Mick Lynch Rmt

[Dromedary 166]

5 hours ago, sibon said:

That’s an excellent qualification to my claim. It doesn’t make my statement untrue though.

 

 Correction noted😀

That may not but this does.

 

The electorate do not pay for the BBC so the claim that 100% do is unfortunately for you, untrue. The BBC is funded by the license fee which is paid by the households who pay it which also includes those who may not be on the electoral register for one reason or another and also trading companies that show live TV in their shops. Also around 1.35M do not pay it as they either do not have a TV, dont watch live TV or claim they don't despite the fact that they may also be on the electoral register.

 

I have a TV, am on the electoral roll and yet do not pay a TV licence fee.

 

So to sum up, it is the households that pay and not the electorate. 

Edited June 24, 2022 by Dromedary

[Guest makapaka]

9 hours ago, hackey lad said:

Tell us about him then , without gushing, if you can 

Have you listened to him?

[hackey lad 3,980]

1 hour ago, makapaka said:

Have you listened to him?

Yes 

[BadgerBodge 0]

11 hours ago, sibon said:

They are you know.

 

Unless you’d like to correct me.

Just as a reminder.

>60% of the electorate didn’t vote Tory in 2019.

Technically true, but then only 67.3% of the electorate bothered to vote and using "EU Remainer Maths" to include the non-voters the same way around 78% didn't vote Labour and over 92% didn't vote LibDem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election

>60% of the electorate didn’t vote for Brexit.

Also technically true but then only 72.21% of the electorate bothered to vote for that and using the same "maths" around 75% didn't vote to remain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2016_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum

If people can't be bothered to cast a vote on such matters they have no voice when they disagree with the outcome.

 

>Farage has no mandate from the UK people 

Who ?

>100% of the electorate have to pay for the BBC. Excepting the OAPs, who have paid for them for long enough anyway.

Wrong & wrong

TV Licenses are paid by a member of the "Household" and if no-one in the property owns equipment capable of receiving a TV signal or does not stream/download BBC services/content they do not need a TV license so pay the BBC zero.
Likewise if a TV license is paid for by a member of the "Household" the remaining occupants registered voters or otherwise pay the BBC zero.

There are other special cases where a TV license is either heavily subsidised or not required at all.

OAP's now have to pay the full price of a TV license unless they are receiving benefits or have other exemptions. 

 

...but what's all this got to do with Mick Lynch ?

[Guest sibon]

6 hours ago, BadgerBodge said:

 

 

...but what's all this got to do with Mick Lynch ?

I’m happy to stand corrected on the TV licence, thank you for confirming that the rest of my post was correct.

 

My original post was about the  obvious bias shown in QT on Thursday. I was illustrating that things that we believe to be popular because a “majority”  voted for them, are often no such thing.
 

The BBC, on the other hand is funded by most of us and should do a better job of reflecting a variety of views.  They really didn’t manage that on Thursday, repeatedly interrupting Mick Lynch of the RMT. 
 

Maybe you can see the relevance of my post now.

[fools 447]

On 24/06/2022 at 00:22, sibon said:

>60% of the electorate didn’t vote Tory in 2019.

0/10 for relevance.

 

What percentage of the electorate didn't vote Labour in 2019

 

BBC right wing bias? Poor lefties, always the victim.

 

It's like you've all been programmed to regurgitate irrelevant nonsensical platitudes at every opportunity

 

Edited June 25, 2022 by fools

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11 hours ago, BadgerBodge said:

>60% of the electorate didn’t vote Tory in 2019.

Technically true, but then only 67.3% of the electorate bothered to vote and using "EU Remainer Maths" to include the non-voters the same way around 78% didn't vote Labour and over 92% didn't vote LibDem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election

>60% of the electorate didn’t vote for Brexit.

Also technically true but then only 72.21% of the electorate bothered to vote for that and using the same "maths" around 75% didn't vote to remain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2016_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum

If people can't be bothered to cast a vote on such matters they have no voice when they disagree with the outcome.

It's easy enough for those making claims to put "the majority who voted voted for ...". To put "the majority voted for ..." is to imply greater support for something than there was. If people don't want others to draw attention to that, then don't use language that exaggerates the support for something.