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  1. Geoff says:
    April 27, 2014 at 12:33 pm

    First the Generation Game, now a new version of Dads Army, is there no originality these days?

    I wonder if there will be a part for Lenny Henry in it…..?

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10790918/Dads-Army-to-march-back-on-to-the-screen.html

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  2. George R says:
    April 27, 2014 at 1:15 pm

    For INBBC’s ‘Business News’, where it can give its political stamp of approval to LLOYDS Bank’s preferential treatment for Muslim customers:-

    ‘Jihadwatch’-

    “UK: Lloyds drops overdraft fee on Islamic accounts”
    By Robert Spencer-
    [Excerpt:

    “’Do I have to change my religion to get the best deal?’asked one woman. The answer is no: ‘A Lloyds spokesman said Islamic accounts were intended for customers who cannot receive or pay interest under sharia, but were available to anyone, regardless of their faith.’ How wonderful! You can avoid the overdraft fees as long as you submit to the hegemony of Sharia, you see. As long as you understand that Islamic law must be respected above all other laws and statutes, and are willing to comply with its restrictions, you can save up to £80 a month in overdraft fees.

    “The rapid self-destruction of Britain as it abjectly surrenders to Sharia while even its alleged foes of Sharia denounce and defame genuine opponents of jihad terror and Islamic supremacism would be funny if it were, say, a Monty Python movie. But it isn’t.”

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/uk-lloyds-drops-overdraft-fee-on-islamic-accounts

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  3. Alan David says:
    April 27, 2014 at 1:21 pm

    Now the bit I still cannot understand is how between them David and Alan couldn’t stump up £500 for this brilliant site. I mean where else on earth would ‘Alan’ be allowed even one post? But he can’t afford even £250. If this site went what he do?

    If he exists outside of David’s imagination.

    So Alan’s been in action today and funny enough David has been in action on Twitter. Surely some coincidence eh?

    Of course lots of the posters here are Alan or do I mean David. Actually both. And the same.

    One reason for David to avoid posting too much under his name is that naughty people are inclined to contact his customers with the comments.

    So what does David do? There’s a press article trumpeting a new success:

    http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/news/food-distributor-seals-benecol-transport-deal-29008194.html

    You’ll note that the PR makes great play on its big name clients:

    Major brands include Nando’s Sauces, Pizza Express and Amy’s Kitchen.

    But if you go to the current website you’ll note that all of them have gone.

    http://www.am-ni.com/index.php?page_id=17

    Of course there are many reasons why you lose customers. Crap service, uncompetitive pricing or the products don’t sell. I’m sure its not that these companies have become concerned that their brand could be in any way linked to David and his views.

    Of course not.

    But he can’t afford £250…or is £500

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    • John Anderson says:
      April 27, 2014 at 1:27 pm

      Yawn

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    • Stewart says:
      April 27, 2014 at 1:32 pm

      Yeah yeah you told us before we didn’t give a shit then we don’t now But we know an gutless venial attempt to close down free speech when we see
      I know nothing of Vance and care less, but he gives me a chance to share my loathing of the liberal Inquisition in general and the BBC in particular And you don’t. So take your petty spiteful resentful vendetta to some one who gives a damn

      Just my opinion you understand your not required to agree

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    • Thoughtful says:
      April 27, 2014 at 3:31 pm

      ” mean where else on earth would ‘Alan’ be allowed even one post?”

      You make a good point! The destruction of freedom of expression and of thought in the UK by the fascists has become all pervading.

      Never mind that disallowing people of a particular opinion access to post is illegal under human rights laws, which the fascists decided in their tyrannical oppression not to implement in the UK, but were forced to do so by the ECtHR courts.

      Funny that isn’t it – equality – but not for everyone, especially those who don’t share fascist views, who could be silenced at will, at the click of a mouse.

      Does it not worry you, who ever you are, that diversity of ideas is now seen as such a threat to national security that anyone daring to say the wrong things can be arrested and criminalised.

      Meanwhile those who would like to cause physical harm are protected from criticism by those same people who believe freedom needs to be ended.

      Alan & Dave mean where else on earth would ‘Alan’ be allowed even one post?

      But people like Amjem Choudary can

      If that doesn’t worry you then you need some serious medicine!

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    • Alec Coole says:
      April 27, 2014 at 10:01 pm

      Who gives a toss what you think?

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  4. Thoughtful says:
    April 27, 2014 at 1:23 pm

    News at One on Radio 4 bemoans that all the negative stories about UKIP (and he reels of a load the BBC have promoted) have done anything to diminish the support for UKIP. In fact it seems that the negative publicity shows that all publicity is good publicity.

    Dickhead!

    The BBC obviously believe that the public is completely stupid and that they have complete control over them with their propaganda.

    They seem completely confused and perplexed as to why their campaign against UKIP isn’t working.

    I believe this shows the BBC self perception of themselves.

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    • Merched Becca says:
      April 27, 2014 at 1:31 pm

      The BBC are not getting getting the message ….“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”

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  5. will says:
    April 27, 2014 at 2:51 pm

    BBC News channel’s reports on the RC jamboree just have to end up with a comment about child abuse. Every report on the Catholic Church has to mention this subject – but they never even give the church the “small minority” excuse. I wonder if the BBC would appreciate being linked to Savile in every report about them?

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    • chrisH says:
      April 27, 2014 at 3:49 pm

      Yes-and every UKIP report seems unable to avoid listing the current charge sheet of “hate filled racist incidents” as they`ve deemed them.
      You know-so we get the context and antecedents to the LATEST “scandal engulfing an embattled, defensive and beleaguered UKIP, rocked by the latest crisis”.
      Funny thing is that the more the BBC hype their abuse…the more we love them, and the more UKIP will exact revenge on the BBC/media classes when they get a chance too.
      This is going to be a dirty war-but the liberal media and the BBC are shitting themselves….their dirty protests are aimed at our walls, but go no further that their undies.
      Malicious lying and unused to anything other than lies and smears of shit…yesterdays dead planks walking.

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  6. Framer says:
    April 27, 2014 at 3:12 pm

    If you stop and think almost all the BBC output is now repeats, derivative programming from past successes i.e. TOTP, stock material, repeats and remakes. Their imaginative abilities have been lost in or to political correctness.

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  7. Geoff says:
    April 27, 2014 at 5:09 pm

    Saw this on Guido, its may explain increased trolling here, incredible that such a job exists, quote “responsible for running a short-term social media campaign (#EUnify) to counter racist and xenophobic discourse in the UK in the run-up to the European elections”

    http://www.w4mpjobs.org/JobDetails.aspx?jobid=45223

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    • Ember2014 says:
      April 27, 2014 at 6:13 pm

      We’re paying someone to be in a non-job trying to tell us not to restrict immigration levels.

      Yup, nothing political in that at all.

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  8. DB says:
    April 27, 2014 at 7:13 pm

    BBC journo Mattia Cabitza :

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    • Lobster says:
      April 27, 2014 at 9:15 pm

      Never heard of him so I looked him up on Google and guess what? He also works for the Guardian – quelle sodding surprise!

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    • Alec Coole says:
      April 27, 2014 at 9:58 pm

      Suggested to do list for UK: get rid of Mattia Cabitza…..

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  9. chrisH says:
    April 27, 2014 at 9:29 pm

    Thank you Malta!
    Guaranteed MY vote in Eurovision.
    They`ve arrested Chris Packham( stickibeekus-vert).
    If only we could tell the Maltese that he sings-then they might shoot the lefty green tosspot!
    Still-with his “war correspondent pith helmet on”…his talk of “holocausts”…it`s good to know that he infringed EU Human Rights Law of those he was secretly filming for the Today tweet.
    There is a God…and those plucky islanders know a green shill when they see one!
    Maltesers for the kids packed lunch tomorrow!

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  10. dave1east says:
    April 27, 2014 at 10:30 pm

    want to sh1t all over one of our `boys’ own` national treasures?

    well, you wouldn’t really be able to do better than this by mary beard.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27111860

    the mo is well established and common to intellectual frauds the world over. analysis based on selective facts, insinuation of unethical conduct on the part of the target, vague accusations of discrimination, claims that other’s achievements have been unfairly overlooked. hey presto – one of our `boys’ own` national treasures is smashed.

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  11. George R says:
    April 27, 2014 at 10:54 pm

    In case BBC-NUJ doesn’t recognise it, the following is free speech:-

    “‘Lenny Henry should emigrate to a black country’: Ukip candidate tells the comic he ‘does not have to live with whites’ in response to comments on lack of ethnic minorities on television”

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2614283/Ukip-candidate-William-Henwood-tells-Lenny-Henry-emigrate-black-country.html#ixzz307sKaorD

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  12. George R says:
    April 27, 2014 at 11:19 pm

    Why would Beeboids report this?:-

    “UK: Muslim terrifies churchgoers, enters church and shouts: ‘This is rubbish, you should be preaching Allah, turn to Islam’”

    By Robert Spencer.

    [Excerpt]:-
    “Imagine if a Christian went into a mosque in Britain wearing a bandana that said Jesus is Lord’ and began shouting: ‘This is rubbish, you should be preaching the Gospel, turn to Christ.’ Do you think the story would be found only in one bland article in the Derby Telegraph? Neither do I. ”

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/uk-muslim-terrifies-churchgoers-enters-church-and-shouts-this-is-rubbish-you-should-be-preaching-allah-turn-to-islam

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  13. Reed says:
    April 28, 2014 at 1:56 am

    Considering their interest in the ‘Thatcher era paedophile’ story that never was, I wonder just how much prominence the BBC will give to this one…

    Minister in Tony Blair’s government among group of men suspected of abusing children at home run by paedophile

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tony-blair-minister-former-pms-3468050

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  14. Alex says:
    April 28, 2014 at 7:11 am

    Don’t see this one on the BBC… I wonder why?

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ummer-farooq-ukip-election-hopeful-3464369

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  15. AsISeeIt says:
    April 28, 2014 at 8:17 am

    And there is this breaking story

    http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/28/cyril-smith-sexual-abuse-allegations-rochdale-council

    But happily for their favoured political parties, BBC breakfast fails to name the Lib Dems, Liberals or Labour.

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  16. will says:
    April 28, 2014 at 9:30 am

    Assad the villain again today for the “war crime” of killing civilians. Why don’t the reports start from the point of identifying the rebels as committing such crimes for pursuing an armed insurrection from within “civilian areas”? Why does the BBC, in opposing Assad, ever offer a suggestion as to how he could resist rebels hiding within “civilian areas” without causing the death of “civilians”?

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    • Old Goat says:
      April 28, 2014 at 9:46 am

      Ah, this was headline news, earlier, ‘cos one of their boys was reporting from inside Syria. No other reason, nothing new, just a puff piece for a BBC man.

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  17. Old Goat says:
    April 28, 2014 at 9:52 am

    “Start the Week” this morning – Is This the End of capitalism?

    Some Yank on about Germany, and how they are all so pleased that they’re using “renewables”, with solar panels on their roofs, wind turbines, etc., and how marvellous it all was, and how it was all working fine.

    That doesn’t appear to be supported by some of the stuff I’ve been reading lately…

    http://www.thegwpf.org/germanys-green-energy-shift-on-the-verge-of-failure-vice-chancellor-warns/

    http://www.thegwpf.org/coal-increasingly-seen-as-option-for-european-energy-security/

    http://www.thegwpf.org/start-fracking-now-eu-urges-germany/

    http://www.thegwpf.org/green-no-more-coal-returns-to-german-utilities-replacing-lost-nuclear/

    For starters.

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  18. Phil Ford says:
    April 28, 2014 at 9:59 am

    OT for a moment:

    Depressing (and yet all too predictable) to see Channel 4 start a new 4-part ‘documentary’ series tonight: ‘Britain’s Most Extreme Weather’ – basically (yet another) complete waste of money in their long-running Jon Snow-approved pro-CAGW propaganda campaign.

    Utterly reprehensible – fictitious, sensationalist crap designed to push a hateful political agenda on the viewing public.

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    • Old Goat says:
      April 28, 2014 at 10:17 am

      Which is why I shall be avoiding it, as I have all the other rubbish Channel 4 seems to delight in showing in support of it’s incomprehensible, alarmist stance.

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