Midweek 10 November 2021

For a small Fee – obtained and declared in accordance with the rules I helped write – I am willing to declare this the weekend thread – as part of my public service of course .The BBC sure is enjoying throwing the mud ..

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  1. AsISeeIt says:

    Welcome to ladies day once again today on our press frontpages.

    She may be exclusively of interest to hard-left politics nerds and the voters of New York’s 14th congressional district but freshman congress woman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC to her fanboys) is of course a shoo-in for the Guardian pin up spot.

    She may never have drafted, helped negotiate, process or passed any serous piece of legislation into law – but as a political performer she’s quite a star.

    Relax, politics isn’t about legislative hard work, it’s about PR and celebrity: ‘The US congresswoman takes time out at Cop26 in Glasgow

    Fittingly the Gruan finds her in photo-op mode at Cop, the virtue signal stage par excellence. Where she: ‘...tries a Scottish favourite

    The photocredit sadly going not to some busy jobbing Guardian cameraperson but to AOC’s very own social media account: ‘Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez/Instagram‘ – she loves a selfie.

    And the Scottish favourite is the legendary orange hangover cure Irnbru.

    Oddly appropriate to this story: ‘MP “wheeled from airport” after drinking on plane to Gibralta. The Defence Secretary is to complain to the leaders of Labour and the SNP… “lack of respect for the enduring work of our Armed Forces”‘ (Telegraph)

    Dressing down for MPs “who got drunk” on flight to visit troops‘ (Times) – no names, no pack drill, but two of the lushes were SNP members.

    Fittingly comedian Paul Whitehouse, in his guise as denizen of the gentleman’s club, three-sheets-to the-wind, teller of tall labyrinthine tales character, Rowley Birkin QC appears on the frontpage of the Daily Star with his catchphrase: ‘I was very, very drunk‘ – this guest appearance highlighting the news: ‘Cocktail sales surge as we ditch our ales‘ – I’d have pinned Rowley as a brandy man.

    One can’t help but envision a retired, plastered, Boris Johnson by the fireside retelling tales of his career highlights in the manner of dear old Rowley: “Blah-blah-blah, Eton and Oxford… Alexander de Pfeffel! Horrible bolshy little man… by the name of Livingstone, I presume? So before I knew where I was they made me Mayor of London! More bicycles than Shanghai in the springtime… Whooo… strung me up… put a strain on the old knackers… waving me little flags. Blam! Olympic gold medals by the score. Ooooh, women? Dozens of ’em. D’you know some were dressed like black letterboxes. Mecca… I told ’em. Bub-bub-bub… Brexit. Interminable torture. Blah-blah-blah. Get it done! Then this awful lurgy broke out. Personally, I’d survived for years on a diet of poisonous monkey brains. Suddenley surrounded by a peculiar tribe of little bald boffins… As far as the eye could see. Arms like pincushions. Jab-jab-jab! She was a looker… toothy… she eat nothing but green salad. Princess Yuk-Yuk they called her, or somesuch. Of course I married her. So I woke up and found myself in Glasgow saying yes, yes, I do… but I’m afraid… I was very, very drunk

    But it’s ladies day so we will move on.

    Just as we were happy to celebrate our Malala’s marriage yesterday and were thinking how nice that she’s found her chap, we sense the Feminists may have been a little discomforted with a young female role model who plumps for family life. Alice Thompson in the Times wades in lest the sistas are caught scoffing at cultural differences: ‘Like Malala I married young‘ – nice to hear women have media permission to prioritise family over career.

    The Sun calls out our Meghan for apparently telling a porky or two: ‘Duchess book bombshell. Little Miss Forgetful

    The freebie Metro celebrates our other rival Duchess winning the PR war: ‘Duchess on parade. Kate at Imperial War Museum

    Not to be outdone BBC heroine Moira Stewart clebrates: ‘My mother’s wartime bravery‘ in the ‘i’ paper.

    The ‘i’ passes us their opinion: ‘Stop the Diana dramas. Time to leave Princess alone

    The same organ intrigues us with their feature: ‘New legal case discovered that turns trans rights on their head‘ – this brainteaser is accompanied by a pic of a Scots chap in a kilt.

    And finally, some PR advice. If you’re a posh boy celebrity who has to admit to the privilege of public school – here’s how best to handle the issue: ‘I was bullied at public school. Marvel’s reluctant villain, Will Poulter‘ (‘i’) – well played, sir.

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  2. Halifax says:

    Dear BBC
    Today is the 11th of November a day we remember all those that have fallen defending our rights to live our lives in a free and democratic system.

    Obviously in recent years you have made it clear that you do not support the freedom of the individual and that you actively support systems such as the ones we fought against and the lives lost in those gallant wars we remember today.

    Those lives were lost to allow you to support transgender rights and the freedom to stick oneself to the queen’s Highway to name but a few.

    So I am surprised that you don’t even have one line of remeberence but many many lines pursuing your anarchist views which many of your customers do not support.

    So may I just finish with a simple statement that reflects the thoughts of the majority in the UK.

    Your a set of cu ts .
    Halifax

    Hi halifax – i hope are ok . I have had to make a small editorial change . Hope u dont mind

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    • MarkyMark says:

      ‘Sneering’: Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty slammed for making fun of Union Jack flag

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    • Rich says:

      This it as far as Armistice Day goes on the Bbbc webshite Homepage at present.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-59236624

      Knitted poppies. Not sure that those people involved are diverse enough for the Bbbc but it certainly appears to be much more of a true picture than that normally shoved down our throats.

      No mention of the importance of this day on Bbbc NI at all, in a country where it remains of huge cultural and symbolic significance to at least half of the population, and I doubt that this will be mentioned by them either.

      https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/posters-placed-at-enniskillen-war-memorial-on-eve-of-armistice-day-branded-grossly-offensive-41040814.html

      There were 12 people blown to bits 34 years ago by the heroes of these bastards, targeted because of their religious beliefs and their cultural identity, callously murdered as they honoured the fallen of all persuasions who fought against such treachery.

      And still there are those who revel in and celebrate such barbaric acts, enabled by the weakness, the apathy and the duplicity of our governing and chattering classes. They are allowed to control the narrative and to rewrite history in order to appease them, and the Bbbc are at the forefront of those who not only allow this but who actively encourage it.

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    • Old Goat says:

      Hear, hear.

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    • dafydd says:

      Halifax….

      Well said…

      As an ex soldier i find the attitude of the BBC towards those incredible people who sacrificed everything during many conflicts just appalling. Ok there may be the odd veteran who they may deem as news worthy and give them some air time but as a hole they dont give a sh-t.

      I genuinely believe those lumps of Primordial Slime who run and present at the BBC need to hang there heads in shame.

      No longer do they consider the majority they only pander to the loony minority.

      By the way, C-NTS can be occasionally useful, the C-NTS at the BBC are certainly not

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    • Halifax says:

      No problem with the editorial and yes im fine thank you.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Halifax – I’m glad to hear that on both . I share your sentiment and feel that word it the most appropriate but I have to be the puritan .

        I’m overseas heading back to Blighty . In my London life I’d often head to the cenotaph on the 11th at 11 but only my thoughts will be there this year . Field of Remembrance next week though .

        For anyone interested in such matters … I’d recommend beavers account of Arnhem – which I’ve just finished .

        It’s unfortunate that the public memory we be filled by the Attenborough sanitised version – which I don’t think conveyed the suffering all round … nor the reprisals the Germans took afterward …

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        • Halifax says:

          I had the honour of meeting one of my uncles friends who took part in Market Garden.
          He trained for 9 months at Ringway Manchester then flew from a southern airfield to be dropped into Arnhem on what was his first every action.
          On landing next to a woods he was gathering his stuff when he felt a tap on his shoulder, it was a German soldier who waved with his rifle for him to put his arms up.
          That was his total war and spent the rest of the war in a POW camp until 1945. He laughed.

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  3. Guest Who says:

    Exciteable Ashna is clearly Sky’s eco Nadiya.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Hydrogen fuel cells produce electricity by combining hydrogen and oxygen atoms. The hydrogen reacts with oxygen across an electrochemical cell similar to that of a battery to produce electricity, water, and small amounts of heat. Many different types of fuel cells are available for a wide range of applications.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The cost of producing grey hydrogen — made from unabated natural gas or coal, and pumping 830 million tonnes of CO2 into the air each year — is currently between $0.70 and $2.20/kg, largely depending on the price of natural gas or coal.27 Apr 2021

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Then again, hydrogen isn’t always clean to produce. It’s expensive to pull hydrogen from water. Non-renewable sources of hydrogen, such as oil and natural gas, are much cheaper, but using them still puts a drain on our fossil fuels supplies. Ironically, the carbon dioxide released in the process of producing hydrogen from fossil fuels cancels out any benefits to the environment.

      https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/pros-and-cons-of-hydrogen-energy.htm

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      • Guest Who says:

        It was noticeable that the muffled blonde was keen that the sharp as blu tak Ms. Gush Worthy picked up that the cracking energy came from…. Sources that are renewed.

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  4. MarkyMark says:

    Talk about Scottish hospitality! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

    Thank you for the (very special) delivery, Madam First Minister
    @NicolaSturgeon
    – and for taking the time to speak with us today

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  5. vlad says:

    Interesting to observe GB News putting some clear blue water between itself and the Biased Broadcasting Corporation in their morning news bulletins.
    The former highlighted:

    – the absurd case of the deportation of dangerous criminals back to Jamaica facing last-minute legal challenges, resulting in a near empty flight.

    – the violent threats against the Israeli Ambassador in London.

    – the ongoing huge numbers of illegal migrants being ferried in by the Border Farce (1,200 in 48 hours).

    – Rotherham finally taking action against child grooming and abuse by you-know-who (clue: it’s not the Mormons).

    None of which items the evil BBC deigned to cover in their bulletins. As has been pointed out here before, the bias is as much in what is NOT reported.
    Keep up the good work, GB News.

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  6. MarkyMark says:

    Prince Charles to stand on Kent shores and defend the UK’s borders.

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  7. Guest Who says:

    This was an actual LOL on so many counts.

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  8. MarkyMark says:

    The Sovereign holds the title ‘Defender of the Faith and Supreme Governor of the Church of England’. These titles date back to the reign of King Henry VIII, who was initially granted the title ‘Defender of the Faith’ in 1521 by Pope Leo X.

    Applying sharia law in England and Wales: independent review
    Independent review by Professor Mona Siddiqui and a review panel of experts into the application of sharia law in England and Wales by sharia councils.

    From:
    Home Office
    Published
    1 February 2018
    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/applying-sharia-law-in-england-and-wales-independent-review

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  9. MarkyMark says:

    Money will be given … brown envelopes … it wil pass.

    “Taiwan halts 2nd-dose BioNTech vaccinations for ages 12-17 amid concerns of myocarditis
    CECC says approval of COVID vaccines for children under 12 will not be considered until 2nd dose issue settled”

    https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4340862

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  10. Guest Who says:

    News, from… BbC Pr…

    Yes, fans, you keep paying and we will keep…. Dipping back in the archives for ya!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      BBC Press Office
      @bbcpress
      News, statements and programme information from the BBC Comms team. For more, follow
      @BBC
      and the
      @AboutTheBBC
      blog.
      TV. Radio. Onlinebbc.co.uk/mediacentreJoined April 2009
      56.8K Following
      192.6K Followers

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Does this reduce the TV License.

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  11. MarkyMark says:

    Elton John defends Harry and Meghan’s use of private jets
    Published19 August 2019

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49398852

    Sir Elton John has defended the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s use of private jets – and said he paid to carbon offset their trip to his French home.

    The singer said he provided Prince Harry, Meghan and their son Archie with his private plane to “maintain a high level of much-needed protection”.

    The royal couple have faced criticism after newspapers claimed they took four private jet journeys in 11 days, including to Sir Elton’s home in Nice.

    Buckingham Palace declined to comment.

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  12. MarkyMark says:

    Party popper The
    @BBC
    has won six awards at the 2021 British Documentary Awards, The Griersons Trophy

    Find out more about the winners Downwards arrow

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    • G says:

      MM,

      Lovely landscape shown. Birmingham/Rotherham/London (or any large town or city) in due course…………

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  13. MarkyMark says:

    We must do better over MP standards, says Chancellor Rishi Sunak
    Published10 minutes ago
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59245737

    Who is Rishi Sunak’s father-in-law? Meet billionaire Narayan Murthy

    Legalise bribe-giving: Narayana Murthy
    N R Narayana Murthy
    says he fully supported proposals from economist Kaushik Basu to make paying bribes legal because this would help members of the public blow the whistle on corrupt officials.
    https://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi/legalise-bribe-giving-narayana-murthy/story-aETxh7iC9PGNA2qD7yG8qI.html

    N R Narayana Murthy, chairman emeritus at Infosys, a pioneer of outsourcing industry and leader of one of country’s biggest IT firms has argued that legalising paying bribes would help reduce endemic corruption in the South Asian country.

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  14. MarkyMark says:

    “Reflecting on all of these things over recent days, for us as a government, we need to do better than we did last week and we know that.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59245737

    On 18 June 2009 the details of all MP’s claims for the period 2004 to 2008 were published on the official Parliament website[1] together with details of voluntary repayments amounting to approximately £500,000.[2]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_expenses_claims_in_the_United_Kingdom_parliamentary_expenses_scandal

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  15. brexiteerkent says:

    Listening to BBC local radio Bristol in the car for 20 mins.. ( not in kent at the moment .. Can’t bear to look out of the window across the channel.. !) They have mentioned how we must remember the black soldiers who lost their lives, the Chinese who lost their lives who are apparently being commemorated ‘in the local community’ this morning.. No particular mention of the British who lost their lives ..

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  16. Guest Who says:

    BBC Newsnight talks with political experts and activists about what success looks like at COP26 and what world leaders need to do to achieve it.

    https://bbc.in/3C3HZXK

    ***
    The trade descriptions act stretched beyond credibility again.

    What they mean is ‘any talking gob who says what we want for a few hundred quid’.

    More brains in that puppet.

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  17. Guest Who says:

    https://cliscep.com/2021/11/11/something-fishy-from-the-bbc/

    The line about actually checking, which is beyond the hordes of mic-toting moppets scampering around Glasgow trying to get a splash of the holy AOC bru, made me chuckle.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The never knowingly authentic BBC has been at it again as it releases another news bulletin reporting upon the state of our environment. Except that this time it appears to be good news as they gleefully announce that sharks, seals and seahorses are amongst a number of species that are now to be found living in the River Thames. In fact, according to the first State of the Thames Report, issued by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), there have been a number of changes since the river was declared “biologically dead” in 1957, including an increase in its range of birds, marine mammals and natural habitats since the 1990s. This is surely a good news story that bucks the trend; a fine example of what can be achieved when mankind puts its manmind to tackling pollution.

      But hold on a minute, what’s this? On closer inspection, I notice that the report appears under the tagline, ‘Climate Change’. That must surely indicate that we are about to have the rug pulled from under our feet with an alarming message of imminent catastrophe.

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  18. Thoughtful says:

    Funny that the media has been so against MP and QC Geoffrey Cox doing what MPs are supposed to do,. taking a second job to pay for their virtually free service they give to the country.

    Cox’s MP pay is so appallingly poor it accounts for less than 5% of his earnings for this year, and yet he generously donates his time, virtually free to the people of this country who simply don’t appreciate it.

    What they do appreciate is people who can’t put the right shoes on the right feet or select a matching pair, or who get drunk and start fights in the Commons bar, or who get drunk and malign the opposing side in the most common and vituperative way. Or get so drunk on the way to remembrance services they need a wheelchair ro disembark a plane.

    These are the virtues the British people want to see in their political representatives and it’s all they are prepared to pay for !

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Thoughtful – i do love your comedy sometimes . ….
      I guess the most cocks will get is being forced to ‘apologise ‘ for using tax paid facilities do sell his soul to the BVI …

      He ll be much more comfortable with the rest of the wasters in the Lords next year …. Absolutely no accountability there…

      I guess you couldn’t get by on £85k either ….

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    • Nibor says:

      I think people can have a sense of decorum and be sensitive , sober and respectful without having to be paid huge amounts of taxpayers money .

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  19. MarkyMark says:

    Fury at SNP and Labour MPs ‘who got drunk on flight to Gibraltar for official Remembrance Day event, with one so inebriated she had to be put in a WHEELCHAIR’ – as Defence Minister rages against ‘lack of respect for our armed forces’
    Labour’s Charlotte Nichols allegedly needed a wheelchair to disembark flight
    SNP’s David Linden and Drew Hendry were ‘rude’ and ‘lairy’ with airport staff
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10188871/Three-MPs-drank-heavily-official-trip-meet-troops-Gibraltar.html

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    • Guest Who says:

      What happened to that skanky youngest ever minx who was noted for rubbing her sore teeth in the chamber after a night representing constituents?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Marky – in fairness to the 2 SNP drones that is probably a job requirement ….

      I wonder if there was a ‘drinks reception ‘ when they arrived in Gib …

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  20. Dover Sentry says:

    Armistice Day is half way down the BBC News page. But it is the most read. Readers are NOT interested in Climate Change or doom news about the NHS.

    BBC out of touch??

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

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  21. Nibor says:

    Spider Crabs are endangered now by Stingrays , Starfishes and Humans .
    The reason humans are endangering them ? – David Attenborough.
    By showing the path the crabs take from Japanese seas to Melbourne to moult , he has via his Blue Planet series lifted a little known secret and broadcast to the world .

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  22. Zephir says:

    Unbelievable the way the biased bbc have treated this scandal:

    Daily mail:
    Fury at SNP and Labour MPs ‘who got drunk on flight to Gibraltar for official Remembrance Day event, with one so inebriated she had to be put in a WHEELCHAIR’

    Bisased bbc stuffed at the bottom of their news page:

    “MPs criticised for ‘drunkenness’ on Gibraltar Army visit

    The SNP called the claims “a Tory smear”

    The BBC understands other MPs on the trip had also been drinking

    And Ms Nichols has returned to the UK after what has been described as a “mental health episode”.

    It is understood the MP for Warrington North, who is also a shadow equalities minister, has post-traumatic stress disorder and is on medication.”

    yeah right what an easy ride these MPs get on the biased bbc

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  23. Halifax says:

    I wonder if they had a minutes silence at COP26?

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  24. Guest Who says:

    The facts are of course awful.

    However unless posting reveals further subbing detail, the image remains a concern.

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  25. Doublethinker says:

    On GBN last night they highlighted a report commissioned by Sky but , interestingly made by the No10 Behavioural Insight Team ( how the hell can Sky Commission a govt agency?) on how TV should be used to change the behaviour of us plebs in regard to the ‘climate emergency ‘ . I think that we have long suspected that this was already happening , just as it has been for years regarding the Islamisation of our country.
    But now the government and the Woke warriors at corporations make no attempt to hide their methods to brainwash us into accepting their highly damaging policies. Any pretence at the UK being a democracy has been officially consigned to the dustbin.
    Of course we can refuse to watch the propaganda but how long will it be before our refusal is noted and plod sent round to check our thinking?
    Orwells’s dystopian 1984 grows ever closer. Remember Winston Smith’s job was to rewrite history in line with the latest thinking of Big Brother. Well we are already seeing that this has come to pass. His TV set could also tell when he wasn’t watching it , Smart tv’s have their own microphones and cameras. The technology is already there and do we think that the present or future government will refrain from using them to enforce our compliance ?

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  26. G.W.F. says:

    She is here to raise awareness of the disproportionate impact of climate change on women and girls around the world.

    But there is a man inside her

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    • Guest Who says:

      The unintended metaphor is quite the COP tradition.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Trogan horse?!

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      • Guest Who says:

        Thinking more old blokes in young girls from that neck of the woods.

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        • BigBrotherCorporation says:

          “She is here to raise awareness of the disproportionate impact of climate change on women and girls around the world.”

          I’m still waiting for someone, anyone(?) to explain the logic of that statement.

          Do ‘women and girls’ suffer more than men and boys (and all the other 6000 genders) from heat, or something?

          Is it a menopause thing perhaps? Surely those with an imaginary cervix would also suffer then? Or imagine they were suffering disproportionally, which is the same thing… apparently. But, I digress, really why does anyone think female humans (with cervixes) ‘suffer disproportionately’ from the ‘impact of climate change’?!

          Is it ‘cos a lot of them are shorter, and they’ll drown earlier when the sea levels rise?

          It all sounds like complete bottox to me.

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  27. Guest Who says:

    Ms. Gill is straight out of central casting.

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    • Northern Voter says:

      What was supplying the power to the arc light, used to light her face? Unicorn Sh1te.

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    • digg says:

      Perhaps #James and the #BBC, might like to take a #writingplainenglish course and work with #hisbrain to produce a #readable piece of work?

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  28. Guest Who says:

    ‘Understands’.

    Their agents straight to the bbc to mobilise the core.

    Raisin Brain is never out of the studio.

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  29. Guest Who says:

    If this does not snag gash gob the Bunter gig what will?

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  30. taffman says:

    “Migrant crossings: Almost 700 cross the English Channel”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-59245288
    Our Government and Home Office are a disgrace .
    They should take a leaf out Poland’s border control .
    What did our forefathers give their lives for when we have to put up with this modern-day invasion? Our PM is certainly no ‘Churchill’ .
    All this when the NHS is extremely overstretched!

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  31. Guest Who says:

    Americast stays true to Sopes’ pinned mission statement.

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    • Guest Who says:

      As a matter of interest do they stay in their respective bunkers or now flit about again?

      Anyhoo… as ironies abound…

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    • Dover Sentry says:

      Sopes and Mateless have the expression of those super-rich folk when they view their online bank statement…

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  32. taffman says:

    Dan O’Mahoney, Clandestine Channel Threat Commander, said: “Migrants making these dangerous crossings are putting their lives at risk and it is vital we do everything we can to prevent them and break the business model of the criminal gangs exploiting people.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-59245288
    ‘Desperate Dan’ makes a pathetic ‘clandestine’ statement.

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  33. Guest Who says:

    Some may notice I feel the bbc uses ‘we’ in concerning ways, as do others.

    https://jacobinmag.com/2021/11/jeremy-corbyn-cop26-climate-change-conference-united-nations?

    Jez has never struck me as a leading lightbulb in Labour’s dim green chandelier, but as Citizen’s Assemblies creep under the radar and gain unwarranted traction, the evil little despot seems keen.

    Heading it him wanting to ‘take power’ is… brave.

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  34. Guest Who says:

    BREAKING: well, in terminological ways, a new one.

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  35. Guest Who says:

    Part of a fascinating thread, but interesting given bbc staff views on questioning and answering.

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  36. Guest Who says:

    https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2021/11/11/let-them-eat-cake-say-bbc/

    How long before bbc staff will be totalling their i8s just before Xmas like their iPhones?

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  37. MarkyMark says:

    ‘Equality in Pregnancy’
    Their current report shows heart disease, epilepsy and stroke continue to be the most common causes of death.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59248345

    BBC miss out …

    Risk factors for congenital anomaly in a multiethnic birth cohort: an analysis of the Born in Bradford study
    Eamonn Sheridan 1, John Wright, Neil Small, Peter C Corry, Sam Oddie, Catherine Whibley, Emily S Petherick, Teena Malik, Nicole Pawson, Patricia A McKinney, Roger C Parslow
    Affiliations expand
    PMID: 23830354 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61132-0
    Abstract
    Background: Congenital anomalies are a leading cause of infant death and disability and their incidence varies between ethnic groups in the UK. Rates of infant death are highest in children of Pakistani origin, and congenital anomalies are the most common cause of death in children younger than 12 in this ethnic group. We investigated the incidence of congenital anomalies in a large multiethnic birth cohort to identify the causes of the excess of congenital anomalies in this community.
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23830354/

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  38. Guest Who says:

    Bless.

    Just… bless.

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  39. vlad says:

    The morons at the BBC are very excited by the climate declaration from two of their favourite communist dictators: Sleazy Joe and Xi Pingpong.

    Of course in reality it’s pure PR, a vague and meaningless statement not worth the paper it’s written on (they should have spared that tree).

    While the agreement might further handicap the West, China will blithely continue to build its next 43 coal-fired power stations.

    Creepy Joe can sign anything knowing he’ll soon be dead and unanswerable for targets not met, and Pingpong knows there’ll be neither internal nor external scrutiny or accountability.

    Once again it’s Sky Aus that points out that the 2 Emperors are naked.
    Australia knows precisely how devious and dangerous the CCP is, and, being in the front line, they’re very nervous about Biden’s pusillanimous appeasement and kowtowing to China, which only emboldens them.

    Listen to these three commentators eviscerate the rotten deal and all those involved.

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  40. JohnC says:

    Black women are more than four times more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth than white women in the UK, a review of 2017-2019 deaths shows.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59248345

    And it’s all down to racism according to Smitha Mundasad. Who is BAME.

    Nothing to do with genetics of course but everything to do with vague and totally baseless statements like:

    “On top of that is the unconscious bias that black and Asian women can experience. It all adds up.

    Seems like just another racist BAME working for the BBC to me. I’m sick to the back teeth of them by now.

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    • vlad says:

      Babies are racist.
      Childbirth is racist.
      Maternity wards are racist.
      Gynaecologists are racist.
      Nurses are racist.
      The NHS is racist.
      Beds are racist.

      Have I missed anything?

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      • JohnC says:

        Yes : most BAME are racist.

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        • vlad says:

          Now THAT is true.

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        • Guest Who says:

          ‘We’ most certainly did not learn this from the BBC.

          Yet this creep and Ash, et Al, are rotated around bbc studios to propagate a clear culture of misinformation.

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          • JohnC says:

            Femi doesn’t even realise that blacks were not the gangsters at all. They were white italians.

            The blacks were the drug dealers and street pondlife who mugged and murdered people. A ‘bias’ still the same today.

            Just as the Muslims are still the terrorists.

            What a grade-A racist turkey this idiot is.

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      • gb123 says:

        The hospital food is racist.

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        • vlad says:

          According to CRT, science is racist, which would include medical science. Maybe the NHS should employ more witch doctors to balance things out a bit.

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          • JohnC says:

            Saying that all white people are racist because of ‘unconscious bias’ is possibly the most racist statement I have ever come across.

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            • G.W.F. says:

              JohnC

              I recently encountered an academic paper on the subject of ‘Not racist’, which is more extreme than being racist. The author described it as ‘Global Trumpism’.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Being racist is racist.

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  41. Guest Who says:

    Surely time for Americast to hire Don Lemon?

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  42. Guest Who says:

    Lewis Goodhall liked this.

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  43. Guest Who says:

    And a long list of entities who know the bbc will print anything.

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    • digg says:

      The Welsh Gov guys pledge to stop producing stuff they don’t produce anyway.

      “Welsh Gov say they support halting production of Oil and Gas!”

      As the lead character in Boys from the Black Stuff would say…

      I can do that… gizza job!

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      • StewGreen says:

        Wales’ ports are devolved to the Welsh Government with the exception of Milford Haven as it’s too important of an asset for the UK Government to let go.

        – Largest LNG terminal in Europe
        – Capacity to supply 25% of UK gas consumption
        – Pembroke Oil Refinery 215k barrels a day

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  44. digg says:

    Hilarious BBC Sounds headline…

    “How Doctor Who added a ‘counterfactual twist’ to the Crimean War”

    This about the fictitious exploits of one Mary Seacole who having travelled to the region to try to sell snake oil is reinvented as some sort of super scale Florence Nightingale.

    Of course the BBC know all about ‘counterfactual twists’ as they generate them en masse on a daily basis in every way they can.

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  45. BigBrotherCorporation says:

    “Would the world be better if it was run by teenagers?”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59219148

    HELL NO!

    I do have two of my own, and I love them both to bits, but still…

    HELL NO!

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  46. Scroblene says:

    FFS, the awful BBC have b****y Mad Ali Campbell on QT tonight (just seen this on GF, so apols if it’s been covered already).

    What an absolute shower of schitt these s*ods in W1AA are, that man should be locked up forever, preferably with a bloke called Alan Snackbar!

    The BBC can’t get much lower than this can they? Spitting on the memory of our soldiers on such a day is an utter disgrace – that man caused so many of them to die!

    Bastards!

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  47. vlad says:

    “China’s Xi Jinping cements his status with historic resolution”, screams the BBC headline.

    Some might say: “China’s Xi fools the BBC by signing a useless piece of paper.”

    If I didn’t know the BBC was the most ethical broadcaster in the universe, I’d think the Chinese were paying them for propaganda headlines like that.

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  48. Sluff says:

    Further up this trail is a mention of the word C*NT and reference to possible use of the word vis a vis the BBC.

    May I draw readers’ attention to ‘Derek and Clive’ aka Pete and Dud.

    In one sketch they suggested to write a letter to the DG of the BBC. It started ‘Dear C***’ and it was suggested that if addressed was to to C* nt, London, it would get there !

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  49. Sluff says:

    BBC 1 6 pm news.
    First shock horror item.

    Record waits for NHS hospital A and E. Ambulances in long queues waiting to offload patients.

    When will they learn?
    When will we learn?

    It’s a massive nationalised industry. Where the workforce are more important than the patients. Where innovation and creativity are stifled by committees and beaurocracy. Where politicians are blamed for everything, invariably lack of money, and the unreformed, unreformable monolith continues.

    So what do we expect? The government has poured billions in, and nothing is coming out.

    I got a text the other day. From the NHS. ‘Go and get a flu jab’
    I rang the GP. After 20 minutes I got through. They had no vaccine, and no waiting list. Try again on another day.

    The text also suggested to ring 119. An automated system gave no mention of Flu Jabs. I tried the covid vaccine option, and got a Flu jab option. That option referred me to my GP.

    See what I mean?

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    • moggie63 says:

      I got a letter this evening telling me that, as a very vulnerable person, I should get the COVID booster, which I had yesterday, and the flu jab, which I had a fortnight ago. A text would have been a lot cheaper to send.

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    • digg says:

      I got a number of texts and emails about booster and flu jabs being of a certain age.

      A lot of clicking around on the internet and I found the nearest booster option was 30 miles away.

      I drive but many my age don’t so it would have to be a taxi, a ferry, a bus and a walk both ways for them.

      What the hell are local GP surgeries for these days?

      Points to more NHS IT workers than health professionals out there I guess!

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  50. Philip_2 says:

    I have always been puzzled by the climate extremists claims but not surprised by the antics and bullying to make ‘change happen’. They have long ago realised that they cannot ever be democratically be elected. So it has to be one step at a time in to the Marxist gas chamber. So Climate modelling is not enough, they needed a PANDEMIC to get emergency measures. And many of us think, Cold and Flue will kill us, and its true it does at times. But hardly ever Children, reported in the UK today that the TOTAL number of child deaths from COVID is six. Every other child is strong enough to cough and recover– normally. Children get colds, its normal. And yet we have almost mandatory VACCINES on the horizon for children aged 7 to 12 being pushed through – and Care home staff told they will loose their job if not Vaccinated. The trouble is, many of us have a natural immunity (as we had it and survived, often without much notice).

    From recent evidence. Under reported by our own government is the fact:

    To get vaccinated will REMOVE your ‘natural’ immunity and replace it with a state ‘jab’ every six months, – where the side affects include death. The full facts at the BBC never mention ‘side affects’, or the deaths by THIS vaccine. It is unlike ANY other Vaccine in history. It is not fully tried and tested due to the ‘pandemic’ (so called) emergency.

    Add in Climate Emergency, and you get the picture of this PANDEMIC posed by most (not all but MOST of the state media) are ‘on program’. And COP26 is an public enforcement of the UN Agenda 21 protocol, which previous Western governments have signed up to. Blair notably in large part. ‘Global socialism protects the environment guff’.

    The global ambition for a 95% population drop is there, alongside government ’emergency powers’ in the event of…. ‘it’. But they never actually stated HOW they were going to achieve it. Well, there may be others who question the pandemic wisdom but one Doctor has made a disclosure that the BBC will never report, ever.

    The Covid-19 Fraud. Download and read. Be aware that the Climate Agenda and Pandemic Agenda are linked, and the media are obliged (if not forced) to follow due to ’emergency powers’ granted by UK parliament. So there is no end in sight if we believe its all true. And if it is, why do they ban those that ask questions on Climate or Pandemic? The government will call this misinformation, and the BBC will ignore any protests. They have ‘fact checkers’, as if the bias never existed. That’s their job.

    Meanwhile Doctors and Nurses told to get ‘jabbed’ by April and Care staff get sacked as of today!

    The Covid-19 Fraud. Report from NZ on what some Doctors already know in the NHS (but cannot tell us openly). Doctors are not all happy with the ‘jabs’.

    https://drsambailey.com/2021/11/11/the-covid-19-fraud-war-on-humanity/

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