585 Responses to Midweek Thread 16 June 2021

  1. Guest Who says:

    Nixon rules apply.

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    • StewGreen says:

      “The UK government wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace because the Church in Wales, which currently does not have a senior bishop since the last Archbishop retired, is part of the Anglican Communion.”

      She’s the Bishop of St Davids
      That’s in the Tory-held Preseli Pembrokeshire constituency
      In another tweet she criticised people voting for the Conservatives.

      Many Bishops criticised her, yet the hatey lefties have piled into the BBC’s thread saying “but it’s true Never Trust A Tory”

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      • digg says:

        When the Church gets involved in politics we can be assured that they no longer represent to people just the UNI they went to.

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    • vlad says:

      The woke, lefty Anglican church hates the Tories. Who’d have guessed?

      That’s all 94 of them. Oops, one just died while I was writing – 93.

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  2. StewGreen says:

    GBN now The guests are
    #1 YAB
    #2 @Ed_Husain the man who just wrote the book about the UK’s problematic mosques
    #AmongTheMosques: A Journey Across Muslim Britain”

    … “Yasmin want to speak, but we’ve run out of time on this item, now the break but Yasmin will be back later on”

    … Now the idiot sound mixer..has put on the studio mic during the weather forecast.

    ,

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  3. Tabs says:

    My local BBC news had a long piece about the parents of a LGBT man stabbed and killed in a Reading park almost a year ago.

    Lots about how they are coping, how their son lived, their sons sense of humour, the summerhouse they built to remember him, the garden plants they have planted. Also mentioned the other 2 LGBT men killed that day.

    The piece was almost 5 minutes long but obviously not long enough for time to mention he was killed by a Muslim. I guess that is due to the usual “difficult editorial decisions”.

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  4. taffman says:

    “Priti Patel and Robert Buckland ‘deeply ashamed’ of rape conviction rates”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57511425
    And what about all Rotherham’s & Rochdale’s forgotten children ?

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  5. tomo says:

    “Yuge” if true – as they say…

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  6. digg says:

    Ok I live on the South coast in Hampshire, it’s June so approaching mid-summer, I would like any climate armageddon nutter reading this to tell me why we have had non-stop rain and cool temperatures for the past 36 hours.

    I do notice that they are keeping Shtum at the moment…

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      Start of summer!

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    • Jeff says:

      It’s so bloody cold here in leafy Surrey I’m toying with the idea of putting the heating on.
      Close to mid summer’s day and I’m freezing!

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  7. Dover Sentry says:

    Not watching the England match out of duty. I hear that Scotland in solidarity have also taken the knee.

    Both teams deserve to lose.

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    • Dobyns says:

      Dover Sentry,

      You’re far too kind. I hope for mass career ending injuries.

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  8. Northern Voter says:

    OT but is it true that DFS are going to use Blue Mink’s song Melting Pot for their adverts in future?

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  9. StewGreen says:

    BBC2 7:30pm Culture Show special
    with Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
    her influential essay We Should All Be Feminists
    includes why Enid Blyton was her inspiration to write as she was growing up in Nigeria.

    Or you can watch Channel4
    7:30pm Yousra Elbagir meets some of the thousands of couples in Maiduguri, Nigeria, who are getting married post-lockdown despite the terrorist group Boko Haram laying siege to the city.

    8pm GBN The presenter is doing a long monologue with a Nigerian accent mocking a Nigerian woman woman talking about Sturgeon

    … That presenter is actually talking her about her own Nigerian mum, so can get away with it.
    She herself sounds like she went to a British private school.

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    • digg says:

      This is absolution by the BBC StewGreen, they feel a great need to give penance for their past non-inclusive behaviour so now dowse us all in this sort of absolute meaningless bullshit….

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  10. markh says:

    Either that or Young, Gifted and Black- which to be fair is not a bad tune.

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  11. digg says:

    Biden is a disaster for the USA. He will go down in history as the most incompetent president the USA has ever had and all because he is a man not up to the job but supported by the worst enemies the USA has ever had.

    If the USA is unable to recover from this massive mistake I really fear for the future of their Country.

    Land of the brave, home of the free no more!

    It’s a frigging shit show now.

    I ask all Americans, are you happy with this freak?

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  12. Dobyns says:

    Digg,

    Unfortunately, “the worst enemies the USA has ever had” ARE Americans.

    As the cartoonist Walt Kelly once observed, “We have met the enemy and he is us” 😰🤬😱😨

    [url=https://ibb.co/KGLvr0f]5-Figure1-1.png[/url]

    The sh*tshow is only just starting

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    • digg says:

      The USA are only a few years ahead of the UK in changing the demographic of their country through immigration and are now paying the price. It will come here in 5 or so years without doubt.

      The USA will end either in communism or civil war in the next ten years in my opinion.

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  13. Fedup2 says:

    Ah well- an encouraging result for woke England to be out of the Euros sooner than later – all that overblown hype ….

    Now for the new thread .. phew .. busy .. thank you ..

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  14. JohnC says:

    *Moved it to the right thread!*

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