321 Responses to Start the Week Open Thread 5 August 2019

  1. Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

    On the ‘Today’ programme this morning, there seemed to me to be bias about Kashmir and the suspension of the special arrangements that province had after Indian independence.

    The key question of motivation was not asked. There must, presumably, be a reason for the Indian government acting as it has: the move will not have come from nowhere. Whatever the rights and wrongs of this (I make no comment, as I don’t know and feel that the BBC is unlikely to explain!) it would be nice to hear more than the Muslim and Pakistani sides to the question.

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    • Annunaki says:

      M, at the risk of repeating myself, I refer the honourable member to my earlier post:

      BBC : Article 370: What happened with Kashmir and why it matters

      I’ll tell you why it matters, TO THE BBC, its a muslim area, you know, that lot reponsible for 90% of the wars, genicides, rapes and torture around the worls (that don’t appear to matter)

      Racist murders of white farmers in South Africa also don’t matter TO THE BBC, apparently. or months of mass protests in France on our doorstep (although purple haired pierced climate protests or anti Trump / Boris protests by a few hundred do matter)

      This is blatant bias by omission and political propoganda

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  2. Fedup2 says:

    A story which I don’t think will feature much on the bbc .

    A 14 year old boy dies in his home . Police are called to guard the body until the parents arrive .

    So what does the police officer – PC Avi Maharaj, 44
    do -?
    Yes he gets the PIN number to the TV system and buys porn to watch online until the mum and dad arrive.
    Later – the TV subscription bill arrives resulting in PC Avi Maharaj, 44 appearing in court facing jail time – plenty of porn to watch in there .

    Unlike TR – he ll probably get a suspended sentence for ‘ cultural ‘ reasons … the BBC would have hate President Trump than wonder how cops are selected these days ….

    Apparently the PC pleaded guilty in magistrates court but the judge has sent it to crown court for increased sentencing powers .

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    • StewGreen says:

      @Fedup ..you are behind cos I heard it on around July 18th
      but maybe it was not selected for #OperationBangingOn
      like they only tweeted it once
      .. whereas CNN tweeted that antifa Dayton story once before 2pm and then again 2 hours later

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Stew – Confession – it’s the second time I put this story up . If it wasn’t so sick it would be funny just for the sheer horror involved –

        Where the father of a boy who appears to have ended his life thought one of his last acts was to buy porn using his parents details .
        Instead it’s an animal ‘ copper ‘ who even tried to cover it up by falsifying records to blame the deceased .

        Apparently the soon to be ex copper got bail pending sentence – …..

        Nice to see the local useless amateur BBC news reported it though – gone in an hour – stories against the diversity grain .,,

        If the cop gets time he’ll probably land up in solitary at Bellmarsh adjacent to TR and the wiki leaks bloke

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  3. StewGreen says:

    What name is on this account
    This enormous monstrosity is the world’s first floating nuclear power plant.
    It’s about to start operating in the Russian Arctic.
    No, we’re not joking.
    This is a real thing.
    #NuclearTitanic

    https://wwwtheguardian.com/world/2019/aug/04/russia-floating-nuclear-power-station-chernobyl-on-ice

    Clue their own ships run on diesel.

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  4. Annunaki says:

    Londistan experiences part one:

    Southall Station, whats all that about ? station sign in punjabi, my wife has to take a series of english exams to pass her immigration application, increasingly harder each time, and so why do the residents there not have to bother ?

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  5. JamesArthur says:

    R4 news at 5.. what a bunch of ….I cannot believe how blatant they are at pushing a one sided argument – playing the response of one US Democrat (who was on this morning) and ignoring completely the other one who gave a positive response – giving the impression there is only one (negative view) from the USA…then throwing in that the USA will want us to accept food that is currently banned..has the BBC negotiated the trade deal?

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  6. Annunaki says:

    Londistan part two today:

    A double decker bus with a full banner advert for North West London college, fair enough, but the (I kid you not) 8 foot high portrait of a grinning black male dwarf accompanying it ????

    Should have been in rainbow T shirt or stockings and heels and it would have won bleeding awards

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  7. Annunaki says:

    just checked their website dunno whats happened to the dwarf but the usual, in the “about section” 5 photos:
    three black wimmin, one white wimmin and a token white male

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    • Annunaki says:

      If you check the photos thought I saw the top of his head in one

      next time, I suggest a trampoline with a fast shutter speed

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      • Annunaki says:

        West Drayton is a ward in Hillingdon of London, England and includes areas of Yiewsley.

        In the 2011 census the population of West Drayton was 14,370 and is made up of approximately 51% females and 49% males.

        The average age of people in West Drayton is 35, while the median age is lower at 33.

        70.1% of people living in West Drayton were born in England. Other top answers for country of birth were 4.4% India, 1.7% Pakistan, 1.1% Ireland, 1.0% Scotland, 1.0% Somalia, 1.0% Sri Lanka, 0.9% Kenya, 0.8% Nigeria, 0.7% Wales.http://west-drayton.localstats.co.uk/census-demographics/england/london/hillingdon/west-drayton

        No one it seems identifies as a black dwarf

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        • Annunaki says:

          Although I could be way off mark here and there is a Snow White post grad course running with limited uptake, or the philosophy of R2D2 or something

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  8. JamesArthur says:

    Sorry to post again but I have just had to switch R4 news off..where do they get these people from – asking if they will change their eating habits as a result of no deal Brexit…
    The Brexiteers they found (surprise) were stoic and had common sense, then to finish a woman who said she would stock up with tinned stuff and if we started getting meat from the US she would go vegetarian..what a dumb idiot – does she not realise the UK produces meat and we get it from places outside of the EU..Jesus. and they call us Brexiteers thick… BBC really is hitting the project fear V3 pedal

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  9. Annunaki says:

    Rachel Riley slams Labour councillor for suggesting the Countdown star is ‘working for Israel’ and will be to blame for ‘another Jo Cox’ murder by calling out anti-Semitism in the party

    Newly-elected councillor Lisa Lewis was called a ‘racist’ by Ms Riley on Twitter
    The Labour representative retweeted an article about Ms Riley by the Dorset Eye
    It said Ms Riley ‘and her goons’ will be responsible for ‘another Jo Cox moment’
    Ms Lewis, elected in Southbourne in May, once claimed she was ‘15% Jewish’

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7325919/Rachel-Riley-slams-Labour-councillor-endorsing-Jo-Cox-moment-article.html

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  10. StewGreen says:

    ITV local news deeper report on the Beechwood children’s home in Nottinghamshire,
    the main focus was an ex-police officer said he feels really sad cos he did get called there on other jobs, but the police got no complaints about sexual abuse.

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  11. taffman says:

    Boris seriously needs to look at Al Beeb and decide who they side with, The EU or Great Britain ?
    Then do something about this bloated autonomous oligarchy.

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    • Annunaki says:

      ” bloated autonomous oligarchy” I would have said “bunch of tos@@rs” but that’ll do I suppose

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  12. taffman says:

    Does Al Beeb fix the Have Your Say ‘ticks’?
    Something tells me they do .

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  13. Guest Who says:

    And… Newsnight is off!

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    • Annunaki says:

      Only one word that matters there : “former” for reasons we can only assume ….like that British Baker and his former girlfriend who somehow gets photographed every day this week in a variety of costumes and poses going about her “normal life” that always appear in the tabloids, each and every day and not one of those pics from a distance or blurred, funny that

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      • Fedup2 says:

        The democrats will roll any ex FBI paid mouthpiece out against POTUS. They were politicised and owned by democrat presidents and must know that they are on the reform list come the second term

        As the US economy grows the democrats must be desperate for a new front – race- guns … but as a foreigner looking in – it will tick boxes for those already signed up to the democrats but give POTUS the benefit of the doubt .
        No dumb wars going on – getting jobs back to The US and doing what a Kind of Republican President does .

        But there’s a year to the election and events have consequences …

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        • Annunaki says:

          I am frankly amazed at his resilience in the only suststained and complete and utter ongoing peacetime attack upon the American presidency never seen since Japan in the second world war

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  14. Doobster78 says:

    Elizabeth Warren !!! The bbc’s new Rory Stewart. Jon already getting excited .

    Still retweeting owt that fits his anti Trump agenda tho. h

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Doob
      I think Biden might turn into a laughing stock if he stays in the race . Still waiting for A black female TV personality to throw her hat in the ring .

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      • Doobster78 says:

        Indeed Fed. I think Biden’s wandering hands may be his downfall. There’s no doubt about it, he’s a creepy little toad. I smell a “he touched me” scandal around the corner !!

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  15. Guest Who says:

    OT, but might the BBC consider whether a group they seem so smitten by are entirely sane?

    I appreciate this shared tweet will likely be removed, but too many are using this technique to try and stir up the feeble minded. And the national broadcaster is utterly complicit.

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    • StewGreen says:

      XR’s tweet of course stirs up *HATE*

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      • Guest Who says:

        Ah, but, according to BBC Editorial Guidelines and hence ofcom, the right kind of hate, so all good.

        Apparently.

        In other news, to celebrate Jon Snow’s washing of colour, and to continue its efforts at maintaining community harmony, the BBC is running a celebration of… the Black Panther movement.

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  16. StewGreen says:

    BBC Trending is predictably shouting “white nationalists”
    …many they mean the SNP

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  17. StewGreen says:

    Talk Radio report is written as if saying that TR supporters broke through police lines and attacked a police medic
    ..but that could be a diliberately misleading way of saying that it was antifa
    ..The livestream showed them constantly trying to push thru police lines
    https://talkradio.co.uk/news/police-medic-attacked-tommy-robinson-protest-19080631836

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  18. Guest Who says:

    OT, but as an evening hoot, this entire comment thread is comedy gold. I have not yet reached Gavin, Paul, Femi or O’Brien’s contribution, but it can only be a matter of time.

    https://twitter.com/migthewelshman/status/1156659043290746882?s=21

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  19. Fedup2 says:

    Guest
    What a great idea – those countries who have ‘sent ‘ large numbers of their citizens for resettlement in the UK can accept ‘remainer ‘ types – I’m sure a million or more will be happy in Poland or other ex communist states .

    Maybe the BBC can do a ‘remainers in need’ thing or ‘EU red nose day “ with scores of snow flakes remainer ‘comedians ‘ doing their amusing pieces to support remainers leaving the UK for the Reich ….

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  20. Fedup2 says:

    Threads getting tired so it’s time for a nice shiny new one ….

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  21. taffman says:

    “Leo Varadkar: Post-Brexit vote on Irish unity not the way forward”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-49247754
    In the interest of The Republic of Ireland, Loe Veradkar should consider holding a referendum on whether or not his country should leave the EU.
    Simples

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