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If ebola is so terribly difficult to transmit between people as Al Beebus is reporting, vis a vis the Scottish nurse, why was there such concern about the potential for an African epidemic?
Al, according to the virus expert on R4 (WatO – 9 Oct) it is once a person has survived the virus and it retreats into little nooks & crannies of their bodies that it becomes non-transmittable. However, after he said that, I was wondering about certainty percentages . . . . .
Al, in a word, money. The WHO forecast 1.2 million deaths by february 2015. Not the best estimate in history.
Friday night, BBC1, “Patagonia: Earth’s Secret Paradise”.
The dozy BBC narrator referred to the Falklands Current as “the Malvinas Current” on three occasions.
The correct term is definately ‘Falklands current’ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkland_Current
It’s as if the people of the Falklands never voted overwhelmingly in 2013 to remain part of the UK. As if 255 British soldiers never gave their lives to repel a hostile invasion in 1982 by a country that has no valid claim to the islands. The BBC really are traitororus anti-British scum.
On the plus side: they did manage to show some aerail footage of a glacier without making the customary idiotic end-of-the-world-is-nigh comments about (non-existent) man-made global warming.
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/13834970.Up_to_42__slaves__forced_to_sleep_in_two_bedroom_Bradford_house__court_hears/?ref=mr&lp=5 (comments closed)
Up to 42 ‘slaves’ forced to sleep in two bedroom house
… stop the presses, get the Al BBC “Waycism and diskwimination” squad on high alert!
Company owner Mohammed Rafiq and two other men Mohammed Patel and Mohammed Dadhiwala, “knew that workers supplied to them by Orsos were trafficked.” … no wait!
in Rand Place, Bradford … erm hold on a moment, lets reword that
BBC – Big Shops Failed.
Next, John Lewis and Dunelm Mill failed to spot ‘slaves’
Big shops failed? … Next and John Lewis?
Ahh! much better! … now tuck it away in West Yorks News … crisis averted
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-34476806
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34467289
Nadia … Great British Bake Off winner crowned
Now we re talking 😀
Are these the slave workers referred to in the DT on Thursday as from Hungary?
Interesting comment in the Metro on same day in response to asylum and beneficial migrants. Chap claimed his dad had fled Hungary in 1950s became an accountant in UK and put back far more than he ever took out; this is apparently typical of migrants, who do not take the jobs of UK folk. He then lambasted the UK and said we needed to be more tolerant!
Hungary, that would be the tolerant country erecting razor wire fences and patrolling same with troops. The country where the President is lambasted by other EU leaders for not welcoming migrants, but has the wholehearted support of the majority population of his own country as he warns about the inevitability of countries losing their culture and historical identity if hundreds of thousands of mainly Muslim migrants are allowed in .
Oh! the irony of someone of Hungarian ‘heritage’ criticizing us.
Complaints about the invaders in Germany which won’t be aired on the BBC
http://therightscoop.com/must-watch-whistleblower-doctor-explains-horrific-reality-dealing-with-muslim-invaders-in-germany/
GWF, This is the reality and it does not surprise me. Do the Europeans not realise that the invaders come from a totally different world ? I know because I have lived and travelled in the Middle East and I live in Africa. Why are so many Europeans so effing stupid. What is happening is the longest suicide note in history ! Just for the record , I spend a lot of time in Gambia, where I live, trying to persuade young men not to take the “back way” to Europe, with mixed success I have to say.
Ban the Burqa movement!!
http://tinyurl.com/q8lrcpz
BBC Sport – Anti-England bias yet again !
“Both sides have secured quarter-final places by beating England in the tournament’s most difficult group. ”
I think you will find that Wales and Australia have secured quarter-final places by the number of points each team has accumulated in all their matches. I could quote the tournament rules but I don’t remember seeing beating England as a criterion for automatically reaching the next round.
The BBC are milking the Great Muslim Bake Off for all its worth, Saturday live this morning they raised it twice after it fell rather flat with first interviewee. How the drip drip continues.
The Daily Mail is no bettter and the nauseatingly sycophantic readers, who find the fat faced Nadiya”beautiful” and her baby faced husband a “dreamboat”. Hmmm. Good strong African teeth for sure, thats about the limit of this family’s ‘good looks’.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3264519/The-unlikely-star-Great-British-Bake-Twitter-frenzy-winner-Nadiya-s-absolute-dreamboat-HUSBAND.html?
How come she is allowed to cook with a dirty tea cloth round her head ? The sad thing about this is all of the other entrants never stood a chance being good at baking played no part in who won the competition.I said on day one well we don’t need to watch this anymore we know who the winner is and imagine my surprise last week
And please avoid Radio 5 live. Just turned on to a supposed comedy series called ‘Fighting Talk’. In fairness on some Saturday mornings it is funny but toady they were blessed with Josh Widdicombe, Matt Smith, Jo Caulfield, Richard Osman and Thom Gibbs and it is as lifeless as a three day old corpse.
Worse, much worse than the dreary talent is the fact that additional points were to be awarded for any mention of Nadiya from the Great British Bake off. Erm, hate to ask, but why?
Any cook/chef wearing black I tend to steer away from, wearing white is for a purpose – to show cleanliness. (Surgeons never wear black) – I cringe seeing the washed out dark coloured uniforms of McDonalds / KFC and other fast food outlets; I suspect if they were white no-one would buy a thing ! So, this lady wore a white head covering for a flattering photo shoot, so why not in a kitchen environment.
I’m wondering if the Bake Off’s runners are now scouring the country for any oddballs, or a disabled ethnic that could top this year’s series. The Beeb must think we are bloody idiots.
“The Beeb must think we are bloody idiots.”
Judging bby the emoting of the DM readers they are right!
Why do so many catering staff look like paramilitaries? Fish & chip shops, wedding receptions, you see them everywhere. Apart from anything else they look depressing.
Why do traffic wardens look like police and police look like Gestapo ? I mean, is the UK a Police State ?
Great satire on the “balanced” BBC from that Moloney guy.
http://john-moloney.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-bbc-is-balanced.html
**WARNING**: Whitewash brush out with extra large bucket on BBC website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34196105
‘Turkey-PKK conflict: Why are clashes escalating?’
Well we know why. The Kurds are pissed off with the lack of help from the Muslims in Turkey. Particularly with the Islamic government of Erdogan appearing to inhibit Kurds trying to flee Kobani and other places under siege from ISIL. The Turkish government has also prevented Kurds trying to enter Iraq to defend their country against ISIL.
Just so you are up to speed on the morality of Erdoğan’s Turkish government it has re-introduced Islamic dress for women in state areas and has had 1600 human rights judgements against it from the European Court of Human Rights (mainly about torture). Nice eh?
Now then today’s competition. Please read the article and locate the word Muslim. The winner will receive a visit to Specsavers as the BBC doesn’t know that this is conflict between Muslims and Kurds, antagonised by the Muslims.
Sarcasm and anger aside. How can anyone trust the BBC to report on anything under the sun if it cannot print the word Muslim outside of the Bake Off competition?
These days I don’t watch much BBC so I may have missed their coverage of Marine Le Pen’s speech in the EU Parliament. It’s along the lines of Nigel’s speech, but with a French style. There is a full translation under the video window.
http://galliawatch.blogspot.co.uk/
Just listening to Any Answers, some female British Islamic convert ringing in – said she was a Quaker and then converted to Islam (WTF?). She changed from a religion which promotes pacifism to one which is arguably the most violent religious ideology in human history.
Al, Mindless people spend their whole lives going around the houses but never find a home. It is all very sad .
Any Answers follows the politics program Any Questions on Radio 4. Each week the public are allowed to call in to comment on the answers given to the questions in the previous program.
This week there was a question ” Are the Tories at war with the BBC?” I rang in pass a comment about this, and I waited to hear what other callers thought. I was expecting that the BBC would only allow those supportive views on air, but they must not have had any because they didn’t even cover the subject !
I don’t recall any other time when they haven’t covered each question, albeit in a cursory fashion. Most unusual.
Thoughtful ” Are allowed ” ? By whose permission ?
By the permission and selection of the producers & the BBC! Obviously they can’t have a free for all so callers are chosen.
Not every program allows the public to call in and present their views on air of course, but this one does.
Anita Anand certainly seems to be at war with the Tories – her treatment of listeners’ calls about Theresa’s May’s immigration speech was overtly critical of those who agreed with May – Anand grilled them in a supercilious tone – while pro-immigration callers got the soft treatment.
Dennis Healy last week, Geoffrey Howe this week, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14016127
No, No, No…….!
Nothing’s, really changed other than we actually had a PM that supported Britain..
They don’t make ’em like that anymore, more’s the pity.
My God, we are in a situation where Maggie had more balls than the men !
Back in those days the Sunni Muslim oil potentates hadn’t realised how cheaply bought Western politicians are. Had they have done, I have no doubt that Margaret Thatcher, like all the others would have taken the Saudi shilling and represented Islamic interests over that of Britain like all the other have. Lets not forget that her thickie son Mork suddenly managed to acquire considerable wealth without a transparent source.
Lets not forget that during the Major years the Tory Minister for Defence Procurement one Jonathan Aitken, was exposed taking large sums from the Saudis, leading to them becoming much more careful about how they paid their dirty money in the future.
Bin to Eton Cameron will be off in about four years. We might have an inkling about Sunni donations to his retirement fund by then
What a pity she didn’t support Britain coming out of the EEC in the 1975 referendum isn’t it? If we’d have left back then, we wouldn’t be mired in the EU s**t pit as we are today.
“Thatcher warned Australia – talking to me, with Helena standing not far away – against immigration, saying that if we allowed too much of it we’d see the natives of the land, the European settlers, overtaken by immigrants.
“She said, ‘I like Sydney but you can’t allow the migrants to take over, otherwise you will end up like Fiji where the Indian migrants have taken over.’ I was astonished.” Mr Carr, the former premier of New South Wales, said the comments were made by Lady Thatcher after she left office. ” Actions speak louder than words, pity she didn’t act on deporting the invaders from Britain http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/9983359/Margaret-Thatcher-was-unabashedly-racist-says-Australian-foreign-minister-Bob-Car.html
Latest BBC headline:
‘Jerusalem attack: Palestinian teenager stabs two Israelis’
Have pigs flown? Has the criticism of their last-first reporting, at least temporarily, had an effect?
It might have.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34490714
I mean, look at yesterdays headline “Fears of ‘third intifada’ in Middle East”. What kind of leading sentence is…
“Fresh violence between Palestinians and Israelis has seen six Palestinians shot dead in Gaza, reports say, and a fresh spate of stabbings.”
It is the worst sentence I have ever read, even by BBC standards regarding Israel/Palestine.
‘,and a fresh spate of stabbings.’ has no context. It could refer to anything. Its just thrown on at the end.
It doesn’t mention who did the stabbings or who was stabbed. Or even where they occurred. Or if it was even in the report.
Also, ‘fresh violence between Palestinians and Israelis’? I don’t think so.
‘fresh violence against Israelis by Palestinians’ is a little more accurate.
When you try to twist the natural story, you tie yourself in grammatical knots moving emphasis,context, subjects and objects around. That is what you end up with. A sentence that finishes with ‘..,and a fresh spate of stabbings.’
“A spate of stabbings against Jews has resulted in Six Palestinians being shot dead, a report says.”
That’s all they need to write. No twisting the story so it ends up reading like an 8 year old wrote it.
Anita Anand is frankly a disgrace and a total lightweight, incapable of seeing the subtlety of any argument beyond a knee-jerk reaction. What is doubly annoying is all her silly little noises of disapproval in the background whenever anyone commits a thought crime and contradicts the BBC proscribed point of view. Dreadful woman.
As awful as the Dimbleby’s are, imagine one of them being replaced with a nonentity like Arnand. It’s entirely predictable.
Yes, she is a simpering airhead, promoted by the BBC way beyond her abilities.
She must fit in well then.
Ticks a few boxes, too.
Why is the BBC so interested in Israeli versus Palestinian news?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34495746
Casualties in the conflict amount to perhaps several a month. Compare to the thousands inflicted by the Islamic State and ‘other’ groups in the Middle East every month.
The extreme slaughter of thousands of innocents by Islamic State receives less attention by the BBC than the deaths of one or two in Israel or Palestine.
Do the recent hundreds or possibly thousands of middle eastern Christians murdered by Islamic State count for nothing in the eyes of the BBC? The BBC coverage is minimal and almost non-existent.
Israel is a tiny democratic oasis within the vast Middle Eastern desert of violence and oppression. Israel respects human rights. Women are treated equally and gays are not oppressed. Free speech exists without question. The Israeli judicial process is fair and as good as the best systems in western Europe or North America. Many Arabs/Muslims live and work in Israel without conflict. Also, Israel provides aid to Palestine.
But any Israeli would be murdered if found in most middle eastern Arab/Muslim states. Palestine teaches it’s children how to slaughter Jews and supports the total extermination of all Israelis with no prisoners.
BBC. Why do you oppose Israel? Why do you support Palestine? The values of Israel mirror those of Western European states. The Left oppose the existence of Israel.
Is the BBC biased? Is the BBC Left wing?
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Does the Pope s**t in the woods?
A little story from Australia that might amuse you. Patricia Shields, a politician in our Liberal (conservative) party has been posting anti-Islamic material on her Facebook page. One post features a roadside signboard bearing the words: ‘You are entering Australia; Sharia Free Zone; Please put your watches forward 1400 years’. (The article doesn’t explain who made the sign, or whether some joker actually has placed it by a road.)
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/nsw-liberal-womens-council-vicepresident-patricia-shields-resigns-over-antiislam-posts-20151009-gk5ot5.html
I hope the link works. I doubt whether the British press told you, but we have had problems with our ‘enriching’ Islamic community. A week or so ago, a 15-year-old Muslim boy obtained a gun from (apparently) his local mosque and shot dead a Chinese civilian worker with the local police force. The incident happened in the Sydney suburban town of Parramatta, near a cafe Mr H-B and I have often visited. It was quite a shock.
(By the way, the Aussie establishment are probably even more obsessed with multiculturalism than their British counterpart.)
What Happened to White Australia and its famous all white policy?
”Australia like the United States, was founded by the British. Both countries were built by white settlers and populated by white immigrants. Both had immigration policies strongly favoring white immigration that continued until just a few decades ago. But Australia had even more racially explicit origins than the United States. It came into being as a nation dedicated not merely to racial purity but to preserving a specific ethnic heritage. The “White Australia Policy” was really a “British Australia Policy,” established by a people who, as Prime Minister Robert Menzies said, felt “British to the bootstraps.” What happened to this proud, fiercely explicit identity?” Read the rest here http://www.amren.com/features/2013/03/what-happened-to-white-australia/
Final paragraph ” What the book lacks, though, is a convincing explanation for why Anglo-Australia conceived a hatred for itself and decided to ring its own death knell.
The multi-culturalists have often acted in secret, and conniving media never demand an explanation that goes beyond slogans about diversity and silly jabber about ethnic food. Every nation of the British diaspora has the same miserable record: Canada, the United States, and New Zealand all forsook their roots. None consulted its people or explained why the founding stock was suddenly not good enough.
It is sad to read such convincing confirmation that our own disease so badly infects our Australian cousins, but it is gratifying to know that a few are still healthy, and are determined to save their country.” http://www.amren.com/features/2013/03/what-happened-to-white-australia/
David, I feel that the Anglo-Aussie population have been vulnerable to “guilt-tripping” by the lefty media and establishment who keep telling them that they stole the land from the Aboriginal population. Of course this isn’t strictly fair, because the Anglo population built modern Australia. Still, you can understand their feelings.
I think the native British are slightly less vulnerable. Much as the liberal establishment has tried to convince us that we are a “nation of immigrants” it hasn’t wholly worked. Even the most superficial study of history shows the flaws in this theory. Besides, many Britons have family trees, graves, memorabilia, etc. which tell a different story.
‘Racism’ fear over landlord checks. The Beeb picks up Burnham’s interview in the Sunday Independent today in which he claims landlord checks on immigrant status in the new Immigration Bill are discriminatory. Interestingly the Beeb piece does not refer to the survey which Burnham cites in evidence. In fact this was undertaken by the “Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants” under the umbrella of “MAX”. To quote from the JCWI website ” The Movement Against Xenophobia (MAX) is a coalition of civil society groups, faith groups, trade unions and individuals who have come together to oppose xenophobia and misinformation in the debate on immigration. According to JCWI, ” The “evaluation” was based on “a total of 76 responses, with 45 responses from tenants/lodgers and 31 from landlords/agents” to two on-line surveys started in December 2014. One might reasonably ask what the original sample sizes were and whether so few responses could lead in any way to results which could be regarded as statistically significant, always assuming of course reasonable efforts to avoid bias in the survey questions and coverage.
All-in-all another jolly good piece of work by all concerned.
Who funds all these pro-immigrant organizations? Oh, I forgot – we do.
Complete misinformation by Burnham and the BBC. Ordinary British people are suffering because of immigration – contention for jobs, housing, schooling, health, cultural disruption – but landlords and builders are raking it in big time and don’t care one iota who they are renting or selling to.
Who funds all these pro-immigrant organizations? Oh, I forgot – we do.
Yes, but not through choice. And that’s something we will not forget. Or forgive.
So I suppose that all the employers who already have to check they don’t employ illegal immigrants are racist too? What was Mr Burnham doing about that when his party was in power?
Australia is a very PC country. There is no strong body of traditional conservative thought as in European countries so leftie ideas can catch on quite easily. However, they Australians did stop their illegal migrant problem with strong action. This was against howls from their own vocal leftards and weeping liberals from around the world. Good on ’em.
There is some other news from Oz, the hitherto banned Geert Wilders is to be let into the country to help kick start a new political party along the lines of his own. I understand it is to be called the Australian Liberty Alliance.(ALA)
So they are waking up to the reality.
ALA be praised.
That’s not the message I get from a friend living there. Most Aussies reject left wing idiocy just as most normal sane people here do.
You might have a point about Sydney, where most of the looney lefties live, along with the gays, and the Muslims, but it’s an isolated and small community there.
Reply from Mr Hand-Basket (5th Generation Aussie).
The left-wing epidemic is actually worse in my hometown of Melbourne than in Sydney. Melbourne is the only place to have a Green party MP.
The total Muslim population in Australia is relatively small (2%) and has been located in small pockets, but it is spreading into most areas. Wherever you go they are there these days and they are certainly making their presence felt. The Parramatta shooting was the second in less than a year – the first was in central Sydney. In outer Melbourne a jihadist stabbed two Federal police offices.
The Muslim community clearly has plans to expand. Mosques and Muslim schools are popping up all over the place. For example, the old gold mining town of Bendigo, Victoria, only has a Muslim population of about 35 but they are building a mosque there to take 350. There has just been a demonstration against it and lefty “anti-racist” opposition.
Yasser Dasmibehbi. Love your moniker, made me laugh out loud. Liked your ALA be praised too.
Could have been written by/for the BBC!!
Media Narrative Chart
at http://tinyurl.com/psbx64v
Love that made I laff
Remember that rare moment of reason recently, when the BBC allowed Quentin Letts to criticize the useless Met Office on Radio 4? Well guess what – they have sent a grovelling apology to a climate loon about the programme;
http://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/david-keighley-bbc-apologises-shock-but-only-to-a-climate-change-freak
Al Beeb’s news headlines this morning highlight some of the ‘benefits’ of unfettered immigration and multiculturalism, Witchcraft abuse cases on the rise, 60 crimes linked to faith in London so far this year……………….
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34475424
Maternity Units closing doors……………..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34498585
Shortage of housing …………
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34311522
While the government tries to stem the flow of ‘illegals’, labour pulls out the ‘Race card ‘ shouting Racism ………
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34498836
We all know that this rise in witchcraft is the direct result of years unfettered immigration from Africa. It is a direct consequence of opening our borders. My problem with this BBC report, however, is that they have used a photo of Christian crosses in this report, even though a sizeable proportion of these backwards and superstitious folk practices are common in Islamic communities and those which subscribe to mystical beliefs such as magic. The BBC wouldn’t dare use an image of the Koran as the they’d be accused of blaspheming by followers of the religion of pieces. It’s yet another example of their cowardice and anti-Christian stance.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34475424
Big issues of the day discussed by the midget Marr – Nadiya is a national heroine. She is a wife,mother and also finds time for baking . Dear oh dear So another one in the UK Hall of fame alongside Mohammed Farah as the greatest British sportsman evah
Lock13 Its all about ‘Bread and Circuses’ , q.v.
“Nadiya is a national heroine. She is a wife,mother and also finds time for baking ”
Wasn’t a chap working for the “Wimmin’s” FA basically called all sorts of names for making the same kind of comment after the “Women’s” World Cup, including much stomping of feminist and fellow-travelling jack-boots.
And he even called them “heroes” not heroines to please the misanderists of the left-wing “feminists” movement. They hate men but want to use masculine terms to describe women where feminine ones are more appropriate.
And the self-termed “feminists” is ridiculous as they hate the very idea of femininity. A better word would be “misanderists” which is what they are.
A bit like how they are now all “actors” , daahling …..
Well, Thoughtful, I considered I had travelled and stayed enough in Australia over the years (all states) to be able to comment. I even went to school there. (not Sydney)
But obviously I haven’t met your pen friend.
So that’s all OK now that I know that most ‘normal sane people’ in Aus and the UK as well reject political correctness I can go to bed and sleep easier tonight. What can go wrong?
The trouble is that when I awake the problems eg Cameron, Corbyn, Calais etc etc will still be there.
But you,Thoughtful, may dream on.
Al Beeb has only one politician who is pro EU because he is on all the time- this is Kenneth Clarke. No counter narrative to Clarke on Marr this morning, just Clarke. According to the Al Beeb,clearly there is no one saying lets get out of the EU!!!
AlBeeb the voice of the people-NOT!!!
Clarke is the bumbling nincompoop who called UKIP a collection of clowns.
I didn’t know Clarke was still alive. He should know all about clowns. I never saw the point of him. No idea why Maggie put up with him. A totally useless prick. Reminds me of Chris Patten in many ways. I wouldn’t employ the likes of them to clean a toilet.
I hope Al Beebus and any one else, provide Clarke with as much air time as possible (blustering, stammering, red-faced jobbernowl that he is); he is a tremendous asset to the Brexit campaign, and should be given the opportunity to waddle onto any platform that will have him and for him to waffle and gabble into any microphones which are in his vicinity.
I’d like to say I was shocked that after speaking my God Daughter yesterday, to discover that her school no longer celebrates Harvest Festival, apparently its called something like ‘Festival of Colour’ (I can’t quite recall). Kids are longer asked to take in food, yes you’ve guessed it just in case ‘certain people’ may be offended.
This is in a relatively un-diverse part of the country, but mostly shocking to me was her parents complete acceptance of it and in no way found it odd or a need to question it.
The BBC’s work is nearly done.
Should we expect a ‘Festival Of Colour’ Countryfile special ?
Here, in Bonnie Scotland, where I am visiting , the kids have 2 weeks’ holiday. It used to be called the “Tattie” holiday, so that they could lift potatos in the fields. It has been renamed the “Halloween Holiday “. I begin to wonder whether there is any point in kids going to school at all !
Where about in Scotland are you visiting, Grant?
These intended ‘festivals of colour’ programmes might not be so daft as it sounds, judging by the amount of above quota non-white presenters there are on screen.
I read that someone did a study, whereby the amount of white people in this country as opposed to ethnics is not transferred onto the screen in the same ratio – being oversubscribed by far with people of colour.
I think we can blame Baron Scarman for that ‘oversubscription’
Radio 4 is going overboard on the far left wing crap this morning.
We had:
Sunday Worship from Norwich Cathedral – a city described as the most Godless in the UK with the people leaving the irrelevant far left C of E in their droves, hardly a surprise when the sermon & prayers were all pro mass immigration, pro asylum seekers, pro Islam – typical BBC really.
A point of view from Will Self, which I’m sure needs no further illumination.
Tweet of the day Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the common hawk cuckoo from the Bengal region, replete with pro Islamic comment.
Broadcasting House perhaps one of the most far left programs on radio 4 eulogising the Bake off winner – and did you know that her husband didn’t even object to her appearing on TV – proving what an enlightened Muslim he is. The Irony of that just seems to have completely gone over their collective left wing heads !
Also carrying on the far left griping that asking people to prove they are not illegal immigrants is in some perverted thought process – racist – even though there’s no such thing!
We then move to Lemm Sissay on Desert Island discs
And that’s the morning complete. Impartiality runs in our veins? Well it might, but it never interferes with the bias that reaches the transmitters !
“Will Self”. Aptly named. A prat of prats !
Who is Lemm Sissay?
BBC thought crime punishment squad roaming the corridors of Broadcasting House pictured here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-34448626
Not wholy inclusive but making an effort with the two in the doorway.
I really should have learned by now not to try eating whilst listening to Any Questions. One afternoon I’m going to choke on a corned beef sarnie. It nearly happened again yesterday.
The delightful Dianne Abbot was on the panel, well, it’s difficult to avoid this woman if you tune into any Beeb prog’ at the moment. They’ll have her introducing Gardeners’ World given half a chance. The National Health Service was being discussed (you know the scene, a lefty on the panel says it’s the best in the world and couldn’t exist without millions of immigrants and there is much cheering and foot stomping). Well, we were following the usual script when the svelte like Diane actually began lecturing us about the dangers of obesity! Honestly! Does this bloody woman have no sense of irony…or no mirrors in her house? Did anyone give her a nudge and say,”Look Diane, I don’t like to mention it, but…” No, Di’ sat there, like a bleedin’ great buddha, lecturing the nation on its propensity to indulge in too much beer and wine and fattening foods. And, of course, she received a clattering round of applause from the appreciative audience.
It’s enough to drive a bloke to drink…
Or a spliff, some good music and a mars bar and a packet of crisps, peanuts and a pizza and a can of full fat coke 😀
These kind of occasions always remind me of the Emperor’s new clothes story.
“A vain Emperor who cares about nothing except wearing and displaying clothes hires two weavers who promise him the finest, best suit of clothes from a fabric invisible to anyone who is unfit for his position or “hopelessly stupid”. The Emperor’s ministers cannot see the clothes themselves, but pretend that they can for fear of appearing unfit for their positions and the Emperor does the same. Finally the weavers report that the suit is finished, they mime dressing him and the Emperor marches in procession before his subjects. The townsfolk play along with the pretense, not wanting to appear unfit for their positions or stupid. Then a child in the crowd, too young to understand the desirability of keeping up the pretense, blurts out that the Emperor is wearing nothing at all and the cry is taken up by others. The Emperor suspects the assertion is true, but continues the procession”
Everybody claps along to an obese arrogant **** who only cares about appearances, lecturing them on the dangers of obesity. She needs to read the story. Why didn’t somebody just shout ‘But Sir, you do realize you’re obese!, put that ham sandwich down”
The elephant in the room.
One of the best comments on the any questions panel was the man who said that the millions of migrants were fleeing from the failure of vibrancy, diversity, and multiculturalism, and that in bringing the evidence of that failure to Europe, that same failure would be replayed here at sometime in the future, to much booing & hissing from the audience stuffed full of Fascists.
There must have been a glitch in the BBC’s truth/reality blocking filters. Once you give in to “populism” and actually let the hoi polloi say what they think goodness knows what might happen. At least Merkel’s madness is now beginning to be criticised in the German media. Her popularity ratings are dropping. The Bavarians are extremely unhappy at being left to deal with the problem. Divisions are being sown throughout Europe. It looks that the FPÖ a “right-wing populist” party might win in the Vienna Federal State elections purely because of the refugee chaos. In Poland, the Law and Justice party’s Beata Szydlo is likely to become PM on an anti-refugee policy. German media commentators keep asking with much puzzlement why are the Poles so Islamophic? There are hardly any Muslims in Poland. Like the man on Any Questions they can see with there own eyes what the effects of high-vibrancy are in other countries. They do even ven seem wilone of the most profound cultural achie
There must have been a glitch in the BBC’s truth/reality blocking filters. Once you give in to “populism” and actually let the hoi polloi say what they think goodness knows what might happen. At least Merkel’s madness is now beginning to be criticised in the German media. Her popularity ratings are dropping. The Bavarians are extremely unhappy at being left to deal with the problem. Divisions are being sown throughout Europe. It looks that the FPÖ a “right-wing populist” party might win in the Vienna Federal State elections purely because of the refugee chaos. Vienna is a leftist stronghold and a win for FPÖ would indicate success in national elections. In Poland, the Law and Justice party’s Beata Szydlo is likely to become PM on an anti-refugee policy. German media commentators keep asking with much puzzlement why are the Poles so Islamophic? There are hardly any Muslims in Poland!! Like the man on Any Questions they can see with there own eyes what the effects of high-vibrancy an enrichment are in other countries and do not want a similar situation in Poland. Apparently nothing can be done to stop the flow of migrants. Borders don’t work. It must be the will of Allah
The Poles are well aware of the impact of Islam in the UK. First hand, for many.
Well said Jeff. It was mentioned in a recent newspaper article that when there are business lunches with brought-in food in the Commons, DA is always seen hanging around and then gate crashes her way (literally I would think) into the buffet. There was a wonderful picture of her stuffing her face with a couple of petit fours at once !!! like a woman who had never seen food before. Whenever she speaks she is always out of breath, so clearly has health issues.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34498836
Landlord rent checks could cause ‘everyday racism’, Labour warns
“The Immigration Bill will make it a criminal offence to rent accommodation to illegal immigrants. But shadow home secretary Andy Burnham told the Independent on Sunday it could cause problems for ‘anyone with a foreign-sounding name’.”
Again with the racism nonsense. Obviously he and the BBC are referring to white British [racism here] being racist to anyone with a foreign sounding name. That is crystal clear. Because how can somebody with a foreign sounding name be racist if he/she refuse to rent out a property to ‘anyone with a foreign-sounding name’. Discrimination? possibly. Racism? BBC/Burnham you need to learn what racism is. It is not a catchall ism. You are suffering from catchallism.
For example, Mr khan refuses to rent his one bed apartment to Mr muhammad because of the immigration bill. Not racist.
so Mr Smith refuses to rent his one bed apartment to Mr muhammad because of the immigration bill. Racist
But Mr Smith is black, so
Mr Smith refuses to rent his one bed apartment to Mr muhammad because of the immigration bill. Not Racist
There’s no such thing as ‘racism’ that should be your starting point, instead of trying to impose your definition, which is never ever going to be accepted by the Fascists.
No one needs to “learn what racism is”, you do need to know what doesn’t exist !
In other countries, Singapore for example, Landlords have to check if a tenant has a valid work Visa as part of the rental process. Didn’t see any racism issues there. Just a confirmation the person is in the country legally and they have the means to rent the property
Labour – the party for immigrants and immigration. You’d think the stupid, white idiots who carry on voting for them (e.g. Rotherham) would have f*****g realized that by now.
A couple of Url’s in complement that rather highlight the complete and utter PR, ‘tell it often’ enough bollux the BBC seems to feel anyone is credulous enough to swallow. Especially about its risible complaints sewer.
http://bbcwatch.org/2015/10/11/the-bbcs-submission-to-the-public-consultation-on-its-charter-review/
http://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/david-keighley-bbc-apologises-shock-but-only-to-a-climate-change-freak/
If the BBC seriously thinks bowing at the temple of the Abbess will cut any ice with the actual public they are truly deranged.
One can only hope those elected and with power have not supped the Kool Aid too.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34475424
‘Witchcraft’ abuse cases on the rise
When i read that i immediately thought of wicker and paganism in the woods. You know, light stuff.
But know, they are talking about the abuse and sacrifice of children by migrant Africans via juju and Witchcraft. The report refers to pastors on several occasions. I though pastors were christian. I think Catholicism in Africa is a dark and deeply disturbing version of the European one (if possible), mixing traditional, ancient African religion with traditional Catholicism. This should be mentioned.
Debbie Ariyo, founder of Africans Unite Against Child Abuse, warned against “viewing the issue as solely affecting the African community, as her organisation has supported victims from other faiths and cultural backgrounds, including the South Asian community. ”
Do you mean Hinduism. India and Africa are importing witchcraft and human sacrifice into the country in the form of exorcism. Honor killings and terrorism are imported from the middle east and Northern Asia. And the BBC wants it all. People have a right to stick to their traditions and cultures. Murder and child abuse is just a by product. The ends justify the means. BBC sees this as a basic human right, like access to the all seeing, all knowing, godlike BBC.
”Voodoo and human sacrifice: The haunting story of how Adam, the Torso in the Thames boy, was finally identified
Sacrifice: When the body of 5 year-old Ikpomwosa – known by police as Adam – was found, it was without legs, arms and head and had been entirely drained of blood.” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1375024/Voodoo-human-sacrifice-The-haunting-story-Adam-Torso-Thames-boy-finally-identified.html
‘Cultural’
As not reported by the BBC… : ( http://tinyurl.com/oxtjras
◾According to a classified document, the German government now estimates that Germany will receive as many as 1.5 million asylum seekers in 2015, including 920,000 in the last quarter of 2015 alone. With family reunifications, the actual number of asylum seekers could swell to more than 7 million. Separately, German authorities now estimate that at least 290,000 migrants and refugees have entered the country without being registered.
◾”The behavior of these highly delinquent youths towards police officers can be characterized as aggressive, disrespectful and condescending. … When they are arrested, they resist and assault [police officers]. The youths have no respect for state institutions.” — Confidential report, leaked to Die Welt.
◾In Berlin, a classified police report revealed that a dozen Arab clans hold reign over the city’s criminal underworld. The report says the clans, which are dedicated to dealing drugs, robbing banks and burglarizing department stores, run a “parallel justice system” in which they resolve disputes among themselves with mediators from other crime families. If the state gets involved, the clans use cash payments or threats of violence to influence witnesses.
◾”For years the policy has been to leave the population in the dark about the actual crime situation… The citizens are being played for fools.” — André Schulz, head of the Association of Criminal Police.
◾According to the President of the German Police Union, “In Berlin or in the north of Duisburg there are neighborhoods where colleagues hardly dare to stop a car — because they know that they’ll be surrounded by 40 or 50 men.” These attacks amount to a “deliberate challenge to the authority of the state — attacks in which the perpetrators are expressing their contempt for our society.”
Another one of Lenny Henry’s kinsmen, this lot from the Congo now squatting in London. ” Boy, 15, was tortured to death for being a witch ‘because he wet his pants’, devastated sister tells court, The two sisters were also badly wounded after being accused of sorcery, black magic and witchcraft.
The Old Bailey was told Kristy was tortured with ‘an armoury of weapons’ and had 101 injuries before being placed in the bath of water where he ‘begged to die’.” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084286/Witchcraft-murder-Kristy-Bamu-15-tortured-death-wet-pants.html
Horrific, but sadly not an isolated case. Why on earth would any sane person invite people who behave like this into their own country by the million? And then compound things by saying that these people have a ‘right’ to live by their own values and beliefs,no matter how barbaric, even though they are a total misfit with the values of the host country.
I simply can’t understand it. The far left saw mass immigration as a tool with which to destroy nation sates. I don’t support that of course but there is a nasty logic to it. But they also seem to have succeeded in persuading millions of ordinary folks that mass immigration is a good thing. In the UK I have no doubt that the BBC’s relentless , decades long bias in favour of immigration has succeeded in warping the minds of millions. ( And perhaps putting millions more into a deep and peaceful sleep from which they will wake to find the country they thought they lived in has long since passed away) Such that now even a reasonable speech by the Home Secretary, which basically said that we needed to pause and consolidate in order to ensure a stable and cohesive society, was shouted down in the media. Many commentators even claiming that we have a stable and cohesive multi cultural society and that the Home Secretary was destablising it!! Yet we have a country that is on the highest level of internal terror alert, where we have mass rapes by one ethnic group , where we are repeatedly told by the BBC that the country is still racist , where well over a thousand ‘so called Brits’ have gone off to fight Jihad, where we have many ethnic no go areas, where the white indigenous population flees from ethnic enclaves, where we see massive electoral fraud in some ethnic communities , where laws are passed to stop people saying what they think (so giving up a cherished right to free speech, because it may upset Muslims), where laws are enacted to try to stop one group being prejudiced against another. These don’t seem like the symptoms of a country at ease with itself. What has happened in the UK has happened across many other countries in Europe.
It is as though a religious fever has swept the continent and despite the overwhelming evidence that mass immigration is bad for the host country, people refuse to see it and just keep on chanting the same old mantra and allow their country to be taken over.
The BBC has been very succesful in its propagandising. I switched on some R4 media programme and they were discussing the aftermath of broadcasting an uncensored version of an 1976 episode of the Newshuddlines. Apparently listeners had been contacting the BBC in droves to complain about racial stereotyping and (horror) outright racism. Minority recruitment into the Met was a topic and the racism was “Hallo, Hallo, Hallo what’s going on here then?” in a Nigerian accent. The luminaries on the programme concluded that even Lenry Henry using an African accent for comedic effect would now be considered racist. The original BBC script writer said he was now embarrassed by his oeuvre. Nudging the public’s sense of humour in a particular direction for a political reason is very sinister and straight from 1984. Like animals in a circus, the BBC gets the public to willingly jump through various ideological hoops as they actually believe this is what they themseves really want to do.
”Kristy Bamu Witchcraft Murder: Boy Tortured So Horrifically By Relatives He Begged To Die
Teenager begged to die after being tortured by relatives wielding hammers, pliers and chisels who were convinced he was a witch, a court heard on Thursday.
Kristy Bamu was subjected to a “prolonged attack of unspeakable savagery and brutality” by his older sister and her partner. The 15-year-old had suffered 101 injuries by the time he died on Christmas Day in 2010, jurors heard.
Kristy’s face and head were covered in deep cuts and bruises and his teeth had been removed, the court was told. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/01/05/kristy-bamu-witchcraft-murder_n_1185684.html
The film industry is very waaycist suggests the BBC as Tiger Lily in the film, Pan, is played by a person of pallor instead of a person of colour. BBC alarm bells go off. Hopefully the Piccaninnies will be suitably cast, but I do not know if the dog – Nana- will be played by a Landseer Newfoundland, as in the original story, or will it be a St Bernard, or a fashionable designer breed. Waayscism is bad enough, but breedism should ignite the entire country. Perhaps a compromise, Let Sir lenny Henry play the role of the dog. ‘Woof woof, Katanga’.
Links to the BBC and its print outlet.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34492217
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/sep/25/joe-wright-rooney-mara-tiger-lily-peter-pan
“Revealed: How a third of the 3million EU migrants living in Britain have arrived since David Cameron became Prime Minister”
Essexman, would welcome your views….
”But migrants are good for the economy !”
”The NHS would collapse without them.”
The IOD’s definition = lower wages + more consumers, what’s not to like. 3 weeks to see my GP though + my street has changed beyond all recognition and the local primary school now resembles a madrassa and at school run times the driving and parking is third world with not a word of English heard.
The EU,open borders is from various treaties , which DC did not sign. Previous PM ‘s signed them, from Heath to Brown. Ironically., I don’t think Wilson or Sunny Jim signed any from their time, as we were still bedding into the Common Market then.It is only because our economy is doing well, that they come to work. At least he is the first. PM to give you the choice to stop it, & leave, since 75.
”It is only because our economy is doing well that they come here to work,” If you can call low paid shelf stacking jobs at Poundland an economy,
Have you all forgotten DC’s pledge last May ?
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-pledges-to-control-and-reduce-immigration
If he says it he means in doesn’t he ……..?
Someone’s got to do it, even if we don’t , that’s the trouble, none of the English will do it now. We can’t do anything about. EU immigration until we leave. Non EU should be reduced drastically , but even Farage will let them in because the CBI will protest until they get their way.
Who stacked shelves in shops before the effniks turned up ?
I see quite a lot of English shelf stackers at my local supermarket (and I’m not in deepest Northumberland). I suspect that Sainsburys has a policy of helping people who are genuinely challenged in some way because I see quite a few there, either stacking shelves or collecting trolleys. I wonder if Lidl, with its much vaunted living wage announcement, can afford to do the same.
By and large we should try to make do with the people we have. If we have a problem with an element refusing to work, we find a way of fixing the problem. Ignoring them and bringing in people from outside is not acceptable IMO. It’s also expensive and wasteful.
My local Salisbury’s has just been revamped with extra staff taken on, it would appear that all those new staff are immigrants, so much so, among other reasons, I now boycott it and use my local Lidl and Aldi. Yes they also employ immigrants, but I’m paying much less for the pleasure and they’re not quarter owned by the Qataries….
Plus David Sainsbury is the main non governmental financial backer of the pro EU crowd in the referendum, so they aren’t getting my custom.
Students paying for their education, temps from Manpower, people in between jobs supplementing their income. My local supermarket 15 years ago was like that. Now you rarely hear English spoken.
“None of the English will do it now”. I think the English rarely get the chance to do it.
After Blairs project of sending every one to. Uni, the rot set in.English people have higher expectations. Those who can’t or won’t work, watch or take part in the Jerermy. Kyle Show.No one on this site would take a job staking shelves,it’s for others to do. We only have ourselves to blame.
In the days when you had to be a genius to get to Yuni, there were ‘activities’ believe it or not, called Saturday jobs !! Loads of us had ’em – we stacked shelves, we worked in Woolworths for 18/- (90p per day), swept up in hairdressers, and made the tea in retail shops ! We used the money to buy our tights (1/11d – 10p) and go dancing at the Mecca on Saturday nights. The word BENEFIT just wasn’t in our vocabulary, we left school, we got a job – menial or not; the work ethic was instilled in us from our parents. If you didn’t have a job, you didn’t admit it. AND we had to give our parents money for our keep !
Most parents of today never seem to take money off their kids – and that’s the downfall, and why we have generations of “we want it all, NOW”.
“No one on this site would take a job stacking shelves”
Speak for yourself. I wouldn’t like to do it but if it were that or no money, there’s only one choice. I’d stack the shelves. What are those who won’t do it living on?
Essexman – FFS, will you never cease sucking Cameron’s c@ck?
The man is just Blairlite, seriously, can you really not see that?
He , is the best , we have & has been elected , is Farage going to stage a coup ,along with Corbyn? You are getting an EU referendum now , so if you want out ,vote to leave . That`s democracy , if you don`t like the democratic process , try North Korea for size .I had to put up with Blair /Brown for 13 years & hated it . Now DC is PM , live with it , but UKIP & Farage will never be in Government, unless they went back to the Conservatives, which most of them are anyhow .
North Korea is the only alternative you can think of? Good grief.
How about a system where Parliament actually represents the votes cast?
It’s not just Poundland. These Eastern Europeans live 6 or 7 to a 2 bedroom flat and can afford to take lower skilled jobs and push the wages down and the rents up. Where I live a grotty one bedroom cockroach infested flat is £1000 per month. How can a single person afford that even in a moderately well paid job?
The landlords don’t care. They know there are plenty of other people who will rent. Overcrowding doesn’t apply to people who are not subject to immigration control. The borough is supposed to have overcrowding rules but the landlord only lets the premises on paper to one person and with the right to peaceful enjoyment they claim they had no idea if found out!
What you describe is practically a law of nature that applies anywhere in the world. I remember a French documentary about the impact of young male Afghan refugees in Iran. The reporter went around Iranian building sites asking Iranian brickies what they thought. It was the same story. We have families to support and can’t work for less. They are willing to work for half the wage, live ten to a room etc. I was amazed when an Iranian “economist” popped up to explain that the brickies had got it all wrong. Refugees were a boost to the economy and increased Iran’s GDP. Political “elites” really do live in fantasy worlds of their own making.
‘My favourite excuse for mass immigration ” they’ve improved our food.”
Really scraping the barrel, isn’t it?
Foreign travel has improved our food because fewer people are prepared to tolerate greasy spoon fare. Yes, perhaps immigration from places like France has helped a bit but the fact remains, you can find good foreign food in places like Tokyo which have virtually no immigration.
I get extremely annoyed when people who run ethnic restaurants claim that immigration controls are damaging their businesses because they can’t import ‘chefs’ (cooks, in other words) from India or wherever. So train some European employees instead of uncles and nephews you racist bastards! A White English person could not get away with a lame argument like that.
Well said Anne63. Also, has anyone ever been to an “Indian” restaurant and seen any female cooks or waiting staff because I never have. (I use the word Indian loosely, as I believe hardly any of them are).
That’s another one for the Sisterhood to ignore.
“has anyone ever been to an “Indian” restaurant and seen any female cooks or waiting staff because I never have.”
Never.
Nor me. It’s because they are all at the BBC auditioning for next year’s GBBO.
I have. Many years ago, early 1980s. There was an Indian restaurant in Wealdstone I used to frequent that had an Indian waitress, daughter of the owner I believe. Almost beyond comprehension these days. More chance of seeing Elvis serving in one today.
“More chance of seeing Elvis serving in one today. ”
Nah! He can’t get time off from the chip-shop.
“Indian” restaurants are usually owned by Bangladeshis – bringing in endless numbers of so-called cooks from their home villages.
It never fails to amaze me the number of people who pay to risk food poisoning, eating in Third World “restaurants”.
A builder I know once did some work at an industrial unit, where a company (owned and staffed by Yorkshiremen of Pakistani Muslim heritage) made the heat-up curries you buy in the supermarket. He said they tried to stop them from seeing too much of the inside of the place, but from what he did see – he told me he’d never eat one ever again.
Indeed!
I have eaten in the Shere Khan (Bangladeshi) restaurant in the ‘famous curry mile’ in Rusholme in Manchester and other Bangladeshi restaurants and had the ‘Ertha Kitts’ three times as a result – never, ever again. I wouldn’t go near any of those restaurants again. If I want a curry I’ll make it myself or go to a Nepalese restautant.
Back in the good old days you could depend on the Raj Dutt or the Gaylord (both Indian) in M/cr city centre for an excellent, non-poisonous meal.
Try Wetherspoon`s curry night on a Thursday instead , not bad either .No food poisoning ,thrown in for free as well.
We just have greasy chopstick fare instead. There are more blocked drains and sewers now because of ethnic cooking than at any time caused by an English breakfast!
I did see an advert in a newsagent window recently looking for an Asian sandwich maker!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you went to the factory making Naan bread, and who supply ALL the supermarkets from Morrisons to M & S, you sure as hell wouldn’t eat them either ! My brother is a H & S officer, and after visiting the site swore he would never eat one again.
The same with the company who produce ALL the sandwiches again for all the supermarkets and railway outlets – how the fillings are handled by hand ….. ugh ! I can’t even think about it now. And have never eaten a ‘freshly made’ since.
Many visitors to this site might view this as a self selecting group of contributors with an axe to grind, and they would probably be right. That in itself should not provide grounds for ignoring our views, so in the interests of presenting views from a different perspective these comments are from the hotukdeals site – a terrible deals site which makes you spend money you never intended to !
The BBC have a deal on the Blu Ray Doctor Who series 1-4 conversions and these are some of the comments made by their contributors:
“If you’re going to watch Doctor Who, these are the ones to watch.
The writing and production values were way better than the garbage of recent series.
The BBC seems to be intent on killing their golden geese (Top Gear, Doctor Who and others) and it won’t be long before international buyers stop picking up Doctor Who for syndication,. ”
“It was the PC brigade with Top Gear. They were the ONLY ones wanting Clarkson out. Replacing him with Evans is unbelievable. They ranted Clarkson was egotistical. Compared to Evans, he’s riddled with self doubt !
And trying to sneak the usual talentless “wimmin” in too like Perkins says who originated the whole mess. (Although I gather after the volume of anger against the decision they leaked she’s backed out.) The pigs ear of the “new” Top Gear is already losing overseas orders according to reports, and it hasn’t even started yet!”
“This is off topic but I’m going to reply anyway. I’ve no problem with “wimmin” so long as they have the talent required. There are some great female contributors to shows like HIGNFY, Mock the Week etc but sadly, the PC brigade’s insistence on there being at least one female present has resulted in some rather desperate scraping of the barrel.
Then there’s the Winkelman woman… “Film” was an iconic movie review show. It’s\ now unwatchable.”
So, a completely independent source thinking along the same lines we are. Anyone seeking confirmation, or wondering if we are in a minority here’s the proof we’re not.
Can someone please explain what is meant by “trying to sneak the usual talentless “wimmin” in too like Perkins says who originated the whole mess. ” what does Perkins have to do with the Top Gear mess?
Doctor Who’s lecturing on gender delights Guardian writers and BBC producers but irritates the crap out of everyone else. Like the contributors you listed my guts heave whenever I try to watch the present series of this once fabulous show, (well ok it was more hit and miss than we older fans care to admit).
There’s the idiotic calling a guy Mister Pink and the lass Miss Blue, because in the imaginations of the left the preference for pink is foisted at gun point on to poor innocent girls who if given their leeway would hate dolls’ houses be building rockets. When in the first Capaldi episode Dr Who made repeated points about how older men should not have relationships with younger women it was written so that if someone missed the first statement they might catch statements 2 to 8. Message to producers: The audience yawned when he first said it, it does not have to be repeated, honest. Risible.
If the brilliant Hugo Blix couldn’t prevent the feminist makeover of his Honourable Woman series then no one can stand up to the BBC proselytising producers. (I am taking it that the talented Blix would have written dialogue women would say had he been able to cast it as he wished and have no idea whether if my fears are true).
Hasn’t the BBC noticed how women speak and act like women in successful US dramas such as Sopranos, The Wire, House of Cards, et al? The gangster’s wives at lunch in the Sopranos and the attitude of the daughter Meadow are strikingly recognisable and thus heart renderingly enthralling.
Maybe someone can explain to me why after the war we were told that it was necessary to import foreigners to work in the NHS, drive buses etc etc etc.
After all we had survived the war, had the older chaps and women doing these jobs suddenly become defunct? Post war our men folk had also returned to the work force thus relieving women from manual labour jobs to maybe work in the NHS etc. Yes the country needed rebuilding, but whenever I see old film of 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s British construction sites, tower blocks and motorways etc, I can never recall seeing any non whites doing the work.
Maybe I’m missing something?
Back then women were encouraged not to work and the lower paid menial jobs were proving difficult to fill. On top of that there was a lot of damage to repair, and the newly created NHS also soaked up a lot of labour.
Later the cotton industry which was low paid failed to recruit staff so they imported them from Pakistan. What they should have done was to have given temporary contracts of say 5 years which would have given many more people the ability to provide a better living for themselves and their families, and relived the UK of the burden of their care in old age.
The sad truth is that even fiscally challenged statespersons like those self-delusional socialists Aneurin Bevan, Ernest Bevin, Herbert Morrison (nee Mandelson) Anthony Wedgewood-Benn and Richard Crosland, knew that the NHS and nationalised railways were unaffordable without a very large pool of cheap labour. So they imported it.
I think it all started with a shortage of labour in the Underground and Railways, particularly in London. So a workforce was imported from Jamaica, and the Windrush generation was born. I was born and raised on the SE coast, and the only black faces that were seen, were at the American air base during the 50’s, and that was it ! Immigration, black or otherwise was never an issue in that area even in the 60’s and 70’s; but now tragically once ‘posh’ areas have been turned into Eastern European ghettoes where the indigenous residents are scared stiff to venture out at night.
http://www.gavsweathervids.com/flash.html
You can see how snow has now covered most of western Russia. A huge increase in snow cover took place between Friday and Saturday.
I’ve had another look through the NIC archive and up to this point – 10th October – There is no other year that had such extensive Russian snow cover. We are, in-fact, currently breaking records for how quickly snow cover has managed to develop and spread into western Russia.
The only year that is now close to us is 2002 which did have extensive snow cover spreading into western Russia and just about managed to send a slither of snow to the Russia/European border something we hadn’t managed to do up to yesterday.
Even so, 2015 probably beats 2002 in terms of total snow cover extent across the entirety of Russia and particularly the western part of Russia.
We are also easily ahead of other recent years which saw a rapid build of snow cover during October, such as 2012 and 2014.
So clearly 2015 is turning into a massive year for rapid build up of snow over Russia. The next issue will be to see whether we can retain the snow cover we have across western Europe (because snow cover has developed so early into western Russia it could thaw away)
It will also be interesting to see whether early snow cover can set up across Scandinavia – A situation that, as we explain in the fifth winter update, occurred in October 2009.
If we can build up snow cover quickly across Scandinavia and retain the snow we have across central and western Russia, this, in combination with other factors, could enhance our chance of a increased “blocking” this winter.
No doubt we will be told that it’s getting colder because it’s getting warmer !
Thoughtful, there has already been plenty of snow in the Scandinavian countries, plenty in Southern Europe too. Iceland is having an early winter and my friends in Canada tell me winter has come early there too with snow a month early. Scotland has had 12 months of lying snow and this hasn’t happened for 30 years or so. We (the UK) have had a frost day every month this year so far and it is odds on the we will have one in November and December creating a record in itself. The Atlantic is 10 degrees colder now than it should be (year on year average) and as a result any tropical storms whipped up in the tropics cannot sustain themselves across the Atlantic, hence a “dry” year in the U.K. With ‘High Pressure’ dominating the Northern Hemisphere, cold dense air is filling Northern latitudes and hence the Russian winter has already set in. I was telling everyone on this forum last year that this is what would happen based on historical evidence of U.K. weather with no or very little sunspot activity. I still cannot see any change to my prediction that we are in for a long cold winter and cold temperature records will be broken. But don’t expect the BBC to tells us. There are even bets being taken that London will see an October snowfall, one it hasn’t seen for 34 years. There is also growing concern that the Sunspot Cycle 25 will be a very low count, thus prolonging a “cold” era.
I remember saying to a Guardian reading, BBC adoring environmentalist that though the world had warmed by .7 of a degree in the last 150 years it had cooled for the last thousand years and had not increased in temperature for (at that time) 15 years. He didn’t believe me so I showed him the sources.
The next day he came into work to announce, and I kid ye not, ‘ he had seen something on the bbc that explained that global warming can lead to cooling.’
I realised there are times when one should gracefully give up.
Tell me Old Bloke, is there anywhere with accurate, untampered with, temperature records for the last few decades?
Remember the poster in The X-Files – ‘I Want to Believe’?
The AGW hypothesis is deadly precisely because it ticks so many boxes for the liberal Left. from vegetarianism to multiculturalism to ‘world poverty’ – it’s as if it had been genetically engineered to appeal to them. And if you threaten it with your hideous facts, you are kicking out the crutches from beneath them.
Yes. Track down those that have kept allotments for 20 years or so. If they are keen and religious as most of them are, they will have a true record for what has been going on. The one’s I have read in my village on Dartmoor show it has been getting colder for 24 years now.
The morons at the BBC confuse “Global Warming” with “Climate Change”.
So its correct to say “Climate Change can lead to cooling”
I would say that the older the records, the more reliable is the data. Weatheraction is reliable. Paradoxically, its run by the brother of the leader of the Labour Party. But anyone who realises the importance of the Unified Theory of Climate by Ned Nikolov & Karl Zeller must be OK.
This theory is key to the future of Climate science in the same way as the Theory of Relativity was to Physics.
DELUDED: BBC claims it is as essential as WATER in desperate bid to keep £150 licence fee
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/611195/BBC-basic-human-right-future-of-BBC-licence-fee
I heard the last few minutes of The World This Weekend today. It was an item on the Canadian election, and was a master-class on BBC bias.
The reporter began by stating that the Conservatives decided on a long election campaign because they had more money available than the opposition, the phrase was “flush with cash”. The reporter then moved on to the campaign, which at first (apparently) was dominated by a scandal involving a Conservative Senator and the Conservative PM’s Chief of Staff – with a clip of the PM stating the obvious, that he couldn’t comment on an ongoing court case. Next came the Conservatives getting advice from Lynton Crosby until the Conservatives “eventually found an issue”, but this was how Muslim women should be dressed during the ceremony to become Canadian citizens. We were told that the courts were against the government’s policy and that the opposition parties had joined in the criticism. This was the Conservatives opportunity (suddenly there was dramatic music in the background) and they released “an attack ad”. Polls support the Conservative position, but we get a mention that the opposition are “more progressive”. Then there is a clip from a voter, but she was French Canadian with a heavy accent, and as I was listening in the car I didn’t get everything she said , and it was followed by criticism of the Conservatives by the opposition for “pandering to bigotry”. Finally we get a clip of the opposition leader criticising the Prime Minister for promoting fear and division.
In less than 4 minutes we were told that the Conservatives had manipulated the electoral system, were embroiled in a scandal that reached the PM’s office, had to import a foreign political guru, played the race card and been overruled by the courts, and launched an attack ad that panders to bigotry. The clip of the PM was of him refusing to answer questions, while the clip of the opposition leader was of him criticising the PM. I have no idea what the substantive issues are for Canadian voters, but am left with the clear impression that the Conservatives are corrupt, nasty and racist, while the opposition are progressive and reasonable.
Luckily this was the BBC. so I know from experience that it was all bollocks. But an informative 4 minutes on the Canadian election would have been interesting – I’ll have to look on the web.
That sounds like the archetypal BBC programme. No doubt the team that produced it will be receiving hearty congratulations from the Corporation.
If Charlotte Church is reading this forum, have a read of this:
http://www.climatedepot.com/2015/10/09/flashback-2014-why-climate-change-had-no-impact-on-the-syrian-uprising/
Nearly fell off my chair listening to the World Service interviewing Ali, an Afghani ‘refugee’ in Hamburg.
WS: Do you expect Germany to give it to you? [Free education]
Ali: Yah, why not, I’m coming here…
WS: Because you’ve come all the way here it doesn’t mean they have to give you free education. Do you think lots of people think like that?
Ali: Yeah.
A while back I heard another BBC reporter express an off-message opinion to a ‘refugee.’ I guess there are a few BBC staff who are not thoroughly pickled in PeeCee. It’s also possible that exposure on the ground to the invading masses has demonstrated to some at the BBC that a considerable number of them are in fact economic migrants and potential freeloaders.
The bit about Ali’s expectations is at about 11:45 min in but the whole programme is quite interesting and atypical of the bleeding-heart BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0340jpp#play
It’s reached the point now where I no longer listen. One word about migrants and I switch off. I slipped-up last week, though (I may have been in the shower – can’t remember), and heard some minutes of a programme on R4 in which a Syrian family were being followed as they travelled to Europe. The fact that they had already spent two years in Jordan was more or less glossed over, as the string section tuned up to accompany a bleating refrain of why they should be allowed in.
It was, of course, blatant and unashamed economic migration and if this family is allowed in, who wouldn’t be? How long before many millions from Africa and Asia follow suit? These and a hundred other questions are almost never asked by the bleeding hearts at the BBC who care nothing for their homeland or their fellow countrymen and women.
Same here, news, drama, documentary or comedy, the slightest whiff of diversity it gets switched off.
I ain’t watching or listening to much these days…
Yes. I’ve also lost patience with it and was only half listening when the bit about free education made me sit up and take notice.
Well, I guess a bit of real reporting from the BBC is the exception that proves the rule of its abysmal output.