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Important notice to Labour MPs especially Emily Thornberry.
All those white and red flags hanging up everywhere is because there is a football match tonight and those putting them out are not racists but patriots supporting the home team.
Looks like Southgate is a BBC favourite, which is probably because he supports the BLM outfit.
I will support an England team. But this team is not an England team.
Was this report leaked?
Maybe Rog and Marianna could join forces with Femi on this one for a BBC special?
If EU taxes jet fuel then a nearby country could take the opportunity to suck up the customers via feeder flights
eg the way it’s cheaper to hop to Norway or Turkey first and change planes to get to your long distance destination.
Americans would never allow av gas to be taxed – which is why ours isn’t . Even if Biden tried it he’d be gone however much they fiddled the election .
One of my ‘favourite’ acts of bias is when the BBC give the game away with a throwaway remark quite out of the blue.
At 6.40 pm was watching the tennis on BBC2.
As the players took their break when changing ends the editor showed us a distant view of Wembley Stadium
The Scottish commentator (Andrew Cotter?) then said in terms…’ I am remaining neutral’. FFS.
So the BBC commentator cannot determine which of two countries, England or Denmark, should be supported.
Stone cold proof about the seditious, traitorous, anti-English nature of the BBC.
ITV seem to be doing their bit too Sluff.
Emma Hayes is on commentry.
Ah yes. poor English since he is still alive.
After 60 years of watching Bolton Wanderers in the cold and the damp and the snow and hail you’d think I’d be watching England tonight. No.
I cannot look myself in the mirror if on one hand I contribute to here express my views against not just the BBC but the woke culture that envelopes us all.
I cannot watch a team that takes the knee to support a regime that wants to overthrow the system that has supported me and 56 million people in the country I call home. No doubt the England team don’t want to take the knee but have too , to satisfy the sponsors who couldn’t be seen to sponsor a team that doesn’t display woke pretentions.
So good to my word im continuing to read Churchill, a history of WW2.
So please enjoy and I don’t blame you for watching but sadly I cannot be there.
Halifax
What’s England doing tonight?
We have the worse education and health service, and now this thanks to the Welsh Assembly………………………………..
“Wales one of the least productive parts of the UK”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-57747552
Too many kids going to ‘yoounie’ studying to get ‘loony toony’ degrees.
Taffman, I’ll take your Welsh Assembly and raise you a Scottish Assembly!
Better off comparing The Alarm against Big Country.
UPDATE : My anti woke credentials haven’t stopped me having a bet on 2-2 ….wish me luck !!!
“Covid: Cases in UK rise above 30,000 for first time since January”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57755733
More testing gives more cases .
How many faulty test kits ?
How many deaths?
“Trump sues Twitter, Google and Facebook alleging ‘censorship’. ”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57754435
I hope he wins?
It’s a long shot to say the least post wreckage of 60 failed previous cases.
He’s trying to argue that as they have accepted so much state direction, they have effectively made themselves a part of government and then are covered by the second amendment.
Very slim chance of succeeding. Alan Derschowitz V CNN is a wholly different story though.
im sure the argument will go along the lines
twitter decided Trump as president was banned from blocking anyone from his replies section due to free speech
Twitter have then banned Trump for free speech
“Lithuania plans barrier on Belarus border to stem migrant flow”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57754193
it is something our Tory government fails to do .
“Borders Bill: Post-Brexit overhaul of asylum rules unveiled”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57732761
It wont work.
Coming from a jungle camp in Calais and ending up in a British jail where they will be fed, get free medical treatment and a licence free TV etc is no deterrent.
Its all about ‘bluster’ to hide the impending disaster facing the Home Office and its Secretary.
Three things the present government have failed to do ………..
Get rid of Al Beeb and its obnoxious telly tax.
Fail to stem the growing flow of false asylum seekers and criminals.
Fail to get us completely free of the EU. We should have gone WTO.
four
failed to stem the tide of legal cheap labour
Denmark have scored twice so far
Will England come back with some good dives ?
cor its bad enough with the wokes hoping england lose in case winning drives the country to a little national pride or hard right fascism as they call it.
yeah I know they took the knee the crowd booed (ITV attempted to conceal it ), I booed (and swore) but as soon as they stood up they were our boys again, and after all they are only dumb footballers, football not exactly being a hot bed of intellectuals, and the fans are expressing a message that must even get into their thick skulls.
ps players if you cant quite fathom it, want to get the respect and adoration of the native english , pull on the shirt , play like your life depends on it , kiss the shirt to the adoring crowds after winning , honestly its not that f***in hard
Hannah Fry BBC maths repeat
Item about was dividing up wins and people being unfair
i. a cartoon image of Trump filled the screen
..a dogwhistle saying “He’s a baddy”
… That just illustrates the BBC’s intrinsic school bully culture
ii. In the experiment 3 students were invited to accept or reject a split of money
… All 3 were BAME males ..AFAIK that was at University of London
Worth pointing out the copyright date was 2017.
The bias is no overnight here today gone tomorrow accident.
Covid graphs .. Not great that cases/deaths rose 43% in a week
but the rise seems slower that 10 days ago
so growth is there but not exponential.
I reckon the vaccine reduces deaths by around 95%.
This is a major transformation, but I’d like context on daily cases. For instance how many get flu each day in a typical winter. I reckon 100,000 a day cases is feasible and for me worrying but hopefully we will approach herd immunity before any nasty new variants emerge.
as the flu didnt exist this year and we have not been mingling giving each other a little dose, that doesnt matter in summer
boy are we in for a shocking winter
It’s entirely possible that the flu did exist this year but was silently re-classified by the medics – temperature, joint pain, cough etc., sound familiar?
…. Very odd if it didn’t exist this year at all as it’s been around for yonks without turning the population into frightened slaves so not a tool they can use!
Just to remind us from the BBC
England men’s team are into the final of a major tournament.
Kneeling pays.
So does falling down in the penalty area
you mean a “STERLING” momentary BLM gesture in the penalty area
TCW essay “the Left now targets something personal and immutable, the skin colour we were born with.”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/a-word-to-the-white
Our Island home has a moat. Would we be better off with a Border Fence?
I haven’t seen the game but well done England on your win !
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
The bot tweets
( However like hack attacks, don’t take anything at face value
It could be a false flag bot-attack )
As well as WGAP .. good vids are still appearing at
– Rotten to the Core .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjKm2jcJMes
– Jeff Taylor
– The LotusEaters
– Alex Belfield ..still reading the papers and still over-reaching
eg bridge arches are not being filled in with concrete for “ridiculous health and safety”
but rather cos it’s the cheapest and ugliest fix.
– Meanwhile History Debunked continues to be reliable and dig up some crackers,
… ( except that he doesn’t understand the special danger of Islamic dogma.)
Crackers like the new Trafalgar Square statue to a black guy .. who actually killed a white guy and put his head on spike in his church.
… https://youtu.be/mBa1JU2Vggs
Two more top videos since that one now
And this of course SkyNewsAust , especially the Outsiders
and Andrew Bolt show .. https://youtu.be/FUmk_G1suao
ABC employee going crazy on Twitter and then using public funds for lawyers
Andy Ngo.. https://youtu.be/czBmwALoCnY
BLM is ‘absolutely a Marxist organisation’
.. https://youtu.be/tf4rw-XVAFQ
The ABC ‘can’t be trusted to tell the truth’ on race politics: Bolt
… https://youtu.be/uPT4oRclxsQ
Sky News host Rita Panahi has slammed controversial US hammer thrower Gwen Berry for having “racially vilified” her on social media.
… https://youtu.be/Z6OTGrSaWuY
BBC’s idea that white people exclude black people from swimming
.. https://youtu.be/yYFjzf9K59M
Ezra on GBnews talks about churches getting burnt in Canada
… https://youtu.be/tH9S9bcraRg
Crimebodge on Woke policing
… https://youtu.be/hNSEvFmmaE0
While GB News might not live up to some of our expectations, itt is certainly a giant leap for the UK. I didn’t expect to see Ezra Levant on it. I’ve never seen him interviewed by the uk msm before.
Thanks Stew
Further note to Emily Thornberry.
All that noise this evening was from patriotic football supporters appreciating that their national team won.
That’s called England by the way Emily.
That’s Lady Nugee to you, Sir!! 🤣🤣🤣
And, it is, I believe, Emily, called a ball, that thing the men were knocking about, your frequent references to a “baw” and your loss of the letter T makes me wonder what the F are you there for,
Raheem Stirling, Harry Kane. Decades ago I could reel off all the players in the England team, – as I could all the Tottenham / Liverpool and Man United players – no longer, – and I only know these two because (to me) they are the only ones getting all the publicity in the press.
I can still name both teams from the Leeds-Chelsea FA Cup final and replay from 1970. When football was a physical but skilful game.
Maybe its because they were all ‘personalities’ as opposed to the bland ‘celebrities’ that they are now. Back then it was the Fairs Cup, the Champions League, the European Cup, but the big event in this country was the FA Cup when the streets were literally emptied – but which is of little or no significance these days.
Listening to the ‘pundits, columnists and talking heads’ on the box today, I thought they were rather insulting to those past teams since the big win of 1966, and maintained that this side was the best ever.
Well, that’s as maybe, but the opposing teams of yesteryear were far more of a threat, and I’d like to see today’s players up against Johan Cruyff or Franz Beckenbauer, then we’d see what they were made of.
Covid: Watching Euros may be behind rise in infections in men
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-57754938
And the image selected from Getty by the BBC to show 10 of these bad, misbehaving men is the first group-picture I’ve seen on the BBC for a long time which does not include any minorities.
And the worst place is London where the minorities actually outnumber the whites !!.
It’s just relentless and it is absolutely pathetic. News by ideologically driven children for gullible idiots.
JohnC
“News by ideologically driven children for gullible idiots.” While OfCom and the government do nothing about it .
Scrap the Telly tax.
BS must have had a moment.
Sopes seems safe, alone, in a bar.
BBC Moaning Emole
England footballers make history
***
Checked. No wimmin involved. So how is history made?
BS had a bet in?
She was there. Again.
History being made, one selfie at a time?
putting manchester gorton first 🤮
Now there’s a good constituency MP… potholes ? Rubbish collection ? Crime ? Education ? Elderly care? Nah – the MP for Palestine North .
Wonder if she will be at the final too?
And face the pitch.
Don’t forget the laser
Only saw this as Springster’s offsider ‘liked’ this because he still follows this clown for some reason.
Bet the replies are a hoot.
Roy Keane .
Isn’t it just.
Anyway, come Monday back to investigating conspiracies and stuff.
“House prices set to continue rising as supply shrinks”
More people coming into the country means more housing required. Therefore border control essential.
Simples
Add to that almost all the UKs infrastructure which the Tories have cut back on to provide luxury for migrants and its no wonder there are waiting lists for the NHS running into years, no prison places, no social housing, large class sizes, the list goes on.
Boris the bottler the coward who claims to ‘lead’ the Tories allowed 715000 migrants to enter Britain last year and that doesn’t include bogus asylum seekers and illegal immigrants.
Thoughtful
Add to that lot, all the Afghans heading this way as the Talibans push west.
There will be trouble ahead…….
As Trotksy said: “‘the road to Paris and London runs through the villages of Afghanistan, the Punjab, and Bengal.”
I commented exactly this on a BBC Have Your Say yesterday. It was down voted out of existence.
Rising house prices mostly affect the young who also tend to be liberal pro immigration. I don’t know what it takes before they open their eyes to the causes.
“supply shrinks” ? weasel words
Wait until Danny boy gets to Operation Canned Goods.
Snuck? Is Snow an American?
No. Or an historian.
But well connected.
Lot of history about today.
Odd times. Odd people.
Ah the joys of being a BBC historian. It means you can attribute the start of a particularly vicious war to a minor incident involving an obscure individual, ignore the actual flashpoint at the Manchu Bridge and, even more to the point, gloss over all the events in Manchuria for the previous six years.
Obviously our Dan’s in line for a BAFTA.
TOADY Watch #1 – once again, no questions are asked
The NHS are making all sorts of predictions of summer and autumn and winter doom and gloom with Covid. Apparently they have lots of staff who are having to self-isolate at present. Here are some questions that I guarantee you will not find asked of Chris Hobson (NHS providers) by the BBC about NHS staff: are these NHS staff deliberately engaging in risky behaviour, ‘are they breaking the rules’ when not at work?
If the answer is ‘No’, then are they catching Covid from the well-known super-spreader, the NHS? Are they breaking the PPE and other hygene rules and protocols at work?
When I heard that the NHS has titles like ‘providers ‘ I instantly thought they should be called ‘non providers ‘… how can they still have a job ?
Fed, during my time in the NHS, we had a new terminology thrust upon us — no longer patients but……. “service users” !!!! oh dear how we all laughed !
‘Service users ‘ is a term indicating that an organisation has too many managers with too much time to come up with stuff which does not contribute to the ‘core purpose ‘ of the organisation .
See – I have played the management word game – ‘core purpose ‘
TOADY Watch #2 – if you want a good laugh, try and catch Matt McGrath on the west coast American heat wave @ 8.09 a.m. – part of 8 a.m. News
If Global Warming Sceptics say that an event is weather, all the environmentalists scream and shout and have a meltdown and so “No, man-made CO2 is causing Global Warming and Climate Change and heating up the planet.”
But if the environmentalists and Matt McGrath, The Horror Bin, the rest of the BBC find some exceptional weather then they say “This is evidence of man-made Global Warming.” Note the precise, very exact, use of a time-line in Matt’s laughable piece.
Enjoy.
There is an article by the same man here
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57751918
One quote from it stand out:
“Scientists worry that global heating, largely as a result of burning fossil fuels, is now driving up temperatures faster than models predict.”
So they admit their models are wrong (like the covid spread models) but they still use those models to say this is definitely man made – even though they cannot model it!
Tabs, hitting the nail very squarely on the head there and driving it right through AGW & CC.
Rather oddly, the fact that much of Australia has just had its second coldest June ever recorded does not feature quite so prominently in the news reporting. That damn
natural variation in weatherglobal warming gets everywhere!Ian, it has always puzzled me that those clever scientists who model all this AGW & CC, somehow are so stupid when writing their reports that they do not what the word ‘global’ means!
My first job out of Uni was working for a US company in a UK office looking into designing a GSM phone in the early 1990s. The Americans said it must have “international” support.
After many months of invesitgation the UK office concluded it was a tricky task as 4 different frequency spectrums where in use around the world at the time and one handset would struggle to support it all. A few weeks later the problem was solved as “international” to Americans mean “from west coast to east coast USA”. They used “global” to mean the whole world.
It does make you wonder how many climate scientists are using ‘global’ and ‘national’ incorrectly.
Suspend your disbelief before the biomass hits the windfarm
‘Economic surprise‘ – teases the Times: ‘Unemployment, debt and earnings have not significantly worsened as a result of the Covid pandemic, the Institute of Fiscal Studies think tank has concluded‘ – I think they mean to say our financial woes are not so bad as we feared they might be caused as a result of the governmental response to Covid in the form of lockdowns, but we’ll let that point go this time.
At first glance this seems akin to what Big Brother told the prols about their chocolate rations in Orwell’s 1984, or what the Soviet people were told about those ever-increasing tractor production figures.
I see our present economic outlook as that of Wile E. Coyote as he has accidentally stepped off the track whilst chasing the Road Runner (beep beep) above one of those many unfeasibly deep canyons that seem to pepper Looney Tunes landscapes. Yet until that dread instant when he looks down he seems completely safe. Those moments when he defies gravity one tends to liken to the notion suspend your disbelief.
You can only lie to people so much until they see through the lies. At the height of the space race with America, Russian marxist technology appeared to the world to be neck and neck with the decadent capitalists in the west. But whenever there was a local failure of basic everyday utilities, such as the telephone system going kaput, those stolid, resigned, but knowing, Russians would joke among themselves: “It’s gone on a rocket”
I’m no fanboy of Polly Toynbee. Infact I was thinking of pitching a reality TV concept where Polly joins fellow Guardianistas such as Owen Jones, George Mombiot, Afua Hirsch and the like, at some remote locale where the public can basically forget about them. The working title is: No Love Lost Island.
But our pretty Polly quoted the same IFS back in January: ‘In 2023-24 Britain will hit record peacetime borrowing, the Institute for Fiscal Studies… warn. Thinktanks predict that the run-up to the next scheduled general election will be marked by a hit to earnings and pressure on the government to balance the books‘ – our Polly was fretting that Boris would call a general election before the biomass hits the windfarm. I wouldn’t put it past him – not that I would want Polly’s pals running the show.
The Times gives us the IFS, the globalist FT trumps them with the OECD: ‘Virus leaves 22m jobless in rich nations‘
Both the Mirror and Mail come together from opposite ends of the poiltical spectrum to ask: ‘Kane you believe it?‘ – as (most of) the nation seems to go all Shakespearean: ‘That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes. Cry ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint George!‘
Whilst the ever diversity-minded ‘i’ seems to turn our team score sheet on its head: ‘Raheem Sterling’s greatest performance for his country sets up showdown with Italy‘ – he had a reasonable game, sure, but were the ‘i’ watching the same match as the rest of us?
I wonder what the ‘i’ could find unpalatable about the fans chanting: “Harry Kane he’s one of our own” ?
And Finally… ‘…And FINALly‘ shouts the Daily Express, as it celebrates England going through to the final of Euros 2020 – in 2021 – just suspend your disbelief and it all makes sense.
Lewis Goodhall, Beff and Gaz on a semi final.
Historic. Bet they all have tickets.
Maybe I should let the BBC know with their support for
the England players prostrating themselves for the BLM
organization. It has nothing to do with the BLM . They are
practising on how they are going to get penalties against
the opposition ! SWEET CAROLINE , COME ON ENGLAND !!
Not worth reading at all.
Summary: some blondes have less fun. That said, Beff must be fewmin’.
Me neither. Presumably she is a wimmin footballist.
Apparently there was an outcry over “sexism” when Boris Becker
was commentating on the Novak Djokovic- Marton Fucsovics
match on the BBC at Wimbledon yesterday. Fucsovics is
Hungarian. The camera zoomed on his girlfriend Annette . Becker
commented by saying that Hungarian women are the best
looking in the world. Viewers were offended ,by the sexism.
I tell you what if Becker would of said Marton Fucs****** , that
really would of been sexism. And far worse!
Picture ?
The BBC’s favourite faith on LBGT etc.
Let’s hear it from the feminists
It seems Rishi Sunak might be presented with a bit of a conundrum if the State Pension abides with the triple-lock legislation and rises by 8% – giving the average pensioner around £100 more a month – but leaving him with cuts to make elsewhere.
Damned if he does or doesn’t, one idea to soften the blow might be to insist the BBC re-establish the over-75 free licence and force them to cut salaries across the board – no pun intended – to meet the cost.
It might also give him the chance to clarify the government’s position on the free licenses, rather than let the BBC continue to blame ‘the torys’ instead of admitting that they have reneged on their own deal.
Beltane.
I’m a pensioner getting the full pension after paying in for 50 years.
I get the older pension of about £158 per week or £635 every four weeks.
8% is a rise of £12 per week or £48 for the four weeks, not £100
Those on the higher pension will be getting something like £53 rise for the four weeks.
If the average rise for those working is 8%, that will be 8% of a much higher wage than the state pension.
On average wage it would be somewhere around £150 -£180
3 or 4 times the pensioner rise.
I would happily settle for the 1% of the nhs consultants pay (current offer where they are threatening action as it’s not enough) which would double the pensioners 8% rise.
Finally, some people like to say the pension is tax free.
It isn’t.
It adds up with any other income and anything over the income tax threshold, around £12500 per year plus or minus, is taxed.
If the pension really was tax free it would not be counted in the income tax calculations.
If the pensioners do not get the average percentage rise then they will slip further behind. Especially those like me, second class pensioners who have paid in longer for a lower pension than those on the higher pension now.
EG – I hope you get the increase you deserve . Me – every time I start seeing my State Pension on the horizon they shift it another Year ….
There seems to be a general assumption that all pensioners get the full-state pension, either £137.60pw or £179.60pw.
They do not – many get proportionately less based on their qualifying years paid in.
The difference in FULL state pensions (Old/New) is about £40 per week. Those who paid into the ‘old’ scheme and qualified for a FULL pension and had some SERPS, 2SP or Graduated Pension (that required extra mandatory contributions through their working life) had £40 of that ‘transferred’ from their SERPS etc, at the changeover, to make-up the ‘new’ pension-any remainder became the ‘protected payment’ that would just go up with the lower CPI rate as usual. (still awake ?)
NO extra money was handed out; unless you had NO SERPS etc at all, but a full state pension: in which case you were ‘given’ the extra £40 to bring you up to the ‘new’ state pension amount. Proportionately less if you were only entitled to a lower pension.
(miffed those of us who had actually contributed tho’)
The idea behind all this is that the ‘new’ enhanced pension would be increased via a single, double or triple lock so it kept pace with reality. Some of you may remember Gordon Brown’s 75p per week increase of 1999 to see how pensions used to be treated and why a mechanism was needed to keep it real.
Clearly Sunak will need to ditch the earnings link part of the ‘lock’ this time as it is a freak outcome of a well-intentioned idea.
Jazz – I think we will be on the receiving end of the ‘old people have had it good ‘- narrative . Although it might not be the thing to say to the relatives of those poor devils killed by the NHS in Care Homes ( yeah but remember most are private so it’s not the fault of the NHS – really ? )
I paid full NI stamp for 41 years of working, but realised only 39 years was required to gain full state pension – so where did and what happened to my extra 2 years payments ????
As I paid AVCs (added voluntary contributions) and into a private pension from age 26, I took early retirement. I have since advised every young person I know to pay as much as possible into a pension scheme because regardless of interest or investments, it will be a grateful addition to finances on retirement.
Brissles
I had a similar experience back in the 80s with negative equity – people working for me got wind that I was financially savvy . I advised them that their ‘paper losses ‘ on their homes was just that – and to ‘hang on ‘ . Quite a few took my advice . Some people thanked me .
Very difficult for ‘the young ‘ to put very very small amount of disposable income into pension provision but I agree – well worth it ..
Yes I can appreciate its hard to ‘put anything aside’ out of a salary, BUT, at 26 I was only earning around £35 a week, admittedly I wasn’t married, but still had to give housekeeping to my parents, – something that I understand doesn’t happen today ! keep a car on the road and have a social life. Initially my contribution was less than a fiver a month, but during my working life the contribution gradually crept up with each salary increase, and over the years you forget about it – but its a nice windfall to have at the end of the working life.
So, they’re choices you make at an early age.
It cannot be long before we see the first BBC ‘trans’ news presenter emerges – after BBC queering the kids in TV programs to accept the unacceptable as ADULT ‘normal. You just know its on the cards.
(Since its OK on Eurovision or if your entered in the Olympics as a ‘womans’ weightlifter or perhaps a Policeman (under our Cressida Dick (bi) and dictator Sadiq Khan (odd), yet it is becoming ‘normal’ to promote.
The BBC imports a little bit of Hollywood, recycles it into Dr Who or CBBC as school ‘drama’ for kids. There is always a reason for this and its not hard to identify -as the BBC have admitted that the entire drama world and writers are all ‘gay’ pioneers, ‘assisted’ by funding from STONEWALL (in the UK) and a collection of globalists linked to Gates and SOROS.
But its HOLLYWOOD that the new world communal activists hang out as fashion gurus to the new technocracy. The BBC has a natural bent on the communists that have taken over the US, – long before BIDEN hit the news. For the BBC this is an ‘endorsement’ of its policies.
Report Shows How ‘Queer Creators’ Spent Years Pushing the LGBTQ Agenda in Children’s TV Programs..
The increase of LGBTQ characters and themes popping up in TV shows made for children in the last decade is not an organic development. It’s the consequence of so-called “queer creators” pushing the LGBTQ agenda and working with major entertainment networks, writers, producers, showrunners, and directors to place sexualized themes into on-screen fare made for young audiences.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/07/06/report-shows-how-queer-creators-spent-years-pushing-the-lgbtq-agenda-in-childrens-tv-programs/?inf_contact_key=c23ec542a5c1cfcc1221cd308b866a19842e902fbefb79ab9abae13bfcb46658
“Who knew that you had to protect your children from CBBC?”
Following on:
So BBC impartiality has long since gone as ‘entertainment’. They can push the sexual envelope to children and despite Jimmy Saviile, it will all be totally legal soon. The PIE network will be back in business and it will be illegal to ‘object’ to it (as that would be a ‘hate’ crime. We are just a few years from elevating Saville alongside Alan Turing (another paedophile) that was been branded a hero recently in the UK (for his…. wonderful contribution to winning the war. Just him, OK, – nobody else was involved (apparently) in the World War II) but the BBC – did provide the ‘best soviet Spy’s in the World – right up to MI5. There is now on oversite of any media (thanks to Tony Blair’s influence).
Its no secret that the BBC are ‘desperate’ for a ‘youth’ audience to infect on CBBC. Children are ‘fair’ game in the take over of our technocratic society where all ‘age limits are removed. Porn for kids is sold in schools as ‘diversity’.
Not all of us are happy with that.
‘Media trans bias and Stonewall sex-ed groomed my son’
A mother has blamed the widespread promotion of transgender ideology for her son’s gender confusion.
Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, the unnamed parent believes her child became obsessed with wanting to ‘become a woman’ after exposure to pro-trans material on CBBC, through online videos, and via Stonewall guidance used at his school.
https://www.christian.org.uk/news/media-trans-bias-and-stonewall-sex-ed-groomed-my-son/?inf_contact_key=0117283b69965b43eebb6a8e921d7b7c7e470d92b8b75168d98a0b8cac0e9c09
This is promoted by a section of the media who adopt the ‘Hollywood’ inclusions of ‘peversions’ as a right to juniors.
The BBC is named in this perversity agenda which is now being taught in State schools (they slipped it in just before the COVID pandemic and its now part of the UK ‘education’ curriculum being rolled out by Stonewall (which incidentally was started and financed by *Tony Blair when they were last in Power. Now it more powerful than ever. The BBC is a ‘diversity’ champion , so they say. It should read as ‘perversity, but peadophiles are back in fashion and our children cannot be protected in or out of the BBC Hollywood dream of make belief ‘that you can be whatever you like’ at no cost, or pain.
And we are asked to accepts that this is ‘education’ and part of the ‘diversity’ agenda. This something the BBC claims it has a duty to promote and roll out.
Well well…i put a small wager on an England v Italy final at the outset of the competition. Sadly it was a small wager but at 25/1.
I think the 2 best teams are rightfully there and hope the crowd of 90000 roar the English boys home.
The good news continues with Guido showing Penny Morduants evisceration of the SNP slug Blackford.
The trail of incompetence and corruption( though not directly mentioned) was there for all to see.
And where’s wally (aka wee Krankie) she has disappeared from view following the report that Brigadoon has 6/10 of the highest Covid rates in the whole of Europe
And the good news continues to flow as details emerge that Licence Tax droppage is close to crisis point.
Surely we are entitled to a Govt, statement that the current LF model will NOT be considered beyond the current Charter period ( 2027 ?) that gives them time and real focus on how to reconfigure themselves. Or give the folks on here that task !!
trubble- Well done. BUT I hope that England are not not
slung out of the tournament for the absolutely disgraceful
behaviour of some feral scum of a so called English supporter
pointing a laser at the Danish goalkeepers face as Kane
was taking the penalty!!
Foscari, I just heard about that incident at Wembley on TWatO. Did you watch the game? Did you see evidence of the laser being used?
Apparently 25,000,000 people watched the match on TV plus the 60,000 in the stadium – they cannot all have had their eyes shut tight – but curiously none of them appear to have seen the laser spot.
Neither apparently did the TV commentators. The penalty moment commentary was played on TOADY on Radio Flaw this morning: no mention of that laser.
Quite right U2. What appears in the media – though not on my TV recording, I just checked – is a fuzzy green oblong on the goalie’s cheek.
What that is, I’ve no idea, but it most certainly is not what a laser-dot would look like, especially over the relatively close range of a football stadium. Maybe PhotoShop has got a built-in wobble?
UEFA, on the other hand, appear more than happy to accept the laser as fact and are totting up the FA fine with feverish excitement.
Beltane, on the BBC web-site (I should have done a W-SWatch) there are pics with it on two different places on the side of Schmeichel’s face. Laser pointers are normally coloured red but I have seen blue in use as well. Perhaps the green colour explains the spread. I was targeted by a laser once – not on the face or in the eyes – and I hit the deck quickly in case it was a sight for a rifle. That was at a stadium sort of distance and that was a very tight, small, red spot despite double glazing and net curtains.
There’s something ‘not quite right’ about that large green patch.
It was quite late in the day, light levels were low by then. It is possible it was a focus assist light from a photographer’s camera. That would explain the size of the patch and, possibly, the colour.
There are red, blue and green lasers but, as you say, they throw a clearly defined dot – that is the whole point of their use as precision aiming marks used by snipers and hunters.
The dot size does not discernibly increase with range and with some such assisted shots at well over a mile – check out YouTube – they would not be so popular with Special Forces.
Beltane, I have a marksmen contact so if I get to meet I will try to remember to ask. He was in Afghanistan and was actually shot by a terrorist or Taliban or Al-Q fighter – without injury – while waiting for a plane to come home. The bullet struck his pack and knocked him over. Despite that piece of good fortune he was left with issues, including PTSD, by his time out there. He had achieved kills at over a mile.
I guess there’s a good reason for the military not being happy with the sort of laser spread demonstrated in those pics of Schmeichel. If the weather is poor or if it is very dry, dusty and windy, then a spread from a laser like that green one at Wembley might give away a military sniper’s position when seen from the side or at an angle and lead to their immediate demise and perhaps that of their comrades, too.
My money is on a focus-assist light from a photographer’s camera. Especially so as it is the side of Kaspar Schmeichel’s face. Where are the photographers? Either side of the goal.
I have also thought of why it might be green. On my (outdated) camera it is red. I have seen white ones. However a bunch of pro photographers often all using the same kit – Canon and Nikon, predominantly – would all have the same colour focus assist light. You would not know where your camera had locked focus if the lights are all the same colour. Therefore, you get a camera technician to stick a customised filter over your focus assist light lens so you, the photographer, know that you have got focus where you want it.
Up2- I didn’t see it. I am a football odds consultant
for bookmakers. I predicted a 90 minute draw. I don’t
think that UEFA will do anything serious other than a
hefty fine. They got the “financial” result they wanted.
Not the same as the bent World Cup of 2002 in Japan
and South Korea where BLATTER and FIFA needed either
Japan or South Korea to progress as far as possible
for financial reasons. So they “employed” a bent referee
for the South Korea-Italy to do their bidding. The referee
Byron Moreno finished up in a an American gaol for
heroin smuggling.
No none of that last night . Just a very very dodgy penalty
decision . Your winnings will be safe Trubble. AND it’s time
England had a bit of “luck”. I am out on a limb making Italy
favourites for the final. All my peers in the odds compiling
fraternity disagree with me. In my opinion Italy are the
better side. AND I don’t think that we will have any laser home
advantage in the final!
Foscari, I seem to recall that Italy have a certain style of play that can be very hard to overcome.
Foscari
Come on – what s the recommendation for the final ?
German referee ?
Red card ?
Italians falling over ?
Proper diving ? – like real footy …?
The beautiful game ?
Trubble – unfortunate result but I got my money back on the fraudulent penalty – it’s the thing Sterling is best at – like vardy . I’ve seen both dive in the box with mine own eyes …
I hope the Bio-security for the England Football Squad is very secure. We cannot afford any little infiltrations ……
Grealish may need to self isolate until next season …
Although in fairness to him he is no longer the Nancy he was in the Championship…
Same with Bamford at Leeds …
TWatO Watch #1 – the BBC is the militant wing of the Provisional Labour Party in the UK
The Montacutie interviews Prof. Paul Elliott about the latest statistics that he has produced about the rising Covid infections in the UK. Sarah asks Prof Elliott whether he is happy with the probable relaxation of restrictions talked about by the PM and SoS for Health on Monday, a leading question. Rumpole is sharp and on his feet immediately with both Leo McKern-type eyebrows waggling furiously at the Judge “Leading m’Lud?”
The Judge agrees, dozing lightly but too late. Prof Elliott does not rise to the bait and answers very diplomatically delicately skirting around the opportunity to criticise Her Majesty’s Government.
Up2
Maybe this site should re publish viewing and listening figures – as well as the rapidly reducing number of people still paying for their BBC .
I don’t know how to ‘source ‘ such data or whether OFCOM puts anything out – mind you – who would trust OFCOM .
Do our friends over at ‘is the BBC biased ‘ doing anything on this ? Honest question .
As for the BBC stance on restriction reduction . – they must be praying for more death and suffering to pour the blame on the current regime .
I heard football being blamed on increased infections in men . Perhaps the BBC wants to stop the final of the Euros – although ‘some might say ‘ that the hyping they are doing is pushing infections up .( I believe that theory is crap BTW )
– but it the BBC can find a negative – they’ll put it out there ( but not their false demented president of course ).
Fed.
If anyone on here could do that it would be Stew.
Figures: I see someone posted the licence fee stats
but just as most stuff is PR world rather than real world so are a lot of viewing stats
… aimed at impressing managers and advertising buyers etc
Radio often gives “weekly reach”
that’s as useful as quoting how many people walked past a football ground
what you want is how many people bought a ticket and went in.
For TV you want to know actual watchers rather that people who have it on in the background
Radio – Rajar have produced no figures for 1.5 years
Their excuse “Oh Covid”
TV Barb produce a weekly top 15 shows for each channel.
These days with a few exceptions local news at 6 on ITV, and BBC at 6:30pm are the peak slot
getting 10-11million
Then as you go down the 15 shows are getting down to 2m maybe 1 million.
Some people have access to deeper Barb stats
eg this blogger wrote that BBC Wimbledon was getting 5.4m and 6m
That means 10% of UK adults
ie 90% were NOT watching.
Look at this day, maybe a Sunday
… top rating show of the day got 10%
If just 500K is a record high for Jeremy Vine
consider this “Bigger audience than #newsnight or C4 News yesterday”
Fed, while we are on the subject of this site – I do think that this site should have a ‘clicky’ link to GB News. Are we allowed to watch it for free or is a TV Licence required?
As for the statistics, I do hope more and more people are cancelling their TV Licence. In the absence of HMG doing anything about it, taking matters into our own hands is the answer.
Cancellation stats may require FoI request although if you are patient it can be worked out from the BBC’s published accounts on a yearly basis.
Always a reliable source of information, BBC text pages include the news that scientists have confirmed that
‘…the current excessive US west coast heatwaves would be virtually impossible without climate change.’
In fact they go further to say – in a suggestion that would prove quite difficult to quantify – that ‘The temperature extremes would be 150 times less likely without human influence…’
Which must only go to show that all those headlines in the New York Times, the Washington Post and other more local media from 1901, 1911 and 1936, all of which reported equally extreme temperatures resulting in deaths, were just so much fake news.
And all from the days long before the inventive journalism and questionable science we enjoy today. Clever stuff.
Not really BBC to be fair.
Mmmmm
Sluff JUNE 23, 2021 AT 4:34 PM
Not wishing to be unpopular but….
Covid case rates today are 16.000 and the trend is upwards.
Hospitalisations are low but rising slowly and deaths ditto,
Question – what is the government’s actual policy on this?
Ignore?
Pretend it’s not happening?
Hoping for herd immunity?
My problem is that hope is not a strategy. If rates are going up, and R is above 1, what is going to make them come down? Or are we happy to let them rip?
Its good to see that the numbers of hospital admissions are not feeding through directly to the total numbers in hospital – in other words some are staying in but just for a short time and not transitioning into serious illness. And some death rate is clearly a price worth paying for the greater good of a free society.
But I just have this nagging feeling that we are kicking the can down the road and may have to have another lockdown rather than opening up in about 3 weeks time, when, unless something changes, rates will in the 30,000 range. Which would be bad news for many, especially those who play by the rules and have to pay the price for those who don’t.
That’s the problem with exponentials, one minute its nothing and the next its a crisis, and the space between the two is thin, and by the time you’ve stopped and thought about it, it’s too late.
As we have found twice. Big time.
8/07 Has anything changed? Except we’ve reached 30,000 some days before the prediction. And with pinging set to continue until mid August, will there be any staff actually working by then? Open pubs are not much good if there is no-one there to serve you.
Government policy is a completely muddled, incoherent, unexplained, mess. In other words, business as usual.
Sluff – the key would be the demographic of those affected . Is it the unvaccinated / under 30s ?
Also I think it’s now strategy based on a mix of hope and pressure – caused by fixing the original ‘freedom date ‘ then the next one on the 21st ?
I think they also know people have had enough and non covid problems are getting to be worse than the effect of covid ….even more so now …
Fedup.
All good points.
The fact you are ‘thinking’ and asking questions really makes the point.
They should be TELLING us exactly what the objectives and strategy are. Then they should provide a coherent narrative in support.
You, I, all if us, should not have to GUESS.
TWatO Watch #2 – oh dear, oh dear, has Sucker Starmer backed the wrong horse yet again?
On Monday, Prime Minister Johnson and Secretary of State for Health Javid both indicated that all Covid restrictions may be done away with on 19 July 2021. Immediately, the BBC was up on its feet as the militant wing of the ProvoLabPee and stating in their best Ulster accents: “This is reckless!” It took the full Labour Party a while to cotton on but Jonathan Ashworth, Health Shadow criticised it straight away. “We should keep facemasks for three months/nine months/a year/two years/for ever.”
The BBC were keen on this and helped lead the charge. They were insisting that we should turn Japanese and wear face masks all the time and had a fit of The Vapors on Radio Flaw. All well and good, except the Japanese don’t wear facemasks all the time in Japan or anywhere else either.
And on TWatO we had some really bad news for facemask enthusiasts from Japan: facemasks don’t work in fighting Covid. Let me write that again for the hard of thinking, facemasks do not work in preventing Covid infections. As proved by the Japanese Government imposing a state of emergency on Tokyo for the Olympics because of increasing cases of Covid in the capital city that hosts most of the Olympic Games.
A BBC News website article about a pub landlord struggling to fill vacant job positions was opened to Have Your Say comments.
I posted:
The trouble with the Dover dingy immigrants is that they are all “doctors, engineers, architects etc”. What we need is hospitality Dover dingy immigrants too
No surprise the BBC moderators removed it but why exactly? I’m quoting the liberals message to support immigration but when I say it I get banned.
Maybe because you did not mention Lorry Drivers as well as hospitality, Tabs? ‘Cause du Jour’ of the BBC, well, one of them.
My days of taking part there on HYSs are pretty much over. And as Part-time, Mr Invisible and Simon Jack cannot be bothered to Blog and have their Blogs commented upon by the plebs, the unruly and the great unwashed, I will not be participating there either. The BBC have really lost their audience for those three Editors. They had quite a community at one time.
Bit stupid really.
Up2
Surely the “have your say ‘ feature of the BBC site is a waste of time and effort as anything not ‘approved ‘ won’t see the light of day – although would provide a positive for the BBC counting the number of comments .
I can defeat my own comment because I’ve only heard the HYS thing via people here … I’d never read them myself . Life is too short – even with this site sometimes …
Fed, the BBC w-s HYSs were also stacked out by a lot of new names just after the EU Referendum in 2016. They all seemed to be claiming that we had made the wrong choice and Brexit would be a disaster.
Funny that.
Most peculiar.
Picture the scene – 2 bbc trainees sitting next to each other – one writing the comments on a variety of names and the other approving them …. And if they are really good they’ll get to do subtitles at 4 in the morning …
Is there any reason why this is not news ? we are still subject to mea culpa regarding the murder of Stephen Lawrence, because of the skin tone of the perpretrators, just waiting now for his mother to become Pope or Archbishop of Canterbury:
“Mayor Sadiq Khan is facing calls to investigate the increasingly disproportionate homicide rate among black Londoners.
Figures obtained by Tory assembly member Shaun Bailey show there has been a 68 per cent increase in the number of black Londoners killed in the past five years, when compared with the five previous years.
The total number of homicides in London increased by 21.7 per cent, from 547 between 2011-15 to 666 between 2016-20, according to Metropolitan police data sourced by the GLA Conservatives.
But the number of black victims increased from 173 to 292 between the two five-year periods – a rise of 68.7 per cent.
The proportion of deaths involving black people has also increased from 31.6 per cent (173 out of 547) to 43.8 per cent (292 out of 666).
We’re doomed
I think the last thing that is needed is an inquiry – which will make a load of pie in the Sky recommendations but achieve nothing – the identity of the killer is as important as the victim – 95% coloured ? – motivation ‘dissing ‘ innit ?
More back page news
https://order-order.com/2021/07/08/former-hartlepool-labour-mp-faces-possible-criminal-inquiry-following-sexual-assault-claims/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+guidofawkes+%28Guy+Fawkes%27+blog+of+parliamentary+plots%2C+rumours+and+conspiracy%29
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9768091/Rishi-Sunak-hints-NHS-app-tweaked-isolation-fears.html
NHS Covid app alerts rise by 60% in a week with 350,000 people in England ‘pinged’ at end of June as Boris pleads with nation not to delete software amid fears MILLIONS will be doomed to self-isolation after ‘freedom day’
My wife got one of these this week for the first time despite hardly ever leaving the house. (Subsequently tested negative).
Strange that this has mushroomed in the same week as the “end of lockdown” announcement by Boris.
I am suspicious and I think we (and the Government) might be being played for suckers!
These “coincidences” are becoming very regular and I would like to know exactly who controls this app for one!
Now suddenly the BBC have as the main story on their website
“Positive Covid tests in the UK pass 5 million!”
Click the link and zilch backup…. just a load of other covid related chatter.
Way down amongst which is that 35 more people have died who had tested positive in the previous 28 days.
Any connection to my previous post maybe?
I believe that there is a concerted effort underway by the usual suspects to smash the end of restrictions.
They seem to want this nation on it’s knees.
I think a second body needs to be appointed to independently re-test batches of these covid infected millions if only to verify the results as it’s of so much importance to the economy that they are accurate, believable and viable.
“Channel crossings: Eighteen migrants found in lorry on Dover ferry”
“Nine were taken to hospital as a precaution, while the other nine were handed over to the Border Force.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-57736151
“the other nine were handed over to the Border Force.” The Pathetic Border Farce.
This, at the same time the people of Britain are subject to tough, strict border controls. As the Tory government is allowing this where are the rest of the Tory MPs ?
Does anyone get the feeling that the government is complicit in importing these people?
Constant agenda pushing by white middle class presenters
4pm R4 film prog guest was a Black film director
so the female presenter kept feeding him line
like ‘it must be awful to grow up not seeing PEOPLE LIKE YOU in film ‘
What do you mean ?
When I was a kid I don’t remember seeing many people like me in films ..I was short, ginger and poke a northern dialect.
Everyone in movies spoke with an American accent or London one, tended to be tall and good looking, rarely ginger.
Yet a good script & a good actor meant we could identify with a whole range of characters male/female/animal/ old/young/historic/complete-fantasy etc.
And I don’t think films were devoid of black characters ..there was always Ritchie Prior or Eddy Murphy etc.
I wonder how many people speak Welsh in Britain ?
How often do you see a Welsh speaker in modern mainstream dramas
Don’t we see Nigerians and Bengalis more often ?
“Actor and producer David Oyelowo
… why, thanks to raw data, streaming has lead to greater diversity of content and changed the minds of white film executives.”
He claimed that before WHITE executives asserted that the public don’t want to see black, and therefore no black actors got into movies
but now movies are put up on streaming
” we can see raw data proves the public CHOOSE the films with black actors”
Really ? AFAIK Netflix viewing stats are secret
https://www.looper.com/164533/the-real-reason-netflix-wont-share-viewer-numbers/
StewGreen,
“AFAIK Netflix viewing stats are secret”
They’re not secret from Netflix executives, Stew. That was the whole point of what he was saying.
Cinema ticket sales were not secret from executives before either
… when he claimed executives were merely making up the idea ‘the public don’t want to see black actors”
So what has changed ?
BTW one can say execs must believe wokeworld works otherwise they wouldn’t have commissioned the blackfied drama Bridgerton, but there are other drivers other than profit.
StewGreen,
“Cinema ticket sales were not secret from executives before either… So what has changed ?”
Prior to streaming platforms such as Netflix (if you can remember back that far) films would be shown in Cinemas with various costs for distribution and publicity. Only a relatively small number of films would make it into the multiplex giving audiences a very limited choice. “Black ” films weren’t included because executives thought they wouldn’t sell.
Streaming comes along, giving audiences a much wider choice and it turns out “Black” films do sell after all. So executives decided commission more of them.
See what’s changed?
“BTW one can say execs must believe wokeworld works otherwise they wouldn’t have commissioned the blackfied drama Bridgerton”
Bridgerton was commissioned in 2020. It’s seems to be quite popular and AFAIK the majority of the cast are white; yet still you insist in describing it as “wokeworld and “blackfied” (whatever that means).
But of course, you; “really do not care for dividing the world up by skin colour”.🙄
Maxi, Bridgerton is a blacki-fied drama, cos it takes the real British Victorian era history of stately home living and transforms it into a fantasyland where a large portion of the people were black.
That’s like making a Samurai drama where a large proportion of the cast are white Caucasians.
(it’s a free world producers can use their own money to make what they want)
You are right that PR in cinema era could influence box office takings.
But it’s the same with streaming
Perhaps Netflix chose to make the blacki-fied Victorian series knowing full well that BBC and medialand would give it mountains of free PR
.. whereas if it had been “authentic” it would not have got the PR
StewGreen,
“I really do not care for dividing the world up by skin colour but it is the lefty/lib establishment’s hobby”
StewGreen,
“Constant agenda pushing by WHITE middle class presenters”