Privatise the BBC

Why doe we run a publicly funded Entertainment Empire called the BBC?

The Government have just privatised the Royal Mail for £3.3.billion - what would the BBC be worth?

WE don't pay SKY anything, you're free to subscribe or not. Buy a newspaper or not, go to the Pub or not, smoke or not, its your choice your money but why does every household in the UK have to pay.

The TV Licence is £145.50

Roughly if there are 24million households in Britain and they all buy a licence (watch TV) that's an incredible £3.5billion pounds a year. Just about what the Government got for the Royal Mail. SO sell it off and give us all shares in it. No more TV Licence - let them make money like Sky and BT etc.

That's and end to wrangling in the Houses of Parliament of who got paid what etc.

No one is elected to run the BBC. I pay £120 a year to my local council in Council Tax - for this they empty my bins every week and more - that on its own is good value. What if all the council employees left all their lights and computers on 24 x 7 you'd be angry? YES! Yet the BBC every day I see the news and behind there is a room full on top notch computers and screens all left on with no one working there. The lights are blazing too - no dim withs there! Yet yes the BBC is just like your council WE ARE PAYING the bills! SCANDALOUS. but do They care - no because they're accountable to no one. If it was private it would be different the Board would insist that all teams were accounted for their costs or they'd be out.

I believe in Public Service Broadcasting but not at £3 billion. Some of the Overseas aid budget could be diverted into this perhaps.

They need to do something for the unfortunate folk who either won't or can't get on broadband, education by the BBC that could be paid out of the education budget. 

Surely in the 21st Century, especially in a financial crisis, when we're cutting Benefits,  we shouldn't be paying for Entertainment on our taxes?

Or maybe I'm wrong and its Opium for the masses? We don't want riots in the streets, let folk stay at home and watch Eastenders/ Coronations Street or X factor (oh dear the BBC doesn't do 2 out of 3 of those).

WindFarm Anger - Andrew Marr show - Ed Davey is WRONG!

Just had the biggest LIE from Ed Davey on the Andrew Marr show.

He said "Windfarms only get paid when they generate electricity".

This is a LIE.

Constraint payments pay them for NOT generating electricity. We pay the greedy windfarm owners even more to NOT generate electricity. 

Is this right?

Also because the infrastructure is not there yes they get paid for generating electricity but then it isn't used by the Grid. So what use is that?

Sorry Andrew - get him back and put him right.

Energy Price Hike - what should Dave do?

Now we are being hit, just when the winter begins. Last winter was bad enough I guess our bills went up by around 15% because of the cold.

On my bill there is approximately 15% that is Tax. 5% is VAT the rest is the Social Payment! That is what they pay to the Windfarm Gold Miners.

OBSCENE. Pensioners and people on beneits are Taxed to make greedy landowners ever RICHER. Robbing the poor to make the rich richer,


Have I mentioned the MILLIONS that the Windfarm owners GENERATE in income?

LOOK

4 x Turbines producing 10MWh

Even at 30% efficiency over 25 years they GENERATE 
£61 million!!

Not to mention if they're in the wrong place and can't export their power the owners get even MORE in CONSTRAINT payments.

Appallingly obscene.

WE'RE Paying for this. Write to your MP to get it stopped.

Total MWh of Farm	Percentage Efficiency	Total annual MWh produced	ROC price	Wholesale Electricity price	Total annual income	25year income
			44	50
10	1	87600	£3,854,400.00	£4,380,000.00	£8,234,400.00	£205,860,000.00
10	0.5	43800	£1,927,200.00	£2,190,000.00	£4,117,200.00	£102,930,000.00
10	0.3	26280	£1,156,320.00	£1,314,000.00	£2,470,320.00	£61,758,000.00
2.6	0.3	6832.8	£300,643.20	£341,640.00	£642,283.20	£16,057,080.00

Help to Buy?

The Government are "helping people" to buy by getting the banks & Building Societies to lend upto 95%
that's how it used to be, so what's changed?
Basically they make money from lending out money but since the Crash the Government have bailed them out so they don't need to lend money plus they daren't take the risk. Remember If you put 5k down and borrow 95k and you can't keep up the payments,  (rates Will go up!), then the BSoc has to sell your house to get the 95k back 0 what if they can't? YOU still owe the money. If say they only get 80k for the house the Government now gives them the 15k you can't pay so they can't lose.

In the old days banks & Building Societies used to guarantee the 15k by taking out an insurance policy, built into the fees. They can't get these policies now - everyone is scared prices aren't going up. After these few years of stagnation and no building - no ones buying (they have no money/jobs) no price rises to stimulate the market no wonder ! If this scheme stimulates some house price inflation its a small price to pay to kick start the market then building will start and the ball will be rolling a bit like the old days.
Houses are still way too expensive.

The last boom was cause by greed. Folk thought they could make money by buying a house. It never really works like that - you have to live somewhere.

My first house cost £7500, I put a £500 deposit down. Those were the days (3 times my income).

Lottery - half a chance

Lottery . At a stroke they've halved everybody's chances. What annoyed me is i don't gamble but do lottery online. I updated my filter that the isp provides after all the publicity about porn. I don't want to go to dodgy sites accidentally . Then later found the lottery was blocked . I had to unlock gambling. This seems wrong somehow. I want all the other gambling blocked just access to the lottery .

Bruce poorly - not Winkleman !

Please no. With sir Bruce poorly Claudia Winkleman is to take over. Ugh, please no. Anyone else or no one.  She knows as much about dancing as a slug and is as entertaining as one too. If she came on wearing a bin liner it would be an improvement.
Surely Tess could manage on her own or get one of the dancers in. Chris hollins. Please. she'll lose viewers .

Lottery Scam - £2 ticket actually HALVES you chances

Lottery Scam - £2 ticket actually HALVES your chances.

Yes they have increased the winnings, actually by only 60p! but its peanuts in realty. Its all to do with probability which no one has explained so here’s  a quick lesson.

Throw a dice – you have a 1/6^th chance of getting a 6

If you 2 6s in a row its not 2/6 its actually 1/36!

Why? You have one chance of a 6followed by a 6 as opposed to all the other combinations 1+1 1+2, etc.

So lets say you spend £10 a week on lottery tickets. That makes 10 tickets previously, 10 chances of winning the jackpot. Now you £10 only gets you 5 tickets so you have HALF as many chances of winning SEE? The odds of winning haven’t changed.

Prize increased from £10 to £25 = 60p rise. Why?

Lets say

Previously you had 10 tickets, 10/40 000000 (10 in 40million)

Now you have 5 tickets 5/40000000 (5 in 40million)

So prize £10 x 10/40 000000 versus  £25  x 5/40 000000

Quick arithmetic

Chance of winning £10 = ¼ – versus £25 1/8

¼ of 10 = £2.50

!/8 of 25 = £3.12

Increase a mere 62p – thank you national Lottery.

Of course you can spend more money on tickets but who wins then?