Midweek Thread 13 May 2020

A highly skilled BBC autocue reader called Fiona Bruce read out that a whole range of workers are ‘low skilled’. She has done a public service by showing a glimpse at what they think of the millions of people who pay their wages through the TV licence.

If you feel like cancelling yours – here is the link –

https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/cs/refund/about-the-tv-licence

Please practice distancing from the Biased BBC and wash your hands after having watched or listened to it . Over to you .

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438 Responses to Midweek Thread 13 May 2020

  1. theisland says:

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8317393/New-coronavirus-antibody-test-100-accuracy-PHE-finds.html

    A new ‘game-changing’ and 100 per cent accurate coronavirus antibody test that can tell whether someone has had the infection has been approved for public use in the UK, public health bosses declared last night.

    The test, made by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche, will identity almost everyone who has had COVID-19, with experts hopeful these people could be immune from catching it again for up to three years.

    Ministers are now in talks with Roche to buy millions of the kits, which US regulators approved eleven days ago. Insiders say it is unlikely that the lab-based tests will be available to purchase privately, at least initially.

    No doubt these will be rolled out in phases to the ‘chosen ones’.

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    • Oldspeaker says:

      “100% accurate” test will identify “almost” everyone, had to read that a couple of times but I still can’t get ‘100%’ and ‘almost’ to compute. Could make a case that bleeding and leeches ‘almost’ worked, anyhow, by the looks of it some very rich people are going to get even richer with their 100% test that almost works everytime.

      Could just be my interpretation of course, maybe just means those not identified will not have been tested.

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      • theleftwilleatitself says:

        Yes, that was called an oxymoron when I was doing my English GCSE ????

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        • Oldspeaker says:

          Wife says I’m half of one of those.

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        • Up2snuff says:

          Now it is merely called an Oxford moron.

          Probably a Fellow or a Prof with tenure.

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          • Scroblene says:

            Tenure?

            You get one of those when you try and pick up something heavy, don’t you, Up?

            I suppose it’s a paycheck where those guys are concerned…

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            • Up2snuff says:

              Scrobie, LOL!

              Can we keep this going until there is a stampede for the Common Room Cloakroom?

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Board meeting inside an international pharmaceutical company:

      Managing Director: “This new test we’ve developed, that seems to work under some circumstances, sort of. Will we make lots of money with it?”
      Marketing Director: “That’s 100% accurate, boss!”

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  2. fakenewswatcher says:

    N Robinson hard at it again, on R4, this morning, trying to undermine government in any way possible, rather than reporting news and providing comment. Toady has -in this crisis- morphed into a self-appointed and self-righteous prosecutor, jury and judge, as it sort of ‘puts government on trial’.
    It knows where to find interviewees who support that game and has the advantage of hand-picking from those interviewees, structuring leading questions, steering interviews, cutting off people who are not playing their game, etc. All this is wrapped up in a guise of ‘neutrality’ and ‘impartiality’, of course, with as few clues to the extent of the manipulation, visible/audible, as possible.
    Extreme partiality, still pretending ‘impartiality’, probably so as not to jeopardise public funding via the licence?

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  3. StewGreen says:

    Today’s R4 schedule page for today
    None of the prog photos show white males
    until you get to a Welsh comedian at 11pm
    .. plus there is a painting of Lord Byron

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl7j

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  4. davylars says:

    BBC news salivating over how successful New Zealand have coped with covid and reports of people queuing up to go to the barbers.
    Hasn’t occurred to them that NZ is as far away from anywhere that you could possibly get .

    Also..

    UK population 6.6 million
    NZ population 4.9 million

    UK.. 64.22 sq km per 1,000 people
    NZ.. 3.96 sq km per 1,000 people

    4 million people visit NZ per year
    40 million people visit the UK per year.

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    • BigBrotherCorporation says:

      UK OFFICIAL* population 68 million in 2020, or about 15 times as many as in NZ.

      *How many are unofficially here and under the radar… does anyone have a clue?!

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Probably about another 7 million – 75 million – but it’s really anyones’ guess. Gotta go.

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    • Yasser Dasmibehbi says:

      In the last three days their have been no new cases of covid found in NZ. The government was reluctant to seal the borders at first but came out of their trance and took a tough line. There was a strict lockdown put in place, much stricter than other countries including UK.
      It was accepted by most people regardless of political persuasion.
      Today the restrictions have largely been lifted as the country has moved to level two and people are moving about the towns and cities still practicing social distancing but feeling very safe in the knowledge that the chances of catching the disease are now exceedingly low.
      Let’s face it. Boris did not take the most effective step in fighting the virus and that is closing the borders. This was a huge mistake, but one that he can get away with because there is no political force left in the Uk to hold him to account on that issue.
      All major parties are in favour of mass immigration and open borders.
      Once there was Ukip which was a voice for reason but it ran out of support.
      What hope for Britain now?

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  5. The Mouse says:

    BBC news –

    “Primary children in Denmark have been back at school for a month now.
    It was the first country in Europe to reopen its primary schools, after containing the virus early on. There have been fewer than 550 deaths so far.
    Our Europe correspondent Jean Mackenzie has spent the day at the Lynghøj primary school.
    From hourly handwashing to small playgroups, this is how they’re making it work.”

    My question – How did they know what to do, did Boris Johnson spell it out in detail? It’s not bloody rocket science. We won a war once!

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    • gb123 says:

      My questions would be what the heck is the beeb doing sending correspondents into a school potentially causing infections or being infected? How come they are travelling in Europe at our expense? Have they been tested properly and are they going into 14 day quarantine upon returning to the UK?

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  6. BigBrotherCorporation says:

    A world in crisis even without the pandemic: Five looming problems

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-52630346

    Well done, you managed to cram (nearly) everything the BBC really needs us to hear into a single article.

    Trump bad, very, very bad – tick
    Israel bad – tick
    Muslims victims – tick
    Brexit bad – tick
    Boris bad – tick
    Tories bad – tick
    Climate change, the end of the world is nigh – double tick plus one

    Can’t help feeling BAME LBGTPQRST LABOUR VOTING WIMMIN were missing, but guess they’ll be along later in an extended series of rosy-tinted positive puff pieces to compensate.

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  7. The WestWyvern says:

    Not much on AntiBBC but the government won the day in the debate/amendment regarding agricultural standards and not accepting imports from countries with ‘allegedly’ lower standards*

    Another insidious plot from ardent remainers to keep us shackled to the EUSSR and its policies has been thwarted.

    The Governments majority was reduced apparently because some pressed the wrong electronic voting buttons, the Chancellor being one…

    *See treatment of animals in UK slaughtered under guise of religion (Halal).

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  8. Up2snuff says:

    Advantage of sign-in on strange computer – the auto reflex click on the BBC web-site is avoided.

    Hope everyone has remembered that today is Boycott the BBC Day. Think this should happen on 14th of each month and this Special Day should be twinned with Cancel Your TV Licence Day.

    Do not leave it until the end of the month. Just say ‘No’ now.

    You know it makes sense.

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    • Absolute Shower says:

      I didn’t know it was Boycott the BBC Day, but now I know this I will do. I’ll probably listen to today’s coronavirus briefings on Talk Radio or watch on You Tube. My TV Licence expired in April and I haven’t renewed it yet. I’ve had three emails so far, and I must admit, I might give in in the end because I’m a bit nervous about a knock on the door.

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      • Teddy Bear says:

        Empower Yourself – It’s what you don’t know that makes you nervous
        https://www.tvlicenceresistance.info/forum/index.php?

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      • Luckyharry69 says:

        If you dont watch the TV you just fill in the form and tell them?…you arent obliged to pay?….I did a few years ago?.
        Obviously if you DO watch FREEVIEW and havent got a license thats up to you

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        • taffman says:

          Definitely not. Tell them nothing – no contact , not even name or who you are .

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      • Teddy Bear says:

        Just to clarify – these ‘inspectors’ have no more rights than a door to door salesman. Unless they are able to physically see your live TV operating from outside your property , in which case then they can get the police to join them and force their way in.

        Otherwise you don’t have to open the door for them or answer any questions . If you happen to answer the door to one of them simply close the door in their face. You can also send a letter to the licence authority to tell them that you no longer watch live TV and feel they are invading your privacy and should desist from contact. They will then only contact you by mail every 2 years to see if your circumstances have changed.

        We have to fight corruption. How many more years do the Conservative government need to do something about this disgusting BBC? Think they will? Don’t hold your breath.

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  9. Zelazek says:

    Apologies if someone has mentioned this before but the contrast between Stefan Molyneux’s The Truth About Ahmaud Arbery and the item on the BBC website couldn’t be greater.

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  10. Beltane says:

    Tonight’s QT looks like an exciting prospect! Fiona’s guests are Bridget Phillipson, Mick Cash, Luke Johnson and Devi Sridhar.
    No, me neither, but I’m sure their opinions will be considered, unbiased and informative – and well worth waiting up for.

    PS You don’t think the BBC are finding it difficult to put a balanced panel together? Can’t think why, it was never a problem for them back in the ‘despite Brexit’ days, but maybe they are beginning to sense public opinion might just be turning?

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    • Scroblene says:

      It’s ‘Ignore the BBC day’, today, so I won’t be watching it…

      In fact I’ve hardly ever seen it anyway, as they are so poor at getting normal people on, with balanced views, I’d rather have a large scotch and look at the paint dry…

      Was the prog ever, any good?

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  11. theisland says:

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  12. theisland says:

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    • fakenewswatcher says:

      Island – hard to see the present half-hearted government , apparently preoccupied with the virus and apparently unwilling to address the issue of illegal migration in any serious manner, taking any firm steps to deal with it. Those would bring howls from Labour, the ‘meeja’ etc so a relatively quiet life is preferred.

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    • Scroblene says:

      Many years ago, TheIsland, I was working for a development firm which was looking at the possibility of building a ‘holding area’ for immigrants in Dover.

      It was an old army camp up on the top of the cliffs, on the A2, near a place called Whitfield, and the original idea was stated – literally – as a place where they could plonk ‘illegal ragheads’ (their term), until they were either shipped back out, or allowed to stay!

      We spent ages trying to make the development figures work, as all sorts of Customs and Immigration services were involved, but peering at Google Earth, it seems that housing and industry became more preferable!

      And it was a secure site as well!

      Lost opportunity, but this was years ago…

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  13. s.trubble says:

    Tuned in for 5 mins to R4…..which coincided with that Webb character interrupting a prof who was updating us on the new antibody test…………..Webb,s sole contribution was to castigate the Government for being 10 days late with this………….the prof explained it had undergone final checks at Porton Down.

    Just what garbage is this guy all about……. to be quite honest him and that Robinson should be summarily dismissed…..just for starters.

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  14. Doobster78 says:

    Wouldn’t surprise me to see a “Tik-Tok” Area Manager post soon for £100K +

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    • theisland says:

      Good question.
      NHS management needs to be criticised on many fronts.

      Perhaps Labour are banking on the fact that the government may (reluctantly) be forced to do so, thus signing their own death warrant.

      However, I suspect fewer voters worship the NHS beast than Labour think.

      NF’s last caller yesterday was a care home manager who was told (on the phone) by the local hospital that a resident due to be returned had been tested. The care manager said they could only return if he saw proof of the test. When the person at the hospital ‘checked’ – this was during the course of their phone call – it turned out that the test had not been carried out.

      Shock: Care home manager uses common sense without having to be told to do so in a 25-page ‘publication’.

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    • StewGreen says:

      I immediately spot Robert Cheesewright
      replying saying that is only right that taxpayers pay someone to exclusively push the DIVERSITY-agenda.

      Now what does Robert Cheesewright do ?
      “Campaigning for a greener, cleaner, smarter Britain, working at Smart Energy GB
      Yes, we taxpayers pay HIM to exclusively push the FAKEGREEN-agenda

      He tweeted

      Because diversity is important. (OK)
      Diverse organisations out-perform non-diverse ones. (I don’t believe that)
      The salary is almost certainly set by the market rate for such roles.

      … (I don’t believe that)

      I bet you he is happy that publicly funded BBC and Education sectors are full of anti-Tory anti-Brexit people
      and don’t reflect the diversity of political opinion in the UK.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Is the head of that hospital white ?
      “Meet Cedi Frederick, Chair of @CommonAgeAssoc’s Caribbean/Canada Chapter.
      Ex England basketball star
      & new Chair of North Middlesex NHS Trust. “

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  15. JamesArthur says:

    Not many positive comments – how much do you think healthcare would suffer if these jobs/roles were all abolished?

    Not a jot…..

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  16. StewGreen says:

    R4 You and Your ticking the boxes and avoiding those dreaded straight white males.

    Long item about cooking takeaways you send around your friends house
    “I’m Bob and this is partner Mark
    and send to Sally who we work with at the Greenwich Cooperative Development Agency,”
    (London again !)

    Item before was the presenter Shari Vahl and the Amazon Prime scammer and he of course didn’t sound Cockney

    Before that Mumsnet and the National Day Nursery Association
    In that seg all were female and seem to have that London African accent.

    Just at the end Simon Calder sneaked on.

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  17. G.W.F. says:

    It’s Thursday Komrads. Clap for the anychess

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    • Beltane says:

      Constipation in China is a national problem, though Engrish pronunciation is another.
      The sign should actually read: ‘I didn’t crap’

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      • Beltane says:

        Only fair to point out that regular ingestion of bat wings, pangolin scales and live dogmeat tends to exacerbate the problem.

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        • Scroblene says:

          Three from the average Chinese menu, nos 43, 67, and 121…

          They tried 69, but the waitress said on your bike…

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  18. Sluff says:

    Another success for our heroic NHS.
    Or do I mean Public Health Englnd?
    Or some other quango or committee?

    The antibody test given a CE mark (EU type approval) and FDA approval on May 3 did not get approval in the UK until May 13 . FFS.

    Presumably the National Test Co-ordination Committee only work M-F 9-5 and it was a Bank Holiday for VE75.

    And presumably also we are now at the back of the purchasing queue. No doubt Matt Hancock himself is required to sign the purchase orders and progress chase.

    Still, the BBC can always blame the government.
    And will.

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  19. Sluff says:

    Many writers above have commented on various statistics. If anyone has the wherewithal to work this out I’d be grateful.

    How many / what proportion of cv19 deaths in hospital were of patients who tested negative for cv19 on initial entry ?

    There is a lot of obfuscation on this point, and the (not wrong) focus on care homes is conveniently distracting from this question, as is the focus on all deaths and removal of the daily breakdown, together with a mix of UK, England, and GB statistics.

    ‘Clap for carers who have given your loved ones the virus’ doesn’t quite convey the desired message for the religious cult that is the NHS.

    Holy Communion is on again at 8pm tonight.

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    • JamesArthur says:

      Good point Sluff – one which I have been ranting about for a time…and even now – is everyone tested when they come in and go out?
      It isn’t the Govt’s fault many in the NHS don’t seem to be able to join dots…

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    • JamesArthur says:

      Good point Sluff – one which I have been ranting about for a time…and even now – is everyone tested when they come in and go out?
      It isn’t the Govt’s fault many in the NHS don’t seem to be able to join dots…

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  20. Guest Who says:

    OT, but it seems that Kay Burley is subbing Sky twitter.

    Hard to tell, but that picture may be Surkeer in training to act as a pacer for Di, Dave and Dawn when they all head to the post-fast snarf-in.

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    • JamesArthur says:

      Why do they have to bring race into every bloody thing…
      If they did like for like stats i.e wage linked they might find figures are the same and in some parts of London many of the large houses are owned by Indians and have gardens…but in this survey they probably don’t count.
      Sick of MSM and divisive tactics

      Comments could be going better 🙂

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    • BigBrotherCorporation says:

      Black Britons four times less likely than white people to have garden… err… is that not personal choice?

      No one is forced to live in the city, property in some rural backwaters is cheap and usually comes with plenty of land, and rural council houses normally have massive gardens.

      Honestly, what is the relevance of the race card here, other than stoking resentment (again)?

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      • Guest Who says:

        Precisely.

        All broadcasters use race pr from activists as a very unsubtle club to bash ideological opponents, and in so doing simply stir conflict.

        Such behaviour needs holding to account. Seriously.

        It is not a silly game on the ground like it is in the Westminster and studio sticks and stones gotcha bubbles, and their eunuch pissing contests.

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  21. Celtic_Mist says:

    I don’t recall anything about this on BBC – Indeed, I haven’t a clue what it’s about?

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    • theisland says:

      There is this as well

      Formal notice has now been sent, with the UK apparently having failed to “comply with EU law on the free movement of EU citizens and their family members”.

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      • taffman says:

        theisland
        Plenty of “free movement” coming across the Channel from France. What are they on about ? – They come across nearly everyday with The Border Farce while our Tory MPs ‘turn a blind eye’ . Its now becoming to appear as if its deliberate.

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  22. JamesArthur says:

    R4 Sebastian Tw*T from FT…lovely use of words ‘crash out of EU, causing economics and blah blah turmoil……basically a phrase straight out of the Remainer cook book..

    He clearly hasn’t learned anything from the result of the Brexit election…BBC just let him run on…and thanked him…

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  23. Sluff says:

    Question not asked.
    Who exactly is responsible for the operational efficiency of cv19 testing including the turnaround time ?
    We know someone who has been working for a week, and we don’t expect Matt Hancock to do the testing himself. But nor do we expect him to protect the useless.

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    • Beltane says:

      I’m afraid protecting the useless is very much a part of government responsibility of late Sluff – and for some reason this has risen dramatically over the past couple of months, most especially since the creation of the Coronavirus Updates.

      A BBC spokesperson declined to comment when asked if there were any particular reason for this.

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  24. Fedup2 says:

    Are you looking for love ?

    Well I beg to report what is on the BBC website – The Guardian is to close its ‘soulmates’ ‘dating’ website .

    Apparently it had 35000 members – of which 34999 were BBC employees … ( my made up stat based on government covid stuff ) ….

    So look out for lonely heartbroken BBC staff – perhaps they can have one of those snowflake helplines they put up for just about any thing.

    No sniggering at the Back…

    There may now be a gap in the market for ‘snowflake love ‘ or ‘virtue signallers amour ‘

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  25. Up2snuff says:

    Disadvantage of signing in on a strange computer – losing all the bookmarks, nevertheless I found this for you:

    Music for Clap Time – give the Anychess more clap – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJYN-eG1zk This time it is the band doing the clapping – no, stop sniggering at the back – no self-applause. Watch and enjoy.

    You may need to ensure YouTube resolution is set at 360. On auto play it is fuzzy and you will not be able to see:
    1. Freddie’s microphone abuse – that would give a BBC Engineer pause!
    2. Roger playing the bass drum miraculously without being anywhere near the pedal – you can however see his lips move
    3. Badger’s fantastic fingerwork on the fretboard toward the end
    4. Deacy dossing with a bass guitar around his neck, not playing a note.

    I’m off to carry on cleaning, re-connecting and hopefully restarting the PC.

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  26. digg says:

    Owen Jones mouthing off in the guardian…

    “The real message behind ‘stay alert’: it’ll be your fault if coronavirus spreads”

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/14/stay-alert-coronavirus-blame

    Owen, of course it F*****g is! Which is exactly what the message is trying to say to anyone with half a brain.

    Careful out there!

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    • StewGreen says:

      @digg ie “Be alert” =”Take responsibility for your own actions
      ….. you are an adult not a child”

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    • Scroblene says:

      Digg, you’re good at taking the time to read this – I’m afraid I gave up after eight seconds…

      I thought he’d been stuffed a while back, and I didn’t realise he still did his mouthy bolleaux!

      I must get out/stay in more..:0)

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  27. taffman says:

    “Coronavirus: A government under great strain”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52670086
    Something tells me she is biased against the Tory Government?
    Ah um .

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  28. taffman says:

    “Coronavirus: Government faces WW2-sized bill for tackling virus”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52662613
    Someone will have to pay for those that don’t want to go to work.

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Current expenditure £123.2 billion. Cancel Foreign Aid budget for 9 years – that will cover it. Some of it was going to China anyway. Sorted.

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      • Scroblene says:

        Couldn’t agree more, Ian!

        Indians in space and suchlike = more deaths in the UK because of little money to save our own people.

        Forget ‘jobs’ for the boys, if they want to work there, let them!

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      • G says:

        Ian,
        This one slipped by without any widespread realisation of what it contained.
        $2.1 million dollars – the Somali national debt – now paid off by the Swedish Government. Without the consent of the public needless to say.

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  29. LastChanceSaloon says:

    Quiz Time.
    Q 1 (of 3). What is the first difference between the Chinese Communist Party and the British Broadcasting Company?
    A 1 The CCP develops viruses intended to kill non Communists. The BBC does not develop viruses intended to kill non Communists.

    Q 2 (of 3) What is the second difference between the CCP and the BBC?
    A 2 The CCP lies about its intention to murder tens of millions of non Communists.
    The BBC does not lie about its intention to murder tens of millions of non Communists. The BBC lies about the CCP’s intention to murder tens of millions of non Communists.

    Q 3 (of 3) What is the third difference between the CCP and the BBC?
    A 3 The CCP is moderately successful in concealing its delight that millions of non Communists will die as a result of its germ warfare.
    The BBC is hopeless in concealing its delight that millions of non Communists will die as a result of CCP germ warfare.

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  30. Doughboy says:

    Getting sick to death (not corona related) with BBC news, it’s enough to make you want to get infected. despite the vast resources of the nations finest broadcaster we are not getting any news other then Covid, how about demonstrations on Germany see https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/germany-s-coronavirus-protests-are-a-big-headache-for-merkel

    or how about Saint obama caught spying on Trumps boys
    or rioting in parts of paris – No thought not

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  31. smoogie7 says:

    So the BBC website mentions that Tory MP who deleted some tweets or something yet the daily Mail have a story out that Havant Labour have been forced to apologise for sharing a picture of Boris with blood on his hands:

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8319069/Labour-apologises-posting-images-Boris-Johnson-Matt-Hancock-blood-hands.html

    Of course the BBC are not interesting in this are they?

    Reminds of the time that Corbyn lied during the GE about the NHS being for sale. That was debunked by the Daily Mail the next day and the BBC did not even cover the story yet when there was a story about the boy on the hospital floor in the Mirror the BBC spammed that story out.

    Just ridiculous the selective types of stories we get at the moment. Anything to help Starmer out

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    • Doughboy says:

      yes funny how they didn’t publish Boris’s reply to Starmers claim of misleading parliament

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      • smoogie7 says:

        I read Johnson’s response to Starmer. Not a word from any lefty about it though…

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  32. gb123 says:

    I have decided a new approach to the licence fee is needed. I will gladly pay them not to broadcast. At least that is more honest , a protection racket.

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  33. StewGreen says:

    The Guardian dating website is to close
    “It’s no longer viable”

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  34. Fedup2 says:

    The UK taxpayer has had to stump up 1.6 billion pounds so that the Emir of Londonistan can keep his TFL running .

    Socialism and budget management don’t really work together – and the Emir knew that if it all went bandy number 10 would have to bale him out .

    So massively hiked rail and bus fares are on the way ….

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    • Scroblene says:

      It also means that he’ll get less dosh on the rates, as lots of companies are deciding that London just isn’t the place to be any more! TFL will probably never get back the customers it built up when Boris was Mayor. Goodness knows what will happen when Crossrail becomes some sort of reality!

      Working from home may well be the downfall of his empire, but he wouldn’t understand that.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Each one of us is paying £70 to Sadiq

      28 million households in UK
      about 23m in England
      1,600m/23m = £70 per household

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  35. Fedup2 says:

    The telegraph reports the cover up carried out by the President of the United States of Scotland in January when a Nike conference in Edinburgh turned into a massive transmitter of the Chinese virus .
    25 cases at the conference were known about but crankie admitted 23 across the whole of Scotland .

    She also allowed an international rugby game to go ahead .

    Now she is being more cautious than England and no doubt is beyond criticism as far as the BBC is concerned ….

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    • StewGreen says:

      @Fed Actually this was a BBC scoop from the 12th
      The 25 cases were NOT Scottish cases, they were all over the world
      but the event did cause the first case in Scotland
      \\ The BBC investigation discovered that Covid-19 had been brought to Scotland a week before the country’s first confirmed case, in Tayside, was revealed on 1 March.
      One of the 70 Nike employees attending the conference from across the world brought the virus to Edinburgh and infected many of their fellow delegates, who then took it back to their own countries.
      Of the 25 worldwide confirmed cases linked to the event, eight were residents of Scotland.
      Health officials in Scotland learned on 2 March that someone who had attended the conference had tested positive when they returned to their home country.
      A Scottish resident connected to the event tested positive the following day – but the public was not told that the cases were linked to the conference.
      Mass gatherings were not banned until 16 March and lockdown measures were introduced on 23 March.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-52634991

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      • StewGreen says:

        BBC/Labour have put out a video
        It is an attack on the SNP
        see how the framing is with doom music in the background.

        I don’t like the way the way they joined on clip of a cherry picked expert who claimed the epidemic would have been so much smaller if Scotland had locked down earlier.
        That is very much just his OPINION
        .. a lot of other experts would disagree
        super lockdown Belgium and no-lockdown Sweden have the opposite outcomes.

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  36. StewGreen says:

    A Plea To the BBC from Doreen from Tipton
    .. against BBC Marxism and Gary Lineker
    “Please BBC stop lecturing me
    with your virtue-laden patronising words
    .. you can stick your licence fee
    up your EU funded bum”

    Guido put in up as well

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  37. vlad says:

    Some more fun facts about Al-beeb’s favourite prophet that they won’t tell you about.

    In this episode he has a man tortured to death to extract information about the whereabouts of a hidden treasure.

       17 likes

  38. Lovely Luvvies says:

    Not the BBC but did anyone catch on C5 on Monday. UK hating Luvvie Sir T Robin of son program Around the world by train. On trying to prove that Danes were the happiest and most honest people in the world they dropped 3 wallets with cash in them on the streets of Copenhagen to prove that the super Danes would return them. Unfortunately (i did chuckle) only 1 of the 3 was returned and that was mainly because somebody saw him drop it! What does he say after that I should have guessed “the other 2 probably have been picked up by English tourists” I think I’ll register this as a hate crime.

       35 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      I didn’t bother to watch, cos his series is not really a train journey
      but rather great leaps from one virtue sugnalling segment to another 800Km away etc.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Oh Tony Tony Tony Robinson
      was making a racist dogwhistle to his mates at the British-Anti-Nationalist-Labour Party & MetroLiberal-Supremacist Party
      By being hatey & classifying ALL British people as dishonest
      he signals his VIRTUE to his gang

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  39. taffman says:

    “Brexit: No border down Irish Sea, reiterates NI secretary”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-52667744
    We in the UK need to go WTO . But has Boris got the bottle?
    Simples

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  40. AsISeeIt says:

    Yikes, left swipes gripes !

    For some reason, you may almost instantly be able to fathom, the BBC seems to think this is front page national news:

    ‘Guardian Soulmates to close next month’

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52667087

    Seems the Grauniad had a dating app that’s having to shut up shop due to lack of interest.

    Oh the humanity! Brings a tear to the eye.

    Of course the BBC turn to Twitter for some fond farewells to this under-used erstwhile metro liberal date shop.

    Make of this what you will, all four Twitter users bidding a fond farewell are female.

    Could it be that a contributing factor to the failure of this on-line bien pensant cupid was the dearth of red blooded males in Guardianista internet romance utopia?

    Might it be that the chaps were not all that enamoured with the calibre of feminista sistas they were likely to turn up thereabouts?

    Have the ladies given up on the right-on soyboys and taken their subscriptions and their right swipes elsewhere?

       16 likes

    • JimS says:

      It was a service used by at least one Midlands Today presenter.

      I don’t know whether it worked for her but she did change her surname.

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  41. StewGreen says:

    The BBC’s playgound friend BuzzfeedNewsUk is dead
    Guido’s opinion
    “A woke hard news operation was a strategic error for the BuzzFeed brand.
    ..didn’t work with advertisers”

    https://order-order.com/2020/05/14/advertising-buzz-woke-news-wore-off-food-millenials-brings-dough/

       10 likes

  42. StewGreen says:

    Laura Perrins tweets

    Teachers.
    They expect every other key worker to work ‘at risk’ to make their lockdown life happen.
    The check-out girl, the delivery drivers, the nurses, the doctors.
    But when it comes to educating children
    teachers say, “oh no ! ….Far too risky for us to do our jobs”

    Disgraceful

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    • JamesArthur says:

      Good post Stew

      Not sure if anyone saw the Icelandic report that kids under 10 don’t pass it between each other and they didn’t find a single case of kids passing it to adults..1/10 of population (35,000) genetically tested so they could see who exactly had infected who…which support another study by UK uni..

      so exactly what are teachers scared of? It shouldn’t be the kids – and kids not scared of each other..

      BBC this morning NAGA clearly unaware of any new research about kids and just pushing the…so what you are saying is…

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  43. Celtic_Mist says:

    On it like a shot – BBCWorld News, Online and Twitter

       7 likes

    • Celtic_Mist says:

      Also, the latest electioneering video is embedded in the article –

      Screen-Hunter-207.png

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  44. Harry of Sussex says:

    I haven’t watched or read any BBC or other media content in 5 days. I’ve even avoided passive contact . It feels really good!

    Over and out.

       18 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      EUTV – sorry – Harry – 5 days is good – months is better . I don’t get how anyone watches the breakfast stuff or the monster on ITV – Morgan ? Who presumably ups his ante to keep his viewing figures by applying the BBC interruption method so loved by Robinson and co .
      Being without BBC radio gets easy too .

         14 likes

      • StewGreen says:

        It’s claimed GMB has increased its views from 700K to 800K
        and that BBCbreakfast peak at about 2m

        50m adults
        so 5m is 10%
        Thus we know at anyone time 95% of UK viewers are NOT watching either

        BBCbreakfast claim 11m people dip in every week but that means 80% of adults never watch it

        Everyday the 6pm local news is the peak show with 8m
        meaning 80% of adults are still not watching it.

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      • Harry of Sussex says:

        Fed – won’t make the month. I can miss the broadcasts and I can dodge the papers, but I can’t socially distance from this site and that makes me vulnerable; passive corona-bias will get me in the end.

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  45. taffman says:

    There are some political elements in this nation that would gladly see the country go to the wall to bring the government down and to prevent Brexit.

       27 likes

  46. taffman says:

    Anything on Al Beeb yet about the good news that Nissan is to build new factory in Sunderland . New cars ?
    There are a lot of people in Great Britain with money stashed away since the lockdown and are ready to spend.

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  47. taffman says:

    Following the end of the Second World War the “baby boomers” were taught by returning teachers that were ex servicemen used to discipline and patriotism and instilled that ethic into their pupils. Conversely, where and what has been indoctrinated into the present education staff? There lies the anti “Great Britain“ and pro EU mind set.

       20 likes

    • theisland says:

      Katie H retweeted this:

      Dreadful.

         31 likes

      • StewGreen says:

        Is that fake ? I doubt it
        Cos if I search on that profile, limiting the search to my Twitter friends
        I spot over the years my friends have interacted with it
        including @GuestWho multiple times

        libmob have tried a trick of uploading it to 4Chan and saying it’s a fake meme that originated there
        but her tweet predates that.

        If it only came up for her then it’s not in an official textbook but rather material sent by a rogue teacher.

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        • Guest Who says:

          Gullibility is an occupational hazard for us all.

          I do tend to check first but if it is an individual citing something that is tricky. The BBC has of course cited major organisations… without checking.

          One good measure is how quickly and how loud the counter is.

          And if it is factual.

          Near silence on any count suggests the BBC follows up.

          If so minded.

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          • BigBrotherCorporation says:

            I very much doubt it’s fake, my son gets similar things from his Geography teacher, History teacher, Biology teacher, RS (Religious Studies) teacher, French teacher, PSHE (no clue, some waffly non-subject that seems to involve lots of totally abnormal sex ‘education’ and discussions about ‘politics’ which all seem to end in a good Trump bashing) teacher…

            Can vouch for most of those particular teachers being extremely, err… eccentric individuals, having met them all on numerous parents’ afternoons – which consist of entire afternoons BTW, extremely inconvenient for workers like myself – am sure my parents only ever attended short – 1hour? evening sessions, and they WERE in the evening after work too, not in the middle of the working day.

            My son’s geography teacher is a very butch lesbian in a relationship with an ex-student (which seems a little wrong to me), his RS/PSHE teacher is openly gay and as camp as a row of pink tents, his PE teacher is also gay (less publicly) and married to a male hairdresser (yes, you could not make it up), his design teacher is of very ambiguous gender and race (I still have no idea if s/he is male/female or other, it’s a constant source of curiosity amongst both parents and students)… and those are just the few I know about.

            Have to say they all seem pleasant enough, and my son is doing well at school, but… I don’t think many of them could survive in the real world outside of their little education bubble, or they have any idea how ‘normal’ people live at all. I recall having some real oddball teachers at school, and quite a few militant lefties who liked nothing more than a good strike (am sure I spent more time out of school than in… which might explain a few things), but nothing like the outright freaks who teach my son.

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  48. Guest Who says:

    BBC ‘News’

    “If we fail to improve our response now, based on science, I fear the pandemic will get worse and be prolonged.”

    The dire warning on coronavirus comes from a former top health official who says he was ousted.

    ***

    Comprising ‘quote’ from a ‘former’ who says stuff.

       10 likes

    • JamesArthur says:

      R4 at moment just bigging up ‘how dangerous” CV19 is…Got David Navaro from WHO…who apparently don’t want anyone to lift lockdown until – until – until – until -until

      Would anyone trust the WHO – really?

      This morning the BBC seem to have ramped up the doom and gloom –
      Fortunately the M11 this morning at 6.30 was starting to look like a normal day 🙂

         13 likes

  49. Harry of Sussex says:

    If it wasn’t for the BBC and ITV not giving a toss about my old home town I am convinced it would have beaten London’s bid for the Olympics.

    See for yourself.

       10 likes

  50. Guest Who says:

    Enders* of Times… and Graun, and Mirror, and..

    “Journalism is on the precipice with more than £1 billion likely to fall off the industry’s topline. Several years of projected structural revenue decline in advertising and circulation have occurred in just the past few weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, with no letup in sight
    The UK’s rich heritage of independent journalism is at risk, with responses by Government and ‘big tech’ multinationals welcomed but ultimately inadequate. We make two further recommendations for engagement in this report
    Journalism enterprises from the small, local and specialist outfits through to national household brands will either fail or remain on a path to future failure”

    ***
    Our county paper, rammed with bbc ‘local democracy reporters’, tried a clickbait effort on social media that garnered 20 reactions (inc. CCBGB) in 24 hrs. Reap what you sow.

    *The supposed ‘Independent’ expert the BBC use.

       9 likes

    • theleftwilleatitself says:

      My local online newspaper the Liverpool Echo has only in the last month or so started asking for contributions, a ‘whilst your here’ if you may ????
      It’s a horrible lefty rag written online by work experience kids who can’t spell properly and to whom punctuation and grammar are alien ????

         9 likes

      • vlad says:

        So good training for the lefty Biased Broadcasting Corporation

           5 likes

        • theleftwilleatitself says:

          ???? Yes vlad, al beeb will be poaching their journa….sorry activists when the Echo goes under ????

             0 likes