Legendary ‘Rule Britannia’ Might Be Banned From Proms
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A BBC music columnist, Richard Morrison, writing in the BBC Music Magazine, stated that, in his view, “crudely jingoistic songs like ‘Rule Britannia‘ and ‘Land Of Hope And Glory‘ should be scrapped from Last Night of The Proms because they are insensitive in the wake of the BLM movement”.
I laughed until I cried at the waffle of this cretin.
The BBC is becoming increasingly irrelevant as thousands and thousands stop paying their TV Licence fees. A fee that, you have to pay in order to watch any BBC Channel.
I’ve stopped my direct debit. No doubt, at some indeterminate point in the future, I’ll get a letter from the BBC reminding me that I can be fined for none payment.
Of course, that is incorrect. I can be fined if they can prove I am watching the BBC. They won’t be able to prove that simply because we don’t. Not anymore.
Even my wife, of a far more moderate disposition than I, has ‘thrown in the towel’ with the BBC.
I’m very much afraid that Britain’s former flagship broadcaster is now unsalvageable.
The BBC have announced that they intend to invest £100 million in ‘diversity’ – to ‘produce diverse and inclusive content’ is the mantra.
At the same time, they are going to ‘means test’ people 75 and over and, if said the elderly aren’t poor enough, they will have to pay for their TV licence.
Marvelous. What a great media company they aren’t.
When you stop paying your licence fee and after you’ve ignored several letters from them. A company called ‘Capita Business Services Ltd’ will then pop up on your doorstep and demand payment.
There was a time when people would then get worried and pay up. Now, increasingly, people are aware that Capita has no legal powers of entry to your home. So, basically, you just say ‘Bye’ and close the door.
You do not sign anything – especially when they ask you to sign just to say they have been round. What you’re actually signing is an admittance that you watch the BBC.
The collectors from Capita are on commission and the more people they ‘snag’ the more they earn. You do not engage with them in any way.
If you are a bit of a muppet and still do watch any BBC channel, they actually have to catch you doing so. Basically by staring into your window and seeing the TV. Seriously! They do that you know.
Anyway. The BBC Licence fee is on borrowed time – which, as they are planning to spend £100 million on diversity in programs is no bad thing if you ask me.
Speaking of diversity and the BBC did you know—well, obviously you almost certainly didn’t know—that minority ethnic presenters on the BBC are running at around 15%. As the UK is 86% white, I would have thought they’ve got plenty of diversity already without forking out £100 million.
As long as they’re good at what they do on the BBC, I couldn’t care less whether they are white or from another ethnic group. I could care less though when the BBC keep ramming ‘white privilege’ and ‘white guilt’ down our throats.
I know they have, despite not watching them anymore because Youtube and Facebook are full of it via people who either hate it or love it.
So BBC, you’re thinking about banning “Land Of Hope And Glory” from The Last Night Of The Proms are you? Fine. Crack on. Just keep putting the nails in your own coffin then.
It’s come to something when even the great Dame Helen Mirren has said ‘The BBC licence fee will have to go’.
She’s not wrong you know.
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The Government has previously paid for the elderly to have free licenses (Introduced by the last Labour government) but the Conservatives did a ‘deal’ and pushed it onto the BBC before the agreed date of 2021. Helen Mirren said the free license for over 75’s should not be scrapped! BBC is admired around the world and doesn’t have advertising and that’s why we pay a licence and we’ll worth it. Many different BBC channels for TV and radio stations and some fantastic programmes and presenters like David Attenborough.
As usual NN had to make a point about black and ethnic presenters 🥱 a running thread.
I’m surprised he thinks Americans are interested in our television networks actually?
Moke : Did have some extraordinary programming is nearer lately. That’s what’s so sad about it all
Glenn writes:
“I think the BBC approach is just misguided and unneeded.” I agree and I’ve seen this sort of thing with the BBC before and I doubt viewers can do much about it, except unsubscribe and you won’t find the majority doing that. BBC does have some extraordinary programming.
It’s funny that the idea of a license has long been anathema in the US, but as it is now, I have to pay money to Directv, and to Amazon and have the opportunity to pay a host of other companies for access – even the Beeb. That’s “freedom” because it’s not the government and even if it costs a fortune. With an antenna, I get exactly one station in Palm Beach. Freedom!
If “woke” has an actual meaning it’s closer to “surrendered” than to awakened or enlightened. It means I accept the doctrine. I accept my genetic guilt. I am aware, I am informed or enlightened might mean many things, but not Woke which is in a dialect which in Standard English is ungrammatical and sounds uneducated to me. Is trying to sound “black” the verbal equivalent to blackface? I think so.
It’s like those “Peace signs” people used to wear or tattoo on themselves in the 60s to indicate partisanship. Why else would an Englishman elect to use slang from American “urban” street dialect if it’s not a badge of complicity? English is my first and best language and I’m still trying to perfect it after 75 years. I respect dialects, but mine is as respectable as anyone else’s.(at least in North America) My use of someone else’s slang seems like mockery anyway. No, I’m not swooning in shame for my genome or my grammar as seems to be common. I’m proud to speak English.
What I am is confused. Is diversity of race good because all members of a race have the same opinion? Isn’t that racist? Of course I welcome diversity of opinion, but there are more viewpoints than races, so yes, I am confused even though American newsreaders and editorialists from minority groups are plentiful and I tend to agree with most of them, most of the time.
But US TV has so many programs including and about minorities and it was the forces of economics that seem to have made it that way, I think the BBC approach is just misguided and unneeded.
Mike : Indeed it does old bean. Let’s just hope we can kick some of these so called ‘woke’ idiots down it too!!
This is just crazy. Like much of what’s happening these days life as we know it continues to tumble down the rabbit hole.