The only way to defeat the woke media is to not pay “The Tax that robs from the poor to give to the rich!”
It has saved me a lot of money. Tell yer mates.
It will send the message to Peppa the Pig …………”Lets all make Great Britain agian !”
maxincony – you know it makes sense.
“Downing Street party: No 10 staff joked about party amid lockdown restrictions” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59572149
They take us the people of Great Britain for Fools!
We need a new Government now!
Pay attention Richard Tice and Neil Hamilton………….. The only way to get rid of these ‘b@stard5’ is to vote for a coalition of The Reform & UKIP party .
It was a lunatic decision to employ her in No 10. Rather like handing over the British propanda effort in WW2 to Lord Haw Haw.
Tories seem to stupidly believe that leftist journalists put their ‘professional’ role before their political beliefs. Perhaps they believed Lord Hall when he said folks who worked for the BBC didn’t bring their politics to work.
John Campbell is trying his best to get us out of this madness without being banned by Yutube and the likes.
This Omicron virus appears so far, to spread rapidly with little effects. But it is sufficient to generate a normal and natural immune response from the body. In effect its a natural vaccine.
So what is the response of the governments. Rapid response to destroy this godsend with Boosters boosters.
This will then lead to Boosters forever. Every three months. Its that or locked in a concentration camp.
This cant go on. We have one life. The politicians their jackboots seem to have their lives lived free. We are not allowed to.
Taffman
Whoever leaked the video aimed at maximum damage to nut nut – particularly with PMQs on Wednesday . I suppose all of those in the video will be looking for jobs by now – but it looks difficult for nut nut to survive in the circumstances ……
The MSM can throw fuel on the fire but I think it’s burning bright enough as it is .
Maybe Nut nut will go into full apology mode and hope that the public will forgive him . But I think his Party won’t .
I like your idea about a reform / UKIP / Farage party but I just can’t see the public being weaned away from the 2 party ( one party state ) …..
Fedup2
Maybe common sense will prevail with the British public , especially when they view that video ?
Note: it was an’ ITN exclusive’ not Al Beeb.
Where were they when it broke ?
Taffman – there are still 2 tory bi elections due – including the southend one where i think Reform will be one of the few standing against the blue labour party – not sure of the date but it will be painful ( hopefully) for nut nut – if he is not a back bencher by then
Be careful what you wish for re a new Government – we all know fringe parties don’t stand a chance and invariably end up losing their deposits – so the only realistic alternative is Starmer, Abbott and Costello etc and the lefty media will do everything they can to bring this about over the next 3 years
Yes – sadly it is the least worst option . And from a BBC point of view i bet red labour would subsume the licence into general taxation rendering out efforts void .
Bulldog
Remember, The Brexit Party (later the Reform Party ) were the biggest party in the EU Parliament”
Anything is better than the present ‘Consocialist Party’.
You are pushing the usual Tory rhetoric, to be afraid of the Labour Party – Fear fear, fear !
The Labour Party is finished. The Tory Party is finished.
I “wish” for The Reform/ UKIP Party.
We cannot continue voting Tory to keep Labour out. Best to support the minor parties and aim for a small block of MPs who may hold the balance of power with either a small Labour or Tory majority.
GWF
There is a problem with that . My MP is a blue Tory – smaller majority each time as the labour council buses in for foreigners using Farsi fraud postal votes .
If I voted for a non Tory party I would be represented by a female Muslim Corbyn supporter – as nearly happened last time in a very ugly election campaign .
Mind you I think my mp is doing more for Chinese political prisoners than me
I remember the BBC gleefully reporting that Dominic Raab refused to come back from holiday for the Afghan crisis. He is obviously an honourable man and didn’t throw his civil servants under the bus. His perm sec was also on holiday. Anyone left in the office would know to advise the minister to come home would mean the perm sec would have to come home too. Therefore the one working from home, who knows civil servants last longer than the government, would have advised them to stay on holiday.
Had there been a full complement in the office, group think might have realised the Minister and perm sec needed to be called back. Perm sec’s call I guess.
Reclaim and Reform would be a splendid title for a new party. It has the Rolls Royce ring to it and it would be the combination of the two most vibrant right of centre parties in the political arena. Two other parties that could join are ‘For Britain’ and ‘Heritage’, which are both led by talented and sincere people but who have proved to be not leaders.
Ukip are a busted flush and have been ever since they used underhand tactics to undermine the democratically elected leader Gerard Batten.
‘Reclaim our country and Reform the PC infested mess they created’. A meme along those lines would sound appealing to many of the disenchanted people out there.
I have a feeling that in next week’s By-election in North Shropshire the Reform Party will come in 5th and the Reclaim Party 6th. Perhaps then something sensible will happen?
It was their NEC that caused all the problems. Are any of the old cohort still there?
I see their selection of Steve Laws as Southend candidate as a good sign.
What amazes me is that they are blatantly calling No 10 liars on the basis of one anonymous persons claims. Maybe they are, but the BBC of all people should have absolute proof before doing such a thing.
It undermines the whole country over something completely trivial which nobody gives a f*ck about. Except those with their own political agenda who are quite happy to play dirty.
We bang on here about the conduct of the BBC and rightly so but what I find jaw dropping, they are no longer trying to hide there obvious glee.
The presenters on Breakfast TV are not even trying to hide there excitement, appalling.
It really is a sad state of affairs that the supposed opposition in this country can only make political capital solely on sleaze.
What makes me even more angry is the Tory Party just sits back and takes this sh-t.. pathetic.
Many of the media are determined to rid this country of the government and get there beloved lefties elected…Things seem to have been cranked up another notch… Let’s hope Mr & Mrs Joe Public don’t fall for this crap
Ok, the government are having a rough ride and not doing themselves any favours but OMG, the alternative in the form of the Labour Party is even more frightening….And isn’t strange that the supposed interlects in the BBC think the Labour Party are worth the effort… staggering
Each time they get away with it, the current ‘acceptable level’ is moved up a notch and becomes the norm.
They they start the slow process of pushing the boundary again to the next notch.
It started in earnest after Brexit and was fuelled by spite. Then Floyd gave them the excuse they were looking for as anyone who spoke out was an instant racist. Eventually you arrive at this ridiculous state of affairs we are at now.
It’s what we hoped Boris would stand up to – but he’s turned out to be as empty as the others. It seems our society can no longer produce great leaders,
dafydd, I think the BBC are desperate to keep Corbyn & McDonnell out of No.10 Downing Street. Yes, you read that right. I suspect they see Starmer as another Blair and a soft ‘Left’ option. Whereas, if Angela Rayner gets her hands on the leadership, Corbyn & McDonnell and their policies will be back on Labour’s team and agenda and manifesto.
That will mean colossal tax rises for the Beeboids who are on high salaries and for those that have Buy-to-Let Portfolios even more taxes will be on the way.
Interesting caller on LBC very early this morning, who said that there’s a take on the video, which is such a coincidence, it could well be a stitch up to lead on and embarrass the BBC and the rags…
Possibly another ‘conspiracy’ theory, but it floored Tom Swarbrick!
The BBC items do now point out that the party video
is a rehearsal for a press conference
where Downing St staff roll play a journos asking questions,
not an actual press conference.
Stew, they did state that on TOADY when I first started listening about 6.50 a.m.. I wonder if Bojo will have the nous to get MI5 involved to find out how that video came to be in the hands of the media?
Appreciate your post. But at this moment I just want rid of Bojo. If BBC helps – good. And these absurd restrictions gone. Singapore and some others have given responsibility of a persons health to the individual. That’s how it should be.
The report concluded there “was a lack of trust” around the term BAME. So now we are not allowed to use it.
It’s a f*cking acronym. Nothing else. Whatever they are called, they take offence. If they are not called anything, they will find something else to be offended by.
They only get away with it because of the oxygen people like the BBC give them. It’s absolutely ridiculous.
ps: When was Henry ever funny ?. He’s ridden the BAME ticket from the very start.
It’s amazing how much money all these different people get because they’re on the BBC and ther stations!
If they spent a little more time actually working to earn the licence fee money, and less time being so-called victims, we might even get something worth watching, instead of all this trash being produced today.
I never thought Henry was ever funny, but that was my choice, if he had been green or purple, he would still have been someone to avoid.
John, when was Lenny Henry funny? Back when he won that TV competition – what was it called? Was it New Faces? He won as a teenager if I recall correctly. That is a long time ago now.
Can’t recall it. I do recall he has made me laugh exactly once where he was supposed to be a cool dude walking down the street and he had his sidekick watching from a van giving him feedback into an earpiece about how to adjust his walk for maximum coolness.
I actually feel embarassed for him in everything else.
I agree – but he was just part of the insane chaos of it. He wasn’t actually funny. His trademark was just saying ‘OOOOOO-KAAAAAAY’ in a deep voice and putting big glasses on pretending to be ‘Trevor McDonut’ the newsreader.
I just cannot bear it any longer. The LOPs (Left Outside Parliament) of which the BBC are part, are terrified that underperforming Starmer will be replaced in a Momentum coup by Angela Rayner and that Corbyn and McDonnell will be back to tax their socks off and make their pips squeak, should Labour win power in 2024.
I cannot listen to the LOPsided BBC narrative that is going to obsess about parties this morning. Normal service may or may not be resumed about as fast as a power company reconnection.
Up2
I disagree . I’ve switched into ‘comedy ‘ mode . I’ve reflected on this ( just like the head of the FCO ) and am now treating the whole thing as comedy .
For instance – David Lammy was put up early on. Comrade Robinson ‘s first question to him about the non party was ‘what should happen ?’ . Lammy couldn’t answer and waffled as his pitch of indignation got higher and higher – ending with a supersonic waffle which is reported to have broken many windows in N17 .
Lessons to be learnt – everyone work from home or go on holiday or strict 9-5 with no shifts and certainly no weekends – particularly if countries are falling apart .
Today is PMQ s – I wonder if the SPADS preparing nut nut are the same smugs who appeared in the allegro video ?
And what happened to the ‘unfortunate’ allegro Stratton ….?
BTW – I don’t ‘do ‘ ITV – but went out of my way to watch Tommy Bradby ? Going off on one in the 10pm news last night . Certainly no straight reporting – absolute indignation .
Fed, I couldn’t bear to listen to Lammy. I hit the off-switch when the BBC announced that he would be on. I used to like Lammy when he was first elected, before he became a racist and full of himself. Then that Mastermind thing happened and it has been all downhill for him since then.
Stratton was only working as Press officer up to and including COP26 if I recall correctly. Don’t know who has that gig now but I guess they might be chatting to a few head-hunting agencies just in case things get worse.
I wonder who leaked that video?
Could it have been Lee Cain or Dominic Cummings?
Cummings has certainly been ‘turned’ by someone or some agency. I think we are in very dark days indeed and it is nothing to do with winter.
Up2
I don’t think they are dark – I think it is hilarious – In my version of ‘dark’ …. Im trying to remember the major days when things just went wrong and wrong .
I reckon the Revenge of Cummings is in there somewhere … and I wonder if there is more to follow … and whether Mrs nut nut likes illegal parties …. ?
As for Lammy – Starmer using the same technique as nut nut in placing no hopers in his cabinet …
Nut nut must be praying that putin invades ( border incident )…
Well Fed, things kept going wrong and wrong for Major as you say but look where that led to: devolution, a bad deal for N. Ireland, globalism not globalisation, the sub-prime crisis and the Bank crash. There’s probably more that I could have included but cannot remember.
Update on Stratton: I was wrong. She has just resigned.
On a morning when a thought suddenly struck this observer – did we ever find out who it was who leaked that Matt Hancock CCTV smooch clip to the press?
Now that was a genuinely butt-clenchingly embarrassing watch.
Wasn’t there supposed to be some sort of inquiry and/or investigation into that?
Unless they leaked it out quietly and I missed it? I stand to be corrected.
‘Foreign Office chief spent 11 days on holiday during Kabul crisis‘ (Telegraph) – so I guess officials are rather busy and if we bear with them they’ll get back to us on that Hancock thing. Afterall, our civil servants need a holiday now and again, from all their busy working from home. How rude of President Biden to pull out of Afghanistan without first clearing the date with the Whitehall holiday leave diary.
Perhaps civil servants are just edging it?
Of course one is reminded of this unfinished Hancock business (coitus investigatus interruptus?) on a day when the giveaway Metro tops the BBC online press review with: ‘No 10 party clowns‘ – the Lefty press (but I repeat myself) staff festivity furore is stoked – in rather timely fashion one can’t help but note – by: ‘Video leak shows staff joking about Christmas do… Boris… yesterday insisted “all the guidelines were observed”… but hours later a recording emerged‘
Recordings will tend to emerge.
The pedagogic Guardian spells out the accusation for the class: ‘Leaked footage suggests Downing Street did host event during lockdown despite repeated denials‘
In further lockdown news: ‘How lockdown became an abuser’s charter for little Arthur‘ (Telegraph)
So, are we now all in the media agreed then, lockdowns are rubbish and a hypocrite’s sham?
No, of course not. I guess the Guardian proposition is that a Rainbow Labour administration would not only lock us down earlier harder and for longer (having expuged the cavalier Johnson from office) but that the putative Starmer Downing Street team of… gosh who would it be…? They scarcely resemble the iron resolve of Lord Protector Cromwell and his New Model Army. Following the Rainbow notion, let’s just say Bungle, some pink gay hippo and Keep-it-Zippy… they would all assuredly properly adhere to and observe their own daft anti-Christmas, anti-social anti-human edicts, like the good square-headed puritan kill-joys they are. Be gone from these hallowed Number 10 portals with your evil cheese and wines. Never pollute nor darken the big black door with your paper hats, cracker jokes and secret Santa comedy token gifts.
‘Parties. What the fashion team wear‘ – offers the Times, further confusing us. I thought we just established parties were a no-no?
At last we are on firm ground with that reassuring perennial media chestnut – the female celeb angst feature: ‘Naomi Rapace “I was anxious. My life exploded”‘ (‘i’) – she is the Swedish actress who shot to international fame amid the fuss over that over-rated movie The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Read all about her: ‘on Dragon Tattoo trauma, divorce and learning to deliver lambs‘
Tip for aspiring female young actresses, singers, etc – don’t bother, luv.
Think about it and learn from our Naomi. You can have your divorce and your sheep shepherding experiences without all that pain and angst of the stardom bit. The fame, celebrity and wealth only seem to give you girls bad truamas you could so easily avoid without any of the faff of the showbiz career. This is your uncle AsISeeIt speaking from the experience of slogging through a hundred and one female celeb angst features. You’d think they’d learn by now?
The ‘i’ is of course also our leading vector of coronaphobia: ‘Double whammy: predicted 80,000 cases of Omicron and delta daily by Christmas‘ – we once used to guage cold and flu season by the appearance of those TV adverts featuring the snuffly Tunes-sucking, wooly scarf-wearing Malcolm and his old mum.
80,000 cases, eh? Just another day in the life, as the Beatles once mused – “Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire. And though the holes were rather small. They had to count them all”
And on that rather profound observation, I think we’ll leave it there. Best not over-think what our media are telling us.
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Angela, it’s been covered on the BBC ever since the Mirror broke the story. On loads of news programmes, on discussion programmes such as Question Time & Any Questions, on interview programmes such as Marr https://t.co/LWxXS8w4r2
Boost, boost and further lockdown etc.
A new study finds the scale of the problem and the effectiveness of the vaccine are overestimated.
Latest statistics on England mortality data suggest systematic mis-categorisation of vaccine status and uncertain effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccination. here
Apologies if already posted.
Also Jeff Taylor on why Omicron may be a good thing (according to some Norwegian doctors), and why a massive Whitehall overhaul is needed.
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More seriously a vacuous discussion by 3 men about the 100 000 plus ? Ghost children who have disappeared from school rolls .
Apparently they don’t know where they are . But surely – mummy and daddy are claiming benefits right? And there has to be an address and bank details right ?
Maybe the bank sort code is in Warsaw or Islamabad though …
That Downing Street party – was it a racist attack against all BAME people?
Just looking at the live feed on the BBC news (sic) website. At 8:23, the thoughts of Dal Babu, a former chief superintendent in the Metropolitan Police. Preceeded at 8:02 by Labour’s shadow foreign secretary David Lammy. Preceeded at 7:41 by Dr Saleyha Ahsan from the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group.
Conclusion: only BAME people were affected by the party and are entitled to an opinion on it?
Guido Fawkes reports a survey of how much the public trust various professions and groups to tell the truth. It is a very broad and unnuanced question but I’m surprised by some of the results. 60% of us trust the man or woman in the street . this is a sort of benchmark I suppose.
Top at 94% comes nurses , perhaps not so surprising , closely followed by doctors 91%. After the refusal of GPS to open their surgeries and do their job claiming all manner of nonsensical reasons, I am surprised that the public still trust them
Amazingly teachers are trusted by 86% of the public. For decades they have been playing politics with childrens’ education but the bovine public still trust them!
Judges are on 82% . Like teachers they have become politicised and after their attempts to stop Brexit I amazed that anyone who voted Leave trusts them an inch.so why isn’t it below 50%?
The police are down at 63%. For a nation policed by consent this is a worryingly low but unsurprising figure. If you interpret the law to suit your increasingly Woke agenda the non Woke majority are not going to trust you.
Civil servants are on 53% so half the country doesn’t trust those who actually run the country. Not that they care because the salary and gold plated pension will roll in whether those who pay from their taxes trust them or not.
Charity bosses are deservedly below 50%. After the rape scandal at Oxfam, the Woke agenda of the nation’s trust, the RNLI taxi for the invading migrants, and countless others ,it isn’t a surprise Surely then donations from the public will continue to fall.
Footballers with their obscene wages and rampant hypocrisy are down at 35%.
Journalists are on 28%. of course I’m sure that the ones who work for the BBC and Guardian are much much higher , otherwise how could the BBC be the most trusted broadcaster in the entire world?
In a segment about vaccine approval for 12 to 15 year olds, a contributor claimed that the Pfizer vaccine is “100% safe”. This has been removed from the online article and video: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/57435861
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First she winges about a ‘racist’ sitting next to her in a public restaurant, and now she’s bleating about no minister bothering to go and chat to her about something or other!
You can either take it, or not dish it out dear, take your pick!
This is very good – anything which even hints at a confrontation between the BBC and the blue labour government is good for our cause . Let’s hope temperature on this joke increases
…
Can we have another leaked video please ….
The Government should do this more often, the very unprofessional presenters only keep interrupting to “Gottcha” questions.
Anyway it won’t last long when the funding dries up.
Prof Jay said: “No-one knows the true scale of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham over the years. Our conservative estimate is that approximately 1,400 children were sexually exploited over the full inquiry period, from 1997 to 2013.”
Revealing details of the inquiry’s findings, Prof Jay said: “It is hard to describe the appalling nature of the abuse that child victims suffered.”
The inquiry team found examples of “children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone”.
In an item about holiday and restaurant bookings and cancellations in the South West we included testimony from a tourist who claimed that his booking at the Mussel Box at Padstow had been cancelled without warning. In fact the customer had been sent an email by the restaurant alerting him to the cancellation.
We failed to bring that allegation to the attention of the owner of the restaurant who would have made the situation clear, and we apologise for that.
…either Boris Johnson has a trump card up his sleeve regarding this party or he is in deep sh-t, and rightly so.
I have followed the Biased BBC and have made comments on here for years but i can genuinely say i have never witnessed such rabid anti Tory anti Government behaviour by the BBC as i have witnessed today.
They smell blood and they are going for the jugular.
Have a look at Laura Kuenssbergs Tweeter account, she seems to be deliriously happy and it seems to sums up the mood across the BBC.
My prediction is that heads will roll before the end of the day and possibly Johnsons..Cant see him digging his way out of this one, hope im proved wrong…!!!
The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) today criticised the outcome of an inquiry into the incendiary and dehumanising comments written by the former Foreign Secretary and Uxbridge MP, Boris Johnson, in the Daily Telegraph.
Boris Johnson ‘looking at’ abolishing TV licence fee for BBC
This article is more than 1 year old
Remarks came amid row over PM’s refusal to look at a picture of a sick boy in hospita
I can’t help but wonder why the hell this video has lain dormant for the past 12 months ! and who has decided to release it in time for this Christmas ?
Its about time those in power/authority need to realise that any comment, action, words spoken in confidence, can come back at any time in the future because there will ALWAYS be someone around with their mobile phone filming it.
I am now in the position of not knowing where to cast my future vote. Always Labour until the fiasco of Tony Blair, the bombastic Gordon Brown, the clown of Ed Miliband, the demented Corbin, and the Max Headroom which is Starmer. I then through gritted teeth voted for Let Down Theresa, and now its What Next Boris.
I cannot vote for either party – the Tories / Labour cannot get to grips with migration which is our biggest problem, and both refuse to put the brakes on the NHS and overhaul it.
So there is only the Reform. What’s a gal to do ???
Lord Buckethead’s manifesto in the 2017 election promised “strong, not entirely stable leadership”, a reference to the Conservatives’ slogan “strong and stable”.[17] The following promises were included:
The abolition of the House of Lords, with the exception of Lord Buckethead
Nuclear weapons: “A firm public commitment to build the 100-billion-pound renewal of Britain’s Trident weapons system, followed by an equally firm commitment, privately, not to build it. They’re secret submarines, so no one will ever know. It’s a win-win.”[18]
Free bicycles for all to “combat obesity, traffic congestion, and bike theft”.[18]
Reducing the voting age to 16 and restricting voting beyond the age of 80
Instead of Theresa May’s commitment to bring back grammar schools,[18] Buckethead would build “gamma” schools founded on three principles: “One, better funding for teachers, to attract bright graduates. Two, increased facilities for children, especially playing fields. Three, if any child misbehaves three times, they are blasted into deep space, with the parents provided with a lovely fruit basket, by way of consolation or celebration, depending on the child. Discipline is key”.[18]
A referendum on whether or not to have another Brexit referendum.[19]
Legalise the hunting of fox hunters[19]
Nationalise pop singer Adele[19]
Exile of right-wing columnist Katie Hopkins to the “Phantom Zone”.[19]
Regeneration of Nicholson’s Shopping Centre, Maidenhead.[19]
The cessation of arms sales to Saudi Arabia so that Britain can purchase laser weaponry from Lord Buckethead.[20]
A lot of the media scum have been quite quiet on this, and there is a feeling that the likes of Peston, Rigby, Burley, etc might have been in attendance.
Kay Burley returns to Sky News after six-month Covid breach absence
Burley apologised in December for breaking rules while celebrating her 60th birthday in central London.
The journalist, who joined Sky’s rolling news channel in 1988, admitted she had made “an error of judgement” and that she had agreed to “step back for a period of reflection”.
Two of Burley’s broadcasting colleagues who were among those with her on the night in question took a three-month leave of absence.
We were hoping to speak to somebody from the Government about this on @BBCBreakfast this morning. Unusually, no ministers are doing media interviews today… https://t.co/iPMpVeaZuy
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This was an attempted modern day lynching. No one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or color of their skin. We must confront this hate.
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1765 … **In a republic worthy of name, freedom to publish one’s thoughts is a citizen’s natural right.**
2018 … **which can include things like offensive or insulting comments, online, in person or in writing**
“The mosques of Cologne, the fourth-largest city in Germany, have obtained permission to broadcast the call to prayer every Friday over minaret loudspeakers.” Only Friday? So far. The ratchetting up continues: Next coming: The daily call to prayers. Any bets?
The first mosque to be built in the Western Isles is proving to be a huge hit with tourists. The Stornoway temple opened its doors in May to provide a place of worship for the area’s 80-strong Muslim community.30 Sept 2018
There are currently no official churches in Saudi Arabia and the thousands of Maronite families who work there have to live “either as a neutral person or as a Muslim”, one Lebanese Catholic, Danny Nasrallah, told the New York Times. “You have to pray in your heart when you want to pray,” he said.16 Nov 2017
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The World Service used to be the last bastion of a proper BBC .i used to listen a lot. There was a lot of good stuff on it .
But then about 20 years ago the rot started setting in . I gave up when they started using coloured presenters who could barely speak Engleesh . …
Sadly its now pushing out woke socialist crap across the planet …
40 years ago, whilst working abroad, I would tune in to the BBC World Service to find out what was going on, and to Radio Moscow to be amused and outraged by the lies.
Due to covid restrictions there will be no annual party this year . There may be wine and cheese and a few games but it definately wont be a party or series of parties .
Unless there is a video – of course z…
Alas someone who hears a media story believes it without question because it’s what he wants to hear and as a consequence gets it all wrong.
It’s NOT the BBC who has invested £150 Million in China, it’s the BBC pension fund which is a seperate entity only connected to the BBC in the fact it provides corporate pensions and takes money from the corporation in order to do so.
The fact the pension fund uses this money does not in any way affect the BBCs content and if had done just a scintilla of research he would have known this.
It’s a common occurence for the Curch Commissioners to invest money in ‘controversial’ companies and the media to the express fake outrage the vicars and bishops had a hand in it when they probably had zero knowledge of the matter.
BBC has invested more than £150million in Chinese state-owned companies accused of links to appalling human rights violations
The BBC has been criticised for investing in Chinese-state owned companies
China has received condemnation for a string of alleged human rights abuses
Around two million Uighur Muslims are held in detention camps in Xinjiang
The BBC’s own Beijing correspondent John Sudworth forced to flee this year
Despite this, BBC poured an extra £40million in Chinese state-controlled firms in previous financial year
There you are, second paragraph from your link, and others.
At least 10 companies alleged to support Beijing’s totalitarian regime, including two owned by the ruling communist party, have been handed funds from the pension contributions of almost 47,000 current and former BBC staff.
the true figure is likely to be even higher as the BBC pension fund only declares its 20 largest shareholdings.
Documents show that the BBC’s pension fund holds undisclosed interests in six Chinese firms, including one that is part of a company blacklisted by the United States government.
The pension fund is a seperate entity to the BBC it provides pensions, it does not produce content.
The Archbishop of Canterbury said he was “embarrassed” and “irritated” that the Church of England invested indirectly in online lender Wonga. It comes after the Most Reverend Justin Welby told Wonga the Church would try to force the firm out of business by helping credit unions compete with it.26 Jul 2013
BBC Children in Need . Grant Funded Projects . London and South East England
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Islington x 38;
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Young x 532;
Afghan x 3;
Arts x 43;
Football x 9;
Disabled x 64;
Autism x 12;
Literacy x 8;
Inclusion x 15;
Mental x 54;
£305,840 FROM BBC’s CHILDREN IN NEED FUND 2017
The Mayor’s Fund for London
The project will deliver healthy food and activities to children
in 132 local projects across 33 London Boroughs during
Easter, Summer and half term school holidays.
UK broadcasters have committed to avoiding the use of the acronym BAME “wherever possible” following the publication of an industry report from the BAME Lenny Henry outfit.
”The catch-all description for black, Asian and minority ethnic people will be ditched in favour of the use of more specific terms to describe ethnicity.
The BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 welcomed the findings from the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity.”
See – i use’ coloured ‘ on this site and wont allow myself to use that sort of thing – i mean what the hell is BAME and that LBGT thing about – if they are queer they are queer …
Breaking news – allegro ‘ austin’ stratton has quit saying that she is not a ‘ party person ‘ and is going back to islington to wait for the New Years ‘ honours ….
“Ministers considering move to Covid Plan B – source” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59579077
Here we go again!
I would imagine that there are a lot of Tory business owners and shareholders that have lost too much already ?
PS…………….
Allegra Stratton has gone !
Anything on Al Beeb yet ?
Fedup2
“left a puddle after announcing it and jumping up and down with the excitement of it”
Coincidently, my dog does that when I come home from work ?
Taffman
I dont know why but it all reminds me of Watergate . Theres a ‘night of the long knives coming ‘ with various Number 10 inner circle heading for the door …
… i wonder if we ll find out who leaked the video … and whether there are more …?
Allegra Stratton has resigned as a government adviser following an angry backlash over a video of No 10 staff joking about holding a Christmas party.
The video, obtained by ITV, was leaked on Tuesday, showing the PM’s then-press secretary mocking a “fictional” gathering – four days after Downing Street staff held a party in lockdown.
Delivering tearful statement, she said would “regret the remarks for the rest of my days”.
And she offered her “profound apologies” to the public.
Nadhim boasted about the government’s T-Level plans, joking that the “TL Badge” on his lapel didn’t stand for “Tory leader”. Some in the audience seemed to wish it did…
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The only way to defeat the woke media is to not pay “The Tax that robs from the poor to give to the rich!”
It has saved me a lot of money. Tell yer mates.
It will send the message to Peppa the Pig …………”Lets all make Great Britain agian !”
maxincony – you know it makes sense.
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Totally agree.
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“Downing Street party: No 10 staff joked about party amid lockdown restrictions”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59572149
They take us the people of Great Britain for Fools!
We need a new Government now!
Pay attention Richard Tice and Neil Hamilton………….. The only way to get rid of these ‘b@stard5’ is to vote for a coalition of The Reform & UKIP party .
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Allegra Stratton headed back to bbc soon?
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It was a lunatic decision to employ her in No 10. Rather like handing over the British propanda effort in WW2 to Lord Haw Haw.
Tories seem to stupidly believe that leftist journalists put their ‘professional’ role before their political beliefs. Perhaps they believed Lord Hall when he said folks who worked for the BBC didn’t bring their politics to work.
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John Campbell is trying his best to get us out of this madness without being banned by Yutube and the likes.
This Omicron virus appears so far, to spread rapidly with little effects. But it is sufficient to generate a normal and natural immune response from the body. In effect its a natural vaccine.
So what is the response of the governments. Rapid response to destroy this godsend with Boosters boosters.
This will then lead to Boosters forever. Every three months. Its that or locked in a concentration camp.
This cant go on. We have one life. The politicians their jackboots seem to have their lives lived free. We are not allowed to.
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Taffman
Whoever leaked the video aimed at maximum damage to nut nut – particularly with PMQs on Wednesday . I suppose all of those in the video will be looking for jobs by now – but it looks difficult for nut nut to survive in the circumstances ……
The MSM can throw fuel on the fire but I think it’s burning bright enough as it is .
Maybe Nut nut will go into full apology mode and hope that the public will forgive him . But I think his Party won’t .
I like your idea about a reform / UKIP / Farage party but I just can’t see the public being weaned away from the 2 party ( one party state ) …..
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Fedup2
Maybe common sense will prevail with the British public , especially when they view that video ?
Note: it was an’ ITN exclusive’ not Al Beeb.
Where were they when it broke ?
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Taffman – there are still 2 tory bi elections due – including the southend one where i think Reform will be one of the few standing against the blue labour party – not sure of the date but it will be painful ( hopefully) for nut nut – if he is not a back bencher by then
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Taffman
Be careful what you wish for re a new Government – we all know fringe parties don’t stand a chance and invariably end up losing their deposits – so the only realistic alternative is Starmer, Abbott and Costello etc and the lefty media will do everything they can to bring this about over the next 3 years
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Yes – sadly it is the least worst option . And from a BBC point of view i bet red labour would subsume the licence into general taxation rendering out efforts void .
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Interesting – David Davies was interviewed by Nigel Farage. Perhaps a leadership challenge below decks.
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Bulldog
Remember, The Brexit Party (later the Reform Party ) were the biggest party in the EU Parliament”
Anything is better than the present ‘Consocialist Party’.
You are pushing the usual Tory rhetoric, to be afraid of the Labour Party – Fear fear, fear !
The Labour Party is finished. The Tory Party is finished.
I “wish” for The Reform/ UKIP Party.
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We cannot continue voting Tory to keep Labour out. Best to support the minor parties and aim for a small block of MPs who may hold the balance of power with either a small Labour or Tory majority.
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GWF
There is a problem with that . My MP is a blue Tory – smaller majority each time as the labour council buses in for foreigners using Farsi fraud postal votes .
If I voted for a non Tory party I would be represented by a female Muslim Corbyn supporter – as nearly happened last time in a very ugly election campaign .
Mind you I think my mp is doing more for Chinese political prisoners than me
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“those in the video will be looking for jobs by now” – nope, they will be recycled or jobs created for them….
How the World’s First Loneliness Minister Will Tackle ‘the Sad Reality of Modern Life’
https://time.com/5248016/tracey-crouch-uk-loneliness-minister/
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So why did Nigel Farage give prime time to David Davies, the other day.
Its time to for a leadership challenge. Even if one started talkng of it, Boris’ days are numbered
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I remember the BBC gleefully reporting that Dominic Raab refused to come back from holiday for the Afghan crisis. He is obviously an honourable man and didn’t throw his civil servants under the bus. His perm sec was also on holiday. Anyone left in the office would know to advise the minister to come home would mean the perm sec would have to come home too. Therefore the one working from home, who knows civil servants last longer than the government, would have advised them to stay on holiday.
Had there been a full complement in the office, group think might have realised the Minister and perm sec needed to be called back. Perm sec’s call I guess.
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Reclaim and Reform would be a splendid title for a new party. It has the Rolls Royce ring to it and it would be the combination of the two most vibrant right of centre parties in the political arena. Two other parties that could join are ‘For Britain’ and ‘Heritage’, which are both led by talented and sincere people but who have proved to be not leaders.
Ukip are a busted flush and have been ever since they used underhand tactics to undermine the democratically elected leader Gerard Batten.
‘Reclaim our country and Reform the PC infested mess they created’. A meme along those lines would sound appealing to many of the disenchanted people out there.
I have a feeling that in next week’s By-election in North Shropshire the Reform Party will come in 5th and the Reclaim Party 6th. Perhaps then something sensible will happen?
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UKIP have learned lessons . They now have an elected leader and he is a taffman,
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It was their NEC that caused all the problems. Are any of the old cohort still there?
I see their selection of Steve Laws as Southend candidate as a good sign.
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Here we go again….The legendary BBC source says Downing Street party went ahead….Proof please.
WHO GIVES A F–K IF THEY HARD A PARTY…Half the population broke the sodding rules…
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Top headline on the ‘Home’ page.
What amazes me is that they are blatantly calling No 10 liars on the basis of one anonymous persons claims. Maybe they are, but the BBC of all people should have absolute proof before doing such a thing.
It undermines the whole country over something completely trivial which nobody gives a f*ck about. Except those with their own political agenda who are quite happy to play dirty.
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JohnC……..
We bang on here about the conduct of the BBC and rightly so but what I find jaw dropping, they are no longer trying to hide there obvious glee.
The presenters on Breakfast TV are not even trying to hide there excitement, appalling.
It really is a sad state of affairs that the supposed opposition in this country can only make political capital solely on sleaze.
What makes me even more angry is the Tory Party just sits back and takes this sh-t.. pathetic.
Many of the media are determined to rid this country of the government and get there beloved lefties elected…Things seem to have been cranked up another notch… Let’s hope Mr & Mrs Joe Public don’t fall for this crap
Ok, the government are having a rough ride and not doing themselves any favours but OMG, the alternative in the form of the Labour Party is even more frightening….And isn’t strange that the supposed interlects in the BBC think the Labour Party are worth the effort… staggering
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Each time they get away with it, the current ‘acceptable level’ is moved up a notch and becomes the norm.
They they start the slow process of pushing the boundary again to the next notch.
It started in earnest after Brexit and was fuelled by spite. Then Floyd gave them the excuse they were looking for as anyone who spoke out was an instant racist. Eventually you arrive at this ridiculous state of affairs we are at now.
It’s what we hoped Boris would stand up to – but he’s turned out to be as empty as the others. It seems our society can no longer produce great leaders,
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JohnC..
Johnson is either enept or he is being badly advised..
I have to say like you I thought things would change but as of now I’m sadly disappointed.
I just wish the government would fight back and show some balls…pathetic
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Many people I know are sick of both Labour and Con~socialists. There are alternatives!
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Taffman,
But, realistically, the apathy is overwhelming. I’m afraid we’re doomed to remain in the ‘Two-Party’ dance until a revolution clears the decks.
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dafydd, I think the BBC are desperate to keep Corbyn & McDonnell out of No.10 Downing Street. Yes, you read that right. I suspect they see Starmer as another Blair and a soft ‘Left’ option. Whereas, if Angela Rayner gets her hands on the leadership, Corbyn & McDonnell and their policies will be back on Labour’s team and agenda and manifesto.
That will mean colossal tax rises for the Beeboids who are on high salaries and for those that have Buy-to-Let Portfolios even more taxes will be on the way.
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I agree. I think they are Blairite remainers.
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Interesting caller on LBC very early this morning, who said that there’s a take on the video, which is such a coincidence, it could well be a stitch up to lead on and embarrass the BBC and the rags…
Possibly another ‘conspiracy’ theory, but it floored Tom Swarbrick!
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The BBC items do now point out that the party video
is a rehearsal for a press conference
where Downing St staff roll play a journos asking questions,
not an actual press conference.
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Stew, they did state that on TOADY when I first started listening about 6.50 a.m.. I wonder if Bojo will have the nous to get MI5 involved to find out how that video came to be in the hands of the media?
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John C
Appreciate your post. But at this moment I just want rid of Bojo. If BBC helps – good. And these absurd restrictions gone. Singapore and some others have given responsibility of a persons health to the individual. That’s how it should be.
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Just seen the Argos Xmas advertisement.
Won’t be going there this year either. I don’t support racist companies. Particularly those who are racist against the indigenous population.
I have to admit, I’m running out of places who aren’t.
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Blacks are in high demand these days for fronting ads as surgeons, life savers, power engineers, Santas etc etc.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59559834
I feel sick just looking at his smug face, previously Henry was funny
and as for “Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity” we as a nation are screwed, this is never ending
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Good God,
The report concluded there “was a lack of trust” around the term BAME. So now we are not allowed to use it.
It’s a f*cking acronym. Nothing else. Whatever they are called, they take offence. If they are not called anything, they will find something else to be offended by.
They only get away with it because of the oxygen people like the BBC give them. It’s absolutely ridiculous.
ps: When was Henry ever funny ?. He’s ridden the BAME ticket from the very start.
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It’s amazing how much money all these different people get because they’re on the BBC and ther stations!
If they spent a little more time actually working to earn the licence fee money, and less time being so-called victims, we might even get something worth watching, instead of all this trash being produced today.
I never thought Henry was ever funny, but that was my choice, if he had been green or purple, he would still have been someone to avoid.
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John, when was Lenny Henry funny? Back when he won that TV competition – what was it called? Was it New Faces? He won as a teenager if I recall correctly. That is a long time ago now.
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Can’t recall it. I do recall he has made me laugh exactly once where he was supposed to be a cool dude walking down the street and he had his sidekick watching from a van giving him feedback into an earpiece about how to adjust his walk for maximum coolness.
I actually feel embarassed for him in everything else.
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He’s let himself go a bit judging by the BBC pic. Shame, he had some real talent once upon a time.
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He was OK on Tiswas.
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I agree – but he was just part of the insane chaos of it. He wasn’t actually funny. His trademark was just saying ‘OOOOOO-KAAAAAAY’ in a deep voice and putting big glasses on pretending to be ‘Trevor McDonut’ the newsreader.
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Where is Nadine Dorries ?
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Trying to work out what to do which would be best for her future career.
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I was bought a Dianne Abbot advent calandar for the season. I’m up to day four and there’s still another 72 to go.
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Thoughtful, is not day four ‘Eleventy’ on the AbbottaAdventitude?
She could be back in Government soon, the way the BBC are going at it this morning.
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What was the Tory answer to the mass invasion of Great Britain and the Telly Tax?
Priti & Nadine .
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TOADY Watch #1 – cancelled
I just cannot bear it any longer. The LOPs (Left Outside Parliament) of which the BBC are part, are terrified that underperforming Starmer will be replaced in a Momentum coup by Angela Rayner and that Corbyn and McDonnell will be back to tax their socks off and make their pips squeak, should Labour win power in 2024.
I cannot listen to the LOPsided BBC narrative that is going to obsess about parties this morning. Normal service may or may not be resumed about as fast as a power company reconnection.
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Up2
I disagree . I’ve switched into ‘comedy ‘ mode . I’ve reflected on this ( just like the head of the FCO ) and am now treating the whole thing as comedy .
For instance – David Lammy was put up early on. Comrade Robinson ‘s first question to him about the non party was ‘what should happen ?’ . Lammy couldn’t answer and waffled as his pitch of indignation got higher and higher – ending with a supersonic waffle which is reported to have broken many windows in N17 .
Lessons to be learnt – everyone work from home or go on holiday or strict 9-5 with no shifts and certainly no weekends – particularly if countries are falling apart .
Today is PMQ s – I wonder if the SPADS preparing nut nut are the same smugs who appeared in the allegro video ?
And what happened to the ‘unfortunate’ allegro Stratton ….?
BTW – I don’t ‘do ‘ ITV – but went out of my way to watch Tommy Bradby ? Going off on one in the 10pm news last night . Certainly no straight reporting – absolute indignation .
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Fed, I couldn’t bear to listen to Lammy. I hit the off-switch when the BBC announced that he would be on. I used to like Lammy when he was first elected, before he became a racist and full of himself. Then that Mastermind thing happened and it has been all downhill for him since then.
Stratton was only working as Press officer up to and including COP26 if I recall correctly. Don’t know who has that gig now but I guess they might be chatting to a few head-hunting agencies just in case things get worse.
I wonder who leaked that video?
Could it have been Lee Cain or Dominic Cummings?
Cummings has certainly been ‘turned’ by someone or some agency. I think we are in very dark days indeed and it is nothing to do with winter.
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Up2
I don’t think they are dark – I think it is hilarious – In my version of ‘dark’ …. Im trying to remember the major days when things just went wrong and wrong .
I reckon the Revenge of Cummings is in there somewhere … and I wonder if there is more to follow … and whether Mrs nut nut likes illegal parties …. ?
As for Lammy – Starmer using the same technique as nut nut in placing no hopers in his cabinet …
Nut nut must be praying that putin invades ( border incident )…
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Well Fed, things kept going wrong and wrong for Major as you say but look where that led to: devolution, a bad deal for N. Ireland, globalism not globalisation, the sub-prime crisis and the Bank crash. There’s probably more that I could have included but cannot remember.
Update on Stratton: I was wrong. She has just resigned.
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On a morning when a thought suddenly struck this observer – did we ever find out who it was who leaked that Matt Hancock CCTV smooch clip to the press?
Now that was a genuinely butt-clenchingly embarrassing watch.
Wasn’t there supposed to be some sort of inquiry and/or investigation into that?
Unless they leaked it out quietly and I missed it? I stand to be corrected.
‘Foreign Office chief spent 11 days on holiday during Kabul crisis‘ (Telegraph) – so I guess officials are rather busy and if we bear with them they’ll get back to us on that Hancock thing. Afterall, our civil servants need a holiday now and again, from all their busy working from home. How rude of President Biden to pull out of Afghanistan without first clearing the date with the Whitehall holiday leave diary.
Perhaps civil servants are just edging it?
Of course one is reminded of this unfinished Hancock business (coitus investigatus interruptus?) on a day when the giveaway Metro tops the BBC online press review with: ‘No 10 party clowns‘ – the Lefty press (but I repeat myself) staff festivity furore is stoked – in rather timely fashion one can’t help but note – by: ‘Video leak shows staff joking about Christmas do… Boris… yesterday insisted “all the guidelines were observed”… but hours later a recording emerged‘
Recordings will tend to emerge.
The pedagogic Guardian spells out the accusation for the class: ‘Leaked footage suggests Downing Street did host event during lockdown despite repeated denials‘
In further lockdown news: ‘How lockdown became an abuser’s charter for little Arthur‘ (Telegraph)
So, are we now all in the media agreed then, lockdowns are rubbish and a hypocrite’s sham?
No, of course not. I guess the Guardian proposition is that a Rainbow Labour administration would not only lock us down earlier harder and for longer (having expuged the cavalier Johnson from office) but that the putative Starmer Downing Street team of… gosh who would it be…? They scarcely resemble the iron resolve of Lord Protector Cromwell and his New Model Army. Following the Rainbow notion, let’s just say Bungle, some pink gay hippo and Keep-it-Zippy… they would all assuredly properly adhere to and observe their own daft anti-Christmas, anti-social anti-human edicts, like the good square-headed puritan kill-joys they are. Be gone from these hallowed Number 10 portals with your evil cheese and wines. Never pollute nor darken the big black door with your paper hats, cracker jokes and secret Santa comedy token gifts.
‘Parties. What the fashion team wear‘ – offers the Times, further confusing us. I thought we just established parties were a no-no?
At last we are on firm ground with that reassuring perennial media chestnut – the female celeb angst feature: ‘Naomi Rapace “I was anxious. My life exploded”‘ (‘i’) – she is the Swedish actress who shot to international fame amid the fuss over that over-rated movie The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Read all about her: ‘on Dragon Tattoo trauma, divorce and learning to deliver lambs‘
Tip for aspiring female young actresses, singers, etc – don’t bother, luv.
Think about it and learn from our Naomi. You can have your divorce and your sheep shepherding experiences without all that pain and angst of the stardom bit. The fame, celebrity and wealth only seem to give you girls bad truamas you could so easily avoid without any of the faff of the showbiz career. This is your uncle AsISeeIt speaking from the experience of slogging through a hundred and one female celeb angst features. You’d think they’d learn by now?
The ‘i’ is of course also our leading vector of coronaphobia: ‘Double whammy: predicted 80,000 cases of Omicron and delta daily by Christmas‘ – we once used to guage cold and flu season by the appearance of those TV adverts featuring the snuffly Tunes-sucking, wooly scarf-wearing Malcolm and his old mum.
80,000 cases, eh? Just another day in the life, as the Beatles once mused – “Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire. And though the holes were rather small. They had to count them all”
And on that rather profound observation, I think we’ll leave it there. Best not over-think what our media are telling us.
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‘Digital Journalist’ – surfing internet in Clarke Quay.
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Bless.
Surprised Ceebeebies hasn’t run a special too.
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There’s Labour’s main complaint about BBC news – it’s just not friendly enough.
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Boost, boost and further lockdown etc.
A new study finds the scale of the problem and the effectiveness of the vaccine are overestimated.
Latest statistics on England mortality data suggest systematic mis-categorisation of vaccine status and uncertain effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccination.
here
Apologies if already posted.
Also Jeff Taylor on why Omicron may be a good thing (according to some Norwegian doctors), and why a massive Whitehall overhaul is needed.
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And hopeful news here too
The question is if this Omicron is viewed by the government as a virus or an inconvenient vaccine.
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Today
More seriously a vacuous discussion by 3 men about the 100 000 plus ? Ghost children who have disappeared from school rolls .
Apparently they don’t know where they are . But surely – mummy and daddy are claiming benefits right? And there has to be an address and bank details right ?
Maybe the bank sort code is in Warsaw or Islamabad though …
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“The full story of the clip of Mark Drakeford saying ‘let’s hope nobody’s bright enough to ask'”
This is 2020, what will the communist megalomaniac do this year?
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/drakeford-covid-christmas-clip-bright-22380991?
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There’s something odd about Drakeford, the way he speaks. Has he had a stroke or does he get very minor ischaemic attacks?
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That Downing Street party – was it a racist attack against all BAME people?
Just looking at the live feed on the BBC news (sic) website. At 8:23, the thoughts of Dal Babu, a former chief superintendent in the Metropolitan Police. Preceeded at 8:02 by Labour’s shadow foreign secretary David Lammy. Preceeded at 7:41 by Dr Saleyha Ahsan from the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group.
Conclusion: only BAME people were affected by the party and are entitled to an opinion on it?
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Boris is beyond saving.
But, with luck, so is the bbc.
Dick is steering a very bbc path here.
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Putin?
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Newsnight going with lawyers…
Was last year’s alleged Christmas party at no 10 lawful?
Barrister Adam Wagner and news editor for ConservativeHome Henry Hill discuss the possible legal issues.
BBC Newsnight https://bbc.in/3IxJ1PU
***
Breakfast going with gotchas.
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Meanwhile, at the back of the studio, advising bbc staff what is news and what is not…
https://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-secret-of-alan-yentobs-chat-for.html
Botney!
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Guido Fawkes reports a survey of how much the public trust various professions and groups to tell the truth. It is a very broad and unnuanced question but I’m surprised by some of the results. 60% of us trust the man or woman in the street . this is a sort of benchmark I suppose.
Top at 94% comes nurses , perhaps not so surprising , closely followed by doctors 91%. After the refusal of GPS to open their surgeries and do their job claiming all manner of nonsensical reasons, I am surprised that the public still trust them
Amazingly teachers are trusted by 86% of the public. For decades they have been playing politics with childrens’ education but the bovine public still trust them!
Judges are on 82% . Like teachers they have become politicised and after their attempts to stop Brexit I amazed that anyone who voted Leave trusts them an inch.so why isn’t it below 50%?
The police are down at 63%. For a nation policed by consent this is a worryingly low but unsurprising figure. If you interpret the law to suit your increasingly Woke agenda the non Woke majority are not going to trust you.
Civil servants are on 53% so half the country doesn’t trust those who actually run the country. Not that they care because the salary and gold plated pension will roll in whether those who pay from their taxes trust them or not.
Charity bosses are deservedly below 50%. After the rape scandal at Oxfam, the Woke agenda of the nation’s trust, the RNLI taxi for the invading migrants, and countless others ,it isn’t a surprise Surely then donations from the public will continue to fall.
Footballers with their obscene wages and rampant hypocrisy are down at 35%.
Journalists are on 28%. of course I’m sure that the ones who work for the BBC and Guardian are much much higher , otherwise how could the BBC be the most trusted broadcaster in the entire world?
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Did I dream it or were politicians actually up to around 19%
Must have dreamed it – nobody in their right mind does that!
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Newsround
CBBC Channel, Tuesday 8 June 2021
In a segment about vaccine approval for 12 to 15 year olds, a contributor claimed that the Pfizer vaccine is “100% safe”. This has been removed from the online article and video: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/57435861
https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications
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Today
BBC Radio 4, Friday 8 January 2021
We implied that 1,162 people had died from coronavirus in a single day in the UK, the second highest number since the pandemic began.
To be clear, the deaths would not have occurred on a single day but within 28 days of a positive test.
02/06/2021
https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications
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Jez jezzing as only Jez can?
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Nick still nicking from afar.
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She can’t have it both ways!
First she winges about a ‘racist’ sitting next to her in a public restaurant, and now she’s bleating about no minister bothering to go and chat to her about something or other!
You can either take it, or not dish it out dear, take your pick!
Poor old beeb, losing it so often these days!
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This is very good – anything which even hints at a confrontation between the BBC and the blue labour government is good for our cause . Let’s hope temperature on this joke increases
…
Can we have another leaked video please ….
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Be lovely if it really was a put-up job – see my comment earlier!
Egg on all those smug faces in W1AA…
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The Government should do this more often, the very unprofessional presenters only keep interrupting to “Gottcha” questions.
Anyway it won’t last long when the funding dries up.
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Empty chair represents aborted child? What are they saying?
Can’t they go to them?
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They could have had a tub of lard like the HIGNFY lot did once before they stopped being interesting and funny!
Or a tub of tofu for the vegans?
Or a samosa for the Asians?
No imagination these beeboids; if their undermanager doesn’t tell them waht to say on the autocue, they’re lost!
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It would be interesting to know exactly when the BBC decided to stop acting like responsible adults and become the juvenile idiots they now are.
It must have coincided with some natural event such as the first wave of spaced-out cannabis riddled UNI leavers being recruited.
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Laura goes bravo.
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‘Fiddling’ and Rome burning comes to mind………..
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Amazing – awards all round –
Prof Jay said: “No-one knows the true scale of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham over the years. Our conservative estimate is that approximately 1,400 children were sexually exploited over the full inquiry period, from 1997 to 2013.”
Revealing details of the inquiry’s findings, Prof Jay said: “It is hard to describe the appalling nature of the abuse that child victims suffered.”
The inquiry team found examples of “children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28939089
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£3.5bn news organisation….
BBC Spotlight
BBC One, Tuesday 18 May 2021
In an item about holiday and restaurant bookings and cancellations in the South West we included testimony from a tourist who claimed that his booking at the Mussel Box at Padstow had been cancelled without warning. In fact the customer had been sent an email by the restaurant alerting him to the cancellation.
We failed to bring that allegation to the attention of the owner of the restaurant who would have made the situation clear, and we apologise for that.
28/05/2021
https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications
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…either Boris Johnson has a trump card up his sleeve regarding this party or he is in deep sh-t, and rightly so.
I have followed the Biased BBC and have made comments on here for years but i can genuinely say i have never witnessed such rabid anti Tory anti Government behaviour by the BBC as i have witnessed today.
They smell blood and they are going for the jugular.
Have a look at Laura Kuenssbergs Tweeter account, she seems to be deliriously happy and it seems to sums up the mood across the BBC.
My prediction is that heads will roll before the end of the day and possibly Johnsons..Cant see him digging his way out of this one, hope im proved wrong…!!!
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The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) today criticised the outcome of an inquiry into the incendiary and dehumanising comments written by the former Foreign Secretary and Uxbridge MP, Boris Johnson, in the Daily Telegraph.
https://mcb.org.uk/press-releases/conservative-party-gives-license-to-bigotry/
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Boris Johnson ‘looking at’ abolishing TV licence fee for BBC
This article is more than 1 year old
Remarks came amid row over PM’s refusal to look at a picture of a sick boy in hospita
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/09/boris-johnson-looking-at-abolishing-tv-licence-fee-for-bbc
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I can’t help but wonder why the hell this video has lain dormant for the past 12 months ! and who has decided to release it in time for this Christmas ?
Its about time those in power/authority need to realise that any comment, action, words spoken in confidence, can come back at any time in the future because there will ALWAYS be someone around with their mobile phone filming it.
I am now in the position of not knowing where to cast my future vote. Always Labour until the fiasco of Tony Blair, the bombastic Gordon Brown, the clown of Ed Miliband, the demented Corbin, and the Max Headroom which is Starmer. I then through gritted teeth voted for Let Down Theresa, and now its What Next Boris.
I cannot vote for either party – the Tories / Labour cannot get to grips with migration which is our biggest problem, and both refuse to put the brakes on the NHS and overhaul it.
So there is only the Reform. What’s a gal to do ???
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Lord Buckethead’s manifesto in the 2017 election promised “strong, not entirely stable leadership”, a reference to the Conservatives’ slogan “strong and stable”.[17] The following promises were included:
The abolition of the House of Lords, with the exception of Lord Buckethead
Nuclear weapons: “A firm public commitment to build the 100-billion-pound renewal of Britain’s Trident weapons system, followed by an equally firm commitment, privately, not to build it. They’re secret submarines, so no one will ever know. It’s a win-win.”[18]
Free bicycles for all to “combat obesity, traffic congestion, and bike theft”.[18]
Reducing the voting age to 16 and restricting voting beyond the age of 80
Instead of Theresa May’s commitment to bring back grammar schools,[18] Buckethead would build “gamma” schools founded on three principles: “One, better funding for teachers, to attract bright graduates. Two, increased facilities for children, especially playing fields. Three, if any child misbehaves three times, they are blasted into deep space, with the parents provided with a lovely fruit basket, by way of consolation or celebration, depending on the child. Discipline is key”.[18]
A referendum on whether or not to have another Brexit referendum.[19]
Legalise the hunting of fox hunters[19]
Nationalise pop singer Adele[19]
Exile of right-wing columnist Katie Hopkins to the “Phantom Zone”.[19]
Regeneration of Nicholson’s Shopping Centre, Maidenhead.[19]
The cessation of arms sales to Saudi Arabia so that Britain can purchase laser weaponry from Lord Buckethead.[20]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Buckethead
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A lot of the media scum have been quite quiet on this, and there is a feeling that the likes of Peston, Rigby, Burley, etc might have been in attendance.
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Kay Burley returns to Sky News after six-month Covid breach absence
Burley apologised in December for breaking rules while celebrating her 60th birthday in central London.
The journalist, who joined Sky’s rolling news channel in 1988, admitted she had made “an error of judgement” and that she had agreed to “step back for a period of reflection”.
Two of Burley’s broadcasting colleagues who were among those with her on the night in question took a three-month leave of absence.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57356515
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Award for Jon too!
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Remember when the BBC failed to comment on a problem in the BBC by the BBC for the BBC?!!! HA HA HA !
Jon Kay
@jonkay01
Correspondent for
@BBCNews
, Presenter for
@BBCBreakfast
. Probably the smallest name on TV. Views are mine. DMs open for great stories.
M4, M5, M6Joined February 2009
1,468 Following
38.3K Followers
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the replies …
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The standards in the West have now dropped so much that ‘racism’ or ‘discrimination’ is considered a greater crime that actual physical violence.
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1765 …. **In a republic worthy of name, freedom to publish one ’s thoughts is a citizen’s natural right.** They may use a pen or their voice, and should not be prevented from writing any more than speaking …That is the law in England, a monarchical country, where people are freer than elsewhere because they are more enlightened. – Voltaire, Republican Ideas, 1765
2018 … In addition to reporting hate crime, please report non-crime hate incidents, **which can include things like offensive or insulting comments, online, in person or in writing**. Hate will not be tolerated in South Yorkshire. Report it and put a stop to it #HateHurtsSY – UK South Yorkshire Police, 2018
1765 … **In a republic worthy of name, freedom to publish one’s thoughts is a citizen’s natural right.**
2018 … **which can include things like offensive or insulting comments, online, in person or in writing**
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2019/08/06/midweek-open-thread-7-august-2019/#comment-1005370
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PAID IN FULL? HA HA HA
Two of Burley’s broadcasting colleagues who were among those with her on the night in question took a three-month leave of absence.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57356515
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“The mosques of Cologne, the fourth-largest city in Germany, have obtained permission to broadcast the call to prayer every Friday over minaret loudspeakers.” Only Friday? So far. The ratchetting up continues: Next coming: The daily call to prayers. Any bets?
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17971/germany-multicultural-suicide
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The first mosque to be built in the Western Isles is proving to be a huge hit with tourists. The Stornoway temple opened its doors in May to provide a place of worship for the area’s 80-strong Muslim community.30 Sept 2018
There are currently no official churches in Saudi Arabia and the thousands of Maronite families who work there have to live “either as a neutral person or as a Muslim”, one Lebanese Catholic, Danny Nasrallah, told the New York Times. “You have to pray in your heart when you want to pray,” he said.16 Nov 2017
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There are rumours that Plan B, or at least discussion of, is imminent.
‘Covid passports’ for the hoi polloi are something for the left to unite over.
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The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.
Ronald Reagan
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Boris – Burka comment – keeps job becomes PM.
Batley teachers – lose jobs, hide in house.
2021 UK IS FREE SPEECH CENTRAL.
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bBC world service
https://www.bbc.com/aboutthebbc/whatwedo/worldservice
BBC World Service is funded from the licence fee – so idiots who pay the licence here in the UK, fund its propaganda worldwide
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Andy
The World Service used to be the last bastion of a proper BBC .i used to listen a lot. There was a lot of good stuff on it .
But then about 20 years ago the rot started setting in . I gave up when they started using coloured presenters who could barely speak Engleesh . …
Sadly its now pushing out woke socialist crap across the planet …
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40 years ago, whilst working abroad, I would tune in to the BBC World Service to find out what was going on, and to Radio Moscow to be amused and outraged by the lies.
Now it’s the other way around.
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Moderator announcement
Due to covid restrictions there will be no annual party this year . There may be wine and cheese and a few games but it definately wont be a party or series of parties .
Unless there is a video – of course z…
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I was looking forward to virtual cheese and digital wine
not so much the pass the parcel if you are inviting any of the religion of peace, it would be too fast for me
as for hide and seek, you could invite Boris and it will probably end with hide the sausage
And don’t bother with Stephen Hawkins, he always wins at musical chairs
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Digital cheese & wine, clink clink 🥂 🧀 🍷
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Nick Cannon: Comedian announces death of five-month-old son Zen
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59575491
Never heard of him which could only mean one thing on the BBC. And he is.
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STARMER: “ANT AND DEC ARE AHEAD OF THE PRIME MINISTER ON THIS”
order-order
Of course, Ant and Dec are not interested in the real world and have script writers … that is correct – they just act.
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Hello Telly Tax Payers !………..
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Alas someone who hears a media story believes it without question because it’s what he wants to hear and as a consequence gets it all wrong.
It’s NOT the BBC who has invested £150 Million in China, it’s the BBC pension fund which is a seperate entity only connected to the BBC in the fact it provides corporate pensions and takes money from the corporation in order to do so.
The fact the pension fund uses this money does not in any way affect the BBCs content and if had done just a scintilla of research he would have known this.
It’s a common occurence for the Curch Commissioners to invest money in ‘controversial’ companies and the media to the express fake outrage the vicars and bishops had a hand in it when they probably had zero knowledge of the matter.
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BBC has invested more than £150million in Chinese state-owned companies accused of links to appalling human rights violations
The BBC has been criticised for investing in Chinese-state owned companies
China has received condemnation for a string of alleged human rights abuses
Around two million Uighur Muslims are held in detention camps in Xinjiang
The BBC’s own Beijing correspondent John Sudworth forced to flee this year
Despite this, BBC poured an extra £40million in Chinese state-controlled firms in previous financial year
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10277275/BBC-invested-150million-Chinese-state-owned-companies.html
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There you are, second paragraph from your link, and others.
At least 10 companies alleged to support Beijing’s totalitarian regime, including two owned by the ruling communist party, have been handed funds from the pension contributions of almost 47,000 current and former BBC staff.
the true figure is likely to be even higher as the BBC pension fund only declares its 20 largest shareholdings.
Documents show that the BBC’s pension fund holds undisclosed interests in six Chinese firms, including one that is part of a company blacklisted by the United States government.
The pension fund is a seperate entity to the BBC it provides pensions, it does not produce content.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury said he was “embarrassed” and “irritated” that the Church of England invested indirectly in online lender Wonga. It comes after the Most Reverend Justin Welby told Wonga the Church would try to force the firm out of business by helping credit unions compete with it.26 Jul 2013
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BBC Children in Need . Grant Funded Projects . London and South East England
As at November 2017
Word Search:
Islington x 38;
Somali x 21;
Refugee x 33;
Young x 532;
Afghan x 3;
Arts x 43;
Football x 9;
Disabled x 64;
Autism x 12;
Literacy x 8;
Inclusion x 15;
Mental x 54;
£305,840 FROM BBC’s CHILDREN IN NEED FUND 2017
The Mayor’s Fund for London
The project will deliver healthy food and activities to children
in 132 local projects across 33 London Boroughs during
Easter, Summer and half term school holidays.
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2019/07/28/start-the-week-open-thread-29-july-2019/#comment-1003841
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59559834
UK broadcasters have committed to avoiding the use of the acronym BAME “wherever possible” following the publication of an industry report from the BAME Lenny Henry outfit.
”The catch-all description for black, Asian and minority ethnic people will be ditched in favour of the use of more specific terms to describe ethnicity.
The BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 welcomed the findings from the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity.”
There is nothing like a BAME
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See – i use’ coloured ‘ on this site and wont allow myself to use that sort of thing – i mean what the hell is BAME and that LBGT thing about – if they are queer they are queer …
Breaking news – allegro ‘ austin’ stratton has quit saying that she is not a ‘ party person ‘ and is going back to islington to wait for the New Years ‘ honours ….
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“Ministers considering move to Covid Plan B – source”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59579077
Here we go again!
I would imagine that there are a lot of Tory business owners and shareholders that have lost too much already ?
PS…………….
Allegra Stratton has gone !
Anything on Al Beeb yet ?
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Taffman – i think the BBC left a puddle after announcing it and jumping up and down with the excitement of it ..,
Is the helicopter going to lift nut nut and eva braun away from thr number 10 garden – never to return ?
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Fedup2
“left a puddle after announcing it and jumping up and down with the excitement of it”
Coincidently, my dog does that when I come home from work ?
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Taffman
I dont know why but it all reminds me of Watergate . Theres a ‘night of the long knives coming ‘ with various Number 10 inner circle heading for the door …
… i wonder if we ll find out who leaked the video … and whether there are more …?
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Pound of flesh has been given to the BBC (Jo Brand still works) …
interesting to follow her career and see who takes her back..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59584736
Allegra Stratton has resigned as a government adviser following an angry backlash over a video of No 10 staff joking about holding a Christmas party.
The video, obtained by ITV, was leaked on Tuesday, showing the PM’s then-press secretary mocking a “fictional” gathering – four days after Downing Street staff held a party in lockdown.
Delivering tearful statement, she said would “regret the remarks for the rest of my days”.
And she offered her “profound apologies” to the public.
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100 Women: The former child refugee helping Afghan asylum seekers
Afghan women flees afghan then helps others flee afghan thus emptying the country of viable fighting people to Make Afghanistan Great Again.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/newsbeat-59555269
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order-order has chosen the new leader …
Nadhim boasted about the government’s T-Level plans, joking that the “TL Badge” on his lapel didn’t stand for “Tory leader”. Some in the audience seemed to wish it did…
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Re the Christmas Past Party!
There, s a saying in Brigadoon,
A HooHah
About HeeHaw
What,s odd though is the coordinated media effort in collusion with Labour to inflate this sorry episode…even AntnDec in on the act.
The bBC seem to have played a blinder putting Miss Allegra
behind enemy lines….in the thick of it so to speak!!
Reminiscent of the Swamp,s collusion vs Mr Trump….
And look how that’s ended up in the USA…
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