483 Responses to Midweek 22 December 2021

  1. Old Goat says:

    Ref. the earlier posts on Jacob Reece Mogg – Paul Weston thinks very highly of him…

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  2. Guest Who says:

    Femi and Lewis Goodhall RTd, so not OT.

    Are there any wet piers around?

    That is an Xmas double entendre media twat Xmas bumper line.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Lisa Shaw: Presenter’s death due to complications of Covid vaccine
      Published26 August

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-58330796

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Germany is to make Covid jabs mandatory.

      Tory MP David Davis: “Nuremberg guidelines say you can’t force someone to have a medical treatment. You certainly can’t force them to have it for someone else’s benefit. It’s wrong on every level.”

      @JuliaHB1
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      @DavidDavisMP

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    • StewGreen says:

      @MaajidNawaz at the start of his very long thread, full of links
      starts by saying media are going for the easy option
      of SHAMING people, instead of looking at the detail.

      It is obvious that if you put an unprotected outsider into an old folks home that is a risk.
      However a society with a lot more people who had actual Covid and got immunity would be a safer society.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Stew, you are not thinking right. Unjabbed oldie or unjabbed carer goes into Care Home with jabbed people, the unjabbed person is at risk. Inoculation with the present ‘vaccines’ does not mean ‘vaccinated’ cannot pass on virus in its various mutations and also they may catch it again but it is unlikely to be from the unjabbed oldie or the unjabbed carer.

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        • StewGreen says:

          @Up2snuff By “unprotected outsider” I didn’t mean old person/ new resident I meant visitor or electrician etc.
          For the outsider the home should not be a risk cos that is a pecially protected environment with no Covide on the inside
          Covid can only come in from the outside
          an outsider who had the virus is the safest outsider.

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  3. StewGreen says:

    Today 106.1K positives … 140 deaths
    Last week Dec 15 : 78.6K … 165

    So cases up about 35%,
    Deaths downward trend continues

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    • StewGreen says:

      Replotting cases by actual test date

      Last Wednesday is still the peak, then a fall
      but when Monday’s data is complete it will MAY BE higher still

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  4. MarkyMark says:

    A YouGov poll seen exclusively by the BBC found 57% of those asked said they censor themselves on issues including immigration and trans rights, particularly if their views are deemed at the less politically correct end of the spectrum.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59703257

    ‘You haven’t a real appreciation of Newspeak, Winston,’ he said almost sadly. ‘Even when you write it you’re still thinking in Oldspeak. I’ve read some of those pieces that you write in the Times occasionally. They’re good enough, but they’re translations. In your heart you’d prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You don’t grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?’

    https://orwell.ru/library/novels/1984/english/en_p_1

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  5. Deborah says:

    Sadly I read that Brazier is being moved to 4pm because I think his 5 minute ‘angles’ are brilliant and 4pm really isn’t a good viewing time for me. I wonder if it is because he is a widower with rather a lot of children.

    I also watch Dan Wooten for an hour or so at 10pm. It can be a bit variable dependent on who he has on. However I have become rather fond of Benjamin Butterworth who is sometimes on Dan’s panel (a very woke lefty and I hasten to add only in a motherly way).

    There is a degree of pick and choose in my GBNews viewing but infinitely more watchable than the BBC.

    Apologies this was in response to Fedup” higher up and between a phone call and a dropped connection it has appeared here.

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  6. Guest Who says:

    Jez currently negative U and N, but give it a while.

    And does Springster sit at her desk all day just ‘liking’ every tweet from every colleague?

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  7. Guest Who says:

    Clearly every bbc platform producer needs to book him ASAP for his expertise.

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  8. Guest Who says:

    Tony Blair and Benjamin Butterworth walk into a bar.

    Which is empty.

    Oddly, this was several years ago.

    But no surprise.

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  9. Zephir says:

    Its official I no longer recognise this country, just waded through the black adverts and now Jack and the Beanstalk latest film and of course Jack is not white (and black mother making jokes about “bargain buckets” but dont let a white person mention kfc…

    Had enough, TV off for forseeable future unless there are some seventies shows around

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  10. StewGreen says:

    ITV local news .. blah blah
    “over to reporter standing outside Yorkshire Cricket
    ..the Equality and Rights Commission has said something vague”

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  11. StewGreen says:

    Next “female football fan has got abuse online
    after speaking up”
    “one tweet was awful and it got likes”

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  12. Guest Who says:

    BBC post Madge speech show sorted.

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    • Loobyloo says:

      Frankenstein. Do they get pretend balls too? And it looks to me like she chose one of the larger models as opposed to a discreet one. Not sure what else to say.

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  13. StewGreen says:

    LBC fake news

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    • G.W.F. says:

      LBC News’ medical expert and fat know all, Nick Ferrari is also campaigning for medical rationing. No more than twelve appointments with a doctor per year – then pay. This fat twerp is not aware how much this would cost the anychess in bureaucracy.

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    • Loobyloo says:

      It was pretty obvious that he was not authentic when you listened to him. Who put the guy up to it? The story just fit the narrative too perfectly.

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  14. Guest Who says:

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    • Deborah says:

      But on GB News I saw Dr Coetze who was the lady in South Africa who identified omicron. She said 9 out of 10 patients in South Africa in hospital with covid are unvaccinated. This is in a country where about one hird are vaccinated. She added that some of those in hospital shouldn’t really be there as they could probably be treated at home. W

      What we don’t know is how this translates to an older more vaccinated population in winter.

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  15. JohnC says:

    The BBC 2 announcer just now : ” And next it’s sum muvvers do av em”

    Why do they think it’s OK to promote English-as-blacks-say-it ?. What kind of example is it to young people ?.

    Of anyone, shouldn’t the British Broadcasting Corporation be the ones attempting to preserve our language as it is ?.

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  16. StewGreen says:

    BBC local news “coming up the AMAZING christmas lights, powered by renewable energy”

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    • Guest Who says:

      Powered by Jez on his Huntogenny?

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    • StewGreen says:

      after that buildup the only mention of green was
      “So it’s all powered by renewable energy ?”
      … “We’ve been with a renewable company for 4 years”

      So actually they are just connected to the grid and are getting the same mix that we all get
      which is often vastly unrenewable.

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  17. Guest Who says:

    Tranny and East Asian too!

    The Pakistanis will be livid. Per usual.

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    • Thoughtful says:

      To be fair panto is an age old tradition deep in the British psyche. It goes back to the 12th Night Lord of Misrule festivities when the norms of society were turned on their heads.

      It was a night of bawdy revelry when men became women and vice versa. It’s worth reading about if you have an interest in English Medieval history.

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  18. Guest Who says:

    Sound advice.

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  19. digg says:

    This week a man loses his job for calling out girls in short skirts slags and says they are all asking to get sexually abused.

    The court awards him £100,000 damages because he showed remorse.

    A girl gets 6 months inside for shouting at a black doorman at a nightclub.

    Difference?

    The first man was Asian and the Woman was White.

    Just obscene….Our justices need to take a long hard look at themselves!

    This will just store up massive resentment which will eventually explode.

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    • G.W.F. says:

      digg

      More evidence which shows who are in charge of this country.
      We need to ask why they are in charge

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      • Thoughtful says:

        We know who are in charge, and as I have told you many times the reasons why, but you said that you are pleased for that arrangement to continue as long as you can save a ha’penny a decade. If you want to see the reason just take a look in the mirror it’ll be staring right back at you.

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    • StewGreen says:

      I can’t even find that first case

      Second one : Not 6 months ..it will end up as 7 weeks.

      “Sharna Walker, 25, was jailed for 14 week
      “caught on film spewing out a volley of racist language
      kicked open the exit door causing a glass panel to smash, and then pushed the broken door into his back as he returned inside.”
      then as she walks away she turns and spits towards him…she’s miles away.
      Lots of times drunkenly swearing at the doorman and kicking a door wouldn’t get you much of a charge ..so they have milked it.

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    • maxincony says:

      digg,

      Difference?

      Raja Minhas was awarded £50,000 for unfair dismissal after expressing personal views to a colleague.

      https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-who-won-unfair-dismissal-22198555

      Sharna Walker sentenced to 14 weeks in jail after pleading guilty of racially aggravated common assault, assault, criminal damage and a public order offence.

      https://west-midlands.police.uk/news/woman-convicted-racist-abuse-pub-doorman

      Not £100,000. Not “because he showed remorse”… Not 6 months. Not “for shouting”… If these two cases were even remotely comparable you wouldn’t have needed to lie so much in your feeble attempt to make them so.

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      • StewGreen says:

        Raja Minhas, 44, told the tribunal
        ” I mentioned that if this were Pakistan, people would be looking and it’s like an open invitation to be getting raped.”

        That sounds like he is stereotyping Pakistanis, is that allowed ?

        The judge said the original “conversation was ten to fifteen minutes long and became heated.”
        he added: “The claimant was guilty of some misconduct because Ms Klemetti (his colleague) did feel that she would not dress in a certain way in front of the claimant.”

        Where’s the £100K come in ?
        “Sky salesman Raja Minhas who earned more than £100,000 wins £51,000 payout after he was sacked ”
        “Sky dismissed Mr Minhas for gross misconduct and for ‘violating common decency’, ”
        The tribunal said this was unfair dismissal.

        =============
        Sales people should be paid, but a guy selling Sky in a shopping centre earning £2K a week sounds a lot
        His wages must be paid eventually by customers high prices.
        Prices which will now have to be higher overall to account for his £51K payout
        .. the article seems to say he quickly got another sales job elsewhere.

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  20. Northern Voter says:

    Mrs Voter has been busy with the old recorder thingy, she’s recorded all the Rogers and Hammerstein musicals that are on over the Christmas period, not many on the Bland, Botswanan Broadcasting Corporation, anyway she’s watching Kiss me Kate, not one dusky face to be seen. However what she did record that was on the aforementioned service, was Howard Goodall, talking about the history of the Carol. One shot was in Truro Cathedral with the choir. Shot of the said choir midships and to the front was a dusky boy, the only one in the choir. Are they magnetic?

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  21. JohnC says:

    Daily Covid-19 cases in the UK exceed 100,000 for first time
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59758757#comments

    Classic BBC report with the desire to create a specific reaction. Then the scumbags open it for HYS.

    What they totally fail to mention is that the graph of number of tests taken mirrors the rise in detected cases.

    https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/?_ga=2.127787205.998155125.1639995956-445740104.1637304243&_gac=1.258705912.1637693406.CjwKCAiAv_KMBhAzEiwAs-rX1Lk0VHHNbp97swKDK8zUTPhvC78mme2AWnqk4kxEoEELm-UUCR-ArhoCs80QAvD_BwE

    BBC lie type : Lie by omission

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    • maxincony says:

      JohnC,

      What they totally fail to mention is that the graph of number of tests taken mirrors the rise in detected cases.

      More people with Covid symptoms mirrors more people taking a PCR test for people with Covid symptoms.

      Imagine my shock.

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      • Nibor says:

        Maxincony ,

        Er yes , your point is ?

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        • StewGreen says:

          John slipped up
          what he probably meant to say was
          “What they totally fail to mention is that the rise in detected cases mirrors the graph of number of tests taken”

          .. AFAIK that is only partially true, but not really entirely true
          eg testing up 20% positives up 100%

          Lab testing capacity was 783,613/day on 22nd of November
          and 1,012,046/day on 22nd of December
          https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/testing

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  22. JohnC says:

    Xmas university challenge followed sum muvvers do av em on BBC2. I was reaching to turn it off when the team members got me interested:

    Bristol team : all female BAME + one gay writer.

    Cambridge team: a white male history teacher, a dwarf, another BAME woman, and a female composer inspired by Greta Thunberg whose orchestra plays in car parks.

    What a complete f*cking joke.

    And Paxman looks terrible. His overall bearing is similar to Biden. He hasn’t got long left.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Sounds like the nearest the BBC gets to comedy now . Is ‘dwarf’ still ok or has dwarf morphed into something else ?

      ( actually don’t care cos I’m on a covid high as my PCR test came back saying I’m not pregnant ) – got to say – the Amazon was both cheaperer and faster that the randox radox one ….)

      So only 2 days of quarantinee …

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      • JohnC says:

        My rule is that if a word is offensive, I won’t call them it.

        But if the word is fine and they choose to find it offensive because they have invented some interpretation of their own then I don’t care.

        An example would be ‘dwarf’ is fine but something like ‘stumpy’ which would infer something is wrong with them which they cannot help is not.

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  23. Guest Who says:

    Next, Mick Obama…

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  24. Philip_2 says:

    And now for something completely different…

    Question for BBC: Who is therefore responsible for the ‘Industrial revolution’ you claim is damaging the climate, the planet, the emissions blamed on England??

    History show us who was responsible then – the left (again)!

    ‘We seem to have forgotten that the term was originally employed by the French revolutionaries, and others, to describe their own hopes for an economic transformation to correspond with their political achievement, and indeed that it had at first nothing to do with England at all. We have largely forgotten that it was not until 1837 that the term was first applied to British economic history, by J.B. Say’s successor at the College de France, Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui, writing in his Histoire d l’Economie Politique en Europe, expressed surprise that “revolution industrielle” had not occurred in France, as expected, but that something along those lines was clearly and paradoxically transpiring in England. We need to remember more precisely the reasons that Engels then adopted this reference from the French literature as a key term for his own discussion in The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845 in German, but not in English until 1885), passing the term on to Marx, who used it in Capital (1867 in German, English in 1887).’

    Damn Marx again!

    https://historyreclaimed.co.uk/who-is-to-blame-for-the-industrial-revolution/?mc_cid=fff5b707a6&mc_eid=f0f2d33ad1

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  25. harry142857 says:

    I missed this first time around.

    https://youtu.be/LH0ksPS6Z4Q

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Cheers Harry – that does show that if a politician stands up to a BBC drone they can be ‘floored ‘ – and she really didn’t like him deploying ‘authoritarian ‘ ….. personally I was looking up the word ‘totalitarian ‘ and I think the BBC fits that description . One approved view – or be cancelled ( as in expunged ).,,,,,

      I wonder – if the biological restrictions ever really end – whether there will be a sort of drive for a greater freedom than before ? Or will it be back to subjugation of thought so loved by the BBC ?

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    • StewGreen says:

      In the bBC thread you can see all of the hatey people they have on their side.

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  26. Northern Voter says:

    That’s what you get with employing Local Gas Board Technicians.

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  27. StewGreen says:

    Muftah Salem Eljamel : Disgraced Dundee surgeon ordered to pay £2.8million compensation award in full
    after court ruled ALL of the fault was his not the NHS

    The bungling surgeon screwed up on at least 2 other patients
    https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/disgraced-dundee-surgeon-ordered-pay-25761628

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Did they check whether he got his medical degree from the university of YouTube ? They were scared of checking qualifications in case they were accused of racism…

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  28. Zephir says:

    and the maths woman on countdown has changed colour, guess which colour now

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  29. dafydd says:

    Great to see that the LibDems Baroness Jones bizarre complaint to the Met police watch dog regarding the conduct of the police officers on duty at Downing Street during the supposed illegal Tory party has been thrown out straight away as completely invalid.

    She suggested the police were aware what was going on inside but decided to ignore it.

    I dare say the opporsistion parties in conjunction with the BBC and left wing media are planning there next complaint against Downing Street… Truly pathetic

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Cheeseboardgate will run and run ….

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    • StewGreen says:

      @PippaCrerar tweets
      .. Unsurprising outcome
      – the parties took place inside No 10 primary w staff that usually worked there.

      I imagine this
      ‘Did you guys at the gate see evidence of illegal parties ?”
      … ‘No all we saw , were the same ol people coming in and out of their workplace
      How would we know what they do at the back
      the CCTV is not set up for us to watch like a soap opera’

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  30. StewGreen says:

    GBnews Dr Chris Smith is p:ssing all over the vaccine passport-fundamentalists
    ‘These screamers don’t bring anyone around to their argument
    Why aren’t you lot screaming about the obese who pose a much bigger threat to the NHS and economy ?’

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    • Jeff says:

      A lot of these people are arch hypocrites. Although they use the argument that they’re worried about “our” (blessed) NHS being overwhelmed, they’re clearly not attending too much to their own health…and they’re clearly not looking in the bloody mirror either.

      Take a gander at fatty Ferrari on LBC. Christ, he’s a big old lump. He’s forever ranting on about “these people becoming a burden”. FFS, has he no sense of irony?

      Andrew Neil doesn’t appear to look after himself. Looking at his mush, I should imagine a couple of bottles of decent claret are put away every evening. Good luck to him, but…

      And loud mouthed shock jock, Jon Gaunt, although slimmer than he was, is hardly sylph like. Another one who loves to spew bile.

      All three of these health conscious, vaccine fanatics look like an advert for coronary heart disease, but feel free to peach to the rest of us.

      Vaccine passports are dangerous and terribly divisive.

      It’s a poisonous concept and must be resisted at all costs.

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      • Banania says:

        In addition to which, according to the Planet Normal NHS mole, George, who has access to all the the statistics that we can’t see, the hospitals are nowhere near being overwhelmed but are running at normal capacity.

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  31. Guest Who says:

    They are beyond help.

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  32. digg says:

    A serious question I would like to ask other people on here who have recently had the booster jab.

    I had mine a couple of weeks back and have not felt 100% well since. Nothing too severe but lack of mental concentration, joint pains, lethargy, poor sleep, night cramps amongst my issues.

    I was a very physically fit older male who slept like a log until the last couple of weeks.

    I am self tested regularly and have had no positive results.

    I wonder if anyone in our fabulous medical profession is tracking any after effects or whether they just don’t care or don’t want to know.

    So anyone else notice any changes?

    Maybe the BBC might want to look into it?

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    • Deborah says:

      I had AZ for my first 2 and the Pfizer. I reckon for the first month for the odd afternoon I was cold and couldn’t get warm.

      Sore are after the booster. I sometimes get night cramps but usually in hot summer weather, but have had them recently. I hadn’t tied it in with the booster, but maybe so, apparently doctors prescribe quinine tablets for night cramps so I am drinking the occasional tonic water but the cramps are not every night so can’t tell if it is working.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Digg / Deborah – sorry to hear that . I feel lucky on 2 counts . I agreed to the booster in one arm and the flu jab in the other on the same day .
        Usually I have a bad reaction to the flu jab but this time I got away on both counts – apart from the aching arms of course.

        As for vaccines – I won’t get into trying to convince anyone -one way or another – but to me the psychological benefit of getting jabbed is big for me .

        As for fears about future effects of jabs – I will live or die with that ….

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  33. Philip_2 says:

    THE revelations in Robert F Kennedy Jnr’s book about Anthony Fauci’s handling of the Covid crisis are damning…. (part two) taken from TCW today (web link below text)
    
    …’As he says at the beginning of his book The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health: ‘Complex scientific and moral problems are not resolved through censorship of dissenting opinions, deleting content from the Internet, or defaming scientists and authors who present information challenging to those in power. Censorship leads instead to greater distrust of both government institutions and large corporations.’

    ‘Dr Fauci observed in March 2020 that a mask’s only real efficacy may be in “making people feel a little better”. Perhaps he recognised that what masking lacked in efficacy against contagion, it compensated for with powerful psychological effects. These symbolic powers demonstrated strategic benefits for the larger enterprise of encouraging public compliance with draconian medical mandates. Dr Fauci’s switch to endorsing masks after first recommending against them came at a time of increasing political polarisation, and masks quickly became important tribal badges – signals of rectitude for those who embraced Dr Fauci, and the stigmata of blind obedience to undeserving authority among those who balked. Moreover, masking, by amplifying everyone’s fear, helped inoculate the public against critical thinking.

    Dr Fauci’s mask deceptions were among several “noble lies” that, his critics complained, revealed a manipulative and deceptive disposition undesirable in an even-handed public health official. Dr Fauci explained to the New York Times that he had upgraded his estimate of the vaccine coverage needed to insure “herd immunity” from 70 per cent in March to 80-90 per cent in September not based on science, but rather in response to polling that indicated rising rates of vaccine acceptance.
    ‘He supported Covid jabs for previously infected Americans, defying overwhelming scientific evidence that post-Covid inoculations were both unnecessary and dangerous.’

    Under questioning on September 9, 2021, Dr Fauci conceded he could cite no scientific justification for this policy. 

    See: https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-folly-of-fauci-part-two/

    My comment:
    And yet we have the BBC claiming otherwise for months. Fauci, Gates* and Soros* in an old style Pharma financial fraud. Something that used to be ‘Barons’ financial rape and privilege in the ‘medieval age’ is being staged as modern “science” that cannot be challenged publicaly – ‘as-its-an-emergency’ when its clearly ‘is’ not that much of an ‘emergency’, more an ‘inconvenience’ now.

    I wonder if we are there yet – the false BBC prescriptions and predictions. Prosecution, seems likely in the US, Not so in the UK.
    So ‘No Science’ for any widespread lockdown in the US. Vaccines both un-necessary and dangerous if you have already had COVID! At some point, the public should be told, the risk is out there and we all have to live with it. Masks and Lockdowns don’t work outside the NHS surgical wards. Its all pointless (as FAUCI) has stated – it cannot be justified!

    Why is Boris following ‘extreme’ orders from the US? Why is the SAGE group following FAUCI policies? Why is the BBC so keen on lockdown, when alternatives exist (such as The Great Barrington Declaration). As its stand this could drag on for years, if unchecked by parliament. Boris must go. Its the REFORM party for me (until FARAGE gets back into gear). Liz Truss or Gove will follow the same line, as will Starmer if ever elected by a huge mis-calculation (it would have to be Biden’s voting rigged machines), to install another Labour ‘victory’. Even the entire BBC ‘jobsworth’ army cannot make that happen again.

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    • Beltane says:

      For ‘pharma’ read ‘climate’ and you have a mirror image of the one to the other. Dissenting voices cancelled in both cases.

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  34. SpinningReith says:

    digg
    Re: Booster after effects
    For info: a couple of days after Moderna booster I could barely lift my arm above shoulder level. Only lasted a day or so, no other issues. Sorry to hear about your problems.

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  35. BRISSLES says:

    Digg, due to my ‘issues’ (I’m a ‘vulnerable’ little girl lol !) I was given not the booster but a 3rd primary. My first 2 were Astra Zenica – no probs, but the 3rd was the Pfizer vac, and I had a sore arm for a couple of days, and that was it. Mind you, since my sojourn into germsville a month ago, I too have not been ‘well’ since. Perhaps its not so much the vaccine causing problems but perhaps the place where you actually get it done that’s the culprit.

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  36. Docmarooned says:

    I had Pfizer first 2 then Moderna booster. No problems with first 2 but sore arm and very mildly fluish until the next morning which then dissappeared quickly.

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  37. Fedup2 says:

    Today watch

    One of those items where so much is left out because it would be ‘unapproved ‘. It was about Polish people who lived in Blighty ( guest workers ) who have now gone home to Poland .

    One said they felt safer in Poland than in London ( there was no detail on that) . But then these Liberal ‘approved ‘ poles said they didn’t like their government ( no more detail ) .

    But then – in passing – they said they supported the government stopping ‘people from the Middle East ‘ trying to get into Poland EU ( no more detail ) .

    So one of those items which deserved more but because of BBC policy / censorship we didn’t get the real story .

    Poland is – luckily – according to my prejudice – unusually Christian in outlook and doesn’t like the idea of heathen Muslims third world turning up to take the place over doesn’t appeal to them . ( see londonistan ) …

    Elsewhere -I wonder if , because of guest workers from the EU going home , job vacancies in Blighty will continue at over 1 million ? Or has the project fear Chinese virus 3 killed the economy again ?

    Today again

    Brief discussion about energy costs still going through the roof . At this rate the price hike – when the next ‘ceiling ‘ thing is raised – will get people’ attention methinks . ….

    …update – our Justin interviewed a rep from the energy industry who though domestic fuel bills will need to increase by 50% in April – but the government could end VAT on fuel as well as the crappy woke green levy stuff .
    I really really hope public opinion forces this government fuel nonsense to change . There was a brief discussion on using own own North Sea gas again but this would not , apparently , cut the cost of fuel bills . Glad I’m fixed to mid 2023 …….

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    • Up2snuff says:

      That was interesting, Fed, wasn’t it. Especially the Polish couple, wife was interviewed, who still own a flat in London. Spoke volumes about Blair and Brown and ‘a lack of Council houses’. Did you notice the BBC attack on the Polish government? Apparently it is ‘Right Wing’ and definitely not on the BBC Christmas card list, oh no.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Up2
        I think it was a tiny glimp of reality . I fear the amount of state benefits going from the UK to the EU is fearfully high but either no one will look at it or talk about it or tell us what it is .

        Defrauding the Welfare State seems to be an OK thing to do -the furlough scheme was a golden opportunity along with the rampant theft from the NHS of course ( perks )….

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  38. Fedup2 says:

    BBC newswatch

    The BBC is pushing the Gordon brown giveaway story again and again . He wants us to give bongo bongo land vaccines . Apparently it ‘stains our global soul ‘not to be giving away even more taxpayers ‘ borrowed money …

    Well Gordon – get volunteering and get your people vaccinated or do some other ‘community work’ if you wanna feel good . Thank God it’s only the BBC that listens to the idiot now ,

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    • Scroblene says:

      Quite so, Fed!

      One has to assume that the awful BBC need to have car-crashers on to make the public feel guilty!

      Brown and Blair! The pair of nutters who started the rot in GB!

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    • JohnC says:

      Isn’t amazing how the BBC and the Left always try to put the blame for the problems in the world on us ?. By ‘us’, I mean everyone except them.

      If you spend any time in a developing country, you learn why they haven’t gone anywhere for decades. They are rife with corruption, cheating and dishonesty. From the very top to the very bottom. It’s only the magnitude of the amounts which change.

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  39. JohnC says:

    After all the outrageous scaremongering and open-HYS columns, the BBC are now backtracking and admitting what we all new a long time ago that omicron is much less severe than delta and it’s no reason to panic

    No HYS for this one – but the front page article has a large and completely unconnected and irrelevant picture of two black women.

    The BBC are completely driven by typical left-wing, agenda-based spite now and nobody else seems to care. Where the f*ck are OFCOM ?. It’s beyond ridiculous.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I think you will find that OFCOM / BBC is the same thing JohnC …

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      • JohnC says:

        I know.

        They are like the facebook ‘independent’ overwatch group who are actually appointed by facebook.

        When you think about the motivation of so many BBC articles, you start to understand why the Left have murdered so many millions throughout history when they got complete power. They are full of hatred and contempt for those who disagree with them.

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  40. Up2snuff says:

    FRAMING TODAY Watch #1 – more and more, the BBC just will not let it go

    Little by little, excrementally, the BBC are trying to chip away at Brexit via Farming Today. Charlotte Smith had a hard edge to her voice this morning as she did it. The aggrieved nature of Remoaners came across loud and clear. No mention of course of ‘greedy farmers’ in the pig sector who have let their sows over produce and had to cull pigs. The claims of bacon and sausage shortages will have to be scaled down a bit though.

    Remember that cull of 100,000 pigs? Pigs piled high in massive bonfires on farms. Well, it was probably only a third of that, 30,000 being admitted to on the programme this morning. The Great British Breakfast is safe!

    Someone at the Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has been doing their job. Well, the Secretary of State, George Eustice has, even if the Civil Servants are all shopping‘shielding’. He has worked out that the call for three thousand visas for workers from the EU was unnecessary because Brits used to be doing the jobs before 2004/2007. More embarrassment for the BBC. Only 800 of the ‘not enough’ visas were issued and the BBC moaned like mad about it. Guess what?

    Only 100 have been taken up. Yet more embarrassment for the BBC and it goes some way to explaining the BBC’s constant attacks on HMG and Brexit. BBC – 0 : 3 – HMG. (Late HMG goal in injury time.)

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  41. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – much fake joy in the studio with Justin and Martha

    They have been calling for rules, more rules, more certainty over ‘Ommycrom’. And now they have it. The PM was right. [ BBC face 🙁 ] HMG was right not to have rules for England. Hospitals will not be overwhelmed. [ BBC face 🙁 🙁 ] But in N.Ireland, Scotland and Wales more restrictions have been introduced. [ BBC face 🙂 ]

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  42. Zephir says:

    KARMA:

    “Rep. Scanlon’s vehicle, with 5 inside, pulled over in Delaware after alleged Philly carjacking:

    Scanlon, a Democrat who represents Pennsylvania’s 5th Congressional District, surrendered the keys to the SUV at gunpoint earlier Wednesday

    Police say Scanlon was approached by two Black males who demanded the keys to the vehicle, a blue Acura MDX. One suspect drove away in Scanlon’s vehicle while the other drove off in a dark-colored SUV, police said.

    Both Scanlon and Lightford supported police reforms following the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis in May 2020.

    Just a day earlier in Illinois, state Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightford and her husband were allegedly carjacked in Broadview, a suburb of Chicago, the state lawmaker confirmed in a statement. Neither Lightford nor her husband were physically harmed, she said.

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/rep-scanlon-delaware-philadelphia-carjacking

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  43. Zephir says:

    Brexit hits the USA now

    (but the left are quiet about supply crisis here, I wonder why…)

    Ron Klain shares New York Times piece to suggest supply crisis is ‘overhyped narrative’

    White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki also shared the New York Times article writing “Take that Scrooge, the Grinch and all of the doubters that this could happen. Also shelves are stocked at 90% (pre-pandemic levels are 91%).”

    “That’s not to say the supply chain turmoil is over. About a hundred container ships are waiting off the West Coast to unload their cargo. Big-ticket items, such as new cars, are still hard to find because of a shortage of some critical parts like computer chips. And prices are up for all kinds of goods,” Chokshi acknowledged.

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/ron-klain-new-york-times-supply-crisis-overhyped-narrative

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  44. Guest Who says:

    Jez Vile RTd this.

    I do not approve targeting either.

    Then again, not keen on red paint, milk shakes or parenticide.

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  45. Up2snuff says:

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – BBC promotes some but not others

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

    Billie Eilish, Ed Sheeran, Friends, Sex and the City (not today but last week), mask wearing, Gordon Brown, football, etc..

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Ooops, forgot Adele. Will she ever forgive me? The BBC love, just lurrrvvve Adele. Oh, and Winey Amehouse, too.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Remember payola?

        The bbc producers love a good plugger lunch.

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        • Up2snuff says:

          Guest, I do, although but a child at the time. I was also taught back then that what happens in America eventually makes its way over here.

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  46. Guest Who says:

    Now we know where that finger gets pulled.

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    • Guest Who says:

      ‘Look’

      From a bloke rotating Femi, Champion and YAB for opinion.

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    • JohnC says:

      Ferguson at it again. He must have his tongue up a lot of orifices.

      No doubt when his ridiculous prediction is totally wrong yet again, they will still give him credit for his next one.

      The problem they don’t seem to be able to understand is that after a couple of these headline-hunting escapades are shown to be ridiculous, we stop taking anything else they say seriously.

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  47. theisland says:

    PS Has Bliar turned up on the bBC (again) yet?

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  48. tomo says:

    Explains quite a bit I feel

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  49. Fedup2 says:

    BBC irony watch

    Yesterday the BBC was tiptoeing over the absence of humour in the BBC anymore ….. but obviously could nt say that the vast majority of stuff is ‘unapproved ‘….

    …but today – they are wetting themselves – yes wetting themselves – over the finding of a worn out Morecambe and Wise show which is being pumped out on Christmas Day – desperation ….

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  50. Guest Who says:

    Franny joined Timmeh! on Davie Island by now, surely?

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