Seems like the mythical TV detector vans are going to resume targeting the over 75s who haven’t got a TV Licence . The BBC is happy to induce fear in the elderly when it suits them .Remember – TV Licence inspectors have no additional powers compared to any citizen .
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Belfield was supposed to be in court today getting charged
#1 Police dropped the charges down
by dropping the word “violent ”
#2 Magistrate declined the police condition that Belfield be stopped from practising journalism like obtaining FOI information
#3 Belfield says he is happy and will go off to Spain on holiday tomorrow.
His video today says it’s a “Witch-Hunt”
.. https://youtu.be/c2Oyb0lgtxo
Entire news article
A 41-year-old man has appeared in court accused of 12 charges of pursuing a course of conduct which amounted to the alleged harassment of eight people.
Alex Belfield confirmed his date of birth when he appeared before Nottingham Magistrates’ Court but his address was not read out.
The charges he faces were read out by a legal advisor this afternoon, Thursday, July 1.
They are alleged to have happened between set dates, and some of the charges date back to November, 2012.
The court heard the case was not suitable for trial at the magistrates’ court and should be sent to the crown court for trial.
The next initial hearing will be on July 29 at 9.30am.
Belfield was granted conditional bail and was told he needed to attend on July 29.
Previously the charges were to be
“with 12 counts of stalking involving fear of *violence*
or serious alarm or distress. ”
… Of course he never made any threat of violence.
“Distress” ..yes , we he sent out letters saying to people, saying that they were repeating withdrawn defamatory claims so they might feel the force law and police against them
of course that is distressing.
I see someone against Belfield has created a YouTube account
to get at him, called “Alex Bellend”
Is that stalking or harassment ?
It is school bully behaviour, but at the end of the day, he can just choose not to watch it.
.. It’ jut not the same as someone obstructing you or frightening you by following you in the street.
LOL
‘‘An absolute disgrace’: BBC Bitesize condemned for listing ‘positive’ impacts of climate crisis’
‘A GCSE study aide on the educational website features a bullet-pointed list of “positive and negative impacts of climate change”.
Among the points put forward as positive are “warmer temperatures and increased CO2 levels, leading to more vigorous plant growth,” and “more resources, such as oil, becoming available in places such as Alaska and Siberia when the ice melts”.’
Not Happy…..
‘Critics said the exam guidance promoted false balance on climate issues.
The environmental writer George Monbiot tweeted: “This is what BBC bitesize is teaching our children about climate breakdown. I’m sorry, but it’s an absolute disgrace. You could come away thinking: ‘on balance, it sounds pretty good.’ It could have been written by Exxon”.
So a balanced view of the pros and cons of climate change is an absolute disgrace…says Monbiot…yep let’s have a very one-sided apocalyptic terror story about a burning planet, that the BBC usually provides, and not a rational discussion.
Never mind….The BBC is quick to respond and correct its thinking…
‘The BBC said it had reviewed the content on the page in response to criticism and would make amendments.’
The correct answer is that there can never be a ‘positive’ statement. Even if evidence is actually not that bad at all.
Who needs balanced evidence – when you work for the BBC!
https://needtoknow.news/2019/07/bombshell-scientists-find-man-made-climate-change-doesnt-exist/
A Dilbert Cartoon take on the BBC mis-information service.
(experimental) upload of image… Hopefully all will become clear. Or not…
Claim that Lee Hurst ha been banned by Twitter
…em he’s still there
Someone didn’t like his Chris Witty joke ..reported him
but he was back the next morning.
Switched on R4 yesterday and caught the Moral Maze talking about patriotism…starting from the position that patriotism was bad…so those who supported it had to defend it and make the case whilst those who didn’t like it were in the de facto ‘orthodoxy’…at least in BBC Towers.
It’s the usual guff about the ‘1930’s’ rising again….check this article out…you might think from the title that it’s a new angle on things from the BBC…you’d be wrong…
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180507-why-orwells-1984-could-be-about-now
Why Orwell’s 1984 could be about now.
Delve in and it looks good…they’re going to interpret the world through Orwell’s eyes….the Ministry of Truth, sorry, the BBC, and the Far-Left cancel culture race baiting zealots are going to be eviscerated…
‘Reading 1984, George Orwell’s claustrophobic fable of totalitarianism, is still a shock. First comes the start of recognition: we recognise what he describes. Doublethink (holding two contradictory thoughts at the same time), Newspeak, the Thought Police, the Ministry of Love that deals in pain, despair and annihilates any dissident, the Ministry of Peace that wages war, the novel-writing machines that pump out pornography to buy off the masses: Orwell opened our eyes to how regimes worked.
But now we can read 1984 differently: with anxious apprehension, using it to measure where we, our nations and the world have got to on the road map to a hell Orwell described. ‘
However the narrative takes an, er, Orwellian turn….
‘Orwell understood that oppressive regimes always need enemies. In 1984 he showed how these can be created arbitrarily by whipping up popular feeling through propaganda. But in his description of the ‘Two Minutes Hate’ he also foresaw the way in which online mobs work.
Now political, religious and commercial organisations all trade in whipping up feelings. Orwell uncannily identified the willing collusion in hate that such movements can elicit: and of course Winston observes it in himself. So, by implication might we, in ourselves.
Then there is Orwell’s iconic dictator Big Brother: absurd and horrifying in equal measure. Orwell’s writing is rooted in the struggles between the giant ‘-isms’ that disfigured the 20th Century. He fought against Fascism as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War (believing pacifism was a luxury paid for by other people) but realised the hollow promise of Communism, when the anti-Stalinist group he was fighting for was hunted down by the pro-Stalin faction. He witnessed first-hand the self-deception of true believers. Today there is another set of ‘-isms’, such as nationalism and populism who operate through the mobilisation of that most dangerous of feelings, resentment. And everywhere you look in the contemporary world, ‘strong’ men are in positions of power. They share the need to crush opposition, a fanatical terror of dissent and self-promotion. Big Brothers are no longer a joke but strut the world.’
Ah yes…the usual BBC line-up of enemies….social media, Christianity, Big Business and ‘Strong Men’…ie Trump etc….not to mention patriotism and nationalism.
The Liberal Fascist Inquisition seems to get a pass…as usual from the BBC…and again on the Media Show which followed the Moral Maze…..looking at the blurb and you’d think it was innocent enough as it asked about how influential Tabloids are…the two guests were from The Sun and Mail…so you’d think this would be an honest discussion without some Guardianista just shouting ‘Far Right’ every so often.
Obviously that was a foolish and naive assumption knowing the BBC track-record and its innate hatred of the Tabloids…and sure enough it just seemed like a vehicle to bring up every criticism of the Tabloids that the BBC has archived.
Guido notes the tone as Clive Myrie, not a little biased and prejudiced himself, tries to smear both papers…
https://order-order.com/2021/07/01/mail-and-sun-promise-kindler-gentler-editing/
The BBC using its position, dominance and influence to attack everything it hates…patriotism and the Tabloids..pure bias and corruption and abuse of its position and power.
You can see this action as they report on Rumsfeld’s death as the BBC tries to rewrite history and tell us how terrible the Iraq War was and how illegal…and it’s all Rumsfeld’s fault….Sopel slipping in a little extra snarky comment, pure opinion of course…Rumsfeld drove the war, a war that was, ‘some might say’ unforgiveable. Trump also got a sly comment as his company came under political attack by the Dems who are trying to use tax laws to take him down….Sopel admitted Trump himself wasn’t being charged however he said ‘you can’t separate the man from the company’….so Sopel is suggesting Trump is guilty whatever.
The usual sloppy Sopel highly bigoted journalism…lol.
“Sopel admitted Trump himself wasn’t being charged however he said ‘you can’t separate the man from the company’
jimmy saville anyone
That was rapier sharp Kaiser, brilliant!
BBC Newsbeat reaching their target
England v Germany was Joe’s first match since coming out as non-binary, and the first time they wore make-up to a game.
“It was treated completely the way it should be,” Joe says.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-57682671
That’s what I’ve missed all my life.
The LGBT take on football supporters and the England team.
I think the BBC are so untouchable now they could almost be taking the p***.
Thank you so much, BBC, for absolutely nothing other than disproportionately wasting the licence fee money from straight heterosexual payers.
as @Guest Who noted
45 thousand to choose from and they just happened to come across that one
JezBo had a brief moment in the spotlight when Israel was viciously attacking folk who were trying to kill them, otherwise I am sure he would have covered this.
I’d ask Springster or Wendy, but seems they only check things on a highly selective basis for a limited clientele.
https://camera-uk.org/2021/06/30/guardian-obfuscates-fact-that-palestinian-child-was-killed-by-gaza-rocket/?
Maybe one of the new breed of Labour ladies of faith vying for leadership glory might do a Graun photo spread?
A propos of nothing.
Mrs S and I were reflecting on ‘It aint half hot mum’ repeats of which are banned by the BBC in practice if not in fact because of wokes and waycism.
Let’s look more closely.
Sgt Major ‘shut up’. Ridiculed (army caricature)
The languid senior officers of the British army. Ridiculed.
Gunner ‘lofty’ Sugden. ( height 4 feet 11 inches). Ridiculed ( heightism?)
Gunner ‘la di da’ Graham. Ridiculed. (Oxbridgeism?)
‘Gloria’. The crossdresser. Ridiculed but no more than any of the above. I think Melvyn Hayes, who played him, was just a normal guy in real life.
Ranji Ram. White man in Asian blackface ( who was brought up in India and spoke a local language). I don’t think he was ridiculed, he was the central crux of the show and we all loved him.
So if you are basically ridiculing everybody, rather gently, then what on earth is the problem, except to those wokes in the professional grievance industry?
Perhaps the BBC could enlighten us.
BBC news watch
Out of duty I thought I’d watch the 6 . A white woman presented it . Surprise . Some poor beeboid had to go to Sunderland to report on new jobs . Don’t worry – they are not real jobs and will be gone soon enough .
A negative story about president trump . A positive one about the false president .
And for some reason a statue of Teresa May has been put up in order to pull down because of her involvement in the slave trade .
Squirrel story – 13 year old is gonna be the youngest British person to compete in the olympics . Cruelty ?
If only Ramji Ram had been played by Lenny Henry then it would have been on rolling repeat!
He’s the wrong kind of Indian, you’d have the Westies and the Easties having a right barney.
The nub of the problem, and I know this from family experience is that the young are having any sense of humour throttled out of them during their school years by the overwhelming majority of bitter and warped lefty teachers who are indoctrinating them that humour is just evil.
Don’t forget the punkahwallah; he keep the place air-conditioning and with zero carbon emissions!
Sluff- BIG BROTHER from the diversity department at
the BBC will never allow one of the best, British film
adventures to be shown on the BBC again.
North West Frontier set in 1905 stars Kenneth Moore
as a British army office , Lauren Bacall . Herbert Lom
as a Muslim terrorist and IS Johar as Gupta the Indian
train driver for which he should of won an academy award
for best supporting actor.
The film was nominated, deservedly for three BAFTA’S, has a 95% rating on Rotton Tomatoes, 93% by Google users and a 7.1 out of 10 rating on IMDB, which is very good.
BUT I reiterate, never in a million years would BIG BROTHER
allow it to be shown on the BBC. The two main reasons being
the fact of the Herbert Lom character trying to kill the young
child of the Maharaja . And secondly Guptah’s Indian accent
and mannerism’s . Yet it is ok for continuity presenters on the
BBC to show off their varied accents including patois, which is
fine by me. BUT ” It aint off hot” or North West Frontier?
You have got to be kidding!
ITV local news
a #PRasNews item about “Thankyou Day”
..item began with Muslim school teacher
and then to multifaith figures
Maybe it’s connected to the education union.
Interesting it’s very similar to the British Song the government wanted to do
but the lefties sneered at.
http://thankyouday.org.uk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57616669
Foreign aid: Is public opinion shifting on cuts?
2 small polls 🤣🤣
university’s (yeah right no bias there)
funded by the Gates Foundation (again)
the one thing in there I do believe to be true
“The framing of questions about foreign aid often helps shape the answers”
Kaiser – I guess the question wasn’t
‘Would you rather help elderly people at home or send borrowed money to ungrateful corrupt third world governments overseas ?”
Iv’e been watching the Tour de France on ITV, live yesterday as the time trial was only 30 miles from my present abode. Anyway I noticed that the ads apart from cargurus and static bikes, were mostly charities begging for cash. What gets my goat is this, they are all charities that ask for whitees to assist the darkies (did I say that out loud). What assistance do they get from their own people? The square root of f.all. When will these woke charity bosses realise that people are fed up to the back teeth with this signalling?
I’ m just back from the pub, rant over.
I was stopped whilst walking past a charity stall yesterday. It was a worthwhile cause, concerning an illness to which I have lost a relative, but a degree of dilgence is required these days. It went something like this:
Charity Worker: “Would you like to help fight this disease by making a donation? It kills several thousand people each year”
Me: “Possibly. But I don’t know what your organisation’s position is on social issues, one has to be so careful these days…”
Charity Worker: “Oh, rest assured. We participated in Pride Month, we support BLM, we are active in fighting climate change.”
Me: “Goodbye”
Bottom line: support local and military charities only, where they do what it says on the tin. Any charity large enough to operate nationally or internationally is more likely to be involved with doing things which benefit them and harm you.
Also ask how much their CEO is paid, that sorts the charities from the businesses.
The British Legion turned veterans out of some of the places they run when the first lockdown started. If people are looking for a worthwhile military charity, may I recommend Veterans Aid.
Plus tax on little people to ‘support’ them?
Will someone bother to check what abuse the high profile woman gave people like Trump ?
That’s getting in for a half of all “casualties “ from Covid in getting in for 2 years. In one frigging day!
It really highlights how the this countries backbone has crumbled.
Mmmmm
Wonder what tennis is on BBC2 just now?
Let’s switch over and see.
Oooo look. A black tennis player.
And he’s playing…….another black tennis player.
Isn’t the BBC amazing?
The Times pick today is the new version of The Lady Vanishes at 9:15pm
but the BBC decided they didn’t have enough tennis so have moved the prog forward by an hour and a half.
BTW Do you like watching 5-Select ?
It’s moved to channel 55, and has gone HD-only
so if you have an old TV you can’t watch it anymore.
It’s moved to a mux that carries some HD channels, but it’s still in SD.
Fred
on Twitter people with older TV’s say the channel shows up as non available
And the Freeview technicians
gave the explanation that it is HD only now
That is confirmed by the way only the way we can see it in my house is through the TalkTalk box
As predicted the two face BIDEN is favoring the EU over Ireland base for US tech companies. Suddenly the EU is the bogeyman in Ireland and not just for making it difficult to trade import/export to Northern Ireland or UK. Biden will need that money to fun his ‘socio-economic’ programs we had to endure under Blair / Brown years, (until the money finally ran out), leaving nothing to run the country.
Ireland will have to face tough choices. But it will have to find its voice to exit the club or Rome as we did. But even if it does it has Biden taking all its ‘tech’ revenue earnings back to US.
Ireland’s growth really was funded by EU loans and US corporate taxes. It will be tough when the EU wants ‘payback’.
Either way its a loose – loose situation to be in.
https://news.sky.com/story/ireland-rejects-president-bidens-global-corporate-tax-plans-and-will-keep-12-5-rate-finance-minister-tells-sky-news-12316753
Amazing to think of it 1 July 1916 -19240 British – empire soldiers dead by the end of the day on the Somme . My Grand Father was there – his regiment was ‘lucky ‘ they largely survived because they didn’t go over the top until the 3rd day . Just think 19240 dead .
And on that note…
That was on our local news
Is it actual news ?
#1 The neighbour had CCTV so easy TV
#2 It’s partial news that the arguer is a councillor
No one disputes that he did climb over his own fence
( despite the BBC title)
He says he once over he is on his own 10ft x 10 ft square of land.
The neighbour says when he recently bought his house he was told that particular square is his.
FFS it should clear from their title deeds
See the camera in his hand, an entry level professional job, a few grand at least.
Lots of people walking around with these new toys, plenty of money sloshing about in these supposedly hard covid times.
How is this remotely possible?
From a supposedly professional journal too.
Yawn !
PinkNews : The Practising Midwife magazine shares gorgeous cover celebrating trans men who give birth
A British midwifery magazine has shared an incredible cover that shows that, yes, trans men can give birth – and you bet it ticked off transphobes.
In a cover designed by illustrator Lauren Rebbeck for its 24th volume in May
, The Practising Midwife emphatically said that trans men who give birth are “amazing”.
So it was a specialist magazine back in May
It’s their free speech I suppose
It’s not public money like the BBC is.
Only 4 people on Twitter noticed the @TPM_Journal cover back in May
Since when was Twitter of any importance?
Pink News is of no importance either.
The Practising Midwife does aim to be the journal for all midwives in the UK so when it starts to refer to women as ‘birthing persons’ and seriously suggests that 18 stone bearded men can give birth science clearly has no place in modern medicine and that should concern us all.
Sorry if it triggered your narcissistic personality disorder.
Perhaps they can follow up with just one case history of just one trans man giving birth to substantiate it.
Don’t hold your breath! We are in serious Grimm’s fairy Tale country here!
It actually happened !. And to Arnold Swarzenegger no less.
Check out the documentary about it:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110216/
(Well, if someone is stupid enough to take that cover seriously, they’ll believe that movie is true as well).
Too busy killing babies .
Calm down… it’s fine… he’s got a tattoo!
is that the communist fist I see raised there
Dumbstruck!
These complete cretins seem to have no clue about how mutually exclusive LGBTQWERTYUIOP+ and babies are in real life.
The little boy to the left on ‘the statue’, is it just me, or is it sporting a non-white haircut ? I would hazard a guess its a girl to the right, but any idea what the smaller little person behind is ?
I never got the whole Diana Madonna thing so this maudlin charade doesn’t surprise me. I would have thought a simple obelisk with a simple inscription would have been far more appropriate but I guess all the wasn’t she special Diana freaks needed the whole hog.
Briss. The child on her right is definitely representing a non white child to keep it PC and inclusive. I’m just waiting for the mocked up picture of the child with a knife in his hand (sorry I said “his” perhaps the statue is non binary??)
‘The little boy to the left on ‘the statue’, is it just me, or is it sporting a non-white haircut ?’
To me the boy on the left looks a lot like his father,uncles and grandfather whereas the boy on the right doesn’t look at all like them!
I suspect every single English person looks at that and wonders why it isn’t Harry and William at her side.
Perhaps that’s because she was probably in Paris or Monaco or on yacht most of the time…..
Or her back.
John, I think that’s what everyone expected to see when the veil came down.
“Los Angeles fireworks explosion: Truck goes up in flames as police seize fireworks”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-57682375
Looks a bit like bomb to me ?
The whole story is bizarre.
Other places report they had already siezed the fireworks and for some reason they were going to detonate them in a big iron pot on a trailer behind the truck instead of taking them somewhere safe.
The BBC say it happened while they were in the process of seizing them – but accuracy is not their strong point these days due to the high number of young racially and sexually diverse people they employ.
Mariana Spring is promoting herself on Twitter as she had yet another ‘convid conspiracy protest’ piece on Newsnight.
She has retweeted 4 people saying she is brilliant. Who are these people who admire her work?
They are:
Alistair Coleman, works at BBC Monitoring
Joshua Tindall,works for BBC 5 Live
Ollie Lewis, writes for a student rag
Sean Adams, previously works for the BBC
At least other BBC employees recognise the great work of other BBC employees even if noone else does.
The BBC are in a frenzy about the tax fraud by Trump’s chief financial officer.
There is no evidence or suggestion that Trump is directly involved with it at this point (though I’m sure he knew and I’m sure every single big corporation is doing it) yet the BBC use his name no less than 22 times in the article.
And just in case that’s not enough, we get a cut and paste ‘although New York City has already cut business ties with the twice-impeached former president.’. Again, not relevant at all – but you MUST be taught to associate Trump = Bad.
Then we have the obligatory inclusion of Trump saying it’s all politically motivated for them to get away with it – but unbelievably they have put a big-font header across the article just before they report that which says ‘Not about politics’ !!. An assertive and definite statement. However the single quotes change it completely to be the opinion of the prosecutor and effectively worthless. It’s blatant deception.
Normally these stories aren’t reported until after the trial and the accused has been found guilty yet this is the second big headline for it in 2 days by the BBC even though the trial hasn’t even started and remember Trump had nothing at all to do with company for the last 4 years. Something the BBC don’t mention.
It’s outrageous. Anyone who says the BBC is not biased is a liar. They just agree with their politics.
Asylum queue nine times longer than 10 years ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57681920
According to this article by the BBC, asylum seekers are baby girls from war-torn Libya and persecuted teachers.
Which ones would they be in this picture ?.
https://cdni.rt.com/files/2015.10/article/561678e5c36188e84d8b4590.jpg
Disgusting and deliberate misrepresentation once again.
All thanks to our Home Office and Border Force.
Tory government , what Tory government ?
Follow the money.
They are all trannies for God sake, they’ve come for the op on the Anychess.
BATLEY AND SPEN
Labour have squeaked in by less votes than there are comments on this thread.
Updating the above. In second place were the Conservatives with Gorgeous George in a reasonable third. The Libdems did manage to lift their vote but only by a small amount to finish a poor fourth. Next came the Yorkshire Party.
Britain First sadly came in at 12th. No populist party made a breakthrough. And only the English Democrats among the populists managed to gain a fraction more than the Monster Raving Loonies.
(imho time for a new party with one of its major planks to be abolishing the BBC)
After seeing all the people in the interviews, I’m not surprised at all that Britain First did so bad.
I suspect ‘Palestein First’ would have romped it.
Listening to the BBC presenters you would believe that Labour have just won the General Election not a By- Election.
Batley and Spen has been Labour for years and they just hold on by 300+ votes. Things must be bad in Labour if they deem this as a great result..Turn out 47% down from 69% in the General Election.
On a personal note and as a rabid Tory supporter I have to say I’m not too disappointed. What happened to Joe Cox was appalling and so upsetting. I for one wish her sister all the best and wish her all the success in her coming political career, perhaps this may help give her closure on the catastrophic and sad events of the past.
Good posts, Yasser and dafydd. Agree wholeheartedly with final sentence of first and final paragraph of second.
Al Beeb……..
“Lorry driver shortage threatens Haribo sweets”
This could be a good thing for British sweet manufacturers?
taffman, bad news for dentists. OTOH, good news for the Obesity Police.
Why does Merkel have to come to the UK today ? She has done no favours for us .
Fat chance.
TOADY Watch #1 – so delighted at the Labour win they forget the “first look at the newspapers”
The result of the Batley & Spen by-election was announced in the hour before TOADY came on air. There was obvious delight in Nick Robinson’s voice as he announced the news. Quite why they had to play an audio clip of the Returning Officer saying exactly the same thing I put down to joyous relief that either Labour won or that Keir Starmer might just keep his job.
Excitement was so high in the TOADY studio they forgot to do the newspaper review. None of the newspapers will have the result as they all went to press before it was announced. That’s the beauty of radio. Instant, nearly. But it is also a giveaway. It takes knowledge, experience and effort to disguise true feelings in the voice or to put them in there deliberately.
Too right, Up2!
The result also stuffs all the wannabe ‘leaders’ like Burnham, Rayner etc., so the limbo of a failing Labour party continues!
Lousy turnout though.
Scrobie, it is a bit of a puzzle why the PM was happy to go to Sunderland but does not appear to have campaigned on behalf of the Conservative candidate in Batley & Spen. Bojo is a proven Election winner. Could it be that Bojo wishes to keep a hopeless Labour Party leader in his job?
“Could it be that Bojo wishes to keep a hopeless Labour Party leader in his job?”
It looks that way – but the question is why?
There are several possible answers to that question.
Perhaps Starmer has hinted he can get BoJo an invitation to join the Trilaterateral Commission.
Spot on, Snuffy!
Bojo needs Starmer just where he is!
the elation is also palpable on BBC 1 breakfast
i am waiting for stories about voting irregularities but not finding any…
Galloway said he is suing someone about something, but that’s hardly unusual (his speech was shown on GB News, not seen on BBC)
BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – Islington multi-millionaires join forces to help with the attack on Andrew Neil (and GB Radio?) and Brexit
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57637116
What more can be said other than Gillespie is looking a bit rough?
It seems from listening to the BBC it was a very toxic By – Election..
For me the Tories didn’t have a chance of winning it. Brexit party secured 6000 + votes at the last General Election, votes I believe went to Galloway and I bet the powers that be at Tory head office knew this. If Galloway had not been standing these Brexit votes may of enhanced the Labour Majority
If it was me I would not have fielded a Tory candidate as a mark of respect for the late Joe Cox. This gesture would have garnished huge respect from the local electret for any future local election.
But now as a result of this By – Election and it’s outcome we are going to get nauseating crap and enhanced bias from the BBC and other left wing media.
Sopes is alluding again.
Sopes has his next George Floyd. Blonde too.
The problem in the world is that too many people are to f***king stupid to know when the thing right in front of them is a lie.
FRAMING TODAY Watch #1 – Brenda echoed “You are joking. Not another one!”
Dame Glenys Stacey is to be head of yet another QUANGO, the Office for Environmental Protection. The Wiki says it all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenys_Stacey
BBC WEB-SITE Watch #2 – funny, they don’t mention the …. “Shush!”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57691543
What is missing here, BBC?
Yes, the actual voting results.
Why have you left them out?
Could it be that the Remainer LibDems have done really badly?
Shabana Mahmoud, a Labour Party rentagob, is on the BBC celebrating their win at Batley and Spen by 300 votes.
How appropriate that she should speak for the winning Muslim Party candidate, much to the delight of the BBC.
So delighted were they that they even interviewed Brendan Cox, husband of the previous MP, St Jo of Cox.
But weirdly, so soon after the demise of Matt Hancock, reportedly a factor in the by-election result, the BBC managed to forget to mention one of their previous reports. Allow me to remind them
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43101434
‘The husband of murdered MP Jo Cox, Brendan Cox, has quit two charities he set up in her memory after allegations of sexual assault were made public’.
Laaaaaandslide!
Just trying to find the article I saw yesterday where the BBC are ‘fact checking’ Trumps fraud claims and came across this:
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19170865.bbc-says-wrong-say-donald-trump-falsely-claimed-fraud-day-us-election-poll/
A deliberate and blatant agenda-driven lie.
Of course once they all started doing it, the BBC went right back to the lie as they knew nobody will bother to complain against one channel out of 50.
‘Why you can trust the BBC’. The most dishonest button on the internet.
Here we go, BBC presenters going into leftie overdrive…
Thankfully brought down to earth by Sir John Curtice much to the annoyance of the hyper over excited presenter
”Analysis: Conservatives will be kicking themselves”
Today Programme
BBC Radio 4
Political analyst Prof Sir John Curtice says the result provides Labour with “a certain amount of breathing room” but it does not demonstrate the party has “turned a corner”.
“Labour’s share of the vote is actually down by over seven points in the constituency – that’s only a little less than the drop in the party’s vote in Hartlepool,” he says.
Prof Curtice adds that it was “yet another remarkable performance” by George Galloway, who got as much as 22% of the vote.
He says the former Respect MP likely took votes from Labour by appealing to people from an Asian or Muslim background.
But he also may have picked up Tory votes by taking a socially conservative position on some issues, such as gay rights, and because he is pro-Brexit, Prof Curtice adds.
“That said, I think the Conservatives will certainly be kicking themselves that they did not manage to win this constituency,” he says, adding that the resignation of former Health Secretary Matt Hancock may have had an impact on the result.
Remember this BBC news 6 October 2020
Boris quote..
“Your kettle, your washing machine, your cooker, your heating, your plug-in electric vehicle – the whole lot of them will get their juice cleanly and without guilt from the breezes that blow around these islands,” he said.
Well….. not today..
A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
And approaching the issue from another direction – we go colonic
This morning we take the temperature of our much lauded frontline hero medics – sorry about the headline phrasing coming up here. The BBC, our pompous national broadcaster, gets cluncky with their own jarring brand of in-house tabloidese:
‘England doctors consider overtime ban over pay‘
– I know, annoying isn’t it? Even the much-derided comic Daily Star can do us the honour of the occasional colon: ‘Cops: Don’t drive if you’re blind‘ – that was the Star’s report on the bad optics around Dom Cummings’s road trip… for purportedly medicinal purposes.
Or sometimes a comma will do the job: ‘Dr, No! Moment TV doc forgot to wear mask in shop‘;
‘Now get a bleedin’ grip, Bozo. Outrage as just 2,000 NHS heros are tested‘;
‘Bojo the bog roll bandit. PM snaffles lorry-load of luxury paper’ – that one didn’t require much in the way of punctuation, so you may wipe it, but you get the idea. Simple, punchy, conversational, plain everyday English.
In fact the Star has been known to give us a veritable frontpage English Language lesson:
‘Clown: 1: noun. A figure of fun who makes people laugh by being stupid. Also known as a Hancock.
2: verb. To act the fool by shifting blame to save your own skin. Also known as “doing a bit of a Hancock”‘
I’m afraid the wording in the BBC report gets worse: ‘Consultants will be consulted on industrial action if the 1% pay rise offer is not improved, says union‘ – if this “despite corona” dispute widens we speculate that manufacturers of funeral cards may be asked by their union if they want to come out in sympathy?
Frankly, given that the inflation rate could be just about any number at present given the fiddling of official stats, 1% is a small number. However, I’m guessing hospital consultants are in the top 1% of earners and 1% of quite a lot is quite a lot.
Perhaps they got jealous of the GPs coining it with their millions in vax premiums?
‘The vaccines and immunisations listed are eligible for an IoS (item of service) fee of £10.06‘ (BMA Vaccinations and immunisations guidance for GP practices – as at April 2021) – how many million have been jabbed twice going on thrice now…? You do the maths.
I wonder what Labour would say?
In 1948 Bevan boasted that he was able to accomplish his goal of nationalising medicine: “by stuffing the doctors’ mouths with gold.”
The sweet taste of self-interest: ‘British sugar case is first legal challenge to post-Brexit state aid and trade policy‘ (FT) – The pink financial does its best to muddy the facts within its cumbersome headlines but we’ve figured this one out. State aid is a bad thing, right? It distorts the market and acts as a form of protectionism.
‘The case which has been brought by British Sugar plc against Liz Truss, the international trade secretary… is in response to a decision… to allow 260,000 tonnes of “raw cane sugar” to enter the UK tariff free‘ – so the sweet people at British Sugar fear Britain getting cheap sugar – which we consumers consume a lot of. (If the BBC can talk of consulting consultants, I can talk of consumers consuming)
Which tends to show the EU was the big buddy of corporate interests and the enemy of the free market and of consumers.
British Sugar has its origins in the nationalised British Sugar Corporation that uses British-grown sugar beet as its raw materials.
The other well-know brand in the UK, Tate & Lyle, imported sugar cane from former British-colonies, i.e. with their origins in slavery.
The entry of the UK into the EEC disrupted trade with the Commonwealth, introducing tariffs and quotas and favouring ‘internal’ production using sugar beet.
It would seem that Liz Truss might be taking us back to the pre-EEC competitive regime.
Amazing how the middle class liberal hypocritical wokerati haven’t boycotted the Tate Modern,.
The impartial bbbc are delighted that their man has won in Batley and are continuously mentioning that she is the sister of Jo Cox who was killed by the far right.
Has anyone ever, ever, heard the bbbc say that anyone has been killed by the far left.
In fact, has anyone ever heard the bbbc mention “far left”
EG
Yesterday i heard the BBC refer to the ‘Hard Right ‘ . I was trying to figure out if this was different from the
‘Far Right ‘ or ‘extreme right ‘
Still terms undefined ..
TOADY Watch #2 – a good, proper scientist for a climate change on the BBC
Shame I didn’t catch the gentleman’s name or status (Prof, Doc Phd, whatever) but Justin was very concerned about the unprecedented (and no doubt turbulent) heat being enjoyed by the Pacific west and north-west of the American continent. Trump’s fault! Normally on the BBC, it’s all to do with Global Warming and Climate Change.
I have a friend who is totally sold on the AGW/CC thing and whenever you point out to them that ‘this is a weather event’, immediately it is denied. Yet other weather events are enthusiastically taken up by the AGW/CC fanatics and are denied as weather and cited as proof of Global Warming and Climate Change. Definitely not so for the scientist on the TOADY Programme. “We don’t know.” he said. “We need to do more research.” He was obviously a believer in CC and said as much.
But there will be some pursed lips and worried frowns among the BBC Editorial staff. He probably will not be invited back on to the BBC anytime soon.
Take a look at Tony Heller’s latest videos – he describes how there were far hotter situations in the past 200 years, but the Dems have chosen to remove all the records pre 1982 (which was one of the coolest years). The number of heatwaves has declined markedly in those 200 years, as have wild fires. CO2 and “climate change” have no skin in this game – CO2 levels were considerably lower then, yet there were more instances of extreme heat. Records were published in newspapers of the time, when reporting was truthful and could be relied upon. They are there for ALL to see.
We are being conned, bigly, with this rubbish, just as we are with the COV19 scamdemic. Action is required.
Yes Prof Nick Bond wasn’t an actual skeptic
“Climate change is real”
but he did say attribution is complex
But he didn’t come roaring out like a full on activist
Webb tried to put words in his mouth .
A Monbiot disciple tweeted
Kinda reflective of the wishy-washy debate with Nick Bond @WAstateclimate
& @bbcnickrobinson on @BBCr4today this morning
about record breaking heat wave in N.W. Americas. #ClimateEmergency.
One of the more rational members of last night’s QT audience – most appear to be related to seals – asked something along the lines of:
‘If Hancock’s buttock grabbing was filmed in early May, why was it not made public knowledge until late June?’
The response was immediate.
‘No, no, no. We’re not talking about whistle-blowers here, it’s the Health Secretary’s behaviour that concerns us. Move on. Next?’
And yet the delay obviously worked. Around 300-500 votes worth, at a guess.
Beltane
I read something a few days ago about how the video clip was being hawked around for money up to a week before it was published .
It seems it was offered to isabel oakeshot – a frame – but she came to the conclusion it was a fraud .
In all honesty – so what . The good thing was that it demonstrated corruption at the top of the regime . It cost the tories an election and the politician his personal and professional life .
When will the new partner dump her ‘has been ‘?
“demonstrated *corruption* at the top of the regime”
I don’t consider a bloke kissing his mistress as corruption
The video gave us NO new enlightenment
We already know politicians of all parties have affairs.
I think the French have a mature attitude of saying a politician’s private life is not a public matter.
I don’t think it’s the same as during Covid going outside your bubble.
She was always in his bubble from the start. His wife may have known or not known this.
People like Isabel Oakeshott had broken lockdown rules, so not easy to break such a story.
Was the release done after Boris cancelled the June 21st end of lockdown date ?
I was listening to the uncles of Saskia Jones calling for Dr Ruth Armstrong and Dr Amy Ludlow to resign. These two women organised the Cambridge University Learning Together programme at Fishmongers’ Hall which a convicted Islamic terrorist, Usman Khan, was allowed to attend and at which he murdered Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt. Armstrong and Ludlow claim there is no evidence that convicted terrorists present any threat to ordinary students.
The uncles are astounded at their arrogance and stupidity.
A thought struck me while I was listening to the item on Today. Our country is endangered by a two-pronged threat: Fundamentalism from Islamic terrorists and idealism from progressive academics. They are strangely similar in their dangerously rigid outlooks.
Ludlow says there is “no research evidence” to support excluding terrorists from these education programmes where they mix with ordinary students. Despite seeing two of her students stabbed to death in front of her! A classic case of the highly-educated person who has no sense.
Some people like Usman Khan are evil and irredeemable. Idealists like Armstrong and Ludlow, as well as the huge numbers of educationalists and criminologists who sent them messages of support, refuse to see that. These people don’t understand human nature.
“Usman Khan, was allowed to attend”
…actually Usman Khan, was INVITED to attend
” people like Usman Khan are evil and irredeemable”
Not sure this is true
Is he not like us, but a victim of brainwashing ?
Whereas Armstrong and Ludlow maybe guilty of corporate manslaughter if there safety in the workplace measures, allowed the danger.
Like sure allow people to come to meetings, but have adequate procedures to control security.
Unfortunately the only way to deal with them is execution – they won’t ‘deradicalise ‘ they have their cause – one weapon of which is deceit .
Plenty of air head academics to facilitate their cause ….
Stew, I agree. There is always the possibility of redemption and personal change. In fact, that is one of the great things about human life and tends to differentiate human beings from the animal kingdom.
No – kill them – be doing them a favour
darn typo “their safety measures”
Not sure you and I will agree on human nature, Stew. In my view some people are evil and irredeemable. There is a point when you are sinking into depravity from which there is no returning. It is well known that once a serial killer gives in to his urges and kills his first victim, he cannot stop.
You say people like Khan should go to meetings if there is adequate security. So you acknowledge there is an element of risk to which you would be exposing ordinary innocent students? Seems more sensible not to have these learning together sessions in the first place, wouldn’t you agree?
At the moment you commit a crime, you are a particular person
5 years later you might be a completely different person.
You come across students who are hopeless at speaking English, worse than beginners
However as a teacher we can still bring them around, even though people have told us , it’s hopeless.
The ultimate solution is creating situations such that you never become a bad person in the first place,
eg don’t just have open borders.
Cambridge University Learning Together = CULT.
Coincidence? I think not.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/batley-spin-byelection-results-far-right-b1876883.html
written by Lizzie Dearden!
Batley and Spen by-election: Far-right candidates lose deposits, win under 2% of vote and ‘sink without a trace’
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Five extreme right-wing and nationalist groups contested the seat where former MP Jo Cox was murdered by a neo-Nazi in 2016.
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The worst result was for Susan Laird of the new populist party Heritage, with 33 votes, followed by former Britain First deputy leader Jayda Fransen, with 50.
Anne Marie Waters, leader of the far-right For Britain Movement, received 97 votes, while Ukip candidate Jack Thomson got 151 and English Democrat Therese Hirst received 207.
Then follows pronouncements by the blessed Brendan – husband of St. Jo
“The reality is those far-right groups have sunk without a trace,” he told The Independent.
“These are all individuals on their own petty little ego trips. None of them have anything resembling a political movement or force behind them.
Time will tell.
That reads as spin as PR for HnH
.. Someone in the The Hatey No Hopers’ office probably wrote it.
“Far right” is always a smear word
It would be better to say what the parties actually stand for
After all the ultraconservative Muslims probably voted for Galloway.
One of the 2 main Islington Socialist parties were always going to win.
Voting for righty parties, was just a protest vote.
If the Tory Labour vote was not going to be close, then more people would have gone with a protest vote
The righty party votes are more than the extra 324 the Tories needed to win
So had more voters not voted righty the Tories would have won
If you only have 35% of the vote, you can’t say the local public are behind you.
Close run thing…
The big downside is that the dead politicians’ sister is going to go on and on about her and be fire proof – like her brother in law .
I cant really see much difference between coke and pepsi any more – so the outcome of the bi election is immaterial
George Galloway is the lefts ‘ version of nigel farage – in terms on taking on the MSM . They fear and hate both
Agree with your last sentence.
Five year old YT video. Nigel and George appear to get on very well.
Pat – fascinating to watch something from 5 years ago – so recent and so long ago . Thanks for putting that up .
However we have to bear in mind that Galloway is an out and out communist who hates Britain.
Londoner – yes – I’m no fan but he has the ability to ‘challenge ‘ the likes of the BBC in a way which is so rare …. Enemy’s enemy …
You and Yours on Radio 4 yesterday lunch time was about students having to isolate just as they were due to move out of their accommodation. Winifred Robinson took it from the view that wicked landlords were charging the students rent. Some landlords have mortgages to pay. The middle class snowflakes she had on said it may cost their parents £200 in rent. I presume these students did not have the full university experience because the BBC keeps reminding us of this. May I suggest the £200 rents would be far less than what the students had saved in not going out?
Lewis Hughes, 23, charged with common assault after England’s chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty accosted by group of men in a London park
Court on Friday July 30
I never watched the video
People are saying it was an arm around the neck rather than a proper “headlock”.
Good news – pity he won’t do time if convicted -even a month
From what I’ve read, this chap wanted a ‘selfie to show his mum !’ but when Whittey tried to extricate himself from his initial armhold Hughes just hung on to him while getting his camera in position all the time his mate was shouting.
Whatever it was, the thought of a couple of strangers, regardless of intention, and particularly grown men, going up to anyone and laying a hand on them, is quite frightening stuff in this day and age. They could have had a knife on them and then what ? Not so ‘innocent’ then.
Tory MP praises Chris Whitty’s call to “end restrictions soon”
see comment section
Chris Whitty gets a bit roughed up by the public then the next day he’s calling for Covid restrictions to end. I wonder if the two things are linked
Chris Whitty glimpsed his possible future if he carries on with his authoritarianism.
I see that the UK’s offshore windmill fleet is exploring output figures that, if applied to the gas turbine fleet would have the population up in arms…
The BBC >>>> zip, nada etc.
All those “100% renewable” electron delivery contracts are not worth the dead trees that many are printed on.
Leadbeater complains the other side were dirty
Yet her own poster was a dogwhistle that shouted
“Boris is with the Indian PM, he’s a friend of Hindus not Muslims”
I’m quite surprised that tribalism won through – albeit via a split non Labour vote.
Not being there means one has to guess at what played to the voters.
I do feel though that we should, at an absolute bare minimum have more information on the absentee / proxy / postal vote numbers directly in the declaration as it’s very clear indeed that those are viewed as important targets by the assorted runners and riders…. The numbers must be available to the returning officer – they should be published.
Anybody fancy FoI-ing Kirklees Council for the availability of the numbers? – anybody know if they’re obliged to serve up the stats?
https://democracy.kirklees.gov.uk/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?ID=239&RPID=1507537