The BBC and its’ mass media friends are intent on increasing shortages – either actual or fictional . It’s a dream subject for the BBC – it can both frighten people and blame its’ enemy – the government – Brexit – you – me …….
Midweek Thread 6 October 2021
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“France to send ambassador back to Australia amid Aukus row”
Macron is having second thoughts?
Perhaps he has realised that throwing his toys out of the pram is like shooting himself in the foot ?
Closing the Channel tunnel next ? It Will be more of an inconvenience to the EU as they export more to us than we do in return . It’s time we scrapped the NI Protocol.
Great Britain is in need of a leader!
Long article on the BBC front page “debunking” the efficacy of Invermectin. Shame they didn’t do similar to the efficacy of the jab and, of course, no mention is made of the financial advantages to the multi-billion pound pharmaceutical companies and influencers (politicians, public health, MSM etc) in knocking a product which is so cheap.
indeed…
Has anybody seen a price list / menu for the assorted jabs?
– it is the Pharmaceutical industry after all – and they have such a blemish free record … don’t they?
Colin Murray seems to be OK on his R% show before ‘Up all night’, and last evening, he was discussing the appalling rise in homicides in the US – a whopping 30% rise so it seems!
I may be a bit cynical, but one mention was made of a ‘spike’ after the Floyd case, and the police backed off in effect!
Any ‘respec’ed gangster’ usually steps in when this happens, so if anyone here finds out, could they please inform Metplod, as it’ll sure reverberate over here!
When the US farts, Brits have to get out of the phone box…
Scrub
I don’t think there will be a linkage to the slaughter in American cities because plod over there is even more political than here – so the insane lefties can influence their activities far more directly …
Also access to guns is far more widespread and they all think they are living ( dying ) in a film script ….we are yet to dumb down to that level yet …
I hope you’re right Fed, my local plod have just uncovered a drug ring in three very local villages which is a bit worrying! I don’t want to have to tackle a gun-toting nutter in Waitrose if I can help it, I may miss the special offers!
But city plod over here seem to spend more time kneeling down to climate maniacs, rather than stopping the gangs stabbing each other with those 9mm automatic carving knives…
Not directly BBC …
The red Tory Peter Bottomly – daddy of the house or something- moons that MPs find it hard getting by on the £85k salary and subsequent pension … he thinks it should be at least £100k .
I don’t think he mentions the huge expenses kitty they have access to – employing their family in ‘admin ‘ and various other forms of corruption they can achieve – such as second jobs – which is ok as long as they are ‘declared ‘..
Maybe it could be addressed by cutting – say 100 MP constituencies in places where the populations are small … such as Scotland ….
…lucky mr bottomly doesn’t talk about the Dead Wood in the Lords …..
Fed, these daddy’s of the house have been pretty useless as of late. Wasn’t it ken Clark previously? The guy who wanted to overturn democracy and the Brexit vote. Now this new granddad of house of idiots is demanding more money!! These MPs probably at one point in history did care about their constituents and country but most no longer. And the BBC there the same, used to be proud of it’s country and people but now just care about woke and not the UK.
BBC Shires
Do you believe what Boris Johnson is promising the nation? 🤷♂️
Do you have any faith in what he’s saying – are you prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt?
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Been up for a while.
Has garnered almost 10 reactions.
Speaking for the county.
Vile in lockstep.
TOADY Watch #1 – Our Fed’s favourite subject, the other one
Mishal is doing the Big Interview with two business leaders or bosses. Simon Jack comes on first, though (this seems to be a standard thing now – give themselves the first and last word) and demonstrates that, as usual, the BBC are behind the curve on markets, currencies and other prices in this case, gas. Simon Jack had not checked the prices for gas on the BBC’s own web-site before making his contribution so he got the figures wrong.
As he was speaking I checked and the gas price was down 49pence per therm @ £2.24 per therm.
Simon Jack always looked quite promising when he started all those years ago, then he got ‘promoted’, then started wearing glasses, and that was it!
Transformation complete – top-heavy on ‘management’, and rose-tinted specs where lefties are concerned, horn-rimmed when talking about normal private companies.
I guess he’s quite a likeable chap, but when the BBC get their hooks into you, you become one of them, just spouting the Guardian/Observer, and only bothering to turn up when it suits you.
One hell of a Brexit hangover
Strange bed fellows in the Sponge Bob theory of Brexit
One often accuses that venerable title The Times of being our formerly patriotic paper. But as a matter of interest compare these two headlines: ‘British malaria vaccine approved in “historic” breakthrough‘ (Times); ‘“Historic day” WHO backs first malaria vaccine‘ (Guardian)
Were Irish comedian Frank Carson to apply his catchphrase to the headlines he might have said: “You’ve heard ’em all before, but it’s the way I tell ’em”
Whether our media editors prefer to give credit to British ingenuity or to promote some supra-national organisation, one wonders whether having had the new malaria jab one will still nevertheless be able to contract and to pass on the disease, require additional boosters and whether you will still be advised to use a malaria net – just asking out of curiosity?
It’s a funny thing, these modern vaccines, they seem to give you immunity… but just a bit.
As predicted the corporates and the lefties unite against Boris’s suggestion that we might restrict immigration, just a bit: ‘Business groups have expressed anger this week over government accusations that companies relied on cheap foreign labour before the UK left the EU‘ (Financial Times) – which is, by the way, precisely the stuff of a dozen BBC reports:
BBC: ‘UK worker shortage: Farmers give fruit and veg away for free… Mr Morritt said in previous years the majority of his pickers came from eastern Europe. Robert Newbery from NFU East Midlands said: “Brexit is certainly having an impact. The people that could move freely within Europe before now can’t‘ (1 September 2021)
BBC: ‘A shortage of fruit pickers in the UK is set to spread to warehouse workers in the run-up to Christmas, the boss of toy chain The Entertainer has warned… Brexit, Covid-19 and the government’s furlough scheme – which is set to end on 30 September – have put pressure on companies seeking to fill vacancies. (27 August 2021)
The Guardian this morning (promoted to number one spot in the BBC’s online press line up) sides with business and hardly bothers with facts in their big boardroom-supporting broadside against Boris: ‘Business anger at “vacuous and bombastic” speech‘
The Times may sometimes boost Britain more than would the Guardian but they still have one hell of a Brexit hangover: ‘PM hit by business backlash. Pro-Brexit bosses insist firms cannot be treated “like a sponge” to soak up rising costs’ – this one demands some back up before we accept the Sponge Bob theory of Brexit. Who speaks for pro-Brexit business? That sensible chap from Wetherspoons, we wonder?
It will be a brave chief exec who argues the case for low wages.
Step forward Richard Walker MD of Iceland who says he was a Leave voter and – ironically for the frozen foods store – his real first concern among a list of rising costs he will have to absorb was his energy bills. So it turns out that government green levies and a duff energy policy are hurting business.
Here’s a suggestion, Boris. How about you promise business lower energy costs in exchange for higher wages.
Or that Vile sings ‘I’m in the money’ every day off the backs of the saps funding him and this politicised tripe?
The bubble does irony.
Dear Marianna Spring (BBC wages paid under threat of prosecution),
As I’ve had to look at your BBC news and use other sources to determine that your news is not news but selective editorial opinion I’d like to request that I have a refund for the last 4 years plus get the BBC free from now on.
Please let me know how I can go about this as I am willing to create a full list of articles that I’ve had to investigate plus time taken for me to check your fact checker whilst realising that the BBC intentionally removes news rather than incorrectly report on it, uses images to sway opinion or misleads with the main titles hoping no one reads the full article.
‘Omission is the greatest form of lie.’
CAS-4987700-SY1FTF : BBC NewsWatch says boredom with pro-Brexit march.
CAS-4844672-N8FDYY: Update on the MP Expenses 2009 scandal in 2018.
CAS-4939547-J71Z1V: Here’s hoping Ireland do the right thing G.Lineker.
CAS-4937378-YKMWBJ: BBC not reporting ‘Day of Freedom’ March 06may2018.
CAS-4906141-BFJQL0: I take offence that presenters promote their books.
CAS-4892811-C820SC: I am offended that I have to pay the BBC TV Tax.
CAS-4824332-633N1P: What happened in Italy was not covered …
CAS-4933135-ZV3V7F: The omission is the most powerful form of lie …
CAS-6005141-S1V9D1: Not seen a report on the UK Governments Covid19
Let me know how to go about resolving the issue of paying for something that wastes my time as I have to check each story rather than rely on its accuracy.
Cheers,
Mark
https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications
OT, but… the media…
Sounds like the result of a ‘definite maybe’…
If you’re running a cafe, I’d guess that one would rather have stuff coming in every now and then, not considering having to wait a whole year…
Still, I’m not a watcher of Sky News, so I’ll think of where these people might be going wrong with their deliveries instead!
TOADY Watch #2 – oh dear, oh dear, please don’t tell us it’s a Global Problem, we’ve lost our best weapon!
The BBC receives unwelcome news on the TOADY programme. Like the rest of the BBC, they have been pushing the ‘all because of Brexit’ thing in order to attack the Conservative Government and the PM but just before 8 a.m. they interview a gentleman running a global recruitment company: apparently, the worker shortage is a world-wide phenomenon.
In other news, the BBC (not all, presumably, to save carbon) has travelled to Intel to see what they are doing to alleviate the world chip shortage.
Make more, it seems.
Next McCain, who can’t….. because of Brexit!!!
CPC and IR35 law changes
Lorry driver on GB news
‘There are loads people in the UK with HGV licences & only about half of them actually work as drivers.
There has been a shortage since the expensive CPC EU regulation was introduced in 2014 & drove many drivers to give up.
The IR35 change last year banned drivers from getting paid as limited companies so also made driving not worthwhile for many’
IR35 doesn’t stop them being paid as limited companies, it forces them to take the money as PAYE and thus they are liable for employees AND employers National Insurance on whatever they earn.
The employers contribution is more than the employees.
It is another government stealth tax on small businesses and is unfair in that as a limited company contractor you don’t get any benefits from the people you are working for. You can be fired immediately because you are technically working for your own company, not them.
Unless you work for the BBC and you are a shallow, greedy Lefty of course. Then you kick up a stink and the BBC pay your tax bill for you from public money. Even though they knew the rules well enough but thought they would get away with it. The same kind of stink they kicked up when they thought Brexit would make them poorer.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58090533 “BBC why are energy prices so high?” It’s amazing isn’t it, the BBC do a whole article about this but they completely omit from their report that this red Tory government is pushing a green agenda that contributes at least 25% to our energy bills. People would have voted green if they were so concerned about the environment. But we didn’t yet we still get this crap forced upon us and the BBC happy to avoid mentioning these green Levy’s we all having to pay. The UK’s emissions are so low that even if we had all renewables it wouldn’t make the slightest differences except to make us all poorer
Who says the BBC don’t do comedy any more?
Front page, webshite news:
Man on bike slaps women’s bottoms in Lincoln assault spree
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-58825800
“A man riding a bike slapped six women on the bottom in a string of assaults.
Victims in the same residential area of Lincoln reported a cyclist riding up to them and hitting them “really hard” on the backside.
One woman described it as a “full-pelt hit that almost sent me toppled to the floor”.
Police said the assaults were “completely unacceptable” and officers were working to identify the culprit as soon as possible.
One of the victims said she was walking home from work when she felt a “huge smack against the back of me”.
“It was very deliberately in such an inappropriate area that it just felt it was so on purpose to make me feel upset and uncomfortable,” she told BBC Radio Lincolnshire.
“I didn’t know what to do. I just all of a sudden started crying, the pain was unbearable.
“The same guy on the bike came back and he was shouting quite aggressively at me, things like: ‘What’s wrong with you?’
“It’s an invasion of privacy.”
Lincolnshire Police said the first attack happened at about 16:30 BST on Monday, with the final report at 19:40 the same evening.
The assaults took place on Newland Street West, and Wellington Street, the force said.
Det Insp Andy Wright-Lakin said: “I’m grateful to the women who have called us to tell us of their experience.
“We are listening. It’s completely unacceptable and we will be doing all we can to investigate this and identify who this man is as soon as we can.”
He appealed for any witnesses or anyone with CCTV or dashcam footage to get in touch with officers.”
What no description of the evil ‘perp’? No photoshop image?
I know it’s not really funny… but, you know, it kind of is.
Should be treated as terrorism ..right?
(Off duty plod ?)
Obviously a ‘joker’ slapping them on the backside as he went past.
I wonder if a woman slapping a man in the face would be pursued as relentlessy as this one is going to be.
I searched and Getty even sells picture of it. ‘Woman slapping man’ gets the tags ‘bad date’, ‘caught cheating’ and such like.
‘Man slapping woman’ gets the single tag ‘Domestic abuse’.
Seems like the only reason for either is always the man’s fault.
This would be the ‘equality’ I keep getting told about.
“Man on a bike”
actually “A 16 year old BOY has been arrested after six women reported being attacked in the West End of #Lincoln:”
BBC Radio Lincolnshire tweet
“Police arrest 16-year-old MAN”
Would they ever say 16 yo WOMAN ?
What makes a ‘good ‘ toady presenter ? ( an article from the DT)
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STARTS How rude is it to tell someone to “stop talking” when you’ve just asked them a question, and they’re in the middle of responding? Nick Robinson, interviewing the Prime Minister on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Tuesday morning, did just that.
Boris Johnson, appearing on Today for the first time in two years, sounded rattled as the interview concluded: “Very kind of you to let me talk. I thought that was the point of you inviting me on your show.”
Conservative MPs rushed to Johnson’s defence: “Frankly, if they want anybody to appear on the Today programme they might want to try being a lot more polite,” huffed David Jones, the MP for Clwyd West.
In an ideal world, a Today programme presenter would keep themselves out of the news and wouldn’t invite division among listeners.
But perhaps in Robinson’s mind as he made his rebuke, there loomed the influence of one of the great no-nonsense Today programme interviewers of all time: the late Brian Redhead, who, in 1987, famously gave the then chancellor Nigel Lawson short shrift live for accusing the presenter of having been “a supporter of the Labour Party all your life”. Redhead responded by suggesting the programme have a “one-minute silence… one for you to apologise for daring to suggest that you know how I vote, and secondly perhaps in memory of monetarism, which you have now discarded”.
That moment, and his funny, robust and friendly broadcasting style, along with his self-created role as a staunch defender of Northern spirit and sympathiser with listeners stuck in traffic on the M6, have passed into radio folklore. Redhead, whose tenure ran from 1975 to 1993, is remembered for having taken control of the situation with wit and decency, as well as anger and a good bit of backbone. It’s fondly recalled as one of the great moments in the 64-year history of Today.
And it’s important to remember Redhead here, when we’re listening to Robinson on Today and trying to work out exactly what a good Today presenter should be like – because the relationship between Robinson and Redhead is complicated and coloured with tragedy.
Robinson grew up as best friends with Redhead’s son, Will, in Manchester, and regularly used to pop round to the Redhead home for a slice of cake after school. When Robinson and Will Redhead were both 18, shortly before receiving their A-level results, they were involved in a catastrophic car accident in France. Will was killed along with their friend James Nelson. Robinson was badly burned and spent weeks in hospital recovering.
In time, Robinson and Brian Redhead became closer. Robinson took his first steps towards a career in broadcasting and Redhead became his great mentor, until his death in 1994 – in his beloved Macclesfield – which meant he missed Robinson’s rise through the BBC ranks. A stint on Panorama led to him becoming the BBC’s chief political correspondent in 1999, after which he eventually took up his place at the Today microphone, taking James Naughtie’s seat in 2015.
Nadine Dorries, the new Culture Secretary, said this week that the BBC is staffed by people “whose mum and dad worked there”. In Robinson’s case, the truth is much sadder and more complicated. But it’s impossible to understand Robinson’s approach to political interviewing without knowing something of the man who inspired him, and the tragedy of the loss at the very beginning of his career. Together, Robinson and Redhead give us an instructive summary of the different kinds of approach a presenter on the BBC’s flagship news and current affairs programme can take – and what we, the listener, need them to be like.
While Redhead spoke to everyone as an equal and was often avuncular. Robinson can often sound more impatient and prickly. The other regular presenters bring their own style to the three-hour broadcast: Mishal Husain always projects a chilly serenity, Justin Webb is the affable one whose hackles never rise, Martha Kearney the tough but funny and self-deprecating one, despite the early hour.
Even while asking difficult questions – and nothing sets the day’s agenda than skewering a politician in the 8.10am interview slot – they all manage to seem both engaged and engaging. Of course, everyone in the Today stable relishes a bit of a fight with a reluctant guest, but former presenters John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor did it with a certain twinkle. Both could be very funny, but also possessed a killer instinct combined with an acerbic touch. A Tory minister once demanded Humphrys be sacked for “poisoning the well of debate” and, during the New Labour years, MPs would refer to “the John Humphrys problem”.
The art of presenting Today is a delicate one. Humphrys has recalled how a former editor told him “I could be as tough and even aggressive as I liked in an interview – but I should always remember that I was attacking the politician’s argument, not the politician himself”.
But the trick is the same as it always is in radio: treat the listener as a friend. Whatever else Today presenters bring in terms of their own approaches, fundamentally, listeners need Today journalists to ask the questions that listeners want asked, posed in a way that’s most likely to elicit a useful response. We want to feel that we are being heard and answered. That’s when Robinson’s impatience can come in handy; often, after all, we’re impatient, too.
And while I suspect some listeners may have rather enjoyed the Prime Minister being told to stop talking – it’s always a thrill when someone in authority gets a bit of a telling-off – the message came loud and clear from many others that it made for uncomfortable listening.
More broadly, shouldn’t we be asking what we really gained from this encounter? According to Humphrys, such interviews – the trying-to-nail-custard-to-a-wall ones – “damage democracy rather than enrich it”.
None of this is to say that Robinson isn’t a great presenter and political interviewer. In his career to date, there have been moments of real spark. His spicy interactions on BBC television with then US president George W Bush, in particular, linger long in the memory. During a press conference at Camp David, on a hot day in 2007, Bush was so annoyed by Robinson’s insistent questioning about Iraq that he remarked to Robinson that “next time, you should cover your bald head”. “I didn’t know you cared,” Robinson responded. “I don’t,” said Bush.
That exchange was much ruder and less professional than Robinson’s conversation with the Prime Minister this week, but perhaps it was more revealing, too, of the character of the interviewee. Sometimes, when a politician doesn’t answer a question and instead goes on the attack, those of us watching and listening learn far more about them than perhaps they’d want us to.
But there are limits to this technique and perhaps time, place and presenter are everything: going-for-the-throat interviews are sometimes best left to those who are best at them – the Brian Waldens and Jeremy Paxmans of this world – just as they sit easiest in an after-hours slot (Newsnight, say) when they give an audience a reason to stay up just a little bit longer.
Robinson knows as well as any school teacher that when you resort to telling someone to stop talking, you’ve lost control of the situation. It’s hard to know what the aftermath was like in BBC meeting rooms following the broadcast. Were executives glad to have a clip from the programme that could be clipped for social media and “go viral”?
But radio isn’t about social media response. It’s about listeners. It’s unlikely that Robinson telling the Prime Minister to be quiet will be as fondly remembered as Redhead’s rebuke of Lawson, but it forms part of a picture. What does it say about the Today programme when, after trying to get Boris Johnson to come on the programme for two years, its presenter tells him to stop talking?
On the other hand, from the PM’s perspective, why bother going on the programme at all if your plan is just to ramble until someone loses their patience? It’s rude to tell anyone to stop talking, but it’s almost equally rude to waffle and deflect when there are important questions to answer and you’re an elected official. The whole culture of political interviewing on the radio has become pretty unedifying. Interviewers and politicians would all do well to remember that the person whose time is really valuable on the radio isn’t either of them, but the listener.
And perhaps to ask, what would Brian Redhead have done?
Bri might have got Wendy and team to check?
https://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.com/2021/10/nick-v-boris.html
Fed, the number one rule for radio presenters is: do not talk over your interviewee. In television, viewers can – while the camera remains on the interviewee – have a go at lip reading. On radio this is impossible. Especially where voices are of similar timbre, pitch and volume.
Just on this – there can be little doubt that nut nut would not survive a 60 minute type interview with someone as forensic as Brillo or paxo.
However the gene pool of non abusive ‘interviewers ‘ who don’t need a ‘gotcha’ is very small .
And I think politicians know that they really don’t need a 5 minute interview on the BBC unless they are ordered to attend by Party HQ- and I’m talking about any politician here.
The BBC sees itself as ‘the opposition ‘ in the absence of a credible in politics now – the SNP are the nearest to holding the government to account but they are so fixed on braveheart ‘independent ‘ with an economy based on oil they can’t use – that the SNP is just wasted money and air … (see blackford ).
So toady is just an out of date lefty upper sixth chatroom with no seriously talented presenter of any hue or gender …. And now the weather …
Nut Nut would lose it completely and enter that totally irrational shrieking stage some women have where any possibility of an actual sensible debate disappears completely.
A bit like some of the Labour women MP’s I see stood up in Parliament whose faces contort with rage and spite as they ask if the minister thinks it’s OK to murder babies or whatever when discussing boat people.
Boris it’s a puppet for nut nut , but what do you expect from a man with probably 5 wife’s and at least 10 kids. He is obviously a good person, not! and cares about only himself. Nut nut should go on bill or paxo but no chance
order-order …
As Britain faces a gas price shock and geo-political energy blackmail it is worth reflecting that over the years Boris wrote a fair bit on fracking, the overly harsh sounding term for extracting shale gas, in a characteristically positive and boosterish way. Fracking is what made America a net energy exporter, allowing it to meet carbon emission targets and achieve energy security from the Middle East. Americans hale fracking as an energy revolution. A decade ago Boris too was describing the potential of fracking as “glorious news”
Marky
I suppose we can take comfort in knowing that the shale gas is sitting there waiting …..whilst we shiver in coming power cuts …either this winter or the next …..
The green agenda could land up being the key factor to return the commons to a hung parliament next time …..as if that matters much now …
We could burn some books during these hard times.
Here we go.
Radio 2 news this morning talking about gas prices and how it could hinder some industries. Nothing new here except the BBC made a special point of mentioning the manufacture of toilet rolls.
Just any old industry picked at random obviously.
BBC News
Why are tensions between China and Taiwan the worst they have been in 40 years?
https://bbc.in/3uPnOec
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Not bothering to check as it is the BBC but when they ask a question the answer is likely BS.
I am going with an enduring geopolitical situation suddenly stirred up by the weakest US President in history who could be distracted by a fly on his teleprompter, being propped up by ideological broadcasters.
lol, the real reason will be buried in there somewhere – lost in the noise of all their agenda-based reasons which aren’t actually significant.
I can’t bear to read BBC articles any more. I only check those whose headline is so obviously all-agenda to keep current with how low they are prepared to go with truth.
BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – is there a BBC campaign on?
We are used to the BBC campaigning: Children in Need would be an example. When and where they have abandoned journalistic integrity and neutrality, Global Warming and Climate Change would be another example. I find this is interesting, especially when couple with Justin Webb’s recent statements on two occasions: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58170809
Justin made comments this morning for the second time in my hearing, he may have made more that I did not catch for one reason or another. He is obviously against both alternative treatments for the Covid virus, ivermectin especially, but also against ‘anti-vaxxers’ and their right to free speech and the new media. I suspect that this may be a BBC position.
I think we should be told.
Uh huh.
And one old member of parliament tells us how hard it is to survive on £ 82,000 per year-I’ll take that with pleasure! What a bafoon to advertise such a thing about his earnings, many people survive well on half that amount, and many he should consider have to rely on a fraction of that sum to survive. Sometimes I cannot believe how ignorant those that are very fortunate members of the public are.
And indeed just a quarter of that for many of us on a pension.
The latest sickening and vomit provoking campaign by the evil men and women at the BBC. I wouldn’t have thought that even they could favour IS.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58814804
Despite the best efforts of the vomit inducing bias of the BBC we Mr & Mrs Joe Public have a mind of our own and yes BBC, we can make our own opinions, shock horror..!!!
https://order-order.com/2021/10/07/first-post-conference-polling-sees-parties-unchanged/
The BBC are slowly working to help get the IS terrorist sympathiser women and their families in Syria back amongst us in the UK.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58814804
“Islamic State mother Nicole Jack says ‘don’t sweep us under carpet'”.
I would comment that Nicole Jack swept herself and family “under the carpet” when she took her family to join the vicious cult, eventually marrying two terrorists into the bargain both of whom died”.
So now apparently because it didn’t go according to plan with the attempted genocide of many Western soldiers and non-IS people in the region she would like to switch sides.
No case to answer by the UK government in my opinion, there’s no place in the UK for anyone with these warped allegiances. Don’t forget that there are still many IS men out there as well as in the UK amongst us, some of whom she will almost certainly know or have links to.
About us
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
11am Radio4 FooC
– The Czech PM Andrej Babis fights his corner
BBC’s Rob Cameron
“trying to say Czechit is intimidating enough”
“they might try to form a coalition with the FAR RIGHT”
“Babis uses evil rhetoric like : EU Marxists and Eco terrorists”
– stories from an Afghan family in the UK
Why is this in FooC if it’s about the UK ?
“Over a hundred us Afgnas got of the plane in London”
“This is the second time I fled to UK, the first in 1999”
“I had travelled from Kabul with a large group of my BBC-Afghan colleagues”
mentioned they were given salmon sandwiches for breakfast
“in Afgh we only serve boiled veg to the very old”
“The empire of the US has accepted its defeat”
– a giant French insect farm
Alternative supplies of protein
– the Aland islands in the Baltic Sea technically independent from any country
“automous and demilitarised and Swedish speaking although in Finnish waters”
– Kenya’s culinary heritage.
The blurb says the Czech PM is accused in the Pandora Papers of having bought 16 properties in France, which he denies
the reporter didn’t tackle this.
I wonder how many UK Afghan refugees are here due to BBC connections ?
JC reports that the following local men have appeared in court as being part of a convoy which drove around north london shouting anti semitic threats –
Mohammed Iftikhar Hanif, 27; Jawaad Hussain, 24; Asif Ali, 25; and Adil Mota, 26,
All local men from Blackburn …
Bet thats gonna feature big on the BBC
It was just an appearance to enter pleas
The actual trial is at Wood Green Crown Court on 3 November.
All four men from Blackburn entered not guilty pleas, with Mr Mota’s lawyer telling the court that his client was travelling as part of the convoy but wasn’t involved in the incident.
On 20 September the BBC did report the charging of the Blackburn men
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58621498
The only tag they used was “Blackburn” ..there is no update story
I guess they are waiting for the end of the trial
BTW the JC tweet shows video filmed right in front of the court.. shots of the men entering, shots of the men leaving.
I guess it’s not a jury trial, but that is the public nature of justice, that the public can see the defendents enter the court.
The BBC did run this story
Tuesday : Anti-Semitic graffiti discovered by staff at Auschwitz death camp
Nine barracks were spray-painted with anti-Semitic phrases and slogans denying the Holocaust, according to the Auschwitz memorial and museum.
Their article was quite long https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58807699
Michael Rosen and Shayan Sardarizadeh of BBC disinformation promoted it
Then, in Beebworld, what better than a bit of Ed banging?
This prat keeps floating into view doesn’t he? – the BBC seem quite reticent about his bruv…
BHM : Nana Afua’s take
Hmmm…well, I can agree with her assertion that BHM is divisive; but take issue with her claim that ‘we were all black’ once. Black goes to the bone, in that there are skeletal and muscle mass differences between Eurasians and Sub-Sharan Africans: prognathism, bone density and mandible size, being the more significant non-dermal features. She also ignores the fact that Eurasians inherit some 2-5%of their DNA from Europe’s original inhabitants: our Neanderthal progenitors. Sub-Saharan Africans (id est ‘Black’ people) have little, or mostly NO genetic links with Neanderthals. Current thinking is the Neanderthals were probably light-skinned, and might have had the dread ginger hair gene. I say ‘current’ because, doubtless, the evidence will be tampered with in time, to accommodate a more ‘inclusive’ and PC-friendly narrative. The type of ‘economical with the truth’ upgrade that is, from hapless, girning, whitey Cheddar Man’, to the more sensational, and acceptable, blue-eyed black man, for example. Months after those headlines were trumpeted by the Beeb, one of the geneticists involved admitted that there was no way it could be said with any certainty, that ‘Cheddar Man’ was black, or even ‘dark-skinned’. He might well have had a gene for darker skin- but what would that mean? Mediterranean? Asian (North); Asian (South); David Dickinson ‘Permatan’? Who knows? But she, like others peddling the inclusivity myth, have extrapolated from the mere possibility of a darker skin, to a full-blown ‘black man’ (presumably including all the other sub-dermal differences). Doubtless, this will be the sort of twaddle, and scientific fakery trotted out to kids in school, as unchallengeable creed and fact.
Diffr’t folks, diffr’t strokes…
Vile still banging on using proxies. #Ccbgb
OT, but some demmed odd stuff out there.
leather seats ?
\\ “The 59-year-old gave up working”
I think I have found the cause of his problem
Why should the rest of us pay for him to give up working? //
I think… hope it is a spoof.
Including the Pugsleys squeezed in the back.
Lets hope he can afford a pair of shoes from the charity shop to walk his kids to school scoll
…”i just have what the boys leave behind..”….if true, heartbreaking.
Mind you, looking at the size of the kids, i bet they rarely leave anything..!!!!! Meal times must be interesting.
Apparently that car is a 13 yo Jaguar
The article also contradicts
“He couldn’t keep up with his mortgage payments and was forced to sell his house and his car.
Now he has to survive on a quarter of that money, and is reliant on food banks to help feed his family
After earning, at times, up to £4,000 a month, he was no longer able to work and look after his children.”
So he sold his car, and now he needs extra money to fuel his car
#2 If earned £4K month and he he sold all that he has thousands in savings ..out of which he has to cover the rent that his benefit doesn’t cover
I wonder how much the mother contributes to her kids upkeep ?
\\ The children were at home for over a year during lockdown.
Did he accidentally spend the fuel money he saved? //
Another post capturing the imagination of the country.
Lewis Goodhall also feels this is big news.
Lewis write this?
Rory planning on mandating every car in London is a Beetle with a plant holder?
…and how will that affect the solar cycles, Worwy?
Sheffield went the opposite direction…. perhaps somebody might ask Khant?
Magid Magid is a Somali-British race and climate justice activist/organiser and author who came to the UK as a refugee aged five. He is Founder & Director of Union of Justice. He was a member of the European Parliament representing Yorkshire & the Humber, Mayor of his beloved city, Sheffield and was also an elected councillor representing his community. He sits on the Board of Trustees for the think tank ‘Friends of Europe’ and is co-chair of refugee charity ‘City of Sanctuary Sheffield’.
Magid was also named one of TIME’s 100 rising stars shaping the future of the world.Magid is also a custard connoisseur.
https://www.magicmagid.com/
Tax volcanoes to stop them … erupting.
Injunction about as useful as for the insulation terrorists …
BBC News
“We’ve known for decades that general practice was in trouble.”
As we emerge from the pandemic, there have been calls for GPs to see more patients face-to-face. But is it realistic for doctor appointments to to return to normal?
BBC Newsnight https://bbc.in/3uQULGM
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Clearly not. But they should surely be paid the same as Strumpet?
ITV PRasNews
‘A documentary has been released about the Greenham women”
bottomline Britain still has nuclear weapons on it’s submarines
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Afghan and his wife and children CRAMMED into 3 Watford hotel rooms
https://www.itv.com/news/2021-10-06/afghans-stuck-in-life-of-limbo-living-in-hotel-rooms-as-they-wait-for-help
sorry for the duplicate tweet
All women – so sexist?
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Contract value £560,000
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https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search/Results?page=1#e8d74e0f-ef3e-4518-add9-d73ec87df39b
BBC reporter promoting ITV story
Has BBC N. America assigned a 2SLGBTQQIA+ Editor yet?
Art vs. Life in the bubble.
Re the trial of the grooming gang cop
I did say he must’ve been acquitted cos there was no news
Now I see the trial has still not taken place after all these years
One year ago the news was
“The trial has been listed for October 4 2021
Ditta is on unconditional bail.
The 15 other defendants are on bail with conditions, including to live and sleep at their home address and inform police of any plans to travel outside the UK.”
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/trial-police-officer-15-others-19047876
Ah AP has news
Hot off the (BBC) press….
Heapster going digital yet?
Step 1 – don’t buy this book to save the planet.
BBC Eco-warriors murdering trees to make paper for their propaganda
The daily radio show has another 5 episodes from the 18th
BBC News
Thousands worldwide have taken ivermectin to fight Covid. But there are serious errors in key studies that the drug’s promoters rely on.
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Relying on errors in reporting is what other promoters depend upon.
Never even heard of it.
Wait until the BBC gets to the mid winter.
My toes caught covid from farts
Crossword clue tomo?
Could be – but more a Daily Sport sort of a virus headline really
Do you have a hankie to hand? Ready to use it?
Sob, sob. The BBC are keen that you do so.
On Toady this morning, they interviewed a ‘UK’ female in a Syrian or similar refugee camp. She has three kids. Sob, sob. She left the UK to join ISIS. But her ISIS fighter husband was killed, leaving her and her three children. Sob, sob. The BBC report that places like Sweden and Belgium are starting to take back their traitors. But, gnashing of teeth, , the evil Tory government refuses to do so. Sob, sob. So her children are being left on the scrapheap by our unfeeling Tory government.
Sob, sob. I mean, it’s not their fault is it? Sob, sob.
Oh dear.
How sad.
Never mind.
I’m looking for something to care about there, but no luck.
Rog heads north from his activities in Cumbria.
Tim likely thrilled at this supporter’s bio.
Clear, objective…. ‘Analysis’.
Next Tuesday : “Lynsey Hanley tells the story of Simon who bought his first house at the age of just 20.
… Simon has been able to build a secure life and doesn’t have the money worries that many people have to contend with.”
Wow how did he do that ?
Simon lost his parents at a young age, meaning he had sufficient capital to purchase a property outright
I bought my first house at 18. And my parents were alive.
Do I get a feature?
Wait a minute…. have I got this right ? – there is a test that can be taken that shows an individual’s actual immunological status wrt coronavirus ?
That is partway to divining if an individual would be prone to a “bad outcome”.
An MSM fave.
Nine things that cost the same as the £10m Chilcot report
https://www.cityam.com/things-cost-same-m-chilcot/
Alastair Campbell had Iraq dossier changed to fit US claims
This article is more than 11 years old
‘WMD in a year’ allegation halved original timescale after compilers told to compare contents with Bush speech
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/jan/10/alastair-campbell-iraq-dossier-inquiry
Totally different face to the Nigerian playwright they had on Tuesday night
… https://twitter.com/andrewrtalent/status/1446089317038936065
Suits are cultural appropriation.
Gotta have a statchew…..
BBC Now reporting that Nestle are saying that the driver shortage is causing problems with his company….more panic buying, Quality Street and chocolate shortage…
You can see the BBC headlines in a few days……”CHOCOLATE AND SWEET SHORTAGE IN STORES DEPRIVES CHILDREN OF CHRISTMAS, GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE ASHAMED”…
Shall we have a shortage headline competition ?
The run on laxatives awaits …
Christmas stuffed – no paxo ….