575 Responses to Midweek Thread 15 September 2021

  1. StewGreen says:

    Fact-Spinners caught out again
    Aug 27 they spun a story that the BBC has not lost much money due to licence fee deserters

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    A week later they deleted that and put out this

    BTW Twitter seem to be hiding the 3 quote tweets of that tweet

    FFC : Corrections should go at the top
    But no, you still waste your time reading the Full Fact article
    and then get to a correction note at the bottom.
    That’s dishonest to me.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Family are of the wrong ra….. reeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

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    • Scroblene says:

      I can assure you, that according to a survey carried out by O’Blene Digital Enterprises Inc., the current BBC accounts show a deficit of nearly £85m pounds, and this excludes payments made to the Inland Revenue, (for topping up the contract employed staff), fines for failure to complete returns on time, payments made to Labour politicians to rubbish anything normal citizens do, other payments to helicopter firms for ‘surveying’ houses used by proper celebrities, in case the police want to come around, three hundred and fifty-five legal cases of unpleasant behaviour, and a parking fine of £300 for not topping up a meter in Langham Place.

      So the accounts made by Tim Davie, other leftie sinecurists and most of the saddo bunch in W1AA are correct, but we still have to investigate Walkers Crisps, as they claim to be a pleasant snack.

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    • StewGreen says:

      FFC ?
      I am sure I typed FFS

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  2. Guest Who says:

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    • Guest Who says:

      Springster branching out further?

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    • MarkyMark says:

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    • StewGreen says:

      Oh it’s not a HATE SPEECH when lib mob do it ?

      If you made a similar video, say thanking black people for increased crime,
      it would be quickly labelled hate-speech.
      As of course you shouldn’t assume that people have a negative characteristic cos of their skin colour.

      Yet age is also a protected characteristic

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    • StewGreen says:

      Mash formula
      “Brexit, Trump, Tories – Rinse and repeat.”

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  3. tomo says:

    Mrs Pelosi didn’t last long on the BBC front page (minutes?)

    Deranged nasty old bat says “Jan 6th worse than 9/11”

    wtf is she doing over here – beyond threatening us?

    elsewhere

    Wales does vaccine passports …

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  4. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Right!
    QT was on last night and having recorded it I thought I should have a look at it to see if it has changed.

    What a waste of time.

    Andrew Neill was head and shoulders above the rest of them on the show.

    First question about funding nhs and social care.
    Someone brought up the ‘nurses having to use foodbanks’ myth.
    Nurses starting salary outside London is over £23,000 but nobody brought that up.

    Then, GB News. Funniest remark made by Fiona was that the QT panel has a diversity of opinions (yet they all criticised GBN saying it was bigoted and far right)
    On GBN there are lefties like Hutson and Benjamin Button amongst a load of others, at least one on every panel to give the far left view.

    All the QT audience gave lefty answers.

    Next question was about Shamima Begum (or Shamima as they were all calling her)
    No surprise but they all (audience and panel) wanted her to be allowed back except the Tory boy who had one eye on keeping his job.

    After that I just gave up.
    It’s still far left biased rubbish.

    Whether you agree with Andrew Neill or not he was far too clever for the rest of them. I hope he keeps on appearing on GB News.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Sorry Emmanuel, you are going to be disappointed. Andrew Neil has decided GB News was too Far Right for him, being an-ex Beeboid and everything, although apparently he left viewers of GB News to make up their own minds about what he was infering.

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      • Emmanuel Goldstein says:

        Up2
        Last week I believe Nigel Farage said Andrew Neill would be appearing on his show.
        Once a week if I heard correct but it may just be occasionally.
        Of course it may all have changed during the week.

        There’s a lot I disagree with A N but it’s always a pleasure watching him dismantling all politicians during interviews.

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  5. BigBrotherCorporation says:

    The newly appointed Culture Secretary, Nadine Dorries, is, as I’m sure most here are aware, no fan of the BBC.

    Therefore, when this comes up as front page news on the BBC website, one has to wonder why, doesn’t one?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-58593615
    ‘Dorman Long tower to be destroyed after listed status revoked’

    “An industrial tower is to be demolished after a last-minute conservation listing was quashed by the new culture secretary hours after her appointment.”

    Hmm…

    “TV architect George Clarke said it was “heart-breaking news”, adding: “We’ve lost way too many buildings in the North East that celebrate our incredible industrial past.”

    He said it was a “unique building and should be saved”.”

    Tragic…

    “Labour’s former candidate to be Tees Valley mayor, Jessie Joe Jacobs, accused Ms Dorries of “cultural vandalism”.

    “The Dorman Long tower is one of UK’s best examples of brutalist architecture and a proud symbol of Teesside’s industrial heritage. This is just tragic,” she wrote.”

    Yes, ‘just tragic’, however…

    “Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA) and the Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen had lodged an appeal against the listed status, alongside the request to the secretary of state for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to intervene.

    Mr Houchen said: “I would like to send a message to those that think trying to stop these developments is the right thing to do – our heritage does not lie in a rotting coal bunker, our heritage lies in the people that built this great region.

    “It lies in the structures that stand tall across the world, from The Shard, Sydney Harbour Bridge and One World Trade Centre.”

    The South Tees Development Corporation was hoping to bulldoze the tower, which was built in the 1950s to store coal, this weekend.”

    That would make the (rather unlovely, I have to say) giant, concrete coal bunker all of 60 something years old then? An ancient monument.

    As interesting as what the BBC choose not to present as front page news, is what the BBC think should be, and how they choose to present it.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Timing is everything – worth going to bbc site on a Friday night to see news buried for the weekend – when everyone is ignoring the news. Then they say they reported it … even though they now that no one read it.

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  6. StewGreen says:

    Malicious offence-reporting is used against YouTubers by woke activists
    David woods mentioned he is under attack
    Aug 20th : Seems Mr #Crimebodge has been a victim of this
    attack by activists, whereby if they can get enough complaints in within 3 months, a channel gets 3 strikes
    thus gets banned permanently
    Thus he has switched off his videos to thus block such malicious complaints

    screenshot of his community page
    .. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9JfthvXIAMJC-q?format=jpg&name=small

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  7. taffman says:

    “M25 protests: Priti Patel calls activists ‘selfish'”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-58594651
    Dover Invasion update…………..
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-58593554

    Message to Bo Jo and Pritstick .
    Blocking the M25 is hitting the economy. While we are being invaded on our beaches. We voted for Brexit to take control of our borders.
    For God’s sake do something about these idiots instead of huff, puff and bluster!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure.
      https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/about

      The suicide bomber who killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester last year had been rescued from the Libyan civil war by the Royal Navy. Salman Abedi detonated a home-made bomb in the foyer of the Manchester Arena on 22 May 2017 as concert-goers, many of them children, were leaving the venue.31 Jul 2018

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  8. taffman says:

    I have noticed that the “Brexit” topic heading has been removed from Al Beeb’s front web page. Is it because Nadine Dorries is is on her way ?
    I bet the HQ at Al Beeb’s shredders are working to capacity .

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  9. Up2snuff says:

    FRAMING TODAY Watch #1 – It’s bad because of Brexit

    Charlotte Smith was bashing Brexit from 5.45 a.m. this morning with the help of a helpful farmer or two. The BBC sure know how to find them. Said farmer that I heard wanted temporary visas to bring in workers from abroad “otherwise shop shelves will be empty and prices will go up.” Funny thing, Charlotte must have her food delivered from Waitrose by Ocado and never visits a supermarket.

    Supermarket shelves are generally not empty despite months and months of these ‘fear scare fear’ stories. Any empty shelves will be found mostly in mid to late afternoon in the fresh fruit and veg section where supermarkets deliberately under-stock so that goods in that section are not losing their freshness.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      OMission (of going to the supermarket) is the greatest lie.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        MM, think you mean omission of not going to the supermarket and ‘observing’ (ie. and seeing for yourself is the greatest lie.

        I can recall walking through Waitrose at the back of the flagship John Lewis store and seeing empty shelves, especially fruit and veg, years before the EU Referendum.

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  10. StewGreen says:

    Covid, right direction now ..cases were at 40,000, but now had 6 days below 30K
    So deaths should slowly fall soon as well
    https://twitter.com/LawrenceGilder/status/1438522077321957386

    There is the university start though.

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  13. G.W.F. says:

    Priti gets tough with climate protestors.

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    • digg says:

      I was initially enraged about BLM wanting to defund the police in the USA. I now see that it is probably desirable in the UK but only if we replace them with real police. These political pseudo lefty woke child “police” make me sick.

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    • digg says:

      I can only assume that the vast majority of police and particularly in the South are really signed up to the anti government lefty propaganda. It’s the only way to explain their disgusting and frankly totally cowardly behaviour.

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  14. G.W.F. says:

    This has been doctored. Andrew Neil would not approve.

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  15. MarkyMark says:

    “lawfully sacked for writing tweets which criticised government policies.” {bbc.co.uk aug2019} – the death of freedom of speech.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-49259942

    1765 …. **In a republic worthy of name, freedom to publish one ’s thoughts is a citizen’s natural right.** They may use a pen or their voice, and should not be prevented from writing any more than speaking …That is the law in England, a monarchical country, where people are freer than elsewhere because they are more enlightened. – Voltaire, Republican Ideas, 1765

    2019 …Australia’s highest court has made a landmark ruling that a public servant was lawfully sacked for writing tweets which criticised government policies. The court rejected her claim that she had been denied a right to free speech. – Australia, 2019

    1765 … **In a republic worthy of name, freedom to publish one’s thoughts is a citizen’s natural right.**

    2019 … ** a public servant was lawfully sacked for writing tweets which criticised government policies.**

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    • Thoughtful says:

      Errm it’s not that simple when it’s a civil servant when they have a legal obligation to be politically neutral. Also bear in mind this was probably some toxic lefty spouting all kinds of bile which they appear to be allowed to do in Britain without any comeback.

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      • JimS says:

        The civil service couldn’t operate if its members were always briefing against the government.

        The same applies to all organisations, even down to the two-man business. If one can’t live with that then resign. It’s a simple matter of trust and professionalism.

        Sadly this idea seems to be breaking down, personal ‘feelings’ being all. Imagine if two people put £100 into bank accounts and at the end of the year one had £150 and the other £50, because the bank had ‘checked their thinking’ and one customer was seen as more virtuous than the other!

        One of the reasons for having secret ballots is to allow the employee to hold a different political view to their employer.

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  16. Thoughtful says:

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  17. theisland says:

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    • G.W.F. says:

      Sums him up quite well.
      I will never forget the interview with Tommy Robinson….tell me your name… Yaxley Lennon, on and on he went.

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  18. digg says:

    Getting totally sick of the BBC running explainer slots for climate change. This time it was a smug bloke in a nice village somewhere, probably in the Sussex-London commuter belt… with his stone cottage where supported by a slick salesman from a “climate advice” company proudly showed how he had removed all the double glazed windows and replaced with triple glazed, then found all the gaps where breezes might enter his home eg: around the waste pipe under the kitchen sink and had them sealed up….

    No-one asked how much carbon was wasted in the scrapping the old windows or whether it was wise health-wise to prevent any fresh air from entering your home.

    it’s so one-sided and myopic it makes you wonder about the quality of the BBC researchers or whether they have any real credentials at all.

    In my opinion, replace every bit of double glazing in every UK home and you can say goodbye to any carbon offset at all for at least the next 10 years. Not to mention the landfill implications! Its not bleeding rocket science!

    But it’s just well-heeled folk preaching to us I guess.

    So whats next BBC? quadruple-glazed?

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    • Northern Voter says:

      Wait until they fill the countryside with water for London, stopping all the holes and crevices up will stop the house flooding. However the water will still get down the flue. Self righteous prick.

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    • digg says:

      Addendum. The interviewed rich numpty was a scarecrow looking individual in Lycra cycling gear so almost certainly a a vegan and a self obbsessed twat from the BBC’s reserve of absolutely horrid people.

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  19. JimS says:

    Gilbert Harding, Dame Isobel Barnett, two of Britain’s greatest comedians.

    Well they would have been if the BBC had defined ‘comedy’ in the 1950s the way it does now, panel game after panel game with the same pool panellists.

    Just listened to one of the half-hourly adverts on Radio 4 Extra where they are promoting ‘have no children’, (we need the room for BAMEs?), and the Diane Morgan, who has the ability to suck the comedy out of everything she is in, a kind of anti-comedienne.

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  20. Fedup2 says:

    Time for the New Thread . Thank You.

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  21. digg says:

    I suspect that the BBC is now dominated by its Muslim masters So we will see much more of “white people don’t have children,” “white people blame yourselves for everything. “ it’s a drip-drip suppression of our Island race and spearheaded by a vile organisation that dares to include the word British in their name.

    I don’t think I could hate the vile turncoat outfit any more than I do.

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