More nasty news from the Marxist BBC – it is spending £38 million – the equivalent of 241, 269 licence fees setting up a call centre and employing 800 people to chase the over 75s to get the licence tax from them . If anyone sees one of the 10 page letters being sent to over 75s please let this site know .
Weekend Thread 8 August 2020
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This morning’s R4 progs
7:50am
8:15am
8:45am
19:45pm Radio4 more progs about Pride
SG,
You didn’t mention the ‘Wall paper’ guy, Neil Newness who increasingly gives R4 listeners the news and Shipping Forecast. He seems to work a 24 hour shift x 7 days a week.
Neil Nunes (Jamaica)
The Twitter account under his name is probably run by a fan who is a churchgoer
It’s not referred to as the Black Broadcasting Corporation for nothing.
On the BBC News channel just now, interviewing a Japanese girl about the Nagasaki 75th anniversary. She started off saying less people attended than previous years.
Interviewer then asks, “how much anti American sentiment is there?”
Japanese girl, “none”
Yesterday’s R4 progs
5:45am
9am
12:30pm
2:45pm
4pm
If we are getting the Navy into help solve the illegal migrants arriving after escaping from France then a practical way of returning them would be to use the submarines and approach the French coast and then shoot the illegal migrants out of the torpedo tubes and back into France.
EG,
Well remember the Royal Navy has a lot going for it. After all, look at the stalwart work they put in, in the Med ferrying blacks from North Africa to Europe.
‘The Men With No Names’.
Or passports.
If we are getting the Navy into help solve the illegal migrants arriving after escaping from France then a practical way of returning them would be to use the submarines to approach the French coast and then shoot the illegal migrants out of the torpedo tubes and back into France.
Since the SNP don’t want the English to cross the border maybe we can offer an alternative. We could play a game of pass the parcel. The French have passed a lot of extra people we currently have in 4 star hotels to us. We now do the same and send them north to be put up in Scottish 4 star hotels, preferably where the SNP hang out as they love all “refugees”.
Excellent gb. Yes, comfortable, air-conditioned coaches waiting at Dover to drive them straight up to Coldstream, where they can be immediately issued with their new Scottish passports.
Scotland will, of course, be ecstatic to receive them, as they love immigrants, and the enrichment they bring (just so long as they aren’t filthy Sasannachs). Plus, I heard they don’t fancy each other too much on the other side of the border (generations of inbreeding?) and an influx of vibrant, fertile, young fellows is what’s needed to bring a bit of vigour back to the bloodline, and colour io the cheek. Wasn’t that what wee Kranky was insinuating last year?
Only one problem… we’ll need a wall and armed patrols on the border to prevent ‘incursions’… a bit like a certain Hadrian had built actually, come to think of it.
With the intransigence of various Governments over the decades, the Civil Service and all other prime influential bodies have been slowly infiltrated by Communists blacks and muslims. More so in the US where, additionally, the justice system is being destroyed from within. I don’t think any form of ‘Catchup’ in the West is now possible. It’s too late.
Entryism is what you are talking about
where the resources of huge bodies like the NGOs & charities are usurped by a minority with a political agenda.
Sometimes that might include Black Power activists, or Islam agenda pushers.
But is wrong to say that orgs are infiltrated by “blacks”
a normal black or ethnic Muslim, British person has the same right to work in the org as a white person
SG,
Well, on this topic, I must give accolade to the BBC and their policy agenda of alienation. Now, thanks only to their constant identification of Communists, blacks and muslims can I now confirm in my own mind that ‘majority’ as constituting the enemies within – the enemies of white people. I say, ‘majority’ because the BBC are anxious to tell me they are collectively the ‘majority’ in this country. In whatever way I can, I will endeavour faithfully and silently to discriminate against these people as not sharing my values. Thanks BBC.
“But is wrong to say that orgs are infiltrated by “blacks”
Visit any Ministry in London and you might change your mind.
You may be thinking of a photo which is often labelled “Foreign Office staff”
and is actually FakeNews cos it is a couple of staff visiting a BAME group
No, I spent years visiting Ministeries. My own eyes don’t deceive.
Probably why the BBC think their employment policy should follow the Governments.
Another place where the 3.5% constituent part doesn’t seem to apply.
2 years ago the FCO said 13.4%
Although ethnic minority staff currently make up 13.4% of Foreign Office staff, 62.5% of those who have declared their heritage have spent over a decade in the lowest grades without progression, compared to 47% of all staff.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/jeremy-hunt-launches-reverse-mentoring-scheme-for-bame-staff
What should it be ?
#1 You want staff with language skills/cultural understanding etc.
So maybe more BAME
But #2 then you can’t employ someone who can be pressurised by a foreign government cos they have relatives overseas, so that would knock out a lot of the BAME in case
That applies to Amol Rajan who used to work for them.
I think the BAME employment rate could well end up less than the rate in the general population.
BBC news on-line reports: ‘Coronavirus: Moral duty to get all children back in school – PM’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53710472
‘There is a “moral duty” to get all children back into schools in England next month, Boris Johnson has said.’
Frankly that sounds like a hollow claim when it was the Tory Lockdown which preemptively closed the schools and sent the teachers home on full pay, supposedly because they were all in danger of imminent death.
Effectively giving the teachers, at no financial and little public opinion cost to themselves, the grounds to go on indefinite strike against a government which an overwhelming proportion of them would have recently voted against and were still motivated to resist its main plank of policy (Brexit, of course).
Even politically indifferent teachers must have looked on a fully subsidised open-ended sabatical as manna from heaven.
As a political misjudgement, caused by apparent blithe ignorance of human nature and the absence of even a modicum of common sense, this ranks with the Blair administration bringing in a top rate of University fees and not guessing that every institution from Oxford to Scumbagtown College would award themselves the top price status.
The Tory Lockdown ought to have had an end date. Months on it still does not. Wake up Boris, you blithering dunce.
Tory Lockdown – a failed policy
BBC: ‘Coronavirus: Redundancies rise fivefold as pandemic hits jobs’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53680671
‘The number of firms that notified the government in June about plans to cut 20 or more jobs was five times higher than in the same month last year, figures obtained by the BBC show.’
‘A Freedom of Information request shows that in June 1,778 firms said [they] were intending to cut more than 139,000 jobs in England, Wales and Scotland.’
Why did this information require a FOI request?
Why are Tory ministers not shouting these figures from the rooftops?
The economy has been trashed by Tory Lockdown. It has to stop now. The government has to inform the public of the real danger we face. Deep, prolonged recession.
Boris, get your government’s sun-tanned arses back to Westminster and start doing their jobs. Yes, it is August but there is a crisis here.
The farcical spectacle of your schools minister left to comment on naval deployment yesterday tells me the cabinet have effectively left the building. It’s not good enough.
As the unemployment rises, so will the social unrest and violence toward whites principally amongst the imports. They have proven conclusively that their grievances, if aired physically, will work.
But, “The government has to inform the public of the real danger we face. Deep, prolonged recession.” Alternative is the Brazil style of Government so if you have any ageing relatives, particularly those will any important health problems, I guess you need a serious conversation with them about what the future almost certainly holds for them. Check their wills and suggest the Belsen option as the alternative.
G I agree.
At the moment things aren’t that bad plenty of jobs food on the table etc, but as sure as eggs are aggs the cycle will change (whiteys fault) and things will take a downturn big style and indigenous populations will turn against migrants i imagine Austria will be one of the first to rebel against woke leftist dogma.
I’m generally puzzled about the ‘default’ figure of 5k paid to so-called people smugglers for the jaunt across the channel. Assuming it’s 5k in cash, that’s quite a wedge to be trekking with across the Sahara/Balkans or wherever.
Surely if 20 of them used some initiative, they could club together and buy a fairly decent ocean going boat for under 100k.
Anyway, I’m sceptical.
KC,
Enter Soros……………
I don’t know anything about Dan O’Mahoney the ex-commando who Priti Patel has just hired (he may well have been ‘got at’ for all I know) but Major-General Julian Thompson is one ex-Royal Marine the government should definitely be paying attention to in relation to the Brexit negotiations and the EU defence structures so beloved of traitorous civil servants such as Angus Lapsley.
Here’s the text:
Our sovereignty on defence matters will mean nothing if we are drawn in by EU’s siren song
The Sunday Telegraph 9 Aug 2020
By Major-General Julian Thompson
Buried deep within the Brexit negotiations is an EU siren song. The temptation, dangled by the Political Declaration, is for the UK to participate formally in EU defence structures, in return for financial benefits to the UK defence industry.
As explained in a recent paper by the Centre for Brexit Policy, titled Replacing the Withdrawal Agreement, there is no requirement for the UK to do this, and we should firmly decline. Continuing these relationships would be a direct infringement on the UK’s capacity as a sovereign state with a robust independent strategic defence industry, governed by UK rules, decisions and national interest.
Agreeing to participate in the schemes put forward in the Political Declaration would maintain the defence aspects of the EU treaties and allow the EU to impose its policy on UK defence matters.
The EU has made it exceedingly difficult to dip in and out of its various defence systems or arrangements. The purpose for these structures is to further EU political integration. Participation in one scheme often then requires you to sign up to another, drawing nations into the ever-growing Gordian knot of industrial, financial, political and military integration.
In return for restricting UK defence capabilities and stopping a clean-break Brexit, the EU offers funding. But the UK never receives more funding from the EU than it contributes. Moreover, EU defence procurement funding has an unambiguous design to channel R&D co-operation away from non-EU states. Additionally, EU funding requires onerous project management, joint activity, joint ownership and supervision, further reducing UK defence freedom of choice, especially where it is so heavily tied to the wider picture of EU policy on defence.
There is another aspect of this, the tension between EU integrationist policies and the wider Nato alliance, specifically the relationship between the EU and the United States. US officials called the European Defence Fund and Permanent Structured Co-operation criteria “poison pills” that are “a dramatic reversal of the last three decades of the openness of the transatlantic defence sector”. In the guise of “political integration”, the EU has been developing a unified defence union and its own defence industry.
The UK must reaffirm our commitment to Nato and the Five Eyes network, by assessing every request on a case-by-case basis and enforcing an approach that ensures no widening remits in our sovereign defence and security co-operation with the EU.
The choice with the EU’s siren song is clear: “Just say No”.
The island,
When the current round of Withdrawal is completed and, if then, one can put hand on heart and state with certainty, “We are out”, what’s the betting that Johnson will leave some sort of, ‘key in the door’ – just in case. As only a pro-EU PM could……
‘BBC hurt my Willie’
No, not some new aggressive tactics from TV Licencing. Nor is it our BBC’s new wave of diversity policies pushing the transgender agenda to extraordinary lengths. It is the Daily Star Sunday’s cheeky headline for a story about snooker player Willie Thorne. You’ll remember Willie Thorne – big seventies tash and bald as a billiard ball… (Willie Thorne, ‘es ‘air’s all gorn). Seems his ex says the BBC didn’t treat him too well. Him and us all, luv.
The Express features ‘Princess Anne, style icon at 70’ which tends to show anything could come back into fashion if you wait long enough.
Groundhog day in the Sunday Times ‘Banks face second wave of PPI payments’ – note here the deployment of the fashionable term second wave and note too PPI which we thought we’d heard the last of – well that kind of rhymes with the still fashionable PPE.
If you’re still interested in Posh & Becks (say hello to the 1990s for us) you may want to pick up the Sunday Mirror – which boasts on its masthead ‘Sunday newspaper of the year’ – which year would that be, we wonder?
Like chewing gum stuck to your shoe the tenacious Jamie Oliver is back in the Mail ‘fabulous recipes from his new book’
Don’t over do it…
‘Obese may be told to stay at home if virus rebounds’ threatens the Telegraph. Or what, you’ll get a call from the Fat Police?
“Been doing a little too much noshing ‘ave we, Sir? We may have to take you into plum pudding and custardy!”
AsIseeit, you forgot ‘Phewwhatascorcher’, and an oldie from the defunct ‘News of the screws’, ‘intimacy took place’.
Being ‘comforted’ by a new bird/bloke is a turn-on for shagmeisters, ‘stepping out’, means they’ve been at it like rabbits all night, and sunglasses are used to hide the bruises/hangover/bloodshot eyes at the same time!
And not a mention of a hamster anywhere either!
Whatever happened to proper journalism, eh…
The Mr & Mrs Johnny Depp court case gave us most of the above press cliches.
What a jolly roger that marriage must have been. She must have had some buried treasure.
On a fashion note, personally I’m all for Mr Depp’s choice of face nappy but I’ll forego the dark eye-liner.
BBC breaks my balls.
Dickless Dick launches a Violence Suppression Unit to patrol crime hotpots and tough estates.
How long before they stop and search their first black, or injure one resisting arrest?
The BBC will start screaming racism, Dick will offer grovelling apologies, bend both knees and issue orders not to arrest Blacks on any account.
BBC TV morning news pulled on some posh white bloke to respond to the possibility of using troops to handle the channel raft musical chairs fiasco.
Didn’t catch his name but I would guess he is probably in some sort of quango occupation, and probably on a 6 figure salary.
He said “Instead of mounting a forces blockade we should be welcoming ALL these people into our Country and giving them the chance to get a better life”
Like now then! And did he mean ALL the 20+ million or so watching what is going on and getting ready right now to follow their mates for the good life?
If so we will need the biggest hotel building program in history. Maybe The Hilton Group could take on the task and possibly rename the Company to “UpToTheHilton!
Wasn’t Lammy was it?
digg- 20+million? You’re underestimating the potential. Currently we have naval vessels in the Med to help Arabs and Africans across to Italy. There are German and Dutch ‘humanitarian’ vessels doing that full-time. Doubt beeb will reveal anything until the time is ripe. Many of these ‘migrants’ will wind up in Calais etc. from where they will come to Britain. Do a little research on forthcoming population increases in Africa.
My guess is that upwards of 100 to 300 million in Africa will be heading north within the next few years, target Europe, that includes Britain. Little boats? Unless someone in Britain grows a spine, we ain’t seen nothing yet, I fear.
If Erdogan opens the Balkan route, you can include several million a year more, from the Middle East.
Coming out of the EU may have been completely meaningless, as far as ‘migration’ goes, I fear. Mrs May signed the UN ‘migrant compact’, but that is not even needed as the ‘Law of the Sea’ mixed with a dash of asylum policy doeas the trick. Wouldn’t be the least surprised if the migrant compact (still an advisory at this stage) becomes Law, to firm things up, and Boris signs with great ceremony…
The incessant drumbeat of ‘black Renaissance’ and ‘Black Lives Matter’ and black culture and blacks in every TV programme you see in Britain, and every advert too, is preparing us all for a big invasion. Your friendly beeb will help out with that.
So far there seems to be no will to stop said invasion.
Au contraire. I’m not even a Trump fan, but unless we find a Trump, who puts his foot down and says ‘NO!’, we’d better start building lotsa four-star hotels. And we’d better make some space…get rid of a few of the ‘elderly’, perhaps?
You can’t expect plod to do very much these days, Vlad, least of all support their communities.
Here in leafy Kent, we have all the blasted illegals coming ashore to be looked after carefully, while war vets get turfed out of their accommodation at a whim.
On a personal note, I’m a ‘member’ of a small but fabulous bunch of gals and guys, who set up a Speedwatch group, to try and stop bloody little hooligans belting around at high speed, and ruining everyone’s right to peace and quiet, and a danger-free village.
As nearly all of us are over 70, we’re not allowed out at all to operate the speed indication machine (it’s only an advisory thing – there are loads in this part of the country), but plod says that their insurance doesn’t cover being gobbed at by some illiterate moron, which they have been known to do, hence the dangerous bastards continue to flout the law, and we can’t even cross the blasted road for fear of a brain-dead plonker showing off his sodding motorbike!
I always try and remember the scene from ‘The Great Escape’, when Steve McQueen ties a wire across the road and pinches the Kraut’s bike, and feel a bit better after that…
I might write to the BBC about this, they care, don’t they…
(Cyyyril – ‘This has nothing to do with us…’)
I live in a no through road, 0n which cars carrying kids and parents to Brownies like to ignore the 20mph speed limit. I have been known on occasions to walk my dog down the middle of the road at a leisurely pace, thus holding up all the cars behind me, until I see fit to mount the pavement. Works a treat – but wouldn’t recommend on normal highways (!).
I’ve become really obstinate in my later years – perhaps its the Meldrew syndrome.
There was a rather nasty video from down south yesterday
where a joyrider spins out of control and just ploughs into a dogwalker on the opposite side of the road.
They do that, Stew, brains the size of a peanut I’m afraid…
Goferit Brissles!
With you all the way!
Another story in an occasional series about our Health Service heroes, so beloved of the BBC that proper reporting is never carried out.
Reference the early days of Coronavirus.
From a letter in the Times. I quote.
All Ear Nose and Throat surgeons and Public Health England were notified about the importance of loss of smell in March 2020 by the British Association of ENT surgeons.
So…..why did it take PHE a further two months to agree that it was true?
No one likes to hear I told you so
But I’m going to…
[Mr AsISeeIt yesterday] ‘Museums as often tax funded will find the squeeze on public finances takes longer to hurt but with diminishing footfall it will be more difficult for them to argue for funding.’
[BBC Today] ‘Tate boss defends plan to cut 200 jobs in art gallery shops and cafes’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53694053
Seems all I got wrong was the time scale.
End Tory Lockdown now.
Hey, Labour Party, there’s a wide open goal here and the blundering goalie has absented himself from the pitch.
AsISeeIt
“Hey, Labour Party, there’s a wide open goal here and the blundering goalie has absented himself from the pitch.”
Don’t bother you couldn’t fit a cigarette paper between the two of them.
Back in February:
Minister of Health: “Prime Minister, I think we will need lots of PPE in the future.
Prime Minister: I have gots lots of PPE in the cabinet.
Back in March:
Minister of Health: “Prime Minister I need that PPE you have in your cupboard”.
Prime Minister: “PPE?”
MoH: “Personal Protective Equipment that you said you had in your cupboard.”
PM: “Cupboard? Oh, I thought you meant Politics, Philosophy and Economics, my Cabinet is stuffed with them!”
I’ll get my PPE.
“Coronavirus: Redundancies rise fivefold as pandemic hits jobs”
Include : Housing crisis, hospital appointments, school places, food banks, 6000 British Forces Vets sleeping rough on the streets and to add insult to injury the over 75s get slapped with the Telly tax etc.
What’s Boris and his COBRA Cabinet doing about the mass heading to Britain this way ? I am pretty sure his Tory voters are livid .
You should have voted for the Brexit Party not Billy Smart’s Circus .
taffman – I certainly did, but the MSM and our ‘educational institutions’ have done a thorough job over the years.
So we don’t look at policy proposals, we vote for the most impressive wire sailors etc.
I see on beeb lunchtime news Priti has found some tall smiley face guy in a police uniform to persuade the French to be nice and stop the flow of…
His salary will probably be the only thing that changes. In an upward direction.
Cynical? Moi?
Catching up on the news I read two reports of the same murder mentioned by taffman? in an earlier post.
“A teenager has died after being stabbed in London’s West End.”
“A man in his late teens was slashed to death with a machete in broad daylight in central London”
If the second report is factually accurate then I’d say the first a little misleading, borderline fake news even. Have a guess matching outlet to report.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-53710675
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/08/09/khans-london-teen-killed-machete-attack-broad-daylight-iconic-oxford-street/
No prizes for the right answer, any speculation about those involved is just racism, your silence is usually violence but in this case keep schtum.
Surely France is missing a trick here.
We are told by our government (all parties) by the msm, by the snowflakes and wokerati, the luvvies and all the others we on here are all too aware of, that immigrants give us a financial gain, that they more than pay for themselves and they ‘put more in than they take out’
Instead of us giving the frenchies more millions (£30 million is the latest demand) to do their job, we should be getting money from them to return all these enriching money makers.
Every lilo or inflatable which arrives full of doctors, nuclear scientists, architects etc is our gain and france’s loss.
Each penniless, destitute, enricher paying £5,000 to escape from the horror that is France where their lives are at risk.
France’s loss, our gain.
Is that it Boris?
How safe do the teachers need to be when (article in the DM) NO case of covid, pupil to teacher transmission IN THE WORLD, EVER.
How safe do the children have to be when, the last I heard, 3 schoolchildren had died of covid (out of the 46,000+ deaths) and each one of these 3 had other serious conditions.
School must be the safest place of all.
Methinks the lefty teachers (a good 99%+ of teachers) have other agendas and want to keep their (full pay) holiday going on for as long as possible.
Teachers, you have more chance of being killed by lightning than by this virus.
Pathetic lot.
Elsewhere : Eric Worrall writes
UK Academics Advocate Silencing Dissent on Climate Change and Covid-19
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/07/29/psychologist-advice-on-covid-19-and-climate-change-we-need-to-avoid-presenting-both-sides-of-the-argument
Daily Mail having difficulty filling space this Sunday – so it is putting up the list of new Chairman of the BBC for 2021 namely
Andrew Neill
Amber Rudd
Nicki Morgan *
Jeremy Corbyn
Someone coloured
Someone gay
It also mentions that Lord Hall has been trying to have ‘peace talks ‘ with number 10 before he goes to a better place and even more money in September ….
*only the top 3 are mentioned in the article
https://news-watch.co.uk/bbc-bias-media-digest-9-august-2020/
ANDREW NEIL ‘LINED UP’ TO BECOME BBC CHAIRMAN: Steven Brown (Express 9/8) suggested that as part of a bridge building with the BBC, Boris Johnson was lining up former Sunday Times editor and BBC presenter Andrew Neil to succeed Sir David Clementi as chairman of the corporation. Mr Brown also said that Mr Johnson had reportedly held peace talks with Lord Hall, the outgoing director general, following a year of ‘tough exchanges’. He added that other frontrunners to succeed the current chairman when he retired in February included Nicky Morgan, the former culture secretary, Charles Moore, former editor of the Daily Telegraph, former Chancellor George Osborne, and Amber Rudd, the former home secretary, although the latter was likely to be opposed by senior Boris Johnson aide Dominic Cummings. Mr Brown quoted a senior government source as saying:
“The Prime Minister believes the BBC is one of Britain’s best assets, with the soft power projects abroad. He thinks it can do more of that.”
Tim Shipman (£ Sunday Times 8/8) also reported that Mr Neil was being considered as the next BBC Chairman.
It doesn’t sound like Boris wants the bBC to be eradicated does it? I’ve also seen reported that the pensioner letters being sent out are at least 10 pages long.
ANDREW NEIL ‘LINED UP’ TO BECOME BBC CHAIRMAN:
That should please Boris and his bosses in the Moslem Council of GB, as Neil has never tolerated criticism of the pure faith.
Ask TR or K Hopkins.
It may be just one of those Sunday stories floated to gauge the response . As far as Andy neill being considered – it would explain his rather over the top response to the likes of TR as opposed to the ritualised approach he takes to bubble dwellers …
. I recall that the ‘ash’ girl with the moustache began her fame as a guest of Mr Neill . I assumed she was a ‘friend ‘ as she had no democratic mandate and just worked for some Marxist PR outfit .
He won’t get the job as he is male and hidiously white/sun red …. but theyd be no better person to make the BBC a subscription service and thereby kill it .
Yep, never say never
but it looks like click bait.
I can’t see the Tories giving someone firmly connected to anti-BBC Speccie and Murdoch, control of the BBC.
Ash Sarkar is a ‘Libertarian Marxist’ as are the Spiked set of journalists who are often on BBC .ITV,CH4 and Sky and presented as ‘right wing’ .Certainly Claire Fox and Cummings deputy Munira were ‘libertarian Marxists’ for many years and who knows if they still are or not.They may all just a different type of ‘red under the bed’
AFAIK the Spiked team were under the wing of Frank Furedi
and he took them from the left to the right.
You could do worse than Andrew Neil.Imagine if Piers Morgan had got the job
Following a thread about an Afghan Migrant in Sweden who had his conviction for the rape of a 13 year old girl overturned by the courts, one commenter referred to something called the “Frankfurt School”, basically an ultra Marxist organisation that has been active for years and still is.
The Frankfurt School apparently had a secret 11 point “plan”.
1. The creation of racism offences
2. Continual change to create confusion
3. The teaching of sex and homosexuality to children
4. The undermining of schools’ and teachers’ authority
5. Huge immigration to destroy identity
6. The promotion of excessive drinking
7. Emptying of churches
8. An unreliable legal system with bias against victims of crime
9. Dependency on the state or state benefits
10. Control and dumbing down of media
11. Encouraging the breakdown of the family
It would be revealing to know if this organisation is currently deeply embedded in the MSM including the BBC as the plan aligns exactly with their mantra.
digg,
Goes back a bit earlier than the Frankfurt School.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Coudenhove-Kalergi
Merkel is a recipient of the Kalegri prize. It probably goes all the way to the top of the New World Order.
Digg
The Frankfurt school has many distinct members and has become the bogeyman of right wing politics. Sure, most are left of centre and some have followed the Marxist, Gramsci’s march through the institutions. But there is little expressed support for the kind of crude return to Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao and Castro’s authoritarian Marxism. Marcuse was a darling of the hippies but his book, Soviet Marxism, is a first class exposure of modern communism. Most of these guys were literary snobs and defenders of the western philosophical tradition, supported classical music and the enlightenment vision. And you would not find much enthusiasm for Stormsy and rap in Adorno’s essay on Jazz.
In a conversation with one of the Frankfurters I was told of Lukacs attempt to restore a humanist perspective in his revised version of Hegel’s philosophy and was told by a bozo in the Hungarian Communist Party during the 1950’s that this Hegel is a menace who ought to be taken outside and be shot. The Frankfurters can be criticised but they do not share the ignorance and disdain for knowledge displayed by our media and the judiciary
The 1970’s far left terrorist Groups in Europe like the Baader-Meinhof group took Marcuse and the Frankfurt School as an inspiration.Roger Scruton became a conservative after living in Paris in 1968 and seeing first hand the far left riots
All Joe Biden fans here should go to R4, where Huw Edwards enthuses. I’m sure there are also a lot of Hugh E fans on this site.
Joe is an average guy who likes to talk, apparently. Huw has found a Republican senator who says you cannot but like Biden. Could we even see Kamala Harris as his running mate? A heartbeat away from the presidency?
Well, perhaps we should expect Huw to be just a little…er…biased?
Just a little?
Oh yes, Huw has even found Republicans against Trump, one of whom will be voting for Biden. Surprising, no?
Make that more than one. Cos Huw has found Scarramuchi.
Apologies – it sounded like Huw, but it turned out to be James Naughtie.
Still, another beeboid who doesn’t sound like a Trump fan, so really, makes little difference.
The conclusion features three laws of physics which apparently tell us why Trump can’t win.
Laws of physics. Who would have thought?
@danhindtweeted
The BBC really is a world leader in some areas, not least toadying up to the United States’ ruling elite.
This profile of Joe Biden maintains a level of incuriosity, credulity and sycophancy that is almost miraculous.
https://bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000lgkr
“Republicans interviewed that are anti #trump ”
Calgary : Now who might attack two gay men in the street ?
And why would the media and establishment lose all interest in further digging ?
Alex Belfield new FOIA video
: BBC Pay 3000+ £5K To Get Up Early = £21m
Flexibility allowance on the basis you might be asked to work a difference shift.
https://youtu.be/H3HfDr4xjso
Oh God, if the police had to stop a black driver in a car it just HAD to be Dawn Butler – bit of a b……..k dropped there !! Of course her passenger filmed the whole incident and now she’s ‘doing the rounds’ airing her grievances.
Outrageous, it’s not like black MPs have a reputation for breaking driving laws.
… oh hang on
Strange that’s there’s nothing on Beeb webpage yet. Probably having a management meeting on the line to take without showing up their “girl” Cressida while hanging common plod out to dry
Oops… you are already on the case.
Have the media established yet what actually happened and who was in which seat, as this does seem to have confused matters as Age of a new Dawn giggled her way through her latest Lammytable race bait performance, securing solidarity from Dave, natch, Champion Ash, that odd Dr. woman the bbc like, that even odder goofy actor who now just plays an even more deranged Paul Mason…
Be funny if it turns out the other driver/passenger was a finance pundit/economist the media like to drag on.
Giggling Dawn enjoyed a lengthy interview with Fatima Manji Ch 4. hijab wearing mohamidan. Not a hint of criticism but pure sympathy from one Bame to another. Each night Fatima becomes more ethnic, looking tonight like a character in an Ali Baba panto.
Fatima Manji is another ethic, like Priti, who drops her ‘g’s durin’ what passes for askin’ and checkin’ when interviewin’
Was the copper coloured ? Are we to assume it was a whitee ( male ) – and that he should be sacked for doing his / her job ?
Or that the coloureds now want to never be stopped ? Meanwhile the weekend death toll in her city is at least 4 with shootings and stabbings aplenty …….
Tonight’s TV
BBC1 7pm Countryside ..repeats from the highlights
8pm Antiques Roadshow repeat
BBC4 7:30pm repeat : Proms Classic from 2002
10pm for 3 hours ..repeat progs about Mars
BBC2 10pm The story of what happened to Adam Goodes after he took a stand against racist abuse in 2013
The Times TV guide is in lockstep with the BBC schedulers
, the BAME agenda prog of the day is normally highlighted
and they’ll probably be an article about it.
For catchup the Times recommends the film about murdered black boy Anthony Walker
It was bound to happen, the PC brigade have finally become a victim of their own design . ‘Lord Haw Haw’ has to apologise for a racial slur .
sputniknews.com : BBC apologise
Hold the front pa… screen!
We are about to enter the age of a new Dawn.
That is all.
When comedy made a point. This was a joke but now is seems close to reality.
Corp I’ve never heard of apologises
“The clothing company & Other Stories is under fire after using a racial slur to describe one of its products.”
“H&M has suspended several employees after a new hat for the Swedish retailer’s chain & Other Stories was given an internal product name that contained a racist slur.”
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The two word term they used is not unknown to the internet
LAB = local ass bitch, apparently
Everyone – everyone – you can stop moaning about hundreds invading blighty every day because we now have a CCTC -yes – a
Clandestine Channel Threat Commander
Even the title suggests incompetence –
Where is the ‘clandestine ‘ ?
And it’s not a ‘threat ‘ it’s real and been happening for ages .
Apparently the new CCTC is on his holidays in Spain so when he and Mrs CCTC get back in a couple of weeks he can start work – after the 14 day quarantine . Then the new CCTC will start looking at CCTV footage …… then it’s Christmas holidays* ……
*The final paragraph might be ‘alt news’ but nothing surprises any more – personally I’d preferred a ‘Channel Czar ‘Or ‘supremo’ or ‘task force ‘ but that will come next year when the CCTC retires and goes on the board of SERCO or a hotel chain ….. gotta laugh .
Iain Dale’s a bit triggered
He moves in the right circles.
“A few months later, while reading Emily Maitlis’s excellent book Airhead, I had a lightbulb moment. It’s a book based on thirty or forty of her experiences in journalism and interviewing, and I got a quarter of the way in when I suddenly thought to myself: ‘This is the book I want to write.’ “
New Thread
Gosh, almost as if it’s a set up eh?
Questions must be asked.
Knees must bend.
Clearly the police would never collude with …
Did dawn ask him he’d found any more ‘dark brown ‘shoes for sale on amazon which they could get banned ? ‘Dark brown ‘ sounds a bit racist doesn’t it ?
I’m rooting for Dawn to be the last leader of the Labour Party one day …. not that the other lot are any less lefty and spenders of the money tree or cash cow ….
If Dawn Butler switched the video, then there is a danger it was done for malicious reasons. If she didn’t switch it deliberately then she needs to apologise for the implications of her error.
If the driver was white, then the police pulled over a driver for non racial reasons, again, the lady ought to apologise for her uncalled for accusations.
If Sky or the BBC were aware of the ‘unintended’ inference of the video then they too should apologise.
I and my wife have been pulled over a few times by the police while driving. We are white and live in a low crime seaside village but respect that the police have a tough job dealing with mouthy, self righteous people, so we choose to handle the inconvenience with patience.
In the light of BLM and the Dawn Butler incident, the Met have issued the following instruction to all officers, effective immediately: To avoid accusations of racial profiling, never ever question or arrest a black under any circumstances, including if they’re chasing another black down Oxford Street brandishing a machete, or blowing each others brains out in Brixton.
That’s the politest police officer I’ve ever seen.
Yes, it’s not nice getting stopped by the police, even worse getting arrested, but they do need to be allowed to question people… otherwise, how can they do their job and what is the point in them?
Still read this blog even though I very rarely post, but. . .
It’s late at night and I’m giving these videos a bit of amateur analysis. Noticed a couple of things:
At 13-14 seconds in the Sky News Twitter video there is a woman pushing a bicycle, the chainrings are on the left side of the bike, should be on the right. There is some text on the wall behind her, looks ‘mirrored’ to me, ditto the letters behind the policeman’s ear immediately afterward.
TTFN!