Weekend Thread 8th May 2021

Another VE Day . Lest we forget . Another opportunity for the BBC to re write history into its new woke version .

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  1. Fedup2 says:

    Man arrested re murder of PCSO in Kent .

    Will he be a ‘local man’? A Norwegian ? Mental issues ?
    A dinghy user ?…..
    broadchurch script ?

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    • StewGreen says:

      Police “British national from Canterbury”
      ‘no further info will be released’

      So wait 48 hours for the charging and naming I guess.

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    • Thoughtful says:

      The Police release a photo of a suspect and the BBC did publish it

      _118412836_imageofmale.jpg

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-57023743

      Whether he is the arrested man remains to be seen

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      • StewGreen says:

        Yes @Thoughtful it is well possible that he is the arrested man,
        but the BBC report doesn’t call him a “suspect”

        Police appealed to a man in an image they released to come forward.

        … seen in a “very relevant” location the following day, near to where her body was found

        I guess . If it wasn’t the actual perp, it could be someone he sent to say : pick up a dropped glove, or retrieve a dumped weapon etc..

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  2. Peter Grimes says:

    TWATo today leading on Krankie’s push for independence and financial Armageddon, then the Labour Party taking half of Taffland’s seats.

    WTF!

    WOT ABOOUT LABOUR’s ANNIHILATION IN ENGLAND!!!

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    • Beltane says:

      Only a little patience PG and you would have seen England featured at last. You would also have been elated to watch Steve Rotherham (no relation) the newly elected mayor of Liverpool, explaining how the deeply knowledgeable and politically adroit citizens used their votes to ensure that the Labour party stayed at the helm of this shining example of socialist moral skills.
      See? Who says there’s no balance in BBC coverage.

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      • Peter Grimes says:

        Does that mean they’ve already counted the postal votes?

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  3. Philip_2 says:

    Without even looking today, we know the BBC will support the EU (micro invasion of Jersey) by French Fishermen. Even in France the big news is reported as being by ‘French Fisherman’. You know the story, and its still ongoing — for now. But whilst we wait for the next broadside on French claims to the Channel Islands are quite clear…

    Except at the BBC, they are not Fisherman at all but:
    ‘Fisherfolk’ according to Fiona Bruce on the BBC QT!

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  4. StewGreen says:

    Rotherham : looks like Labour will just have an overall majority
    even though the Tories have come from nowhere.

    lefty Labour’s Steve Rotheram hails his Liverpool mayoral re-election
    as “massive vote of confidence in the power of devolution and the work I’ve done so far”

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  5. StewGreen says:

    14:45pm R4 drama Government gives large PPE contract
    to Union Jax, a “an ironic-patriotic novelty souvenir and confectionery” company.

    … lefty comedy again
    I wrote a longer comment a few days ago.

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  6. Beltane says:

    The current BBC Election special is a classic example of ignoring the elephant. Kicking off with Wales, then Scollun at length followed by Liverpool, Bristol and now West Mids. All with the theme of Labour or SNP success, bucking the trend, rising above the common herd, etc etc. As I write Huw is puffing Mark Drakeford and his ‘remarkable performance for Labour’ as icing on the cake.
    With luck that jumbo is building up a gigantic fart, followed by several barrow-loads of steaming shite to bring a true level of balance back to the presentation.

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  7. Thoughtful says:

    Shocking shocking news that the corrupt democrats in the USA are now going after the expert witnesses in the Derek Chauvin trial which will have a chilling effect on anyone accused being able to have a fair trial when all of the experts are going to mindful of the consequences of their giving expert opinion the left don’t like.

    https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/05/maryland-a-g-to-appoint-panel-to-audit-record-of-chauvin-expert-witness-dr-david-fowler/

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    • vlad says:

      Yes, for all the talk of healing and re-uniting the nation, the ‘nice’, ‘conciliatory’ Dems are actually viciously vindictive.

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    • Dobyns says:

      They’re also after Chauvin again, this time for kneeling on a suspect during an arrest 4 years ago.

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  8. StewGreen says:

    BBC don’t do science
    April 13th they put out a story pushing their Global Warming alarmist agenda, re extreme weather events.
    (weather !)

    They chose to hype up hurricanes
    90 mins later the Professor who’s the editor of the oldest meteorology journal in world criticised them
    “Please get the science correct, @bbcweather “

    The BBC ignored him and using their using the “Second bite of the cherry” PR trick
    they also promoted the same video on May1st
    Paul H has an article
    https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2021/05/08/bbc-climate-check-april-2021

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  9. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Has anyone heard the bbbc mention the child vote and how it has helped the snp.
    I would think that without the junior vote the snp would have fared much worse.

    Correct me if I’m wrong but I think Wales has also let the bairns vote which suits the left.

    It’s all very well saying when they grow up and mature a bit they will understand more but they will be replaced by more kids having learned the alphabet and doing sums and so be judged able to vote and we all know which way the children will vote.

    Is it correct that immigrants have been allowed to vote as well?
    Can only see them voting one way.

    Will they now start complaining that 14 year olds should be able to vote (then 12…..10. and so on)
    How about a vote for a foetus. It’s their human right.

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    • G.W.F. says:

      Emmanuel Goldstein

      I also think that pets should have the vote.
      Three of my dogs joined Labour and voted strategically in the leadership election for Corbyn. Best £12 ever spent.

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    • taffman says:

      “Welsh election results 2021: What’s the secret behind Labour’s success?”
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-57037388
      Its no “secret”, they just gave the kids the vote.

      In 2016 taffland voted for Brexit .
      At the time most of the kids in Wales were ‘remainers’ thanks to our education system.
      The sixteen year-olds are the remans of the ‘remainers’
      In a few years they will grow up and realise their mistake.

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      I heard a spokesman for the Scots Nazis say that asylum seekers were also allowed to vote!

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  10. Fedup2 says:

    Dipping into the BBC coverage of the elections – for some reason the BBC has left 2 production companies as the ‘anchors ‘ namely Kirstie and Huw – both of whom look knackered.
    I’ve been dipping in and out due to the footy but in the last hour ? They interviewed Lucy Powell – Labour – a green Scot and the Welsh nationalist windbag – I don’t think there was anyone of the ‘right ‘ at all ….

    The Beeboids put the comment by the resigned Labour front bencher ‘Mahmoud ‘ his comment about Labour being a woke metro Twitter Party -out of touch with former Labour voters ….
    ….
    . I think that comment has hurt the BBC because they recognise themselves and realise it is the truth .

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  11. StewGreen says:

    BTW on a technical note
    It seems people can now share images from BBC websites by right clicking to copy the image address.
    Previously if a BBC image was on the https://ichef.bbci.co.uk server, embedding here was generally blocked

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    • Philip_2 says:

      Stew I think that becaue we have changed domains, they will block us again, after all, its what they do!

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      • JimS says:

        No, a ‘technical problem’ only experienced by Mr. Green, who didn’t believe it when others ‘managed’ to post images here and he couldn’t.

        The ability to post a link does not an expert make.

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        • StewGreen says:

          @JimS that is not true, some other people said the same pics did not show up for them either.

          #2 There was a separate issue where I think you/someone posted images from a image sharing site
          .. And they worked for you but not for me & other people
          perhaps something to do with a that you were logged into your image account.

          Those image failures happened not just on my PC but also on my tablet/phone on Android.
          I have not changed anything at my end, yet when @Thoughtful posted that photo of the “Canterbury man” the police were seeking it showed up on all my devices.

          #3 It is possible that ichef images did USED to work here some time before 2018

          Here is our original discussion
          where your image didn’t show up for me on any devices.
          So I posted it again so everyone could see it …and you shouted at me.
          Sorry, I don’t want to bicker it’s boring.

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  12. Tabs says:

    Owen Jones yet again on the BBC News channel at 15:19 today. He is joined by a Ash Sakar lookalike.

    Usual rant…
    “blah blah Tories only won by spending money in Labour areas”
    “Labour need a policy to tax the rich”

    Why is this annoying idiot always on the TV telling us what Labour need to do? He reputation of backing the losing horse everytime shows he is out of touch (like the BBC) on every issue in the country.

    Owen doesn’t officially speak for Labour but his association with Labour is enough to turn voters away from voting Labour.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Jones is like the ‘black knight ‘ in the monty python film ‘it’s only a flesh wound ‘…. And blame voters for voting for someone who is going to do some good – how selfish …

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  13. Philip_2 says:

    The BBC seems compelled to overpay its pet presenters. Gary Lineker is back in the frame for avoiding paying his tax.

    Gary Lineker embroiled in £4.9million tax battle with HMRC over freelance earnings

    TV STAR Gary Lineker is being pursued by HM Revenue and Customs for £4.9 million in tax the Government agency claims it is owed.

    Why are we not surprised each time the BBC luvvies get found out? They seem ‘surprised’, ‘offended’ that they get found out. After all, most of them are lucky to work 3 days a week.. Pocket a fat pension, do a bit or private work, claim to be ‘freelance’ and rely totally on the BBC!

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1432763/Gary-Lineker-latest-news-HMRC-tax-battle-freelance-earnings-income-national-insurance-BBC

    News extra: I found this is identical to news dated 2016. The BBC never learn nor do its dim presenters.
    Over 100 were found not to be paying what is owed as back tax. All claiming to be ‘independent’. As you do at the BBC.

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1934487/hmrc-probes-100-more-bbc-presenters-suspected-of-tax-avoidance-after-two-ticked-off-by-taxman/

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    • Tabs says:

      All these tax dodging TV presenters are well inside IR35 and should have their PAYE taken from their pay packet.

      The IR35 rules are clear. If you have to work inside a office/studio and work regular hours that your employer dictates then you are a normal employee and should be paying PAYE tax.

      The BBC prefer the contractor status rather than employee as they don’t have to pay employers National Insurance contributions.

      Typical champagne socialists the lot of them.

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    • taffman says:

      Tabs
      Typical champagne socialists the lot of them.”
      The Outfit that robs from the poor to give to the rich .
      Now that the Tories have had a good showing in the elections, will Bo Jo do something to ease the lives of those that bore the brunt of lockdown and abolish the Telly Tax ?

         17 likes

  14. Thoughtful says:

    In England the temperature has been recorded in what is known as the Central England Temperature ever since 1650

    Currently the CET for May is 7.0 an anomaly of -2.9C and it is colder than March was! April was also colder than March an event rarely seen.

    It’s not just localised to England those as most of Northern Europe is in the same boat with below average temperatures.

    It’s rather strange and it might be expected that other areas would be benefitting from displaced warmth, but they’re not. I wonder when the media will begin to take it seriously instead of the trivialised snow in May, what’s happened to Spring type of pieces.

       33 likes

    • Timozweb says:

      In addition, believe that the CET is now adjusted by the ‘experts’. Strangely, there is only one type of adjustment that is ever made and that is to increase the recorded temp since 2000 and reduce it prior to that.

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  15. Beltane says:

    The BBC Election special grinds on, puffing and promoting Scotch and Welsh successes and gains – without once mentioning that in both ‘governments’ 16 year-olds have been franchised, allowing their entirely predictable ignorance, susceptibility and frailty to influence results.
    Quite staggering, during a supposedly impartial discussion, but yet entirely in keeping with the BBC position on informative political programs.
    And now over to Leila Moran who tells us that the LibDems are readying themselves to take over from Labour as the alternative choice for the next government. (See also identical quotes from, in no particular order:
    Ashdown
    Farron
    Clegg
    Swinson
    Davey
    Kennedy
    Cable
    Campbell)

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Beltane
      Leila is such a good advert for not voting for the liberals – scatty and mad as a frog – wonder what the liberals are for now – apart from being given disproportionate airtime ….

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  16. Beltane says:

    And now for Andy Burnham’s tearful schmaltz, straight from the heart and aimed straight at Starmer’s job.
    Gem follows gem.

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  17. Fedup2 says:

    Burnham v the Muslim in the play offs …

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  18. StewGreen says:

    Breaking : forecast is SNP won’t achieve overall majority
    So it will be a Green Orange government
    .. ie not so sweet, bitter in fact.

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  19. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    What will the Labour Party and their media supporters (all tv and radio stations) make of this Starmageddon event when the shouting dies down.

    You can be sure it will not be the real reasons which all of us on here know but they (Labour/bbbc etc) will come out with some kind of politicspeak about lessons being learned and it will be carry on regardless.

    Or.
    In Boris’s case (wallpaper etc) Carrie on regardless.

    Good title for a film in there somewhere.
    Fill in your own blank.

    Carrie on ………………
    (Pity Babs is gone as she could have been the title character)

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  20. theisland says:

    Disgraceful double standards. Christians are arrested for reading from the bible in public because it is ‘offensive’.

       24 likes

    • vlad says:

      One landmark at a time, one conquest at a time, our public spaces are being occupied, the cowed people of this once proud nation are being gradually habituated and groomed (pun intended), like the proverbial frogs in slowly boiling water, for the great day of the Caliphate.

      And the BBC cheers them on, delighted.

      “Hassen Rasool is a muezzin and has performed the Islamic call to prayer in some of the UK’s most iconic spaces including the Royal Albert Hall, the gardens of Westminster Abbey and on national TV. He’ll tell us about the art of the Adhan, how he feels performing it.”

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000w380

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  21. theisland says:

    Bad language alert.

       23 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Wow 2 minutes 15 seconds of ginger hate – fantastic ….
      ( that was a party political broadcast on behalf of the brave heart party ) ….

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    • Dobyns says:

      🤣🤣🤣

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    • Londoner says:

      Great! I do hope that reaches some of the wee kiddies who voted for the wee krankie!

         7 likes

  22. Fedup2 says:

    The BBC SNP channel has someone called Alan Little as the cheer leader for Kirstie . Have a referendum and win? What then ?have a referendum and lose . What then ?

    Their BBC doesn’t go near these grown up questions .
    Nor do they factor in 50 million English taxpayers and their views . Same with Wales – 4 million people – good luck with that independence ….

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  23. Fedup2 says:

    Do you notice that the BBC no longer publishes the daily vaccination number s – they really don’t like good news …….

    A very goebels tactic – on the VE Day … maybe the BBC commemorates the Russian VE Day tomorrow ?

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  24. Fedup2 says:

    BBC has now ‘rebalanced ‘its’ narrative . Its moved on from Labour and has now embraced victory through the SNP and wales nationalists .
    Normality is resumed . Next its get back to number 10 decorating… and or a new tory councillor with a dodgy tweet from 10 years ago . …. Standard propaganda book

    So – who gets to do the Marr Peston Gigs on Sunday ? Will Starmer have his alibi sorted out ? Or will he send a minion ?

       27 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      How is it that Scots Nationalists, welsh nats , irish terrorist nats are ok by the BBC but English nats are evil Far Right bad people ?

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      • Londoner says:

        Fedup2 – Simple answer there: the BBC, as we all know, is completely run by lefties, and left wing thought in this country is driven by Anglophobia.

        Scots, Welsh, Irish, and anyone else you care to mention = good people.

        English = bad people.

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  25. Beltane says:

    And in a moment of pure childishness, as Huw signs off round the studio we reach Rita Chuckingbutty and her reactive wall – which just happens to show all the Labour gains….

    Pathetic. Truly and intrinsically pathetic.

       34 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Its funny isnt it? Once you learn the language of propaganda the BBC uses – such incidents are easily noticed .
      Bit like the adverts with coloured male and blond female pairing .

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  26. vlad says:

    I wonder if the good people of Hartlepool and elsewhere had this image in mind as they voted?

    Perhaps ‘get woke, go broke’ applies to politics as well.

    2Q==

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    • The WestWyvern says:

      Disgraceful picture. He really is a gormless looking turd.

      No potential leader of this country should ever be pictured on his/her/its knees unless it in front of her majesty and especialy not for some neo Marxist racist cause.

      For this reason alone this creature should be banned from any office.

      Looks like the voters have him sussed, thankfully.

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  27. Fedup2 says:

    Have been subject to a BBC programme called ‘ celebrity mastermind ‘ x4 – 3 wimmin and a queer type – one of the wimmin didnt speak English …. Played ‘ spot the woke questions’ … almost as soul destroying as watching Kirstie and Huw pleasuring themdselves over the SNP .

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    • Nodding Dog says:

      Talking of quiz show participants time for a quick contestant update on BBC1’s I Can See Your Voice.
      Week 1 Lee and his husband John
      Week 2 two black women
      Week 3 Indian man and woman
      Week 4 two black men
      This week A slightly brown brother and sister.I was wondering if they had overdone it with the fake tans but when they said they’d like to go to St Vincent in the Caribbean to see where their great-great grandparents came from It confirmed it…still no white heterosexual pairings to feature after five weeks!

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  28. Northern Voter says:

    Just watching Formula one qualifying on Channel 4, Bernies boy,
    Lewis just made his 100th pole position. Being interviewed, I wondered why he was talking ‘gangsta’ missing g’s off words and no ‘th’ just v like 100v. Know what I mean? As a follow up to the above, Channel 4 ran a puff piece about him you know, his first pole, 50 poles, breaking the record number of poles, on every one he spoke the Queens English, now as an advocate for black lives matter, as if, there he is coming across like a Windrush incomer.

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  29. Fedup2 says:

    Sad news – Angie Rayner has been sacked as Chairman of the Labour Party ( who knew ?) – good news – she is still Deputy Leader of said Labour Party .

    Good news coming Sunday is that the inept shadow chancellor – aniseed Dodds is to be replaced by a remainer traitor such as comrade Benn or Mrs Evette Cooper Testicles … popcorn!

    Elsewhere Lawrence Fox might have got the Emir another 4 years in Londonistan …..

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    • harry142857 says:

      Best news of the week.

      Angela “scum” Rayner gone.

      Kier needs to oust a few more.

      Hope she takes her own advice after Boris did the same when the dullard said, “Get Over It”.

      I am going to crack open a beer to celebrate.

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      • vlad says:

        Get woke, go broke, Part 2: The curse of wokeism strikes again!

        29411558-0-image-a-19_1591717814838.jpg

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Harry – I disagree – Angie and the gobby brummie girl who can’t afford a printer would be the dream Labour team – to finally finish the socialists off ….

        … Angie – apparently – was responsible for putting a remainer Labour candidate into 70% Brexit voting Hartlepool …. Thick as do do thankfully .

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        • The WestWyvern says:

          That hard wood mahogany table behind them is less dense than that pair of cretins.

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  30. Thoughtful says:

    Apparantly the enormous success of the newly elected Democrats continues – well according to Biden that is.

    Under Trump the predicted job numbers for this month was 978 000 new jobs and 5.8% unemployment, the actual figures are just 266 000 job and 6.1% unemployment.

    Unsurprisingly sleepy Joe hails this as a success and claims they are on the right track, and that this is ‘progress’, although progress towards what remains unclear.

    And there is worse news for the US economy as a report stated the US debbt to GDP ratio is now worse than Greece was before its economic collapse.

    I’m sure I don’t need to remind you of the civil unrest which happened in Greece following the debt restructuring, Bidens ludicrous spending plans will add another $2.3 trillion of debt to the already colossal total.

    No one rally can tell where the tipping point might be when an economy moves from being solvent to collapse but the consequences of that happening to the worlds largest economy would be disastrous.

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    • Garry Lavin says:

      My American friends tell me their property bubble has to burst soon. Will there be repercussions around the world?

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      • Thoughtful says:

        Yes and this time they will be catastrophic. China will almost certainly emerge as the great world power and America will be greatly reduced in stature. It’s not if anymore it’s when, and with this set of Democrats in power it’s likely to be sooner rather than later.

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        • Garry Lavin says:

          There needs to be a reset…but not the way those globalists think.

          The speculators and companies that have made fortunes on all the funny money from ‘stimulus’ need to be shaken up and the rigged system reformed.

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    • G says:

      Thoughtful,

      Surely the arithmetic should take the number(s) of unemployed claimed and weekly/monthly subtract the number of ‘unemployed’ migrants coming across the Southern Border? For the sake of accuracy you understand………..

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    • StewGreen says:

      Re Biden : Greg Swenson 8:30am ‘Biden’s Covid furlough scheme is so generous that are same time companies are crying out for workers, but the workers are staying home on welfare.’

      He went further alleging a grand conspiracy,
      that it’s a deliberate tactic to close small businesses so big biz can take over.

         2 likes

  31. taffman says:

    Here is one for Al Beeb and maxincony : should the canny Scots be daft to vote for independence would they still have to pay the Telly Tax ?

       16 likes

    • Garry Lavin says:

      We do here on IoM…..maybe they would arrange the same.

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    • Demon says:

      The whole of the BBC could be decamped to Glasgow and let them pay the BBC astronomical wage bill. Maybe we could then get a neutral TV franchise to take up from where the BBC should have been.

         6 likes

      • taffman says:

        Perhaps we should follow France’s example and divert all our dinghy invaders up to Crankie Land where she would make them most ‘welcome’?

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  32. taffman says:

    Looks like Sturgeon is ‘one sandwich short of a picnic’, so no cigar.
    If they do go for independence, what currency? The Euro ? What defence ? Will they try to rejoin the EU ?
    Will MOD move all their bases out ? Fisheries protection?
    Didn’t they benefit from the ‘Brexit Vaccine’ because we were out of the EU ?
    A lot of questions .

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    • Thoughtful says:

      Sturgeon really doesn’t appear to know what economic realities are. She believes she will not have to shoulder any of the debts run up by Scottish banks in the banking crisis, and none of the debts for covid, or in fact for anything. She is so nuts that she honestly believes Scotland would leave the Union debt free.

      She is then proposing a period of some years in which Scotland would continue to use Sterling as their currency, similar to Panama using the US Dollar, but this gives another issue in that she cannot borrow money in the same way a soverign country can by printing it, such as Boris done recently.

      So how is she going to run a country in which she can spend money like water and save it at the same time, plus allow in millions of migrants, and blame everything wrong on the English.

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    • Garry Lavin says:

      Hell of a lot. All of the U.K. should vote…..on terms that suit the remaining U.K.

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  33. StewGreen says:

    Tonight’s TV
    Not much on
    9pm BBC Muhammad Ali doco
    “10 photos defining his life”

    followed by second Muhammad Ali doco
    10pm When We Were Kings : the battle with George Forman

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  34. taffman says:

    “Labour’s response to the Covid pandemic helped the party retain power after it won the most seats in the Welsh elections, Mark Drakeford has said.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-57031725
    What response ? A circuit breaker that did not work.
    Apart from that, he just followed Bo Jo more or less to be different.

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  35. StewGreen says:

    “Yeh why are Brexiteers so anti a second Scottish referendum ?”

    well it’s the “once in a generation” principle
    … if Scotland can get another referendum despite terms of last referendum
    … then rejoiners will be able to claim the same thing about Brexit
    …. and we will get another referendum to rejoin the EU…

       21 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      On top of that I think the situation is different
      I think Brexit leaving a customs agreement is OK on a 50% vote
      but full Independence ref should be more certain

      If 60% voted for it, then that is fair enough, maybe 55%

      Anyways it’s way too early to talk of Indeyref2
      a lot of things to plan before that
      Maybe Boris might work out some more concessions
      Or get Shetland it’s own devolution first taking all its oil wealth with it.

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  36. Tabs says:

    I see a “man” has been arrested in connection with the murder of community support officer Julia James.

    The BBC keep saying he is a “British national”.

    So, if I understand BBC code correctly, he is a recent black immigrant rather than Muslim.

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    • G.W.F. says:

      I saw his photograph. For a moment I thought he resembled a British friend of mine, Henry Jack Higgins. But then I could be wrong.

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    • taffman says:

      As I posted here before “Ask not what Al Beeb is telling us, but what it is not telling us ?

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    • vlad says:

      This is the man the police were looking for.

      2Q==

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      • Banania says:

        I remember him! He used to hunt with the Old Surrey and Burstow. British as they come!

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  37. StewGreen says:

    A 2 year old BBC tweet
    Does it look like an impartial programme to you ?

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  38. Guest Who says:

    If they say so.

    Kirsty looking like a Babushka dragged through a hedge backwards by a T-34 may seem dreamy to Huw…

       16 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Laura does not work for the bbc.

      This is clearly true.

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      • Demon says:

        I saw a bit of Wark haranguing, not interviewing, the Conservative leader in Scotland. It should have come with an SNP PPB warning.

           10 likes

      • Non Snowflake says:

        At least she’s being honest, they’re only worth 43p a day.

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      • G says:

        GW,

        Follow the link to the Petition. Unfortunately there’s no date to when the Petition started but, “3748” signatures a few moments ago!!!

        It would be good to check back periodically to assess the numbers of signatories, if any.

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        • G says:

          Judging by the comments, well over a year ago and the “Petition” is still open. Just over 3K in perhaps more than a year. So, so good!

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    • Demon says:

      I have seen large chunks of the news today (but not all so I may have missed some) on BBC and Sky. Their interviewees (and both were similar) went something along the lines of SNP, Labour, SNP, Labour, Labour supporters, SNP, Labour, Green, SNP….

      The only interviews of Conservatives I saw was Boris in the morning at Hartlepool where he was grilled by Beth Riby, Kirsty Dork haranguing the Conservative leader in Scotland, and later, just as I turned onto a channel, him being attacked again. In fact I saw more Andy Burnham (no difficult questions of course) than Conservatives.

      No. No bias of course. Nothing to see here, move along, move along.

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  39. Guest Who says:

    Loss of a pet is sad, but inevitable.

    The entire US MSM appears to have been hit particularly hard.

    The photo of some rando bloke walking said pooch for Mrs. O.is touching if telling.

    Hope he didn’t bite anyone.

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  40. Guest Who says:

    Be funny if it was not so dire.

       7 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Meanwhile, impartially, in Welsh…

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      • Garry Lavin says:

        Apart from 16 year old voters…..it must be….Derek Nimmo…

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      • Scroblene says:

        There’s that blasted wallpaper again!

        Predominately red then a little blue than a whole lot of green, mushy, faded stuff!

        We had a set of bedsheets like that once, but I kept spilling red wine over them, so they’re now used for painting sheets!

        (A ‘nerd’ reminds anybody who bothers to listen – Hartlepool won by Conservatives on 15,529 votes, Labour got 8,589, but the high spot of the election, apart from the usual loonies, was Greens 358, and Libdems 344. Wow! That really is a positive result for the right-hand bottom part of the wallpaper)!

        And both blokes seem to have bought their suits after a fire sale!

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        • Sluff says:

          If I heard correctly, among all the independents, one of them got 2900 votes.
          Quite a result for whoever it was. A proper journalist might ask a few questions………

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  41. Deborah says:

    Saturday night BBC1 news. The whole news has been about Scotland and Wales and how brilliant the SNP and Labour have done in the election. The only thing we have learned about England is that Labour has done better (than what wasn’t said) in the Mayoral elections. The BBC1 news hasn’t reported on numbers of councillors, only number of councils, presumably because it doesn’t sound as bad.

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    • smoogie7 says:

      So County Durham, home of the Miners Gala went went well for Labour then?

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  42. Jeff says:

    I wonder if the BBC will ever ask…
    “What is the secret behind Labour’s success in… Tower Hamlets?”

    Probably not…

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    • smoogie7 says:

      Really it is 35% but of course extra votes came from somewhere…

      Clearly voter fraud and now we will have the BBC celebrating

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    • taffman says:

      People of London will reap what they sow.
      More cycle lanes more stabbings etc etc ………..

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      • Scroblene says:

        And plenty of empty office property, Taff!

        Although I retired from property some years ago, the new idea of commuters just popping up for a couple of days, then working from home for the rest of the week is attractive to employers, and is a disaster waiting to happen for large office investors. It is also a shoe-in for all sorts of planning issues when these vacant offices are turned into accomodation!

        So in dumps like Tower Hamlets, Haringey etc, the planning officers will be king, and open to all sorts of suggestions… (Is Docklands planning still ‘controlled’ by TH)?

        Just as an aside, the friend who posted here about London Transport is spot on too! Reduced revenue will create a huge deficit for Khan, so presumably he’ll try and screw Boris for even more money!

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  43. Guest Who says:

    Because it’s in their nature, Iain.

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    • Guest Who says:

      In response.

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  44. JohnC says:

    Welsh election 2021: First woman of colour elected to Welsh Parliament
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-57041114
    Not interested in the story – but yet again, the BBC link to twitter comments of a Left-Wing activist.
    It’s getting ridiculous. They are using Twitter to bypass the bias checkers.

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  45. Guest Who says:

    Not BBC, but senior media gobs do intrigue.

    Fick Ange? Co-kneeler? Wiv ear buds and an ey-oop accent that is just sooooo darling?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Fascinating . I don’t know who Paul brand is as I don’t watch ITV at all – but I guess he is a swamp kidult looking for a move to the BBC .
      If he cannot see that just having a scum thicko like angie as a Labour leader makes them look like hateful rabble – then he is either thick of so lefty or both that he is not worth mentioning .

      I hope Jess and Angie let their views be widely known via their BBC because it will damage both – and maybe wake the conservatives up to the fact they have an 82 majority ….

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  46. Guest Who says:

    Vile ever has issues with troublesome priests… look out.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Top bit of that graphic is cut off on my screen
      It says “Anyone who dislikes Jeremy Vine is welcome to contribute to ” our campaign “OneChiswick”

      Apparently those words are creating a toxic atmosphere
      that leads to nutters cutting off someones garden flowers.

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  47. Guest Who says:

    Haven’t seen her on the bbc lately.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      The BBC is now happily back on the Scottish independence gig . Using words like ‘historic ‘ – when the result is not ‘historic ‘ at all – but might be ‘historic ‘ – in time .

      Seems like Marxism in the BBC trumps the existence of the BBC at all – because after a successful Scottish independence campaign the reason for one UK broadcaster must be questioned because there would be no ‘UK’ any more .

      The BBC propaganda project is like a ‘reverse brexit ‘. There is no ‘project fear’ – there is no mention of a downside . There is no mention of what the real consequences for Scotland or England would truly be .

      The mindset seems to be that term used by remainers and the EU about ‘cherry picking ‘ and ‘have cake and eat it ‘. There is no warning that a peed off English nation might land up not too fond on the hateful EU foreign country in the North .

      As an aside – I think if there is a referendum the ‘remain ‘ vote would win again as the consequences of ‘ independence ‘ becomes clearer and there is a realisation that the numbers don’t add up .

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      • Demon says:

        Fedup2, I think you are right. If there is a straight Yes/No then on Thursday’s vote, and despite relentless one-sided SNP propaganda for over a year, the unionist parties still polled just more than the “independence” parties.

        However, I find it amusing in a way that the Scottish National Socialists will be coalescing with the Green fascists. Hmmm…the National Socialists in bed with fascists. Wasn’t it ever thus!

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Demon – the last bit I wrote about the numbers not adding up might not matter much to the die hard haters of the English AKA Westminster .

          However the cut in subsidies such as the Barnett Formula would cut the benefits budget . As I was thinking about this I concluded that the Queen would warn Mr Nut Nut to do whatever is necessary to keep her Union together … including throwing even more money and ‘freedoms ‘ at them .

          Whether the next monarch has the same attitude it a different matter .

          That’s assuming that the SNP fix the vote by adding over 10 year olds and various foreigners to the voting pool …. In order to get the 51% majority.

          I hope there is a referendum – and I hope it is soon . So much fuss over 3 million national socialists .

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        • Banania says:

          @ Demon.
          Are you implying that the Scottish National Socialists are not fascists?

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  48. Guest Who says:

    Like Angela, only thicker.

    Should go for Dep Shaddo Leader.

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  49. StewGreen says:

    7:45am Jolly report about the new fashion of travelling to Pakistan
    and working with your parents to do ARRANGED MARRIAGE

    Imagine if there was a white British sect that travelled Arkansas to seek marriage partners for their children who are exclusively WHITE and CHRISTIAN
    would they not be called white supremacists, racists etc ?

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    • StewGreen says:

      Report on arranged marriage,
      ignored the plight of Pakistani girls taken to the UK by Asian British men.

      They have no English, may be illiterate in their own language & end up powerless, defenseless & invisible”

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    • Banania says:

      In Arkansas, how old would they need to be these days?

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