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I agree it is value for money. My issue is with the propaganda and the fact that it's effectively a TV tax. I resent keeping it going when I see the obscene waste, when I see presenters rewarded for abject failure and I see all the nonsense about diversity quotas and sacking people like sue barker for no reason so they can replace her with someone with a darker skin colour. I like some of the things the new director general has said about diversity of opinion and about reflecting opinions outside of the Westminster bubble. If they sorted some of that, reduced salaries, made people accountable for failure, removed the obsession with gender pay rates and concentrated on making unique and interesting content then I coild almost see myself not minding about paying it despite myself. Certainly if you'd asked me around the turn of the century there'd be no question at all about me wanting it to stay which rather shows how drastically things have fallen apart in about the last decade. I'd probably pay for it though if it becomes a subscription service and they keep the websites.

If they separated the website stuff from the rest of it then I'd pay for that. I don't really watch the BBC anymore like I used to a decade or two ago so I can't say it would bother me. I quite like radio solent now and again for the sport but that's about it. Now Andrew Neil has seen the light there really isn't any reason for me to watch any of the current affairs stuff, the comedy went down the pan years ago pretty much since the office, I'm Alan partridge and extras. I watched the bodyguard which I enjoyed a few years ago and my wife enjoyed fleabag even if it wasn't my thing but I genuinely can't recall anything else worth paying for.

It's not the value of the fee that's the issue for me, it's the principle that I have to pay for something which to me is clearly biased and I have no option other than to pay it if I want to watch live TV but I don't wish to have woke propaganda thrown at me.

I also can't stand the idea of dynasties that has infected American politics for some reason. The very fact that America has has a succession of presidents or candidates aspiring to be presidents all from the same handful of families is insane. They do things oddly over there.

The main issue for me is not just the figurehead but what other crazy policies you are letting in. Both sides have their fair share in that regard but I am supportive of some of the steps the trump administration has done such as the middle East peace deals and removing critical race theory from schools. I don't have confidence that that will continue under Biden. I also detest a lot of the identity politics stuff and the anti white racism and I can only see that getting worse under the Democrats although admittedly kamala Harris seems marginally better in that regard than actual nutters like some of the other potential vp picks like Elizabeth Warren. Presumably you'd only get 4 year out of Biden anyway and then the republics may appoint a more moderate candidate with more of an idea of what he's doing.

Complete nonsense I'm afraid. I'm wary of some of the agenda coming from the likes of AOC but if they'd chosen someone like Tulsi Gabbard or Andrew Yang then I'd have said the American public would be mad not to elect them over Trump. Both of them had some odd policies but they wrre so clearly superior to Trump in a way that Biden just isn't. I still think Biden will win by the way but it wouldn't be a surprise if Trump did it again would it.

We had a decent first half against spurs and then a terrible second half.

There's partisan stuff on both sides but it's not really the point I was making. Absolutely no idea why the Democrats chose someone like Joe Biden regardless of what the opponent is like. Absolutely crazy.

In terms of being impaired by age.

I'd say that Biden is even worse in many ways. Absolutely incredible that they've even given him a chance. If you'd picked someone half normal and relatively competent (and male tbh) then they'd have won. The fact its still up in the air is a damming indictment of the Democrat party regardless of the result.

I think that was actually a really good move. Vestergaard was decent which he has a tendency to be from time to time.

No problem just letting you know

I said it.

I think the positives are that it's really clear what we are missing. Surely surely we will get in a dm as a minimum and then hopefully a bit of quickness and speed in midfield. Defence looked OK today and attack did their job with the goal. We badly need more options in midfield.

We wrre rubbish but you can't argue with three points. Pressure on the next game would have been massive if we hadn't won so good to be up and running. Badly need some reinforcements now to put some pressure on the midfield in particular.

Can djenepo do it on a cold September night in Burnley? Answer so far is no...

I think one of the worries is that this game looks pretty even but Burnley have a ton of injuries and we have one who is an underperforming redmond.

Yes it is.

I remember that first goal he scored for us and he looked full of running and a livewire. We haven't seen much since then sadly.

Yes you can't say it wasn't deserved.

Think it was more than about how he expressed his disappointment. Shame he got booted as he contributed a fair bit and has been on here for ages.

That was definitely better than the ladt three games. Mccarthy hasn't had an awful lot to do but we haven't had many chances down the other end either. Really hope we go on and win this.

Isn't it just easier going forward to never name anything after someone just in case morals and values change in the distant future and they have to go through all the trouble of renaming it again? Bristol Beacon sounds like just the sort of bland, forgettable name that suits that criteria perfectly. You can have that for millennia and no one will complain.

So then. That old white man Andrew Neil has finally been chased out of the BBC and will be chairing a new news channel called GB news. Sounds pretty interesting to be honest and I'll certainly take a keen interest. They are right that itv, Channel 4, bbc and sky are all pretty much interchangeable nowadays as far as news is concerned. Yet another reason to avoid the BBC and no doubt will hasten its demise because other than Attenborough he was the best person on there: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/andrew-neil-to-chair-a-new-british-television-news-network/amp?__twitter_impression=true

Track and trace app completely pointless for teachers or childcare professionals who are not allowed their phones on them during the day and typically keep them all in the same place.