Start the week 1 November 2021

The BBC is now full on ‘environmental’ . There is no dissent . No contrary opinion . No room to question .It has a Religion .

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  1. Fedup2 says:

    The BBC in house paper has a long reverential piece about a BBC reporter who tried to investigate Jimmy Saville after he died ,
    Its a tedious piece which concluded with the observation that ‘ wimmin are listened to now when they make sex offence allegatios’ –
    The air head didnt mention the paki racist paedo rings still busily going about their work …,

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Has the BBC changed?

      http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42242630 {bbc.co.uk 05dec2017}
      – Note that this BBC fake news detection article is in the entertainment and arts section – not the news section. Is fake news just entertainment then and has no real consequence on our lives?
      – Note the release of the story is at 11pm, so this story will be hidden by more important news. Timing is everything.
      – Note how the quote from the BBC Director says news from other sources will be old,half lie or a complete lie ,
      he does not say it could be true. An example of using omission.
      “I think that people are getting the news all over the place – there’s more information than ever before. But, as we know, some of it is old news, some of it is half truths. Some of it is just downright lies…” – BBC Director of News James ‘£340K + £340K Pension – wages paid uner threat of prison’ Harding

      BBC Fake News Examples:

      BBC keeping a pedophile in its organisation and stopping reporters from revealing the truth

      BBC Failing to report on the Sadist Rape of Children, using weasel words like grooming to describe it.

      BBC Using the word divorce to describe a demand from the EU, now they started putting ‘so called’ in front of the word. Not one person questioned this word and how it reflects the EU Brexit Demand.

      BBC Showing Diane Abbott walking off a stage at Police Conference and cutting it just before it shows her going the wrong way, looking stupid and having to walk across the stage. In the same BBC news show it showed Theresa May as idiot robot dancing (just incase you didn’t get the message).

      BBC with Gavin Hewitt 2015 Replacing videos with still photo footage so not to show a migrant being violent to a female migrant, dragging her to the floor whilst she was pregnant and had a child in her arms.

      BBC Cropping an image of the President on the USA writing a executive order and comparing it to a room full of men only Saudi Arabia meeting on women’s rights. The original photo had a women in it but was cropped out.

      BBC Showing a picture of Jeremy Corbyn on a Christmas Jumper saying is Christmas getting earlier. I complained about this and they said the BBC is not political or biased! So why choose a political and bias picture? Jerry Christmas from the BBC.

      BBC Keep showing stories about the £350 Million Brexit Bus – but they produced a fact article which said it was correct, just that there are two values – before rebate and after. The BBC never used their own information to correct other people on shows or panels.

      BBC Lets presenters send political messages via twitter which breaks the guidelines of impartial and don’t care – Gary ‘£1.75m’ Lineker and his ‘no positive in Brexit’ and linking to The New European website (anti-brexit) and full of hate.

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      • taffman says:

        MarkyMark
        Please let Nadine Dorries know.
        (She probably knows already as she and her researchers must look at this site).

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Oh taffman
          You give red tory researchers far too much credibility . Politicians dont go looking for stuff – they have to be forced to see it – record what they have seen – and be unsble to re interpret it – all that skill gets them the £85 thousand basic plus package .,.

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          • taffman says:

            I think the “red tories” will be in for a shock at the next general election.

            If recollect correctly, Boris thanked those people that “lent him their vote” in the last eneral election?
            Well It will not happen again .

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          • MarkyMark says:

            Dear Darren Henry,

            Do you know about the following which will have a big impact on the World’s climate and our future planet?

            China allows three children in major policy shift
            Published 31 May (BBC)
            – Large population growth China currently has 1.4 billion people at present.

            China’s Monster Three Gorges Dam Is About To Slow The Rotation Of The Earth
            Cutler Cleveland , The Energy Watch Jun 18, 2010, 2:23 PM (Business Insider)
            – Rotation of the Earth can change weather patterns and climate.

            China is the largest developing country in the world. China is still considered a developing country based on the criteria of the World Bank and the United Nations. (World Atlas)
            – Thus China can get cheap loans and be exempt from impositions put on developed countries.

            China has banned BBC World News from broadcasting in the country, its television and radio regulator announced on Thursday. 12 February (BBC)
            – I guess you if you cannot report on a Country then it can do no wrong.

            Did you know about the above and if not then what are you opinions on them and their impact on the World?

            Yours sincerely,
            Mr H

            https://www.writetothem.com/write

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        • Philip_2 says:

          Reading the INDY newspaper today and Nadine Dorries has a few words to say about BBC NEWS. Taking to local newspaper groups struggling with falling revenue, whilst the BBC takes advantage and offers ‘recycled news for you’.

          ‘Dorries urges public to buy papers as best defence against fake news’
          She argues ..”the best defence against the disinformation circulated by the major technology firms”. This means Google, Facebook news feeds… but also BBC*

          * be in no doubt, the BBC’s plans to expand its local; news services in direct competition with commercial outlets would be hugely damaging for local journalism – and by extension local democracy’, she said.

          Henry Faure Walker (NMA trade body for local news media) said in addition: ” ..The Government needed to prevent the BBC’s sprawling platforms encroaching into territory already serves by local commercial providers.”…”The BBC needs to be prevented from rolling its tanks, funded by the license fee, into the lawn of the hard pressed local news sector”.

          I could not find it in today’s online version unless it retitled for online version
          You may find it here under MEDIA section by Adam Sherwin (page 15).
          https://inews.co.uk/category/news/politics

          I could not agree more. Without independent newspapers (we have over twenty in the UK, a lot more than Europe or even the US). The BBC feasts on the Guardian as ‘mainstream’ which has damaged The Guardian readership (in sales) for over 20 years, the BBC gives it away ‘recycled’ and edited for ‘free’. So the BBC cuts and damages local and national news and then invents its own ‘version’. Presenting its own false news opinion as fact in 24 hour news.

          Which leads to the next problem…

          BBC + ‘Lazy journalism’ and BBC impartiality…
          ….” The BBC employs 6,000 people in news, four times more than our most successful newspaper group. So why are real scoops, bold investigations and jaw-dropping news stories far more likely to come from its rivals, whether in print or on television? Sunday papers have small newsrooms but routinely set the agenda. And it seemed symbolic that although the BBC has so many staff in the United States, it was ITV’s lone wolf reporter Robert Moore who led the only news crew that filmed the rioters storming the Capitol. 

          Meanwhile, the BBC behemoth churns out its pitiful diet of bland bulletins filled with predictable reports, banal analysis, and dreary vox pops designed to avoid causing a fuss. These are fleshed out by formulaic daily “rollouts” of tedious stories planned by centralised teams stifled by groupthink.

          A statue of George Orwell stands outside BBC headquarters. Inscribed on the wall behind is the great man’s phrase that “if liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear” – something the managers inside the building have forgotten. “

          https://inews.co.uk/opinion/bbc-journalists-boring-journalism-impartiality-bosses-1277306

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        • MarkyMark says:

          They know they have to make a few noises – nothing more. Enough to keep the expenses going.

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  2. tomo says:

    War on Terror 2.0 : Part 1 – Patriot Purge

    Tucker Carlson documentary

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  3. tomo says:

    I needed a chuckle – it would have been even better if the trolley was simply loaded with Buckfast Tonic Wine.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Do they get taxed on weight of these goods being transported?

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      • tomo says:

        Government chartered aircraft (there’s a photo of the team trouping down the air stairs) – tax? – probably not…. !

        African leaders do it all the time – seen it several times over the years. I wonder if there was a fleet of high end limos chartered to shuttle the shoppers around = par for the course.

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        • Scroblene says:

          Bond Street (W1), will be gritting their pretty little veneered teeth at all that money being syphoned away from their satin pockets and spent in another country!

          Have the BBC picked up on this yet?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Diplomats – don’t ya love ‘em ?

      ( guess which one will claim ‘asylum ‘?)

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  4. Zephir says:

    1960s : oil gone in 10 yeats

    1970s another ice age in 10 years

    1980s acid rain will destroy all crops in 10 years

    1990s the ozone layer will be destroyed in 10 years

    2000 the ice cap gone in 10 years

    none happened but all resulted in increased taxes

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    • taffman says:

      Question: Where has all this carbon come from ? Did it exist before the industrial revolution or did it come from another planet?

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  5. taffman says:

    I note that the front page of Al Beeb’s web site today is entirley dedicated to Cop 26.

    Has Biden had enough ? I undrstand that he has gone home already?

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    • tomo says:

      taffman

      Joe skedaddling is at least in part I feel just not letting him be in one place long enough so people can see the state of him… – it’s also a hint that f-all has been agreed and he’s literally being distanced from the “finale”.

      I do wonder how big a flap is happening on that Virginia governor election. If McAuliffe loses – that’ll be a huge humiliation for the folk behind Joe.

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  6. MarkyMark says:

    New James Bond film – do all the cast hate the UK and British History but are willing to take money for a British Institution?
    ….
    Labour’s Keir Starmer says next James Bond should be played by a woman
    The Labour leader said he couldn’t pick his favourite 007 but said the next actor who takes on the iconic role from Daniel Craig should be female
    …..

    How All Women Shortlists could be banned – and what Labour are doing about it
    All-women shortlists have become a victim of their own success. To continue using them the Labour Party may need a change in the law and it needs to decide if they are still necessary when the Parliamentary Labour Party is 51% female

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    • taffman says:

      MarkyMark
      “Labour’s Keir Starmer says next James Bond should be played by a woman”
      Another ‘own goal’ by Stamer.

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  7. digg says:

    An eminent Climate Scientist says he will need more colours to depict yearly temperatures due to climate change.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/cop26-climate-graph-warm-planet-b1949745.html

    I have been aware for some time that the BBC weather reports are using ever darker red shades for the same temperatures to enhance the fear factor for some time. For instance a normal temperature of around 14 would have had a yellowish tone but now it is snow depicted as a deeper orange hue.

    This is just a sleight of hand conjuring trick and is such childish and untruthful behaviour it’s insulting to the intelligence and it needs to be exposed.

    They really will stop at nothing to give birth to their new religion and hence global social order!

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  8. Guest Who says:

    1 down, 69,999,999 to go.

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  9. Guest Who says:

    “I know, let’s get Champion back again….”

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    • Guest Who says:

      It’s not whether there are enough women in politics, it’s the media support to thick, screaming harpies over those able to think.

      I have not always agreed with her or Kate Hoey, but at least they can articulate a rational argument.

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    • tomo says:

      only 11 days left

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Sarkar is a writer, lecturer, journalist and political commentator. A contributing editor of Novara Media, she has written for the Guardian, Independent and Huffington Post, with regular appearances on British television and radio, including “Question Time”, “Good Morning Britain” and “Jeremy Vine on 5”.

      She has been called one of “the internet’s best left-wing thinkers” by the Spectator, and was named Media Personality of the Year by the Asian Media Awards in 2019.

      Sarkar also lectures at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, and has taught Global Politics at Anglia Ruskin University.

      Commenting on the deal, she said: “I’m over the moon that Bloomsbury has decided to publish my first book, Minority Rule. I’ve been nurturing this idea for a long time, trying to find the right home for it. Bloomsbury has a reputation for publishing epoch-defining non-fiction, and it’s such an honour to join a list of authors whose books have been powerful influences on my own thinking.”

      https://www.thebookseller.com/news/bloomsbury-bags-ash-sarkars-debut-1267162

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      • Guest Who says:

        The self-assigned sobriquet ‘Champion’ has of late passed into history, leaving only speculation as to who at the bbc checked what facts that saw her rise to prominence.

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        • Fedup2 says:

          I thought she might be a muse of mr A neill – formerly of GBNews …..as I think her first TV appearance was with him ….from their stardom …

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  10. taffman says:

    “Richborough: Holding cell for gladiators found at Roman site”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-59079284
    Shouldn’t it all be pulled down and demolished because of its links with slavery ?
    Over to you wokes ……………

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  11. Guest Who says:

    Small hat tip to The Economist for an inconvenient reminder.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      When the Three Gorges Dam was built, 39 trillion kilograms of water from the Yangtze River built up behind it to 175 meters above sea level. This altered the Earth’s moment of inertia changed ever so slightly, causing the rotation to move more slowly.27 Mar 2014

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    • Old Goat says:

      The “other” greenhouse gas is water vapour…

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  12. Guest Who says:

    Oooo…. Money and Luvvie power.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      While most of us spent our New Year’s Eve teetering in some bar or sitting at home alone in a puddle of cheap champagne, glad we only have to do this once a year, rich and famous playboy Leonardo DiCaprio decided to have two New Year’s Eves, on different continents. He was in Australia with Jonah Hill and Jamie Foxx and others, partying on a yacht in the Sydney Harbor over the weekend and hanging out at a club on Monday night until 1 a.m. Then he and all his friends got on a chartered jet and flew 13 hours to Las Vegas, arriving in time for midnight.

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  13. Guest Who says:

    Bex likely a Civ. Eng?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Hussein destroyed the marshlands during the 1990s as an act of repression against the Marsh Arabs, the Ma’dan, who rebelled against his regime. … Within a few years, the marshes dramatically shrank to less than 2,000 square kilometers (7700 square miles), one-tenth of their size during the 1960s.4 Sept 2013

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    • JimS says:

      Pignatelli, Schoenefeldt, Hirigoyen, all good British names.

      Don’t import people, don’t import problems.

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  14. s.trubble says:

    As I was reading Mr Tim Davie,s 10 point plan about bBC bias and stopped after 3 or 4 points.

    Ms Dorries do not fall for this .

    This is a 10 point plan with 10 cul de sacs. The last thing you will hear when buried in one of of these will be a beeboid saying..”.well I think we got that one just about right”

    Point 1 . Lets talk and agree on Licence Fee de – criminalisation

    Point 2 Let,s talk about right – sizing the bBC,,,,25,000 like minded people……err N O.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      S
      I read it at the weekend – even tried reading between the lines – my head turned to mush with the empty nothing of it ..

      No change in the evil BBC empire .

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  15. Sick of it all says:

    https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/london-aldi-high-holborn-welwyn-garden-city-holborn-b961171.html

    ‘Tesco is launching its first checkout-free high street store where shoppers can pick up their groceries and leave without the need for a till. It is the latest retail giant to open a store where checkouts are replaced by high-tech cameras designed to track the items shoppers place in their baskets.’

    Being local to me, I’ve observed the evolution of this abomination from a cash-only store to a benchmark in exclusion and technocratic elitism. Plenty of time during the Covid off-season to rush through the upgrade; from cashless to till-less in 18 months. No hanging about. Chunky Tube-style entry gates and cameras in your face from the get go, total absence of diversity amongst the staff ie: no white people allowed. In fact, nobody else is allowed in if they don’t have the app.

    Perhaps we’ll soon have to scan our vaccine status app instead? Happier times ahead, I’m sure.

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  16. taffman says:

    “BP profits rise amid soaring energy prices”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx33n725jvno
    Thats bleeding obviouse .

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  17. taffman says:

    “COP26: Was US President Biden asleep or just resting his eyes?”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-59128875
    What do you think?

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  18. tomo says:

    I see the BBC have lodged a fake copyright claim to get YouTube to takedown Ben Pile’s FLOP26 livestream

    tonight:

    The inimitable Richard North

    Elsewhere – we know this will be ignored by the faithful:

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  19. Fedup2 says:

    Look – all because a couple of highly selected – highly qualified plod assigned to secure a murder scene take pictures of the bodies and circulate them to their mates

    – doesnt them bad convicted criminals does it ?

    And the nut nut is boasting about recruiting another 20 thousands of the clowns

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  20. Guest Who says:

    And so the revolving door swings…

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Shrewd move – c4 could be flogged off and she ll make even more dosh .
      Maybe snowy can be the noo koonsberg …they are all related after all

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      • Guest Who says:

        Given his advocacy for actions to Tories, surely an exclusive with new, emboldened Swedish sex goblin is on the cards now?

        It could be called ‘Leaves on the line, fundamentally’.

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      • Scroblene says:

        Well I never a mad bloke who was once fimed at Glasto with some idiotic mates yelling ‘Bless the Tories’!

        Surely not the same individual?

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    • StewGreen says:

      See the media is DIVERSE
      = “same London mates all the time”

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  21. Fedup2 says:

    On the twiter our betters are still taking far too much stick over flying to glasgow in private jets and then having to be driven around in luxury cars .

    They are doing a very difficult job saving the planet for us and deserve our full support

    That was an official statement by the BBC ( they would if they could )

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  22. Guest Who says:

    Guuuuuuuuush.

    #CCBGB

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    • MarkyMark says:

      While most of us spent our New Year’s Eve teetering in some bar or sitting at home alone in a puddle of cheap champagne, glad we only have to do this once a year, rich and famous playboy Leonardo DiCaprio decided to have two New Year’s Eves, on different continents. He was in Australia with Jonah Hill and Jamie Foxx and others, partying on a yacht in the Sydney Harbor over the weekend and hanging out at a club on Monday night until 1 a.m. Then he and all his friends got on a chartered jet and flew 13 hours to Las Vegas, arriving in time for midnight.

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    • Scroblene says:

      Who he?

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  23. vlad says:

    NOT on the BBC news: while BoJo rambles on, the Imbecile checks his watch – “Is it time for my meds yet?”

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  24. Guest Who says:

    Go Graun, Go!

    I note that it has garnered more engagement that its COP blather.

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  25. G.W.F. says:

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  26. MarkyMark says:

    COP26: Should there be limits on meat eating? And more questions
    Published4 hours ago
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58925049

    Anti-natalists: The people who want you to stop having babies
    By Jonathan Griffin
    BBC Trending
    Published13 August 2019

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-49298720

    Sunderland businessman’s second wife website ‘benefits women’
    Published23 October 2017
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-41667070

    Eid Al-Adha 2021: Outdoor prayers return in Birmingham
    Published20 July
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-57903644

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    • BigBrotherCorporation says:

      “Should there be limits on meat eating?”

      How exactly would that be enforced?
      -Limits on how much meat you can buy in a supermarket at a time? What stops you going to every shop in town and buying meat from each?
      -Meat ration vouchers? Blackmarket in forgeries and vegans/vegetarians selling theirs?
      -Surprise raids by the Meat police to look in your freezer? What about the cold store hidden in the shed?
      -Spot check analyses for too much protein in your faeces? So what, I like lots of lentils gov!

      Living in the country, if they put too much tax on meat, or try to ration what I can buy, I’ll just do what my grandfather did, turn half the garden into a pigpen, and invest in a shotgun (not allowed? ok, make my own crossbow), get some ferrets, snares, rabbit nets etc… there’s plenty of meat out there they can’t ‘police’.

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  27. MarkyMark says:

    Are smart motorways dangerous?
    Motorways in general are pretty safe – they account for far fewer casualties than rural or urban roads, despite the high speeds involved.

    The big question is whether smart motorways are more dangerous than conventional ones.

    Controlled motorways where speed limits vary are not the problem. Statistically, they are safer than any other kind.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59134013

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    • StewGreen says:

      The government has always said that smart motorways PER CAR are safer than conventional motorways
      cos the vehicles are spread through 4 carriageways not 3.
      I am interested if any journo can show evidence against that
      It’s certain that both are safer than conventional A-roads.
      … The risk is that someone afraid of Smart motorways
      would take an A-road instead and thus have an accident.

      The media are able to air an emotional wife who will say my husband would still be alive if he’d been on the hard shoulder.
      They are not able to air the 3 wives whose husbands didn’t die , cos the smart motorway is safer overall.

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      • Thoughtful says:

        I read a recent report which claimed the majority of the gantries are either broken or completely non functional which renders them completely inoperative as ‘smart motorways’.

        The statistics need to be taken when the so called ‘smart’ system is operating and not just the stretch of road as that is the only meaningful way of telling.

        https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10112105/Smart-motorway-riddled-glitches-TWO-THIRDS-M62-message-signs-broken.html

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      • G.W.F. says:

        Last week on a smart motorway, with a much ignored 50mph limit I did an emergency brake when a car in front of me broke down and the driver attempted to move to the side where a column of HGVs were hurtling down the inside lane way above the speed limit and other HGVs overtaking him and me in the third lane. He was trapped both sides and stuck. I managed to swing past him skidding in front of the HGVs and continued. God knows what happened to the guy who had broken down. Its the A roads for me when the Motorway is smart.

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      • digg says:

        Having been close to disaster on a smart motorway I know from experience that the problem component is the drivers. In my case a car spluttered to a halt 100 yards ahead in the slow lane. The following 3 cars all ran into each other’s back-end, then another three or four cars violently swerved into the next lane to avoid the carnage.

        So there is the problem, drivers on motorways EXPECT all the vehicles ahead to keep moving as they are lulled into a false sense of security. e.g. everyone following each other at a constant speed.

        I have no doubt that when the foggy season begins we will witness multiple deaths on smart motorways.

        My wife totally refuses to go on them and will drive many extra B road miles to keep away from them.

        For myself I drive at around 4 times the usual distance from the car in front thus nullifying the whole purpose of them which is simply to pack more vehicles down the same bit of road.

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Digg
          I ride a motor scooter from time to time – I work on the assumption that every other driver is out to kill me . The last serious attempt was on Sunday when someone stopped in the middle of the road and invited me to ride into the back of them .

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Sure is a deterent not to break down …

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  28. G.W.F. says:

    Just watching a duet from Boris and Laura K. at the COP. Well rehearsed with Boris gaining brownie points from his BBC bosses.
    Followed by someone called Anooshka laying on our guilt for not helping poor countries

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  29. Thoughtful says:

    Readers need to watch this reasonably short piece on how the media along with the Biden government are manipulating statistics to present climate in the worst light possible, tantamount to lying!

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    • Up2snuff says:

      What the recent CO2 figures for 2021 revealed (yes, I know the year hasn’t ended but I think they were a ‘projection’ as some entertainment for a small party someone was having up north) was the breathtaking news that it is possible our woodlands, forests and rainforests may be breathing out more CO2 than previously thought. It was said that wildfires and forestry clearance (for various reasons) will have played a part in the increased CO2 emissions for 2021 but it was interesting that someone said (may have been a scientist):

      “We just don’t know.”

      Funny that, according to the BBC “The science is settled.” and so there can be no debate. But maybe Roger Harrabin or Matt McGrath should look into whether the previous assumptions that woods & forests absorbed much more CO2 than they expirated should be revisited?

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  30. JimS says:

    My bit of speculation re. the Salisbury rail crash:

    Perhaps ‘train 1’ ignored signals and the route was set for ‘train 2’? Both trains tried to use the same track through the tunnel but ‘train 1’ got there first.

    The track on the other side is buckled at the junction, perhaps because ‘train 1’ hit the point set against it and that applied forces to the point on the other line?

    If my speculation is right ‘train 2’ had the route set for it, clear signals and all. If ‘train 1’ over-ran its signals and then derailed cutting cables ‘train 2’ would pass ‘dead equipment’ and get no warning. No need for any fancy explanations.

    Of course the first-revealed ‘information’ in these matters is inevitably flawed and the conclusions could well be completely different.

    What I am sure of though is that ‘climate change’ will not be a cause, and yes, they have already set that dog running!

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    • zxcvbnm says:

      how dare you talk about a train crash whilst there is both a climate crisis AND climate symposium underway.

      ANd how dare you suggest that the cause of the crash was anything other than CO2 emissions!!

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Was it a deltic . I love deltics . I never got one as a kid . Or that one that picks up the mail bag .
        Apparently there leaves on the line in the tunnel …

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  31. StewGreen says:

    ITV local news 80% COP26 cheerleading, anti-oil etc
    Now they’re promoting the soap opera Global warming crossover thing

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  32. StewGreen says:

    Tonight’s BBC local news
    #1 Booster vax PRasNews
    #3 Miscarriage club

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  33. Guest Who says:

    Now it is getting more fun.

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  34. davylars says:

    Thought it would be appropriate to post a screen grab of tonight’s power generation whilst the COP26 circus and the 1000’s of hypocrites keep rolling along.

    Note ..coal is at 4%
    Wind… 3%

    It would appear that half of our power coming from Europe is French nuclear ☢️ power..

    I don’t think we can count on the 6% biofuels any more following the fantastic breakthrough on halting rainforest deforestation being shoved down our throats this evening..
    They are telling us trees are the lungs of the world..

    I hope this image somehow gets to be shown at the conferences, to bring it home to these hypocritical clowns on the futility of this circus….

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    • Fedup2 says:

      There is no way we should be dependent on the French or anyone else for Juice that should be an absolute priority

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    • StewGreen says:

      8:30pm 57.6% fossil fuel ..3.2% wind
      Richard North said reading off Gridwatch

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  35. Guest Who says:

    Retired headteacher.

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    • Thoughtful says:

      If Ash Sarkar was PM she would be Chair or Dear Leader. There would be prison camps and re-education camps, people deemed ‘racist’ (more or less everyone White) would be dead.

      The rest of the population would be starving save for the military which she would have increased massively to protect her government.

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  36. Guest Who says:

    BBC pr as news jumps the shark.

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    • Thoughtful says:

      I can’t think of any two days, in fact I can’t think of any day, I can barely remember what I ate at the last meal or even who I am !

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  37. Guest Who says:

    Just as the BBC ensures it will be.

    This has been covered before.

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  38. Guest Who says:

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  39. Guest Who says:

    And Wendy’s off…

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  40. Guest Who says:

    Bugger insects; they seem to be eating each other.

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  41. Fedup2 says:

    As the green onslaught continues – and the proles feel further away from having a say – it’s time for the midweeker. Thanks for all the comments ….

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