THE BBC ICHARGER
The BBC want to start charging viewers to download
programmes to watch on the I Player. Perhaps that should read the BBC want to
start double charging licence payers.......
The BBC have already been testing out the plan with focus
groups, so called because when the group found out that the BBC want to charge
again for programmes we’ve already paid for the group asked the BBC “Are you
trying to focus over or what?”.
I suppose however that the BBC do need the money what with
their bank account being in the red due to the huge redundancy payments they
made to senior executives and Bruce Forsyth’s demands for more money to stutter
his way through incredibly cringy jokes on Strictly Come Dancing.
The BBC want to compete with Netflix and Love Film and that
will lead to Netflix and Love Film approaching the Monopoly’s Commission which
could result in Netflix and Love Film being given the right to charge everyone an
annual £142.50 Netflix and Love Film broadcasting licence whether we watch
their services or not. Just like the BBC’s extortion racket.
Of course we all knew that they were up to something when
they rebranded the TV licence as the Broadcasting licence. An idea they got
from the government rebranding Road Tax as Vehicle Excise Duty to stop people
complaining that the roads have more holes in them than Labours economic policies.
PIRATES OF THE ARCTIC
The Greenpeace protesters who were in Russian jails are
home after being granted an amnesty by Vladimir Putin. Vlad decided to let them
go because he’d made his point. The point being “This is what happens when
hippies screw with the Russian state”
Greenpeace completely misjudged the situation and thought
that having their staff climb onto Russian oil hunting vessels carrying STOP,
YOU’RE HURTING POLAR BEARS” would have resulted in the Russians saying “Are
we?, oh my god we’ll stop drilling for oil right away, and we’ll send all the
polar bears a nice big basket of fish by way of an apology”.
That didn’t happen and a shocked Greenpeace ended up with
its Greenpeacers in jail in Russia looking at in the very least 5 years in jail
on charges of hooliganism and at the very most 15 years in jail charges of
piracy which the Russians heavily hinted might be the case .
Greenpeace (whose motto is We won’t stop until petrol is
£2000 a barrel) found that piracy isn’t all Johnny Depp and the Pirates of the
Caribbean, not when it’s Pirates of the Arctic it isn’t. And Johnny Depps they
ain’t because Captain Jack Sparrow would have made a clever escape from a
Russian prison. The Greenpeacers didn’t because they were charged with piracy in
real life and not in the movies.
Greenpeace basically don’t want any oil or any other energy
exploration carried out because thanks to donations they have plenty of money
to pay for the diesel to run their ships engines. So they don’t care how much
everyone else has to pay. A bit selfish?
It was interesting to watch them arrive back on the news.
Gone was the smug “we’re better than everyone else because we just are” look
they have on their faces. It had been replaced with “there were rats running
around the prison, so I’m now a bit sheepish” visage.
And you just knew that all the other passengers on the
Eurostar train that brought then after they landed in Paris from Russia were
thinking “4 months in a Russian prison, serves you right”.
A lot of people - the middle class environmentalists who
don’t have to worry about the cost of living because they’ve got a few bob in
the bank- criticised the Russian authorities. Fair enough they can if they want
to, but compared to the French the Russians were really quite nice about the
whole thing. The French on the other hand when they had a problem with
Greenpeace didn’t mess about with arrests, they simply sent a team of Secret
Service agents to New Zealand to blow up the Greenpeace ship the Rainbow
Warrior.
The BBC interviewed five of the returnees at St Pancreas
station, four were quite cheery and one called Phil Ball was a right moaner. He
was asked if he was glad be home and he replied “I’m not home yet, I don’t live
in St Pancreas station”. He’s one of those awkward whiny people and he whined
on and on about rats in the prison, the prison food, having to share a toilet
and his cell only having a basic Sky TV package.
It’s thought that he wasn’t actually granted an amnesty
like the others but was released when the Russian prison guards all signed a
petition to President Putin demanding his release because they were fed up
listening to his incessant whinging.
Oh yes and members of Pussy Riot were released to. This was
the result of a petition to. Putin received a petition demanding the release of
Pussy Riot with a half million signatures on, and every one of those signatures
was Russell Brands, it must have taken him ages.
