It seems Remembrance Sunday has seen another terrorist attack . Nothing is sacred . Will the BBC give it the coverage it deserves or do its’ normal censorship in the name of ‘community relations ‘ ?
Start the Week 15 November 2021
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Two salary politicians
The first thing the media should mention is that some like Labour’s Dan Jarvis are taking two salaries: one as an MP
and the other as Metro Mayor of the Sheffield City Region.
I think Scot’s Nationalists have done similar
And a Tory MP is a council leader too.
Some people are very good at delegating so might do a proper job.
Yet some like ex Sheffield MP Jared rarely did their MP job.
Jarvis has pledged not to stand at the next mayoral election.
Stew – there should just not be second jobs for MPs – even those who are sainted ‘doctors ‘… how can they work part time for their constituency – they either don’t know or don’t care about the needs of the people who voted for them and pay them …
Alternatively – increased the size of constituencies to keep those hardworking politicians fully busy – reduce their number by a third – say …
Mind you – characters like Christopher chope – who did the legs of his government last night must be worth his seat ..
That’s the history of the job Fed, it was always seen as a part time job which is why they don’t sit in the mornings.
Thats one of the reasons why the pay is so low, so if we ban then from outside funding we will have to raise the rate of pay, or perhaps we should just reduce it to nothing and allow only the very very wealthy to rule over us.
The average salary in the City of London is now £115 K meaning MPs are way below the average salary and without the expenses to make living in London possible MPs would simply not be able to afford to live close enough to Parliament to represent their constituents.
As I posted on the last thread, Angela Rayner was gifted £180K from 11 different sources in the first three months of the year, she is reportedly a multi millionairess, I find this obscene . She has formed a company called Angela Rayner Limited which you can find at companies house.
What were these payments for and who made them to her? The same goes for all the other MPs. We should be paying them enough so they don’t need these top ups, they should be banned from receiving any money – and their relatives too. They should be banned from taking any other paid work on leaving office if they have been a minister and receive the salary for the job in compensation.
This is the only way we can avoid the corruption which began in the BLiar years when tens if not hundreds of millions found their way into the pockets of his friends when they left office, and left devastation in their wake changing this country for the worse forever.
I think they’d be corrupt however much taxpayers ‘ cash they get ….
Amazing that for years and years Al Beeb keeps quiet about the really serious, proven crimes being committed day in, day out by men of mainly Pakistani heritage against minors in just about every large agglomeration in the UK, yet as soon as a member of that community makes allegations, allegations, of fairly minor verbal abuse, Al Beeb is all over it like the pox in 1880′ Parisian brothels.
As for their acceptance of a ‘Christian convert’ alleged would be car bomber, just don’t get me started!
What is “heritage” when it’s at home?
Covid-19: Pubs curfew and working at home return in Ireland
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59305710
‘Micheál Martin said people had to be aware that the situation is getting worse and will get worse before it gets better.
With about 90% of over-12s fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the Republic of Ireland has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world.”
Go on then world class journalists ask the obvious question..
If you look at the front page of the BBC website the big story is a paki cricketer whining about bad words … stories like the WPC who was murdered outside the Iranian embassy is a postage stamp report ….
.. the report about a Man City coloured footballer being charged with more rapes – 6 now – is a postage stamp in the local news ….
… maybe the BBC thinks that bigging up such trivia about cricket will further undermine the British way of life … hurty feelings count more that death or rape …
What the bBC as the public funded (under threat of incarceration) service SHOULD be highlighting is the true nature of the uncapped risk associated with this invasion across the channel.
Who in any walk of life would willingly become involved in a venture with the risk uncapped?
Particularly, a Govt. who, principle role is our security.
“Oh you dont have any documents , you dont know where you come from other than a Calais beach…..ah well never mind here,s a pizza”
This only goes to prove that they still don’t get it… i.e..Brexit.
And the bBC are front and centre of this dangerous and unsatisfactory depiction of events.
Boris time now to issue\ue a command………..not one single other to get on dry land…put an interim cruise ship in place to
intercept them pending their return to MR Macron.
I doubt they have insulated Wormwood Scrubs etc, I suggest this lot glue their hands to the shower room floors….
‘Put me in prison… or I’ll block the motorway AGAIN: Defiant Insulate Britain activist challenges judge to jail him as fellow protester admits he’s ‘c***ping himself’ at threat of ‘being put in cell’ – as nine activists face court for breaking injunction
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10204133/Insulate-Britain-activist-41-reveals-terrified-going-jail.html#comments
“ I doubt they have insulated Wormwood Scrubs etc, I suggest this lot glue their hands to the shower room floors….”
But that would leave their rear ends up in the air, wouldn’t it?
Just out of interest, does anybody know if the taxi bomber has tested positive for covid because if he did then his death will go down as a death by covid.
Times ..top Afghan refugees are still stuck in hotels
asso far the government has failed to deliver the 20,000 homes they promised.
doh.
6 pages further on there is a full page advert for Afghanistan itself
“Crisis Appeal”
2 pages further on, a full page Red Cross general advert.
600,000 foreign visitors lost in border shambles
Home Office embarrassment over two‑year failure of exit checks
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/600-000-foreign-visitors-lost-in-border-shambles-fzdzlwrwc
The government has spent £800 million on a borders system that is intended to log every entry into and departure from the country but inspectors from the immigration watchdog uncovered a catalogue of failings.
Azeem Rafiq: English cricket is ‘institutionally’ racist says former Yorkshire player
Last updated on1 hour ago1 hour ago.
From the section
Cricket
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) describes the working conditions of foreign workers, most of whom come from developing countries in South Asia, as “near-slavery” and attributes them to “deeply rooted gender, religious, and racial discrimination”. Workers are often unwilling to report their employers for fear of losing their jobs or further abuse.[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Saudi_Arabia
Not a cricket fan at all but I bet India, Pakistan and West Indies teams aren’t very ‘diverse’.
Theresa May says government attempts to block the suspension of Owen Paterson were “misplaced, ill-judged and just plain wrong”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59301710
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Iran might seem an unlikely hotbed of heavy metal music, especially as western pop has been officially banned there since the Islamic revolution of 1979. Yet despite the risk of floggings and long jail terms, the genre continues to thrive in secret underground venues.
Some of the biggest names in the country’s heavy metal scene are women, despite the fact that they’re forbidden from singing publicly, except in choirs or female-only company. A new short film entitled Forbidden to See Us Scream in Tehran highlights the danger they face.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-middle-east-59294328
Ahead of Starmer’s press conference, Boris has written a letter to the Sir Lindsay Hoyle proposing a ban on paid political consulting and lobbying, (which is already banned).
order-order.com
May 2021 ….
More than 2,000 have reached the southern Italian island since Saturday, raising fears that the warmer weather could bring a new rush to Europe’s shores.
Around the new arrivals, fragments of aluminium thermal blankets flutter in the air, buffeted by the winds they faced on their crossing from Libya.
Almost 13,000 have landed in Italy so far this year; three times more than the same period in 2020. And more than 500 have died – a four-year high.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57087818
We are going around in circles ..
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YOUR COMPLAINT:
Complaint Summary: Follow up UK MP expenses of 2009 – MP paid £65K
Full Complaint: Dear BBC £3.5 billion paid under threat of prison complaints department,
Could you revisit the 2009 UK MP expenses again, I would not like to find out that MPs like Tony Blair have ran to the shredder prior to your investigations.
Here are some details, can you use Journalists who are avoiding the BBC Gary ‘£1.75m’ Lineker Pay Gap and see why an MP on £77K salary tops up their money with a job giving them £65K extra a year.
Maybe find other MPs on such amazing schemes and why they are getting free tickets to concerts when they have so much cash sloshing around in their MP expenses accounts.
Chuka Umunna MP, Streatham (tax payer pays him £77K per year) is being paid £65,040 a year Advisory Position at Global Progress (London) Ltd …
1) Look into what he produces for £65K a year. 2) Look at who owns the company and other players – Tony Blair is linked to it. 3) Find other MPs doing the same. 4) Ensure they are paying taxes on the extra money. 5) Maybe interview them and ask some questions rather than how they feel today? For a head start you can find the details on : THEY WORK FOR YOU https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=24950americanprogress.org https://www.americanprogress.org/about/staff/browne-matt/bio/ COMPANIES HOUSE https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11079851/filing-history Good luck and let me know how you get on.
p.s. I also see that MPs claim their MP Office BBC TV Licenses Tax on their expenses, thus the UK tax payer has to pay their own TV License and their MP’s TV License. Might want to consider stopping this for the 650 MPs.
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/10/28/start-the-week-open-thread-29-october-2018/comment-page-2/#comment-949837
French officers pulled down tents and evacuated up to 1,500 migrants from the site, near Dunkirk, early on Tuesday.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59303652
WHERE DO THEY GO?
More than 23,000 people have made the crossing from France to the UK by boat so far this year, a sharp rise on the 8,404 recorded in 2020.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59303652
UK’s MI5 has 43,000 terror suspects on watchlist: media
Source: Xinhua| 2020-06-23 23:33:22|Editor: huaxia
LONDON, June 23 (Xinhua) — The number of terror suspects on the watchlist of Britain’s MI5 security service has risen to 43,000, more than double the figure from the previous year, local media reported Tuesday.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-06/23/c_139161889.htm
BBC report – “English cricket ‘institutionally’ racist” – Rafiq
BBC do NOT report – Predominantly Pakistani men from Rotherham ‘institutionally rapists and racists’ – Rotherham girls
Come on BBC, let’s have some balance in what you report and how much you push the story!
Much more hot air about the daily swamping of the Kent Coast by “arrivals”.
Meanwhile the French suggest the glaringly obvious fix but it falls on deaf ears…
The French interior minister said “the only way to prevent 100% of crossings was to reduce the attractiveness of the UK for migrants”.
This is hitting the nail on the head, economic migrants must be made to realise that entering the UK illegally will not guarantee that they will get accommodation and living expenses.
Returning them immediately to their origin Country is the only way to halt this madness. They must be paying large sums to the traffickers so losing this and then going back to square one would stop the surge instantly.
But this would mean ignoring the screams of anguish from the deluded activists in the UK who think we should accept every arrival in whatever numbers they come forever.
If continued this will eventually change the fabric of society in this Country but I suspect that this is really what they want.
Don’t hold your breath!
Germany offers asylum seekers up to €1,200 each to voluntarily return to their home countries
Government budgets €40m for programme amid huge backlog in asylum claims
Lizzie Dearden
Friday 03 February 2017
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/germany-offer-asylum-seekers-1200-euros-voluntarily-return-home-countries-refugees-crisis-merkel-middle-east-syria-iran-iraq-a7561701.html
Fabric of society already irreversibly changed. This country is done for.
Local news “a Tory councillor has tweeted a Corbyn meme about the LIverpool bomb”
That’s today’s Labour outrage bus.
Eventually at the end of the item, they gave the councillor’s response
‘Sorry, wasn’t me my mates hijacked my account’
Now Corbyn hasn’t done anything distasteful about Liverpool
but has laid wreaths for terrorist orgs before
so that is what the councillor is getting at ?
Since Corbyn is no longer Labour leader there’s no point in the tweet, and why would you want to copy Labour’s own hatiness anyway ?
“The post was published to both Cllr Nickerson’s public Twitter account and Facebook account in what was believed to be an attempt to draw parallels with Mr Corbyn’s historic engagement with terrorist and extremist groups”
I see tweets saying stuff ‘look at this Tory scum spreading hate’
The Hull paper says he has had provable death threats.
Here’s the actual tweet
The BBC tweet
“Speaking to Hull Live this morning, Cllr Nickerson apologised for the post saying: “I just want to say I apologise unreservedly to any one that has taken offence to the post.
“Political banter is political banter but I sincerely apologise for those posts and I just want people to know that it wasn’t me that sent them.
“It was a prank gone wrong, a couple of friends taking things too far but I do take responsibility for it still.”
Well he has had to delete tweets about Corbyn before.
Starmer has had the Labour whip withdrawn and is not a bona fide Labour MP so it does make one wonder who exactly the ‘Labour’ people are who are objecting and why the media are taking them seriously.
Its called humour. Something we are being forced to drop.
REFUGEES will deliver petitions to Downing Street tomorrow urging Prime Minister Boris Johnson to ditch his party’s “cruel, unworkable and unlawful” Nationality and Borders Bill.
The four petitions, created by Freedom from Torture, Refugee Action, Refugee Council and One Strong Voice, have been signed by more than 100,000 people.
Asylum-seeker Mary Njoroge, who will be among those handing in the petitions, described the Bill as an attack on refugees and warned that it fails to address the problems they face in Britain, including poverty, racism and mental health issues.
“We want the government to throw away this Bill and try again, as many of the new proposals in it are callous,” she said.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/hand-petitions-against-borders-bill
MM,
I’m sure that No. 10 will ignore these protestations but, the important factor is, that they will increasingly be able to obtain signatures of > 100K in the future and will dwarf anything the pathetic apathetic indigenous population will muster. Emphasis on, ‘muster’.
Charities have very narrow legal remits to exist. Time the indidgenous looked at the way they operate and, on challenge to the Charities Commission, get them closed down. Problem is, Soros will start others off. Be assured he’s behind this.
Sorry about this, but it’s doing the rounds on social media and you might want to know about it even if you aren’t going to want to watch it.
10 hours (yes you read that right) of Kamala Harris laughing.
Yeeeeeeee haaaaaaa!
I see she had to go blonde to get the gig!
Meanwhile, on young Pakistani men with goo in their hair network, funded by the tvl….
BBC Asian Network has the nerve to talk about racism!
ITV local news was the Azeem Rafiq affair
with 1 minute of back at the studio for the weather at the end.
The prog came from outside Parliament
after 12 minutes we got Naz Shah and another MP standing under umbrellas saying something, but loud police sirens blocked them out.
There was a brief video in the middle from Bradford
Here’s a guy saying that Asian players weren’t given a fair chance in the 70s so started their own league.
They made a special montage at the end of 1 minute tearjerker bits from his testimony.
The main was a claim he was ripped to shred by Coach Moxon the day after coming back from still-birth leave.
What concerns me is that bit lacked detail, about what words were actually used etc.
The coverage on the Radio 4 news at 18:00 was predictably over-the-top: it was the lead item and they went on and on about it.
So many questions are not asked, Rafiq’s words are taken as truth by MPs and others, and not subject to scrutiny. The “institutionally racist” slur was trotted out about cricket but that is another non sequitur: even if there is/was a problem at Yorkshire C.C., it doesn’t follow that the same culture exists in other county teams. How many counties did Rafiq ever play for? How can he know what goes on in, say, Essex or Gloucestershire?
I look forward to the day when the BBC will be as exercised by the use of the word “Brit” by Irish nationalists or “kaffir / kuffar” as a term of abuse by Muslims.
BBC local news : PRasNews item for a Hull Labour MP who is demanding new rules against building on flood plains
AFAIK most of them have already been implemented.
It was long and included a Hull vox pop
Then an item with a Tory from Gainsborough saying in parliament ‘Boris My constituents aren’t worried about the Great Barrier Reef, they are worried about their hearing bills today”
… I guess the Tory item was to balance Labour get the first item.
Item #3 Tory MPs account posted anti-Corbyn meme
Again eventually the read his comment saying his mates did it not him.
Then they finished by quoting a Labour voice that said the MP HAD tweeted it.
Which mp would that be, Diane the lawyer, Karl the lawyer, or Emma the teacher? Just what Hull needs, three knowalls that do fek all.
Awesome value. Trust me.
Oh just leave him there! It’s getting colder at nights and if it wasn’t for the BBC giving him the publicity no one would even know about it !
Cloth cap cultural appropriation thief
Where’s his whippet?
Look North at 6.30pm and Monica Plaha (my spelling could be off) regarding an East Riding councillor sent a tweet with a picture of Jeremy Corbyn standing by a burning taxi. She was horrified that the picture could suggest that Mr Corbyn might allegedly be sympathetic to terrorists. I cannot imagine why anyone might think that. But what really got me was the description that ‘the passenger died in the explosion ‘. I realise that the BBC have to be careful not to jeopardise the case, but it wasn’t the taxi driver what did it and the police have described it as a terrorist attack.
I regret to infirm the nation’s students and parents of students that the ongoing FUbAr is paused.
Will any student notice they are on strike? I wonder, nobody will notice as they have spent the two past years doing zilch on Zoom.
Like there’s a big exam season at Christmas
Off topic, but the commentators of the Glasgow COP26 high-wire act got bad reviews. Whilst the BBC own ‘review’ was nothing short of the second coming and brilliance of the ‘speakers’ predicting global doom if we (UK) don’t give them lots and lots of money to third world nations still cooking ‘meat’… or other foodstuffs causing ‘climate change’
One of the best commentators I think was The Wall Street journal:
Walter Russell Mead: The COP26 Summit and the Global Age of Shams
(The Wall Street Journal, 16 November 2021)
If there is one thing the world should take away from the Glasgow COP26 summit, it’s that the most dangerous greenhouse-gas emissions come from the front ends of politicians, not the back ends of cows.
Pandering is much more dangerous to human civilization than methane, strategic incompetence a graver threat than CO2; and dysfunctional establishment groupthink will likely kill more polar bears than all the hydrofluorocarbons in the world.
The 19th-century writer Thomas Carlyle wrote of an Age of Shams in prerevolutionary France, when the chattering classes and political leaders had so fundamentally lost contact with the underlying realities of the day that they could no longer understand the political challenges facing the French social order, much less respond to them. The elaborate rituals of court life in Versailles persisted, the ministers and bureaucrats went through the motions of governance, and intellectuals sparkled in the salons—while the French monarchy sailed, like the Titanic, toward its rendezvous with destiny.
COP26 was the kind of hollow ritual that characterized Carlyle’s Age of Shams. As one politician after another committed their countries to carefully crafted unenforceable pledges, none had the bad manners to observe that no country anywhere fully honored the climate pledges made with such fanfare in Paris six years ago. Even the pledges are insufficient to meet the stated goals of the U.N. climate process, and nobody is keeping the pledges.
The intellectual and political disarray on display in Glasgow was terrifying. President Biden boasted about America’s new climate goals and its dedication to them. Yet in the same week he begged OPEC+ to bail out the world economy and his presidency by pumping more fossil fuels. Let future presidents face the rough contours of a world without fossil fuels; this one means to get re-elected, no matter how much greenhouse gas spews into the sky.
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https://mailchi.mp/887c79bd11bd/cop26-deal-falters-after-48-hours-185150?e=f0f2d33ad1
I think we all know where the BBC stands on all this. Not that the BBC ever reads critical newspapers beyond ‘The Guardian’, which may think it does not go far enough. Eventually the BBC will have to admit it cannot ‘broadcast’ without a back-end diesel generator.
High electricity prices, the BBC think does not affect them, but each time they raise the TV license, few are able (or want) to pay for it.
The BBC last week got the nod to increase its TV license to £159, which is twice as much as the entire network is worth but they need the increase to pay for BBC pensions. Fixed for two years, by which time they will be desperately short of cash – (again).
https://www.taxpayersalliance.com/switching_off_bbc_and_channel_4
Philip_2
“The BBC last week got the nod to increase its TV license to £159,”
Scrap it !
I am still waiting to see Nadine Dorries rush into action.
Covid passes: ‘No immediate plans’ for Welsh pubs and restaurants”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-59306417
Yet?
The absurdity is that we in taffland are subject to severe draconian rules yet we have over twenty thousand illegals crossing the Channel without any identification or traceability whatsoever!
We have a traitorous government and it should be changed before it’s too late “………………..
“Liverpool explosion: UK terror threat level raised to severe”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-59295474
I expect more to come ………………………..
Strange thing BBC created a Climate PR film in May and put it on Iplayer
but it’s fiest airing on TV is tonight
8pm BBC2 “The People Vs Climate Change”
It’s heavily promoted by @BusinessGreen
It’s a one-hour documentary about the citizens’ climate assembly.
“it remains one of the best pieces of UK climate comms I’ve ever seen”
climate assemblies are a trick, based on “Soviets”
The elite make a decision, they then appoint a citizens assembly (a soviet in Russian)
then they guide that , to make the preordained decision
They then claim “The Citizens have made the decision”
John Cleese tweets
Amazing that a fruit cake like her is treated as sane – going after someone who is dead – someone who wasn’t in the thing she’s on about – and Mr Cleese. …59 years ago . ….
… but the best sex allegation today was by a blue Labour MP who accused nut nut s dad of feeling her bottom at a Tory ‘do ‘ in 2003… repeat 2003 .
I wonder why she’s been sitting on that incident for 18 years . That’s 18 years …
I wonder if the man in the taxi shouted what the BBC called “a slogan” before self immolating?
I think I would jump out of a moving car if I head someone with a suspicious parcel shouting that !
9:15pm writer Alan Cumming and Miriam Margoyles tour Scotland
AFAIK they both live abroad. He in New York. She in Australia.
She’s been across the media promoting the show
On 5 Live Nihal gave her an easy time
They discussed the cricket racism row
Nihal said “but we shouldn’t tar a whole section of people because of a few wrong ‘uns”.
2 seconds later Margoyles says “Everybody that votes Tory is nasty”
I don’t normally recommend TV programmes but the Colin Brazier Hour on GBNews gives such a different view of events that it reminds one of how News should always be presented .
Whilst the BBC puts the moaning of a Paki cricketer I’ve never heard of and care less about – the polish border pre – war is being properly reported on GBN but ignored by the BBC .
My recommendation to the polish – lay a lot of mines …but with a bit of luck global warming will freeze the criminals trying to get to Blighty via Poland ….
Two arrests in London under the terrorism act . Maybe plod has got a couple of ‘far right extremists ‘ to balance up the Muslim terrorists of recent weeks – or not ….
Yes Fed expect arrests of far right people.
Advice to parents: if you have a gormless spotty faced teenage son who sticks pictures of Hitler on his bedroom wall, make him remove them.
GWF
When senior plod / politician throw out the lie that ‘far right terrorism ‘ is the biggest threat it indicates what they think of us – how dumb we are – to even think for one moment that might be true .
I heard a beeboid – cerreras? Or the wheel chair muppet throwing that out using the dead Labour MP as an example ….. ..
Two men, aged 19 and 21, have been detained under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000 in West London.
“Not connected to Liverpool bombing”
I got worried on reading the BBC webpage about two gas companies going bust as mine owes me £450. Luckily when I clicked on it, to my relief it only applies to black families according to the picture.
Lol
In the meantime I think it’s time for a new thread – which might feature yet another terrorist attack of unknown motive cum Friday – after they turn out from their mosques ….
Mosque?
Surely you mean cathedral, church or chapel!!