423 Responses to Midweek Thread 10th March 2021

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  1. StewGreen says:
    March 12, 2021 at 6:12 pm

    #2 “The important issues raised by Meghan’s interview
    “Here’s our panel of 4 from the African community”
    ..Female “the royal family have no interaction with the black community ”
    .. that’s false, there are black staff, and they tour African places a lot

    Black woman #1 unreasonable
    #2 woman OK
    #3 woman, looks very African didn’t speak
    #4 man head of BLM Leeds .. American accent and came out with all the buzz words like “institutional” racism etc

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  2. taffman says:
    March 12, 2021 at 6:14 pm

    “University of Manchester advises against using ‘mother’ and ‘father”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-56372118
    And it is from places of leaning like this, originates the nation’s wokeness. But who are the people that come up with these destructive ideas? More importantly who has got the courage to call it out – Boris ? No!
    It is left once again to people like Nigel Farage and Toby Young.
    The Tories are too timid .
    https://www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/equality-and-diversity/training/inclusive-language/

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  3. Deborah says:
    March 12, 2021 at 6:14 pm

    I notice that BBC1 news, Lucy Manning now reports that Sarah Everard was ‘walking home’, they have dropped ‘walking home from visiting a friend’. As I posted earlier, even 40 years ago, living close to Clapham, I would no more have walked across Clapham Common at night than fly to Mars. I am trying to remember whether I would have walked across it during daylight and suspect I wouldn’t. The BBC and its friends are pretending it is something new. I suspect the women in Whitechapel didn’t feel safe walking the streets while Jack the Ripper was around.

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    • taffman says:
      March 12, 2021 at 6:24 pm

      How many attacks on women are there?
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-56365412
      Be ready for a ‘witch hunt’ of all men walking in the street at night.

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      • Guest Who says:
        March 12, 2021 at 6:31 pm

        Maybe time to recall the attack on a girl by several women of faith, given a pass because their homicidal efforts were guided by an inability to handle the alcohol in their systems that they were unused to given religious restrictions.

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        • StewGreen says:
          March 12, 2021 at 9:50 pm

          She was from Egypt, they were black
          “She died of a stroke a month later, but pathologists could not legally link the attack with her death”

          1.5 years later “Four girl gang members spared jail despite ‘horrific’ attack”
          “Lewis repeatedly punched, and slammed her into the bus stop while others laughed and filmed the attack.

          Lewis was given a 12 month referral order
          , Dobbin 6 months
          the two 16-year-old girls 9 months, 6 months.
          – Mariah Fraser, 20, was given an 8-month sentence
          – Britania Hunter, 18, given a 12-month community

          Not only low sentences, but also got visual anonymity
          no media published recognisable images of the perps.

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  4. StewGreen says:
    March 12, 2021 at 6:19 pm

    #3 Lack of banking in small Yorkshire time
    some white voices
    but long seg with black guy who owns a dance academy
    then another seg with a black voice

    #4 New Covid mothers, walk and talk support group.

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  5. Guest Who says:
    March 12, 2021 at 6:25 pm

    Presumably a baseless claim, which the BBC will be all over.

    Unless it doesn’t want to go there.

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    • JimS says:
      March 12, 2021 at 7:45 pm

      Don’t worry Sopel & Strumpet are on it:

      The U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry, has landed in London – and makes a podcast pitstop to Americanswer your questions.

      And as the George Floyd murder trial begins, Emily, Jon and Anthony discuss America’s reckoning with race. Joined by Black Votes Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown and Editor-at-large of The 19th, Errin Haines, they discuss how the Meghan and Harry interview proves the monarchy is not immune from that reckoning and why the black vote is being targeted by a new bill in Georgia.

      Or not…

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      • StewGreen says:
        March 12, 2021 at 9:53 pm

        “black vote is being targeted ”
        … the BBC is MISREPRESENTING there

        ..AFAIK restrictions on postal voting to prevent fraud
        It applies to all races.

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  6. StewGreen says:
    March 12, 2021 at 6:41 pm

    BBC local news : long item about women getting cat-called etc.

    export brought on a London radio presenter Shelagh Fatty Fogarty
    .. A special issue with her is that being a celeb she did have a stalker who was prosecuted.

    She supports the Covid-busting Vigil

    Then the presenter promoted the one in Hull.

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  8. StewGreen says:
    March 12, 2021 at 6:50 pm

    “Bradford taxi drivers protest against plans to charge a clean air tax”
    ..in the video the driver doesn’t wear a seatbelt
    https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2021-03-12/bradford-taxi-drivers-protest-against-plans-to-charge-a-clean-air-tax

    The most important bit, is tucked away at the end
    Since the air is now clean
    … the Clean Air Zones in Sheffield & Leeds have been delayed.

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  9. Deborah says:
    March 12, 2021 at 6:57 pm

    6.30 Look North and a man is murdered in his flat by 2 men. The programme spent no more than 10 seconds on him with a briefbit of film of police outside his flat. I can only presume his life is worth less than Sarah’s.
    We had much longer on how afraid women feel out at night. We had an interview with Shelagh Foggarty. She and Peter Levy encouraging women to go to the vigil in Pearson Park, tomorrow at 7pm as Peter reported. It is so important that it is more important than covid restrictions. But nothing has changed since 1066 and before.

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    • StewGreen says:
      March 12, 2021 at 10:23 pm

      Jason Joseph Clark, 40, was found by emergency services with fatal injuries outside a flat on Beech Close, in Hull, on Tuesday.
      Patrick William Clayton, 54, and 26 year-old Patrick Sean Clayton have now been charged with murder and are due to appear at Hull Magistrates Court today.

      Hull court news coincidences
      – 4 months ago a thug with same surname
      “Hull thug David Clayton threatened a dad with a knife in front of his three terrified daughters”

      – 2 years ago “being punched by Rob Clayton, 29, in Hull. ”
      ================

      The victim had just got out of jail , for “coughing at a police officer”
      after they stopped him for swearing

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  10. theisland says:
    March 12, 2021 at 7:13 pm

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  11. Fedup2 says:
    March 12, 2021 at 8:01 pm

    Had to resurface from my self imposed media blackout . I now find that the lady who walked across clapham common is confirmed dead . RIP.
    But the hysteria about some amorphous evil maleness is busily being fueled by the BBC MsM . It must be depressing for the American Actress to have the media light switched away but thats entertainment .

    Now we have the prospect of a meaningless illegal street protest being dispersed by plod …. saturday night .,.
    …. or will they cave in and have a token vigil .
    Meanwhile the chinese virus is still with us …

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  12. Northern Voter says:
    March 12, 2021 at 8:02 pm

    Thats why the call them “bearers”

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  13. Garry Lavin says:
    March 12, 2021 at 8:09 pm

    Dear me. What a pillock.

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  14. Fedup2 says:
    March 12, 2021 at 8:17 pm

    I caught the BBC news – every so often they run stories about depression and suicide – particularly concerning men – particularly young men .

    Watch that news and see some reasons why people can be sent down .

    For instance – economics – january bad fir exports and huge reduction in imports . It didnt say whether it was in comparison to the month before or YOY – but that was only the 3rd in a stream of negative ‘ news’ .
    The death of a lady crossing clarm common is sad and rare .But death on the streets of the capital is not . There will be one this weekend – which may have happened already but does not get the full media treatment .
    Why does this killing get exceptional coverage ? You know the answer to that .

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  15. Garry Lavin says:
    March 12, 2021 at 8:18 pm

    I’ve just had one of those blanket news texts from Apple.

    It says their article says how Covid has upended our lives.

    Bloody hell….don’t we already know it?!

    It looks like all our reactions and opinions now are controlled by media dog whistles! Dear God.

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  16. Sluff says:
    March 12, 2021 at 8:34 pm

    Now I don’t support all the hangers-on rentagob wimmin’ who have crawled out of the woodwork to stir anti-male hatred in light of the murder of Sarah Everard.

    But I’m struggling to understand why the authorities/ police/ judiciary thought it was OK for endless BLM marches last year but it is not OK to have a vigil on Clapham Common.

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    • Fedup2 says:
      March 12, 2021 at 8:45 pm

      Sluff
      Its a case of everyone scared to have the finger of a racism accusation pointed at them impeding their upward career progression – across any organisation now .
      Common sense and instinct go out of the window – with the more astute players knowing it to but operating in the ‘ race accusation’ environment.

      The race model can be transplanted to ‘ women as victim’ model too.

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  17. Northern Voter says:
    March 12, 2021 at 9:05 pm

    Some people, according to a bBBC survey believe that the Mash Report has been taken off air because it was too far ahead of it’s time.

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  18. Fedup2 says:
    March 12, 2021 at 9:06 pm

    Looking for the footy tonight I came across ‘ a point of view’ – this had someone called Sarah Dunanf going on about the exit from covid and how things have been terrible and how lives have been ‘interrupted ‘( not about those who have suffered and died and those who have lost ).

    Ms dunant – was one of those nastier of remainers who threw every thing at ( we ) remainers – a bit beside the point .

    She wants some sort of national celebration of the ‘coming out of covid ‘ and to commemorate a ‘lost year ‘ – she deserves a reply but won’t get one ….

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  19. Fedup2 says:
    March 12, 2021 at 9:13 pm

    Time for the WEEKEND THREAD

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