Current Affairs The next Tory (strong and stable) leader is Boris Johnson

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Joey66 said:
I get free TV Bruce IPTV :p
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I mean I know it's silly and all, but you'd hope you researched things before making your post - https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2019/over-75s-licence-fees-decision

From June 2020 any household with someone aged over 75 who receives Pension Credit will be eligible for a free TV licence funded by the BBC. Around 1.5 million households could be eligible.
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So if you're a poor pensioner, you still get a free TV license. If you're Pete and Joey, you won't. The welfare state shouldn't exist to prop up wealthy baby boomers, as I'm sure you'd agree. What's truly sad is that among the hullaballoo in the press about this decision, I can barely recall any that made this point. It was all "Gary Lineker is snatching TVs from old folk to fund his gazillion pound salary..."

What also seldom got mentioned is that this free giveaway to wealthy pensioners would have cost the BBC around 20% of their entire expenditure every year, and with changing demographics in the UK this would have increased year on year. Hence why they decided that this was no longer sustainable. As it is, the free licenses given to the poorest is still costing them £250 million per year, which is welfare spending the government don't have to burden since they outsourced this nice giveaway.
 
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Barnfred 55 said:
The problem with that though is that the GE will be dominated by Brexit, and it's anyone's guess what the outcome will be. We could end up with Boris as PM and Nigel as his deputy
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On the contrary it will fall from the electorate mind, as it did for May. Sure a Johnson government would try, however, it would have compete with NHS. Social Care Police etc. And considering Brexit has been dominated by NHS funding and side of bus at times, as sure day follows night the electorate as always will want to see their day to day concerns addressed.
 
Bruce Wayne said:
So if you're a poor pensioner, you still get a free TV license. If you're Pete and Joey, you won't.
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The least of their worries several pounds a week. Looking like BBC is moving towards a more enquiring also youthful minds! As the BBC is finally going to introduce theses think tanks, however, making clear they aren't official bodies!?

 
NilSatisOptimum said:
The least of their worries several pounds a week. Looking like BBC is moving towards a more enquiring also youthful minds! As the BBC is finally going to introduce theses think tanks, however, making clear they aren't official bodies!?

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It's trite I know, but all I can see are weird water bottles and chairs plucked from a children's picnic set. I spoke on a panel at an event the other week where they had us on cardboard boxes (upon which we predictably sunk into). Anyway, as you were :blush:
 
Bruce Wayne said:
I mean I know it's silly and all, but you'd hope you researched things before making your post - https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2019/over-75s-licence-fees-decision



So if you're a poor pensioner, you still get a free TV license. If you're Pete and Joey, you won't. The welfare state shouldn't exist to prop up wealthy baby boomers, as I'm sure you'd agree. What's truly sad is that among the hullaballoo in the press about this decision, I can barely recall any that made this point. It was all "Gary Lineker is snatching TVs from old folk to fund his gazillion pound salary..."

What also seldom got mentioned is that this free giveaway to wealthy pensioners would have cost the BBC around 20% of their entire expenditure every year, and with changing demographics in the UK this would have increased year on year. Hence why they decided that this was no longer sustainable. As it is, the free licenses given to the poorest is still costing them £250 million per year, which is welfare spending the government don't have to burden since they outsourced this nice giveaway.
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Bruce I won't make 75 years old imo and would not qualify for it anyway...I am not even a pensioner.......
It's not about me it's another benefit that will be taken away by the Tories ......
They attack the sick , and disabled this is another fail you that sick and disabled people are all poor by you a Lib Dem.....
In coalition they did sod all.... oh and sold the post office off cheap too.......
Passing the buck to an overinflated BBC corperation of greedy sods was not the answer, and HUNT as culture secretary with the vicious Osborne did just that ..... passing the buck - a pair of incompetent snides the two of them along with the rest of the Etonians!
 
Joey66 said:
Bruce I won't make 75 years old imo and would not qualify for it anyway...I am not even a pensioner.......
It's not about me it's another benefit that will be taken away by the Tories ......
They attack the sick , and disabled this is another fail you that sick and disabled people are all poor by you a Lib Dem.....
In coalition they did sod all.... oh and sold the post office off cheap too.......
Passing the buck to an overinflated BBC corperation of greedy sods was not the answer, and HUNT as culture secretary with the vicious Osborne did just that ..... passing the buck - a pair of incompetent snides the two of them along with the rest of the Etonians!
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If anyone wants a demonstration of how the concept of 'manufacturing consent' works, look no further than the fact that a man with ^these^ concerns will not be voting for the leader who is more committed to addressing them than anyone else in British politics in the past 30+ years, and will instead be voting for Nigel Farage.
 
abelard said:
If anyone wants a demonstration of how the concept of 'manufacturing consent' works, look no further than the fact that a man with ^these^ concerns will not be voting for the leader who is more committed to addressing them than anyone else in British politics in the past 30+ years, and will instead be voting for Nigel Farage.
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I am not voting if Boris or Corbyn in a GE so what it's my choice - untill these major parties in a first past the post system get decent leaders no chance my prerogative ok!
If it's on Brexit I will vote for a party that will take us out of the Eu properly as democrocy on a principle has been tossed aside.....!
 
abelard said:
If anyone wants a demonstration of how the concept of 'manufacturing consent' works, look no further than the fact that a man with ^these^ concerns will not be voting for the leader who is more committed to addressing them than anyone else in British politics in the past 30+ years, and will instead be voting for Nigel Farage.
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And he can still not come up with a viable reason not to vote for Corbyn.
 
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