Weekend Thread 18 April 2020

So how is the Far Left Biased BBC going to report the second 3 week closure of the UK – courtesy of the People’s Republic of China ? Will worship of the NHS and condemnation of the government intensify ? Or will it find another bone to chew ?

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457 Responses to Weekend Thread 18 April 2020

  1. Charlie Farley says:

    Have China created this Virus to dominate the World ? , are they at present buying up the the rest of the World’s collapsing businesses for a bargain price ? ….and all with the help of the crap BBC….answers please on a postcard and send to Boris and Dominic at Downing Street !

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    • fakenewswatcher says:

      The West have always been very naïve in their dealings with Communist China. I recall Mao….
      At that stage China had about half the present population, and Mao seemed OK with losing half of those to war…
      Wonder what mindset Comrade Xi has?

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  2. Celtic_Mist says:

    The BBC did a ‘little extra’ story about an 8 yr old BME girl supporting the NHS by making 3D printed PPE gear.

    The story could just as easily have been –

    ‘NHS exploits BAME children to manufacture PPE”

    but that would go against the present narrative

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  3. Oldspeaker says:

    Incendiary piece of hacksterism here,
    BBC News – Coronavirus cases to be tracked by ethnicity
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52338101
    “”worried personal protective equipment was being “prioritised for white members of staff”.”
    Stoking up racial tension at a time of crisis? Evidence? This claim should be thoroughly investigated by the media watchdog.
    Same piece contains a quote from
    ” An undertaker from London, who asked to be anonymous,” anonymous like the NHS ‘boss’ maybe?

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  4. Darcy3 says:

    F2 seems like you are spot on, the latest bbc whinge

    always the victims, of course playing cricket in parks during lockdown or having a gang fight in a Luton street during lockdown etc etc has nothing to do with this, or having three generations crammed into one house

    reaping the consequences of a “cultural need” for their oft quoted “kommuni h ie”

    and all the taxi drivers stuck in the ranks together now the childrens homes and schools are closed in Rotherham

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  5. Doobster78 says:

    Labour , point scoring activist caught out AGAIN !!!!!

       37 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      That totally non-political nurse has locked down her Twitter account
      Maybe cos some people exposed her political history.

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      • Deborah says:

        Sadly the Daily Mail on line has this nurse’s story without telling their readers that she is a Labour political activist.

        I am sure much of these anti government stories are as a result of people voting for the Conservatives and for Brexit. The stupid BBC and mainstream press haven’t realised their propaganda doesn’t work. (Evidence, the last election and Brexit).

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  6. Northern Voter says:

    Mrs Voter was watching Celebrity Mastermind (not that I recognised one apart from the BAME woman, that played rugby and is now part of the BBC ), anyway during the general knowledge round Humphries asks, Which record failed to make number one during Donald Trump’s visit to the UK. The answer was of course American Idiot, apparently the beeb didn’t ring up often enough.

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  7. Darcy3 says:

    Since the bbc need to lever into mastermind and, even more bizzarely, countryside programmes, with BAME can we ask why they are not demanding the 100 metre dash and boxing world are not filled with under represented white people ?

    looking at their requirements for other occupations there should be at least 50% white people in each 100 metre dash and boxing match regardless of their competence

       35 likes

    • Darcy3 says:

      Regarding competence and ability I am thinking for example of a Naga who is routinely rude and arrogant and opinionated to co presenters and makes derogatory comments about Brexit and the democratically elected president of the USA whilst working for a supposed professional and unbiased national broadcaster

      fireproof, of course as many incompetent BAME I have seen in local government and elsewhere, even admitted by their managers as recipients of public complaints about sexism and bullying, so about time we had a fireproof white 100 metre champion ?

      It is all about equality is it not..hmmmm

         46 likes

      • Darcy3 says:

        The theory runs that Mexico does not do too well in the Olympics because anyone who can run, jump or swim is now in the USA

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       21 likes

  9. Guest Who says:

    Because they can?

       43 likes

  10. smoogie7 says:

    BBC Scotland being called out by Scottish Tories for SNP bias.

    Funny how the BBC giving the locally ruling SNP an easy ride but not the nationally ruling Tories.

    https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-tories-make-bbc-complaint-21881408

       29 likes

  11. Darcy3 says:

    It would be interesting if Brexit was followed by Joxit

    Let the little gnome get on with it, like Corbyn, very good at sniping from the sidelines

    and trying to steal the march on the government by making announcements just before them, pathetic, a national emergency and one can see the true mettle of all, including politicians and the bbc

       35 likes

  12. Guest Who says:

    Gotta be impressed.

       16 likes

    • Northern Voter says:

      So that would be 66% are not essential, and are just going in to make up the numbers, that would be the numbers for diversity, race, religion and sexual bias.

         19 likes

  13. Darcy3 says:

    FFS the person most likely to be off sick … a wimmin, the person thst costs the economy millions through maternity leave requiring a company to pay her to have a baby (Why?) and have to pay her salary whilst she has a baby AND employ another person to do her job yet have to allow her to come back if she chooses ?? so can only offer a nine month contract and try and find someone willing to take that on with no guarantee of future employment until the wimmin decides whether she will come back or not which is ONE WEEK before the end of her maternity pay

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    • Burgsey says:

      Darcy, I don’t agree with your comments, but do agree with the outcome. Women should have the right to have babies and a career (just like Loretta from Life of Brian). However, the women’s right lobby have tended to undermine their own position as employers are often reluctant to employ younger women to key posts “just in case”, so it ends up being a no win situation for all parties. They just use an alternative excuse not to employ (e.g. poor interview).

         10 likes

      • Darcy3 says:

        Of course you have the right to agree or disagree, ufortunately though, Its not an opinion you are disagreeing with, it is a fact

        Survey Reveals More Women Take Time Off Sick than Men

        The European Health Interview Survey has revealed a ‘sickie gender gap’ with results noting 36% of women compared to 27% of men have taken sick leave from work in the last year.

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  14. Doobster78 says:

    Well said Laurie. Well said ????

       55 likes

  15. Guest Who says:

    They don’t learn, do they?

       3 likes

  16. BRISSLES says:

    I’m not on Twitter, but was sent this on WhatsApp…….

    @mattbicky….
    As a lorry driver, Thursday I turned up at a hospital 3.45 unable to unload as stores shut 3.30pm They weren’t open Friday when I took it back. A truck load of PPE undelivered cos stores were shut. Suppose that’s Boris fault too.

    Stories like this never get reported. Funny that.

       56 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Source note it’s date April 12
      He’d tweeted the same thing 3 times the day before but got ignored
      He seems a genuine lorry driver cos over the years he has mentioned it.

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      • StewGreen says:

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  17. taffman says:

    “Coronavirus: Domestic electricity use up during day as nation works from home”……………
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52331534
    The broadcasting outfit is run by kids .
    A Non-story . Telling us the bleeding obvious.
    They must have had orders to fill any news item and link it with Coronavirus?

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  18. davylars says:

    Haven’t posted one of these for a while.
    But just to remind Roger that 16% renewables leaves a massive shortfall in electricity production even in these testing times.
    Where are we supposed to get the other 84% by 2050…
    Answers BBC….

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    • Northern Voter says:

      Some enterprising person will develop a small generator that can be powered by a person pedalling a bicycle, hang on that’s been done, maybe two people on a tandem would work better. Perhaps jug ears and Cressida (Iwishihada)Dick could do the work.

         15 likes

      • Nodding Dog says:

        Why stop at two NV
        Is a Shame Tim Brooke=Taylor recently passed away or we could’ve asked The Goodies to get their trandem out.tandem_bike_by_davidjasdero_d322ftn-250t.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9Mzk1IiwicGF0aCI6IlwvZlwvNjMzZDMwMTEtMzBjNS00OGFiLWFkZGYtNWRjMDRhZWU2YjRkXC9kMzIyZnRuLWQyNzBlNGFiLWNiMjAtNDVkNy1hZDA3LThlYzUyODZmMWY3Ni5qcGciLCJ3aWR0aCI6Ijw9NTc2In1dXSwiYXVkIjpbInVybjpzZXJ2aWNlOmltYWdlLm9wZXJhdGlvbnMiXX0.ysnFEyNZWNInCAPWe5wJCRmg7SixszAw8gpKmIuQI5k

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    • StewGreen says:

      Bottom left
      IC Ned and IC Nem (Belgium Interconnector) are probably sending us *Coal* and gas powered leccy
      IC France is mostly nuclear

      Why’s Biomass low ?
      shouldn’t Drax be doing its normal dirty burning of American logs ?
      I know the Immingham train track is under repair, but they have trains from the west coast ports as well

         14 likes

  19. taffman says:

    Are the Dutch going through the birth pains of leaving the EU?
    https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/04/french-and-german-ambassadors-urge-dutch-to-support-the-eu

       10 likes

  20. Guest Who says:

    Bunter reads the room. Goes worse than usual, even for him.

       10 likes

  21. StewGreen says:

    On twitter libmob are loving the Sunday Times hit piece against Boris
    *ONE Downing Street advisor spills all*,
    ‘ Coronovirus is all the fault of lazy Boris skipping meetings’

    “A lot of people are going to suspect that the Sunday Times hit piece on Boris and Covid (will read it in full tomorrow to make a judgment on it) is leftover business from the departure of Sajid Javid and his team from No11 Downing Street.

       18 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Are the MSM so bubble-headed that they think each other fluffing themselves is the least bit convincing or influential as their readerships and audience stats continue to plummet?

         9 likes

  22. Sluff says:

    The BBC are disgracefully playing the race card with the allegation that BAME people are proportionally harder hit than whiteys.i

    What selective memories they have.
    They are far more reticent to review transplant and organ donation rates. As given by none other than…….the NHS !!!!
    These show BAME offer proportionately fewer donations and receive more transplants than white people.

    But just imagine a journalist from the BBC playing that particular race card !!!! It’s never going to happen is it? In BBC la la land, racism is only ever one-way.

    Click to access organ-donation-and-transplantation-bame-activity-report-2018-2019.pdf

       26 likes

  23. taffman says:

    “Cornish dad bakes pasty the size of his newborn son”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-52327592
    I posted similar earlier . Another non-story published by an outfit run by kids .
    Thats what you telly tax payers are funding.

       31 likes

  24. taffman says:

    \\Firms ‘won’t be ready for EU customs exit’//
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52287926
    It looks like ‘Project Fear is back on the agenda.

       26 likes

  25. StewGreen says:

    BrowningGate
    The story fell apart when Simon Browning put his source Paul Durrands on the news at 1pm Fri, repeated 2pm and 4:30 pm
    and some people realised that he wasn’t an NHS Trust manager at all

    4:37pm BBCNews Channel
    – A senior health expert says he feels ashamed when NHS staff aren’t able to access enough personal protective equipment.
    Paul Durrands asked the bbc to put him in contact with the fashion company Burberry, which has switched production to make PPE for health care workers.

    Simon Browning reports. It is situation critical.
    “NHS hospitals are running out of vital gowns to protect staff and patients.
    Yesterday, one NHS doctor contacted me to say the situation was so bad at his hospitals that are connected directly to the fact that gowns.
    Durrands “I saw on the website that the manufacturing gowns, and my local health care system is very short of gowns.
    I wanted to get a name and a contact, so (I phoned you) to see if you had a name of someone I could talk to to get some gowns. ”

    SB “Paul Durrands is a specialist in PPE.
    He has worked in government setting up supply chains before they were changed, and this has caused problems. before they were changed

    PD “I feel a sense of shame.
    If OUR staff turn up on shift and the PPE isn’t in the cupboard, it’s just not good enough.”

    SB “Just this morning the situation experienced by Dr Paul Durrands and HIS hospital colleagues was acknowledged by the Health Secretary. …….there has definitely been a shortage of the last few weeks and no one can deny that. we are on it..

    “the demand for ppe in the uk has revealed just how small and fractured the uk supply chain is, and after decades of moving production overseas to chase cheaper costs uk factories that are left are doing all they can to help. ”

    …blah blah Burberry ..

    https://archive.org/details/BBCNEWS_20200417_120000_BBC_News_at_One/start/474/end/534?q=paul+durrands
    To see the blocks of transcript move the slider at the bottom of the page to the right

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  26. StewGreen says:

    Nobel 2008 virologist Luc Montagnier says “Covid 19” man made …. (given Wuhan lab designed / part built by France it seems a brave thing to do….. )

    https://youtu.be/nL-g9Dn-3Mc

       14 likes

  27. StewGreen says:

    I’ve made out this list of natural, good and inclusive things vs. things that are unnatural, wrong and fascist.
    thread

       6 likes

  28. Celtic_Mist says:

    BBC ‘fact checking’

    They don’t seem to realise how stupid this looks –

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    • gb123 says:

      If this is the exact way the fact check was written it deserves to be nit picked a la BBC. the “-” looks like a negative to the casual readers eyes. Are they saying the US has negative deaths? Are they comparing births to deaths?
      I am deliberately using the kind of dumb questioning headlines so often used by the BBC. Maybe I could get a job in the headline straw man department.

         7 likes

  29. ScottishCalvin says:

    This week’s doodle and thoughts from the basement. Maybe I should set up a gofundme if anyone wants to sponsor me to walk to the wine rack and back 100 times.

       16 likes

  30. Celtic_Mist says:

    A Guardian opinion piece asserted
    “Media scrutiny of No 10’s Covid strategy is more important than ever”

    https://www.theguardian.com/media/commentisfree/2020/mar/29/coronavirus-parliament-media-newspapers-coronavirus

    It’s surprising that the Times would do it but apparently it needs headlines to survive

    The BBC is also trying to discredit the government even when it is finacially secure

    I’m confused, does the BBC really want to be defunded?
    Maybe because ratings are falling it thinks it can do better elsewhere?

       18 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Ranks have been broken.

         28 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      And here is Jon-boy’s little helper… not doing irony.

      #CCBGB

      But at least he’s in with a chance with the BS next time she’s on lay-over.

         9 likes

      • Celtic_Mist says:

        Guest,

        I have a complaint in with the BBC over Nick’s tweets.

        However, and I don’t think this is widely known, BBC complaints appear to have suspended the normal procedure, 1a & 1b etc, and are not escalating to ECU quoting staffing problems due to covid.

        I’ve asked them that question but haven’t heard back yet

           15 likes

        • Guest Who says:

          “So, class of ‘20… you have a binary choice of career: NHS Procurement Officer or BBC ECU. Choose wisely”.

             6 likes

    • Celtic_Mist says:

      Sopel and his friends haven’t a leg to stand on after this 40 year NHS scientist has replied –

      [In any case, Prof Neil Ferguson didn’t have the data from Italy until 16 March that, with his models, predicted the looming catastrophe, and caused the UK and US to immediately change their ‘Herd’ strategy saving millions of lives]

      [I’m no fan of ‘climate models’, however, in this application of statistical modeling techniques the results of the Italian ‘model’ (or experiment) were observable]

         19 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Nick #sourceswhosay Nob finds it ‘powerful’.

         7 likes

  31. Scroblene says:

    I think we should all have a ‘Clap for hypochondriacs’ day next Thursday!

    Non-covid admissions have plummeted because a certain crowd of ‘victims’ are scared of going to hospital!

    In other news, the BBC still spout fake news, ‘quote’ un-checked statistics, show more rubbishy programmes than they ever did before, and generally make fools of themselves…

       32 likes

  32. Guest Who says:

    So is VD. Apparently.

       11 likes

  33. StewGreen says:

    Charles Moore’s article about Boris has caused lots of libmob to react in their #BeKind way.

       27 likes

  34. Non Snowflake says:

    Just a thought, but if the bBBC is correct and BAME’s are (statistically) more prone to catch COVID-19 than normal people, then does that mean that we should all avoid BAME’s at all costs from now on?

    EG keep 2 metres from them, don’t interract with them, don’t face them in case they breathe the virus onto us, don’t invite them into the house, don’t get into a car with them, don’t let them near our children, and definitely stop auditioning them for TV commercials.

    Although I’m sure there must be a down side as well.

       33 likes

  35. Foscari says:

    We all know that the WHO is under the control of China.
    But do we know whom exactly controls the BBC ?
    We know that whatever disaster overtakes the World the
    BBC’S number one priority is still diversity.
    From making sure there is at least one diverse contestant
    on Celebrity Mastermind . Even if they cant answer questions
    on their specialist subject, such as the one times table.
    All the way up to not putting the blame on China for hiding
    the early stages of the disease to the world.
    The more I think about it , the more I believe that those in the
    hierarchy of the BBC have similar affiliation to those at the top
    of the WHO.

       41 likes

    • Celtic_Mist says:

      Foscari,

      That’s an easy one, Ofcom, who like the media and most institutions have been taken over by leftist activists

         24 likes

    • G says:

      Fos,
      Whatever, the BBC’s role is to disrupt and condemn normality by undermining everything. That is the overriding principal goal of Marxism. A handy tool for the chinese communist party, well schooled in those techniques.

         5 likes

  36. Guest Who says:

    The BBC’s latest irony editor in lock down.

       16 likes

  37. Darcy3 says:

    F@ck islamophobia whingers:

    Prosecutor reveals how one teenage girl was grilled by 11 barristers for six days and called a liar – but refused to back down and laid bare the horror of Asian rape gangs

    A car door was flung open and the two girls were pushed out into the darkness. They fell awkwardly on to the moorland heather as the vehicle accelerated away and the tail-lights disappeared into the night.

    The girls grabbed each other, huddling together, frozen in fear. After several minutes, when they were sure the car wasn’t coming back, they looked across the barren landscape of Saddleworth Moor towards the lights of civilisation blinking faintly in the distance. Then they began the long 14-mile walk back to town.

    It was a little after 8.30 the next morning when Sara Rowbotham parked her car outside the sexual health support service she ran in Rochdale, ten miles north-east of Manchester.

    As she stepped out of the vehicle, she saw the two shivering girls sitting on the steps

    They had made it back and had been waiting there for hours. Before being dumped on the moors the night before, both had been violently raped by several men.

    As a crisis intervention co-ordinator for the NHS, it was Rowbotham’s work with vulnerable young girls that had begun to shed light on a series of horrific crimes happening in the Rochdale area.

    The reports she presented to the authorities told of a sickening epidemic of sexual abuse.

    She relayed details of teenage girls being plied with alcohol and coerced into unprotected sexual intercourse with multiple men, many of whom were more than 30 years older than them.

    She also told of underage girls being threatened and picked up in car parks and taken to houses across the town, where they would be passed around dozens of men.

    In one case, a man in his 40s poured petrol on the head of a 14-year-old girl with learning difficulties and threatened to set her alight unless she performed a sex act on him.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8233353/NAZIR-AFZAL-teenage-girl-refused-laid-bare-horror-Asian-rape-gangs.html

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Would be nice to know the names of the defence barristers in these cases and whether they are related to the ‘ defendants ‘ wouldn’t it ?

         18 likes

  38. Celtic_Mist says:

    I was shocked at Boris’s ‘police state’ but am now thinking that it was a precursor to silencing the media, the BBC in particular.

    Don’t forget, Dominic Cummings, as with Brexit, will have ‘gamed’ this.

    https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/gametheory.asp

    Come to think of it, I should have a look at his blog

    https://dominiccummings.com/

    Is there not already a cross party committe of moderates?

       11 likes

    • Celtic_Mist says:

      During WW2 wasn’t the national socialist fascist Mosley locked up

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/84/a1144784.shtml

      How ironic

         6 likes

      • Celtic_Mist says:

        Remember Cummings –

        ‘Two hands are a lot’ — we’re hiring data scientists, project managers, policy experts, assorted weirdos…

        It’s all beginning to make sense

           7 likes

      • fakenewswatcher says:

        CM- “He ended his life as a good Socialist”
        So this is really the fairy-tale ending beloved by the bbc.
        Never mind ‘lived happily ever after’, which is the little one’s version.
        The beeb feeds its own little ones fairy tales all the time.
        At a cost. Oh, and I suspect that financially, they’re doing rather well right now….

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  39. Guest Who says:

    Wimmin! More wimmin!

       6 likes

  40. Guest Who says:

    BBC QasaHeadline News

    Has the coronavirus led to a change in your drinking habits?

    ***

    #CCBGB

       11 likes

  41. StewGreen says:

    FA fact sheet on Ramadan

       9 likes

    • john in cheshire says:

      We’re supposed to be a Christian country. Why should we even know about Ram Damn let alone care about it?

         3 likes

  42. StewGreen says:

    NHS guide
    How can we support colleagues during Ramadan and Eid-ul-Fitr?
    How does COVID-19 and social distancing impact Muslims?

       7 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Scunthorpe Ramadan preparations ?

      Sheep stealing was reported on the early Radio Humberside news. tweet
      but then for some reason they dropped it

         26 likes

      • StewGreen says:

        “The incident came just two days after police discovered an illegal abattoir at a house in the Telford, Shropshire.
        Police there arrested seven men, also for theft”
        https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-england-shropshire-52332756

        The theft of nearly 10,000 sheep across England and Wales last year has only resulted in one charge by police, the BBC can reveal.
        A Freedom of Information request showed 9,635 sheep were stolen in 2018

        https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-england-47409199

           21 likes

        • madandbad101 says:

          Ah but if you mis-label an LBGT person they will be round before you can make a cup of tea !!

             10 likes

      • Fedup2 says:

        On the Halal theme – I have to go on the Facebook now because my church is broadcasting mass on it . I have no presence on Facebook other wise and naturally all the details I had to put on it are lies …
        Anyway -whilst navigating to my RC mass Facebook sent me to the “halal food exhibition ‘ which apparently is on this weekend . There are pictures of large numbers of people at the festival – presumably watching live unstunned mammals having their throats cut .

        A bit alarmed – because twitter is showing plenty of queues of 3rd worlders waiting at the halal supermarkets nearby – I had a look —-
        It seems said halal show has been put off until July – there will be full BBC presence with tips is slaughtering animals at home – ( the last bit might be a bit of false news but I don’t watch country tick box file anymore so don’t know… )

           22 likes

      • StewGreen says:

        The sheep story did get reported on the 12pm news

           3 likes

    • AsISeeIt says:

      Did we get any Easter support – apart from don’t buy eggs?

         24 likes

  43. AsISeeIt says:

    BBC: “Long spell of dry weather set to continue”

    I’m inclined to say yeah, that’ll be the summer.

    But blimey, that headline does read as oddly portentious. The BBC have got us all into such a state of fearful, resentful, paranoia that even a simple positive statement of a decent weather forecast sounds ominous.

    “…set to continue…”

    Oh no, is a draught on the way? Is this a trigger to panic buy bottled water?

    Christ, what are the social distancing implications of water rationing from standpipes?

    What will get us first, global warming or the Chinese virus?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-52333565

    “It is now a full month since Northern Ireland last recorded a single day with more than one centimetre of rain.”

    Oh, the humanity…. I really don’t know if I can take it anymore. I may have to jump out of a window. (Don’t worry, I’m on the ground floor).

    “Would be revellers at the cancelled St Patrick’s Day parades on 17 March would have been dodging showers as many places across Northern Ireland recorded 10-15mm of rain that day. Since then, almost nothing.”

    Cue the theme to the Twilight Zone… it’s a weird little shamrock green mystery. Perhaps the leprechauns have been messing about at their end of the rainbow?

    Don’t even think about cracking that old joke about the Irish beating the draught by diluting the stuff.

    “February 2020 was the wettest February since 1862.”

    Quick, get hold of the Guinness Book of Records! They’ve got plenty of time to look into this claim since they won’t be making much Guinness at the moment.

    “A high pressure system is sitting over Scandinavia and building towards Ireland this weekend which means the third week in April looks set to be similarly parched.”

    Phew, there’s a scientific explanation – but what if we all get “parched” ? Get me out of here, I don’t want to be parched!

    It’s like the Daleks have landed and are imposing fine weather on humans “You will obey the Daleks or you will be parched”

    “We may not be able to enjoy the fine weather to the full, but we certainly deserve it.”

    Ah there you get it right at the end of the article, that typical old BBC trick of reimposing the primitive ancient way of thinking that there’s a relationship between our moral behaviour and the mood of the weather gods.

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    • Peter Grimes says:

      Weather at the beginning of Jugears Marr’s propaganda programme today and the (undoubtedly overpaid) presenter tells us that April showers doesn’t seem to be occurring this year. Dopey cow probably can’t recall March, as if a few weeks time shift is unknown. I’m under Southern Water so I looked at their reservoir levels online. They vary between ….wait for it…

      99% and 100% so no drought likely yet.

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      • Lefty Wright says:

        AsISeeIt
        And finally……………………. The BBC has learned that 60 million British people did NOT die from the corona virus this week which for us in the newsroom is something of a disappointment.
        Goodnight.

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  44. Eddy Booth says:

    World is getting like a Black Mirror episode..
    Everyone locked up by a kindly government .,.for their own safety.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52341728?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/europe&link_location=live-reporting-story
    Coronavirus: Spanish PM promises to ease confinement of children
    Children have been barred from going outside their homes completely.
    Spanish children have been kept at home since 14 March

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  45. Tabs says:

    Andrew Marr is interviewing David Attenborough. Usual end of the world is nigh stuff.

    Two interesting BBC moments, but you had to wait until 90% of the interview/scare was done.
    1. David Attenborough clarified that the nature and the planet will always survive but “we need to protect mankind”. An interesting change of tactics from the “world is on fire” just a few months ago.
    2. Marr tried to suggest the planet has a concious and is punishing us with Coronovirus.

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    • Lefty Wright says:

      Tabs
      Yes.Last year I swore at my roses because the buggers pricked me badly and shortly afterwards they all died. I guess I must have hurt their feelings.So Mr Marr could have a point.

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    • Kaiser says:

      dont remember marr pushing any gods punisment / gaia pushback theories for HIV

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    • StewGreen says:

      2. Marr tried to suggest the planet has a conscience and is punishing us with Coronovirus

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  46. Sluff says:

    On Toady Sunday in the newspaper review at 0810.

    The announcer mentioned in terms that the Daily/Sunday Express had chosen a headline to be positive and cheer us up a bit !!!!!

    The intense irony of this, the contrast, from a BBC announcer representing an institution that now only seeks to undermine and spread gloom and doom at every turn, must be obvious to all.

    Except the BBC management and editors, of course, for whom self-reflection is a non-starter.

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    • Van Helsing says:

      Sluff, take it from one who knows: vampires have no reflection, self or otherwise…

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  47. theleftwilleatitself says:

    One World: Together at Home tonight on the ‘world’s most trusted’ at 19:15 ????
    It’ll be pathetic lefty virtue-signalling nonsense implying we’re all in it together ????
    These twats, al beeb included, are so out of touch with the general public it is laughable ????
    23rd of April will be a year since we binned the telly tax (a date whose irony isn’t lost on this household) ????????????????????????????

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  48. Fedup2 says:

    Wow – the PPE thing is going so well that Len Deighton has been appointed a ‘czar’ for it -joining the vaccine ‘ task force ‘ set up yesterday and due to meet sometime in 2021 or 2022. ( last bit might be false ) but I’ve lost me trust in them now ..

    I’m not affected by the propaganda because I don’t do mainstream ‘news ‘Or newspapers any more …. but – as an aside – HMG is sending out online surveys to assess the behaviour and views of the taxpayer including a little question about whether a government tracking app would be acceptable – as part of a ‘ deal ‘ to reduce the imprisonment they are putting us through .

    We’re gonna get a lot of ‘ second wave ‘ propaganda coming along soon to frighten us into staying in until July – or August -or September . …. that’s a lot of clapping ….

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    • theisland says:

      Fed
      It’s Lord Paul Deighton, the chief executive of the 2012 Olympic games (I had to look it up).
      Although a spy novelist might be preferable.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Theisland .
        Thank you but I knew . My humour was a bit too dry . I don’t use titles as I generally don’t believe in them . So Lenny Deighton it is for me .
        I wonder if he is shareholder in PPE companies …..
        I’m trying to guess what ‘czar’ is going to be appointed by some government drone at the next ‘ briefing ‘ …

        Maybe it’s a “ we re doing all that we can czar “ . Or a “clapping “ czar task force …..

        I think Sunday is Dom Raabs ‘ day . “ minister – if there s a lockdown why are there so many planes On finals toward Heathrow or stansted please ? They’re not PPE cargo Because some other country has nicked that …. “

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        • Sluff says:

          Fed
          It’s been suggested we may have some education announcements today or tomorrow……..

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        • theisland says:

          Sorry Fed – suspected you knew that.
          Sophy asked Gove about borders this morning.
          Apparently the ‘medics’ have decided it’s ok!!
          Priti says (again) she is going to deal with those naughty people smugglers and Channel hoppers.
          https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-52338124
          Yeah right.

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          • Fedup2 says:

            Theisland – no worry – I suppose that since the Emir of Londonistan has overseen daily herding of workers onto the tube having a few Italians , Spanish , Americans and Chinese coming into the UK without health checks is good enough .

            It does cause the validity of nazi styled plod shouting at people to ‘go home’ you’re killing people to be questioned –

            Also – does anyone have much trust in the medics any more ?

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  49. Tabs says:

    I only watch BBC News very occasionally over a weekend, at random times of day, with a cup of tea. But it seems every time I watch it they are always bashing Trump with some woman guest bitching about how bad he is “because he said 47 days ago….which is different to what he said 24 years ago…”.

    What is the chances that I seem to catch those Trump bashing moments every time?

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  50. StewGreen says:

    Next year are some PPE sales people going to on fancy holidays
    whilst the NHS sits on on huge stockpiles of PPE it paid over the odds for
    cos stories of scarcity drove prices up ?

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