What the frick is with the voice-over on the fireworks?

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Yes, the London Mayor's budget pays for the fireworks.

I saw that and thought he’s just getting so full of himself. That has never happened before. Full on ego bs.

Whats with the hate on the Mayor? Did his budget not pay for it?

It's just the office title.

Completely normal IMO.

He didn't have his name.

He's a wildly unpopular egotistical c*nt who's overseen London plummet as a place to live

"What the fuck did Sadiq Khan have to do with it?"

Well, what happens is he gets to increase his take of Londoner's council tax each year and literally set fire to it and blow it up into the air. And because that's not enough of a piss-take, he turns it into a party political broadcast each year - and what with there being a London Mayoral election this year...

Supposedly, there's not enough cash in the coffers to run TfL, and there certainly won't be much public transport for those trying to get home tonight - but yet, lots of pretty colours in the sky for 11 minutes.

And if the criticism is aimed at the Zephaniah poem, that really would be embarrassing.

I couldn't even find the flaming fireworks!! What were they on?

BBC 1 at midnight!

It wasn't party political, it was the title of the office

Johnson also wrote 'London Mayor' on everything the office funded.

Why do people whinge about perfectly normal behaviour?

The 'office' did not fund it. London's council tax payer paid for it.

HE doesn't personally pay for them. He could have said "London presents..." or "The people of London present..." - or better yet - "the England / UK presents". Or actually, in an ideal world, left it off altogether. He's a repugnant, inept, self-serving little rodent and I think that things like this that are supposed to belong to the entire nation should be removed from his authority entirely as I don't think he understands that they are supposed to represent the entire country. In fact, I don't believe he has any understanding whatsoever of the country outside of London and I personally think that makes him entirely unsuitable to be the mayor of our capital.

I enjoyed it.

Did anyone else notice that the fireworks were out of time with the drones? It appeared that they intended that the single red fireworks were meant to imitate the popping of the ‘bubble’ drones after the boy had blown the bubbles but the were out of time….although I think it must be incredibly difficult to get fireworks and drones to be in time.

The Sydney fireworks were excellent, London's was just a box ticking exercise.

Honestly.

His name is Sadiq Khan.

The office that paid for them is the London Mayor's Office.

You don't like him, but it's silly to pretend he did something unusual. He didn't put his name on them.

Again, this sort of comment is so silly.

How do you know it was funded by council tax money and not the central fucking grant?

I thought it was great - so much more interesting than just having music and fireworks. Barbie section was really fun and it felt like a good review of the year. Well done London Mayor!

I was there and you couldn't actually hear the music where we were-opposite the London eye as the fireworks were very loud!

Drones off to our right so couldn't see much of them. Will watch it on tv again later! When I warm up!

DH, DS and were there, we had a great time. Couple of girls next to us were from Shanghai and were crying with happiness at the end

I don't know exactly how the grant works, but if some of the grant is spent on fireworks, it's not being spent on actual 'needs', and therefore those 'needs' are funded by the local council tax payers.

And if it is funded by the central grant, it shoukd have said that HM Government presented the fireworks.

We opposite London eye as well!

loved the fireworks, music ok, couldn’t hear the voice properly.

Here is a link to FOI request regarding 2022 fireworks. It states that £4.2 million spent- £1.2 from ticket sales and then further £3million There is an estimate of an additional boost to the economy of £16million. Even if you take that with a pinch of salt so maybe £3-4million it would definitely break even/make a profit

The music was shit! I got slightly excited hearing Primal Scream, but after fucking Rick Astley, why did we have another load of 80s/90s shite?

This. Left-wing Saddique Khan bollocks.

Leave politics out of NYE fireworks I say.

It was embarrassing and unnecessary.