357 Responses to Start the Week Thread 13 July 2020

  1. Deborah says:

    BBC didn’t let us down tonight with Antiques Roadshow. First item a 1000 year old Islamic glass although it turned out to be fake, then when Fiona asked members of the audience behind her, she asked one Asian and one very black lady with blue hair. It is just so obvious that the BBC is racist, these people were asked BECAUSE they were black. The people attending were more than 99% white ie looking at all the people queuing for there items to be seen all appeared to be white.
    Martin Luther King wanted people to not be judged by the colour of their skin, great shame the BBC cannot understand his words.

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    • taffman says:

      Deborah
      Well done!
      We still have Covid and illegals crossing the Channel. Worse still, despite the Tory government we still have the dreaded telly tax . Defund Al Beeb.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Catchup links to last posts on previous thread
      page 4 started 5pm Sunday
      page 3 started 7pm Saturday …. page 2

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    • Dave S says:

      The quiet desperation of the BBC is there for all to see. Having driven a wedge into our society it pretends that all is well.
      Surely there must be at least one honest man or woman still there who can see the fraud that it is now. .

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    • Scroblene says:

      We just don’t bother watching these programmes any more, Deborah, they’ve all deteriorated to weak dross over the last few years.

      When you think how important The Archers was as a programme, with real information in the every-day issue, once they appointed a screaming idiot from East Enders to direct the programme, it started to lose listeners in droves. Senora O’Blene, a once ardent supporter, just gave up!

      Countryfile has gone the same way, and now The Antiques Roadshow is such a pathetic shadow of a once unmissable entertaining programme, there’s not a lot left for anyone to watch and enjoy!

      HIGNFY is just stupid, all their comedy shows are unfunny, anti-British values, and occupied by end-of-pier failures!

      My elderly neighbour wanted me to watch some cellist on TV last night, as she’d heard that the family (bame) were all quite good. I didn’t have the heart to tell her that the last thing I would be doing was seeing anything like that, as it’s the BBC we’re talking about, not anything great and good any more…

      I watched a fabulous Mark Knopfler YouTube instead, and loved every minute of it! Senora O’Blene read most of a good book.

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      • Idiotboy says:

        Can’t watch it, don’t watch it, but the law wants me to pay for it.
        The BBC should be closed down.
        Shame we don’t have a Conservative government, otherwise it would be.

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    • Nodding Dog says:

      Am normally at work when it’s on but had a night off.Mrs ND put it on just as they went to that Asian man and I remembered about what people have said on here about the BAME placements in the crowd.My jaw literally dropped to the floor when they then went to the blue haired black lady.

      I noticed another prominently placed ethnic behind that woman with the 40k sapphire.

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    • oldcrone says:

      Deborah …. I personally think they are plants from the film crew … they’ll have at least 20/30 with all the production managers, under production managers, assistant under production managers et al .. so being BBC … 20 will be BAME.

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  2. Nibor says:

    On the internet we have BAME people hating BLM , want law and order , peace , no racism against blacks or whites or anyone , to stop woke idiots talking constantly about race and white privilege , to just get on with their lives , be patriotic and normal .

    On the BBC we have BAME people upset about slavery , want change of everything , fear the police just want to arrest then kill them or fit them up just to avoid the paperwork , hate white privilege , want reparations , cannot relate to any white person so must have % BAME in everything , get Covid because they’re black etc

    The real worlds better than the BBCs world .

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  3. StewGreen says:

    Silvervoices the pensioners lobby group
    are planning a gum up the works campaign.
    I don’t know who controls them.

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    • Broadcasting-on-Behalf-of-the-Caliphate says:

      Silver Voices: “Older people are fed up of being taken for granted”

      Not only do the BBC take them for granted in terms of charging them the license fee they also abuse them by stirring up hatred towards them by labelling them the racist generation under various guises and headlines.

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      • Oldspeaker says:

        Punishment for voting Brexit Cal, spiteful lot the bbc.

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      • Ian Rushlow says:

        Lenin once said: “The capitalists will sell us the rope that we will hang them with”. The BBC’s version is: “We will spend another £100 million on divisive diversity and we’ll make the 75 year olds – the people we hate and who are least likely to watch it – pay for it all”.

        #StopTheHateDefundTheBBC

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      • Scroblene says:

        Pensioners Lives Matter!

        I wonder how much of the TV tax goes on funding their final ‘salary’ (paaaaah), schemes?

        With such eye-watering money for being pretty devoid of talent, they could easily afford their own pensions!

        They’re almost as bad as MPs already!

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    • Charlie Farley says:

      StewGreen
      If an over 75 is worried about going ” up before the beak ” because no TVL they could always pay for a Black and White one and its surprisingly still available at £56 , that’s a trick I used to use 30 years ago but now refuse even that option and feel better for it !
      Black and White…..will the Thought Police be after me with a Mainly Peaceful Arrest ?

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  4. ScottishCalvin says:

    With Ghislaine Maxwell still alive and the UK limping along in limbo covid purgatory, here’s a doodle on how DC works

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  5. Fedup2 says:

    Twitter watch
    Esther Rantzen – BBC royalty -who used to have a programme which included showing vegetables which look like genitalia ( or is that the other way round ) was on a talk radio ? Thing saying how ‘the public are behind the BBC ‘ …..

    …. the twitter response was roughly 99% hostile with an assumption that she is still employed by the BBC so would say such out of touch lies ….. she was good mates with a certain Mr Saville apparently ….

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    • Scroblene says:

      ‘She was good mates with a certain Mr Savile apparently’

      Whaaaaat?

      Was this the research issue for Childline then?

      Didn’t know that Fed; makes me very morose…

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Scrob – it’s one of the reasons the child line things exists – she either ignored what was going on or pretended it didn’t happen ….

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    • petebogtrott says:

      Her husband was head of a department at the BBC,are you telling me that both her and him didn’t know about jimmy. Thats the reason why she bats for the BBC they have the dirt on them and she toes the line. Dame my arse.

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  6. taffman says:

    “Priti Patel to set out post-Brexit immigration details”

    She can’t sort out the Channel “illegals”, so how is she going to sort that lot out?
    Note the lack of coloured people in the photograph used .

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    • Guest Who says:

      BBC Moaning Emole: ‘Brexit back on the agenda’.

      Oh, joy.

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      • JamesArthur says:

        Guest
        Good old Justin and co. on R4…the Mateless one – you can just hear their negativity over Brexit coming through – not a single word of positivity

        and now Covid in Africa….with everything going on in Europe the BBC go to Africa…and here is a question…
        ‘why is covid less of an issue in Uganda?’ The nurse’s response….”we have access to more organic food (really?) and perhaps we have some immunity” – sorry we keep getting told BAMEs are more susceptible..make your mind up BBC…

        They have a young population seems to be the reason…..so BAMEs are not more affected…just older people with underlying illness..
        So why are the BBC still banging on about mandatory face masks for everyone?

        They are so stupid they can’t see how they make conflicting statements – just intent on knocking the UK and the Tories..

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    • theisland says:

      Yesterday.

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  7. taffman says:

    Note the lack of news and low quality reporting from Al Beeb could indicate a cull in their staff . The shortage of finance must be having effect ? Moral in the corporation must be low except those looking at attractive redundancy payouts? De fund Al Beeb.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Dunno. They seem to find new folk to ‘report’ on stuff from somewhere allllll the time…

      Also Emole:

      ***

      Wounds of Dutch history expose deep racial divide

      Bronze statues of colonial icons have been spray-painted. Black Lives Matter protests have broken out. And now the Dutch parliament has backed a petition by three teenage women requesting the addition of racism to the school curriculum. Winds of change are swirling around the cobblestones of The Hague. Faced with a strong colonial past and a legacy of slavery, the Dutch are being asked to take a more impartial look at their history. “We’re still a very white nation,” says Mirjam de Bruijn, an anthropologist at Leiden University.

      Read full analysis >

      Anna Holligan
      BBC News, The Hague

      ****
      The fanning of division seems mostly driven by the likes of Mirjam, with a direct line to Anna.

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      • taffman says:

        Guest Who
        New kids on the Block . ‘Last in first out’. The buffer zone to protect those at Al Beeb that have been loyal and want to stay to build up their pensions. I have seen it happen before in a number of companies.

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      • JamesArthur says:

        “We are still a very white nation” so now Dutch apologising for actually being a white nation?
        erm ‘ when will we hear Iran say ‘we are still a very muslim nation’ , or Uganda ‘we are still a very Black nation’ or China,’we are still a very chinese nation’?

        These white apologists are the problem and it seem Universities everywhere are filled with the same numpties

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      • tarien says:

        Of course many of you know this little bit of world history-that the indigneous peoples of Africa thousands of years ago were and still are prolific slave traders-trading their own people as they did with the Arab traders-this supply of people sustained much of the Egyptian world, the Roman world, the Persian and eastern worlds and later these traders raided the coast of Europe for slaves and stole people right from their homes and also came to the shores of Britain to do the same. This took place many hundreds of years before the discovery of cotton in the USA. If anything the Black African was a far bigger trader of slaves than it would appear their ancesters now established in America and the West Indies would probably not know or would not recognise this fact-obvioulsy wouldn’t suit their duplictious aims. As it happens Britian was one several others that transported Black and White slaves to America-Spanish, French, Portugese, Dutch, and Italians to name a few. But the Media headed by the BBC would be unlikely to expose such uncomfortable facts.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Looks like BBC N. America has lost one of its ‘Save the BBC’ petitioners…

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  8. Guest Who says:

    It’s in the House journal so has been elevated to ‘in the papers’.

    Going to be a long week.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Already starting.

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      • Deborah says:

        Having done my first supermarket shop for months and having chosen not to wear a mask, be assured that being forced to wear one would mean i would do less shopping.
        I can see a concerted effort by the MSM to make us wear them, I assume so they can then scream, ‘why wasn’t this brought in sooner?’

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        • AsISeeIt says:

          I’m similarly less likely to want to enter premises that demand face covering.

          I note this morning the government urging people back onto public transport so as to get us back to work – well perhaps they shouldn’t have made masks mandatory on the trains and buses.

          Often repeated here but I regard mask wearing as a badge of fear, of suspicion and of passive aggression.

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          • JimS says:

            A population that is ‘socially distanced’ and wears masks becomes a population of ‘hotel dwellers’ – we pay our bill, we receive a service.

            We no longer have communities or are ‘club members’. The people behind masks could be anyone from anywhere. With ‘lockdown’ we no longer even have a ‘family life’, a ‘human right’.

            One could be forgiven for thinking that it is all part of a global Marxist Master Plan to destroy civilisation for good. Just look at those talking with glee about ‘the new normal’, i.e. we won’t be allowed to return to ‘normal’. (‘Normal’ used to mean what most of a group was like, now it is stretched to include the extremes and exclude the old ‘normal’).

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            • tarien says:

              A global Marxist Master Plan to destroy civilisation I can quite believe Jim S-subjugation has been going on for years through duplicitous means- the power coming from those that want to have a world order-its now getting nicely into place for that to happen if we are not vigilant as to what is happening. I can only shiver at a win for the USA Democrats-welcome, Bush, both Clintons, with that UK traitor Blair weedling his way in to undermine any resistance the UK put up-Yes Jim there is life but not as we know it.

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            • Gilead says:

              A person could say you are exaggerating, its just a piece of cloth, whats your problem with a mask, it will save lives.

              Well, maybe. In March or April.

              Another person could say, well yes, but this is testing the water. We are examining the compliancy of the populace. Will they ‘bend the knee’ to the face mask, could we really introduce an on the spot fine for breathing without due care and attention?

              Yes we can.

              We know we could never police it everywhere, but now we now know we don’t have to, the people will police themselves. Karen will see to it.

              With the results of this experiment noted. What else could we possibly introduce?

              I dunno. Jus saying.

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          • Banania says:

            If you wear a mask you voted Remain, you love the metric system and you read the Guardian.

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    • Oldspeaker says:

      Could end us a ‘prefer not to say’ option GW, to what end is anyone’s guess though. I read the guardian begging letter in your link GW. “Our journalism is free from commercial and political bias”
      Some brass neck eh?

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    • tarien says:

      What a lot of nonsence-sex is dertermined at birth, if a person for whatever reason decides to live a life against his or her determiend sex is one thing, but to fiddle about with Passports which I would have thought we all see as a most important document relating to one’s country not as to one’s personal sexual preference. The muddle is getting more muddled day by day-liberal/soiclaism/marxist influence deliberate intrusion to wreck our way of life. Very sad such attention is given, to this destructive policy.

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  9. smoogie7 says:

    Rumours have it that Boris is looking at the license fee again. It is taking a while to work through this but I like it. Slow and painful for the BBC. Keep them hanging for a while and uncertain. Their days are numbered but no one is letting them know what that number is. Would be fun watching this play out

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    • The WestWyvern says:

      Really. Boris is apparently ‘looking’ at lots of things…..

      Until he delivers then sadly he’s just another liberal sop.

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  10. Guest Who says:

    Questions are being asked.

    Not least why bbc staff are again influencing policy.

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    • JimS says:

      I thought the BBC wanted us to ‘save the NHS’ by not using it?

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    • tarien says:

      This lovely young Mums Chemo should never have been paused becasue of Covid, it was as much of an importance to keep this woman alive-easily arrangements could have been organised by the Hospitals to facilitate such necessary treatments. Tradgic.

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      • Khaa2091 says:

        Tragically, this young mum was going to die soon with or without chemo. A very deliberate decision was made to prioritise those with a curable cancer.

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Khaa
          Ok I’ll bite – I bet if you are ever on the receiving end of a treatment which might save you you’ll be proper cheesed off when some smiling assassin comes along and tells you “ we’ve made a ‘deliberate decision ‘ for you to die – so please die quickly and quietly as we need the bed “

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    • Banania says:

      If they achieved anything they wouldn’t have them.

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  11. Guest Who says:

    Nesrine gunning for a QT panel slot.

    Or HIGNFY. One of the two.

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  12. AsISeeIt says:

    BBC: ‘Newspaper headlines: ‘Mask muddle”

    ‘”Clear up the mask muddle,” is the headline for the Metro, which says “mixed messages” on face coverings are causing confusion.’

    Our journalistic class don’t exactly cover themselves in glory as they stubbornly fail to understand Michael Goves’ call for common sense.

    Remind me, most of the press prefer self-regulation of their own industry, right?

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    • Guest Who says:

      Coordination like a boss.

      Get them young, Tim.

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    • tarien says:

      These are just a few of the questions running around many people’s minds when it comes to the voluntary wearing of masks. In some countries and environments in which a face covering of some sort is required in community settings by law, some are choosing to not venture out much at all – creating new and unknown indirect social and health consequences.
      For a quick heads up, the science isn’t certain or robust enough to provide definitive answers to any of these questions – that’s part of the reason there’s such a variety of opinions.
      Do masks or face coverings protect those in proximity of the wearer?


      Probably, but only if the mask or covering is relatively fresh, and mainly in the event of aerosols being generated during coughing or sneezing or when speaking.Previous Certain studies indicate that a range of masks provide some protection against infection. Medical masks provided the highest protection with homemade cloth masks providing the least protection. Does the wearer benefit? marginally, in best case scenarios. Facial coverings or masks may provide limited protection against the inhalation of infectious droplets from others, although evidence in this area is weak and sometimes inconclusive. Much depends on the quality of the mask, and its filtration capacity. Are there any benefits in mandating the wearing of masks or face coverings in community settings?
      In our view, no. The mandating of mask wearing has its roots in fears over transmission of the virus from asymptomatic carriers. However, this transmission route has been plunged into debate by the head of the World Health Organization’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, Dr Maria Van Kerkhove during a recent press briefing. The science is unclear in this area with research ongoing.
      Masks available to the general public tend not to fit well, aren’t worn or disposed of correctly, with the benefits of homemade face coverings being difficult to quantify. People wearing masks tend to fiddle with them and then touch their faces more – a habit that is associated with increased infection and transmission potential. If face coverings are mandated, it will require diligent adherence to basic hygiene procedures such as hand washing or use of hand sanitisers to ensure that they do not exacerbate transmission. Lastly -Is there a scientific argument to make the wearing of masks or face coverings in community settings compulsory?
      It is thought not. Think about an older person who has low oxygen saturation by virtue of his or her age and additionally has a lung disease such as COPD. That would typically give a blood oxygen saturation level (SpO2) of around 90% which is borderline hypoxic. If this person was forced to wear a mask to take a bus or train ride to do their weekly shopping, the resultant drop in SpO2 could endanger his/her life or those of others – not from the virus but from hypoxia. It would also increase their vulnerability in the event of being infected.
      It also appears that the deaf or hard of hearing that need to lip read to communicate have been completely overlooked. Additionally, the ensuing social isolation from losing an essential element of communication – non-verbal somatic cues from seeing each other’s faces. This is a particularly important element of a child’s development as our neural networks are keyed into facial expressions and somatic cues to convey safety and security, as well as emotional learning. It’s not just about the prevention of transmission, we also have to take into account human physiology and behaviour and the impact to mental health from further social isolation. Makes sense to me.

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  13. Roland Deschain says:

    The BBC descent into a parody site is surely complete.

    #CCBGB for the overprivileged tax exile w⚓️.

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    • Van Helsing says:

      This couldn’t be the same Lewis Hamilton who:

      Referred to drivers at the back of the grid as ‘monkeys’ (Monaco, 2007);

      Lied to the race stewards after the 2009 Australian Grand Prix;

      Pockets tens of millions of pounds every year from a company that used 40,000 forced workers in WW2;

      Trousers even more money from a clothing company that made clobber for the SS and Hitler Youth, employed forced labour, and whose founder was a committed member of the Nazi Party;

      Pissed off to become a tax-exile in Monaco as soon as he started to receive substantial emoluments (I won’t call them earnings) from his employers and sponsors; and

      Reportedly demanded an increase in his retainer to £40,000,000 per annum for 2021 and beyond, and at a time when the team he races for will be making staff redundant in order to comply with new F1 budgetary rules (that don’t apply to drivers’ salaries)

      It couldn’t be the same chap, could it?

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    • Guest Who says:

      Even for the bbc, this hagiography is impressively dense.

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    • JamesArthur says:

      Roland

      Statesman like – WTF!!! he looked like a man escaping from a pile of black bin bags waving his arm as he did so…
      So we are to be lectured by one of the richest sports people in the world who despite being black lives in one of the whitest richest places in the world to avoid tax in the UK…and he was held back by whom ?

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    • Broadcasting-on-Behalf-of-the-Caliphate says:

      Today on the BBC Website:
      2020-07-13-0909-Image-Four.jpg
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/53383522

      Yesterday on the BBC Website:
      2020-07-12-1706-F1-Sports-Page.jpg

      The BBC pushes its own divisive anti-English agenda at every opportunity and using propaganda techniques (images, suggestions, distortion, lies) developed by Joseph Goebbels and others.

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      • BRISSLES says:

        Why do mixed race always state they’re black ? Hamilton has a white mother, so whatever must she and other white parents of mixed race kids who ‘prefer to identify’ as black feel like? an insult to them more like.

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    • tarien says:

      Does he forget that he is half white? Muddled individual. With his personal wealth no doubt he can swap fences as and when with impunity.

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      • JamesArthur says:

        I think that he is bored – keeps winning and earning loads of money and basically outside of F1 nobody gives a toss about him…

        The Lock-down has stopped him jetting around so he needed some attention for his ego boost.. BLM just the ‘vehicle’

        Give it a while, now F1 back and as soon as crowds return and party season starts up, he will shrink back into the cosy arms of sycophantic adulation…with the odd shot of him out with rich white friends…non of them are racists though

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  14. Guest Who says:

    But enough about the bbc Moaning Emole.

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  15. Jeff says:

    Billy Bragg has stuck his hideous, reptilian, old head above the parapet again, this time thanks to The Guardian.
    He’s having a pop at George Orwell and tells us that he cringes whenever he walks past Orwell’s statue outside the BBC and reads his famous words, “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” I bet poor old George must be doing cartwheels in his urn…

    Well Billy, I too cringe whenever I have to listen to your puerile political poses, or, even worse, your “singing”. But enough of that…

    He tries to make the claim that what’s been dubbed “cancel culture” is actually a good thing. With quite astonishing Orwellian double-think he puts forward his theory that the young, dispossessed and (supposedly) those without a voice can now be heard and that silencing everyone else is a good thing.

    It really is quite astonishing. Simply because the left-wing bubble dwellers, like Billy, The Guardian and the BBC, consider themselves the bastions of truth, the rest of us must be treated like political heretics. I’m sure if Bragg had been living in the middle ages he’d have been stoking outrage and encouraging the burning of witches.

    It’s not just his intolerance, ignorance and overwhelming arrogance that infuriates me. He has no sense of irony. Can he not see how ludicrous his stance is, particularly when quoting Orwell, a man he says he admires.

    But this man has been a fake from day one. The old fraud claims to love the multicultural vibe of big cities. He’s forever banging on about enrichment and diversity. However, for what ever reasons, he chooses to live as far away from this utopia as is possible, in an exclusively white enclave in Dorset. Not exactly Bethnal Green is it?

    He claims to be a socialist and a man of the people and preaches to us about housing asylum claimants., yet we discover he lives in a sparsely populated, multi-million pound mansion that’s the size of Buckingham Palace.

    Mind you, all these clear hypocrisies aren’t his greatest sin.

    He also claims to be a singer…

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    • The WestWyvern says:

      Bragg. I detest him. The champagne socialists Champagne socialist.

      He lives up top the cliffs in a large sprawling pad not far from West Bay in Dorset. Could house lots of immigrants there for sure.

      Bragg is the dictionary definition of The classic lefty – full of virtue and tolerance but please do as I say, not as I do.

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      • Nodding Dog says:

        Watched the TOTP Story of 1985 on BBC4 the other night and Bragg featured prominently on there with a song about austerity and other nonsense.

        They also big upped the first black presenter Dixie Peach who I believe is now known as just Peach!

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    • Nibor says:

      On this site a few years ago someone pointed out that Bragg was known as the Bard of Barking .
      Someone else said his audience must be the Bored of Barking .

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  16. AsISeeIt says:

    Close, but no cigar

    BBC: ‘Poland’s incumbent President Andrzej Duda has narrowly beaten challenger Rafal Trzaskowski in Sunday’s presidential vote.’

    You can tell the BBC are not happy about this result because:
    a/ the winner is the conservative
    b/ the big clue is that descriptor ‘narrowly’

    I’m reminded of the spring in the year 2012

    John Pienaar one of the BBC’s finest covered the French Presidential elections and the London Mayoral vote the results coming out within days in early May 2012 and the margins were slim in both cases.

    François Hollande, the Socialist, won in France and Pienaar celebrated his victory as a landslide.

    One Boris Johnson, a Conservative beat a certain Ken Livingstone in London and yet for Pienaar this result was a close run thing.

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    • The WestWyvern says:

      Yes they were cock a hoop on the world service earlier claiming Poland was a divided nation and that the vote was too close to call but the centrist(lefty) opposition were close to some sort of victory.

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    • StewGreen says:

      More details on the Poland election result
      ..interesting that 32% didn’t vote

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      • Oldspeaker says:

        “Interesting that 32% didn’t vote”
        Too knackered after a day on the Cambridgeshire farm maybe.

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  17. harry142857 says:

    Nothing is sacred.

    Birdseye replace middle aged white man with 22 year old Captain Charlotte.

    https://youtu.be/CoT8rXihW0M

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    • Charlie Farley says:

      They can stick those fishy fingers then ….

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      • NotSure says:

        It’s all in order.

        The incredibly hard working, physically capable, up-at-the-crack-of-dawn 22 year old women who make up a significant portion of the commercial fishing fleet deserve some recognition.

        All the best Captain Charlotte, may your fishy fingers never become a hilarious meme….

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    • gb123 says:

      Captain Charlotte sounds like Sean Connery as James Bond saying Captain Scarlet.
      Beware of Mysterons woking the planet to take over!

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    • harry142857 says:

      *** On further investigation, this is a temporary measure for a competition winner, and Charlotte is a ‘real’ person. ***

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      • NotSure says:

        Yes indeed, I’ve seen the full story but my cynicism remains.

        Unlikely the competition was going to be won by a middle aged bloke, and for ‘temporary measure’ I read ‘We’ll see how the market responds ready for the total removal of that evil Santa Clause looking chap who’s been warming children’s hearts since the 70’s’

        (Although I’m not completely heartless, I have concerns for what the young woman is probably about to be put through. Wouldn’t have touched the whole thing with a ten foot clown pole if she was part of my family. Sad really)

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      • StewGreen says:

        @Harry cheers I guess the Mail article was written in a way to wind people up.
        In the competition Birdseye looked for a hero to put on their packets in Iceland.
        She’s a foster mum so is a hero.

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  18. G says:

    Bill O’Reilly explains the George Soros’ connection to Black Lives Matter, as well as the organisation’s shady fundraising practices.

    Nothing new here but its nice to confirm your own speculation.

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  19. Peter Grimes says:

    Not Al Beeb, but as many here are aware, Sly are just as bad. This morning Kay Bully is badgering Robert Buckland about ‘their’ (ie Sly’s) investigation into modern day slavery.

    Apart from the hectoring, thrice repeated ‘ten years’ referring to the Tories’ tenure, the initial report into slavery in multi-ethnic, sub-continent staffed Leicester was from the Times. I believe Sly and the Times are no longer both owned by Murdoch so why should Bully be allowed to claim, unchallenged, that it was Sly’s expose?

    No comment about likely illegal immigrants, likely non-English speaking, benefit-claiming hordes who are being exploited by, it seems, sweat shop owners of sub-continent origins. Unfettered immigration has been, of course, top of the retain list for ‘liberals’, led by Labour, less extreme (than Labour) Leftoids and Al Beeb.

    Their inability to connect the dots is palpable!

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  20. Nodding Dog says:

    Victoria Derbyshire just had a chat with Norman Smith about face masks and how confusing it is then read out some messages.

    I’m not going to the shops until it’s mandatory.

    I started wearing a mask when the government said we didn’t need to.

    Nicola Sturgeon and Sadiq Khan are protecting us by saying to wear masks.

    I am confused they are incompetent.

    I’ve just returned from Spain everyone is wearing them there.

    So that’s it then seems everybody wants mandatory mask wearing according to the BBC not one message against it!

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    • AsISeeIt says:

      The mask thing is fast becoming emblematic of the lockdown enthusiasts.

      The BBC , Sturgeon etc know that this is the root to lock in the fear and thereby extend the effects of lockdown.

      They are hell bent on preventing normality. Put simply they get off on crisis. They want to further hobble the economy and who knows… delay Brexit, separate Scotland from the UK, oust Boris…?

         33 likes

    • JamesArthur says:

      Funny everyone I know says they will shop less if face mask are made mandatory…seems I don’t know anyone at BBC.

      Out and about few wearing face masks…or wearing them on their chin , head or taking them on an off…all makes them pointless.

      The evidence is now very clear that covid is more like flu than ‘experts’ were saying…and therefore next logical step is we wear face masks forever (well 6 months of the year)…oh and in the process fail to gain normal immunity to other airbourne diseases through contact

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  21. Docmarooned says:

    Ah yes. Bragg A loathsome individual. I would also place that tosspot Tony Robinson up there with him.

       59 likes

  22. tvlicensingblog says:

    New from the BBC TV Licensing Blog for the start of the week:
    Free TV Licence Extension for Manx Over-75s
    Government Minister: Decriminalisation of TV Licence Evasion Will Happen

    If you haven’t already done so, please download our totally free ebook TV Licensing Laid Bare.

    The 70 page book is packed full of information about the harassment and intimidation meted out by the BBC in the name of TV licence enforcement.

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  23. Nibor says:

    Real life ;
    Nearly all the international haulage is done by foreign companies , our civil service , staffed by indolent half wits like Oily Robbins saw to that . They spent more time making obfuscatory excuses than get us a level playing field .

    BBC life ;
    British road hauliers are worried what border checks will mean for their business . Interview someone who runs a COURIER business , not a top weight haulage business for information .

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  24. BRISSLES says:

    Yes Pug, and listening to all the reports of the slave fashion industry – and how in depth they are ! except for one omission, none of them want to identify the owners of the businesses or establishments ! course not, they’re Asian and are very wealthy, especially The Boohoo Group owned by businessman Mahmud Kamani. The British billionaire co-founded the company alongside Carol Kane.

    Never heard his name mentioned once.

       36 likes

    • JamesArthur says:

      Too true Brissles

      You can be sure if it was Sports Direct – Mike Ashley’s name would be all over the BBC….

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  25. StewGreen says:

    Under cover filming of the US Sunrise Movement
    “children and young adults are being trained to be political activists under the guise of climate change.”
    They pushed AOC to the front
    from Millie Weaver June 18th

       12 likes

    • Broadcasting-on-Behalf-of-the-Caliphate says:

      The BBC have been teaching British children and British youth how to be socio-political activists for years:

      Some examples:
      Activism: Get informed, then get involved: – Ben first got into activism at university. He realised how important it is to read and learn – to get informed – as well as to take action…
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z4jccqt

      Teenage climate activist: “We have the biggest stake in our future.”
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z4hvvk7

      How to change the world – with teen activist Marley Dias: – Aged 10, Marley Dias began a campaign to collect a thousand books featuring black girls as lead characters. Now 14, she’s written her own book about how to change the world.
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07k6d1h

      Series 1: Generation Activism: – The world in 2018 faces huge challenges – from climate change and gender inequality to youth violence and political instability – and more and more young people are willing to stand up and make a difference by fighting for their rights and for their beliefs.
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06p3csy

      Gina McCarthy: Rethinking Activism: – President and CEO of NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), McCarthy is passionate about the potential for change.
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08htc5r

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  26. andyjsnape says:

    News reports from Mexico..
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-53332756

    I thought for a moment this was a report on London, under the current Mayor, but guess this sort of news report on the mayor wouldn’t fit the bBC “agender”

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  27. brexiteerkent says:

    https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/record-number-of-migrants-attempt-channel-crossing-230269/

    380 migrants in one day .. At least 180 ‘welcomed’ to the UK.

    BBC news website .. ? Of course not ! Hidden away I eventually find :
    ‘It is thought 200 attempted crossing unclear how many made it’

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    • fakenewswatcher says:

      brexiteerkent- ‘Invasion’ is now the proper word for this, but our government does not seem to be capable of sending out the message that those caught, will be returned to France.
      Or actually doing so.
      This means there are now two sets of UK laws, one for people trying to enter legally, and another for the invaders.
      This is getting out of hand..
      The whole ‘asylum’ racket has to stop. We all know what it really means.

         26 likes

    • theisland says:

      See some of them arriving yesterday above (I posted at 9:55 AM).

      And here’s a few of today’s intake so far.

      The authorities are trying to stop the chap who is monitoring this, and obviously he only counts a percentage of those arriving at Dover. Goodness knows what the real number along the coast is.
      According to @LFC_blano only 155 invaders have been returned since January 2019!!

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  28. andyjsnape says:

    Just had a thought with children in need giving £10millon away… I wonder if this will go to the terrorist organisation BLM

       26 likes

  29. JamesArthur says:

    Could somebody explain to me why on R4 everytime I switch on I hear a story from/by/for/read by/ somebody from anywhere but the UK? Normally Africa or a Muslim country?
    All I want is a balance but the BBC seesaw seems to have a fat load on one end…

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  30. Guest Who says:

    How much does this bitter old fusspot get paid?

       23 likes

  31. Right Angle says:

    “Defund the BBC” is getting great coverage, thanks to Guido Fawkes:

    https://order-order.com/2020/07/13/defund-the-bbc-campaign-ramps-up-activity/

    I would normally only copy and paste a couple of relevant paragraphs so that readers can have a flavour of the article first, but since this is sponsored content, I hardly think Defund the BBC would mind if I reproduced it in full:

    The campaign group Defund the BBC is ramping up its activity after the Beeb confirmed three million more households will be forced to pay for a licence fee from next month. They are appealing for funds via a Go Fund Me Page, which Guido readers can find here, so they can keep the pressure on the government, just as reports suggest decriminalisation of non-payment of the fee is “on the agenda”.

    The BBC ignored their promise to former Chancellor George Osborne when they moved to target the elderly, meaning over-75s could now be jailed for not funding them. Defund The BBC is now the largest group pushing to end the BBC’s stranglehold over UK media, after recently assembling an experienced campaign team.

    Successive governments have backed away from confrontation with the BBC at the last minute and the vital movement is looking to seize the moment and make sure Boris does not back down.

    The BBC has said decriminalisation could cost them up to £1 billion over five years as many viewers, tired of their content and perceived bias, are expected to cancel licence fees en masse. It would be a huge boost for other news providers and public service broadcasters, who do not threaten to send grannies to jail, and will hopefully bring about fairness in the media and greater balance on our TVs.

    This content is sponsored and created by @DefundBBC

    “Tired of paying for BBC waste and bias?” YES, WE ARE!!

       41 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Right
      I think it’s really great that our combined campaign is getting more ‘traction ‘ – as I think they say – I fear it will be a long campaign and those expecting any change is the way the BBC does things will get more frustrated across the coming years upto the charter review –

      But with a bit of effort there won’t be any more charters and the BBC can place itself fairly with its competitors . If it’s any good it will flourish – if not – it will die and it’s products taken over but better broadcasters . Obviously I want the latter ….

      … in fact I’d put the BBC on A ‘be ended ‘ now list but that’s not realistic in the current climate – even with an 80 seat majority . At least we should get rid of thousands of poor devils being dragged onto magistrates court because they didn’t pay for the BBC ….

         21 likes

  32. Fedup2 says:

    Not BBC but just for info ….

    I used the tube today out of peak time – for the first time since …April — empty …. and then to Heathrow …. comparatively empty …. not much be way of queues – even through security – which is thankfully even tougher than ever . Face mask use is up at about 90% or more …..

       14 likes

  33. john in cheshire says:

    This latest from Salty Cracker. 8 minutes long. I don’t suppose Soapy Sopel or Ratty Katty of the racist far-left bbc have bothered to report on this murder?

    https://youtu.be/rgkdpQhkoXU

    Just for telling a gang of black thugs that all lives matter. And no police investigation, apparently.

       21 likes

  34. andyjsnape says:

    Latest bBC reviews on trustpilot
    https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.bbc.co.uk

    All going well, said the bBC

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  35. G says:

    The new Immigration Rules unveiled. On Twato, within the headlines and interviewees later the same expression used: “no one will be exempt (from the rules) on entering the UK”. Reminded me of reading one item in the Readers Digest (probably in a dentist waiting room many many yonks ago), which set the scene of a group of tourists being shown round the Vatican (I think) during which the guide explained that no one other than a reigning Pope sat on a particular seat. Voice piped up from the tourists: “I’ll bet the cleaning lady sits on it”.
    Rubber boats anyone……………..

       14 likes

  36. Hypnos says:

    Plagiarism being the sincerest form of flattery I pass this one on

    ‘ Isn’t it strange that any fish caught in the English Channel belongs to the EU but any humans found there belong to the UK’

    Reminds me back in the dark days when I used to watch BBC News this could have been an opening headline barring ‘isn’t it strange’…

    Even said by the anchor with a straight face.

       37 likes

  37. StewGreen says:

    @SupportOurLefty tweets

    ‘JeremyVine ..The red red whine’

       20 likes

  38. StewGreen says:

    Ratiowatch a useful Twitter account

       20 likes

  39. vlad says:

    A week ago a bus driver in France was murdered by a gang of 4 ‘hommes’.

    The story got a passing mention on Al-beeb, with the emphasis on the marginal issue of masks on public transport, and no clue as to the identity of the attackers.

    A cursory search on French social media revealed their names to be Mohamed C., Mohammed A., Moussa B. and Sélim Z.

    (In France it’s customary to reveal suspects first names.)

    The tragic event raises many issues.

    – The BBC’s complete lack of curiosity to investigate the story at all. Clearly they knew the names and dropped it like a hot potato.

    – Imagine the international furore if 4 white men had a attacked a North African bus driver. Front page news on the beeb, riots and demonstrations, and we’d all be bending the knee so far back it would be up our arse. But as we know, White Lives Don’t Matter.

    – The story also reveals the extent and the ruthlessness of the cover-up to keep the names secret even in France, where none of the msm reported them.

    – The French public, however, are wise to the devious tactics of their authorities, police and media, and immediately came to the correct conclusion that ‘Maghrebins’ were involved.

    – Social media and comments reveal an intense fury at this latest murder, there having been a number of them in the days preceding the Bayonne attack.

    For example comments in a Figaro report are incandescent and openly mock the pathetic attempts to hide the facts.

    This will all end badly. Sooner or later the seething resentment and mistrust against government, police and media will explode.
    And the French love their revolutions.

    https://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/chauffeur-agresse-a-bayonne-les-deux-principaux-suspects-ecroues-pour-tentative-de-meurtre-20200708

    https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bayonne

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       37 likes

    • Broadcasting-on-Behalf-of-the-Caliphate says:

      Excellent sleuthing vlad. There is an on-going Islamic takeover of Africa. Do we hear anything about it? No. Do we hear about the on-going brutality and suppression of the Kurds and their culture in South-East / East Turkey? No. I have seen the BBC stage complete fictions (fake news) in order to deflect away from certain real news.

         29 likes

  40. s.trubble says:

    These Channel Invaders…………surely these should be intercepted offshore….and placed on an anchored vessel …pending investigation (of their asylum claims)……….also using the term asylum in association with the majority of these people needs stopped.

    The process should be 7 days max……….with immediate return to France for application failures….

    It places them with the word “Asylum” at the convenience of virtue signalers like the bBC.

    Uninvited visitor might be a more accurate term……..thus implying no immediate rights… or status….

       21 likes

    • taffman says:

      200 Arrive across the Channel yesterday without let or hindrance. Has a secret deal been signed with France ? Boris knows full well that this was the predominant reason the nation voted for Brexit. He is appearing to use the same delaying tactics as Mrs May. This time with his promise to stop illegal immigration and send the law breakers back to France . More will come unless there is a deterrent.

      OfCom -Not fit for purpose?
      Border Force – Not fit for purpose.
      Home Office – Not fit for purpose .
      Prime Minister – Not Fit For Purpose.
      The Brexit Party is on the way !

         24 likes

      • Banania says:

        One of the main reasons we voted for Brexit. The main one was SOVEREIGNTY, which is the key to everything else, including control over our borders.

           7 likes

  41. Guest Who says:

    This has made my week.

    CNN, Selzer, BBC, Gompertz, and maybe a token Lewis G, or H for bald woke stirring purposes?

       12 likes

    • gb123 says:

      How about a plain white or plain yellow one to represent the state’s surrender to the mob.

         23 likes

      • Guest Who says:

        Yellow would be apt, but given the chosen winner maybe antifa will mandate it is only printed using Trump supporter blood to go full Serrano?

           9 likes

    • Dobyns says:

      Guest

      Chicken Noodle News makes the Grauniad appear to be overflowing with gravitas

         5 likes

  42. Guest Who says:

    https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10072020/wood-pellet-business-booming-scientists-say-’s-not-good-climate

    How the Rowlatt, McGrath, Harrabin nexus of virtue handles this one will be interesting.

    Trump bad. EU bad too.

    Maybe ignore it?

       12 likes

  43. BRISSLES says:

    Isn’t it amazing, we have a tv world where chat of any kind on all the channels, whether its topical magazine shows or shopping channels, and particularly news and political programmes where the participants are in agreement that ‘the country needs to get back to work’, yet where are they speaking from ? on a dodgy and sometimes out of focus computer screen still in their own bloody homes !

    I’m actually fed up now after 5 months, of listening to video link commentaries with stuttering delivery, out of synch dialogue, or loss of signal, that surely its time to get these overpaid talking heads out into the world and turning up at the studio for some proper face to face dialogue. If joe public has a particular issue for discussion then fine, conduct it from home, but get the rest to do what they preach and lets see some live action in the studio.

       19 likes

  44. JamesArthur says:

    R4….
    BBC going big on masks in shops. So regardless of what Boris does there will be the BBC gotcha – if he does it – too late, if he doesn’t he is weak not following science…

    The Unions want masks so they can beat the Govt on behalf of shop workers…just like they did with Schools…of course have their pet scientists on who just say..the science says but don’t provide real evidence

    I can assure you I will find a way not to wear a mask in shops..or not go to the shops

    We need to get back to normal…..but BBC don’t want that…

       25 likes

    • AsISeeIt says:

      Once Boris gives in on masks, which of course he will, then the BBC and Lockdown-loving Left (but I repeat myself) will simply move on to the next thing. Leaving the rest of us masked for the duration.

      Bumbling burbling Boris can’t help but let slip a smile as he chuntles on and hides behind supposed science to mask his craven caving in to the media on this latest daft lockdown virtue fashion accessory.

      I vaguely recall Labour demanding some cost-analysis procedure for every new government policy. In terms, not of cash, but of race or social mobility or some such.

      How about conservatives start to demand general economic and tax cost analysis of new regulations?

      My mind refers back to that movie from a few years back – Shallow Grave and for me the classic line “But what has it cost us?”

      Can we begin to put some kind of cost to these media hyped manias.

         13 likes

      • AsISeeIt says:

        Given Michael Goves’ so recent sensible appeal to the public’s common sense on face nappies, with Boris about to go for regulation we can now infer he is convinced we have no common sense.

        Seriously, if you do this Boris, you ain’t a conservative.

           12 likes

  45. Oldspeaker says:

    https://phys.org/news/2020-07-emoji-reveal-whiteness-driver-technology.amp?__twitter_impression=true

    Another slice from the everything is racist pie, I’m positive now that the slackers, chancers and wind up merchants that write this tosh are just laughing at everyone.

       9 likes

    • JamesArthur says:

      Oldspeaker…yes they really do get degrees for this tosh…but what I love is the new acronym..
      BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color)

      Seems Asians don’t count anymore..and I am offended because these Emoji are yellow and I am not…”despite elements of whiteness reaming”( really, wtf does that mean?)

      However in the UK, white is indigenous…yeeeh we finally get in the acronym

         11 likes

    • Broadcasting-on-Behalf-of-the-Caliphate says:

      With the expansion of the universities to cater for mass education a lot of mickey mouse departments were created or expanded with mickey mouse activist research, mickey mouse lecturers and professors and mickey mouse degrees taught to the youth who knew no better.

         13 likes

  46. infoquest says:

    Sorry if this is a duplicate – I’ve been out all day collecting swabs.
    Just seen the news that on Saturday there was only one Covid death in English hospitals. Was in on the bBC or the MSM?
    Details here – https://lockdownsceptics.org/

       10 likes

  47. Dobyns says:

    I’m sure this will be the lead on the ole BeeB tonight …

    https://huntforliberty.com/climate-scare-apology/

       11 likes

  48. AsISeeIt says:

    As a matter of interest I looked at the BBC comments section to their mask report.

    Fascinating that the two top zorro-leaning comments are on-message with the BBC.

    First play dumb:

    ‘Wear them…no don’t….wait a minute, be nice and wear one, but not if you don’t want to. That’s nice and clear then.’

    Then the next face-nappy-keen numpty accuses the British public of being dumb:

    ‘To everyone saying leave it to common sense, do you really believe everyone in England has common sense in abundance? Is that not a dangerous assumption?’

    One ponders. If only it were not for that close run Brexit vote. Oh, how much higher would be the estimation of general UK IQ in the eyes of the Beeboid media class.

       32 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Much japing hereabouts.

      Seems a collection of Ivans have pulled a Great Escape from a farm, having tested naughty for the bug.

      Only this morning BBC Local joke had run a ‘nothing to see here’ from plod.

         19 likes

  49. Luckyharry69 says:

    @Fed/Stew/ and others on here

    can you tell me how to upload videos etc to this site in layman’s terms please?

    many thanks

       3 likes

    • Kaiser says:

      if its you tube just paste the link in

         3 likes

      • Luckyharry69 says:

        @Kaiser
        paste the link?…to what?

           2 likes

        • StewGreen says:

          On the YouTube page right-click or long press over the video image
          and select “Copy video URL”

          Then come across to here and click inside the comment box use Ctrl V to paste that in on a fresh line.
          After posting the video will auto embed

          Like wise Twitter videos and tweets auto-embed.

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