As the Far Left BBC continues its efforts to undermine the morale of the suffering British Public during the Chinese virus pandemic we might wonder what the payback will be For the BBC as the economy contracts into recession…
Midweek Thread 6 May 2020
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as ever an item promoting one of their own progs is counted as news.
…. Fri 8pm more beatification of Colonel Tom
Lets not be too critical. Have to remember he’s about the last generation that wasn’t over run with BAME’s, – how many have you seen in the endless pictures of VE Day – none, and something they cant complain about or call the event ‘hideously white’. And it remains to be seen (though we won’t be around) whether the same achievement will be claimed by a mixed race or BAME 100 year old in the next 50 years or so. Personally I doubt it, because white British will always be that – white British, whereas those of colour have an affiliation to their heritage rather than the country of birth.
Tom like many people in & outside of the forces may well be a war hero.
But he is NOT a hero for walking around his garden.
In fact that is a media event that maybe exploiting and using him.
Getting a bit like Nadiya right now.
Don’t know how you can compare the two.
One baked a sodding cake and gained an MBE., and the other ……… well it defies explanation.
Just waiting for Lammy to thank @ClimateWarrior for his support
What would Lammy have to say about TR’s solitary confinement without charge?
BBC News@6
– black soldiers want a memorial
– our mate Banksy has done a homage to the NHS heroes in a Southampton hospital
Black soldiers ? this lot you mean ? (sadly missing on the bbc as no muslim “victims”)
Nigeria: Muslims murder 12 Christians and kidnap a couple from their church wedding ceremony
May 5, 2020 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer 23 Comments
Time for the establishment media to treat us to a new round of features on the rise of “Islamophobia.” Their fiction writers will need to be working overtime.
“Couple Abducted from Wedding in Attacks in Northwest Nigeria that Kill 12 Christians,” Morning Star News, April 29, 2020:
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen in northwest Nigeria killed 12 Christians and kidnapped a couple from their church wedding ceremony in attacks this month, sources said.
In Tegina Kabata village in Niger state’s Shiroro County, herdsmen attacked a church site where a wedding was taking place on April 12, abducting the couple and some church members, area resident Danjuma Iliya told Morning Star News.
“As the pastor was officiating during the wedding solemnization, the herdsmen stormed the church and took away everyone who was unable to escape from the church building, including the bride and groom,” Iliya said. “In that village, five Christians were killed in the series of attacks carried out by the herdsmen.”
Two other Christians were killed by herdsmen in Niger state’s Gidigori village, Kusherki District, in Rafi County, on April 20, area resident James Ayuba said. They were two of seven Christians killed in three herdsmen attacks over five days in Rafi County, he said.
Others were injured in herdsmen attacks in the county’s Madaka and Sabon Gari villages on April 20-21, he said….
The announcement came the same day that a church elder in north-central Nigeria’s Kaduna state had been kidnapped. Armed Fulani herdsmen abducted Emmanuel Iliya Agiya, elder and treasurer of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) in Atang village, Jema’a County on April 22, area resident Aku Joshua Shai told Morning Star News by phone.
After shooting into the air to send villagers scampering into the bushes, the herdsmen broke into Iliya’s house that night and took him away at gunpoint, he said.
“The armed herdsmen first tried to forcefully gain entry into the house of the brother of the victim but were unsuccessful,” Shai said. “They then proceeded to the next house, the victim’s house, dragged him out, and then took him away at gunpoint,
As I’ve said before, muslims are the wasps and Christians are the bees of nature.
People dislike wasps but not bees, right?
People run away from wasps but not bees, right?
People use insecticide on wasps but not bees, right?
The BBC can certainly pick them!
If Albert Jarrett was 18 when he came to the UK (at 8 miles an hour) that would mean he didn’t join the RAF until 1943.
“This government has never done nuffin to show its appreciation.”
My dad volunteered to join the RAF when he was 18 too. The government in 1946 gave him three medals and pay in compensation for 87 days leave not taken. I don’t think he expected anything else.
When does this need for special memorials end? I bet no-one thinks about left-handed, ginger-haired members of the pay corps either.
Watching the BBC clip one might get the impression that ‘retired RAF officer’ Donald Campbell was also a WW2 veteran, in fact he joined the RAF in 1974, eventually becoming an NCO, not what is generally regarded as an ‘officer’ either within or outwith the service.
But remember, you can always trust the BBC.
We missed a trick in 1941. a certain expertise at drive by shootings and parachuting over Germany to nick messerschmitt 109s without a key
where were they then
oh I forgot, the victims were armed and dangerous.. a lesson for us here maybe, BAMES rarely seen to be lauded for selfless courage in the face of danger
Innit bruv
As I and others have said before, where is the day of remembrance for Kris Donald?
Peston aiming for a new job at BbcLabourNews
Shots fired.
They really are tearing themselves apart in the bubble.
But Bunter is a shot boult.
These media on media fluffing tweets so need the Downfall treatment.
Well Boulton would want to be backed by Myers
‘Sleazy’ journalist Rupert Myers sacked by various outlets …!’
https://www.legalcheek.com/2017/11/junior-barrister-whose-inappropriate-behaviour-made-women-feel-uncomfortable-admits-he-got-professional-help-after-metoo-shaming/
“But Bunter is a shot boult.” The shots being Vodka, Polish Spirit, Gin, Moonshine, and anything vaguely flammable from a bottle. They are so self -centred it beggars belief.
An example of Boulton’s madness
Of course he has an inside track to New Labour, he’s been married to it since 2006
“Anji Hunter, former gate-keeper to Tony Blair”
She’s Boulton’s wife !
“Angela Margaret Jane “Anji” Hunter is an English public relations advisor.
She is noted for her close partnership with former Prime Minister Tony Blair”
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/2012/11/16-Nov-Murdoch-Marries-Blair-Anji-Hunter-and-Adam-Boulton-discuss-politics,-the-media-and-business.aspx
And Before that he was almost married to Labour
His ex-wife Kerena is the sister of Peter Mond who was a Labour Minister at the time
Listening to a community radio station that operates in our area I was reminded of the days when we had a Proper BBC. Does anyone remember “The Northern Drift”, an anthology of stories, songs and sketches as I recall, featuring Henry Livings and Alex Glasgow? There was “Monday Night at Home” introduced by Basil Boothroyd of “Punch”, another anthology that always included an item by Ivor Cutler of Y’Hup OMP. It must have taken the significant imaginative effort of some editor or producer to find talented contributors and put these programmes together. I remember the series “Five to Ten” did on stories from the life of Hudson Taylor. This would be perceived nowadays as religious poison by the enlightened left. In more recent times we had the classic “Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, ideal for radio to exercise the imagination.
Has the truly creative spark been extinguished?
Square-Eyed
Has the truly creative spark been extinguished? It certainly has not sir. Just because you are not permitted to see and hear it does not mean it is dead. Just biding it’s time. Remember that the Russian people had to wait for 70+ years to once again see it blossom.
The BBC are desperately short on ideas. Their tweets trawling for ‘tell us how you got a hair cut in this crisis ‘ sort of things. But Bake Off was a success (until the PC brigade got hold of it) but spawned Sewing Bee and Pottery (I would rather watch paint dry). Then there is Great British Menu, Master Chef and others (I cannot even remember their names), all different sides of the same penny! But the ideas are all sold to other tv stations around the world and make the production companies millions. Didn’t the BBC pay someone £19 million for the idea of the Voice? But new ideas are short on the ground. Tony Blair’s agreement to have many BBC channels meant that talent has been so thinly spread it is invisible. Lots of work for woke socialists but no entertainment for the masses and the masses are beginning to either find alternatives or switch off.
House journal just committed a hate crime on Grayson.
Nice to see bbc impartiality at expected levels.
To be fair she likely appreciates the esteem in which lawyers are held.
What does a lawyer get when you give him Viagra?
Taller
Why does the bar association code of ethics prevent sex between lawyers and their clients?
To prevent clients from being billed twice for essentially the same service.
‘….the first thing – let’s kill all the lawyers.’
Henry IV Part 2.
W. Shakespeare Esq.
Nothing new about Cherie’s place in society. Or indeed dear Kier.
It’s funny , I always thought that Boris was a journalist.
The Royal Mail were working late this evening, risking life and limb delivering the urgent post for our queen.
Ah, back to the basic brown ‘threatogram’ for that ‘legal occupier’ who must ‘please act now’.
Looks like Capita’s creatives have been ‘furloughed’ and they have resorted to the good-old standard stock. How boring, and how satisfying.
RE “please act now”, I would be tempted to send them a snapshot of myself doing a Shakespeare soliloquy
In the last few days, the BBC have now added this text in red to their look up list for infections, found here – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274
“In Kent there were 567 coronavirus-related deaths up to the 24 April. In this area 17% of all deaths involved coronavirus between 29 February and 24 April”
It is very interesting to observe the subtle ways they have been changing things on some of these pages.
I wonder why?
Up2snuff
“corona – related deaths – deaths involved corona ” ??? Please BBC either translate this gibberish into facts or stay silent. Not that I am listening or viewing but some people are.
@Up2snuff I wonder if any of those 567 Kent deaths are connected to recent arrivals on Kent beaches ?
“Further symptoms are now reported including apoplectic fits and shrapnel damage from TVs with a strong correlation with the time Lara Carlsberg is allowed to open her gob at the daily Govt briefing”
No one is currently investigating this as it does not seem to affect BAMES or lefty agitators.
People with purple and blue hair also seem to be immune
Darcy3
My sister has developed a sore anal orifice. She is concerned she may have the virus.
no comment, unless she has been up a kebab shop recently
Channel 25 AKA Yesterday-channel
well sad documentary about the VE Day
Exposing things not talked about.
– Liberating troops turned up in Germn towns to find bodies lying around ..as Nazis had taken their suicide pills
– The accidental bombing of the Cap Ancona fleet
The Nazis had filled some ships with all kind of prisoners mostly Jewish
the RAF claimed they were told the ships were full of Nazis
and got some orders to bomb the lot
They killed about 5,000 of 8,000
Canadian troops turned up afterwards and managed to rescue some from the water
https://www.espressomedia.co.uk/countdown/
https://www.thenational.scot/news/18421853.tragedy-prison-ships-sunk-raf—75-years/
https://www.thenational.scot/news/18421853.tragedy-prison-ships-sunk-raf—75-years/
Stewgreen, I watched that program last night(wednesday) was very moving. If anyone says we should not have bombed Dresden I’ll tell them to watch that program. The nazis would have just gone on bombing Europe till it was a pile of rubble, in fact I think that is what Hitler said to do, leave countries in rubble. I recommend you all to watch h it as they are always repeating the programs.
The one image above all others is the 4 year old Jewish boy who had a badge on to show he was a political prisoner. They were absolutely mad and evil. I hope that little boy made it and was looked after and had a good life.
Has anyone heard ‘Part-time’ (a.k.a. LK) or any of the other journalists at the Daily Briefing ask if Ministers consider some countries are being deliberately infected with the Covid-19 virus?
Especially the USA.
BBC massive big now on Climate Change…. all is going the right way re: everything is great now we have no cars or factories etc. we don’t need to use our cars, planes, trains etc. any more.
So a so as long as no one ever wants to work again and just go away and die from lack if any income, starvation which would surely follow but then again we asked for it and it will all be fine the gerbils etc. will survive!
Ot maybe we will all be supported by the magic money tree?
digg
I am but a twig on that money tree but what is now being applied to the roots of the tree is weed killer.
the general employer unwillingness for people who can work from home to be able to do so is prevalent, for one reason, see below
phones can be answered and emails responded to immediately, from every private company I have to contact,but one tries to phone a local authority or get an email response within a week “because of this “crisis ” hmmm…what feeding the cat or mowing the lawn ?
Oh yes, too true!
A chum (yup I do have a few dotted around), who really does make a serious lot on the markets, is fortunate in that they’ll come through all this at some stage, but in a different manner of work from home. He told me that he’ll probably never go back to some of the old ways of marching around offices etc, again.
As the TV tax pays for some enormous offices, buildings everywhere, lots of vans and miles of cables, as well as the huge inflated egos of far too many minor slebs, and poor, sloppy reporters and autocue-readers, can the Minister please enquire why, apart from the odd ‘gotcha’ question around 5.00pm, they can’t send the whole bloody lot home to work there, and save a fortune?
Real companies have to do it, maybe they could try, just a little, and learn a few hard facts, not ‘offer’ opinions’.
Sorry, Darcy, you were really referring to LAs etc….
…same difference…
“The world’s top emitters of carbon dioxide ”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24021772
‘From the horse’s mouth’
Scroll down and have a look at the horizontal bar graph.
Greta Thumbelina is protesting in the wrong country me thinks ?
taffman
The girl’s handlers tell her where to protest.
Lefty Wright
When she grows up and has a mind of her own she could take a trip to China or India if she hasn’t been there already .
taffman
Will it still be legal to have a mind of her own?
No sh@t sherlock ? who do you think has been desperately crowd funding her sleeping bags and rucksacks so she can go and face of the Columbian drug gangs and the Chinese government
The BBC are gleefully reporting that CV19 deaths in the UK have exceeded 30,000. The highest in Europe. Laura Doomsberg is loving it.
An acquaintance of ours was found to have sepsis. They were admitted to hospital and tested positive for Coronavirus. Whilst being treated for sepsis, they had a heart attack and died. Do they appear in the statistics? Would they have appeared in Germany? Are the standards of what is written on Death certificates the same?
Don’t expect the BBC to ask, it might diminish their anti-government agenda.
An independent press is needed to hold the government to account. But the BBC has forfeited the right to be it.
Sluff
Independent press is now an oxymoron. We must think for ourselves.
I am alone in thinking that Al Beeb is very selective where and when it uses its HYS ?
taffman
Al Beeb is selective per se.
Well Dai-vid Icke how could you connect these new HYSs ?
– UK first European country to pass 30,000 deaths
– PM ‘bitterly regrets’ care home crisis
– UK coronavirus death toll higher than Italy’s
– Theresa May criticises global virus response
http://www.ihysdb.com/Home/Home
nope
It just goes to show how useless OfCom are .
Just like Al Beeb, in one word – dysfunctional.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/home
Question…..How is it that after weeks of lockdown the numbers of people dying from flu and pneumonia have remained constant? Should they not have dropped? How is it that deaths from C19 have barely dropped off?
Question…..Is the lockdown totally irrelevant?
Perhaps the old handwashing, keeping a respectful distance and maybe some sort of face covering in more crowded places would have sufficed instead of shutting the country down in an act of incredible economic sabotage.
The BBC is moving up a gear as it starts seriously peddlng the climate change angle…let’s not fly again or drive again, let’s never work again or buy anything ‘unnecessary’ again.
They don’t give a damn about you, your lives, your families, your needs or desires. They’re quite happy to sacrifce the lot to ‘save the planet’. Of course they can still work and take home a nice salary with all the benefits, and naturally they can actually work from home quite easily whilst lecturing you about your immorality and greed as you head off to your job if you’re lucky enough to still have one.
And Emily Maitlis’ little harangue about equality and the poor…C19’s not the great leveller?
This is one of the elitist Remain snobs who sneered and maligned those very same people she is now grandly championing…those deplorable, uneducated racists and bigots who voted for Brexit.
If she and her kind really cared they wouldn’t be pumping out climate change propaganda that tries to keep the lockdown in place and you in your place.
The elite have finally got what they have always wanted…the Great Unwashed coralled and under complete control…they’ll have the roads and the beachs to themselves and no more beery plebs making the flight to some sunny idyll unbearably common.
The 1% have got it all.
Yes Pug
I have noticed the increase Climate change narrative and yesterday caught the end of a bloody Vegan moaning..
It made me laugh this morning when Naga said ‘we may all have to keep suffering’ or words to that effect…
Exactly how are the BBC staff suffering? No chance of job loss, gold plated pension and I haven’t heard anyone say all BBC staff should take a wage drop so the TV licence can be reduced for those that can’t really afford it and don’t want to pay it!
“caught the end of a bloody Vegan moaning.”
Not so good being a vegan nowadays – no flights of avocados, no exotic vegetables flown in from all around the world, and also, better for normal people who eat naturally, a shortage of vitamins to make up for a vegan’s scary lifestyle.
A recent BBC survey on the number of vegans working for them showed that 95% of the ‘staff’ all had those silly, faddy, earth-mother-partner-silly-s*d ideas, and that only the 5% normal people were turning up for work as usual, as their natural immune system was just fine.
I wish…
@Pug “How is it that deaths from C19 have barely dropped off?”
you’ve got a shot memory
We were stuck in exponential growth where deaths doubled every 2.5 days.
So to get to a phase of level out is an achievement
To get to falling deaths that means there have to be less cases
ie during your infected phase you have to infect less than 1 person
That is quite an achievement cos most people don’t get symptoms so don’t know they are infected and that lasts 5-7 days
Then people who do show strong signs can be infectious for like a month.
(Once you get over it you are not infectious)
Now The estimated R value is 0.7 now ie 10 infected people, infect only 7 more .
Think I’ll go with the Lancet rather than you Stew…
‘It has become clear that a hard lockdown does not protect old and frail people living in care homes—a population the lockdown was designed to protect.3
Neither does it decrease mortality from COVID-19, which is evident when comparing the UK’s experience with that of other European countries.’
and the Swedes…
‘Despite resisting strict lockdown measures, Sweden’s Public Health Institute estimated that the country’s R number, the number of people each infected person passes the virus to, fell from 1.4 at the start of April to 0.85 at the end of the month.’
and common sense.
The draconian lockdown was way, way over the top and unnecessary…sensible measures could easily have been implemented without creating an economic disaster which is worse than anything we’ve seen in 300 years…BofE.
It looks like all that ’garb’ we bought from Turkey ? Well it was a load of garbage . It’s time we got our industry back and taught our kids to make things again instead of spending four wasted lives in ‘Youni‘, learning philosophy, humanities, and other ‘made up’ subjects . We can do it but let’s get out of the EU first and get rid of the globalist , internationalist, Al Beeb
Whoever is in charge of NHS Procurement must be looking for a new job ? Surely there must be an enquiry looming.
The problem with the NHS ? It’s hamstrung with bureaucracy. Too many chiefs and not enough Indians.
“We can do it but let’s get out of the EU first and get rid of the globalist , internationalist, Al Beeb”
And any other institutions, departments or people of internationalist persuasion.
Who says it’s garbage ? Why the HSE inspectors of course. How can a gown , about as low tech an item as you could get , be inadequate? In exactly what way was it inadequate ? Surely even an ‘inadequate gown ‘ offers more protection than no gown at all. I smell civil servants exploiting a situation to embarrass the government. The fact that front line health workers and / or patients may die as a result won’t stop the civil service Remainers trying to exploit the Covid situation.
A colleague has just copied me a letter from her social housing landlord who has decided it is time for their annual gas boiler check, they have 9000 properties, and will be going house to house, 10 minutes in each house, if I was minded to spread an infectious disease I would struggle to find a better way
they have demanded entry on 14 May and insisted that a QC expert may also be present
the irony is it is entitled “your safety is our concern RE possible malfunction of a gas boiler
As she said, MOTs on cars can be deferred so …
Of course she advises no one is avaialable to discuss in their office “during this crisis, and unavailable on the phone for some strange reason,
I would like to see the high handed office staff who failed to risk assess this exercise required to attend each property to see the consequences but they would probably say compuha says no or daha protection etc etc
Meanwhile my sister, who own her own home and gas boiler, has managed without a safety check for thirty years.
Equally she has got the same bathroom and kitchen that she had when she bought her house yet around here the ‘social landlord’ rips them out every ten years or so.
It kind of fits in with Pugnazious’ comment re. ‘the bronzed strumpet’, we have an over-paid, tax-dodging elite who shill for the tax-payer funded under-class, to each according to their need’, and a ‘somewhere’ class who make Britain what it is and who pay for the elite and the under-class.
The devil is in the detail, who decides the “needs” ?
whilst drinking champagne in the bbc corridors when tony and obama won
let them “binge on boxsets” HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU HEARD THAT ? sitting on a sofa watching crap whilst lecturing us on any other kind of bingeing as they need healthy workforce to fund them
I could not possibly think of a worse thing to do than sit on a sofa watching a telly for hours and hours day after day but that is the message given to us on a regular basis
Orwell got it right
BBC entertainment = “Prole feed”
Lewis doing a Newsnight special.
She seems chipper with it.
Then you read on…
Fails to use ‘government’.
The deranged sot was off on a TDS one earlier.
If I remember correctly some mystic meg here forsaw a similar outcome
Something rotten in the state media.
And the rest.
Impressive finding a Lucy.
How many cliches can you pack into a couple of minutes? Her daughter was ‘a victim’, the mum, ‘vulnerable ‘, ‘there positive and negative outcomes’, and more. I could almost believe it was written by a SJW script writer.
Guest Who – so she’s saying up until China gave us the virus, she’s not experienced racism. That’s good news, isn’t it?
I am not a twiteree but have seen so many when posters on here give a link, all I can say is I am genuinely appalled at the vicious attacks upon the govt and Boris Johnson during what is a national emergency, I am tempted to join twitter to take some to task but really cannot be bothered , I ahve the time at the moment but they are the blairite educationees who have not started to pay taxes, or, like most bbc employees who are tax dodgers who demand the goverment spend more whilst depriving the goverment of funds, funny that
Darcy – I look at Twitter a bit more these days but have never twittered and don’t do those tedious upticks which people apparently need ….
It’s not worth commenting on there – minds won’t be changed – it’s just shouting at each other in a digital town square .
Once people settle down in their armchair something makes them throw some serious abuse – and I wonder how elected officials can think no one is going to Screen shot Their drunken 2am hate tweet and get away with it .
I find it is faster with unfiltered news than the MSM …
F2, unfiltered news ? is there such a thing ? maybe some semi retired old thing with a pipe in his mouth could invent such a thing in his shed, it has been done before, OK it was a Rover with a V6
I await with anticipation,damn my uncles latest one is a cure for dyslexia, fcuk
Darcy – yes there is – there is the initial report of an event which turns up on Twitter far quicker than – say the BBC because it takes the BBC time to filter it through their propaganda machine to remove any reference to negative facts against – say Muslims –
For instance – the omission of the colour of a suspect in BBC reports . This omission tends to suggest the suspect is coloured – whereas on twitter various sources will report quicker ….
The ‘unfiltered ‘ bit comes from picking up the often careful editorial narrative the BBC applies – such as English whitee male bad everyone else good ….
OK I will have a word with my elderly but scientific uncle, he did reply upon my last request ”
wassa muslim ? didn’t churchill sort that out ?
Now turning in their grave etc etc
These are the bbc people that criticise and make demands on the government who do their level best to avoid paying taxes:
“Over 100 BBC stars face paying back thousands in tax as HMRC wins claim against presenter
More than 100 BBC presenters are facing tax bills that could run into hundreds of thousands of pounds after a former star lost her case against HMRC.
Christa Ackroyd earned more than the Prime Minister as co-host of the regional Look North programme on BBC One.
She was paid as a freelancer through a personal services company at the BBC’s request, but HMRC ruled that she should have paid the same level of tax as a BBC employee. Ms Ackroyd must now pay back £419,151.
In its ruling, the tax tribunal in Leeds said that, while this was not a test case, “we understand that the present appeal is one of a number of other appeals involving television presenters and personal service companies.”
At least 100 past and present BBC presenters are under investigation for alleged tax avoidance by using personal service companies to register as self-employed thereby minimising tax bills. The case could also have ramifications in other industries.
A HMRC source said: “This is an important marker for employees who were using personal service companies as a device to pay much lower tax. The game is up.”
Ms Ackroyd was poached from ITV in 2001 and presented Look North until 2013, when her contract was terminated. The tribunal heard that the BBC advised her to be paid via a personal service company.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/15/100-bbc-stars-face-paying-back-thousands-tax-hmrc-wins-claim/
that’s an historic story
She also lost the appeal in Nov 2019
… Maybe someone knows , isn’t the BBC paying the back tax for people like her ?
An historic story, quite, you consider it not relevent when bbc staff are harauging the government every day yet refusing to pay tax
In cases like these, although the tax liability is on the “employee”, the reason that the “employer” might direct the use of a personal service company is to save on employers NI contributions of 13%.
Bbbc therefore has instigated a tax dodge where it deprives HMRC of 13% of everything paid to these people.
So, in respect of Gary Lineker on £1,650,000 then the bbbc deprive the state of £214,500 every year. Multiply that by all the “employees” who are party to these arrangements and you end up with a colossal amount that the state is being deprived of.
Should be a national scandal really, state broadcaster robbing from the state by way of deliberate tax avoidance.
You mean the License Fee payer not the BBC.
D3, nice work, the only thing I would take issue with is “Christa Ackroyd earned more than the Prime Minister ……..”
I don’t think the word “earned” is appropriate, sure, she was “paid” more, but “earned”?? I somehow doubt that.
Stay safe
Thank you your feedback is appreciated, too little dialoge here too much rant, although I can rant as required
Very old story – bbc picked up the tab with tax payers cash
Very new story when one attempts to freelance because bbdc tax dodgers have screwed the system with basic greed whilst appearing as bringing the Government to account whilst ensuring they pay nothing towards the Government
Gerard is highlighting the silencing of Dr Judy Mikovits. Worth a look (as is everything that is ‘silenced’).
She’s the person who has exposed the Fauci fraud.
About em chickens. Viruses ?
……………..
https://www.insider.com/does-chlorine-kill-germs-and-viruses
I am off to bed .
Turkish gowns. Now, when these were ordered, I said on this site that that was a big mistake, we would live to regret. Someone did point out something that was actually manufactured there.
But quality surgical gowns, in haste? Naw.
Now it has been announced that, not only were they delivered late, but they are not up to standard and -I think- can’t be used. I do not actually enjoy the constant ‘I told you so’, because it usually involves the UK being taken for a ride, when it should have known better. That’s what’s really annoying.
But some things just seem to have that feel… from a mile off, and this was another one.
Fakenewswatcher, you have finally explained one of the great phenomena occurring during this pandemic. Why all the dancing healthcare workers dressed in surgical gowns and other PPE? The stuff is only worth using as fancy dress.
And they trusted Jonnie Turk eh – and paid cash I bet .
Shows how easy the state is with wasting taxpayer cash . I fear they took the stuff knowing it was crap just to avoid the embarrassment because the MSM was watching .
But like anything else Fail to plan – plan to fail …. a national stock of PPE would have prevented this kind on nonsense . And maybe kept a few people away from infection and death
There was/is a national stock of PPE, its just not centralized, but how many NHS jobsworths must have counted the PPE with expiry date of 2012, now changed to 2021 because of need and never thought to use it and replace it since?.
Peter – I’ve just bought a job lot of 400 000 ex government PPE gowns – made in Turkey – any buyers – otherwise I’ll have to stick them on my ebay site…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52556488
Coronavirus: Travellers ‘struggling without water and power’
By Rianna Croxford
Community affairs correspondent, BBC News
Some Irish Travellers asked to be anonymous because of fears about public abuse.
[etc.]
Janette McCormick, the deputy chief constable at the National Police Chiefs’ Council, said a large number of travellers have health issues and authorities should respond “proportionately”.
In a letter sent to all police Chief Officers, seen by BBC News, she has encouraged forces to stop evictions in favour of “negotiated stopping”.
This involves councils making agreements with travellers to temporarily settle on unauthorised sites in return for better access to healthcare and public services.
[I have personally seen some of these “temporary” sites. Now permanent. Travellers, **** them.]
[Are you 11, have you been gang raped by Muslims? Tough, the police will do SFA.]
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Somebody does not think highly of Janet.
https://cheshirepolice.org/janette-mccormick/
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NEWSNIGHT
From Guido –
23 year old Corbynista MP Nadia Whittome made a splash yesterday evening as she declared she had been ‘sacked’ from her role as a casual worker at a retirement home in her constituency. Whittome claims that she was ‘sacked’ for “speaking out about a lack of PPE”. This is despite the home, which has not had a single Coronavirus death, saying it has “three months’ supply of PPE, including over 25,000 pairs of gloves, 7,700 aprons and nearly 6,000 masks”. Despite working just eight casual shifts at the home all year, the incident is gaining significant media attention…
https://order-order.com/2020/05/07/curious-case-nadia-whittomes-sacking/
What the f**k is she doing moonlighting at a care home?
Isn’t her MP salary enough?
Is it voluntary unpaid work or does she get paid?
Surely if she has any spare time on her hands then she should be working to serve her constituents?
There was another Labour MPette who came to prominence during the junior doctors threatened strike over workload, where she seemed able to hold down these two plus a near daily round of studio slots in every tv studio.
I still can’t see how any MP can have a second job without damaging constituency interests . Never a shortage of candidates .
Eight casual shifts, then go public. Would it be out of order to make a suggestion as to why Nadia actually took this job as a casual worker in a retirement home? I have a suspicion that ‘caring for the elderly’ was not the motive.
Andy /Fake
You have to assume voluntary or yes it would seem incredulous..but can you ‘sack’ a voluntary worker as the headline says? Yes, I doubt the ‘work’ was to help…..
If I were the care home I would sue her for bringing their reputation into disrepute especially as they haven’t had a single CV case.
But you will see the MSM drop this like hot cake…and Sir KS won’t bat an eyelid at her lies….
Oh, I think commenters here are being harsh
and looking for something to dismiss her with.
In this crisis it is entirely reasonable for an MP to work in a care home, if they are not a danger to residents.
It’s bad taste to suggest she would be doing it for the money.
And does look stupid if it is true as tweeters suggest that she donated her wage to charity on top of donating half her MPs salary which she has always done.
i can imagine there are these complications
– That some journo asks her if there was PPE ?
And she’d say no
But the thing is most care homes did not need PPE normally.
If Covid hadn’t reached the home , the residents don’t have it and if the staff member is living in a safe environment he/she doesn’t have Covid. So putting on a mask when you have zero chance of having it was scaring dementia patients with no benefit.
Obviously once Covid had got into a home via staff or NHS then it’s different .
So the journo shouts OMG there was no PPE
and she doesn’t get the chance to say there was a stock ready for if an outbreak happened.
Then the activists are able to say look some Extracare homes had tweets begging for PPE at the beginning April 3 Stoke (Bristol), April 7 Oldham 9or someone named oldham)
Then on April 9th they said they’d had an amazing response, but some locations were still short
But then April 17th tweeted thanking donors
Also then AFAIK Extracare got access to the NHS supply.
But Nadia worked at a different branch : Lark Hill, in Nottingham
ie not near to Stoke
So now Nadia comes back fighting here
Stew
Maybe we were, jury is still out for me….I find most of what is written in the press and involving MPs of any persuasion suspect..it is just another depressing sign of the times..don’t report news – make it up or embellish for a narrative.
However I am still amazed at the lack of life/work experience some of our MPs have before becoming MPs…
One lefty activist tries to destroy a private entity.
So need to wonder why the public sector is such poor value for money, when there are millions of the Trots.
No doubt Suckhere will be making excuses.
“Guido has seen the letter Whittome was sent, which curiously has not been reported in other news outlets:
“On Thursday, I was approached by several Lark Hill residents, our staff, our head office team and executive who were anxious about comments in the Nottingham Post around ‘a lack of PPE’.
This is a position myself and the charity disagrees with and is not supported by the facts.
Our protocol hasn’t been met and ongoing press coverage of Lark Hill isn’t benefiting our residents, staff or charity; managing feedback is time consuming for myself and our wider team at a time of crisis when we simply wish and need to be focused on our day to day work, protecting our staff and residents’ lives in the community.”
Elsewhere I see screenshots like this one from Thomas Evans
There is also that same quote in the Nottingham Post
The libmob must have sent 3 to post comments in her favour
but there are 14 peole against her
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/nottingham-mp-claims-no-longer-4111502#comments-section
There was PPE but the cupboard was locked
… If it was about you not spreading your Covid to the residents, then you would only need ONE mask.
It’s different if the residents had it, cos theoretically their breath could be on your mask .. but surely it such circumstances you wouldn’t have carers move from resident to resident.
The earlier article has had its comments removed now
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/health/people-scared-theres-not-enough-4082556
I wonder if casual workers like her ..had direct contact with the residents.
As an unknown person she’d be a bio-security risk and better limited to non-contact roles.
Luton : Right-wing extremist admits terrorism and explosive offences
obviously a bad thing
but most people would have put Polish in the title
Filip Golon Bednarczyk, 25, of Luton, Bedfordshire, was arrested on December 11 last year.
When they searched his bedsit they found handwritten notes, electrical component parts and a 2kg bag of explosive sulphur powder.
The defendant had also allegedly searched the internet for Nazis, Hitler, the Polish Defence League* and Britain First.
* actually his name is on the Polish Defence League website
On the bottom of some articles it credits him as a translator
https://talkradio.co.uk/news/right-wing-extremist-admits-terrorism-and-explosive-offences-20050733289
Polish newspaper in December
https://dzienniknarodowy.pl/antyterrorystyczna-jednostka-policji-z-londynu-aresztowala-polaka/
translated : “An anti-terror police unit from London arrested a Pole”
Anyone read the reports about disproportionate death in BAMES? I have read them both and there are so many holes in the stats you could drive a car through them…they were clearly both written with an agenda and ignore any ‘uncomfortable possible reasons and downplay clearly logical reasons….It may be an issue but publishing these reports before real analysis is done is irresponsible and just political
but this made me laugh – on BBC website site
and I have no idea where the BBC got the figures
“Pakistani men are 90% more likely to work in healthcare roles than their white British counterparts” Really? It doesn’t say that in the reports….
Does “healthcare roles” include the sale of drugs?
Would a ‘white British counterpart’ be a taxi-driving paedophile?
Music to clap by instead of, as it were. For everyone on here who feels as though they are free to checkout but cannot leave ‘Hotel California’.
(This is the whole 2hr 40m concert, there were two encores, but if you go to about 2hr 9m you will find the solo trumpet intro to the song.)
A great crowd of young, good looking Sheilas (‘Melbun’ girls) turn up to watch a bunch of craggy, grey wrinkled old American men play guitars. Amazing. Lots of applause. Must have been audible in Sydney. As are the vocals.
And the trousers. The trousers are amazing. Not so much a fashion statement, more a cry for help.
Please note, there is lots of clapping. So if you are averse to clapping beware. Other more quiet music performances are available.
I fear it’s all been wasted time
Fed, what? Me putting that up? The quiz question certainly was, but I enjoyed wondering where the lions are. 😉
Got my mind on eternity … nudge nudge 😉 😉
🙂
Oh Up2 – side 1 track 4 and side 2 track 1 …. boyo o boy – life in the fast time .
I wore that album out in 1976 – the second one I bought …. after something called “ a night at the opera “ I saved up my milk and paper round money ….
Desperado.
I’ll leave it at that.
The Hotel California LP ( which I bought when it was first released) prompted me to buy all their CDs – several years later. Probably in my phase of buying stuff online while drunk.
Up2Snuff – Thanks for the posting, they were indeed craggy old men.
By then, they sure were. I didn’t buy the Greatest Hits Vol.2 until recently. Wasn’t a fan at all really. Obviously loved HCalifornia. Liked Life in the Fast Lane but relied on radio plays until YouTube came along. That made me buy a copy of GH Vol.2 and was blown away by the vocals and guitar on Seven Bridges Road.
I stumbled across that farewell tour concert in Melbourne because a couple of the Hotel California performances I had bookmarked were taken down or access was denied. Thought the audience applause from Melbourne and the song lyrics fitted our UK situation well for tonight’s 8 p.m. religious gathering.
Very half-hearted clapathon around my way, btw (that means by the way, Fed) so maybe the peak was last month and it will fade away. Wonder how many crowded onto a Thames bridge tonight?
According to the ‘Guardian’, scientists are becoming concerned about being associated with the Corvid-19 scenario due to the increasing risk of becoming ‘politicised’.
The obvious parallel to draw is with ‘climate change’ which appears to have little effect on scientists’ limelight aspirations – although strangely the Guardian doesn’t think this is worth a mention.
I suppose it’s because the one is based on a series of unknowns, un-proved science and some degree of hearsay while the other is….
Beltane
Can see their problem – but there are some that will seek to use it as a political weapon – and get ‘virtue signalling’ grants to boot
All you have to do is read the Wellcome Open report by Aldridge – it is full of political agenda narrative which obscures the obvious holes in analysis.
Is anyone else here disappointed with Priti Patel.
She was making all the right noises about immigration (for one example) yet has done, as far as I can make out, nothing.
With the better weather coming the beaches at the channel will look like a re run of Dunkirk with hundreds arriving in the small boats. All the ones missed by the daily collection service carried out by the so called border force.
And once they’re in……
Maybe she is being prevented from carrying out the promises made by others in the cabinet. After all, we thought we would be getting rid of hs2, huwaei, loads of quango’s (although they all say that but never do anything) and who knows what will happen with Brexit, will we give away the fishing for a mess of porage.
EG
I think ms Patel maybe hooked by her civil servants after her head after she tried to get them to do what they were told …. she might find herself the next health secretary or sitting next to Jeremy Hunt ..
Yes, EG, but she took a lot of flak after the GE. (that’s General Election, Fed) Could be she is a bit battle scarred and weary but now a lot wiser.
She does need to toughen up imv [ that’s in my view, Fed 🙂 ] on policy. Shut the borders, speak very firmly with all Chief Constables in the UK, etc..
And where is that REPORT? Shall we ever see it?
And where is that REPORT? Shall we ever see it?
On the bbc news this morning (Radio newcastle) we learned that Sunderland had the highest proportion of covid deaths in the UK.
A reason given was that we had a very high number of old people and smokers compared to the rest of the UK.
I thought smokers died young yet the Mackems are bucking the trend.
Depending on the message they want to tell you they will manipulate the statistics.
Smoke and you will die young.
Sunderland has more (%) old people than the rest of the UK.
Sunderland has more(%) smokers than the UK.
The message:
Non smokers die younger (or smokers live longer)
Statistics eh!
Emmanuel, Sunderland folk, I would have thought, are less likely to put their parents into Care Homes (feel free to correct if wrong) so where are they getting infected?
Up2. (Up2nuff, fed)
To be honest I don’t know the numbers of care homes and inmates, I’m just going by what I’ve read.
I would hate to have a relative in one of these death camps or even in a hospital.
EG – Rod at the Speckie has written a couple of times about how the CV-19 doesn’t seem to affect smokers as much as others in the population. He has even advocated ‘smoke more and survive’. And he lives up near you.
In https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/would-churchill-have-worn-a-face-mask he talks about cutting a hole in a face mask so that he can carry on puffing.
Info.
Maybe they could replace the menthol fags with ones sprayed with disinfectant (instead of drinking pints of bleach as the msm seem to understand the BBC’s heavily edited, cut and pasted version of Donald’s musings)
By the way, people with various illnesses get injected with radioactive chemicals, snake venom and other poisons. I think the bbc should be told as they appear to think only benign healthy fluids are injected)
” I think the bbc should be told as they appear to think only benign healthy fluids are injected)”
Do you think they shared that wisdom, or anything else, with friend Maxi?
OT.
Sky News has appointed Andrew Connell as foreign news editor. Andrew was previously output and package producer at Sky News.
Guessing ‘package producer’ was tweeting ‘Trump is a poo poo head’ a lot.
A new day.
Same old BBC
Same old Toady
Same old Ric Knobinson.
A lady comes on with an interesting idea. By looking at lots of countries, CV19 policies, lock down measures, timelines, with infection and death rates, it is possible to deduce which policies work and how well, and which do not.
Her simple, concise opening line was ‘we have been able to rank the effects of five policies. Three seem to work and two don’t’.
I should think every listener was waiting for the question ‘what are they?’. But no. From Toenails we got ‘before we get on to that’ and then after wasting time the lady has a brief moment to tell us her results and then it’s straight on to ‘we’ve run out of time’.
A clear cut example of how scared the BBC are that we might hear something by accident that goes against their well-known agendas and narratives.
Depress, delude, control. That is the mantra of the current biased BBC.
PS in case of interest, she reckons that closing schools is very effective as is closing mass gatherings. But the lockdown itself has minimal effect. It’s just one study but IMO worth following up.
Toenails is an embarrassment.
New ‘talent’ floating to the top, like…
Worst day ever for Covid-19 infections in Kent yesterday – assuming someone hasn’t keyed in a wrong number – the increase was colossal at +367. That is over 60 more than in the whole of the previous seven days. Incredible.
The trend had been bumping along under +50 from 1 May until the last two days of +63, each day
It will be interesting to see if the deaths increase sharply. They were unchanged at 567.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274
Key in a Kent postcode to see the total, suggest me207ru will do.
A twisted mindset has emerged, those who are capable of military strength against anyone in the world
our national, impartial broadcaster decides to harrass on a regular basis
Interesting radio phenomena with Dame Jenni on Woman’s Hour today, when she was interviewing Lionel Shriver about her new book (title is something like “The Motion of a Body Through Time” IIRC, mainly about obsessive fitness and endurance sport) from about 10:20 on R4.
In the book, a White American male (Remington?) with many years of work experience has lost his job to a Nigerian woman with little experience or qualifications; her appointment is clearly the result of affirmative action based on ethnic quotas. I imagine this is an increasingly familiar story, especially within the BBC.
First, there was Jenni Murray’s tone of voice. Her speech slowed down notably and became more clear and emphatic, like a teacher quietly but firmly emphasising some important point. It was the aural equivalent of frowning or raised eyebrows. There’s a saying that radio is preferable to TV, because the pictures are better: I could almost see her face and the disapproval that she felt for Shriver’s fictional evocation and criticism of affirmative action: “how dare she?!”
Jenni then questioned the realism / veracity of this scenario but Shriver stood firm, saying that it was a common experience in the USA and, anyway, permissible within her self-avowedly provocative fictional writing. The discussion moved on to the idea of those doing extreme endurance sports lording it over more casual park joggers and fitness class exercisers.
This is how Middle Class BBC Radio 4 censorship works. PC (“politeness and courtesy”) becomes PC (Political Correctness) wherein “nice” people simply don’t think or do certain things, such as questioning immigration or affirmative action, even by imagining what a White male feels when replaced by an inferior and undeserving Black female.
Well done to Lionel Shriver for speaking on behalf of White males in the USA (an unfashionable group for the Leftist BBC, especially as they tend to vote Republican) and standing her ground when Dame Jenni came out with the usual PC objections. Credit to the BBC for having Shriver on, although she had to be closely (wo)man-marked by Jenni.
There was also a separate discussion about how countries with male leaders such as Trump, Bolsonaro, Conti, Boris et al had done worse in the Corona crisis than those with female leaders such as Jacinda Ardern, Angela Merkel, certain Scandinavian PMs, etc. It could have been worse, with the invitees not playing ball as Jenni wanted, but of course the question would never have been put the other way round, i.e. are men better than women in a crisis?
I’ve been quite enjoying this week’s R4 Book at Bedtime: Ann Petry’s ‘The Street’. Until yesterday, that is.
Then I discovered that Ann Petry is a racist and has a grudge against whitey. Or at least she is through this book. I hope she wasn’t like that in real life. Her bio on Wiki (usual disclaimers) reveals nothing to suggest such a life of conflict.
I can only guess why the BBC chose the book to be serialised.
Oh well, at least Adjoa Andoh is doing a good job as reader. She makes it easy to listen.
We do live in strange times.
The local school has just delivered a food parcel to the neighbour. The same neighbour that has a patio heater and gas barbecue, TV screen as big as the bedroom wall, an ‘Alexa’ in every room…
Jim S – and 6 adult children living within a mile your location.
FedUp2 – Your by line can be answered simply. Sir, I give you the BBC “Jobs Tracker”.
“As the Far Left BBC continues its efforts to undermine the morale of the suffering British Public during the Chinese virus pandemic we might wonder what the payback will be For the BBC as the economy contracts into recession…”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7839361.stm
EUTV
Has that been running since 2009 or is it just for historical note after the market crash ?
Fed – they used it until the government created more private jobs than public service ones lost to “austerity”. It’s gonna get a revival very soon, along with classic headlines;
Bong! “2000 jobs lost at xyz plc”
Bong! “500 jobs lost at abc limited”
Bong! “concerns that losses affect BAME… “
Fedup2 – I want to change my user name, do I have to signup with a new account or can you do a Neil Ferguson and bypass the rules?
EUTV I wonder what you want to change your name too? Fedup3 is still available to cause maximum confusion ….
I’m away from big puters at the moment but will have a look and get back by the end of the Thursday Clapping hour …
For your information -.i think I started as fedup – lost hope and left , then came back as Fedup1 then 2 … your could be an imitation troll like piku / aka maxi ….
Fed – I was thinking… Brian O’James. Affectionately known as BOJ.
You don’t think that will trigger folks on this site?
I do have a habit of speaking truth to the power of the thick working class Brexit/tory voters who, have absolutely no idea of what’s in their best interest. Not like me and my media chums with our firsts in PPE and EU.
If you think my name choice is too radical, how about Harry of Sussex? That should draw some abuse.
How about simply “O’Brien” ?
EUTV
Sorry – I can’t get into the system to change your name – so maybe rejoin ? I think the first posting on any new name has to be ‘approved ‘ by a moderator so that’s no big deal – I get them more or less every day – actually I think more people are joining us – which is great for the cause ….
Fed up – thanks for looking. I’ll see you all on the other side.
As much as I love reading this site, I can’t have those two bloody awful letters, stuck at the front of my I’d any longer.
It’s simple case of fcuk off EU.
May I make a suggestion. ‘James O’Brien?’
Or even ‘Eurotrash’?
As I have to go out, without claps, to do my job can i ask all here to clap me because ,,, welll I am genuinley lost but clap anyway
Darcey3 – I have written a song just for you, in recognition of you going out to do your job.
Darcey3 has got my clap
Got my clap, got my clap
Darcey3 has got my clap
Got my clap, got my clap
He’s not furloughed
(Hope I used the correct pronoun)
amazing – 1255 Thursday – an airbus landing at Heathrow LHR coming from Wuhan -you might have heard of that place ….
They’ve all been on the plane for 12 hours so plenty of time to get cozy
And my wife severe tooth pain 3 weeks, no dentist available within hertfordshire or cambridgesher apparently i f@cking turn up for work every day this is a licence for every lazy overpaid bastard
Darcy, have you tried involving your GP? Not sure if the rule still holds, but the local Health Trust has to find you (your wife) an NHS Dentist.
I was browsing order-order.com – since the Guido Fawkes site tells me many of the stories which the BBC-led mainstream neglects – when I happened on a link to an FT interview with Sir Keir Starmer.
My interest was piqued because I suspect the FT, along with The Economist, are now the anti-capitalist sentiment expressing organs of record. I would say the famous pink pages are generally anti-business but the truth, I suspect, is that whilst a metropolitan left-liberal-minded bourgeois audience is courted as a marketing strategy, their corporate alliegence is really to big multi-nationals and the crony capitalists.
Anyway, I forgot the FT pay-walls their journalism. Free market, not free internet, you see.
Unwilling to pony up, what I do see for free is the FT’s headline:
Keir Starmer: ‘The government has been slow in nearly all of the major decisions…’
So a general swipe at Brexit Boris. Neither Starmer nor the FT will ever accept or forgive anyone who went against The European Project.
But an interview with the leader of the opposition is a nice journalistic coup and who can really complain that Starmer would desire to get his message out there. Plus the FT would naturally be happy to cosy up to a relatively moderate Labourite.
So leaving the interview aside, what is the message the FT offers a public as reason to read this former business paper of record? Lets see.
“An intelligent take on global lifestyle, arts and culture”
Aaaahhh… can’t you just taste that sweet smell of globalism in the morning… smells like, victory?
Intelligent, mmmm, you know you may not be a FTSE100 CEO (who you know is obviously overpaid, over white and over male) but you know in your heart of hearts you are cleverer than those rich psychopaths and sociopaths. You’re probably an NHS Trust manager or a Comprehensive Superhead Teacher or a Borough Council Chief Exec who wants to be seen to take an interest in economics but still has all the right soft-left views and thinks capitalism is a rather dirty word.
Ah, the global lifestyle. You honestly believe wholeheartedly in Climate Alarmism but the global lifestyle implicitly suggests more than a fair share of jet air travel – but that’s not really hypocitical on your part. Because there’s also your desire for the disappearance of borders and a healthy internationalism.
And everyone loves arts and culture.
If you want to read about business, making a living by hard graft, then read elsewhere.
They are just gunning for ‘independent’ press guest slots on the bbc.
The Economist has been a lefty rag for decades. As has the FT. It sounds weird until you know who is behind them.