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Reader discuss Tim Davie stepping down from the BBC, a lack of poppies on Remembrance Day and the possibility of tax increases (Picture: Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images) Do you agree with our readers? Have your say on these MetroTalk topics and more in the comments Reader says they will 'savour every exquisite second' of BBC's 'undoing' BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness have resigned over a documentary about Donald Trump (Metro, Mon). A speech by the US president was edited in the Panorama broadcast to make it appear he explicitly encouraged the Capitol Riots in 2021. Ah, the glorious schadenfreude. I am going to savour every exquisite second of the BBC’s much-deserved and long-overdue undoing. Its unconvincing apologies will ring completely hollow and count for absolutely nothing. It has been found out and proven to be the heavily biased and left-leaning institution the majority of payers of its extortionate licence fee have always known it to be. The BBC has revealed itself as the manufacturer of the same fake news that it has mocked a supposedly paranoid Trump for calling out. Stefan Badham, Portsmouth This reader says BBC is a ‘manufacturer of fake news’ (Picture: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) ‘Metro stands out as one of the few news outlets to trust’, says reader ashamed of ‘Trump-worshipping press’ I’m ashamed – not of the BBC but of the Trump-worshipping press in this country that is out to destroy the BBC and replace it with something like the Fox News channel that is biased in their image. Metro stands out now as one of the few news outlets to trust. Mick, West Midlands Reader questions, was BBC’s slip up a ‘mistake’? I keep hearing that the BBC made a mistake. It was not – it was deliberate. R Shuttleworth, North Battersea Reader questions a lack of poppies worn in London What a moving Festival of Remembrance as always and equally impressive Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph. But I was in London on Sunday, and travelling from London Bridge to Knightsbridge by Tube I didn’t see one poppy being worn other than mine. Monday morning, I saw only one young lady wearing one. I was sitting opposite a man older than me who wasn’t wearing one and should know better. What has happened? It’s very disappointing from my fellow Londoners. Kay, London This reader says lack of poppies is ‘very disappointing’ (Picture: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire) Is the UK more ‘divided’ than in previous years? A study by King’s College London and Ipsos shows 84 per cent of the UK think the country is divided, up from 79 per cent two years ago and 74 per cent five years ago. Half think our culture is changing far too quickly. It is noticeable, particularly around Remembrance Day, that there is no longer the same respect or pride for our veterans or our nation. Molly Neville, Sheffield Should the public put up with higher taxes? For weeks, the news has been filled with speculation about whether tax rises are coming in the budget of November 26. Monday’s Metro reported that culture secretary Lisa Nandy ‘declined to say’ whether taxes should rise while on the same page of the newspaper it was revealed that the average wait for pothole repairs is now 103 years. We are faced with a choice – either we pay higher taxes and have decent roads and public services or we live in a crumbling relic of what was once a great nation and pay slightly less. For the vast majority, the benefits of living in a country with better services vastly outweigh the benefits of lower taxation. If we want adequate police and Armed Forces, sufficient housing, hospitals, prisons and schools, properly Tarmacked roads and decent public transport, we need to fund them. Insisting that taxes are kept as low as possible and then harping on about how the country is going to the dogs is, frankly, cuckoo. The time has come to face economic reality. The last prime minister who insisted we could have our cake and eat it famously came to a sticky end. Julian Self, Wolverton This reader defends possibility that the government could put taxes up in the upcoming Budget (Picture: Thomas Krych/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock) ‘Interceptor’ Met Police drivers tackling knife crime are are ‘what people want to see from most police forces’, says reader John Dunne’s report on riding with the Metropolitan Police’s ‘interceptor’ drivers tackling suspects of knife crime and other offences on the streets of London was fantastic (Metro, Mon). This is what most people want to see from most police forces across the UK. If only the courts and prisons could be as efficient and effective as this, most people would be very happy. Andrew Edwards, Islington Do you agree with our readers? Have your say on these MetroTalk topics and more in the comments
