danny.

Not really, is it. If people were more self serving they’d be less likely to have “Broken fences, unkempt gardens. Weed strewn driveways”.

I’m also in south Leicester and everything you said is spot on. Of course @leicsmac will still say it’s nonsense but add one to the anecdotal fictional account from someone else that has lived and lives there.

It’s like the opposite of when they put up NIC and immediate caused over 100k redundancies, taking unemployment up to the highest post pandemic levels and driving multiple factors all highly damaging to the economy:

Oh yeah of course, improving the country would be better but I’m not expecting that, I just meant in terms of covering their own backs. Breaking a key manifesto pledge this early on would be so damaging

But doesn’t technically break their manifesto pledge, so seems the smarter option

I’m not sure we should be looking to the USA for any kind of guidance for politics, they also have a very different set up to the UK and the country itself as a federation of states with a president is incompatible to the UK. I agree that people will like someone based on personality or apparent charm, but that is more whataboutery and isn’t a reason for politicians to act without integrity, especially not one that pledged to act with honesty and integrity.

It was disgusting and wrong when the Tories did it. And people were not happy about that either, one of the reasons they were annihilated at the ballot box. But whataboutery doesn’t make it ok for any other party either.

I don’t think taking bribes or giving jobs to Epstein’s mates, stuff like that is a super high moral bar. Most of us manage to not do this so I’d expect politicians to not either.

TV licensing disagrees with you. And no all channels do not have catchup, that’s demonstratively false. It’s super clear what a channel is, but the mental gymnastics you’re performing instead of just saying you got it wrong are impressive.

Yup, if he’s going to claim that he’s restoring honesty and integrity to politics then he needs to be squeaky clean, and he’s so very far away from squeaky clean.

It’s ok, he’s made up his own definition of what a TV channel is so it’s fine to watch without a licence now

What a bizarre ad hominem

it's ok to just say you're wrong...

You can watch on-demand shows and things like Netflix etc. of course as long as it's not a live broadcast. Channels? Nope - you can't watch or record without a a TV licence.

I guess that’s a choice though, versus legally having to pay the BBC to watch non-BBC content live. I understand the complaint if people do not watch BBC.

I don’t want to brag or anything, but I once bought a fridge from Sonic Direct. They gave me a good discount too.

That seems to be the problem here

And changed the levels to make him red and completely change the look of his hat, there is much more post processing there than pasting a cut out into a backdrop of Red Square They didn't do this with Williamson which WAS just a trimming path/copy/paste job

I saw it myself, and someone has since posted it, you don't think that's been shopped to look more Russian?! Agreed, but it's one call every 2 years to stop them. Still doesn't mean anyone has to pay, though. And if someone is 75 and over they get one for free.

IIRC Newsnight photoshopped Corbyn to look very Russian around that time? 100%, I don't like the BBC or watch it (or any TV) but the right moan it's too left and the left moan it's too right, so sounds like it's hitting the spot. No one is forced to pay for it. I haven't paid a BBC license for well over a decade. You can just cancel it?

As soon as the concept of subjective truth went mainstream this was inevitable

BDCR has been brilliant since coming on

This is exactly what is already happening, and why we are seeing hospitality take a nose dive. Although some people think > £45k income means you are rich, that isn't the case in 2025 and people will, and have, stopped spending because the disposable income just isn't at the same level as it was. The knock-on is not immediately but massively damaging, and it's not linear.

I think most of us on here try to argue in good faith and with a somewhat open mind, it's a surprisingly decent place to talk about current affairs.

I mean, it could all be coincidence but literally as soon as it kicked in multiple companies made mass redundancies citing it was the NI rise. So I’m not sure it was coincidence.