376 Responses to Start the Week Thread 20 July 2020

  1. digg says:

    BBC Tv News and Radio 4 have been like a dog with a bone over the Russian interference report all day today.

    I do notice that all the speakers they invite on are either Rabid Labour or Lib Dems though.

    I really do think they are trying to amplify this into a “Big Thing” with the long game hope that they might even force a re-run of the Referendum.

    They are obviously blissfully unaware (or uncaring) that vast swathes of the population know exactly what they are up to and will resist any devious machinations they try to pull.

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    • StewGreen says:

      No, ex Tory Dominic Grieve was big on Talk Radio. He’s the man behind the report.

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    • StewGreen says:

      libmob ‘Look over there it was the Russians, not us !’

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    • Dave S says:

      They are off their heads with something. Nobody gives a toss. That is nobody normal . Nobody I know cares or believes it. This is why the MSM is doomed. it obsesses about things that it thinks we care about.

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  2. StewGreen says:

    Portillo repeat on ch 25
    He’s on Ladypool Road Birmingham quite proudly saying that Birmingham is becoming a minority white city.
    The young shopkeeper is telling him he visits Pakistan frequently “my motherland” even though he’s born in Britain.
    Now in the restaurant the owner Raj is telling how he brought all his chefs from India
    .. ah they mention he now wants to train British chefs.

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  3. Sluff says:

    This one is utterly utterly beyond irony.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-53487143

    A young offender stabbed another teenager to death at a community centre while on a knife awareness course, a court has heard.
    In London, of course.

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    • vlad says:

      Sounds like the course worked; they’re now very aware of knives.

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    • StewGreen says:

      See, if only they’d given these kids guns
      then they wouldn’t try and stab each other

      .. someone on Twitter claims the perp was white
      .. that’s possible of course.

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  4. Concrete sea says:

    I do find F1 interesting, but only the bit where champagne is sprayed around at the end ( fascinating at the waste). Of course this spraying is often done by Lewis (why isn’t everyone taking a knee ?) Hamilton. The joke might be on him though :-

    ‘Six people and three companies have gone on trial in France, accused of exploiting migrants to harvest grapes for major winemakers in the Champagne region in 2018.
    There are close to 200 victims, mostly migrants who were allegedly promised decent terms but claim they ended up working in slave-like conditions’.
    Champagne produced by slavery, surely not ? Ah well there is always Prosecco.

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    • JimS says:

      Wasn’t the fizz originally given as a prize?

      I wonder when the childish chucking it about started? Probably when the drivers got paid enough to bathe in the stuff!

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  5. Fedup2 says:

    Not BBC – or anything really – but a lefty paper complains that Jeff Bezos personal wealth increased by $10 billion in one day to an estimated $189 billion .

    I dont know how often a person blinks in a day but i bet each blink is worth $10k

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  6. theisland says:

    https://thenationalpulse.com/news/google-axes-conservative-media/

    Google practising for the US elections – might explain why people had problems earlier.

    Google Appears To Blacklist Non-Mainstream News Sites, Calls It ‘Technical Issue’

    PS Vote #Trump2020

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  7. theisland says:

    This sounds familiar.

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    • Dave S says:

      This sounds like the lead up to a type of civil war. There is something going on in the USA that is deeply unpleasant.

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  8. StewGreen says:

    Ch25 David Jason is in San Francisco riding with a WHITE only Harley Davidson Club.

    … I might have got the colour’s the wrong way around.
    Now they are in Oakland giving out to homeless living under a highway bridge.

    The group is called the Buffalo Soldiers cos they mostly ex military.
    and the original regiments of slaves leaving to fight were the Buffalo Soldiers .. they’ve just been at the memorial.

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    • Dobyns says:

      And the original Buffalo Soldiers were found to have massacred American Indians during the expansion into the American West

      Hmmmmm …

      This is getting tricky

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      • JimS says:

        Dog-faced Buffalo Soldiers? You is only black if you is votin Joe Biden, honey chile.

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  9. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    David Vance has put a graph on Parler and it shows that the average age of a coronavirus death in Scotland is HIGHER than the life expectancy for both men and women.

    You live longer if you have Covid 19.

    Maybe David can put it on here.

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  10. Guest Who says:

    OT, but this hilariously sums up the MSM today.

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  11. JimS says:

    Is it just me? When I look at the pictures put out by ‘the media’ the vast majority of people shown** are wearing masks.

    I heard a report over the weekend which put the number of wearers as over 50%.

    Around here it has got to be less than 5%. I was in Birmingham on Saturday and it was much the same. (Perhaps 45% were behind the niqabs?).

    ** BM – Before Mask, the majority of people shown in BBC online pictures were black. I guess in the past they entered ‘black’ and [subject] into their stock image searches, now they use ‘mask and [subject], i.e. Search: black lighthouse keepers becomes Search: mask lighthouse keepers?

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  12. StewGreen says:

    @FedUp 10pm Channel 4 Real Eastenders
    One hour prog seems to feature a lot of old timers

    Starts on Isle of Dogs
    Fist voice and narrator is a Rastafarian guy.

    All the white people we are introduced to seem like divs.

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  13. Guest Who says:

    Novel way of… ‘reporting’.

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  14. StewGreen says:

    AB reckons he’s found a Dance Theatre Industry , guy like Weinstein
    but nothing is being done

    https://youtu.be/d0wJoWwMmzw

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  15. Guest Who says:

    He seems… keen.

    Maybe the bbc says nice things about abc?

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    • Philip_2 says:

      (quote): In very broad terms, the BBC shows political bias by what it focuses on; what it misses out; who it does and does not quote; etc. On the other hand, it doesn’t show its political bias by plain politicking (or editorializing). The BBC also quotes ideologically-correct people far more extensively than it does what some BBC-types — and Gordon Brown — call “bigots”. In addition, bias is shown in the very selection of stories that are covered; as well as by those stories which are deliberately ignored. And even within that context, we can add the fact that this bias includes which aspects of these already-selected stories are themselves selected. (edited for brevity)….
      View at Medium.com

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      • StewGreen says:

        Cheers I cross posted a comment at ITBB
        in the open thread
        Maybe Craig will open up a new thread

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  16. Philip_2 says:

    A former BBC presenter, Benjamin David Thomas, has admitted to carrying out 40 sex offences, a number of them against minors, over the course of 30 years.

    Thomas, who was most recently was a preacher at the Criccieth Family Church in North Wales, U.K., admitted to a slew of offenses when he appeared at Mold Crown Court on Friday:
    • 10 counts of sexual activity with a child
    • 8 counts of sexual assault
    • 4 attempts to commit sexual assault
    • 9 indecent assaults
    • 7 counts of voyeurism
    • 2 counts of making indecent videos of children
    The offenses took place over the course of almost twenty years, 1990-2019.
    These offences are just the latest in an almost never-ending list of accusations and scandals related to sexual abuse committed by current and former employees of the BBC.

    I am amazed that the Police did not pick him up from Operation Yewtree. The BBC are able to cloak their own until arrested. Its usually boys at the BBC historically always boys, and then Saville came along and expanded the remit. The BBC are always rather keen on lowering the age of consent, and now we know why. Bastards.

    https://thenationalpulse.com/news/bbc-presenter-sex-offences/

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  17. Guest Who says:

    Lest there be any doubt that bbc staff take market rate measures very seriously.

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  18. StewGreen says:

    There is a new Google statement
    claiming apparent blacklisting
    was just an accident

    part ii
    \\ Today’s issue affected sites representing a range of content and different viewpoints.
    Our ranking systems don’t index, rank or classify content based on political lean
    , as we’ve explained in our How Search Works site: //

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    • taffman says:

      StewGreen
      How many of you believe them when they state it was a “bug “?
      If it was, then it must have been an intelligent, political discerning bug, if there is such a thing?

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    • StewGreen says:

      Charlie Nash has a long thread
      he can name one or two lefty sites affected

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  19. taffman says:

    “Windrush scandal: Patel promises ‘sweeping reforms’ of Home Office culture”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53489881
    What has she done about the illegal invasion of Great Britain from across the English Channel that is happening on a daily basis ?
    A reminder ………….
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-kent-51152601/english-channel-migrants-boats-using-surge-tactics
    Answers on the back of a postage stamp please to Al Beeb HQ.

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  20. Kaiser says:

    -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twWBvXNo2GM&bpctr=1595368179

    tommy vid

    notice Sa Ra Garvey keeps talking about things in america and in the past

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