Midweek Thread 27 November 2019

Nearly half way through the election campaign and the Far Left Pro Labour bias is pretty much set . Stories which potentially harm Conservative pro Brexit views are maximised whilst stories harming Labour are avoided or minimised . The Brexit Party is refusing to take part in C4 politics programmes and it can’t be long before the BBC is boycotted because of left and anti brexit bias . At least the Chief Rabbi can’t be shut up .

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427 Responses to Midweek Thread 27 November 2019

  1. StewGreen says:

    PJW on UK2019

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  2. Thoughtful says:

    According to the DM the cowardly useless incompetent Tories and their laughably inept leader Boris the Bottler have realised Channel 4 is biased against them.

    Note that last phrase carefully because as much as I read through the cowardly useless incompetent Tory complaints, they never mention left wing bias, just a bias against them in one particular program, because lets face it, this is all about them and no one & nothing else matters to them.

    The Tory party are a shower, a clueless bunch of inept wet lettuces, with the Marxist Michael Gove making his attempt to talk of a non existent climate emergency denied by C4.

    What have these morons been doing for the last decade plus when everyone on conservative forums has been calling out the BBC and C4 for their bias?
    They’ve been fawning over Sharon White who has had a disastrous tenure at Offcom, failing to do anything about this bias. She even failed to take action when the Tories complained to her, and she’s still the golden girl to them.

    Most of the people I talk to do not think Boris the Bottler will make a good PM or even an adequate one. They talk about the lies both side are telling, and they have liitle hope or respect for the political classes who appear as arrogant as they ever were without an ounce of humility for what they have done to our democracy.

    When I look back at this party I see a succession of poor quality people at the head (can’t being myself to call them leaders) They only allowed quality people to emerge when the task was too difficult for the alumni of the Rotten School to lead comfortable tenures in post. WInston Churchill would never have been allowed to hold high office were it not for WWII, and neither would Margaret Thatcher without the economic crisis caused by Wilson / Calaghan, and once she’d done that the posh boys soon kicked her out to replace her with one of their very worst offerings John Major !

    As Peter Hitchens says it is a dying party, rotten to the core beliving in nothing, devoid of vision passion courage and direction. It exists now only to provide jobs for the sons of gentlemen.

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  3. StewGreen says:

    John McDonnelll on Talk Radio being asked about the maths of planting 2 billion trees
    He replied “2 billion, go on Google, and you’ll see Ethiopia planted 300 million trees in ONE DAY !, it’s on Google !
    So our plan is feasible”

    “it’s on Google !” so must be true
    .. It isn’t true you dumbass

    The BBC page tells of how they immediately encountered false numbers
    The first village said it reported double the plant they had done, never mind how many actually lived.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-49266983

    ================
    McDonell had a list of points attacking Boris’s character
    …hang on is John McDonnell attacking someone else’s character FFS

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  4. theisland says:

    One assumes Richard Tice will not be heard above the screeching harpies (including Robinson).

    I won’t be watching.

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  5. StewGreen says:

    DMGT, the owner of the now quite metro-liberal Daily Mail,
    have bought the very metro-liberal i-newspaper for £49.6m.

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  6. StewGreen says:

    Funny how it looks to me that Channel4 are the intimidators and bullies

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  7. StewGreen says:

    Grenfell how did the guy get £89K ?
    Which incompetent manager sighned that off.

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  8. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Labour are getting all upset about the waspi women and want to buy their votes.

    The change was made law in1995
    Labour was in power 1997-2010
    They had 13 years to do something about it.
    They done nothing.

    Is it labour policy to give everybody who was affected by any change in the law full compensation?
    If so, why, after 50 full years of NI payments do I get a lower pension (by about £40 per week or £2000 per year) than now for people who paid in for 30 or 35 years.
    Where’s my handout?

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    • BRISSLES says:

      Same here Manny, I paid in 2 years extra NI payments for what ? nothing, and I’m certainly not re-imbursed for the extra money I paid. The treasury coffers must be heaving with extra cash from others like me.

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      • Beltane says:

        Best of all, try deferring your state pension, as I did for 3 years, and build up a nice pot of contributions to look forward to. And then discover that the bastards tax this pension pot – money on which you have already paid tax of course, and a neat move which is not mentioned in the Deferred Pension paperwork – so you end up with 20% less than you’d hoped, or even naively, expected.

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  9. StewGreen says:

    Dave Edwards had him at count #17 when he was arrested

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  10. Terminal Moraine says:

    November 2019: home page sympathy for Muslim academic: The Muslim Sanskrit professor boycotted over his religion. He faces protests against his teaching Sanskrit — the ancient language of India with deep religious connections to Hinduism — in a Varanasi university.

    January 2018: BBC advertises vacancy for a Trainee Multi-Media Journalist. Post not open to white people.

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    • gb123 says:

      Re Creative Access.
      Since the BBC highlighted the 10000 year old Cheddar man as dark skinned many brits should qualify.

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  11. Guest Who says:

    Not helping, Paul.

    Again.

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  12. Terminal Moraine says:

    BBC going big on global conversion stories these days; also on the home page is ‘Toronto man’ Jaskanwal Singh — who apparently led a life of booze and women but now has “stopped drinking and decided to wear a turban again.”

    This follows the article a fortnight ago about the All Blacks’ Sonny Bill Williams — who apparently led a life of booze and women but converted to Islam to cure the “hollowness and emptiness in my heart.”

    If you pay the licence fee it’s funding the BBC’s highly selective promotion of religious piety as the answer to western decadence (LGBT and drill music excepted).

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  13. Dystopian says:

    Breaking news just heard on Talk Radio
    A ‘man’ has been shot dead by police at London Bridge.
    Anything on the biased BBC yet?
    Lone wolf?
    Mental issues?

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    • Doobster78 says:

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      • Doobster78 says:

        “A group of men” !!! Ok. We’ll see !!! I will have £5 on a “gang of coloured men” And within hours, the BBC will have found out they all have “mental health issues”

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    • StewGreen says:

      Actual video of the shooting
      The public have the guy on the ground (maybe after a stabbing)
      the public back off
      the cop physically pulls off the last public (maybe non white)
      ..the cops fire one shot.

      Other pics show a big white truck driven diagonally across road
      ..not clear if that was a good guy or bomber guy etc.
      “Can clearly see the long blade on the ground before police fire, fantastic work MET.”

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      • StewGreen says:

        Live police dogs are on the bridge barking like crazy

        LBC “police say there are 5 casualties” one dead
        Officers were called to a stabbing at premises near the bridge just before 2pm. A man has been detained

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  14. G.W.F. says:

    Has anyone pointed out to Corbyn that planting trees is racist?

    According to loony left sources trees oppress black people.
    Black people were lynched on the trees. The tree became a big symbol.” Black people are triggered by trees and suffer Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome flashbacks.

    I do hope that one of the speakers at the so exciting election debates will draw attention to this and put Labour on th spot.

    https://archives.frontpagemag.com/fpm/racist-trees-our-national-parks-daniel-greenfield/

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    • Thoughtful says:

      So is feminism. The concept that ‘women must be believed’ is often what triggered lynchings.

      “I was raped by a Black man” Woman believed without question black man lynched as a result.

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  15. StewGreen says:

    via Guido : So Corby and all went stood in a studio where Channel4 had wiped Israel off the map by super-widening the Suez Canal.
    Then Corby and all said Gove could not appear on the prog.
    https://order-order.com/2019/11/29/geography-quiz-countrys-missing-off-channel-4s-map/

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  16. Dystopian says:

    Apparently the ‘man’ was attacking people with a knife and was shot by police.

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    • Cassandra says:

      It’s not ‘Islamophobia’ when they really are trying to kill you.

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      • Doublethinker says:

        Oh yes it is! Any attempt to resist , whether physical or verbal , the Islamification of our country is deemed to be islamophobic. We are just supposed to sit quietly and allow it to happen.

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      • Halifax says:

        BBC just confirmed he was shot dead by the BRITISH Police …….disgusting

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  17. Guest Who says:

    There was a hustings locally the other day. My god.

    There was no debate, in fact it was more like Question Time from pre-vetted questioners posing trigger questions, and often seeded-activist rambles more than questions, poor chairing and formulaic answers from candidates with heckling allowed from an audience rammed with Remainers.

    The soppy Tory was up against three, cancel-Brexit foes, who were cheered with their ‘we are the Remain party’ slogans, even the daft Labour bat who seriously tried to explain to all the poor idiots not in the supportive crowd what Jez really meant, but was unable as a potential leader to explain.

    She also trotted out Labour talking points based on BBC edits.

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  18. Doobster78 says:

    Blimey

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    • StewGreen says:

      2 proper shots at the guy right at the end
      “definitely a firearm”

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      • StewGreen says:

        LBC caller \\”he had a belt on” the people in front of my wife said//

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        • StewGreen says:

          Police have told one store manager at London Bridge that five people were stabbed before the assailant was taken out (tasered we think)
          told there 3 attackers
          seems one shot , one escaped

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  19. Cassandra says:

    I keep thinking of Corbyn’s reply to Andrew Neil this week about whether he would give the order to kill a terrorist…

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    • StewGreen says:

      yeh pretty quick photoshop job

      On cue LBC just read out actual tweet “our thoughts and prayers”

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      • Cassandra says:

        One thing SG that is not photoshopped is the large concrete blocks around the Christmas Markets of the UK to protect the non-muslim shoppers from being attacked and killed by the muslims. Can I still say ‘muslims’ or will the Muslim Council of Britain be offended?

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    • smoogie7 says:

      Britain really needs to wake up to what Corbyn said the other day.

      Sadly Labour are still making small gains in the polls. Are Brittons really wanting to warm up to Corbyn again?

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  20. Guest Who says:

    Haven’t watched yet. May be worth it if not totally under BBC control.

    https://www.chathamhouse.org/file/uk-general-election-2019-bbc-chatham-house-foreign-policy-debate?

    I am interested in issues beyond how many trees the local MPs personally plant.

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  21. vlad says:

    In connection with the London Bridge incident, the BBC are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed this latest appalling example of police brutality and islamophobia.

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  22. Cassandra says:

    There were some heroes on this bridge today.

    https://twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/1200445477457670145

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    • The General says:

      The man who took the assailant’s knife and ran clear with it in his hand threw something from his pocket onto the pavement. No doubt in due course he will receive a summons for littering.

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  23. Halifax says:

    At least we know the attacker wasn’t a White Supremest …..BBC would have named and shamed by now..

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    • fakenewswatcher says:

      Halifax – they may not have named and shamed, but the phrase ‘right-wing extremist’ would also have been squeezed in half a dozen times just for good measure! Another clue?

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    • Oaknash says:

      He could be – arnt they all these days.

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  24. Thoughtful says:

    What a shockingly cowardly response from our political elites over this yet again. Not a single one of them acknowledged the sheer heroism – and it is the real heroism of putting ones own life on the line, not the ridiculous debased heroism of the media.

    Each of these people deserve a high ranking medal such as the George Cross. The woeful Socialist French President François Hollande gave US service personnel France’s highest decoration, the Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

    Boris the bottler can’t even manage to acknowedge White people put their lives on the line to save others. They weren’t paid to put their lives on the line, they weren’t wearing anti stab vests, or carrying tasers or pepper sprays, much less firearms, they went in unarmed and unprotected, and out cowardly political elites ignoring of them speaks volumes of how detestable the political elites.

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    • vlad says:

      But at least Boris won’t spout any crap about it being the religion of peace, unlike his useless predecessor.

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      • Halifax says:

        So it’s declared a Terrorist incident…..so the person carrying out the terrorisim was a attacker…..well according to the BBC he is……disgusting.

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      • Thoughtful says:

        Erm cast your mind back to the murder of Lee Rigby when Boris openly lied about the RoP stating that there was absolutely nothing in the Qur’an to justify what the two unspeakables did.

        I have absolute faith that the cowardly Boris the Bottles will again be spouting crap about the RoP loudly often and with the maximum falsehood he can manage.

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        • Oaknash says:

          Havnt posted for a while cos I have a new “digital” car radio and I cant get R4 down here in the west country. However I can get London Talk Radio and am pleased to report that they were very quick off the mark this afternoon to remind us all that apparently “far right” terrorist groups are apparently the fastest growing terrorist groups in the UK. Not surprised assuming they have counted UKIP which wants Brexit and doesnt seem to trust the religion of Peace for some reason.
          I was also heartened to hear that Assistant Commissioner Neil Bassau is taking control. I am sure he will be able to keep us all grounded by reminding us that “far-right groups ‘could exploit Brexit’ by spreading extremist ideology that results in terrorist attack surge” UKIP again?
          Hopefully Neil and his gallant chums will be able to stop us all saying any hurty words about any religion which preaches “death to Kaffirs” to give the Police time to complete their thorough investigations and declare the attacker mentally ill instead.

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          • JimS says:

            I understand that those people holding the most ‘conservative’ views in Britain now number nearly three million and rising.

            They must surely be ‘extreme far-right’ as their ‘manifesto’ goes back 1400 years whereas the Conservative party one only dates from 1834.

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    • The General says:

      Don’t you think you are jumping in too soon to criticise Boris for not acknowledging the members of the public who tackled the assailant? He has not even made a statement yet.

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      • The General says:

        There we are, Boris has just made his statement praising the extraordinary bravery of the members of the public.

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        • Thoughtful says:

          He did make a statement and he completely omitted the heroes from it, it is only post the comments here that he made those comments.

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  25. Jeff says:

    I’m still trying to avoid the news, but I’ve heard that there’s been an “incident” at London Bridge and “a man” has been shot by police.
    Now let me see…
    I’m just thinking of the regular, stock response from the authorities we’ve grown so fond of these past 10 years or so.
    All of these will have been used at some time this afternoon.
    1)- “Our thoughts go out to…”
    2)- “We won’t allow these people to divide us…”
    And my personal favourite…
    3)- Islam is a religion of peace…”
    Go on, tell me I’m wrong…

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  26. Fedup2 says:

    IVE PUT A NEW THREAD UP . Can I urge the usual restraint in comments concerning the latest attack in London please .

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