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  1. chrisH says:
    June 26, 2015 at 8:02 pm

    Happy to say that I hear nothing of the BBC these days, but the little I do get to hear en passant is even worse than it was before we voted for the Tories.
    1. The run up to the 7am news said that Cameron “trumpeted” his “success” at some EU talks he just had.
    That word “trumpeted”-not heard that in any connection with Labour, Obama or the EU…have you?
    Just a BBC hack doing a slurring smear job on our elected PM…his toxic poncey opinion, that of an unelected BBC suck sponge.
    2. The selfsame Toady Show headlines mentioned the search for “disappeared” victims of “paramilitary groups”.
    That the IRA in old money?…and if these victims have names like McCann, would it not at least be honest to tell us that the IRA butchered them because they were Protestants, or unwilling to bomb and butcher RUC men as they did?
    Nah, too much information there from the BBC-the IRA and Islam thrill the BBC, provide their stories-and hence are cossetted and condoned.
    Just heard Matt Frei tell me that the Lyon decapitation may well be due/caused by Far Right gains in elections nearby…hardly helps eh?
    Is there ANYTHING that Islam bastardis could ever do again that actually might get the BBC or Channel 4 to condemn it?
    No-the stories and free hotels trump all that Islamic tiff stuff.
    Arabic for lying depraved wankers anyone?…OrlaBowenAnjemis?

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  2. noggin says:
    June 26, 2015 at 8:18 pm

    “This denial of what the jihad terrorists themselves explain is their guiding ideology, as if they don’t mean what they say or don’t understand their own religion, is hamstringing the West’s response to the jihad terror threat.
    With this willful ignorance, Cameron is leading his country to ruin. “Cameron: ‘This is not Islam its a religion of peace etc”
    R Spencer.
    http://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/cameron-this-is-not-islam-its-a-perverted-ideology-and-we-must-fight-it/
    I repeat, if this utter abject wilful ignorance doesn t change quick we re finished.
    These incompetent, self serving Tory fuckwits in No10 are dangerous and so removed from reality, its painful to watch
    David Cameron calls Islam a “Religion of peace” just hours after British tourists were slaughtered by Islamic terrorists in Tunisia, a man was decapitated by an Islamic terrorist in France and 200 were wounded in an islamic terror attack in Kuwait

    https://youtu.be/w_hk95zRngY

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    • JimS says:
      June 26, 2015 at 9:26 pm

      You make the mistake of thinking that Cameron’s message is directed at non-Muslims, it’s not.

      As Britain’s leading imam and ex-PR man he is just reminding his flock of the message to promote until ISIS gets here.

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  3. Dover Sentry says:
    June 26, 2015 at 8:26 pm

    The BBC regard themselves as intellectually above the common people.
    If the common people take a certain view, it is the duty of the BBC intellectuals to take the opposite view.

    The common people view the Islam Terrorist Murders as disgusting and inexcusable. And typical of Islam.

    The BBC intellectuals feel the need to take the opposite view. After all, intellectuals are clever and must therefore provide reasoning that is beyond the common people. Intellectuals provide insight and edgy reasoning far beyond the understanding of the common people.

    Wrap intellectuals in a Left wing flag and voila, you have a BBC robot.

    The BBC is dangerously out of touch with the vast majority of the population and fails to represent their views.

    By a not so amazing coincidence, the same is said of the Labour Party.

    ..

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  4. Dave666 says:
    June 26, 2015 at 8:32 pm

    Trying to find out what is happening with the latest muslim killings. But all the BBc news has on is Charlseton funerals.

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  5. Dave666 says:
    June 26, 2015 at 10:02 pm

    Oh BBc are reporting on it now it’s a “suspected” islamist attack in France.

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  6. Charlatans says:
    June 26, 2015 at 10:21 pm

    Forever anticipating the BBC News interviewer asking” how the hell did we get here?”

    They never asks this, since invariably the BBC is protecting the big stomping Labour elephant in the room! They are the root cause of the majority of crisis’ this country now faces as a direct legacy of their reign of terror 1997-2010:

    Whether it be the Jihadists murderers today stating Iraq invasion, Brown’s Tax Credits yesterday, the economic legacy; bequeathing the coalition the longest recession ever, the deficit, boat refugees, ISIS, Trojan Horses, FGM, Halahl meat, housing, school places, NHS shortages due to Labour open borders
    policy increasing our population by many millions under their watch! I could go on and on, but you get my drift.

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  7. GCooper says:
    June 26, 2015 at 10:33 pm

    You are right on both counts. Blair and Brown did incalculable damage to the fabric of British society and the BBC is utterly unwilling to hold them to account. It is, on the other hand, like a cat on a mouse to challenge the present government over the slightest problem – real or imagined.

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    • Stuart B says:
      June 26, 2015 at 10:44 pm

      If Nation shall speak Peace unto Nation
      then Journalism is a Profession of Peace, surely?

      Does this mean that the BBC is “Nothing to do with Journalism”?

      Thought so.

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  8. GCooper says:
    June 26, 2015 at 11:55 pm

    And just to prove that the BBC can get something right now and then, we find the following:

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/26/we_forget_nothing_the_beeb_thunders_at_europe/

    The gist is that the BBC is not accepting the delisting of links to its articles by Google, acting under the absurd new European rules – the so called ‘right to be forgotten’ nonsense.

    Well done BBC.

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  9. Merched Becca says:
    June 27, 2015 at 1:08 am

    …………..And perhaps the final post today should be to our government and Prime Minister – ‘Get a Grip!’

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  10. Merched Becca says:
    June 27, 2015 at 1:27 am

    Scott will not tell us why he is on this site ?
    He thinks that this link is spam……………..
    https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/end-the-bbc-licence-fee

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  11. David Brims says:
    June 27, 2015 at 3:23 am

    Scott my child

    Art critic Brian Sewell who’s about as bent as a spiral staircase on why gays can’t be allowed to marry.

    ” Let me put it in the context of the other sacraments — baptism, confirmation, Eucharist, absolution, extreme unction and ordination — for then the purely spiritual element is more obvious. Let me use the alternative word for it — matrimony — and its status as sacramental is reinforced.

    Let us consider the Solemnisation of Matrimony in the Church of England’s Book of Common Prayer dating back to 1552 or so. Holy Matrimony, it declares, was primarily “ordained for the procreation of children to be brought up in the fear and nature of the Lord”. It could not be clearer. Suddenly the Latin origin comes into play — a derivation from mater, mother, matrimony the sacramental licence to make a mother of a girl — and the idea of two men in a marriage is immediately preposterous.

    Marriage or holy matrimony is to those of a Christian faith that is far more securely founded than on only the annual jollity of a midnight mass more than just a word. It is an age-old theological concept, one of many, all interlinked.

    Must the Catholic Church be compelled by ignorant politicians and hoi polloi to share this sacramental term with homosexuals?

    I am as queer as any of them but I do not much care for my brethren in crass, demanding mood. By all means dress in ridiculous togs, exchange rings and kisses, guzzle Laurent Perrier, bake a cake and dance the night away, but call it a wedding, an Old English term of even older German origin, with nothing theological about it — and leave marriage to those who still believe in its sanctity.”

    http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/brian-sewell-cameron-is-wrong–gays-cant-be-allowed-to-marry-7574935.html

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    • dez says:
      June 27, 2015 at 4:58 am

      David Brims,

      “Art critic Brian Sewell who’s about as bent as a spiral staircase on why gays can’t be allowed to marry”

      Well done David; you win the BiasedBBC Moron of the Month award for June 2015. Along with an extra special bonus for your post on the 18th; “There’s nothing worse than an uppity nigger”.

      Congratulations.

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      • David Brims says:
        June 27, 2015 at 12:52 pm

        Dez my fwiend

        I never said that, what I said was ” There’s nothing worse than an uppity, you know what,” meaning foreigner, sticking his nose into our countries business.

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    • chrisH says:
      June 27, 2015 at 11:28 am

      Er-wasn`t marriage a Judeo-Christian construct originally set up by-and conducted by-the Catholic Church in the West?
      Jesus and Paul refer to it, both of who predate the Church…so it`s Jewish at source Id imagine.
      I`m no expert-who is?
      Maybe you could be though-tell me what business the State has in deciding how to redefine a Christian concept that has lasted over a thousand years when
      a) We can`t have reciprocal “civil partnerships”
      b) The gay campaigners explicitly stated that gay marriage would not follow the legalising of same sex relationships
      c) I`ve yet to have seen any campaign that required gay marriage-after all marriage itself is an anti-feminist, reactionary ball and chain is it not?
      So why has it leapt onto the statute books en bloc across the liberal west-when nobody asked for it…
      Do you yourself see no agenda behind it all-after all the Communists don`t like marriage and family any more that the liberal left do here in Britain do they?

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  12. Dave666 says:
    June 27, 2015 at 7:57 am

    Newswatch this morning with Samira (brush your hair) Ahmed notes one members of the public has pointed out the BBc is not using the word of illegal in the context of illegal migrants. Of course you will recall I’d complained about this a year ago and had the usual BBc bull s*** reply. Yep and that’s as far as it went no discussion about that subject. Move on nothing to see here.

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  13. Dave666 says:
    June 27, 2015 at 8:29 am

    Has this been on the BBc yet? http://www.asianimage.co.uk/news/13345187._I_m_tired_of_being_asked_to_apologise_on_behalf_of_Islamic_extremists_/
    I was wondering how long it was going to be before I had to apologise for events in the Southern USA , as well as the Crusades and slavery.

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    • lock13 says:
      June 27, 2015 at 8:51 am

      OK so we have people being shot on their sun loungers, men running around with decapitated heads in France and Naga and the other droid are debating having a glass of wine when you are pregnant. Then we have the weather bloke telling me to remember to put sunscreen on.

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    • Dover Sentry says:
      June 27, 2015 at 9:30 am

      Thanks Dave666 for the link.

      I’m not looking for Islamic apologies from the muslim MP for Bolton. And I’ve not asked her for any.

      I want them to stop their evil atrocities, apology or no apology.

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  14. Guest Who says:
    June 27, 2015 at 9:52 am

    Something for the weekend (off topic, ironically):

    http://order-order.com/2015/06/27/comments-housekeeping/

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  15. Geoff says:
    June 27, 2015 at 10:50 am

    Dez: “People like Scott” have won the argument; whilst “people like you” are part of an ever dwindling minority. And yet, despite all of that, it hasn’t affected the way you live your own life in the slightest, minuscule regard”

    So what exactly is your problem?

    No problem you have the problem with your constant protestations, as far as the argument goes come back in 10, 20 or 30 years time and then let’s see if you were ‘right’ when you have no one to fight your battles.

    Let me tell you outside of your Liberal utopia there are plenty who disagree, may not admit so, but are by far and away the majority…

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    • Geoff says:
      June 27, 2015 at 12:00 pm

      “Incidentally “by far and away the majority” of people support marriage rights for same sex couples. Every reputable survey suggests that to be the case.”

      Yea yea and tell me that those ‘surveys’ were not in the slightest bit politically motivated or otherwise.

      You really are a selfish individual, all you worry about is one cause, that’s your cause, sod all the other shit that is going down in the world right now, you just jump on an errant poster who happened to mention gay marriage, but as long as Scott is OK eh?

      Well Scott in the not too distant that other shit and your cause are going to collide, see how you feel then.

      //end

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