped following. How a publicly funded organisation can be so biased is appalling, it reminds me of USA news but without the adverts. If it wasn't for MotD or Spring watch I think I'd cancel my license

[Andy_Faber]

Managed to last 20 minutes of lecturing by BBC news at 10 this evening, reminded me of why I stopped following. How a publicly funded organisation can be so biased is appalling, it reminds me of USA news but without the adverts. If it wasn't for MotD or Spring watch I think I'd cancel my license

Check out the change in tone of the reporting of the Vauxhall announcement as the evening’s progressed - I think someone’s had a *******ing for being too positive and the words gone out to ‘get back on message’!

[MadAmster]

Managed to last 20 minutes of lecturing by BBC news at 10 this evening, reminded me of why I stopped following. How a publicly funded organisation can be so biased is appalling, it reminds me of USA news but without the adverts. If it wasn't for MotD or Spring watch I think I'd cancel my license

In which case you would not be able to legally watch live TV (ITV, Channel 4 etc as well as the Beeb) or use the catch up channels.

The costs of administering the TV Licence are less than you might think. For every £1 taken in licence fee payments, just 3p is spent on collection.

Part of the fee also contributes to the UK broadband rollout, funding local TV channels and S4C, the Welsh language TV channel, as was agreed with the government as part of the 2010 licence fee settlement.

[ramAnag]

I honestly don’t get all this BBC vilification. For as long as I can remember people from Harold Wilson to Margaret Thatcher, Lenny Henry to Nigel Farage have moaned about BBC bias.
Just this week Andy has been critical of them publicising the current World Cup too much...they’ve got the broadcasting rights, what do you expect?
Yes I’ve seen Andrew Marr give Farage a hard time, but I’ve also seen Jeremy Corbyn and other politicians of all persuasions laid into equally strongly and probably the two ‘politicians’ that have had the hardest time on Question Time are those diametric opposites...Dianne Abbott and Nick Griffin.
If you want real bias look at the Express, the Mail and the Sun or across the ‘pond’...Fox News or CNN.
Personally I think the BBC does a better job than most. Its job is to provide balanced impartial reflection both politically and via programme planning.
It’s not perfect but the fact that people on both the left and the right appear to protest with equal vehemence tells its own story to me.

[Geoff Parkstone]

CBBC does a grand job

[Andy_Faber]

I honestly don’t get all this BBC vilification. For as long as I can remember people from Harold Wilson to Margaret Thatcher, Lenny Henry to Nigel Farage have moaned about BBC bias.
Just this week Andy has been critical of them publicising the current World Cup too much...they’ve got the broadcasting rights, what do you expect?
Yes I’ve seen Andrew Marr give Farage a hard time, but I’ve also seen Jeremy Corbyn and other politicians of all persuasions laid into equally strongly and probably the two ‘politicians’ that have had the hardest time on Question Time are those diametric opposites...Dianne Abbott and Nick Griffin.
If you want real bias look at the Express, the Mail and the Sun or across the ‘pond’...Fox News or CNN.
Personally I think the BBC does a better job than most. Its job is to provide balanced impartial reflection both politically and via programme planning.
It’s not perfect but the fact that people on both the left and the right appear to protest with equal vehemence tells its own story to me.

It’s overreaching it’s brief RA, from reflecting the nation to trying to mould it, in many ways. I have resisted giving specifics in the past simply because I do t want to come over like TTR. Not to say it doesn’t also do a fantastic value for money job elsewhere, and I don’t agree with the Adi approach of boycotting the license fee, I’d pay it for the cricket coverage alone. And I’m not especially saying this from a left/right viewpoint although their anti Brexit stance is laughably opaque.

[Geoff Parkstone]

Apart from on the radio, do the BBC transmit any cricket still Andy? I thought, like with most sports apart from the Rugby home internationals, they had been priced out of most everything. Oh and Wimbledon, their one flagship coverage and something I do not watch as it is tedious in the extreme
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I rarely if ever watch BBC TV as I cannot stand programmes such as Question Time and their other political **** since there rarely has been an even playing field to all views and the moderators simply do not moderate well. Mind you I would miss quizzy Monday evening of Only Connect and University Challenge if it were decomissioned. till, Dave could pick up the slack there if necessary.