Will they get the job done

Pilatus

Member
Location
cotswolds
One job I hope they get done ,is to have the British Broadcasting Cooperation ,pulled apart and have a financial audit carried out on the BBC which seems to me to be an organisation that does not seem to be held to account by anyone. If the BBC were a private company , would it be viable considering the huge salaries they appear to pay to programme presenters,and interviewers?? To cap it all they seem to be very left wing
 

Ukjay

Member
Location
Wales!
I give up with this place. The whinge factor has reached epic proportions. If it's not subsidies, it's Brexit. If it's not that, it's tariffs. If it's not that, it's something else.

What's the point? Every passing day this place strikes me as some kind of drawn out wide-ranging suicide pact.

Cmon, what do you expect ollie...

They lost the first referendum - made all the rubbish up they could as to why.
Whinged like f**k, then they wanted another go, but it ended in a general election vote.
f**k me if they didn't lose that as well, and there still coming up with bloody excuses and conspiracies.

I knew it would happen, coz they've done it all along ?
 
One job I hope they get done ,is to have the British Broadcasting Cooperation ,pulled apart and have a financial audit carried out on the BBC which seems to me to be an organisation that does not seem to be held to account by anyone. If the BBC were a private company , would it be viable considering the huge salaries they appear to pay to programme presenters,and interviewers?? To cap it all they seem to be very left wing

The BBC should be forced to adopt a subscription based business model and drop the farce that is TV licensing. Scramble the bloody channels for I care. I don't watch it. IT's dead anyway because the younger generations don't watch programmed TV.
 

neilo

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
One job I hope they get done ,is to have the British Broadcasting Cooperation ,pulled apart and have a financial audit carried out on the BBC which seems to me to be an organisation that does not seem to be held to account by anyone. If the BBC were a private company , would it be viable considering the huge salaries they appear to pay to programme presenters,and interviewers?? To cap it all they seem to be very left wing

Do you see them as biased because they don’t only put ‘your’ side of the argument I wonder?

They apparently get roughly equal numbers of complaints of political bias from the Left & the Right, which is perhaps as it should be?
I despair at some of the nonsense they put out, but I have plenty of leftie friends that are just as pee’d off with them.
 

Derrick Hughes

Member
Location
Ceredigion
Do you see them as biased because they don’t only put ‘your’ side of the argument I wonder?

They apparently get roughly equal numbers of complaints of political bias from the Left & the Right, which is perhaps as it should be?
I despair at some of the nonsense they put out, but I have plenty of leftie friends that are just as pee’d off with them.
They are part of the 3 years off utter crap thats cost the country billions . But ha ho , we must put all that behind us , kiss and make up . But feeling proad this morning that ex Miners from the heartlands of the North stood side by side with Conservative Voters of the south to get the job done . Who said Democracy never wins
 

Scribus

Member
Location
Central Atlantic
The BBC should be forced to adopt a subscription based business model and drop the farce that is TV licensing. Scramble the bloody channels for I care. I don't watch it. IT's dead anyway because the younger generations don't watch programmed TV.

The BBC knows this as well as anyone so is making itself as useful to the 'establishment' and government as it can in a bid to keep itself in business. The government is also aware of the shift but the interweb thingy carries the propaganda of commerce rather than the state.

Talking of which why does the BBC site insist on using cookies? It's there to present information, not harvest it, unless of course it's all part of being of service to its paymasters.
 

TheTallGuy

Member
Location
Cambridgeshire
The BBC knows this as well as anyone so is making itself as useful to the 'establishment' and government as it can in a bid to keep itself in business. The government is also aware of the shift but the interweb thingy carries the propaganda of commerce rather than the state.

Talking of which why does the BBC site insist on using cookies? It's there to present information, not harvest it, unless of course it's all part of being of service to its paymasters.
The cookies the BBC use are not about harvesting information per se, but about providing tailored information. For instance I get to see local news on the BBC News front page, the weather page has my favourite locations, etc.
 

MrNoo

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Cirencester
Honestly feel sorry for you. Your MP knows that he can do sweet fanny adams for the next five years, rock up at the next GE do minimal campaigning and get re-elected.
Ours is like that, ruddy useless, you could have fielded a monkey in a blue tie and it would have won. Does bugger all except hob-nob with the great and the good of the area. Must be one of the safest Con seats in the country.
 

Martin Holden

Member
Trade
Location
Cheltenham
I kind of agree with Ollie. We’ve now had a second vote on Brexit via an GE and the result has been overwhelming. As an original remainer I accept the democratic voice and it has spoken twice. It’s time for folk to stop this incessant whinging and move on. Until and if we change the voting system it’s first past the post. PR which sounds good would ultimately end up with continual coalition’s where log jams and indecision would rule the day. I say to fellow original remainers, accept the result and get on with your lives.
 

Martin Holden

Member
Trade
Location
Cheltenham
Ours is like that, ruddy useless, you could have fielded a monkey in a blue tie and it would have won. Does bugger all except hob-nob with the great and the good of the area. Must be one of the safest Con seats in the country.
He needs a touch of the close Cheltenham constituency to wake him up!
 
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Scribus

Member
Location
Central Atlantic
I kind of agree with Ollie. We’ve now had a second vote on Brexit via an GE and the result has been overwhelming. As an original remainer I accept the democratic voice and it has spoken twice. It’s time for folk to stop this incessant whinging and move on. Until and if we change the voting system it’s first past the post. PR which sounds good would ultimately end up with continual coalition’s where log jams and indecision would rule the day. I say to fellow original remainers, accept the result and get on with your lives.

There is no perfect voting system, God knows first past the post is bad enough but when you go PR politics, like you say, gels into a blanchmange of nothingness. This is illustrated well enough in Ireland with two main parties that pretend to disagree about everything but are as thick as thieves behind the scenes.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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