504 Responses to Midweek Thread 12th May 2021

  1. vlad says:

    Here’s a story the BBC haven’t covered yet – I wonder why?

    “Michel Barnier calls for non-EU immigration into France to be suspended for up to five years”

    What?? I thought only nasty racist far-right Little-Englander Brexiteers wanted to control immigration, not enlightened progressive EU Commissars – sorry, Commissioners.

    Couldn’t be that he’s sensed which way the wind is blowing, now that he’s re-entering French politics – could it?

    Reminds me of the saying by Gandhi, who is so beloved of lefties: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

    I suspect as populism grows (despite virulent opposition from such as the BBC), we can expect more erstwhile liberal lefties to jump on various bandwagons.

    “Michel Barnier has called for all non-European Union immigration into France to be banned for up to five years. The EU’s former Brexit negotiator said immigration was “not working”…”

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/11/michel-barnier-calls-non-eu-immigration-france-suspended-5-years/

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    • Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

      Sacre Bleu! Cinq ans!

      Bienvenu au club, mon cher Michel! Comment est-ce que vous avez mis tant de temps a vous en apercevoir? Nous, on y est arrive il y a longtemps!

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      • vlad says:

        For non-French speakers: What took you so long, moron?

        (Ok, I added the last bit.)

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    • taffman says:

      Horse and stable door comes to mind.
      They , the EU are now realising that’s one of the prime reasons why we left the corrupt oligarchy.

      One day now, Bo Jo and his voice of ‘getting tough’, Pritstick Patel will wake up and realise that mass immigration is not what we, the people of Great Britain want.

      Get our borders secured, scrap Border Farce and start using our real forces , The Royal Navy and Royal Marines. After all, that’s what we pay them for isn’t it?

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    • StewGreen says:

      Anyone would think that Michel Barnier wanted to get involved in a political content
      where he was under severe threat from an anti-immigration party like Michelle Le Pen.

      Seems cos Macron is under pressure, Barnier might run for the Republicans on an anti-immigration ticket to keep Le Pen out.

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      • JohnC says:

        Don’t you think it’s odd (and by ‘odd’ I mean totally dishonest) that this has come out of the blue ?.
        I haven’t seen anything on the BBC to say there is any kind of problem with immigration in the EU.
        (This is where shameless hypocrites like Maxi link to a BBC article which covers it (along with some smug and slightly bitter comment) but fail to mention how it was only on the front page for 3 hours between 1am and 4am).

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        • Peter Grimes says:

          But our troll is only about between 1-4 am, the sun comes up early nowadays.

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        • NCBBC says:

          To understand how serious the situation is in the Western world, it is worth noting that some Americans view this administration as a Stalinist one, that is attempting to subjugate America by military force.

          How the Left Plans To Put Boots on the Ground to Subdue Middle America

          https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/05/how_the_left_plans_to_put_boots_on_the_ground_to_subdue_middle_america.html

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          • Fedup2 says:

            It’s beyond me how they let the election be stolen with only a mostly peaceful demo in the capitol building . Should have torched it .( troll fodder )

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            • NCBBC says:

              Badly planned and led. If one sends one’s troops up the hill, one should lead them up the hill and take it.

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          • Demon says:

            That’s a powerful article and clearly bang on the money. It’s frightening.

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            • NCBBC says:

              Now we have at least 1200 senior American generals and admirals warning the same – that the republic is under threat.

              https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/05/are_retired_french_and_american_military_generals_standing_up_against_tyranny.html

              It was clear for at least two decades, that importing large numbers of people who have no attachment to the republic – the secular (France) or the constitutional one(USA), will eventually lead to a civil war. How can they, as one has a ready made constitution, Sharia, and another which owes allegiance to money. Neither has any understanding of Western civilisation, its roots and founding principles.

              Jihadis operating in France and in America, and excuses made for them and the ideology that guides and drives them. Recipe for disaster. Ordinary people fed to the war.

              Of course we will be affected in a major way, and we will bear the greatest responsibility, till both republics come to their senses.

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      • Garry Lavin says:

        Exactly right.

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    • theisland says:

      For Britain Manifesto p.28
      Freeze immigration to the UK for a period of 5 years (this will not affect travel for business or leisure and temporary work visas may be issued during this time in the interests of the economy).
      https://www.forbritain.uk/manifesto/

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      • NCBBC says:

        Freeze and reverse immigration. At least for those whose religion demands that the nation is seized for Sharia.

        Else freezing is of no use but more trouble then is worth – which is nothing.

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      However, he also said: “I’m not talking about students or refugees, who we need to treat with humanity and care…”
      When it comes to politicians, there’s a lot of flexiblity in those terms as they usually consider that refugees, asylum seekers, economic migrants and criminals escaping justice or looking to pursue criminal careers elsewhere are all one and the same thing. We can also expect a big emphasis on so-called ‘climate refugees’ as we Build Back Better.

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    • G says:

      Vlad,

      Who would want a person susceptible to being blown in any wind direction to be in any position of power? We ask regularly why it is that we end up with wasters deciding our future. This is how that situation comes about.

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    • Nibor says:

      I look forward to one of the BBC`s radio “comedy” shows traducing his character … oh wait a minute they`re thinking ..is he one of us ?

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    • NCBBC says:

      The EU will agree, as it never disagrees with what France wants.

      The EU working model is – France wants, Germany pays for it, and the EU legalises it.

      Its surprising we ever thought that we could come between the two.

      Regardless,, this is a positive sign for Europe. The only problem is that Boris will accept all Muslims migrants, and those displaced by the EU, into the UK.

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  2. Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

    I’ve copied this over from the last thread, as recommended by Fedup2, so my apologies in advance if you’ve already seen it.

    ————

    Here is a little game for your amusement.

    Given below are two items from the BBC news website. One is genuine and the other is fictional. Let’s see if you can guess which one is which.

    Story One:

    ‘I’m ashamed my father was a BLM rioter’

    “Over the past five years, Jay Savory became more concerned as her father became immersed in far-left protest actions. Then she saw the picture of him in handcuffs outside a police station in Portland (Oregon) in November last year.

    Duncan Savory declined to be interviewed by the BBC.

    He is one of hundreds of BLM protesters who stormed the police station six months ago. We look at how many people have been arrested, and ask what punishment they might face.”

    Story Two:

    ‘I’m ashamed my father was a Capitol Hill rioter’

    “Over the past five years, Robyn Sweet became more concerned as her father became immersed in far-right conspiracy theories. Then she saw the picture of him in handcuffs inside the US Capitol building on 6 January.

    Douglas Sweet declined to be interviewed by the BBC.

    He is one of hundreds of pro-Trump protesters who stormed the US Capitol four months ago. We look at how many people have been arrested, and ask what punishment they might face.”

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    • taffman says:

      Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi
      “I’ve copied this over from the last thread, as recommended by Fedup2, so my apologies in advance if you’ve already seen it.”

      You scoundrel you !
      Go and sit in the corner for an hour as punishment and write 500 lines of “I hate Al Beeb”.

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    • JohnC says:

      And after all the hype, how many will be charged with ‘Insurrection’ ?.
      None. It’s all unlawful entry and trespass. I’ve ridiculous stories with things like ‘He pushed a policeman’ used as if he was nearly killed.
      Maximum possible is 1 year in jail.
      When nobody is actually charged with insurrection, politicians who said it was should be next in the dock. Start with the hate-filled, hypocritical old hag Pelosi who should have been crucified for some of the things she has said and done.

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  3. taffman says:

    “Ten people killed in west Belfast almost 50 years ago in the wake of an Army operation were “entirely innocent”, an inquest has found.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-56986784
    How many innocent men, women and children did the IRA blow to bits in their ‘bomb their way to the ballot box’ campaign?

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    • JohnC says:

      .. and the only ‘proof’ needed for this was one persons judgement on the ‘probability’. After 50 years and a massive amount of pressure to come up with the ‘right’ answer.
      It’s a complete farce.

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      • Halifax says:

        Following on from yesterday’s revelation that Bradford (BD Post Codes) have the greatest instances of Cash for Crash it now also transpires that the BD Post Codes accout for a quarter of all current COVID deaths. I wonder how car insurance scams and COVID deaths could possibly be linked…? Cash for Covid ???

        Bradford records almost quarter of England’s Covid-related hospital deaths today

        https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/19294280.three-covid-related-death-reported-bradford-hospitals/?ref=wa

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        • Garry Lavin says:

          I have many relatives and friends in Ripponden, Sowerby Bridge and Hebden areas. Are you out that way?

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          • Halifax says:

            Gary
            I live near the centre of Halifax it really is a nice area let me know if your ever over here again.

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            • Garry Lavin says:

              Yes….I used to get back to Soyland and Midgeley several times a year.

              I’m guessing you’re not talking Gibbet street…..rather…SavillPark?

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          • Rob in Cheshire says:

            Garry,

            It’s a really nice part of the world, and so far still fairly “unenriched”. I always enjoy my visits to Mytholmroyd and Hebden Bridge.

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            • Up2snuff says:

              Of course it’s really nice, Rob, it’s almost Lancashire and the Rossendale Valley! 😉

              🙂

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            • Garry Lavin says:

              I know it all like the back of my hand. My teenage and ally 20s were spent in the pubs round there.
              I’ve since sung at many pubs there.

              My lad went to primarily school round there.
              Out comers mean I can’t afford to move back.
              But I’m not bitter…..

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        • JohnC says:

          It’s quite simple : they don’t respect our country and it’s laws.
          They have their own 3rd world edition that they brought with them.
          And we let them.

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          • G says:

            JohnC,

            I caught the tail end of some Minister being interviewed on Toady just before the weather at 0757 over the issue of planned legislation to tighten up voting security. BBC trying desperately to pull the whole thing apart. It occurred to me that with no dishonest immigrants / Labour voters, there would likely be no need of, ‘tightening up’. New legislation? Well, no doubt designed with the dishonest in mind. But, but, but, in that knowledge, could the new legislation be claimed to be, ‘anti immigrant’ and therefore, ‘racist’?

            “2.29 Police forces recorded more than ten cases in only five individual local
            authority areas:
            • 11 cases were recorded in relation to Northumberland
            • 13 cases were recorded in relation to County Durham
            • 14 cases were recorded in relation to Bradford
            • 14 cases were recorded in relation to Cornwall
            • 16 cases were recorded in relation to Tower Hamlets
            2.30 Bradford and Tower Hamlets are both areas where we have previously identified a higher risk of allegations of electoral fraud, and where the respective Returning Officers and police forces have already taken steps to put in place additional actions to tackle electoral fraud which go further than the plans we would normally expect to see in areas with a lower risk of fraud
            allegations.”

            Page 16 – https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/sites/default/files/pdf_file/Fraud-allegations-data-report-2017.pdf

            And that’s just 2017.

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          • Garry Lavin says:

            Miles from Rossendale…..but Tod is adjacent to Littleborough and Burnley.

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Do they fly direct from India/paki land to Bradford ? By the way – watching the ‘urgent ‘ question over hamaz attacking Israel – the Vibrant Bradford MPs were fully engaged with the Muslim terrorist friends – better than worrying about an imported covid strain in the ‘community’ isn’t it ?

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    • Guest Who says:

      The amount of credulous, selective platform given to Omar over there and Sultana here suggests the media has been infested by a very specific type of propagandist.

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    • Beltane says:

      Of the 10 ‘innocents’ six appear to be young men.

      A coincidence perhaps, but could it be that they were shot because they were reloading at the time?

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      • Guest Who says:

        Checking the ballistic pathways on those in Gaza sadly lost might find similar trends, albeit the 40% likely actual children in front of the sandbags the 60% behind were firing from.

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        • JohnC says:

          Absolutely : anyone who will put a suicide vest on a child then tell them to go to the checkpoint will have no problem putting them around the place they fire their weapons.
          Unfortunately for them, the Israelis have been on the receiving end so much they don’t mess about. Wherever the fire comes from gets destroyed.
          The blood is on the hands of Hamas – but the BBC will tell us whatever suits their agenda.
          They should be making a big point that Hamas are committing a war crime. They are avoiding the issue altogether. Some of that blood is on the BBC too.

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  4. taffman says:

    Watch out, watch out, our maxi troll is about. He is entertaining us with his comic posts in the previous thread .

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Taffy, he’s never current, never up-to-date our ‘electrifying’ maxi?

      Always so far behind the curve that he’s been lapped by half the field.

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  5. StewGreen says:

    wow that Kabul school attack
    “The Afghan Vice president says 86 children killed in blasts near school in Kabul
    As many as 86 children were killed in Saturday’s blasts near Syed-ul-Shuhada school in Kabul, First Vice President Amrullah Saleh said on Tuesday
    Saleh suggested that the attack was carried out by the Taliban,

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    • taffman says:

      That’s 86 innocent children killed in the name of a ‘religion of peace’.

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      • JohnC says:

        But the BBC are more concerned about
        ‘Rockets target Tel Aviv after Gaza tower destroyed’
        Militants attack the Israeli city after an air strike brings down a tower block in Gaza.
        The implication in the article is that the retaliation is quite understandable. I even though to myself ‘Oh dear – how many dead in the tower block ?’.
        You have to dig into the article to discover Israel gave them an hour and a halfs warning to evacuate. The 130 (yes, ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY) rockets on the other hand were unguided missiles being fired indiscriminantly to try and kill totally innocent civilians in a city.
        NOT THE SAME THING AT ALL BBC. YOU DISGUST ME.

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        • StewGreen says:

          BBC-land has the “right kind of victim”
          ..and “wrong kind of victim”

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        • Guest Who says:

          Time for Mishal to strap on a vest and head to a hospital in Golders Green?

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          • Guest Who says:

            The platform of choice for BBC staff.

            Maybe Today could fly out to interview him?

            If Steve Bray is busy.

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            • StewGreen says:

              Maybe Twitter can explain to me
              why there are hundreds of pro-Israel replies to that tweet which themselves have hundreds of likes
              yet 2 of the first 3 replies Twitter puts are the top are anti-Trump tweets from random accounts, and have very few Likes
              .. That makes it look like Twitter is curating the discussion to be lefty.

              BTW seems the actual pipepline is still working fine, as it was just one oil tank that burnt.

              IDF say 1050 rockets were fired into Israel
              Yes fragments sometimes land in Tel Aviv city
              but seems no one was hurt inside the city.

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      • Rob in Cheshire says:

        “That’s 86 innocent children killed in the name of a ‘religion of peace’.”

        Taff:

        They were shia, and therefore to the sunni terrorists were apostates. The penalty for that in the holy qu’uran is death. QED.

        Welcome to the peaceful world of islam.

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  6. taffman says:

    “Angela Rayner: People didn’t know what Keir Starmer stood for”
    Yes they did, that’s why you got hammered in the recent elections.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57079985
    “Lessons to be learned any one” ?

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  7. tomo says:

    When America sneezes

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  8. tomo says:

    Probably not a bad day to remember The Balen Report

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Tomo – thanks -you’d be doing us a service if you put mr Carlsen up every day ….

      US Inflation up taxes up commodity prices up – what’s not too like ?

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  9. Guest Who says:

    Amazing angle. Beautifully art directed. Chris must be so proud.

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    • JohnC says:

      These (and the BBC’s) twitter links are most interesting to see what else these people have to say. This one replied to him:

      Zarah Sultana MP
      11 May
      Tonight, seeing footage of Israeli airstrikes kill men, women and children in Gaza, I send my solidarity, my love and my prayers to the Palestinian people.

      Did you see the 200 rockets which Hamas fired first dear ?. They are trying to swamp the missile defenses to kill completely innocent men, women and children who live their lives every day and night ready to run into bomb shelters when the sirens go off.
      Yes of course you did. You hypocritical, lowlife scumbag.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Also the pervasive infestation of politics and media by single minded ideologues from the Middle East and Indian Subcontinent.

        Democracy is going from flawed to utterly subverted by this.

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      • StewGreen says:

        The biggest reply to Zara’s anti-Israel tweet is from Yasmine Mohammed the #FreeFromHijab woman
        ..still she only got 170 Likes

        She said
        “You stand safely thousands of miles away.
        Shut the fk up. Their children are being killed and you’re cheering more violence.
        You do not care about Palestinians.

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  10. Scroblene says:

    Yet another Primark suit like mr biden’s and Suckerstarm’s!

    Is there a job-lot for the pathetics these days?

    I’ll check on Ebay, or maybe the local cheridee shops…

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  11. Guest Who says:

    Rog…. Matt… Justo….. GET IN!!

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  12. dafydd says:

    Talk about stating the bloody obvious…

    BBC Radio 5 Live says worst financial figures in 300 years, wonder why..!!

    Basic economy, incomings must exceed outgoings, simple. If not, borrow until times are good again.

    First quarter of this year the economy contracted by 1.3% but what the idiot didn’t say was it actually grew by back by 2.1% in March and according to the ONS, good performance.

    Do these pieces of pond life on the BBC not learn, there beloved Labour just got a hiding.

    Staggering

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  13. Guest Who says:

    BBC Moaning Emole with analysis on this, that and the other from…

    Nafeesa Shan

    Israel-Palestinian conflict intensifies

    Conflict between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants has intensified with Israel declaring a state of emergency in the central city of Lod. Rioting by Israeli Arabs has seen cars set alight and 12 people were reported injured in the clashes. Tension has been building for weeks and clashes have since escalated between Israel and Hamas – and so far at least 35 Palestinians, including 10 children, and five Israelis have been killed, health officials say.

    Hundreds of missiles were fired at the Israeli city of Tel Aviv by Palestinian militants after an Israeli air strike demolished a tower block in the Gaza Strip yesterday. Israel’s military says it is targeting militants in Gaza in response to rocket attacks on Jerusalem and other areas. The conflict between the two has now stirred unrest among the Arab minority inside Israel, leading to protests. This led to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declaring a state of emergency, which has seen border police being brought in from the West Bank. The UN’s Middle East peace envoy, Tor Wennesland, says they are “escalating towards a full-scale war” and the international community has urged both sides to end the escalation.

    ***

    At febrile times like this, surely Mishal Husain is the best person for the BBC to deploy to calm matters?

    https://camera-uk.org/2012/11/22/not-enough-israelis-killed-by-home-made-contraptions-for-bbcs-mishal-husain/

    JezBo still looking for a cameraman to go with to be embedded with a Gazan rocket team?

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  14. Up2snuff says:

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – choose the right photo

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-57072498

    Accessibility issues – outdoors – plainly none visible.

    Ooops!

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    • Guest Who says:

      Pips at least got her photo in, and seems well chuffed.

      But also angry enough to know who to get in touch with.

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  15. Guest Who says:

    Having a telescopic TwatCam is the new tosser.

    Hopefully YAB, Femi, Champion and Sultana will all be on his show today.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      The level of entitlement displayed by the likes of vine is an indicator of how they demand that the world is modelled only for their benefit .
      The parked van may have no choice because of delivery –
      On the bigger scale closed roads add to traffic pollution and time of travel – in my area -at least . Road rage also increases .

      For the record I drive a car , ride a motor scooter , a push bike and a canoe …. When Vine gets knocked of his bike ( which I am sure he dreams of ) he will be doing a 13 part series for the BBC about it ….

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      • Guest Who says:

        Jez likely gunning for his own Musk hyper loop to convey him Botney style from his London residence to studio free from peons doing actual jobs Angela Rayner is not concerned with.

        Hope no one connects it to a pavement service.

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        • Northern Voter says:

          I read the remark on the top of this piece, I thought how true that is.

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      • Guest Who says:

        He also gets the great guests…

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  16. AsISeeIt says:

    Confucius, him say: Lobbying by former leaders is not a problem that bothers the Arab world.

    I recall hearing somewhere or other a theory that the fashion for wearing boots might be an indication that society was heading for war.

    If true it’s a worry, since the Times frontpage this morning carries a fashion feature: ‘Best spring boots

    The war drums are certainly beating again in the Holy Land. According to the habitually tortured timelines of our media: ‘Hamas unleashes broadside after Israel air strike‘ (Telegraph) – we know we’re reading editorialisation here since, as we understand it, actual broadsides went out with Admiral Nelson.

    Leaving aside the conundrum of who did what first in response to whatever they did to whom…

    As a Hollywood star might ask – what’s my motivation in this?

    Well, the Palestinians, who never could quite bring themselves to compromise with Israel, have lately found themselves cut out of the peace deals between Israel and many of her more sensible and realistic neighbours. It’s known as the Abraham Accords and has been a breakthrough in part due to the advent of one Donald J Trump questioning some old assumptions and habits at the US State Office. And Obama’s former appeasement of Iran driving the Gulf States toward rapprochement with Israel.

    Meanwhile, President Abbas, the one-time elected Palestinian boss man, now about 17 years into his 4 year Presidency, has cancelled elections again. Fair play to the chap, perhaps he saw Labour’s result in Hartlepool on the horizon and figured he was bound to lose to Hamas. What chance would be left for Palestine to join the EU if that happens? So a bit of argy-bargy will distract from those cancelled elections.

    As for the evicted Arabs from that old quarter of Jerusalem (trade mark Jeremy Bowen, BBC) they’ve been squatting rent free since Jordan seized the district from the Jewish legal owners in 1947.

    But who really wants to relitigate the ancient history of old conflicts? The Guardian apparenty, which gets top billing on the BBC’s online press round up: ‘Ten killed by army in 1971 found innocent

    The Guardian also asks: ‘Can the arts ever be the same?‘ – they frame the question: ‘After covid‘ but it’s a fair question what with the intrusion of politics into even the most popular forms of mass entertainment.

    BBC: ‘Brit Awards: Dua Lipa demands pay rise for nurses as she wins

    Dua Lipa, you ask? Who is this model for our youngsters with her right-on social justice warrior opinions? See the frontpage of the Sun for your education this morning where she happily invites a saucy upskirt photograph: ‘Dual Lipa! She nets 2 Brits‘ – nets… that’s a tabloid reference to her stockings. (Fashion note – high heels rather than boots) I’ve not the foggiest idea what her music is like but she certainly knows what titillates her various audiences – flash the Sun readers a bit of stocking top, suspender and bare thigh and signal the BBC audience your virtue and love for the NHS.

    Little Mix are back in the mix in the Mirror: ‘Brits back with a bump (or two) Tots of the pops. Pregnant Leigh-Anne & Perrie with Little Mix bandmate Jade‘ – as the cheeky schoolboy said to the heavily pregnant woman on the bus “I know what you’ve been doing”

    Your daily dose of racism is in the ‘i’ newspaper: ‘My first experience of racism was aged 7. By Charlene White‘ – she is not of course a white person. But she is an ITV news reader.

    For one day only, we’ve changed our iconic masthead!‘ (Daily Mirror & Daily Star & Daily Express – they’re all out of the same stable) – they’ve slighly altered their logos to resemble scratchcards to celebrate 30 years of the National Lottery. How very tasteful, he remarked, snobbishly.

    Is it really 30 years? I guess we can trust the press with facts and numbers?

    Cameron deluged Whitehall in Greensill lobbying bid, files show. Ex premier tried 56 times‘ (FT) – or on the otherhand: ‘As Britain was hit by first wav, former PM sent 47 messages in ministers and officials trying to get Treasury funding for firm that employed him‘ (‘i’)

    Our media often seem very keen to worry us about things. Crisis this, crisis that. I now tend to worry when they seem keen to reassure us not to worry: ‘Fed and ECB play down concerns as global markets sell off‘ (FT)

    Fears over inflation caused global stocks to plunge. Wall Street opened in the red, after steep loses in Europe. The FTSE 100 had its worst day in almost three months‘ (Times)

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    • Guest Who says:

      Now have a vision of Call Me Dave sending out broadsides of texts lobbying anyone they might land on in case one sticks.

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  17. Guest Who says:

    Bim is not ignorant. Apparently.

    Jon Sopel needs him over the pond given the worrying composition of BBC Nanana BS.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      That’s definitely one for the resident troll – just a reminder that it’s about a coloured criminal chap who died whilst high on drugs whilst resisting arrest for fraud. It happened in Londonistan in a country formerly known as England and nothing happened to the white plod who did it .

      By the way – the monster in the video is the presenter who refuses to wear a poppy because it is ‘offensive ‘…

      I think she is trying for the coloured female seat on toady or Wimmins winge hour (aren’t men awful?)

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    • StewGreen says:

      Bim’s Twitter output is what you’d expect.
      “Stop gloating Tory Boy”

      .. Then praise for Alastair Campbell presenting GMB etc.

      BTW today Campbell had Tony Blair in his GMB show.

      GMB tweets are routinely ratioed now.

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  18. Peter Grimes says:

    Brilliant!
    If only your wide-ranging summaries were broadcast on a national tv programme, AsISeeIt, HIGNFY for example on the world standard BBC.

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    • AsISeeIt says:

      Sir, you are too kind.
      I patiently await my invite to HIGNFY – Tim Davie, are you reading this?

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  19. Guest Who says:

    More ‘mole…

    ***

    People didn’t know what Starmer stood for – Rayner

    People “on the doorstep didn’t know what Keir Starmer stood for”, Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner has said after Labour’s poor local election results in England. The party took a battering losing the Hartlepool parliamentary by-election to the Conservatives and eight councils in England. But it had some success winning 11 out of 13 mayoral races in England and remaining as the largest party in Wales. However, the results raised concern within the party that it had not done enough to win back its traditional strongholds from the Tories.

    Labour now had to “connect with voters we’ve lost”, Ms Rayner said, after she was locked in a dispute with Sir Keir over her role as campaign co-ordinator at the weekend. After “robust conversations” she was moved in a reshuffle and now shadows Michael Gove at the Cabinet Office. She also became Labour’s spokesperson for the future of work. Reflecting on Sir Keir’s time as Labour leader, Ms Rayner said it was “right that we came together” during the coronavirus pandemic but that now was the time for “a fundamental rethink” and “real change in our communities”.

    ***
    Kudos to the sub for the ‘what is stood for’ on an irony basis, all things considered with Sir Kneel, Fick Kneel and Labour Kneel.

    The Future of Woke surely is her calling, and green rooms across the land stand (see what I did there?) ready, draped with Palestinian flags to welcome her, Jez and Sultana with their messages of work for ‘communities’ and unelected leaders with BBC Sh*tStir Desk on speed dial.

    Steve Bray needs to up his game to compete.

       21 likes

    • Thoughtful says:

      People “on the doorstep didn’t know what Keir Starmer stood for”

      What an admission that is! She was campaigns director, it was her responsibility to make sure that people knew what Labour stood for and if they didn’t then it is her fault and no one elses!

         28 likes

      • Guest Who says:

        Like she, Labour or anyone in the bbc cares.

        Quick Graun photoshoot wearing nothing but a pair of AirPods and a moody whippet looking left… iconic.

           5 likes

      • Fedup2 says:

        Thoughtful – you are being harsh – if she’d told the truth Theyed have said “Keir Starmer – who ?” Is he the Burnley goal keeper ?

           8 likes

        • Garry Lavin says:

          Ha. Yes…he does look like a character from Roy of the Rovers.

             4 likes

      • Rob in Cheshire says:

        On the contrary, the people of Hartlepool are not stupid, as Angie Rayner seems to think. They do know what Sir Keir Starmer stands for, and what he kneels for, and it’s not them!

        Labour is now the party of urban, left wing public sector employees and immigrants. That’s it. They sneer at the white working class, yet still expect them to vote for them. Well not now they don’t. Looks like Labour will have to import more voters.

           11 likes

    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Exact opposite. Anyone who watches or listens to the Labour Party’s media wing – the BBC – knows precisely what Starmer stands for.

      Never mind, Keir, you’ll still be a member of the Trilateral Commission even when you’re no longer the leader of the BBC’s political party.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilateral_Commission

         14 likes

      • Fedup2 says:

        Ian – wow – that must be a good gig ££££… they’ve even got that fruit hoop Dave Willets on it – he was an arch Tory who went ‘bad ‘ … must be some great jollies …

           6 likes

      • theisland says:

        You have to be ‘invited’ to join the Trilateral Commission.
        Mandelson and Miliband snr are former members.
        Starmer first crops up on the membership list in 2018.
        As of April this year they still had him listed as Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union.

           7 likes

  20. Guest Who says:

    Just saw this shared…

    Snot funny ‘cos it’s true.

       9 likes

  21. Fedup2 says:

    Have started listening to toady again for the comedy . Today they had a nasal standup on call ‘Milliband junior ‘. His act involved using the words ‘learn’ ‘change ‘ and ‘connect ‘ a lot –

    Which is what Labour has even doing in the 7 years since he was leader of their great majestic party. Robinson was heckling a bit but in fairness let Milliband ramble on until he started to run out of gags .

    I was waiting for the one about the paki racist paedo and the 13 year old white girl but it didn’t come ….

       20 likes

  22. Fedup2 says:

    I don’t know if ‘yesterday in Parliament ‘included the bit where the PM ripped Angie and kier a new one in 1.2 minutes but it’s all over the Twitter ….I think he even made scum Angie laugh …

       12 likes

  23. Fedup2 says:

    Confession – I follow lefty coloured girl MPs on the Twitter for entertainment value . But I found one called Zarah Bukake MP who turned out to be – different …

       6 likes

  24. s.trubble says:

    WATCH OUT BOWEN,s ABOUT!

       11 likes

  25. Fedup2 says:

    Ah yes – the BBC hamas spokesman – watch out for tanks Jeremy …

       13 likes

  26. StewGreen says:

    9:30am R4 they just had to stop the programme
    cos they started playing out the prog about the Oldham riots
    instead of the one about Confucius, that’s in the schedule.
    The Oldham riots prog should air at 11am

       6 likes

  27. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – shirley not?

    The BBC on the Web-site and R4’s TOADY were taking a Guardian view of the Queen’s Speech in Parliament yesterday. They passed on the Guardian’s view (one that they will no doubt promote in future) that 2million people would be disenfranchised by Her Majesty’s Government and their plans to introduce Voter ID for elections. The BBC claimed it would mean that homeless people cannot vote.

    Er, I think, homeless people cannot vote anyway, especially if they are long-term homeless. I seem to recall that you need to be registered via the Local Authority at an address (even if you do not pay Council Tax) in a Constituency in order to vote.

    George Eustice was the Tory sacrificial lump of mutton for an interview on this and he handled the BBC quite well, pointing out that the wild claim in the Guardian (and of the BBC) that 2 million people being unable to vote includes the elderly. George observed that statistics show that most elderly people vote Conservative anyway: why would the Government seek to disenfranchise those most likely to vote Conservative?

    Nick Robinson, former BBC Political Editor, had no reply.

    I wonder why?

       30 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      I dont get the thing about photo ID . If you want a bus pass you have to get one ( in londonistan ) or if you need to collect a parcel . Yet to vote ?

      On the upside – it will be fun watching the woke wail over the ‘ injustice ‘…

         26 likes

      • Lunchtime Loather says:

        Yesterday I had to send a scan of my photo-ID driving licence to ebay so that I could receive the £8.50 payment for a book I sold.

           9 likes

        • Up2snuff says:

          LL, eBay do like being enemies of their own business model, don’t they.

          Funny thing, I was just thinking this morning about the Queen’s Speech and some of the things I would like to have seen included by our PM, the well-known spinner, ‘Lefty’ Johnson. Top of my list, after reform of the UK so-called ‘health system’ would be having a dedicated Cabinet Minister to really tackle consumer affairs and start to get after those who give shoddy customer service.

             2 likes

  28. StewGreen says:

    9:20am Switch on bingo.. Jane Garvey was banging on about skin colour.
    Her guest is a fair skinned Indian woman, who by 22 was completely white, despite being almost completely dark brown until puberty. She’s got this genetic condition vitaligo where your skin loses its melanin.

    Of course Garvey fished for racism
    but the guest didn’t bite
    in fact she mentioned that commonly Indians give her dirty looks when she’s with her Indian husband “they think this white girl has stolen one of theirs”

    She did mention when she was with her Indian friends they could get into clubs and not get turned away.
    The thing was Garvey didn’t mention physical attractiveness and the benefits that go with that. Of course she as an attractive woman never gets turned away from clubs.

    Neither did the prog seem to tackle the issue that people like her who are unblemished since 22 are completely different from someone whose face looks like it’s suffered an acid attack, cos their skin colour pattern is in patches.

       18 likes

  29. whiphand says:

    ” she’s with her Indian husband “they think this white girl has stolen one of theirs”

    Stolen. LOL. They probably do think that. Certainly the thought has crossed my mind seeing the number of lovely middle-class girls trailing around with their – mostly – ill treating black man.

    In fact, at Aldgate today I saw a Kierra Knightly look-a-like waving in the fairest of ways that only the fairest of maidens could – and to my displeasure the animal to whom she shed her Shakespearean-like manner with was a street-dressed black man who looked like he had just stolen a moped and was on his way to sell weed to kids on the council estate.

    Stereotypes are there for a bloody good reason. So is racism. A genetically developed strength that thrust this tiny island to the topest of the tops. So much so, that it was too easy – 95% of the world has been invaded by us – usually just the once is enough – and we decided to put our feet up and let the kids have a go – the Yanks and the Chinese photocopying Hong Kong countrywide.

    I think middle-class girls think black man ‘cool’. Like I want a black baby form Wayne & Waynette SLob sketch. Whereas for the working class, immigrants were seen as a possible genetic boost by many a Waynetta – nice-ish looking foreigner well above the league they would get if a white man. Downside: Manners of an symbian, cultural skills as if dropped in from a society 1000 years behind.

    And on occasion, and usually by white man’s grace – a few selected progress ot middle and upper – but not too many – must be a manageable level from them. Not blackman’s whiphand for them.

    Oops – ranted a bit but feel better mow. Thanks

       16 likes

  30. Foscari says:

    To all other contributors . One must expect the BBC
    to support Islamic terrorism against Israel. They
    have had a plethora of correspondents from Jeremy
    Bowen , Orla Guerin etc who under direction from
    BIG BROTHER from the diversity department of the BBC
    and with their own acquiescence have let us know
    that Israel is responsible for all the ills of the world.
    BIG BROTHER’S instructions to all the BBC’S reporters
    working in the majority Islamic world or in fact anywhere
    is to cover up their atrocities. Get the slaughter of 86 schoolgirls
    in Kabul ,off the front pages as soon as possible, is the order
    of the day , so far as BIG BROTHER is concerned.
    AS for the Communist Chinese party being responsible
    or at the very least Machiavellian in the “germ” leak from
    the Wuhan laboratory perpetuating the the third worse
    genocide in recent time. The BBC’S attitude seems to be
    “say no more, say know more.” But what do you really
    expect. In reality the rest of the world is dead scared of what
    China have done . And will do again. The Sars 2002 was the dress rehearsal.
    The Covid 19 has been the premiere .What’s next? A run like “Wicked” or
    even worse ” The Mouse Trap?” To be honest the CCP has
    the rest of the world caught in a wicked
    mouse trap. And we are scared to do anything about it.

       24 likes

  31. StewGreen says:

    Blackpool : A nine-year-old boy has died after *apparently* being struck by lightning during a football coaching session.

    Wow a one in a billion event

       4 likes

    • Old Goat says:

      Shocking.

         3 likes

    • The Sage says:

      Very sad and my sympathies with the parents of this poor lad, but confirming what Lockdown Sceptics have been saying for 14 months or so, there is more chance statistically of a healthy child dying from a lightning strike than from Covid-19.
      Yet and thanks largely to the teaching unions, schools have been closed for months on end over the last year or so.

         11 likes

  32. Thoughtful says:

    Here is yet another rather complex politico legal argument on why the hopeless incompetent cowardly useless Tories have done nothing with their latest supposed attack on cancel culture.

    The Tories claim that the universities must uphold freedom of speech, but how can they do that in a country where freedom of speech has been made illegal?

    Back in 2017 in the case of Matal Vs Tam the US Supreme Court unanamously decided that the concept of Hate speech is incompatible with the imerpative of the First Amendment – the Right to Freedom of Speech. This court included the famous leftist liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

    The UK has no law protecting freedom of speech save for a wooly unwritten belief it has which is not worth the paper it’s written on.

    The UK no longer has freedom of speech, that is clear and obvious as attested by the cases of Miller Vs College of Policing.

    This the begs the question of how is a University supposed to uphold something we no longer have?
    How is a UK institution supposed to uphold and protect someones right to say something the infantile Britsh government has made illegal?

    It is putting a university or other public body between a rock and a hard place. The cowardly useless incompetent Tories are telling bosses that they have to allow someone to say something which they might later be taken to court for on criminal charges for allowing someone to say something to which some notionally ‘oppressed’ group finds offensive.

    The enormous legal problem here is that the cowardly useless incompetent Tories don’t even appear to have realised they destroyed free speech and you can’t then ask someone to uphold something which no longer exists!

       18 likes

  33. digg says:

    Hugging to be “allowed” in Scotland

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-57070970

    By whom? What a sad state the UK has become when we are supposed to meekly accept without question that these political numpties are omnipotent over every tiny aspect of our lives!

       27 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Ms. Boaden to be rehired as Krankie’s Minister for Hugs North of the Border?

         10 likes

    • Loobyloo says:

      I’ve only just clued into the fact that it’s a euphemism for shagging!

         1 likes

  34. Nibor says:

    Here`s something Labour can apologise about (happened a while ago , still )

    Barbara Rosche the Labour Immigration minister went down to Dover to hand out leaflets to lorry drivers (workers) telling them they`ll be fined for every bogus asylum seeker that breaks into their vehicle . It wasnt liked but Barbara Rosche said

    “I`m not here to please lorry drivers ” .

    Later Jack Straw the Labour Home Secretary went down to Dover to shake hands with some invaders just found in the back of a lorry .

    ” it`s a well known fact that lorry drivers take folded money to bring these people in ” he lied , because if it was a well known fact it would be because lorry drivers en masse had been caught doing it .
    The penalty for facilitating illegal entry into this country was ten years in prison , a fine and vehicles confiscated . No proof was found that lorry drivers were doing this so the £2000 pound fine was levied on victims of crime for – being victims .

    So thats Labour — shake hands with criminals , cast a slur on workers and put all British workers interests below that of cosmic justice .

       21 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      “Jack Straw” shaking illegals hands
      .. that’s a big claim without big evidence

      He was at Dover with customs searchers dragging illegals out of hiding in year 2000.
      .. but google gives you nothing with “shaking hands”

      Apr 26
      #ThisDay 2000 – The Home Secretary, Jack Straw, witnessed nine people being caught attempting to illegally enter the UK as he inspected immigration procedures in Dover
      http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/26/newsid_2503000/2503325.stm

         5 likes

      • Nibor says:

        I`m recounted it as I remembered it . I`ve trawled the net but no its not always possible to find actual footage of events especially historical events .

        Its the same when I try to find out about the Irish border problem ie: what ships are arriving into Northern Ireland and Eire .

        Edit : your link says that Mr Straw shook the illegals hand .

           3 likes

        • StewGreen says:

          Ah there you go there’s your evidence
          …I scanned for pictures, and still haven’t found one
          @Nibor strangely I did find it in the Independent in 2013
          before a paywall blocked me
          It made the shaking hands claim in text, but that is a strange thing to report 13 years after it’s supposed to have happened
          https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/asylum-seeker-arrives-to-find-home-secretary-lying-in-wait-at-dover-281558.html

          The Barbara Roche leaflet thing is documented
          Then there are loads of lefty sites complaining about Jack Straw taking a hard line on immigrants “He’s in with Murdoch” etc.

             5 likes

          • Nibor says:

            Thank you Stew .
            I think most people especially the workers in places like Hartlepool will ignore the lefty sites .
            Also most people especially low paid workers want immigration stopped not fines imposed on other workers .

               8 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      @Nibor I think it’s that Straw shook the hand of ONE immigrant

      “Mr Straw who, having climbed into the back of the lorry, reached out and shook the Kosovan’s hand”
      It then goes onto Straw witnessing 8 immigrants being found in the back of another lorry
      but no hand shaking.

      The stowaway was one of 11 clandestine immigrants discovered on lorries during the Home Secretary’s visit to Dover yesterday, providing some visual confirmation for Mr Straw that he had been right to impose fines on truck drivers found with such human cargo.
      The Home Secretary said some truckers were deliberately smuggling immigrants in exchange for “folding money”.
      The Home Secretary said that most of the offenders were “foreign” drivers and said the new penalties were comparable to the fines imposed on airlines for carrying illegal immigrants.”

      Then in 2014 Richard Littlejohn put some spin on it
      “And who can forget Labour’s then Home Secretary Jack Straw travelling to Dover to welcome foreign nationals climbing out of the back of lorries?”

         9 likes

      • Guest Who says:

        Didn’t Keith Vaz do something in an airport laundry with some new arrivals?

           15 likes

        • Old Goat says:

          He usually masquerades as “Jim”, and offers to fix washing machines, amongst other things…

             14 likes

      • Nibor says:

        Thanks again Stew . ONE immigrant — bogus asylum seeker – is enough .
        And if “some” truckers were deliberately smuggling immigrants –bogus asylum seekers – for “folding money ” where was his evidence ?

           9 likes

  35. StewGreen says:

    Tip : Ofcom collects Spam texts
    you forward them to 7726

    https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/advice-for-consumers/problems/tackling-nuisance-calls-and-messages/spam-texts

    They are talking about nuisance texts rather than ones you have actually signed up to, or from your own phone company etc.

       7 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Tx. But… OFCOM? Do they just get the guys in BBC ECU working in Belfast to drop a line to their cousins in the call centres?

      I have never understood how anything involving fraudulent money phishing can happen over a phone line, beyond giving folk secret data verbally.

      BT owns the lines/airwaves, and they and our supplier are paid a cut of whatever they are used to transmit.

      So the one I got the other day from a bank I am not a customer of is clearly seeking something in the hyperlink they should be held to account upon.

         8 likes

      • StewGreen says:

        “I have never understood how anything involving fraudulent money phishing can happen over a phone line … ”
        Everyone gets scammed sometime or other
        it’s a step by step process that they suck you into
        The first step is 100% plausible
        then at the end when you explain the whole story it sounds ridiculous.

        If I spoof your bank’s phone number.. you think it’s your bank calling you
        I tell you money is being stolen and that I will hang up and you must phone the fraudline/police
        but I hold the line open
        so although you think you are now getting through to the fraudline/police you are through to me or my mate
        We “the police” carefully explain how you should put the money in the “safe” account and give you its number

        End result – We haven’t taken any details at all from you at all
        , but you have put the money into the “safe account” which we control
        … and we quickly transfer it out through a chain and into our pockets

           10 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      scam : The press #1 to renew your tv licence
      1.5 min audio clip from BBC radio
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p09hbmgk

         3 likes

  36. digg says:

    “Mandatory voter ID would dangerously undermine UK democracy” says Jess Garland in the Guardian

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/11/mandatory-voter-id-uk-democracy-electoral-system-voters

    Let me fix that…

    “Mandatory voter ID would dangerously undermine UK voter fraud” says Jess Garland in the Guardian

       34 likes

    • harry142857 says:

      Apparently Momentum are having a meeting about this today.

      But you can’t get into the meeting without your ID.

      According to Mike Graham, Talk Radio.

         28 likes

    • Thoughtful says:

      “Mandatory voter ID would dangerously undermine UK voter fraud”

      Come on Digg wake up and realise this is just yet another Tory gesture to the right which means and will achieve nothing what so ever.

      Voter fraud at polling station by ID, known as personation is miniscule, hardly worth bothering and the Tories know it.

      Voter fraud is taking place in postal votes, and in bribery to vote a certain way.

      All this will achieve is the banning of ordinary people from the democratic right to cast their vote at the polling station, more postal votes and therefore more fraud.

      If it’s the Tories doing it you know something is dodgy. I don’t think there’s a single thing in this Queens speech which is effective worthwhile and will lead to a better Britain.

         17 likes

  37. BRISSLES says:

    I understand that there are some Covid outbreak ‘hotspots’ – including Bolton. Andy Burnham has made a statement that this outbreak can be attributed to travel to and from…… India. hmmmm…. something else our migrant friends have ‘contributed’ to this country.

       39 likes

  38. Fedup2 says:

    Toady has been pushing some diary thing where – on this day – you write about yourself and your life and then sent via the BBC to a national archive where it will be kept ‘anonymously ‘ ….
    … I’m sure TV licencing will get a courtesy copy …

    If you submit it – don’t for get your credit card details and numbers on the back of the card ….

       16 likes

  39. theisland says:

    I can’t see anything on the bBC webshite, as usual.

       31 likes

    • BRISSLES says:

      Just mentioned on the News, that in the last couple of days over 2000 migrants have landed on Lampadusa. Give it another couple of months and they will be rocking and rolling across another sea……. the Channel.

         14 likes

      • tarien says:

        Utterly incomprehensible Brissles as to why the Italians are allowing illegal migrants from Lybia, landing on —-campidusa and not returning these individuals immediately, same with the UK, why are we even considering allowing illegal migrants to land on our shores no matter where they came from. Dump them straight back to France or wherever they came from originally. The UK has left the EU therefore we have no reason to accept anyone who is not legally entitled. Our present government we know is weak and has been so for a long time-we and they know full well as to why these migrants come here-simple just let it be known throughout the world that there will no social help, no benefits whatsoever to individuals who come to these shore illegally. Hundreds of charities provide £millions to countries throughout Africa, it is up to those countries to use that generosity-yes I know having worked in West Africa how rampant corruption is, nevertheless they will have to learn one way or another. Africa could if it took its finger out of you know where, provide the world with everything it needed for its people and beyond.

           3 likes

        • Guest Who says:

          BBC ‘News’ analyses…

          Almost 13,000 migrants have landed in Italy so far this year; three times more than the same period in 2020. And more than 500 have died – a four-year high.

          ***

          There is a potential solution. Wait until the Gazans start arriving.

             1 likes

  40. JohnC says:

    County court judgement against Boris Johnson, record shows
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-57087274
    Full article including a pointless list of things they might do to you and the worst picture of Boris they could find to match his utter disgrace over this £535 judgement.
    And Boris is worth how many millions ?.
    It seems that Boris is getting the same treatment from the Left they gave Trump. Try to make a mountain from any worm-cast they can find. Keep throwing mud and a little bit will stick each time.

       29 likes

    • Thoughtful says:

      The point with a CCJ is not necessarily that money is owed, but that someone is leading a chaotic life with little to no control over their life.
      I speak as someone who regularly has to deal with bailiff calling at my door because there is another street with the same name which they often mistake for this one, and because the loon who owns the house next door is always having debt collectors looking for them

      The sort of people who run into these problems are those who ignore their obligations, and responsibilities. What kind of person gets a parking ticket for £35 if paid within 14 days or a littering fine of £40 if paid in 14 days doesn’t pay it at all and then allows it to run into thousands of pounds before a court order is made against them.

      It’s not as if there isn’t any communication, it’s constant and regular and has to be completely ignored by the defendant.

      Someone here is owed a substantial amount of money – possibly a small trader and has not been paid forcing them to take the matter to court and still hasn’t been paid.

      I agree the reporting might be petty and biased, but Boris really is a tosser for allowing this to happen regardless of how much he’s worth.

         13 likes

      • moggie63 says:

        I speak as one who, over the years, has had debt collectors chasing me for money owed, in my name, to a company I had never used and two sets for money owed to companies I had never even heard of. Needless to say, they were all dismissed.

           3 likes

    • tarien says:

      All racism against whites, just everywhere you care to look, and Boris is white.

         2 likes

  41. Fedup2 says:

    Listen . Can you hear that ? It’s the sound of a million shredders in health authorities and councils and government departments getting rid of anything remotely useful to a covid public inquiry (CPI?) as well as the sound of smashing hard drives …..

       23 likes

  42. Thoughtful says:

    Here’s something you might not recall and hasn’t been in the press for a while:

    When the Old Etonian crook Darius Guppy wanted to get a journalist beaten up, before he was arrested and jailed, he phoned his old chum Boris Johnson and asked him to get the journalist’s address. Johnson, famously, agreed to do so. This struck many as shocking, but it is entirely in keeping with a culture of people who were taught from an early age that they were special and above the law. We happen to have a recording of this conversation but, given how much Etonian crime and murder we know about, you have to wonder about how much they got away with. They can’t all be that incompetent, can they

       12 likes

  43. vlad says:

    More than 24 hours after Barnier’s bombshell call for France to halt immigration and for the EU to rethink their whole border policy, still zero interest from the lying BBC.

    You’d think such a radical statement by a senior politician would be of interest, especially as he was the EU Brexit negotiator and may well be French President soon.

    Which is why most papers are carrying the story, including that far-right rag, The Indie.

    Tumbleweed on the BBC. Their ex idol has gone way off script, can’t have that; can’t have the masses hearing such heretical opinions. Heck, it might even spread to the UK.

    He even says the unmentionable in polite society: The French politician claimed there were “links” between immigration and “terrorist networks that infiltrate migrational flows”.

    Surely not. I though they were all doctors and engineers coming to help help us infidels from the goodness of their heart. Next he’ll be claiming they’re behind a lot of street crime and assaults on women.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/france-suspend-immigration-ban-barnier-b1845533.html

       33 likes

  44. taffman says:

    This French newspaper publishes more positive reports about Great Britain than Al Beeb does ?………………………….
    https://frenchdailynews.com/politics/2963-uk-electoral-boost-for-boris-and-brexit

       22 likes

    • Peter Grimes says:

      I had never heard of this publication before, I’ll certainly bookmark it for future reference.

         2 likes

  45. taffman says:

    “Radovan Karadzic: Ex-Bosnian Serb leader to be sent to UK prison”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57090123
    Why ?

       17 likes

    • Thoughtful says:

      So the greedy weasels can extract even more of those lovely fees from the munificent British tax payer of course.

      One of the original lawyers was Dominic Raab.

         6 likes

  46. vlad says:

    While the woke, gullible BBC continues to give Megan the Manipulator all the sympathetic coverage she needs to pontificate her woke platitudes (see link below, if you really must), the truth about the entitled bully is leaking out. Far from being the poor-little-me victim she claims (and that everyone must believe or be called racist), it is she who was victimising staff.

    Extracts from a paywalled article in the Times:

    “It has been reported that up to a dozen former royal aides are “queueing up” to register complaints about the Duchess of Sussex. Buckingham Palace is now investigating allegations that 39-year-old Meghan, the mother of Archie and now pregnant with the couple’s second child, was an “outrageous bully” to her staff before she departed Britain last year…

    “Half of the staff threatened to quit,” a former aide to one of the most senior members of the royal family claimed. Another Palace source claimed with uncharacteristic hyperbole that “the entire household was on the verge of quitting … it was drama, drama, drama with those two.”

    …Harry was said to have shouted “What Meghan wants, Meghan gets.”

    …stories of clashes between the Sussexes and staff multiplied.
    One incident rang alarm bells about Meghan’s unattainably precise demands. A senior royal source claimed: “Soon after the engagement, Meghan hosted a shooting party at Sandringham for Harry’s friends. She ordered personally embroidered blankets for each of the guests, in red. When they arrived, they weren’t the right shade of red for Meghan and she went mental at her PA, Harry’s first PA was in situ when Meghan arrived and left within months.” Her next PA, Melissa Touabti, was alleged to have later left “traumatised” because of Meghan’s unreasonable behaviour…

    In the run-up to the wedding, a senior royal source claimed that the Kingdom Choir, who performed Stand By Me during the service, did not have an easy time: “They had to send her dozens of arrangements. It was never right.”

    …Even Harry and Meghan’s engagement interview, widely hailed as a joyous display of a couple head over heels in love, did not apparently meet with approval. “She complained it hadn’t gone well, that Mishal [Husain] wasn’t empathetic enough, wasn’t warm enough,” said the source…

    “The family have tried to be welcoming,” a former aide insisted at the time. “All the staff and principals have genuinely tried to be kind, but she is genuinely unkind back, pitting Harry against them.”

    …There is particular resentment at suggestions that because of Meghan’s African-American heritage, racism may have been a factor in the attitudes of royal household staff. “The diversity policy in the households is exemplary,” one senior source insisted. “Because of the Queen’s links with the Commonwealth, and her desire to represent all Britons, they have bent over backwards to be inclusive. It is absolutely wrong to say the Palace is institutionally racist. It really isn’t.”

    …Meghan was also said to feel that no one tried to help her to adjust to the regimented requirements of royal and constitutional protocol. “Nothing could be further from the truth,” an aide said. Another Palace source insisted: “Everyone bent over backwards to accommodate her — now they feel they’re being totally shafted and collectively made to look like racists.” Another courtier revealed that the Queen’s then equerry, Lieutenant Colonel Nana Kofi Twumasi-Ankrah, the first black man appointed to the role — who himself may have once felt like an outsider finding his way — was deployed to help “mentor” Meghan”…

    You get the picture.

    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-meghan-became-the-unmerry-wife-of-windsor-q0td0js6m

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-57047169

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    • Dobyns says:

      vlad, to borrow a sentiment from Samuel Johnson, I would observe, “Cries of racism are the last refuge of a scoundrel”

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    • BRISSLES says:

      Most of us could smell she was trouble from the off ! He shouldastuck with Chelsea !

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  47. scribblingscribe says:

    LBC helpfully brought out someone from SOAS, School of Oriental and African Studies, to help us understand how all the problems in the Middle east are caused by the evil Jews and the malevolent Americans. Rocket firing, knifing Palastinians are 100% victims.

    Only a fool would come down on one side or the other in this conflict and LBC found him.

    Anyone know if LBC brought on an adult to offer a balanced view of the conflict?

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-strange-world-of-the-radically-left-wing-soas-university

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  48. Guest Who says:

    There is deluded #tellitoften enough.

    And then there is WaPo.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Everyone knows what Zucker told his staff
      ..be anti-Trump, get ready to campaign on Climate etc.
      It’s all the undercover Veritas videos.

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  49. digg says:

    Ominous and highly dangerous but I expected this, it’s nothing more than a Globalists power grab.

    Panel suggests WHO should have more power to stop pandemics

    GENEVA (AP) — A panel of independent experts who reviewed the World Health Organization’s response to the coronavirus pandemic says the U.N. health agency should be granted “guaranteed rights of access” in countries to investigate emerging outbreaks, a contentious idea that would give it more powers and require member states to give up some of theirs.

    https://www.mail.com/int/scitech/health/10779272-panel-suggests-who-power-to-pandemics.html#.1272-stage-hero1-1

    I expect both the BBC and Biden be fully behind this!

    The WHO is now already a virtually a World Power in it’s own right and is making a move for ever more power. Expect anytime soon for them to suggest they need a World armed force to help “Apply” their “recommendations”…. This has got Soros’s dirty fingerprints all over it!

    Don’t expect it to be well received in China or Russia though!

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    • Thoughtful says:

      You are joking yes? China is virtually controlling the WHO through puppet Communist leader Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ex of Ethiopia.

      Might not be well received in Russia but the idea porobably originated in the CCP !

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  50. Guest Who says:

    Pair of gold plated BBQ tongs with a picture or Corbyn on each face and Adam is so in.

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