511 Responses to Midweek Thread 8 September 2021

  1. Fedup2 says:

    Can you imagine the thought process the Minister For Stron’ Statements went through to come to the idea to ‘push back dinghies if it is safe ‘ as a new immigration policy ?

    She must know her time as a useless minister is coming to the end . Her replacement should by ms Truss – who seems be doing her job rather well … instead it will be another useless statement maker …. And nothing will change ..

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  2. MarkyMark says:

    Remember the way it was? Boy, those stone-age loons, demolishing any statues that pre-date their own ideology:

    On Wednesday, the state of Virginia removed the 12-ton statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee more than 130 years after it was installed in Richmond.

    Well, okay, but can you believe those wacky Talibs ban dancing?

    BREAKING: Effective Sept. 20 @TheWECHU announcing:

    -Indoor dancing at weddings will be prohibited except for the bride and groom

    America topples statues, Canada bans dancing, Australia pepper-sprays girls who show their faces outside their homes: It’s one big Talibanny world!
    https://www.steynonline.com/11676/fauci-bats-a-thousand

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  3. MarkyMark says:

    ~Surprise, surprise! After three weeks of trolling about “Taliban 2.0”, the new regime in Afghanistan turns out to be, as I said last week, “an ‘inclusive’ government encompassing both mullahs with full beards and mullahs with three-quarter-length beards”. Or as The New York Times puts it:

    Taliban Appoint Stalwarts to Top Government Posts

    Stalwart? Yes, the memo’s gone out from Lamestream Media Central. My old chums at The Irish Times:

    Taliban Name New Afghanistan Cabinet That Rewards Stalwarts

    One man’s stalwart is another man’s mass murderer. For example, the new Interior Minister is Sirajuddin Haqqani, whose main experience of the Afghan interior is the last twenty years he’s spent blowing various bits of it sky-high. Mr Haqqani is on the FBI’s Most Wanted list with a $10 million bounty on his head.

    https://www.steynonline.com/11676/fauci-bats-a-thousand

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  4. MarkyMark says:

    2018 …. The EU plans to send 10,000 more border guards to tackle unlawful immigration by 2020, the European Commission’s president Jean-Claude Juncker said in his annual state of the union address.

    He called for more solidarity, rather than “ad-hoc solutions” for people on migrant ships.

    His speech also tackled the region’s other burning issues – populism, terrorism and Brexit.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45492746

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  5. G says:

    Just a snippet from Classic FM: the brand, ‘St Michael’ is returning to the market place! Could it be that they have not hired an ‘Equity and Diversity’ manager? We will see.

    Clearly the ‘St Michael’ range is directed toward Brits of a certain age (I remember their wonderful ‘Y’ fronts) as, for certain, with a brand name like St Michael, they won’t attract our deeply religious brown eyed demographic.

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  6. MarkyMark says:

    DELETED – BAD WORD – FIND ANOTHER WAY TO POST THIS – DONT WASTED MY TIME EDITING YOU signed moderator

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    • MarkyMark says:

      What was the bad word – can you explain please? Maybe add the bad word with * in it?

      Omission is the greatest lie.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Marky – for the final time – you cannot put up the c word – even if it is in a tweet . Please don’t argue it – if you or anyone else doesn’t like the rule – tough. Enough.

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  7. MarkyMark says:

    “DELETED – BAD WORD – FIND ANOTHER WAY TO POST THIS – DONT WASTED MY TIME EDITING YOU signed moderator”

    Midweek Thread 8 September 2021

    Oh well.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      You can’t put the c word up on this site – despite there being a lot of them in the BBC and the rest of the woke world – for instance the footballers wearing England strip

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      • MarkyMark says:

        All words are equal – can you use the black dog from Dam Busters name?

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Look – don’t bait me – you’ve used this site long enough to know there is a limit to the language – I don’t own the site – I have no monetary interest in it – I just want the readership to be as wide as possible in order to defeat the BBC.

          And certain words can cause the site to be excluded from access . Do not start trolling me – you might find it fun – I don’t – so stop – or leave the site .

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          • MarkyMark says:

            First time I’ve had a post removed – if you can edit the post might be worth just **** the word and then letting them know.

            Thanks for maintaining the site – it’s recording of the BBC bias is amazing – yet the BBC grows stronger it seems.

            BBC over-75s free TV licence transition period to end in July
            Published29 June

            BBC issues staff with new social media guidance
            Published29 October 2020

            BBC in discrimination row after opening trainee role only to ethnic minorities
            2021

            Boris Johnson ‘looking at’ abolishing TV licence fee for BBC
            Dec 2019

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            • Fedup2 says:

              Marky – just to let you know – i wont be visiting this site until about 2100 Friday night when i put up the weekend 9/11 thread …
              So knock your selves out

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              • MarkyMark says:

                Ha! Thanks.

                But to trace out the history of the whole period, to say who was fighting whom at any given moment, would have been utterly impossible, since no written record, and no spoken word, ever made mention of any other alignment than the existing one. At this moment, for example, in 1984 (if it was 1984), Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia. In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines. Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

                The frightening thing, he reflected for the ten thousandth time as he forced his shoulders painfully backward (with hands on hips, they were gyrating their bodies from the waist, an exercise that was supposed to be good for the back muscles) — the frightening thing was that it might all be true. If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened — that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death?
                https://orwell.ru/library/novels/1984/english/en_p_1

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              • Doublethinker says:

                This site is a great place to go to check if there are any sane people left in the country. Its original aim of highlighting the extreme bias of the BBC was and remains a noble one. The site also allows views to be posted which are contradictory to the liberal establishment view that is so relentlessly pushed by the BBC et al. As such it is an increasingly rare outlet on which to express the incomprehension and bafflement that many users feel as they see the country going to the dogs.
                It would be a great loss if it were to be closed because of someone getting too carried away with what they were posting.

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        • Banania says:

          For what it’s worth (not much) I object to gratuitously bad language, and am glad of even this minimalist policy.

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  8. MarkyMark says:

    The Times is reporting that the BBC is set to appoint the left-wing former editor of HuffPost Jess Brammar as Head of News. This appointment will be seen by many as a challenge to the claim that the BBC is an impartial news organisation…

    (order-order)

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    • Banania says:

      My impression is that this is out of date, and that the person responsible for the attempted appointment has been resigned: Fran something.

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  9. Jeff says:

    Our present Home Secretary is very fond of adopting a strong stance on immigration; they all do it. Blimey, even David Blunkett came out with this sort of spiel…

    There’s never been a government elected on the manifesto promise, “We’re going to let absolutely everybody in. Indeed, even those coming illegally will be escorted to our shores and put up (at your expense) in four star hotels.”
    No one would vote for such insanity, but that’s what we’ve got…

    I sometimes feel a bit like Benjamin, the old donkey from Animal Farm, who when these ludicrous pronouncements are made just raises an eyebrow or shakes his head. I’ve heard it all before. It pacifies the Daily Express readers, but it’s all utter bxllxcks!

    Priti won’t do anything. If one illegal drowned in the channel the media, particularly the Beeb and The Guardian, would be after her blood. She ain’t going to do it. She’ll talk tough, the BBC will paint her as some rabid right winger and then she’ll quietly move on to the next department. I know it, the French know it and more importantly, the blokes on these dinghies know it.

    Unfortunately Britain doesn’t have a Donald Trump.
    If only…

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    • MarkyMark says:

      From a Theresa May speech …

      As Martin Wolf, the chief economics commentator of the financial times, says: ‘The desirability of sizeable immigration is a matter more of values than of economics. It is not a choice between wealth and poverty, but of the sort of country one desires to inhabit.’

      https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/home-secretary-speech-on-an-immigration-system-that-works-in-the-national-interest

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    • Old Goat says:

      Nor does the USA any more (at least, temporarily…).

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      Towing back dinghies at sea is a stupid policy. Those on board are not daft, they will just jump into the sea and have to be rescued.

      No, surely we should wait for them to land, and then round them up and take them back to France safely. They are illegal immigrants and we do not want them.

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    • BRISSLES says:

      “Priti won’t do anything. If one illegal drowned in the channel the media, particularly the Beeb and The Guardian, would be after her blood. ”

      And there’s the rub. As I’ve said before, its nonsense that ‘they’re risking their lives’. Hardly, when out of 13,000 plus who have come across, only one so far has died.

      Give me a boat and a harpoon.

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  10. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #2 – the BBC are still upset by the Health & Social Care reforms

    So much so that the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, is the big interviewee for Mishal at 8.10 a.m. on Global Warming and Climate Change. But he is also asked about the Health and Social Care reforms and whether it is fair to ask young people on low incomes to pay for them.

    What Mishal should have asked the Archbishop of Canterbury “Is it fair that older people like us on large salaries should be asked to pay much, much more than young people on low incomes?” That would have been the honest question to ask as the tax route chosen by the Government is a progressive one, not a regressive one.

    I can’t see this one lasting another day …….

    … or could it?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Islamic and Western values are one and the same (Atif Rashid)”

      . . . which one is fake news or a lie? . . . .

      “ISLAMIC rules are incompatible with British laws (Justin Welby)”

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    • Deborah says:

      Mishal gave the Archbishop of Canterbury a very soft interview. He said that his children cannot afford to buy a house and then added that he didn’t own a house IN THIS COUNTRY (my caps) but we were not told what foreign abode he had. He is on £85,000 a year according to google and has his accommodation provided. He has just taken a sabbatical during which I presume he was still paid. I wonder what he does with his money.

      However the Archbishop was much too worried about Climate Change and leftist policies to worry about his flock’s relationship with Him upstairs and Mishal didn’t ask.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Deborah, if that £80,000 is correct and it sounds right, the Archbishop of Canterbury will then be paying the same as an MP toward the Health & Social Care reforms – about £900. That is four times – maybe slightly more – than someone on Minimum Wage. Apparently the £5 per week for them was more like £4 per week. Mishal did not mention that.

        Dishonest, BBC!

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Catholic priests
          Catholic priests do not receive any stipend or salary. Their remuneration traditionally arises from the congregation collection. Also, there is no employer/employee relationship with the Catholic Church. They are therefore regarded as self-employed earners for NICs purposes.

          Despite their National Insurance treatment, Catholic priests are regarded as office holders for income tax purposes and their remuneration is taxable as general earnings rather than under Chapter 2 of Part 2 of the Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005 (ITTOIA). Therefore, no Class 4 NICs arises on their remuneration as section 15 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (SSCBA) cannot apply.
          https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/national-insurance-manual/nim74200

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    • Banania says:

      What about asking him a question about Christianity, or the Church, just for a change?

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  11. Old Goat says:

    I’d be interested to know what the Archbishop actually knows about climate change and global warming. I suspect that he is as ignorant as those calling themselves “experts” in those particular fields, and just as big a bullshitter.

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  12. digg says:

    Oldham Council rejects calls to fly the Union Flag, quoting at least 2 named councillors objecting, both with Pakistani names.

    What a shit-show… turkeys voting for Christmas comes to mind.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Shh…. E1Nb-29XsAIksyO.jpg

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      • vlad says:

        Naturally the BBC were delighted to announce the latest step in the islamic conquest by Khan’t and his chums.

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    • Thoughtful says:

      The story made national news a couple of days ago, lets see if the rejection does.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        BBC report on Janet Jackson joining Islam.
        BBC ignore Janet Jackson being beaten by Islam.

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        • vlad says:

          You mean this?

          “Abused Janet’s Nightmare Life As Muslim Wife!”

          “NEW mom Janet Jackson fled her Muslim tycoon hubby, Wissam Al Mana, after living through a five-year hell of emotional and verbal abuse! Her brother Randy Jackson charges Qatar-born billionaire Wissam “kept Janet a prisoner in her own home,” and another insider says her husband subjected the singer to horrifying abuse — even when she was carrying their unborn son, Eissa.

          “During Janet’s pregnancy, Wissam would yell at her, make her cry and call her ‘bitch’ and ‘whore,’ ” spills an insider. “He treated her like dirt.”

          https://www.magzter.com/stories/Entertainment/Globe/Abused-Janets-Nightmare-Life-As-Muslim-Wife

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          • MarkyMark says:

            Coming closer by the hour …. “During Janet’s pregnancy, Wissam would yell at her, make her cry and call her ‘bitch’ and ‘whore,’ ” spills an insider. “He treated her like dirt.”

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    • Banania says:

      @Digg
      The flying of the Union Jack was described as “political”. That is disgusting.

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  13. MarkyMark says:

    “The core Western values of democracy, freedom and justice can be seen as the bedrock of its civilisation – and for practising, informed Muslims, freedom and democratic values are anything but new to them. Islam from its very outset advocated for complete freedom, justice and democratic values.”

    https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/truth-about-whether-islamic-values-are-compatible-western-values-a7141381.html

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  14. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Remember the Chennai 6
    Security guards hired to prevent Somali pirates from taking ships.
    They strayed (apparently) into Indian waters and were arrested and jailed in awful conditions for many years.

    I bet they would steer clear of Indian waters now.

    Can we not contract out our channel operation (don’t laugh) to the Indians.

    Failing that, jail every immigrant illegally landing in the UK and keep them there with no chance of being granted permission to stay.
    Keep them in prison, not hotels, until they agree to go back.

    It will not be long before they get the message that it’s not worth popping over illegally and the numbers will drop dramatically.

    That would free up places for genuine asylum seekers.

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  15. pugnazious says:

    Amazing how the French can just decide that they are not going to pick up illegals turned back by Britain….you might ask the question why then do we have to pick them up in the RNLI taxi service? Also amazing that there are so many daft rules…it only takes one illegal to threaten to jump into the sea for the boat to be deemed ‘vulnerable’ and thus non-returnable. Might suggest if they reach UK put them in a plane and dump them back in France.
    Amazing how the BBC saw no problem with the French attitude but would shout blue murder if we did the same.

    Similarly the BBC sees no problem with the terrorist murderers of the IRA running our border policy.

    So we can’t have a border between NI and Ireland…why not? Because we are told this threatens the peace process. Why? Because a small group of murderous IRA terrorists will start killing people if a border is put in place.

    In other words that small group of murderous IRA terrorists get a veto on anything we want to do and far from being outraged or shocked the BBC is not only perfectly happy to accept that situation but to weaponise it and use it continuously in its effort to sell Britain out to the EU…and the EU is more than happy to exploit and use the murderous terrorists of the IRA as a proxy army to threaten Britain….quite astonishing that this doesn’t raise a massive stink.

    A border would solve many problems and the murderous terrorists of the IRA, and their supporters can be locked up or shot.

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  16. Rich says:

    The Daily Fail are leading with this on their gossip-mag news-lite webshite. The girls at the bBbc will find it on their next tea break.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9971917/Storm-Winston-Churchill-charity-erases-website-views-race-controversy.html

    Pathetic obviously but not surprising, no more than the usual shallow signalling expected from groups like this, run as usual by cliched chancers, though they’re unusually undiverse in this case. No doubt comfortably connected and well remunerated their quango-queen, Julia Weston, apparently used to work for an organisation called the Norbulingka Institute, a group connected to the Dalai Lama whose main aim is to “preserve Tibetan art and culture”.

    Just not that interested in preserving her own British culture it would seem.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The best response ever … You think Churchill was racist? Holy shit, wait until you hear about the guy he beat..

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “preserve Tibetan art and culture” – as China replace all the Tibetan people – ha ha ha ha ha ha

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  17. MarkyMark says:

    Channel crossings: Migrant boats could be turned back in new UK move

    COULD! COULD! COULD!

    WON’T! WON’T! WON’T!

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58495948

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    • BRISSLES says:

      Of course it won’t happen. There’ll be so many legal challenges from Refugee groups that it will be a non-starter, tying up the Government for years in the courts.

      I want to know where all these “safe routes” are supposed to be that all the bleeding hearts constantly refer to.

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  18. MarkyMark says:

    YOU ARE HERE IN THE UK JUN 2019….

    Man sacked from Asda after sharing Billy Connolly’s ‘thoughts on religion’
    He had shared Scottish comedian’s offering but at least one colleague took offence

    https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/man-sacked-asda-after-sharing-16472878

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  19. digg says:

    The BBC are trumpeting a large story about shops hitting supply chain issues “due to Brexit”.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-58477936

    The best they could come up with to illustrate this were….

    A small toy shop owner (where most of the stock is almost certainly from China) and a corner shop cum post office.

    Tremble everyone, we’ll have to eat our shoes soon!

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  20. MarkyMark says:

    When the twenty-nine-year-old writer and performer Vanessa Kisuule moved to Bristol, England, ten years ago, to attend Bristol University, she didn’t know much about the city’s links to the transatlantic slave trade. “My only cultural reference point was, like, ‘Skins,’ ” she told me, referring to the British drama about teen-agers growing up in the city. At some point, she became aware of the ubiquity of the word “Colston” on Bristol’s streets and buildings. Kisuule, who is black, would walk down Colston Street, pass a pub named Colston Yard, and visit Colston Hall, the city’s largest concert venue. They were named after Edward Colston, a British slave trader and politician who was born in the city in 1636.

    https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/how-statues-in-britain-began-to-fall

    People gathered to “symbolically protect” a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Leicester after a petition to remove it hit more than 6,000 signatures. The appeal, which accused Gandhi of being “a fascist, racist and sexual predator” was removed after the city council asked its founder to submit formal arguments instead.13 Jun 2020

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  21. MarkyMark says:

    A petition to remove a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Leicester has received nearly 5,000 signatures.

    The online petition accuses the Indian independence campaigner of being “a fascist, racist and sexual predator”.

    Last year, students from Manchester called for a similar statue of Gandhi to be removed because of his “well-documented anti-black racism”.

    Leicester East MP Claudia Webbe called the petition a “massive distraction” from the Black Lives Matter movement.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-53025407

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  22. MarkyMark says:

    UK GOV .. 20K Afghans .. sorted …

    Same UK GOV …

    Retail expert Natalie Berg, founder of NBK Retail, says there is “no overnight solution” to the current issues
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-58477936

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    Buy IKEA – pay for the rise of a dictator.

    “There are major logistical problems worldwide. For example, there is a great scarcity of containers and container ships on important sea routes because the economic recovery from the corona pandemic is proceeding faster than expected. There are also congestion in ports due to the crowds and Chinese terminals were temporarily closed due to local corona outbreaks. Many IKEA products are made in China.”
    (order-order)

    China is IKEA’S largest manufacturing center globally. 22% of its products are made in China. Currently IKEA has around 350 suppliers in China.

    Some of the high priced items sold in China are made in Europe, such as Slovakia, Czech Republic and Sweden etc. IKEA would arrange their productions based on origins of raw materials, transportation cost and buying power of their markets etc.

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  24. MarkyMark says:

    Quiet interesting … Biden’s executive orders…

    https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2021/politics/biden-executive-orders/

    02/24/2021 Immigration Proclamation Yes
    Revokes a Trump-era proclamation that limited legal immigration during the Covid-19 pandemic

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  25. MarkyMark says:

    The annexation of Tibet by the People’s Republic of China, called the “Peaceful Liberation of Tibet” by the Chinese government,[6][7][8] and the “Chinese invasion of Tibet” by the Central Tibetan Administration[9] and the Tibetan people,[10] was the process by which the People’s Republic of China (PRC) gained control of Tibet.

    “Peaceful Liberation of Tibet”
    “Chinese invasion of Tibet”

    War is Peace.
    Buy from Ikea to destroy Tibet.
    Buy from Amazon to make China Great Again.

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  26. MarkyMark says:

    And just like that – Make Islam Great Again (c) Biden..

    The Taliban said on Tuesday they had taken the valley – the last region of Afghanistan holding out against their rule – from the Afghanistan National Resistance Front. The NRF, led by Ahmed Shah Massoud’s son, said they would continue to fight.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58497904

    . . . .

    We discuss the bilateral investment and trade outlook between China and the Central Asian country of Tajikistan. China is currently Tajikistan’s largest source of foreign investment and a significant trading partner. Tajikistan, on its part, is a keen BRI participant as its difficult terrain and connectivity challenges require major infrastructure and construction investment, the cumulative outcome being better economic integration and boost to trade.

    China and Tajikistan have maintained regular high-level contacts and cooperation since the establishment of diplomatic ties after the settlement of their border issues. Since 2018, China and Tajikistan have been comprehensive strategic partners.
    https://www.china-briefing.com/news/china-tajikistan-bilateral-investment-and-trade-ties/

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  27. MarkyMark says:

    NHS get 1%.

    “Costa gives 5% pay rise to some staff and recruits 2,000”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58504123

    In September 2020, Costa put up to 1,650 jobs at risk after demand failed to rebound following the first coronavirus lockdown. In the end it made 647 people redundant.

    The coffee chain said it now needs more staff to support new stores and rising demand as it prepares for the typically-busy festive period.

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    • Old Goat says:

      I think they are over-relying upon the assumption that everyone and his dog will not be locked down over the “typically-busy festive period”.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        NHS will save Santa from Covid again!

        ‘Bonkers’ NHS Charities advert that shows ‘Santa being struck down by coronavirus’ before medics save him is condemned by critics for ‘upsetting children’ and ‘looking for reasons to make this Christmas worse’
        Old bearded man lies unconscious in NHS Charities-funded Christmas advert
        NHS medics in full PPE are seen trying to revive him in the disturbing opening
        Later revealed to be Father Christmas who has been nursed back to health
        Shocked viewers believe the advert depicts Santa suffering from coronavirus
        Several feared children would be traumatised thinking Santa was going to die
        By JEMMA CARR FOR MAILONLINE

        Published: 00:35, 12 December 2020

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  28. theisland says:

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  29. Ian Rushlow says:

    BBC still running with the story about Pantomine Dame Cressida Dick, the commissioner of the metropolitan police, after calls for her (other personal pronouns are available) to be replaced. They list some of the many calamities with which the commissioner has been associated, and in fairness, give air to those who are also critical of the BBC.

    Perhaps she will go, given that the Prime Minister and Home Secretary have publicly backed her – usually a death knell if ever there was one. When it comes to a replacement, they might consider appointing somebody based upon their experience and ability, rather than simply on the basis of their gender and sexuality. Oh yes, and a sensible name might be a good idea as well.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58490698

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9971255/Victims-Met-Police-corruption-incompetence-malpractice-tell-Boris-ditch-Cressida-Dick.html

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  30. tomo says:

    This’ll have Beeboids salivating about some extracurricular gigs….

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  31. MarkyMark says:

    has not decided if they are needed – follow the science.
    has not decided if they are needed – who decides?
    has not decided if they are needed – odd sentence.

    But the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), the UK vaccine advisory body, has not decided if they are needed, and who should be eligible.
    BBC
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58499863

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  32. Monty says:

    5%of a pittance equilavent to 1% of a tidy wage me thinks as the saying goes

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  33. Guest Who says:

    #CCBGB

    For both the desperate berk with a PR team, and the BBC intern who copy and pasted it.

    One his sure his offspring are cheeky scamps embarrassed by Dad as much as he has the BBC again. And himself.

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  34. Guest Who says:

    As there are ladies present, if not the reasons that get Fed excited, I’ll will share with cautious commentary.

    Not OT, but industry generic, and if a BBC favoured son sticks their head above the parapet enough to get fragged it can intrigue. It also opens a delicious can of non vegan meat alternatives.

    It’s the Indy so maybe six people saw it, but they do seem to be pervasive in Amol’s new crib despite this.

    Personally the thought of everyone in a BBC studio from BS to Andy Burnham having a fit of the vapours is too delicious not to contemplate.

    I particularly despise the IndyGraunBBc arbiters of acceptability’ utter hypocrisies on matters female (and associated males) fashion, from the gunk they pour on their hair to the distances they travel to look at each other in clothes they wear once or sporting hair dos that they think will get the Sarpongistas to commission a story.

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  35. vlad says:

    Friendly new Taliban beat journalists covering a women’s demo.2Q==

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  36. Northern Voter says:

    Re the Dinghy Tourist’s

    The answer is simple.
    DONT.
    1. Put them in hotels, tents will do.
    2. Give them any kind of money.
    3. Let them speak to lefty lawyers.
    DO.
    1. Confiscate all mobile phones to stop them doing 3 above.
    2. Put anyone without papers on the first plane to Afghanistan. They’ll claim to come from there anyway
    3. Not allow them to vote in British elections for 30 years.
    4. Not allow them to stand in any British election of any form.

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    • Thoughtful says:

      There is an even more simple answer.

      1. Leave the asylum treaty
      2. Blame Macron

      We could still offer asylum on our terms to those we deemed deserving of it.

      International criticism could be deflected onto Macron.

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  37. Guest Who says:

    Dave reels in the audience.

       9 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      And the #prasnews droid hits ‘send’.

         3 likes

      • Broadcasting-on-Behalf-of-the-Caliphate says:

        They are quantifying their own research model and not reality.

           1 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      The same scientists that said the world would have run out of oil by 2010 ?

         7 likes

  38. tomo says:

    Confident that’ll not be anywhere on the BBC

       8 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Man on the right
      “Alexander Soros is the son of George Soros. He is Deputy Chair of the Open Society Foundations and one of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders of 2018”

         6 likes

    • Thatcherrevolutionary says:

      These three have a date with some piano wire and a lampost.

         1 likes

  39. StewGreen says:

    BBC Points Of View are promoting this
    “Documentary series A Killing in Tiger Bay starts tonight at 9PM on @BBCTwo
    Telling the story of the Cardiff Five, arrested for the murder of a young woman in 1988.

    One shocking murder
    One white prime suspect
    Five innocent black men arrested

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  40. StewGreen says:

    7:30pm- 10pm ITV National Television Awards
    Public vote , but first the luvvies nominated who the public could vote for
    host Joel Dommett leading the celebrations. (never heard of him)

    #1 Five famous faces who showcased their personal plights are competing for the inaugural Authored Documentary award.
    “plus a programme by a man whose campaigning made political waves: Marcus Rashford Feeding Britain’s Children.”
    FFS they obviously promote him.

    Other obvious ones mentioned in their blurb
    – Regency-era Bridgerton provided welcome escapism and It’s a Sin moved us to tears.
    – cult favour-ite RuPaul’s Drag Race UK
    – first-time nominee Alison Hammond
    – There’s a strong showing for Coronation Street’s hate-crime storyline
    – The Repair Shop has earned recognition in the category of Daytime

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  41. digg says:

    Channel 4 news reporting quite seriously from a dig somewhere up North where a bunch of obviously totally nutty old wild-haired and wild-eyed septuagenarians (won’t call them archeologists) announce they have found evidence that black people came across the channel from Calais in small boats 10,000 years ago (how accidentally fortuitous and probably not on inflatables!) and showed us how to use salt, make cheese and farm. The same people then went on to build Stonehenge, and probably the Clifton suspension bridge.

    They found all this by digging a great big hole 20 feet deep and shining their torch on the dust which means these early immigrants were possibly mole like people who preferred to live underground.

    They claim the evidence is irrefutable because they have a special Torch available from Lidl which can look back 10,000 years which proves it beyond doubt.

    Begs the question of why the immigrants didn’t bother to do the same back in Africa. Not many giant stone monoliths over there that I know of and very little cheese I would warrant.

    It gets more and more stupid and desperate every day!

    Better off reading the Beano!

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    • StewGreen says:

      The pyramids are in Africa
      but Simon Webb always makes a difference between Northern Africa where there were no lack people and sub-Saharan Africa

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      • digg says:

        Yes but the people who built the pyramids probably had rulers and tape measures unlike the Stonehenge crew most probably random druids from Celtic nations, or did these African arrivals simply forget to bring their rulers etc when they landed in Kent?

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    • StewGreen says:

      BTW Sept 10 Channel4 is black people only

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    • Banania says:

      Gosh, I never knew any of that.

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  42. StewGreen says:

    It’s not that every programme is black
    It’s partially the way the Times TV guide picks them out

    Tonight’s recommended film

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  43. StewGreen says:

    “Queen supports Black Lives Matter movement, says royal representative
    Sir Ken Olisa, the first black Lord-Lieutenant for London, spoke to Channel 4 about the issue.”

    Emmm, it breaks the honour code to say what the Queen told you her opinion is.

    https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/queen-supports-black-lives-matter-movement-says-royal-representative-40834813.html

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  44. StewGreen says:

    Also tonight’s TV
    on Channel4 8pm The Joe Lycett show
    chose a special guest Clara Amfo the BBC Radio1 DJ

    E-lydNAWYAkqHOz?format=jpg&name=small

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  45. Up2snuff says:

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – BBC use dodgy photo from Getty Images

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274

    You have until 4.30 p.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow to work out what is wrong with the header photo. It will probably be changed for a new photo then. Sorry, no prizes – as usual.

       2 likes

    • Broadcasting-on-Behalf-of-the-Caliphate says:

      I see various forms of advertising. The BBC get an awful lot of free goodies given to them for this type of thing.

         3 likes

  46. Broadcasting-on-Behalf-of-the-Caliphate says:

    Why do people think that the Taliban is news that we should be interested in? Or more specifically why do the BBC think the Taliban is news that we should be interested in?

    In answering these questions can you be certain that you have not been indoctrinated by the BBC despite ostensibly being opposed to it?

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  47. Guest Who says:

    Indeed, guys and gals…

    Think about that.

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  48. StewGreen says:

    ITV local news

    – “A judge has just sentenced a York man to 9 years in jail for a rape he committed 10 years ago
    .. but he’s free tonight, cos he didn’t turn up in court.

    _ An absolutely fawning item “Kim Leadbetter made her first speech in parliament” ..complete with memorial shots of her sister Saint Jo Cox.

       2 likes

    • G.W.F. says:

      StewGreen

      I hear she praised her constituents and said how they cum together. But she never mentioned that a teacher is in hiding from a mob in her constituency

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  49. StewGreen says:

    ITV local news , the usual syndicated activist item
    “Plastic Free period products”
    … “blah blah blah, period poverty” etc.

    Is that what you want for family teatime viewing ?

    Plus one of the activist was allowed to say that plastic is bad for the environment cos “it’s made from fossil fuels”
    so what ?
    Then she was allowed to say that there is no safe way of disposing of them and that incineration is bad.
    ..That’s false, high temperature incineration is safe

    part 2 : https://twitter.com/RavNandraITV/status/1436045912112082951

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  50. digg says:

    Hey Priti here’s an idea, as it is now obvious the French want to offload as many scroungers as possible onto the UK and any attempt to turn them back in the waters will be subject to the ire of the lefties.

    Why not coral some RAF transport aircraft and have them ready and waiting at airfields in the UK.

    Every immigrant who declares their origin Country is immediately packed aboard and returned post-haste to their origin Country who surely cannot refuse entry to their own Nationals, anyone who refuses to declare their origin Country are charged with breaking UK law and jailed until they can be deported.

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