Start the Week Open Thread 1 April 2020

Id concocted an Fools Day Joke that the Far Left BBC had ‘seen the light’ …but then I realised how far fetched that was.

I’be always been fond of ‘fools ‘ wheezes so any welcome .

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417 Responses to Start the Week Open Thread 1 April 2020

  1. StewGreen says:

    Extremely malicious #BiasedBBC headline from BBC’s Frank Gardner March 30
    “The unlikely similarities between the far right and IS”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47746271
    cos everyone knows “far right” is an Ad Hom used against anyone challenging metro-liberals.
    A title “similarities between actual Nazis & ISIS” would be OK

    … em Frank’s in the news


    See W/E thread
    trulytango March 30, 2019 at 12:44 pm
    Dover Sentry March 30, 2019 at 7:25 pm
    “Gardner is a longstanding ‘far-rightophobe’”

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    • vlad says:

      Isn’t that a hate crime?

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    • Beltane says:

      Might not be so passionate Stew. It could be mouth-to-mouth in a feigned heart-attack scenario, the old wheelchair line didn’t swing it.

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  2. Terminal Moraine says:

    Indoctrination easy as ABC:

    A) Intersectional Islam — the progressive’s wet dream
    B) (Not at all striking) photos of some guy on holiday who met MIGRANTS AND MUSLIM LEADERS
    C) Some Gods are more equal than others

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      Couple seek to set up France’s first “liberal” mosque?

      Allah does not like to be mocked. The koran is the word of allah, delivered to an illiterate camel trader suffering from migraines. It is not for French “liberals” to change a single word of this divine revelation.

      And they will be found beheaded in three, two, one…

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      • Despairada says:

        An observation coming from seeing pictures of the mosks that have featured in the news lately is how ugly they are, like carbuncles (borrowing a simile from Prince Charles), big pustules on the face of the Earth.

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        • Despairada says:

          .. and how do they get planning permission when they never fit in with the surrounding buildings?

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  3. davylars says:

    If only it wasn’t April fools day.

    UK Government to Announce New Energy Policies.

    http://euanmearns.com/uk-government-to-announce-new-energy-policies/

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      It’s official, in future our energy needs will be met by a combination of magic moonbeams and unicorn farts.

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  4. JamesArthur says:

    Anyone listening to TWATO….all they are doing is pushing the remainers views – it’s truly disgusting. No mention of any real Brexiteers…
    I am really sick of these MPs..where did it say on the referendum
    stay in customs union and stay in single market?
    The BBC should be closed down as a national broadcaster..

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    • Emmanuel Goldstein says:

      JA.
      They also seem to take it as a given that any future referendum will be May’s treaty or remain.
      How can Remain even be considered when it lost.
      If there is a ‘peoples referendum’ it must be no deal versus whatever May’s treaty ends up as.

      It’s a sight to behold, all these MPs being paraded, one after the other, on the tv in front of the eu flags, and all trying to find ways of telling us that staying in the eu is really leaving and telling us that’s what we want.

      They also seem to think a general election will change nothing.
      It will get rid of about 400 remainers for a start. How can they think we will vote in the same traitors.

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      • Not Gwent says:

        “How can Remain even be considered when it lost”

        2016
        Electorate > Leave

        2017
        Electorate > Remain Parliament (or the remain any way it can parliament).

        Farage warned us, before the ill fated 2017 election, that only UKIP could enact leaving the EU. Did we listen?

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  5. Lucy Pevensey says:

    “First signs of buildings collapsing in Marseille”
    In London they just burn them down, claim hotel fees and use the bonfire to stir up an avalanche of white guilt. (Grenfell)

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  6. Loobyloo says:

    Syria trip pair guilty of preparing terrorist acts https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-47774889
    ‘Syria trip pair’

    Says it all really.

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  7. Lucy Pevensey says:

    Notice Sourface “don’t call me a NAZI” in the background.

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    • Doobster78 says:

      Imagine being as divisive and hate filled as David Lammy !!!

      Amend that to imagine being as divisive and hate filled as David Lammy but being WHITE.

      Then you would be classed as a FAR RIGHT RACIST THUG by the likes of Lammy and Co and hounded by the liberal left media 24hrs a day !!!

      But Lammy is black and far left so he can say whatever the f**k he likes. Sickening how racism only ever works one way !!!!

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    • gb123 says:

      Ahh. The views of David “Mastermind” who told us that Maire Antoinette won the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics. That must have been on the first episode of Bake off.

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  8. Fedup2 says:

    Doob
    I think you should ease up on Mr Lammy . He is in a very competitive industry – the race hate industry – so he’s got to be out there somewhere ….

    If you were to run the numbers on the physical damage of riots ‘inspired ‘ by stopping his ‘community ‘ against the number of diverse people stabbed to death I think the riots would be the lesser of the ‘evil’ .

    David always has a captive ( thick ) support when he has a pop at plod – much like the scum bag Bernie grant – his predecessor who is thankfully dead after a career or anti white poison on House of Commons expenses …

    I think the diverse community is beyond riot now judging by the constant smell of controlled drugs in the air in Londonistan.

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  9. Dover Sentry says:

    Uplifting Quote from Guido:

    “”The latest manufacturing PMI figures are out and it’s more grim reading for Merkel and Macron with the Eurozone’s index falling to 47.5 in March – firmly in contraction territory and the lowest level since April 2013. Germany is rapidly becoming the sick man of Europe, its reading of 44.1 is the worst since the crisis days of 2012…

    Meanwhile the UK’s own manufacturing index has surged to a 14-month high of 55.1, coming in far ahead of the forecast of 51.2. The UK could even consider giving the EU a trade deal, if they ask nicely…””

    https://order-order.com/

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  10. Eddy Booth says:

    Julian Smith: Chief whip attacks cabinet’s post-election Brexit strategy
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47768884
    ”The government should have made clear after the 2017 election that it would “inevitably” have to accept a closer relationship with the EU after Brexit, the Conservative chief whip has said.”

    And the BBC lays it on thick, just portraying a soft brexit as an inevitable fact and the only problem was that the government didnt tell us this ..
    and don’t question if thats even true

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  11. Guest Who says:

    Interesting public exchange.

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  12. Lucy Pevensey says:

    Here’s an idea for a new BBC game show,

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  13. G.W.F. says:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47774435

    BBC reports on Treezer’s attempt to solve violent crime.

    Violent crime is an issue that cannot be solved solely by increasing police powers, Theresa May has warned.

    ———–
    Perhaps the same advice can be given to those supporting the increase of police powers on hurty hate speech on Twitter.

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  14. Beeb Brother says:

    The ROPer gang taking £8billion off us through fraud is not reported on the BBC website, though they do have space for a story about viewing figures of one of their own programmes; and vital stories about toilet charges and Jon Snow hurting someone’s feelings.

    How many knew what they were up to but kept silent as they were petrified of being accused of racism? You can bet many gained the prominent positions which enabled them to perpetrate the fraud as employers were desperate to promote ethnic minorities. Just as Powell warned: race relations laws will be lethal weapons in the wrong hands. Who would risk their career by raising the alarm?

    How is diversity strength when it has cost us £8 billlon in this instance? And can you imagine how much else has gone uncovered? A culture that divinely sanctions cheating the unbeliever – not just permitted but praised by God – alongside a culture that is overly reticent, polite and absolutely petrified of causing offence. This is not some rainbow paradise but a perfect storm; it enabled Rotherham and untold other crimes.

    There is never any OUTRAGE over stuff like this. £8billion? Imagine the cancer drugs and schools you could buy with that. They managed a good week over Boris Johnson’s burqa comments but £8BILLION robbed from us and it is not even mentioned.

    Still, the BBC are on track to hit their diversity targets by 2020 which will solve everything.

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    • Richard Pinder says:

      There is also the Billions of Pounds and Dollars tied up in the Cancer charity industry. Imagine a scientist coming up with a cheap cure-all for cancer. This would be an unimaginable disaster for both the drug industry and the Cancer charities. In the 1980’s I remember being told that a dead body found in the Cotswolds was that of an Oxford University scientist who claimed he was on the threshold. Also I heard rumours that it happened again recently.

      An £8 billion ideological battle against reality to compensate for Blacks being at least 15% less intelligent than whites. It already produces lots of comical consequences. But the loony left wouldn’t be able to cope with the idea of equality of outcome in the self employment industry. Unless like every loony ideology since the French Revolution, diversity collapses into madness and a reign of terror.

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    • Beltane says:

      ‘There is never any OUTRAGE over stuff like this’ – well, that’s thanks in part to all those degrees in Social Science and similar double-speak permeating down through the system – from local government to the police, the law and beyond.
      All those spurious qualifications created to make ‘a University education available to all’ despite the whole justification and reason for universities being to produce an elite to the benefit of society, the few acting to help the many.
      It’s all part of the diversity nightmare, isn’t it?

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    • imaynotalwaysloveyou says:

      BB – I expect the £8 billion is unfortunately just the tip of the iceberg.

      At the moment I’m taking time off work – between jobs so to speak. My retirement age is less than 10 years off but I’m seriously wondering whether it’s worth bothering to work anymore.

      I no longer earn a half-decent wage as a temp, just OK to live on. A fair proportion of my tax will go on lunatic policies whether Con or Lab are in Government. Council Tax and energy bills are constantly rising.

      Most of the people I’ve worked alongside over the past few years were blue-pilled remainer zombies and I can’t be arsed having conversations with people like that anymore!

      Maybe it’s time I cut down on my outgoings, live frugally and become permanently wedded to JSA/Universal Credit. Being an ethnic minority seems to help but alas I can’t change that! I’ve known of many people who’ve got away with it for years and years without any hassle.

      It might even be the moral thing to do – don’t contribute tax to a Government that hates you, and which will unerringly spend it to ensure your life gets worse!

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      • Beeb Brother says:

        Knowing your taxes are spent to look after people who hate you somewhat undermines the social fabric. How much legal aid is spent defending terrorists? All thanks to Blair’s Human Rights Act (Criminal and Lawyers’ Rights Act), which must have netted his human rights lawyer wife millions over the years.

        As for morons at work my rule is say as little as possible. If you don’t say anything you can’t get in trouble. The whole hate crime/thought crime nonsense is a nightmare for people with a sense of humour like me as jokes can so easily be misconstrued.

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  15. Guest Who says:

    Wonder if a BBC sex checker has a quick peek down their undies as they go into the studio?

       12 likes

    • JimS says:

      Where will they get all the men they will need to meet the 50:50 target?

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  16. theisland says:

    Richard Drax MP apologises for voting the wrong way last week and calls on TM to resign if we are not out on 12 April.

       37 likes

    • Richard Pinder says:

      The Bailiwick of Jersey was accidentally included in the Article 50 extension documents. This means that Jersey joined the European Union at 11pm on Friday. This is the first time Jersey has been in Europe since 5pm on 9th May 1945. Adolph Wulf grandson of the last Commander of Jersey, General Major Rudolf Wulf, said “Its great to hear that Jersey has rejoined a united Europe”

      Other accidents such as the Grand Duchy of Lancaster and the Grand Duchy of Fenwick not included in the document could also be either True, Fake News or an April Fools Joke.

         18 likes

    • Eddy Booth says:

      Glad Richard has seem the error of his ways ; but didn’t he let everyone who supports democracy down not just the DUP?

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  17. StewGreen says:

    R4 yet again on about black skin colour
    #MoreThanEqual #WhiteLondonLibsGuilt
    https://www.twitter.com/TiaMaria____/status/1112720254306869248

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  18. StewGreen says:

    4:30pm Radio4 Religion prog guests
    – Rabbi Neil Janes
    – Assad Zaman, an Imam at several mosques in Manchester.
    – Citizen Khan actor Abdullah Afzal talks about how he juggles with competing pressures on how to be a modern Muslim man.
    + Dr Andrew Boakye

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  19. Lucy Pevensey says:

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    • JamesArthur says:

      He showed great restraint…..or there were 10 blokes behind her. Whatever the case just another example of how women are as bad as men when it comes to it….not all sugar and spice…hope she gets arrested

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      • Guest Who says:

        From the look of her it looks like a lot of sugar involved frankly. Di Abbott can advise on how to use the consequences to be excused of anything.

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    • vlad says:

      And of course if he’d fought back he’d have been accused of racism and misogyny.

         28 likes

  20. StewGreen says:

    Radical Radio4 at 8pm : Youth Climate Strikers
    \\ My Name Is… 17-year-old Londoner Noga Levy-Rapoport records her role in organising the UK wide school strikes and charts the impact of the growing global campaign for action on climate change.
    The London sixth former was inspired to act after 16-year-old Greta Thunberg began skipping classes to sit outside government buildings last September. //

    The only other mention of her name on Twitter is her Guardian article.

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  21. StewGreen says:

    11pm Radio4SocialistWorkerguys : Sarah Dunant’s monthly history prog, which serves as her vehyto sneer at Trump and other non-liberal ideas like Brexit.

    \\At a moment when Brexit and our carbon footprints are prompting us to reassess what it means to move around the world, Sarah Dunant looks at the long history of travel and the ways it has enchanted and alarmed us across the centuries.

    The anxieties over young Tudor travellers returning radicalised from Catholic Europe was a phenomenon that gripped England after the break with Rome. Nandini Das argues that fears over travel helped to define a nation.

    Professor Eric Zuelow shows how the Nazi regime turned travel into a highly sophisticated propaganda tool, organising tours and trips specifically designed to cement ideas of racial superiority and national identity.

    In the Middle Ages, travel is seen to be a startlingly tolerant and cosmopolitan experience, as the naturally curious medieval mind seeks to expand the borders of its world in a spirit of generosity.

    And as the destructive nature of travel and excessive footfall becomes clearer, John Slight explains how the new travel technology of the 19th century led to an explosion in the number of Muslim pilgrims to Mecca, threatening the infrastructure, political stability and even its physical environment, as this small town crumbled under the pressure of hundreds of thousands of visitors.//

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  22. StewGreen says:

    BBC Tweet : Global Warming Anxiety
    ‘Hope it gets a lot warmer soon, so it puts an end yo people laughing at our hysterical alarmism’

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      Not phobia as that would convey an irrational fear
      so the usual subtle support for (man made ) Climate change from the BBC.

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    • Richard Pinder says:

      The anxiety increase during the morning and decreases in the evening. It also increases in the Spring and Summer and decreases in the Autumn and Winter. The anxiety also increases if you travel south towards the Equator, but decreases if you travel north towards the North Pole. Cures include living inside a Fridge or emigrating to Her Majesty the Queens territories of Nunavut, Ross Dependency, Australian Antarctic Territory or the British Antarctic Territory.

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  23. StewGreen says:

    And lo ye shall know them for what they leave out of the title.
    : What party was the jailed ex-mayor or Scunthorpe from ?
    The corrupt Jawaid Ishaq was a Labour mayor of Scunthorpe, yet no media mention that it their titles.

    He stole from his friends income and collected his pension even after he died.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I looked at the twitterer – one girpal virdi – who has his own experience of fraud allegations … nuff said …. Is it a National Trait ?

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  24. StewGreen says:

    And in the Mosque in Scunthorpe
    ( We have plenty of white paedos around as well)

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  25. JamesArthur says:

    R4
    So the Wan..er Bercow has only allowed 4 options all of which are not what was in the referendum – I just do not understand how and why he is given this power when he is a known Remainer

    Evan Davis just been put in place after trying to put words in Nadhim Zahawi (MP) mouth….then goes on to push the BBC agenda anyway. Why are all BBC presenters such asses…what happened to intelligent considered questions and discussion

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  26. fakenewswatcher says:

    L’etat c’est moi!
    J Bercow 2019

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  27. taffman says:

    Al Beeb news tells us that a comedian is a candidate for the forthcoming Ukrainian elections . That’s nothing new , our parliament is full of comedians.
    Time to drain the swamp , start with Mrs Chamberlain along with Berco Boiler the Speaker.
    I smell a General Election on the way.
    Vote UKIP.

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  28. JimS says:

    Brexit Betrayal – Treachery or Treason?

    Some good Yorkshire sense.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Only God can rescue us now. Our MPs and Civil Servants are content to enslave us to the EU ideal.

      That EU ideal is a false god.

      We will only get out of the EU on our knees, praying for God’s mercy and help.

      Nicholas Szkiler has said it. I don’t know who he is beyond what he tells us in this film.

      I’ve been saying it since the weekend after the EU Referendum vote. The UK is lost, beyond human help, but God can and may still save us. There is everything to pray for, the pun is deliberately intended.

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      • Lucy Pevensey says:

        Snuffy,
        I’ve been praying too.
        “Blessed is the nation whose God is The Lord”
        All is not lost if we would turn back to him.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Up2
        The irony is that ‘populist ‘ parties in other ReichEU countries could land up shaking the EU more than UK will because of so many corrupt politicians in the Commons – corrupt in the sense that they ignore the brexit vote of their own constituents .

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        • Up2snuff says:

          Ireland is overdue for a Christian revival, Fed.

          Funny thing, these days St Patrick seems to be more respected by Protestants for his conversion, faith and missionary evangelism in Ireland & its effect on Scotland, too, than by Roman Catholics who largely appear to use him for an excuse for a party.

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        • Doublethinker says:

          We have plenty of evidence that the EU elite have the power to overturn democratic votes which they don’t like in individual countries , Ireland, Denmark, France have all experienced this. I expect that the UK will join them soon. The European elections in May are likely to result in more Eurosceptics MEPs being elected but they still won’t be a majority and so they will be sidelined and ignored.
          There is no doubt that the power of the elite and the MSM will be directed at undermining so called Populists parties over the next few years to diminish the threat that they pose. They use all their tricks, lies and deceptions and ultimately their power of detention to accomplish this.
          So the first question is can the EU be changed, let alone overthrown, by democratic means? The second question is Have we witnessed , almost without realising it, the end of the era of mass democracy and begun the era of oligarchy?

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          • Not Gwent says:

            “the end of the era of mass democracy and begun the era of oligarchy?”

            The ‘mass democracy’ element; we ‘elect’ an MP, ruling party and PM with one cross on a piece of paper. We are aided by a media who selects who they put in front of us and whether they be regarded as friend or foe.

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    • Loobyloo says:

      Excellent…was wondering why we hadn’t seen gorgeous George on the bbc lately…

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  29. vesnadog says:

    Should be covered by BBC by now but isn’t.

    I’m sure you don’t remember it but some months back I claimed that the 2nd New Aircraft Carrier will be either sold to France as part of the EU Army – today there is mention/denial that our 2nd Carrier will either be sold or scraped.

    Macron can at least twist someone’s arm up her back after all. No doubt after much advise by the remainers in the MoD.

    Cowards the lot of um.

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    • taffman says:

      This Government has betrayed us. It has turned its back on its own people. Time to drain the Swamp.
      Vote UKIP.

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    • RJ says:

      A couple of week ago Merkel said that the new EU military force should have an aircraft carrier, so the deal might already have been agreed. As not reported on the BBC.

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  30. taffman says:

    “Drax apologises for voting for PM’s Brexit deal”
    Have the South Dorset constituents put the pressure on Richard Drax MP, re his speech today in Westminster?
    He likes his present job?

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  31. gaxvil says:

    Let us hope that the Government collapses as I really don’t want three years of no Brexit or fake Brexit.
    Labour has gone back on it’s manifesto and has alienated many more voters, the Tories well, not much to say for them so it’s time for a GE with new parties and new MPs – the current ones have well and truly s***t their pot to the top.
    Feels like our political class has taken our football, kicked us off the field and is using it to play some sort of sick, twisted game while ignoring us completely.
    The two ‘deals’ picked by Bercow are simply a waste of time and money – how stupid do they think we are?
    (Very stupid, is the answer to that one).

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  32. Fedup2 says:

    Country blues – you comment is delete because it was untrue and for people like me – being in the air for 5 hours – it was just an in capitals lie

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  33. Dystopian says:

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/04/01/erg-vice-chairman-anti-brexit-mps-launching-coup-against-british-people/

    “A senior Tory Brexiteer has warned that “up themselves” parliamentarians, led by Remainers from his own party, are launching “a coup against the British people” in order to “destroy Brexit”.”

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    • gaxvil says:

      Still stunned that the Speaker, an arch remainer, was allowed to pick only remainer options to put to a vote.

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    • Lefty Wright says:


      I think this lady rattles the EU Commission’s cage.

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      • taffman says:

        “if you find yourself living in a country where you are punished for fishing without a license but not for crossing the border illegally without a valid passport”
        The UK ?

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        • Dystopian says:

          Ah but will the fishing licence inspectors harrass you regarding their ongoing investigation into your failure to purchase a fishing license? Will they write to those who don’t even go fishing and implying that they are breaking the law as they might need a fishing license?

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Lefty
        I think hearing it in German kicked of the folk memory of being occupied and run by a domestic government under German control -making it nice and easy to get the `Jews and others on the cattle trucks to ‘go East’ ( they really want to get their people not to know about that National Shame – within a lifetime still. )

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      • Doublethinker says:

        She is brilliant. I wish we had someone as good as she is.

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  34. Frustrated says:

    How come the Remainers have been going on and on all afternoon in Parliament about COMPROMISE and how THEY are prepared to „compromise“? … They lost????
    What they are suggesting is not a compromise – it has absolutely nothing to do with LEAVING the EU.
    If Soubry butts in one more time I’ll explode – I can’t take any more …
    Keep checking this site for something „uplifting“ .. Anyone anything positive to relate??? :o(

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    • Dystopian says:

      How about a joke…..

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-47769857

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    • gaxvil says:

      They really are taking the pee, I mean really.
      They don’t want Brexit – we get that and they really think they can fob us off with some ‘Emperors New Clothes’ version?
      Quite why they are continuing with this farce is beyond me.
      They just do not get it do they ?
      Come Election time – they will.

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      • taffman says:

        The Tory party think that when the next GE is held they can ‘beat us with the stick’ that if we don’t vote for them the alternative will be Cor-bin . Well I have news for the Tories……………….
        Watch out for UKIP and The Brexit Party , a grand coalition!

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        • RJ says:

          “if we don’t vote for them the alternative will be Cor-bin ”

          Taff, the Tories need to understand what they’ve done.

          Among the people I talk to no one is now afraid of a Labour government. The last three years have proved that if the oligarchs don’t want something to happen it won’t, even if we voted for it; and if they want something to happen it will, even if we voted against it. If we elect a Labour government its freedom of action will be “guided” by those who know better.

          We little people believe that the curtain has been torn down, the wizard has been seen and so we are no longer afraid of the socialist bogeyman. Perhaps there is still a lot to be afraid of, but no one will be listening to warnings from the Tories.

          And yes – vote UKIP.

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          • taffman says:

            “the Tories need to understand what they’ve done. ”
            One would have thought they would have learned following the 2017 GE? ‘Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.’

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      no description just a link?

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      • Dystopian says:

        Apologies Eddy. I thought I’d come across another campaign group highlighting the bias of the BBC but upon further reading the Facebook page doesn’t look to have been updated much.

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  35. Scroblene says:

    I’m saddened to have to report, the fact that owing to a hidden BBC report on the subject, alcohol is definitely a subject of animal products, and as such, all vegans are now prohibited from partaking of alcoholic beverages of any description from now on!

    They’re the rules, the BBC has made it plain in an outstanding report, as yet un-shown to the public, but the chemical analysis of alcohol has minute strains of animal products, obtained through the breatharian concept of animal growth, and which permeates the culture of vegan products to a degree of some magnitude!

    Sorry, vegs, no more alcohol is allowed any more, you’re over-stepping your ‘lifestyle’ and as true vegans, you can never have an alcoholic drink again!

    For once, well done BBC, your researchers have done us all proud!

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  36. vlad says:

    If you thought knife crime was down to the drug-dealing savages we’ve let in to our country for decades, you’d be wrong. It’s a disease apparently, like the flu only more deadly.
    And one that seems to afflict only white males, according to every picture the beeb has ever posted.
    I’m off to get some Lemsip, you can’t be too careful.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47768631

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    • taffman says:

      Isn’t that maxi, our ‘sock puppet’ carving the Sunday roast on mother’s day ?

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  37. Eddy Booth says:

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    ”MPs were denied the right to vote for a full WTO Brexit on the ballot paper tonight. It was a choice between soft Brexit, no Brexit or holding another referendum to get a different answer. So much for democratic innovation of “indicative votes” ‘
    David Davies MP ???????????????????????????? ????????

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-47772688

    ”MPs have now voted on the four options and the results will be announced once they are counted – expected to be around 22:30 BS”

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    • honestus says:

      we have no options left now. The customs Union option is probably the best we can get and it is not leaving the EU. It is time to consider the nuclear option of joining with Liebor to no confidence May and force a GE. Then the tories, the patriot ones, should align with UKIP and The Brexit Party on the one issue – respecting the referendum result of 2016.
      This will split the tories and may cause a smaller split in liebor, and could ultimately result in a liebor victory. However, we cannot move forward toward Brexit with the current remain parliament in situ, so our options are very limited.
      Forming a Brexit Unity Group is taking a huge risk but the alternative is custom Union, which is no brexit, Mays deal – which is no Brexit or A50 extension, which is no Brexit.
      Fortune favours the brave……..

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  38. taffman says:

    Looks like Crapita, the Telly Tax people have failed again. This looks a bit more serious ………
    “UK frontline troop numbers down by as much as a third ”
    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/01/numbers-in-uk-frontline-army-units-fall-by-up-to-a-third-figures-reveal

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    • RJ says:

      There’s no point recruiting troop for the British Army if the government can’t rely on them to shoot the people. That’s why May signed us up to the EU army.

      At the end of V for Vendetta the troops refuse to fire on the crowd.

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    • G says:

      Taffman,
      1. Who would want to put their lives on the line for this Multikulti society where you would have a better chance of being killed in the UK?
      2. Perhaps the muslim praying ad deterred potential recruits?
      3. ‘Bang goes’ my hope for a military coup………..

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    • vlad says:

      Makes you wonder who makes these decisions at the Home Office, increasingly staffed by effniks, and whether they prefer to let in their own?

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  39. Roland Deschain says:

    Laura Kuenssberg on the BBC News just now: “MPs are voting on four different ways of leaving the EU”. Er, no. They’re voting on 4 different ways of remaining in it.

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  40. Up2snuff says:

    Where’s Jezza?
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-47772688
    No McDonnell there either.

    What are they up to?

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    • honestus says:

      Up2, hopefully in a dark room with Rees Mogg and Steve Baker formulating a no confidence vote for Mays government. Bold moves are the only ones now available.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        honestus, better for the PM to resign, give the House another tongue lashing and ask HM to prorogue Parliament. That should mean a No Deal Brexit on 12th April.

        Miracles may be happening!

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    • Fedup2 says:

      If you notice McDonnell doesn’t really do the Commons – and when he is there look carefully and see he wears gloves so he doesn’t leave fingerprints …

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      • Up2snuff says:

        LOL x 3, Fed.

        No doubt inside one glove the bony, noded, hand is clasping tight a little red book, or Little Red Book.

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  41. Fedup2 says:

    Another traitor leaves the Tory party – Nicholas Boles – just another TIG – or liberal – if only Grieve would have the decency to go soon – rather than being extinguished in any coming election ..

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    • Up2snuff says:

      I note that it is with some irony that Ian Birrell in the i newspaper (today’s front page) is claiming that Grieve is being persecuted for being in a Party that has moved to the far right.

      As a long term observer of UK politics, I would have said the Conservative Party hasn’t shifted at all.

      It is Dominic Grieve who has moved to the Far Right as a NeoParliamentary Nazi, prepared to do down our democracy despite having stood for, and won, election to the House on the basis of its democracy AND honouring the result of the EU Referendum.

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  42. Dover Sentry says:

    Why is it that Parliament is fighting the people?

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    • Roland Deschain says:

      The people became uppity and expected the politicians to abide by a vote.

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  43. Fedup2 says:

    Dover
    Group Mindset
    Self interest
    Bribery by the EU/sorros
    Personal enrichment
    Because they never wanted a referendum
    They have no national self belief
    Because 500 have no regard for their country
    And they despise brexiters

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  44. StewGreen says:

    Toby Young

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    • Richard Pinder says:

      Four different apron strings designed by the establishment for nations whose elite want to be in the EU, but whose people do not.

      It looks like Theresa May will create a 100% Remainer Cabinet for a Customs Union Remain. The Brexiteers should create a shadow Cabinet within the Tory party, call an emergency conference, and ask the membership to chose which Cabinet should represent the Tory Party in the General Election. David Davis said there was a secret plan to bring about a WTO Brexit, so it looks like David Davis would be elected temporary shadow cabinet leader for a WTO Brexit. The membership would obviously chose the WTO Brexit cabinet over the Customs Union Remainer cabinet. If the split is in place for the General Election, we could have the official Conservative Party, UKIP and the Brexit party on one side pushing a WTO Brexit. Against the establishment remainer rump of the Conservative Party, Labour and Libdems on the other side pushing a Customs Union Remain. Theresa May could be still Prime Minister while at the same time no longer legally part of the official Conservative Party. This would be the only way that the Tory Party could win the election. It means life long Bennite and Brexiteer, Jeremy Corbyn, has become the Remainer establishment and House of Lords last hope of survival. I think Tony Benn must be turning in his grave and screaming.

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    • john in cheshire says:

      Lucy, That’s exactly what I said.

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  45. Frustrated says:

    Anna Soubry, obviously waiting around after vote in hope of giving interview, spoke to BBC AND Sky was asked “maybe one word to finish?” “Well” (ok, so that was your word ;-), but no, she launches into her bla bla bla speech yet again, she is not giving up and on Wednesday they’ll get their proposal through … pitiful. They’re all saying, if “they” had voted with US, we’d have won! (You don’t say?)
    And others even suggesting simply “adding the 2 most popular losers would have given them a majority” (at least, that’s how i understood Lucas).
    Do they think before they open their mouths? Apparently not :-(.
    So again it’s best of three??? And they dare to claim they’ll accept the result of another referendum? (as long as it’s remain!)
    As was said in another post, just how stupid/forgetful do they think the people are? Grief, Soubry is on again !!!
    I’m switching off … Good night!

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  46. Eddy Booth says:

    Customs union – Ken Clarke
    For: 273
    Against: 276

    What happens next?
    they going to have best of three or 5 on that one ?

    I saw this bullying coming 3 years ago, if brexit won.
    But I naively imagined at least it would wake the asleep people up to what a shower we have in government

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  47. taffman says:

    Rule Britannia – Strength and Honor .
    Make Mark Francois Prime Minister.

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