417 Responses to Start the Week 29 November 2021

  1. theisland says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Home Office loses track of more than 600,000 people who should have left country, finds immigration watchdog
      UK border checks branded ‘shambolic’

      May Bulman
      Social Affairs Correspondent
      Thursday 29 March 2018

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  2. Guest Who says:

    All that is already known, and this is what they run…

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Rishi Sunak’s father-in-law is a household name in India.

      Billionaire Narayan Murthy is one of the richest men in the world – and the Chancellor has admitted he can be “intimidating”.

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  3. theisland says:

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  4. Guest Who says:

    John Sweeney liked this.

    I sense a rather rickety remake of the Expendables 5 with JezBo, Sopes , etc…

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Yes RNLI should stick to their real job rather than being a shameful Uber …

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      • MarkyMark says:

        RNLI funding burkinis for Africans while cutting jobs
        https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rnli-funding-burkinis-for-africans-while-cutting-jobs-tnctwwl7d

        The RNLI respond to misleading “funding burkinis for Africans” articles
        by TellMAMA | Sep 16, 2019 | News |

        The RNLI respond to misleading “funding burkinis for Africans” articles

        https://tellmamauk.org/the-rnli-respond-to-misleading-funding-burkinis-for-africans-articles/

        …..

        The right-wing Daily Telegraph newspaper has reported that a Muslim hate monitoring project is to lose its funding from the government.

        Controversial reporter Andrew Gilligan, who has angered many Muslims by his reporting on Muslim issues, wrote that Tell Mama’s funding is not being renewed after police and civil servants raised concerns about its methods following the Woolwich murder.

        Tell Mama, which receives £214,000 a year from the government, stated that there had been a “sustained wave of attacks and intimidation” against Muslims in Britain after the killing of soldier Lee Rigby, recorded at 212 by last weekend.
        https://5pillarsuk.com/2013/06/10/tell-mama-to-lose-government-funding/

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      • StewGreen says:

        That story is from Nov 25
        so why is it being hyped now ?
        Twitter forced that story at me
        “fisherman .. shouting abuse ..stopped the Hastings RNLI boat leaving”
        ..and then when I saw it was connected to the James O’Brien show, I thought how much will be spin and hyperbole

        The give away was that there wasn’t any quote of any nasty abuse.

        A group of people on Hastings beach reportedly shouted “horrible” abuse
        .. according to a caller to James O’Brien’s LBC radio show on Thursday (November 25).

        Zoe, from Hastings, told the presenter she witnessed the group blocking the RNLI lifeboat and shouting, “don’t bring any more of those home, we’re full up,
        that’s why we stopped our donations,
        and that kind of really horrible stuff.”
        She added: “It was really upsetting, and you could hear the hatred in their voice

        A spokesperson for the RNLI told the Hastings Observer: “We can confirm an incident was reported to the police.
        The lifeboat was able to launch

        On Thursday evening, an estimated 250 people gathered on the Stade in Hastings Old Town to hold a moving vigil for the 27 people who died when their boat capsized.

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        • StewGreen says:

          The actual abusive incident was NOT about refugees
          the lifeboat decided to launch on the east side of the harbour arm – rather than the west side where it normally launches – and found a fishing boat was already there.
          This escalated into a “row”, but he said this had nothing to do with refugees being rescued in the Channel – it was the way the lifeboat crew spoke to the fisherman involved.

          He said there was a lorry driver on the beach who “had words about immigrants” to the lifeboat crew,
          but nothing was said about refugees by the fisherman.”

          Apparently the fisherman was in the process of throwing his by-catch back in the sea .. and the RNLI swore at him saying he was in there wasy
          And the police were called about that
          “the lifeboat agreed that they would speak more candidly to the fishermen…and treat them with a little bit of respect. ”
          https://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/people/hastings-fishermen-explain-circumstances-over-rnli-lifeboat-blocking-3476922

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          • Guest Who says:

            Tx for that.

            GB needs to think carefully about following the rest so unthinkingly.

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            • StewGreen says:

              Yeh well the give away is with the start line
              “a call made to @mrjamesob’s phone-in show on @LBC
              . A woman, called Zoë, reported …. “

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  5. StewGreen says:

    #ReithLectures start tomorrow 1 Dec at 09:00 Radio4

    Delivered by Stuart Russell, Prof Computer Science
    & founder of the Center for Human-Compatible #AI at @UCBerkeley
    , they’ll focus on ‘Living With #ArtificialIntelligence’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1N0w5NcK27Tt041LPVLZ51k/reith-lectures-2021-living-with-artificial-intelligence

    Oh no mention of the green or Black agendas , so that is a start.

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  6. StewGreen says:

    Brian tweets

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  7. StewGreen says:

    Radio 4 this morning

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      I would imagine France has declared her a national heroine. They like to get their genders right over there.

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  8. Thoughtful says:

    I see the wettest of the wet far left of the far left Tories, Conservative Home website has pushed Liz Truss to the top of their preferred leadership of the Marxists we call the Tories and Boris is in pretty much near to last place.

    So lets have a look at the Socialist disaster who is Liz Truss because the media aren’t going to tell you!

    Born to parents she describes as to the Left of Labour her mother was a member of CND.

    She read PPE at Merton where she was President of Oxford University Liberal Democrats and a member of the national executive committee of its youth and student wing. She also expressed republican sentiments at the 1994 Liberal Democrats conference.

    Truss declared that she fully believed that climate change is happening, and that “human beings have contributed to that”

    She was also a remainer turncoat who changed to Brexit post referendum.

    It couldn’t be worse than the coward we now see in Downing Street but to be honest it doesn’t appear to be a whole heap better either.

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  9. MarkyMark says:

    Is the Taliban victory in Afghanistan good for the country?

    Yes
    810 Votes (67.61%)
    No
    388 Votes (32.39%)

    https://5pillarsuk.com/2013/06/10/tell-mama-to-lose-government-funding/

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    • JohnC says:

      Just to clarify, this poll is on a self-proclaimed ‘quality Muslim community media platform’.

      Speaks volumes to anyone prepared to listen.

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  10. Fedup2 says:

    Not the BBC

    I’m due to fly out of blighty for a few days next week and am watching the rules being changed with amusement . As it stands I need a PCR test on my return and quarantine until I get the result …running into Christmas ….

    Anyway – now it is being suggested that I need a test before I come back and afterward ….

    There are only a few days to go so I can only guess what the final rules will be … lives being casually screwed now eh ?

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    • BRISSLES says:

      I’m impressed that you can keep up with what you need to do, what to have and when. I come out in a cold sweat just remembering what time to take my antibiotics during the day !!!

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  11. JohnC says:

    Yazidi genocide: IS member found guilty in German landmark trial
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world

    Just read this article for an account of what ISIS – the most devoted of Muslims – did. And then think about how much people like the BBC have covered it up over the years – to the point now it is official policy not to use the word ‘terrorists’ because other Muslim’s consider them to be ‘freedom fighters’. As demonstrated in this article.

    It speaks volumes about the Left that they can do this with a clear conscience because they think the ends justify the means. In some respects, they are just like ISIS.

    This one will be gone from the front page by morning.

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    • JohnC says:

      As predicted, the article has disappeared into the BBC sub-sections.

      My link wasn’t to the actual article : here it is:
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59474616

      It is a shocking piece about ISIS. And what the BBC REALLY don’t want you to know about. It’s right up there with what the Nazis did, yet the Left have brushed it under the carpet.

      I can’t even begin to imagine what the coverage would have been if ISIS were a far-Right group.

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  12. MarkyMark says:

    Dear Winston Smith in the Memory Hole Department of the BBC,

    I hope you are well and that viewing complaints all day does not make you biased against the BBC in anyway.

    I noticed that on the BBC News programme that the programme text said 50 migrants and the presenter said 66 migrants arrived on the coast of the UK fleeing from the shores of the EU27.

    This could cause untold mental health problems, imagine a person watching with the sound off and another person listening and not really watching the screen. These two people meet and cannot agree what number of migrants left the troubled shores of the EU27 to reach the UK – creating two confused people who might then think they are going mental and not hearing the right thing.

    I suppose the question is which was the correct number or do viewers complete some Orwell maths such as 2+2=5?

    Many Thanks,
    Mr. H.

    ** “fleeing from the shores of the EU27” was added by myself.

    https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2019/09/02/start-the-week-open-thread-2-september-2019/comment-page-3/#comment-1010096

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  13. Guest Who says:

    Much about bbc guest selection explained.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Rule : anything which puts “science” in its title is not science at all
      : social science, political science, library science, domestic science, computer science etc.
      All these “sciences” deal with messy systems where controlled experiment is often impossible

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  14. MarkyMark says:

    https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/nudge-unit

    What is the Nudge Unit doing on coronavirus?
    The Nudge Unit is working closely with the Department of Health and Social Care in crafting the government response. The most visible manifestation of its influence to date is in the communication around hand-washing and face touching – in particular the use of “disgust” as an incentive to wash hands and the suggestion of singing Happy Birthday to ensure hands are washed for the requisite 20 seconds.

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  15. Guest Who says:

    It has been said that Sky is not as bad as the BBC.

    But in one area, the are as one.

    Love the phrasing.

    Oh…

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    • Guest Who says:

      However, now Sopes is here to assist Springster….

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      • Guest Who says:

        Lurch sticking with a BBC homage.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Cautiously hinting…

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        • Guest Who says:

          The where flown to for the respective Presidents seems neatly merged.

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        • MarkyMark says:

          The list must be longer … or is this edited.

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        • JohnC says:

          As there is no doubt whatsoever that Andrew met Epstein, this is entirely irrelevant and means nothing. The report is typical left-wing brainwashing to make mental association and infer guilt without actually saying it.

          The first part of their trick is to make sure we know a peodophile flew on the plane. They they tell us other people who flew on the same plane with the intent we associate their names with ‘peodophile’.

          It’s standard BBC ‘Lies by association’. They are experts at lying without actually lying.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        This needs clarification – I thought I heard Marr say ‘William’ under his breath in the Clinton interview @0:55, it was not very clear what and why he is muttering.

        Listen closely to @0:55 as Marr mutters something which I thought was ‘Will’?

        “Will?” – Marr mutters, not clear but is what I thought he said
        “After all we have someone admitting to being a sexual assaulter in the Oval office.” – Hillary Clinton

        This is amazing, the term applies to Clinton more than Trump. The phrase ‘in the’ suggests it is the now (2017), present tense. This is double conflated speech.

        – ‘someone’ – could mean Trump or Clinton
        – ‘in the’ suggests the present, now so Trump
        – ‘Oval Office’ rather than White house
        – ‘admitting to being a sexual assaulter’ – Trump or Clinton?
        – BBC, your £3.5bn News Service is failing to get to the facts – too many questions raised by this interview.

        https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/10/16/start-the-week-open-thread-147/#comment-874021

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  16. StewGreen says:

    Wednesday Trump chats with Farage

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  17. StewGreen says:

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  18. Guest Who says:

    Wow. They all said.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      watched under threat of prosecution …. enjoy.

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    • StewGreen says:

      So what ? BBCreakfast get about 1.6m viewers
      maybe 2m when there is a special guest
      and ITV’s GMB only got near 1m with Piers Morgan

      BBCbreakfast gets about 2.5% of UK population
      so 97.5% are not watching

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  19. Guest Who says:

    And they’re off.

    Again.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Labour leadership: Clive Lewis says ‘racism’ partly to blame for Brexit referendum result
      Black people woke up after the vote to leave the EU with a ‘sense of dread’, claims MP

      Andrew Woodcock
      Political Editor
      Sunday 12 January 2020

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    • Thoughtful says:

      Funny that they seem utterly unconcerned when it’s their mob doing it to people they don’t like, and lets face it there’s no evidence the people allegedly threatening Rayner aren’t from the left themselves.

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  20. Guest Who says:

    Chums falling out.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Hmm a Twitter search shows 30+ people tweeted that BBC link
      none of them got that Twitter warning

      His tweet is real but doesn’t show up in a search

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  21. Lucy Pevensey says:

    https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/news-appeals/forty-two-people-charged-child-sexual-offending-kirklees

    Forty Two People Charged With Child Sexual Offending, Kirklees

    Monday November 29, 2021

    Thirty nine men and three women have been charged with offences as part of a Kirklees Police operation into child sexual offending.

    The men and women, who are largely from the Kirklees area, have been charged with a variety of mainly sexual offences as part of an investigation into non-recent child sexual exploitation.

    The allegations against the defendants involve offences committed against six female victims, who were children at the time the alleged offending began.

    Those alleged offences occurred between 1995 and 2015, largely in the Dewsbury and Batley areas of Kirklees.

    The men and women are due to appear at Leeds Magistrates Court on Tuesday 30 November.

    Those charged are:

    Donna Lynn (41) from Heckmondwike, charged with causing the prostitution of a girl under 16, allowing a premises to be used for unlawful sexual intercourse, procuring a female under 21, and controlling prostitution

    Mohammed Yakub (64) from Dewsbury, charged with an offence of rape.

    Nasir Billimoria (68) from Batley, charged with an offence of rape, and procuring a female under 21.

    Yousuf Motala (69) from Dewsbury, charged with an offence of rape.

    Ebrahim Mamaniatt (52) from Batley, charged with an offence of rape.

    Liaquat Ali (65) from Batley, charged with an offence of rape.

    Hashim Sacha (53) from Batley, charged with an offence of rape.

    Nobhar Shah (69) from Batley, charged with two offences of rape and living on the earnings of prostitution.

    Ibrahim Khalifa (83) from Bradford, charged with an offence of rape.

    Manaf Hussain (47) from Heckmondwike charged with an offence of rape.

    Maria O’Rouke (42) from Batley charged with causing the prostitution of a girl under 16, allowing a premises to be used for unlawful sexual intercourse and controlling prostitution.

    Riaz Shaikh (57) from Dewsbury charged with an offence of rape and an offence of indecent assault.

    Amjid Rangzeb (43) from Batley charged with an offence of rape and an offence of false imprisonment.

    Liaquat Hussain Hanif (45) from Batley charged with an offence of rape.

    Shakeel Haq (44) from Birmingham, charged with an offence of rape and an offence of false imprisonment.

    Rafiq Patel (69) from Batley charged with an offence of rape.

    Mohammed Abbas (60) from Dewsbury, charged with an offence of rape.

    Shafaquat Afzal Hussain (45) from Dewsbury charged with an offence of rape.

    Tariq Azam (52) from Dewsbury charged with three offences of rape and three offences of indecent assault.

    Aurrangzeb Azam (50) from Dewsbury charged with three offences of rape, two offences of indecent assault and an offence of false imprisonment.

    Israr Hussain (46) from Dewsbury charged with three offences of rape, two offences of indecent assault and an offence of false imprisonment.

    Mohammed Sheikh (48) from Batley charged with an offence of rape and an offence of indecent assault.

    Mohammed Tariq (62) from Bradford charged with two offences of rape.

    Sajid Majid (48) from Mirfield charged with an offence of rape and an offence of indecent assault.

    Zulfiquar Ali (42) from Dewsbury charged with an offence of rape

    Ansar Mahmood Qayum (44) from Dewsbury charged with an offence of rape and an offence of indecent assault.

    Mohammed Jabbar Qayum (40) from Dewsbury charged with an offence of rape.

    Shafiq Siddique (52) from Dewsbury charged with an offence of rape and an offence of false imprisonment.

    Mohammed Ishtiaq Hussain ( 47) from Dewsbury charged with an offence of rape.

    Abbas Kaji (52) from Batley charged with an offence of rape.

    Mohammed Farooq (52) from Dewsbury charged with an offence of rape.

    Tasawar Hussain (42) from Heckmondwike charged with an offence of rape.

    Mohammed Munir Shaffi (43) from Dewsbury charged with two offences of rape.

    Zaheed Ali Novsarka (53) from Batley charged with an offence of rape.

    Nassar Liaquat Khan (42) from Keighley charged with an offence of rape.

    Mohammed Riaz Khan (47) from Heckmondwike charged with an offence of rape.

    Mohammed Luqman Daji (44) from Dewsbury charged with an offence of rape.

    Mohammed Ramzan (64) from Dewsbury charged with an offence of rape.

    Janine Green (44) from Batley charged with encouraging prostitution, allowing premises to be used for unlawful sexual intercourse and controlling prostitution.

    Ali Shan Waheed (41) from Dewsbury charged with rape.

    Ismail Seedat (51) from Batley charged with indecent assault.

    Mohammed Yasin (48) from Batley charged with rape.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      12 guys named ‘ mo’

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    • Wink1 says:

      Any comment from the new Batley MP by any chance ?

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      • MarkyMark says:

        he could be killed, still in hiding and refuses to return to work’
        The West Yorkshire teacher is still in hiding with his family it is understood

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        ByLaura WithersNews Reporter
        09:34, 19 JUN 2021

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    • Halifax says:

      Disgusting.

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    • JohnC says:

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-59463276

      Did this even appear on the BBC main page ?. I never saw it. The article is only from yesterday yet it is nowhere to be seen – and it should be a BIG story.

      They start with:
      ‘The 39 men and three women, most from Kirklees, have been charged with a variety of offences.’

      What BBC ?. Shoplifting ?, Driving without a seatbelt ?.

      It’s disgraceful – and absolutely typical – that the first time I learn of this is on a forum dedicated to exposing what hypocrites and liars the BBC are.

      The BBC and the Left absolutely don’t care what happens to anybody. It’s all complete hypocrisy. The agenda is all that matters.

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  22. Guest Who says:

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    “Blasphemy in garb of freedom of expression is intolerable”

    Prime Minister Imran Khan

    ….

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  24. MarkyMark says:

    You will meet China – as it comes to you … fblinkedin_participants-1.png

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  25. theisland says:

    Jeff Taylor: Greece, the land that gave us the Elgin Marbles and Vangelis, has decided to follow in Austria’s footsteps and impose new draconian rules on the non-compliant.
    Comments also on Christmas and the City of London.

    and

    Compulsory vaccines worldwide? Bliar and his masters will be pleased.

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    • JohnC says:

      The sinister part is that once the first ‘compulsary’ thing is eventually accepted, the second is much easier and the ‘acceptable threshold’ is moved.

      The BBC have been using this technique for years. They keep pushing the boundary of what is level of agenda is acceptable and pausing when there is any reaction. Though since Brexit and Trump I have noticed they have adopted a much more spiteful ‘f*ck you’ policy.

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  26. tomo says:

    Moderators

    If Twitter follow through on what is being threatened – are you going to implement a range of embeds from other like sites?

    I am fed up with Twitter’s covert antics and I’m ready to scoot – the only thing really that keeps me there is the ease of embedding around the place.

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  27. StewGreen says:

    Covid graph still flat

    Cases : fourth day of positives being lower than 7 days previous
    7 day trend is 1% up per week

    Deaths : slightly lower than 7 days previous
    7 day trend is 15% DOWN per week

    UK is way down the charts in terms of bad trends
    https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/weekly-trends/
    better than most big countries
    whilst most EU countries are moved up past UK in terms of cases

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    • StewGreen says:

      Sweden weird weekly trend +65% increase in cases
      -86% fall in deaths

      Death rate is tiny …1/40th of UK’s

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  28. Eddy Booth says:

    Covid: Greece to fine over-60s who refuse Covid-19 vaccine
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59474808

    Greece is to make Covid vaccinations mandatory for people aged 60 and over.
    Fines of €100 (£85) will be imposed at monthly intervals from mid-January on those who refuse, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said.

    it’s like our neighbours are in a competition to punish the unvaxed.
    Wonder who’ll be the first to have forced vaccinations?

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    • StewGreen says:

      Been to Greece have you ?
      Like the rest of the EU, laws are often guidelines
      that are not really enforced.

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  29. StewGreen says:

    Went to shop for second time
    .. and of course I’d forgotten my mask.

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  30. StewGreen says:

    Ed Balls had his BBC family heritage show tonight

    and only the other week he had one day where he presented GMB in the morning
    then his BBC2 documentary in the evening

    Popular with the BBC isn’t he ?

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  31. tomo says:

    So…

    – they lied…..

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