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  1. Thoughtful says:
    July 18, 2017 at 8:15 pm

    Here’s an interesting report the BBC hasn’t reported on. Called the Children of When the Adam Smith institute believes that because of BLiars disastrous years in power 160 000 children were never born.

    Click to access Housing+and+fertility.pdf

    Under the Labour government of BLiar / Clown thanks to demand caused by mass immigration house prices trebled, and the young could not longer afford to buy their own homes. Between 2004 – 2014 home ownership in the 25 – 34 age group fell from 60% to 35% ! This is the primary fertility group.

    At the same time BLiars push to drive school leavers into an unnecessary university education left them carrying more debt than they otherwise would have had while doing jobs which never previously needed degree qualification. This huge rise in further education could not be sustained meaning the current university fees were an inevitability.

    On top of that the average new home from 1919 to present day has shrunk by close to 20% and are the smallest in Europe.

    Then there is the psychological cost to the couples involved, who want to start a family, but can’t because of finances plus the cost to the country of aging wealthy pensioners requiring ever more expensive health and social care.

    Things can only get better? Well it might have looked that way at the time, but looking back now they seem to have got a damn sight worse, and it’s not something the BBC appear to want to talk about.

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    • Dave S says:
      July 18, 2017 at 8:46 pm

      Interesting but still an exercise in self deception by our policy makers. Read Mark Steyn on the demographic nightmare facing Europe.
      The reality is the figures never lie. Demography is like that. 40% of German university educated women are childless. Our leaders are childless. – Merkel,Macron, May in fact nearly all of them . The figures here are not quite so disastrous but they are I suspect following the same trend.
      Why? A few generations of young people especially women who put off having children and find their fertility gone. The lure of pleasure and careers. No real interest in a civilisation’s future and shall we say the ease of abortion .
      Easy to blame property prices but our civilisation is sick and there is another one with a high birthrate and a real intent to replace ours. It looks as if it will and in a much shorter time than we think.
      Do I blame them ? No it is the way of the world . To the fertile and the strong belongs the future. It always has and always will.

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      • JimS says:
        July 18, 2017 at 10:08 pm

        Dr. Jordan Peterson on the consequences of women seeking a ‘high-powered’ career.

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        • Loobyloo says:
          July 18, 2017 at 11:19 pm

          Wow, has this guy still got a job??! Definitely not towing the line with the group think. Not a Beeboid. He obviously hasn’t seen some of the high end jobs in the NHS, civil service here! Raises some very interesting and scary points.

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          • JimS says:
            July 19, 2017 at 7:28 am

            Not only has he still got a job, (but for how long?), he is now having 40,000 dollars plus per month thrust into his hands from internet-sourced sponsors. Up until then his university funding for research was under threat, which would have left him with only half a job.

            He says that the funding has come as a surprise but that he would like to develop his ideas of having a university of the internet, breaking the monopoly and high fees of the brick-built universities.

            Some of his opponents have got very upset and think that he should share the money to give them a platform too. How very BBC! They take the money from the unbelievers but don’t give them what they like, rather what the BBC thinks they should like.

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  2. Pounce says:
    July 18, 2017 at 8:58 pm

    ah the cultural enrichment of the UK continues. I wonder why the bBC isn’t singing the praises of these peaceful people going about their way in Wealdstone this past Sunday:

    Funny enough the nasty evil Daily Mail does and one of its typical racist readers has the top spot with his comment:
    “LONDON looks everyday more and more like a typical 3rd world city”

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    • JimS says:
      July 18, 2017 at 9:40 pm

      A couple of years ago we became aware of several youths climbing over the rear fence to the right of the house, running across the garden next to the house and attempting to climb the fence on the left.
      My sister grabbed the last lad who turned out to be a youngster ‘of colour’. It seemed that the group that he had been with had spoken to an Asian girl and as a result they were now fleeing from various Asian men with baseball bats. A couple of cars with four men in each were patrolling up and down the road but they dispersed once the police arrived.
      Anyone who thinks that there is such a thing as a coherent ‘BAME’ community is an idiot and troublemaker.

      P.S. First rule of running someone down with a car is to make sure that the road is wide enough. Second rule is not to mess with telegraph poles, (concrete lighting columns are worse, they usually fall on top of you).

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    • Fedup says:
      July 18, 2017 at 10:04 pm

      Hey it’s Baltimore – I loved “The Wire” – the Wild West of Wealdstone – there goes the Neighbourhood.

      Bet that one doesn’t turn up on Crime watch

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  3. CranbrookPhil says:
    July 18, 2017 at 9:01 pm

    Not sure if anyone has already mentioned this here but I saw this morning this piece in the Teegraph that students are bragging about voting twice for Corbyn in the election.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/17/did-students-vote-twice-corbyn-watchdog-demands-urgent-action/

    I have not heard anything on the BBC about this but in my opinion it’s ruddy serious. Constituencies like Canterbury & Bristol deserve a by-election but this time with no student votes.

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  4. MarkyMark says:
    July 18, 2017 at 9:14 pm

    Outside source BBC @Christian Fraser … “once you give voters subsidies and support much harder to give, err take it away.”. Republicans finding it hard to terminate medicaid due to taking freebies (God given rights) away.
    Has Christian/political establishment learnt a lesson here?

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  5. Charlie Martel says:
    July 18, 2017 at 9:21 pm

    Mmm, more ethnic enrichment, that’s what we need in UK too, more ethnic police…

    “Justine Damond was shot by police near her home in Minneapolis after calling 911. Her family and community are waiting for answers.”

    She was reporting a rape – wonder if that’s why the muslim moron shot her?

    (Oh, and you’ll have to dig to find it on evil beebistan – but imagine if the colours had been reversed!)

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-40639383/justine-damond-minneapolis-shocked-by-australian-s-death

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  6. Charlie Martel says:
    July 18, 2017 at 9:27 pm

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  7. MarkyMark says:
    July 18, 2017 at 9:36 pm

    “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”
    “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
    “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – that’s all.”

    Of course, the opposite is true, the teacher can say they wanted to be called a thrice-entombed-scriber which the student failed to call them. This is most upsetting and it’s cost is twice whatever the student demands … off we go!

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  8. Fedup says:
    July 18, 2017 at 9:38 pm

    Another story Albeeb chose not to cover was the filibuster of the debate which was due yesterday on the intimidation of prospective mp s in the last election campaign . Why would labour do this unless they had something to lose or cover up.
    Al Beeb plays this down or ignores it in the same way that it ignored the retraction of the manifesto promise by labour to clear student debt ( cost estimate £100 billion ).

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    • JimS says:
      July 18, 2017 at 9:48 pm

      I make that about 285 Brexit Buses, only one of which has kept the BBC in a rage for a year.

      Just like real buses if they aren’t going in the right direction then they are of no interest.

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  9. Pounce says:
    July 19, 2017 at 12:02 am

    Oh dear, that black thug who died whilst trying to rob a CO-OP, bashed his head on a concrete post as he tried to escape. The bBC aren’t going to like that.

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  10. taffman says:
    July 19, 2017 at 12:47 am

    “BBC expects backlash over stars’ salaries but says they’re worth it”
    Will this bring down the BBC ?…………………….
    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jul/18/bbc-expects-backlash-stars-salaries-says-theyre-worth-it-tony-hall
    Telly Tax payers – you have been muged !

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  11. BRISSLES says:
    July 19, 2017 at 12:56 am

    Accordingly ………………”The corporation is preparing for them to receive online abuse. It has told all employees on the list that their salary is to be revealed and has offered support and advice on dealing with the fallout.”

    Earning all that money, and they still need help with counselling and therapy, which we will be paying for ???? which plonker wrote THAT statement ?

    Anyway, does working for the BBC count as being employed in the public sector ? because according to recent reports public sector workers are better off than private sector employees; and if this is so, then no further evidence is needed.

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  12. Scroblene says:
    July 19, 2017 at 7:06 am

    In today’s news, sales of ladies knickers and drawers, (men for the use of), have escalated fourfold in anticipation of the disclosure of how much the TV tax pays them.

    Lord Hall-Hall, who says that the bbc is worth it because it brings out so much ‘talent’, has himself invested a few thousand pounds in a quaint pair of diamante coloured shreddies, and even some of the underpaid girls are feverishly watching Bridget Jones films to find a suitable reinforced waterproof pair…

    Blokes will fare the worst, and drainage outlets in Langham Place are being monitored by the minute, in preparation for extreme ‘outages’! £150,000 a year to gibber what a ‘manager’ tells them to spout is outrageous. Of course, the remunerations will not disclose the over-generous pension arrangements, or the grossly inflated expense claims!

    It’s a great day, my birthday, so as I have finally reached seventy, I’ll be in my friendly local pub with close family, but as it’s a good pub, there’s no tv, pool or crap music (or crap fake news), so I’ll have something to look forward to when we eventually get home…

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    • Grant says:
      July 19, 2017 at 11:27 am

      Scobbie,

      Happy Birthday ! I did not know that pubs like that still existed in the UK. Bet the TV Police won’t believe it .

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