to be pissed off with the government NYE 'celebrations'

[ThatWasThat]

am watching now. Patronising propoganda. so naive, so upsetting

I thought the drone display was absolutely amazing! Staggering what they managed to do with them - I found it incredibly uplifting after all that's gone on that people have managed to create that amazing display (presumable with the help of computers but someone must have programmed them!). The bird was fantastic! Really made my day.
Even better to find out they'd sneakily done it a couple of days ago in the middle of the night and kept it quiet.

I agree that they were a bit off, but the London NY fireworks are nothing to do with the government are they?
It's the Mayor of London you need to direct your ire to.

And wasn't that drone display fantastic. It's amazing what can be done with a bit (probably an awful lot) of programming!

I loved it but it ended so suddenly with the turtle!

It was pre-recorded in the early hours of Tuesday morning and sadiq has been quoted saying you will only be able to watch from home so no one in London would have seen anything tonight

Lovely. Very touching.

You know, I think in isolation it was nice and was meant to indicate hope and praise,, but to me, it spoke as though we are celebrating that the pandemic is all over. To me it spoke as though we'd got through it all now, as though we were safe now. But I don't feel hopeful right now at all. I don't feel safe. I work in an ICU, and I'm so fucking tired. Myself and my colleagues are feeling the worst we've felt since this began. We are at breaking point. This is far, far worse than the spring.

And knowing that the gov collects the funding for the BBC... I just feel fed up because the government are a bunch of fucking idiots and this year has shown that more than EVER before. So yes, in isolation it was heartwarming, but (and call me miserable), I feel like I just can't like it, I can't accept a hopeful note because we are nowhere near out of deep water yet.

It's about to get worse before it gets better and I'm exhausted, scared and lonely (haven't seen my family in a very long time because I work with Covid patients and some of my family are vulnerable).

So yeah. I understand why people liked it, but also, I felt angry 😔

Loved it

I was surprised they didn't mentioned brexit though, it's a pretty big deal at the mo!
I guess it's not much to celebrate. I chose to interpret the "Leave the light on" song they played as being directed at the EU
Are the Nightingale hospitals they mentioned being used at the moment now the hospitals are so stretched?

Alicia Keys was dreadful and the sanctimonious firework display was worse. Wish I'd stuck to Jools and co.

That being said, it was heartwarming to see that BLM got mentioned and the David Attenborough bit made me feel happy. So not all bad I guess. I think I'm just highly emotional right now. We've lost so many people this week.

@peepholepringle

I agree that they were a bit off, but the London NY fireworks are nothing to do with the government are they? It's the Mayor of London you need to direct your ire to.

Yes it would have been organised by the Mayor of London's office.

No doubt outraged a large portion of Brexit voting daily mail readers.

Great stuff.

@GrapeLipBalm

I was surprised they didn't mentioned brexit though, it's a pretty big deal at the mo! I guess it's not much to celebrate. I chose to interpret the "Leave the light on" song they played as being directed at the EU Are the Nightingale hospitals they mentioned being used at the moment now the hospitals are so stretched?

Nightingale hospitals - some are being used but barely. There are simply no staff.

I work in ICU and if we wanted to send patients to a nightingale hospital we'd also have to send staff too. And we just can't do that 😕

Thought it was great. The drones were amazing, loved the lasers and it made a change to see it all from a view areas rather than just the London Eye (which for the past few years has felt like watching the same same display/listening to the same type of tracks each time).

For those 5 minutes it was good to appreciate a clever display whilst booting 2020 to the kerb. Not much else to get pleasure from at the moment!

Happy New Year all.

Your feelings are completely understandable Cheeselets

I thought it was deeply embarassing that they paraded the Captain Tom drones about in their lightshow like it isn't a failure on the behalf of the government to fund the NHS adequately, and we let a hundred year old man drag himself up and down the garden to raise money.

I hate this horrible little country sometimes!

Nightingale hospitals - some are being used but barely. There are simply no staff
Thanks cheeselets. I thought so. I just thought it was odd to be boasting about building them when there aren't enough staff to use them

Relying on the government for parties 😂😂😂 what was the poem? Lays of ancient Rome?

Agree whoamongstus. Reminds me of this Henning Wehn quote

m.youtube.com/watch?v=MpJIg_3DnLk&feature=share

How did they do that?!
Just watched it on the link PP put, thanks.

Who among.....

What a hilarious post thank you 😂😂.

I know you didn't mean it to be but its tickled me.

After watching the amazing Sydney celebrations, it was hard to envisage what London would do.
I very unexpectedly bawled at our offering. I thought they got it right. The tone with the drones wasn’t celebratory, it was reflective.

It captured key moments and looked ahead without mentioning brexit...i liked it...
Op what would you have put in it?

It was beautiful.

But I did spend most of the time watching it wondering how many hungry children the money spent on that would have fed