Start the Week Thread 11 May 2020

Let’s play an online biased Far Left BBC game .

I’ll start . If a lefty is on the BBC they won’t be introduced . They are ‘ accepted ‘ . If some one of the Right is ( rarely ) put on the airwaves they are introduced as being ‘ from a right wing think tank ‘ or similar .
There should be a prize for spotting this if you still take the BBC – but this is a non profit site – so it’s just for fun …

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426 Responses to Start the Week Thread 11 May 2020

  1. john in cheshire says:

    Fedup2, I think the government, MPs in general and the police have overstepped the line. There’s too. much telling from them and hardly any listening by them let alone doing anything we ever tell them.

    They introduce something made up called social distancing and then throw the term around as if it’s always existed as a legitimate thing.

    They introduce new fines for not obeying their arbitrary orders and then increase them because we’re not obeying them with enthusiasm.

    They bring into the country thousands more illegals but lock us up like criminals while the real criminals are allowed to roam free.

    But never, not once, have they bothered to ask us for permission to do these things.

    Then the MSM, especially the racist far-left bbc, ignore these real and serious matters in favour of bitching about how many rubber gloves the government has sourced. Of course on that point, it’s never the fault of the untouchable NHS, whose procurement managers should be held accountable for their incompetence.

    But Mrs Patel should have already stopped all illegals coming into our country and formulated and begun to implement a plan to rid our country of all illegals, starting with the muslims who have been kidnapping, raping, torturing and murdering our children. But I don’t think it’s going to happen because all the rats are still in control of whatever plan they have concocted amongst themselves. And the swamp is just as wide, deep and filthy as ever in the HoP, Civil Service, judiciary and police.

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    • Deborah says:

      I suspect that Priti is at all out war with the civil servants in the Home Office and every time she wants something to happen, in true Bernard style, they are saying, ‘it cannot be done because….’. I suspect under Mrs May they stitched everything up to stop mass immigration into this country and everything they could to stop Brexit.

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  2. StewGreen says:

    Panorama is not doing a very good job of hiding that tonight’s episode will feature union people.

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  3. Guest Who says:

    BS becomes the story.

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  4. taffman says:

    “Coronavirus: P&O Ferries plans to axe 1,100 staff”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-52625025
    The UK Border Farce have taken over some of their work.

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  5. Sluff says:

    News conference.
    Laura Doomsberg still toeing the pre-ordained BBC line about ‘lack of clarity’.
    I so wish Boris had the b**** to tell her that it is not the government’s role to second guess and micromanage every single situation and assume that the workers and managers are as brain dead as she so obviously is.

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      The people want to advice in clear black and white , to stop the paramilitary police twisting it .
      So can a person in London travel to Brighton for the day to exercise on the beach?

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  6. Guest Who says:

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    • theleftwilleatitself says:

      His twitter photo is typical – sneering and looking down his nose at, what he considers, us plebs ✌️

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  7. taffman says:

    “Coronavirus: Call for public inquiry into BAME death risk”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52602467

    IMHO Probably most people in the UK have had the Covid virus.
    Ask all your associates what they think ?

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  8. StewGreen says:

    Friends say Twitter is trying to suppress the #Obamagate hashtag

    As far as I can gather it appears that evidence has emerged to show that Obama masterminded Comey’s now discredited FBI investigation of Trump/Russia collusion.

    Since the libs at Twitter are desperate to kill it – I guess it must be true.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Ah a bit late to cover it up now
      Twitter can no longer suppress it from trending
      Trump has tweeted it at leat 3 times

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Twitter has been caught out cutting obamagate tweets from 3.31 million hits to 1.3 million ….it looks like The #obamagate is taking off there – quite something ….

        … maybe Obama needs a lawyer …

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  9. StewGreen says:

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  10. StewGreen says:

    Impartial Rigby

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  11. StewGreen says:

    Marr prog just starting … It’s about how Labour won the election after the war
    .. #RedAndy

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  12. Doobster78 says:

    Sensible. Well said.

    Now, as it’s Channel 4, he gets the lefty treatment.

    Reply from Fiona , who’s bio states,

    fascinatorfun
    Retired lawyer. Cooking & good food, books, conversation, dancing, music. Forever European. FBPE

    I shan’t be calling him for assistance the arrogant little schmuk

    What does he know about infection toon transmission?

    And this from Mcflav, who’s bio states

    Aus-Brit. Europe. #StopBrexit #FreeMovement Rugby League #NRL

    when I want someone to unclog my toilet or fix my pipes, I’ll call a plumber.

    When I want advice on how to work safely during a pandemic, I won’t call a f***ing plumber. I want clear advice from epidemioligsts. A full handbook would be great. Should be mandatory.

    LOVELY BUNCH THE LEFT … Peace and tolerance !!!!!!

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    • Scroblene says:

      The electrician who had to call here on two emergency occasions wasn’t an expert, he’s just a normal, experienced, sensible man, doing his job properly, using his common sense, and will get his money as soon as I log into my bank in an hour!

      It’s only tossers led on by the BBC who whinge and whine, not real working people.

      If Ms Maitlis could actually become a normal worker, instead of trying to be famous, she might get some approbation, but that’s impossible ‘working’ for the BBC, because her under-managers just stifle common sense at every turn.

      Maybe she’d do better working for herself?

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  13. StewGreen says:

    via PJW

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    • theisland says:

      Satan’s little lawyerly speech could easily be described as ‘courteous’ and ‘forensic’.
      Sound familiar?

      Meanwhile Starmer dodges a question about an extension to the transition period
      https://order-order.com/2020/05/11/sir-keir-brexiteer/

      Two comments:

      Without a puppet-master in Brussels or Washington (Biden is not looking promising) pulling Labour’s strings, Starmer doesn’t know how to respond.

      Starmer will be aided and abetted by the organ-grinder. Remember. With the Blair foundation’s statement about having ’embedded types in all major Govt, I would assume that to mean common-purpose types. I don’t doubt those who say Starmer will also have ‘friendly’ inside info from within the civil-service. This network runs very deep and very wide.

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  14. theisland says:

    @VeteransBritain
    It’s a real letter from the EASP of the Foreign Office, dated April 2020. EASP controls the subject of attachment to EU defence policy within government.

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  15. Doobster78 says:

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  16. SpinningReith says:

    BB1 tonight, 10:50
    ‘Lockdown: How Business is Coping – Panorama’
    My telly TV guide states..
    ‘..Contains some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting.’
    So, a typical BBC morale-booster then.
    If the memsahib would let me I’d tell them where to stuff their licence!

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  17. fakenewswatcher says:

    On R4 news at 10pm a taxi driver complains about having to go to work. Apparently, the problem is that money is needed.
    Strange, I spent a working lifetime taking that equation for granted.
    Paul Moss seems to think it’s newsworthy.
    And now the beeb is reporting crap.(Nothing new there). Samples from water treatment works are at issue. Is Coronavirus being spread in sewerage systems?
    Always knew more or less at what level beeb operates. Tonight is simply more explicit than usual. It’s Shaun Ley reporting.
    Mainly sewerage, as usual from beeb.

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  18. taffman says:

    \\Coronavirus: Earlier Scottish lockdown ‘could have prevented 2,000 deaths’//
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-52617895
    There’s that operative word “could” again. Of course a crystal ball ‘could’ have helped ? On the other hand, if Boris had abolished the Telly Tax when he became Prime Minister , he “could” have saved the poor of Britain a lot of money?

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  19. SpinningReith says:

    Just finished watching another repeat of Endeavour.
    I know the plots by heart, but I do fancy Fred Thursday’s daughter.
    Nothing to do with the Beeb, but confession is good for the soul.
    Anyway..I’ve just made a list of groups that are never criticised on the bBBC: Windrush; Hillsborough; Islam; NHS; Grenfell; EU.
    Coincidentally the acronym is WHINGE – just a thought.
    I’d like to thank this site for keeping me sane – at least, I think it does.

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  20. lordelpus says:

    WTF! Had to suffer BBC Breakfast show this morning,with the opinions of Sadiq Khan,Andy Burnham,and Nicola Sturgeon.Anti Tory hatred from them all,I seriously hope one of Boris’s advisors was watching.
    There seems to be no pretence of impartiality from the BBC anymore.Same this evening on Sky News press preview, with Stig Abell and Jenny Kleeman.Two remainer Left wing newspaper columnists.It does seem a concerted effort from the MSM to rubbish the Government at every opportunity.

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    • JimS says:

      In a court of law each side gets to challenge the other side’s witnesses.

      In the world of the Marsupial Media the government is challenged but those with an opposing opinion get a free pass.

      If the media was impartial those opposing the government would be subject to the same scrutiny, instead it is left to the government spokesman to do it.. if they can.

      “Minister, what do you say to those that criticise your performance?”

      “Well..”

      “Sorry minister, we are out of time. New research suggest that Tasmanian hedgehogs are mostly homosexual, here is our Australian editor with more details”.

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  21. JimS says:

    I haven’t used a bus since the ‘lock down’ but tonight my walk around the perimeter wire happened to coincide with the arrival of a bus at a terminal stop.

    The doors were open and it was quite clear that all the ‘buggy’/wheelchair spaces had been taped off. I asked the driver if that was for his protection and he said, “A bit of both”.

    It looks like after years of pushing ‘public transport’ the young and old are now to be confined to the home and the streets are to be given over to the ‘bastards-on-bikes’, (pavements are for people; velodromes are for bicycles).

    One thing that used to be noticeable in films from China were the number of people on bicycles – is that what is happening, our Chinese masters have issued their dictat and we will now obey?

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  22. LastChanceSaloon says:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52614204
    Coronavirus: ‘Do not drive from England to Wales to exercise’
    2020-05-12 10:30

    Laura McAllister, professor of public policy at Cardiff University’s Wales Governance Centre, called the differences in policy between the nations “reckless”, “unforgiveable” and said they were putting people’s lives “in jeopardy”.

    [
    “reckless” “unforgivable” “jeopardy”
    The sort of terms one might use if one was a bent lefty in the pay of our Marxist enemy at Broadcasting House.
    Which she is.
    The sort of Marxist enemy who does not mention the connexion, again.
    The BBC never feels it necessary to describe these people as “little Welsh” or in posts earlier in this thread, as “little Scots”.
    ]

    [
    From Wikipedia
    As a Wales women’s national football team player, McAllister won 24 caps and served as team captain.
    She was a Board member of Stonewall[4] from 2012 to 2015.
    She was a member of the National Assembly for Wales Remuneration Board from 2014 to 2015, an advisor to the Independent Panel on Assembly Members’ Pay and Support from 2008 to 2009
    McAllister was a Plaid Cymru Parliamentary candidate in 1987 and 1992 but left the party shortly afterwards.[11].
    She is currently a political commentator for the BBC and commentates regularly on other networks and Welsh media on Welsh politics, elections and public policy.
    ]

    CCGB

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    • JimS says:

      I have just had a look at the ‘Welsh Law For Welsh People’, (which by the way they have to review by Thursday this week), and it puts restrictions on people leaving home.

      But if one is English then most likely one doesn’t have a home in Wales and if Welsh Law applies to Wales then it doesn’t apply to England so the Welsh Assembly can’t stop an Englishman leaving his English home. As there is nothing in the SI to stop or control people crossing the borders it looks like there is nothing to stop the English going into Wales to exercise. Of course once there they would need to behave themselves as regards spacing etc.

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      • taffman says:

        The Welsh Assembly is out of “lockstep” with the people of Wales.
        Simples.

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        • fakenewswatcher says:

          taffman – Was Labour’s ‘devolution’ strategy not merely a silly little Labour plot designed to cause division and sow discord in the UK, under the guise of giving various ‘nations’ their ‘semi- independence’?
          That is the real reason that assemblies are ‘out of lockstep’ with their people’.
          Imagine they had done this on the eve of WW2. You would have had Wee Crankie deciding the Scots wouldn’t fight Hitler (actually a fellow ‘national’ socialist) ,and possibly Wales and NI following her lead.
          It has taken the first real national crisis, coronavirus, to expose these divisions, and give the Blackfords of this world the opportunity to stir up trouble.
          Unsurprisingly, Mark Drakeford has followed Crankie’s lead in order to demonstrate how ‘Cardiff too, is able to disagree with Boris.’
          This has enabled an ever watchful beeb to gleefully create the narritive that it’s England v. the rest.

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          • taffman says:

            Yep!
            A third Welsh referendum is the answer to getting Britain back together.

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  23. Loobyloo says:

    On Sky website (not sure why it won’t copy the link)

    Coronavirus: Chancellor expected to extend furlough scheme to September, but cut it to 60% of earnings

    What the heck are they thinking? We’re doomed!
    Plus, within the article these words: ‘….we have looked after some of the lowest paid people in our society – the hardest working people – and we will continue to do so.’

    Clear pandering to socialists, and also not true. How offensive to say that as you earn more, you don’t work as hard??

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  24. Guest Who says:

    The Moaning Emole covers what ‘the papers’ say, in an order which is, shall we say, ‘very BBC’..

    ***

    What the papers say

    Paper review

    There’s anger in several papers at the return to work message. The Financial Times says the call to the manufacturing and construction sectors, in particular, suggests a “cavalier attitude towards the welfare of blue-collar workers”. The Daily Mirror thinks “the fight against coronavirus has tragically become a class war”, and fears “there will be exploitative bosses who cut corners or do nothing” when it comes to workplace safety. The Guardian feels that in general there have been “mixed messages and confused assertions” on lockdown easing and the prime minister urgently needs to come up with a plan the country “can understand and unite around”. On its front page, though, the Daily Mail tries to be more positive. It’s happy that relatives who don’t live together will be able to see each other, using the headline: “We ARE going to meet again.” The Sun goes further, reporting on plans for a “Gran day out” with “hugs for grandkids from the first of June”.

    ***
    ‘Anger’ in the FT, Mirror and Graun, eh? No wonder the BBC put them on the podium.

    Surprised they don’t also feature Ekka Dickhead in The Times.

    Might even see Jon RTing the competition as a professional courtesy.

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  25. Guest Who says:

    Meanwhile Guido notes Nick Watt whating based on hearing voices…

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  26. Guest Who says:

    Good question.

    Not yet answered.

    Lucky not blocked.

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    • Roland Deschain says:

      If truth be told, it would do no good, as the current leader of the Scottish Tories, Carlaw Jackson, is an epic disaster who actually makes me yearn to have Ruth Davidson back. I had many criticisms of her, but she at least knew how to take the attack to Nicola.

      But there’s a principle here.

      Those south of the border must scratch their heads as to why the SNP retain such support. In part, it’s because the SNP rarely gets the blame for anything. Health is a devolved matter and there have been exactly the same PPE problems, testing shortages, elderly deaths in care as there have been south of the border. Carlaw Useless Jackson hasn’t laid a glove on Nicola about it. Perhaps he thinks it would be against Queensbury Rules. And the media treat her like royalty. But an awful lot of people up here still get their news from UK sources so all they hear is relentless Tory bashing and assume all that goes wrong is his fault.

      So Mr Jackson should at least get his chance to redress the balance.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Granted.

        Making it odd the bbc has not tried a crafty low risk ‘balance’ play.

        But they are already looking exposed on precedents.

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      • StewGreen says:

        Scottish Nationalist twitter accounts
        usually say the BBC is ultra anti-SNP

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        • Roland Deschain says:

          They act as a hive mind, indeed there are many aspects of behaviour that more resemble a cult.

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          • Thatcherrevolutionary says:

            My personal experience from actual ex-schoolmates and colleagues who are by no means stupid or disadvantaged, Sturgeon could kill and eat children, and they would justify it.

            Cult doesn’t even begin to describe it. They are mind-altering.

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  27. Guest Who says:

    Fraser, Fraser, Fraser… ‘they’ are doing it because one thought it would be a good bash and the rest piled in.

    And because they live in a very small bubble, the simpering cretins did not notice few outside were troubled.

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  28. Guest Who says:

    A poll.

    BBC editorial integrity means there is never time or space if golden chocolate bear is in the nasty spotlight.

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    • Roland Deschain says:

      They’ll report when they’ve figured out the Line To Take on why it is all the fault of the Bad Orange Man and nothing to do with St Obama of Virtue.

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  29. Scroblene says:

    One positive ideal to emerge from the Covid 19 situation, will be that the BBC will eventually be seen as the worst conveyor of proper news amongst a motley ‘press’, made up of kids at The Mirror, idiots at The Times, and leftie pricks at the Groaniad.

    The awful ‘policies’ of ‘Catch Boris’ coming from W1AA at every turn are already becoming a boring record of the complete incompetence of the under-managers and their auto-cue readers, and when this is seen by enough normal working/retired/sensible citizens, (some need info and perhaps a connection to an alternative to a humdrum life admittedly), the incisions can be made, and our once-pride of broadcasting can be cast loose and just paid for by any person who needs such ‘connection’. It won’t be me.

    What a sad old bunch of wasters they are up there! Totally oblivious to real work and practices, sneering at the skills and judgement of normal, hard-working people, and just plain boring with enough fake news to make China look honest!

    How long do we all give them? A year?

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  30. Guest Who says:

    #bbcquotes

    Guess which one?

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    • Guest Who says:

      Landlord?

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    • StewGreen says:

      Mrs Tandy is assistant manager at a Kent golf club which, under the new government guidance on exercise, is due to reopen on Wednesday.’
      Meanwhile, husband Richard Tandy is likely to return to his work in a local chemical factory on the same day.
      But with schools remaining shut, that leaves the couple – who have both been furloughed until now – with a *childcare nightmare*.
      “What do we do with our seven-year-old?”

      Obviously she couldn’t take her child to a golf course, cos they are extremely dangerous places. /sarc
      Anyway the other kid looks old enough to stay at home with the 7yo

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  31. StewGreen says:

    11:30am R4 if you tick boxes you get air time
    – Arty
    – Female
    – Black
    – Scotland
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000j21y

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    • StewGreen says:

      “Black and Creative in Scotland
      : Writer Tomiwa Folorunso explores the experience of being a black female artist in Scotland.”

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  32. Guest Who says:

    Ex-bbc, hence the hopes and fears on a source story.

    This trend of adding ‘news’ at the end seems restricted to ex-Beeboids even the bbc could not stomach… Mason, etc.

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    • StewGreen says:

      local radio : the Boots eye test woman is working at the test centre
      “people prebook, but it’s pretty quiet
      here in Lincoln we have loads of slots”

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  33. StewGreen says:

    8am local news : “Trump has DEFENDED, after 2 in WhiteHouse tested positive”

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  34. Guest Who says:

    The Graun.

    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/may/03/bbc-stands-firm-against-ministers-criticism-panorama-show-ppe-coronavirus

    ‘Mr Holmes, I see no evidence of fecal matter in who is covering this, why and how’.

    Worth reading in full to get clincher gems…

    “There was also support for the BBC from figures including the broadcaster James O’Brien”

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    • StewGreen says:

      BBC “stands firm”
      whereas Trump “defends”

      Such FRAMING is a psychological trick used to sell narratives

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  35. Fedup2 says:

    Someone allegedly shouted bad words at a BBC reporter called ‘seema’ as she prepared for ‘ reporting ‘ in Leicester .

    Seema- being a good reporter – ran off to twitter to become a victim . The good guys – Leicester Plod got to hear about it .

    So they stopped dancing and have now got their ‘ man ‘ allegedly …. appearing In court today …..

    I somehow think this story won’t be buried in the style of Pakistani paedophile racist rape gangs …..
    And they’ll be a picture . They haven’t named the person charged yet .,,

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    • Guest Who says:

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      • StewGreen says:

        “Russell Rawlingson 50yo”
        police just tweeted

        “charged with using threatening/abusive/insulting words/behaviour to cause harassment/alarm/distress following an incident in which a television crew were verbally abused in Leicester city centre on Sunday evening (10 May).”

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Stew -surely they threw in that ever green ‘ racially aggravated ‘ bit they love so much to use on whitey ..,.

          … it must be there because our seema was crowing about alleged racial comments ?

          Maybe they save it to add it on for court .

          Seems journalists don’t always like freedom of speech

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          • StewGreen says:

            Context ?
            “There’s a huge drug abuse problem around Leicester’s clock tower
            I’m regularly seeing people shouting abuse at police and anyone really. ”

            another tweet agrees

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            • Fedup2 says:

              Stew – will the lineker jump in on all this ?

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              • StewGreen says:

                He’s not a druggie but went to make a conpiracy theory protest against the BBC

                So the BBC tried to go live from Leicester’s clock tower tonight but they had to abandon it because I wouldn’t stop ranting at them all about them supporting Satanic Child Abuse

                He was wearing a bicycle headcam
                He hasn’t put up what he said to them before they packed up his 6 min UNEDITED packup video
                This shows the BBC weren’t just coming to do a quick distant vox pop
                but had set up a whole OB unit
                In the 6 mins he says nothing racial, nor nasty to the staff who include Sima and a Sikh technician but does rant a bout “BBC satanic child abuse” and “the BBC’s Rainbows in windows campaign”

                A ever with conspiracy theory guys
                he mixes the weak ones like “Covid is a hoax” and “Bill Gates conspiracy”
                with the more legitimate concerns “Jimmy Savile documentary to be released on May 18”
                \\ ‘UK’s Hidden Shadows – Inspired by Out of Shadows’
                is a new documentary examining the recent history of allegations of child abuse and cover-ups within the British establishment.
                Filmed over the course of a year, the 90-minute documentary features interviews with victims of child abuse, journalists and police whistle-blowers. Each interview offers a unique insight into the alleged Westminster VIP paedophile ring that has darkened politics for the last five decades.
                UK’s Hidden Shadows was inspired by Out of Shadows,
                //

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                • StewGreen says:

                  There seems to be a protest on Saturday from people connected to the documentary
                  a Facebook group poster complains of BBC staff trying to get details of the protest on the premise that they are making a documentary about it.
                  He warns people not to co-operate
                  Then new people post asking where the protest is
                  ..and he can’t tell them cos they might be BBC spies as well.

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          • StewGreen says:

            Hangon @FEd BBC have broken moral law
            ” they threw in that ever green ” “RACIST” into the headline

            but look at the charges he has *not* been charged with racism nor hate crime

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            • Fedup2 says:

              Stew
              That was my original point . Missy seema and the coloured girls were all over the ‘racial abuse ‘ they receive every day – yet when this charge is bought there is not racially aggravated tag attached to it .
              Unusual for the CPS not to bung that on to anything where ‘victim’ ic coloured ….

              Sounds like the makings of a trial – although I suppose the BBC will have filmed the chap using allegedly bad words …..

              Better time and effort spent by the local plod than going after the drug importers – akthough its a fair guess that plod has been infiltrated by their relatives to achieve the much sought after diversity the bubble dreams of …

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              • StewGreen says:

                @Fedup2 ah yes you did but your wording was too subtle for me

                His Facebook says he said ‘BBC get out of town and don’t come back’
                I guess she would say she heard ”you (brown person) get out of town and don’t come back’ and took it as racist

                Interesting thing is that when BBC film on the street their is plenty of social media footage.
                But nothing is on Twitter.

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    • StewGreen says:

      640 replies

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      • JamesArthur says:

        Wow so many virtue points awarded in one Twitter feed.. the ones I scratch my head at are the ones that mention Nigel Farage etc..

        This is one reason why I don’t do social media (does Biased BBC count?) banal…insipid..dumb as F888

        and why so called professional people have to use it this way just shows how low we have sunk – at least Prescott would have just hit them…

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        • Fedup2 says:

          James – I’d say Biased BBC doesn’t count as social media – I don’t do any – but I monitor the twitter – which can be hugely entertaining – the stuff ms Bruce is getting today – I’d be careful appearing in pubic because of the online views – but I know the vast majority of people twitter their anger and abuse but nothing else …

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          • JamesArthur says:

            Fedup

            Yes I would be careful appearing in pubic too 🙂

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            • Fedup2 says:

              James – I’m looking forward to being able to get out for my normal visit to the beautician for the ‘special ‘

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  36. Guest Who says:

    How it’s done.

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    • StewGreen says:

      I think people are already aware that when they criticise a BBC voice
      they are often criticising a glove puppet trapped inside the bbc machine.

      I pity those good BBC staff.

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    • Jeff says:

      And how much ‘skill’ is needed to read the autocue?
      Not much…

         21 likes

      • taffman says:

        Jeff
        Glove Puppets they are , well paid puppets at that , conspicuous by their silence, earning their livings from a forced taxation of the poorest people. Cut off their ‘life line’ by ceasing your payment.

           17 likes

      • Guest Who says:

        That is the bit that hit home most.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Guest
      Isn’t it nice when BBC droids get caught out —- with what they really think ?
      It’s the bubble
      Ordinary people are just there to be used for the next story –

      Be it a 100 year old veteran or a
      ‘ low skilled’ care worker – or the cleaner they employ .

      Nice to see the mask slip

      On twitter Monday night I was watching how ‘ Obamagate ‘ was being subdued by twitter –

      And ‘ Fiona Bruce’ was ‘trending ‘
      ( I don’t really know or care what that means ) but now I know why .

      I bet the BBC management will be doing plenty of Skyping and zoom today .
      If she’d called hospital workers ‘low skilled ‘ she’d be jumping off Westminster bridge during the Thursday clapping session

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  37. Guest Who says:

    #CCBGB for those BBC staff still posting how loved they are.

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  38. StewGreen says:

    Boris and @MattHancock remembered to put up virtue signalling tweets
    1h
    On International Nurses Day we want to thank nurses across the country for all you’re doing
    – particularly at this time.

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  39. Fedup2 says:

    The Express has a story that a conservative MP ‘called out ‘ a journalist called Piers Morgan for his ‘ interviewing style ‘ . And the confrontation was ended through ‘technical problems ‘ – another technique used by the MSM to control things went they aren’t going their way.
    It seems that these TV journalists are now in a battle to out monster each other – presumably for higher ratings .

    Maitliss – marr – Peston -Robinson – et al – who all like the sound of their own voices have plenty of competition .

    The irony is – of course – is that although they all adopt the interrupt- sneer – bully – technique with those they clearly do not ‘ like ‘ they all lack the ‘ diversity of thought ‘ so yearned for by viewers who want to be informed .
    But news as show business – with show business pay rates does that I suppose …..

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  40. Jeff says:

    The ludicrous criticism re Boris’s call for us ‘Be alert’ is becoming infantile.
    What do they want?
    Use your bleeding initiative.
    It’s part of being a grown up.
    Some of these pathetic whingers will be expecting the PM to go round and wipe their…..noses for them .
    My three year old granddaughter has more sense.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Jeff
      What they want ?
      I think they want people to die . They have no morality – no interest in ordinary people – they are the bubble . They are a political movement in themselves pretending to be journalists .

      They want to see that damned graph go up as a result of the lock down being lifted – so that they can continue to destabilise a Tory government and get what they really want – a Marxist one which will rejoin the EU so that nation states can be ended ( apart from Germany of course ) .

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    • JamesArthur says:

      Jeff

      I don’t know how the BBC and MSM find these people as nobody I know seems to have a problem understanding…

      Breakfast this morning – the Matt Hancock half hour all Munchin could do was put on a terribly worried frown and talk about all the confused anxious people who had sent questions into them..

      FFS it is clear what it all means and if they are uncertain read the bloody report -it is not a difficult one to get through – it even has pictures!

      I really can’t stand more than 30secs of any MSM at the moment

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      • Doobster78 says:

        Saw that James. He was answering a question and said “public spaces” and Louise jumped all over it, Public spaces ? Public spaces ? Thats changed from Parks then ????? She was so excited … Hancock just said “No, its always been public spaces”

        thought she had her Gotcha moment …alas No. !!!

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  41. Thoughtful says:

    A thought crosses my mind regarding how so called journalists are viewing their positions.

    “A journalist is a person who collects, writes, or distributes news or other current information to the public. A journalist’s work is called journalism. ”

    This is not how many journalists appear to see their jobs. Whenever I hear them talk about ‘holding politicians to account’ my hackles rise, for it is the job of a politician to hold another politician to account, and the job of a journalist to merely report the news.

    If you are seeking to hold politicians to account, in todays media it inevitably means you are a far left activist either Fascist or Communist seeking to attack anyone who holds views different to your own.

    Even the Daily Mail which used to support the Tories has fallen victim, and in a Piers Morgan piece he has finally begun to call out Boris and his Tories as Cowardly Useless and Incompetent – something I have been saying before they were elected.

    We cannot expect the cowardly useless incompetent Tories to do anything about the broken media, nor about the BBC we just have to keep hoping for an alternative which might never arise. The appetite for another Margaret Thatcher is certainly there, but Boris is a pale shadow of even the hopeless Edward Heath.

    As some have suggested, maybe the coronavirus has adversely affected him to the extent he might have to step down, but who in that hopeless bunch of incompetents might replace him?

    One thing is for certain, none of them will fix our broken media, and that would be an easy start, and a much needed one too.

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  42. StewGreen says:

    R4 just now claiming 6,000 tonnes of lead shot is used “per year” in the UK

    ..i think their time period seems wrong.

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    • JimS says:

      I make that about half a million shots per day, so on average every shotgun owner has a ‘bang’ every other day.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Jim – I’ve not shot clays for a while but must give my browning some exercise soon – at least social distancing comes with guns …

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      • StewGreen says:

        but these days many people don’t use lead shot do they ?

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  43. theisland says:

    Another (cross party) BRINO attempted coup revealed – this time via ‘amendments’ to the Agriculture Bill.

    Simon Hoare and Neil Parish – both Tory MPs – have tabled very similar additions to the bill. The amendments, which seem harmless enough at first glance, aim to stop any agricultural goods under a trade agreement from being imported if they were made with lower standards than the UK has. Keir Starmer has also tabled a similar amendment which would have the same effect.

    And they have a large amount of support: In March 45 MPs signed a letter organised by Neil Parish calling on the International Trade Secretary Liz Truss to ensure the UK ensures ‘equivalent standards’ with other countries on agriculture.

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  44. Tabs says:

    Coronavirus doctor’s diary: ‘They say I have blood on my hands’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52623455

    Within Bradford’s Asian community a few individuals are spreading fake news that non-white patients will be left to die in hospital.

    Interesting how the BBC find such a wild BAME accusation is open for debate and explanation. Compare that to a certain white person worried about 5G masts and then they are banned from ever voicing an opinion on any social media ever again.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Wow – just checked the twitter and ‘ Fiona Bruce’ is not getting the sort of comments a revered Saint from the BBC might be expected to get .

      In fact she’s getting the full load …

      By the way – Gordon Poole is her agent if you want her as an after dinner speaker – she charges between £10k and £15k a go in peace time .,,,

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      • Charlie Farley says:

        Fedup2
        Bruce payment 10 -15k for talking crap for half an hour or so and on top the huge salary , the average state pension is just under 10k for the year ……no wonder she thinks she’s important and highly skilled !
        Obviously I have wasted my life becoming an engineer…..Thankfully I no longer part pay her wages

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Charlie
          In a previous life I had to hire someone to do one of these speeches . I only had a 5k budget so I landed up with a little known journo who has now become a BBC staffer regularly on your screen

          These BBC people keep the ‘ after dinner ‘ and ‘ conference ‘ stuff quiet because it is very big money . The Lenny Henry starts at £20k for a couple of hours –

          If anyone really wants to wins themselves up – go google – you can buy a load of BBC droids for 10k or 20k –
          Lucky they are not “ low skilled” right ?

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  45. Fedup2 says:

    Last night the PM and senior health officials gave a formal briefing together with a lot of questions from the public . The BBC 1 ran it from 1900 to 1932 – then it cut away – I think their chief mouthpiece – kuensberg went off with her personal opinions – I don’t know this because I switched to a channel that carried it .

    I could not see a reason for the national broadcaster to cut away from such an important briefing on such an important day . —-hell – there wasn’t even East Enders on until 2000.

    This has been widely noticed – the BBC is taking plenty of flak – still – about what they did to treat the british PM – however much the MSM hates him – from conducting business .

    It’s as though the British voters didn’t vote for him less than half a year ago ……
    Please don’t pay the TV tax

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  46. Doobster78 says:

    Isn’t it odd. All those Remainer types who for over 3 years loved to quote full European Law, Rules and Regulations about trade deals and what can and cannot be done and were experts on Parliamentary procedures etc.

    They called us Leavers, thick, racist, lower class idiots,

    Yet, now it seems, its those upper class, liberal elite, highly educated Remainers who seem unable to work out if they can talk to their window cleaner , go to the shop, see a friend from outside the household or travel across borders etc.

    Yet we were told constantly for years by the BBC and MSM that those were the clever ones who knew what they were voting for and we didn’t !!!!!!!!

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  47. Beeb Brother says:

    The BBC finally reports on Obama’s criminal activities, albeit nowhere on the home page. They describe it as a ‘spat.’ A more accurate word would be treason. And of course they think Obama was perfectly justified!

    It is all related as casually as one might describe a mild gust of wind during sunshine. None of the emotional appeals turned up to eleven as when one of their side has been wronged.

    Imagine for one moment if they found out Bush had used the FBI to spy on Obama to try and bring him down. Boy could they find some dirt on him if they devoted 1% of the energies they have spent on Trump. It would be the story of the the millennium leading every bulletin. As their man was in the wrong you would not even know anything happened!

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  48. G says:

    Reading this,
    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16013/european-lockdown-illegal-immigrants
    you can only conclude that there is an international conspiracy by Western Governments to ignore any wishes, thoughts or legitimate concerns of their populations. This is now the unstoppable power of the UN, Soros and backing by the communist regime in China. It will never be checked and stopped by voters thinking that they have a say. Not only that, Governments must recognise that the cycle of so-called, “Democratic voting” is too far behind any moves they can make with impunity.
    Revolution is the only answer. Lamp-posts come to mind immediately.

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  49. Thatcherrevolutionary says:

    UK American correspondents seem very quiet just now?

    The vile pair on Sly News of Cordelia Lynch and Amanda Walker usually frothing at the mouth about today’s perceived Democrat injustice. Both massive knicker-wetting sycophants of Adam Schiff.

    Soapy Sopel and the fat bloke that looks like Mr Potato Head at the BBC…..O’Donaghue……very quiet.

    Looks like trouble for Obama, Pelosi, Biden, Schiff.

    Can’t understand why these cheerleaders not getting their defensive tweets in now……

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