Weekend Open Thread June 2 2018

Trade Wars, 2 new governments in the EU in 2 days ,  the anniversary of  islamic terrorist murder on London Bridge and more. The weekend of endless bias awaits us.

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357 Responses to Weekend Open Thread June 2 2018

  1. Alex says:

    Amish, Methodist or Quaker perhaps? Anyway, motive unknown.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44349468

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    • Guest Who says:

      #CCBGB

      Only the bbc could ask for a freebie and then issue t&cs.

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  2. Beeb Brother says:

    Vox pops on BBC London news:

    1. “We are so resilient.”

    2. “I have happy memories of how it has brought us together.”

    Then we have Khan blaming it all on Police cuts! He never takes responsibility and is so insincere. He makes my skin crawl. Beeb reporter explains again, in case we missed it, that we are less safe due to Tory cuts. Open borders and the Voldemort ideology not once mentioned,

    Not mentioning the ROP is like the England manager saying we can beat Argentina whilst pretending they do not have Messi, Aguero or indeed any players at all. Plus the other team gets to play under a totally different, more favourable set of rules – no matter how badly they cheat or foul, the referee will never rule against them. What chance do we stand?

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  3. G.W.F. says:

    Rampaging man in a confused state shot in the leg in a Berlin cathedral
    People told not to speculate.
    Police said there was no indication of any terrorist motive.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44349468

    Same story across the media, but some add that he had a knife.
    Not political, not Islamic
    Probably saying Allah Akibar Freut mich.
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/man-shot-after-knife-rampage-in-berlin-cathedral-1.3518153

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  4. Guest Who says:

    Guessing this lot unlikely to get the ‘satire’ slot on anything from Marr to The News Quiz.

    Tony given the office, all 20,000 of them, the day off?

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  5. Guest Who says:

    Looks like Katty is moonlighting as a Facebook sub.

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  6. G.W.F. says:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-32057601

    New BBC game (I think) for lefties to play.

    Syrian Journey: Choose your own escape route
    ‘If you were fleeing Syria for Europe, what choices would you make for you and your family? Take our journey to understand the real dilemmas the refugees face.’

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-32057601

    ———————
    For starters, don’t expect practical help or accommodation from Sir Benedictus Cumberbatch , Lady Lily Allen or Sir Bob Geldoff

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  7. Tabs says:

    What’s the appeal of Simon Cowell’s no-phone decision?
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44347380

    The BBC have used a photo of a black woman to discuss SImon Cowell.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Slovenian election . Tiny population – 2 million but an EU member and exit polls suggest 25 per cent voting for right wing party – which apparently is pretty big . Right wing in this context means that they care for their country and national identity .

      More importantly that’s the third reich EU election in a week where the apple cart has been overturned ( I’m not including Spain) so a “ strong and stable” EUreich is not what they’ve got however al beeb spins it.

      If we had brexiteers taking on the ReichEU this would be an ideal time to be strong as Tusk and the rest of the self servers are fighting battles on a number of fronts .

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    • Dystopian says:

      Re Simon Cowells phone (lack of)

      When I see “news” items like this I now look for the hidden message which in this case I suspect is “The bBBC would like you all to throw your phones in the river because we realise you are circumventing our fake news service using social media. So we will point out how it used to be great but now it’s rubbish and you will all realise how you don’t need it (social media) and you can rely on us to bring you the facts…”

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  8. Al Shubtill says:

    This is an anti-EU video by a Finnish Communist, very interesting to get the hard-Left’s view of why the EU must go.
    Quite well put together too.

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  9. Guest Who says:

    Place on hob, and allow to simmer for at least 12 hrs. The Breakfast sofa beckons….

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    • BRISSLES says:

      Alex Jones – another ‘fluffy’ autocutie who’s admitted to finding ‘motherhood’ hard, so feels she has to pontificate for the sake of all wimmin. Jeeesus – its hard love when you have to get up and get the fire going before you have hot water, and the lav’s outside with no electricity, er, not the 3rd world but Yorkshire just 60 years ago.

      I fully expect a new Thread to be opened now.

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      • ToobiWan says:

        Haven’t forgot the lefty cow when she interviewed the fat bastard, AKA two jags Prescott. Sitting on his knee, slobbering all over him and kissing him. Before the bloody watershed as well!

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  10. taffman says:

    “Minute’s silence for London Bridge terror attack victims”
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44344818
    This sadness will go on unless the government makes a real effort to defend its citizens and devises a deterrent to the terrorists.

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  11. taffman says:

    “Sajid Javid pledges ‘fresh look’ at migration rules”
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44346900
    It looks as if we are about to get more ‘doctors’, ‘scientists’ and ‘engineers’.
    When were we, the people of Great Britain ever given a referendum on foisting the whole world and his dog into this small country ?
    Mrs May is on her way out.

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  12. StewGreen says:

    OMG They’re using EVERY UK school child to milk Grenfell for the political game !
    “wear Green for Grenfell” : Schoolchildren across Britain are being asked to mark the first anniversary of the country’s worst postwar fire by wearing green On 14th June
    – FFS Grenfell is not given attention so much as people care for victims
    but rather cos the events is being hijacked for a political game
    ie to bash tories, to promote immigrants, race issues etc, to deflect from stabbings etc.
    So NOT APPROPRIATE to involve children in such a game

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    • ToobiWan says:

      Do you think it might be insensitive to hold a BBQ (with lots of lettuce), Stew?

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      • StewGreen says:

        It will be a bit early for your week long celebration of Brexit day.

        Remember the Grenfell victims , but it’s too early to say none of the victims were blameless, what if things like their cannabis farms were a factor ? , and did the Vietnamese guy really leave the door open, and flee without warning others ?

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        • chrisH says:

          Yep, its TWELVE days until the anniversary of Grenfell. But tomorrow the BBC will run a week long saga, about the Grenfell Wall-whatever that is, bet it keeps no migrants out anyway.
          How many bottles of Gazan tears will they be importing between now and the 14th? And may they be “all cried out” come the day itself?

          As for the Vietnamese scum who claimed for posh hotels, and hadn`t been in there….the Albanian gangland family who`ve already scammed millions in housing benefits locally, by getting others to claim and then trousered it all? The Nigerian fat mamma and her claims for housing and disability-and how many others yet to come through?
          Well let`s hope they get a few million for building that wall by calling themselves Al McAlpine? The Tories won`t ask any questions about it, they`ll just pay up.
          Thikfux!

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        • chrisH says:

          Of course the nations schoolkids will be made to dress in green.
          Greens are for wearing. Not for eating.
          Obesity fatwits…they`ll be in Islamic Green before too long, sloshing around in lime green washings about climate change.
          Bloody North Korea this place….if any kid didn`t conform, his mum would probably lose her job.
          Hope a few kids will wear a burnt chip on a necklace to show they`re not ALL cheese dicks!

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  13. taffman says:

    “A man was stabbed outside a police station amid a series of gun and knife attacks on the same night.”
    “The Met Police has launched at least 72 murder investigations this year.”
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-44346890
    This is going to get worse unless the Met get rid of its political correctness and gets a new Commissioner.
    The stabbings are becoming the norm now .

    President Trump was right all along ……………….
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44007312

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  14. StewGreen says:

    Hang on when refugees leave EU , they sell their passports in Turkey ?
    Surely that means numbers depending on state handouts doesn’t fall as an ILLEGAL takes the place of the refugee.
    Sunday Times May 27th ‘Miserable’ refugees sell EU passports and slip back into Syria
    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/miserable-refugees-sell-eu-passports-and-slip-back-into-syria-b3fjx9w8z
    about the BBC News Channel prog named Our World: Escaping Europe

    commenter :”Returning ISIS /Al Queda fighters have access to legitimate German passports.” !

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  15. Al Shubtill says:

    This is a transcript of the Judge’s Ruling against TR last year at Canterbury Crown Court, having read it I am amazed that he placed himself in so a vulnerable position as he did in Leeds; following what this judge had previously told him, it was just an open goal for the State and potential self-destruction for him.

    Click to access coc-yaxley-lennon-20170522.pdf

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      We don’t have Tommy ‘s side of the story.
      He wasn’t filming inside the court or on even on it’s steps.
      We don’t know what miss information he was fed, eg maybe that the trial was over awaiting sentencing, so no jury to sway, or something like that.
      Where are reporting restrictions published anyway?

      Maybe, one of the defendants, is involved in a future trial too, so this whole trial is hidden, then at that next trial the same thing happens, all over again, resulting a huge chain of unreported rape trials…
      And no more photo spreads of 30 grim looking muslim men ever again, all nicely hidden.
      the whole thing stinks.

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    • StewGreen says:

      @Al Shubtill can you summarize more ?
      you say Tommy “placed himself in so a vulnerable position”
      Yes that what he does when he steps out of his front door everyday
      whereas the rest SJW’s and state workers hide from blowback and so let the victims down.
      TR was deliberately not dancing to that hideous tune, they dance to.

      KT Hopkins posted video of the Manchester demo passing under a bridge
      ..it seemed both large and good natured.

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      • Al Shubtill says:

        If you read TR’s book “Enemy Of The State” he describes the dubious “legal” methods the State employed against him; an example would be his “mortgage fraud” conviction (a white collar crime) which resulted in him being sent to a Category A prison and put onto a Muslim dominated wing there.

        I don’t know whether you’ve read the transcript but the judge told him the “precincts of the court” included outside and that it wasn’t just the fact of his filming but what he was saying to the accused Muslims as they went into court.

        To be aware of all that but still to go ahead and film as he did in Leeds, seems crazy to me for someone who knows well how dirty the authorities are prepared to play and who had already been told what the consequences would be of a second offence.

        I admire TR immensely but he has placed himself effectively out of circulation for up to two years by giving the State such an easy opportunity to lock him up.

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        • Marion says:

          Perhaps he thought that it was worth the risk and he certainly seems to have woken a lot of people up, and not just in the UK. What is one supposed to do when these legal paragons think it’s acceptable to ignore rape on a large scale? People break the law for many reasons, often evil and selfish ones, but history treats law breakers favourably when they represent those who are genuinely vulnerable, abused and ignored (as opposed to the daily BBC variety). The whole thing stinks of the closing of ranks, and self interest by those in power.

          I would like to know where the “precinct of a court” actually ends, because many definitions of “precinct” suggest that it means the actual court premises. But then people in the legal world have their own language and meanings – keeps the oiks out.

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    • Payne by name says:

      Thanks for bringing it to our attention but from what I’ve heard about the judge in this breach of peace/contempt of court ruling was that the judge wasn’t interested in the previous suspended sentence and hence that had no bearing on this Leeds thing.

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      • Al Shubtill says:

        WTF? “had no bearing on this Leeds thing”
        It’s the entire reason he just got 13 months!
        If you read the brief transcript you’ll see from what the judge told him then, why this judge could throw the book at him now.

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  16. chrisH says:

    How come Orban is a populist-despite having a party behind him that keeps on winning elections?
    But Macron-a man who thinks he`s Jupiter with a Twitter account is never called a populist?
    Does the BBC really mean popular and narcissist respectively?

    AND-will the BBC tell me what the difference between “Hard”, “far and “alt” Right is?
    And will ANY party or quango ever get called hard, soft or nasty “left”? Pah!

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    • StewGreen says:

      The “Far-wrong media” use boo-words to SMEAR political opponents CHARACTER,
      … instead of tackling their ARGUMENTS
      .. I guess cos they are not very well able to.

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  17. ToobiWan says:

    Amnesty International not happy with the Met’s Gang Violence Matrix because it was “racially discriminatory” and breaches human rights law. (not enough white gangs on it?)
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-44045914

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  18. ToobiWan says:

    Could this be down to what they are exposed to in schools and colleges? I chose not to use the word taught,
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-44142843
    Put your postcode in to see how proud your area is.
    My area was:
    70% of people are proud to be English England average: 57%
    People think the best years are in the…
    past: 57% England average: 49%
    future: 15% England average: 17%
    People think the local area is getting…
    better: 8% England average: 11%
    worse: 39% England average: 39%
    People think they can influence local decisions…
    a fair amount or a lot: 20% England average: 21%
    not very much or at all: 75% England average: 73%

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    • Loobyloo says:

      Just thought that article was rubbish. It’s obvious why these stats are as they are, they just won’t state the obvious. Al Beeb shit stirring again.

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  19. Roland Deschain says:

    As the weekend draws to a close, I bring you a new “ism” the BBC has discovered.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Backendofbusism has been rife in the media industry since the year dot.

      The bbc does field a couple of noble exceptions of ming, usually erring on the more mature, for ‘balance’, but frankly Naga best get under the sun lamp.

      That line about… Newsbeat… examining the ‘debate’…? Lol.

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