Get ready – this may be the week when the BBC explodes over number 10 parties / gatherings as The Gray Report ( redacted )is published . it will be on the screens and radio and social media . Everywhere . Don’t worry about Ukraine- that’s nothing – or gas prices – it’s the Number 10 garden that matters …
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Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends
Dobyns – the lyrics are so …. Presient? Lol 😎… as I write the Telegraph has grim reaper reports of the security police at number 10 giving full damning details of culture of the Number 10 staff …
Dobyns, I thought you were going to post a nice bit of Emerson, Lake and Palmer (Brain Salad Surgery) but I like Ricky Nelson too.
For you Deborah 😀
I saw them live at Victoria Park about a decade ago. One of the last ever proper concerts/festivals I had to go to, before everyone started dying left right and center.
SC
Saw them in 71, 73, and 77 when I lived in Chicago.
Outstanding ‼️
“Before everyone started dying …”
Hmm. You mean when thousands of elderly people were sent from hospitals were they were being treated back to care homes were the weren’t bringing forward their deaths by a few months (note the lower than average numbers for the rest of the year)
Now, if we could only get the BBC to investigate this.
Graph didn’t show perhaps dropbox is not allowing embedding
Dropbox makes me click a button “continue to website” https://www.dropbox.com/s/iymqp1vjcnz24u3/Graph.png
I really did just mean “musicians dying of mostly natural causes 5 years ago” Keither Emmerson killed himself, Greg Lake died of cancer. There are few musicians left that I’d pay money to see that are still alive and actually able to play still.
Rememeber when half the world seems to die in 2016?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2016_deaths_in_rock_and_roll
Thanks Dobs.
Catchup links to most recent posts on previous thread
– page 3 started 5:30pm on Sunday
– page 2 started 6:30pm on Saturday
Finnish MP charged over tweeting a Bible verse
I wonder what the actual text was. I wonder if GB News has the bottle to quote the text. GB News practising censorship by omission.
Perhaps if there was a similar quote in the Koran GB News might have the courage to quote that one.
BBC news
Long delays of trucks at Dover due to new customs regulations . Drivers blame Brexit .
Now how many people think there are BRITISH lorry drivers in those queues?
Being in the EU and the civil serpent blob killed the British international Road haulage industry. I was there , so to speak .
I’ll take on the civil service and the BBC in any open debate about it .
I’ll name names to get the ball rolling . James Fells , Roger Smith and Gerry Sreanan were complicit as part of the blob in destroying British international road haulage .
If I’m right they’re traitors: although too stupid to benefit from being such.
If I’m wrong they could sue me for libel .
But knowing the way the civil service works , they would hope that this issue will just blow away .
I cant help thinking that the BBC like Boris and are scared that any replacement will be far worse for them and their socialist woke agenda. In Boris they have the leftist Conservative PM ever and married to a raving environmentalist. Its in their interests to keep Boris so you’ll see them making half hearted calls for him to go but he is the best they can hope for until the Labour Party get thier act together.
Just a side note. The Queen avoids helicopters I hope her using one to go to Sandringham isn’t a sign that all is not well.
I think that there is a strong possibility that the whole partygate was part of a well prepared plan to oust Boris . The one thing that Boris could never do was to move the UK back to some sort of membership of the EU but there are some potential Tory leaders who will be willing to make significant concessions to Brussels. The powerful Remainer lobby has probably already agreed with Tory power brokers who I have of those will be the next PM.
Boris has disappointed me on several fronts, NIP, Green nonsense, the BBC, HS2, levelling up but he won’t put us back in the iron grip of Brussels . Perhaps it is a case of better the devil we know.
“Boris has disappointed me on several fronts, NIP, Green nonsense, the BBC, HS2, levelling up but he won’t put us back in the iron grip of Brussels”
Tell that to Northern Ireland.
So between Boris, Biden and the Queen. How many of them are in their job at the end of the year?
Came across the following analysis:
Callaghan – Boring
Maggie – Charismatic
Major – Boring
Blair – Charismatic
Brown – Boring
Cameron – Charismatic
May – Boring
Boris – Charismatic
??? – Which boring fecker is next?
Cartoon and thoughts:
Calvin – it ‘boring ‘ is the qualification then the cabinet will have a huge resource to choose from – although methinks Jeremy hunt could out bore them all …. Apart from ashrok? ..zzzzzz
Also – you made the assumption that any US election in the future would not be fixed …
An interesting deduction. However, I question the observation that Cameron is or was charismatic?
Useless? yes and no vision. But he did persuade millions of people to vote conservative at an election for the first time in nearly 20 years and it’s hard to emphasise how much work he did de-toxifying the brand. It’s not true conservatism but it’s better than a world where Labour is constantly in power and true conservatives sit on the opposition. Right now the opposite is true where Labour bicker about who is purer and how they want a 90% tax on bankers and it makes them unelectable because you need to be more centrist if you want to do anything.
Also, Cameron was (accidentally!) the best PM in 50 years because he gave the country the Brexit vote, even if it was because he stupidly though he would win and get to bury the subject.
Calvin – I thought his high point was the fixed term Parliament act – a triumph unforeseen consequences – mind you his inability to realise that most british people didn’t want his ReichEU takes some topping …soon back in though- right Hezza ?
“Four sexual assaults on girls in south east London could be linked”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-60102744
Not much of a description or image to go on to identify the perp.
It could even be one of those “men” again?
Taff, Simon Webb ( history debunked YouTube). Has done an excellent video on this topic . https://youtu.be/1LbvIzQePbI
Thanks.
Its time our Home Secretary did something about it .
I don’t agree with Simon Webb that this is “baffling” or that it might be to protect the sensitivities of the sexual predator.
It is actually because the Establishment wants to suppress the truth about black people. Compared with whites, blacks are low in intelligence, low in conscientiousness, low in empathy, high in impulsivity. They commit crime at far higher rates than whites.
They are the most dangerous of all the human subspecies on Earth and it was a huge mistake to allow them to come here and live in our previously homogeneous and high trust society.
But since it was the Establishment who brought them here against the wishes of the people, the fiction must be maintained that this was a good idea. The myth that diversity is a strength must be reinforced. All negative stories about blacks must be downplayed or ignored. The race of suspects must be deemed unimportant. Race itself can even be claimed not to exist. Anything to disguise the reality that blacks not only commit a disproportionately high amount of crime but that they have ruined Britain and turned large parts of our cities into dangerous no-go areas.
The truth must be suppressed.
“every time you comply you get weaker”
… em that’s just rhetoric.
In the course of my life I have developed five little democratic questions. If one meets a powerful person–Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates–ask them five questions: “What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?” If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/15/10-of-the-best-tony-benn-quotes-as-picked-by-our-readers
The BBC’s onslaught against the Government is at fever pitch on telly this morning, lefty woman after lefty woman interviewed about allegations of bullying and Islamaphobia in the Conservative Party.
One even said that some MP’s had been threatened to have details of their private life revealed if they didn’t toe the line. Despite the fact that this is absolute hog wash, the only response I can think of would be what have they got to hide then?
They are also trying to big up the hit consumers are taking under the nasty Brexit Toriesp, shopping, power cost, up while wages falling etc.
Some hazy price comparisons with cartoon illustrations of a can of chicken soup etc. from the ONS. A warning about energy cap price rises, this time from a source named as Cornwall Insight who turn out to be a private company training (brainwashing) amongst others media folk such as newsreaders in net zero matters.
They are a lazy partisan bunch of nitwits masquerading as the Nations Voice.
Well they ain’t mine!
A Muslim’s first support is for their Ideology Islam-they will never waiver from that definite issue-their lives no matter where they are in the World, are for and to Islam. This is why it was so dangerous for this Government to have had devoted Muslims in high places able to influence the course of this nation-the now Health Secretary, the Education Secretary, and so on, and now there is the case of a Muslim woman member of Parliament blurting out the case of Racism against the fact that she was a follower of Islam. Dam hypocrisy-not that long ago it would have been unheard of that a Muslim would enter Parliament-the invasion of such over the past thirty years has seen to that-I am not sure of the numbers of Muslims that now reside in the UK but if as said there are 60 million in Europe, we might well have over twenty million in the UK. Like many well versed in the ways of Islam, the intention is to rule this nation, one way or another. We don’t have to note the disgusting way many of their kind have treated a nation that gave them sancturary and a chance to live in peace, no we allowed them to build their Mosques places where plans ( seditous) can be laid for the invasion of this this nation. Wo betide us if we sit ideally by.
With the World heading for potential disaster
over the thug Putin and Ukraine. Putin was a thug
for the KGB in East Germany and a leopard like him does
not change its spots. What does the BBC website make it’s
main story . Yes it’s the BBC’S religion of choice Islam .
I hope I am wrong but I fear that there could be joint
“enterprises ” with Russia and China over Ukraine and
Taiwan whilst sleepy Joe Biden is taking a nap. BUT
still expect the BBC’S main feature to be about some
Muslim MP using the racism card.
Indeed Foscari, we turn our heads at our peril as we once did back in the 1930’s as another megalomaniac was driving his country forward to war. I ask the same question as to wether Russia and China are working on a plan to carve up the world between them. They both could put over 2-3 million of their subjects under arms, scary.
I believe that Russia and China are biding their time. They can see the West’s crumbling morals and the way it is being deformed by it’s numerous “diverse” denizens and pressure groups, all supported by it’s MSM and they both know that it is only a matter of time before it becomes totally dysfunctional and implodes so why bother expending arms and soldiers when the West is so busy committing suicide all on it’s own.
They also see the likes of Canada, Australia and New Zealand becoming “diverse” madhouses so eventual victory and Global control are going to be a walkover.
It’s merely a waiting game for them but I think eventually they will pour in to mop up the mess.
Tarien-Yes , history teaches us a legend .All
seems very much like the Sudetenland situation
in 1938. Biden last week was appeasing Putin .
Just as Chamberlain was in 1938. Sleepy
Joe was accepting a small incursion .Just as
” Peace in our time” Chamberlain allowed Hitler
to march into the Sudetenland. Six months later
the Nazis marched into PRAGUE. Expect the same
from Putin and KIEV.
The father-of-four (Anjem Choudary preaching hate 1999-2016) takes home more than £25,000 a year in benefits and lives in a £320,000 house in Leytonstone
“…and don’t you worry. It’s coming to a place near you…we cannot have state subsidized preachers…give it up or give it to your deadliest enemy and pay for the rope that will choke you.“
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/06/30/that-big-shining-lie/#comment-848918
Much missed RIP
What are we to make of the far left racist bbcs refusal to acknowledge the massive protest in Belguim on their front page ?
Oh wait we have this at long last ..
.”The BBC has found that children as young as 10 are being groomed for the sex trade”
No dont worry muzzies its Romanians this time, carry on as usual in every city in the UK and the bbc will ignore you
A disgusting business involving children from Romania.
But the main focus should be what went on and continues to go on in Rotherham. And Oldham. Halifax. Rochdale. Oxford. And many more British towns and cities under colonial occupation. That’s where the BBC should put its focus.
Staggering……
BBC, SKY, RADIO going completely apesh-t on Boris Johnson.
All I’ve witnessed is every station bringing out habitual Boris haters from Dominic Grieve to Anna Soubry…
I just get the feeling this is the final push by the media to oust Johnson. This rabid behaviour by the media this morning coincides with the release of Sue Gray’s report.
The most appalling comment this morning was by Kay ” law breaker” Burley. How can an supposed independent broadcaster call the PM’s behaviour dispicable… Where’s the old adage, inocent until proven guilty…
In all my years I have never witnessed such appalling biased behaviour by the BBC and most media outlets. As I’ve said repeatedly, they are no longer trying to hide it
Complete bast–ds..
And it appears that even Sally Nugent has been tasked to keep it going this morning for the BBC morning news. The blatant and spiteful unfounded attacks, interruptions and insinuations used against any Conservative interviewed are probably dictated by the BBC lefty big-wigs higher up the food chain.
Even when their is no foundation for their allegations It is apparent the disdainful and accusative tone of every interview is a deliberate tactic.
It does make me wonder if the “faces” on the BBC ever consider using their own approach or are forced to toe the Corporations anti-Government stance in every interview either through fear for their careers or sheer laziness.
Time for Boris to re-introduce the no-show, no-talk to the BBC approach again like Cummins did.
ITBB goes full Springster going full Springster with Springster groupies going full gush…
https://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.com/2022/01/remembrance-of-recent-memories.html
Never go full gush.
Many are spared Mike Wendling on anything, by blocking anyone who does not share his belief in the BBC getting about it about untrustworthy, partial and opaque.
I haven’t seen Ms. Spring anywhere for ages. Since her contribution to “inform, entertain and educate” seems to consist almost entirely of posting pictures of herself, I can only conclude that she has a spot on her nose.
Lovely comment from CAB:
Just correcting headline in the Guardian…
“Distrust, disengagement and discord will be the disgraceful legacy of Boris Johnson”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/24/boris-johnson-prime-minister-legacy
That should of course read:
“Distrust, disengagement and discord will be the disgraceful legacy of The Guardian and the BBC”
Tory No10 Parties, Labour No2 also has her affiliations
The left-leaning newspaper that has revelled in coronaphobia now goes with: ‘PM under pressure to launch new inquiry into Islamophobia claims‘ (‘i’)
One of those you are supposed to be afraid of – the other, not so much.
On the frontpage of that same organ we are presented with: ‘We all felt like dispensable bodies in scrubs. Novelist Dr Roopa Farooki on the Covid front line‘ – reassuring readers that the ‘i’ is still delivering lots of fruity corona porn. The NHS doc so overwhelmed she had time to write a book about it?
Guardian pin up, inventor of the boomerang-grenade, toothy authoritarian Jacinda Ardern, makes news way beyond her stuck-in-the-1950s little world of New Zealand. You almost couldn’t make up the fauning Guardianista caption to the fighteningly horsey pic of her and her loyal simpering chap: ‘Jacinda Ardern has put New Zealand on a “red setting” to curb Omicron cases. Amid new restrictions on gatherings, she and her fiance, Clarke Gayford, have postponed their wedding‘ – the anti-Boris BOYB party hint is blatant but the “red setting” and “Clarke Gayford“…. some things are just beyond satire.
The Times asks: ‘Couples therapy. Are you hooked on it yet?‘ and then focuses on other “fears” in the news this week: ‘Fears mount Russia will weaponise gas supplies. Warning of record UK bills if Ukraine is invaded‘ – maybe our government didn’t ought to have weaponised our energy bills chasing their daft green agenda? Explain this to me: we can happily kowtow to the Saudis for the sake of oil, how come we want to pick a fight with Putin?
The Labour-supporting Daily Mirror would stand like a statue of liberty for migrants – Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses… – ‘Fury over Home Office job advert that calls migrants a ‘threat’ amid refugee crisis‘ (Mirror 15 January 2022); and the paper is onboard with carbon neutral high energy prices: ‘New 2035 climate change targets – five big ways they will change your everyday life‘ (Mirror April 2021) – and yet no dots are ever joined to outcomes such as highlighted in today’s headline story: ‘D-Day hero age 98 who is living in fear of his energy bills‘
Furthermore: ‘Boris Johnson ‘broke Covid lockdown rules’ with Downing Street parties at Xmas‘ (Mirror November 2021 – yes, this story has been going on that long) – but no dots are joined between lockdowns and this story of a lonely old lady: ‘A gran of 71 whose house is too cold for her grandkids to visit‘ – they had to come up with some excuse, luv – at least the little brats didn’t say her house was too smelly.
Like any good left-leaning globalist the Kiwi harridan can expect a good write up from the FT – as usual the headline there tends toward the cryptic rather than the specific: ‘NZ altar delay. Virus curbs in Asia-Pacific‘ – the pic of our Jacinda however is hardly the posed pin up the Gruan lovingly presented. This Jacinda with tight hair bun and hard focus could be the other’s – with her free flowing locks – gran. She stands in the FT photo backed by the NZ version of our beloved union flag she wanted to trash: ‘… Labour MPs, including Jacinda Ardern, wanted a new national flag…‘ (a welcome rare appearance hereabouts for the NZ Herald 2016) frankly looking rougher than the lonely gran on the frontpage of the Mirror. But admittedly has more teeth.
Obvoiusly all grit and upstanding manliness has drained away from our Australasian cousins – seems only the Sheilas have the balls these days: ‘Retired tennis star Martina Navratilova has blasted a decision by Australian Open organisers to ban T-shirts supporting Chinese player Peng Shuai. ‘ (BBC)
Talking of being in-bed with Labour as we were with the Mirror: ‘Labour’s No2 and the married MP‘ (Daily Mail) – she gets about… oh dear, now I’ve got frightening flashbacks to that famous pic of Labour’s fag ash Lil Angela Raynor taking the knee with Sir Keir.
Tragic. But the odds of a remote weapon discharging related breakfast viewer in Atlanta…
Like weather and reporting, data sharing is variable…
Try an FOI with the BBC, or asking Mike Wendling a question on inaccuracy.
This relentless barrage is ridiculous. Still ‘muslimness sacking’ is top of the headlines on BBC website :
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60108377
Boris fills his cabinet with foreigners and it is still not enough for the leftie mob. How many white European Christians are in the Pakistani government I wonder ?
Clearly not pertinent.
well, gosh ….
there’s a coincidence
In other not news…
Which floor do the spooks occupy at The Shard these days?
How Qatar bought Britain: They own the Shard. They own the Olympic Village. And they don’t care if their Lamborghinis get clamped when they shop at Harrods (which is theirs, too)
Creeping steadily above the London skyline, the Shard will be Europe’s tallest building when it is finally finished in a few weeks’ time: an extraordinary monument to glass, steel and sheer ambition.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2113159/Qatar-bought-Britain-They-Shard-They-Olympic-Village-And-dont-care-Lamborghinis-clamped-shop-Harrods.html
Sad to read that the Arch-Gardener, Peter Seabrook died recently!
He was an inspiration to anyone who wanted to get into this great hobby/pastime/passion, and his enthusiasm brought so much happiness to new – and older gardeners. His book ‘The Complete Vegetable gardener’ is the best one I have, and is well-thumbed as well as fithy dirty, from darting in to see how far apart spuds needed to be, or the height of a pea net!
He was for some time on the BBC, and I seem to recall that his forthright opinions were just too good for the budding snowflakes and wokers who are now in full swing in W1AA. The current gardening programmes they churn out are just dire and boring these days – they just wallow around on the diversity ticket to the detriment of keen agricultural discussion!
RIP – great man!
The definition of disingenuous.
On Toady part time Laura K goes through all the things in the Prime Minister’s plate.
The Partygate report is awaited. Events from 2020.
Now Nusrat Ghani has complained about racism in 2020.
That’s after a Tory MP alleges historic bullying by whips.
And Doomsberg describes all this and more (cancelling the NI rate rise) as if they are isolated things. Rather than the stage managed overall plan to undermine the government they so obviously are.
The Blind Broadcasting Corporation. On form, again.
Due to Christianophobia?
Prophet Muhammad cartoon sparks Batley Grammar School protest
Published25 March 2021
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-56524850
If Boris wants to win some votes how about cancelling the utterly insane and ridiculous idolisation of the cyclist.
They are as untouchable and unaccountable as civil servants.
And they are about to get even more rights under a new Highway Code that hardly anyone knows anything about.
The green eco warriors are of course ecstatic.
Pathetic,
Boris has completed what he wanted – to be PM for the day. Then quit and write a book and get royalities.
Rubbish.
Go read the Highway Code, not puff pieces by people who haven’t read it either.
This rule is aimed at drivers, motorists, horse riders and cyclists. The Highway Code now states clearly that, at a junction, you should give way to pedestrians crossing or waiting to cross a road that you’re turning into. Previously, vehicles had priority at a junction.5 days ago
MM
When I lived in California 50ish years ago, this was the norm. Drivers had to give way to pedestrians just as we do here at Zebra Crossings – the difference being the pedestrian right of way applied everywhere even in the middle of the block, not just at marked crossings or junctions.
Prosecutor Deanna Heer said the defendant had been “cycling with a degree of purpose” and had overtaken other cyclists in his approach to the pedestrian crossing where Mr McCombie was waiting.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-56320121
Of course pedestrians must have, and always have had, “priority” at junctions. What would not having the priority have meant? Motorists just running them over?
Over the past couple of years I have discovered how, despite the censorship, much better You Tube is than linear TV in the field of documentaries. That isn’t surprising as linear TV makes it programmes for a broad audience whereas You Tube content is for a niche market and can delve far deeper into a topic than can linear TV.
As an example I recently watched a Ch 4 documentary on the sinking of the Bismark complete with the usual re- enactment by wooden actors , inappropriate film clips and computer graphics. It was so superficial and misleading that anyone who didn’t know better would come away with entirely the wrong impression on several key issue. There are plenty of much better and more informative videos available on You Tube.
The grip of linear tv is weakening rapidly and I can see why young folks choose what they want to watch rather than sit in front of the tv and consume what is served up. The idea that a large state broadcaster should be publicly funded, whether by a license fee or by direct taxation, grows more archaic every day.
The big deficiency of YouTube is that progs mostly don’t have plinky plonk background music to lead your emotions
… /sarc
If you watch broadcast documentaries closely you will find the same graphics and video clips repeated over and over.
That has been like that for decades, indeed when I was at school that was the reason the teachers gave for not using TV sets in lessons, the content was just too thin.
By way of contrast, once I had the task of cutting down a 15 minute training video to 7 minutes to fit the attention span of very senior civil servants. I found it nigh on impossible as every frame was there for a reason. In the end it was a case of ‘now the object is here, now it is there, the how doesn’t matter’.
When one considers that half of the broadcast channels are repeats and the other half is repeats of those repeats there isn’t really all that much content out there – but they don’t half pay themselves well for it!
Double:
You are right.
Ark Royal played a big part in sinking the Bismarck. She was a famous ship, and there is lots of film of her. But this programme used pre-war footage of either Courageous or Glorious, when the aircraft handlers were from the RAF, and the aircraft were loaded with practice bombs.
It is easy to get these things right, yet they continue to get them wrong. Given that some of the last surviving veterans of the battle were interviewed, it is the least they could have done to use footage of the right ship.
Youtube has some wooden ones too:
Needs bringing up-to-date I think. Where did I put the creosote?
A few questions
What planet is that from ?
What country ?
Why no ‘woke warning ‘ at the start
Why no ‘have you been affected by the program?’
Have social services been informed ?
Did they use a food bank ?
Did spot the dog get his own series?
Can you imagine a remake ? ( just don’t )
Thanks ….too me a long way away ….15 minutes of bliss….sniff …
A hideously white nuclear family.
With values.
It will never catch on.
What were the BBC thinking?
Surely Mrs Scrubbit should be snorting lines in the out house with her black gay lover?
A portrayal of the world as it is supposed to be.
#BackTo1960ItWasMuchBetter
Tim Davie sat down with the Jews on the 18th
and this week they expect to hear back.
https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/board-of-deputies-president-met-bbc-director-general-to-discuss-antisemitism-rift/
Stew,
The answer will probably be some form of, ‘ we get many complaints from a followers of all religions about our bias so we must be getting it about right!’
+1
Nusrat Ghani: PM orders Cabinet Office to investigate ‘Muslimness’ claim
Published21 minutes ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60108377
….
“…BBC poll in 2015 found that 27% of British Muslims had quote ‘Some sympathy’ (27% or a third) for the people who went into the offices of Charlie Hebdo and killed the cartoonists, editors and journalists there. Channel 4 poll from last year (2015), found that only 1% of UK Muslims think that publications should have the right to publish the cartoons of Mohammed.”
– Douglas Murray (2016?)
And in your opinion, should any publication have the right to publish pictures which make fun of the Prophet? Yes 1% // No 87%
https://www.icmunlimited.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Mulims-full-suite-data-plus-topline.pdf#page=612
Is it cos I is a muslim ? or I mislead Parliament 5 times ?
The allegations
Documents seen by The Canary state that Nusrat Ghani, a junior minister employed by Department for Transport (DfT) ‘misled’ parliament on five occasions:
Ms Ghani has broken the Ministerial Code regarding openness, honesty & leadership.
Ms Ghani mislead select committees & parliament 5 times for the sole reason that MP’s would not become aware of the £20bn cost increase & the 5 year delay before & during the HS2 phase 2a debate.
The document also claims that the permanent secretary for the DfT has broken the civil code. Bernadette Kelly, a former employee of the Cabinet Office has been accused of misleading select committees and parliament, for the sole purpose of burying information:
Exclusive: Cabinet Office won’t investigate ministers who ‘broke’ the ministerial code over HS2 scandal
Timeline proves ministers knew
Oct 2018 – The National Audit Office (NAO) published the HS2 progress report. It found that HS2 contractors estimated that the main construction costs were 83% above the budgeted price. HS2 Ltd formally notified the DfT that there were “significant challenges to the affordability of the programme”.
Jun 2019 – The now former chair of HS2, Allan Cook informed the DfT there was ‘no prospect’ of HS2 Ltd delivering phase 1 in budget.
Jun 2019 – The Infrastructure and Projects Authority undertakes a review and concludes that successful delivery is unachievable.
July 2019 – In early July, officials provide the accounting officer and HS2 Ltd chief executive with updated advice, which concludes that Phase One is unaffordable
15 July 2019 – At a debate in the House of Commons, Nusrat Ghani, a junior minister employed by DfT ‘misled’ parliament. When asked about the HS2 budget, she failed to inform ministers of a £20bn increase in cost. A cost increase that the DfT knew about.
The NAO HS2 report shows that by the time of the debate (15 July 2019) the DfT knew that HS2 could not be completed within its budget.
https://www.thecanary.co/exclusive/2021/08/26/exclusive-cabinet-office-wont-investigate-ministers-who-broke-the-ministerial-code-over-hs2-scandal/
From 4 September 2020 until further notice, Non-executive Chairman of the Belfast Consortium Supervisory Board, 5 Ferguson Drive, Lisburn, Belfast BT28 2EX. I receive £60,000 a year. Hours: approx. 7 hrs a month. I consulted ACoBA about this appointment. (Registered 22 September 2020; updated 11 November 2021)
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=25354
Changes to the Register of Members’ Interests
Nusrat Ghani
£60k for 84 hours work – def underpaid MPs right ?
Ms ghani ,ms ghani – should lieing to parliament be a resignation issue ?
Members’ Interests
Nusrat Ghani
Name of donor: The PCAA Foundation
Address of donor: BM5369 London WC1N3XX
Amount of donation (or Estimate of the probable value): Flights £1,196; hotels £824; transport £388; meals/coffee £130; tours £75; total value £2,613
Destination of visit: Israel and the Palestinian Territories
Dates of visit: 2-6 January 2017
Purpose of visit: APPG Against Antisemitism delegation to discuss good practice in addressing antisemitism and racism in football and on the internet, including briefing Knesset Members on a recent Home Affairs Select Committee’s report.
(Registered 17 January 2017)
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=25354
….
‘Devastated’ Batley teacher ‘fearing for his life’ as he goes into hiding after Prophet Muhammad cartoon row
He is said to be an emotional wreck and is terrified about returning to Batley
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/devastated-batley-teacher-fearing-life-20282177
Is this perhaps taking sexism just too far when one reads of an all boys school with the head being a woman. The school is called Verulam at St Albans. Appears to be headed with Muslim pupils.
Added a note to the above -Women are rarely rated within the a Muslim society, and certainly not to be the head teacher of an all boys school. In any event what were the reasons I wonder for allowing a woman to be head teacher of an all boys school?
Of course some women are rated if they come from the right dynasty .. there have been Muslim female Prime ministers and presidents etc.
I see the BBC are loving the story about Nusrat Ghani and it’s even managed to trigger an enquiry.
All I can think when I read these stories is how white males are being sacked (or forced out) from the BBC purely on their skin colour and not one of these hypocrites say anything about it.
Nor do any of them speak out when a woman or a BAME is given a job through ‘quotas’. How many white males didn’t get a job they were most qualified for because of their skin colour ?. If that isn’t racist and/or sexist, what is it ?.
The most blatant of double standards and hypocrisy on an epic scale.
BBC bans white people from applying for £18,000 trainee job on Springwatch and The One Show
BBC is advertising a one-year trainee production management role in Glasgow
The position is ‘only open to black, Asian and ethnically diverse candidates’
Positive discrimination is illegal but ‘positive action’ is allowed for trainee roles
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9704235/BBC-sparks-discrimination-row-banning-white-people-applying-18-000-trainee-job.html
I was going to say incomprhensible but of course I should know better, this is a planned policy to destroy our nation and in particular its indigenous peoples, there really is now no doubt of such action.
Found on order-order.com
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10433635/Liverpool-bomber-s-asylum-claim-rejected-court-six-years-attack.html
Poppy Day bomber’s asylum claim was rejected SIX years before suicide blast at Liverpool hospital: Documents show Iraqi-born terrorist should have been ‘removed from UK’ in 2015 after judge dismissed his lies about fleeing Syria
The department [HO] has repeatedly refused to answer questions about the case or explain why Al Swealmeen was not removed from the UK once his asylum claim, and subsequent appeal, was rejected.
@passerby1970 may well be correct – “the Home Office is 20% muslim, they all work on deportations, sabotaging them.”
At the very least one has to question the calibre of the staff and the recruitment processes.
Disability TRUMPS Ability. Now all Amir Ali Majid’s 20 years of cases and immigration cases need to be reviewed … Blind immigration judge ‘had no idea of the law or his own powers’ says panel after 12 out of 13 appeals against his rulings succeed
“Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association chairman Adrien Berry said: ‘It is hard to see how he first passed the judicial exams and then why it has taken so long for his lack of knowledge to be exposed.”
When you give people special privilege above the law, you get no law and 1400 raped and tortured children over 16 years … ‘In August 2014 the Jay report concluded that at least 1,400 children, most of them white girls aged 11–15, had been sexually abused in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013 by predominantly British-Pakistani men.’
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/10/02/start-the-week-open-thread-144/#comment-870538
Recent BBC prog sowed a flaw with easy asylum.
People come in from Africa or Middle East to escape their oppressors,
they then sometimes found that some of the oppressors were in UK/Europe under the same asylum rules
so they were still not free.
Local news from BBC Humberside
#1 “Helen can’t afford to heat her home ..NE Lincs council have £1m in Greenhome grants” #PRasNews
“get in touch with the show”
#2 Ghani-gate
#3 “BBC make a difference .. Hull school says park your car further away”
#4 Why hasn’t the Thatcher statue appeared in Grantham ?
Strange item cos it’s not in their area, nor did they have an explanation
In the news today. They want more magistrates ‘to represent the population’.
Mrs S applied a few years ago. She was told that , being old(ish) and white, she was not the sort of person they were looking for,
Perhaps the Cabinet Office, when they are through with Nusrat Ghani, could investigate this flagrant ageist, racist, action by the Home Office itself?
United Kingdom (3-5).svg
White: British – – 42,747,136 87.0% 42,279,236 79.8%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_England
Ethnicity
Demography of England Flag of England.svg
Ethnic group Year
1991[22][23] 2001[24] 2011[25]
Population % Population % Population %
White: Total 44,144,339 93.8% 44,679,361 91% 45,281,142
85.4%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_England
First post was 2001 vs 2011
White Total :
1991 44,144,339 = 93.8%
2001 44,679,361 = 91%
2011 45,281,142= 85.4% … (white other had almost doubled to 4.6%)
We guess that many non-whites are not registered
but that some British people live overseas
Georgia shooting: Matthew Willson was killed in ‘senseless act’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-60109296
… and another ‘basic facts only’ report by the BBC with absolutely no discussion of the circumstances around it.
A report from Atlanta, Georgia.
Meanwhile, in other news, I found this:
‘In Atlanta, 81 percent of victims to violent crime were Black in 2018. Nearly 90 percent of people arrested for those crimes were Black’
Something is in the woodpile methinks.
Another agenda-based BBC lie by omission to stop us knowing the truth.
Seems that white lives don’t matter that much.
Brookhaven is a city in DeKalb County
Some parts are 20Km from downtown Atlanta.
It has it’s own police department and is not under Atlanta.
Some tweeters suggest it was white Hick messing around with guns
cos Brookhaven is mainly white.
When you search on old Brookhaven shootings
stuff comes up like in November a 20 yo was shot in an apartment
and the shooters were teenagers , one was 13.
December : 16-year-old charged in Brookhaven drive-by shooting
DOMINIC GRIEVE
ANNA SOURDOH
ROGER GALE
STEVE BAKER
ANDREW BRDGEN…….Two common denominators, all hate Boris Johnson and all have been on various media outlets this morning….
LIER
DESPICABLE
UNTRUSTWORTHY
RACIST……These are the words used against Boris Johnson this morning
As of yet nothing proven, appalling comments made by the media and Boris hating individuals…
Whether you love or loath Boris he doesn’t deserve this type of comment.
When the dust settles and if Boris survives i genuinely hope he takes the gloves off and destroys he lumps of Primordial Slime who conduct themselves in such a disgusting way..
“Boris he doesn’t deserve this type of comment” – Boris wanted to be PM – you are the target – that is why he choose the job.
….are you saying just because he’s PM he’s open to any form of abuse and innuendo, because thats all it is at the moment
Do you really believe he woke up one morning and thought, wow.!! when im PM i cant wait to be abused and accused of being a racist, lier, untrustworthy and in Kay Burley’s words ,despicable
“when im
PMVOTED BREXIT i cant wait to be abused and accused of being a racist, lier, untrustworthy and in Kay Burley’s words ,despicable” – same if you voted for Brexit...no idea what your on about..just agree to disagree
Surprised to see Steve Baker’s name included in the above article by dafydd.
In Steve Bakers own word’s regarding Johnsons future” CHECK MATE”
He believes Johnson has betrayed the party and the people that got him into office. But of course i wont put a letter in yet he says..clever sod
Baker is a sneaky sod..Anybody in power would do well to keep a close eye on him
dafydd, I think Steve Baker is a MP with some integrity. He’s a Brexiteer.
Up2snuff..
So i thought..
He and the likes of Bridgen have not been happy lately with Boris.
They believe he has wandered away with what they thought they and Boris believed in.
Steve Baker has made it very clear all over the internet that he and many like him are not happy with the direction of the Tory party…He states the true values of the Conservatives have been abandoned and Boris has succumbed to the Woke society, with the help of Carrie.
As i stated earlier he believes that the future of Boris is now at ”check mate”…
Bridgen has put a letter in but Steve Baker is holding back.
There is obviously a clique in the Tory party that want Boris out asap… Hopefully Steve is not part of that..!!!!
But the government said the bill will make the UK “the safest place in the world to be online”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60103156
…
At least 22 killed, 59 injured in suicide attack at Manchester Arena
This article is more than 4 years old
Police believe bombing was responsibility of one man, Salman Abedi, 22, who died while carrying out the attack
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/22/manchester-arena-police-explosion-ariana-grande-concert-england
….
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/chris-queen/2022/01/23/biden-administration-revives-useless-obama-era-tactic-of-hashtag-diplomacy-n1552016?
These always work out so well.
Remember Michelle’s effort?
Soipes, BS and Springster out in the forecourt with their eyes, ears and moths still Gaffered?
“In many respects he is the worst US president of the modern era”
Starmer for one would disagree here “a new era of decency, integrity and compassion in the White House” and here “a victory for hope over hate, and a real moment for optimism in the US and around the world.”
“We in Europe have watched in admiration the burgeoning of this might American economy. There’s a new mode in the United States, a visitor feels it at once. The resurgence of your self confidence and your national pride is almost tangible.” – Margret Thatcher 1985 @37:35
https://youtu.be/yYiOvW0IS0s?t=37m35s
TOADY Watch #1 – the ‘A’ lady thinks he may have mispoken
Sir Mark Lyall Grant was interviewed by Mishal before 8 a.m. and at one point he suggested that Joe Biden’s statement that a Russian invasion of Ukraine (or, by implication, elsewhere in the former Soviet States) was wrong. “No incursion or invasion of a sovereign state is minor.” or words to that effect from Sir Mark. Mishal was not happy to have that said of BBC-hero Biden so pulled Mark Lyall Grant up on that point but the former UK Permanent Representative to the UN did not back down.
Talking of pointless BBC wastes of space, here is one who knows she is Teflon…
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jan/22/samira-ahmed-interview-v-sign-rude-driver-police-car?
On social media.
Frankly, for the Graun, #CCBGB
Silly moo.
Double standard justice there
She as a woman flicked a V sign at a police car and got away with it.
When during lockdown everyone was supposed to be staying home except for exercising, she led a team to do an outside broadcast in downtown Leicester.
An psychiatric patient who was an anti-BBC protester protested vociferously , telling the BBC team to “go back where they came from”. She got the charges upgraded to racial harassment by claiming that general phrase was intended to be racist.
The court system put the guy through the ringer for one year
but then Ahmed declined to testify
so he was NOT convicted on that point
He was convicted for other episodes against ambulancemen and carrying a knife etc.
“This pipeline is not aimed against anyone but is aimed at ensuring the security of gas supplies to Europe,” Schröder said.
“Not only in Germany but throughout Western Europe there is growing need for gas, while domestic production is falling,” he said. “This project is in the interests of Germany. That is why it will be supported by every German government.”
Schröder added that he would be paid 250,000 euros ($300,000) annually for holding the post.
https://www.dw.com/en/former-chancellor-schr%C3%B6der-sworn-in-at-russias-gazprom/a-1949349-1
From 2017 …
#BBCtrending: Five facts about #BringBackOurGirls {bbc.co.uk may2014} The top BBC journalists have reviewed the hashtag and the findings are in …
1. When did it start? – 23rd April, 2014
2. How many times has it been used on Twitter? – 3.3million
3. Where is it being used? – Top Countries Nigeria 27%, UK, USA
4. Who is using it? – 56% Women, 44% Men
5. Most shared tweet? – 57,000 Retweets
Oh, and the missing, most important one for the actual 276 girls … not asked by the BBC …
6. Did #bringbackourgirls actually bring back the 276 girls? (the most important question)
“When they go low, we go high” – Michelle Obama – 2016
“#bringbackourgirls” – Michelle Obama – April 2014
Nigeria rejected British offer to rescue seized Chibok schoolgirls {theguardian.com – mar2017}
In a mission named Operation Turus, the RAF (UK Airforce) conducted air reconnaissance over northern Nigeria for several months, following the kidnapping of 276 girls from the town of Chibok in April 2014 (by Islamist militant group Boko Haram). “The girls were located in the first few weeks of the RAF mission,” a source involved in Operation Turus told the Observer. “We offered to rescue them, but the Nigerian government declined.”
– Guardian UK Online Website / 4 March 2017
#bringbackourgirls – makes you wonder who Michelle Obama was asking to do this? The wife of the most powerful man in the World, with a special relationship with the Country who could have taken action, reduced to holding a piece of card for the World to read a #hashtag that did NOT bring the girls back.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-27392955
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/07/10/start-the-week-open-thread-132/#comment-851049
This year same town
Jan 22 2022 “Boko Haram Terrorists Back To Chibok, Abduct 17 Girls In Fresh Attack”
One year ago
29 Jan 2021 — Nigeria’s army has reportedly rescued hundreds of people abducted by Boko Haram—including at least one of the 112 still-missing Chibok girls ..
” Nigeria’s army has reportedly rescued hundreds of people abducted by Boko Haram” – I read that some went back to their captures.
The government of Ghana has dismissed any suggestion it is involved in the plan to save Boris Johnson’s premiership dubbed Operation Red Meat.
In a tweet, the country’s ministry of foreign affairs has denied talks are ongoing with the UK about hosting a migrant processing facility.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ghana-operation-red-dead-meat-boris-johnson_uk_61e6f512e4b05645a6ed0b63
The policy is said to be part of a package offering “red meat” to Tory MPs in a bid to drive attention away from Downing Street party allegations.
But the Ghanaian government slapped down the notion it was involved – even calling the flurry of ideas designed to underpin Johnson “Operation Dead Meat”.
Decided to visit Trading Insults. Rich seam.
https://tradingaswdr.blogspot.com/2022/01/re-writes-go-go.html
Ch4 is ‘proper TV’? Good one, Bill. Like the ‘quotes’.
Skipping Sopes offering himself as the Man who saved The BBC, do approximately universal laughter, we next get..
https://tradingaswdr.blogspot.com/2022/01/auk.html
Some high profile cases suggest most BBC staff only go for the money.
And a variation of ‘speaking for the little nation’.
https://tradingaswdr.blogspot.com/2022/01/down-with-kids.html
Delicately mocked in bald gay and the other guy style
Of the little people, for the little people, by your betters, scum.
Seems a winner.
Bonus track.
https://tradingaswdr.blogspot.com/2022/01/redefining-celebrity.html
Ramming the establishment overload class with diversity has always worked out sooo well.
To save you opening all the pages, all the stories are on one page
https://tradingaswdr.blogspot.com/
BBC3.
Growing up in Yorkshire, Persephone Rizvi was a self-professed party girl. She lived for the weekend night life: drink, boys and fun – in any order. But it all got too much and something needed to change. Five years ago, Persephone embraced Islam, finding a solution to her problems. But in leaving her old life behind – swapping parties for a life of reflection, her stud-pressed stilettos for a headscarf – she also cut off ties with the close friends she grew up with, disappearing without so much as a word.
Seven years on, Persephone’s settled into her new life as a Muslim and is back in her hometown of Huddersfield. But for her, one thing remains unresolved: closure with the old friends she cut off when she converted (or ‘reverted’ as Muslims term it). In this unique and moving documentary, the cameras follow Persephone as she reaches out to her old friends. It’s no simple matter: Can she resolve the issues which soured some of her friendships and have been left festering over time; can she overcome deep nerves to meet the people she once called her ‘rides and dies’ and then cut off without a word.
Exploring friendship, faith and growing up, ultimately Persephone has to ask a simple question: she and her friends may have moved on – but can they get on?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0b0kfzn/northern-voices-series-1-1-this-girls-changed
In My Skin: The lesbian romance I wish I could have watched as a teenager
As writer Kayleigh Llewellyn’s award-winning drama returns for a second series, she explains why it was so important to depict a healthy lesbian relationship
Thea de Gallier
11 November 2021
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/5a79e25f-0d28-4963-b46d-3d169cfedd87
After the murder of George Floyd, the concept of “spending black”, consciously choosing to buy from black-owned businesses, became an even more popular way in which to support the black community in their everyday lives.
Stats showed that whilst black people are three times more likely to start a new business than white people, they were also more likely to fail to get it off the ground.
Could investing in the black pound be the answer to some of the problems black people face?
For presenter, Aaron Roach Bridgeman, “spending black” is not a new concept.
However, the unprecedented new interest in “buying black” sends Aaron on a journey to explore what impact this has had on the black community and on the businesses themselves.
He meets businesses that have benefitted financially and culturally from consumers choosing to “spend black” and utilises the latest data to draw conclusions on who and in which areas people are choosing to “spend black”.
Ultimately Aaron questions to what extent this surge in “spending black” will last? Could it really be the hope and tangible change that the young black community is looking for?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p09x4szx/spending-black-the-currency-of-community
Reverse Racism?
After the murder of George Floyd, the concept of “spending black”, consciously choosing to buy from black-owned businesses, became an even more popular way in which to support the black community in their everyday lives.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p09x4szx/spending-black-the-currency-of-community
How China spies on the West
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-china-spies-on-the-west
In December last year Oxford University students were offered £15,000 in prize money if they could solve challenges relating to the surveillance and tracking of devices and their users.
‘Huawei welcomes a selection of top-of-the-class students to their 2021 University Challenge’, the invitations…
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Name of donor: Christine Lee & Co
Address of donor: 86 Holloway Head, Birmingham B1 1NB
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: the services of a Parliamentary Researcher for 5 days per week from 12 March 2018 to 12 March 2019, approx. value £43,500
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=10220
Members’ Interests
Barry Gardiner
Just spent the morning doing some window painting (yawn), and for company, had GB News on!
Wow, what a great show and totally different from the biased rubbish we get from the BBC – they even had Vicky Price on, and she had to tow the line and mentioned some stuff which was quite pertinent, and as she wasn’t cowed by the rules the BBC lay down, (be lefty, woke, lovey snowflakey etc.,) the whole painting job went like the wind, and it was a joyous couple of hours!
Great stuff, GB News, keep it going like this, and the Beeb will be toast sooner than they think!
A no-nonsense take on the day’s news, with Mark Steyn’s signature frank views and big name interviews.
Vicky Pryce
Today she was on TalkRadio’s James Max
Yesterday she was on Radio Wales
Saturday she was on GBnews ..they probably played a repeat clip today
Also on @AndrewCastle63 on @LBC Saturday morning
Tmw she is on Tortoise Media : “ThinkIn on 25 January with Vicky Pryce”
Royal Navy to protect the channel – PMQs was about cheese and wine! That is where we are in the UK politics.
We are all struggling together … ha ha ha ha
“Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources
Name of donor: Lord Philip Harris of Peckham
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Gift hamper with a value of £500, which has been donated to a good cause
Date received: 15 December 2020″
– Boris Johnson
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10999/boris_johnson/uxbridge_and_south_ruislip#register
Winston 2020 …
The survey found that while only 49 percent of the wider population trusted institutions such as governments, this figure rose to 65 percent among high-income, college-educated and well-informed people – the biggest gap since the research began 19 years ago.
well-informed people ….
Newsround
CBBC Channel, Tuesday 8 June 2021
In a segment about vaccine approval for 12 to 15 year olds, a contributor claimed that the Pfizer vaccine is “100% safe”. This has been removed from the online article and video: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/57435861
https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications/archive_2021/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-davos-meeting-trust-idUSKCN1PF0OE
One of Blair’s most damaging legacies has been to create a wide gulf between those who work directly or indirectly for the government , or are dependent upon it , and those who work in the private sector and pay for the other groups.
Before Blair working for the government meant job for life regardless of performance and a good pension , after Blair it meant those things plus excellent pay. Why take the risk of working in the private sector when you can earn plenty , perhaps more , in the public sector with zero risk and a gold plated pension. Of course a person’s votes usually follows what they perceive as their best interests, vote Labour for an even more bloated public sector
Eventually 99 people in the public sector will all be living off the tax of 1 person in the private sector who works 48 hours a day.
Good point, Double, and the type of person getting all this tax-payer’s dosh is from the useless ‘education nobody’ sort of kid, which he flounced around, to keep the new children off the unemployment numbers and making the parents pay for the ‘privilege’!
Bloody-well near some sort of idealistic western version of communism in my book.