With Anthony Hall (director general)leaving the Biased BBC earlier than expected it increases the hope that the new government really is going to take on the bloated broadcaster. Maybe it will kill off the licence tax – or at least give notice that it will be ending soon . We can but hope .
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2019 gov implements *EU ruling* that motorhome should be moved from lightvan to car category
So VED Road Tax for engine Euro 6d/2
– Sold 31 Aug £265
– Sold 1 Sept £2,135
due to UK logarithmic punitive g/mile CO2 tax in car category
#FairMotorHomeTax ?
Laurence Fox still causing upset. Here two Guardianistas do what they always do — interpret it as symbolic of the forces of oppression.
Still a total lack of comprehension that people are not busy forming anti-woke cells of resistance like some furtive student movement, they’re just weary in their souls. The possibility never registers.
I doubt neither OJ nor Ms O’Hagan could buy a pint of milk without seeing it as a revolutionary act.
Given the whole farce, created by the BBC, started on thoughts about Megharry’s antics, now even questioned by BBC anchors, it is to be hoped these two tools will not be on tonight’s Newsnight at least.
Norway’s populist party has quit the country’s governing coalition over a decision to allow a suspected “Isis bride” to return from Syria.
Finance minister Siv Jensen said there had been “too many compromises” as she announced her right-wing Progress Party would step down.
Their policy is that sink children can return
but that ISIS mothers should not be able to use their children as a shield to get back into Norway.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p080yvsw
One of the things the bbc love today, according to their website
imagine the sh*t everywhere!
An elephant in the room. Is it called “Islam”?
On radio; hence the need for a complementing twitter image.
“Please, sir…”
Please Sir can I have some more black pudding……
Another nail in the coffin of the monarchy. The Queen must despair. No wonder she’s hung on so long.
RD,
I’d thought I’d never say it, but I now realise P Charles is/has become an idiot. Lost the plot to be fooled by these Marxists.
Has he always been and idiot but it has been carefully concealed from the public?
You don’t remember the fun poked at him for talking to plants?
I do, Thoughtful. On that he was right. It’s the CO2 they like.
He was mentored by Laurens van der Post. That could explain a lot. Regardless, as soon as he said he wouldn’t be the Defender of the Faith, but the Defender of Faiths, it became apparent to me that he’s not fit to be King.
This extract from an article in 1996 from the Toilet Paper of Record, is quite telling:
” In his later years, Sir Laurens became a mentor to the Prince of Wales and to former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He was knighted in 1981. Sir Laurens was influential in the development of the Prince’s interest in non-Christian religions and nontraditional life styles.”
And this written by Julie Birchill in 2017 regarding Chuckles and his love of islam:
https://www.spectator.com.au/2017/11/is-prince-charles-so-fond-of-islam-because-he-distrusts-jews/
Didn’t he say “defender of faith”? I don’t know that it makes much difference but I think it is what he said.
Roland Deschain
Well I reckon Chas knows what it’s like to have money to burn.Personally I pay no attention to his prophesies or those of that creepy little Swedish kid. The climate has always changed and will continue to do so long after these two people have been consigned to the history books.
has he scrapped his aston martin and phils range rover yet
Does he still want to come back as a Tampon?
Just by saying that, he reveals himself as being anything but a Christian. The Bible tells there is NO reincarnation, either as a Tampon or anything else. There will be, however, Resurrection and Judgement of each and every one of us when Jesus returns.
good job they didnt send randy andy to meet greta ,
Devon horse farmer murdered by Italian
\\ Well, a Swede who is Tunisian but lives in the UK was arrested in Stockholm after flying there from Thailand accused of murdering a Swede who is Albanian who also lives in the UK, in London.
One is a kickboxer and the other a record producer and gangster //
“…a Swede who is Tunisian…” Says it all!
Times letters : 3 heavyweights defend it : Damazer, Tusa and Biddy Baxter
.. Lord Grade not so much
There was an interesting piece on the BBC this morning that had all the luvvies fawning.
There’s a new Beeb version of David Copperfield and the casting has been “colour blind”. So, essentially, what we’re going to have foist upon us is the woke distortion of numerous classics, like the atrocious pig’s ear they made of A Christmas Carol, late last year.
This latest Dickens masterpiece they have seen fit to mutilate will be stocked with black, brown and mixed race actors. Apparently it’s good for diversity, don’t you know.
How is it though, that if some white woman puts braids in her hair, or a white chef cooks “jerk chicken” a whole load of black lefties go berserk screeching about “cultural appropriation”? Isn’t this a whole lot worse? Has anyone heard from David Lammy?
Still, in the interests of inclusivity and diversity, I look forward to seeing Lenny Henry popping up in a new edition of Brideshead Revisited. He’s not quite as pretty as Anthony Andrews, but…
Perhaps we might see Idris Elba playing Mr Darcy in a Beeb production of Pride and Prejudice, with maybe Meera Syal as an Indian Mrs Bennet.
And of course that offers us the chance of seeing someone like Ray Winstone or Dennis Waterman playing Nelson Mandela.
Or maybe not…
Jeff
I have to admit that when I went and saw ‘1917’ they played the trailer for the dusky David copperfield and I felt my jaw dropping before sniggering to myself . It wasn’t exactly David Lean .
EG said earlier in the thread – best just to treat this insanity as comedy . Race Gender Islam Environment – the pillars of BBC madness . ( I was trying for an acronym but just couldn’t be arsked)….
Just back from watching 1917, we were treated to the ready-made chimney sweep Copperfield too. I thought all those Africans were supposed to have a rich culture of their own, but apparently not, as they need to be shoe-horned into ours.
Some thoughts on 1917: The visuals were well done but did we need the deafening ‘music’? The story was very unlikely, there must have been communication links back from the front lines so why not use them? What about those aircraft? Couldn’t they drop a message? How come the rat didn’t self-destruct earlier? Very bad luck with the crash landing – all that space! The German sniper must have been firing boomerang bullets! Would a senior officer really have a dug-out right on the firing trench? “Men, I’m right behind you, five-miles behind you!”
Jim
You really should have stuck a Spoiler alert preamble in ????——- ( but let’s face it – not the most complex of stories ) .
I think I need to see 1917 again before I review it to myself . Having had a grandfather who was ‘in’ from 1913 to 1919 in France I still cannot understand how he survived – and he was very tall….
Anyway the thing I’m glad about with 1917 was that there were no token yanks winning the war as usual – even with spielbergs production company with its fingers on the profits .
I was trying to be careful..!
I must admit that I started to look out for all those tinted faces after a while, that’s what the BBC and the advertising industry does for you!
I know that ‘Empire’ troops served with distinction but I don’t think that the army practiced modern-day ‘diversity’ by mixing everyone up. The chances are that most, if not all, of ‘the Devons’ would have been from Devon.
You are right, there were no Yanks, but didn’t the producers get the ‘Germany is our EU partner’ memo?
If you stayed to watch the credits you might see there are more names than on the Menin Gate!
Jim
I did watch the end titles and it looked like they subbed post production to India .
As for ‘ mixed colour ‘ regiments in 1917- just dumb – but all part of the brainwashing to accept untruths – aimed at the ‘ young ‘ .
My granddad joined the Devon and Cornwall LI when they recruited in …. east London . !
Most recruits joined Pals battalions, men they worked with and grew up with. Most named after their home towns.
That’s true they did join pals battalions. However, due to the massive carnage a lot of these regiments were merged. Some of my great uncles ended up in The Manchesters, even though they were from Tooting.
No, I can’t make sense of it either.
Jeff
My Grandfather joined the Black Watch and he lived in Monmouth…….he ended up in Ireland…..that’s a another story
The observations you make have also been mentioned by historians that specialise in this period. They say it just didn’t happen. I think they’re willing to swallow a bit of wokism because overall it’s a great film and does a lot more right than wrong.
It’s a bit like the Churchill film that came out a year or two back. They had him wandering up and down a tube train chatting to random passengers; some of them West Indian. It’s just PC nonsense.
Mind you, I’m just relieved they’ve not got around to depicting Churchill as being a little “tinted”.
Well, not yet…
@JimS: Brilliant last line!
The Beeb can do what they like – as can the film industry – if ever a film is played on the radio, because only voices are heard, so who gives a fig what race or colour they are when standing at a mic with script in hand playing a character.
Film and tv are a visual medium so all the good intentions of directors who just want the ‘best person for the job’ flies out of the window. The paying public all know their history, and had we grown up knowing and reading that David Copperfield was black/Asian then so be it, but he wasn’t, anymore than Jane Eyre was written as an afro Caribbean ! So for all the preaching by directors and the liberal minded who want diversity in all things, our brains tell us IT IS WRONG !
Dev Patel is an excellent actor, and apparently told the director that in another version of David Copperfield he would be stood in the background holding the tea tray. Well history cant be rewritten for the sake of diversity, but we’ll see how the film fairs with the public when it opens next week.
DVD after a week . Repeats on channel 4 at Christmas . DVD in charity shop at same time …. it will do well in Islington though …
It cant be racially blind because like the BBC under Lord Hall. The race relations industry and its liberal left-wing identity politics have introduced a highly bureaucratic Racial, Sexual and Disabled quota system to all programming except Womans Hour and the Asian Network. It fit’s the mindset of the Marxist. The black actors are more important than the customers. Real World acting parts for black actors are far to derogatory. So we have a situation were Cultural appropriation of the Black African dress code in Tarzan by a white actor is wrong, but all Black actors must be seen to Culturally appropriate the white European dress code. On the BBC, both Black Actors and White Actors must dress in the same European dress code. For White Actors it is racist Cultural appropriation if they don’t, and for Black Actors, it is derogatory for them not to be seen to Culturally appropriate white European culture.
I think the above are the unwritten rules of the BBC mindset on Race and Race relations.
So true RP. Maybe it CAN be called years of conditioning – OR learning history in its true sense at school, but seeing a black man in an historical drama in top hat and tails doesn’t sit comfortably, but no doubt there were those who did dress in such a manner. Although when scanning the crowds at a present day Derby Day, I cant ever remember seeing a black man in the obligatory morning dress – but I stand to be corrected on that one !
Not exactly the 7 qualities of wisdom that James lists in the Bible:
“But the wisdom that is from above is first Pure, then Peaceable, Gentle, and Easy to be entreated, Full of Mercy and Good Fruits, Without Partiality and Without Hypocrisy. (James 3:17)” Reference Mattew Rettino on Media dot com.
Maybe the muslim 5 pillars of ‘wisdom’ are more to their liking:
“The Five Pillars consist of:
Shahadah: sincerely reciting the Muslim profession of faith.
Salat: performing ritual prayers in the proper way five times each day.
Zakat: paying an alms (or charity) tax to benefit the poor and the needy. { Is this the TV Tax protection money, perhaps}
Sawm: fasting during the month of Ramadan.
Hajj: pilgrimage to Mecca.” referenced in google as from the racist far-left bbc.
Jeff,
I don’t care. Simply one of the growing numbers that refuse to watch it.
Jeff
Cultural appropriation, no, they do not have any culture.
They have no intellectual achievements, so they are reduced to moaning about hairstyles and recipes.
The wealth of the West is due to advances in science and technology, clever people thinking and performing experiments.
No contribution from people picking cotton.
It will only be ‘colour blind’ in so far as the director will be presented with a list of approved names, otherwise he could theoretically choose from all the acting profession which has far more of the hated white actors than any other.
One thing you can be certain of is that there will be a massive over representation of ethnics.
Wait until these collectivist race-baiters direct their gaze on Gilbert and Sullivan.
Only Japanese will be allowed to perform the Mikado.
But will they only allow white Italians in the Gondoliers?
Employment rate reaches new record high!
But what do Al Beeb headline it as ?
“Rise in full-time female workers boosts employment”………………
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51188930
When the £ falls, Al Beeb are quick to report.
Today it reached 1.867 Euros.
Have you missed a ‘1’ somewhere, taffman?
Yes !
Alas too late .
taffman, easily done. It is up, though, and looks to be climbing further.
I hope the oil price gets back below $60 for Brent Crude and $50 for West Texas Intermediate. That should help to dent inflation a bit more in addition to the currency improvement. That in turn might help with more job creation.
Taff, If it helps, using my UK pension, via a Currency Company, today I get €1.17 for each pound.
BBC defends vox Pops
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46946442
The Largest Vote Swings in British General Election History Censored Out By the BBC and Mainstream Media
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/?s=bbc&__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=f6cecbdf15117546b83723e0b9e6efd97aec642b-1579714786-0-AVig2XxuD374DOVTKDNJnmtWIcCsOnXjYzlr5LyvVY90REUMMHz89f5WwYELE_m5mdN_PKRMEP-8i3fWMVqoECosBkW5oXYRTtpk5-k8RUCzyXFKQ4etr3gJL2Oi0146pC9fiXBOJnpzuRA4j5iX6OVdf0tZndp1hRjP-IVI0Ex6Z9VJqKArVLf0unK2E08cRthmrSF5csb-8lws_tovT8q_Iyvzum4QFj8WDGpf_mGMUp-oM5eBwa3mqjpUhFtiygMarJFLO9zHHk0fu2eI2e4
In other European countries such as France and Germany, do they substitute black for white actors in historical dramas when clearly that role was for a white actor?
The excellent Spiral series from France, (BBC Four once in a while), could never have been made by the BBC.
Basically the police are ethnic French and the baddies are Arabs and East Europeans.
I think the BBC might have part-funded some of the later episodes, which might explain the brief appearances of two black females as a judge and pathologist.
The French claimed they were looking for ‘authenticity’ in their casting, an ‘-ity’ unknown to the BBC.
The Murdoch Mysteries, a purely entertaining detective series set in Toronto and set in the turn of the 20th century, started around 12 years ago and kept reasonably accurate to the demographic of the day. This latest and up to date series has clearly fallen to the pc requirements, and has recruited a black chap to the Toronto constabulary. Like a lot of Canadian programmes many organisations are included in the ‘funding’ of the film industry, and ITV are involved in this one.
The Murdoch Mysteries, a purely entertaining detective series set in Toronto and set in the turn of the 20th century, started around 12 years ago and kept reasonably accurate to the demographic of the day. This latest and up to date series has clearly fallen to the pc requirements, and has recruited a black chap to the Toronto constabulary. Like a lot of Canadian programmes many organisations are included in the ‘funding’ of the film industry, and ITV are involved in this one.
“Smuggling arrests over transport of ‘10,000 Kurds’ to UK”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51214424
Shouldn’t that be Headline News ? Where on earth do they house that lot ?
Where is our so called ‘Border Force’ when we need them ?
The government should now seriously look at ID cards.
Taffman
Recently found one from my family past , WW2 Identity Card , you are right we need these back , can’t remember when but thought they were going to be brought back in ……suppose the Labour party would have objected !
The government should now seriously look at ID cards.
No they shouldn’t!
Technology now exists for fingerprint recognition – not the skin print but through different layers beneath the skin. This is what the government should be using.
Want a provisional driving licence ? then you need a fingerprint scan and that will be read at the test centre to check you are the holder and haven’t paid someone to take it for you.
Want a visa to come to Britain? Fingerprint scan will show you are the person who applied, when you entered the country and when you left or when you didn’t, and it will identify you as an illegal immigrant.
Claiming asylum? Fingerprint scanning will tell which flight you came into Britain on you can’t just throw your passport away and then claim you are from a qualifying country! Plus if you come in on a people smugglers passport he will quickly be identifiable and arrested.
Think it might be a good idea to vote multiple times ? Think again because fingerprint recognition will identify you and nullify voting fraud.
Want to get NHS treatment you’re not entitled to ? FIngerprint scanning will identify if you actually are.
Yes it would cost some money, but it is a very efficient method of securing our borders, stopping identity theft, fraud of all kinds, and no one ever resents carrying their fingers with them !
Thoughtful
Good point same principle with modern technology , how about microchipping the illegals….but I suppose they will cut them out with one the knives they bring in !
No doubt there would be those that say ” it’s against my human rights ” but if haven’t got anything to hide it’s not a problem.
I know I keep banging my drum about national grid power output, but today it looks pretty hopeless for the renewable argument. Note Greta and the BBC.
3% wind, and 6% biomass.
We are now well into the second day of the huge Atlantic anticyclone sitting over the UK,
Has anyone in the eco loon green world of the BBC considered how the shortfall of power can be stored for these weather conditions. You are going to need a bloody big battery.
I also notice that pumped hydro storage is being used, but this accounts for just 2% and when the reservoir’s empty’s in a few hours time then nothing.
What kind of parallel universe do these clowns live in?
The BBC recently omitted to report news about Israel and its Arab neighbour and a ruling against a terrorist group by the British government . These two important news items below were not on BBC TV, radio or their website.
That Israel has begun exporting natural gas to Egypt.
https://bbcwatch.org/2020/01/20/bbc-audiences-denied-offshore-gas-news/
and that the UK Government has proscribed the whole of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.
https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/c8nq32jwj2lt/hezbollah
When we complained in the past to the BBC about omitting important news items, we always received the reply “the BBC does not have time / space to report on all events”. Given some of the events that the BBC does report on this is laughable.
davy, keep going. Bash out that funky rhythm. Maybe, one day, the BBC will notice and even report it.
Interesting that there is 450 MW of open cycle gas turbine (OCGT) because they are very expensive and normally only used in an emergency.
Normal emergencies are when a large unit trips and the OCGT’S can be brought online and full output in minutes but I suspect that this ’emergency’ was perhaps inability to meet demand.
It would be worthwhile digging a bit deeper to find out
I presume the ‘bio-mass’ is mostly wood chips imported from the USA in diesel-powered ships. Not so ‘green’ or ‘renewable’ then.
[Bad pun alert]
Greta says, “Bring back the sailing ships, the Cutty Bark, one of the new fleet of Tree Chippers”.
Davy,
“What kind of parallel universe do these clowns live in?”
When you are a dedicated Marxist, intent upon ‘levelling’ (aka, destroying the World) so you can promote a, ‘new’ start for what’s left of humanity, it doesn’t matter.
Davylars, if I have a choice, I’d say please keep banging the drum. Most of us don’t bother checking this information but a lot of us appreciate those who do.
No more VD? Oh, the humanity.
Mind you, as threats go….
Would not eliminating VD from Britain be beneficial, healthwise, Guest? 😉 Probably save the NHS millions.
Could LBC come out in sympathy and get rid of the wee J’Obby? And Matthew Wright?
Looks like the MSM have another scare to get us all quaking with fear.
The Chinese Virus……
“Should the International Community declare an International Emergency?”
So far that tell us it has claimed 17 victims, that’s 17 out of 1.5 BILLION people in China and how many of those were either already infirm or elderly, bit premature in my opinion but hey a great news story so lets go with it!
The only way to stop it, is probably to reduce our carbon footprint.
digg
Auntie knows that her billions of viewers love it when she sexes up her tales of woe.
WHO must be running short of ebola cash – a few more corona billions should top up the coffers.
Amol likely not the first to weigh in.
If anyone finds out when the last show is please let us know – I enjoy blubbing Beeboids and maybe a bit of vitreous about ‘cuts’.
Last show? It would be my first.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51214425
BBC has canned the Victoria Derbyshire show !!
Hopefully the first of many – wall to wall’ homes under cash in the pointless ‘ shows to diminish the state broadcaster further – and keep paying those secret out of court settlements ….
Gang is all here.
I think this ‘news’ is a manifestation of how terrified are the racist far-left bbc of the Conservative government.
I wonder if it’s just a typical bbc knee-jerk reaction; popular push-back of their reprehensible behaviour and mind-set, is acknowledged by government ministers, who murmur some non-specific threats. This prompts the hive to sacrifice one of their own to try to persuade us that they are not really incorrigible hate-mongers and race-baiters, and they will really, really do better in the future. Just please don’t attack us any more.
Look, the lefties hate us. So we must be getting it about right ( or whatever platitudinous drivel they expel from their serpent mouths).
Actual news broadcaster.
just been on a “so called” BBC HYS
seems remainiac is a profanity now
Given the generally un-contested view that more diversity equals more happiness, it’s interesting to see that according to Rightmove the happiest place to live in Britain is Hexham in Northumberland, and the second happiest Harrogate in N. Yorkshire.
Having been lucky enough to live in both these lovely places I can see why. I have to admit though that these findings should be widely condemned as racist. As Jon Snow would undoubtedly say – you will never see so many white people in one [or two] place[s].
The survey went on to say: The South West was deemed the happiest region. . . The West Midlands was the least happy. (Shurely shome mishtake?)
Mayor of Hexham Bob Hull: “We have a really strong sense of community up here”. How dare you Bob, how very dare you. . .
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/uk/revealed-happiest-places-live-britain1/
Diversity has brought a great deal of unhappiness to towns in Yorkshire. Especially for young girls in Rotherham.
“Trade tensions rise as US threatens car tariffs”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51206425
One wag on HYS comments ……………
“Brilliant! The US will consider levies on UK car makers, eh?
There aren’t any! All are owned overseas!
Another example of Trump’s genius. “
BBC 1 caught a brief second
Our Steph was saying “Especially since these days children spend less time outside than prisoners”
FFS that’s an obvious myth
That was debunked on R4 More or Less cos the surveyors cherrypicked the times
eg they didn’t count weekends etc.
What is best about this is the comments, which could be going better.
Today marks the formal end of “remain” after the Lords have been finally forced to reverse their final attempt to undermine our leaving of the Reich EU.
The Bill is passed . Royal assent awaits
I hope there are remainers crying bitter tears tonight – and then repeat on the 31st of January . We need to make sure they know they lost and extinguish all fantasy hope of rejoining .
‘Remain ‘ can now be a redundant word .
“I hope there are remainers crying bitter tears tonight – and then repeat on the 31st of January . We need to make sure they know they lost and extinguish all fantasy hope of rejoining .”
oh how I laughed earlier
..f*ck ’em all.
There are four types of action for the people of Britain to take on the 31st January.
(1) Positive Brexiteers will wave the Union Jack.
(2) Negative Brexiteers will burn the EU Flag.
(3) Positive Remainers will wave the EU Flag.
(4) Negative Remainers at the BBC will burn the Union Jack.
Further and swift sub-categorisation is required to identify:
(a) who deserves to be in the Tower
(b) who should be banished or deported
(c) who deserves a regular (but lengthy) prison sentence.
In the old days before science was destroyed by left-wing activists. World leaders used to listen to Atmospheric Physicists like Richard Lindzen.
But now they listen to the Child Prophet, Greta Thunberg, a false Prophet who falsely claims the gift of prophecy to speak for Gaia. A false Prophet is a Prophet who makes such claims for evil ends. Often, someone who is considered a “true prophet” by the BBC, but simultaneously considered a “false prophet” by others. In a wider sense, it is anyone who, without having it, claims a special connection to the Earth Deity and sets herself up as a source of spiritual authority on Mother Nature.
Timeline of the rise and fall of the scientific method:
27 — At the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves”.
1212 — The Children’s Crusade ends in disaster.
1265 — Roger Bacon, inspired by the writings of Grosseteste, described a scientific method, which he based on a repeating cycle of observation, hypothasis, experimentation, and the need for independent verification. He recorded the manner in which he conducted his experiments in precise detail so that others could reproduce and independently test his results.
1650 — Experimental evidence established as the arbiter of truth by the Royal Society.
1989 — Experimental evidence abandoned as the arbiter of truth by the Royal Society.
2007 — The BBC replaces its best scientific experts with environmental activists.
2019 — Atmospheric Physicists replaced by a Child Prophets who go on Climate Crusades and School Strikes.
2020 — Child Prophet, Greta Thunberg, angrily tells World leaders “Our house is still on fire, your inaction is fuelling the flames by the hour”
Richard ,
A powerful list and makes the influence the 16 year old had even more frightening . There seems to be no journalistic investigation into her ( might be wrong ) and some how she had developed unquestioning belief by the BBC and other fools .
Declaration – I write this having never listened to her as I know that there is no way a 16 year old can have the knowledge and insight on such a complex subject . I know because I was 16 once – you may have been too .
@Fedup2 – There was an article in the Sunday Times (August 18th, 2019) by Dominic Green, The Plot to Forge a Climate Warrior. I don’t have a paywall subscription but I saved the piece.
Greta, the story goes, was ‘accidentally’ discovered by Ingmar Rentzhog, founder of a social media platform, ‘We Don’t Have Time’ as she was on a one girl school strike outside the Swedish Parliament. He posted her on FB and it went viral. This is not the whole truth as he had previously met her mother at a Climate Conference in Stockholm. Rentzhog is involved with Al Gore’s environmental group, the Clinton Reality Project.
Quote ‘..the Greta phenomenon has also involved green lobbyists, PR hustlers, eco academics and a think tank founded by a wealthy former minister in Sweden’s Social Democratic government with links to the country’s energy companies’.
‘For energy titans in Sweden, as elsewhere, saving the planet means Government contracts to print the green stuff. Green energy lobbyists are using populist scare tactics and a children’s crusade to bypass elected representatives’.
It always comes down to money in the end!
Wait till we reach the next phase where human sacrifice is demanded to appease the god gaia.
Statues of Moloch will start to appear in our towns ( with abortionists queuing up to throw a baby onto the fire) and the Mayan sacrifical temples will be brought back into use.
This chap is interesting.
Sources say.
Apparently he admits to making it up.
i’m devastated, and Won’t loose any sleep
VDs show is axed
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51214425?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk&link_location=live-reporting-story
Pesto knows plots. As does the bbc. An ex Labour Minister with a history of screwing all he touches up. Dom could only dream Worse Than That Jim is in to fix it.
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2020/01/the-plot-to-stop-james-purnell-becoming-director-general-of-the-bbc/
Never forget that Purnell was the knowing liar who Brown sent out to the tv studios in 2007 to lie that an illegal donation of some £660k to Labour by one Abrahams had been repaid. It hadn’t been because it couldn’t be as it was illegal.
A consummate liar, Purnell is Ipso facto the perfect man to head up Al Beeb.
Has a point, and it is a dance performed before.
Once too often?
Guest
Perhaps the BBC should have a
‘people’s taxpayer referendum ‘ on the programmes to be culled ?
Or projects to be stopped based on their cost ?
Or presenters to be fired based on pay ?
They could even turn it into one of those hopeless celebrity nights they do with red noses and teddy bears . ?
As I write this ‘pitch’ I could get a few hundred thousand out of BBC studios for the concept .
It’s heartwarming to know that the BBC really has to ‘downsize ‘ output but a cynic might suggest that ‘popular demand ‘ will get the decision reversed and a real target for the chop ended instead . Perhaps the Andrew Neal show or some other programme worth watching ( although I can think of any ).
The BBC appear to be losing their talent for nuance.
So stacking QT with ringers will continue unabated as they mash up the new sheriff scene from Blazing Saddles with the ending of High Plains Drifter in the new €1Trillion (current exchange rate) Eastenders set.
Unique.
Charles Dickens was one of the foremost English writers of the Victorian era. His work documented much of what life was like at the time and he achieved great acclaim for the accuracy and detail in his work…
His work include David Copperfield the story of an English boy growing top at the time.
So what a good story worth making into a TV programme?
So lets hire an Italian Director to skew the story by re-moulding the main character to fit our newly “Woke” era.
“I just want to choose the best person for the part”
Director Armando Iannucci tells Victoria why he chose to be ‘colour-blind’ in his casting of Dev Patel – a British actor of Indian heritage – in the titular role of his David Copperfield adaptation.
Wouldn’t the best person for the part have necessarily at least have looked like a young English man if you are to respect Dickens writing?
BBC Radio 4
It’s been 70 years since George Orwell. But what can his ideas tell us about life in 2020?
In the first of a 5-part series, we explore dealing with fascism.
https://bbc.in/37l7p4E
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That the BBC can see ‘his ideas’ as ‘dealing with fascism’ requiring a five part series, shows the depths of their delusion.
Our Justin chats to John selwyn gummer ( remember him ? A ludicrous Tory minister under Maggie thatcher )? Well he is Lord deben now and is an eco zealot. Nothing to do with his extensive list of financial interests as publicly declared – such as ‘sancroft international ltd . This was not mentioned in the interview .
Deben sounded like he wants people to eat less meat . Doesn’t sound like a Tory anymore – just another bubble dweller preaching to non believers .
Isn’t he the one who fed his daughter a beefburger (on camera) during the BSE outbreak?
The bbc is a shot bolt.
Our local radio station was bemoaning a Burger King not opening in the city as they love their quarter pounders before running a piece from on high about ‘the need’ to eat bugs.
Now on FB, as the bbc screams about housing shortages in one post, they run…
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‘We’re destroying something of remarkable and possibly unique beauty’
Chris Packham investigates the impact a growing human population is having on the planet.
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Beyond parody.
Fed, ti & Guest, Deben was dropping dark hints about so-called ‘chlorinated chicken’, I thought, while not actually mentioning Trump and Brexit out loud. Deben is actually advocating importing & eating more American beefburgers. If McDonalds – which used to be, maybe still are, are manufactured in the US and flown out to nations with McD Stores every day for quality control and freshness reasons – then Lord Deben is reducing meat consumption but advocating consuming extra air miles. (A burger is actually quite a healthy way to consume a mix of minimal meat, grains, egg, essential fibres and fats. So I’m told by dieticians.)
The essential point Justin put to him (JustRemainIn was in full-on ‘Waitrose-mode’ and refered only to almond milk, avocados and vine tomatoes) showed up the folly but Lord Deben batted it away with a ‘Buy British’ reply.
What Justin did not ask – and should have done – is that if British consumers eat less meat, they will need other things to remain nourished. Vegetable and grain crops require relatively flat land, lots of water, fertilisers, insecticides and extra intensive use of ….. umhhh …. er …. whisper who dares … fossil fuel burning machinery.
Ooops!
A cow, by comparison, is self-propelled.
Up2
Thank you as always – I have to admit my hearing switched off when gummer went into ‘lecture ‘ mode . I’ve discovered my head has developed a filter when it comes to the BBC and environment .
Tesco is selling ‘vegetarian kebab meat ‘ – it’s on offer. Seems like cheating the culture .
Fed “Tesco is selling ‘vegetarian kebab meat”
That’s got to be a Hate Crime culture-wise, is it not?
Up2 – if you saw the cost – even with £1.50 off – you’d reach for the sausages / burgers / steaks – which are becoming a tool of counter revolution ….
Does a hamburger consist of “minimal meat”? My recipe has almost nothing in it except minced beef.
Theisland
Yes that’s right – and the BBC obviously likes him as I think there was no challenge to his demands to eat less meat and dairy food .
He seems to make his money preaching about ‘sustainability ‘ and the BBC helps him with this . I suppose he’s no worse that the 16 year old freak .
BBC doing another ‘News investigation ‘ over NHS hospitals busty killing babies by neglect . There seems to be one every other day . Yet the BBC is forever supporting the NHS to get even more taxpayers money .
There is never individual blame
Never criminal charges
No one loses their job
Never proper challenge
The bbc jusr reads out the ‘lessons will be learnt ‘ lie and the shalllw meaningless ‘apology ‘ as if that’s all that matters ..
I was visiting an aged neighbour in hospital the other day
Was there a lack of money ?
The ward was choc full of fancy stuff : each bed was a clever electric bed, with a TV/telephone media centre above it
– The ward pod was emptied at weekends.
There was a thing where the nursing team and doctor team were at odds with each other.
The nurses told relatives the discharge day would be Friday
Then on the Wednesday the doctor came round and told the aged patient she would be discharged that day. Relatives turned up knowing nothing, they tracked down a doctor who confirmed that ..then a nurse came at overruled the doctor and kept the patient in an extra day.
A few days earlier after the operation the patient was supposed to be on liquids only, but the hospital poisoned her, cos the food team came round and offered her cauliflower cheese which she in her drugged up state accepted, but they actually gave her sausage casserole ..which she dutifully ate
… her stomach was not ready for solid food so she threw up all her stomach acids and had to be fed by drip.
All that caused pain and meant 3 days longer in hospital than planned.
Stew – they are called ‘health professionals ‘ .
Yesterday we had Prince Charles lecturing us all about the impending doom brought about by climate change.
He hinted that as we approach Armageddon governments will have to increase taxes on fuel and flying. We were told we’ve got to radically change our lifestyles. Businesses will have to alter their ways. People will have to reconsider buying those gas guzzling cars. All of us must think again about those fancy foreign holidays in exotic resorts.
Yesterday Charles was in Switzerland lecturing us about our carbon footprint.
Today he’s in Israel…
Is it just me?
Point well taken Jeff. Once again we are being shot with the Catastrphic Alarmist Climate Change Cult-for what it is. They ignore popular discontent while placing themselves above the law.
It is in this volatile climate that they push the greatest con game ever concocted: man-made global warming. This is the hubris that brings empires crashing down.
Like any confidence scheme, global warming rests entirely on misdirection and bad faith.
While Western governments create hundred-trillion-dollar programs for fighting the weather, they have (1) never scientifically established that man’s use of hydrocarbon energy causally leads to temperature change of any kind, (2) never articulated some baseline climate ideal for the planet, and (3) never produced a cost-benefit analysis detailing the loss in human life and standard of living required in order to impose upon the world the type of global command-and-control economy necessary to restructure all industry and commerce.
These three pillars are so fundamental that a normal person could be forgiven for assuming they’ve long ago been calculated. That’s part of the con.
The science isn’t settled. Nobody has decided whether to green the Sahara or bury Scandinavia in more snow, whether we’re pursuing the Roman Warm Period of two thousand years ago or the Little Ice Age that ended in the nineteenth century. No government has admitted that the Green Dream will destroy populations and make modern conveniences future luxuries for only the wealthiest survivors. How do you convince your citizens you have their best interests at heart when nothing could be farther from the truth? You prey on their weaknesses with a three-tailed hustle on a global scale. And so the charade goes on.
Jeff
Did he drive there in the electric hire car ? …….hope he gets passed over and not becomes our King
BBC: ‘Victoria Derbyshire Show to come off air as part of BBC cuts’
Apologies if posters hereabouts have already addressed this story but I see a day later it is still on the front page of BBC on-line news (purporting to have been just ‘2h’ old, mind you).
This is of course a classic move by the Beeb. Just as a Lefty local council with massive senior staff costs on their books will opt to create a hoo-ha by announcing the closure of some ancient and locally cherished branch library. Then hope to rally support from the naive against sensible and reasonable government cash restraints. The Lefty council shouting Cuts!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51214425
Notice how the BBC tack the emotive word ‘cuts’ onto the end of their headline. In fact they have an inflation-busting Licence Fee deal presently in place. Their budget problems are largely due to their own bad management. Castrating their premium money making franchise Doctor Who for woke reasons for instance.
Notice how they chose a female interest show to threaten to close causing a women’s issue as a rallying call, hopefully clouding the fact their main current overspend is going to be on greedy female BBC employees.
Notice how reliable company man and lefty-minded Amol Rajan comes out to bat for the BBC giving the agreed company line.
Notice how various lefty-minded celebs and politicos will be co-opted into support for our Vicky Derbyshire hence being gathered under the pro-BBC banner.
This campaign will likely fly for a week or two then the Beeb will relent and the propaganda push will renew with VD Show saved by a caring BBC management headline.
By the way, they lost my sympathy with ‘award winning’.
Got it in one.
But they seem to think no one has noticed.
Bar OFCOM, or the dcms.
AISI, some of us heretofore regular R4 listeners will rejoice at this news that BBC N&CA programming is expensive and programmes cut or cut back. Must be all those female executives, managers and presenters demanding more money.
Perhaps now we can have TWatO cut back to 30 minutes and comedy shows and panel games and quizzes re-instated in the 1.30-2.00pm R4 schedule, please?
Please.
Pretty please.
How about cutting PM to thirty minutes? And TWiT likewise?
Remember the Vic Derbyshire Woman’s Hour show on BBC 2
runs at the same as Woman’s Hour show on Radio4
and Emma Barnett Woman’s Hour show on Radio5
Perhaps one of the reasons Labour lost so many seats in the North
was that many Labour voters were sick to death of the Labour
Councils turning a blind eye and covering up the Muslim rape
scandals, because of the fear of losing their Muslim vote. Of
cause the disgraceful closed eyes policy of the media including the
BBC was also a major factor. The BBC even continues it to now.
Thankfully there were a few brave souls who said call me a
racist , and be damned. Such as MP Ann Cryer, The Times
journalist Andrew Norfolk and Tommy Robinson.
Has Andrew Norfolk ever acknowledged the pioneering work done by Tommy Robinson?
BBC radio news 0900 leads with East Kent NHS trust killing babies and the second story is about ‘bereavement leave ‘ being given to parents of new born babies .
I’m guessing no one picked this up and how offensive it might be to the victims of NHS killings . I use the term’ NHS killings ‘because of the description one of the mothers gave of the disgraceful neglect her baby suffered leading to its death .
Quote in The Guardian from someone who worked on the Victoria Derbyshire program:
“the production team was one of the most diverse at the BBC; “including female deputy editor, editor, director and presenter – all female management at the top – and one of the most diverse on air too”.
Anyone know how having all females is in anyway diverse?
Scribblingscribe… I believe it was a typo and that they actually meant to say ‘divisive’ rather than ‘diverse’.
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The online article is even worse
Another person with knowledge of the show said:
“A programme run by women, for women and underserved audiences being cut flies in the face of the public service broadcast commitments and also diversity.
BAME, female and LGBTQ staff members are decrying it saying there is nowhere for those stories to be funded from in the rest of the BBC.”
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/22/victoria-derbyshires-bafta-winning-show-to-be-axed-in-bbc-cuts
The go-to US medium of choice for American Beauty and his twitter-bound team of keyboard warriors…
‘we cannot be assured that the vote will be fairly won’
Dems getting their excuses in early, I see.
I think this means we cannot let the population of the USA decide at the ballot box in which direction the USA goes as there is a danger that they may not vote DEM … What a corking piece of absolute garbage….
I think the DEMs would prefer the USA to be run by a department of officials (much like Russia) rather then by elected representatives as they have much more prowess at grabbing town hall management jobs.
Adam Schiff probably doesn’t have an honest bone in his body!
He always looks like some gormless animal caught in the headlights of an on-coming train.
He also, sometimes, has that Yvette Cooper-Balls look of fake innocence; look, I’m telling you the truth, the face tries and fails to convey.
R3 news at seven today, no mention that our Independence Bill has finally passed. But a very strong piece about fools demanding our meat and milk be taxed and one that American airlines may stop passengers taking peacocks on board as emotional support.
All this vital news followed by a lovely Boccherini guitar piece. But then he lived in the Age of Enlightenment rather than that of Hysteria.
I would happily pay for R3 but without the “News” thankyou.
Indeed the Holocaust the killing of millions of Jews by one way or another was a terribel inditment against man. One can well understand that they would not want something so awful to fade away into history, however let us not forget the most terrible invasion of the Japanese during WW2, and the unspeakable utterly inhumain treatment of both their military captives but also the millions of civilians of many nationalities that were butchered by the Jap soldiers. One Hospital in Singapore its Doctors, Nurses, and patients all slaughtered without mercy. I had family and close friends now all dead that suffered on the Burma Railway. We must not treat this atrocity against millions of humans any less than what was carried out in Germany against the Jews-and let us not forget that thousands upon thousands of non Jews were also slaughtered by the Nazi’s as well as the Russians. Our young people should be better advised on their history-so often I am appalled at the lack of knowledge by the young (18-40) that know so little of the past that will and is dictating their futures.
Tarien
Like you I had family in the Forces that were on the retreat out of Burma, some seriously injured had to be left behind and if they hadn’t ended their own life they were butchered and tortured by the Japs . My one Auntie that survived would never buy anything made in Japan and very reluctant to talk about it until the end of her days …very very sad . No doubt the Snowflakes would never have been taught that at school
The Japanese are a real mystery. During the war, brutal and inhuman. And yet, you meet them, watch their films, read their novels, they are the most subtle and sensitive, and indeed civilized people you could imagine. Can we blame the militaristic culture that took over the country, in the same way that the Nazis took over Germany? I have never seen a full explanation of this, although perhaps one has been published.
So…. the bbc staff saying how great bbc staff are ramps up further…
Justin, mate (Amoltising there)… no one is buying.
Mrs S was swearing at the radio for the soft lobs Ms Hussein was giving Mr Khan.
Clearly the Beeboids live in a parallel universe to the rest of us.
Which we know already.
Sluff – I think they may be related or of the same caste …
I suspect inside the BBC things are a bit in turmoil. Apart from the DG being made to walk the plank, the website seems to have transformed into a copy of Hello Magazine. I think its possible that lots of BBC journo’s are currently undergoing “rethink training” so not producing the fairy tale crap as usual.
So we are told that the gobby long-bailey refuses to have anything to do with anyone who votes Conservative.
Maybe we need a new hate crime or word? In the current vogue can I suggest “Politist” or maybe “Partyist” or if its only needed one way then what about “Toryist”
Digg
A communist who helped with PFI contracts as a lawyer . Any more to say ?
Fedup.. Long Bailey thinks Stalin was a good leader . Just think about that a mo . someone who thinks that a ruthless mass murderer and oppressor like Stalin is OK Is now within spitting distance of the british Labour party leadership and no one bats an eye lid.
I had to do a bit of Googling as I got confused.
So, Laura Pidcock the Labour MP for West Duham , known hereabouts as Consett, lost her seat in the last Election and coincidentally herself said ‘Whatever type they are, I have absolutely no intention of being friends with any of them’ when referring to Conservatives. For everyone’s information, Consett is as economically deprived a once thriving area as you’re likely to find. I remember when the gutters were filled with orange iron oxide dust and the whole town was employed at the steelworks. Those steelworks are long gone, replaced by open fields and new housing estates with preserved items of heavy industry on proud display in memoriam of what Consett once was. In short, as fertile a breeding ground for Labour as one could find and held exclusive by Labour since the seats creation in 1950. All lost by a yooni educated young woman in her early 30s so stupid that she would publicly say she’s never be friends with a Tory.
And now Long Bailey says the same? Learn from recent history much Rebecca. By all means fill your boots but people are not defined by gender, skin colour, sex, sexual preference, or political belief. And the general public know that and look what they did to that idiot Pidcock.
Yes, I hope the bigot Long Bailey wins, it’ll shoe the Conservatives in for the foreseeable future.
Swelter ‘ woolwich
There is a pattern methinks. Party’s selecting on the basis of any condition – as opposed to ability – leads to failure . I’m not just talking about Labour either .
I know the world doesn’t work on fairness or ability – so when someone comes along who has ability – at the right time – such as with Thatcher or FDR one can see the difference .
I’ve worked for people who ‘don’t do detail ‘ and seen that the result is waste of time effort and money and consequent failure .
But failure can often be ignored , those making the decision have moved on and could care less anyway . Those who made the effort to complete a project shrug their shoulders as they see the failure coming .
We ll see if the likes of Dom Cummings has the ability to steer his bosses away from the kind of stuff I’ve described – whether it’s 4G , HS2 , elderly social care , the always failing NHS and of course the enemy of this site .
Piddock, Nugee , Wrong Daily and that now countless number of basically thick labour politicians should , with a bit of luck , end their Party .
As an aside Andy Neal had a chat with Lady Nugee last night on his show . She has no new policy . She defended sending her kids to a ‘selective ‘ posh school by trying to use the ‘poor background ‘ defence . It was quite funny . Her heart isn’t in it but she likes the ‘fame ‘. Didn’t mention her constituents once in 25 minutes ….
Isn’t Ian Blackford, Scots Nazi, the epitome of a thick politician? From his antics in the HoC, he has no self-awareness and no shame. Surely, there are other Scots Nazi MPs who can see he’s harming their party; why don’t the tell him to shut up? Or is he such a bully, they are all afraid of him?
Perhaps after Alex Salmon has his trial he will return to mainstream SNP hatee politics . Although Russia must pay well….
i believe it’s already in the SNP manifesto.
https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2020-01-22/debates/DF947E70-B73C-4D47-9A54-5A4CEA7BB055/BBCCharterReview
Yesterday at 3.24pm there was a pointless ‘discussion’ by pointless people about the bBC.
The BBC are trying hard to push a connection between George Orwell’s thoughts on oppressive state control and Boris’s Government.
Anyone who has ever bothered to read his books, and I have read and re-read them all many times, will know that the state propaganda machine and big brother with all the lies and mind-control group-think, good is bad – bad is good stuff he referred to WAS in fact the BBC…. He obviously worked there long enough to see it at work!
There really is NOTHING they won’t twist and use for their own purposes, for instance their re-imagining of old English literature to fit the new woke ideal just like Orwell’s sinister state-masters. In fact Winston, the main character in 1984 was employed to rewrite literature to fit the new ideology, just what the BBC are up to now with Dickens work in fact! The quicker they follow their ex-DG out of the door and are consigned to history, the better….
digg
I understand that the august works of Mark Twain are in the process of being bent out of shape in order to comply with the cretinous PC agenda.
I can’t wait for the new production of Uncle Tom’s bungalow.The Beeb are also going to show Roots backwards so it has a happy ending.