Cost of London Fireworks

[SunshineLollipopsAndRainbows]

Fabulous as they are to watch, I wonder how much those fireworks cost? People are struggling to heat their homes or buy enough food. It doesn’t really sit well with me this year.

I like to watch the fireworks but could do without the political messages throughout. Just some decent music would be nice instead of the cacophony of sound they churn out.

They charged between £300 and £ 80 for tickets.

They were beautiful.

OP, where do you want it to stop?

No flowerbeds in towns? No money spent on parks and leisure? No Christmas lights? No council run museums? No free festivals? No free community gatherings at all?

There will always be something deemed unnecessary by some people, but if you stuck to that train of thought, we'd never have anything nice, ever.

lets all just roll over and die.

London makes its money back on this every year.

All you need is 2500 people to spend on average £600 each in London on a mix of hotels, food, drink and you've reached £1.5million

Every single year someone whinges about this.

Indeed!!!

That would be TV license payers plus any stations they syndicate it to.

In fairness, with the proviso that all music since 1995 is shit, there is worse shit than Sam Ryder.

This suddenly brought back the memory of posting this in 2020... 😂

⬆Licence. Arrgh.

That conjures up such a funny image.

@SunshineLollipopsAndRainbows You have a very inappropriate username. You sound dead miserable. It's New year FFS. Also, Sam Ryder and his show was fucking awesome. Really made me feel positive and cheerful, He's a right ray of sunshine. AND he can sing!

The sooner fireworks are banned, the better! Drone shows are better, kinder on the environment, on wildlife and on vulnerable people.

Can you wait until I’m dead before you ban them, please?

I thought the same thing. I think <10 mins of fireworks at my wedding was over £1,200 so can imagine the cost of those beauties!!

Loved the tribute to the late Queen.

Unless you're a London council tax payer, don't worry about the cost.

Just thank those that live within a London Borough.

And if you, like me, pay for the fireworks that the whole of the UK benefits from, yeah, pretty pricey.

Please check out Auckland's piss poor effort, OP.

I love NZ, have lived here for years, but at the other end of the fireworks budget is our woeful display. The London show really wowed, I honestly think it's the best in the world and something to be proud of.

I hope you're not going to spend the rest of the year this miserable

They were spectacular! I loved every bit of them and they made me smile. I've had a really rubbish tearful Christmas and they gave me hope for a better year.

I'm so sick of all the miserable people whinging about the cost, the noise, etc.

Yeah....... I did wonder about the climate change message while all that debris will be landing in the Thames and surrounding areas - although hopefully there's a plan in place to clear it all up tomorrow for minimum impact, I think the drones are amazing and although the fireworks are traditional and people do love them, I'd be just as happy with the lights/drones shows, the pandemic one was very emotional and this one, with the tribute to the Queen was too.
I do think that overall, the people who come to London for NYE and the money they spend means the fireworks pay for themselves, if not boost the London economy too.

If you want to see what a real waste of money looks like, then just head down to Bicester Shopping Village any day of the week.

I agree I liked Sam Ryder's show. Me and 8 year old DS bopped around the living room swigging babysham (me) and sparkling elderflower cordial (him) out of shiny silver flutes.

Keeping it "classy" 🤣🍾

I loved it and thought it was worth every penny (Londoner).

Ditto. Happy to have paid my taxes for that. And Sam was so smiley, how can you be cross at him?

I find many MNers fail to find joy in literally anything miserable sods.

And Sam Ryder was amazing, much better than dragging back some ancient who no one under 70 has heard of that's lost their singing voice!

Every year, without fail, there is one of these joy-sucking threads.

Bog off and Happy New Year.

My friend looked into going. It was £100 each!!