Nothing happens in August . The swamp goes on holiday . The BBC leaves the kids in charge . But then there was Afghanistan. Will the BBC question the decision of the American ‘President ‘to pull The West out in the run up to the 20th anniversary of 9/11? You probably know the answer .Biden has held office for 207 days .
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Jee, Yogi.
The speed with which the BBC can connect with certain #PRasNews groups is impressive.
The rights that Islam gives women were ground-breaking indeed – but that was in the 7th Century! The trouble is that the rest of the world evolved to where Western Civilisation gives full (and sometimes more) equality to women but Islam has not moved on at all.
I can guarantee that if Thatcher was holding the reins right now that thousands of UK servicemen would be boots on ground in Afghanistan and that the ridiculous pretend warriors with their 4×4’s would be running to the hills by now screaming and crying.
What a sad, sad nation we have become under the current faux weak leaders we now have. No guts, no balls, no conscience.
The Argies tried exactly the same thing as the Taliban and got a very bloody nose under Thatcher.
The only way to deal with bullies is to take them down hard and fast.
Most of these Afghan fighters are just teenage wannabes who will never have to face a professional soldier so why the hell let them walk all over everything?
It is a disgusting relinquishing of common sense!
To contemplate handing over political power of a country to these people us like handing it over to the mafia.
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I disagree – I think MrS T would never have put The UK military into Afgee in the first place – in the same way Wilson kept us out of Vietnam – unwinable – particularly since Britain has previous with Afgee …. But then again she d have stopped bush doing something so dumb too …
Weird – too – that the MSM describe Afgee as the biggest failure since suez — that forgot the falklands …
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There’s one very important point about Bush 43 and Afghan versus JFK/LBJ and ‘Nam.
Bush invoked Article 5 of the NATO Treaty, the Collective Defense article. Collective defence means that an attack against one Ally is considered as an attack against all Allies.
I’m not making any judgement about right or wrong, merely providing some more background.
I can guarantee she would not, as there is no good reason for us to be there and there never was. In any event we could not police the entire country on our own.
The Argies did not do the same thing as the Taleban in any way, they invaded a British territory which British territory have the Taleban invaded?
The Americans took them down hard and fast on several occasions it didn’t work and it will never work with people who believe death in battle makes them a Shaeed.
Many of these fighters are not just teenagers, they are experienced and battle hardened and tough as old boots.
There are a myriad of problems, nearly all of them relating to Islam, some of them to corrupt poorly paid Western politicians which is why we went there – to enrich Bush and BLiar. Pakistan is a major problem which the British cowardly government is incapable of even begining to deal with.
The Afghans have withstood the Empire several times, the Russians, and now the Americans. They are not a pushover, in fact, have not been pushed over.
Mrs Voter is watching Richard E Grant travelling round Europe, not using travel guides, but fiction. Last week he was in Southern France, where he met Carol Drinkwater. Today he is in Southern Spain, where he meets an ex drummer from Genesis. Both have written fiction about their area. Drinkwater about olives and the drummer about lemons. When asked why they had left the UK to settle in sunnier climes, they both said to get away from Thatcher’s Britain. Amazing how they manage to find these people! It’s on BBC4.Nuff said!
A couple of Tweeters noticed
BTW I bet those celebs left Britain way after Thatcher
Drinkwater married French television producer Michel Noll in 1988 when Thatcher was still PM
Thatcher PM 1979 – 1990
John Major 1990 – 1997
Tony Blair 1997 – 2007
TWatO Watch #2 – hmmmn, wouldn’t have anything to do with Plymouth?
“I have a bad feeling about this.” says Han Solo’s character in the first Star Wars film. Thus it was with a TWatO item about hoarders. They singled out for attention, and as an example focused on a bereaved single male in Birmingham with a female case-worker saying how she felt ‘insecure’ going into that house. Try Afghanistan for feeling insecure as a woman.
“Funny, I thought. I thought funny.” (Thanks, Dud.) Sunday and Monday all about ‘Incels’. Now this on Tuesday. I wonder what will be the target tomorrow?
Now they wonder about funding.
Whatever happened to burning the poppy fields on the Afghan/Pakistan borders?
Harry – before deployment that was considered but dismissed because the poppy grew everywhere and was unlikely to be replaced by conventional agriculture – plus the taliban would have been hugely supported by peed off farmers –
Even paying farmers not to grow stuff wouldn’t work because they had no concept of not growing stuff .
Opium production is higher there now than it was before we invaded.
Titanic deckchair arranging. Sopes playing the trumpet in the band.
Methinks we are going to be hearing a lot about the fiction that is ‘the global community
Watching sopel having to report that ‘white is white – unable to dress up the Afgee Biden disaster – he must see the irony of his position ‘…
Not to mention the silence from fraudulent democrats
‘The Doran’ on Biden and his statement that the US isn’t there for nation building.
Nation-building was what Blair was about all those years ago, with what result? It was the main thing he used “his” armed forces for, all over the place.
I wonder how the bottlers popularity is looking since he gave the Muslim world an open border invitation to Britain.
20,000 Afghans on their way to Great Britain .
Thanks to the Tories .
How many hospitals , schools and houses is that ?
Carbon footprint? that has become insignificant now .
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58250211
#1 It won’t be just 20,000 allowed into the UK
It will be 200K probably
#2 If all the people who oppose the repressive cult leave the country
then how can there be any chance of real reform within 40 years ?
If the US had held on to a corner of the country, there could have been a local place for refugees to go and for reform to start and then expand out of.
It’s a pity there is no good adjacent country to put refugee cities All are pretty wacky Islamic states
With 600 MPs in the commons for a few hours – I wonder if it will be a super spreading opportunity – I note that Raab was there – having got back from his Crete holiday less than 48 hours ago ….
I see the SNP doubled their deficit to £36 billion last year.
– and the BBC dignify the berks at Holyrood at every turn…
The SNP need a spit roasting but it ain’t happening … what’s going on?
If there were now any doubt that Johnson is a blustering windbag with only a tenuous grip on reality – this should remove any doubt whatsoever
– and as for the witterings of our sole Green MP – can we dispatch her to Kabul to sort things out?
What a shitshow.
Ah but the SNP paid the NHS 4% pay rise
so borrowed money for that.
I was wondering how long it would take for some useful idiot to trot out the ‘Religion of Peace’ lie.
MP Stella Creasy (Labour, of course) just couldn’t make her little speech-ette on Afghanistan without throwing in the inevitable: ‘This is not Islam…it’s brutalism and terrorism’.
She clearly hasn’t read the quran, the hadith and sunnah, or she’d know it is most definitely islam – in its purest form, red in tooth and claw.
She’s either cynically pandering to the muslim vote, or crassly ignorant. I don’t know which is worse.
More on the wonders of islam here: https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
Oh, that darling little flip-up in her hair style! Gosh, she is obnoxious.
It reminds me of those schoolgirls who dot their “i”s with a tiny circle: Aren’t I sweet.
ISLAM.
Freedom of conscience: https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/apostasy.aspx
Slavery: https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/slavery.aspx
Forced Conversion: https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/forced-conversion.aspx
Religious freedom: https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/forced-conversion.aspx
Democracy: https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/democracy.aspx
Homosexuality: https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/homosexuality.aspx
Torture: https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/torture.aspx
Stoning and Adultery: https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/adultery-stoning.aspx
Women Worth Less: https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/women-worth-less.aspx
Wife beating: https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/wife-beating.aspx
A woman’s place: https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/men-in-charge-of-women.aspx
Polygamy: https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/polygamy.aspx
Etc, etc, etc.
Finally, here’s an amusing definition of Islamophobe:
Islamophobe (is-slahm-o-fohb) – A non-Muslim who knows more about Islam than they are supposed to know.
The BBC is very diverse
8pm BBC1 A Black guy presents
9pm BBC2 A Black guy presents
….. Both are Jay Blades
…. The title is Jay Blades Yorkshire Workshop
It’s from Bradford and about making furniture as a reward.
That goes with BBC’s other series “Yorkshire Fire Service”
Tonight’s episode is about honouring Jack a guy who agreed to donate half his liver.
I don’t see why Viewer Feedback show would use its Twitter to promote the show .. https://twitter.com/bbcPoV/status/1428061690898309128
The BBC is very diverse
7:30pm BBC1 prog about ANTIQUE auctions
8pm BBC1 prog about ANTIQUE repairs~
9pm BBC1 prog about ANTIQUE painting authentification
7pm BBC2 A Black prog about ANTIQUES being sold by celebs
BBC4 from 8pm is about Space : Non-fiction and drama
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