Should The Taxpayer Be Asked To Pay

[emmie]

for Big Ben to bong on 31st January, for exit from EU>

or as Boris suggested crowd fund it. Likely cost half a million
quid, would it be worth it, whoever pays.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/51107756

[emmie]

off thread...

[Theland]

Quite.
We need cheaper bongs.

[gulliver1]

07.54 Diddlydo, Once again you are Spot on.

[emmie]

perhaps, but for the moment Big Ben the bell is the only one that can be used.

[ichkeria]

There’ll be clocks all over the country striking 11 anyway.
If they waited until midnight the bongs would be slightly cheaper :-)

[emmie]

it;s 11 because it's 12 oclock in EU.

[emmie]

ickeria, who should pick up the tab.

[naomi24]

I don't care if Big Ben bongs for Brexit or not. The taxpayer pays anyway. As I see it the idea is to ask them to pay a bit extra. It's probably a tongue in cheek suggestion anyway.

[emmie]

I think you may be right Naomi, rather tongue in cheek,

[Theland]

I'll be tucking in to Brexit cake, bong or no bong.

[diddlydo]

Emmie - how about answering my point about democracy?

[Bobbisox1]

Absolutely that lovely sound will herald the end of being shackled to the EU Mafia

[THECORBYLOON]

They need about two weeks' notice so they'll need to get a move on if they want to raise the money.

[naomi24]

Diddley, on a turnout of 67.3%, the Conservatives gained 43.6% of the votes. The remainder was shared between the other nine parties. What’s undemocratic about that?

[diddlydo]

Everything wrong with that Naomi - they have the support of less than half of those who voted and yet have carte blanche to ruin the country any way they like.

[johnny.5]

Gay go up, and gay go down,
To ring the bells of London town.

[THECORBYLOON]

DIDDLY, that's how the first-past-the-post system works. Did you vote in favour of a change in the voting system a few year ago?

[TheDevil]

I don't think the tax payer is ever asked what we want to pay for. We just pay tax and it just gets spent.

[diddlydo]

I'm well aware of how the system works but for anyone to maintain that it's democratic is just plain wrong!

[ichkeria]

if it were to happen, which it almost certainly won’t at this stage, it’ll be “crowd funded” (modern speak for “someone can launch an appeal”
So there’s your answer