Start the Week 24 January 2022

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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  1. tomo says:

    Spotted some ker-ching action at BBC Worldwide.

    Making promotional films for silicon chip manufacturers:

    Advert-production-house.jpg

    clink, clink cheers … doubles all round.

    storyworks.jpg

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Dear Winston Smith,

      I noticed that Jon Sopel is talking about impartial and unbiased reporting but his twitter account has three references to his book whilst using the BBC brand. Could the BBC please explain what is happening?

      1) Is BBC Jon Sopel supposed to tell us about the news or his new book?

      2) BBC Jon Sopel’s twitter feed has the BBC name in it and says “Jon Sopel, BBC North America Editor. My book If Only They Didn’t Speak English is out now.” which references his book and not the fact he is an unbiased and impartial reporter.

      3) BBC Jon Sopel’s twitter’s pinned tweet is from 23May2018 and is about .. himself and his book.

      4) Is BBC Jon Sopel’s book 100% BBC approved thought and unbiased and partial?

      5) Shouldn’t BBC Jon Sopel’s twitter be about the latest news and not himself?

      6) When Jon Sopel sells a book does it go to help pay for the BBC TV Tax – to reduce it? As the BBC are promoting it – thus it is promoted by the BBC TV Tax Payer.

      “Impartiality lies at the heart of public service and is the core of the BBC’s commitment to its audiences. It applies to all our output and services – television, radio, online, and in our international services and commercial magazines. We must be inclusive, considering the broad perspective and ensuring the existence of a range of views is appropriately reflected”
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/editorialguidelines/guidelines/impartiality

      Good luck answering this one without laughing yourself silly.

      https://ssl.bbc.co.uk/complaints

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      • Fedup2 says:

        I think Sopel shares that illness which so many ‘well off ‘ types get when they are exposed to people with a lot of money – they want that too – and will do and say anything to get it .

        For that I feel sad for Jon – but even more so for him thinking he is in any way ‘unbiased’ – but in his group he’d just be like the rest ….

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  2. taffman says:

    While Bo Jo’s interest is in parties etc, we are being invaded !
    What is he doing about the masses landing on our shores ?
    The People in this country need to be focused . We need a PM who will care for the security of Great Britain. He has got to go .

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  3. Nibor says:

    Putin ,

    Dont place 100 000s of soldiers at a border .

    Put half of them in dinghies and let the Ukrainians “rescue” them
    36% in the back of trucks
    The rest “hijack ” planes and land well within Ukraine

    Invasion done at Ukraine`s expense . If they have enough hotels .
    (our invasion is in the millions ) .

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  4. Zephir says:

    Met Police apologise to Nottingham University philosophy lecturer who was ridiculed during strip search: Officers mocked academic’s ‘smelly knickers’ and called her ‘rank’ after cutting off her clothes

    Dr Duff, an assistant professor of philosophy at Nottingham University, had been arrested after she intervened in the arrest of a 15-year-old boy.

    She tried to hand him a card listing his legal rights and told him to give a ‘no comment’ interview.

    The teenager, who has not been named, was later found to have a six-inch knife in his sock in May 2013.

    Police originally claimed they acted with professionalism after the philosophy professor refused to give her name.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10436053/Met-Police-apologise-philosophy-lecturer-ridiculed-strip-search.html

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    • Zephir says:

      So, police forced to apologise to a woman interfering in the arrest of a kid with a 6 inch knife who repeatedly refused to give her name or co operate, that is the real story here

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    • StewGreen says:

      @Zephir There is something astounding The Police took NINE years to settle
      Yet Sadiq tweeted

      The Met are right to have apologised for this appalling incident.
      Women in our city must be able to trust the police.

      Tweeter How ridiculous you look saying ‘the met are right to have apologised’
      it took an 8 year legal battle in which £10,000s had to be raised and throughout which they denied anything wrong and wouldn’t release cctv.
      Only when it was pushed to court did they issue their sorry appology

      Koshka Duff “In October 2021, I received £6,000 in compensation and an apology from the Met. I don’t believe a word of it.”

      The taxpayer has paid for an unnecessary trial where officers complained she had assaulted them
      but she was acquitted cos they couldn’t explain her injuries
      The taxpayer has paid years of legal fees.
      Justice paid – cos the police say officer’s can be punished cos they have left the force.
      https://novaramedia.com/2022/01/24/the-met-just-apologised-for-strip-searching-me-i-dont-believe-a-word-of-it/

      The wronguns
      #1 The kid for carrying the knife
      #2 Koshka Duff (AKA Konstancja Duff) for interfering with the arrest
      #3 The police for arresting her .. there was no need to do anything except push her aside
      #4 The police custody officers for being insulting.
      #5 The police lawyers for dragging in on
      The correct action is to say “This was wrong, our officers were stressed and rude”

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      • StewGreen says:

        I note that in the very long 2018 BBC report about misconduct tribunal
        the BBC ended by quoting her saying it was a sham.
        I doubt the BBC report bout someone like Tommy would have allowed him to say that.
        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-45439954

        She now runs a Defund The Police Campaign
        so that is where any compensation from the taxpayer ends up.

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      • StewGreen says:

        officer’s can typo “officer’s can be punished ” = “officers can’t be punished

        The police line is that they held onto the CCTV while the disciplinary tribunal took years to look at the case of 1 or 2 officers.
        Then in Oct 2021 under threat of court action they released the apology and CCTV
        but say the 1 or more other officers shown in the CCTV clearly abusing her, cannot be disciplined cos they have left the force.

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  5. Zephir says:

    just imagine, for a moment, Trump had said the following:

    ‘Stupid son of a b***h!’ Joe Biden lashes out after being asked about rising inflation
    JOE BIDEN has called a reporter a “stupid son of a b***h” after he was asked whether inflation could cause electoral problems for the Democrats in November’s midterms.

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1555285/joe-biden-us-president-inflation-fox-news-peter-doocy-latest-news-ont

    Oh wait…….The Guardian

    ‘Dumb son of a bitch’: Trump attacks McConnell in Republican donors speech

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/11/donald-trump-mitch-mcconnell-dumb-son-of-a-bitch-republicans-fauci-chao-mar-a-lago

    And the Guardian this time, “appears To” and “seemingly”

    Joe Biden appears to insult Fox News reporter over inflation question

    President caught on mic seemingly swearing at Peter Doocy as journalists left a news conference

    And on the bbc a while ago :

    Supporters of Donald Trump have sparked outrage in US media with merchandise attacking Hillary Clinton that many people say uses lewd and demeaning language.

    T-shirts saying “Trump that bitch” and badges with similar mottos were found on display at rallies.

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    • StewGreen says:

      That Guardian story about Trump calling someone a SOB generated very little Twitter attention
      Tweets of just 5 likes, none with hundreds etc.

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  6. Zephir says:

    And on Biden, the bbc usual silence this time regarding their apparent former condemnation of “lewd and demeaning language”

    suddenly the bbc becomes so prim and proper about language that their marxist syncophants seem to so often forget

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  7. Zephir says:

    A BOMBER who blew himself up outside a hospital was suspected of making up details in an asylum claim six years earlier, court papers show.

    Emad Al-Swealmeen, 32, pretended to have Syrian heritage in paperwork he filed to try to persuade authorities to allow him to stay here.

    He arrived in the UK in May 2014 legally using a Jordanian passport.

    His asylum claim was dismissed and the next year he lost an appeal.

    Iraqi-born Swealmeen claimed he had post-traumatic stress at the hearing in April 2015.

    But the judge rejected his claims after hearing he gave vague details and knew little about Syria.

    It raises new questions over why he was not pursued for deportation.

    Swealmeen was waiting for a fresh appeal when his bomb went off in a taxi in Liverpool on November 14

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/17427960/liverpool-bomber-asylum-claim-lies/

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  8. Foscari says:

    The BBC fiddled whilst the Ukraine burned. And we are
    supposed to pay £158 a year to this anarchist anarchist Marxist
    organization.

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  9. JohnC says:

    The stabbing in Maida Vale yesterday struck me as particularly savage – before I knew they guy who did it was black. The guy repeatedly stabbed her again and again saying ‘take it, take it’ and threatening any onlookers who went close.

    I have seen far less barbaric murders get front page coverage for a week on the BBC. If a white man did it that is. This one has been dropped already.

    The headline today is that Boris had a birthday gathering at work in lockdown where people ‘sang Happy Birthday and were served cake.’

    I would not believe our country could end up like this. The Left destroy everything they try to change for their ideological agenda. They are no different from the Nazis – who were also socialists.

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    • StewGreen says:

      This medialand habit of picking on small things by one side
      whilst ignoring huge crimes by others
      is very like a school bully gang.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      This man will explain everything .. web-woolwich-itv_1.jpg?width=1200

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    • Fedup2 says:

      The chap ( hero?) who has been affected for ( murder ?) will have a life changing media experience … whatever the outcome of the trial .

      And there will be a trial – if there is ‘colour ‘ there will be a prosecution ( but please let me be wrong ) …

      … on a personal note – has anyone here gone through the quarantine of the Day 2 test ? I know the lab has my sample and that I should get the result in the next 24 hours – reminds me of having a bet where you are on an ‘Acca’ and waiting for the last gg to win ….

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  10. Zephir says:

    Thank you for contacting us about the BBC News Website.

    The BBC does not have a view on US President, Joe Biden or former president, Donald Trump. Our coverage is intended to be balanced and informative by speaking to range of contributors, including those who support and those who respond to criticism of any story we are covering. There may be times when there is a consensus view on an issue, which will become apparent in our coverage; this doesn’t mean that we are agreeing with it, but simply that we’re reflecting the reality of what is happening.

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  11. Guest Who says:

    Lurch.

    Plus an RT.

    See. He apologised. So all media will of course understand and let it pass.

       16 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      I’m sorry but doesn’t that graph depict the loss of mental faculty against the likelihood of the world ending ? My bunker in NZ awaits – although I don’t think they’ll let me in …

         7 likes

  12. Guest Who says:

    BS.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Oh Emily – I love you – how do you stay so young ? Are you married ? Oh so lucky man Emily – oh I so love you – you are just perfect Emily – if I was a girl I’d just want to be like you Emily – you’ve got every thing – so lucky -so loved – btw do you think the false president is dementing and about to start The Last War? Much love – hugs ….x

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    • StewGreen says:

      politics A-level

         8 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Goodbye BBC reporting … hello HELLO Magazine …

      “Is that news? Are you serious? Somebody’s tooth brushing habits … I’m not going to waste the viewers time with this rubbish. Let’s talk about toothbrushing .. Emily do you floss?” Gorka @4:16

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  13. Guest Who says:

    Rich seam in the BBC Moaning Emole. Starting with Naff, starting of course, with…

    Lockdown birthday celebration for PM sparks fresh row

    Story detail

    As the report into alleged parties in…

    ***
    I stopped after ‘alleged’. Sorry, Naff.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Here too..

      ***

      Climate change threatens buried treasure

      A Roman toilet seat, the wor…

      ***
      Phew… saved by Phlegming… a journalist. Apparently.

      ‘They were like bandits’ – how did the rich get richer?

      There is a perception that – since the financial crash 15 years ago – the wealthiest in society have become wealthier, yet everyone else hasn’t. Could one policy in particular – aimed at helping all sections of society out of financial trouble – be to blame? Sometimes you just need someone else to join all the dots.

      As a political journalist, I have lived through the financial crisis, the coalition government, Brexit and the pandemic. A theme in all these periods since 2007 was the growing feeling that the rich were getting richer and everyone else wasn’t. Now, a two-part BBC documentary looks at possible links connecting each period with an ever-growing sense of wealth inequality. The main culprit? The Bank of England’s policy of quantitative easing – or QE – which began in March 2009.

      Read full article >

      Adam Fleming
      Chief Political Correspondent

      ***
      Gary and Zoe and June were unavailable for comment?

         13 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Come on – it’s not as though he has a birthday every year is it ?

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  14. dafydd says:

    BBC this morning, even the travel correspondent puts a political spin on travel news…knob.

    You can just imagine an interview to join the BBC..

    Are you a Tory hater…yes..wonderful
    Are you a member of the Labour Party..yes wonderful
    Are you a sensative little flower..yes..wonderful.
    Do you believe in wokeness..yes..wonderful.
    Are you a Marxist at heart..yes..wonderful.
    Can you fabricate the truth to suit our views..yes..wonderful.
    Are you happy for us to over pay you even though you may turn out to be a useless lump of Primordial Slime…yes…wonderful.

    Fantastic, when can you start. And by the way we know coming for an interview can be very stressful so to help you get over it we will send you for therapy.

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  15. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – The Carrie “Let them eat cake” Antoinette Edition

    6 a.m. on TOADY. Hoist by his own petard, the PM is, has been and always will be. What is behind his trouser fly should have been locked up or lopped off long ago. What an irony, his mistress, now his wife in his Roman Catholicism (another ‘Antoinette’ link) phase has sunked him.

    Or at least, that is how it appears. No way back now?

    I gather the Heseltine shark was already circling the water where the PM political corpse will be tossed, baring his teeth, licking his lips and wanting to take the UK back into the European Union. That is what this is all about.

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  16. Fedup2 says:

    UP2 – speaking as a not very good RC – I respectfully don’t equate the religion with Mrs nut nut truly exhibiting all the attributes of a woke snowflake kidult . Is she over 30 ?

    I read a situation where the ‘glamour ‘ of such a high profile existence – with lots and lots of ‘sisters ‘ really zapped an already zapped head .

    A totally uninformed view of course – but deductions based on favoured loony subjects – green crap – cycling – happy clapping – obscene expensive tastes paid for by dodgy donors – peerages for pals – and get togethers in the bunker – but no Russian artillery in the distance – yet . ….

    Renewed the no ‘today ‘ new year resolution ….

    As an aside – as I was doing my day 2 covid self test yesterday (£40) that imbecile grant Shapps ( of cycle highway fame ) was telling us the day 2 test is a waste of time but won’t be ended til 11 February – …. these characters have no regard for us – almost all politicians of all flavours …

    Another btw for Piku – I took your sniping post down last night – it had nothing to do with this site ….troll elsewhere comrade

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Fed, I was linking my post to a bit of history ie. Marie Antoinette’s husband and all that was going on in France at the time, Cardinals, Popes, etc. No slur intended on good or even bad RC’s here and now. Even four good musketeersBrexiteers cannot save the PM now. Or will he miraculously escape somehow?

      With my apologies for being too obscure in my original post.

      Maybe Guest Who understood it?

      PS re tests: Because the Cabinet don’t come from a science or engineering background they do not have the knowledge to interrogate scientists and medical people on accuracy and other important issues, eg. facemasks – why they are used; scrubs – why they are used, etc.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Up2 – unlike too many others – I would not be offended at what someone says about the religion ….. anyway if I was meant to – I would forgive you …. ( pity the same doesn’t apply to certain teachers with pictures …) …

        As for the intellectual level of the cabinet – not much there – and as I’ve said too many times – nut nut just cannot do detail – I reckon he is a bit like the false coloured VP would can’t be bothered to read the Janet and John briefs for her .

        Others here have talked about what should or should not be in a public inquiry – which by the look of it won’t be done by 2030 … unless of course – a labour government drives nails into the current regime – instead of it doing it to itself .

        The Gray Report looks more distant too ….

        ( btw – I’m glad you didn’t bite on the cycling mention )

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        • Up2snuff says:

          Fed, and I gladly forgive you for not understanding my post’s ‘between the lines’ 😉 . You do a difficult job on here really well; it must be a nightmare having to read and understand every post including obscure references, hidden phrases, etc.

          As to cycling, I despair at what the imbecile politicos (incl. L Authorities and even greater imbecile ‘climate campaigners’ do with taxpayer monies and cycling lanes, etc.

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          • Fedup2 says:

            Up2
            I’ve watched something about ‘the Highway Code ‘( anyone know what that is ?) and how cyclists can now ride in the middle of the road or side by side ….
            …\
            I wondered if this is a kind of Darwinian experiment or an attempt to get more cyclists killed or at least in the A & E …..
            Certainly all those head camera footage s will be on the twitter in a few days – as well as taped of roads …

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            • StewGreen says:

              Again I don’t see any new laws
              cyclists have always had the right to ride 2 abreast
              The law always has been that when you turn left, the pedestrian walking straight on has priority.
              However in the city it’s practical on both sides not to do either.
              However in a village a parent might well ride on the outside of their child to give some safety
              Likewise people tuning left do often stop and signal a pedestrian to keep walking.
              Though of course some countryside people drive like rally drivers.

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              • Scroblene says:

                Cyclists in Kent, and probably everywhere else, have to cycle a good way out in the road to avoid the drain cover repairs, where here, they like to reseat them about two inches below the road surface, and let the tar and aggregate break up at the edges!

                If we don’t finish up over the handlebars, we get the skids on all the loose gravel, and when avoiding them, there’s always a foreign lorry ready to force you into the kerb.

                And all those trucks on the M20, which according to the thicker autocue readers, can be seen from space! So what? Half of them are foreign anyway, so Brexit really is working for us!

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  17. Guest Who says:

    Ros hoping for a wave from Emily or Springster.

       5 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Has the BBC got that clock out which always says it’s 1 minute to midnight – which is when the BBC ends ?

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    • Guest Who says:

      Sopes yet been offered the ‘Saviour of the BBC’ slot he has graciously indicated he is due?

      ‘Cos who can beat Laura for ‘When yoo gonna apologise’ over an’ over wiv’ Beff.

      So many beauties.

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      • StewGreen says:

        It’s just media mock outrage again
        The reporters were taking the P by asking off topic questions
        Biden asked for on-topic questions “Lowering prices”
        Doocy asked one on-topic phrased in a gotcha way.
        “Is inflation a political liability ?”
        Biden is annoyed at the phrasing cos of course inflation is a liability not an asset… so he mutters “SOB”
        At that point the staff were already clearing the room, so Doocy didn’t even hear it.
        Afterwards Biden calls him “It’s nothing personal pal”

        If a reporter asked Trump a gotcha question he might call him a son of a b*tch too. .. It’s no big deal.

        better clip

        Reporter afterwards .. https://youtu.be/RTJHXgPqaew

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        • MarkyMark says:

          YOUR COMPLAINT:

          President Trump’s 100 Days President Biden’s 0 Day 

          Dear Winston Smith in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth,

          You covered President Trump’s 100 Days and then produced a Beyond 100 Days to hold power to account.

          Why have you not done the same for President Biden to hold power to account?

          ‘Omission is the greatest form of lie.’ 

          ———-

          Thank you again for contacting us,

          BBC Complaints Team
          http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints

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    • StewGreen says:

      The school bully gang all chanting
      in their effort to get the fat boy removed from the playground.

      Ironic that 30 workers aren’t allowed to be in a room with a cake for 10 minutes
      but at the time 30 kids were allowed to be in a classroom.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Will the gray report get published before PMQs , or maybe at the same time or the day after ? Or not at all ? Or next month ?
        Whatever – this party stuff is just too much now – Cummings must be mentally affected by covid exposure or something – I used to sort of admire the chap but now – whatever the sins of nut nut – Cummings is too much …

        Governments can’t govern if they legal like sieves …

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Rotherham sex abuse investigation to cost £90,000,000
          https://metro.co.uk/2018/10/29/rotherham-sex-abuse-investigation-to-cost-90000000-8086256/

          The full investigation into child sex abuse in Rotherham is set to cost more than £90 million by 2024.

          A gang of seven men has been convicted today, with one victim telling a trial at Sheffield Crown Court how she had sex with ‘at least 100 Asian men’ by the time she was 16 and another described how she was gang-raped in a forest and threatened with being abandoned there.

          The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is conducting its own investigation into the police response to what was happening in Rotherham.

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  18. AsISeeIt says:

    Another day another party event
    Moreover: the events of the party…

    What – according to the BBC – links Boris Johnson and the NHS?

    I’ll give you a clue – Queen and David Bowie sang about it.

    That’s right – both the PM and our nationalised health service are constantly under pressure.

    BBC: ‘Boris Johnson is under renewed pressure after Downing Street admitted staff gathered inside No 10 during the first Covid lockdown to mark his birthday.

    Oddly, the BBC’s top story is borrowed from and attributed to their commercial rival.

    ITV News reported that up to 30 people attended the June 2020 event, sang Happy Birthday and were served cake.‘ – Blimey, what with that orgy and all the cheese and wine, bring your own bottle, it must have been something akin to the last days of Rome down there in Downing Street.

    Party boy Boris to blame again. Although, we read the actual ITV account and note this little extra detail: ‘A surprise party, with cake, and up to 30 guests‘ – the definition of which would tend to be that it was a surprise for Boris and he didn’t know it was planned. And if you think I’m getting a bit lost in the weeds, harping on about silly details, just read and digest the tone of the preamble to the ITV report: ‘ITV News UK Editor Paul Brand outlines the events of the party, ITV News understands took place during lockdown

    There used to be a saying implying things were being blown out of proportion – don’t make a Federal Case out of it.

    Seriously, if anyone were really so naive as to believe that our leaders were abiding – to the letter – by their own daft lockdown social distancing rules, then I’ve got a Ukraine War that’s in our interest and some Global Warming to sell them.

    The Daily Mirror headline reveals at least a certain degree of self-reflection: ‘Another day… another party. PM’s No10 birthday bash in lockdown‘ – there comes a point in a determined media pile on, all you Labour supporters and others still so sore about Brexit that Boris has to hang for it – where less is more – the public will increasingly feel sympathy for the scape goat. Poor Bojo, standing there in the frontpage pics like a guilty schoolboy with his birthday cake the Guardian and Times have to admit was one a school he visisted earlier in the day gave him.

    The Telegraph has a similiar notion as to the maturity of the present administration: ‘Tory peer resigns over “schoolboy” handling of covid loan fraud

    The fact is – I have to tell the media – this No10 party story – thank you all the same, I just couldn’t manage another slice, thank you. Not another spoon-fed crumb.

    The Daily Mail plays this one down a bit and suggests – perhaps typically for Boris – you’d have to ask Carrie or do a vox pop of gals around the posher parts of West London – this latest party was a bit of a quicky: ‘New storm over Boris’s 10-minute birthday ‘party’ at No10‘- ten minutes yet ITV boldly promise a blow by blow account – in case you thought you were missing out on any important details.

    Singing & cake as nation stuck to the rules‘ – claims the maudlin Mirror, as I’m frankly, about to be sick.

    You can’t have your birthday cake… and eat it Boris‘ – says the Sun rather reasonably, in my opinion. However, more fool us plebs for happily digesting all the lockdown, social distancing, social gathering restictions on the healthy nonsense – when we should have known better.

    Is Britain becoming a bit of a banana republic?

    The giveaway Metro freesheet meanwhile carries news of: ‘Jabs joy for hols abroad‘ and a big advert for an estate agent – we consider the possibility for a moment that we’ve mistakenly picked up the Lagos Nigeria or Kingston Jamaica late edition, since every person pictured on that frontpage advert and features – bar Boris and Carrie – is Afro-Caribbean.

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  19. Doublethinker says:

    I have watched the Netflix offering of ‘Munich the edge of war ‘ last night. I read the book a year or two ago and found it ok , started well and then got silly after half way. The film , as is often the case, wasn’t as good as the book.
    I wondered how a few BAMES could be crammed into 1938 London or Munich. Perhaps we could have Adolf payed by a black chap , or have SS bodyguards played by Syrian refugees clutching their welcoming teddy bears. But no, we had a black senior civil servant in No 10 and one of secretaries ,who was supposedly related to the head of the British Secret Service , played by a lady of south Asian origin.
    I admit that after several years of the MSM shoehorning BAMES into British history I’m not adjusting to the new Britain they want to create. It stills annoys me and I watch films like this to be entertained and enjoy a little escapism . I don’t want to be reminded what modern Britain has become and therefore what has been lost.

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    • JohnC says:

      What grates with me the most is how over-representation of white people was deemd unacceptably racist, but now it’s the other way round is celebrated as ‘diversity’. It’s shameless hypocrisy and double standards – though I suspect most of wokeys don’t even realise. They are just swept along in group-think.

      I’m at the point now that I turn a TV program off as soon as it’s very clear a BAME has been shoehorned into a role which should be white. Which means I watch a lot of older stuff like The Rockford Files which still has BAME in it, but in roles which match real life.

      ‘Vera’ is the worst of the bunch at the moment for me, but all popular programs have been hijacked by the Left now. They steal their popularity as vehicles for the agenda.

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      • Scroblene says:

        The ‘General’ (Brigadier) in Darling buds is an Indian (I think), and Charlie is now tinted as well!

        What utter crap these beeboids spurt out these days, H.E.Bates was a great writer in his day, so why can’t the W1AA bunch get someone to write their own sort of stuff, so that nobody needs to watch it!

        What a pathetic bunch of wokers we have for £159 a year.

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    • Foscari says:

      Doublethinker- I also watched “Munich the edge of war.”
      Robert Harri’s book Munich also a “faction novel” was
      a degree superior to the film. To be honest I expected
      Hitler to be played by a black actor.
      George MacKay the star of the film as Chamberlain’s
      PPS, had the same expression on his face the whole film.
      The redeeming part of the film for me was seeing the
      German actor August Diehl playing a similar role to
      the one he played in ” Inglorious Bastards” He was the
      the SS officer who joined the table in the bar scene.
      For me the best part of Inglorious Bastards.
      A better book on partly the same subject is Graham
      Hurley’s ” Estocada.” Estocada is part of a group
      of books , which are faction novels on the Second World War.
      Although perhaps only 20% factual they are terrific reads.
      His last book ” Last flight to Stalingrad” for which there
      is going to be a sequel is one of the best page turners I
      have ever read. The depravity in Stalingrad is brilliantly
      portrayed.

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  20. Fedup2 says:

    Double – thank you for not giving a ‘spoiler ‘… did it end well ?

       3 likes

    • Doublethinker says:

      Well the story seeks to rehabilitate Chamberlain’s reputation . Stressing that he didn’t have the ability to oppose Hitler’s take over of the Sudetenland as the British and French rearmament programmes were well behind that of Germany. ( Chamberlain’s role in opposing rearmament in the mid thirties wasn’t touched on) .

      It argues firstly that he bought the allies a vital 11 months , albeit at the expense of the Czechs , during which time they became militarily much stronger , which is very true. (Indeed if the allies generalship had been able to cope with the revolutionary tactics of Blitzkrieg they would probably have won a war of attrition and material in 1940. It was German generalship not material which won the battle of France)

      Secondly , it argues that by persuading Hitler to sign his memorandum stating that Germany had no more territorial claims and was committed to peace , that when Hitler broke his word , as it claims Chamberlain expected he would, Hitler was shown to the world to be a duplicitous liar and not a man to do business with. The book suggests that this was important in persuading Roosevelt that Germany must be opposed and paved the way for Churchill to work with FDR in 1940/41 to bring the US into the war.

         5 likes

      • Fedup2 says:

        Double – I don’t think this is the place for the subject – but – do you think Roosevelt would have ever taken the US into a European Civil War ? The US didn’t do much when the luffwaffe was flattening Blighty ….

        Then the French – I know hitler was fighting his generals over the attack to the west because they thought they weren’t strong enough – but one version was that France was in a political and social mess although they had more and better tanks – as well as the maginot? Line

        Strange echoes of putin chancing it with crimea and now Ukraine ….rebuilding the Greater Russian Empire …

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        • BRISSLES says:

          I too watched it the other night, and totally agree with DoubleT. I would also add it was badly miscast. One of the young male leads only had one blank expression on his face throughout the film, and Hitler was put together by a wardrobe mistress in the dark !

          With the never ending shoe-horning in of BAMEs in unrealistic historical roles, I believe its a way of indoctrinating future generations who watch these ‘diversity ridden’ films, that its a true depiction of how Britain has always been, and they will believe it, because these parents of the future are not in the slightest bit interested in REAL history. And to add credence to their belief, the population of BAMEs will have more than tripled the current numbers.

             12 likes

          • Doublethinker says:

            Brissels,
            Yes present day entertainment learnt a lot from 3rd Reich propaganda and from Lenin . Tell a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.

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        • Doublethinker says:

          The answer to wether or not the US would have entered the war against Germany without Pearl Habour and Hitler’s looney declaration of wAr on the US is, who knows! But I’m sure the main thrust of the book that Chamberlain’s now infamous piece of paper did make it easier for FDR and Churchill to bring the US in and make Germany enemy No1 ,must be correct. Although the extent to which it did that is also unknown.

             4 likes

          • Fedup2 says:

            Double – reckon that the US would have just left hitler to it – let him take Europe – Divvy up the British Empire – let him deal with Russia – leave the japs have china and their bits of the European Empire .

            Always self interest ….

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  21. Guest Who says:

    Laura has a source backing up Paul’s husband’s allegation.

       13 likes

  22. Sluff says:

    At around 0720 I was listening to the short business report – a rare brighter spot in the Toady schedule thanks to the intelligence of the interviewees. But even this is not free from the BBC’s ‘journalism’.

    In this slot a journalist who would otherwise never hear of talks to a City person who have never heard of.
    And yet.

    The journo talks in clipped, fast, almost angry intonation. Disdainful, disrespectful, condescending. Full of her own importance. Barely interested in the answers given, more eager to go on to the next question. Who the hell does she think she is?

    It made me wonder. How are these journos trained ? To believe they are God? To search only for the ‘gotcha’ moment? I think I can answer my own questions. The BBC training department is clearly run with the aims of subversion and undermining.

    When even the junior nobodies behave like this then you can see the BBC is rotten to the core.

       32 likes

    • Beltane says:

      Training starts with a brief camera pan of subject walking towards interviewer – this has become an essential technique but for no apparent reason, perhaps to prove sentience of interviewee.

      All speech to camera is delivered with arm and hand movements of varying severity and/or dynamism, a visual enforcement of (a) the vital importance of the interview, and (b) the personal importance of the interviewer.
      Movements can be self-conscious double hand jerks, simple up/downs (generally confined to local TV) up to and including theatrical sweeps (perfected by Justin Rowlatt, currently top go-to climate change guru).

      Whether these extraneous gestures add any merit or focus to the subject is a grey area but seem based on a sliding pay scale with the most emphatic probably attracting the highest remuneration.

         9 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Yes BBC journos generally speak too fast
      .. Andrew Neil doesn’t.

         2 likes

      • Scroblene says:

        Yes, that’s very true, and when they get over-excited they move their heads from side to side in a peculiar jerky fashion, as if they’re so pleased to shout at something! It’s an infantile reaction and not very pleasant really, especially in the worst of them, Sopes, who jerks his mug so furiously, that his face becomes a bit of a blur, which is actually hilarious, and very welcome!

        Maybe someone should give him some training?

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  23. StewGreen says:

    Local news “Birthday blah blah .. Labour say the Prime Minister needs to quit !”

       16 likes

  24. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #2 – oh dear, BBC, you have put your big feet in it now

    Brains clearly not working at the BBC. The TOADY prog played a clip of the statement by a Treasury Peer, Lord Agnew, in the ‘other place’, yesterday. He was quite clear in his resignation statement that Treasury ‘officials’, ie. Civil Servants, were not doing their jobs properly. That confirms what I have always thought was revealed by the Pandemic in February and March 2020. We are in a Civil War in the UK at present, it is caused by Brexit and especially who the PM is. The Civil Service, the remainer MSM, the Labour Party (who are themselves divided over the EU), the BBC and other TV/radio providers are all hostile to a Brexit providing Conservative Party and are out for revenge.

    There is a coup attempt going on, in fact more than one. PM. Conservative Government. Monarchy. It is being done in a very British way, the usual British way, no guns, no bombs, no actual violence. Various houses are all under attack.

    Will they prove to be ‘Houses of Cards’ ?

       28 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      In less than an hour members of the London Assembly’s Police and Crime Committee (PCC) will quiz the Metropolitan Police chief. The PCC has indicated it will make the most of Cressida Dick’s appearance by questioning her about the parties that have been held. The grilling could prove uncomfortable if she refused to explain why Downing Street’s parties were not being investigated.
      order-order.com

      A force that released drone footage of people walking in the Peak District has been accused of “nanny policing”.

      Derbyshire Police filmed people in pairs rambling in the Curbar Edge area of the beauty spot on Wednesday.
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-52055201

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  25. StewGreen says:

    Local Radio news “Foodbanks are growing blah blah
    clip1 Foodbank man “..if anything our prices are cheaper than last year”
    clip2 woman Rachel “Oh the prices are extortionate especially fresh stuff and meat”
    (… That’s not true for vegetables the 29p Christmas veg was on a long time ..and still if you pick veg is cheap
    Meat did go up, but is usually 33p/100g portion boneless on the discount shelf )

    – “Govt ministers are defending Boris Johnson .. at the time gatherings of more than 2 people were forbidden”

    – “Activists say they will continue to oppose a local oil/gas field”
    long clip ” ..dirty outdated fossil fuels ..blah blah ..oil tankers THUNDERING”

    – “There are calls for better rail services” #PRasNews for Transport For The North meeting

       8 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      10 minutes later the prog has well know lefty woman Jack Monroe
      .. on her food price campaign.
      Balanced by Ed Devlin from grocer magazine who also said prices are rising.

         5 likes

      • MarkyMark says:

        “To cite the other person you just said that would *trigger you Sam Harris*, Mark Steyn said this the other day, *this is the conversation we will be having when the Mullahs nuke us*.Everyone will be discussing if someone is transgender despite the fact they’ve had no operation (ref Jack Monroe in UK)” – Douglas Murray {youtube}

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  26. MarkyMark says:

    Shut it down?

    In Saudi Arabia, the investigation found hundreds of women being sold on Haraj, another popular commodity app. There were hundreds more on Instagram, which is owned by Facebook.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50228549

    Since the BBC team contacted the apps and tech companies about their findings, 4Sale has removed the domestic worker section of its platform.

    Facebook said it had banned the Arabic hashtag “خادمات للتنازل#” – which translates as “#maidsfortransfer”.

       8 likes

  27. MarkyMark says:

    2019 … 4Sale And Haraj Apps Used By Arabs To Buy African Slaves Uncovered By BBC – Crime – Nairaland

    https://www.nairaland.com/5520395/4sale-haraj-apps-used-arabs

       4 likes

  28. MarkyMark says:

    Images from No.10 released … hqdefault.jpg

       1 likes

  29. MarkyMark says:

    Images from No.10 Bedroom released during Covid .. video-undefined-19911E9A00000578-112_636x358.jpg

       9 likes

  30. G says:

    Wow! What’s different about these killers that the media should publish their mugshots?

    “First picture of Bute Park killers as three admit fatal attack but deny murder”

    https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/first-picture-bute-park-killers-22851673?

    Anybody care to enlighten me……………

       6 likes

  31. Guest Who says:

    Revolving Door News

    Sky News has appointed Paul Stanworth as output editor, podcasts. Paul was previously acting editor at BBC Newsbeat and has also worked at ITV’s Daybreak and Good Morning Britain and BBC Radio 5 live.

    No word if he was the Safe Trans Ovine Sex specialist for curious teens.

       6 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Nadine Dorries plans to target Ofcom over ‘bias towards the BBC’ as officials raise concerns that 10 out of 14 of regulator’s content board members used to work at the broadcaster
      The Culture Secretary is expected to examine the regulator’s role as part of an upcoming review into the Corporation’s complaints process
      Officials have raised concerns that out of the 14 members of Ofcom’s Content Board, ten are ex-BBC employees
      Over the past two years, only one complaint about the Corporation was investigated by Ofcom, out of 418 referred to it by the BBC
      By ANNA MIKHAILOVA, DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY

      PUBLISHED: 00:09, 2 January 2022

         16 likes

      • tomo says:

        only 10 out of 14?

        – falling down on the job

           4 likes

        • StewGreen says:

          Are the other 4 living in the same house as BBC staff ?
          … Would you bet against that ?

             6 likes

      • G.W.F. says:

        I am changing my mind about Nadine. Formerly I accused her of doing nothing, but now I see her standing up to the BBC with little support from her colleagues.

        Go Nadine, with a government behind you the BBC will quake.

           13 likes

  32. MarkyMark says:

    Not open to everyone?

    It’s been almost three years since it last took place but Africa’s biggest international football tournament – the Africa Cup of Nations – is back.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-59972405

       2 likes

  33. s.trubble says:

    There must be some kind of chicken game going on where Conservative MP,s taunt each other to appear on that r4 8,10 slot.
    I tuned in to see if much had changed to hear Grant Shaps being tortured by DJ just remain-in webb,

    All Shaps had to say was ” Give it a rest mate” the moment Webb brought up the latest partyGate ,,,,it made me chuckle though to hear Webb,s voice contort with venom when he described the production of a Birthday Cake as if it were a large plate of steaming dung.

    If he had treated me like that I would have force fed him a spoonful.

       21 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Trubble – I wonder when the day will come where politicians regularly and strongly bite back – even going on the attack – for instance – talking about personal details of the interviewer – something the media trainers seem to believe is forbidden …

         12 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      poster.jpg?width=720

         1 likes

    • richard D says:

      It’s a great kicker for the BBC to harangue a Government Minister each day for virtually the whole 10 minutes of the 08:10 am ‘long’ interview on Radio 4’s Today programme about nothing other than the BBC’s vendetta against Boris Johnson, then a few minutes later to have another beeboid complain that Government Ministers are spending all of their time discussing ‘Partygate’, so they therefore can’t be paying proper attention to their ministerial duties.

      BBC ….. biased ? …. no, really ?

         7 likes

  34. s.trubble says:

    Fedup….

    Does make you wonder if these top Conservative politicians dont have the nous to handle these DJs …a casual mention of their state funded salaries in comparison to the UK average might be a starting point?

       6 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Trubble – I don’t get it – if someone walks out of an interview it’s big news – but if there was regular challenging of the existence of – say – Robinson – maybe the interviews might start having value –
      Juxtapose with those conducted on GBNEws where time is given to the view of the interviewee – it seems like going back to a better time – no ‘ now the weather ‘ but still too many techy issues for me …

         12 likes

  35. MarkyMark says:

    Remainer godfather Michael Heseltine made a helpful intervention on the PM’s behalf this morning, telling Sky that Boris’s resignation would re-open and threaten Brexit.
    order-order.com

    The Westland affair in 1985–86 was an episode in which Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and her Secretary of State for Defence, Michael Heseltine, went public over a cabinet dispute with questions raised about whether the conventions of cabinet government were being observed and about the integrity of senior politicians.

    The argument was over the future of Westland Helicopters, Britain’s last helicopter manufacturer, which was to be the subject of a rescue bid. The Defence Secretary, Heseltine, favoured a European solution, integrating Westland with a consortium including British Aerospace (BAe), Italian (Agusta) and French companies. Thatcher and Trade and Industry Secretary Leon Brittan, while ostensibly maintaining a neutral stance, wanted to see Westland merge with Sikorsky, an American company.

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  36. BRISSLES says:

    Is it my imagination or is GB News now interviewing more and more left wing and Labour MP’s ? is it because in previous months no left winger would dare to be seen on a clearly right wing news programme. What’s changed ?

       11 likes

  37. Fedup2 says:

    Brissles -darling – hopefully more lefties get to be interviewed. It would be good if the ‘host ‘ manages the ring between 2 views rather than being a single questioner …

    … i think the excellent Brazier does a good job being in the ‘middle ‘ – overblown kidult egos like robinson could learn a lot ( but wont ) .
    The channel is still badly affected by techy problems and the production can be shaky / lazy too .

       8 likes

  38. Fedup2 says:

    Yes – more popcorn – a plod inquiry into parties . Add another month or two to the completion of the investigation – then a month for the CPS – and its Summer.

    Maybe cummings will be arrested this time and put under caution rather than leaking all the time ….
    At least the war will have started and ended by the time the Gray report comes out … 2023 anyone ?

       8 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Both figures are correct. The Iraq Inquiry, chaired by Sir John Chilcot, spent just over £13 million over the eight years it was in action. The Leveson Inquiry into press culture and standards, back in 2011 and 2012, came in at about £5.4 million over roughly a year.
      https://fullfact.org/law/cost-public-inquiries/

         5 likes

  39. MarkyMark says:

    “UK’s leading role in protecting FREEDOM around the world.” (c) BORIS

    – – – – – – –

    Batley Grammar School teacher still in hiding after threats over Prophet cartoon. A teacher who went into hiding because of protests and threats against him for showing a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad has still not returned to his home or job.19 Jun 2021

       9 likes

  40. MarkyMark says:

    Nusrat Ghani: Ex-minister’s claims reignite rows over Tories and Islam
    By Alex Forsyth
    Political correspondent, BBC News

    Published18 hours ago
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60118044

    – – – – – –

    ‘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

    SHARE
    COMMENTS
    ByTalia ShadwellLocal Democracy ReporterAlex Grove
    18:41, 29 MAR 2021
    https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/devastated-batley-teacher-fearing-life-20282177

       11 likes

  41. theisland says:

    This article is not easy to find on the bBC web UK pages – why is that? Casciani more or less just reports the facts.

    Liverpool bomber lied to stay in UK, documents released to BBC show

    The bBC could easily pursue the ineptitude of the HO and use it against Boris but are unwilling to do so (ditto with the dinghies). Why don’t they I wonder? The reason is that the bBC constantly supports and encourages all actions by civil servants, activists, lawyers and lefties that keep illegals here. This seems to take priority over everything.

       22 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      22 Lost in Manchester …. why is this a terrible statement?

      Lost … so they will be found?

      Lost …. weasel words rather than killed or murdered so as not to upset anyone or cause HATE.

      Lost ….. a child given a Western education and opportunity decided Islam was better, but we cannot look into this problem because all cultures are EQUAL.

      Lost …… children killed for an ideology, but that ideology cannot be criticised.

      Lost …….. 1400+ kids were “transformed” over 16 years in 1 town, why not use the word groomed rather than raped.

      Lost ……… the UK has lost the ability to state the actual events, so it is the UK that HAS LOST.

      . . . . . .

      About us
      The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure.
      https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/about

      The suicide bomber who killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester last year had been rescued from the Libyan civil war by the Royal Navy. Salman Abedi detonated a home-made bomb in the foyer of the Manchester Arena on 22 May 2017 as concert-goers, many of them children, were leaving the venue.31 Jul 2018

         18 likes

  42. MarkyMark says:

    Interest payments on government borrowing last month hit a record high for December as surging inflation increased the cost of debt.

    The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said interest on government debt hit £8.1bn last month – up from £2.7bn a year earlier.

    The increase came as soaring energy costs sent inflation to a 30-year high.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60117150

    – – – – – –

    Jeremy Corbyn’s loyal left-wing ally Barry Gardiner receives £500,000 from a firm with links to China’s Communist leaders
    Shadow int. trade secretary receives £500,000 from firm with Beijing links
    Barry Gardiner received another £100,000 for Parliamentary ‘fact-finding trips’
    Since 2015 he has received £542,000 in staff costs from the UK-based law firm
    By SIMON WALTERS FOR THE DAILY MAIL

    PUBLISHED: 22:01, 9 January 2020
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7870809/Corbyns-ally-Barry-Gardiner-received-500-000-firm-links-Beijing.html

       8 likes

  43. richard D says:

    Just thinking about the new changes to the Highway Code. If motorists are obliged to give a 1.5 metre gap between themselves and cyclists, surely that must cut the other way ?

    For instance, surely cyclists must create a 1.5 metre gap between themselves and cars ? So, for instance, no weaving through traffic lanes, or undertaking motor vehicles at traffic lights, corners, etc.

    And, if not, why not ? Surely that will potentially create far more safety for cyclists than any other rules ? Or would that just p*$$ off tyrant cyclists, such as the likes of the BBC’s Jeremy Vine ?

       17 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Drivers are in a metal box doing 60mph
      Cyclists are doing 10mph so can stop quickly.

      In practice drivers give cyclists a lot of room, perhaps knowing there are big potholes.
      Sometimes I come up an un busy dual carriageway 2 mile hill, 95% of motorists switch to the other lane
      but 5% think they can pass me in my lane, that is reckless.

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  44. G.W.F. says:

    How long before al bin GB News unites with the BBC?
    When it comes to mohamidanism there is no difference.

    Middle-class Brits more likely to be Islamophobic, survey finds
    https://www.gbnews.uk/news/middle-class-brits-more-likely-to-be-islamophobic-survey-finds/212717

       7 likes

  45. StewGreen says:

    R4 this morning
    9am A mother who had a baby with 3 chromosomes making a huge range of abnormalities like 6 digits on all 4 limbs, so far he has lived to 4 years old,
    but is very likely not to reach adulthood
    She has an accent and the child’s name is Jam Jam
    The prog never spoke of cousin marriage, and she has two normal children, but. I wonder.

    Then 9:30am series : *The Guardian’s Media Editor Jim Waterson*
    explores how different the world would look were it not for the occasional, well-timed flap of a butterfly’s wings.
    – Brexit might not have happened if Boris had beaten Mrs May first time
    … In 2019 he did a very similar episode
    “Jim asks whether a Labour MP headbutting a fellow politician in the House of Commons led the UK to vote for Brexit”

    9:45am Cotton “A People’s History of Clothing” by Sofi Thanhauser
    Seems a right activist and made big claims about slavery and spouted conspiracy theories about cotton growing chemicals.

       8 likes

  46. StewGreen says:

    Is the Rayner story a nothing ?
    “They are both separated from their spouses so what’s the problem?”

       4 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Payments from the TSSA, 2nd Floor, 17 Devonshire Square, London EC2M 4SQ, for work as a trade union official:
      16 January 2020, received final payment of £9,887.48, which includes pay in lieu of notice. Hours: none since my election. (Registered 06 February 2020)

      https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=25912

      Payments from the TSSA, 2nd Floor, 17 Devonshire Square, London EC2M 4SQ, for work as a trade union official:
      19 December 2019, received £4,827.52. Hours: none since my election. (Registered 11 January 2020)

      Changes to the Register of Members’ Interests
      Sam Tarry

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  47. richard D says:

    Boris orders a review of ‘Partygate’ by well-regarded senior Civil Servant, Sue Gray.

    The left (including the BBC, naturellement) screams ‘blue murder’, loudly proclaiming that this isn’t enough, and the Police must be involved…

    …..the Police agree, and set about their own investigation…

    ….Sue Gray interrupts her investigation because she cannot prejudice any police investigation….and it may now be some months before the Sue Gray report is finished.

    ….the left’s response … “Whaaaaaaa ? No, No, No….. we didn’t want that….”

    Unintended consequences are a bitch, right ?

       17 likes

    • Up2snuff says:

      richard, Sue Gray wouldn’t be a Civil Servant by any chance? Might explain ‘the Left’s’ position.

         3 likes

  48. Up2snuff says:

    Think if I was an MP, and definitely if I was a Minister or Junior Minister or Whip (Sen or Jnr), I would now want a shorthand wielding secretary or a tape/digi recording of every meeting that I was in whether in DSt, the House or in a Ministry. Even in the constituency offices I would want a diary record of where I was and what was said.

       9 likes

    • richard D says:

      Up2snuff, I fully appreciate your point, but…..then any discussions never get past what the participants think will be OK to say, just in case the media gets hold of it.

      So, the media rules the country. As Dave Allen might have put it…. may your deity forbid that !

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      • Up2snuff says:

        richard “So, the media rules the country.” true, so very true and the civil war against the Conservatives continues unabated.

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  49. pugnazious says:

    Bizarre outrage about the latest ‘party’….curiously and hypocritically no similar outrage as the BBC shows a film of Boris standing in the midst of a lot of super infectious [as the BBC keeps telling us they are] schoolchildren, no one wearing masks, as they sing happy birthday to him on the same day….it was outside but so were many of those other ‘parties’ of work colleagues….and apparently a police investigation must mean he’s guilty….just like all those Tory MPs the BBC were happy to claim were abusing and murdering children in a secret Westminster paedophile ring…that the police were investigating…how’d that turn out?…the BBC’s very own QAnon mad conspiracy….only not driven by wild-eyed, mouth-frothing oddballs on the internet but by serious journalists from the world’s most trusted news organisation.

    And just like yesterday when they dragged in all the Muslims they could find who they knew would slag off Boris and the Tories they invite in a similar bunch today…standard BBC trick…get in guests who they know will say all the slanderous and nasty things they can’t themselves say. And up pops Alan Duncan…not an MP anymore and pretty irrelevant but the excuse was he was working for Boris when Boris was foreign secretary…..he hates Boris and loves the EU….so the BBC knew what it was getting and wasted little time in getting to the point..the point of the knife Duncan was encouraged to stick into Boris, front and back. Naturally he thought we’d be much safer in the EU…oh yeah Germany’s not at all on side but well they get their gas from Putin and can’t be expected to stand up to him… so that’s OK!…and never mind the EU isn’t exactly playing hardball with Putin either…but…Britain would have more influence inside the EU…lol!
    Then of course we had to get onto partygate…the real reason Duncan was invited on….BBC presenter quoting copiously from Duncan’s book in which he slagged off Boris endlessly. Duncan assured us Boris was a wrong’un and must go. The BBC got everything it had wanted from Duncan.

    Did laugh to hear Rayner rebuking Boris for distracting government from the job of dealing with the cost of living crisis and Ukraine….Rayner having asked for an ‘urgent question’ in the Commons about the partygate issue…..so….it’s her that’s driving the narrative and distracting government with Labour’s concentration on this issue and nothing else. Naturally you won’t hear a BBC journalist challenging Labour on this….as they themselves spend so much time on it.

    Just as the BBC were happy to put lives at risk by undermining the message about covid safety measures by ramping up the partygate furore in order to try and get Boris out Labour are happy to ignore the ‘cost of living Crisis’ and the international crisis in Europe which may lead to WWIII, with China racing to take advantage as well, in order to get Boris out….pure political opportunism and party self-interest and the country and the world can go hang whilst Rayner and Starmer preen and strut and pose and posture.

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  50. pugnazious says:

    Bizarre outrage about the latest ‘party’….curiously and hypocritically no similar outrage as the BBC shows a film of Boris standing in the midst of a lot of super infectious [as the BBC keeps telling us they are] schoolchildren, no one wearing masks, as they sing happy birthday to him on the same day….it was outside but so were many of those other ‘parties’ of work colleagues….and apparently a police investigation must mean he’s guilty….just like all those Tory MPs the BBC were happy to claim were abusing and murdering children in a secret Westminster paedophile ring…that the police were investigating…how’d that turn out?…the BBC’s very own QAnon mad conspiracy….only not driven by wild-eyed, mouth-frothing oddballs on the internet but by serious journalists from the world’s most trusted news organisation.

    And just like yesterday when they dragged in all the Muslims they could find who they knew would slag off Boris and the Tories they invite in a similar bunch today…standard BBC trick…get in guests who they know will say all the slanderous and nasty things they can’t themselves say. And up pops Alan Duncan…not an MP anymore and pretty irrelevant but the excuse was he was working for Boris when Boris was foreign secretary…..he hates Boris and loves the EU….so the BBC knew what it was getting and wasted little time in getting to the point..the point of the knife Duncan was encouraged to stick into Boris, front and back. Naturally he thought we’d be much safer in the EU…oh yeah Germany’s not at all on side but well they get their gas from Putin and can’t be expected to stand up to him… so that’s OK!…and never mind the EU isn’t exactly playing hardball with Putin either…but…Britain would have more influence inside the EU…lol!
    Then of course we had to get onto partygate…the real reason Duncan was invited on….BBC presenter quoting copiously from Duncan’s book in which he slagged off Boris endlessly. Duncan assured us Boris was a wrong’un and must go. The BBC got everything it had wanted from Duncan.

    Did laugh to hear Rayner rebuking Boris for distracting government from the job of dealing with the cost of living crisis and Ukraine….Rayner having asked for an ‘urgent question’ in the Commons about the partygate issue…..so….it’s her that’s driving the narrative and distracting government with Labour’s concentration on this issue and nothing else. Naturally you won’t hear a BBC journalist challenging Labour on this….as they themselves spend so much time on it.

    Just as the BBC were happy to put lives at risk by undermining the message about covid safety measures by ramping up the partygate furore in ordere to trry and get Boris out Labour are happy to ignore the ‘cost of living Crisis’ and the international crisis in Europe which may lead to WWIII, with China racing to take advantage as well, in order to get Boris out….pure political opportunism and party self-interest and the country and the world can go hang whilst Rayner and Starmer preen and strut, pose and posture.

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