Cant really see the chummy boris gig making it much longer … its a pity that starmer came back because that scatty angie one would have been box office …
And twitter is having a ball but BYOB ( whatever that means WTM) ..
She’s a Permanent Secretary in the Cabinet Office and she’s looking into the various alleged Christmas parties held in Downing Street during lockdown. She has a reputation for leading the most vigorous internal investigations.
Profile on BBC Sounds.
What do we know about Sue Gray.
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Rather suspect what ‘they’ know and how ‘they’ run with it will be quite revealing.
Well, there we have it. After months of deceit and deception, the pathetic spectacle of a man who’s run out of road.
(line BBC chose to quote)
His defence, that he didn’t realise he was at a party, is so ridiculous that it’s actually offensive to the British public.
He’s finally been forced to admit what everyone knew that when the whole country was locked down, he was hosting *boozy*parties in Downing Street.
(loaded language)
Is he now going to do but decent thing and resign?
After the noise Boris finally replies
I want to I want to repeat that I thought it was a work event
and Mr Speaker, I regret very much that we did not do things differently that evening.
.. as I said, and I take responsibility and I apologise, Mr. Speaker, but as for as for his his political point, I don’t think that he should pre-empt the outcome of the inquiry.
He will have he will have a further opportunity, I hope to question me as soon as possible.
Starmer
Well, that apology was pretty worthless wasn’t it?
(What’s the point in apologising if people then mock you for it anyway ?)
Let me tell him why this matters. Yesterday, in this chamber, honourable members told heart wrenching stories about the sacrifices people across the country were making.
This House and the whole country were moved by the honourable member for Strangford as he talked about his mother-in-law dying alone.
He was following the rules whilst the Prime Minister was *partying *in Downing Street. (spin)
Is the prime minister really so contemptuous of the British public that he thinks he could just ride this out?
Boris Johnson
… Nobody who heard that could fail to have been moved.
And I know that people up and down the country have made huge sacrifices throughout this pandemic,
and I understand the anger the rage that they feel at the thought that the people in Downing Street we’re not following those rules.
I regret the way the event I have described was handled.
I bitterly regret it and wish that we could have done things differently than I have and will continue to apologise for what we did….
Jump forwards to Boris replying to Starmer
saying “Can’t the Prime Minister see why the British public thinks he’s lying through his teeth?”
.. Those words are technically wrong, cos you are not allowed to call another MP a liar
However when Boris protested the speaker said No Starmer was not expressing his own opinion, but rather the public’s ..so Boris first called the speaker wrong. and then called Starmer wrong
Mr Speaker, it’s up to the right honourable gentleman to choose how he conducts himself in this place.
(uproar)
He is wrong. I say to him that he’s wrong.
He’s wrong in what he said.
.. and is wrong in several key respects.
But Mr Speaker that does not detract from the the basic point that I want to make today, which is I accept that we should have done things differently on that evening.
As I as I said to the house, I believe that the events in question were within the guidance
and were within the rules
and that was certainly the assumption on which I operated
but can I say to him as a speaker that he should wait, before he jumps to conclusions, because a lawyer should respect the inquiry.
I hope that he will wait until the facts are established and brought to this House.
Later Boris replies get in that Britain has masses more testing than most countries
Massses more vaccinations etc.
The media narrative is gripping
cos it is so extraordinary
‘ Here we were one foot nailed to the floor, while members of our families died alone
Yet the people in Downing street are so arrogant they were having boozy parties all the time’
There is an alternative that might fit better with Ockham’s Razor
That Boris knows about Covid cos he nearly died from it and spent weeks in hospital.
That the top civil servant was not arrogant or stupid, but actually knew how the rules were written
That they did stop people having parties AT HOME,
but that workplace rules were different
and that when he issued invitations for an outdoor socially distanced meetup he knew that was within the law.
And that journos knew this too, so despite their being 100 email invitations, they didn’t try to make anything of it until 20 months later.
Weak Boris actually did give a strong performance at the dispatch box
..Instead of leaking stuff to the press beforehand
he stayed with in the rules and saved his apology statement for parliament.
Then when Starmer stood up and tried all his hyperbole, Boris stood up and answered him firmly ..no caving in
He looked way stronger than Mrs May, or Corbyn etc. .. but I expect he hi team had really really been preparing.
Boris without a script … ‘Embarrassing’: Boris Johnson criticised for rambling speech to CBI
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Business leaders and Conservative MPs criticise speech in which PM extensively praised Peppa Pig World and imitated car
That they did stop people having parties AT HOME,
but that workplace rules were different
“The creatures (citizens) outside looked from (tory) pig to (labour) man, and from (labour) man to (tory) pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
Speaker Lindsay Hoyle has chosen to open the biggest Parliamentary can of worms ever, and it’s unlikely he’ll be able to close it again without basically admitting he has improperly supported Keir Starmer in the House of Commons in getting away with breaking parliamentary rules and precedent by calling an opponent ‘a liar’, simply by pre-attaching the phrase ‘….the public thinks….’
Oh what fun it’s going to be when all sorts of claims are uttered by anyone else – and there will definitely be those who will make use of this ruling.
Just look at the picture the slimy BBC chose to put of Trump:
The reason Trump got banned had nothing to do with bad language. He said things which the Left didn’t agree with and unilaterally decided were untrue simply because it didn’t suit their own agenda.
My favourite was how they banned any claims that the election was rigged without having any evidence at all to counter his claims.
Trump is like Farage : when you read what the far-Left media such as the BBC claim he said and when you listen to him actually say it, they are not the same thing at all.
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Thinking bigger picture – the party thing is a kind of character trait of nut nut and mrs nut nut .
He had no constraint . No one to say “this is dangerous “ … and allows a trivial exercise in “jolly “ to end his presidency ( thats how the office is thought of ) …
Sooner or later it was bound to happen in one way or another. But i laid the narrative out in an earlier post . Whether the 1922 does the job before the MSM does is moot …
Broadcaster Tonia Buxton does not trust the BBC’s coverage of the pandemic.
“The BBC have done a great job of constantly lying on air. They’re trying to keep the fear narrative up.”
"The BBC have done a great job of constantly lying on air. They're trying to keep the fear narrative up."
1. CNN and the rest of the left-wing Biden supporting media are seeing their audience vanish before their eyes. Whilst the rather more Conservative Fox News audience figures are going through the roof!
2. US parents are giving the Biden administration a walloping over its attempts to crack down on and brand parents who object to Critical Race Theory on school curriculums as terrorists
America is waking up to the total shambles they have sleep-walked into it seems
I can see the democrats ending up with an unworkable Senate after the mid-terms and I can see Trump back in the White House come the next elections and this time he will have the power of the Senate to crush the dodgy actions of the election officials. This being the reason that Biden is trying to re-write the constitution so that the incumbent President can have more control over individual States voting rights. He is running scared!
I can only hope that this rubs off on the UK in due course.
The nearly two-year special counsel investigation of Russian election interference led by Robert Mueller cost nearly $32 million in total, a new filing shows.
The expenditures report, shared with CNBC by the Department of Justice on Friday, covers the final eight months of the probe, in which the special counsel spent about $6.56 million. About $4.12 million of that was spent through the special counsel’s office directly, and $2.44 million came from DOJ components that supported Mueller’s office
Downing Street party: The families who lost loved ones in May 2020
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As pressure mounts on Boris Johnson over whether he attended a No 10 party during lockdown in May 2020, the BBC has spoken to families of people who died that same month.
Alejandra Godoy – who lost her mother – said she “really hates” the PM.
Lisa Wilkie filmed her brother dying in intensive care, because her mother wasn’t allowed to attend.
Amanda McEgan’s daughter died from cancer and spent the last months of her life unable to see friends and some family members.
eremy Corbyn broke ‘rule of six’ at dinner party with eight others
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Ex-SNP MP Margaret Ferrier to stand trial over alleged Covid breach
Politician is accused of travelling from Glasgow to London despite knowing she had symptoms of virus
Pop star Rita Ora has apologised for a second breach of the UK’s Covid-19 restrictions, after failing to self-isolate following a trip to Egypt. The 30-year-old flew to Egypt for a private performance on 21 November. On her return the following day, she should have isolated for two weeks.7 Dec 2020
She said: ‘I recently flew to Egypt to perform at a corporate event for a private company, where my travel party followed protocol and presented negative Covid tests upon entry, as required by Egyptian authorities.
‘Upon my return to Britain, I should have followed Government advice and isolated myself for the required period. As you know, I didn’t follow Government advice and… I apologise again, unreservedly.
This judgment established a new standard of ethical medical behaviour for the post World War II human rights era. Amongst other requirements, this document enunciates the requirement of voluntary informed consent of the human subject. The principle of voluntary informed consent protects the right of the individual to control his own body.
This code also recognizes that the risk must be weighed against the expected benefit, and that unnecessary pain and suffering must be avoided.
This code recognizes that doctors should avoid actions that injure human patients.
R4 Media show “not all the allegations about Trump and his collusion with Russia stood up”
LOL LOL
A bold new media start-up plans to create from scratch a news provider that will rival the likes of CNN, the New York Times and the BBC. The people behind it are Justin Smith , boss of Bloomberg Media, and Ben Smith (not related), former editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News and media columnist at the New York Times.”
… so We invited our mate Ben to give him a gigantic free plug
Ben Smith published the Steel Dossier against Trump
“oh well CNN had reported the secret document existed
all I did was report the detailed
.. we did mention that there were errors in it”
Ros pointed out that that killed trust in the media.
‘May2020 empty streets’
FFS that’s 2022 media gaslighting
Guardian on May 25th 2020
showing people packed onto beaches
So, @BBCNews , @itvnews , @SkyNews et al, while you're busy telling us how we were all miserably locked up in May 2020 as the nasty elites frolicked with wicked abandon, this is what was actually happening. It's over lads. You're done…https://t.co/AJRQBqeHp0
ITV local news #ConstantGasLighting
“Here’s Tom in May 2020 he couldn’t touch his mother, he had to shout to her through the window of the old folks home”
Yes he did, but so what ?
Back on the streets there were VE street parties, BLM rallies and crowds on the beach
Watching BBC News tonight it seems that the BBC are ready to sack Bojo.
I wonder who the BBC will appoint as his successor?
Don’t ask the Tory MPs, they just obey orders from the state broadcaster
…that the bbc were using 2nd party websites and long-stories on newsbeat to encourage young people to attend, in contradiction to the lockdown rules (and the spirit of not spreading the virus, rules or not)
Our unbiased national broadcaster clearly smell blood in the water over Boris’s drinks party, and are milking it for all it’s worth.
Completely impartial, of course.
Even if he does escape I would guess he will probably keep a very low profile from here on in. So in that sense the petition will achieve a noble end whether the gOvernment acts or not..
This was the year before the miners’ strikes and Mr Blair won support with an election leaflet which declared: “Britain in general and the North East in particular have suffered appallingly under the misrule of Mrs Thatcher. Her hardline policies are both cruel and wrong.”
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Just out of interest.
If you live where you work, which covid rules do you follow and when?
Do you use one of those old clocking in machines?
Keep an hourly diary?
What about going to the loo?
What about talking about business over a beer?
What about those who do work from home?
Do the rules change at 5 pm?
I’m just thinking here about the practicalities. Practicalities many of us never have to manage.
Correction: The fact that Western governments are using threats of incarceration against those who do NOT wish the take the vaccine, makes me very suspicious.
6:25pm ITV ..A Conservative Party Political Broadcast
It just features Boris telling us about the Covid programme, get your vaccinations, thankyou all the staff ..etc.”
I would guess that ITV ran it at random to amplify the Bad Boris effect… I di notice they tagged it as News and Factula rather than Party Political Broadcast presumably to f=defend themselves against action by the government they can claim its a “news”piece.
ITV local news “17 year old Asia Harris from Sheffield is back from America after winning an under 17 championship”
OK that’s good
The competition was before Christmas so they haven’t reported on it yet.
But she is black so they may have played a part in why they did filming today.
They had some sneering question for a Tory MP who was on for something else.
Then “a local Hull Labour MP Karl Turner has spoken in Parliament about the Party”
they played a clip where Turner used extreme rhetoric.
Then viewers comments were mixed
a few were against the hyperbole
– “Why did no one talk about this for 2 years, it’s not important”
– “Loads of people were having VE paeties in their gardens”
The BBC keeps saying that people are rightly angry about Boris’s lies. I just wonder if it is right for people to be rightly angry about Martin Bashir’s lies to Princess Diana, rightly angry about the lies the BBC tells about climate change, the lies they told about the young people on the bus in Oxford Street etc etc. Shouldn’t the BBC consider its position?
And shouldn’t Dvjokovik give up tennis after lying on his visa application for Australia? He apologised, so according to the BBC that’s ok. Boris apologies, and it wasn’t.
Peter Levy on Look North just admitted that half the emails they have had in were in support of Boris. He quickly moved on.
Guest, I have a notion it may be the other way round. The extension is ‘The Residence’ and the impressive bit is the working part of the WH. Think it is open to the public quite a bit of the time and there can sometimes be official guided tours – excluding The Residence.
Portilo – on GBNews – ran through the recent screw ups – ranging from Raab on holiday ( same with the rest of the FCO ) – the Resigned MP for randox – now a PM personal secretary sending out a ‘bring a bottle ‘ email – plus picture …..oh yeah – and a cabinet secretary having to recuse himself because he went to a party ( event ) ….
In the background – a new virus – inflation – shortages – energy prices …. A dysfunctional NHS ….
No, they’re not doing any such thing. However I would rather drink urine than wade through the utter bullshit the Guardian prints every day. pic.twitter.com/anad4NZBE8
Apparently you must now be vaccinated to be able to access cannabis stores with all the health and mental problems that this drug brings with it.
I know this from first hand experience with people I have known who are now severely mentally damaged through regular cannabis use and who’s lives are ruined by it’s effects both mentally and physically.
I can only shake my head at the sheer lunacy of the double standards of these people.
No doubt our Justin partakes I would guess as no doubt do many in Broadcasting House!
Have you watched much of GBNews ? I’ve just been watching Farage have a pint with M . Portillo . I was trying to put a finger on what makes it so different and better from the BBC . And the answer? It is unrestrained . There is not the constant tick box false ‘social justice ‘ crap infecting everything BBC .
However the big question of the day remains whether 57 letters will go into the 1922 committee – about half a dozen have gone public – I wonder if this is the tip of the iceberg ?
Soonak seems to be doing a John major ( at the dentists when the knives were going into M Thatcher )….
BBC headlines….Ministers ask Johnson to quit…it’s as though the whole cabinet want him out..Infact 28 of the 30 have come out in support…. The other two are self confessed Boris haters, Wragg and Ross..
Sky news sends a correspondent to Boris’s constituency to assess the mood and hoping for a scoop. Poor correspondent was for in for a surprise, he had to admit that a majority still stood by Boris.
It all goes to show, the public really couldn’t give a rat’s arse about a drink or two that happened nearly two years ago, more important things going on in the world .Sadly this won’t stop the media persuing Boris.
Interesting to see on the BBC that the Prince Andrew story was the main headline for just an hour or so before we got back to Boris..
MarkyMarkNov 24, 20:06 Weekend 23rd November 2024 Then the GOV has won. They can have an opinion?! “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a…
Fedup2Nov 24, 20:05 Weekend 23rd November 2024 Deborah – in soviet Britain that is understandable – the petition still isn’t being reported on the BBC – Telegraph…
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DeborahNov 24, 19:54 Weekend 23rd November 2024 Regarding the petition, I have family members working for the government. It is too dangerous for them to sign it.
MarkyMarkNov 24, 19:46 Weekend 23rd November 2024 Outrage over “racist” detergent commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDcBFCo8gKU
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Fauci perjury on “gain of function”
https://gab.com/ProjectVeritas/posts/107601502254035741
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Boris transcript that my local BBC chose to replace with their own words that contained spin words “Booze party” etc.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/01/12/boris-johnsons-apology-downing-street-party-full/
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Baroness Sue Gray ? Dame Sue Gray ? Lady Gray …?
Cant really see the chummy boris gig making it much longer … its a pity that starmer came back because that scatty angie one would have been box office …
And twitter is having a ball but BYOB ( whatever that means WTM) ..
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Radio 4
She’s a Permanent Secretary in the Cabinet Office and she’s looking into the various alleged Christmas parties held in Downing Street during lockdown. She has a reputation for leading the most vigorous internal investigations.
Profile on BBC Sounds.
What do we know about Sue Gray.
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Rather suspect what ‘they’ know and how ‘they’ run with it will be quite revealing.
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Next bit Our Dear Leader Sir Keir Starmer
After the noise Boris finally replies
Starmer
Boris Johnson
continues
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Jump forwards to Boris replying to Starmer
saying “Can’t the Prime Minister see why the British public thinks he’s lying through his teeth?”
.. Those words are technically wrong, cos you are not allowed to call another MP a liar
However when Boris protested the speaker said No Starmer was not expressing his own opinion, but rather the public’s ..so Boris first called the speaker wrong. and then called Starmer wrong
Later Boris replies get in that Britain has masses more testing than most countries
Massses more vaccinations etc.
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rules, guidance – laws?
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The media narrative is gripping
cos it is so extraordinary
‘ Here we were one foot nailed to the floor, while members of our families died alone
Yet the people in Downing street are so arrogant they were having boozy parties all the time’
There is an alternative that might fit better with Ockham’s Razor
That Boris knows about Covid cos he nearly died from it and spent weeks in hospital.
That the top civil servant was not arrogant or stupid, but actually knew how the rules were written
That they did stop people having parties AT HOME,
but that workplace rules were different
and that when he issued invitations for an outdoor socially distanced meetup he knew that was within the law.
And that journos knew this too, so despite their being 100 email invitations, they didn’t try to make anything of it until 20 months later.
Weak Boris actually did give a strong performance at the dispatch box
..Instead of leaking stuff to the press beforehand
he stayed with in the rules and saved his apology statement for parliament.
Then when Starmer stood up and tried all his hyperbole, Boris stood up and answered him firmly ..no caving in
He looked way stronger than Mrs May, or Corbyn etc. .. but I expect he hi team had really really been preparing.
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Boris without a script … ‘Embarrassing’: Boris Johnson criticised for rambling speech to CBI
This article is more than 1 month old
Business leaders and Conservative MPs criticise speech in which PM extensively praised Peppa Pig World and imitated car
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That they did stop people having parties AT HOME,
but that workplace rules were different
“The creatures (citizens) outside looked from (tory) pig to (labour) man, and from (labour) man to (tory) pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11670-the-creatures-outside-looked-from-pig-to-man-and-from
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Speaker Lindsay Hoyle has chosen to open the biggest Parliamentary can of worms ever, and it’s unlikely he’ll be able to close it again without basically admitting he has improperly supported Keir Starmer in the House of Commons in getting away with breaking parliamentary rules and precedent by calling an opponent ‘a liar’, simply by pre-attaching the phrase ‘….the public thinks….’
Oh what fun it’s going to be when all sorts of claims are uttered by anyone else – and there will definitely be those who will make use of this ruling.
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Keith Vaz was a great sales man!
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How come Greta was no in Parliament telling everyone who is frozen to hug a puppy ala Ovo Energy?!
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A year on, has Trump benefited from a Twitter ban?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-59948946
Just look at the picture the slimy BBC chose to put of Trump:
The reason Trump got banned had nothing to do with bad language. He said things which the Left didn’t agree with and unilaterally decided were untrue simply because it didn’t suit their own agenda.
My favourite was how they banned any claims that the election was rigged without having any evidence at all to counter his claims.
Trump is like Farage : when you read what the far-Left media such as the BBC claim he said and when you listen to him actually say it, they are not the same thing at all.
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Speculation circulating online in 2020 has resurfaced on social media claiming that UK Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer was responsible for failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile, the late TV and radio presenter revealed after his death to be one of Britain’s most prolific sex offenders. Starmer was the head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) at the time of the incidents, but he was not the reviewing lawyer for the case, the CPS said and a report on the handling of the cases showed.
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-britain-savile-idUSL1N2RP200
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Nicky Campbell phone-in
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Thinking bigger picture – the party thing is a kind of character trait of nut nut and mrs nut nut .
He had no constraint . No one to say “this is dangerous “ … and allows a trivial exercise in “jolly “ to end his presidency ( thats how the office is thought of ) …
Sooner or later it was bound to happen in one way or another. But i laid the narrative out in an earlier post . Whether the 1922 does the job before the MSM does is moot …
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SkyNews .. claiming there were 11 Boris parties
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How many Labour and BBC parties?
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Broadcaster Tonia Buxton does not trust the BBC’s coverage of the pandemic.
“The BBC have done a great job of constantly lying on air. They’re trying to keep the fear narrative up.”
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Some signs of hope in the US.
1. CNN and the rest of the left-wing Biden supporting media are seeing their audience vanish before their eyes. Whilst the rather more Conservative Fox News audience figures are going through the roof!
https://www.foxnews.com/media/fox-news-tops-espn-most-watched-cable-network-cnn
2. US parents are giving the Biden administration a walloping over its attempts to crack down on and brand parents who object to Critical Race Theory on school curriculums as terrorists
https://www.foxnews.com/media/asra-nomani-diabolical-biden-admin-parents-terrorists.
3. The US economy is heading towards basket case levels with the highest inflation rise in 40 years.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/december-inflation-consumer-price-index
America is waking up to the total shambles they have sleep-walked into it seems
I can see the democrats ending up with an unworkable Senate after the mid-terms and I can see Trump back in the White House come the next elections and this time he will have the power of the Senate to crush the dodgy actions of the election officials. This being the reason that Biden is trying to re-write the constitution so that the incumbent President can have more control over individual States voting rights. He is running scared!
I can only hope that this rubs off on the UK in due course.
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Is it collusion with Russia?
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Sopes’ manual?
https://babylonbee.com/news/10-upcoming-fabricated-media-narratives-for-2022
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Bad day?
The boss of Ovo Energy has blamed a “bad day” for ridiculous advice to customers on how to stay warm amid soaring bills.
Stephen Fitzpatrick told the BBC he felt “really embarrassed” about the 10-point plan, which included “doing a few star jumps” and cuddling pets.
Ovo apologised on Tuesday, and Mr Fitzpatrick went on BBC TV and radio on Wednesday to repeat how sorry he was.
“We’re a large company and somebody had a bad day,” he said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59963699
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A school remains closed, a library is given over to police use and businesses are shut as an armed stand-off continues into a fourth day.
A 41-year-old man barricaded himself in a flat in Coventry with his eight-year-old son on Sunday.
It is believed there are weapons in the property on Earlsdon Avenue North amid what police describe as a really sensitive policing operation.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-59965618
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Migrant crossings: Number reaching UK this year three times 2020’s total
Published22 November 2021
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59375590
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The nearly two-year special counsel investigation of Russian election interference led by Robert Mueller cost nearly $32 million in total, a new filing shows.
The expenditures report, shared with CNBC by the Department of Justice on Friday, covers the final eight months of the probe, in which the special counsel spent about $6.56 million. About $4.12 million of that was spent through the special counsel’s office directly, and $2.44 million came from DOJ components that supported Mueller’s office
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/02/robert-muellers-russia-probe-cost-nearly-32-million-in-total-doj.html
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Downing Street party: The families who lost loved ones in May 2020
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As pressure mounts on Boris Johnson over whether he attended a No 10 party during lockdown in May 2020, the BBC has spoken to families of people who died that same month.
Alejandra Godoy – who lost her mother – said she “really hates” the PM.
Lisa Wilkie filmed her brother dying in intensive care, because her mother wasn’t allowed to attend.
Amanda McEgan’s daughter died from cancer and spent the last months of her life unable to see friends and some family members.
Published6 hours ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-59963012
eremy Corbyn broke ‘rule of six’ at dinner party with eight others
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Ex-SNP MP Margaret Ferrier to stand trial over alleged Covid breach
Politician is accused of travelling from Glasgow to London despite knowing she had symptoms of virus
Pop star Rita Ora has apologised for a second breach of the UK’s Covid-19 restrictions, after failing to self-isolate following a trip to Egypt. The 30-year-old flew to Egypt for a private performance on 21 November. On her return the following day, she should have isolated for two weeks.7 Dec 2020
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Has everyone stopped buying rita ora’s music in protest ?
Pop star Rita Ora has apologised for a second breach of the UK’s Covid-19 restrictions, after failing to self-isolate following a trip to Egypt. The 30-year-old flew to Egypt for a private performance on 21 November. On her return the following day, she should have isolated for two weeks.7 Dec 2020
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9053741/Rita-Ora-flees-country-rest-year-following-lockdown-flouting-shame.html
She said: ‘I recently flew to Egypt to perform at a corporate event for a private company, where my travel party followed protocol and presented negative Covid tests upon entry, as required by Egyptian authorities.
‘Upon my return to Britain, I should have followed Government advice and isolated myself for the required period. As you know, I didn’t follow Government advice and… I apologise again, unreservedly.
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This judgment established a new standard of ethical medical behaviour for the post World War II human rights era. Amongst other requirements, this document enunciates the requirement of voluntary informed consent of the human subject. The principle of voluntary informed consent protects the right of the individual to control his own body.
This code also recognizes that the risk must be weighed against the expected benefit, and that unnecessary pain and suffering must be avoided.
This code recognizes that doctors should avoid actions that injure human patients.
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R4 Media show “not all the allegations about Trump and his collusion with Russia stood up”
LOL LOL
A bold new media start-up plans to create from scratch a news provider that will rival the likes of CNN, the New York Times and the BBC. The people behind it are Justin Smith , boss of Bloomberg Media, and Ben Smith (not related), former editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News and media columnist at the New York Times.”
… so We invited our mate Ben to give him a gigantic free plug
After 170 seconds “The rise of the FAR RIGHT …”
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Ben Smith published the Steel Dossier against Trump
“oh well CNN had reported the secret document existed
all I did was report the detailed
.. we did mention that there were errors in it”
Ros pointed out that that killed trust in the media.
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Partygate2 was May 20th 2020
what day were the crowded BLM marches ?
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‘May2020 empty streets’
FFS that’s 2022 media gaslighting
Guardian on May 25th 2020
showing people packed onto beaches
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ITV local news #ConstantGasLighting
“Here’s Tom in May 2020 he couldn’t touch his mother, he had to shout to her through the window of the old folks home”
Yes he did, but so what ?
Back on the streets there were VE street parties, BLM rallies and crowds on the beach
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Watching BBC News tonight it seems that the BBC are ready to sack Bojo.
I wonder who the BBC will appoint as his successor?
Don’t ask the Tory MPs, they just obey orders from the state broadcaster
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GWF,
It will not be Philip Bone.
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Or even Peter Bone.
Doh!
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…that the bbc were using 2nd party websites and long-stories on newsbeat to encourage young people to attend, in contradiction to the lockdown rules (and the spirit of not spreading the virus, rules or not)
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Our unbiased national broadcaster clearly smell blood in the water over Boris’s drinks party, and are milking it for all it’s worth.
Completely impartial, of course.
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Any BBC Parties with Lord Tony Blair and Alister Cambell with Beth Rigby and Kay Burley in attendance?
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Covid counts ..The case decline does seem real
but deaths could reach 300/day before they fall
Peak so far in Jan 6th with 212 deaths
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Lincolnshire’s 2 hospitals military help starts tomorrow
local BBC have been reporting.
“The highest state of emergency was declared today
through 3 factors
Covid/Winter/ Water supply problem”
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About actors only playing parts such as a Jew playing a Jew.
The same should apply to news reporters and it should mean that Beth rigby and Kay burley should be the ones reporting on the rule breaker Boris.
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Good point – only criminals can interview criminals!
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Tony Blair to have his “Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter” rescinded
1,099,839 have signed.
https://www.change.org/p/the-prime-minister-tony-blair-to-have-his-knight-companion-of-the-most-noble-order-of-the-garter-rescinded
The pamphlet said: “We’ll negotiate a withdrawal from the E.E.C. which has drained our natural resources and destroyed jobs.”
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Even if he does escape I would guess he will probably keep a very low profile from here on in. So in that sense the petition will achieve a noble end whether the gOvernment acts or not..
Good riddance!
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This was the year before the miners’ strikes and Mr Blair won support with an election leaflet which declared: “Britain in general and the North East in particular have suffered appallingly under the misrule of Mrs Thatcher. Her hardline policies are both cruel and wrong.”
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/tony-blairs-election-pledges-1983-12938528
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https://www.theyworkforyou.com
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Chukkus a few quidz
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Russia invades Urkaine whilst 200 uk soldiers go to the NHS.
** Boris and Starmer fighting over who had the best wine party.
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Eric Gill statue taking a deserved bashing: https://twitter.com/katierazz/status/1481307310534402049?s=20
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Just out of interest.
If you live where you work, which covid rules do you follow and when?
Do you use one of those old clocking in machines?
Keep an hourly diary?
What about going to the loo?
What about talking about business over a beer?
What about those who do work from home?
Do the rules change at 5 pm?
I’m just thinking here about the practicalities. Practicalities many of us never have to manage.
I think we should be told.
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Correction: The fact that Western governments are using threats of incarceration against those who do NOT wish the take the vaccine, makes me very suspicious.
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BBC1 6 pm news at 6.18 pm.
‘Coming up we’ll be finding out what voters in the West Midlands think about today’s events in Parliament’.
Mmmmmm.
Now let me gues…………
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6:25pm ITV ..A Conservative Party Political Broadcast
It just features Boris telling us about the Covid programme, get your vaccinations, thankyou all the staff ..etc.”
.. Surely this must have been booked for weeks.
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I would guess that ITV ran it at random to amplify the Bad Boris effect… I di notice they tagged it as News and Factula rather than Party Political Broadcast presumably to f=defend themselves against action by the government they can claim its a “news”piece.
Needs questioning!
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Noj Opsel left huge glasses to fill.
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Springster is on board.
‘Could’ bring all the facts needed.
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Meanwhile Mad Al is tweeting about dodgy stuff and his boss gets a gong.
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Right oh…
Lets see where this goes ….
They are going to have some fun getting him down 🙂
Love the blue flashing lights
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I hope the Colston four are feeling as smug as ever! And I hope the judge and jury can now see what they have started.
There is no way this man can be convicted in any court now!
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I suspect a simple bottle jack would have done wonders if placed behind the statue, and operated with a few movements of the handle.
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ITV local news “17 year old Asia Harris from Sheffield is back from America after winning an under 17 championship”
OK that’s good
The competition was before Christmas so they haven’t reported on it yet.
But she is black so they may have played a part in why they did filming today.
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BBC local news Partygate2
They had some sneering question for a Tory MP who was on for something else.
Then “a local Hull Labour MP Karl Turner has spoken in Parliament about the Party”
they played a clip where Turner used extreme rhetoric.
Then viewers comments were mixed
a few were against the hyperbole
– “Why did no one talk about this for 2 years, it’s not important”
– “Loads of people were having VE paeties in their gardens”
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Now a Labour MP Diana Johnson and her drink-spiking campaign.
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It would have to be a bloke with a dog and a white stick that spiked her drink! Other coloured sticks are available.
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The BBC keeps saying that people are rightly angry about Boris’s lies. I just wonder if it is right for people to be rightly angry about Martin Bashir’s lies to Princess Diana, rightly angry about the lies the BBC tells about climate change, the lies they told about the young people on the bus in Oxford Street etc etc. Shouldn’t the BBC consider its position?
And shouldn’t Dvjokovik give up tennis after lying on his visa application for Australia? He apologised, so according to the BBC that’s ok. Boris apologies, and it wasn’t.
Peter Levy on Look North just admitted that half the emails they have had in were in support of Boris. He quickly moved on.
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Djokovik says the agent filled in the form
so it wasn’t his personal mistake.
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I thought he admitted attendance?
That said, I am intrigued as to the extent of these buildings where foot in it pols live, and work?
Watched Armageddon the other day and there was an aerial shot of the White House. Looks quite small, though there is a long annexe off to one side.
Based on watching ‘West Wing’ I think that’s where all the gofers are rammed. I wonder if No.10 is similar.
Certainly the media do like blurring the actions of civil servants with hapless elected pols.
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Guest, I have a notion it may be the other way round. The extension is ‘The Residence’ and the impressive bit is the working part of the WH. Think it is open to the public quite a bit of the time and there can sometimes be official guided tours – excluding The Residence.
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Portilo – on GBNews – ran through the recent screw ups – ranging from Raab on holiday ( same with the rest of the FCO ) – the Resigned MP for randox – now a PM personal secretary sending out a ‘bring a bottle ‘ email – plus picture …..oh yeah – and a cabinet secretary having to recuse himself because he went to a party ( event ) ….
In the background – a new virus – inflation – shortages – energy prices …. A dysfunctional NHS ….
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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/jan/11/bbc-does-not-subscribe-to-cancel-culture-says-director-of-editorial-policy?
Yes, they do.
I’d like to see them prove otherwise.
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Meanwhile…
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It seems they only cancel those whose views they won’t tolerate.
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If anyone is wondering about the state of the Tory party just take a read of this and the unsuitability of their leader Boris the bottler Johnson:
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/01/12/no-help-for-cold-britons-oath-breaking-boris-punishes-mp-who-voted-to-cut-heating-tax/
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The Canadian Government demonstrates a very warped sense of priorities.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59915459
Apparently you must now be vaccinated to be able to access cannabis stores with all the health and mental problems that this drug brings with it.
I know this from first hand experience with people I have known who are now severely mentally damaged through regular cannabis use and who’s lives are ruined by it’s effects both mentally and physically.
I can only shake my head at the sheer lunacy of the double standards of these people.
No doubt our Justin partakes I would guess as no doubt do many in Broadcasting House!
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I wonder if Prince Andrew will be visiting the Ecuador Embassy in the near future.
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Have you watched much of GBNews ? I’ve just been watching Farage have a pint with M . Portillo . I was trying to put a finger on what makes it so different and better from the BBC . And the answer? It is unrestrained . There is not the constant tick box false ‘social justice ‘ crap infecting everything BBC .
However the big question of the day remains whether 57 letters will go into the 1922 committee – about half a dozen have gone public – I wonder if this is the tip of the iceberg ?
Soonak seems to be doing a John major ( at the dentists when the knives were going into M Thatcher )….
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Not BBC – not nut nut – but the news that a met plod has been charged with more alleged rapes and sex offences …. (29?)
… once upon a time such a think would have shaken the earth . But now there is not even a tremor . I wonder what happened to plod ?
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ZanuLabour?
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BBC headlines….Ministers ask Johnson to quit…it’s as though the whole cabinet want him out..Infact 28 of the 30 have come out in support…. The other two are self confessed Boris haters, Wragg and Ross..
Sky news sends a correspondent to Boris’s constituency to assess the mood and hoping for a scoop. Poor correspondent was for in for a surprise, he had to admit that a majority still stood by Boris.
It all goes to show, the public really couldn’t give a rat’s arse about a drink or two that happened nearly two years ago, more important things going on in the world .Sadly this won’t stop the media persuing Boris.
Interesting to see on the BBC that the Prince Andrew story was the main headline for just an hour or so before we got back to Boris..
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