3pm drama on R4 : In the drama France has a femael Muslim who is about to win the presidential election.
.. a male Muslim candidate has just received a msg via child “go back to your own country”
Standard: “Mohammed Nadir Dafallah, 18, and a 17-year-old from Merton, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were charged on Sunday after an 18-year-old man was fatally stabbed on Friday in Wandsworth. ”
Al beeb: “A 17-year-old boy from Merton and an 18-year-old man from Wandsworth have been charged with his murder…”
So even when these savages are over 18, al beeb chooses not to reveal their identity.
I wonder why?
Em if the older guy is the brother of the younger guy
..then naming him could put the name of the younger guy in the public domain
that is one plausible reason.
Channel 4 preparing for the candidate debate with news containing a bit of Trump-bashing. A former Obama aide did the job.
Wonder how little Guru-Murphy will perform? Sure he would have loved to do a bit of Boris-bashing…
Will he turn out to be yet another media Stewart fan?
He begins by telling us the audience are all potential Tory voters.
Wot, like on bbc panel discussions?
Not BBC related, but..
This afternoon, we spent a pleasant afternoon at the small harbour town of Seaham on the Durham heritage coast.
Eating fish and chips on the Terrace Green by the seafront next to the war memorial and the statue of Tommy. (Tommy, referring to the archetype private soldier Tommy Atkins.) accompanied by several Durham colliery brass bands playing in the background. We then had a nice walk along the coastline looking for Seaham seaglass ( mermaids tears) amongst the pebbles.
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A perfect setting and a lovely atmosphere in a north eastern colliery town.
Only one thing was missing.
Not one BAME person of any colour, religion, or ethnicity was there.
So much for the BBC dream of a mixed race population
Vesnadog…. It won’t it was bought by the proud residents of that small northern town
(Copied from Sunniside Local History Society)
There is now a nine foot five inch welded metal statue on Terrace Green. It depicts a soldier of the First World War sitting on an ammunition box, rifle in hand, head bowed. Named ‘Eleven O One’ by its creator, artist Ray Lonsdale, the locals know it, simply, as ‘Tommy’, the universal nickname for a British soldier – particularly of the First World War. He was placed on temporary display in Seaham in the summer of 2014, but Tommy attracted so much affection that a campaign was launched to buy him and keep him in the town. The necessary £85,000 was raised surprisingly quickly and Tommy will remain in Seaham permanently. Practically speaking, it has been estimated that he won’t need to be moved for repair for at least 200 years; a time capsule has been buried beneath him. Seaham, an attractive place but with too many boarded-up windows, does not strike you as a town with cash to spare; paying for this remarkable sculpture is a powerful achievement..
Round one – high spot – Rory going on about trying to get 3 rubbish bags into a bin . Lots of muddle. Gove best rehearsed and looking at the camera a lot . Hasn’t done a line yet and no one has lit up…
‘Rory The Remainer’, well here it is from the horse’s mouth……………..
\\The international development secretary says a no-deal Brexit would be “catastrophic” and is “undeliverable” and “unnecessary”.//
\\He is planning to focus on getting Theresa May’s existing deal through Parliament as there is “no evidence” the EU will offer a different deal.// https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48496082
Forget the Tories, 3 years on and we are still in the EU, despite promising ‘to leave’ over a hundred times.
Vote and support UKIP and The Brexit Party.
Nobody likes Nigel Farage – muddled thinking all round on whether parliament can overturn the brexit legislation as well as shutting parliament . Half way through and it looks like boris made the right decision .
Lotsa blue on blue violence. Lovely to watch.
Dominic is probably the most trustworthy of a dodgy lot.
Uniting Britain: Rory says he is proud LimpDums and Labour voters would vote for him. Says a lot.
Gove puts the climate at the heart of policy.
Sajid says it has to be public services. Too many cuts. (Is he Labour?) Oops, he gets challenged about knife crime. Oops. Well-rehearsed, but -as Home Secretary – didn’t see that one coming
Two candidates said social care is their number one priority as PM – they are Jeremy Hunt and mad Rory . Rory obviously knows it will go down with Tory membership . Good old sajiv invoked the ghost of jo Cox for some reason and had to remind everyone that he is the Home Sec. Gove has mentioned ‘love’ twice and wants to care for kiddies …
Go with what works. There is no point in participating in a TV debate when the electorate is a couple of hundred who will presumably vote with policy not personality?
C4 love island 4
Jeremy Hunt got a laugh for saying his biggest weakness was forgetting the nationality of his wife .mad Rory got a giggle for implying he didn’t want Boris as PM .
C4 love island 5
30 second summaries . Embarrassing waffle . Except for the Raab promising to get out of the EU by 31 Oct .
Summary – an hour and a half wasted . Plenty of red wet tories about ….they had obviously agreed not to slag each other off … mad Rory described himself as ‘frail ‘ – Maggie would be proud of that now wouldn’t she ?
Not – thanks – appreciate it – I have no real time for these red Tories any more but it was instructive . Sajid and Rory were in the same hopeless orbit ….
Fedup2 I didn’t watch the debate hence my interest. It’s funny I used to watch a lot of politics on TV including The Daily Politics and the various Sunday morning shows. Interviews and debates have seemed to become more and more formulaic over time.
Whoever wins the current contest for leader of the Conservative party will have the same May era parliament to work with (or against). Could the Conservatives coalesce and vote as one block on EU policy – I’d be amazed if they did?
NG, me, too, back in the telly days with Paxo on Newsnight. Shows how long ago I was a TV regular. Now, I’m thankful that I cannot (legally) watch it although I think C4 on demand (if they archive the debate) is available to non-Licence holders. But I will not bother anyway. Cannot remember my C4 on demand password. I found their F1 reportage so dire at the start of their first season of coverage that I never went back.
The factors currently uniting the Tories is the thought that The Brexit Party alone, cannot see off a Coalition between the LimpNonDems, SNP, Plaid, Greens & Change plus Labour. Therefore, the Tories unite and hope they can fracture, just possibly, the firm Labour Party Brexiteers (about 12 – 16?) away from Labour toward TBP. Then there’s an electoral chance for the Conservatives to govern in Coalition with TBP.
However, every time people mention polls and polling, I have to remind myself how wrong they can be.
This is the bit I have trouble with so far as EU policy is concerned. Cynical me I just can’t imagine it. I find it easier to believe that “there’s an electoral chance for the Conservatives to govern in Coalition with TBP”.
“Soccer Aid”
Don’t we already send enough “charity” abroad?
What’s the point in sending money to Africa. Is it to pay for their iPhones and dingys to come here?
By the way the wimmin players are hopeless.
Bit of a cheek when banner on screen minimum donation is £10
If the stats I’ve read regarding today’s WWC games are true (and they are from a very reliable app), then the two losing teams today managed exactly one corner BETWEEN them in the two games ????
End to end I’m guessing the games weren’t ????
Rory’s idea to break the Parliamentary impasse is bloody ludicrous.
First he says he’ll give the MPs another chance to pass the deal. If they fail he’ll start trawling the phone book, looking for thousands of our fellow citizens and inviting all races and religions and opinions to try to sort this out. Good luck with that!
He’ll give these poor sods a couple of weeks and then put what they’ve decided before Parliament. And this is the priceless bit. If our MPs don’t agree with what we have decided, we’ll be back where we started.
What’s the bleedin’ point?
They didn’t agree with what 17.4 million of us decided three years ago.
Unless we agree with them there will still be this blockage. This isn’t caused by us, it’s caused by them.
We don’t need all this convoluted bollocks. We need decisive leadership.
We need someone with a bit of gumph and courage.
I didn’t see him tonight…
Philip McLaughlin, aka Phil Mack, the CEO of ‘Keep it Country’ TV channel has issued the bBC with an invoice for £1,328,350.00.
Keep It Country argues that viewers who tune in to their channel are forced to pay a fee toward the BBC. “We feel that independent channels should also be entitled to receive some of this funding,” they said.
“When the fee was changed from a ‘service charge’ to a ‘tax’ in 2006, a situation was created where even viewers who never watch BBC TV or listen to BBC radio were forced to pay for their chosen TV-radio reception while, at the same time, funding a service they never used,” McLaughlin said.
“Given that the TV Licensing Authority is a wholly owned subsidiary of the BBC, we believe that the current method of distributing the license fee revenue is both out-dated and grossly unfair.”
McLaughlin added that the BBC should be subject to Monopolies, Mergers and Competition rules – “just as any other ‘independent’ body would be” – and argued that, since the BBC’s share of viewership is now down to less than 30 per cent, the distribution of the license fee revenue “must be adjusted accordingly”.
Gloves off now. If the government that is supposed to protect it’s people won’t do it, then the people need to protect themselves against these savages. Mark my words, patience is quickly running out.
I think disorder is fairly common for Westfield Stratford . I don’t think plod will be capable of controlling outbreaks in London generated by twitter . The community reassurance officers will be working full time though ….
And its very likely that a large number of MPs/police persons are still expecting our police persons to go on the beat while wibbling and wobbling on their brand new Police Bicycles. Think they were black so I expect some white fuddy-duddies will complain moaning about the bikes being black?
Expect it to appear on BBC Watchdog – 30 minute report possible.
Lots on the media about a large gang attacking police in Westfield shopping centre.
Nowt on the beeb webshite, which makes me wonder who this ‘gang’ are. Perhaps the wrong sort.
(And once again Trump proves uncannily prophetic. Every time he pronounces on some new place that’s reduced to third world barbarism, the libtards poo-poo him, and within days or even hours he’s proven right. Maybe he’s a Prophet – a real one.)
Not BBC but C4. Did you notice how both on the C4 News and at the start of the debate itself they threw in an “and it’s all men” aside? This snide remark struck me as needless feminist paranoia in the light of two facts. 1. The current PM is a woman. 2. Two women were in the contest but were eliminated in the first round of voting.
There is clearly no barrier to women MPs standing in a leadership election or becoming PM.
I feel she might have, Up2snuff. I wish she had stood. But I’m not much good at the prophecy game. I thought Esther McVey was going to do a whole lot better.
Pug – The comments on the article are very informative, especially one by ‘Square Peg’. The comment he quotes from Richard Mawrey, Q.C. on postal votes is especially astonishing. There seems to be little faith in the Electoral Commission, and I get the feeling that Commission itself, needs a bit of research.
I googled the “Stratford disturbance” and some telling photographs popped up.
Yes, I’m afraid it’s the usual suspects, out doing a bit of Sunday afternoon mugging, when the pesky plod decided they had to intervene.
Understandably the youths, perceiving this unwarranted intervention as racial harassment, decided to pepper the police with bottles and other missiles. It’s all part of the rich tapestry of multicultural London life these days.
So, we’ve had another delightful weekend of mass stabbings, three murders and a shooting and now a full blown riot. Bliss!
And where is our diminutive, virtue signalling mayor while this wall to wall mayhem is going on?
Reminds me of that game we played back in the 70s.
Where’s Wally?
If only the Youth Clubs were open hey !!!!!! And if only somehow, someone could work out some kind of link / pattern between all these gang incidents in London ?????
I look at the pictures, watch the videos but I seem to see something very very different to what the likes of Khan, Abbott, Lammy, Cornyn , the BBC and msm keep telling me !
Just had to laugh at this bit, pug. “he helped build the surprisingly strong global response to the Skripal attacks in Salisbury.”
It was deja vu for me all over again (if I may borrow that famous expression) when the BBC reported this morning Jeremy Hunt’s latest statement about the tanker attack. IIRC, the word ‘almost’ has now been used about its attribution. That took a little longer than some previous rollbacks.
If Andrew Gilligan cares to look back, I think he will find that Bojo, far from ‘build the surprisingly strong global response to the Skripal attacks’ went verbally nuclear earlier than anyone apart from the PM – long before any facts were known and the OPCW had investigated and reported – and then spent successive days unwinding with qualification after qualification.
After the OPCW had reported, Bojo was noticeably quiet on the matter.
I wonder why?
PS: Gilligan appears to be a Remainer. Is that why he is promoting Bojo?
I don’t know how many PMQs there are before 31 October -I’m guessing not too many – maybe 10 ? But if Alex Boris can bluff his way through them to a no deal brexit – then who gives a damn what he says or does .
Fed, yeah, if …
… if Bojo does not flip-flop, like Stewart appears to now be doing
… if Bojo can inspire confidence among his wider Party colleagues
… if Bojo can get through the normal business ….
Who did you like out of the four apart from Javid & Stewart?
Carolyn Quinn talking with Sam Gyimah right now about Bojo u-turning on Brexit ….. hhhmmmmmnnnn.
CQ really pushing the 2nd Referendum thing on R4’s TWH hard.
Up2
Boris would do well to avoid the BBC – but if his appearance doesn’t adverse affect his coronation then the number 2 is Raab or Hunt. Judgement call on whether to have Gove inside the tent or not .
A majority brexit cabinet is vital .
As I was watching the five? guys – I thought how an equivalent labour pageant would have looked with real blood letting between Cooper, Nugee Abbot , wrong daily and token white .male .
As for gyimah – just a toxic remainer to be disguarded like any other token …
I thought in the husting Gove was quite funny – he sounded like an 18 year old applying for a job with a whole line of ‘ competencies ‘ .
Is it just me but do all ‘Radio 4 women’ in their dramas sound as if they are all played by Juliet Stevenson and that their characters are 21st century women regardless of the time in which the drama is set?
Tonight I heard The Trespasser’s Guide To The Classics – The Nose in which the male players put on accents and adopt mannerisms suited to the part and the women play identikit Radio 4 women and sound so similar that it was hard to tell them apart.
(The story was nominally based on Cyrano de Bergerac but being the BBC got converted into yet another lesbian love affair).
One of the actresses really, really sounded like the reader of the following story, about Annika Stranded, probably written by the husband of Juliet Stevenson and played by Juliet Stevenson, both operating under nom de plumes. Actually it could be written by Ricky Gervais as it is so boring.
Last season Annika helped kill of her male forensic photographer, who has now been replaced by a female. I guess this will be building up to Lesbians in Lapland, it is the BBC after all.
Jim – there’s the red northern lass who makes a good living doing voice overs for adverts – and the Asian one who was in some paki comedy thing who also turns up in just about everything . Really glad i avoid it…
Medialand vs real world
Like 10 days ago they really thought that cos May had been dry we’d soon be at risk of a drought.
“that drain is at 1/3 level & sluiced to keep it at that low level cos to leave space for drainage when rain comes”
– Thursday June 6th Lincolnshire drought could be coming
– Tuesday June 11th Lincolnshire rivers have flooded
..doh it’s worse than these pics show
… cos on that Thursday report the enviro reporter chose to stand next to a river much lower than this photo
a fenland drain which was at 1/3 level
And I thought ‘this is con cos that drain is probably got a sluice gate at the end and it’s probably been set to keep the drain low
so that when rain comes there is space for drainage’
– By Thu June 13th there was a megaflood at Wainfleet
. There is a particular reason for that : the banked river keeps water off the fenland had breached the bank repairs
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3pm drama on R4 : In the drama France has a femael Muslim who is about to win the presidential election.
.. a male Muslim candidate has just received a msg via child “go back to your own country”
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Jeez, second again ☹️
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theleftwilleatitself
Despair ye not, for the second mouse gets the cheese.
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Rod Liddle in the Times
basically says :
If a lefty makes a HATEY sneer at a righty’s expense, it counts as a JOKE
If a righty makes a JOKE ……… at a lefty’s expense, it counts as a HATE CRIME
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/i-wouldn-t-do-it-but-the-bbc-should-have-sacked-jo-brand-for-her-display-of-acid-wit-5m2gcgnzh
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So ‘Hate is Comedy’
and ‘Comedy Is Hate’
in UK 2019
#Orwellian
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Al Beeb don’t do comedy.
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Spot the difference.
Standard: “Mohammed Nadir Dafallah, 18, and a 17-year-old from Merton, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were charged on Sunday after an 18-year-old man was fatally stabbed on Friday in Wandsworth. ”
Al beeb: “A 17-year-old boy from Merton and an 18-year-old man from Wandsworth have been charged with his murder…”
So even when these savages are over 18, al beeb chooses not to reveal their identity.
I wonder why?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-48652848
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It’s a form of censorship. The media decides what is and what is not allowed to be known.
These are facts that they are hiding.
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Em if the older guy is the brother of the younger guy
..then naming him could put the name of the younger guy in the public domain
that is one plausible reason.
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The BBC don’t name the 18 year old but The Standard does. The BBC don’t name him because his name gives his religion.
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Channel 4 preparing for the candidate debate with news containing a bit of Trump-bashing. A former Obama aide did the job.
Wonder how little Guru-Murphy will perform? Sure he would have loved to do a bit of Boris-bashing…
Will he turn out to be yet another media Stewart fan?
He begins by telling us the audience are all potential Tory voters.
Wot, like on bbc panel discussions?
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KGM sneers ‘we have an empty lecturn here for Boris’
.. A million miles from being impartial
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Not BBC related, but..
This afternoon, we spent a pleasant afternoon at the small harbour town of Seaham on the Durham heritage coast.
Eating fish and chips on the Terrace Green by the seafront next to the war memorial and the statue of Tommy. (Tommy, referring to the archetype private soldier Tommy Atkins.) accompanied by several Durham colliery brass bands playing in the background. We then had a nice walk along the coastline looking for Seaham seaglass ( mermaids tears) amongst the pebbles.
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A perfect setting and a lovely atmosphere in a north eastern colliery town.
Only one thing was missing.
Not one BAME person of any colour, religion, or ethnicity was there.
So much for the BBC dream of a mixed race population
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Davy
Nice picture – there are some bits of Blighty that are just about still Blighty … best be quiet about them though …..so sad .
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davy, “Tommy, referring to the archetype private soldier Tommy Atkins.”
There’s an important anniversary coming up. I wonder if the BBC will miss it?
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davy,
And let any one of those obnoxious work-shy middle to upper class anarchists try and destroy or take that wonderful statue away.
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Vesnadog…. It won’t it was bought by the proud residents of that small northern town
(Copied from Sunniside Local History Society)
There is now a nine foot five inch welded metal statue on Terrace Green. It depicts a soldier of the First World War sitting on an ammunition box, rifle in hand, head bowed. Named ‘Eleven O One’ by its creator, artist Ray Lonsdale, the locals know it, simply, as ‘Tommy’, the universal nickname for a British soldier – particularly of the First World War. He was placed on temporary display in Seaham in the summer of 2014, but Tommy attracted so much affection that a campaign was launched to buy him and keep him in the town. The necessary £85,000 was raised surprisingly quickly and Tommy will remain in Seaham permanently. Practically speaking, it has been estimated that he won’t need to be moved for repair for at least 200 years; a time capsule has been buried beneath him. Seaham, an attractive place but with too many boarded-up windows, does not strike you as a town with cash to spare; paying for this remarkable sculpture is a powerful achievement..
Would this happen in London?
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C4 Tory love island
Round one – high spot – Rory going on about trying to get 3 rubbish bags into a bin . Lots of muddle. Gove best rehearsed and looking at the camera a lot . Hasn’t done a line yet and no one has lit up…
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‘Rory The Remainer’, well here it is from the horse’s mouth……………..
\\The international development secretary says a no-deal Brexit would be “catastrophic” and is “undeliverable” and “unnecessary”.//
\\He is planning to focus on getting Theresa May’s existing deal through Parliament as there is “no evidence” the EU will offer a different deal.//
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48496082
Forget the Tories, 3 years on and we are still in the EU, despite promising ‘to leave’ over a hundred times.
Vote and support UKIP and The Brexit Party.
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May went to Brussels two years ago simply to conspire with the EU. Her aim was to keep us in the EU. That’s why the discussions were ‘secret’.
Aided if not led of course by the upper echelons of the Civil Service.
The arrogant, double-dealing woman thought that Leavers such as myself were too thick to decry her false Brexit document.
I hope that there will be retribution.
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Dover Sentry
Hear, hear!
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C4 Tory love island 2
Nobody likes Nigel Farage – muddled thinking all round on whether parliament can overturn the brexit legislation as well as shutting parliament . Half way through and it looks like boris made the right decision .
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Lotsa blue on blue violence. Lovely to watch.
Dominic is probably the most trustworthy of a dodgy lot.
Uniting Britain: Rory says he is proud LimpDums and Labour voters would vote for him. Says a lot.
Gove puts the climate at the heart of policy.
Sajid says it has to be public services. Too many cuts. (Is he Labour?) Oops, he gets challenged about knife crime. Oops. Well-rehearsed, but -as Home Secretary – didn’t see that one coming
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C4 Tory love island round three
Two candidates said social care is their number one priority as PM – they are Jeremy Hunt and mad Rory . Rory obviously knows it will go down with Tory membership . Good old sajiv invoked the ghost of jo Cox for some reason and had to remind everyone that he is the Home Sec. Gove has mentioned ‘love’ twice and wants to care for kiddies …
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That Rory is the choice of so many leads one to wonder what dey iz smokin.
https://order-order.com/2019/06/16/rorys-bizarre-marr-interview/
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Looking more and more like Boris pulling an Ed Miliband and vanishing is a work of genius.
Maybe he should ditch la Mateless?
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Go with what works. There is no point in participating in a TV debate when the electorate is a couple of hundred who will presumably vote with policy not personality?
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Boris def getting Trump advice.
Ignore the far left media – they’ll make up shite anyway.
Guru Murthlty truly is a piece of shit.
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Thatch
I agree – I think boris might well pull out of the BBC mud throwing show – if he has any sense.
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C4 love island 4
Jeremy Hunt got a laugh for saying his biggest weakness was forgetting the nationality of his wife .mad Rory got a giggle for implying he didn’t want Boris as PM .
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C4 love island 5
30 second summaries . Embarrassing waffle . Except for the Raab promising to get out of the EU by 31 Oct .
Summary – an hour and a half wasted . Plenty of red wet tories about ….they had obviously agreed not to slag each other off … mad Rory described himself as ‘frail ‘ – Maggie would be proud of that now wouldn’t she ?
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Thanks for the review.
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Not – thanks – appreciate it – I have no real time for these red Tories any more but it was instructive . Sajid and Rory were in the same hopeless orbit ….
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Fed, echo NG but who came out top in your estimation, if SJ & RS were bottom of the heap?
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Fedup2 I didn’t watch the debate hence my interest. It’s funny I used to watch a lot of politics on TV including The Daily Politics and the various Sunday morning shows. Interviews and debates have seemed to become more and more formulaic over time.
Whoever wins the current contest for leader of the Conservative party will have the same May era parliament to work with (or against). Could the Conservatives coalesce and vote as one block on EU policy – I’d be amazed if they did?
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NG, me, too, back in the telly days with Paxo on Newsnight. Shows how long ago I was a TV regular. Now, I’m thankful that I cannot (legally) watch it although I think C4 on demand (if they archive the debate) is available to non-Licence holders. But I will not bother anyway. Cannot remember my C4 on demand password. I found their F1 reportage so dire at the start of their first season of coverage that I never went back.
The factors currently uniting the Tories is the thought that The Brexit Party alone, cannot see off a Coalition between the LimpNonDems, SNP, Plaid, Greens & Change plus Labour. Therefore, the Tories unite and hope they can fracture, just possibly, the firm Labour Party Brexiteers (about 12 – 16?) away from Labour toward TBP. Then there’s an electoral chance for the Conservatives to govern in Coalition with TBP.
However, every time people mention polls and polling, I have to remind myself how wrong they can be.
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Up2snuff
“the Tories unite”
This is the bit I have trouble with so far as EU policy is concerned. Cynical me I just can’t imagine it. I find it easier to believe that “there’s an electoral chance for the Conservatives to govern in Coalition with TBP”.
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Fed,
Not love island.
I’m still fuming about the news that Ms May is doing all her best to stop Brexit going through!
Unbelievable; so she was lying to every one all along.
Surely there must be some rule or law that she can be prosecuted with?
Hate the BBC as well. (thought I’d just say that as it always makes me feel good – and its Monday)
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“Soccer Aid”
Don’t we already send enough “charity” abroad?
What’s the point in sending money to Africa. Is it to pay for their iPhones and dingys to come here?
By the way the wimmin players are hopeless.
Bit of a cheek when banner on screen minimum donation is £10
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If the stats I’ve read regarding today’s WWC games are true (and they are from a very reliable app), then the two losing teams today managed exactly one corner BETWEEN them in the two games ????
End to end I’m guessing the games weren’t ????
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Rory’s idea to break the Parliamentary impasse is bloody ludicrous.
First he says he’ll give the MPs another chance to pass the deal. If they fail he’ll start trawling the phone book, looking for thousands of our fellow citizens and inviting all races and religions and opinions to try to sort this out. Good luck with that!
He’ll give these poor sods a couple of weeks and then put what they’ve decided before Parliament. And this is the priceless bit. If our MPs don’t agree with what we have decided, we’ll be back where we started.
What’s the bleedin’ point?
They didn’t agree with what 17.4 million of us decided three years ago.
Unless we agree with them there will still be this blockage. This isn’t caused by us, it’s caused by them.
We don’t need all this convoluted bollocks. We need decisive leadership.
We need someone with a bit of gumph and courage.
I didn’t see him tonight…
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http://www.theirishworld.com/give-us-fair-share-of-tv-license-fee-says-keep-it-country-boss/
Philip McLaughlin, aka Phil Mack, the CEO of ‘Keep it Country’ TV channel has issued the bBC with an invoice for £1,328,350.00.
Keep It Country argues that viewers who tune in to their channel are forced to pay a fee toward the BBC. “We feel that independent channels should also be entitled to receive some of this funding,” they said.
“When the fee was changed from a ‘service charge’ to a ‘tax’ in 2006, a situation was created where even viewers who never watch BBC TV or listen to BBC radio were forced to pay for their chosen TV-radio reception while, at the same time, funding a service they never used,” McLaughlin said.
“Given that the TV Licensing Authority is a wholly owned subsidiary of the BBC, we believe that the current method of distributing the license fee revenue is both out-dated and grossly unfair.”
McLaughlin added that the BBC should be subject to Monopolies, Mergers and Competition rules – “just as any other ‘independent’ body would be” – and argued that, since the BBC’s share of viewership is now down to less than 30 per cent, the distribution of the license fee revenue “must be adjusted accordingly”.
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100 yoofs attack police in London.
Must be the Khan-do approach.
(Sorry!)
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Gloves off now. If the government that is supposed to protect it’s people won’t do it, then the people need to protect themselves against these savages. Mark my words, patience is quickly running out.
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I think disorder is fairly common for Westfield Stratford . I don’t think plod will be capable of controlling outbreaks in London generated by twitter . The community reassurance officers will be working full time though ….
Better no tell President Trump !
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Fed, this is what I understand at the moment:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7147411/Gang-100-youths-bombard-police-bottles-missiles-Lawless-London.html
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Thank you Cassandra – I thought it might be a replay of the India – paki cricket ….
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Fed,
And its very likely that a large number of MPs/police persons are still expecting our police persons to go on the beat while wibbling and wobbling on their brand new Police Bicycles. Think they were black so I expect some white fuddy-duddies will complain moaning about the bikes being black?
Expect it to appear on BBC Watchdog – 30 minute report possible.
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Lots on the media about a large gang attacking police in Westfield shopping centre.
Nowt on the beeb webshite, which makes me wonder who this ‘gang’ are. Perhaps the wrong sort.
(And once again Trump proves uncannily prophetic. Every time he pronounces on some new place that’s reduced to third world barbarism, the libtards poo-poo him, and within days or even hours he’s proven right. Maybe he’s a Prophet – a real one.)
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BBC Online News:
“”Golan Heights: Israel unveils ‘Trump Heights’ settlement””
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-48656431
How to wind up the BBC/Left anti-semite and anti-Trump brigade.
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Priceless – good on them .
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Not BBC but C4. Did you notice how both on the C4 News and at the start of the debate itself they threw in an “and it’s all men” aside? This snide remark struck me as needless feminist paranoia in the light of two facts. 1. The current PM is a woman. 2. Two women were in the contest but were eliminated in the first round of voting.
There is clearly no barrier to women MPs standing in a leadership election or becoming PM.
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I wonder whether Priti Patel might have survived the first round of voting, Z?
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I feel she might have, Up2snuff. I wish she had stood. But I’m not much good at the prophecy game. I thought Esther McVey was going to do a whole lot better.
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Pug – The comments on the article are very informative, especially one by ‘Square Peg’. The comment he quotes from Richard Mawrey, Q.C. on postal votes is especially astonishing. There seems to be little faith in the Electoral Commission, and I get the feeling that Commission itself, needs a bit of research.
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I googled the “Stratford disturbance” and some telling photographs popped up.
Yes, I’m afraid it’s the usual suspects, out doing a bit of Sunday afternoon mugging, when the pesky plod decided they had to intervene.
Understandably the youths, perceiving this unwarranted intervention as racial harassment, decided to pepper the police with bottles and other missiles. It’s all part of the rich tapestry of multicultural London life these days.
So, we’ve had another delightful weekend of mass stabbings, three murders and a shooting and now a full blown riot. Bliss!
And where is our diminutive, virtue signalling mayor while this wall to wall mayhem is going on?
Reminds me of that game we played back in the 70s.
Where’s Wally?
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If only the Youth Clubs were open hey !!!!!! And if only somehow, someone could work out some kind of link / pattern between all these gang incidents in London ?????
I look at the pictures, watch the videos but I seem to see something very very different to what the likes of Khan, Abbott, Lammy, Cornyn , the BBC and msm keep telling me !
Strange hey !!!!!!!
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Just had to laugh at this bit, pug. “he helped build the surprisingly strong global response to the Skripal attacks in Salisbury.”
It was deja vu for me all over again (if I may borrow that famous expression) when the BBC reported this morning Jeremy Hunt’s latest statement about the tanker attack. IIRC, the word ‘almost’ has now been used about its attribution. That took a little longer than some previous rollbacks.
If Andrew Gilligan cares to look back, I think he will find that Bojo, far from ‘build the surprisingly strong global response to the Skripal attacks’ went verbally nuclear earlier than anyone apart from the PM – long before any facts were known and the OPCW had investigated and reported – and then spent successive days unwinding with qualification after qualification.
After the OPCW had reported, Bojo was noticeably quiet on the matter.
I wonder why?
PS: Gilligan appears to be a Remainer. Is that why he is promoting Bojo?
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Looks like a certain someone is after a job …
I don’t know how many PMQs there are before 31 October -I’m guessing not too many – maybe 10 ? But if Alex Boris can bluff his way through them to a no deal brexit – then who gives a damn what he says or does .
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Fed, yeah, if …
… if Bojo does not flip-flop, like Stewart appears to now be doing
… if Bojo can inspire confidence among his wider Party colleagues
… if Bojo can get through the normal business ….
Who did you like out of the four apart from Javid & Stewart?
Carolyn Quinn talking with Sam Gyimah right now about Bojo u-turning on Brexit ….. hhhmmmmmnnnn.
CQ really pushing the 2nd Referendum thing on R4’s TWH hard.
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Up2
Boris would do well to avoid the BBC – but if his appearance doesn’t adverse affect his coronation then the number 2 is Raab or Hunt. Judgement call on whether to have Gove inside the tent or not .
A majority brexit cabinet is vital .
As I was watching the five? guys – I thought how an equivalent labour pageant would have looked with real blood letting between Cooper, Nugee Abbot , wrong daily and token white .male .
As for gyimah – just a toxic remainer to be disguarded like any other token …
I thought in the husting Gove was quite funny – he sounded like an 18 year old applying for a job with a whole line of ‘ competencies ‘ .
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Is it just me but do all ‘Radio 4 women’ in their dramas sound as if they are all played by Juliet Stevenson and that their characters are 21st century women regardless of the time in which the drama is set?
Tonight I heard The Trespasser’s Guide To The Classics – The Nose in which the male players put on accents and adopt mannerisms suited to the part and the women play identikit Radio 4 women and sound so similar that it was hard to tell them apart.
(The story was nominally based on Cyrano de Bergerac but being the BBC got converted into yet another lesbian love affair).
One of the actresses really, really sounded like the reader of the following story, about Annika Stranded, probably written by the husband of Juliet Stevenson and played by Juliet Stevenson, both operating under nom de plumes. Actually it could be written by Ricky Gervais as it is so boring.
Last season Annika helped kill of her male forensic photographer, who has now been replaced by a female. I guess this will be building up to Lesbians in Lapland, it is the BBC after all.
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LOL X 5, Jim
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Jim – there’s the red northern lass who makes a good living doing voice overs for adverts – and the Asian one who was in some paki comedy thing who also turns up in just about everything . Really glad i avoid it…
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Medialand vs real world
Like 10 days ago they really thought that cos May had been dry we’d soon be at risk of a drought.
“that drain is at 1/3 level & sluiced to keep it at that low level cos to leave space for drainage when rain comes”
– Thursday June 6th Lincolnshire drought could be coming
– Tuesday June 11th Lincolnshire rivers have flooded
..doh it’s worse than these pics show
… cos on that Thursday report the enviro reporter chose to stand next to a river much lower than this photo
a fenland drain which was at 1/3 level
And I thought ‘this is con cos that drain is probably got a sluice gate at the end and it’s probably been set to keep the drain low
so that when rain comes there is space for drainage’
– By Thu June 13th there was a megaflood at Wainfleet
. There is a particular reason for that : the banked river keeps water off the fenland had breached the bank repairs
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Al Beeb wrong again.
Ask yourself the question, why do you pay for such rubbish?
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Where did that Look North presenter get the idea that there was a drought ?
Ricard Drake points us a Guardian article pushing Climate alarmism
and a later letter backing it up
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/27/weatherwatch-england-is-desperate-for-rain
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Darn I just screwed up that my first post there
the line “that drain is at 1/3 level ..” is not supposed to be there
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Not al beeb, sorry, but good luck Justin Rose tonight against the Yanks! ????
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theleftwilleatitself
You are right – Not Al Beeb.
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Time for the new Thread I think ….
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Grumpy git ????
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Taffman that is ????
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7149611/Zero-viewers-tune-21-shows-BBCs-new-32m-Scottish-TV-channel.html
More than 20 shows on the BBC’s new £32m Scottish TV channel attract ZERO viewers as public brands it ‘rubbish’ and a ‘waste’ of the licence fee
No viewers tuned in to 21 programmes on BBC’s new £32million channel
On another day programmes on Scottish channel averaged 7,200 viewers
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