As the party season is in full swing will the BBC declare a Christmas Truce over the hounding of the Prime Minister or Project Fear with everything and everyone being overwhelmed ?
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the bbc are obsessed with Nigeria apart from the news everyone else is reporting
USCIRF Alarmed by Violence against Christians & Shi’a Muslims in Nigeria
Washington, DC – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today condemned recent instances of violence against religious communities in Nigeria, including attacks on Christians in Kano state and Kaduna state and violence against Shi’a Muslims in Abuja.
“Vulnerable religious communities in Nigeria are under attack,” said USCIRF Commissioner Tony Perkins. “We are devastated by news of these recent attacks and outraged that the Nigerian government has not done more to prevent this violence and bring justice to the perpetrators.”
On Sunday, September 26 a violent mob in Kano State attacked and killed Christian Reverend Yohanna Shuaibu, in retaliation for his alleged involvement in converting a local member of a Muslim family to Christianity. That same day, armed militants attacked two Christian communities in Kaduna state, killing 49 people. Kaduna State is a Muslim majority state where Christian communities have borne the brunt of a vicious ethnoreligious conflict for many years. On Tuesday, September 28, Nigerian security forces reportedly shot and killed eight Shi’a Muslims in their response to a Shi’a procession marking the holiday of Arbaeen.
“Three attacks on vulnerable religious communities in three days is unacceptable,” said USCIRF Commissioner Frederick A. Davie. “We call on the U.S. Department of State to redesignate Nigeria a country of particular concern for engaging in and tolerating these systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of international religious freedom.”
One Christian killed and at least 60 kidnapped in Nigerian church attack
Your prayers are again desperately needed for our family in Nigeria, following another attack on Christians, this time by a group of bandits. The incident reflects the increasing and shocking impunity with which armed bandits and extremist Islamic militants are wreaking havoc across Nigeria, with Christians often amongst those targeted. The country is number nine on the World Watch List.
Death toll escalates among Nigerian Christians
by Sebastian Milbank
Catholics at Mass at St Gabriel’s, Abuja. Nigeria is becoming one of the most deadly countries in which to be a Christian.
Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters
There has been a serious escalation in violence against Christians in Nigeria with thousands kidnapped and hundreds killed in just the last few months.
Multiple reports have recently come out detailing a still-worsening situation amongst Nigeria’s Christian population, especially in Muslim-dominated north of the country where Boko Harem continues to operate with relative impunity.
Nigerian NGO Intersociety, reports that the last four months, January to April, saw a dramatic escalation of violence, as Nigeria “lost no fewer than 1,470 Christians… the highest number recorded since 2014”. These finding were echoed by reports just published by both the US State Department and the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) which describe Nigeria as a “country of particular concern for tolerating severe violations of religious freedom”.
Christian Group Names Nigeria Hot Spot for Persecution #
A report by the U.S-based Christian persecution monitoring group Open Doors shows the number of Christians killed in 2020 increased by 60%, mostly because of Islamic violence against Nigerian Christians.
The study says more than 2,200 of 4,761 Christians killed around the world in 2020 died in Nigeria because of radical Islamists.
Open Doors CEO David Curry says the global focus on battling the coronavirus pandemic last year also contributed to an increase in Christian persecution.
But Nigerian Muslim groups say the report is promoting a false impression.
“Nigerian Christians are not persecuted,” said Ishaq Akintola, director at Muslim Rights Concern. “What is happening in Nigeria is the persecutor crying out and claiming that he is being persecuted, claiming that he is the victim. And it’s because a Muslim is in power that the crying of persecution is so loud.”
Genuinely heartbreaking, and on the holding of power to account by ideologically blinkered media, damning.
IIRC BBC N. America had a correspondent who did sod all, who moved to CNN to ‘cover’ that nation’s beat, and continues his awesome career there in similar fashion.
BBC got their ytteG pictures the wrong way round again?
New Covid stats
– Wednesday was still peak case day
It’s picked up another 6K of late reports to become 102K
with Thursday/Friday still looking to be lower at the end
So we don’t have this up up up pattern pundits make out
– Today’s deaths are up on 7 days ago
but the 7 day trend is stable ..still at 112/day
… https://twitter.com/LawrenceGilder/with_replies
Friendly Fire.
Then the corridors after, rolling with bottles…
Can’t stand Boris. But…
Imagine this lot no matter what is decided.
Q. And E. And D.
https://order-order.com/2021/12/20/reeves-its-not-the-job-of-the-opposition-to-say-what-theyd-do-differently/
Meanwhile, the burn…
She always sounds like she off her head
on red-whine anyway.
ahh the kunsberg tactic. we need certainty maybe a smack in the mouth and ask them to listen
If I was drinking alcohol in work I would be unemployed.
Noting most accolades are inside bubble.
Replies appear less enthused.
Perhaps she’s leaving in order to spend more time with her bank manager.
More generally if she is retained by the BBC in another role, this would surely be a continuation of the musical chairs whereby they all move along one space to a role with ‘more responsibility’ and hey presto, get huge pay rises.
What is the difference between Salford and York? 6pm BBC1 news and we were shown a young woman who sells vintage clothes in a real shop. Covid is decimating business, footfall has ‘fallen off a cliff’, she says. Empty restaurants were shown. Then they showed York and London. The streets were heaving. I am sure some of those people would be eating. At least two of the people interviewed claimed they were shopping because 4 people sat outside in the garden for cheese and wine 7 months ago. You figure if there was a political agenda in showing them.
We don’t know what the next days will bring re covid. The real problem is probably NHS shortages and supply chain issues due to isolating.
The young girl in the second hand clothes shop ‘opened the business six months ago’
Hmmmm. Solid business plan then.
ITV local news
item looks to be PRasNews for a black NGO
..showed a fat black woman in a room full of stuff
loads of plants on the window sill
And they made out she is in great poverty
Then to a food bank biz. which is growing.
Then to a black NGO expert.
reporter LaurenHall
next “And now the sport”
and we into an item with a black leader saying they’ve had 2,000 complaints about Yorkshire cricket club.
All her colleagues just seem to let the camera run.
In the spirit of information, I wonder what is defined as ‘success’ in the bbc?
The replies to the older sycophants are usually better.
only at the bbc is going to work hugely demanding and brave ffs
Clearly #tellitoftenenough is SOP.
Lol.
Richard Frediani retweeted this, for some reason.
BBC local news, fishing for Covid doom, aired 2 different experts
cherry picked alarmists “SAGE member: Stephen Reicher, professor of social psychology at the St Andrews University” ..hey that’s not a Covid expert.
“Omicron is doubling every 2 days”
That really seems to be untrue , cos cases are flat after the step up last week.
“Do you agree with THE SCIENTISTS, that we need more restrictions ?”
Loaded hyperbole
Kate knows.
The BBC here, in a nutshell.
No political agendas ingrained there. At all.
Two things I learned today.
1. Passepartout, Princess Fogg’s batman, has turned colour, from an Hispanic to a Black, courtesy of the Bloated, Botswana Broadcasting Corpse.
2. Oxfordshire County Council, consisting of Limp Dumbs, and the Greens, have decided that they will not be serving meat or dairy at any official, civil event.
FFS, whatever that means.
There’s mixed news on the Covid front, no doubt the BBC will be doing lots of hand-wringing and finding vox pops of people who have relatives who have been hospitalised with Covid and are asking “What is the Government doing?” and “Why hasn’t the Government done something?” and “We need to know what the rules are for Christmas.”
Infections: up by 8,857 Deaths: down by 1 @ 44 and now for the good news
Hospitalisations: down by 133 (Could be hospitals freeing up beds ready to cope or by having insufficient staff to cover beds.)
Think we are some way off 2,000,000 cases per day. There is now some evidence that cases are not doubling every two to three days as some SAGEists have claimed, in their private capacity, when interviewed on BBC R4.
The ‘now you hear it now you don’t ‘R’ rate’ got a mention in my hearing today either on TOADY or TWatO (cannot remember which) and in the light of Party pictures it is notable to compare 2021 with a benchmark figure:
18 December 2020
The R number range for the UK is 1.1-1.2 and the growth rate range is +1% to +4% per day as of 18 December 2020.
compares with
17 December 2021
The R range for England is 1.0 to 1.2 and the growth rate range for England is 0% to +2% per day as of 17 December 2021.
Tip from bbbc radio newcastle this morning regarding visiting your Granny during these covid times this winter:
‘When you get there, open all the windows to get plenty of fresh air circulating around her home.’
I’m sure she will thank you for it.
Great way to see Granny off with pneumonia or even the common cold. As you age, your blood thins, making it harder to keep warm. There’s a good reason why care homes are warmed in winter to a temperature that would make Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego burst into flames.
Arriva buses in North East have finally, after one and half years, started fixing the windows permanently open.
I’ve mixed feelings about it, I like the breeze, the unfoged up windows, the back seat coatless chavs getting refrigerated…
But I’ll miss the arguments over it.
In my local supermarket today it occurred to me that all those green supermarket chains who bowed to the green energy gods by fitting glass doors to all their freezer cabinets now have any feelings of guilt owing to the almost inevitable massive spreading of the virus via the hundreds of shoppers who now have to use the same handles every day to get their goods?
digg, think I have only ever seen one person in a supermarket wearing medical gloves in the past twenty months.
AFAIK gloves are frowned on in the food handling business.
The safe practice is to keep washing hands
Wearing gloves can lead to complacency
… Though if you wear gloves it does inhibit you from touching your face.
Working for a local authority environmental agency part of my job was food hygiene and sampling on ships. The catering staff were told to wear disposable gloves whilst working. They certainly did, the same pair of gloves used for their full shift, for every job they had to do, handling food, handling food waste, cleaning and disinfecting work surfaces. Defeating the object.
I must be the one Up2. Years ago (precovid), I read that the worst place to catch a cold was a supermarket trolley handle. I have therefore worn woollen gloves inside supermarkets for some years. This year I have had to make a decision, woollen or disposable? I decided on the latter as I use the sanitizer on the gloves as I go into Waitrose and it’s a bit odd on wool. I also sanitize the gloves on the way out ready to use next time (see I am thinking of the environment).
In our Tesco, they took out all the doors to the meat shelves, and just let the whole area freeze!
It was nice in Summer, but these days the Cotton Traders rugby shirt really means something…
I guess we’re down to about three Harrabins per square yard now, so wear skates!
Good friend of mine is a medical researcher. Early on in the panicdemic they established that the virus could survive for 6-8 hours on rubber/plastic gloves, but about an hour on skin. Hence best policy is no gloves but frequent hand washing.
Yes, hand-washing seems to be lost as a mantra gobbled about by Norris Johnson from eighteen months ago!
Stein has Peter Tatchell on
“Mugababe killed more blacks than the apartheid regime ever did”
Ah, but Mugabe was the right sort of tyrannical, commie psychopathic dictator.
And the right colour…
The right colours – Red and Black
Talking Pictures TV
“That house cost £20K to build”
“That’s London prices for you”
“It’s worse they want £70K for it”
.. “Well this property boom won’t last forever”
GBnews Covid expert
“it’s looking good”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10329111/Dan-Walker-shares-shock-moment-crashed-headfirst-glass-door-Strictly-rehearsals.html
BBC thicko leaves wallet in taxi and then when he realises it runs into a glass door trying to retreive it.
A brain scan was given but they probably failed to find one.
At last the end to the pandemic.. But not what we were expecting. Or perhaps it all makes perfect sense if you believe in the power of global finances. Thia video makes sense of the pandemic whist the pandemic itself makes no sense at all. I think we were half expecting this ‘Global reset’ to be more than Boris denial that there is a conspiracy.
Depressing, as the BBC will know this and take part in the fraud.
The pandemic will end when the digital monetary system is in place
Mrs Voter was watching University Challenge on the electronic wallpaper, fell asleep and the next programme up was QI. Changing the fat shirt lifter for the Danish dyke hasn’t improved the show one iota.
First real laugh of the day, NV!
Last sentence is sheer poetry!
Thank you!
Covid: No new measures in England but we rule nothing out, says PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59733893
“The news means 50.4% of the UK population – nearly 29 million people – have had a booster dose, with 81.8% having had two jabs and 89.5% one dose.”
Is that true 9 / 10 (presumably population means adults?)
are jabbed?
Or do they just want the refuseniks to feel further minoritized.
Isn’t this where we came in? . . .
The incoming Charity Commission boss Martin Thomas stood down
We know charity men can be perves like Jo Coxes husband,
but the 3 incidents quoted in the Times against this guy don’t seem sexual… It’s just one incident of bullying on the phone once was upheld
Sounds like there’s something else.
“Oxford professor calls for BBC show to inform viewers about colonial history of artefacts on the show”
.. Is a case of the Guardian ringing around to get a prof to say something nutty ?
AFAIK the prog already does wokism
“BBC cited two examples of where the programme had explored the provenance of better-documented artefacts: items of Georgian silver, which prompted one expert to explore the link between slavery, sugar
– and tea-drinking; and a Chinese table that might once have graced the imperial palace in Beijing – prompting another expert to discuss the history of the 19th-century sacking of the Summer Palace by British troops.”
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/dec/17/bbc-antiques-roadshow-should-address-uk-legacy-of-colonialism
Stew I read in the DT a nice little write up on Wokism on Antiques Roadshow which made me laugh, as the BBC itself got the wrath of leftie Wokists…
(In full):
Antiques Wokeshow
The woke-erati have got the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow in their sights after a guest produced a Mughal ring she bought in a charity shop for £1. Expert John Benjamin informed the woman that her ring had “somehow found its way over from somewhere near the Taj Mahal over to the charity shop here, over 200 years later”. He declared the ring was worth over £2,000. The ring’s owner was obviously delighted.
There was a more hostile response on social media, however, where history professor Dan Hicks declared: “Decolonise The Antiques Roadshow.” Historian Dr Ellie Bennett added: “Literally the only thing this woman can do now is give the ring back. You cannot put a price on cultural heritage, and Antiques Roadshow is simply capitalist brainwashing.” A BBC spokesman says, somewhat wearily: “The ring was found in a charity shop and there was no information about how it had come to be in the UK.” Is nothing safe from the culture warriors?
Oh dear me!
Weird adverts
#1 Today every newspaper had the wrap around front cover “get boosted”
.. Taxpayers paid for that advert
swhich is dumb cos everyone already knows about boosters
#2 The Times had a full page advert saying
‘ we reduce Covid misinformation’
~3 Next page an Australian wine
saying it’s Carbon Neutral
How can it come all that way & be lower CO2 that UK/French ?
Times Mathhew Parris
” Tories have swallowed the poison of populism
Pandering to Ukippers delivered a temporary cheap thrill to the Conservative Party but it is now paying a heavy price”
FFS he’s ridiculous to claim the Tories have gone too righty
when they are obviously very lefty
The comments section has a lot of remainer trolls
and loads of comments have been removed.
Meanwhile in Germany going left stuffed Merkel’s part in the election
so they have now elected a new righty free market leader.
Parris – another bitter Red Tory ….
Brighton: Council accused of ‘dumping’ homeless in neighbouring towns
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-59680707
At the same time our supine government has allowed 26000 more to come into the country unchecked.
If the same government is in place next year expect 1 million + entering our country ………………..https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-59725399
article says council dumps homeless in an estate 10 miles from the city centre , in Newhaven
To me that is practically still Brighton
10 of those that died in 6 years
Again that doesn’t sound that abnormal to me, amongst that category of person.
Normal homeless people ie those not considered ‘vulnerable’, get zero help.
New ONS survey in England Wales
5.7% declare as Muslim
about 50% declare as Christian
How many illegals and overstayers complete the census.
c/o Garden Shed
99 North Street
Southall
Middlesex.
“Welsh budget: Bumper funding rise for Welsh NHS amid backlog”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-59720795
Like the rest of GB, it will all be wasted on paperwork and bureaucracy ,
“Hobnobs maker warns biscuit prices set to soar”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59728325
Warns ?
We the consumer, “Warn” the maker that we will go elsewhere or buy other.
Simples.
I have an idea McVities, switch to cheap and nasty palm oil.
Oh you’ve already done that..
That Rachel Riley libel case is a mad playground pantomime
The school playground has 3 SJW kids who see themselves as saving the world
yet they waste the court’s time over 3 tweets.
I paraphrase
Owen Jones
‘That Britain First guy deserved to get egged, cos he’s a Nazi’
Rachel Riley
‘ Yeh your mate Corbyn just got egged,
so that means he’s a Nazi, LOL’
Laura Murray, former Corbyn aide head of his LOTO Leader of the Opposition office
also daughter of SAGE and Communist Party member Susan Michie and Scottish Stalinist aristocrat Andrew Drummond-Murray (Unite Chief of Staff )
‘That Rachel Riley smells
Shes saying bad things about my best friend Corbyn
She said that he is a Nazi,
and should be violently attacked’
Headmaster/Judge failed to say
‘I’m going to ignore you kids Twitter nonsense cos there is much bigger injustice in the world’
Lawyer boy
‘Our Rachel has suffered serious reputational damage cos of Laura’s tweet..I will spend £0.5million’
Headmaster/Judge
‘ Yeh Laura’s tweet failed to contain a quote tweet of Rachels jokey tweet
so it is just about possible someone took your tweet seriously instead of just hyperbolic Twitter talk
so that’s libel
but Rachel was being deliberately provocative so should have expected to get crazy tweets back
so I’ll award just £10
but since Laura’s family have £100+ million*
let’s call that £10,000’
* They sold one painting for £50m
\\ Riley posted a screenshot of a January 2019 tweet by Guardian columnist Owen Jones about a 2009 egg attack on former British National Party leader Nick Griffin, which said:
“I think sound life advice is, if you don’t want eggs thrown at you, don’t be a Nazi” //
I’m guessing that Griffin may have said some stuff
but that he doesn’t go around saying Jews should be exterminated
so calling him a Nazi, is libel.
I expect that BIG BROTHER from the Diversity department of
the BBC has a number of popular film classics which the BBC
would not show again because of our new age of “enlightenment.”
I have written before about the obvious one , ” North West Frontier” set at the turn of the 20th century in the Raj , where the villain
is a Muslim terrorist. The star of the film is really the
Indian train driver. BUT he is portrayed as a stereotype. Be it in fact that I.S Johar the Indian actor deserved to win a best
supporting academy award as the driver.
As for later films I expect that the BBC would not show the
multiple academy awards winning film ” Kramer vs Kramer”
With Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep fighting in court over
the custody of their son, after their divorce. This was when , yes
believe it or not ,the whole cast was ethnically Caucasian !
Of course then there are war films. Would” Saving Private Ryan ”
be on the banned list of Big Brother?
I do understand that we now live in a different world. And that
with 3% of the population of the UK being black that there
needed to be a bigger presentation on films and TV that” positive
discrimination ” needed to be used. But as Douglas Murray
puts it . Had the train very nearly hit the buffers in the station
in many of the prejudiced subjects such as LGBT issues. But now
the train has sped on again ,in the opposite direction?
Scanning the Daily Mail’s free TV guide, (obviously not buying the BBC version), it seems that most of the flicks being shown over Christmas are ones which we’ve bought on Ebay for a couple of quid!
We have so many old shows and series from before the BBC became so awful, and of course the better ones are from the independents, so it’s dead easy to shove an ‘Open all hours’ DVD in and enjoy fabulous, gentle humour, than watch the dreadful, unfunny, woke angst of the current rubbish that tax-payers have to fork out for!
Just as an aside, if anyone watched South Pacific the other day, can they confirm that there was just one single coloured gentleman in the whole cast? He had a great bass voice, but wasn’t Paul Robeson!
Sroblene- What’s interesting in Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals and even earlier ones such as Rodgers and Harts “Showboat” there
are important racial issues brought up. Very much so in South Pacific. In fact the number “Carefully Taught” sung by Ensign Nellie and Lt Cable,
which is about how children are taught by their parents to be racists, was attacked vehemently
in the Southern States. And it could not be performed in Georgia.
I know I am being cynical . But I expect that South Pacific would be the number one “education” musical the BBC would want to
show. As It happens it is one of the finest of all musicals ever
composed. With ” Younger than Springtime ” being Richard
Rogers most wonderfully goose pimpling melodies he scored,
in my opinion. If I remember the film was at the Dominion
Tottenham Court Road in the West End for years. Yes I know I
am being as corny as Kansas in August. But I’ve been in love
with a wonderful girl for 57 years. Happy Christmas everybody.
And Rogers designed all those marvellous buildings, which the BBC are not so keen on, according to the recent “tributes”.
The only film featuring Dustin Hoffman that the BBC are very likely to show from now on is ‘Tootsie’.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tootsie#/media/File:Tootsie_imp.jpg
Or Rainman!
A Good Day – with or without the BBC
Apparently it is the shortest day of the year . For lovers of light it’s all good from here . I wonder if the loons will be at Stonehenge …..
….got back to Blighty yesterday – being frugal I used public transport from the airport – it always strikes me how much it looks like the third world . ( I didn’t see that idiot red Tory “trudi ?” On the train – she’s the one who wants to ban private transport . Loon )
The majority of the coloured folk on the tube / bus were not wearing masks – nor were windows open . ….but I suppose if race based covid figures are ever released whitee will get the blame if a disproportionate number of coloured folk are infected by it .
Apparently I now have to quarantine – except to go get the test kit – and then go out again to send it to the Randox £ Lab ….funny world .
Listening to “`today “ it seems that our culture has created total reliance on the State . The BBC wants a ‘lock down ‘ but then doesn’t want businesses to crash …. Lack of lock down restrictions means nut nut get the blame – or badged as ‘indecisive ‘.
Are hospitals overwhelmed ? Are funeral directors booked up to February ? Are ambulances queueing round the block more than normal ? Or is the new Chinese Brand a bad flu?
Glad you’re back safe and sound, Fed!
I suppose the ‘Dilly line going near Southall was one reason why masks were nowhere to be seen, but then all those garden sheds contain an awful lot of lawn mowers and garden forks!
Best to stay in the UK, buy a bottle of Glenmorangie, and batten down the hatches for a few days, eh?
Covid: Firms urge PM for clarity on restrictions over Christmas
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59736716#comp-comments-button
And another thinly veiled attempt to discredit the government and of course another HYS opened on it.
Top comment:
‘Clarity?
Johnson?
He doesn’t do clarity.
He does nonsense and lies.’
Followed by replies such as:
‘He is a lame duck PM now, the far right brigade he needed for Brexit have him cornered. The sooner we can get to the next general election for a proper clear out the better.’
This really is the most pathetic hypocrisy by the BBC who are shamelessly using public money for their own agenda – which is hopefully to force a leadership crisis, a state of no-confidence and another election with a Labour win.
I would love to see what the staff in the office which comes up with all this look like. I suspect a bizarre mix of recent graduates, people of various colours and grey pale-and-stale wearing sandals. All the white ones with posh accents.
..what more clarity do we need.
As Adam Flemming said on the BBC this morning, the PM is between a brick and a hard spot. He himself is awaiting more clarity from the scientists before deciding what to do.
Why are people getting worked up. I have clarity, I will meet friends on Xmas Eve at my favourite pub and I look forward to Xmas dinner with family and friends, until I’m told differently.
People are seriously pathetic, FFS, get on with things,do what you normally do until your told differently
What’s the sodding point in banging on about something or worrying about something that may or may not happen.
People being interviewed in the streets on all the channels, oh I’m scared, oh I don’t know what to do, oh I can’t think for my self, f–king pathetic, they need to smell the coffee and grow a pair
And as for a Labour government, God help us
On and on the BBC , Classic FM and even I am afraid GB News go on about wanting clarity. It is no good asking Boris because he was never any good at clarity. But in this instance I think they should either phone Mr Omicron or phone the Chinese ambassador and ask what else they have up their sleeves.
The entire gutter med… MSM are now all on this, or asking idiotic questions of a core audience currently sending in pictures of their sad face sofa occupying multi coloured brood who are not getting an Xbox each this Xmas because of Tory cuts.
The scientists do not have a Scooby.
The are advising a raft of PPE civil servants who do not have a Scooby.
They advise Ministers with a double first in law or classics, who do not have a Scooby.
And live in fear of media studies grads who ask Shaznay, ex to Steve, Phil, Darren, Marcus and Mohammed what they think ‘we’ should do.
And they would have got away with it but for a few sane folk and this darn internet.
Deborah-I couldn’t of put it better myself. I know I
am going to get into trouble for writing this.
Anti vaxers you have
every right NOT to be vaccinated. BUT the one
further restriction I would make , would be for
any of those not being vaccinated except for medical reasons.
not being able to take an intensive care high dependency unit bed
in a hospital when they get covid. At the expense of anyone
who has been vaccinated . Or waiting for treatment for other
life threatening illnesses. As you make your bed ,
You lie in it.
Foscari, with respect, I could agree with you – if…
So-called vaccination actually prevented infection.
It didn’t allow the virus to be passed on by the supposedly vaccinated.
Vaccination was a relatively one-off commitment, not an on-going apparently open-ended twice, three times (?) annual affair.
We could be sure this was a one-off medical problem, not to be followed by further demands for compulsory interventions for other diseases.
Having banned the un-vaxed from NHS care would you concede that they should get a big tax refund – why should they pay for intensive care they can’t use and why should they pay the big bill for vaxing the majority population? And consequently you and the vaxed would receive a top-up tax charge to make up the shortfall?
Once you have banned the drinkers, over-eaters, careless drivers, risk-taking sportsmen etc. there should be plenty of room for the virtuous.
It is mostly the “vaccinated” (I use the term charitably) who are occupying those beds.
SInce the “vaccinated” can both spread and catch the disease, if they are worried they should stay at home.
Scroblene – thank you – it was actually the DLR – I avoid Heathrow if I can …but East Londonistan now ? A place more foreign than where I’d come from ….
You are right about my lockdown ….I wonder if I will get a visit from plod ? Certainly got a nice bright red letter from TV Licencing ….
‘Today ‘ has 2 examples of BBC ‘over reach – one – Mohammed someone – a BBC world service type has identified 20 of the 29 dead criminals who drowned in French waters last month ( why?)
And the second – they got a court order to get the details of someone with autism who has been subject to a mental health order for 20? Years ( why?) ….
To me this is evidence of a bloated organisation throwing taxpayers money around just because it can ….
Manchester station which I pass through on my journeys is pretty much the same. It doesn’t look like the England I grew up in.
Along with the police patrols carrying machine guns they brought with them. For reasons we won’t mention.
Today Watch
Classic propaganda technique today . They get IDS on who tries to explain his critical position with regard to ‘lock downs ‘…but the bee lady didn’t want to listen – just interrupted – and stopped him trying to explain …
… and then – the dump IDS and have a nice chat with God . In this case an NHS Consultant . …. I didn’t get the name and don’t know if he is a member of a political party …
..any way God says that hospitals have a ‘lag ‘- 2 weeks before infections turn up and a further 7 days before some hit ITU and more days before deaths increase .
Whether infections are caused by hospitals is moot . IDS tried to talk about that but the Bee Lady shut him down …wrong narrative ….
…..make IDS culture secretary to end the BBC
I keep confusing IDS with William Hague for some reason – who is universally vilified as a complete idiot whenever the writes in the DT.
I think the likes of Hague – wiiletts – may – were in the wrong Party – certainly the money / power went to their heads …
I fear IDS is in his last session as my MP – his majority *has declines across the time he has held office. I regard him as one of the very few Conservatives left – along with the likes of John Redwood . Both ask intelligent questions and -if permitted – explain their position without that Labour (Jess Phillips shouty politicking )…
*the IDS majority has been reduced because the socialist corrupt council has used demographics as a weapon over the last 40 plus Labour years…
Samira’s script writer got in early.
..shouty politics..
I had the misfortune to watch ITV Good Morning…Thanks to her that must be obeyed
Discussing latest Downing Street picture. 5 contributor’s, 4 lefties 1 Tory supporter, he didn’t have a chance, constantly shouted down both by the other contributors and presenters.
They behave like pack animals, the ruder they are the better, it’s like a badge of honour.
No idea why right wingers bother going on TV anymore, it must be like flogging a dead horse
Hague used to be a regular in the DT but in the past few months his pieces appear less often. Perhaps the hostilities of the readers comments to his remain, remoaners, rejoin columns convinced him that he really wasn’t wanted. I certainly hope so.
It would be their fine heads of hair that confuse you, John.
The site software seems to be suffering solstice sadness. I’ve tried getting my non-alliteration in the right place as close as possible under JohnC’s post but I have given up.
BBC #wefiles
The law states that anyone who watches live television or iPlayer but repeatedly declines to pay the licence fee is liable to criminal prosecution and a fine. There were 122,603 prosecutions for licence fee evasion in 2019, down from 129,449 a year earlier.20 Mar 2021
Live like a ruling elite boss
BBC news online word of the day is cancelled:
‘”An event cancelled is better than a life cancelled,” said WHO head Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus‘ – you’ll recall he’s the China bought and paid for stooge who heads The World Health Organization – whatever that’s supposed to be? I thought our NHS was the world envied be all and end all of healthcare?
‘London’s New Year’s Eve celebration event in Trafalgar Square will not go ahead because of the surge in Omicron Covid variant cases in the capital. Mayor Sadiq Khan said the event, for 6,500 key workers and members of the public, was being cancelled “in the interests of public safety”‘
‘Spectators will be banned from all sports events in Wales from 26 December to try to control the spread of the Omicron Covid variant. The Welsh government said it will apply to all indoor, outdoor, professional and community sports events.‘ – the word cancelled doesn’t appear per se there, but if you were Welsh and were expecting to attend the match… it’s cancelled.
Seems all our Lefty heroes are cancelling stuff, all over the shop – left, far-right and centre. (Right is always far-right, by the way)
Speaking of Lefty heroes – the Guardian has a new one for us: ‘Gabriel Boric has vowed to unite Chile, fight “the privileges of the few” and tackle poverty and inequality after winning a decisive victory over his far-right opponent‘ – see, I told you right is always far-right. I digress. But will our new El Presidente cancel stuff, we wonder?
So let’s have a look at “the privileges of the few“.
The FT Datawatch feature laments the supposed fact that: ‘The highest proportion of staff at work in the UK on Christmas Day are from the health and social work sectors‘ – meanwhile perhaps they could dream of escape to far away places with the prime ad spot on the FT’s pink frontpage which goes to: ‘Lunajets… leading private air charter‘ – despite climate change.
The Telegraph pillories the: ‘“Posh, smilling” Maxwell “Key” to Epstein abuse‘ – but we can perhaps counter that nasty whiff of elite corruption and perversion with the premium advertising space bought today by: ‘Chanel No 5‘
Let’s dive down market to the Daily Star where we are offered Boris’s: ‘government-endorsed cut-out-and-keep “work meeting” cheese board. Live like a ruling elite boss with this game-changing cheese board guarenteed to let you bend future lockdown rules just like Bozo Johnson & Co‘ – the de Pfeffel chap is charicatured in Edwardian prime ministerial style, replete with bow-tie, monocle, neat little ‘tash and Lord Snooty topper.
But if your appetite isn’t satisfied by a dry cracker and slice or two of the Blue Stilton then the Star offers Italian TV chef Gino D’Acampo: ‘Gino is talking turkey‘
‘Good news! Feasting on turkey can be healthy‘ (Times) – because our health is the absolute number one consideration at this time of year, right?
Talking Turkey (sorry, I couldn’t resist): ‘Lira falls 9% as Erdogan stands firm‘ (FT) – this is a worry since dictatorial leaders do tend to want to distract their nations from internal economic woes with a little adventure.
But let’s end on a positive note and award some seasonal plaudits to the Labour-supporting Mirror – afterall, we conservatives see our opponents not as they see us – as evil, but as sadly misguided.
The Mirror frontpage of course has to have a poke at the Tories and follows the symbolic faux-patriotism of Sir Keir with his new-found union flag – the Mirror loyally bends the knee to Her Mage: ‘Queen’s quiet Christmas‘ – Godbless ‘er, she is 95.
And if you don’t wish to look too Scrooge-like demanding yet more lockdown and can’t yet criticise Bojo for not locking down because he has not as yet let on he’s locking us down… phew.. then you can always fall back on the old confusion trope: ‘Her Majesty cancels plans amid national confusion… PM refuses to clarify what new rules are on the cards‘ – personally I dream of a PM who doesn’t bring in any new rules on any subject, frankly.
Oh, I nearly forgot, the praise for the Mirror… their feature on: ‘Our little Christmas miracles. Rescue animals find their forever homes‘ – there’s my Christmas (or as the BBC’s friends at WHO would have it: ‘holiday‘) wish – may we all one day find our forever homes. I do believe we will.
The cunning plan?
Cancel everything, add other restrictions to normal life.
Mass test false positives, to force self isolation
causing staff shortages everywhere, and further restrictions, lockdowns, curfews even.
Finally claim victory over covid in the spring.
Our glorious leaders have saved us!
But doing nothing would have achieving exactly the same, as Omicron is super mild anyway.
” see, I told you right is always far-right. ”
To avoid the doom-laded BBC I sometimes have French radio running in the background. My ears are continually pricking up on ‘extreme droite’, the French also seem to lack another extremity.
This bias creates a ratchet effect, pushing everyone away from ‘the extreme’ towards ‘the left’ and away from what might be a centre compromise.
They know why they do it, it isn’t an accident.
“…we conservatives see our opponents not as they see us – as evil, but as sadly misguided.”
Thank you, that is so true.
Are we talking Carrie passion? Samira passion? Or full Huw passion?
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1538819/laura-kuenssberg-salary-bbc-political-editor-politics-news-journalist-spt?
Money is all that motivates them at heart. The rest is just ideology.
Strange how the BBC chooses not to be the “Global broadcaster” it crows about most of the time . Footy . A lot of prem footy types are not getting vaccinated and getting covid .
Im not saying there is a direct link .
But over 25% of players are not vaccinated- yet in italy 98% are vaccinated.
I write this because these players crow about ‘ social justice ‘ yet put the NHS at risk ( in the narrative ) by not getting jabbed .
How does that work ? For the record i care less …
“A lot of prem footy types are not getting vaccinated and getting covid .”
Would be interesting to see which group, Vaxed or unvaxed is getting covid most
Getting Covid – suffering from Covid – dead from Covid.
So having stirrbed up the fear
the news guys are now reporting on businesses that have suffered cancellations due to fear.
“reporting on businesses that have suffered cancellations due to fear” – 650 MPS and 800 Lords are happy in the knowledge that nothing will happen to them.
Coronavirus: MPs offered extra £10k to help with homeworking office costs
Additional funds will be available for about a year
Zoe Tidman
Thursday 09 April 2020
Apologies if late to the party and already covered.
But I’ve just read about an exchange between Frazer Nelson and a guy from SAGE.
It makes for fascinating reading about SAGE bias. Bias the BBC must know about but choose not to mention.
In a nutshell, realistic scenarios that would not require any action are omitted from the predictions. Thus only the worst doom-and- gloom options get forwarded to ministers.
With friends like that, no wonder Boris has so many enemies.
Health warning. Read sitting down with tranquillisers close to hand. And fingers crossed on any firewall.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/my-twitter-conversation-with-the-chairman-of-the-sage-covid-modelling-committee
2000 Models – only THE one is selected.
Now get panic buying – say there’s a shortage of something because of …. ….
The story gets murkier….
“Omicron” (an arbirarily chosen name) has some issues
– given what’s at stake …. the lack of attention to – you know… the actual virus – in the public space isn’t confidence inspiring.
a self spreading vaccine?
– aluminium headwear might become as ubiquitous as Chinese facemasks….
TOADY Watch #1 – just an impression, that’s all, my personal impression
I post as a conservative (underlined twice in red ink) but not necessarily a Conservative and not a Bojo fan but, instead, a Bojo realist. I still got the impression from listening since 6 a.m. to most of the programme of overwhelming BBC hostility to a Conservative Government and Boris Johnson as PM, and hostility to the rest of the Cabinet. That hostility was especially reserved for those in Cabinet who voted against ‘more rules’ that were imposed with Labour’s brainless help on the nation.
The”State broadcaster”! It is a scandal.
A Question:
How can you tell these are Omicron cases as opposed to ‘regular’ C19 when you are using the same test kits?
Fair question – the reticence about the quantity and quality of public diagnostic services is not confidence inspiring.
It is too easy to perceive that In fact simple, trivially published detail information about an array of virus related matters is being deliberately withheld.
As I understand it the vast majority of tests are of Chinese origin – certainly the case for the “lateral flow”kits – those who wish to know the provenance of test kits and associated machinery should be able to Google it within a couple of minutes.
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Good point Tr. From memory, it is claimed (cannot remember who said it) that the PCR test can differentiate between the mutations. But Whitty undermined the Lateral Flow (LF) test on Radio 4 earlier this year, if my memory is correct. Don’t recall Whitty giving a figure for the LF test’s accuracy and, of course, the Beeboid doing the presenting/interviewing did not think to ask. The PCR test is claimed to be, iirc, 90% accurate.
That is where a lot of infections arise. If you have tests (let’s assume the LF test is also 90% accurate) one in ten people may be given a false negative and then they may pass on the virus to another person.
Not that it matters much. Save the NHS and all that.
‘The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has openly admitted that these “vaccines” do not work, stated Bhakdi. He reminds his audience that at a press conference in August, the CDC revealed that “vaccinations do not prevent against infection of the airways.”
“If you are vaccinated, you are not protected against anything,” said Bhakdi. They are now talking about ‘breakthrough infections’ due to new variants. “It is not a breakthrough at all; there was never protection anyway.”
And that is a bit or a problem. I read elsewhere that the VACCINES are responsible giving a false sense of security, and impairs your natural immune system.
All other viruses are ignored (and kill far greater numbers than Covid). But then there in no money in that for big Pharma. At the moment its the wild west.
And nobody wins better health and the NHS is a pawn.
https://rairfoundation.com/dr-sucharit-bhakdi-vaccine-benefit-zero-fears-massive-self-to-self-attack-of-immune-system-video/
But heck what do I know!
U.K. Paid $20 Million for New Coronavirus Tests. They Didn’t Work.
Facing a global scramble for materials, British officials bought millions of unproven kits from China in a gamble that became an embarrassment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/world/europe/coronavirus-antibody-test-uk.html
MM, that is behind a paywall. Why would a newspaper with an Editor who is ex-BBC want to embarrass a Conservative Government?
Just askin’ …..