651 Responses to Midweek 2 February 2022

  1. Zephir says:

    Lib dem corruption (you can take corruption out of Africa, but…”

    Maxine Waters continues to pay daughter with campaign cash, adding up to $1.2M so far

    House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters has continued to pay her daughter with campaign cash – and has already broken the seven-figure mark.

    Since 2003, Karen Waters has received over $1 million in payments from her mother to her and her company, Progressive Connections, for campaign-related services.

    Federal Elections Commission (FEC) data reviewed by Fox News Digital shows the payments range from the hundreds to the tens of thousands of dollars for a variety of costs, including “slate mailer management” fees, “campaign managing services,” and paying for a “band for [a] holiday event.”

    The recurring financial windfall funneling from Waters’ campaign to her daughter’s coffers is a staple feature of the congresswoman’s career in office.

    Other members of the Waters clan have also made off with donor cash over the course of the congresswoman’s decades-long career.

    In 2004, the Los Angeles Times revealed that the Waters campaign had shelled out over $1 million to other family members over the previous eight years.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/maxine-waters-continues-pay-daughter-campaign-cash

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  2. tomo says:

    https://drasticscience.com/

    Anniversaries….. 2 years on from 2/2/21

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  3. Zephir says:

    A state senator in Georgia is requesting an investigation into a county school official amid controversy surrounding her comments about White people and the district’s indication that one of its classes utilized critical race theory (CRT).

    Sent Monday, Republican Sen. Burt Jones’ letter comes after video showed Dr. Tarece Johnson, the recently elected chair of Gwinnett County Board of Education, calling for an end to “anti-Black capitalism” and describing White people as “socialized racists.”

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/georgia-crt-gwinnett-tarece-johnson

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  4. Zephir says:

    Whoopi Goldberg’s controversial Holocaust remarks on ‘The View’ create latest Disney headache
    Several recent Disney property employees didn’t keep their jobs after controversial comments

    If Whoopi Goldberg emerges from her widely panned remarks about the Holocaust without consequences, she will buck a trend of recent figures under the Disney umbrella who weren’t as fortunate.

    From Chris Harrison to Gina Carano, several figures under “The Mouse” have found themselves out of work after controversial comments, albeit of varying degrees.

    Roseanne Barr was fired from her show “Roseanne” in 2018 after a brazenly racist tweet that former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett looked like the “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby.”

    ESPN’s Rachel Nichols left the sports network in January following the leak of a conversation where she criticized the elevation of Maria Taylor, a Black anchor, suggesting she was being moved up as host of “NBA Countdown” to make up for ESPN’s “crappy record on diversity.” Nichols’ program “The Jump” was canceled in the aftermath, and she was also pulled from serving as sideline reporter for the NBA finals before she finally exited ESPN.

    “On a program where some of the most insipid things on television are reliably said on a daily basis, this one from Whoopi wins the gold medal,” Fox News contributor Joe Concha said Tuesday. “This is anti-Semitism in broad daylight. That was Hitler’s entire insane, insidious argument, that Jews are an inferior race.”

    In convoluted remarks, Goldberg appeared to continue to justify her stance while noting the criticism and asking people to stop bothering her about it.

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/whoopi-goldbergs-holocaust-the-view-disney

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    • vlad says:

      Whoopi G is a moron who always plays the race card and sees racism everywhere except where it really exists.
      Still, it’s fun watching her tie herself up in PC knots and the wokerati devour each other.

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      • Zelazek says:

        “The entire ABC News organisation stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and communities.”

        I am so tired of virtue-signalling statements like this. We KNOW that when it comes to the crunch and Jews face REAL danger, as in Nazi Germany, virtually no-one stands in solidarity with them.

        And what is ABC standing with Jews against here? The wearing of a yellow star? Deportation to the ghetto? The Final Solution? No, it’s Whoopi Goldberg’s offhand remark about Jews not being a race. A storm in a teacup. ABC risks absolutely nothing by standing in solidarity with Jews on this trivial issue.

        The truth is that most of us are cowards and we will not stand in solidarity with anyone if there is any real danger involved. We love making pompous statements to the contrary, however.

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      • Thatcherrevolutionary says:

        Ironic as she (Caryn Johnson) has taken a Jewish stage name.

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        • BRISSLES says:

          Yes, she was born to Baptist parents, but here is what Wikipedia states……….

          ” My mother did not name me Whoopi, but Goldberg is my name—it’s part of my family, part of my heritage, just like being black”, and I just know I am Jewish. I practice nothing. I don’t go to temple, but I do remember the holidays.”

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  5. vlad says:

    The BBC’s favourite religion of peace murdered a Christian Pastor in Pakistan three days ago.

    That’s him below with a hole in his head.

    No doubt the BBC will get around to reporting it, eventually.

    Or maybe Christian Lives Don’t Matter to the BBC.

    Elsewhere in the world, in the last 30 days there were 103 Islamic attacks in 22 countries, in which 594 people were killed and 379 injured: https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/attacks.aspx?Yr=Last30

    https://anglican.ink/2022/01/30/pakistan-priest-killed-in-terror-attack/

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    • MarkyMark says:

      0 church attacks in Saudi.
      0 chuches in Saudi.

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    • NCBBC says:

      Attacks on Christians are everyday occurrence in Muslim countries. Here in the UK, Christians have to be very careful in areas where Muslims are a significant number.

      It will come here. Churches will be burnt more openly then qt present and Christians murdered.

      Meanwhile the our police are hunting down anyone who has anything negative to say of Islam – hate speech.

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      • G says:

        NCBBC,

        “Meanwhile the our police are hunting down anyone who has anything negative to say of Islam – hate speech.”

        Not forgetting the threat from the, “Far Right”

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  6. Zephir says:

    ANDREW PIERCE: Boris Johnson is right. Keir Starmer’s CPS did fail to prosecute Jimmy Savile. So why all the faux outrage?

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10465933/ANDREW-PIERCE-Keir-Starmers-CPS-did-fail-prosecute-Jimmy-Savile-faux-outrage.html

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The inquiry team noted fears among council staff of being labelled “racist” if they focused on victims’ descriptions of the majority of abusers as “Asian” men.

      ‘Doused in petrol’
      Professor Alexis Jay, who wrote the latest report, said there had been “blatant” collective failures by the council’s leadership, senior managers had “underplayed” the scale of the problem and South Yorkshire Police had failed to prioritise the issue.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28939089

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      • NCBBC says:

        Muslims not Asian. They weren’t Chinese, Hindu Indians or Indonesians. Even now there is inability to speak the truth. Muslims first -race an incidental feature.

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      • Barleycorn says:

        The Beeboids have become expert at lying by omission. Quite why its journos persist in propagating a blatantly failed social engineering experiment- multiculturalism, however, is a complete mystery. I guess they’re like socialist-utopia addicts in denial. However, covering up systematic abuse of white girls by mostly Muslim South Asians, by sweeping it under the cultural carpet, will not prevent it from happening in the future. I like Simon’s take on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afJMNPXuZGI

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  7. StewGreen says:

    YouTube #Censorship
    Message from @Triggernometry 13 hours ago
    Hey all and thank you for watching the show
    If you’re wondering why we haven’t uploaded videos or done any streams, we got a YouTube strike and suspension for a week due to “medical misinformation”.
    After kicking up a big stink on social media with people like Jordan Peterson and others retweeting, YouTube admitted they made a mistake and lifted the suspension a whole day early!!! 🤣

       19 likes

    • tomo says:

      YouTube are *definitely* up to something – and it seems linked to the US mid term elections and protecting their lefty mates…

         28 likes

  8. tomo says:

    The FBI chief of staff is the husband of the Washington Post’s national editor

    Just a coincidence…

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  9. Zephir says:

    An “apology” is alright for some, if you are bbc, (three times now) whilst they demand others lose their jobs.

    So, thats three times she has shown herself to be an anti Conservative posing as a journalist for an unbiased public service and keeps her job after an apology. And committed the same anti tory attack whilst making the apology so thats four times now…

    “Emily Maitlis apologises for ‘breaching BBC impartiality rules’ by re-tweeting Rory Stewart post attacking ‘tawdry’ Nadine Dorries… four months after probe found she broke bias guidelines

    Newsnight presenter, 51, retweeted post by the former Tory cabinet minister
    Maitlis has already been reprimanded twice for breaching BBC impartiality rules
    Today presenter re-shared Mr Stewart’s message again while making ‘apology”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10464639/Emily-Maitlis-apologises-breaching-BBC-impartiality-rules.html

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    • MarkyMark says:

      NIsh Kumar kept his job. Comedy!

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    • Guest Who says:

      The bbc… hypocrites? Say it ain’t so.

      They seem extremely upset about a group of peaceful protestors blocking roads currently.

      To be fair, a tad more diesel involved.

         12 likes

  10. Zephir says:

    “The Platinum Jubbly”

    I think Benny Hill may be laughing wherever he is…

    Not so lovely jubbly! Memorabilia for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee has a royally embarrassing misprint… but maybe Del Boy will be able to flog it down the market

    Chinese manufacturer produced 10,800 tea cups, mugs and plates to mark reign
    But they failed to notice the spelling error in the word Jubilee during production
    Wholesale Clearance UK, who sell unwanted stock in bulk, picked up collection
    They appealed to fans of Del Boy, who was known for catchphrase ‘lovely jubbly’

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10465155/Thousands-Platinum-Jubbly-memorabilia-feature-misprint.html

       16 likes

  11. tomo says:

    Claire Fox doesn’t get on the BBC enough…

    wonder why

    ahhhh….

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  12. Nibor says:

    We do not owe any bogus asylum seeker who crosses the channel anything .
    What they are doing when they board those dinghies is a DELIBERATE act .
    And they are deliberately relying on the good will of the British people to help them .
    They are not relying on chance , it is planned to receive succour from the country , they plan to be rescued .
    Imagine if I planned a journey to God`s own country knowing where I would run out of fuel and relied on the good nature of t you Taffys to give a gallon . Then drive on relying on more folk to give a gallon . If the folk know the plan , are they obliged to fall in line with it ?
    This is more than say , a boy racer who drives recklessly and crashes . this is like someone who drives to crash .

    If a home or a business has a fire , the insurance company investigates whether the fire was started DELIBERATELY .
    If its found the fire was deliberately started –arson – the insurance not only would not pay out , the persons faking the claim would be done for arson and fraud .

    So those people coming across in dinghies are already committing an offence .

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    • NCBBC says:

      I was under the impression that invading a country was an offence of some sort that carried a death sentence without a trial. The last ones who attempted in 1939 were shot down in flames or drowned in the channel.

         10 likes

  13. Zephir says:

    More enrichment:

    ‘This f***er is not having me, I’ve got three kids’: Marks and Spencer manager tells how she fought off knifeman ‘who stabbed two women in store because he believed the retailer funded persecution of Palestine’

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10465045/M-S-manager-tells-fought-knifeman-stabbed-two-women-store-rampage.html

       37 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Arrested for Islamophobia.

         14 likes

    • Thatcherrevolutionary says:

      Interestingly no comment section.

         8 likes

    • NCBBC says:

      From the Daily Mail: He said it became apparent to police officers he had a history of mental health problems but doctors later deemed him fit to answer questions the following March.

      More mental health problems associated with Islam.

         11 likes

  14. Nibor says:

    Further to my post above .

    The bogus asylum seekers want to move from Calais to the UK because of what they`ve been told .
    If they were told that in a given week the Border Farce and the once great ;lifebout association will not even venture out of port , I doubt they would try for that week .

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    • BRISSLES says:

      All it needs is for the boats to be slashed before they enter the water. No one has reported who actually transports these massive dinghies from the shop to the beach. Are they on the back of a lorry, do they get filled with air on the beach, are they carried on the heads of a dozen men as they walk through the High Street at Calais ? We’re contributing to the policing over there, so it doesn’t take the Wit of Miss Marple to prevent the boats at source from reaching the beaches in the first place !

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  15. Zephir says:

    Woke “outrage” or “offence” ???

    Or tumbleweed at the bbc ??

    “Two gay men are hanged in Iran six years after they were jailed on ‘sodomy’ charges

    Mehrdad Karimpour and Farid Mohammadi were hanged in a Maragheh prison
    The two gay men were executed in Iran, where homosexuality is illegal
    They had been on death row for sodomy charges and were arrested 6 years ago

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10464581/Two-gay-men-hanged-Iran-six-years-jailed-sodomy-charges.html

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    • JohnC says:

      The BBC never report Muslim treatment of women and homosexuals.

      The reason is that they want to keep Muslims (and Blacks) as their ‘innocent victims’ to use against right-wing whitey males – who they absolutely despise since Brexit.

      When story of a Muslim woman who was set on fire by 3 Muslim men and burned to death in the street only gets the briefest of articles on the BBC, you know something stinks.

      It is one of the most glaring examples of just what hypocrites and liars the BBC are prepared to be in the name of their far-left agenda.

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      • NCBBC says:

        I sincerely hope that Boris realises that the BBC is waging war on him and the conservatives.

        I sincerely hope too that he is not going to start Climate Change Mandates to replace Vaccine mandates. Politicians have realised they really love mandates. That feeling of power.

        EVs are not practical. They are expensive and work just about OK within a 50 mile range of home.

        The idea that we can get something for nothing is an idea that only political and social science graduates believe.

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    • Thoughtful says:

      The trouble is that is a propaganda article with so many errors lies and untruths it’s difficult to know where to begin.
      Iran is nothing like the most oppressive place in the world for gays – for that try the countries which have bought the British media, such as Saudi Oman Qatar, Kuwait etc etc where you can be executed on mere suspicion of being gay

      As for Iran which is a Shia country, the act has to be witnessed by three righteous men begging the question what they were doing watching in the first place. It’s virtually impossible for a gay man to be executed in Iran unless they are doing it deliberately.

      As for family members killing a gay I wonder if these writers have ever visited the cities in Britain overrun by Muslims where such acts take place with depressing regularity but are not reported.

      It’s a propaganda piece run by a Sunni owned media, against a Shia country by a writer who appears to have zero insight into the issue.

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      • NCBBC says:

        Thoughtful

        Right you are. Its also worth noting that virtually all terrorist attacks are perpetrated by Sunnis. Too, the Shia religion mourns in victimhood, unlike Sunnis who take pride in offensive acts of violence in the name of Islam.

        Yet the War on Terror made much propaganda that Islam was the RoP, and avoided the Sunni states like Saudi Arabia and Egypt, and attacked Iraq, which is mainly Shia, and was a secular state run by Saddam.

        The result has been the creation of vicious terrorist groups, all Sunni, and operating within the West.

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  16. Zephir says:

    And, a warning for us all:

    In February 2021, an Iranian cleric Ayatollah Abbas Tabrizian claimed that the Covid-19 vaccine turns people gay, on messaging platform Telegram, to almost 210,000 followers.

    According to The Jerusalem Post, Tabrizian wrote on the platform: ‘Don’t go near those who have had the COVID vaccine. They have become homosexuals.’

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  17. tomo says:

    Truck Trudeau

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    • MarkyMark says:

      First Black Faced President to blush with embarrassment.

      After a week-long drive across Canada (BBC FAILED TO REPORT ITS START AND MIDDLE BITS), a convoy of big rigs has arrived in the national capital to protest vaccine mandates and Covid-19 measures. Organisers insist it will be peaceful, but police say they’re prepared for trouble.

      It’s been dubbed the Freedom Convoy, and it’s got the country talking.

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  18. MarkyMark says:

    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/

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  19. MarkyMark says:

    Barry Gardiner appeared in the House of Commons after Home Secretary Priti Patel announced new measures to tackle foreign state intervention in the UK’s political process. It comes after MI5 alerted MPs that a Chinese government agent was operating in the Commons and used disguised donations to try and gain influence to push pro-Beijing policies in Parliament. Mr Gardiner, who had close ties to the agent, called for more help from the Government to try and ascertain the source of financial donations but was ruthlessly heckled by MPs who have criticised him for complacency.

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1551463/barry-gardiner-house-of-commons-spy-labour-christine-lee-china-security-latest-vn

    Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Gardiner welcomed the moves from Ms Patel who will be giving more powers to security services to address foreign state interference in UK politics.

    But Mr Gardiner, who has sought to distance himself from the issue, wanted to know what the Home Secretary was doing to figure out where the donation went which saw some MPs heckle him.

    He told the House: “Mr Speaker, may I thank members from all across this house for the kind messages I’ve received over the past few days.

    “I welcome the Home Secretary’s statement and the work of the security services in protecting parliament.

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  20. MarkyMark says:

    Reporting Scotland
    BBC One Scotland, 14 January 2022

    A report about the impact of the latest stage of the pandemic on NHS staff absences said that more than 50,000 staff had been absent over the week. That figure is the number of staff days lost – the number of actual staff absent was 7174. We corrected this statistic for later reports.

    25/01/2022

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

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  21. Scroblene says:

    I’m pretty sure most decent citizens here read Guido, but I missed this one yesterday! (New dog – 12 hrs sleep at night since Saturday…)!

    https://order-order.com/2022/02/01/maitlis-appears-to-break-bbc-impartiality-rules-again/

    Some excellent comments below, and why Rory Wotsisname still gets a mention anywhere out of his special nursery, I sometimes wonder if our country has gone completely bonkers!

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    • Guest Who says:

      The likes of Rory exist specifically to give the likes of BS #1degreeofcover

      Seems it struggled in that regard.

      Lammy, Femi, etc… Teflon.

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  22. popeye says:

    Newsbeat BBC website – “Why are UK energy prices so high?”

    I didn’t watch it but I bet it didn’t mention my two reasons, Ed Milliband and Carrie Johnson!

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  23. Zephir says:

    Only a suspension for the black racist, while whites lose their jobs AND careers but a great headline from Fox News:

    “Whoopie off the cushion”

    But no one seems to have asked: where did she get that surname from ?

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  24. Zephir says:

    US and UK seem aligned:

    Tucker Carlson: Our democracy is no longer functioning properly, here’s proof
    Our leader’s priorities look nothing like the country’s priorities

    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-democracy-functioning

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    • Doublethinker says:

      Spot on. How long before enough members of the public notice to begin the attempt to push back?

         9 likes

  25. Zephir says:

    Just the one ? nothing to see hear let’s move on….

    Arizona woman pleads guilty to voter fraud after accused of forging dead mother’s signature

    Tracey Kay McKee, 64, also faced a perjury charge that will be dropped as part of a plea agreement, a report said

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/arizona-voter-fraud-dead-mother-signature-scottsdale

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  26. Doublethinker says:

    The truckers rebellion in Canada is the latest in the push back of ordinary folks against the policies of the liberal woke globalists. Compulsory Covid vaccination and lockdowns have been the source of many of these worldwide protests , all of which have been massively under reported by the globalist MSM. In Holland the police fired rubber bullets at protesters . In the UK the police have been fairly tough on protesters.

    Before Covid remember that the gilets jaune protests were about fuel prices and that they rattled the French state and the CRS used their usual brutal methods to break the protests up. I am sure that once the cost of net zero hits ordinary folk in their pockets , and it will hit very hard, there will be mass protests .

    The election of President Trump and Brexit were all part of the push back against the elites. But the elite are dirty fighters and they removed Trump and they are getting closer to reversing Brexit.

    How far will the global elite be prepared to go in using force to impose their will on the people?
    How will ordinary people react when they realise that democracy is dying and that they are ruled by a global elite regardless of whom they vote for?
    The elite have all the levers of power and like all elites throughout history they will use them to maintain their grip on power. Overthrowing them will not be easy nor pleasant. Will people decide that being ruled by a seemingly benign elite is preferable to fighting for their democratic rights ?

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    • NCBBC says:

      Truckers USA are also starting a convoy from California, headed to DC.

      This amply illustrates who the real heroes of this politically created catastrophe are – Truckers. Without whom the lights would have gone out within a week.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        BBC report zero electric vehicles found.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        NCBBC
        If you follow the track record of previous ‘demonstrations’ against Biden/Obama and the stolen election there will be a fair number of democrat Feds in that lot … you’ll be able to spot them because they’ll have confederate flags ….

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        • NCBBC says:

          Ah. Didn’t think of that. The Confederate flag was once a declaration of the right of states, now means fascism.

          But fascism didn’t murder hundreds of millions in the 20 century. The Left and communism did that.

          The Left always transfers its sins to scapegoats.

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      • Banania says:

        Years ago I said what may save us is Essex Man, and that is now what seems to be happening: i.e. independent-minded, non-corporate people, many with white vans, who won’t be b*ggered about – the gilets jaunes, the Canadian truckers, the Football Lads, and decent people everywhere. Is the tide turning?

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  27. vlad says:

    Will the trans-loving BBC report the story of a 26 year old male child molester being sent to a female juvenile detention centre?

    (Sadly, even the Mail is buying into the trans nonsense and referring to James Tubbs as “they”.)

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10464169/Transgender-inmate-26-pleaded-guilty-molesting-girl-10-2014-face-SIX-MONTHS.html

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  28. Zephir says:

    To my mind, someone called Whoopie Goldberg making racist remarks about Jews is a bit like Winston Emmanuel Chigbu III complaining about blacks bringing down the property prices.

    As they say, dumber than a screen door on a submarine, or, unencumbered by the thought process.

    A Japanese proverb: “The empty wagon on the road, is the loudest.”

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  29. AsISeeIt says:

    The least efficacious of cure alls edition

    Our press purports to bring us: ‘The true scale of pandemic waste‘ (Daily Express)

    At first glance it seems someone has been playing fast and loose with the figures:

    What a £13bn waste‘ (Daily Mail)

    Ministers wasted £10bn on faulty or unsuitable PPE in Covid crisis‘ (FT)

    Scandalous! £8.7bn of YOUR money wasted‘ (Daily Express) – that’s what big tax and spend governments do, I’m afraid.

    In case you were wondering, the BBC takes the lower £8.7bn number as its headline.

    We can likely reconcile the Mail’s figure with the Express: ‘First it was £4.3billion lost to Covid loan fraud. Now we learn £8.7bn was blown on PPE failings‘ (Express)

    One could get lost in the weeds attempting to audit the FT’s sums: ‘The loses rise to £9.9bn with the write down of a further £1.2bn in orders for equipment that could not be cancelled…‘ – you know, like the government can’t act unilaterally or declare emergency powers…

    Suffice to say… big numbers.

    Here’s one that’s easier for Joe and Joanna Public to contemplate: ‘Prices crisis to leave us £2,000 a year worse off. Shocking impact of hikes in fuel, groceries, housing and NI‘ (Daily Mirror)

    Think about it this way, the nation took an extended collective sicky for nigh on two years hiding under the duvet from those scary monsters in the wardrobe, while our government, acting as concerned nursey, lavished money on expensive jollops and comfort blankets… and now we notice our pay was docked because we didn’t go into work and the pharmacy bill has just plonked down on our doormat.

    And I’m willing to bet you a pound to a penny the official coronavirus inquiry report will – when it eventually arrives – conclude we ought to have locked down earlier, harder and for longer. Meanwhile Partygate.

    The World Economic Forum says by 2030, you will own nothing and you will (still) be happy and a “Great Reset” will occur after COVID-19.

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  30. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – I wonder who suggested that idea to Michael Gove …

    More Mayors to help with the Government’s ‘levelling up agenda’? I can guarantee what all those extra Mayors will cause: an increase in taxes for taxpayers and opposition to a Conservative Government. Did the idea come from a Civil Servant by any chance?

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  31. vlad says:

    Our leftie Archbishop of the leftie Church of England defends the leftie BBC.

    Well what a surprise!

    “Welby defends the BBC’s vocation to serve Britain in face of government budget cuts”

    https://anglican.ink/2022/02/01/welby-defends-the-bbcs-vocation-to-serve-britain-in-face-of-government-budget-cuts/

       19 likes

    • Zephir says:

      Time to bash the bishop…

      I suspect a lot of that going on at the bbc for the last week or so

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    • Doublethinker says:

      Welby should be charged with bringing the Church of England into disrepute. Mind you he has so devalued the CofE that I no longer feel it improper to laugh out loud when he appears in his full kit complete with mitre and crozier. He looks exactly what he is, a Pratt.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Islamic and Western values are one and the same (Atif Rashid)”

      . . . which one is fake news or a lie? . . . .

      “ISLAMIC rules are incompatible with British laws (Justin Welby)”

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      • NCBBC says:

        When Jesus was confronted by a mob on the way to stone an adulterous woman to death

        Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”

        Would the above be acceptable in Sharia. If Islamic law is compatible with Western canon, I’m delighted to hear it. All mosques should now teach of this teaching incident and incorporate it in Sharia.

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  32. Up2snuff says:

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – is it just to make HMG look bad?

    The BBC have changed the Covid-19 statistics recording to suddenly include re-infections. Is this just to make the Government and Boris Johnson as PM look bad? You bet! There’s a little clue left on the web-page here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274

    Scroll down past the header pic and the ‘chat’ immediately below it and you reach the overall statistics. Keep scrolling down past the look-up list and you reach this where the change is detailed:
    Reinfections included in daily cases
    A further 112,458 confirmed daily cases were announced on Tuesday.
    On Monday, the overall number of confirmed cases jumped by nearly 850,000 as backdated reinfections and previously unidentified cases were included in the total.
    Until now, only the first episode of infection has been counted in the official daily figures – apart from in Wales.
    But from 31 Jan if someone in England or Northern Ireland has two positive tests more than 90 days apart, the second is counted as a separate infection.
    Reinfections have become more likely as the pandemic continues and new variants arise.
    Scotland plans to include reinfection figures later this month.

    THEN LOOK AT THE NEXT CLICKY LINK ITEM

    Analysis: Is it too soon to lift the restrictions?

    RATHER GIVES THE GAME AWAY, DOES IT NOT?

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    • theisland says:

      Lifting the restrictions doesn’t fit in with the end goals of total authoritarian control as set out by the WEF and pushed by the likes of Blair and his revolting ‘Institute.
      It can be no coincidence that the increased push for Boris to go has coincided with his defiance of Sage over Christmas rules and the lifting of Plan B measures (irrespective of his own reasons, which may or may not be honourable).

         15 likes

      • Up2snuff says:

        ti, hmm, maybe.

        Certainly a politician (Caroline Russell of the London Greens) has stated on air on BBC R4 with a note of certainty that future mutations necessitating Lockdowns will arise. No doubt BigPharma and all those billionaires with lots of BigPharma shares will reluctantly welcome future mutations of a virus necessitating further Lockdowns.

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  33. JohnC says:

    BBC Front-Page Headline:

    ‘Shop price rises nearly double in January, says report’

    Or alternatively it could have been:

    ‘Shop price inflation jumped from 0.8% in December to 1.5% in January’

    Depending on how you want to sway public opinion. Similar to how they regularly used the phrase ‘pound plummets’ for fractions of a percent change after Brexit.

    Standard BBC dirty tricks. Fine for ‘The Guardian’ (who are at the level of begging) but not someone funded by a compulsary tax and is supposedly impartial and unbiased.

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  34. andyjsnape says:

    NHS ‘riddled with racism’ against ethnic minority doctors
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60208523
    “reports” the bBC

    …In front of everybody… [my supervisor] started shouting at me
    said Dr Jagadish Nanjappa. This is definitely racist.. oww what, what happens if the person who was being shouted at was white?

       26 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Nollywood riddled with …. ha ha ha ha ha

         1 likes

    • G says:

      Andy,
      Maybe he/she was about to stick a knife where it didn’t ought to be….

         0 likes

    • digg says:

      More importantly what happens if the medic being shouted at was doing something dangerous and stupid and happens to be none white? Say nothing or give them a rise I guess is the response of the new woke headbangers.

      Plus never forget taqqia or whatever it’s called.

         5 likes

  35. Fedup2 says:

    JohnC
    That couples nicely with the stuff being discussed here last week such as the phrases used by BBC droids – ‘some say’ ..

    Other lazy and sometimes biased phrasing includes ‘ billions wipe off share prices ‘ ( never mention the rises ) or the biggest (rise) ( fall ) in recorded history ( but when did recorded history begin ?) ….

    Or
    “ scientists have found “ ( what scientists )
    “Some scientists say “ ( who?why?) …..

    The above may , however , be evidence of someone listening to too much news …

    …my favourite isn’t the words – it’s the TV reporters who go and stand somewhere where there is nothing going on – such as standing outside number 10 on a cold dark Sunday afternoon …

       21 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Ros Atkins has now been elevated to outside duty.

      Wait until someone old and of color feels iffy… he can stand outside the hospital in a mask.

         4 likes

    • Up2snuff says:

      Fed, or who travel unnecessarily somewhere from BBC Broadcasting House or BBC Salford just to bring a report from somewhere with a bit of vox populi.

         4 likes

  36. Guest Who says:

    Clearly excited about later.

       4 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      “I’m going to Argos with my son now to buy some Lego and calm down from the shear terror that the fabric of our society is tearing.”
      Jess Philips

         1 likes

      • BRISSLES says:

        This is the pathetic side of Twatter (alongside suicide from trolling, being cancelled and MSE believing every word). People believing that others are remotely interested in their every movement – bowels or otherwise.

           11 likes

  37. Guest Who says:

    Gabby involved Springster iirc, so doubtless faultlessly fact checked by a specialist.

       7 likes

  38. Fedup2 says:

    Today watch
    Listening to the vile Robinson interview Gove. I think Gove scares Robinson because he can bite back and likes words – so noticeably less aggression – sneering and interruption .

    Anyway – it was about levelling up . Now as a Londoner I should want all resources going to London . Well I don’t . I just think for decades it has been unfair …

    I would like to see a table of taxpayers money per head of population – in Scotland wales NI – regions of England and London .
    I believe NI wales and Scotland get an unfairly high proportion in relation to say – the SW of England – the midlands and northern England – this needs to change – as must the overall tax take …

       16 likes

    • Up2snuff says:

      Fed, the national Government for England has a problem tax, actually a pair of them, foisted on foolish Conservative Government by Socialists, mostly of the Hard Left variety: Council Tax and Business Rates. Both are unfair taxes and are a drain on the economy. What is Michael Gove aiming to do about them?

      Make both of those taxes worse!

         6 likes

      • Fedup2 says:

        Up2
        Oh I know – the tax take never goes down – that date in the year where we are working for ourselves gets further toward June than ever –
        I caught a vibe on GBNews that one of the reasons nut nut is losing support is because of his failure to be a conservative – mainly – I think because of Mrs nut nut – who deserves far more ( adverse) coverage ….. and may get it if a detailed Gray Report comes out – a red party girl in number 10 …

           8 likes

        • Up2snuff says:

          Fed, you are never free of Council Tax and Business Rates except for a few brief weeks (eight?) before the letters go out at the end of March notifying how much extra you will have to pay for next year.

          I’ve always blamed Margaret Thatcher and her famous impatience and lack of attention to detail for the Community Charge rebellion but I now have to wonder whether some inclined toward a lack of impartiality in the Civil Service, even back then at the end of the 1980s, helped to sabotage it. I must get around to reading her bio, was it by Charles Moore?

             1 likes

          • Fedup2 says:

            Yes Charley Moore – I was referring to the notional day in the year when you are getting your income for yourself and not the state – if I recall it is around May 21- all before then – when aggregated goes to the state ( I’m talking all income tax – national insurance tax – VAT – council tax – even the TVL tax) ….

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  39. theisland says:

    For those with the time and ability:

    You recently signed the petition “Take action to make entering the UK illegally extremely unattractive for adults”:
    https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/600378

    The Government is asking for people’s views on how it proposes to update the Human Rights Act. The Government aims to update the 1998 Human Rights Act with a Bill of Rights. It wants to hear from people what they think about these changes.

    Read a summary of the proposals, and share your views via the link at the bottom of the page:
    https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/human-rights-act-reform-a-modern-bill-of-rights

    The survey closes on 8 March.

    All suggestions welcome.

       7 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      The Robinson v gove interview mentioned above was followed by one of those ‘approved person ‘ interviews by meeshaall having a lovely chat with some girl who had won an unknown prize for a book no one will ever buy or read – apparently it was a book of sonnets about school kids – she read one – sounded like my shopping list – mushrooms onions cravendale ….ahhh

      My point is that the tone of the BBC droid is notably approving as opposed to inquisitive- the pro bias is obvious …
      This was a pro coloured job or pro wimmin thing – standard bias

         15 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      About us (UK Home Office)

      The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure. The Home Office has been at the front line of this endeavour since 1782. As such, the Home Office plays a fundamental role in the security and economic prosperity of the United Kingdom.
      https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/about

      ed73e7d8a5b67bbe0affcf19da3824443c3e472e889d0acb1285621b8cc98866.jpg

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2019/10/27/start-the-week-thread-28-october-2019/#comment-1020195

         8 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Theisland
      As it says in those formal ‘eff off ‘ letters “ thank you for drawing this to my attention “ – 😎I opened the link and shuddered a bit as I recalled long forgotten constitutional law seminars ( yawn ) –
      – I might give it a bash but it sure looks like someone has been working from home ….

      Consultation ends 8 March – maybe the blue Labour Party might get a few conservative laws on the books – but I doubt it ….

         4 likes

  40. vlad says:

    Below is the teaser trailer on YouTube of a forthcoming film purporting to show irrefutable evidence of large scale voter fraud at the 2020 US election.

    It was posted on Rumble barely 3 days ago, where it has already received well over one million views.

    If the evidence is as damning as the producers claim, it will be interesting to see how long the BBC can avoid the allegations once the film comes out and gains momentum (in Spring, we’re told).

    WHAT DONALD TRUMP HAS TO SAY:
    “Highly respected Dinesh D’Souza, working together with Catherine Engelbrecht of True the Vote, just released a trailer to their new movie, “2,000 Mules,” that shows the world exactly how the 2020 Presidential Election was Rigged and Stolen. The movie exposes the lies of the Democrats, RINOs, and Fake News who say it was the “most secure election in history.” It was, perhaps, the least secure in history. The ballot box was stuffed, and stuffed like never before—and it’s all on video. Ballots were trafficked and sold in a massive operation in each Swing State. The evidence is so damning, what will the cowards who sat and did nothing about the stolen election say now? The way our votes were taken away is a disgrace to our Nation. It must be fixed.”

    https://2000mules.com/

       12 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Perhaps all it will do is provide a users guide to fixing elections – again … but will look forward to seeing it .

         5 likes

      • vlad says:

        If it’s even half what they claim, it should be immensely embarrassing not just to the Dems, but also to the servile media on both sides of the Atlantic who were so quick to slavishly repeat ‘Fake News’. That includes the BBC.

           13 likes

        • theisland says:

          To feel embarrassed you need to feel shame.
          To feel shame you need some sort of moral compass.
          They have no morals – no normal ones anyway.

             15 likes

  41. MarkyMark says:

    If you are in charge then you are not in charge?

    Boris used to quiet moment on his big trip to Ukraine yesterday to double down on his claims about Sir Keir Starmer and Jimmy Savile. Speaking to The Sun, the PM said “As far I’m aware, it’s fairly accurate”. Are the Tories now trialling a ‘dead nonce strategy’?

    order-order.com

       3 likes

    • theisland says:

      Hasn’t Labour been recently arguing the culture is set at the top of an institution…

      As a Tory source points out to The Sun, if Sir Keir is really passing the buck on decisions taken by the CPS while he was head of the organisation, can he say what action he took at the time against those members of the CPS who were personally responsible? And did he similarly refuse to take any credit for achievements by the CPS that he had no personal involvement in? Guido suspects the answers to both is ‘no’…

      Robinson attacks Raab in Starmer’s defence.

         10 likes

  42. Fedup2 says:

    BBC still carrying the story about a coloured American ‘comedian ‘ and her description of the holocaust.

    For the vast majority such a comment on such a subject at such a time would be a ‘cancellation event ‘- compare with a trivial comment for Ms Rowling – but for ‘whoopi ‘ ( real name – Caryn Elaine Johnson, ) nah – knuckle rap – book deal and a documentary ….

       17 likes

    • Thoughtful says:

      She will probably claim her surname is Jewish (how did she come by a name like Goldberg)? and that she is really a Falasha.

         7 likes

  43. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    I know it doesn’t work like this but taking the 1.5% retail inflation rise for last month and using it over 12 months gives 18%

    72 times what the bank rate for savers is.
    5 times the ‘rise’ that pensioners get.

    Doesn’t seem right does it.

       9 likes

  44. G says:

    The stages of Covid and, voila!

    Thanks to………….

    https://pierrekory.substack.com/p/a-journey-through-omicron-riding

       3 likes

  45. Thoughtful says:

    And now Boris is an international laughing stock both sides of the globe, Biden and Putin are united in poking fun at the UK over the state of the cowardice of the Tories in being incapable of removing a leader who is now clearly incapable of performing the role he was elected to fill.

    We learn this complete snake in the grass attended a party for his wifes victory in ousting the man who brought the bottler first to leadership of the Tory party, and then a landslide election victory. That same man was looked on by those of us who wanted a conservative leader as something of a hero, naturally he was detested by the left. With him in place there is little doubt that the BBC would have received its comeuppance instead of wishy washy cowardice.

    Under his direction the bottler was hailed as “The British Donald Trump”, yet after Cummings left he welcomed the Presidencyt of far left senile loony Joe Biden, and has been aping those policies ever since.

    I have a bottle of champagne in the fridge to celebrate the day this hard line Socialist resigns or is ousted because there simply couldn’t be a worse leader to follow, even Corbyn would have been better !

       8 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Cummings wanted Brexit so that we would no longer worry about immigration – Cummings knows about distractions.

         2 likes

    • tomo says:

      The 11 slides that convinced BJ about global warming

         2 likes

      • MarkyMark says:

        Temperature extremes, in general, are not favorable to batteries. According to Lifewire, lead-acid batteries drop in capacity by about 20 percent in normal to freezing weather, and down to about 50 percent in temperatures that reach about -22 degrees Fahrenheit.29 Jan 2019

           4 likes

  46. digg says:

    Ordinary people are banged up in jail or fined thousands for some slight they are accused of making online concerning race.

    Meanwhile ABC suspend multi-millionare Whoopie Goldberg for TWO WEEKS for very nasty anti-Semitic gobshite.

    No doubt she will have to sell the family silver to survive!

    Lefties are the lowest form of life! They cling together like turds.

       28 likes

  47. MarkyMark says:

    Boris – cake and keeps job whilst others were tracked by drones having a walk in the country side.

    Kay Burley – party with other SKY presenters, given full pay holiday and back to work.

    Jeremy Corbyn – 8 people at a party.

    BBC … how many Covid rules broken?

       13 likes

  48. taffman says:

    \\’Levelling up’ plan for UK unveiled by Michael Gove//
    “Give every part of England that wants it a devolution deal with more regional powers and simplified, long-term funding”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60216307
    From experience, you will get more bureaucracy, more councils and more tinpot dictators . A total waste of money.
    It’s getting pretty clear now, what with Covid, PPE, and the mass invasion of this once proud nation, the Tories have failed us ! Its going to get worse unless they get rid of their buffoon. Labour are just as bad.
    All you have left is UKIP and The Reform Party .

       15 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Levelling up …

      Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Manager
      Job Reference: 146-CCG-5927RF
      Employer:Sussex Integrated Care BoardDepartment:768 BH 680866 Human ResourcesLocation:HoveSalary:£40,057 to £45,839 pa
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      The basic annual salary of a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons is £81,932,[1] as of April 2020. In addition, MPs are able to claim allowances to cover the costs of running an office and employing staff, and maintaining a constituency residence or a residence in London.[2] Additional salary is paid for appointments or additional duties, such as ministerial appointments, being a whip, chairing a select committee or chairing a Public Bill committee.

         3 likes

    • theisland says:

      taff
      People must start voting differently.
      The Southend West by-election is a perfect opportunity to do so because Lab/Lib/Grn are not standing.
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-60022967

      Come on Southend – protect the Estuary.

         6 likes

  49. Zephir says:

    Since the BBC have no intention whatsoever of giving up on attacking Boris over some small parties with work colleagues

    Let us have a closer look at the racist immigrant scum they are desperately trying to make excuses for in a racist attack in central London, in England :

    VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Sickening unseen footage of the Chanukah bus attack
    Brave passenger who filmed shocking assault on a bus carrying Jewish teenagers celebrating Chanukah in central London reveals the terrified reaction of those on board.

    https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/video-exclusive-sickening-unseen-footage-of-the-chanukah-bus-attack/

       15 likes

    • vlad says:

      You don’t understand Zephir, diversity is our strength.

      I know that because the BBC and the government and Emir Khan keep telling me so, especially after every outrage by our wonderfully diverse inhabitants.

         8 likes

  50. tomo says:

    It’s an old insult – but “soft in the head” seems appropriate?

       0 likes