The Far Left Pro EU Biased BBC has a major problem with the vaccine wars . In its eyes the EU can do no wrong . Yet the failure of the EU to roll out vaccines across its’ sub states is both a major embarrassment and a tragedy for citizens . So how will the BBC spin this to favour the EU especially when vaccine exports owed to the UK are stopped ?
Weekend Thread 30th January 2021
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Nice to see that the awful BBC have ‘borrowed’ a new word from the US, and are salivating over the EU vaccine squabble with the silly ‘RESET’!
I suppose that now Mr Biden has hit the road Zimmering, we’ll get a whole lot more of this…
At least the BBC haven’t borrowed “circle back” from the USA. 🙂
Yet.
😉
Black is white and white is black in the world of Al Beeb.
“UK applying to join Asia-Pacific free trade pact CPTPP. “
Liz Truss appears to be the only one in the government doing anything positive .
“Hong Kong residents now eligible for special UK visa”
Here is a message a message from the ordinary people in Great Britain to our government that we have been saying for years “We are full up! “.
In comparison , Canada, Australia and the USA are vast continents .
We ordinary people don’t matter. It’s the equivalent of ten large towns arriving. How will that work?
More strain on everything and young people again will be priced out of housing market.
I understand the legal obligation though. However….reality bites.
I’m hoping for a financial crash tomorrow…..it might Level the playing field a bit.
Priti could put them up in hotels , oh! wait a minute ……..
Garry……. “More strain on everything and young people again will be priced out of housing market.”
Remember a few years back it was widely reported that the Chinese were buying up whole streets of properties, and new off-plan properties ? well they probably see this now as a God sent opportunity for the wide spread letting market.
There’s never a problem – just a business opportunity.
Quite. And I noted on LinkedIn…two pencil necked tie wearing white shirt types welcoming the hard workers etc.
They won’t be motivated by by cheap gear and labour then? Or property developing opportunities?
Taffman,
Now’s the time to wheel in Bliar to tell us, “……noo, noo, noo, there won’t be hundreds of thousands coming……”
Look where that lie got us before.
Lord Patten, ex Governor of Hong Kong, on the subject of the UK’s “porous borders”:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/445958/Lord-Patten-The-UK-s-porous-borders-are-beyond-control
I wonder if he’s got any space on or in any property he owns?
Its not “beyond control” !
We have a Royal Navy and Royal Marine force that could easily secure our borders , but for some “obscure” reason our Home Secretary and ‘Prime’ minister are not intending to use them .
Remember, the British Army were called in to help with the Nightingale Hospitals and a very good job they did of it .
IMHO the present government wants to flood the UK with people against the long-standing wishes of the people of this nation. They never listen to the voters once elected.
Roll on Brexit MK2.
A promise or “pledge” made over five years ago ………….
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-pledges-to-control-and-reduce-immigration
The Reform Party is the only way to smash the Cabal.
taffman, funny how the BBC report that the incidence of Covid is higher in London and higher in ‘multi-generational households’ without understanding why.
The BBC will then go on to talk about poor living conditions in cramped households and will then talk about the UK’s housing shortage without understanding why.
Dim and dimmer!
One could ask the question did the ‘Kent variant’ of the virus come in to the UK on a rubber dinghy across the Channel at Dover ?
Out present so-called Border Force is certainly a border farce.
Or even a broader farce, taffman. Certainly the RIBs and other boats will be bringing in mutations. It is the way viruses work.
taffman
I believe Africa is also a vast continent so they could go there. Oh, and apparently it is free from racism. What’s not to like?
A reminder to the government and Al Beeb, nearly five years ago, we voted to leave the European Empire.
The current mess we are in is down to the fact we have MPs that have been trying to reverse the that decision instead of getting us out of the E U.
Is it just me are all the BBC’s ‘brown’ presenters smug and self-promoting?
Naga, with a voice that sounds like a classfull of finger nails scraping a blackboard apparently says of herself:
If her voice doesn’t work on TV, despite us being distracted by her rabbit caught in the headlights look, how on earth does it work on radio?
Are we poor BBC R4 victims going to have the delight of Naga coming to us out of our speakers or has she left the BBC for fairways new?
Fore!
Four? (old ISIRTA joke … for the oldies)
I always look forward to the ITBB weekend bumper crop in complement.
Critics are saying.
http://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.com/2021/01/ive-always-been-quite-critical-of-my.html
An elite, boorish golf addict with a voice made for silent movies.
What’s not to like?
Not long up this morning, making breakfast as usual and I invariably listen to the Sunday Service. Today it came from Norn Iron, and was a real Christian service, completely different from the nowadays normal BLM/LGBTQ/ other nonsense. Praise be to heaven.
Just btw, Arlene Foster impresses me more and more.
Peter
It might have been a tape recording from 30 years ago in the pre woke madness days …
You spoiled that now!!
It might be time to start worrying about the mental health of high profile remainer traitors after recent EU ‘mistakes ‘
Where is Major – Blair – Brown – May- k Clarke – Campbell – Adonis – g.Miller – gauk – e.Davey – and of course Starmer – on what has happened Friday night . ?
One of the things which really sticks out is that the EU commission imposed border restrictions without telling or consulting the governments of the countries directly involved …
…and if it happened once ….
Fedup2
You beat me to it !
I would like to add Obahama , May and of course Sourberry to that list.
“…and if it happened once ….”
its bound to happen again . The UK is seen as a soft touch .
Fed and taffy, I note with some irony (it was too early in the morning to have the Schadenfreude needle hit 18,000 rpm, let alone reach the red zone) that in the 8 a.m. News, the BBC Newsreader mentioned that some member States may be tempted to seek a looser relationship like that of the UK. Previously, in the same bulletin, a headline item had been Portugal voicing a complaint about lack of vaccine for Covid.
It was hard to detect but there was a slight sense that the ‘looser relationship’ bit might have been read through gritted BBC teeth. I have a notion that Portugal were slightly reluctant joiners in the first place and that they were dragged into the EU because of Spain wanting to join. Or am I thinking of the Euro? Memory on all that is a bit dim and distant.
Blair was on Sky this afternoon and admitting they’d made mistakes.
Certain media.
Once the bbc pick up… ????
Possibly see the problem here.
Next… Hunter hits the heroin chic catwalk. And falls off.
NF’s handy guide to the Gamestop/Wall Street event for those of us (myself included) who don’t understand the stock market.
Explained: The People Vs Wall Street.
EUBBC looks as though it is using Russian protests as the ‘look away- squirrel ‘ technique to avoid any further discussion of the ReichEU and vaccinations ……
…..I turned on ‘broadcasting house ‘today for the first time in years only to get 12 minutes of Russian internal strife . Every once in a while one corrupt Russian mafia boss / politician tries to get rid of another and tries to get the West involved ….
…the same record being played now ….
…I’d rather hear about vaccine supplies ….
This was followed by an item about swimming in cold water for some charity ….. cutting journalism …..look squirrel …
Then an item on pampas grass ….
……….
This was followed by ….
A sleeze bag foreign minister from Portugal completely supporting the EU and the Helga running it . No vaccine problem in Portugal it seems
Then they found a lefty air head who used the mantra about ‘all safe when all vaccinated ‘ – or whatever it is . This character wants to vaccine to be ‘ shared ‘ – which translates to giving it away from the UK –
Then a scientist from the Oxford research bods who was promoted to say ‘give it away overseas ‘ – he swerved this but tried again and again it was swerved .
The BBC seems not to want british people to be vaccinated but wants to give it to foreigners first ….. keep shouting that BBC and you will be gone sooner rather than later ….
The vaccine should go first to where it is most needed.
Certainly up until November 2020, according to the BBC, this must have been Boris’s Britain and Trump’s America, where people were dropping like flies, unlike the rest of the world, especially those parts ruled by women.
I know the situation in the US has got more complicated now as the vaccine that it was impossible to produce up until October suddenly arrived November 4th and Joe Biden’s emergency plan pre-november was going to save everyone.
Now it turns out that he has no emergency plan and the virus will ‘just do its thing’. Perhaps he should get that pen out of his trouser pocket, (yes Joe, that’s where you last had it), and sign it away?
At times like this, Darwinian Politics springs to mind.
You get looked after by those you voted for.
Or not.
In the case of the BBC, they have solved this issue in a unique way.
Fed, the irony is that the vaccine developed in the EU has to be refrigerated at -70° and it requires a relatively complex supply chain otherwise it will be wasted.
And they are still doing it on the 1pm news.
Surprise!!
Former Panjandrum’s Pandora’s Box
Well, that headline reads like your Times crossword clue to two down, twenty-seven across.
And if you now read that second sentence as – two down, twenty-seven are cross, then you have the clue to the Mail on Sunday headline: ‘Boris’s double vaccine victory over EU’
Seems Boris has out manoeuvred Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen into a double climbdown over her attempted blocking of Belgian vaccine exports to the UK and also her EU shenanigans on the Northern Irish border.
Let’s hope the EU, stymied at the Channel, don’t turn around and invade Russia.
The frontpage of the Sunday People gives the EU a good old fashioned Churchillian “V” sign made up two syringes.
Our tabloids are junkies for this faux blitz spirit baloney.
The Sunday Mirror, as a Labour-leaning title, has a long-standing non-aggression pact with Brussels, so instead turns its fire on our supposed internal infection enemy: ‘On the corona frontline. Heroes at work. Despatch that reveals crisis in hospitals as medics battle coronovirus’ – the breathy overuse of journalistic wartime terminology reaches a toe curling crescendo there with the substitution of the term “despatches” for “report”.
Amy Sharpe the young Mirror journo whose Twitter tag justifiably tells us she is “always on the lookout for stories” we can now envisage braving no man’s land, dodging from bomb crater to fox hole, her precious despatches held close in a satchel, the outcome of the battle in her hands.
By the way she’s up there with the BBC’s Rianna Croxford in the diverse in identity rather than outlook “30 to watch” category of the Young Journalist Awards.
Mind you, although she’s “always on the lookout for stories” you only need bother our Amy with a certain type of story and she’ll tip you the wink which kind: “Urgently looking to speak to parents who are afraid about sending their kids back to school on Monday – if this is you pls get in touch, DMs are open” – call me old fashioned, but judging from her Twitter feed with support for illegal channel crossing migrants and her worries about “the Far Right” hijacking BLM protests, our Amy comes across as more of a Uni-directional activist than a reporter.
‘Carrie a natural choice for animal charity role’ – this is the PM’s latest main squeeze and putative fiancé Carrie Symonds, your Sunday Telegraph frontpage pin up.
If Princess Nut Nut will insist on dipping her toe into politics, then she’s fair game for lampooning – in the tradition of the much lauded Spitting Image. Seems Carrie has taken on another charity job to do with rewilding of animals back into their natural habitats. Plastic puppeteers would have a field day with those horsey teeth and one can envisage some sketch involving releasing her back into the wilds of Shetland.
By the way, do we perhaps have a theory as why Boris is dragging lockdown on interminably? Boris: “Blather, blather, bollox, bollox, Castor and Pollox (classical reference), Carrie dearest, honestly I’ve told you I really do want to go through with the wedding – once lockdowns are officially over…”
That could be sometime never…
‘Social distancing may have to remain in place all year’ (Telegraph) – I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – if you accept the premise that lockdown policy is a life-saver and its cost has been justifiable, then it follows that there really is no reason to lift lockdown EVER!
Boris: “Burble, burble, whiffle-whaffle, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides Medea, me dear, Carrie, yes I did write that list of reasons not to marry, but honestly, look here, I’ve also written another Daily Telegraph article arguing in favour of the marriage – so you know I’m telling the truth’.
Back to the Mirror: ‘Boris betrayed my Babs. Star’s widower blasts PM’ – this is an argument over Alzheimer’s funding. The Mirror’s opposition to the Tories here descends to the level of pantomime, but they will Carry On.
The Sunday Telegraph has former panjandrum Jeremy Heywood explain to the plebs: ‘Brexit through the eyes of UK’s top civil servant’ and making the case against democracy, recalling how: ‘…he warned David Cameron he would “open up a Pandora’s box of problems he couldn’t solve” by offering a referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU’
And finally, seems some people might be taking lockdown to extremes: ‘We’re in the HS2 tunnels for a month, Mum – send us all grub’ (Times) – I’m no fan of the HS2 corporate crony white elephant boondoggle either, but one senses these crusty protest campaigners may be enjoying themselves rather than making the valid point to the public.
Asiseeit
I think this is a time to use the blitz rhetoric the press so often fall back on . We do have an enemy – it is the Franco German EU club .
Blighty has been hit by covid severely – yet there is no reference to this in the EU demand to steal our vaccine supply – putting British lives at real risk – that – to me is an enemy ….
AISI another brilliant paper review. However, you did miss a very significant bit, something to do with the mental health of youngsters, on the Daily Star Sunday. In the usual run of things, they attack and lampoon the PM and his current Cabinet, especially Matt Hancock and Gavin Williamson.
Now they seem to be taking a tilt at our young people judging by the photo. Someone called Amy Childs (before you ask, no, I don’t know who she is) but she has had a Lockdown Panic. Apparently. The resulting explosion has blown most of her clothes off. Now that she is down to her underwear, she is able to raise a hint of a wan smile.
That Lockdown Panic for Amy did not last long. Think this mental health thing is being talked up by the MSM to create fear and anxiety, not help to cure or relieve it.
AISI, reading your posts are rapidly becoming the only reason I get up in the morning!
digg, but AISI never includes the obituaries.
BBC1 Andrew Marr Show always looking for the negative angle to help depress the nation.
He was asking Liz Truss about some trade deal that has been signed with Mexico, “the Brexit deal has removed 4% of GDP,how much does this new deal restore of that?”
Groper is a shot bolt.
What % of #MeToo cred has the BBc retained keeping senior staff who think grabbing juniors’ bums is a nifty stress relief technique.. and laugh it off?
Sadly these ‘politicians’ are never clever enough to think on their feet by turning the questions on their head. i.e. “no Andrew, the question you should be asking is…….”.
Ask him about the super injunction and watch him melt like a slug covered in salt.
Oh look , the BBC still digging for Brexit negativity.
And it’s the Covid rule breaker Stephen Kinnock who has something to say.
One day BBC , you will have to come to terms with the vote and move on ????
Another great fan of the Reich EU since his entire family have their snouts in the EU trough ……using ‘green ‘ nonsense as a distraction for the failing EU …
“his entire family have their snouts in the EU trough”
Indeed, I’ve long thought that Starmer has ‘Kinnock envy’.
Fail as Labour leader then reap the benefits.
Am pretty sure Stephen Kinnock’s wife was on the BBC a couple of days back as an ‘expert’ in something or other. But as usual they conveniently failed to mention her less than impartial background.
Sluff – I think she was the PM of minister in an EU statelet – might still be for what it matters – I do know that the pension an ex EU commissioner gets is ‘generous ‘- almost enough to keep Mandelson in his lifestyle choices …. ( another traitor strangely quiet after recent events )
For years we have had condescending liberals 100% sure they were right on everything and us thick leavers were wrong.
One good thing about the internet, it never forgets.
Glorious to look back after this EU business ????
The EU has barely retained Blair, Femi and Kinnock.
The BBC House journal is doing a good job of only keeping Alan Rushbridger without blocking him too.
Just caught up with RAndy Marr’s propaganda show. Giving a soft interview to weasel-faced, weasel-talking Micheal Martin and effectively offering up the CTA as a reason why we should offer OUR vaccine supply to the foreign, clearly hostile Irish Republic.
Martin suggests, naturally unchallenged by RAndy, that Astra Zeneca’s supply contract is the only one with the EU to hit scheduling problems. A total lie. Weasel Martin adds that lots of people across Europe are upset by A-Z’s failure to perform; unsurprising given they only hear the EUSSR’s lies and those of Martin and MacroNapoleon.
Peter, perhaps we could offer vaccine to the Republic of Ireland on condition that they hold a Referendum on EU membership before the North holds a Referendum on a united Ireland?
The BBC1 programme ‘The Big Questions’ is discussing “will Covid help us save the planet?”. All but one guest are in agreement that climate change is real.
Some of the words being bounced around: Thatcher, socialism, climate change, capitalism is bad, 10 year crisis etc.
The BBC might as well just get Owen Jones on and save on the catering and taxi costs.
Tabs
These people are the TV equivalent of the of the old geezer in the street carrying a sandwich board reading “THE END IS NIGH” and should be regarded in the same manner. A joke.
Tabs – I wonder if they are thinking in terms of population control in those parts of the world where population growth is unrestrained and carbon dioxide/green preservation are complete unknowns ?
Aah…. it’s the BBC, perhaps not ?
Why does absolutely no-one in the green brigade suspect that an estimated growth of up to two billion people in the world over the next 40 years or so, including a doubling of the population of Africa over the next 30 years, is not a major contributory factor in CO2 emission levels ?
Note – this population growth is not being incurred in indigenous western cultures.
Someone on the show did mention that population growth needs control and then someone else mentioned that western countries birth rate is falling “so we will need to fill that gap with immigration”!
‘I was scammed out of £17,000 on Instagram’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55804205
‘”I was following this guy on Instagram and he always posts with his car, a rose gold Maserati, saying that he’s rich and self-made …” says Jonathan Reuben, 24, an accountant.’
I give up..
You’re an accountant, would you send this 21 year old man, You’ve only met on Instagram, £17,000 to invest in foreign exchange on your behalf?
Could have bought a kid for two farthings.
Is that his lunch?
Question Time, there will be a farmer on the panel this week.
Guess which one ?
…@TheBlackFarmer
Apparently the problem with last weeks all women panel was that they were all white.
I see @THeBlackFarmer is an ex-Tory candidate
a full on pro Brexit guy
and has just had his Covid Vax
When “Question Time” has the three to one opposition (plus one more as presenter) he’ll probably be the loner.
The EU’s first reaction to the problems exposed which show that it has made the most monumental disaster of its organising of vaccine supplies for its populace is to lash out furiously, flailing around, and eventually settling on trying to blame, bully, and punish Britain, its manufacturing plants, and its citizens.
When that doesn’t work out too well and, indeed, exposes even more of a mess than they thought initially, their next demand is that Britain’s instant reaction to the EU’s cock-up should be to sacrifice its citizens for the good of the rest of the world – and specifically for the EU.
Convince me that this isn’t an indication as to exactly how the EU is going to behave at all times in the future…..fully backed and supported by the likes of the Labour Party, Lib Dems, SNP, and especially the BBC and its left-wing activist reporters.
Now – imagine we were still members of that failure of an institution….
The Prime Minister could make the Covid crisis easier on those that are financially struggling through the lockdown by scrapping the Telly Tax.
Al Beeb should be funded like any charity. Eg Oxfam, the RSPCA and the WWF.
Simples .
From memory, the charities you mention, Oxfam, the RSPCA and the WWF, derive most of their income from the public purse which is why I don’t give to them and prefer the Salvation Army and the Royal British Legion. Less state funded and much less woke into the bargain.
I used to support the Royal British Legion but at the start of the first lockdown they closed the homes supporting veterans and turned them out. May I suggest Veterans Aid? They will never turn their back on any veteran and however many times a veteran may ‘fall’, they are there to pick them up again.
Perhaps when the pubs re-open they could put BBC collection tins on the bar?
taffman, I seem to recall there were queues of Luvvies all wanting to say how wonderful the BBC is and how essential the BBC is and how important that the BBC’s advertising-free (almost) TV and radio broadcasts are. So why not a National Luvvie Tax to fund the BBC, say an extra 1% on Income Tax for Luvvies who pay tax in the UK and an extra 10% on Income Tax on Luvvies who have ‘off-shored’ themselves and their income.
Simples.
Up2snuff
A wonderful idea but knowing Bo Jo and his Liberal Government it would soon be shifted to a PAYE on all and sundry.
We need a new Government that looks after the people of this nation for a change.
Peak District’s last surviving mountain hares ‘at risk’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-55704996
Doom and gloom central
“The trust said it believes climate change is an increasing risk to the creatures’ survival, making summers too warm and reducing food sources, such as heather.”
Then the punchline:
“Mountain hares – a sister species to the Arctic hare – died out in England during the last ice age.
Reintroduction, in the late 1800s”
Eddie B is the above what you mean ?
(Naga, …………….being distracted by her rabbit caught in the headlights look, how on earth does it work on radio?)
11:58
‘”We feel guilty about being able to have a normal life here while everyone [in Wales] is in lockdown,” says Mrs Hender, who said compliance with rules had been part of New Zealand’s success.’
Alex and Natalie Hender
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-55876866
‘
There you go – compliance –
nothing to do with NZ closing it’s borders,
whilst we were flying in farm workers, and welcoming rubber dingies.
Lineker just told people what to expect in February
LGBT+
“each day the BBC will be publishing sport related content covering a wide range of issues”
“One of those pieces will be looking at the experiences of LGBT+ football fans in the UK and how their experiences might have changed over time.”
Stew – I’m in 2 minds whether to give this much attention as I do not agree with promoting sexual deviancy by publicising it .
I do wonder ,though , who decides when there is going to be a special ‘month ‘ – and to whom they are accountable ….
I suppose the outcome will be the BBC Queer Channel
So Peter Tatchell , what kind of organisations publish things that treat homosexuals in a derogatory way ?
https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/bbc-persian-accused-of-publishing-homophobic-blog/199937
I love it when these people talk about having such things “rammed down their throats”, without a shred of irony.
Your repertoire of favourites is as bizarre as it is extensive.
Woods
I think you under estimate your adoring audience …
Do you think the BBC will have a ‘month ‘ for the 100 gender types ? – they can stick it in the school syllabus – right ?
Go tease ‘em, Tiger!
Their hypocrisy is just mind boggling !!! How they have the brass neck to front it out is beyond me.
DISGUSTING
Deputy leader Angela Rayner, who boasts of ‘standing up for working people’, claimed £30,952.98 including £1,600 on 23 first-class rail tickets between London and her Manchester constituency since March.
If I recall – rayner is top of the expenses list – 250 k a year ..?
And she is the Deputy Leader of a Socialist Party ….
We picked up on this on here earlier last week..
Hard left propaganda from the BBC and teachers now being noticed due to home schooling. you will notice the BBC try to shift the blame !!!
Opening a lot of folks eyes now !!! About time this indoctrination of our kids was was outed
Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford says he was subjected to “humanity and social media at its worst” after receiving racist abuse on Saturday.
And the Marcus Rashford non-story appeared one day after an identical story this time featuring the Chelsea right -back Reece James. Also in the last week the Beeb has run stories on two other Manchester United players who received abuse on social media on Thursday and the arrest of a man who sent a ‘racist’ message to a West Brom player.
May I suggest to these pampered morons, who get paid ridiculous amounts of money for kicking a ball around, that they get a thicker skin. And the Beeb can shut it as well…
Wow this really is breaking news
‘Brand new news : when some people go on Twitter, they get abused’
Wow that really needs checking
I am sure it has NOT happened a trillion times already.
Hang on, everyone gets abused on Twitter
..and the abusers like playground bullies look for your weakest angle
So they will go for things that can marginalise you, a skin colour that is a minority in the country, a religion that is a minority, a minority sexuality
I expect in Thailand that a European will be demeaned a s “Farang”.
And if people have a motivation & a means
eg If you are a footballer, who reads his tweets & gets wound up , fans of opposing teams will attack that weakness.
The thing is on Twitter it’s sensible not to bother reading the abuse
and not to feed trolls by reacting it.
Indeed if you are a celeb it’s best to leave your public Twitter account in the hands of you PR team and get on with your football work.
I think it is media theatreland to think that Premier League footballers are being kept awake at 2am reading hatey replies to their tweets.
Police issue !!!
WTF, there is no point in bringing police into the playground ..when the easiest remedy is just to ignore the windup people and not get woundup.
Does the BBC think it is helping people by highlighting hurty tweets in its news bulletins ??
Looks to me it is feeding the trolls.
The blm lot may well live in a deprived area yet they’ve all got new 50” tv’s and new trainers.
I’m getting really angry now. I’m sick of being civilised and reasonable.
I’ve watched my 23 year old lad go out to work at 6am this weekend….first hiring a big 360 digger …and then digging a sewer for the landlord here…
Then fixing a mile long track and putting in land drains. In the freezing cold. For not much money.
We don’t owe any bastard anything.
I’m getting really angry now. I’m sick of being civilised and reasonable.
I’ve watched my 23 year old lad go out to work at 6am this weekend….first hiring a big 360 digger …and then digging a sewer for the landlord here…
Then fixing a mile long track and putting in land drains. In the freezing cold. For not much money.
We don’t owe any bastard anything.
Had a quick glance last night at the Beeb’s webshite – the ‘Entertainment and Arts’ section to be specific – and the lead story was about the death of a musician called Sophie. Never heard of her to be honest. Anyway, scrolled down the page until I got to a picture of the deceased alongside Nile Rodgers, and couldn’t help but notice that she looked rather masculine. I was wondering why the Beeb would give such coverage to a relative newcomer to the music business, when I read the sentence ‘Sophie was known as a transgender icon.’
Apparently ‘she’ came out as a ‘trans woman’ back in 2017 and died as a result of slipping and falling after climbing up to watch the full moon. ‘She’ wanted to bark at it, no doubt.
Usual gauleiter -style strutting arrogance from the evil empire aka the EU with regard to covid vaccines. No surprise there then, after all it’s only peoples’ lives. No surprise at the BBC silent treatment on the matter either. When will this contemptible ship of fools ever be brought to book?
Hi Jack, your post reminded me of an occurrence a few years back. I was in a meeting with a client of my design business which was a bit overrunning. I knew I had a second meeting imminent with a new potential client who happened to be German.
As I was winding up the first meeting which had overrun by about 5 mins, the door to my office burst open and the German Guy charged in…
“This meeting is over!” he was yelling, “It is now time for my meeting…” He then proceeded to gather up my first visitors papers and belongings and dump them outside in the corridor.
I of course was not having this and asked him politely to leave as I did not want my first client treated in this way.
It was one of the most bizarre episodes I can recall!
Is it in their genes?
The German guy did eventually return and apologise and things calmed down.
Jack – the thing that got me – was that remainers went on and on about backstops and borders and how it would cause a ‘no deal brexit ‘….yet when the EU did what it did – it’s a case of ‘stay quiet’ – distract and move on .
They assume joe public is dumb .
If there were signs outside vaccine centres saying ‘closed due to no vaccines ‘… we d be hearing those ‘emotional ‘ stories all over the BBC ….
I just hope the Uk parliament gets to say its ‘ piece on Monday – with the SNP keeping their loud mouths shut for a change ….
There are a lot of Remainers/Rejoiners driving the demand for a Scottish ‘indi. ref 2’ in the hope that it will get them back in to the EU.
I suspect dark forces in the EU are behind this.
“You are listening to BBC Radio Local It’s just come up to the hour
So over to the local trades union office for our constructed news”
Wednesday “teachers, teachers need to be brought to the front of the vaccination queue”
Thursday “NHS staff : NHS staff need to be given a £2,000 bonus each”
Friday ” Parents : parents have been WORKING at home looking after their own kids, so the government needs to be offering them money in compensation for this ”
Sunday “Local Labour MP says Tories smell , more on the politics show later
and we haven’t got time to report properly on actual murders and rapes but some celebrity black footballers have had some hurty tweets so we’ll go on about that for 5 minutes”
I tried to quote accurately, but ,may have got some words wrong.
Stew, think you missed out after: “Local Labour MP says Tories smell , more on the politics show later” and demands that they are given free soap, shampoo and deodorant.
Government is now assumed to be able to fund freebies for everyone.
Unfortunately, Government has no money and HM Treasury is up to the ceiling with bundles of IOUs already.
Statement from the eloquent and mostly peaceful ‘asylum seekers’ of Napier Barracks (yeah right).
Meanwhile another nine have been arrested, to add to the five already in custody.
https://www.kent.police.uk/news/kent/news2/policing-news/2101/nine-further-arrests-following-disturbance-at-napier-barracks-in-folkestone/
One of these suspects, 31-year-old Mohammed Ali, has been charged with assault by beating, using or threatening unlawful violence and criminal damage. Mr Ali has been remanded in custody to appear before Medway Magistrates’ Court on Monday 1 February.
I’m sure he will face the full force of the law (right?).
theisland,
“We are all the same, thus we all express our emotions differently…..”. Yes, we say, just FOff back from where you came from. We’ll even give you a gallon of two-stroke for the outboard.
It’s amazing that he starts his epistle with ” as one of the residents” and yet ends with “asylum seekers of Napier Barracks. Who pays these solicitors to write these letters? Oh I forgot we do, silly me.
Did they torch the place because of the Wi-fi signal …
Interesting things going on in Russia for the BBC…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55876033
3000 plus “protestors” arrested…
I guess you could in a sense compare Putin to Biden right now so are the protestors far-right or are they freedom fighters?
I can only imagine the BBC news staff working out how to handle this after the vitriol they spewed at the insurgents at the Capitol.
Interesting times indeed!
BBC News channel has a 30 minute programme called “London and the Second Wave” with Clive Myrie narrating is a sad and sombre voice.
Quite interesting to hear how teams of 20 nurses do shifts to allow them time to cry and do never ending interviews with the BBC cameras. Oh, and then the nurses like to cry…. then see to a patient before rushing off to cry again… then do an interview and cry half way through that too.
I cannot believe the BBC cannot find anyone in the NHS who doesn’t cry.
Perhaps a lot of them are simply crying tears of mirth at just how gullible or ‘woke’ the BBC reporters/activists are.
Especially those at the head of ‘Institutions’, Institutes’, ‘Colleges’, ‘Associations’, ‘Federations’, ‘Conferences’……and so on – you know, the ones who are never identified as Trades Union Leaders or political activists…
Then there are the leaders of the (sometimes labelled as ‘respected’, or ‘independent’, and other such vacuous titles) the left-leaning or left-wing groups and think tanks, who are never identified as such – but have similar words to those above in their titles – and some not at all identifiable as left-wing or activist, such as some ‘Foundations’,’ Trusts’, ‘Funds’, etc., etc., whom the BBC simply introduce as if they were authoritative/unbiased/independent bodies.
Wouldn’t you dissolve in tears of mirth if you were able to get away with all this willful level of crap/deceit/camouflage at the hands of the so-called ‘most trusted news source in the UK’ ?
I’m glad I revisited this site. It won’t have done me any good …..but it’s refreshing to read this common sense.
Classic FM:
“If you are male and have had Covid would you be prepared to donate Blood Plasma to help those currently suffering?” No.
In this day, age and attitude of others, No. Ask the women.
Followed by:
“This is John Humphries joining you for an hour’s long session of classic music” No, no. Off.
Lewis Allisbad.
A record number of vaccinations saturday
6 0 0 0 0 0 0
( i know stew will correct mr to 598k- but if true – that really really is something )
One 0 too many but you are absolutely correct it’s a magnificent achievement.
Double – I could say it’s an old teaching trick I used to use to see if anyone was paying attention – but it was a simple mishtake – but perhaps wishful thinking …
… or perhaps my true identity – ms d abbot – has been discovered ….
@Fed rounding to 600K is nothing
but you actually under counted
There were an additional +10,621 second doses
according to Lawrence Gilder’s count
9m first doses done
0.5m second doses
Thank you stew – I hope the BBC gives some ‘significance ‘ to the 10 million jabs coming up this week – at current rate – although no doubt there will be a dip signalling failure – in BBC world ….
Grooming Gang stuff : 9 months ago victim EllaHillUK came on to Konstantin Kisin’s podcast to talk about her abusers
look what happened
Grooming Gang stuff #2
One of the things that came up was that generally non-lefty voices were excluded from the recent grooming gang report like Maggie Oliver etc.
Yet left wing voice Ella Cockbain was given voice
And has some strange views
#1 in her 2012 Guardian article she said ‘Yes these grooming gangs exist and they are Muslim , but it’s nothing to do with religion’
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/may/08/asian-sex-gangs-on-street-grooming
#2 Then in her later book she moves tack basically denying that Asian raping gangs exist and really lays into Jack Straw and Sarah Champion for saying they do.
Misrepresentation was her weapon as she wrote about Straw … screenshot
WTF of course he didn’t mean that .. the rapists tended to already be married, often to their cousins.
Twitter thread also including Ghuffar Hussain article about the socialisation problems of the gangs , the religion customs, the crime etc.
It’s more nuanced and does say that about why younger perps go to for white girls cos of dating restrictions within their own culture.
Looks like NYT jumped on the BBC Soph (RIP) bandwagon.
Going well so far.
Sad, but media elevating folk based on criteria beyond talent seldom does.
Sad. I had a short but influential career.
“Covid: Israel to transfer 5,000 vaccine doses to Palestinians”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-55879337
Will they get rockets back in return ?
Not so much biased BBC as tasteless BBC.
At 6 pm, they run one of their endless pro-BBC commercials and the backing music carefully selected is Be My Baby by the Ronettes.
A great track. Produced by Phil Spector. The grade A weirdo who recently died while serving a murder conviction in prison.
Was no other music available? Or could the BBC producer not drag himself away from the Guardian sudoko to think more carefully?
Twitter didn’t notice
and that is hardly surprising as it was only 10 seconds long
Virtue-signalling alert.
On countryfile the first feature is a food kitchen replacing the food bank with fresh food.
In Stroud.
On the menu today, a Middle Eastern veggie curry.
Isn’t that great.
Next up. Full- on anti Brexit story about the drawbacks of importing food.
They just can’t help themselves. Or more likely, don’t want to.
I lasted for a whole 10 minutes before hitting the off switch.
I was watching that thinking they are using a lot of plastic one time use trays to put the food into. They mentioned 50,000 meals have been made so far.
I didn’t hear the BBC lecture them about the enviroment waste of using plastic but then the BBC don’t care as free food=socialism and that’s their end goal.
Used to be standard Sunday evening viewing in our house.
Really enjoyed it.
Not watched for many months now. The CONSTANT agenda / preaching on Climate change, racism and Brexit just made it unwatchable sadly..
Would be interesting to see the viewing figures over the past 2-3 years.
They just mentioned climate change! Apparently hedgehogs should be sleeping but they are not – hence 100% proof of climate change!
They claim the hedgehogs are declining because the warmth due to climate change means females are having a second litter in the Autumn who are not strong enough to last out the Winter. This seemed to be the explanation offered for the decline.
What obvious question they carefully didn’t answer was….what about the first litter?
The biggest culprit in the decline of the U.K. Hedgehog population is the lovely cuddly stripey faced Brock the badger.
Nothing he likes more than using his powerful front claws to rip past the hedgehogs spines in order to access the succulent meat contained within.
Not something the Beeb and its badgerist-in-chief Chris PackHam will discuss.
Yes. They’ll also kill newborn lambs.
But media folk think they just eat berries.
Someone tell the hedgehogs to come to taffland where it is snowing .
Although they better beware, for there is a growing population of hungry badgers and foxes
bbc Countryfile “Warmer winters due to Climate Change are diminishing hedgehog numbers by UPTO 50%”
.. there’s loads round here,
+ hares, fox, and deer need culling
I ‘d never heard of a murmuration until a few years ago
but now I spot them every so often.
The anti_Brexit item
uses the typical lecture guy
“We used trade to get cheap food, cheapness sounds OK but,
..but it’s evil” etc
I checked wording
She did a load of caveats about hedgehog counting
then did the grand claim
“Some reports say the numbers have halved in the last 20 years”
That is a big claim
We wouldn’t really know now, cos they are all sleeping most of the time now.
Countryfile map scandal
They put up this labelled as “South Yorkshire”
The large chunk on the east side bordering on the River Trent
is called the Isle of Axholme
It’s always been Lincolnshire never Yorkshire.
How the heck they included it I do not know.
Others complain the episodes world food map had Australia, but not New Zealand
BBC News 6pm , discussion on racism in football. Contributor – Jessica Gonzales – wants tougher regulation on online hate and manages to bring up Trump and the insurrection.
With a Z
Lord Farage deserves credit not only for BREXIT.
His victory has resulted in thousands of British lives being saved, thanks to the UK being free to get ahead by over three months in producing a vaccine. The EU would have failed us.
By the way, he also deserves a medal as big as a frying pan. ????????
Covid-19: Captain Sir Tom Moore in hospital with coronavirus
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-55881508
The 100-year-old, who raised more than £33m for the NHS, was taken to Bedford Hospital after requiring help with his breathing, Hannah Ingram-Moore said on Twitter.
She said he had been treated for pneumonia over the past few weeks and last week tested positive for Covid-19.
Mrs Ingram-Moore said her father was not in intensive care.”
Wonder if he caught it in hospital.
This should be a massive story.
Given that Sir Tom is not gallivanting around, it must follow that someone has taken it into the care home or hospital.
So how about investigating the lack of biosecurity in care homes and hospitals, a continuing utter disgrace and example of nailed-on negligence. I mean, they’ve only had a year to sort it out.
But the BBC won’t criticise its NHS and social care ‘heroes’.
Countryfile
“bohoo Britain imports a lot of food, he rose about 40 years ago”
.. What as if someone had set up massive subsidy schemes to European farmers, creating food mountains , which were then dumped on the UK , cutting down UK based farmers.
This what not mentioned
Nor that the field next to you isn’t growing food
.. cos Guardianlalaland Greens created subsidies for biofuel crops to be burnt in UK power stations
eh Dale Vince ?
5.30 BBC1 news and they had on the black lady news editor grinning at Clive Myrie as she sneered that the U.K. was signing up with this Far East/antipodes trading block having just left a more local one. Perhaps if the Eu had remained just a trading block I might have voted Remain. She then finished with the fact that the U.K. does more trade with Germany than all the countries in the eastern block put together – said with a flourish and even bigger grin. That is the past, and maybe we will buy Toyota rather than BMW in future.
Dharshini David, it was she, laughed, “..and one with an even less catchy name, of course, Clive!” (EU v CPTPP).
Dharshini David?
Oh for a ‘catchy name like, “My name is Bond, Jenny Bond!” At least we could spell/pronounce that.
New Selfie Alert!
I think Marianna is part of a conspiracy to make us doubt real information sources and to turn to BBC fake news instead- part of the ‘black operations’ unit founded in WW2.
One for Jon, Lurch & Co to quietly ignore?