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  1. Beltane says:
    June 1, 2016 at 8:35 pm

    I see our Ministry of Truth and Probity is bigging up the reopening of the inquest on the Birmingham pub bombings. Of course, in an ideal world, the remaining five IRA heroes would be re-arrested and jailed – even though the traces of explosives on their fingers may well have faded by now – and their legal teams, including that paragon of judicial virtue Michael Mansfield, stripped of their credentials and arraigned for perverting the course of justice through their achievement in quashing the original verdicts on ‘technicalities’.
    But our world is far from ideal so the lack of response to ‘the warnings’ will be paramount and police will continue to be blamed, belittled and undermined in the liberal left’s constant search for the justification of terrorism in all its moral majesty.

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    • Nibor says:
      June 1, 2016 at 11:57 pm

      Lord Argyle thought the Birmingham Six were definately guilty and they got off on a technicality , the judges at their appeal were not criminal lawyers but civil ones .

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  2. G.W.F. says:
    June 1, 2016 at 8:35 pm

    Not covered in the BBC’s round up of Referendum activity. Farage prevented from speaking by left fascists.

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/675568/EU-Referendum-protesters-UKIP-Farage-Northampton-speech-safety-fears-Brexit-Remain

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    Roger Helmer ✔ ‎@RogerHelmerMEP
    How come people who call themselves “Hope not Hate” adopt aggressive Fascist tactics, and oppose free speech?
    3:56 PM – 31 May 2016

    The BBC might check out Hope not Hate, who have just recieved a pay rise. They are funded by Unbound Philanthropy, a charity of sorts which promotes Open borders and migration/immigration. Last year Hope not Hate received “£110,000 but this year it is £200,000. Nice work if you can get it.
    Link to Unbound Philanthropy here Scroll down to the very bottom to their Full Grants List and see which leftie outfit is paid.

    https://www.unboundphilanthropy.org/who-we-fund

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    • scribblingscribe says:
      June 1, 2016 at 11:39 pm

      G.W.F. Thank for that, very telling. These organisations appear to be well funded and one would guess the individuals running them are very well rewarded for their ‘charitable works’.

      Unbound Philanthropy is tax exempt yet measures its assets at $176,568,394. Where the hell does this money come from? It lists its returns from investments as 7.4 million and its contributions as 15 million. Suspiciously the contributions are a rounded figure : 15,000,000.

      It paid itself a whopping $3.5 million in 2014 for its charitable work. Who gets this? How much are individuals paid. Why does being anti capitalist seem to involve such extraordinary sums of money? Where does charity end and a healthy career begin?
      https://www.unboundphilanthropy.org/financial-legal-information

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  3. 7Clubs says:
    June 1, 2016 at 8:36 pm

    For an attractive looking lady Emily Klein did the remarkable feat of putting me off so much I switched channels.
    Like so many tv presenters she tries too hard to be the real star of the show instead of the artists she is supposed to be discussing. which might be fine if the presenter actually has something interesting to say about them but she never did
    Dead presenters like Kenneth Clark and Robert Hughes will be turning in their graves
    And like so many of them we will never find out the underlaying nepotism that gets the presenters & producers their jobs.
    There must be many who will have noticed the remarkable similiarity between Emily Klein and Emily Maitless – cousins?

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  4. Mike Hunt says:
    June 1, 2016 at 9:54 pm

    Not on the BBC: Foreign ministers of six founding EU countries met last week at the Chateau de Val-Duchesse, a former priory just outside Brussels, to “discuss possible consequences”, according to German magazine Der Spiegel.

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/675066/EU-ministers-secret-meeting-Brexit

    Express Poll: 93% Leave (perhaps not terribly surprising)

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  5. Mike Hunt says:
    June 1, 2016 at 9:55 pm

    Not on the BBC: SNP activists launch new Out drive
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/675954/Scotland-SNP-Nicola-Sturgeon-EU-vote-Remain-out-UK-Dundee

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  6. Mike Hunt says:
    June 1, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    Not on the BBC: Say what now? Albania is a candidate to join the EU? Funny the BBC didn’t think that was relevant earlier in the week…
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/675524/Albanian-migrants-English-Channel-UK-borders-Chris-Grayling-asylum-claims-EU

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  7. Mike Hunt says:
    June 1, 2016 at 10:05 pm

    Not on the BBC: Candidates for EU accession: Turkey, Serbia, Albania, Macedonia, and Montenegro. These have officially been accepted by the EU Council for accession, subject to criteria.

    There are currently five candidate countries for EU accession: Albania, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey. […] A country is deemed to be a candidate country when, having examined its application for EU membership, the EU Council formally recognises the country as candidate, thus granting the country candidate status.

    http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/international/non_eu/candidate/index_en.htm

    Funny the BBC didn’t mention this when Turkey’s membership was being discussed, isn’t it?

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    • GCooper says:
      June 1, 2016 at 10:14 pm

      Suppressing inconvenient news is one of the BBC’s most developed and widely deployed skills.

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  8. Mike Hunt says:
    June 1, 2016 at 10:11 pm

    It’s official: they’re running out of scare stories. Just shut up and vote Remain. 1UvdiQI

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