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Return to normal BBC brainwashing, of course.
Will Brexit ever be won? Our BBC continue their seething onslaught against the Democratic result.
One day, maybe one day, our BBC will whisper grudgingly that the disasters predicted have not come to pass. But that would require an independent broadcaster to do so.
Meanwhile, we still wait for anti-Brexit Bob Geldof (Who The F*** Is He Anyway), to admit into one of his many homes a Syrian migrant. He did promise us this.
Any word of official recognition for Nigel Farage? He gave up twenty-five years of his life for no pay, yet he brought us freedom from the EU. He also destroyed two Quisling PMs along the way, i.e. May and Cameron.
Captain Farage of HMS GB News now rules the airwaves by plundering the BBC and Sky ratings.
Delicious!
🙂
Nigel Farage should have been our Prime Minister, not the ‘bumbler’ that we have now. Its all thanks to the greedy Tory MPs that chase the money along with the MSM.
In the 1890’s Alfred Dreyfus , a French artillery officer who happened to be Jewish , was accused of being a German spy tried by a court martial and sentenced to solitary confinement on Devils Island. It took ten years of constant campaigning by his family and his supporters before he was exonerated and the real spy unmasked by the army who had known almost from the start that Dreyfus was innocent.
L’ Affaire Dreyfus split French opinion down the middle , set friends and family against each other , toppled governments , caused suicides, massively diminished the standing of the army. It shook the 3 rd Republic to its foundations and it took the advent of WW1 for the after shocks of L’Affaire to finally subside. To his immense credit Dreyfus re enlisted and fought through the war .
Brexit has done something similar to the UK , our country has been split in two and has remained split for five years so far. There seems little prospect of the powerful Remainer lobby accepting the Democratic result for a long time to come. In my view , trying to be objective and ignore my pro leave bias, the fault lies entirely with those powerful Remainers and Remainer led institutions such as the BBC , who continue to try to undermine Brexit . They ought to have accepted the result and got on with doing their best to make a success of Brexit. Instead they aren’t just sulking but actively trying to sabotage our country.
The extent of their machinations is unknown but I suspect that they sabotaged the negotiations , left traps such as the NIP , advised the EU what the UK weak spots were . But no Devils Island for them instead they continue to have their snouts in the trough if public money , they are mostly paid from the public purse, and continue their campaign to get us back inside the EU and if we get any other government than a Tory one we will be back inside whatever the EU mutates into.
“the fault lies entirely with those powerful Remainers and Remainer led institutions such as the BBC , who continue to try to undermine Brexit . They ought to have accepted the result and got on with doing their best to make a success of Brexit. Instead they aren’t just sulking but actively trying to sabotage our country.”
and to further that end, the BBC and Mark Mardell are starting on a series of programmes questioning whether Brexit has brought the advantages it promised. Unfortunately, I cannot remember when it is on. The awful radio schedule (why is BBC on-line such a complete disaster?) does manage to remind me it is on Radio Flaw at 8 p.m. tomorrow.
Meanwhile ……..1 GBP = 1.18113 EUR
BBC Online News:
“Afghanistan war: Taliban capture three regional capitals”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58135148
But Biden said this would not happen!
If Trump had said this, our BBC would have gone into their regular attack dog mode against Trump.
Oh, well, never mind. Our BBC never liked Trump anyway. In fact, they hated him. Sopel and Zurcher, our BBC USA correspondents, are now very, very bored.
In our BBC land of fantasy, Brexit can do no good and Biden can do no wrong. How adorably sweet of our BBC. They have no interest in the nations pulse, only that of those in their own inner circle. An inner circle that is devoid of any reality. Very similar to their loving mates in the Labour Party.
Here’s the senile old fool getting very petulant with a reporter who dared ask him a real (unscripted) question on the Taliban.
“That’s a silly question”. Basically he argues that the Afghan army is bigger and better than the Taliban.
Almost immediately, the army were in full retreat and the Taliban could soon take over large parts of the country, funded as they are by Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, not to mention the drug trade.
The BBC continues to treat him with kid gloves.
From this video and all the others, Biden is obviously incompetent and unfit to be the US President. I would say the same if he had been a Republican President. Our BBC forget to show these videos. If Trump had been like this, our BBC would have shown them in a continuous 24-hour loop.
We in Britain have an incompetent and unfit Opposition Party. Biden and Starmer are from the same Political stable. I fear for America.
He’s unfit to babysit my kids!
(Especially the girl.)
He is though an excellent sniffer.
Sniffer in Chief.
It’s about to get worse when ‘heels-up’ Kamala takes over.
That’ll really be a case of “Out The Frying Pan And Onto The Fire”.
What is notable by its near total absence is any praise for Harris from her own side and any criticism too (thinking Tulsi Gabbard there…)
It seems that Kamala is sooo awful that any discussion of her performance is being swerved as it might just precipitate a “target rich environment”.
from that vid – is it just me or does every question from the press crowd sound like a shrill gang of harpies !!!
Where on earth is OfCom ?
What does Oliver Dowden, The Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport do for his money ?
Is there anyone from his constituency at Hertsmere here that voted for him?
taffman,
I’m in the Hertsmere constituency but I can’t tell you much about Dowden.
I can tell you, however, that last year I received a flyer from the local Tories about the pandemic. I remember it contained handy advice such as disregard rumours you might read on social media about covid, and instead rely on trustworthy sources – “like the BBC.”
I thought Ofcom were busy banning the media from telling the truth.
And another thing….
When will the Covid Health Service revert back to being the National Health Service?
Has anyone seen a doctor anywhere in the past year? Do they still exist? Their salaries are still being drawn by someone…
I was rushed to hozzy with chest pains this week by a team of fabulous paramedics. I arrived at A & E early morning with only 4 ahead of me waiting. In an attempt to diagnose I was seen (at 2 hourly intervals) by 4 junior doctors – 2 surgeons – ECG, and a CT scan. It was a rogue gall stone that adventured into my bile duct – hence the abdominal pain. It was decided to keep me in overnight. So, from arriving at 9 am, I finally had a bed at 11 pm ! and by then over 100 were sat waiting in A & E.
Yes – every procedure had a rate of progress of over 2 hour wait time, but it was face-to-face each time, and clear evidence of those in A & E that they couldn’t see their GP ! Even the nurses were in despair about it. Its an absurd situation that cannot continue.
(for those interested, I have to wait for an MRI with possible surgery at a later date)
Wishing you well, Brissles.
Hope it gets resolved Bris
Poor you Brissles!
I wondered where you’d been!
Hurry back!
Wishing you better and feeling well soon.
All the very best and hope that you will be well again soon.
Just picked up on your news, Brissles. I hope the medics will have you fixed up soon and ready for the end of the cricket season … or the start of the Ashes tour …. or the start of the next season in England. Hope the waiting period will not bring anxiety or pain to you.
I have a cure! It hails from north of the border and is the only decent product to emerge from that heathen land 😉
Brissles,
“Its an absurd situation that cannot continue.” Yes, the only answer?
Clear out four or five million immigrants. Send em’ back!
Typing as one of those mythical doctors. I got home 2 hours ago and am collapsed in a heap, having been on continuous duty since 0800 on Sun (with a 7 hr gap).
I am not complaining, and certainly feel lucky that I have continued to be paid and lead a relatively normal life working with colleagues face to face but please don’t underestimate how broken many of us are.
I currently have 2 colleagues off with Covid (one of whom was in ITU) as well as pre existing gaps in our rota and we are struggling to continue providing a 24hr service.
We are trying to prioritise patients (and inevitably sometimes get it wrong), whilst keeping them safe (gone are the days of packed waiting room)
Climate Science has a motto
‘Why should I show you my data?
You’ll only try to find something wrong with it’
The UK CCC Committee for Climate Change
just pulled the “dog ate my homework” trick when a tribunal court ordered them to release calculations for the Net Zero costings
that the entire policy of UK zero emissions is based on
‘Show our workings, we can’t do that
cos we’ve already over written the spreadsheet’
Why did you do that ?
“Well we are short of resources”
.. em you just spent at least £50K on lawyers to fight the request
Stew, as you realise, this decision is very significant. I await with interest!
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2021/08/07/information-tribunal-orders-committee-on-climate-change-to-reveal-net-zero-calculations/
Some good comments there.
FoI legislation actually has some teeth – we see the ICO regularly issue fines for data breaches, seemingly ignoring mitigating context or divulging the extents of actual damage.
Where sleazy corrupt officials intention is to mislead and deliberately obfuscate = nada…
They are giving us the finger – relying on their chums at the ICO to do the right thing…
“Covid: Yousaf warns ‘cases will rise’ as restrictions ease”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58136278
Its all about fear, fear, fear.
My usual monthly message to Bo Jo, Al Beeb and the Tories …………
“You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
You blew the huge majority had .
If I was a Tory MP now I would be worried very worried. The Conservatives have let us down.
Who voted for the green policies ?
Who voted for destruction of our industry ?
Who voted for mass immigration ?
Your only alternative is The UK Reform Party. ………….
https://reformparty.uk
Where does she sit?
I have watched very little BBC during the past two weeks and very little of the Olympics but I have gathered a little girl on a BMX won a bronze and was pleased and a GB boxer won silver and was disappointed. But I had expected wall to wall coverage of the athletics and wall to wall reporting from the BBC to tell me how well the GB BAME competitors had done. I heard about a relay but nothing else. Have I missed something or was there nothing to report?
Is anyone going to ‘ Take one for the team’ and watch BBC2’s program at 9pm Monday on the history of the 2011 riots to report back to us here ?!!!!
It won’t be me watching it that’s for sure !
I dread to imagine what a biased load of +++ that will be.
It will all have been whitey’s fault of course !!!! .. And we will all have to take the knee three times a day to stop it happening again.
Not me!
Nor me!
Washing my hair
Sorry, I’ve got some important paint to watch dry.
Library book overdue I’m afraid…
I don’t do telly, 🙁 not, am really pleased.
So 🙂 Yaaayyyyyy! 🙂 instead.
The Video Speed Controller browser extension
enables you to watch iplayer at double speed or 1.5X etc.
They might struggle with that as a narrative because I distinctly remember David Lammy giving another analysis of the situation at the time when interviewed (a fairly nuanced assessment).
Seems weird now but he did.
I had enough trouble watching Vera last night. Two couples, both mixed race black and white IN NEWCASTLE !!. What are the odds of that ?.
And none of the coloured-halves had the slightest hint of a Geordie accent – though one did try to do a very, very bad Yorkshire accent.
The main point for this episode is that they added absolutely no value to the story. They just didn’t fit in the old gangland setting.
So it’s a no from me.
You do realise that Newcastle play in black and white don’t you?
A few years ago I dealt with a customer on the Kitty Brewster industrial estate, in Blyth, Northumberland. We used to have a monthly meeting, and one one occasion we arrived and I noticed that several of their engineers looked a little ragged. It turned out that Newcastle had beaten Arsenal the night before, the first time they had beaten a London team away from home in many years. The boys had been out celebrating. I said “I’m more of a Sunderland man myself”. They don’t laugh very much up there, do they?
Many years ago, prior to this episode, I worked at a company making communications and control equipment for hazardous environments. The North East was my patch and I’ve been down more than a couple of dozen coal mines in that area. It’s my favourite part of the uk and still my favourite people.
“Greece wildfires: Hundreds more evacuated as uncontrolled fires rage”
“The fires broke out after the most severe heatwave in 30 years, in which temperatures spiked to 45C (113F).”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58138614
Operative words “in 30 years”. So, what happened before 30 years ?
“The fires broke out after the most severe heatwave in 30 years, in which temperatures spiked to 45C (113F).”
Wood has to be held at temperatures above 76°C to ‘cook’ and at least 124 °C to ignite, (more like 300°C usually).
A ‘severe heatwave’ of a mere 45 °C might ‘keep the tinder dry’ and encourage more Greeks to have BBQs but it won’t, of itself, set the woods alight.
Fake News.
Some Green activists might be mad enough to start fires, just to raise attention on Global Warming
but forest fires can occur in the absence of humans
eg from lightening strikes.
eg2 I suppose human electrical stuff can go wrong sometimes and start a fire, whereas the fire wouldn’t catch if the area was damper.
I thinking faulty solar panels, or when a electric pylon gets blown over etc.
One thing humans can do is manage forests well in the first place eg cut firebreaks in the first place
Noticing ‘human induced climate change’ seems to be creeping in now.
Stew, you could also add discarded glass bottles and jars to the list of causes of wildfires in the absence of humans.
One of the first forbidden things to say
was that many of the Australian wild fires were started by arson, and others by illegal negligence like have a BBQ in banned areas
A quick glance at the Wiki entry on the history of wildfires in California is very enlightening, if you’ll excuse the pun.
Pelosi showed up at Obama party – apparently wasn’t invited…..
I’d wager that some BBC folk were there….
Apparently the Sussexes didn’t get an invitation either.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1473905/Meghan-Markle-Prince-Harry-Barack-Obama-birthday-celebrity-Oprah-latest-news-vn
“They are not double A-listers.”
Oh dear.
Maybe not quite ‘of color’ enough?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9874059/Chrissy-Teigen-husband-John-Legend-leave-Obamas-60th-birthday-EARLY-amid-sh-t-traffic.html
Chrissy being a total A… lister.
Today in a truckstop they messed up putting the Sunday papers out for sale . I could only buy The New European ( thinking without borders) . It cost nearly £4 .
To save me embarrassment I bought a porno rag to hide the puerile newspaper inside it .
I thought the BBC might be quoting from a like minded journal such as TNE . It has all the hallmarks of the BBC : sneering , progressiveness, legalise drugs , Britain is doomed , Brexiteers we’re bad people who lied , racism is rampant ,etc etc .
Perhaps the BBC don’t want to be close to The New European ( for the 48%) because the first article is about how “Europeans “ are unwilling to help the UK in a crisis. Even though the polls show we are willing to help them .
Top ( or bottom ) of the table of who won’t help us is Greece .
We’ve just sent emergency workers to them with their fire crisis .
Good job the Brits aren’t like Europeans .
R4 on Monday
9am they start in Haringay
the prog details are still secret
9:45am book .. BBC loved Hamilton the New York musical that cast black actors as the founding father
A British black actor got a big role in the London edition
..so now he’s written a biography based on that
..and BBC put it straight on as Book of the Week
” His most notable television appearance was in the CBBC programme Horrible Histories, performing in all five series from 2009 to 2013″
11am another black guy presents a doco about break-dancing
“How it went from Bronx block parties to NYC’s downtown art scene, to the world”
12pm The daily lunchtime book is by a female Caribbean author and stars Burt Caesar and Marilyn Nnadebe
a black actor and black actress.
13:45pm . Today’s “object is the personal signature of the great Ottoman ruler Suleyman the magnificent, a contemporary of Henry V111”
(yes they wrote it that way)
7:45pm the 50 part series honouring India
Today : “Sunil Khilnani tells the story of the painter Amrita Sher-Gil, 20th century India’s first art star”
8:30pm BBC black reporter MayeniJones travels to Northern Nigeria to do a doco about school-abductions
Stew,
“Henry V111”?
Perhaps the ghost of Sir Terence Wogan is stalking the corridors of Broadcasting House. He often used to call golfer Davis Love III, “Davis Love One-Hundred and Eleven.”
@StewGreen,
Won’t the last one entail being slightly critical of moslems?
How many black people actually listen to BBC radio, let alone Radio 4? All the ones I know listen to reggae music stations and not much else.
Good old BBC:
Covid: Office staff stay home despite end of Wales restrictions
Picture: 2 black males, 6 females, 2 white males
Exams remain ‘best way’ to guarantee standards, experts say
Picture: 12 girls
Covid: Virus ‘still with us’ as Scotland exits level zero
Picture: 2 white females
Covid-19: Quarantine-free travel from France resumes as UK rules change
Picture: 2 black females, 1 black male
Hybrid work: How ‘proximity bias’ can lead to favouritism
Picture: 2 women, 1 Asian
Covid: Students in Wales able to enjoy first night out in 18 months
Pictures: 3 women in club. One black and a special one for Megan Thomas, a student at Cardiff Metropolitan University.
Exams 2021: ‘Will they take our Covid grades seriously?’
Pictures: 2 women, 1 black, 1 Asian+1 white woman+1 black woman+1 Asian woman+1 white male (whose mental health has suffered)
So from 40 people, we have 3 white males. The BBC is racist and sexist.
And we finally get the name of who stabbed the guy and policemen over the weekend: Sulai Bukhari. Usual trick : release it seperately when the attention dies down.
What a farce.
John I echo your point
“So from 40 people, we have 3 white males. The BBC is racist and sexist”
Rule#1 seems to be “go to an image library and get an image that conforms to tickbox.”
that first picture is a Getty image
the beeboid obviously bothered to select an image that’s tickbox but nothing to do with Wales.
Indeed – which is even worse. It’s a deliberate lie which just happens to be in favour of the agenda.
How long can the Biden Broadcasting Corporation continue pretending he’s normal?
Here he is talking about the ‘vaxation’ (sic) and he repeatedly claims that 350 million Americans have been vaccinated – which is more than the entire population of 330 million.
But worse: he’s READING the figures from an autocue and his little crib sheet, and he STILL gets it wrong – twice.
He’s worse than Diane Abacus!
I think there are a number of reasons they cover for him. He’s a Democrat; he’s not Trump; he’s “their guy”, whom they shamelessly rooted for to win; and they must keep up the pretence that he won fair and square, which is more difficult to do if you’re dealing with a complete potato-head.
P.S. Maybe he’s counting his dead voters?
The sheer scale of the hypocrisy by the media for this is simply astounding.
I’m pretty sure it’s all to spite Trump and his supporters. After the lengths they went to to get rid of him, they can’t admit he was replaced by a dud.
A special… sophisticated… version of Americast being editted by Sopes and BS?
The image of Kerry arriving in his private jet must have warmed Alok’s heart.
Their PR guys, and The BBC, will be busy today.
BBC doing its best. Which isn’t saying much.
The BME in complement…
‘Landmark’ is the new ‘historic’.
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Landmark climate change report
By Nafeesa Shan
Climate change report to reveal the state of the planet
Story detail
Wildfires are raging through the Greek island of Evia amid Greece’s most severe heatwave in 30 years and over in the US, the second largest fire in state history is burning in northern California. “We need to acknowledge just straight up these are climate-induced wildfires,” says California’s Governor Gavin Newsom. Meanwhile, heatwaves like the one in Greece, in which temperatures spiked to 45C (113F), are becoming more likely and more extreme because of human-induced climate change. Firefighters continue to tackle these fires as the most up-to-date review into climate change is published later. More than 14,000 scientific papers were reviewed for the report, which looks at how global warming will change the world over the coming decades.
The study by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – a UN group – will “come with quite a lot of bad news” but there are going to be “nuggets of optimism”, says Prof Piers Forster, an expert in climate change from the University of Leeds. According to Richard Black, from non-profit advisory group the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, the report will be a “massive wake-up call” to governments. This report comes ahead of the COP26 UN-run summit being held in the UK in November. It is seen as critical moment if climate change is going to be brought under control. One question will be whether countries have kept their climate change promises. Leaders will meet to try and agree a plan – already aware there have been record-breaking temperatures, raging wildfires and devastating flooding as the climate changes. Research does confirm though that if politicians can stick to holding global temperature increase down to 1.5C, on pre-industrial times, the worst catastrophes can still be avoided, says our environment analyst Roger Harrabin.
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Naff channelling Rog… channelling Gav… with added ex beeboid Dick Black eased in, not for profit.
Dream squad.
‘Scientists say it will likely be bad news – but with “nuggets of optimism”.’
More like ‘golden nuggets’ for the scientists and many others who depend on climate change for their funding.
The elephant in the room is that nothing the UK does will make any difference. But there’s no government-money in saying that.
https://order-order.com/2021/08/09/un-has-been-predicting-planetary-disaster-for-50-years/
Much has slipped downhill since ‘journalism’ became sitting in a massive hall of cubicles sifting press releases from those you like to copy and paste out what suits the narrative.
That headscarf wearing journo locked her main Twitter account
a year or so ago
She got to go to BAME women in media conferences etc.
More ‘mole…
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‘I’m not a terrorist – just the boy who spoke English’
Lamin squints at the sun as he points across the harbour. “This place reminds me of the worst day of my life,” he says. It is where he was handcuffed by Maltese soldiers and led away to a maximum-security prison. He was only 15 at the time and, unknown to him, a suspected terrorist. It was just a misunderstanding, he thought. Once everyone realised what had happened, he would be freed. But that was two years ago.
Today Lamin, from Guinea in West Africa, stands accused of hijacking the ship that rescued him at sea and brought him to Europe. This alleged act of terrorism could put him in jail for the rest of his life. So how did a child refugee end up in Malta facing accusations of such a crime? For six months I have been investigating this curious case. It is a story of fear, desperation and of being in the wrong place at the wrong time – as a small country decided to take an almighty stand.
Read full article >
Jean Mackenzie
BBC News Europe correspondent
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Mac the Strife is a new one to me.
But paints an emotive picture. S/he will go far.
BBC local news
after 3 items the presenter said “and in other news ..”
Why did she say that ?
Cos they’d cooked up a package of the first 3 items
#1 The BBC campaign local radio stations litter pick the beach
Statement from Chris Packham
#2 Greek wild fires
#3 Alarming Climate report to be released
other station
Opened with the beach cleanup
and statement of Packam
Then item about the area not being worst in the country for Covid anymore
.. “Get jabbed, We are making special provision for people afraid of needles”
Then Avia fire clip
Then a statement the new Climate Doom report will say these fires will get more common
California fire interview ..”fires are getting more common”
PR man Packam laid it on thick, by picking up litter children would be saving lives.
hmmm, I don’t do litter picking any more
Sure the odd piece of litter kills an animal, but that is #1 the fault of the person who doesn’t care about dropping litter
#2 in the UK is not a large enough amount to make so much difference to ecosystems
They all seem resilient to the amount of litter we have.
.. The main thing is to get to the people who have a culture of dropping litter
.. and not concentrate on do-gooders.
In the areas where our local radio stations are today the council workers already go over the beach in tourist season anyway.
Abroad I have seen litter on a colossal scale compared to the UK, cos the people there had a different culture.
Packster is full face.
#CCBGB
Oh I meant I don’t do beach litter picking anymore
Yes inland we do still pickup other peoples waste.
Every time they told me how my plastic straw was killing things, they would show me a picture of a river in Indonesia covered in floating waste to prove it.
When will anyone at the awful BBC realise that the false premise of all this ‘global warming (the old ‘climate change’), was made up to make a lot of money for very few rich people, crooked politicians etc., who’ve vanished into the distance with the money ages ago.
The stupid stories still crop up with regular boring ‘reporting’, and nobody really gives a toss any more!
That twit Harrabin really has been so ridiculous in his constant whining, but as he’s paid by the taxpayer, he’s as bad as the rest of them.
“Twit” that’s a small word
and I don’t know if he is not deliberately doing it being malicious.
Harrabin isn’t a twit …
He’s a devious, sly and dishonest activist with his paws on BBC output and a headlock on the BBC’s “Science & Environment” output. (Never mind ‘stenders, comedy and CBBC)
Seriously – read Andrew Montfort’s “The Propaganda Bureau” from 10 years ago to get a peek at the extents that Mr. Harrabin goes to in coercing the BBC workforce into dancing to his tunes…
This from 10 years is as relevant now as then – and the attitude of the goons at Broadcasting House has hardened and their resistance to challenge has been sharpened to a fine edge. The embarrassment of being caught with their finger on the scales has made them far more cautious about the meetings and policy seminars they regularly conduct.
The BBC’s coverage of things to do with climate + AGW is near 100% propaganda.
Starve the beast.
Any champion studio bike stories yet from Vile?
Is it the reflection, or has there been a bit of cultural Specsaver appropriation going on too?
The Scotsman calls out the BBC’s Olympics coverage
Stew, On ‘Toady’ this morning, straight after the headlines at 6.30am it was CLIMATE again as the top item.
If you thought Olympic Breakfast was bad wait till you get “COP 26 Breakfast” with Lord ‘Har-Har’ Harrabin.
I didn’t watch any BBC OLympics stuff
but I note the Saturday show was presented by Nihal who they had flown out
and Jeanette Kwakye
a retired British sprinter who works as a sports broadcaster.
Ex Beeboid Dino had a quote too a few days ago.
They could have a movie quiz.
Remember when those barracks housing migrants in the Med… checks BBC Edguds… ‘caught fire’?
TOADY Watch #1 – That Nasty Nicola, she is a really Naughty Nanny
The Covid has not been Scotched yet north of the border with England but some rules and regulations have been relaxed. Naughty Nanny Nicola has kept some rules, especially the wearing of facemasks. “It’s time the First Minister treated us like adults.” wails the female owner of a cafe business in Glasgow.
Another women, a Professor, is brought on to comment. Professor Debbie (surname indistinct & garbled by BBC presenter) is … you’ll never believe it …… yes, she is an American woman! Where do the BBC find them? It is incredible. Thankfully she does not have a squeaky voice. Prof Debbie is all in favour of facemasks despite the evidence of Scotland’s recent record climbing Covid infections proving that they do not work.
I guess he mean Climate Fear-Porn Day
Stew, I remember, not so long ago, BBC ‘reporters’ (sic) standing in boats and at the side of virtually empty reservoirs bemoaning CC and that we will all run out of water as it’s going to be drier and hotter.
NOW it seems it’s going to be wetter and warmer ??!
I see a pattern Stew.
All of the topics are chosen to try to communicate with “yoof”, a section of the public mightily uninterested in the output from R4. So you could see this as a futile attempt to attract these recalcitrant listeners to replace the older people who are switching off and leaving in droves and thus bolster the continuation of the license fee extravaganza.
Good luck with that one BBC!
I think I might need some new reading glasses or a better proof-reader.
Bang a gong
Get it on
The frontpage of the Times this morning puts me in mind of the cover of the Beatles Sergeant Pepper album.
Famous faces are seemingly randomly gathered with various 60s-style pop art references.
There’s Sky’s party girl Kay Burley – inexplicably – dressed in a figure-flattering vintage military-style bandsman’s jacket: ‘The night I broke Covid rules‘
Obviously there’s a hokey-looking pic of some sportspeople draped in a union flag. This one gold fringed and antique-looking – probably moth-eaten – picked up in some over-priced curiosity shop in the Portabello Road after recovery from the auction sale contents of our Kabul embassy – the last time we had to pull out.
Plus something for the ladies (?): ‘How to knit like Tom Daley at the Olympics. Jealous of the diver’s cool cardigan at the Tokyo Games? Read this and you can make your own… Not only was he spotted knitting poolside on several occasions while at the Games, he also has a dedicated knitting and crocheting Instagram account‘
Rainbow-coloured crochet poncho? That’s all I’m short of. Even our Kay Burley wouldn’t be caught partying in that.
If you do take pride in that sort of thing then you’ll need your knitting supplies and appropriately enough the whimsy continues in the Sun: ‘PM dad in fight to save alpaca‘
I’d have had Stanley Johnson down as the sort of bloke who goes shooting the exotic animals. I’ll bet he has a shotgun he could lend the men from the ministry who come to put down the alpaca.
The Telegraph attempts to get someone who has some real political clout involved on the alpaca’s behalf: ‘Calls for Carrie to save Geronimo the alpaca’
Stars of the show this morning are: ‘Golden couple Jason and Laura Kenny are the most successful male and female British Olympians’ – as the Times slightly controversially these days observes both their genders and marital status. I’m reminded of a somewhat saucy quip from years ago about a married couple of British Olympic rowers that I knew. “They must have great sex” commented some wag at a social event. “Yes”, I replied, “if you don’t mind a little bloke sitting on top of your wardrobe with a megaphone shouting stroke, stroke…”
The Daily Express doubles down on medals: ‘Honour heroes who lifted nation‘ – so they want us to give gongs to our gong winners.
Surely the media have now flogged the Olympics for all its worth?
Are they flogging a dead alpaca?
In all seriousness: ‘Get back to the office, ministers order staff‘ (Times)
The Mail is more blunt: ‘Minister: cut pay of civil servants who work at home‘
‘One Whitehall department is likely to order its employees to work from the office at least three days a week by October, The Times has learnt‘ – oh the humanity.
Meanwhile our licence fee funded leftist culture warriors at the BBC continue to battle on toward total victory: ‘Same-sex parents battle for inclusive paperwork for baby… Kate and Gemma Fox, from Exeter, have encountered numerous forms they cannot fill in because they only offer space for the names of a mother and a father. They include on Devon County Council’s website, at their GP surgery and in the red book – the personal child health record given to all new parents. Since being contacted by the BBC, all three have said they will make changes‘
The working class socialist Mirror comes up with an anti-art and culture slogan: ‘What a waste of Monet‘ – this in response to Boris decorating Number 10 with some expensive paintings.
This barbarous iconoclastic attack – on a French impressionist of all people – comes as an attempt to further the PM’s expensive flat refub story. I guess we can understand the Labour-leaning media forgetting 1997: ‘A “killer memo” proved that three days after Labour won the general election, Lord Irvine of Lairg demanded the refurbishment of his apartment with Pugin wallpaper, furniture and fittings, though he later denied responsibility for initiating the face-lift. Among the shopping list of improvements he wanted, Lord Irvine called for a regular supply of flowers and the clock from the Prime Minister’s office in the Commons‘ (Independent, October 2011)
The Telegraph ponders: ‘Can Artificial Intelligence solve the cancer crisis‘
The Express highlights: ‘Heart alert: Covid backlog could see 500,000 waiting for treatment’
But the ‘i’ apparently cares more for anti-capitalist ideology than for our health: ‘Private health firms to profit from massive NHS backlog‘ – perhaps you shouldn’t have constantly demanded the extention of lockdowns?
‘Government hope the deals can provide 7,000 extra beds and will cut NHS waiting lists that could treble to 14 million procedures by autumn 2022‘
I think, socialists, your glorious NHS is just about bust. And you’ve really only got yourselves and your forcing Boris into a policy of covid lockdowns to blame.
All the champagne socialists have private medical insurance.
Another great one, AISI, thanks.
Except maybe … perhaps ….. this:
” The Express highlights: ‘Hea
rt alert: Covidp26 could see 5,000,000waitshivering in the UK’for treatment’“‘This one gold fringed and antique-looking – probably moth-eaten – picked up in some over-priced curiosity shop in the Portabello Road’
You do undertsand I meant the union flag, not Kay Burley?
Aisi,
Just a word about that bloody alpaca, all over the Fail again today.
This isn’t a pet. This thing was imported from New Zealand, where it apparently tested negative for bovine TB yet somehow tested positive on its’ arrival in Britain, at a cost of who knows how much to be put to stud. The owner, a veterinary nurse ironically named MacDonald, has an alpaca breeding business and around 70 other alpacas.
There are countless cattle destroyed every year, sometimes entire herds, sometimes prize breeding stock worth thousands, pedigree herds built up over generations, animals that are important to farms and essential to the livelihood of farmers and their families. Not a word about it.
The “Countryfile-effect” has the country supposedly behind a campaign to keep alive an infected animal because it’s more cuddly than a cow and is owned by a lady farmer/businesswoman who won’t accept the reality that, contrary to the view promoted by the metrocentric bBbc, farming can be hard and nature can be just a wee bit cruel sometimes.
I don’t know who she knows in the media or who really cares about Geronimos fate, but surely her 15 minutes are up.
9am local news
– Siemens wind turbine blade factory to double in size
– Climate Doom Report :
clip Piers Foster certain fires/floods linked to greenhouse gases
less focus on beach cleanup
statement from charity “Public Awareness is much higher”
9am show is about multicultural Haringay allotments.
“he is white but his wife is West Indian” etc
…now we are into the Muslims
“My mother died of Covid at 51, so the council has invited me here as she is the youngest Covid-death in the area, and they want to plant a tree”
Now he’s with Black Roots ” we grow culturally appropriate food .. ginger, pineapple, mango”
“Jeremy Corbyn was just here paying a visit”
The Guyanese guy is claiming that they are banned from farmer’s markets cos of their skin colour
“we apply for slots but we never get them”
..hmm slots are often very rare and the managers want the correct stall that will fit and not take trade from an existing stall
The next prog at 9:30am is also from North London
TOADY Watch #2 – what has happened to Chris Packham?
In the Countdown to Cop-Out, all through August, Chris Packham was meant to be coming up with an idea a day for TOADY listeners on Radio Flaw to reduce their personal CO2 emissions. That could, of course, using the radio OFF switch. He did not appear in his usual time slot this morning although I haven’t listened to the whole programme. It could be that he made an appearance in the half hour to 9 a.m.. I think I caught all of the remaining programme apart from that last half hour.
I wonder if some unfavourable comments have come in from listeners about Mr Packham’s personal CO2 output or the daftness of some of his ideas and the BBC TOADY Editors have scrapped his series?
It’s laughable.
Like Graun Enviro flogging holidays to Eco Lodges in Puerto Rico and New Scientist ‘Hug a Penguin’ ‘study expedition’ cruises to ageing Beebimbos that set off from Tasmania.
JonDon still paddling there from Sydney?
Wildlife experts Packham and Attenborough are from the same mould, they both realised that there was more money and fame attached to being harbingers of doom than simply chatting about wildlife.
Compare for instance with David Bellamy who’s love of animal behaviour created highly watchable TV rather than the dreary tub-thumping of the above two.
They are both riding a bandwagon as they know it’s a public-bashing trope favoured by the BBC and will bring them ever more fame and profit.
Bellamy was a genuine expert
Packham and Attenborough are PR-people often chanting lines that other people have fed to them.
They have the ability to present grand claims without getting challenged
As I mentioned on Friday local BBC Packham made the grand claim that hedgehog numbers have fallen by 95%
No hedgehog charity wants that questioned.
And don’t you go shouting “badgers”, cos then you are still accepting Packhams false claim
It’s almost certain a 1950s guy came up with a ten times over-estimate and everyone is exploiting that.
The British GardenWatch survey has shown increases every year since it began in 2007.
.. Some of that will be real and some from better observation like CCTV and hedgehog houses.
And don’t get me started on foxes, they are running about absolutely everywhere in our neck of the woods.
Around here the over abundance of deers is causing traffic collisions
and will kill people, if hasn’t already done so.
There needs to be some culling.
We had a fawn in our street a couple of months back.
If you have a gun you know what to do-they are a menace and yes I have seen what one can do in chicken run and even to a ganda. They are vermin and yet still people will treat them like pets. Incomprehensible.
The BBC News channel is 100% behind the end of the world Climate Change (TM). Barely 2 weeks relaxed Covid control measures and its now full on climate change social control now.
Just tell me how much money I have to pay to “save the climate” and which mates of the Tories gets my money?
But surely when Mr Ward is on the BBC fronting for the two different Grantham Climate NGOs the BBC explains that they are backed by the Big Green Hedgefund baron Jeremy Grantham ?
and that Ward is the PR man ..not in anyway a scientist etc.
The BBC’s coverage of things “climate” isn’t random – it’s coordinated and managed, the omissions, the cherry picking, the talking heads/key talent scripts …
I do wonder sometimes if they have a secret eco-BAFTA awards ceremony ? (The industry as a whole is so suffused with self congratulation and self regard that I can’t see them passing up the opportunity!)
Might be fun to riff some award category titles?
Bottomline pointing out how many people the Green activism has killed is difficult.
We could live in a more efficient world of cheaper energy, more of it nuclear etc with fracking bringing cheap gas
but no everything is more expensive cos of green dreams.
Thus hospitals have less ambulances and nurses.
Meanwhile abroad countries are forbidden from digging firebreaks, building coal power stations that will give them reliable electricity etc.
Money that could go into disaster planning/prevention goes into Climate Research and PR. etc.
TOADY Watch #3 – what could possibly go wrong?
I used to live in area where if it rained a great deal, over a long period, the local BT Junction Box could not cope and we would lose our telephone service. The same thing occurred during the 1976 drought and heatwave but for obviously different reasons.
Thanks to TOADY I’m informed that there is a proposal to insert fibre optic cables into the fresh water pipes to takes superfast broadband to “all parts of the country.”. This will save the disruption caused by digging up roads and pavements to install fibre optic broadband. I’m all in favour of that.
Bearing in mind the human animals’ natural capability for errors, including the existing evidence of failure to reinstate roads and pavements correctly after work to deliver fibre optic broadband, water, gas and electricity to houses in the past, this idea does bring the phrase “What could possibly go wrong?” urgently to mind.
Regarding the Greek fire.
At all times there’s something going on somewhere.
Icelandic volcanoes, Japanese Tsunamis, Asian earthquakes, droughts, beasts from the east, floods, you name it and it’s happening.
Very handy for these climate warming/cooling/change (whatever it is today) people to use to prove their case.
Oh to be back in the sixties and before when there was no climate change anywhere and none of the above things were ever happening.
Final Olympic sport: BBC Shark Vaulting
Heating from humans has caused irreparable damage to planet Earth that may get worse in coming decades, a UN report on climate change has found.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58130705?
Via Matt.
Climate change: IPCC report is ‘code red for humanity’
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Next: ‘Dial E for Execute’ all sceptics, by Rog?
Side-note to all posters: on this site we often use a sort of in-house shorthand, with nicknames and in-jokes; which is all very well but I wonder if they make some conversations somewhat opaque to newcomers?
Just a thought.
I can confirm that that is indeed the case. There are lots of those here and I miss out on a lot of what is going on.
Paul H counters today’s Global Warming fear-porn from Matt McGrath et al
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2021/08/09/ipcc-report-is-code-red-for-humanity
https://stevelawsreport.co.uk/michael-gove-could-replace-priti-patel-as-home-secretary/
Gove to replace Priti?
I don’t trust him one bit either (takes ‘advice’ from Blair).
Vote differently folks.
On that point, I note that Metro Bank has closed Reform UK’s account.
The traditional political parties are very worried .
The Reform Party are the former Brexit Party.
Remember what they managed to do the EU Dictatorship.
The whole Tory Party needs a shake up, unfortunately neither Labour or the Limpdems are capable of doing it .
Anything on Al Beeb ?
Harrabin on Jeremy Whine…”China tends to under promise and over deliver” 😆
Another apologist for the CCP
Can I have my boat back?
pfff… the officials running(!?) The Channel Shambles would probably do that!
“Climate change: Make coal history says PM after climate warning”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58144779
Note the steam coming from the Cooling Towers . They always show cooling towers .
Propaganda ?
At the same time Bo Jo allows thousands of invaders to come across the English Channel to increase our so-called carbon footprint. Yes, that’s more houses , more food , more hospitals, more schools more transport etc .
We are not being told the truth. Check out The Reform Party next time.
They do indeed always show steam coming from the cooling towers. Always photographed or retouched in PhotoShop so it looks like dirty smoke rather than water vapour. And they have been reprimanded over this misleading practice since at least 2008. Indeed, even the BBC Trust (yes, I know it’s odd to see those two words adjacent to each other) had something to say about it in 2009:
Click to access july.pdf
But the bottom line is that the BBC simply doesn’t care – it has a party line on such topics and will stick to it come hell or high water (that’s real high water, BTW, not the imaginary rising sea levels version). Perhaps they should change their name from BBC to BBBB: Build Back Better for the Billionaires.
Except we don’t get any more houses, schools or hospitals. More people have to fight for what there already is, even as the cost of everything increases relentlessly.
The Institution of Engineering and Technology continues to prove that it has been taken over by its permanent staff and become The Institution of Social Engineering.
The members are requested to nominate ‘Engineering Heroes’ (BAMEs, Muslims, Rainbow People and Women only of course).
Just to make sure members have to declare:
It must take a special talent to be an ‘unconscious bias observer’. The communists used to call them ‘political officers’. At least the Russians were open in their aims and called a digging implement a spade.
JimS
The IET has been headed down the plug-hole for some time. The last event I went to the organiser got exceeding shirty from the stage with audience members who asked some obvious but very inconvenient (and not disrespectful) questions of the lecture presenter in the wrap-up Q&A.
Since when did arguments from authority affect detail engineering decisions ? (we know that they do occasionally, I know… but still – it left a bad aftertaste)
IPCC still pumping out the fear…and the BBC’s Roger Harrabin is still the cheerleader-in-chief for them….and yet still no proof that CO2 is the culprit…or indeed anything man-made….apart from Harrabin’s own copious hot-air excretions.
I think our BBC and their Climate Change hoax are running out of road.
Politicians will nod and smile, but when its a matter of hard cash, their enthusiasm wanes. The eco-fascists are seeking eye watering sums in their desire to destroy Capitalism.
China and India are not buying into it. Good.
I see that the BBC is reporting another possible “artwork” by that tedious vandal Banksy, this time at Merrivale Model Village in Great Yarmouth.
It caught my eye as I have fond memories of going there as a child. As one of the “Andys” in Hot Fuzz says, “You want to play the big man? **** off down the model village!”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-58143164
Hot Fuzz – one of the best films evah!
“Vodafone to bring back EU roaming charges from January”
hmm who uses a UK sim in a foreign country ?
I hardly ever use the phone and just use a local sim
I imagine the main people using UK sims abroad are EU nationals who live in the UK but visit their relatives in Europe
They need their UK sim switched on in case the benefits office call them etc.
Much ado about nothing. I’ve spoken to lots of people about this during the past few months. There are three basic responses that seem to cover 99% of people who travel to Europe:
1. Who makes a standard mobile call these days? I use WhatsApp, Viber or Skype, as they are free. (Most common response).
2. I have a local SIM for when I’m back in Poland/Bulgaria/Romania etc. (EU nationals working/living in UK).
3. I’ve never made a call. I’ve always assumed it was horribly expensive anyway (much older Britons).
The telecoms companies are employing quarter(or less)wits and committing commercial suicide I suspect.
VoIP/virtual providers/FarceBerk WhatsApp are eating their lunch.
You’re not far off there with the benefits malarkey – I spent some months on Grand Canaria, going to the airport almost every other day to drop/pickup colleagues. I’d swear that 50%+ of the Brit “holidaymakers” I saw weren’t employed.
I wonder how the roaming works in the opposite direction? – my stepson had a Cypriot SIM that was absurdly cheap.
The UK Three network has been screwing its overseas roamers for ever – I’ve tried all their permutations for data roaming and it’s pants service and and pants “support”.
There will be an India style clampdown… I’d like to see the re-emergence of modified WiFi access points that support calls and a decentralised call system – that put the wind up the telcos to the point where they bought up the original providers…
Me
AN EXTRACT FROM THE DT .
Dear Sally,
I am having a problem with the TV Licensing Authority. I completed the licence forms for my 90-year-old mother and set up monthly direct debit payments.
The day after I had posted them off, my mother informed me that she was in receipt of pension credit. Anyone on this benefit who is over the age of 75 should get the licence free, so I immediately phoned up about the error.
I was told to send all the details and it would be sorted out. I was warned that the first payment would probably be taken but that it would be refunded.
As predicted, the first payment of £19.68 was taken on December 1 2020. But then a second payment was taken on January 2.
When I phoned I was told it would be sorted in four weeks. But four weeks later another payment was taken. I phoned again and was told, due to Covid, the refunds were taking longer and it would be another four weeks. Payments continued to be taken in February, March and April, and each time I would phone and get the same answer that it would be four more weeks.
Finally, in April, two of the payments were refunded. Since then I have phoned every few weeks to chase what is owed. The last person I spoke to said I had to be patient.
Just under £60 may not sound much, but to a 90-year-old on pension credit it is a lot of money.
Dear CG,
I felt miffed on your behalf that the Beeb, which is responsible for overseeing TV licensing, had the cheek to tell you to be patient after you had already spent several months chasing your mother’s refund.
This is the organisation that is itself so impatient, it is apparently planning to send out agents in the autumn to hurry along individuals over 75 who are required to pay for their TV licence but have so far not done so.
They are hit by the same rule change made last summer that affected your mother: over-75s who previously got their licence free must now pay £159 unless they are in receipt of pension credit. This is a benefit for people on low incomes who have reached retirement age and comes on top of their state pension.
When you found out, belatedly, that your mother receives pension credit you naturally wanted to stop the payments. I asked the BBC to investigate what had gone wrong. Within a few days the mix-up, apparently caused by human error, was resolved and the £60 repaid. The broadcaster sent a letter of apology to your mother along with a £30 goodwill payment.
Refunds are usually made far more quickly and are available in several circumstances. For example, a household where someone is blind should only pay 50pc of the fee, so long as the licence is in the blind person’s name. Someone who moves abroad, or goes into a care home or hospital can also apply for money back.
Since the tenancy arrangements for students are often for less than 12 months, they too can ask to be reimbursed for unused months.
When applying, they might have to include evidence, such as proof of term dates. Check the process at tvlicensing.co.uk.
All this endless media drone about climate change, led by our smug , do as I say, not as I do, friends at the BBC doesn’t seem to have improved the standard of the weather forecasting. That’s the problem with agenda based news – the cart is placed squarely in front of the horse – thereby getting precisely nowhere.
Longer footage shows a weak attempt to storm the building
People charging to the front door and pushing 4 officers against it
Pathetic cos of course the doors are locked from the inside
Then police reinforcements turn up and the crowdline gets pushed further and further back
… https://twitter.com/Kees71234/status/1424735702558859265
.. video from inside
The BBC used to use that building but now the sign says “Studioworks”
ah “@BBC_Studioworks
We are a commercial subsidiary of the BBC”
ITV daytime are based there
Protesters reckon they can stay and blockade the building
I’d be surprised if there are no tunnels out into other buildings.
Sopes and Spingster got their Mental Hearts yet?
3 Livefeeds
… 2 more if you filter by LIVE
After sometime the leaders were allowed in to talk for a few minutes
Then they led the protest away down streets to next destination
at 3:04 the leader stood and said
“OK we are not thugs , those people at the beginning were exuberant, but that is not us , we are not thugs
we can go home now and show we are peaceful
Or we can go on somewhere else..it’s your choice”
There were so many ..many thousands did one or the other
Insurrection?
Oh no Far Left thugs try to silence free speech – but they didn’t burn it …time for the fact checking girl…
Just logging the 1pm and 2 pm local Climate PR on #ClimateFearPornDay
Lord Grimstone opened our 1pm local news
“460 jobs as plan to double the wind blade factory”
(pure PR bluster)
Grimstone : “Massive new industry that the North Sea is creating for us
and the great thing about these jobs is
That this is for the next generation
And we all know how important dealing with Climate Change is
and this puts Hull and the Able Marine Park (South Humber) absolutely right at the centre of all this”
(FFS : energy source that is 4 times more expensive than other fuels
and only shows up when it he feels like it
and you lock the UK grid into it for 20 years …bonkers )
Gamesa man “We now need to make 100m blades”
Newsreader “This is on the day that the IPCC report is released here’s Harrabin”
…wild claim blah blah
Greenpeace UK said, it was clear that time is running out
Now efforts to contain wild fires in US/Russia/Greece/
In California …..
Item #6 “The BBC’s Big Beach Clean …here’s a 6 year old volunteer”
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2pm news “The government has announced it will providing funding that will allow for the doubling of the Hull blade factory and a wind tower factory to be built by GRII renewables on the South Bank with 260 jobs”
That’s a PR trick first they tell us the plants will expand
only later did they release the fact that the TAXPAYER will fund it
Lord Grimstone says ” we aim to quadruple the size of the UK windpower operations…”
“Now the doom report ..here’s Inger Andersen Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme said it was time the world acted on the warnings from scientists”
clip : “you’ve been telling us for over three decades of the dangers of allowing the planet to warm
the world listened but didn’t hear
…. …. Climate change is a problem that is here now. Nobody’s safe, and it’s getting worse faster,”
(They nicked that bit off SkyNews .. https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1424648095682506755 )
“Now California and Greece fires, here’s a firefighter from Merseyside”
ITV have put out a Grimstone video
.. https://twitter.com/itvcalendar/status/1424683438083280897
Article .. https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2021-08-09/siemens-to-double-size-of-hull-offshore-wind-turbine-blade-factory
“The North Sea has been very kind to us
She gave us oil previously (em it still does !)
and The North Sea is now giving us wind
and its offshore wind is allowing us to create major, major new businesses
And the Humber with the Able Marine Park is going to be one of the top centres for this.
So it is fantastic news for the people in Hull
fantastic news for the Humber
cos these are very very good jobs, that will last for generations”
.. Hyperbole, just like the old claim that nuclear energy will give us free electricity.
It is not giving us as much fish as it ought to.
“So as Gamesa executives see it, they made the right bet by coming to China. And they insist that they have no regrets about having trained more than 500 Chinese machinery companies as a cost of playing by Beijing’s rules — even if those rules have sometimes flouted international trade law. It is simply the table stakes of playing in the biggest game going….
‘If we would not have done it, someone else would have done it,’ said Jorge Calvet, Gamesa’s chairman and chief executive.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/15/business/global/15chinawind.html?_r=0