The Biased Far Left BBC published its Annual Plan this week. No mention of the thousands cancelling their TV licences … why not be one of them …?
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The MSM clearly is desperate. And will try anything.
Not entirely convinced a majority population UK is going to be impressed by a naked attempt to equate an ethnic dead guy ceremony with looking after a kid.
Maybe Sky should run a poll?
The guy is a journo for MiddleEastEye
and not a friend of the Tories
There’s a surprise.
As would the bbc not ‘asking him what he thinks’ of anything.
All day the tv channels have been trying their utmost to get Dominic Cummings sacked.
EVERY person they’ve had on to comment on this has been anti Cummings and I’ve not heard any commentator supporting him.
Even the sky 2 person interview where you get two different viewpoints argued had 2 on who wanted him gone. Some little lefty and the usually sensible JHB who wants him gone.
The left (liblabmsm) are terrified of Cummings and of course they want brexit reversed so they are going all out to finish him off.
I think DC has far more support than the msm think and this is yet another case of them misreading the people.
Let’s have a clap for Dominic on Thursday at 8. Just stand outside and we can assume you’re clapping to support The DOM.
It is really bad out there at the moment. I am in quite a few groups as the moment and I have raised a concern about an illegal ‘rave’ that was mentioned in the Express (the green loving millennials left all their rubbish everywhere) and now everyone is shrieking about Cummings.
They are literally terrified of the man
My old Dad was frothing while watching Channel 4 News
“Cummings must be sacked”
… see that is how the brainwashing works
When all of the media is telling everyone he broke the rules it’s difficult to argue against it. Most people don’t take the time to look into the facts and just accept what they are told.
It seems that is only the beeb and other MSM outlets are interested in the Cummings and goings.I would think that most of the population couldn’t give a toss, especially those dusky skinned people that have been ignoring it from day one.
Most people don’t even know who Cummings is. I have already had someone pop up this evening asking who this Cummings guy is and wondering if he is an MP.
This is not the first time the BBC along with the lefty media have tried to make a mountain out of a molehill
6pm Radio 4 Saturday. I only switched on whilst peeling the carrots, Of course they were in full flow about Dominic. They then explained that the North East was having the most Covid cases at the moment and reminded everyone that Dom’s parents live in Durham. So they someone out onto the streets to ask them what they thought of Dom’s trip. I would guess most people don’t know who he is. But if it is as breezy as it is where I am, I could guess that 2 metres might not be enough when social distancing and the BBC could be putting the people of Durham at risk. I don’t know if the reporter was local, otherwise the BBC are doing the same as Dom. But I really don’t care for the BBC’s gotcha moment. How long ago was Dom’s trip? At the very best this is stale news.
Forget about the awful Beeb’s tawdry screeching about Dominic, Debs, how did you have your carrots, ‘Julienne’, or ‘waffer-thin mint’?
These facts are much more important than a wasteful, tax-funded bunch of weak lefties, all trying to dribble everywhere!
We like carrots raw, and have three large buckets, sown at intervals, so that we have a succession of tiny roots, probably until October, but a September sowing also produces a great supply over the winter.
And don’t forget, keep the buckets up at least two ft off the ground, as the carrot fly doesn’t normally get to that height to lay its grubs, which unfortunately tunnel down and make the root inedible after a time! Bit like Momentum really…
Now isn’t that much more important than the squeals of the passive, shallow idiots in W1AA!
Doodle and thoughts for the week
Tonight’s TV
Channel4 : Dunkirk Night til 9:20pm
BBC2 : Biography night
Joan Collins , them later Bob Geldof
Channel 5 : Harry and Meghan night
Tonight’s TV at my house.
Netflix
‘Life on Mars’ for me…
Penultimate programme – single malt at the ready…
Sky Arts just watched Bob Marley live at the Rainbow theatre (Finsbury Park, now a church) now on Queen live at the Rainbow 1974
\\He was later asked by reporters whether he would consider his position, he said: “Obviously not.”
“You guys are probably all about as right about that as you were about Brexit: do you remember how right you all were about that,” he added.//
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52782913
Cummings is right , Brexit is done and dusted. It is time for those that are interested in the welfare and well-being of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to get behind it and support the government in getting the ‘Best Deal’ with the EU, even if that means ‘WTO’ .
Anything else is treachery.
Payment of the Television Licence fee should be made voluntary. Those that support and champion the BBC it can fund it, its only fair. As with anything else in the free world.
This was last year ………………..
“New Dover MP seeks urgent talks as 69 migrants picked up”
“The French have been given tens of millions of pounds of British hard-earned taxpayer money… I want to know where the money has gone.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-50823925
Worldometer check
Mexico topped daily deaths today AND has a rising death pattern built in for next 3 weeks
Brazil seems to be even worse 20,000 new cases each day today could turn into THOUSANDS of deaths PER DAY in 3 weeks time
Chile possible high hundreds of deaths built in and rising
India’s in a rising phase
In fact a lot of countries are still in a rising phase
as if they are all not getting on top of it.
A lot of unnoticed small countries could be heading to big problems.
Europe is in a downward phase. LIke Belgium is on top of it.
Spain had a strange one day blip, some kinds of stats correction
Russia’s numbers are suspicious like how can 10K cases result in only 150 deaths unless they are somehow detecting every mild case ?
If you look at the daily cases column smaller countries like Belarus are quite up there , in proportion to their population
UAE also
funny since on the radio people bragged about how tight their lockdown is.
Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain also
Qatar is off the scale
Still weird how UK is detecting way more new cases than any anywhere in Europe except Russia
Maybe we have a lot more testing and are detecting a lot of mild cases
Far left bbc article regarding Spanish lock down protest organised by the far right opposition. Interestingly vox gets the far right treatment from nearly all msm. Podemos gets away with a bbc left wing tag, although some sources have it borderline ‘far left’. Probably safe to say if the bbc label anything left wing then its going some.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52783936
What the heck does this mean?
It is all what the lefty media are doing at the moment. Trying to take out the big bad Cummings with Guardian and Mirror running their own investigation yet when there was a scandal with Labour they are nowhere to be seen
Maybe it would be better – since Sky has sent a list of questions to Mr Shapps that – overnight they send back replies to the questions and save time with the ‘live ‘ interview –
That way they can save everyone who bothers watching daytime tv 10 minutes or so in their lives as Sophie tries out her ‘gotcha’ technique .
Tonight the independent has released footage of Mr Cummings taking a child’s cycle from his home and putting it in his car whilst surrounded at close quarters by about a dozen ‘journalists ‘ not practicing social distancing ….
It’s all about stopping Brexit
Perhaps the BBC thinks that by forcing Cummings out their future will be more secure . I think this would be the biggest misread they could possibly make
The other piece in the chess game is the PM – whom the MSM are trying to force to make a statement – which they will claim will be false and attempt to force him out too .
The MSM uses false emotion – compassion – when it wants – like foreign NHS staff getting free services only 2 days ago .
But 2 men who have both recently suffered from a serious illness are now in the process of being shredded. Is there any real surprise that there is so much Hate about ,…..?
PS – on Twitter – that giant of journalism and a liar – piers Morgan – has declared that he has ‘banned’ all government ministers Who expressed support for Mr Cummings , his wife and child , from appearing on his show –
Popcorn or what ?
Today The anti-Brexit-media-army opened fire on Cummings
… come on Boris don’t bottle like you normally do
Are you Monty or Captain Mannering ?
I used to ponder with quiet satisfaction that I never thought that Brits would do as Johnny Frog did in their tadpole millions, and denounce others. In Vichy France it was anonymous letters to the vile Nazis, sometimes out of spite, sometimes for reward. There are vaults, in Lyon I believe, containing millions of denunciations to the Nazis. Successive French governments have declined to open them, pour crainte.
Here in the UK today the vile, Commufascist Left and their gutless screeching twatter followers are trying to usurp a legitimate government with lies and false denunciations.
I’ve long been disgusted with the conduct of the Left and Leftoids; I’m now ashamed of these sub-humans and of most of this country.
That giant of journalism Morgan is worthy of the same contempt as that other Cummins hater and rabble-rouser Mad Al Campbell of doctored Iraqi dossier infamy.
I wonder which of Morgan, Campbell and Cummins has done more damage to the UK or led to more UK deaths?
That giant of journalism Morgan is worthy of the same contempt as that other Cummins hater and rabble-rouser Mad Al Campbell of doctored Iraqi dossier infamy.
I wonder which of Morgan, Campbell and Cummins has done more damage to the UK or led to more UK deaths?
Fedup2 – A propos of Piers Morgan’s declaration, then all ministers should support Mr Cummings – whereupon Morgan will have to retract, since he won’t be able to claim that they are scared of his ‘incisive’ questions-ing – i.e. bawling and yelling, not listening and generally shouting over them.
Multiculti Britain, reported by the Islamic Broadcasting Corporation on the main news.
A young female is mistakenly and tragically shot and killed in Blackburn.
The intended victim was called Patel.
On the news the BBC refuse to name the five arrested suspects. It appears from other sources that names such as John Smith do not appear in the list.
The BBC then give fulsome coverage of thecdead girl’s funeral. It is held in a town in ……..South Lebanon !!!!!
You just absolutely cannot make up the warped and twisted mindsets of those that pass for ‘impartial journalists’ at the BBC.
Lebanon is on a lockdown with strict social distancing. Have you seen the pictures on the BBC website of that poor unfortunate girls burial , basically its a mob.
Al Beeb’s news website now includes the suspects’ names, including, oddly, one Judy Chapman amid 4 Asian male names. It also states that the business of one of the suspects has been closed by order of the police. I wonder what that was a cover for.
The intended victim was called Khan, according to the police.
My earlier Saturday predictions of ‘fresh allegations ‘ against Mr Cummings of other sightings in Durham – are to be published in that banner of neutrality The Sunday Mirror .
I think they has found an independent witness called Mr J Corbyn who happened to be in Durham with a girlfriend called Ms D Abbot and her criminal son . Ms Abbot says she saw Mr Cummings on the 33rd of April …. although it might have been the 34th …
Number 10’s reply.
Ouch.
This is not good.
I only saw it as it was a highlighted ‘Top Story’ main panel on another story.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52786206#
However, at present, I do note that, in true bbc style, it is a masterpiece of heading ‘quotes’ that become “quotes” about ‘allegations from hardly impartial third parties.
If proven, he is toast.
If not, the bbc should be, but won’t.
I’d agree. If proven, I’d be furious given the time I’ve spent this weekend defending him. And it would show the utter arrogance of those in power who think the rules they impose on the rest of us don’t apply to them. The one good thing would be if it contributes to this lockdown madness falling apart before the damage becomes even greater.
But if shown to be wrong, he really needs to go after the media who have shown themselves to have far too much unaccountable power that has already caused incalculable damage to the economy with its hysteria.
I have not been defending him, but have been asking what laws have been broken and what actual substantiated proof of anything there has been to date.
So far, a blocking and a heap of snarks.
No answers.
This morning Grant Shapps is saying the idea of a second trip is fake news
I would like to see evidence of this. If true then he should resign or be sacked but if false then those who have been accuse him should be getting use to a few sleepless nights
Funny how the BBC spend so much time chasing the same stories as the Guardian and the Mirror but are yet to catch up on anything by the Daily Mail.
If they spent as much time investigating the lies of Corbyn during the last GE would Labour have even less seats now?
Why do those two news sources get so much privilege and not others? Where is the balance?
Is it because those two are were more than half of the BBC originate from?
That little cut price Bob Hoskins does Wolfie Smith is starting to grate.
Amol certainly isn’t lacking in self-confidence, he needs it, I bet his mum can’t stand him either.
Radio4 next week Louis Theroux is interviewing a British black male celeb
.. the BBC is very very very DIVERSE
so there is no way you will be able to guess his name /sarc
IMHO, Dominic Cummings is winding up Al Beeb and the media. In their eyes he is ‘Mr Brexit’ .
The media have forgotten, we the people of Great Britain voted to leave the EU. We voted for Brexit and the media people don’t like it .
I do so wish Cummings has an elaborate double bluff on them
like sending out a body double instead of himself
.. when he has photos of the media guys all breaking the rules
From ITN News:
How come every Tom, Dick, Mohamed and Tracy refuses to tell anyone about anything on the basis of ‘data protection’ yet the Durham Boys-in-blue can blab and name someone i.e. Mr Cummings Snr. who is subject to no police action whatsover, and, even if he was, it would be normal to say “A man is helping us with our enquiries”?
Yet more evidence that we have Political Police now.
My random questions of the day, (not expecting answers from the BBC).
1. Given the way police officers all around the world have been hanging around in gangs they must surely be dropping like flies by now? (Ditto supermarket workers: I heard a group of three of them complaining that customers didn’t keep their distance!)
2. If an over-loaded ‘RIB’ needs rescuing once it is in UK waters why doesn’t it need rescuing while it is within French waters? Does the French navy have lower (EU) standards that our ‘Border Force’? (PS What happens to the RIB and all the life jackets? Does the Border Force deliver them back to France?)
3. Who is Domminic Cummings? Didn’t he used to present Newsnight or perhaps he won ‘Strictly’? Should I care? If Amol does, probably not.
If its true that Cummings has made subsequent trips to his parents during lockdown, as opposed to just the one, then he really must be finished. Its not on that the public haven’t been able to organise proper funerals for relatives, and then see the guy who has been instrumental in getting lockdown implemented, drive up and down the motorways to family homes.
I hope these stores aren’t true because it couldn’t be more humiliating, and show him to be a complete pratt.
Absolutely not!
It is high time we stopped allowing the media (and Twitter) to hound people out of their jobs.
We should believe in and practice ‘equality under the law’. If the (illegal) law has been broken then prosecute him just like (or not) anyone else.
The legal process has rules that should apply to everyone, i.e. ‘due process’, ‘trial by media’ has no rules and each taste of blood just encourages their lust for more.
One day they might come for you.
JimS
Sly Sky had a hateful blonde on newsapers review berating Dom , apparently she had been ‘ incandescent with rage all day ‘ …..turned off before her head exploded .
Expect Jug ears Marr will be down to a similar standard !
ME !!! nah, absolutely not ! I’m too old to face jail time, and I stick by the rules – law or not.
But all through my life, I have rebelled against the mantra of “do as I say, not do as I do”.
but it’s “guidance/advice” not a law/rule whatever that means? for UK people.
if my parent was dying during this virus there’s no way I would have let them die alone, even if I ended up in jail.
were people jailed for breaking this rule/advice?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-52785604
Top of the page.
2020-05-24 01:00
Afghanistan: Taliban announce three-day Eid ceasefire with government
“It is only the third time that the Taliban have declared a temporary truce since the conflict began.”
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I am underwhelmed by the insignificance of this.
In other news the UK Taliban leader Naz Diversity-Shah announced that no quarter will be given to the infidels.
Naz stated that it an Islamic duty to intensify the mass sexual assaults announced by Lord Starmer of HideTheRapes on Friday.
Lord Starmer stated that a new edition of his Jimmy Savile biography will be in bookshops next week.
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The next step in the islamification of the UK:
Mosques across Britain could sound the call to prayer through loudspeakers after councils gave permission to alert the faithful during Ramadan in unofficial pilot scheme
Several councils gave permission for call – known as the adhan – to be broadcast
Some communities were allowed to broadcast prayer during month of Ramadan
Mosque elders now planning to make adhan a permanent fixture after Ramadan
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8351505/Mosques-Britain-sound-call-prayer-loudspeakers.html
The BBC for some reason refuses to use the term Pakistani when they refer to the Pakistani A320 crash on Friday. All other media outlets say Pakistani the BBC sticks to Pakistan…why ???? BTW they landed on the runway without the gear down engines touched the runway and then they did a go around then crashed trying to land again.
The BBC has been doing the ‘noun as an adjective’ for decades, (but it still grates!).
We have the ‘Scotland’ correspondent and the ‘England’ team. The excuse is that when an adjective is used it isn’t clear to what it applies, i.e. does the correspondent report on Scotland or was he born there.
Of course that difficulty can be avoided by using the proper form instead of the bastardised titles that ‘the media’ delights in, ‘Defence minister’ rather than ‘Secretary of State for Defence’ for instance.
Eventually we end up with In The Thick Of It-speak, “Shit shit, shit shit shit.”, which is actually a sentence containing nouns, adjectives and verbs.
The one that really grates with me is “Brit”, I hate it, it is lazy and now used by the MSM. British is two syllables, not too onerous I would suggest.
Also, “Brit” is often used as a derogatory term by Pakis (proper word four syllables, so IMHO an acceptable contraction).
And of course, the ubiquitous bleeding “bruv” and “innit” used so many illiterates, but again intially from our dusky friends.
Add to that those strange people who feel compelled to start a sentence with “Yeh, no” and put the word “like” before every three words,
I could carry on, but feel free to add your own personal dislikes of the millenial generation’s regular strangulation of the language.
Using ‘literally’ in nearly every sentence because they think it makes them sound more intelligent ????
ITBB has added a post.
http://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.com/2020/05/alarming-news.html#disqus_thread
Labour are of course demanding (what else?) and investigation, and no doubt the bbc would see their fave go to default panelist as the best person to deliver the result desired.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52758024
“Coronavirus: How scared should we be?”
Substitute ‘scared’ with ‘concerned’ and the tone drops a level or two, as an alternative how concerned should we be about hysterical bbc headlines stoking up the fear factor?
Jen likely one of those impartial hacks who like certain polls that back her prejudices and suppress those that don’t suit.
And RTs any pleading with the public to support an industry dying on its dead tree parrot cage lining.
Maybe Amol can swing her a transfer?
Here are some of the replies:
This one is from someone who ‘voted leave and have not changed my mind:
‘It’s been a very bad day for the media, not a good day. Yes holding “power accountable” is part of journalism, but the press has power too, and Dominic Cummings and his self isolation is a personal issue for him. He has committed no criminal offence, he is not a politician, nor someone employed by the civil service to give medical advice to the public, like a CMO. Where will we draw the line on transgressions of lockdown? The remain supporting media hates Cummings, this is opportunism, who holds journalists to account, Jennifer? Not you, it seems.’
From a ‘lexiter’
‘I like your work, but this tweet may not age well.
Do stay ‘romantic’ and fight the good fight, even though most of journalism is going down the pan courtesy of the activists and twisters.
ps It’s holier than thou.’
From a random person:
‘Reminder: you didn’t break the story kid.’
Another random person:
‘What’s actually happened is that the media is totally and hysterically obsessed with Cummings and rather uninterested in the pandemic in general.’
A Scottish leave voter:
‘I believe you lot live in a bubble. My view was that the press behaved worse today than for many weeks. Press briefing saw repeated questions about a man isolating close to emergency family childcare support, to the exclusion of all other aspects of the briefing. #Deluded’
Jug Ears Marr had the Crack’d (Mirror to You) churnalist who brought the follow up Cummins story this morning. The second piece was prompted by an anonymous (to us, of course) whistleblower whose bona fides have been extensively checked by the Crack’d. (I wonder if they have PPE for sale?)
This Leftoid bint said what message did Cummins’ actions give to the public at large, totally oblivious to the fact that apart from Cummins’ parents neighbour who initially dobbed him in to Durham plod, wtf else knew before Grauniad/Crack’d puffed up the story so who could be influenced? We’ve already seen far more serious breaches of the lockdown and they chose to ignore Kinnochio’s peregrinations to Taffland to visit his greedy parents.
Marr now has Lord Haw Hall on bigging up Al Beeb. Whoodafortit!!
I’ve just wasted half a minute having a brief look at the BBBC’s ‘website’ (more like a freebie ad thing, stuck through your door by ex-Big Issue people), and see that all they’ve done is re-hash the garbage from all the leftie, failing rags.
On their monstrous wages, can’t they even try to get with the story by their own efforts? Maybe ask a few questions, make a few enquiries?
What a shower of wasters we have to support – especially about a non-story which is already as boring as the boring unfunny ‘comedy’ shows they try and cobble together.
Listening to the news this morning a couple of things nudged my attention button.
They interviewed Britain’s oldest Covid survivor, a lady of 107 (I think)
“Were you worried?” asked the breathless bimbo reporter. “No” replied the game old bird. “I didn’t know I had it. I just felt a bit uncomfortable…and I thought had a cold…”
In the very next piece, another clearly worried journalist, brought us the news that the vaccine for this terrifying virus may be delayed. Why? Because there are now so few new sufferers there aren’t sufficient numbers to test it on…
And just to finish off we had the now obligatory warning. It’s the bank holiday weekend, the weather is going to be nice, but what ever you do, don’t travel, stay at home, stay alert, stay safe…
FFS, is it just me that thinks we’re now living in a nut house?
The BBC and memories.
In the fog of war, noting merely where the bbc chooses to position itself.
BBC on line news number one headline:
Coronavirus: Dominic Cummings ‘made second lockdown trip’
And yet: ‘Aya Hachem’s funeral takes place in Lebanon’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-52786713/aya-hachem-s-funeral-takes-place-in-lebanon
‘the whole town came to say goodbye’
apparently there’s precious little social distancing going on there
of course one sympathises with the family’s loss and is quite sure on their return to the UK official quarantine advice will be rigorously adhered to and authorities and indeed media will scrutinise closely and intervene with admonishment and fines should there be even the most minor transgression. You reckon?
Just wasted another few seconds looking at the BBBC place for anything referring to the Christian Whitsun celebration.
Absolutely F**k all.
Yet they always bang on about Ramjam, Narg, Blink, Sponk, Gung, Fatso, Corbyn, Greta and all the other bloody ‘religions’.
Scroblene
Had R2 on for 15 seconds earlier……Ramadan then a song from two muslims ….off button
Thought I had been tele ported to a Foreign country….oh it’s ok its BBC land !
Have an OBE, Charlie, for services to the electricity company!
I hope the Asian network is considering the Whitsun message in return!
To further my reply to above here is a Daily Mail story that we are not seeing from the BBC:
‘Coronavirus pandemic could be over in the UK by September 30: Scientific model predicts virus will continue its steady decline with NO second wave’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8351237/Coronavirus-completely-wiped-Britain-September-30.html
Take it with a pinch of salt and it is likely the virus might stick around a while longer undetected but are the government doing something right? I think that they are but where is the pro government news stories these days?
Do they not want to give the government the chance to inform the nation that things could be going back to normal or does that not fit the agenda?
The high profile resignations due to lockdown violations were valid as the people themselves were responsible for the advice. Professor Trousersdown and Lady Scottishperson were breaking rules they themselves helped devise.
For others the situation is different. An average employer with an option of sacking someone for gross misconduct is unlikely I suggest to use an arguable lockdown breach on one of his employees.
Cummings may or may not have sailed very close to the wind on the rules and would be pretty stupid to have done so. But if for a valid family reason then he may have recourse to the Human Rights Act (privacy and family life) and, if not a key maker of this particular policy, then a fair case at an employment tribunal.
What we have here is the baying mob of the Left, aided and abetted of course by its BBC chums, and after some weeks of relative inaction, trying to politicise the situation and seizing a chance to weaken and de-stabilise the government. Pure and simple.
Boris is awaiting his instructions from the BBC on whether to sack Cummings.
The public were given the instructions to vote Labour in the last GE. The public rebelled and put Johnson in power with a huge majority.
Why can the BBC still not accept democracy and just let the government govern without hysteria trying to dictate everything
JHB takes a break from Trump bashing.
The Establishment have decided that Cummings has to go.
Julia Hartley-Brewer
@JuliaHB1
I will forever be grateful to Dom Cummings for delivering Brexit. I also back his mission to reform Whitehall & our failing institutions. I want him to continue that work.
But. No one is above the law. Especially during a pandemic. It’s too late for an apology now. He has to go.
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Comments are not going to well for her
it seems like Cummings has more support than the left would like to think.
He is mostly hated by the remainer left for a number of reasons and at the moment it is just his turn to take a bashing from the media. Once the story calms down it would be back to bashing Boris or someone else in the government
Exactly Smoogie, Priti was getting it left, ‘left’ and centre not long back and she saw them off! ????
I hope Boris, Dominic and the government see off this pack of frothing at the mouth, rabid Remainers as well ????
As we all know on here, they’re ultimate goal is to stop Brexit – spread the word ????????
Typical French pupils according to the beeb.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52769626
I don’t have a problem with the BBC covering the Cummings story. He might indeed have been a hypocrite, or he might have just been acting as a good dad, but it remains a sideshow while the rest of the world is coping with a pandemic crisis.
What I do have a problem with is that the BBC has been treating it as the biggest story in the world for two days now – while it cannot be arsed to cover the amazing drop in covid cases in our capital city, or provide more than a passing reference to the anniversary of the Manchester Arena bombing, or get its teeth into the latest on the grooming gangs scandal.
When one day we eventually look back at this global crisis, will a potentially dodgy car journey by a Government adviser really be what we all talk about? I doubt it.
Dodgy scientific modelling, dodgy Chinese markets, the impact of open borders and international travel, the politicisation of lockdown – these are things we might be much more concerned about.
I nearly forgot about the Manchester attacks the other day until someone shared it on Facebook. The sad thing is that attack was politicised itself during the 2017 GE. ‘Police cuts lead to this attack’ but when it was proven that the local hospitals coped well with the situation there was no point in point scoring.
Compare that to the coverage of Grenfell. For a couple of years now we have had people coming back to that incident and when Corbyn put out his desperate plea for votes on Twitter before the 2019 GE was it Grenfell victims he wanted people to vote for or Manchester victims?
Manchester? What Manchester?
Not the BBC but Mail on Sunday on line. Not only did Dom make a second trip but he also went for a walk in a bluebell wood with HIS wife. The shock, the horror. Mr D pointed out it wasn’t even somebody else’s wife. He also saw yesterday the press at Mr C’s gate not practicing social distancing and apparently the BBC did not blank out his number plate even though there was a child in the car.
If you are going to be holier than thou, then you need to show it.
But of course it is all about Brexit. Who leaked the story of him going north in the first place? A pro Remainer in No10 I guess.
And is it the multi-talented Mrs Starmer who is cutting Sir Kier’s hair? Someone who knows how to handle hairdressers scissors is doing it.
Funny I brought a copy of the Mail and did for two reasons. One as I wanted to read something that is not geared towards the left and second because I want to stick two fingers up to the BBC.
Buying one copy of the Mail might not do anything but is attacking Cummings really going to install Starmer into Downing Street over the next few weeks?
Is that the very Mail that spearheaded the campaign against plastic bags resulting in us all paying for supermarket bags ?
how much paper junk fell out of the plastic bag they put the magazine in ?
well I got a free magazine that looks like it is for woman that I might donate to the doctors surgery when it reopens
Bashir bleaching truth
10m20s into R4 Religion Show and Martin Bashir is interviewing the religious scientist Francis Collins who sits on the President’s Covid team.
Bashir is trying to push Dawkins and scientific rationalism but then Bashir says
“Given the president’s musings on injecting BLEACH”
… Trump never said “bleach”
So Bashir is doing the “tell a lie often enough” trick of the school-bully-metroliberal-media
That itself is anti-rationalist
I wonder for how many more days the boring, self-righteous beeb will drone on about the Cummings trip, in the hope of dislodging him?
Unsurprisingly, Paddy O Connell is currently hyperventilating about same.
It would be nice to have some real news to start news bulletins.
Needless to say, Mark Mardell tells us that at 1pm most of the bulletin will be devoted to the Cummings ‘issue’.
What is it, with the shrivelled minds at R4 that they have seen fit to obsess about this for days on end? A vindictive, childish glee becomes ever more evident, and it’s not attractive.
FNW,
The UK’s General Flynn treatment? It’s following the same pattern by the usual suspects: Get to Cummings and you get to Johnson. Indeed, we should cherish the presence of Cummings in No. 10 as it is contrary to the general Far Left Communist views and those who support and strive for the political disruption of the ‘illusory’ “Right”.
9 year old schoolboy Piers Morgan has declared to his mother
that he will not go to young Boris’s birthday party
….. #1 Piers wasn’t invited, he’s already being boycotted by Boris’s gang
… #2 Piers’ mum GMB has grounded him for a week anyway
.. so Piers was going to be able to party with Boris’s gang this week anyway
piers Morgan – has declared that he has ‘banned’
all government ministers who expressed support for Mr Cummings , his wife and child , from appearing on his show
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typo .. so Piers wasn’t going to be able to party
Why does the government listen to experts like
Professor Piers Morgan
Professor Alastair Campbell
Professor Victoria Derbyshire
Professor Beeboid etc.
who, rush to judgement
and feel compelled to double and treble down.
why ??
Comedy gold on Andrew Marr this Morning. The stand-up comedian Tony Hall, was invited in.
Some direct quotes for your delectation …
“One of the strengths of the BBC is it represents the nations of the UK. Diversity of thought is one of our strengths.” My cornflakes left my mouth at this point. ????
“½ of the BB is outside London so I don’t accept it’s metropolitan bias.” Genuine jaw drop, more cornflakes lost.
So Tony, A smaller BBC is a better BBC? The closest he got was….“A BBC that is certainly not expansionist.” So…no then!
“90% of the population have turned to the BBC for education/information and news.”… I’d love to see the data behind this claim! Not sure ‘turning to’ is essentially positive. I ‘turn to’ the BBC like I used to turn to Tony Benn. It solidified my position against.
License fee subscriptions have fallen, recently. Could you comment? “I hope there will be a big debate on funding the BBC. But, I will say, the BBC has to provide something for everyone. The COVID crisis has demonstrated the need for the BBC.” Spin is clearly not the preserve of politicians…
But I’ve saved the best till last…”Young audiences have been coming back to the BBC and finding the BBC….” ????
Following on from my comment yesterday on the vile Dr Louise Raw (expert on Colonialism, Gender, Sexuality, Sexual Violence and Women), our establishment is increasingly distant and irrelevant to many of us.
I think, however, once figures become widely comedic. The show’s over.
Was there the same Leftoid witch-hunt against Kinnochio Junior?
Thought not.
Took too long to write, Peter!
Copying and pasting all the dross verbage from any Kinnock member isn’t worth the hassle…
Is he still married to that Norwegian bint?
\\Coronavirus: Dominic Cummings ‘made second lockdown trip’//
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52786206
I did post here some time ago that Al Beeb and the meeja would weaponise ‘Covid’ in the Brexit Battle .
Cummings remaining in or out of his job has got nothing to do with Brexit . The People voted for Brexit and along with UKIP, it was The Brexit Party that led the way to freedom. Just remember that the dominant British Party that represented Great Britain in the so called European Parliament was indeed The Brexit Party.
The best way forward for Brexiteers now is to weaponise every means possible in the war against Al Beeb and the meeja, turn the people against the ‘London Bubble’ .
Start by calling for the payment of the Television Licence fee voluntary .
Then we will see how ‘good’ Al Beeb is?
Grant Shapps doing a sterling job against Jug Ears currently, standing up many of the ‘facts’ relied upon by the Grauniad, Crack’d and Al Beeb themselves to attack, in no particular order, the Tories/BoJo/Brexit/Cummings.
Peter Grimes
“Jug Ears” – He is part of the ‘London Bubble’ .
Peter …. and when Shapps tried to discuss what is, after all, his brief, Marr just pushed that aside burbling something about ‘later’ and continued with the completely repetitive questioning of Cummings.
At the end of the interview, Marr ‘apologised’ for not getting on to discussing transport at all with the Transport Minister – a fundamental re-building block in the infrastructure of the country post-pandemic, and surely what he was originally asked to be on the show to discuss.
I also noticed, during Radio Four’s hourly news brief this morning (I think the 9:00 am one), that the Beeboid newsreader went into great detail of the history of Cummings’ trip to Durham, but any mention of Cummings’ 4-year-old son was simply airbrushed out of the history. Then Marr, with Grant Shapps, tried exactly the same approach as well. It looks as though the BBC has decided what the ‘real’ situation is here, and nothing will be allowed to impinge on their version of ‘The Story’.
BBC-O …….Bias By Complete Omission
BBC-O = Bias by Complete Omission,
Or Real, Independent Facts In Complete Exclusion…
(orifice)
The Barrow case
..no media pack there
Think on the positive. As a senior adviser to HM Government, how do you think Dom Cummings will position HM Government in any future decisions over the BBC?
Cummings might feel a bit pushed to ‘sort out’ the BBC. They should be nervous
If all this blows over and then Dominic Cummings and the government take on al beeb and force them to be subscription only, they will instantly claim it is a reprisal for all this and bullying ????
You couldn’t make it up could you ????
I would prefer that Cummings does it more slowly and painfully. Perhaps play mind games with the BBC for a while. If they want to hate him then it would be a good laugh watching it unfold
Fabulous post, Thatchers!
He’ll presumably give the traditional two fingers, then do what he wants to do – the awful BBC will just have to take it, and we can all have a great laugh!
No amount of spin from all their twonks like Vicki Prisoner, Aliastair Nutter et al will be utterly powerless!
Tony Hall talking to Marr this morning – https://order-order.com/2020/05/24/tony-hall-has-not-talked-with-boris-johnson-about-the-future-of-the-bbc/
Christ, that’s got to be a syrup on his loaf ????
Note : Al Beeb and the Remainers are far more concerned with some bloke travelling up the motorway in a car with Covid than it is with the hundreds of illegal people breaking the immigration and lockdown laws every week . All being ushered in by the French Navy and our Border Farce across the English Channel.
What does that tell you?
It should tell you to ditch the telly tax taffman ????????????
theleftwilleatitself
Thanks for the advice 🙂
Its gone a long time ago . Although I am still getting their Red ‘Love Letters’ telling me to “come back – or else”.
I know you have taffman ????
The BBC have a bosom buddy on:
She has lefty written all over her but I am yet to see any evidence of this ‘second visit’
These are ‘the most accurate journalists of them all’ are they not?
Just rumours at the moment…
Exactly Smoogie
She never answered the question …..I read a bit in Guardian/Mirror which said ‘a neighbour heard Abba playing loudly in the garden and peered over the gates and was surprised to see Cummings..who the neighbour recognised immediately…”
Now what neighbour peers over another’s because Abba is playing? that story also doesn’t tally with what Pippa said either
It reminds me of the ‘Carrie Symonds row’ last year. An obvious lefty heard shouting so had his phone ready.
It does seem that after all of their defeats the left are as dangerous as ever and if not they are now even more so
Too true smoogie, but the biggest concern by far is the MSM’s speed and rabid enthusiasm for any negative to use against the government.
That’s the real person of colour within the solid fuel store.
Nigel_Farage tweeted May 19
Is “Pick For Britain” a cover for the truth?
It would not surprise me if Romania and Bulgaria are declared low-Covid countries — allowing our greedy Agribusiness to fly in thousands of people to work in near-slave conditions.@Nigel_Farage
Then on May 22
As predicted, there will be no quarantine for Romanian & Bulgarian fruit pickers.
The government and big-Agri will do all they can to stop Brits getting these jobs while calling them lazy and useless at the same time.
Slave labour economy continues.
(over dramatic calling them slaves)
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fruit-pickers-to-be-exempt-from-coronavirus-quarantines-qrbd3nvgf
BTW I just had to turn off Farage cos he too had joined Operation banging on about Cummings
.. media types try to create a mood of the nation and then follow it
.. that is wrong, cos one should go with Truth & Perspective