[b]...only, the media never mention them. It begs the question - what else are our friendy journalists failing to tell us? Worrying. And so irresponsible! No wonder people are cancelling their BBC / TV licences in droves. And no wonder moronic Johnson is haemhorraging support, as shown in his resounding by-election defeat in a previously safe seat yesterday[/b]
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BTW I have no idea of the origin and veracity about your claim about the TV licence but you don't need a licence to listen to the News on any radio channel in Britain including the BBC - which I do and I trust far more than I'd trust a commercial or government-owned channel allowed or made to be its proprietor's voice. Which all manner of posts from Americans on this esteemed web-site suggests the case in your country.
(Though I believe you do also have public-service, independent broadcasters too.)
The so-called "licence" incidentally, amounts to being a subscription to a wide range of TV+radio channels and programmes - and unlike the full, 1-channel subscription TV networks, costs less than a pint of beer a week.
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As for that by-election I will excuse your misunderstanding there because I understand that what was not so well reported, was that there were more votes for the Liberal-Democrats from disenchanted Labour than Conservative, supporters.
Which would be natural because the Lib-Dems present themselves as a sort of "Labour Light", left-leaning but rather vague; and they rarely do very well in General Elections. They were formed from an alliance of disenchanted Labour and former-Liberal Party politicians.
Why, I am not sure. I don't think it's over dealing with the pandemic though, because although the parties and individual MPs often disagree strongly on details, they agree broadly; and thankfully, most politicians of all parties have largely been above making the disease a mere party-political weapon.
@ArishMell I don't think your post could be more wrong if you had attempted it as a competition! You trust the BBC? The organisation which hid paedophilia for decades and since it was discovered has pointed the finger at everybody but themselves.
[quote]Which all manner of posts from Americans on this esteemed web-site suggests the case in your country.[/quote] I'm pretty sure WalterF is British - please correct me if I'm wrong Walter.
[quote]there were more votes for the Liberal-Democrats from disenchanted Labour than Conservative, supporters.[/quote]
@ArishMell I am as British as you are, mate. As you might have remembered fronm our many conversations when we were "friends" on here. As for all the rest, no comment. It's too late here in the UK, and I can't be bothered just now.
@GeniUs No no, I don't think we were ever friends. I was friends with AM, but I stopped that friendship as it wasn't real any more once we went head to head on pandemic issues. (Check out my profile / about me, anyway)
As for your accusation of the BBC sheltering a paedophile (I assume you mean James Saville), yes that was wrong - of course. That is not a reason to condemn tthe whole thing ot its work though.
Your figures do not show which party has gained and which has lost - after all, we have rather a lot of them!
