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[Ban-jani]

Of course Johnson made a statement on it. I mean it’s the most pressing probkem we currently face and coincidentally the only one he can ‘solve’ with a quick statement. I say ‘solve’ because there was nothing to solve in the first place.

Meanwhile back in the real world...

He was asked in an interview.

 

[Ancient Citizen]

Posts on here suggests otherwise Bob.

Lets move on.....please.....its a nothing story.....let it die......

Like the Beeb ;)

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

The BBC is our propaganda, it is our weapon that we use to fight back. The BBC is respected /consumed all over the world. It influences world opinion....

The Russians attack us we make programs showing exactly what happened. The Iranians arrest innocent Britons and the BBC reports that around the world for everyone to see. The Argentinians attack the Falklands and its Britain's message that gets out to the rotw.

We get rid of the BBC is like losing a major weapon in what is more and more information wars nowadays.

 

[blueinsa]

The BBC is our propaganda, it is our weapon that we use to fight back. The BBC is respected /consumed all over the world. It influences world opinion....

The Russians attack us we make programs showing exactly what happened. The Iranians arrest innocent Britons and the BBC reports that around the world for everyone to see. The Argentinians attack the Falklands and its Britain's message that gets out to the rotw.

We get rid of the BBC is like losing a major weapon in what is more and more information wars nowadays.

 

[Silva_Spell]

The BBC is our propaganda, it is our weapon that we use to fight back. The BBC is respected /consumed all over the world. It influences world opinion....

The Russians attack us we make programs showing exactly what happened. The Iranians arrest innocent Britons and the BBC reports that around the world for everyone to see. The Argentinians attack the Falklands and its Britain's message that gets out to the rotw.

We get rid of the BBC is like losing a major weapon in what is more and more information wars nowadays.

All the more reason for it to sort its shit out

 

[Ancient Citizen]

The BBC is our propaganda, it is our weapon that we use to fight back. The BBC is respected /consumed all over the world. It influences world opinion....

The Russians attack us we make programs showing exactly what happened. The Iranians arrest innocent Britons and the BBC reports that around the world for everyone to see. The Argentinians attack the Falklands and its Britain's message that gets out to the rotw.

We get rid of the BBC is like losing a major weapon in what is more and more information wars nowadays.

All that used to be true, sadly not now.

 

[BobKowalski]

There was nothing wrong with the songs in the first place.

In your opinion. In my opinion I like a bit of ‘last night at the proms’. Equally I don’t get enraged when someone else isn’t a fan, or raises a point about some of the songs.

The thing I don't get is my current concerns are over the country I was born into getting torn apart, to me these are existential concerns. You guys get enraged over someone questioning a song choice.

I mean, we literally sold out part of the United Kingdom and it’s like ‘meh’, yet some geezer wonders whether ‘Rule Britannia’ is appropriate and you all melt? I have no idea what drives a thought process which is okay with selling out fellow countrymen but cannot handle criticism over song choices.

 

[Ancient Citizen]

In your opinion. In my opinion I like a bit of ‘last night at the proms’. Equally I don’t get enraged when someone else isn’t a fan, or raises a point about some of the songs.

The thing I don't get is my current concerns are over the country I was born into getting torn apart, to me these are existential concerns. You guys get enraged over someone questioning a song choice.

I mean, we literally sold out part of the United Kingdom and it’s like ‘meh’, yet some geezer wonders whether ‘Rule Britannia’ is appropriate and you all melt? I have no idea what drives a thought process which is okay with selling out fellow countrymen but cannot handle criticism over song choices.

I love how you now trivialise it all, but one last time. The BBC are under fire Bob,
because THEY, not me you, or anyone else, have pandered to some foreign woke lefty, and decided to, at first not sing the songs, then concede a tad, and said they'll do them, amongst other songs, but with no lyrics. They then come out with the ridiculous defence of coronavirus not allowing singing, whilst having no problem with the limited choralists singing other stuff.
But please yourself, the majority are railing against it, and it will damage them even more.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

All that used to be true, sadly not now.

No it still is. The Russians attacked our country with chemical weapons. The BBC showed exactly how terrifying that actually is with The Salisbury Poisonings. That was watched around the world and forms global opinions.

The BBC isn't going anywhere, we need it, I can understand people not wanting to pay for it and it would be good to opt out, but I think those who do still pay will be fucked off to see non paying people still using the bbc (because they do like portions of it afterall - they just don't like the political leaning )

 

[Fame Monster]

I can't believe I'm responding to something as patently ridiculous as this, but if you want to use the last GE as a bellwether as to weather we keep the singing of land of hope and glory or not (still makes me laugh), more people voted Lab, Lib, SNP than Tory, Brexit and BNP (I'm assuming these are the parties you're suggesting indicate the national mood).

It would be ridiculous to suggest the reason there isn't a big fuck off choir and loads of people singing a shit song in the royal albert hall is to do with the transmission of coronavirus, wouldn't it.

What planet are you on? No-one's asking for there to be a crowd, they're asking for the lyrics to be sung.

Every single mainstream newspaper quoted a BBC source as saying the reason it wasn't going to be played was because some snowflake in the BBC had taken offence. You don't think those papers would be able to find a credible source in the BBC to verify their story? Why do you think it's just them two songs that won't be sung and none of the others? Even you can work that one out and it's got nothing to do with coronavirus.

Your point about the popular vote misses the fact there's still a significant number of people in the Labour Party who go against the leadership and are patriotic and want songs like this to be sung but I suppose we will get the best idea on how popular the decision is when the polling comes out on this topic. My guess is that removing the lyrics will be deeply unpopular but we will have to see.