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This is all part of Operation Save Big Dog aka saving Boris Johnson's ass from being forced out as PM. Yesterday it was the TV licence fee ending. Tomorrow it w

• truculent 5y ago
  It is opportunistic timing, but the Home Office have been pushing for this for years.
  • hd4 5y ago
    They were also talking about ending the TV licence for years. The timing couldn't be more obvious.
    • _joel 5y ago
      Don't forget the Navy being brought in to do something with the same legal standing as Border Force could do, but duly reducing our available Navy resources. The people who buy into these stupid red meat policies don't realise they can't blow up ships crossing, if anything they'll have a larger capacity to help them, therefore trafikers.
    • truculent 5y ago
      Yes. But foolish to dismiss it as just “populist nonsense”. There are many in government, police etc who are desperate for this.
      • hd4 5y ago
        These are hardly mutually exclusive.
        • truculent 5y ago
          Then we agree!
• pydry 5y ago
  The license fee thing may have been less of a populist thing and more of an A) shot across the bows at the BBC for its coverage of partygate. B) a sop to murdoch who has been wanting to kill the BBC/license fee since forever.
  • denton-scratch 5y ago
    The licence fee thing has been in development for years. It was brought forward to distract attention away from the PM's blatant lying. I imagine they'll have a new policy announcement each day for the next week - anything to keep discussion of ministerial hypocrisy out of the morning news shows.
• zohch 5y ago