Midweek Thread 30 June 2021

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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484 Responses to Midweek Thread 30 June 2021

  1. Londoner says:

    A disgraceful poster pandering to the prejudices of the Moslems. Of course Leadbetter’s dirty ticks poster is no doubt fine for the likes of the BBC. Personally, if they are Boris’s views, I think they are far preferable to David Cameron’s ‘Islam is a religion of peace’, which was quite patently rubbish, and I doubt it brought him one extra Islamic vote.

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  2. micknotmike says:

    I hadn’t realized just how much power the BBC wields. They are even able to get William and Harry to unveil a statue of Emily Maitlis; at least that’s who it looks like.

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  3. Dover Sentry says:

    Ronald Reagan said in the mid-70s – “If fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism.”

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    • taffman says:

      Sounds are coming out from France that President Macron is getting tough on Wokees & wokeness ?
      Something I have not heard coming from our so called ‘Tories ‘.
      Nowt on Al Beeb yet?
      I think President Macron has been taking notes from this site, what say you?

      Note: We still have a teacher in this country who in hiding fearing his life, because he used cartoons in his school lecture.
      What ever has happened to Freedom of Speech ? A question for Al Beeb to answer .

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      • Old Goat says:

        Macron won’t be getting tough on anything for very much longer…

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  4. Kaiser says:

    seem skys news have also randomly found that 1 in 45000 non binary england fan that the bbc found

    https://news.sky.com/story/the-beautiful-game-has-to-be-beautiful-for-everyone-joe-whites-england-makeup-a-victory-for-inclusion-12346824

    msm astroturfed agenda

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  5. Beltane says:

    Re: Batley & Spen.

    Ed Davey’s very quiet. No new dawn yet then.

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  6. StewGreen says:

    Batley “Don’t mention the teacher in hiding”
    Julia Hartley-Brewers Red Pilling continues over Batley and Spen

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  7. StewGreen says:

    Simon Webb “Gammons and rednecks
    – when it’s OK to mock people for the colour of their skin”

    …. https://youtu.be/BBeKCQ_AKKw

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  8. StewGreen says:

    R4 Facebook page
    🏳️‍🌈 Everyone’s story of coming out is different.
    For some it’s an anti-climax for others a long, sometimes traumatic journey.
    You have to do it at your own pace.
    Four young people talk about coming out, on Tricky, a podcast about the big issues.

    https://bbc.in/2UgDx7E

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    • richard D says:

      So here we are, dafydd, barely 3 months into the new financial year, and the budget set by the Executive of a local council has pretty much been ripped apart at the seams already…..

      When the hell will the British public get it through their noodles that public sector managements are just utterly hopeless, and the CFOs (Chief Financial Officers) and the CEOs (Chief Executive Officers) should be forced to resign immediately when this happens – without any financial package whatsoever – for sheer incompetence and fraudulantly claiming any expertise whatsoever.

      NHS authorities are just as bad as, if not demonstrably worse than, local councils (mainly left-wing controlled, although Tory-run bodies are not immune to this), as they regularly run out of money well before the end of the financial year…… and how many of the ‘worthies’ at the top of these organisations wind up with ‘gongs’, compared to those who are tarred and feathered and run out of town (if only…..)?

      And, of course, the only solution that occurs to these dick-heads is that they need to be given more money by the taxpayers, never mind about living within their means…… and as for actually saving and properly managing the vast amounts of cash they get …. when did we ever hear that possibility being considered ?

      It is precisely because they get away with it, time and time again, that these farcical events continue to happen.

      As well as that, the BBC is a classic example of a ‘public’ body living way beyond its means, because they have discovered how to access the mythical money tree – and woe betide any government which decides to take on this monolithic behemoth.

      So, don’t expect to see any ‘Panorama’-type investigations into the sheer incompetence, if not downright criminal behaviour, of these heads of public sector organisations.

      Philip Green, Greensill Capital, Gupta…. to name but a few – sheer amateurs – in the public sector you can get away with this as often as you like – the underlings are just sitting there waiting their turn at the trough – not interested in getting rid of those at the top today.

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      • Deborah says:

        There may be councils who the electorate and the Councillors think are Conservative but the people who work there are left of Jeremy Corbyn. They think the Councillors and the electorate are a nuisance and the council workers do exactly what they want.

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    • Northern Voter says:

      Vote Labour, go into the red!

         8 likes

  9. BRISSLES says:

    A scientist by profession, and been in charge of Germany since God was a boy, and the woman still cant speak a word of English ???

       13 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      She grew up in East Germany so speaks fluent Russian.
      Gavorite Russki komrad ?

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  10. StewGreen says:

    Joe Lycett walked off in a strop after being called out for having a plastic bottle despite saying he’d ditched single use plastic..
    Channel4 daytime

    The next day he says
    ‘ah it was a cunning plan
    I wanted to raise awareness of PET drinks bottles
    so I pretended to storm off
    so people would talk about it’
    paraphrased from .. https://twitter.com/joelycett/status/1410917298253225985

    video … https://twitter.com/AndyBarnett787/status/1410580794305884161

    BTW AFAIK his science is wrong
    clear plastic is difficult to recycle back into CLEAR bottles
    cos it gets contaminated
    Yet it is easy to recycle it into coloured plastic by adding dye.

    Glass bottles are bad cos they cause big transport CO2
    and big recycling CO2
    All waste plastic can safely burnt in high temp incinerators to make energy.

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    • tomo says:

      according to The Guardian – we can feed waste plastic to cows….

         3 likes

      • Old Goat says:

        I don’t think we’re allowed to have cows, any more…

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        • BRISSLES says:

          In the 60’s when I worked at a Pfizer plant in Kent, it was rumoured in the scientific development department, there was a cow with a plastic side, so its eating habits could be monitored.

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          • Scroblene says:

            How did it fit through those security gates, Brissles?

            When we used to visit the services people, they had security turnstiles like The Bank of England!

            And we wanted to buy the Hoverlloyd site, and the council stamped all over us, so we made an excuse and left…

            I used to love East Kent too…

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          • Deborah says:

            There was a sheep in the basement of the Agriculture Department at Newcastle University in the 1970s. She had a large rubber bung directly into the stomach to take regular samples at timed intervals after she had eaten.

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  11. tomo says:

    SNOW in Brazil

    Harrabin + minions will be on that presently

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  12. StewGreen says:

    R4 Today
    11am a prog about slavery
    the blurb does mention a nigerian slave owner ..so I will check more

    7:15 R4 Arts Show
    #1 the black actor who played alexander Hamilton plugging his book
    #2 Plug for Radio3’s Sunday Feature Reclaiming the Bridgetower Sonata on Sunday 4th July at 18:45 featuring Chi-chi Nwanoku
    #3 Plugging new French film about drinking teachers

    7:45pm Radio4 repeat it’s conspiracy show “Two Minutes Past Nine aims to understand the changing face of far right extremism in all its chaos and conspiracism.

    8:50pm Non-lefty allowed on : Niall Ferguson’s piece about how we are not in a new roaring Twenties but rather The Boring Twenties

    11pm Book Show : one book is Kiley Reid’s Such A Fun Age
    “A smart look at race politics in the USA through the story of a young black nanny and her white employer, white boyfriend and black friends. “

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    • StewGreen says:

      8pm Any Questions wow not 100% remainers
      “Professor Patrick Minford was a notable member of the Economists for Brexit group which advocated the UK leaving the European Union.”

      4pm Obituary show had 10 minutes on John McAfee without mentions his predictions about being Epsteined.

      I still think it’s possible that he did really kill himself
      but the prog steamrollered listeners into thinking that was 100% sure

      ======
      Meanwhile Elon Musk is still hyping a crypto currency on Twitter

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      • StewGreen says:

        5pm R4 trailer promoting their prog that lionises Elon Musk.
        He’s a spiv FFS !

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    • StewGreen says:

      11am slavery series
      Chidi grew up in London, and learned at an early age that he was descended from a late 19th Century Nigerian slave trader called Nwaubani Ogogo.
      He describes how he came to terms with this and the impact racial stereotyping has had on his life, while his history takes us back in time to a moment in the aftermath of the abolition of slavery, when his ancestor still had a license to trade enslaved people.
      The rush for Africa was beginning; Britain had turned its attention from the slave trade to palm oil.
      Nwaubani traded both, and was licensed to a British Corporation.

      British businesspeople were desperate to gain access to the palm oil which Nwaubani sold.
      One man in the North West of England had been trying to strike deals in Nigeria – he wanted to be able to control production and prices himself – and his company would eventually buy the corporation which was licensing Nwaubani.
      But in the meantime, he turned his attention to the Belgian Congo where King Leopold offered him everything he wanted. The man’s name was William Lever – whose company, the Lever Brothers, would eventually become Unilever. Famous across the North of England for his philanthropic endeavours, students and alumni at the school re-founded by him – The Bolton School – are just coming to terms with his legacy.
      Not technically slavery, but not free labour either.

      OK The Nigerian guy that actually traded slaves = GOOD
      The British guy not using slaves = BAD

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      • StewGreen says:

        “My great grandfather Nwaubani was so esteemed that, when he died, a leopard was killed, and six slaves were buried alive with him.
        My family inherited … the chains of his slaves
        ,… my father took me to see the row of ugba trees where Nwaubani Ogogo kept his slaves chained up”
        The New Yorker

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  13. Up2snuff says:

    TWatO Watch and BBC Pismronunciation Watch #1 combined

    Kim Leadbeater’s name causing the BBC a few problems today. Then there was Kirkcudbright and Kirkcudbrightshire on TWatO receiving a mangling from Ed Stourton, standing in for the Montacutie. It set up the next item nicely though with a lass from the town explaining how to pronounce it correctly. Maybe the next stop on TWatO’s holiday tour of GB&NI will be Happisburgh in Norfolk.

    I guess Yorkshire folk would say Ledbetta rather than the BBC’s non-Salfordian Leeedbeeetter.

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  14. Beltane says:

    If England fans had confined their boos to knee-takers and not so continuously and volubly insulted their opponent’s national anthem, it’s quite possible that seven out of the eight officials for the match against Ukraine would not be Germans.

    Schadenfreude springs to mind.

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  15. AnneG says:

    While watching GB News at 16.10 a hero came on. The previous person had been the usual pro climate change fool. Then along comes Danny Kelly, a used car dealer from Walsall. He said no one wants electric cars, who can plug it in from the 10th floor of a council flat. they want cheap driving with good constant use. He pulled apart the new e10 petrol rule coming in shortly, which will effect the petrol cars before 2012.
    A breath of fresh air, well done GBNews

       24 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Watch the full interview with used car dealer Danny here:

      3 minute version
      “They don’t give a damn about carbon footprint, they just want to get around town”
      Used car dealer argues people just want cheap reliable cars that are cheap to tax rather than eco options.

      https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1410986446073237507

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  16. Beltane says:

    Danny Kelly on GBN was followed by Graham Stringer MP, an old school Labour man who spoke at length to impart sound, balanced, reasoned and genuinely heartwarming common-sense.

    And to his even greater credit, he’s the sort of Labour MP who stands no chance whatsoever of being interviewed on the BBC.

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  17. Guest Who says:

    Talking of sheep in the department…

    No word if Rainbow Joe chipped in. If he did, doubtless his team let the BBc team know.

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  18. Guest Who says:

    There’s desperation, and there’s BBC desperation…

    No word on imports of George Floyd Y-fronts.

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  19. taffman says:

    “Boris Johnson discusses travel curbs with Angela Merkel on final UK visit”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57686826
    IMHO there is more to this than appears . I have my doubts about her .
    ‘Others’ had doubts years ago …………………..
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24992485

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  20. Guest Who says:

    Sopes RTd this epic yet?

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  21. Guest Who says:

    What is she on about?

       8 likes

  22. Guest Who says:

    Lurch admits he can’t think.

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  23. taffman says:

    “Statues of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II torn down in Canada”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57693683
    The Wokees are at it again .
    What difference will this make to the lives of most Canadians ?
    Isn’t it time that our Prime Minister, Boris ‘Churchill’ Johnson took a stand for Great Britain and the Commonwealth ?

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  24. taffman says:

    “Batley and Spen: Labour is back after by-election win, says Starmer”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57696431
    Much celebrating in No 10 me thinks ?

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  25. Guest Who says:

    Speaking of desperate.

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  26. taffman says:

    Breaking : Tranies can be housed in Jails whatever they identify as?…………………….
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57692993

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  27. StewGreen says:

    Update re first post on page 3

    “BBC removes Bitesize page on climate change ‘benefits’ after backlash
    Study website made claims including warmer temperatures ‘could lead to healthier outdoor lifestyles’”
    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jul/02/bbc-removes-bitesize-page-climate-change-benefits-backlash

    “Stuart Lock, the chief executive of Advantage Schools trust in Bedford, said the advice was “flat wrong, doesn’t align with the national curriculum or exam specs, and needs reconsidering”.
    “Climate change isn’t a ‘both sides’ argument,” he added.”

    “Extinction Rebellion’s south-east group said: “GCSE students, young people, those facing future disasters, deserve better than to be judged on questions which warp and distort the truth.”

    #projection is a libmob characteristic

    Everyone else can see that going on holiday to the Med
    takes you from a cold Eng-land
    to a warmed-land which is pleasanter apart from an over-hot 6 weeks in Summer.

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  28. Guest Who says:

    Ex Newsnight.

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  29. Guest Who says:

    Sopes’ main source of inspiration clearly does not read their own thread.

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  30. StewGreen says:

    “Climate change: ‘Last refuge’ for polar bears is vulnerable to warming”
    (It’s a PR word … polar bears are all over the place)

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57682081

    “A new study finds that an area of the Arctic Ocean critical for the survival of polar bears is fast becoming vulnerable to climate change.”

    It might be a new study, but guess when the ice was thin
    was it this year or LAST year ?

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  31. StewGreen says:

    Gettr.com is the new Trump Social media platform
    …LotusEaters reported

    https://gettr.com/

       2 likes

  32. StewGreen says:

    Dr Caroline Johnson Conservative MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham
    points us to a Lincolnshire consultation
    I have concerns about the emphasis being placed on the use of windfarms in the newly released Central Lincolnshire Local Plan. I believe there are far more impactful and less intrusive ways to facilitate a move to carbon net zero in our county, including supporting the offshore wind sector, low energy homes and encouraging the use of cleaner technologies.
    Windfarms cause both noise and visual pollution, have a known detrimental environmental impact on local wildlife, and can often have an intermittent functionality inland. They could cause interference with some radar signals in low flying zones, which is an important safety issue, given the RAF presence in Lincolnshire.
    I would encourage those with similar concerns regarding windfarms to submit their comments to the consultation on the plan, which is now running for 8 weeks (from 30 June to 24 August 2021).

    https://central-lincs.inconsult.uk/CLLP.Draft.Local.Plan/consultationHome

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