Weekend Thread 14 August 2021

Sunday is the 76th Anniversary of victory over Japan . It would be nice to think it will be properly commemorated – but somehow the BBC will be interested in other things …

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  1. taffman says:

    “Channel migrant crossings reach record high as man dies”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-58213583
    What exactly does the “Clandestine Channel Threat Commander” Dan O’Mahoney actually get paid to do?

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    • StewGreen says:

      But Lisa Doyle, director of advocacy and engagement at the Refugee Council, said: “The government must change its approach.
      Instead of seeking to punish or push away people seeking safety because of the type of journey they have made to the UK, they must create and commit to safe routes.”

      She said: “While there is war, persecution and violence, people will be forced to take dangerous journeys to seek safety.”

      That’s France that is “war, persecution and violence”

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    • theisland says:

      The complete failure of the HO/government to fulfil their stated and statutory roles is now common knowledge. Therefore a ‘clandestine’ operation of a different nature is now justified and necessary whereby ex and serving army and navy personnel take over and secure the ever-expanding ‘facilities’ along the coastline and protect our borders by land and sea. In short to do the job the HO should be doing by turning all illegals and invaders back. Only a relatively small but committed and disciplined force would be needed. I suspect there would be no shortage of volunteers for the mission. If only there was a leader.

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  2. Northern Voter says:

    Taff, it would appear that he doesn’t seem to do a lot. There’s no clandestine channel threat, they are doing it openly.

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  3. StewGreen says:

    Covid stats still flat
    neither rising out of control, nor declining
    Summer and vax should give a downward effect,
    opening up should add an upward effect

    about 0.3% of population get Covid every week, that’s 7.5% over half a year
    https://twitter.com/LawrenceGilder/status/1426563050774073345

    88 people die/day .. that’s would be about 32K/year
    UK population is 67m 1/1000th is 67,000
    So 1/2000th of population is about 33K
    So over 1 /year 0.05% of UK population is dying of covid

    Or every time 350 people get Covid one of them dies

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    • taffman says:

      StewGreen
      “Or every time 350 people get Covid one of them dies”
      Dies of it or with it ?

      My usual message to Al Beeb and SAGE ……….
      “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.”

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  4. Twin_Town says:

    Guys

    Slightly off topic but thanks to the advice from this site… months after cancelling my tv licence, I got my first real warning letter… mrs town laughed when it came through – threatening us that we could expect a visit and be fined up to £1000 for watching live tv 😂😂😂 I’d like to see the scumbags trying to get into my house – I’ll give them a friendly welsh thanks but no thanks response. There’s nothing but shite on live tv anyway, so I’ll stick to flix and prime thank you (although lots of “pride” and black this and that crap on there along with a heavy helping of woke 🙄)

    Death to the vile BBC.

    Keep up the good work guys 👍🏻

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    • brexiteerkent says:

      This guy’s YouTube channel has videos of most of these threatening letters :

      Empty threats ..

      Defund the BBC !

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Twin
      Well done on the TV licence – I can beat you – I picked up 4 envelopes from TVL on my return to Blighty after 80 days away .

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  5. brexiteerkent says:

    BBC to pay £1.5 Million of licence fee payers money to charities nominated by Charles William and Harry!!

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9894125/BBC-pay-1-5m-charity-Royals-choice-fallout-Martin-Bashirs-Diana-interview.html

    Speechless !

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  6. Guest Who says:

    ‘Them’.

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  7. JohnC says:

    Sri Lankan teenager builds solar-powered tuk-tuk from scraps
    https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-58192468
    Another BBC propaganda piece heavy on agenda and remarkably light on facts.
    I suspect that thing will take about 15 hours to charge enough for 5 minutes driving.

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  8. AsISeeIt says:

    A scant four frontpages reproduced by the BBC online newspaper line up this morning – someone’s falling down on the job.

    In terms of the value of the news conveyed by this mere quad of titles I’m unconvinced the reproduction of more wouldn’t simply result in diminishing returns.

    I’m reminded of that verbose wordsmith Will Self – once the darling of the literary new wave but having taken the BBC shilling and matured into a Question Time reliable, legalise it, I’ll advertise it, lefty – those two developments obviously being interlinked, he became somewhat of a bore.

    He once contested the sense of the popular phrase – among travel news broadcasters – sheer weight of traffic. Oughtn’t the resultant delays be properly blamed on mere weight of traffic, contested Self? There’s something to think about.

    ‘Force gun owners to face online hate trawl’ – says former Met chief Lord Stevens as reported in the Telegraph. While they’re at it why not get the cops to go fishing in everyone’s social media activity? Afterall if it might be claimed it saves one life let’s become Communist China right here and now.

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    • Peter Grimes says:

      You missed ‘lugubrious’ in your description of the idiot Self.

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    • Sick of it all says:

      Self gets brownie points for once describing Vic Reeves as a ‘chilly torrent of drivel’, a superb put-down that can be applied to dozens of talking heads at the BBC and across wider media/journalism.

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  9. Guest Who says:

    Piku trying to impress Springster?

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    • micknotmike says:

      Doesn’t fool me, I’d recognise her anywhere. Why she thinks that every article she writes has to be accompanied by a picture of her gurning fizzog is beyond me. I’d sooner have a picture relevant to the subject. Don’t become the story, love.

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  10. Guest Who says:

    One for Wendy’s ‘unit’?

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  11. Guest Who says:

    Stick to being the difficult second Nish, dude.

    https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/aug/13/gb-news-challenging-consensus?

    Romesh Ranganathan’s midlife crisis
    Life and style
    GB News likes to think it’s challenging the consensus. But what if it is the consensus?
    As an agitator, it has to take a combative stance on everything

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  12. Guest Who says:

    Shared thanks to Springster. And Wendy’s other droid.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Twitter bio of the woman that tweeted that photo of herself
      “Head of Communications for BBC World Service.
      @BBCNewsPR”

      BTW her last retweet was an outrage tweet against ITV’s Eamon Holmes, how dare he make a joke about his guests hair she’s a Woman Of Colour.
      …. Actually the video shows her laughing along as if they know each other very well
      She doesn’t need people being outraged on her behalf

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  13. Guest Who says:

    Sadly BBC news support is seldom as helpful as it might seem.

    ***

    The female Afghan journalist who won’t give in to the Taliban.

    https://bbc.in/3fZDzIX

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    • Sluff says:

      She’s about the only one as the gutless spineless and presumably quietly supportive male Afghans hand over to the Taliban without a shot being fired. A lifetime of subservience, rape, and brutality await their womenfolk.
      And no-one seems to give a toss. Especially among LeftMob feminist groups.

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      • G.W.F. says:

        Sluff
        Stand by for a massive resistance to the Taliban from angry wimmin who will defend their sisters. There must be millions of them, all fired up in anger expressed by media feminists. They are probably organizing already in training camps ready to defeat the Taliban males.. er. but first they need approval from the left.

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  14. Sluff says:

    On BBC1 Sunday 0818. And the BBC are doing their usual dripping sentimentality routine.

    In the aftermath of the dreadful killings in Plymouth there is yet again a virtue-spiral. Who can go most overboard to show concern for the ‘people of Plymouth’. Let the bidding commence.

    The local MP is on. There is a ‘crisis in mental health’ and he wonders what is being done to prevent a ‘lifetime of trauma’.
    The ‘community needs help and support right mow’

    When will this sentimental crap ever end.
    I’ll tell you about a lifetime of trauma. Just go and look at the names of the fallen on the memorial on top of the Ho.

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  15. StewGreen says:

    A Global Warming evangelist preacher
    is on 17 #BiasedBBC stations today
    pushing her religion down our throats

    Her Twitter profile pic is her with a giraffe in an African setting
    She probably cycled there

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    • Guest Who says:

      Incels going after giraffes next?

      17 bBC propaganda platforms in the holding pattern.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Just spent a great several minutes following a thread on an RV forum started by a woman with hairy armpits railing at fellow VW T5 wild campers for how they dispose of their grey water.

        Someone points out it’s a 2 litre German diesel and I may need to go back to catch up later.

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        • Up2snuff says:

          Guest, I hope they use the grey water to wash off the squashed flies on the front of their RVs.

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    • StewGreen says:

      These PRtrickery fascists rule over us
      Imposing their dogma on us
      whilst they live like kings.

      I’ll have a bacon sandwich for breakfast; eating more meat is one way to get back at them.

      To be fair the Leeds DJ did push back a bit.
      #1 He said “Why should I put my trust in the same politicians that told me to buy a diesel car and now say I shouldn’t own it ?”

      #2 The vox pop contained skeptical voices
      “Man does affect the environment, but Climate Change always happens across the millennia, it doesn’t stay the same”

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    • tomo says:

      17 BBC local radio stations in one hit?

      that’s coincidence ?

      Over the years I’ve interacted with BBC local radio – the idea that they haven’t been cued up by a third party is simply impossible – who has previous in this regard?

      I wonder if the office of the “BBC’s environment analyst” is involved in any way?

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  16. Guest Who says:

    The problem with filters. The people filtering.

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/69807-2/

    39 Pontiac Dream •
    Vine made a big deal of this caller lying to his call screener but what chance would he have of giving an alternate view had he not? The BBC only want callers who agree with them. They should invite more Johns onto their radio and TV. The wider public need to hear ALL views.

    No surprise that John was cut off. Vine was out of his depth.

    ***
    At least when on his bike he is on surer gr…..oof.

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    • popeye says:

      One good thing about GBN, especially Farage, is that they ALWAYS have on people who they, perhaps, disagree with, allow them to make their points uninterrupted then discuss with them why they think they are wrong. I’d love to think that the BBC would act in a similar civilised manner but I doubt it. Not that I’d know anyway; after 30 years of blindly listening to Radio 4 I haven’t had it on for over 10 years now. Scrap the licence.

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    • Tabs says:

      Vine boils my wee listening to that!

      To ask the caller if they are a virologist or a scientist as a cheap way to dismiss any opinion the caller has but then the BBC will happily have mentally ill school drop out Greta Thunberg on as a climate expert.

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      • JohnC says:

        The one who claims she can actually see CO2 rising from rubbish dumps.
        But we never mention that ….

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      A contact of mine in the BBC explained how they did things when he worked there:

      Let’s suppose the topic is immigration. Firstly, the speakers will be carefully curated: a Labour MP, an immigration activist, a migrant with a hard luck story and, for balance, a dripping wet Tory who has the same basic views as the others.

      After the heads have spoken, they take the calls, which have been pre-screened. There might be perhaps 100 in favour of greater restrictions on immigration, but only 10 in favour of more immigration, drawn from the ranks of ‘the usual suspects’. In the interests of ‘impartiality’, the producer decides to take 5 calls from each side. Then a researcher pops up and says something like “that caller… wasn’t he a candidate for the BNP about 10 years ago? Or at least someone with a similar name?”. The producer decides she can’t take the risk and deselects that caller. When they take the calls, they decide that they are over-running so decide to drop the final caller, who is opposed to immigration. So the audience gets to hear 5 pro-immigration voices and 3 anti-immigration ones.

      A programme later on refers to the earlier call-in one: “The government is proposing tighter controls on immigration. However, a majority of callers to the BBC expressed their concerns and re-iterated the benefits of increased immigration…”

      And they were the techniques used by the BBC ‘in the good old days’…

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      • Sluff says:

        Ian,
        I would add that they also try and get ‘heavyweight’ leftoids/ government opposes versus ‘lightweight’ government spokespeople.

        Thus on Any Questions last week the panel included Lisa Nandy, and Anna Soubry (bonkers but confident) against some junior government minister I’ve never heard of before.

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        • Up2snuff says:

          Sluff, I listened to that. Eddie Hughes MP, if my memory serves me well – I haven’t checked – is a minister in the Communities Dept. He did quite well. Lemn Sissay was good and injected some humour and commonsense, both of which seem to be lacking from Nandy and Soubry.

          Do I recall correctly that Hughes got booed a couple of times? And that Chris Mason did nothing about that nor trotted out the usual BBC lie that the audience are self-selecting?

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Ian
        Got the ring of truth about it – and presumably the same technique used for ALL other issues . The BBC is so clumsy – or perhaps smug in its’ outlook – that it thinks people don’t realise what they are doing –

        The increased non payment of Licences – falling audience numbers and increased activity on sites like this one testify to the intelligence of viewers and listeners ….

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  17. StewGreen says:

    9am local news … It’s the weekend and they haven’t collected any Lincolnshire news
    Item #1 “A Nottinghamshire man”
    Item #2 “A Leicestershire man”
    Item #5 “A Derbyshire church”

    The Nottinghamshire guy has been convicted of raping a boy
    a lot of detail
    Of course Raping gangs were not reported in the same detail.

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    • StewGreen says:

      I suspect they are using centralised newsreaders instead of a local one.
      9am The one doing Hull picked local stories, but suddenly dropped in a South Yorkshire story

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    • Sluff says:

      This can have beneficial effects however.
      They have taken to combining London news with South East news. So occasionally we get stories about white people other than as racists/ colonialists/ oppressors of BAME ‘victims’ but as just ordinary folk out in the towns and shires.

      It’s a breath of fresh air and such a contrast with the usual metropolitan leftoid BBC race-baiting agenda.

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  18. Thoughtful says:

    I am finding the media coverage of the advance of the Taleban very amusing and I will encourage you to join me in a small act of rebellion.

    Amidst all the left wing angst, wimmins rights etc etc criticism of the Taleban is ‘interesting’ because thoughout all of the descriptions of barbarism and medeval horror, not once will the vast majority of articles mention Islam Muslims, nor of course any criticisms of it.

    Your job is simply to point this out in the comments section, and when they are handwringing about what can be done, point out their utter failure to deal with the similar issues here in Britain and if they can’t sort that then how on Earth do they expect to deal with it thousands of miles away when they can’t even admit what is causing the problem!

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  19. Jack in the Green says:

    As the endless BBC/media drone about sustainability, climate change, diversity etc trundles on apace, the real problem – exponential population growth – is quietly forgotten. The tripling of the planet’s population over the past 60 years is the real story, but of course, it doesn’t fit the agenda does it? Where is the main source of that growth? Exactly. I rest my case.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Exactly so, JitG. In my Physics classes, amazing how I get them replaying in my head in the face of this Global Warming & Climate Change propaganda, we spent a lot of time considering radiation. That included heat radiation. The human body radiates a lot of heat. Large human bodies radiate even more heat. What other problem occupies our media’s time? Yup, human size.

      A friend who works for the NHS is a bit challenged in the slenderness department, a small/medium/large understatement on my part. I sat next seat but one to this friend in a summer church service. It was like sitting next to a radiator going full blast.

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  20. StewGreen says:

    JHB

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    • JimS says:

      Damn Hu-white people flying; eco-friendly brown people using RIBs.

      (It can’t be coincidental how the BBC selects skin colours to push a story).

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  21. Tabs says:

    The BBC News channel is spinning the Taliban advance on Kabul by mentioning multiple times that the Taliban have issued a statement saying “we don’t want innocent Afghans to die. Anyone who worked for the government will be forgiven”.

    BBC are sick. They haven’t mentioned any statements from the Afghan government for balance.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      The BBC (and no doubt General Sir Nick Carter) are apparently ignorant of the concept of Taqiyya and Kitman.

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    • JohnC says:

      I just wandered off searching to find out how lopsided the BBC reporting of the Taliban is and found this story about Danish Siddiqui:
      Danish Siddiqui: Indian photojournalist killed in Afghanistan
      https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57859652
      This is what the BBC wrote:
      Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian photojournalist Danish Siddiqui has been killed in Afghanistan, said the country’s ambassador in Delhi.
      The 41-year-old, who was chief photographer for Reuters news agency in India, was on assignment when he died.

      And this is what they didn’t report:
      Medical report of Danish Siddiqui’s body confirms brutal torture and mutilation by Taliban: Report
      https://www.firstpost.com/india/medical-report-of-danish-siddiquis-body-confirms-brutal-torture-and-mutilation-by-taliban-report-9858311.html

      The BBC think they are a global political benchmark and they play politics all the time. In this case, they want good relations with the Taliban because they know they will soon run the country. And being friends with the Taliban means they are friends with all their supporters over here.
      In other circumstances – ie when it suits them – they are in uproar if a journalist is even injured. Never mind tortured and murdered.
      The BBC are totally out of control now. They urgently need to be put in their place. It says a lot about them when we routinely have to use news from other countries to get the truth.

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    • G says:

      Tabs,

      Would that be ‘our’ BBC, you know, “The Most Trusted Broadcaster”

      Gatestone don’t think so……………

      The, ‘Most Trusted’s” activities:

      https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17646/bbc-against-israel

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  22. tomo says:

    A write up of the Jeremy Vile incident with the phone in …

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/69807-2/

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  23. taffman says:

    Who gets to cough up the £750,000 for Al Beeb’s Bashir fiasco ?
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9874223/Martin-Bashir-whistleblower-paid-750-000-BBC.html

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  24. taffman says:

    Now that the Taliban are back in power will they move to rescue the rescue the Ughirs?

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    • G.W.F. says:

      On the other hand an invitation to China to enforce communism in Afghanistan might be worth a look. A million or two from the Chinese Red Army might do the trick

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    • tomo says:

      The Chinese are paying the Taliban controllers back in Islamabad enough to damp that down.

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  25. StewGreen says:

    Strange that the show picked out White evangelicals
    ..but when the item started they played a clip of Sopel’s piece against one particular unhinged white pastor

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    • StewGreen says:

      Sopel has made a special effort to put his church piece on YouTube ..4 mins
      .. Note how he wears his mask talking to the anti-vaccine pastor

      Then he switched to the extremely overweight mother of a black young man that just died of Covid
      and Sopel is not wearing a mask whilst he interviews her
      https://youtu.be/huEd2fKxKWw

      Mr Safety does a piece whilst he is driving
      note how he keeps looking away from the road, to look at the camera.
      As ever the Sopel item is PR against Trump.

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    • tomo says:

      It’s a standard lefty trope – I remember when they were doing it in the Reagan years….

      I suppose they need some comforting familiar distraction blanket via sneering – to block out Ken Loach and the imploding UK Labour Party

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  26. Fedup2 says:

    Declaration – I have a licence for shotguns – I also declare that I am male – so my view here may be ‘tainted ‘…

    I heard that an ex chief of the metrolpolitan police wants them to ‘vet ‘ all the internet activity of people applying for licences . This is an excellent idea – which should be used for other licences . For instance – driving licences – to prevent Islamic terrorists driving vans and cars at not believers again .

    And perhaps anyone who wants a TV licence to have their internet activity examined to make sure they do not ‘spread hate ‘ in their opinions . …..and incite people to violence ….

    … meanwhile … in the real world …

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    • G says:

      The Application for a F/A Certificate differs between Shotguns and the rest. Its in the terminology. For a ‘Firearm’ in the distinct category, you have to be vetted for the ‘right’ to be approved for same. In the Shotgun category, the roles are reversed: You have a right and the system must argue if they disagree with that ‘right’.
      Bizarre, but that’s the way it is.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        G
        At one stage I had a section 1 licence – and was ‘depressed ‘ to hear journos not knowing the difference between the two licence types .
        I guess the next attack on possession of firearms of any type is to put the burden of proof for having shotguns onto the applicant – or evidence of formal training in the use of guns . I had mine …

        The comment by Stevens ? The ex met chief shows how stupid senior types can be – maybe he is just ga ga after too much cheap liquor in the House of Lords ….

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  27. Fedup2 says:

    It seems the Americans are re running the ‘fall of Saigon ‘in Kabul – The false president must be very pleased ….

    They’ll be playing ‘white Christmas ‘ – cutting down trees in the embassy grounds for the helicopters to land – and getting tedious stories from ‘war correspondents ‘ – meanwhile the Russians will be laughing their bits off …

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    • taffman says:

      Fedup2
      = More illegals heading this way.

      Our Home Secretary better get her act together with her Defence of the Realm. I foresee acts of mainland terrorism ahead because our so called ‘government’ has already left the door open to thousands of security risks.
      We need a new common sense government because British lives are at risk.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Taffman
        I’m really sorry – but are you claiming that there is a Home Secretary? – I can’t see any evidence of one ….

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        • taffman says:

          Fedup2
          Well ‘some say’, that Bo Jo thinking of recalling parliament ? Perhaps he is reshuffling his cabinet again ?
          Something is up.
          Nowt on Al Beeb yet perhaps they will get the ‘heads up’ from here ?

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        • tomo says:

          The Home Office seems to have historically plowed Sir Humphrey et al’s preferred furrow regardless of who the titular head of the department iis….

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  28. taffman says:

    “Humpback whale spotted off Pembrokeshire coast”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58214562
    Whales off Wales ?
    Its nothing new .

       12 likes

    • taffman says:

      A local wag has suggested it could have been a rubber dinghy being mistaken for a whale ?

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  29. taffman says:

    Will Al Beeb ever reveal where the Covid virus came from.
    It will have to come out with it, ‘dragged kicking and screaming’, eventually .

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    • JimS says:

      Donald Trump wasn’t it?

      (Seriously, it might turn out that it came from Fauci’s sub-contracted research, signed off during the Trump reign, so the Doc gets let off and the Donald gets the blame!)

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      • tomo says:

        That’s already being touted by Democrat /lefty trolls around the place. What they fail to say though is that Fauci did it and very deliberately didn’t tell anybody at The White House…..

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    • Fedup2 says:

      The Chinese will muddy the rice wine enough to make it impossible to definitely show their guilt . Anyone responsible or a potential witness will be dead by now – and the bribes paid to WHO types and others to make stuff disappear will ensure we never know – add to that the possibility of the Americans funding research – kills it .

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  30. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Could we put the Gurkhas on the Channel migrant routes to stop them.

    The £millions saved could be used to give them a better pension.

    I’m sure they would do a better job of stopping the hordes coming over.

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    • Oaknash says:

      That would sort it – Successive governments have always treated the Gurkahs badly despite them showing nothing but loyalty to us. Same as the Afghan translators who have also regularly put their lives on the line for our squaddies – yet the government does its best to turn their backs on them even now.
      Yet someone from some African or middle east s##thole with a dubious past and of military age who comes here and claims “asylum” gets the red carpet treatment.

      I have come to the conclusion that these people are imported by our globalist dominated government to not only to cause chaos but as a potential army of occupation when the the globalist finally decide to show the sheeple their full hand.

      I dont think we have many years of civilisation left in the West – I suspect these unpleasant and ungrateful invaders will be used to create havoc until we plead with the same crooks who have created this whole mess to “save us”
      I suspect this is why so little action has been taken by the government and why the BBC have always given these B stards favourable treatment no matter how any people are stabbed or raped in the name of “peace”
      It is so we can all get a real feel for the “peace” we will get if we dont co-operate.

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      • taffman says:

        Oaknash
        Another thing that “would sort” it would be for Great Britain to have a strong leader. I would have no doubt that most of the people would be behind him/her.
        In reality we are being invaded on a daily basis by collusion. Lifeboats and Border Farce bring the invaders in to the UK .
        None are taken back from whence they come – the safe haven of France. All this while the indigenous people of Great Britain are being suppressed under Covid Rules.

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        • Charlie Farley says:

          Taffman
          Lifeboat Taxi Service
          Recently sent Email to them ” Are you now doing Free Boat Trips from France ? ” They eventually replied :
          ” The RNLI is not expected to be part of the wider Immigration or Border Protection Policies of the many jurisdictions we operate in . This is the responsibility of the Government . Questions about Border Controls Immigration and the legality of right to remain are Questions for the Government. They are not matters for the RNLI. If you do have any questions regarding Government Policies in respect of Immigration then please do contact the Home Office direct .I would like to thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts and have logged your email as a Formal Complaint .
          Yours Sincerely
          Megan Manneh
          (She / Her ) Events Manager

          Wonder how much she takes out of the Donations to come up with this Cr-p !

          Please send your thoughts on a Postcard to Priti Useless Patel and Boris !

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      • Sick of it all says:

        Problem = Reaction = Solution

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  31. taffman says:

    Emmanuel Goldstein
    A brilliant idea! The Gurkhas did a first class job of border control in Hong Kong. Although we do have the excellent Royal Marine Commandos .
    But be prepared to hear maxincony and the Human Rights mob screaming and shouting in defence of the invaders with total disregard of the ‘rights’ of the people of Great Britain.

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  32. Fedup2 says:

    Twitter is running a 1 minute 49 second excerpt of the false president explaining – 36 days ago – that Afgee won’t fall to the taliban because there are only 75000 of them against a highly trained highly equipped 300 000 Afgee Army ….

    I’m guessing we won’t be seeing this on the BBC anytime soon.

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  33. Thoughtful says:

    You know things are getting bad when even the Guardian is prepared to criticise Biden !

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/15/afghanistan-will-be-seen-as-joe-bidens-defeat-and-it-may-come-back-to-haunt-him

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  34. Foscari says:

    Maybe some of those in this country who thinks it’s their
    gods will for them to abuse girls will leave us to go to their seventh
    heaven in Afghanistan . Please don’t blame Biden.
    He doesn’t even know which day of the week it is.

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  35. Fedup2 says:

    Me too GWF – but my interest is the way the BBC gives the false president an easy time with regard to the planning . ( or non planning )

    I’m watching BBC news – the adults are all on holiday so it’s just a series of foreign BBC journos ‘interviewing ‘ each other ….
    … wonder if the Taliban / IS / Muslim terrorists will line up a ‘special ‘ for the 20th anniversary of 9/11?
    Biden will be in the bunker …

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  36. tomo says:

    “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f**k things up”

    – Barack Obama

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  37. tomo says:

    Is it true that Pontiff is going to COP26?

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  38. Fedup2 says:

    VJ Day becomes VA Day – victory in Afgee – for the Taliban – over the infidel and their helpers . But don’t worry – nothing will change – ladies will be able to do what they want – freedom to worship and speech will be defended …

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  39. Thoughtful says:

    An interesting comment seen elsewhere.

    In Afghanistan it is the Muslims forcing women to cover up and shut up.

    In Britain it is the usual White middle class middle aged women forcing other White people to cover up and shut up about Muslim paedophile rape gangs.
    Which one is worse?

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  40. vlad says:

    In all the hours of BBC verbiage on Afghanistan, there are 2 words that barely got a mention: Islam and Biden.

    The only times I heard Creepy Joe’s name spoken was by 2 separate American interviewees who PRAISED the dotard for his ‘honesty’ in recognising the hopelessness of the situation there and pulling out the troops.
    Yes, according to them the humiliating retreat with uncalculable repercussions for Afghanistan, the region and the whole world, was an act of bravery and honesty by the fake president.
    Naturally this jaw-dropping lie went unchallenged by the BBC interviewers.
    They must have searched high and low to find anyone willing to defend the old crook’s act of surrender and betrayal.

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  41. Guest Who says:

    To be fair, he looks better wet.

    Anyhoo, BBC Tres Amigos assigned him the ‘Asian’ monsoon beat?

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  42. Dover Sentry says:

    BBC Online News:

    “Taliban spokesman tells BBC; there will be no revenge.”

    “Suhail Shaheen called the presenter live on air. “We assure the people in Afghanistan, particularly in the city of Kabul, that their properties, their lives are safe – there will be no revenge on anyone,” he told her.”

    “We are the servants of the people and of this country.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-58220305

    That’s ok, then. Let’s all book a holiday there right now.

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    • vlad says:

      Is that the same spokesman who said women will have their rights, girls will be entitled to an education, there’ll be freedom of press, free elections, no amputations for thieves and freedom of religion?

      Did he add ‘when pigs fly’?

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    • taffman says:

      “Afghanistan: Boris Johnson to hold emergency Cobra meeting and recall Parliament to discuss Taliban”
      https://www.itv.com/news/2021-08-15/boris-johnson-to-recall-parliament-to-discuss-taliban-takeover-of-afghanistan
      If Parliament is recalled lets hope that the Tory MPs voice their concerns also about the invasion happening on our south coast ?
      Has Al Beeb mentioned the above news yet ?

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      • pugnazious says:

        Boris will probably commit to allowing any Afghan who wants to to come here and claim asylum just as he, completely undemocratically off his own bat, said 3 million Hong Kong Chinese can come here…..our ‘duty’ as we broke Afghanistan…..er no…it’s reverting back to how it was before we got there and brought education, democracy and electricity to the ‘shithole’. Pakistan and Iran are responsible for what is happening now…they fund and arm the Taliban….we keep being told how Afghanistan has never been successfully conquered and yet Pakistan has done it remarkably well.

        We have no duty to Afghanistan…we’ve just spent billions trying to help them and lost countless lives in the process…our ‘duty’ is done. If the army that we spent so many billions training and equippping won’t fight and the people decide they prefer the Taliban and ‘peace’ to a continuous war then that’s their decision and ‘fault’.
        And interesting to see ‘Florence of Arabia’ moaning about how we have betrayed the Afghans by withdrawing…

        ‘RORY STEWART: The Allies’ retreat from Afghanistan is a monstrous act of self-harm’

        This is the man who spent most of his time previously telling us to get out…there is no political or military solution…..

        ‘Time to be honest about Afghanistan’[2012]

        ‘The point is not what the US and its allies ought to do but what they can. We have reached the limit of our knowledge, power and legitimacy. Whatever the west feels obliged to do, it is not capable of bringing a political or military solution. That task will be for Afghans.
        In the best case, removing almost 200,000 foreign soldiers and civilian contractors may force the Afghan government to assume responsibility; allow the insurgents and neighbours to recognise their relative weaknesses; and provide a basis for a political solution. I believe Afghans can find such a thing. But it is not certain. What is certain is that foreigners haven’t, and now can’t.’

        https://www.rorystewart.co.uk/time-to-be-honest-about-afghanistan/

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    • gb123 says:

      The same Taliban that promised not to shoot 20+ Afghan special forces who had run out of ammo if they surrendered and promptly slaughtered them. It’s OK because the beeb have spoken to them.
      The same beeb that supported the Mujahedeen when they were fighting the Soviets (probably after watching a Rambo film about the subject to get some perspective).
      The same beeb that supported the “rebels” in Libya.
      Funny how anything they idolise eventually turns to crap.

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  43. pugnazious says:

    Trouble with the above video is that it’s always the same people….the message does not go much further…where are those holding the reins of power who say the same thing? The Tories make a few noisy comments but then back down and actually spend more time praising the BBC than criticising it….as the BBC has been an ardent and reliable backer of the government lockdown message.

    Another problem is that Liddle demonstrates how the real depth of BBC bias goes unseen, even by himself…despite criticising the BBC he still thinks it does a good job…you can hear the same things being mouthed by other critics like Charles Moore…that the BBC’s coverage of Brexit was quite good during the campaign….similarly that coverage of covid was quite good at least in the beginning….Liddle claims that the BBC did not give Corbyn an easy ride during the 2017 election and that the BBC is not really left-wing….both claims utterly wrong.

    Anyone who has watched or listened to a large amount of BBC reporting will know that just isn’t the case. The BBC applied enormous pressure on the government to force it to impose lockdown and then kept up the pressure to impose even harsher measures….it wasn’t reporting but direct interference in politics and ‘the science’. The BBC’s coverage of Brexit was dire and blatantly anti-Brexit all through the referendum campaign and in the run up to it [and even worse after]….who can forget ‘The Great European Disaster Movie’ which the BBC put out there to tell us how disastrous Brexit and Nationalism will be….a propaganda film worthy of the most sinister and dystopian society…

    ‘The film looks back from a dystopian future, in which the European Union has ceased to exist, on a continent besieged by economic, political and social crises. ‘

    And of course Corbyn had the easiest run ever during the 2017 election when every lie he uttered, every dumping of his convictions, was applauded by the BBC. Corbyn who spent his career attempting to undermine and dismantle the police, security services, the Army and NATO suddenly presented himself as their champion after the Manchester bombing and an ardent opponent of terrorism…the man who blatantly supported the IRA and islamist terrorism all his life….and yet the BBC told us he was the only man who had held onto his convictions…a man of honour. Even when he was caught out lying about not having a seat on a train and trying to use it for political advantage the BBC failed to tackle him…and so it went on…the BBC of course very slow to raise the issue of anti-Semitism in Labour under Corbyn’s rule.

    Which leads onto the BBC not being left-wing…lol…it is the voice of the Labour Party….it’s quite apparent from every word the presenters utter that they press a marxist ideology upon the government at every turn…cross-reference all the BBC’s ‘answers’ to any problem and it will come directly from the socialist bible….even women’s issues….the idea that women must be paid a wage for house work is marxist but the BBC have no problem campaigning for this….however the BBC has long since abandoned women in preference for Trans-‘women’.

    The BBC will never change unless you work out a way of genuinely enforcing editorial guidelines….until what story they pick, what voices they pick, what tone and narrative they adopt, how much exposure the story gets and when and where, and what independent oversight there is, the BBC will continue on its way, trampling democracy, enforcing its ideology and worldview and destroying our society and country.

    Unfortunately there aren’t enough people sufficiently angry to get out onto the streets to demonstrate and to take direct action to prevent the BBC broadcasting their posionous views. The BBC takes advantage of its reputation from years ago and on its ‘populist’ programmes like Strictly and Planet Earth to gull the population…just as dictators famously use sport to distract their populations from what is really happening in thier oppressed and poverty stricken nations.

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  44. tomo says:

    Where is Biden?

    Where is Harris?

    Where is Blinken?

    I see the utterly ghastly Nancy Pelosi (3rd in “command”) has weighed in.

    Is Taiwan now toast? – the crowing in ChiCom media is going to be loud over the next few days – I doubt the Iranians will be holding back either… That said, Afghanistan has seemed a lost cause for some years now – the rapidity of the collapse isn’t a surprise, Switzerland will likely do well out of it.

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    • pugnazious says:

      I’m sure the Taliban are frightened of what CNN and the BBC say….if only we had known that before we wouldn’t have sent in the troops…just a few of our finest journalists would have done the job and terrified the Taliban into doing the right thing.

      Pelosi is completely delusional…and yes…ghastly to boot.

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    • vlad says:

      ‘The President is to be commended for the clarity of purpose of his statement on Afghanistan and his action.’

      Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

      No further comment needed.

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  45. vlad says:

    I’m hearing a lot on the BBC about WE betrayed Afghanistan, WE let them down, etc.

    We? How about ‘Biden’?

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    • taffman says:

      vlad
      Al Beeb thinks we are responsible for the security of world .
      Al Beeb thinks we are responsible for the health of the world.
      Al Beeb blames GB for everything.
      Al Beeb hates the concept of Great Britain.
      Al Beeb should be scrapped. It would be if we had a leader .

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    • taffman says:

      vlad
      IMHO Al Beeb are beginning to realise that they backed the wrong horse when they choose Biden.

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  46. pugnazious says:

    Just caught the end of the BBC’s ‘Profile’ of Fauci….unadulterated deification and idolising…the fan club was out in force…he’s such a nice person a woman guest couldn’t talk without bursting into tears so good is he….the fact he opposed Trump at every turn has nothing to do with the BBC’s lionising….

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h1gj

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    • tomo says:

      Well, Mark Coles gets it wrong from the get-go I feel. Fauci is a bureaucrat not an “immunologist”.

      I wonder if Coles noted any of Fauci’s antics wrt GOF research? – seems unlikely – probably an extruded BBC hagiography intended to boost morale going forwards in the wrestling match with Jim Jordan and Rand Paul.

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  47. taffman says:

    “No one wants Afghanistan to become ‘breeding ground for terror’ – PM”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58224383
    If he continues to leave our borders leak like a sieve some parts of Great Britain will become a “breeding ground for terror”.

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    • Guest Who says:

      It does not help the leadership currently in place is so laughably stupid.

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      • Thoughtful says:

        Rejoice you have what you are prepared to pay for!

        I talk to many people about this and they say they would rather have Krusty the Klown running the country so long as they don’t have to pay them and as such you cannot expect a Rolls Royce when you are only prepared to pay the cost of a knackered old mini!

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  48. Dover Sentry says:

    Not from our BBC:

    “It seems incredible that the Afghan army – 180,000 strong – with a decade of NATO training and billions in equipment and infrastructure can fall in a matter of days to a bunch of zealots in pickup trucks”

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  49. Guest Who says:

    Banksy’s people know media people.

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    • Dover Sentry says:

      If anybody else did what Banksy does, they’d be arrested for Criminal Damage.
      But this law has a special exclusion for Lefty artists.

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  50. Guest Who says:

    And so the BBC shifts…

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