How dare you! Bit rich coming from a Blue Lights binger. I want to speak to the manager.

How on earth do you find HIGNFY in any way funny, It is comedy for Guardian readers with TrumpDerangementSyndrome

Sadly, it's not just the BBC and not just the terrestrial broadcasters. Ofcom's sickening DEI edict shapes all streaming services too. Sky are even compelled to hire shouty wimmin to commentate on the footy. I can't just burn my TV as I am addicted to a few programmes (HIGNFY, WILTY, Only Connect, Gogglebox, Taskmaster, Great Pottery Throwdown and Sky Arts…none of which is untainted by DEI).

Do you have proof that they started touting it at 9.4p that you could send to winnileaks? Or were you contacted?

Yes I have worked hard and have 2 nice houses. Could I buy more gold with them than my grandparents would have by selling Ightam in 1935? I very much doubt it. We may be fiat rich but that just shows the scale of inflation. And you seem to accept that GDP per capita is more material than GDP

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Not everyone is richer since 1975 but I certainly am and I believe at least 95% of your readers probably are. I have a local newspaper article from the 1920s, my ancestors evicted by constables because they could not pay the rent on their hovel, they placed their few chatels in the street, it was winter so they were provided with a tent and told to move on, no free council house available. These days illegal immigrants with no id who may be Iranian terrorists are housed in hotels kept warm and well fed. I am dumbfounded by the assertion of this article, its ridiculous, you now live in a million pound house with another in Greece, probably have pension pots worth hundreds and thousands of pounds. I expect Mr Frisby probably has a few million pounds stashed , maybe in crypto, do you and Mr Frisby feel impoverished ? I was poor in the 1960s and 70s, I had an Austin 1100 in the 1970s which cost 15 pounds, I was done over by the car dealer, he should have paid me to take it away but I learned how to weld and keep it running. I could if I desired buy a car new today, I choose to drive an old banger, I have never been able to shake off feeling the need to be careful with money. Surely most of your subscribers by the miracle of compound interest and share price appreciation are better off today than 1975, Divorce, kids, market corrections and bad choices invariably dent your pile, I never minded the kids doing that. I have wasted a fortune on fraudulent AIM shit, a large amount on the Wood Group fraud, Lonmin lies , lots of similar blunders since I started gambling on shares nearly 50 years ago but somehow against the odds and being robbed by politicians raising tax I am better off than in 1975 and no thanks at all to capital gains on property or being in a highly paid job so I ask you just who has been impoverished ? I would not mind the level of tax if it were spent on defence but our taxes are being squandered on fraudulent benefit claims housing financial migrants, billions of fraud in NHS procurement , train drivers on 70k, seems whatever money the government get they find a way to squander it.

Well, DnD, not quite a refund, but when your TV licence comes up for renewal, don't renew it, so you will save a few quid. And you will be able to have the pleasure of cursing and swearing at the "enforcement officer" who will inevitably turn up at your door, despite that you have told them repeated times that you don't watch the British Bashing Corporation woke output or that of their equally despicable corporate colleagues.

This is even worse than you say as the raise was spammed round the market when priced at 9.4p, got forward sold for a week down to 7.4p and then the capital access window was implemented. All in all, a 39% discounted raise. This is negligence of the highest order, but will anything happen to those in the know that forward sold, I doubt it, and will any heads roll for incompetence, I doubt that as well.