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Difficult not to be cynical about Sky and the BBC.
Sky news covering the dreadful war in Yemen without mentioning about it being muslim v muslim. Apparently it is all the UK’s fault as we sold weapons to the Saudis. Not a mention of who else sold weapons to the Saudis or to the other blood lusting parties. Just the UK’s fault.
Anyways, there was the distressing sight of a bony young lad who was clearly starving. He was kept alive by the heroic medical teams brave enough to remain. The credulous reporter informed us, in hushed tones, how the family cannot afford to feed him and he has two emaciated brothers.
There was then a shot of the mum feeding him spoonfuls of some grim fluid. Now the mum was wrapped up from head to toe in a black garb, with just enough of a slit to see out. Thus difficult to be sure, but the fingers of her hand were not emaciated. In fact they looked like those of the average 40 stone housewife from a trailer park in Texas. Fat. Thick.
I need Sky to just up a gear when reporting.
It’s weird how reasonable Fox is with its system of pitting 2 guests against each other.
…. And how bad Sky is with SJW missionary reporters
Debunk of BBC Venezuela story
“Venezuela pulls highest-value banknote ‘to strike against mafia”
Yeah : Care to guess what it’s worth?
Two cents US …
more from Willis Eschenbach
I thought they were being pulled because they contained animal fat!
Its clear that events in Aleppo are pretty horrendous, BUT do we have evidence that other Western countries are doing as much hand wringing about the situation as the UK ? considering the size of this country compared to other European countries, we are led to believe by the media that only the UK can do anything about it ! I don’t mean to be flippant if I say are countries like say Iceland / Canada / Scandinavia as pro-active media wise as we are ? and why do we think we can cure the ills of the world ? our military is in melt down so what possible use could we be anyway ?
It amazes me, all the w@nkers in parliament (Boris Johnson included) who are getting so worked up about what has happened in Syria and that somehow “we” should have stopped it.
Don’t these folk learn anything from our past involvement in the Middle East? Everywhere British troops are sent to “help”, eventually those who are being “helped” end up blowing up and shooting those same troops; those same troops, all the while, are forced to operate under insanely restrictive rules of engagement.
I always remember those pictures of those Iraqis who were so grateful that we toppled Saddam, that they almost burned to death that chap who was poking out of the turret of that tank.
The decision which parliament made in 2013 was the right one: leave well alone.
The people of this country have had enough of members of our armed forces giving their lives in Middle East s**tholes filled, for the most part, with unappreciative, Third World populations.
Yep! the usual suspects in full voice, led by Boris “Worzel” Johnson and his toff buddies.
Remember that other Tory cretin Defence Secretary Michael Fallon announced ‘we will be ready for war with Russia in two years’
WHAT!, why?, and for what?, Do you want war with Russia?
Former Chief of the General Staff Sir Mike Jackson added to the damning assessment of Britain’s military capabilities delivered by his former colleague General Sir Richard Barrons, who branded the British military now as “withered” BY DESIGN, this Tory dickhead is both dangerous and deluded
They are sooooo right on, so indignant aren t they!
… with OTHER PEOPLES sons and daughters
Any and every MP who follows these crowing neoliberal boneheads should be out.
If any of these imbeciles ever vote for something like this, as they pass through the Aye voting door, they should be led straight to a waiting van for them and any fighting age children that they have
… to go straight to the front line, while any governmental assets they have are compulsory given up
… for the national good 😀
Nogin Boy – When I hear these lefty tosspots fulminating behind the cover of a skinny latte this Kipling poem always comes to mind.
Tommy
I WENT into a public ‘ouse to get a pint o’beer,
The publican ‘e up an’ sez, “We serve no red-coats here.”
The girls be’ind the bar they laughed an’ giggled fit to die,
I outs into the street again an’ to myself sez I:
O it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, go away”;
But it’s “Thank you, Mister Atkins,” when the band begins to play,
The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,
O it’s “Thank you, Mr. Atkins,” when the band begins to play.
I went into a theatre as sober as could be,
They gave a drunk civilian room, but ‘adn’t none for me;
They sent me to the gallery or round the music ‘alls,
But when it comes to fightin’, Lord! they’ll shove me in the stalls!
For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, wait outside”;
But it’s “Special train for Atkins” when the trooper’s on the tide,
The troopship’s on the tide, my boys, the troopship’s on the tide,
O it’s “Special train for Atkins” when the trooper’s on the tide.
Yes, makin’ mock o’ uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an’ they’re starvation cheap;
An’ hustlin’ drunken soldiers when they’re goin’ large a bit
Is five times better business than paradin’ in full kit.
Then it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy how’s yer soul?”
But it’s “Thin red line of ‘eroes” when the drums begin to roll,
The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll,
O it’s “Thin red line of ‘eroes” when the drums begin to roll.
We aren’t no thin red ‘eroes, nor we aren’t no blackguards too,
But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
An’ if sometimes our conduck isn’t all your fancy paints:
Why, single men in barricks don’t grow into plaster saints;
While it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an “Tommy, fall be’ind,”
But it’s “Please to walk in front, sir,” when there’s trouble in the wind,
There’s trouble in the wind, my boys, there’s trouble in the wind,
O it’s “Please to walk in front, sir,” when there’s trouble in the wind.
You talk o’ better food for us, an’schools, an’ fires an’ all:
We’ll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational.
Don’t mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face
The Widow’s Uniform is not the soldier-man’s disgrace.
For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Chuck him out, the brute!”
But it’s “Saviour of ‘is country,” when the guns begin to shoot;
Yes it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ anything you please;
But Tommy ain’t a bloomin’ fool–you bet that Tommy sees!
Rudyard Kipling
Says it all really – Some things never change.
Actually I suppose they do change. When we remember the way Sergeant Blackman was treated – we dont even respect our own soldiers when they do put their life on the line for us. Much preferring to cuddle up to the likes of Choudry or any other radical cleric supported by the MCB or similar.
Brissles, Al, Noggie,
Agreed. The British Military should be confined to operations where British interests are directly threatened. Apart from the UK, that includes very few parts of the world. The scumbag polititians and treacherous MoD have run down the military and should not expect them to risk their lives just for the vanity of some useless MP.
Just as many people seem to think Britain is still a rich country with a bottomless purse to pay for welfare for all comers, they also seem to think we have an enormous army and navy, with countless divisions standing by to march in to any tinpot country and impose liberal western values wherever they are lacking. Yet mention the British empire doing similar things in the nineteenth century and it’s all ‘colonial oppression’.
Cranmer, I read somewhere that the Royal Navy now has more admirals than it does ships; I’m sure that the Army and RAF will both also have a surfeit of generals and air marshals.
Before the last round of cuts the entire Royal Navy had fewer ships than was in the escort for the Pedestal convoy to Malta.
A few weeks ago the newspapers made fun of the Russian aircraft carrier (the Admiral Kuznetsov) sailing to the Med. At least the Russians have an operational carrier.
Well there is certainly an over abundance of pontificating “donkeys” in Westminster too.
With of course the “media party” backing
BBC – The bombing of the last parts of Aleppo held by (our beloved) rebels is “probably a war crime”, the UN’s human rights chief says.
Says … “probably” a news source the Al BBC.
As we have already got a left wing TV service (all channels) how about some balance?
PS. DON’T show this to a beeboid – Ze!(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/12/ze-not-ze-nothing-noble-oxford-students-attempt-police-english/) would need counselling.
PPS. Watch it to the end to hear a real demolition of the islamophiles.
We have to understand that the Progressive Consensus have never known a setback since 79/80 when Thatcher and Reagan were elected.
I too was a weepy angry poppet at the time, and -had I had the Internet-I TOO would have been squeaking and driveling instead of doing my Social Studies Marxist essays, as paid for by the older generation who`d messed up my life by voting as they`d just done.
Did John Lennon die in vain?
S`not fair.
Never is when you`re twenty.
No, the Left haven`t lost or been derailed since we came of voting age.
Hence we`re getting nigh-on forty years of entitlement, fiddlings and deviance exploding in the Significant Other of All Hissy Fits in 2016.
And because they`ve never had to argue, think or cope with defeat or a counter viewpoint-we can now see how thick, fascist and dangerously stupid/self-immolating that are.
But this time it`s THEIR personal hells they`re going to. None of the rest of us(let alone our children)are following. Nor are we listening anymore.
PS. Next time the old are blamed for anything, tell them that at least we INVENTED the web, computers and passed them on. The current crop of fops can`t even bring a wet tent home from Glastonbury any more.
Good point. I remember a journalist (Charles Moore I think) writing that ’79 was a huge blow for the marxists, because they assumed that their ‘long march through the institutions’ which started in earnest around 1968, was unstoppable. The kingdom of heaven had almost been realised..Yet the British public had spoiled it by voting for that ghastly grocer’s daughter from Grantham…how could they?
BBC Main News Page – Alleppo
Here s another wonderful example!
George “punishment budget” Osborne, lifts his head out of the coke tray and attacks a erm ‘vacuum’ in Western leadership!!!
… George how are you still around?, can t you just disappear like after the EU Referendum?.
Oh! and with your record I wouldn t utter the word “vacuum” while people can actually see your head.
These people literally have no shame
Noggie,
Yes, the vacuum is between Osborne’s ears. He is a total nonentity. Who cares what he has to say about anything ?
Aleppo battle: Rebel evacuation delayed
I, for one, could not care less about Aleppo. I am fed up with it. Hands up who cares if the rebels are delayed?
Yes, I thought so.
The delay is caused because the terrorists won’t release government soldiers and civilians that they are besieging in other towns, in the type of reciprocal agreement that is usual at the end of encirclement actions in this war.
As the BBC revealed through clenched teeth on Today.
What they didn’t reveal was the level of human suffering being inflicted by the terrorists in their pursuit of imposing Sunni Islamism on a previously secular state.
It’s an unusual war in which only one side suffers losses.
embolden,
it was a rhetorical question. I literally could not care less if the bbc tells me the rebels have been delayed. I really don’t care. The deliberate influx of refugees into Europe is more of a concern. This will change the dynamic. Whether or not the Syrian uprising has failed is largely insignificant. The one conflict the ‘west’ did not get involved has ended badly. I would say that the wet fish liberal obama is not without blame.
Russia hacked EU referendum carried out on paper ballots: https://t.co/Bs5uFOIij3
Here is the cunning tool they used!
American conservative commentators have pointed out that the email hacking began well before Donald Trump won the Republican nomination for President. Is Mr Putin so brilliantly prescient that he plotted Trump’s victory that early?
Well blow me down. I have just watched the 3rd and final episode of Rillington Place. As if the series was not as dull as the decor in Christie’s house already, the bbc have decided to insert a bit of gratuitous racism just for good measure. Just like an alcoholic walking past a pub or an obese person walking past the cake shop – they just couldn’t resist.
Three parter?
As if the original classic film could be improved on by the BBC?
Still-killed time anyway.
If I recall correctly, Christie’s murder victims were discovered because he illegally sub-let his slum dwelling to a west Indian gentleman who had been unable get accommodation elsewhere. I would imagine the BBC could not resist referring to that!
https://moraymint.com/2016/12/14/the-bbc-fighting-for-the-european-union-still/
“Yesterday, as I was driving through the Highlands, I listened on my radio to the BBC’s midday news programme The World At One (or ‘WATO’ as its known). The programme was being presented by Martha Kearney. By the end of the hour, in my head I had written the following letter to Mr Roger Bolton. Mr Bolton is the front-man for BBC Radio 4’s Feedback programme.
Dear Mr Bolton
I have just been listening to Martha Kearney on the World At One (WATO) programme on Tuesday 13 December. Ms Kearney was tackling the subject of Brexit from the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Incidentally, Ms Kearney made no mention of the ludicrous nonsense of the EU Parliament shifting between Brussels and Strasbourg every month costing EU taxpayers about £100 million every year, but there you go. Under the circumstances, why didn’t Ms Kearney make the slightest reference to this circus?
Anyway, Ms Kearney interviewed 6 people including, finally, Nigel Farage. During her interviews with a Czech MEP, a German MEP, a Labour MEP, a Conservative MEP and the European Parliament’s Brexit Negotiator, Guy Verhofstadt, Ms Kearney asked a total of 21 questions. During that time, she challenged one interviewee on 4 occasions (the Conservative MEP, funnily enough) and made no interruptions to any of the speakers. All of Ms Kearney’s questions related directly and only to EU matters. Ms Kearney also included a facile section ‘interviewing’ people at Strasbourg’s Christmas Market. What on earth was the point of that, other than to demonstrate that Ms Kearney can speak a little French?
Then, Ms Kearney turned her attentions to Mr Farage. She asked Nigel Farage 6 questions, including questions relating to Donald Trump, so-called ‘Far Right’ political parties in Europe and UKIP MEPs’ expenses. As Mr Farage answered the questions put to him, Ms Kearney challenged him on 3 occasions and interrupted him 19 times.
It’s interesting to note that a majority of the British people – who are, of course, taxed to fund the BBC, which includes paying Ms Kearney’s salary – voted for the UK to leave the EU, presumably because the majority of British people believe that all is not well with the workings of the EU. One might have expected the BBC to have picked up on this national mood by now. On the contrary, the BBC, on this occasion through the offices of Martha Kearney and the WATO programme, clearly feels that it is its duty to hand the BBC microphone to advocates of the EU (bar the Conservative MEP, of course, who was duly challenged during his interview) whilst grilling the man who gave voice to the 17.4 million British people who voted for the UK to leave the EU.
The BBC bleats that on the matter of the UK leaving the EU, it is not biased. Give me a break, please.
How do Martha Kearney and the Editor of WATO explain away such blatant bias?
Yours sincerely
Moraymint”
Charlatans,
Not sure which part of the Highlands you were in but here, in God’s own county of Perthshire, we have had pretty good weather all autumn.
Excellent letter and the BBC bias is blatant. I could almost draft a reply for Bolton. You will get the usual BBC bullshit but please post the reply here.
Grant I am copying Moraymints letter above, (from his linked credit website I put on the post). It is not my letter. But exactly my thoughts!
Char,
OK, I slightly misread you post. But the letter is excellent .
The politician now approaching BBC platform one will be non-stopping
I’d like to thank the BBC for giving a platform to little man Mayor Sadiq Khan this morning – so as he could showboat concerning the Southern Rail Strikes.
He may not have been asked any difficult questions but Labour’s great ethnic capital hope showed himself to be a be a lame grandstander, a none-too-bright empty vessel brimming with party political slogans, dud statistics and non sequitur solutions.
Here’s a hint Labour – keep your people away from the cameras and just let the BBC do your PR, you’ll sound far more appealing.
I m going to repeat this , with some addition
BBC Radio 4 News – Alleppo – One of the opening statements “These rebel freedom fighters are called terrorists, but of course that is not the case”.
“Syrian pro-government forces entering homes killing all inside, including women and children”
and with what’s happening in those rebel areas? … “We’re filled with the deepest foreboding for those who remain in this last hellish corner of Aleppo” bleats our beebot, and of course Aleppo ‘We are crying and afraid’ a child s plea – Lyse Doucet
Assad Spit! … The Russians … Putin Boo!, BOO!, HISS!
Now … We have, BBC The planned evacuation of rebel fighters and civilians from devastated eastern Aleppo has been delayed. Government buses have been brought in but none have left yet, reports say. WHO GIVES A SH-T! about the Al BBCs beloved “Good Ole” Rebel Terrorist Moderate Islamist Freedom Fighter “Boys”? NO ONE!
They are obviously, as terrorists always do (as they lose) using civilians are some kind of bargaining chip to save their own skin.
Al BBC then highlights “The Syrian government is said to be demanding the simultaneous evacuation of its own injured fighters and civilians from nearby towns that are encircled by opposition forces” …… and? … of course they will.
The Tories resident foreign office f-ckwit – Boris “Worzel” Johnson going
“full retard” on the TV news??? (shakes head!) … as always agenda “regime change” which of course has always worked out so well, hasn t it? eeerrrrr!
… never go full retard Bojo
Hmmm and the UN? … erm was it only the other day?
for history to be altered so much? it is the terrori oops “rebels” who will not surrender, even wheeling out the dubious “white helmets” spokesman.
Only the other day … its a long time in politics
I repeat its not being heartless … we need the objective facts! not narrative
R5 Nicky Campbell just had a moment
In the phone-in they let on a female Muslim caller – “I’ve had Christian nurses praying for me , it doesn’t bother me ..Surely this is a Christian country we are losing our culture ?” (yes the Muslim caller said that)
Nicky bit his tongue and just moved to next caller.
Stew I’m an atheist and last year had a major heart op. My Christian window cleaner (a black man) said he would pray for me and a Pakistani taxi driver who I am friendly with said the same. Although I don’t believe in God, I still felt flattered that these men said this. No offence meant, so none taken.
R4 bits today
12.15pm Y&Y Sustainable Fish Row (That’ll be about OCSC taking money to certify Indian fish even tho those corps aren’t sustainable)
2.15pm Play about saving the EU Angela – 7 Days to Save Europe
imagines a political pact forged between French Republicans and Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, aimed at limiting Le Pen’s ascendency and preserving the European Union. But
Then see how sexism is dealt with by being sexist
4pm MEN – Why men engage in Violence – (Laurie Taylor believes women are never violent ?)
6:30pm WOMEN Talking About Cars – a series deliberately designed to only have women presenters and women guests
9pm Humboldt : The man who predicted deforestation and climate change 200 years ago
The BBC has an unhealthy interest in extreme violence against women. Maybe it’s just them trying to introduce some balance into their programming.
“The UK has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the European Union.”
More good BREXIT news .
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38313110
Notice that there is no negative spin on it. – Yet. (12 min)
P.S.
About an hour on……….
Updated, we find this –
“The Bank of England and other economists have forecast that unemployment is set to rise amid uncertainty over Brexit.
“Today’s data provides the clearest evidence yet that the jobs market has started to cool off since the Brexit vote,” said John Hawksworth, chief economist at PwC.
The employment figures are based on the Labour Force Survey, in which the ONS speaks to about 40,000 households once every three months.
That is a very large survey, but it still means the figures are not precise.
The ONS is 95% confident that the figure of a 16,000 fall in unemployment is accurate give or take 81,000. That means that the fall in unemployment is not statistically significant.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38313110
Taffman, if true and it all pans out for Carney (the omens are not good on past history), it will force EU mercenaries to return to their own countries and claim dole there where they belong……
Brexit is going to be so disastrous for the U.K. economy in the future that TATA have decided to hang onto their plant in Wales, strange that; if things are going to turn out so terribly you’d think they’d off load it as fast as possible to whomever would buy it.
Carney should never have been appointed in the first place, the Bank of England should have a Briton as governor and preferably an Englishman.
The present governor has politicised his position to a a degree unknown prior to him assuming the role, I can NEVER recall Melvyn King or Eddie George engaging in the sort of biased posturing in which the present incumbent has been permitted to overindulge himself.
I seem to recall Jacob Rees-Mogg pulled him up about it in a select committee prior to the referendum and Carney didn’t seem to like it much.
Goldman Sachs’ man on the spot so to speak.
P.P.S.
There is a HYS running on it – get yours in now before they close it……..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38313110
Highest Rated ……..
“10. Posted by Old Father Thames
on 11 hours ago
“The Bank of England and other economists have forecast that unemployment is set to rise amid uncertainty over Brexit.”
———–
I knew it would be in there somewhere. “
You know that being autistic/aspergers excuses all from US justice these days. *
The mother of the guy who tried to kill Trump and got 1 year jail which works out at 4 months, will shortly be on the R5 Emma Barnett Virtue Signalling Show.
*”ooh we can’t extradite them they’ll get stressed”
Stewgreen, it’s a good thing he didn’t try to kill Hilary Clinton else it would have been all over the BBC news as a ‘hate crime’.
It is possible that his sexual experience will be enhanced in jail and rendered suitable for special interviews in the back rooms of BBC studios….er….know what I mean.
Stew,
If he had tried to kill Clinton , the BBC would be bleating that the sentence was too short !
Did anybody catch Fiona Bruce last night on BBC news!?
I was particularly incensed by the comment “Donald Trump was acting like Aleppo didn’t even exist”. He instead had the audacity to meet and talk to people some of whom would be his new government.
Why is it USA’s moral obligation to save Aleppo, Syria?
Indeeed, and why is it suddenly the “USA’s moral obligation to save Aleppo, Syria” when the BBC hasn’t mentioned this during Obama’s time in office. there has not been a single iota of criticism of Obama’s policy of stuffing his head up his arse and hoping the world will go away.
Anyway, what do they expect a president elect to do until he gets in office?
Trump is damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t. If he intervenes in the middle east, it will be ‘America bullying the world’, ‘flexing its muscles on the world stage’ etc, if he doesn’t it’s ‘a dangerous return to isolationism and inward looking insular politics bla bla bla…’
I too was appalled by this comment from the talking head at Trump Towers.
How the hell does he get the right to say THAT?
All he`d been doing was appointing people that the BBC will hate, and talking to Kanye West.
The lib left will HATE the latter bit-all they`ve been chewing on is the fact that he`ll get no Lady Gaga, Bruce or Bon Jovi to sing at the Inauguration.
So Kanye West had better watch his back now…the lib left meeja types will hound him as they now do Kate Bush.
Well, it’s not is it – but ANYTHING that can be given an anti Trump spin is game. Short memories? Obama and the red line, ISIS the JV team, and, “You know there’s always trouble in the World so …….”
And if the worst happened who would we expect to come and save us?
Ah, that would be America.
Heartwarming example of ‘BBCNewsish’ on text pages.
Headline Page 1: Schools face £3bn cuts!
Page 2: DoE will launch new funding formula which will see 10,000 schools gain and a similar number lose….but to ease the transition cuts will be limited to 1.5%.
See? So easy, when you know how.
Anyone hear Bernard Hyphen Howe on Toady this morning at about 8.10am?
On the subject of Hate Crime, he defined it ( allow me the odd word error) as a negative comment about some attribute of a person they cannot change. So- age, colour, sex, sexual orientation etc.
I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and also include religion.
But what about clothes? From a recent previous thread, we noted how Muslim women in Indonesia wear brightly coloured head gear, and show their hair and faces.
So does this mean we are allowed to criticise those who choose to dissociate themselves from the rest of society by choosing to wear Burquas in the UK? Or men who wear defiantly Asian style clothes and hats? As per the definition explained by the Head of the Metropolitan Police himself, no less?
I’ll leave that one with you.
Apropos of which, Sluff, do you think Treeza’s trousers were halal leather? I say ‘were’ because I believe they have since been converted into a handbag for Nicky Morgan.
All the fuss her trousers generated, you’d think they’d been made out of black rhino tongues.
I do not give a monkey’s toss about Treezers’ clothes. So long as she did not put it on expenses and taxpayer’s paid for it
Sluff,
Why has that incompetent not been sacked yet ? Ah, of course, Sadiq Khan is a muslim and Hyphen Howe is a crawling Dhimmi.
I just love this guys pieces … takes no crap, and no prisoners,
As I once said to a comrade caring for prisoners or your charges of course is a problem, but that’s just the difference between CQC and CQP we have to get used to it.
“But, no matter how many Christians Mohamed Muhammad Mohamot slaughters, we look the other way and worry about “Islamophobia”. So the social-justice Pope issued a characteristically anodyne and generalized objection to “brutal terrorist attacks”. It took a Jew, the former Chief Rabbi of the Commonwealth Lord Sacks, to get to the heart of the matter, addressing the House of Lords three years ago on the persecution of Christians. He quoted Martin Luther King:
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Those “friends” are still silent. Unlike the pseudo-refugees of Mutti Merkel, these Copts and other Christian minorities do not want to head north and bilk Germans and Swedes for lifelong Euro-welfare. They want to stay where they are and prevent the extinction of their faith in the land where it was born. A couple of years back, I drew a contrast between them and their brethren across the Mediterranean in the ruins of Christendom:
It is hard not to admire those brave Christians in Egypt, Nigeria, Pakistan, their churches firebombed, their congregants attacked, but their hearts full and their faith strong.
… That is even truer today, in yet another blood-soaked Advent.”
Mark Steyn
OOPS! apologies … forgot the link 😀
http://www.steynonline.com/7631/silent-night
I don’t know how to view the uncanny parallels found in the reactions post Brexit and post Trump. Exactly the same comments and dire warnings post Brexit and post Trump and most carrying a flavour of the unhinged.
gax,
The BBC’s agenda on everything is like a vinyl LP with the needle stuck in the groove. Round and round they go while the rest of us go and listen to some music. But, vinyls are making a comeback, whereas the BBC is well past its sell-by date.
Grant, There is an air of utter desperation about them. They must getting bored of it themselves but it’s a case of, ‘if we rearrange the Titanic’s deck chairs just one more time’
In New York they offer taxpayer funded counselling for depressed Clinton voters and in SF they are appointing taxpayer funded lawyers for some fourty odd thousand illegals.
gax,
Yes, they are desperate. Next thing there will be counselling for Remoaners paid for by all of us. All these people are so childish. Will they never grow up ?
Considering Labour MP Ben Bradshaw claimed that Russia ‘probably’ hacked the EU referendum, even though it was a paper ballot and he admits to having no evidence as there isn’t any, the answer to your question is quite obviously ‘no’.
To call him a moron is insulting to morons.
You can blame the Russians for everything
I suppose their plan, of pure genius, is to paint Putin and Trump as pure evil and deliver us safely into the arms of Merkel.
Grant
I have just had a phone call from my Trump supporting friend in the US who was born in S America, became a US citizen and hates it when Dems and lefties call him Hispanic because, as he says, he is an American. He is on enforced vacation because univ classes he should be teaching are cancelled whilst the students receive counseling in response to the election result
With that kind of weak, indulgent, infantile behaviour it’s no wonder the Muslims think the pathetically, decadent West is a walk over.
GWF,
FFS !!
Is immigration law the only arm of legal practice where the whole emphasis is on finding and cossetting those all those who wilfully and deliberately set out to break it?
As opposed to prosecuting and establishing both case law and precedents to build up a body of law to teach in the future.
My fear is that if this is so, then all other law is going the same way towards social justice posturings. Looks that way. And with no law, then we are in trouble.
The BBC and the left know that though. So why are we letting them get away with it?
I used to think I had a handle on politics – Left Wing, Right Wing, Liberal in the centre. Nowadays there seems to be a kind of, what can only be described as, weirdness out there that defies explanation
I used to pride myself on being able to ascribe motives but other than a seemingly irrevocable drift towards a kind of ecstatic nihilism on one side and a defeatist acceptance on the other – I am at a loss.
“The BBC and the left know that though. So why are we letting them get away with it?”
Because they have themselves, well and truly, painted into a corner.
gaxvil
And what does our present government do about it ?
They continue to make the British people pay by law for the tosh.
Its almost as if they are complicit.
Strange , very strange.
you forgot about mentioning this…..
In the wake of the surprise victory of Republican candidate Donald Trump, universities saw themselves not as a forum for debate or even protest, but as babysitters charged with comforting students who were unable to deal with reality.
Tufts University made an arts and crafts center available.
The University of Kanas invited therapy dogs to campus for comfort.
The University of Michigan had a play area with coloring books.
Cornell hosted what it termed a “cry-in” where faculty and staff handed out hot cocoa and tissues.
Link…: http://usherald.com/college-students-given-coloring-books-play-doh-help-cope-trumps-victory/
Meanwhile over here in the UK we only get Tim F**king Farron and the possible return of B(illy)LAIR and his wife Zippy to reassure us that Brexit can be ignored and democracy doesn`t cover `referendums` ….
Well at least I`ll still be able to get my fair trade coffees served by a foriegner when I can afford to pay for it but for how long??? Carney said the economy is in freefall… not today but maybe tomorrow or the day after that… possibly???!!…..
Emma Barnett wss on 2 channels at same time at 10:40am
On R5 Emma Barnett Virtue Signalling Show.
On R4 WH there was a prerecorded interview cos she heads the judging panel for the WH Power List.
BBC where DIVERSITY means hearing the same tick box clique people again and again.
… Isn’t that right Diane Abbot, Lenny Henry, Susan Calman ?
Wider choice than that StewGreen. Why, only moments ago you could savour the shrieking bias of Norman Smith followed by the strangled incomprehensibility of Lyse Doucet. Come on, what’s not to enjoy?
2017 BBC/ITV to launch BritBox in the US. their version of Netflix. price unknown
And many top shows like Sherlock are excludes from package.
nearly all British ventures fail in the US. This will be no different.
Times Newsbites : Green issues
Someone called Bob has a letter complaining about the £318bn CCA cost claim
“A more robust report from Comm CC says less than 1% of GDP”
“Lilley ignores the benefits.. lowering CC risks and pollution deaths” … yeh maybe cos that is only wishful thinking.
You can guess the surname of this PR guy from Grantham Inst.
IEA has slightly increased forecast of oil consumption growth rate for 2016 an 2017
So if even the growth rate is high that means peak oil and CO2 reduction measures aren’t happening.
The £285m non functional St Helena airport the Dfid report holds no one responsible and decides no fix. It mentioned that the consultants Atkins did mention the wind shear problem.
Yorkshire Post Newsbites
– Charity Commission are investigating Catholic school Ampleforth College after last years master conviction
… and police are investigating 3 new claims.
(Too right don’t brush it under carpet like what happens for the Asian abuse gangs)
– Home Sec – Amber Rudd has a long column about Muslim terror (sarc)
.. right in the middle she says “fortunately extreme-right wing terrorist attacks are rare” ( by which she means there aren’t any really) Then ends by going about Jo Cox.
Mentions funding extra security at “6 places of worship.”.. (is that synagogues and mosques ? Why not say…only the former ?)
Hi Folks, I’m not around too much lately but thought I’d contribute this little number. Paul Joseph Watson being outstanding as usual:
I can only post the link as YT is blocking sharing, apparently. (Oh, it’s showed up!)
What a nasty, repulsive, dishonest bitch. And I am not talking about Paul !
I love the way that some think there is ‘fake news’ which is diametrically opposed to ‘real news’. FFS.
News is on a spectrum from totally obviously fake (‘WW2 bomber found on moon’ etc) to reasonably objective and showing all sides of the story as impartially as possible, whilst being aware of one’s own prejudices and inherent biases.
The BBC and other MSM outlets used to be quite good at the latter, but in recent years as attention spans have shrunk and the mental pygmies of the snowflake generation have taken over, we now have news reduced to the pantomime level of ‘goodie news’ and ‘baddie news’.
More abject nonsense about Diversity;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38313381
BBC headline: “Bafta Awards categories to exclude ‘non-diverse’ films”
So, BAFTA is not going to shortlist anyone unless they can prove they have a copy of the Guardian in their handbag, think anyone who doesn’t read the Guardian has hate in their hearts and will collapse in a faint when BREXIT is mentioned. A bit like the usual awards ceremony then.
BBC/BAFTA point out that “Of the 375 members admitted in 2016, 43% were female, 18% were from a minority ethnic group and the average age was 44.”
Oh no!
As compared with UK society:
Where the workforce is made up of 46% being female, so big difference.
Where the entire ethnic population, (in its entirety not just in the work place), is only 13%. So BAFTA is already employing more than the ratio.
The average age of the working population is 40, so BAFTA is already doing its bit.
Just think, our tax money is being used to finance this twaddle. Have you noticed a lack of old people, ethnics or women on your screens?
BBC/BAFTA would do better to promote people who THINK like the wider population rather than simply LOOK like us meanwhile holding uniform minority left-liberal views.
The future is with the BBC’s Sir Lenny of Katanga. Then we have Nadiya who must be able to act and direct as well as making cakes, and Diane Abbott might feature as a comic. Well, that seems to cover the main BBC effniks, unless there is a role for Alibaba Brown.
Oooooo don’t forget Ore ! the latest pin-up boy of the Beeb. He is gushed over embarrassingly by all the presenters, who appear to forget that there are two other dancers in the Final on Saturday – one in particular who is the best dancer of the lot !! D’arcy Bussell even admitted that the judges ‘guide’ the voting audience who to vote for – well sorry luv, but preening and faux acting Ore will not be getting my vote !
Looks like a good cast for a pantomime, just need to add Polly Toynbee, except that she is hideously white ! Mind you , if she converts to Islam she may be ok .
She does have a Tuscan Tan though…..
Is staying at The Premiere Inn exclusive only for black people like Lord lenny of katanga then??? I`ve noticed a lack of diversity in thier adverts over the last decade or so….
diversity
dʌɪˈvəːsɪti,dɪ-
noun
the state of being diverse.
“there was considerable diversity in the style of the reports”
a range of different things.
That’s thing about ‘diversity’ – there’s no strength in it at all. Not like…well, not like ‘unity’.
I think that’s rather the thing about it that attracts regressives to ‘diversity’ so much. Division. Separation. Everyone in their little identity box (race, colour, creed, gender, etc). Divide and conquer. Regressives love it.
I just thought up a possible list of Ten Banned “Non diverse film” categories:
(1) Romantic films, for Women
(2) Movie4Men films, for Men
(3) Bollywood films, for Asians
(4) Foreign films, for immigrants
(5) Films set in the Thames water area, for LGBT types
(6) Anthropomorphic Animated Films, for Children
(7) Films set in nice areas, for normal white people
(8) Films set before the race relations era, for Old people
(9) Factual Films about Astronomy, without any token Aliens
(10) Monologue Films with only one white male actor
But guessing the politically correct Liberal fascist mindset, I think only (2),(7), (8), and (10) would be banned.
PJW on fake news great citations as ever
Oops Hopeful just posted it above already
Pregnant woman pinned to the ground and sprayed in eyes in Yardley ‘carjacking’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-38312419
“CCTV images of the offenders, described as Asian, have been released by police.”
Article doesn’t say who described them, probably BBC staff. How many more attacks from the Chinese and Japanese are we going to tolerate?
Tabs, no doubt from a combination of established leniency from the courts toward Muslims and a knowledge of the criminality their fellow “Asians” are freely indulging in throughout Europe, this sort of event is set to become the norm as they become more emboldened. Eg. (and this is just, sex crimes!) –
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/12/merkels-shame-map-shows-muslim-migrants-have-committed-sex-assaults-everywhere-in-germany
More relevant:
I observe it is only a matter of time before, soon, we will see voluntary groups of British vigilantes patrolling the streets of the UK. And then it will start. I’m sure if a national body were to recruit and manage the Peoples Patrols, Government (and arms of the State such as the Police) would be horrified at the numbers signing up.
And this was reported, IN 2005 and updated in 2013! –
http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/vigilante-warning-5062815
https://mobile.twitter.com/BreitbartLondon/status/809065645635760130
Things BBC forgets to tell you
eg On R5 phone in today Christian presenter Nicky Campbell didn’t gives us this info from National Secular Society
“But despite repeated warnings not to do so, Mrs Kuteh abused her position to evangelise her Christian faith to patients.
Speaking on ITV’s This Morning, Mrs Kuteh made clear that if a patient told her they were not religious, instead of simply recording this as her job requires, she would challenge such patients about their beliefs and use the opportunity to proselytise.
Such behaviour is clearly a breach of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Conduct and, unsurprisingly, resulted in numerous complaints being made against her.”
How’that recount thingy going?
“In heavily-Democratic Detroit, more votes than voters were found across the city and now state Republicans are calling for an investigation.
According to the Detroit News, voting machines in more than one-third of Detroit precincts counted more votes than the actual number of voters who showed up.
The statewide recount, which was stopped by a judge on Friday, could not be performed in those precincts and others.”
http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/12/14/steins-recount-turns-more-votes-voters-detroit
Austria court basically prosecutes newspaper delivery boy for bringing newspapers containing sarcasm
“The fake profile under the name “Michaela Jaskova” wrote that the 47-year-old Green leader was a “corrupt tramp” and a “rotten traitor” back in April of this year. In court, the man behind the profile said he has made the comments in reaction to a picture he saw in which the politician had been quoted as saying of migrants, “those who are in need of protection have the right to our girls! Anything else would be racist toward refugees!”
Green Spokesman Dieter Brosz has said the case, in which the Greens sued Facebook for 69,500 euros, will have a global significance. ”
Breitbart
This is from the BBC and is (for once), just observation
BBC News – Child abuse inquiry counsel Ben Emmerson cleared
Which of course goes on from Chair stands down, on from top lawyers consider quitting, on to Alexis Jay to head inquiry etc etc.
… So the disgrace of this “horse and pony show” continues, the whole sorry endeavour,(this inquiry) deliberately planned to be so over reaching, non target specific.
Wasting inordinate amounts of time/money on a veritable barristers role call, on following deliberately vague suppositions it would always end in a dismal failure
Seeing as we are in a Christmas period it is eerily reminiscent of Dickens Bleak House.
“Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on, and on. This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least, but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes without coming to a total disagreement as to all its premises” … Indeed.
Whenever I see anything about ‘historic child abuse’ the words ‘Rome’, ‘burns’ and ‘fiddle’ always come to mind.
The BBC’s fixation with said crimes in football whilst virtually ignoring ongoing crimes against thousands of defenceless young white girls who are, as we speak, being beaten, drugged and raped hundreds of times over by racist gangs across the country is truly sickening.
‘Muslims Like Us’? – yeh, exactly.
johnny,
Whenever I think of the Politicians, the Police, the Civil Service , the Social workers , I want to reach for my revolver. How can they ignore the massive sex abuse of young girls and boys by dirty muslims ? They know it is happening and they do not care . What bastards .
Johny and Grant – Same old patronising BBC shit same old smoke and mirrors!
Cos everyone knows that all the “working classes” care about is footie – no need to worry about your daughters, nieces, grandchildren because footie is far more important. Let the MSM and the left do the thinking for you!
Unfortunately Aunty the installation of a sky dish on your house does not mean that you dont care about your nearest and dearest and those who live around you. And by your arrogance and callousness towards large sectors of your own population – you may well have wakened a sleeping giant.
Oak,
Well said. ” Patronising shit ” sums up the BBC perfectly.
There are still some in the police force who do thier duty… unfortunately they`re usually aged about 50 or over and have never been promoted above desk sargeant rank as they weren`t able to `progress` at the same rate as dictated to them by rules within the Penguin Book Of `Positive Approaches To Discrimination` or were unable to learn another 18 different dialects quickly enough to help with all the social cohesion and diverse viewpoints on whether or not a crime was a crime or just a cultural misunderstanding etc…
Grant, the pinch marks on my arms from my constantly trying to wake myself up from this Orwellian nightmare are beginning to look like a serious case of pensioner self-harm.
You wonder, you really do wonder, how things got this bad so quickly – from Islam through ‘climate change’ to blind, uncomprehending EU idolatry. When in one of my darker moods I really do take some convincing that this country isn’t well and truly fucked.
johnny,
LOL ! Quite agree. Many Lefties have read Orwell but are so thick they do not realise he was writing about THEM !
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/middle-aged-barber-banned-gyms-12321231
Disgusting, why is he still here?
Copied this from a Facebook comment
All the world’s leaders agree to attend a summit on Trump’s yacht. For privacy and to avoid the media, they go out to sea for their first meeting. It’s a windy night and close to sunset, a gust of wind blows the Pope’s special hat off his head, It sails 50 yards off the stern of the yacht. Trump immediately pipes up and says “Don’t worry Pope Francis. I’ll get it.” He slide of the side of the yacht and, everyone’s amazement, he walks across the water, gets the hat and walks back to the boat.
The next morning, headlines on the BBC “Sources say, Trump can’t swim.”
The BBC are ignoring Trump’s early start.
The Americans have been trying to kill Castro for 57 years. Trump is elected and within a month Castro is dead.
RJ
?
He was probably just getting out of the way in advance so he wouldn’t have to answer to Trump.
“Russia Accused of Developing Hover Boots for Trump, Democratic Congressman Demands New Election.”
BBC Look North opens with an important headline thus safeguarding the lives of children and adults from tasteless one sentence social media comments which are quickly deleted and apologised for.
They asked why a councillor who said this on Facebook
that he had “just donated the steam of my p***” to the memorial fund of Ms Cox.”
Then He later posted: “I am sick and tired of this woman’s death being used against the
cause.”
Then
\\Soon after making the offensive post, Coun Peacock posted on a local Vote Leave supporting page: “I’ve deleted my offensive comment, I shouldn’t have put it on in the first place – I won’t make excuses.”//
I bet you are terrified of the guy.
The new news is his fellow councillors have passed a motion
“found guilty this afternoon by standards committee councillors of bringing both East Riding Council and Beverley Town Council into disrepute”
But they don’t have any powers to sack him etc.
Suppose it’s a good excuse for some politikers to say “look over there ..don’t look our corruption and incompetence.
http://m.hulldailymail.co.uk/dominic-peacock-has-conservative-party-ban-doubled-for-jo-cox-murder-slurs/story-29980803-detail/story.html
On tonight’s BBC 6 O’clock News, it was briefly and somewhat reluctantly reported that Police had found no evidence that a foreign dancer from Strictly Dancing had actually been assaulted, as he’d claimed a week or two ago. But wasn’t this originally reported as being a “hate crime” and linked to Brexit when it was first reported?
I sympathise if this dancer’s boyfriend had given him a black eye thus jeopardising his employment as a physically flawless gay icon but, as both were disingenious, we’re surely due both an apology from the BBC and a “wasting police time” case to recover the cost of police time and effort.
So yet another fake news story on a major player of the alt left media?
BBc Watchdog recycling old stories again. Shock you don’t get the same mpg driving your car around as the fuel economy the car manufactures get in a laboratory. However to labour the point they still have to get a staff member to drive round to hammer home the point…Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
Dave666,
BBC obviously don’t believe that “Global Warming” is man-made if they burn petrol just to prove something we already know. Hypocrites .
It`s down to all that `hand-wringing` about sh*t nobody gives a flying F*ck about… it generates a lot of heat you know….. Also some people discard the lid from thier posh fair trade coffees too, it all contributes to global warming and then there`s the methane from constant flatulant remarks and bullsh*t opinions by the MSM in general, that also damages the ozone layer too…..
On Friday it is possible that we will see the long overdue release Sergeant Alexander Blackman of the Royal Marines.
The BBC has decided to run this on their website:
“Jailed Marine A’s senior officers ‘missed warning signs'”
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38316244
The first warning siren started when I read the first few lines. Having identified Sergeant Blackman, every further reference to him is as Blackman, not Sergeant Blackman or Mr. Blackman, just Blackman.
I am aware that when any Islamic cutthroat or wannabe terrorist bomber appears on the BBC website they are always referred to as Mr, but not Sergeant Blackman.
I’m making a leap here but I suspect that the BBC filth that penned this article may have some connection to the death cult.
The other issue I have is that this a rehash of a 2014 report. Is the BBC trying to prejudice Sergeant Blackman’s hearing. I suspect so. Why not wait until Friday BBC.
Your seem to have no problem in delaying or ignoring news when it fits your agenda.
Our brother Alex should be out, that’s it nothing else to say.
It is a crime, that he is incarcerated at all.
God bless him and his family … I trust Friday he can have a well deserved, and maybe Merry Christmas.
and! …
We must not forget Corrie McKeague, 23, the gunner based at RAF Honington in Suffolk, the guy vanished after a night out in Bury St Edmunds early in the morning, 24 September. There have been conflicting reports, very little else. and squat from the MOD.
I would have thought that the scum at the BBC would have liked someone called Blackman.
TPO, yes the respect that the BBC show for terrorists and other criminals really gives the game away !
‘Overly aggressive’ oh dear we can’t have that sort of thing in a front line fighting unit can we!
Supporters of Sergeant Blackman’s sentence should go to some of these war zones to experience reality then come back and pontificate.
The whole thing makes my blood boil, the situation was not text book perfection, in terms of the Geneva convention, but neither are the murderous Taliban noted for adherence to any code of moral behaviour!
cockney,
And, of course , the BBC never criticise the enemy. And Lefties never call for anyone who is not British to be tried for war crimes. Says it all really. Wankers .
This is who I am
My identity, My country, My loyalty
BBC Newsnight perhaps a new low?
The human gonk, pushing the grim up north because of “waiting for” Brexit narrative?
(I know, I know)… Yep! Davis, spins a film all pastel shades and dark, before enlightening us its all …
UH OH! people might be thinking again type palava.
Then some anti, white models, they get too many jobs, too many photo shoots etc.
Why not all black photo shoots? ought to be, they must be so bloody “waycist”.
Gets some black student on, whose copied famous white models photo s .. only featuring herself
… why not MMEEEEEE! etc, etc.
Just garbage
how much do they pay these Newsnight gits? Minimum wage would be excessive but they really think they are worth the thousands lavished on them.
No wonder they are desperate to remain in the EU. Out in the real world they are unemployable. When the BBC is at last wound up then they will discover just how useless they are.
Interesting piece, if getting a few bits jumbled…
https://countrysquire.co.uk/2016/12/14/newsnights-inexorable-decline/
However I doubt JOBsworth cares much so long as his large socialist cheque keeps clearing.
After reading the Kipling poem ‘Tommy’ posted above, I’ve recalled a couple of his other works that seem relevant (selected verses posted below). My father used to say: ‘Kipling was the only poet the English working man ever really liked – and the intellectuals can’t forgive him for it.’ No wonder the BBC’s sneering pseudo-intellectuals have largely ignored him for decades! (They also view his as a racist imperialist, of course). The only TV dramas involving him and his work in the last forty years seem to have been done by commercial channels, so far as I can discover from online research. One was ‘My Boy Jack’ (2007?), about his son who died in World War 1. The other was ‘Baa baa black sheep’, a 1974 dramatisation of his semi-autobiographical story about his abused childhood. (I watched both.)
The Young British soldier (final verse)
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a solder,
A soldier of the Queen
The Stranger
(last three verses)
The stranger within my gates,
He may be evil or good,
But I cannot tell what powers control –
What reasons sway his mood;
Nor when the gods of his far-off land
Shall repossess his blood.
The men of my own stock,
Bitter bad they may be,
But, at least, they hear the things I hear,
And see the things I see;
And whatever I think of them and their likes
They think the same of me.
This was my father’s belief
And this is also mine:
Let the corn be all one sheaf –
And the grapes be all one vine,
Ere our children’s teeth are set on edge
By bitter bread and wine.
Helena – I believe that Kipling lost his own son in WW1 yet refused to dance to the lefts tune that the war was run for the toffs by the toffs, with the working classes being the consumables that were of little value and easily replaced.
Assuming that this explanation is even partly true it always amazes me that the left cannot see the close parallels with today.
You have a ruling elite across the the media and political classes who are intent in fulfilling only their own selfish prejudices and goals and who do not care one iota for our own people ( I consider “our own people” also includes properly integrated migrants)
This elite always espouses politically fashionable opinions where you favour non UK citizens (many of whom appear to despise us) at the expense of their own population. You just need to listen to Diane Abbot to realise that this is the case.
Unfortunately elitism, arrogance and contempt for your own people these days seems to have become the natural home for the left probably far more than the right. It matters not how many grand speeches you make at Tolpuddle on martyrs day the fact is – is that the left now cares more about Islington than it ever cared about Rotherham
How things have changed! – But maybe it was ever thus.
It was ever thus – the Left took the votes of the lumpen proletariat for granted. Rather like the Zil-chauffeured elite in the USSR. With that strong cohort behind them the Left were assured of governing from time to time because the Tories were bound to upset the people from time to time to a greater or lesser degree.
With unwavering, donkey-like support the Left could cultivate other cohorts, so we saw successively wimmin, gays, Muslims, immigrants and now transgender receiving their blessing, usually with the promise of more favourable, nay preferential, treatment and more (of my) money. The donkeys have realised that many of these selected groups are collectively doing pretty damn well, often much better than the donkeys who provide them with their free living. They have also realised that the money tree can’t go on producing evermore fruit and that their own share is nowadays much less than their collective contributions. The Leftoids and Little Timmy Farron haven’t cottoned on yet!
Oak,
But it is OK today, because it is a “different kind of elite “.
All with a degree in media studies ! – better!
A friend of mine told me that he went into one of the major bookshops looking for a copy of Kipling and he found it in the military history section or some such.
Even those running these shops are unsure where to categorize his work, so steeped as they are in political correctness and the post-colonial guilt with which progressives enjoy flagellating themselves and the rest of us.
It is impossible for them to counter a writer of such quality, whose views are so opposed to their own, as such they find it easier just to ignore him.
Al,
Reminds me of the old cartoon. A young man says to a shy young lady ” Do you like Kipling ? “. Blushing, she replies ” I don’t know, I have never tried it “.
But, yes, the left must hate Kipling with a vengeance. I mean the writer.
And the 1960s rider to that: Female student to male student “Do you like Dickens?” – “I don’t know, I’ve never been to one.”
The original perhaps?
https://bound4escape.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/9-16-2013-10-32-47-am.png
Amid all the other mist on global warming threats, constant Brexit dangers, doom and gloom on our futures(could,may,perhaps notwithstanding) a little nugget on R4 in the early hours this morning.Discussing taxis in Australia and whether there should be a partition between passenger and driver the BBC correspondent opined that “one may not wish to hear the talkative driver’s right-wing views…..”.
Unfortunately all the rest of us are obliged to listen to the BBC’s opinions and biased views on everything with so little actual news being broadcast.
In most of Britain the taxi experience is of sitting behind a silent, brooding, bearded, prayer capped figure, with an Arabic inscribed artefact or miniature quran dangling from the rear view mirror……or, according to recent court cases, worse, if you are a vulnerable, young female in Rochdale or Rotherham.
Cash in hand, innit!
Paying tax is for the kuffar.
Believers are takers.
david01,
Yes, I don’t want to hear the BBC’s left wing views but would be obliged to pay for them, if I had a TV !
Oh noes (says some civil servant on R4 this morning) – it’ll take a thousand years before we can fully do a Brexit!
Or some such crap. I didn’t even know we had an ‘Ambassador to the EU’. The man has previously worked with such well known anti-EU zealots such as Ken Clarke and Leon Brittan, so he must be impartial. Surely!
Using the BBC’s own figures, never a good idea, the time taken to negotiate a Brexit deal seems to be following a geometric progression. This morning it reached 10 years, by midnight tonight it will be 1000. This is the truly scary bit, by next Monday morning, approx. 0817 UTC, Brexit negotiations will take longer than the calculated remaining life of the universe.
These are just rough calculations but would probably be good enough for the BBC if spouted by one of their favoured experts.
Steve,
The BBC do not do maths and science.
BBC Today programme this am. Item on shortage of female pilots and plans to increase the percentages. No mention of equalising the numbers of male /female cabin crew. I wonder why this was overlooked.!
Using the medical profession as an example, because of family commitments it is necessary to train far more doctors now to cover for time off. Latest figures show that more than 75% of medical students in training are female, should not the BBC be demanding equality?
Finally, again on Today this morning, white working class boys doing poorly at schools and not going on to further education. Putting aside the migrant effect on schools, with over 90% of teachers in most Primary and 62% in secondary schools being female, could this be having an effect? Discuss….not on the BBC.
A report in today’s Daily Telgraph shows a post Brexit surge in EU students applying for U.K. universities, many from “poor” eastern countries, we have some 125k EU students ( most on grants they will never pay back) this apparently is all very beneficial to us.
As usual the BBC refer to opinion as news, only the “right” opinion of course.
The Today Programme this morning banging on about the “most senior diplomat in Brussels” claiming it will take 10 years to agree a trade deal. Spoken in a manner that one must assume Justin Webb is wearing sackcloth and ashes. Tediously negative as usual.
Of course the reality of any delays in negotiating a trade deal would be a problem for the EU rather than the UK. Getting 27 nations to agree anything would be like getting a child to spin 27 plates simultaneously. Until that happens the current deal remains. If 27 nations do miraculously and quickly agree to penalise the UK somehow, as the BBC has been hinting at, it simply proves the EU to be the protectitive trade block that they claim it isn’t.
I notice this particular “news” item has been watered down as the programme has gone on. I expect the BBC jumped with glee at something they thought somebody we’ve not previously heard of said, shouted about it loudly, only to get complaints from the person who actually said it.
BBC home of fake news.
So the BBC have toned it down because they now have to modify the “story” with the fact that the diplomat represents the views of the 27 EU states and not the UK Government.
Ha, ha. This is not how the BBC was reporting it for the first 2 hours of the programme. The glee was tangible.
Tossers.
Quis,
And as I repeatedly post here, in any trade war the EU will lose. Why do the BBC not keep repeating that also ?
Because the priority for the false narrative trumps truth every time.
This story struck me as pretty thin stale gruel from the anti-Brexit kitchen served up cold for BBC Breakfast tv viewers. Delivered with a less than cheery grimmace – that would put fright into young kiddies – by our seasonal Grinch, Eleanor Garnier.
Our BBC gal dates the supposed comment to October – just around about the time of the much heralded EU-Canada circus/trade deal.
The decade-long gestation and the one national parliament derailment are elements directly cut from the Canada template.
The EU can’t do deals. Spare us the defecation, Mr Holmes.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: We will exit the EU in a timed out failure of negotiations due to their intransigence.
That’s why the Remainiacs stall Article 50 and want transitional arrangements. They are playing the long game hoping to drag this out as long as possible and using the BBC as their PR arm.
Our Eleanor playing the role of Cassandra predicts gloom and doom and smugly concludes the Government don’t understand the difficulties.
The analogy for Brexit is removing a sticking plaster. Drag it out slowly and painfully torturing each tiny skin hair and halfway through you want to give up. Whip it off quick and the pain is over instantly.
Why does everything take so long to do? Have MP’s (amd MEP’s) not heard of all night sittings (bring ’em back) and how about the Civil Service doing a bit of unpaid overtime for once, have they even heard of 24/7? If after 2 years we have not agreed terms for a deal, am I not correct in thinking we would exit and revert immediately to WTO rules and tarrifs? Let’s get on and make the best of it, whatever the deal, or will ANY deal be ultimately voted down by the establishment/elite/MP’s? And why is GDP God, and the opinions of the City and some businesses (and businesses did not vote in the referendum) more important than the message sent out by 17.4 million ordinary people?
This could be the reason why we are short of British workers ……
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-38301844
Now every one is off to ‘Youni’. The whole degree system has become devalued .
It may explain the reason for the police adopting such measures …..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38319283
Around this time last year, someone here ( I can’t remember the name or if he still posts ) suggested a “Poster of the Year ” competition. Unlike the BBC , the result was not rigged but, like the BBC, it was unscientific.
It was won by chrisH and I would nominate him again for the sheer surreal quality of his posts which are a living testimony to the powers of scrumpy.
However, since then, to my delight many new people have joined us, so are there any challengers to cH ? (PS. You cannot nominate yourself , but you are allowed to nominate a troll. Apart from that, just make up the rules as you go along, a bit like BBC coverage of current affairs. )
Grant, yes ChrisH was the deserved winner in the last two years at least. I would also suggest a new award for Best New Poster – and that should go to SupportOurLefty. Both for his humerous contributions and also that he is happy to take on our enemies, in their own swamps, and humiliate them so spectacularly with most of them being too thick to realise.
Friends! I also nominate Friend SupportOurLefty! Sometimes I wonder if he (oops, sorry, friend Diane Abbot’s just pointed out it might be a she, or even a trans!) simply lifts the material direct from the Guardian!
Demon,
Yes, good idea. “Best New Poster of the Year ” .
Grant
“but you are allowed to nominate a troll.”
What’s a troll?
taffy,
I think we have been here before, but to avoid disputes a “troll ” could be anything anyone defines it as. After all , if the BBC can live in Wonderland, why can’t we ?
🙂
Is there no one listening in the UK political classes? Or, perhaps they mistrust the Blatantly Biased Corporation’s so-called, “News” so much that all credibility is lost and no one pays attention.
BBC Today this morning carried another item which warned again of the number of returnees from ISIS to the UK and their devotion to carrying out terrorist acts in the UK being now at a serious level. Contrast this with the fact that the so-called, “Refugees” entering Europe in 2016 is EXCEEDING 2015 -http://newobserveronline.com/invasion-force-2x-size-luxembourg/
The madness goes on and on and on……….
G
They laughed at Farage then ,I bet they are not laughing now……..
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/04/29/nigel-farage-islamic-state-immigration-general-election-2015_n_7168312.html
This should be on the BBC! It matches their philosophy perfectly. Could be used for any of the campaigns of the day.
Our money their views.
BBC Biased?…… Nah.
Brilliant.
This should be on the BBC! It matches their philosophy perfectly. Could be used for any of the campaigns of the day.
Our money their views.
BBC Biased?…… Nah.
Seems to have posted twice. It the Russians that did it!
I heard all the ruskies smell of cabbage farts and eat muslim babies for breakfast!
The bastards – why is the West not doing anything about this terrible news!
That’s wonderful. Thanks Famous Actors! Yes, thank you. Really. This time. And also to gb123, thanks.
Well, not BBC Bias but possibly that of someone else; our Ambassador to the EU who has said “Brexit might take ten years and then still fail.” . (The EU is not a nation, is it? Why then do we need an EU Ambassador, Sir Ivan Rogers?)
Well thanks, Sir Ivan. Fast & hard Brexit it is then. Article 50 on 31 December 2016 and our subscriptions stop by 1 January 2019. A very appropriate date that would be too!
Up2,
People like Ivan can be bought by whoever pays the highest price. He is a whore, but that is an insult to whores. Prostitution is , at least, an honourable profession !
gb123,
Just watched it . Superb ! But many snowflakes will take it seriously. Snowflakes and the Left just don’t do humour or irony. They are too serious for that.