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What better platform for the new puritans to deliver their revised warning ‘there is no safe level of alcohol’ than BBC Breakfast – the show apparently sponsored by ‘the perils of sugar’?
It’s a bitter (and lager) unsweated pill to swallow folks, but never mind, we’re treating public-sector-financed-spaceman major Tim with enormous gravity. The atmosphere is building as school kids win the lottery to have a radio link-up with our tax-payrolled hero.
Male safe drinking levels (otherwise stated to be none-at-all) are being reduced to match those of females. Another win-win for equality over science methinks! But what about the transgenders? All quiet on the Danish Girl front? Course not, the BAFTAs are up and running… luvvie luvvie luvvie!
AISI, I wonder if the tax implications of this ‘No alcohol’ thing have been fully considered?
One of the many reasons the NHS is in a spot of financial bother is that their income has been drastically reduced at their own hands. Cannot remember the latest smoking statistics but I think the 20 year fall in the numbers smoking in the UK is quite substantial. From the late 1990s, the NHS was spending several hundred pounds per smoker to help them stop smoking and to help them stop paying, on average, £1000+ to the Treasury each and every year, a large portion of which was hypothecated to the NHS.
So that was a Lose & Lose on smoking for the NHS.
IIRC, the duties on alcohol are not hypothecated to the NHS but there is going to an uncomfortable collision at Treasury between the tax take on the spending from the affluence of incohol – er, I mean alcohol – from the 1990s & Noughties with the ‘New Puritanism’ of the 21st century, second decade nanny state.
other imoplications:
It instantly increases the amount of people who can now be classed as having “drinking problems” thus ensuring that the various government agencies/NGOs/charities have a much more urgent need to increased tax-payers money to tackle an instantly created problem.
It also allows the state to have a reason to push to decrease this nation’s alcohol intake, thus making the slow transition to Sharia law less truamatic for drinkers.
Mum they’re doing it again. I’ve lost count how many times they’ve done alcohol and this morning it’s the same. Yes new alcohol guidelines and it’s got more coverage than the floods . All alcohol is poison which is worse I wonder? Sugar or alcohol? Apparently the new guideline is you should only be drinking one pint a day, but you shouldn’t bank them. Now to be honest I really don’t care I probably have 2 or 3 drinks in a year but the ferocity the BBc takes on any anti alcohol story is breath taking.
And so back to the migrant hoards “Here are some appalling pictures” Naga informs us. so it’s over to Serbia. There is a spike is migrants falling ill ,due to the cold well no one asked them to invade Europe. The cameras focus on the kids as usual. Out of interest the temperature in Damascus is a not exactly warm 9c I assume the BBc thinks we will believe as it’s in the middle east it’s warm all the time and doesn’t get cold in the winter. The usual complete sob sob story on the invaders.
Not only are they doing it again but they left a significant part of the story out.
Today is the start of a public consultation on proposed new alcohol guidance.
see https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/health-risks-from-alcohol-new-guidelines for more info and how you can participate. Though I sense the dead hand of political correctness and blind “equalities” promotion has been at work already.
I`m interested to know how they have come to the conclusion that the “safer” limit is the same for females as males since there is a well documented physiological difference in alcohol metabolism between men and women.
“Very little alcohol enters fat because of fats poor solubility. Blood and tissue concentrations are therefore higher in women, who have more subcutaneous fat and a smaller blood volume than men, even when the amount of alcohol consumed is adjusted for body weight. Women may also have lower levels of alcohol dehydrogenases in the stomach than men, so that less alcohol is metabolised before absorption.”
Alex Paton in the ABC of Alcohol.
‘…migrants falling ill ,due to the cold well no one asked them to invade Europe’
I can’t help it, I could go all Godwin’s Law on this : It’s like the Wehrmacht blaming the Soviets for the cold weather.
But let’s be BBC-War-and-Peace-friendly and say it’s like Napoleon blaming the Tsar for his country’s winter
Funny but I can’t find this highly relevant story anywhere on the BBC:
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/salford-man-arrested-people-smuggling-10703160
A Salford man – one of two accused of being part of a smuggling network responsible for trafficking up to 20 migrants a NIGHT into the UK – has been arrested.
Shamel Omer Zorab, 33, from Eccles, is one of two Iraqi nationals detained by police following a major operation co-ordinated by the National Crime Agency (NCA).
Sleman Basak Ahmed, 37, from Birmingham, was also arrested after being hunted on a European arrest warrant.
The Manchester Evening news is part of the Mirror group and Labour supporting Left wing. It’s journalism and standards of English leave a lot to be desired !
Firstly he is not ‘A Salford man’ he is a man who happens to live in Salford, if anything he is an Iraqi man, nor is he ‘From Eccles’ he is living in Eccles. This might be a subtle difference, but it completely changes the context.
‘The arrests follow a joint operation involving the NCA and Belgian Federal Police, looking into a Kurdish criminal network suspected of smuggling hundreds of people – up to 20 a night – into the UK in lorries.’
‘It is thought migrants, including Iraqis, Iranians, Afghans, Indians, Pakistanis and Albanians, are loaded into trucks at motorway service stations in Belgium before attempting to cross the Channel.’
‘Police say ten people have already been arrested in Belgium and await trial there.’
This should be a major news story given the problems at Calais, and the fact it’s a cross border operation, but yet the BBC has nothing on it at all.
Given how slow BBC news is, there might be a story late in the day, or tomorrow, but then no doubt it will have been spun to reduce the impact as much as possible.
‘This should be a major news story given the problems at Calais’ Agreed
BBC Breakfast mentioned it once (as they say – but, I think they got away with it) putting emphasis on the extradition to Belgium procedures.
Meanwhile rather more interesting to the BBC is the apparent murders of a former East Enders actress and her children. Although the interest there seems rather to err away from the missing man in the case’s flight to Ghana and focus more on what the police might have done wrong. Same old, same old, BBC.
Well spotted Thoughtful
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35253527
“Almost all of them are suffering with respiratory illnesses brought on by the cold.”
No it’s not, you lying bastards! it’s brought on by this:
http://www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk/advice/disease-prevention-advice/middle-east-respiratory-syndrome.aspx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus
MERS, along with TB are two of the most common conditions now treated (at our expense let me remind you) amongst our culturally enriching ‘communities’.
“We are on a journey of death,” said Mohammad’s uncle, Iyad Al-Maari. We can endure. But I am worried about the children – the cold, disease and hunger.”
You should have all stayed in Turkey then. What sort of parents put their kids lives in danger like that? Turkey is a safe country (if you’re a fellow muslim at least), but no, you wanted to come to Europe where you expected to be given, at the expense of the natives, a free home and free food and free medical care and all the other trappings that come with a civilised society. Go back to Syria and do what we did after our country and continent got torn apart by war. Did we run? No, we fought and rebuilt the continent to what it was 20 years ago. I was going to say to what it is now, but I don’t think any explanation is necessary.
The BBC don’t do joined up thinking, as far as they are concerned its our ageing population who are to blame for the ‘NHS IN CRISIS’ headlines.
I also often wonder how much of a burden 2nd hand illnesses passed on from new arrivals to the more susceptible indigenous. I say this after visiting an Aldi store yesterday (for my weeks supply of vino rosso) there was a group of ‘foreigners’ wandering around (with kids) one was hacking away badly, coughing over food and without covering his mouth, Christ knows what germs he was spreading around and what unfortunates may succumb. Whatever we will foot the bill….
Friday 11:00 am.
Still on the start the week thread.
Has the UK week has its coevality re-aligned to that of a minority?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35258807
An amazing piece with an oddly ‘gender neutral’ Damien McGuiness summing up in the final seconds. Either he is completely naïve or lying when he slips in about Germany’s migrant crisis which has no real relevance to the piece, but that also Mein Kampf is a best seller across most of the Muslim world especially Turkey and Palestine. Recent remarks from Turkeys President all seem to have passed him by also.
It’s all the fault of the whitey’s again – but not the white lefties of course, it’s the shadowy ‘right wing groups’ which simply don’t actually exist.
Just how long can the media sit on these stories. Sexual assaults in Finland, Austria Germany. One of the German witnesses speaks out.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3c6_1452192650
If it weren’t for the internet, the corrupt bastards would sit on the stories for ever.
on the plus side, it does demonstrate the illiteracy of the lefty truthophobes. Now they are all over the internet decrying “racists”… Odd, I always thought rapist was spelled with a ‘P’ in it.
I cannot tell if they are ignorant woman hating truthophobes, attacking the majority of decent and horrified people who are shocked and disgusted at a massive gang rape of our women by followers of Islam (Race is irrelevant) …or just bad spellers.
Rapist… Racist… They are similar spellings, but it really is not that difficult to use the correct word.
We’re living in an era where the intelligentsia leftists on Al-Beeb and elsewhere seem to regard a racist as being worse than a rapist.
Evidence? The treatment of the abused women in Oldham, Rochdale, and Rotherham where Al-Beeb bent over backwards not to mention the ethnicities of the perpetrators.
Brilliant
The BBC line to deflect attention from Cologne, Helsinki, Austria etc is to push the sob story reports of brave Muslim women and children, all dressed in imaculate winter gear it seems , braving Balkan snows to get to Germany and Sweden.
The obnoxious VD programme on BBC2 has just put on such a ‘harrowing ‘ report , suitably fronted by a young non- white female reporter. Let’s forget the guys and just concentrate on the brave sistas with their kids.
Yes, the BBC has clearly decided to boo-hoo us into the weekend with stories about ‘starving Syria’ and the ‘plight’ of illegals who have made it to Europe from the far flung corners of the world (only a few of which are actually in the ME war zone).
They will do anything in this pathetic attempt to divert the public’s attention from the all too real problems in Germany, Scandinavia, France and…well… who knows where else?
First they denied it happened by staying silent. Then they played it down and fabricated excuses. Now they are laying down a smokescreen and creating a diversion.
Close it down.
Syrians and the cold stop me if you’ve heard this one before flashback 3 years http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-coldest-winter-in-20-years-for-syrian-refugees-8474996.html
I think Rod wrote those lyrics in 1971, ” Coldest winter in almost 14 years, Mandolin Wind , ain’t gonna change a thing”. I hope he sues for breach of copyright. From Every Picture tells a Story.
More on the brave migrants and children struggling in the cold. The story comes from Tulip Mazumdar
Global health correspondent in Serbia.
So how do you get a job as a Global Health Correspondent, what qualifications do you need and what is the salary?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35253527
Well the first thing you do is get a name like Tulip Mazumdar.
NOT Mentioned by BBC News Online:
“”Most of the 31 people questioned so far over the New Year mayhem were in the process of seeking asylum in Germany, officials say””
http://news.sky.com/story/1618820/cologne-suspects-include-18-asylum-seekers
Perhaps the BBC ‘forgot’ whilst covering alcohol consumption??
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I see the site is back to it’s usual problems loading pages with internet explorer again !
Well the Nanny State is now doing its best to make us all give up alcohol. One consolation is that when we all have to become muslims we will already be weened off the demon drink!
Every time I see sh1t like that it has the opposite effect, I feel the need to drink more!
Its hard these days not to see a conspiracy in almost everything, dogs get a bad press, alcohol gets a bad press, exams to be brought forward and so on. All to favour one small but demanding section of the population, if its not them doing the complaining, its a load a wishy washy Marxist Liberals doing it on their behalf.
“Every time I see sh1t like that it has the opposite effect, I feel the need to drink more!”
I normally only have one or two drinks a week (more at Christmas and on holiday but never to excess) and wasn’t planning one today; but this crap on the TV means I am already on my first vodka.
We won`t be weaned off it for long, we will all have to fire up the stills and switch to siddiqui and arak like they drink in the dar ul Salaam!
Mark Lardell on TWATO interviews Helsinki’s deputy Police chief about rape by Asylum Seekers, and then Der Bild who have reported “were we lied to”, together with Peter Hitchens, and some atrocious lefty who claimed that not all asylum seekers were like that so it was OK to allow rapists and molesters in and we should all be concerned about ‘right wing groups’ which we all know don’t exist.
The insane Fascist soon gets back to blaming whitey, that it couldn’t possibly be the migrants fault, it’s the fault of the white Police force for not stopping them !
I wonder how it would hold up in court, that it wasn’t my fault I robbed someone, it was the fault of the Police because they didn’t stop me !
The Fascist argument are all demonstrably nonsense. ALL male migrants are potentially rapists, just like they once accused all white males of being. The insane reasoning that this is due to them being from segregated societies and will improve as they integrate is already proven wrong by Rotherham, Heywood, and countless other Towns & cities in Britain.
What do you do when the impact of bleeding heart reports of brave Muslim migrants in the med and the Balkans begins to wear thin ? Worse still there are fewer of our new Europeans on the move because the more sane ones have decided to winter it out in Turkey .
Quick BBC editorial conference . Of course the answer is obvious . Even with fewer migrants heading to the promised land of free housing and generous welfare, there’s going to be a health story isn’t there? So we have a brand new reason to let them in and cheer whoop and clap as they reach whatever Bahnhof.
Ok let’s unleash our globe trotting health correspondent Tulip No English Surname on the situation. The reports from the intrepid Tulip start flooding in.
Cologne and Helsinki are but distant memories ……
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jan/08/sheridan-smith-to-star-in-bbcs-shannon-matthews-drama?
Yes, that BBC left of centre, edgy-thinking really suggests a child abuse drama really suggests another chavvy EastEnders-style treatment at this juncture will refocus where the real problems lie.
Meanwhile, as it is thermals time at last…
https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2016/01/08/bbc-promotes-anthropocene-hype-38gate-begins/
Everyone at the BBC is involved in promotion all the time on an ‘all must get rewards’ basis (Botney back from Barbados yet?), so why not stories too?
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jan/07/bbc-missing-dads-army-episode-a-stripe-for-frazer-movie?
Interesting they appear to have opted for black and white, as it were.
The original series was in Black & White so perhaps that’s why.
The popularity of the program is down to the facts that
a) It’s actually funny unlike any of the current BBC output
b) People remember Britain pre enrichment and yearn to find it again
I just wish they’d give it a rest on Saturday evenings, it seems to be the same dozen episodes or so on rotation for the last decade, do they think we don’t notice?
Plenty more funny old comedy series could be shown in that slot, eg It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, or unedited, unbleeped Only Fools, I can dream….
I was thinking more the opportunities for recasting, using diverse new vocal talents to match.
John Bird springs to mind as a visiting General.
Dat kind of ting.
The top headline on Radio 5 news begins ‘The private security firm G4S’ … has suspended some workers suspected of ill-treatment of youngster in a care facility.
When was the last time the BBC started an unfortunate story about dreadful goings on at the NHS, the BBC, council care homes etc with ‘ The public sector ….’?
Never.
phil
Cannot be done.
The licence fee would have to be doubled to publicise all the evils of the public sector.
Not that the extra money would be used for that, just more salaries, more pensions, more expenses, more lies, even more lies, yet more lies, just when you thought it was 100% lies the pointer on the lieometer rotates even faster.
The World’s Most Trusted Broadcaster, The Envy of The World (NHS), ad mauseam.
But they are all excellent at wasting money and importing more Labour (Multi)voters.
‘When was the last time the BBC started an unfortunate story about dreadful goings on at… the BBC…”
Of course, the BBC rather uniquely can avoid dealing with any such ‘unpleasantness’ in these areas by simply waving the ‘BBC Card’, which gets you out of, well, anything, free.
http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/hours-of-work.html?
Apparently.
‘Cos they is ‘vital, innit?
Al Beeb catching up? German “Police chief to resign ” I wonder why ?
I have a feeling the German Police have been hung out to dry by their PC paymasters.
Just on today’s bout of health puritanism/ fascism.
1. Everyone dies exactly once. Nothing ‘prevents’ deaths, it only postpones them.
2. Most of most people’s total lifetime cost of treatment by the NHS is in the immediate weeks and months before death, its as simple as reflecting that most people die in hospital and we know how expensive hospitals are to run.
Therefore, any activity which prolongs life increases long-term NHS expenditure, no matter what gobbledegook mickey-mouse financial arguments are made.
Therefore any public body recommending lifestyle changes, should also tell us how they are to be paid for long term.
I doubt if our state public body broadcaster has the wit, imagination, or motivation to pursue this logic sequence.
A good critical article by ex-BBC David Keighley on Caroline Quinn’s disgracefully biasewd programme about what happens if we vote to leave the UK :
http://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/david-keighley-want-to-quit-the-eu-first-you-have-to-get-round-carolyn-quinns-biased-bbc-report/
The interior minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Ralf Jaeger, said his decision to remove Mr Albers would not affect the continuing investigation into the events of 31 December.
“People rightly want to know what happened on New Year’s Eve, who the perpetrators are and how such events can be prevented in future,” he said.
Reports IslamicAl-Beeb about rapes in Cologne.
The answer is, get rid of the non white scum.
Then get rid of the Al-Beeb types.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35261359
Mayor Henriette Reker- weasel words.
“Officials have warned that anti-immigrant groups have been trying to use the attacks to stir up hatred.” Which groups BBC? I’d say the migrants are doing more than anyone else to stir up hatred, more deflection.
First mentions of Sweden I’ve seen on the BBC regarding this type of crime, way too little far too late BBC.
And then there are the apologists
“Deutsche Welle Arabic journalist Nahla Elhenawy: “The ugliness of our region is reaching Germany””
I first read that as “our religion”, and on reflection it was probably more fitting.
The value of the BBC in assessing the ‘news’ on a topic such as this is likely a fools errand.
I get a daily update from Der Spiegel which knows who’s in charge still, but may be slightly better on the ground than a certain world class PR agency with an office actually in Cologne but working on a several day delay, if only because the Germans’ own people know where they live.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/cologne-attacks-trigger-raw-debate-on-immigration-in-germany-a-1071175.html#ref=nl-international
There are other articles. A lot of other articles.
Sauerkraut-geschmack popcorn ordnungsgemäß bestellt
A lot of information in that article despite it being full of pejorative anti-“right wing” comments.
I remember a time when tomatoes were supposed to cause cancer. Then we were told to cut out butter, and cream from our diets – this has been turn on its head, as all spreads apart from butter are man-made and AREN’T good for you; most fat free produce isn’t ; too much salt is bad for you; too much sugar is bad for you; cigs, bad for you; alcohol, bad for you. Sex ? sexually transmitted diseases, aids; bacon and ham, bad for you. What is there to live for ??? I have full fat everything – milk, cheese, spreads (they didn’t do my grandma any harm). Of course fags are death sticks, the evidence is overwhelming, and alcohol ? well the love of my life (like John Thaw) died of oesophageal cancer, after a life of fagging it and imbibing most days of the week, and seeing him fed through his stomach for over a year before he died was awful. So its really moderation, in all things.
Another failing of the BBC is that it hasn’t dared question the ridiculous pronouncements of Dame Sally Quack.
Modern medicine has been swaying from side to suicide like a drunken sailor itself since the 1950s, following fad after fad, desperately chasing the status it once, deservedly, had when it was conquering the big infectious disease killers of the past.
Having failed to repeat that success it has resorted to neo-puritan bullying instead, in the course of which (for example on animal fats) it has killed hundreds of thousands of people by willfully giving them precisely the wrong dietary advice.
A decent broadcaster would be holding these charlatans and their dodgy epidemiologists to account.
Which rules out the BBC, of course.
My Dad died of oesophageal cancer, he didn’t drink much but since the age of 16 he was a 30 a day Players Navy Cut man, as were most of his generation. he gave up at 65 after a heart attack but died at 72,
It must be remembered that when smoking yes you breathe in the crap, but a lot also goes into the gut.
Apparently, according to ITN, an ISIS fan shot his mother in a public execution, because she begged him to leave the Provisional Wing of the ROP.
Mind you, there’s always a silver lining, he didn’t cut her head off – or maybe that was later, in private.
Headline news on the Beeb NOT
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35264935
Read it and you think the policeman was unhurt but managed to wound the shooter(Islamist) the policeman was lucky to be alive but Police Lives DON’T matter.
Two things that satruckmeon that item:
1. Perpetrator was another of the “Lone Wolf” pack apparently.
2. He had a stolen weapon – how would Obama’s crocodile tears have prevented this happening if he had got his way and disarmed the innocent public?
Obviously an armed member of the public was not around to stop it either, but my point is if the public are disarmed the terrorists and criminals aren’t.
Saw the press conference live on Sky, chief of police was keen to stress it had nothing to do with Islam….
Phew! That’s alight then, I was worried for a minute. Just as well we’re all dumbed down F’s and believe him…
There is a growing movement in the US – Blue Lives Matter.
I haven’t seen any mention of it on the BBC.
Just saw that on the News at Ten. I have clearly brought my son up well. Unprompted by me he said, “Well, he can’t be sent to prison. He was black and shot by a policeman”.
Watched News Night a couple of nights ago. One of the BBC’s towering intellectuals Evan Davies hosted the show. Evan (peace be upon him) introduced an item about a young Kurdish woman, Maryam. He asked the viewers (we plebs) who are accustomed in the west to watching insignificant trivia such as Strictly etc. to take time off from such bread and circuses bullshit to give 10 to 15 minutes to watch a truly remarkable story on Kurdish TV. Evan, did say it was ok for us to watch our daily diet of shit, bless him for his condescension.
What followed was the most appalling Silla Black Surprise, Surprise. Maryam had been adopted by an Iranian family. When her Iranian father died she was berated by locals for grieving for him. She was told that she should not cry at his grave because he was not her real father. This lead to Maryam seeking out her roots. A Kurdish doctor seeking out the lost children of the victims of Saddam Husain’s chemical assault on the Kurd’s. He used DNA sampling to match these children with their possible Kurdish family. All good stuff so far.
Maryam adoptive mother was introduced. Maryam had been adopted following the death of her female child also called Maryam. The adoptive father had heard n Iranian media that there a umber of children from Iraq up for adoption. He went and choose a girl whom he named Maryam after his dead daughter. At one point Maryam asks her adoptive mother if she was a pretty child. The mother replies NO, you were too DARK to be pretty. Having been born and lived in the West Indies where people are not just colour conscious but SHADE conscious, this struck home as racist.
I have long been an admirer of the Kurds, but what followed was truly appalling. The good doctor made 3 possible matches of Maryam’s DNA to Kurdish families . Maryam visited each of these families. They all thought that she was the lost child/sister etc. Then on live TV the doctor announced which family’s DNA matched Maryam’s 100%. It turned that it was a different family. So we had the tears of the disappointed family’s who were left with a new lost, the child/sister they thought they had found, but was not.
I have just become a fan of Strictly. Oh shit it on the BBC. Can’t win
Tonight on the 6.00pm Radio 4 news, a section of it told of how the Flying Scotsman (4472) was rebuilt at a cost of £4 million as this was the first steam loco to achieve 100 mph. Pardon? Er.. excuse me? I don’t think so young lady reporter, someone has been telling you porkies. Records confirm that it was a GWR Class 3700, (City class) “3440 City of Truro” that completed a milepost timed run of at or above 100 mph on my patch down here in the South West, and it is most probable given the running road that 102 mph was achieved. It is the 4472 that was “officially” timed at 100 mph, but well after the run of City of Truro.
Yes, down Wellington Bank, I believe.
In my youth, at school in Tiverton, I remember the ‘City of Truro’ hauling the Westward Television exhibition train to Tiverton town station (now long gone), when that TV station first began broadcasting.
City of Truro is still running, happily.
They knew how to make things back then!
Merkel has said that refugees who commit crimes in Germany will be sent back.
Under her EU laws, this cannot happen. She knows this.
Is she playing for time to pacify the non-existent right-wing back-lash?
I’m waiting for the BBC to clarify this.
I’m also waiting for confirmation that Sir Bob ‘I’m worth £30m’ Geldof has taken Syrian refugees into his homes as he so very vocally promised the nation back in September. Perhaps he’s teaching them English at home as I type?
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It’s under the Asylum treaty, and nothing to do with the EU.
The asylum act has always allowed for the return of people who have committed certain crimes.
The asylum act does not cover those fleeing war, but Merkel has made an exception, she would however have to reach agreement with Turkey for them to be returned there, and the EU could always impose sanctions if he failed to agree.
Is she playing for time to pacify the non-existent right-wing back-lash?
My point is that their return never happens.
“Perhaps he’s teaching them English at home as I type?”
Bob Geldof’s English? That’ll involve f*ck and f*cking with a few other words from time to time.
I think they already know those words. The words they need to learn include ‘self-restraint’, ‘law-abiding’, ‘respect’, ‘civilised’, ‘decency’, ‘work’, ‘self-reliance’, ‘gratitude’… feel free to add others.
More ‘Lone Wolf’ attacks on European tourists in Egypt:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-35268713
One ‘assailant’ has been killed. Is an assailant a member of the Quaker movement. I’m confused…
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Let’s not be hasty and jump to the conclusion that this was an Islamic inpired attack. After all, Egypt has a minority population of about 88% Muslims only. For all we know it was the work of the People’s Front of Judea, or was it the Judean People’s Front???
Splitters!!
Just seen the news coverage of this ‘random’ attack by three angry men, one a student, maybe they were just angry at the cost of student fees in Egypt and thought that attacking a few foreign tourists would highlight their plight? I think we all really know that they are followers of the RoP but the BkgbC would never admit to that.
Either way the only concern for the warped fuckwits at the beeb, including the spineless (literally thanks to his RoP mates) Frank Gardiner, was the negative effect it would have on tourism?
Then the story of the ISIS nut job who shot a poodle officer in his patrol car in the U.S. the beeb scum made sure the main point was the U.S. spokesman who, robot like, stated the mantra…”itt wasss nothinggg tooo dooo withh the RoPPPPP” zzz,zzz. Does this prick not realize that we all know he is a lying piece of shit.
Then came the Cologne attacks, the beeb just had to have a muzzer on who was scared shitless of the reprisals, you know, the attacks that simply haven’t happened….anywhere! Then came the thick German twat who actually said, in the interests of social cohesion of course, that “we just have to look at the attack as a one off incident”??? 170+ women were attacked (as well as the rest of the kraut rape epidemic) and this thick bitch thinks it’s a one off?? Just like Paris was, eh!
Just what the fuck do these people have to go through to see the light? I am of the thinking that many of these ‘victims’ are getting exactly what they deserve, I’m guessing that the lefty brigade in Cologne are at this very moment coaching the 170 to explain that ‘it wasn’t the immigrant’s fault, they are the victims, we must be tolerant and educate these people’.
And all this coming after the main story of…we all drink too much…BOOOM! There it is, the main danger to most people’s health!! Did the scum at the beeb ever think that for many people drink is the weapon of choice to escape the constant liberal socialist shite that we are bombarded with every day, it’s better that than an AK47.
“Germany must contemplate deporting foreigners convicted of crimes following the Cologne sex attacks, Chancellor Angela Merkel says”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35259224
I hope Merkel gets better success in deporting her ‘undesirables’ than ‘Theresa the appeaser’ got in deporting our terrorists. I am sure the ECHR will have something to say about it ? Is Al Beeb guilty of censorship? Why am I forced to pay an annual tax for this ? Does not our Mr Car Moron see all this ?
One thing is certain, there are ‘lessons to be learned’ – Yes, we should get out of the EU .
The problem with the ECHR was not the law, but the fact that the greedy bastards realised the Jordanian courts were outwith the EU and their greedy mates weren’t going to be able to make any money there!
The law in Europe is very much akin to a protection racket, with whoever is able to pay the most money winning the cases. In the case of governments it’s a bottomless purse which pays for both sides so countless opportunities to dip into the public purse.
Forget Dole scroungers, these are the real parasites, producing absolutely nothing of value what so ever, and adding nothing to the advancement of humanity.
Getting out of the EU is not getting out of the ECtHR which is completely separate, although it might well follow, will lazy Davey be the one to actually get around to doing it ?
Thoughtful
I agree with what you write but our PM is doing nothing about Al Beeb .
He is also behaving like the shady car salesman that he is. He is just ‘negotiating’ some sort of ‘pretend deal’ with the EU which is just a charade.
I have a feeling that Essexman is not going to like this .
“Germany must contemplate deporting foreigners convicted of crimes following the Cologne sex attacks, Chancellor Angela Merkel says”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35259224
I reckon the word CONTEMPLATE signifies a long period of thinking, followed by inaction (doing sweetFA). If she meant business she’d have said:
“must deport”
Deporting’s too good for them.
Given that no promise has been made other than to ‘contemplate’ such an act, I very much doubt she intends doing anything more than just that – sounds like poltician talk to me, playing to the gallery only.
Of topic, but being forced fed Big Brother on Channel 5, Winston McKenzie (ex UKIP) is getting a good kicking for his (correct?) view on gay couples adopting, looks like he’s going tonight, his housemates are aghast….
He’s been set up for a fall and the UKIP brand is still being touted as far as he’s concerned, UKIP guilty by association.
As he’s the only ethnic in there, if the voting public vote him out are they racist? I wonder how they would square it if he were also a member of a peaceful religion?
Having seen Winston evicted we had to switch off, it was a total and utter f&%$king media stitch up, there was absolutely no need to bring the subject up.
The only ‘foreign ethnic‘ you mean Geoff.
We ALL have an ethnicity, including indigenous ethnic British!
Yesterday I posted a link to the EU Referendum site, where there was an excellent deconstruction of a biased BBC programme on Brexit. The post prompted some comments about Richard North, so this news of him might be of interest:
“Following a meeting with Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore in Bristol last Tuesday, I have agreed to work with Leave.eu as a consultant for the duration of the EU Referendum campaign – unless, of course, we fall out and slaughter each other.”
I look forward to the BBC’s coverage of this development in the Leave campaign.
Fraulein Dr. Von Berg (Green Party) in the Hamburg State Parliament talks of a “Supercultural Society”, yet in reality she is talking of how Germany is abolishing itself, and the Fraulein thinks it’s a jolly good thing too. Where’s Jenny Hill when you need her?
Those ‘men‘ again.
As posted on the new open thread.
These men???
Who can say? The Beeb certainly won’t.
[Ah yes, this isn’t the new thread. oops1]
The benefits of miscegenation.
“Modern-day people can trace their ancestry to a small population that emerged from Africa about 60,000 years ago.”
Well, apart from all those Africans and ‘African-Americans’ etc. whose ancestors didn’t… Racists!