519 Responses to Midweek Thread 22 September 2021

  1. MarkyMark says:

    Omission is the greatest form of the lie …. BBC fail to mention that Merkel was AGAINST gay marriage.

    “Many of the modernising features – such as same-sex marriage, phasing out nuclear energy, and welcoming immigration policies – would not be expected from a Christian Democratic chancellor.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58570507

    2017 “German MPs approve same-sex marriage but Merkel votes against”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-40455070

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  2. Guest Who says:

    Wait until Vile gets Femi, Champion and YAB in to back him up.

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  3. Guest Who says:

    The Neds at the house journal have excelled.

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  4. Guest Who says:

    The habit of the bbc having “quotes” associated with images had me fooled.

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  5. Fedup2 says:

    Non BBC rant
    Another trial involving teenage killers – where their identities cannot be made public .

    I ask – how can that be ? They murdered another teenager – and left the parents bereft .

    Yet the law protects them . Don’t get me wrong – I would hang them – aged 14 or not. – but not to even name them to the public ? No

    And they’ll be out within 5 .

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    • StewGreen says:

      Olly Stephens murder
      They’ll be white I guess
      “(READING, U.K.) Crown Court Report: Three teenagers have today been sentenced in connection with the death of Olly Stephens, aged 13, who was fatally stabbed earlier this year by his former friends.”

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    • StewGreen says:

      The parents made a video in conkunction with police.

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  6. Guest Who says:

    Sounds newsworthy. Marianna back on feet and Sopes off selling his book again?

    At least Kammy is back in her safe place.

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  7. Thoughtful says:

    Having a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing, but with the internet it can also lead you down the rabbit hole!

    The media narrative on fuel shortages is a simple one, that a shortage of tanker drivers caused by Brexit is causing fuel shortages, this is a lie.

    Popping onto a transport managers forum and reading the posts there by senior people, this is what you find, that tanker drivers are the best paid and the highest qualified in the industry and comments like they had not seen a tanker driver who was not White British in 40 years of being in the industry.r

    This is seen as a well paid career where qualifications and certification are requirements of the job, starting salaries basic are in excess of £50K pa.

    Many of the transport managers had on site bunkering of diesel and they were saying that despite them employing in house drivers, they could not get the fuel out of the refineries.

    The problem was not with the number of drivers, but they couldn’t say exactly what the issue was.

    There was a deal of speculation without any real facts to support it, but the one overwhelming comment was that there is no shortage of tanker drivers.

    We are being lied to – again !

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    • StewGreen says:

      A lot of drivers will be on foreign holidays
      cos they’ve been storing them up for 1.5 years.

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  8. Guest Who says:

    Kirstie is clearly an optimist.

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  9. taffman says:

    “Petrol driver shortage: Ministers discuss supply issues”
    ‘We are not an attractive industry for the younger generation’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58670792#comments

    I see that Al Beeb is doing its bit by stoking up the panic buying of petrol.

    Also , thanks to ‘B Liar’, too many kids being encouraged to go to yoounie and get an ‘ology degree’, instead of getting a real job and earning some money, as opposed to a financial rope around their neck.

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  10. StewGreen says:

    Good 2 hour interview with Lauren Southern
    Touches on
    – the murder of Patriot Prayer Guy in Seattle in 2019
    Media not interested cos although he was unarmed except for mace, the police shot dead his attacker in a later arrest attempt.
    And her many visits to migrant camps in Europe

    https://youtu.be/ekCMHFJEhtU

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  11. Guest Who says:

    Going to be a long month…

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    • Bulldog says:

      Guest
      This view from the beeb’s Chris Mason is highly misleading as the narrow High Street in Shoreham is always choc-a-block with traffic being on the main coast road between Worthing and Brighton. Any over spill on to the road from the petrol station will inevitably cause a massive tail back including, yes, some who do want petrol but many who don’t. The High Street is too narrow to get past the queue till you get closer to the petrol station itself.
      The beeb and SKY relentlessly pushed this petrol “shortage” all day yesterday even though BP had said only a “handful” of their stations were closed. My hand only goes up to 5 digits which is hardly a major problem when BP have 1200 outlets to choose from!
      Any shortage story like this just has people pushing the panic button and you get the impression this is exactly the reaction the media want to create.
      I see Mason is on the QT recording tonight which is why he was in Shoreham, be interesting to hear how he spins it, not difficult to guess.

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  12. StewGreen says:

    ITV local news have a reporter that specialises in BAME-are-victims stories

    today it was BAME don’t have enough stem-cell donors

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    • StewGreen says:

      We still haven’t had her item
      about the law change due to Natasha’s death after she failed to ask if a sandwich included her allergens.

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  13. taffman says:

    Question: Why do environmental protesters and illegal immigrants get an easy ride from our Home Office and Al Beeb while the honest people of Great Britain are treated with contempt. Is there a secret directive coming from No 10?
    Its very odd to say the least.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Taffman – one theory is that nut nut doesn’t want a a group of ‘victims of anti green policies ‘ in the run up to the COP love in …
      ‘The m25 12 ‘ or similar – complete with vegan hunger strike and one dying every day in the run up to the conference ….
      Crying relatives – crowd funding – green peace marches – BBC reporters outside prisons complete with 24/7 candles – we shall overcome …

      Burn that carbon – be Chinese …

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    • StewGreen says:

      Green & red skins have privilege
      ..whereas purple-skins can be dehumanised by labelling them “far right” and can be treated as monsters by media/police etc.

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    • pugnazious says:

      Boris is actually very pro-immigration…and seems a new convert to extreme greenism….and judging by the willingness to use dubious if not downright immoral tactics to impose lockdown and to force people into vaccinations I don’t think there will be many scruples about using similar tactics to force us ‘green’…not exactly much Parliamentary or media scrutiny of his radical and extreme decisions already forced upon us.

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  14. pugnazious says:

    2016…

    ‘BP boss: Threat to investment if UK leaves EU’

    Ah….all is clear….lol…..driver shortage? Road Haulage Association demands EU drivers….

    ‘“I would imagine that it was probably done to pressure the Government on the part of the hauliers,” says one source.

    Another pointed the finger directly at the Road Haulage Association, whose managing director of policy Rod McKenzie, a former BBC executive and fierce opponent of a hard Brexit over the past five years, was on the call.’

    The Telegraph raises a few questions…

    ‘Timing of leak about oil giant’s pleading fuels suspicions it is more about a lobbying campaign for looser EU immigration policies ‘

    Oddly the BBC doesn’t go there at all….which is odd as such ‘speculation’, when it suits, is its bread and butter….but not today as it settles for the lazy and biased…..

    ‘It is estimated that the UK is short of about 100,000 HGV drivers – with gaps made worse by the pandemic and Brexit.’

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58670792

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    • JimS says:

      Back in August this year they were saying in the USA:

      The U.S. has been grappling with a chronic lack of drivers for years, but the shortage reached crisis levels because of the pandemic, which simultaneously sent demand for shipped goods soaring while touching off a surge in early retirements. The consequences have been both dire and far-reaching: Filling stations have had gasoline outages. Airports have run short on jet fuel. A stainless-steel maker declared force majeure. And lumber prices hit a record, with some suppliers partly blaming delivery delays.

      Meanwhile:

      “Despite reduced demand due to COVID-19, there is still an alarming shortage of drivers,” says the organization. “Surveying 777 road transport companies from 23 countries, the IRU found that [the] driver shortage was most acute in Eurasia, where last year 20% of driver positions were not filled. China was the least affected country in 2020 with only 4% of jobs open. Elsewhere, [the] driver shortage was less serious in 2020 than 2019 due to the pandemic. In Europe, unfilled driver positions fell by around three quarters, from 24% to 7% for truck drivers.”

      If only the BBC had a disinformation reporter to check up on itself!

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  15. Fedup2 says:

    BBC big on ‘genda violence ‘ tonight -a vigil for the latest lady killed by a man . Something must be done .

    Wait though – BBC big on two 14 year old boys stabbing another boy to death . Something must be done .

    They haven’t even in thrown in race – queers or muslims yet as ‘special cases ‘

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  16. StewGreen says:

    Barclays Bank UK advert comes on
    big black girl called Olivia about learning

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    https://barclayslifeskills.com/families/

    I check Barclays youTube channel

    latest video there

    Previous video from March
    … Focus : a black girl called Jess.
    Then a money mentor who s a black man https://youtu.be/x4p4n0xLNKI

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  17. StewGreen says:

    FFS it’s never ending
    Channel5 Pam Aires is in the Cotswolds at the Bridgerton series House
    Just happens to be with the BLACK actress who plays a character in the 19th Centurry Stately home fantasy world

    Actress “You know many people say Queen Charlotte was black”
    … AFAIK Simon Webb says that is BS

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  18. Fedup2 says:

    ONS reports far higher than usual number of excess this Summer – not from the Chinese virus – but from other sources such as heart failures and strokes – it’s in the thousands .

    With GPs hiding away counting their money for each covid injection is it any surprise ? Any maybe the NHS will reduce waiting lists by letting patients die –
    Don’t more get to clap …

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  19. StewGreen says:

    Marketing tricks : Claiming something is getting rarer creates shortages

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Shortages: BBC moves to reassure public

      Following criticism over it’s reporting of national shortages, a spokesperson for the BBC has assured the public that there will be no shortages in the following areas and, in fact, supplies are expected to increase

      Stories about how Brexit is to Blame For Everything ™
      Stories about permanently complaining wimmin’
      Stories about how wonderful billionaires are
      Stories about men in frocks
      Stories about how Global Warming means we are all going to die in the next 10 minutes
      Stories about state-sanctioned and BBC approved ‘protest groups’ such as Extinction Rebellion and Black Knives Matter
      Stories featuring lots of Getty Images, preferably of black women with frizzy hair
      Stories to promote Big Pharma and encourage mandatory vaccines for embryos, sperm and ovums
      Stories about Bodvag* football

      * Bodvag = Bodies with Vaginas, the new official name for women as used by The Lancet, for those who are not keeping up with the science:

      https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current#fullCover

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      • Ian Rushlow says:

        Correction. The BBC spokesperson has now admitted that there may actually be some shortages in the following areas, and that these are permanent rather than short term ones:

        Stories about invaders in rubber dinghies at the Kent coast
        Stories about ethnic child rape gangs operating in Britain’s towns and cities
        Stories about the financial support from Bill Gates to the BBC during the past 20 years
        Stories that are critical of the Chinese Communist Party
        Stories investigating the cognitive capabilities of Joe Biden
        Stories featuring White, heterosexual, British couples

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  20. Guest Who says:

    This special even for the #prasnews morons of Labor of Lurve.

    Will Toenails or Peroxide Brain try and spin it or simply ignore?

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  21. vlad says:

    Those interested in the saga of Andrew Neil and GB News can read all about it in today’s DM, link below.

    Andrew breaks down in tears mid-interview, apparently, and Mail journo Rebecca Hardy feels moved to hug him.

    Aw, diddums (I hope there wasn’t any inappropriate touching).

    A recurring theme in Andrew’s reminiscences here and elsewhere is that he absolutely didn’t want GB News to become like that horrible ‘fake news’ Fox.

    Personally I think Fox News is precisely what this country needs, if only to balance-out all the other lefty broadcasters and give viewers a real choice.

    GB News might be better off without Neil.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10026417/GB-News-just-disaster-came-close-breakdown-ANDREW-NEIL.html

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