482 Responses to Midweek Thread 25 November 2020

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  1. StewGreen says:
    November 27, 2020 at 6:15 pm

    CarrieAntoinette’s 1 size fits all policy

    A TalkRadio caller points out that some not working people could isolate for a week or so before Xmas with the family and pretty much be sure they are not bringing Covid
    ..whereas some other person could have just finished a high risk role like cleaning up a migrant hotel or homeless shelter etc.

    And anyone sensible will ignore the 5 day travel rule, cos 3 of the days have no public transport won’t be running anyway.

    One person said normally she’d go down to Cornwall on Christmas Eve and come back on Jan 3rd
    but this year the gov are telling her to come back on the 28th
    ..Why should she ? She’s not putting her Cornwall relatives in much extra danger by staying there a normal.

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  2. Scroblene says:
    November 27, 2020 at 6:47 pm

    Haven’t heard much about Manchester Mare, Andi ‘Mid Staffs’ Burnham for a while…

    Perhaps as the noisy, irritating fall guy from last month, his BBC profile doesn’t quite fit in with the continued fall in viewers’ ratings!

    Funny that, I thought he was supposed to be ‘important’, so even the BBC don’t want him badgering them too much!

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  3. Concrete sea says:
    November 27, 2020 at 7:18 pm

    A Beeb report today on the killing of Damilola Taylor 20 years ago.The tragic murder of a child, I’m sure most will agree. But, typical of the Beeb, no mention of his killers, who were just a little older at 12 and 13.
    Brothers Danny and Ricky Preddie were members of a gang known as the Young Peckham Boys. You can guess their background. It was not a racially motivated attack.
    Any half decent Plod would have hounded and run these gangs out of town, but then of course there is Stop and Search to consider and the wishes of people like Diane Abbot and Dawn Butler and dancing round their agenda.
    The brothers already long out of jail, having served about 5 years and rehabilitated ? Er well no, actually. Both continue to commit crime and at least one back inside for attempting to run over a Police officer.
    These low lifes should either not have been released or given life licences and then one wrong move and back to jail for a long time.
    Earlier mention here was made of Lee Rigby and on the surface it would seem strange that certain incidents and people seem to be ignored by the Beeb and the like. There have been many other horrendous and tragic killings conveniently forgotten or deliberately passed over.
    On the other hand it’s not strange as we know the reasons why.

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    • Van Helsing says:
      November 27, 2020 at 7:40 pm

      Concrete Sea,

      The effects of violent crime on victims and their families is conveniently ignored by far too many politicians, judges and do-gooders. Unless, of course, the victim and their assailant(s) fit a favoured profile.

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  4. Fedup2 says:
    November 27, 2020 at 7:28 pm

    Concrete – I wish you wouldn’t mention such things – it just makes me lament the absence of a Death Sentence – but I think I am of the wrong time …

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  5. taffman says:
    November 27, 2020 at 7:30 pm

    “R number for UK below 1 for first time since August”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55105285
    While the bumbling ‘Court Jester’ continues to wreck the UK by trashing its economy. The biggest disaster in the history of Britain ! The worse than useless Labour Party offers no opposition.
    Our only salvation is to look to The Reform Party.

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  6. Guest Who says:
    November 27, 2020 at 7:38 pm

    Monday in the Timmeh! Office will be fun.

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  7. Fedup2 says:
    November 27, 2020 at 8:08 pm

    Judging by the kind of comments she has made since withdrawing her lies – I’m surprised she hasn’t been called before the judge to explain …..
    Aaron Banks should use the knife ..

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  8. Rob in Cheshire says:
    November 27, 2020 at 8:40 pm

    I remember that Channel 4 News had it in for Aaron Banks too. Michael Crick led the campaign.

    They tried to claim that Banks had financed the Brexit campaign through overseas bank accounts, that he had regularly seen the Russian ambassador, and even that he was running some sort of mercenary army at an African diamond mine.

    All the claims were baseless, and, in my opinion, malicious. I wish he could sue them too. I would love to see Crick, Snow and Guru-Murthy torn to shreds by a decent QC. It would serve them right.

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  9. StewGreen says:
    November 27, 2020 at 9:38 pm

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  10. StewGreen says:
    November 27, 2020 at 9:41 pm

    RI Xmas lectures are fronted by 3 different green activist scientists this year
    .. And avoid White Men
    All 3 are about Global Warming
    In ‘Planet Earth: A user’s guide’
    @seis_matters @helenczerski & @shine_tara
    are teaming up to tackle climate change through earth, ocean and air #XmasLectures
    #1 The anti-plastics woman
    #2 ‘Planet Earth: A User’s Guide’, + diversifying science.
    climate change – including its history, and the natural and human processes that drive it.
    #3 HelenCzerski who like to label people “deniers”

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    • Solomon Grundy says:
      November 27, 2020 at 9:54 pm

      This will be the first set of Christmas Lectures I’ll miss since I can’t remember when.

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  11. StewGreen says:
    November 27, 2020 at 9:57 pm

    PUPIL PROBE Asylum-seeker pupil who joined school as 15-year-old but ‘looks 40’ stays in class but ‘not taught with other students’

    A SCHOOL pupil who joined a Coventry school claiming to be a 15-year-old boy as parents feared he ‘looked like a 40-year-old’ is now being taught apart from other pupils.

    A school spokesperson later told The Sun they had been able to verify the student’s age – but couldn’t reveal how.

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13313005/coventry-school-adult-asylum-seeker-pupil

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  12. taffman says:
    November 27, 2020 at 10:32 pm

    “Topshop owner Arcadia on brink of collapse”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55099374
    “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
    The idiots running our country take us all for fools. But where are the rest of the Tory MPs?
    They need to know that their jobs will be next.

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  13. taffman says:
    November 27, 2020 at 10:41 pm

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk
    From the horse’s mouth.
    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/wholl-save-us-from-nero-johnson/
    How long has he got to go, who will replace him?
    Nigel, your country needs you!

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  14. Fedup2 says:
    November 27, 2020 at 11:00 pm

    Taffman – not a bad place to sign off the midweek thread. Thanks

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