To think the London NYE fireworks were an excellent FU to Farage and Tommy Ten Names?

I stand corrected it was £4 million and your prices are off because Londoners don’t pay as much for tickets. Tbh I think they should get them free considering they are already paying with their taxes.

https://www.heart.co.uk/news/how-much-do-london-new-years-eve-fireworks-cost-2025-2026-price/

You already had this . Boris acting the maggot on his stupid zip wire. If you're too thick to join the dots you get what you deserve.

I was unhappy that it was politicised and although I voted for Sadiq Khan,I'm not happy that he played a large role in it with his speech and the starting message that the fireworks are 'Presented by the Mayor of London.' I doubt he personally pays for the fireworks!

Utterly unreasonable. Unless you want to see Reform’s political propaganda if/when they win. Civic celebrations aren’t the place for politicised messaging from any direction.

I LOVED IT!

A magnificent FUCK YOU to the flag shaggers was a perfect start to the year for me, and I'm FAR from alone!

It always makes me laugh the way people who bang on about ‘inclusivity’ and ‘tolerance’ are often the most hate-filled and intolerant people you’ll ever meet. No one voted for mass immigration or multiculturalism. They have been IMPOSED on this country, and they have completely destroyed any sense of shared culture or shared history. But somehow, for reasons I’ve never understood, that’s OK. It’s OK to destroy the identity of a Daily Mail reading Brexit voter. It doesn’t count. And then the left have the nerve to call Farage and Tommy Robinson fascists!! THEY’RE the fascists. THEY’RE the ones who’ve destroyed people’s national identity and forced them to accept a new one.

Maybe. But the England flag was displayed like the ones painted on the mini roundabouts and the commentary over the top when it was shown was about taking back the flag (I don’t remember the details) so I’d be surprised if it was a coincidence.

What definitely wasn’t a coincidence was the overriding message of inclusiveness, togetherness and multiculturalism. Which absolutely was intentional.

Appalling in every way and despicable that we are practically the only city charging to see fireworks. So FU Khan.

Well someone upthread said that the display cost 3m. I can’t be bothered to fact check that but here’s what I know.

Tickets were between £20 and £65 which puts the average at £42.50. 100k people attended. That’s there or there abouts of £4,250,000

The ticket price will no way cover the cost of the fireworks, staffing, policing, security, etc.

I was unhappy that it was politicised and although I voted for Sadiq Khan,I'm not happy that he played a large role in it with his speech and the starting message that the fireworks are 'Presented by the Mayor of London.' I doubt he personally pays for the fireworks!

So it wasn’t about all of us living in peace and harmony regardless of race or religion?

The NYE fireworks always get me a bit emotional but this year I think it was up there with the 2020 covid ones. The message was beautiful and ran through the whole thing. The way they got the EU stars in, the dig at the mini roundabout painters and flag hangers.
I’ve lived in London my whole adult life and I felt the display reflected it perfectly.

I LOVED IT!

A magnificent FUCK YOU to the flag shaggers was a perfect start to the year for me, and I'm FAR from alone!

Also forgot to add for those who mentioned the cost - it is a ticketed event and you have to pay to go and watch.

I LOVED IT!

A magnificent FUCK YOU to the flag shaggers was a perfect start to the year for me, and I'm FAR from alone!

So you’re telling @SBGM247 that where they live isnt inclusive? How do you know this? And what has made you come to this conclusion @TY78910 ?

We’re all largely responding to OP’s reading of it. I only saw a clip of last night and I have to say the messaging felt pretty blatant to me: a voiceover telling us what values we celebrate while the flags of the world went up on the London Eye.

Picking specific virtues and majoring on them is not an apolitical act, even when everyone agrees that thing is a virtue. When it’s contested, even less so.

Being open, pro-EU, multicultural, are contested political values (which incidentally I largely share).
What I deeply dislike though is the politicisation of neutral civic spaces, or, worse, the idea that only other people’s politics are politics at all, while our own are just self-evident virtues.

If Trump (or Farage) did a publicly-funded NYE fireworks that majored on the glories of motherhood, with plenty of approving references to good, fecund women at home with their strapping husbands protecting them and their beaming babies thriving, I think we’d see the problem. And not because anyone here is anti-mother nurturing or anti-husband protecting. But because it’s an encroachment of politics into a place it doesn’t belong.

What was politicised about it? How is a message of togetherness and inclusivity political? (Maybe the EU stars, but it was just a clever way of depicting “Europe” on a circular background…)