I loved appearing on Radio 4's The Media Show – talking to @BBCRosAtkins about Joe Rogan's podcast and gateways to more extreme online views and disinformation.
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
“Winston had disliked her from the very first moment of seeing her. He knew the reason. It was because of the atmosphere of hockey−fields and cold baths and community hikes and general clean−mindedness which she managed to carry about with her. He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones. It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy.”
“But we have learnt somethings in the last 10 years. We have learnt that most of the press in free western countries are cowards. We’ve learnt that most of our artistic establishment are cowards. Most of our politicians are cowards. We’ve learnt that industries that spend much of their year in award ceremonies patting themselves on the back for their bravery, stop when bravery is required.” – Douglas Murray @5:00
“But we have learnt somethings in the last 10 years. We have learnt that most of the press in free western countries are cowards. We’ve learnt that most of our artistic establishment are cowards. Most of our politicians are cowards. We’ve learnt that industries that spend much of their year in award ceremonies patting themselves on the back for their bravery, stop when bravery is required.” – Douglas Murray @5:00
Douglas Murray speaks at “The Danish Muhammad cartoon crisis in retrospect” conference
Well it looks like the knives are really out for nut nut . But forgive me – when he is kicked out how long will Carrie and he be together – I think she is the source of his troubles ….
.. I have absolutely no evidence to support this view but the circumstantial evidence points to it . Whoever replaces him – please be a brexiter and a tax cutting Tory …
Tonight nut nut hasn’t even got a chief of staff – is this the point when plod starts doing ‘dawn raids ‘ ?
Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds reportedly had a ferocious argument in her London flat in June last year, a new book claims, and it was all to do with red wine.
The altercation was heard by neighbours and police were called to reports of a domestic disturbance.
In a new book named ‘ Boris Johnson : The Gambler’ – which is going to be published on October 15 – author Tom Bower outlines details of the argument and its possible reasons.
On Wednesday yet another ledger gushed from the lower structures of Corbyn’s campaign team, this time highlighting MPs who have crossed the leadership. This “hit-list” included deputy leader Tom Watson, who called Momentum activists – essentially the die-hard Corbyn fans– a “rabble”, Jess Phillips for telling Corbyn’s ally Dianne Abbot to “f*** off”, and John Woodcock for dismissing the party leader as a “f***ing disaster”. Owen Smith, who mounted a leadership challenge against Jeremy Corbyn was also denounced in the list as a “real disunity candidate” presumably because he threatens the Corbyn’s leadership of the party. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jeremy-corbyn-owen-smith-labour-leadership-seumas-milk-a7313581.html
GBnews now : Grooming Gangs item coming up
with survivor Sammie Woodhouse.
She just named 2 of the obvious perps in her case
who both got long jail sentences
“He was deputy leader of Rotherham council at the time”
… OMG I’d not heard that before
“A police officer was under investigation ..then he died in mysterious circumstances ”
“I knew him ..I wouldn’t describe him as a good man”
Steyn suggests that Sammie should be heading the Official Inquiry
..that’s rhetoric, cos of course you can’t have a victim IN CHARGE of a court.
just as perps shouldn’t have control either.
Sammie said her special project is “the rights of children conceived from rape/abuse “
Some 37,000 asylum seekers and Afghan refugees are living in UK hotels at a cost of £4.7m per day, revised Home Office figures show.
A Home Office official said yesterday the total hotel bill was £1.2m a day but the department has since clarified the actual overall daily cost is £4.7m.
It it understood the £1.2m is to accommodate Afghan refugees and another £3.5m a day is spent on asylum seekers.
A tolerant society that cannot tolerate itself will tolerate itself out of existance.
Let us all stop funding UK terrorism! It would seem Khalid Masood (Westminster Attack 22.03.2017 5 Innocents Killed) was on benefits which comes out of National Insurance payments by the workers of the UK. Thus, it would seem prior to these findings the workers in the UK were unknowingly funding terrorism. But now we know terrorists operate using welfare benefits it would seem we are knowingly paying terrorists.
Can I suggest that the Government please make sure NI payments by UK workers don’t go into the hands of terrorists by removing the terrorists in the first place. Can you also calculate how much we have/are funded terrorism via welfare benefits by simply getting all known terrorists (left,right,islamic) arrested to-date and those on the watch list and check welfare payments made to them or their immediate family (under various names possibly).
Another example is where imams preaching intolerance such as Anjem Choudary (preached hate 1999-2016) to his hundreds of worshippers (5 times a day, everyday), can all imams be checked if they are on welfare benefits, paid by UK workers, and these payments be stopped immediately. It is the community that needs to fund the imams if they want religious teachings, similar to how the Church of England was funded with donations in the past.
The father-of-four (Anjem Choudary preaching hate 1999-2016) takes home more than £25,000 a year in benefits and lives in a £320,000 house in Leytonstone
“…and don’t you worry. It’s coming to a place near you…we cannot have state subsidized preachers…give it up or give it to your deadliest enemy and pay for the rope that will choke you.“
A disturbing story which highlights the proof that the UK ‘justice system’ is biased towards those on the Left and against those perceived to be on the Right.
This concerns the sentencing of Brexit Party candidate Stephen Pedder who had tweeted a reasonably innocuous statement “‘Egregious theft in a time of national emergency. Someone please explain to me why a bullet to the back of the head is anything but justified and wholly deserved.”
Clearly he wasn’t making a threat, inciting someone to do this, or sending this to the person it concerned Dawn Butler (Labour MP).
The sentence which was massively harsh was eight weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months.
He was also ordered to undertake 180 hours unpaid work, as well as pay £200 compensation to Ms Butler, as well as £500 costs and a £128 surcharge.
Compare and contrast this to the statement Jo Brand made about throwing acid over her political enemies.
“After making the comments, Brand immediately made clear she was joking and criticised the milkshake stunts. “That’s just me. I’m not going to do it,” she said. “It’s purely a fantasy, but I think milkshakes are pathetic, I honestly do, sorry.”
Apparantly that made it all OK as no criminal or any other action was taken against her.
One justice for one, a different justice for another.
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That injustice reminds me of the Doncaster man who tweeted a clear joke about bombing Doncaster Airport
who was jailed
but eventually released after courts reconsidered.
Last week there was the case of a Scottish guy convicted under Scottish courts
On the death of Captain Tom, this Celtic (Republican) supporting anti-British soldier guy tweeted “the only good Brit soldier is a deed one, burn auld fella buuuuurn”
One has to consider is, that just free speech ? or does that have an element to incitement to murder ?The Scottish law is f=different the judge said being very offensive about Captain Tom is offensive.
I disagree being offensive is always free speech.
The UKIP guy is appealing the court decision of course.
Here is Dawn Bulter’s tweet
If his tweet is supposed to be inciting, why was Butler unafraid to retweet it ?
The context is that on 21 Feb 2021 Toby Young provoked people with his now deleted tweet quoting a Daily Mirror story about Dawn Butler claiming £18,000
.. people thought it was a new story, but in fact it came from 2009.
I received a death threat, with the threat of a bullet to the back of my head.
BTW It’s the sentencing that is news
He was convicted a month ago.
Blue Tick accounts occasionally retweet the Mirror story to attack Butler
Here is the Sun’s political correspondent tweeting it 6 months before Toby Young did.
Taking about a court case about a CARELESS Tweet Victoria Derbyshire is CARELESS in tweeting
#1 It’s not right to flippantly pose the question should someone get a bullet in the back of the head ?
#2 Neither is it right to tweet that someone has been been “convicted of threatening to shoot” Dawn Butler
.. when that is entirely untrue
That’s a very misleading headline, he has not been found guilty of threatening to shoot her at all.
JohnC that is a crucial point, Peddie did NOT send Dawn Butler a message
rather he posted a Tweet to Toby Young ABOUT her.
.. she then took offence.
Obviously when a politician sees such a tweet, they normally take it as RHETORICAL or nutty , rather than a realistic death threat or intent to incite other people.
Martin Reynolds, who issued the ‘bring your own booze’ email has resigned…………to go to a job in the Foreign Office.
So ….errr…..not that accountable at all.
Boris in contrast ate cake in his own flat.
So obviously he needs to lose his job.
Boris may be useless and maybe he should go, but the stench of hypocrisy, the incessant undermining, and the BBC acting as it’s own self-selected judge and jury, makes me want him to stay for the time being.
Larry the cat is hardly likely to support operation save big dog is he ….
…… I wonder if nut nut has thought about engineering a Ukrainian border incident to get the war going …?
Meanwhile
The count begins at a bi election caused by islamic terrorism ( allegedly ) in the GE the tories had a 10000 majority on a 60+% turnout ….
…. This might be called a ‘ unique’ vote but nevertheless we might learn a few things … ( if its not fixed of course )
Ah Joe Biden calling the leader of ISIS a coward for self immolating along with his family in usual Jihadi Muslim style.
The press however isn’t keen to admit that the worst President the US has ever had – the Obamessiah, actually had this guy held captive and released him in 2009 where he immediately ran to Al Bagdhadi and started his rise in ISIS.
As if that wasn’t bad enough the bent media went bananas about Trump assasinating Iranian terrorism facilitators, now they hypocritically cheer on Biden for doing a great deed.
I listened to Stephen Pinkers episode 2 of his series about critical thinking
‘Look at us we are cool Thinkers ! If you don’t believe in Climate change you aren’t a Thinker !
.. Here’s a list of logical fallacies ”
… OK that’s good
Then one of their cosy panel said
‘Yeh Bob at Bob’s climate blog is nothing compared to a real expert
you have to weight the OPINIONS of experts higher’
No, that is the fallacy of Argument from Authority
FFS In the old days at a skeptic meeting, there were these old timer guys who explained the rules of science
and how you can defeat a bad argument with logic
.. Then skeptic science groups got trendy and new kids came along
they liked disproving arguments, but not the work so they latched on to saying “yeh that guy’s argument is bad, cos here’s an expert who disagrees with him’
FFS that is not how proper argument works
The common example is that in the Emperor’s New Clothes story
It is the small boy that gives the truth., that the Emperor is naked
and the experts, the courtiers ..that ail to state the truth.
Vlad
Thanks for putting that up – poor old Martin bell reminded me of corporal jones a bit when he was claiming legitimacy because he had ‘put his life on the line for the bbc ‘ by getting paid to be a tourist at other peoples’ wars – such as Serbia with Christians versus Muslims war number 10 ?
Anyway – he seemed to mount a defence of himself more than the evil institution he now vainly tries to justify – but I suppose he still gets the occasional ‘commission ‘ and pension so he would favour his BBC wouldn’t he .
He didn’t challenge the bias allegations either …..
I am trying hard to reply to the many lovely messages I have been sent about my appointment as the BBC’s Scotland Editor. I am so grateful for all your kind words. Accuracy, fairness and curiosity will continue to be my watchwords as I take on this fantastic role.
Well the results for the Southend By election are in and I can only say it was a complete humiliation for Ukip and other conservative parties. While the Cons won as we knew they would, second place went to the Psychedelic Party. A joke party. Ukip came in third with a grand total of 400 votes or 2.7 %. Wow! what a bunch of plonkers. There was a chance for them to capitalize on the unusual circumstances and they blew it. The kindest thing to do would be to euthanaze the pathetic remnant of a once dynamic movement.
The English Democrats were next with 320 votes which is 2,2%
In fourth place .
To my surprise Jayda Fransen manged 5th placewith 299 votes which is only twenty one votes behind the EDs
Of course we are dealing with miniscule amounts here but I would like to point out that the combined vote of the four right wing candidates is over 1200 which would have been not such a bad result. In fact if they had combined their resources behind a single candidate the result would have been much higher. People are looking for a competent alternative. when will these prima donnas coalesce into a formidable force?
“….. and I can only say it was a complete humiliation for Ukip and other conservative parties.”
Not surprising to me at all. The sheeple need a strong jolt, a massive wake-up call. My view is that only a war or massive insurrection will do it. I favour the former, the latter needs a common purpose and that’s impossible. Just imagine conscription with the former? All the Indian/Pakistani/Middle Eastern/African/East European airlines will be completely booked with one-way tickets out. Commandos will raid the Dover rubber boat storage facility to enable the thousands to exit the UK.
Whoopi suspended for 2 weeks for Holocaust racism
but she has “Liberal privilege” so won’t get cancelled like righties do for minor speech crimes.
She might even quit in rage
.. and then the liberal machine “will make her the new head of CNN”
ITV local news : last night
another Amani Khani long 4 minute item on Ash Dieback
Today the item mentioned the point
“If we are to tackle climate change we have to stop forests dying”
They then went a local grower who said that Britain is planting trees, but is not set up to provide enough of it’s own saplings, so most are imported from abroad, mainly Holland.
The prog then went on about how it was important to police the borders to stop BAD TREES coming in
… So libs are in favour of policing the borders on some things !
.
– “*Man* charged with murders of Janis Kozlovskis and Ryan Theobald in Doncaster”
Down the page it gave the name as Amrit Jhagra
..looks like a Pakistani name.
Guess did the story use a photo of him, or of the white victims ?
– Man charged with murder of 88 yo pensioner Freda Walker who she died of head injuries and obstructed airways following an alleged attack on her and her husband at their home
… Vasile Culea
..Guess where that name come from ?
‘Savile was a serial sexual abuser who attacked hundreds of women and children at locations including hospitals, schools and the BBC.’
Oh dear BBC, how typically economical with inconvenient truths. Another massive lie by omission. Again. Let me help:
‘Savile was a serial sexual abuser who attacked hundreds of women and children at locations including hospitals and schools while working for the BBC. Who knew what he was doing but covered it up.’
Female BBC worker ‘was raped’ on set of Stacey Dooley’s BBC Three cooking show Hungry For It
The incident is alleged to have happened in September during filming for show
A source told the Sun the attacker forced themselves on the female victim
City of London Police said the evidence in the case is currently being reviewed
BBC Studios, who made the show, said they were not commenting on incident
“Southend West by-election”
More of the same.
I am very sorry to say this but the present Tory government are running this once great, country like a bunch of schoolboys. We are facing a war with Russia and have a potential fifth column of thousands landing on our beaches each day. An enemy that is met by being housed in four star hotel accommodation . At the same time we have an energy crisis while we are sitting on a huge energy source ,
You just could not make it up!
Seems the American Bookseller has not left, and is taking on the JonDon slot as the Egyptian is busy near to Tonga,
The BBC Downunder Moaning Emole…
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Australia – a country changed by Covid
It was the final full day of our summer holiday – January is the August of the southern hemisphere – and our friend had returned to the beach, in the golden hour of the late afternoon, to capture a few last snapshots.
By then, the sands had largely emptied. The sea looked too rough to swim in. But over the crash of the incoming waves, she could hear the anguished cries of a swimmer out at sea, who was obviously caught in a rip tide.
The woman looked like she was about to be swallowed by the swirling currents. But the closest lifeguard on duty was a mile away. So my friend called her husband on the phone – I was with him at the time – and told him to hurry down with his surfboard.
Not for one moment did he hesitate. He raced to the shore in what seemed like a flash. Then out he paddled, into the cauldron of a churning sea, to pluck the stranded woman from the ocean.
In my naivety, I thought that the moment he pulled her onto his surfboard was the endpoint of the drama. But in many ways his struggle was only just beginning.
Read full story >
Nick Bryant
BBC News
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‘News’. Apparently. Didn’t click the link. Guessing… it was St. Jac claiming asylum?
“BBC Three relaunched on Tuesday night after six years off-air, when it was available only via the streaming video iPlayer service.
The decision to bring it back to TV — at a cost of £80 million — is quite extraordinary.
Even The Guardian, where criticism of the BBC is regarded as thought-crime, has called the scheme ‘a huge and probably futile gamble’. ”
On its opening night, the spotlight shone on Cherry Valentine, a 28-year-old drag artiste from Darlington who grew up in a Traveller family.
Cherry was the subject of an hour-long documentary, Gypsy Queen And Proud, about her ‘identity’ as a gay performer.
‘Identity’ is the BBC’s favourite buzzword, a shorthand for everything to do with race, sexuality, gender and self-esteem.
The bitter irony is that BBC Three has no identity at all. With its outmoded ‘yoof’ agenda and acres of sports coverage shored up with repeats, its schedule looks like the contents of the wastepaper basket at Radio Times.”
“It’s the broadcasting equivalent of a church hall disco, where the music is chosen by the vicar. Restoring BBC Three to the Freeview box makes as much sense as restarting the Radio 1 Roadshow with ‘Kid’ Jensen.”
Presiding at the relaunch party on Tuesday night were Radio 1 DJs Clara Amfo and Greg James — a bloke in his late 30s.
"He didn't side with the British people, he sided with the oil and gas companies"
Former Labour leader and Shadow Climate Secretary Ed Miliband tells #BBCBreakfast the Chancellor Rishi Sunak could have done more for those most in need ⤵️
Like most normal citizens, I look as Ed Miliband as a Grade 2 listed nobody, but reading a recent poll in one of the rags, 90% of the respondents didn’t want Sunak as PM!
Had I voted that would be 90.001%…
Rishi, if you put up my pension then I stay the same, when you steal it, I just have one less glass of red a week, but you’ll never get my vote again, and that goes for the rest of your mob!
ABC slammed for suspending Whoopi Goldberg for Holocaust remark but firing Roseanne for offensive tweet
Roseanne was fired by ABC over a controversial tweet in 2018
Roseanne was fired for making a joke on Twitter but ABC said they don’t accept apologies. Whoopi downplayed the Holocaust and she gets a slap on the wrist. Double Standards Right ??”
“Roseanne Barr was declared a social reject, was fired from her TV show, branded a racist, and offered no time to ‘reflect’.” Actor Daniel Bostic tweeted. “There was no chance of redemption. She was taken out. Whoopi Goldberg gets a two week suspension and Hollywood pretends like they’re being fair. Joke.”
Barr added that she believes ABC took her off the air in part due to her vocal support of then-President Donald Trump.
“All of Hollywood, they just hate him and they hate those of us who like him,” Barr said. “There is no way around it. So, yeah, I think they took me off because I liked him and I like him because I’m a Jew and he likes Israel.”
When most of the lefties ‘work’ as cervical serpents, or are paid by the state, they’ll always hate people who actually create the wealth which pays them, and ‘work’ tirelessly to eliminate the culture of self-management..
As there are far too many in these soft ‘jobs’, which back in my younger days, were prize positions taken by men and women who were worthy of the public which they were proud to serve, we’ll get even more ads in the granuiad for diversity wasters, and lgbjdghfyr77 fanatics.
As Beff and Laura and BS wet their knickers about middle management clowns getting the shaft, whoever the BBC has left in America appears to have missed something…
Has there been anything like this? – it’s the night of the long knives in reverse The resignations from @BorisJohnson inner circle in one evening of: – chief of staff – policy chief – comms director – principal private secretary
“Sarah Smith left to take Jon Sopel’s highly prestigious job in the US”
So what the hell is Jon Sopel’s actual role ?
Chief campaigner against politicians BBC doesn’t like ?
..They used him to campaign against Trump for 4 years
Then cos they’re not interested in attacking Biden, they bring Sopel back to the UK and use him be in their campaign against Boris.
You know when you feel you are not being told the whole story about something ? I wondered if The number 10 types who left yesterday were responsible for getting nut nut in the position of breaking his Chinese virus laws?
They’d have known he doesn’t do detail and should have protected him and number 10 .
Also – are these characters the main subject of police investigations ? Have they been named in the full Gray report ? Again we don’t know .
Yes I know it’s really a bubble story but the end line is a full on socialist corbyn type government and a de – brexit …rejoining the Reich …
Sky political correspondent is actually saying that this is a fall out from the Sue Gray report and there departures were inevitable with possibly more to follow.
Of course that’s not the line the BBC are taking, they are calling it ” Downing Street free fall”.
Cervical serpents will also have to leave, but they’ll get ‘jobs’ elsewhere in some dreary diversity vegan management group for the illiterate – they’ll have some experience from being in Downing St in the first place…
Although I’m limited in exposure to the msm – I mainly use either RT or GBNews – the drive the BBC has against nut nut really is part of the brexit . Charter battle .
After all nut nut has run policies the bbc should love – green crap – money tree – NHS love in – yet it still wants him gone despite he becoming a lefty in blue with his horror wife …
Cummings has had a free ride in his campaign to disorder the current regime – anyone might think he’d taken a bung from the Chinese …..
Scroblene
At least with RT you know what you are getting – and can decipher the propaganda after exposure to years of Sloppy BBC stuff .
I think RT is funny when it ‘tries it on’ whereas in the days when I listened to the BBC it would just be an ‘eye roll ‘ and off switch …
This is the by-election after the murder of David Amess by Muslim terrorist (which is not mentioned).
Compare with ‘… after Ms Cox was murdered by a far-right extremist in Birstall, part of the constituency, in 2016.’ they used for the Southend West election.
The BBC see fit to use all their resources to describe 2 specific spoilt ballot papers saying:
One featured the comment “Boris do a Brexit – get out”, while another member of the electorate scrawled “Get Boris out”.
Then later ace BBC reporter ‘Simon Deadman’ decided we needed to be told again about 2 spoilt ballots and wrote:
Some chose to write messages including “Boris do a Brexit – get out” – a sign that events in Westminster have played out here at the polls.
The magic, unspecified BBC ‘some …’ again to infer many. Unfortunately for liar Simon, we already learned it was just one.
Ironically – the action of the bbc – which is so transparent in getting revenge for brexit – might be the very thing that saves him –
However the power it has to shape the opinion of people who use it might be irresistible for weak minded self serving back benchers / remainer traitors looking for advancement from a new PM patrol .
Talking of remainer traitors – I see Teresa mst has sent the boy ‘gavin barwell ‘ out to throw poison about again . How he ever got a conservative seat is beyond me …
I’ve often wondered about the masons in the Beeb, Fed!
The police and clergy are high up in the membership, but I can never work out if masons like lefties, or lefties like masons!
Coming from a construction working life, I never really bothered to find out, although one company dance I went to , wearing my trouser leg rolled up, certainly buggered my chances for promotion…
I used to live in a pub during the week, when The Buffalos had their meetings, but they were all ‘working types’, so wouldn’t qualify for the BBC, but would have been too good for the corridors of W1AA!
They have no chance. Anyone who might upset the applecart is assasinated by the MSM and especially the BBC who seem to think it’s fine for them to cancel anyone on the right – such as GB news, Nigel and Trump – completely.
How’s that for ‘impartial and unbiased’ ?. As nobody ever questions it, I also assume the entire establishment is in on it, including OFCOM.
This is how revolutions start. We are entering a period of public discontent as the government starts raking the money in after COVID. Who knows what might happen.
The freebie Metro – which acts as news wing for its big corporate and government agency advertisers who pay its rent – makes a semi admission this morning:
‘Payback time as we emerge from pandemic‘ – let me just rectify that slightly misshapen headline… Payback time as we emerge from the governmental reaction to what they like to call the pandemic.
The formerly patriotic Times likewise takes up the theme of our economic woes: ‘Britons facing biggest drop in living standards‘
And the Express: ‘Tighten your belts… Britain in grip of biggest squeeze ever‘
The Sun which so often cleverly and most economically catches the mood simply says: ‘Ouch!‘
The globalist FT has globalism on its mind: ‘Wake-up call. It’s time for the west to tackle poorer nations’ debt pile‘
One wonders whether the FT now includes Britain in the poorer nations club: ‘Household budgets suffer biggest blow in three decades‘
Gosh, I wonder what could have caused that?
Look on the bright side – UK living standards are rapidly levelling-down toward equality with the developing world.
We could blame the Ruskies: ‘Ukraine tensions: US alleges Russian plot to fake invasion pretext‘ (BBC) – au contraire, seems to me it’s the west that has manufactured the threat of a Russian invasion. China’s threat to invade Taiwan looks far more serious and imminent a threat – once they have fully digested Hong Kong and got these Olympics over and done with: ‘Beijing Olympic sponsors accused of ignoring Uyghur plight‘ – apparently we’re happy to poke the bear but are afraid of the dragon’s bite.
We could justifiably blame big oil: ‘Shell to boost returns to investers… high energy prices produced a strong fourth quarter and healthy full-year earnings‘ (FT)
The BBC used to justify its apparent lefty slant in its political news stories because the press was THE TORY PRESS.
How does the game alter when the likes of the Daily Mail come out guns blazing against Boris?
‘Meltdown in Downing Street. Rishi puts knife into PM and won’t rule out No 10 bid‘ (Daily Mail)
The BBC just can’t help themselves. In coverage of the Southend by-election we get this snide aside: ‘The Press Association news agency said it had seen a number of the spoilt ballot papers containing messages directed against Prime Minister Boris Johnson. One featured the comment “Boris do a Brexit – get out”, while another member of the electorate scrawled “Get Boris out”. Mr Johnson is under scrutiny over the “partygate” controversy following gatherings at Downing Street during lockdowns, while four of his senior aides resigned on Thursday.‘
I wonder if at the Batley and Spen by-election in 2016, held in similar circumstances after Labour MP Jo Cox was killed, the PA spied any spoilt ballots with rude comments about her stance on Brexit or immigration causing the BBC to breathlessly report and sympathetically contextualise them?
The FT’s Datawatch feature is where lefty survey nerds gather to enjoy bashing conservatism: ‘Judgement on Johnson. How well is he doing his job?‘ – is the vital statistical data point today. What, no economic data to watch today?
To the Guardian’s culture corner where lefties go to enjoy artists bashing conservatism: ‘Mitski, the US’s best young songwriter: “I’m a black hole where people dump their feelings” Her songs can make you doubt what love, happiness and stability are even for‘ – If Adele tends to give you the hump (which she does me) then this girl… on the basis of that introduction… I’d rather stick pins in my ears, but I suppose we ought to learn a little more about why the Gruan gives her the big up.
‘With songs about heartbreak and capitalism, the cult pop singer is on the brink of the mainstream – but the intensity of her fandom has her fearing for her safety‘ – to quote that old Dragon’s Den catchphrase – for those reasons… I’m out!
Does it ever occur to readers hereabouts how the mainstream propagates, panders to and embraces anti-capitalist culture to its heart? Funny that.
Oh well, capitalism gave us our vaccine utopianism: ‘Javid: Cancer vaccine at heart of 10-year plan‘ (Telegraph) – just don’t ask him whether they will work or not?
Is this a way of getting in the notion that when everyone doesn’t watch the bbc, the tvl can go down but that’s cool as it will go straight to their pension shortfalls instead of programming?
Maybe Springster and Paul Mason could do a special… “It’s A Right Wing Plot! Stupid!”
‘The proles are not human beings,’ he said carelessly. ‘By 2050 — earlier, probably — all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron — they’ll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually changed into something contradictory of what they used to be. Even the literature of the Party will change. Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like “freedom is slavery” when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.’
Funny thing is, she is going to be playing Whoopi in the biopic ‘Black Beauty, the Jewish Years’.
Another form of white supremacy is where lighter-skinned members of the Black community take jobs that could have gone to darker-skinned members. https://t.co/LNIlnjhrE3
How about the black actress who played Ann Boleyn apologise for denying a white actress the opportunity of playing a white historical character.
Or how about any number of historical novels that have been televised by the BBC (and others) and populated, incongruously, by numerous black actors who were shoehorned into white roles. I’m thinking particularly of Trollope and Dickens. I’m pretty sure Tiny Tim’s mum wasn’t black and David Copperfield certainly wasn’t Asian.
Ethnic actors are massively over represented on TV, especially historical programmes. They weren’t at The Battle of Hastings. Very few darker skinned people took part in the evacuation from Dunkirk. And as far as I’m aware, none took part in The Battle of Britain.
The Bbbc aren’t giving this much attention at all. Nothing new in the political tensions I suppose, and it is of little immediate interest to the vast majority of the rest of the UK, but does it in anyway reflect too badly on their beloved EU?
This article might help to explain wider-held Unionist opinion, an almost total sense of betrayal and of being sold-out by the Government, why we have come to this. A point of principle perhaps? An alien concept to those at the Bbbc and most of those in politics.
The Bbbc are much more comfortable with, and regard with much more significance, this sort of shite. (Which is why I haven’t had a licence for 18 months and neither watch nor listen to any of their output).
“The LGBT history you probably didn’t learn in school”.
I won’t provide the link but it’s a Newsbeat headline, aimed at children of course. Firstly, I never learned any such history in school, nor have my kids. Nobody I know ever has.
And secondly, even though they are an Associate Professor of History at Nottingham University, I won’t be taking heed of any research on this matter by someone called Harry Cocks.
“The LGBT history you probably didn’t learn in school”.
Many societies throughout history have practised slavery, and Muslim societies were no exception.
It’s thought that as many people were enslaved in the Eastern slave trade as in the Atlantic slave trade.
It’s ironic that when the Atlantic slave trade was abolished the Eastern trade expanded, suggesting that for some Africans the abolition of the Atlantic trade didn’t lead to freedom, but merely changed their slave destination.
The other little tit bit they don’t like to mention is that there are no descendants of the black eastern slave for one very simple reason, the men were all fully castrated .
Tory manifesto – net zero by 2050.
Orwell 1984 – newspeak implemented by 2050.
….
‘The proles are not human beings,’ he said carelessly. ‘By 2050 — earlier, probably — all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron — they’ll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually changed into something contradictory of what they used to be. Even the literature of the Party will change. Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like “freedom is slavery” when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.’
Reaching Net Zero by 2050 with investment in clean energy solutions and green infrastructure to reduce carbon emissions and pollution. https://www.conservatives.com/our-plan
Radio 4 are actually promoting on Facebook their Beff Blonde tribute act saying the same thing over and over again to the Chancellor, politely pointing out what he is in charge of and there to talk about, rather than the awards committee voices in her peroxide addled skull cavity.
From the BBC’s print outlet, the Guardian, is an article about Tory far right rhetoric.
I don’t subscribe to the Guardian but read articles for free in the loony left facebook pages. This article is leading in today’s Unite against fascism FB page – you know it, a trot outfit of which David Cameron was a founder member.
A sample
‘The recent history of Tories flirting with far-right rhetoric
Boris Johnson was rebuked for bringing up Jimmy Savile in relation to the Labour leader. It brings back memories of other incidents
Nadine Dorries and Suella Braverman
Nadine Dorries shared a Tommy Robinson tweet and Suella Braverman used the loaded phrase ‘cultural Marxism’.
Keir Starmer’s accusation at prime minister’s questions on Wednesday that Boris Johnson was “parroting” conspiracy theories of fascists is not the first time that members of the current government and its backbenchers have faced such claims about their language.’
Labour conference: Deputy leader Angela Rayner doubles down on Tory ‘scum’ comments – as minister criticises ‘absolutely appalling’ attack
“Vile taunts of the ‘kinder, gentler’ Left: They reached for the smelling salts over Boris’s ‘insults’. But when it comes to abuse, here’s the proof Labour and its cohorts are as bad as anyone else
‘I should have come down here with a bat and smashed your face in.’
Former Shadow International Development Secretary Kate Osamor talking last year to a reporter from The Times who had asked her for a comment on a story about her employing her son in her parliamentary office. She threw a bucket of water over the reporter, told him to ‘f*** off’ and rang the police to accuse him of stalking her.
‘The day that… you are hurting us more than you are helping us, I won’t knife you in the back, I’ll knife you in the front.’
Labour MP Jess Phillips on Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 — using violent language in spite of condemning John McDonnell for using it. Yesterday, she criticised the Prime Minister for using language that inflamed ‘hatred and division’.
‘Just watched The Riot Club and it’s genuinely left me wanting to burn every single Oxford college to the ground… preferably with every single Tory MP inside one at the time. The Conservative Party is a cancer on this country.’
Labour councillor Owen Collins, writing earlier this month. He later apologised.
You can f*** all the way off. Then, just when you think you’ve f***** off as much as it’s possible to f*** off, I’m gonna need you to dig deep and f*** off a little bit more.’
Kerry-Anne Mendoza, editor of the Corbyn-supporting Canary website, responding to a suggestion by Tony Blair’s former spin doctor Alastair Campbell that he might return to Labour following his expulsion earlier this year.
‘There was a whole group in the audience that completely kicked off … they were arguing, ‘Why are we sacking her? Why aren’t we lynching the bitch?’ ‘
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, discussing a ‘sack Esther McVey day’ organised in 2014 by Labour activists opposed to the then Cabinet minister. Fellow Labour MP Jess Phillips said the comments were ‘utterly despicable’.
‘It’s about time we started honouring those people involved in the armed struggle. It was the bombs and bullets and sacrifice made by the likes of Bobby Sands that brought Britain to the negotiating table. The peace we have now is due to the action of the IRA.’
John McDonnell again, using his blog to ‘honour’ IRA terrorists in 2015.
‘My answer is hate… make the Left hate again. I’m full of hate these days.’
Dr Paolo Gerbaudo, a lecturer at King’s College, London, at a conference of Corbyn-supporting Momentum in 2017.
‘Mr Cameron has known pain and failure in his life but it has always been limited failure and privileged pain… had he been trying to get the system to look after a dying parent rather than a dying child, he might have understood a little of the damage that his policies have done.’
Guardian editorial published online this month. After an outcry, the words were removed and the paper apologised. But it was not the first time a Guardian writer had used the death of David Cameron’s son Ivan to score political points.
‘Sit down, you c***.’
Andrew Stafford, a longstanding Labour councillor in Enfield, North London, speaking to a young Conservative during a 2015 debate. He apologised but rejected calls to step down.
Drive-by shooting.’
Deputy Leader Tom Watson at the Labour conference this week, responding to Jon Lansman’s attempt to abolish his position.
‘They don’t understand English irony.’
Jeremy Corbyn, discussing ‘British Zionists’ in 2013. The Chief Rabbi described the Labour leader’s comments as the most disgraceful made by a senior politician since Enoch Powell’s infamous ‘rivers of blood’ speech in 1968.
‘[David Cameron] uses stories about his dead son as misty-eyed rhetoric to legitimise selling our NHS to his friends.’
Guardian commentator and food writer Jack Monroe in a 2014 tweet. She was disowned by Sainsbury’s as the face of an advertising campaign but insisted: ‘I stand by comment the PM uses his experience.’
‘We will have a hell of a time. We will have comedians on and bands and we are going to enjoy ourselves. There will be a lot of men wanting to have a drink and celebrate.’
David Hopper, General Secretary of the Durham Miners’ Association, speaking after the death of Lady Thatcher in 2013.
‘He surrendered to the Brexit Party and he’s ready to surrender our NHS to Donald Trump.’
Frances O’Grady, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), talking about Boris Johnson in her speech to the TUC earlier this month. Not very offensive in itself, yet it uses the same word — ‘surrendered’ — which Labour MPs yesterday claimed was ‘inflammatory’ when the Prime Minister himself used it.
‘People often ask us what it is that makes us tick — it’s Boris Johnson’s head upon a stick, stick, stick.’
A mob of Left-wing supporters holding signs demanding ‘Tories out’ in a video published online last month.
Nicola Sturgeon has a genius new plan to improve ventilation in schools and crack down on Covid: hack the bottom off classroom doors. To the tune of £300,000, the Scottish government plans to “improve the natural flow of air” by taking an axe to over 2000 “problematic” class doors over the next few months, all in the name of the SNP’s “common sense” long-term plan to protect pupils from Covid. A move which Sturgeon dubbed the “basic rectification of the structure of classrooms”…
order-order.com
Presenting a fashion show for cougars with that peroxide victim in the cubicle gardens who forked out £200 for a coat plus EU surcharge?
THREAD-Some news: After 3 very enjoyable years presenting Newsnight, I have made the decision to leave the programme. This is in part due to my role fronting Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, which I’m thrilled to say is reaching more listeners than ever,and I have many more plans for. 1/3 pic.twitter.com/EsMrHTVuVN
“Tube users face MORE strike chaos: RMT union calls for 24-hour walkout on March 1 and March 3 over ‘financial crisis engineered by the government’
Rail, Maritime and Transport union says around 10,000 of its members will walk out on March 1 and March 3
Union wants assurances over jobs, pay, pensions and working conditions amid fears of cuts in TfL funding
RMT boss Mick Lynch blames Government today for causing financial issues at TfL to ‘drive a cuts agenda’
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Self-inflicted misery of our energy insanity
“How unnecessary this is. For Britain sits on an energy goldmine. We have vast unexploited reserves of oil, gas and shale. And we had the chance to expand nuclear power.
But hypnotised by the apocalyptic alarmism of eco-activists, our politicians have pursued an aggressive green agenda, shunning these abundant power sources.
It means we are left at the mercy of unreliable renewables and importing high-priced energy to stop the lights going out.
While Boris Johnson burnishes his credentials by recklessly committing to go further, faster, than anyone else to net zero – causing great suffering to consumers and businesses – China continues building coal-fired power stations, adding a UK’s-worth of carbon dioxide emissions every year.”
“Why are we paying billions to import all this energy when we are sitting on our own goldmine? ROSS CLARK analyses Britain’s idle energy reserves as we face soaring bills
As British households worry about keeping warm, Americans remain happy
In the US, electricity prices average $0.15 per kWh but $0.28 per kWh in Britain
America escapes the whims of international market by exploiting gas reserves
Europe and the UK now find themselves trapped in a perilous price hike”
pugnaziousNov 2, 18:12 Weekend 2nd November 2024 Odd…that page doesn’t exist anymore…..must have fact-checked himself.
pugnaziousNov 2, 18:05 Weekend 2nd November 2024 Nothing’s changed…heard the BBC use similarly misleading phrasing the other day…we were given no idea that the Pals were told…
pugnaziousNov 2, 18:00 Weekend 2nd November 2024 Any coincidence that the BBC has produced a piece referencing Puerto Ricans in America just now? Naturally they are hard…
StewGreenNov 2, 17:57 Weekend 2nd November 2024 #HateyLefties [img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GbZXXD6acAArLpn?format=jpg&name=small[/img] And how do we know the Butler retweet is super wrong ? well cos Narinda Kaur endorses it…
pugnaziousNov 2, 17:55 Weekend 2nd November 2024 The BBC blitzed us with horrified comment about a comedian who slagged off Puerto Rico at a Trump rally…oddly not…
DocmaroonedNov 2, 17:53 Weekend 2nd November 2024 Her and Lammy make a great advert for the absolutely shocking state of politics not just in this country. Single…
Rob in CheshireNov 2, 17:47 Weekend 2nd November 2024 Dawn Butler is literally insane. I am not exaggerating. The woman is mad, She needs to be sectioned, there is…
pugnaziousNov 2, 17:44 Weekend 2nd November 2024 From the Telegraph….we can all hear and see for ourselves this is true….BBC News kills Jews…. ‘BBC newsroom is ‘out…
Rob in CheshireNov 2, 17:44 Weekend 2nd November 2024 The end of farming will leave more room for jerry built housing estates for immigrants, solar farms and wind turbines.…
Rob in CheshireNov 2, 17:42 Weekend 2nd November 2024 The NHS could absorb all the national wealth of Great Britain, burp, and ask for more.
Springster is in love.
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Luv u Marianna – hugs x ….
… A plus in self love and self advertising ….
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Get them young …
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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“Winston had disliked her from the very first moment of seeing her. He knew the reason. It was because of the atmosphere of hockey−fields and cold baths and community hikes and general clean−mindedness which she managed to carry about with her. He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones. It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy.”
― George Orwell, 1984
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/258683-winston-had-disliked-her-from-the-very-first-moment-of
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Yet more self congratulatory crap from Springster. She really earns her crust.
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“But we have learnt somethings in the last 10 years. We have learnt that most of the press in free western countries are cowards. We’ve learnt that most of our artistic establishment are cowards. Most of our politicians are cowards. We’ve learnt that industries that spend much of their year in award ceremonies patting themselves on the back for their bravery, stop when bravery is required.” – Douglas Murray @5:00
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“But we have learnt somethings in the last 10 years. We have learnt that most of the press in free western countries are cowards. We’ve learnt that most of our artistic establishment are cowards. Most of our politicians are cowards. We’ve learnt that industries that spend much of their year in award ceremonies patting themselves on the back for their bravery, stop when bravery is required.” – Douglas Murray @5:00
Douglas Murray speaks at “The Danish Muhammad cartoon crisis in retrospect” conference
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/05/20/start-the-week-open-thread-21-may-2018/comment-page-5/#comment-917954
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Well it looks like the knives are really out for nut nut . But forgive me – when he is kicked out how long will Carrie and he be together – I think she is the source of his troubles ….
.. I have absolutely no evidence to support this view but the circumstantial evidence points to it . Whoever replaces him – please be a brexiter and a tax cutting Tory …
Tonight nut nut hasn’t even got a chief of staff – is this the point when plod starts doing ‘dawn raids ‘ ?
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Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds reportedly had a ferocious argument in her London flat in June last year, a new book claims, and it was all to do with red wine.
The altercation was heard by neighbours and police were called to reports of a domestic disturbance.
In a new book named ‘ Boris Johnson : The Gambler’ – which is going to be published on October 15 – author Tom Bower outlines details of the argument and its possible reasons.
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BBC going big on Downing Street resignations this evening stating Boris and Downing Street are now in free fall
And of course nothing to do with the Sue Gray report or pending results of the police investigation and report…..Mmmmm.!!! I wonder
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On Wednesday yet another ledger gushed from the lower structures of Corbyn’s campaign team, this time highlighting MPs who have crossed the leadership. This “hit-list” included deputy leader Tom Watson, who called Momentum activists – essentially the die-hard Corbyn fans– a “rabble”, Jess Phillips for telling Corbyn’s ally Dianne Abbot to “f*** off”, and John Woodcock for dismissing the party leader as a “f***ing disaster”. Owen Smith, who mounted a leadership challenge against Jeremy Corbyn was also denounced in the list as a “real disunity candidate” presumably because he threatens the Corbyn’s leadership of the party.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jeremy-corbyn-owen-smith-labour-leadership-seumas-milk-a7313581.html
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GBnews now : Grooming Gangs item coming up
with survivor Sammie Woodhouse.
She just named 2 of the obvious perps in her case
who both got long jail sentences
“He was deputy leader of Rotherham council at the time”
… OMG I’d not heard that before
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Rotherham grooming: South Yorkshire Police not recording ethnicity
Published30 December 2021
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-59828338
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“A police officer was under investigation ..then he died in mysterious circumstances ”
“I knew him ..I wouldn’t describe him as a good man”
Steyn suggests that Sammie should be heading the Official Inquiry
..that’s rhetoric, cos of course you can’t have a victim IN CHARGE of a court.
just as perps shouldn’t have control either.
Sammie said her special project is “the rights of children conceived from rape/abuse “
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Is it because these crimes are si awful that the MSM dont want to talk about it or do they have relatives in the Press ?
As was discussed – the corruption at all levels in this go all the way up – how is that Convicted paki stani peer getting on ?
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Some 37,000 asylum seekers and Afghan refugees are living in UK hotels at a cost of £4.7m per day, revised Home Office figures show.
A Home Office official said yesterday the total hotel bill was £1.2m a day but the department has since clarified the actual overall daily cost is £4.7m.
It it understood the £1.2m is to accommodate Afghan refugees and another £3.5m a day is spent on asylum seekers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60249130
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Marky, @GuestWho already mentioned that on the previous page
I am in the middle of writing a reply
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A tolerant society that cannot tolerate itself will tolerate itself out of existance.
Let us all stop funding UK terrorism! It would seem Khalid Masood (Westminster Attack 22.03.2017 5 Innocents Killed) was on benefits which comes out of National Insurance payments by the workers of the UK. Thus, it would seem prior to these findings the workers in the UK were unknowingly funding terrorism. But now we know terrorists operate using welfare benefits it would seem we are knowingly paying terrorists.
Can I suggest that the Government please make sure NI payments by UK workers don’t go into the hands of terrorists by removing the terrorists in the first place. Can you also calculate how much we have/are funded terrorism via welfare benefits by simply getting all known terrorists (left,right,islamic) arrested to-date and those on the watch list and check welfare payments made to them or their immediate family (under various names possibly).
Another example is where imams preaching intolerance such as Anjem Choudary (preached hate 1999-2016) to his hundreds of worshippers (5 times a day, everyday), can all imams be checked if they are on welfare benefits, paid by UK workers, and these payments be stopped immediately. It is the community that needs to fund the imams if they want religious teachings, similar to how the Church of England was funded with donations in the past.
The father-of-four (Anjem Choudary preaching hate 1999-2016) takes home more than £25,000 a year in benefits and lives in a £320,000 house in Leytonstone
“…and don’t you worry. It’s coming to a place near you…we cannot have state subsidized preachers…give it up or give it to your deadliest enemy and pay for the rope that will choke you.“
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/06/30/that-big-shining-lie/#comment-848918
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A disturbing story which highlights the proof that the UK ‘justice system’ is biased towards those on the Left and against those perceived to be on the Right.
This concerns the sentencing of Brexit Party candidate Stephen Pedder who had tweeted a reasonably innocuous statement “‘Egregious theft in a time of national emergency. Someone please explain to me why a bullet to the back of the head is anything but justified and wholly deserved.”
Clearly he wasn’t making a threat, inciting someone to do this, or sending this to the person it concerned Dawn Butler (Labour MP).
The sentence which was massively harsh was eight weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months.
He was also ordered to undertake 180 hours unpaid work, as well as pay £200 compensation to Ms Butler, as well as £500 costs and a £128 surcharge.
Compare and contrast this to the statement Jo Brand made about throwing acid over her political enemies.
“After making the comments, Brand immediately made clear she was joking and criticised the milkshake stunts. “That’s just me. I’m not going to do it,” she said. “It’s purely a fantasy, but I think milkshakes are pathetic, I honestly do, sorry.”
Apparantly that made it all OK as no criminal or any other action was taken against her.
One justice for one, a different justice for another.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10472661/Ex-Brexit-Party-candidate-said-Labour-MP-Dawn-Butler-deserved-bullet-head-spared-jail.html
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You pay the BBC .. they pay the politicians.
17 September 2020, received £200 from the BBC, Portland Place, London W1A 1AA, for appearing on Any Questions. Hours: 3 hrs. (Registered 18 September 2020)
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=11447
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That injustice reminds me of the Doncaster man who tweeted a clear joke about bombing Doncaster Airport
who was jailed
but eventually released after courts reconsidered.
Last week there was the case of a Scottish guy convicted under Scottish courts
On the death of Captain Tom, this Celtic (Republican) supporting anti-British soldier guy tweeted
“the only good Brit soldier is a deed one, burn auld fella buuuuurn”
One has to consider is, that just free speech ? or does that have an element to incitement to murder ?The Scottish law is f=different the judge said being very offensive about Captain Tom is offensive.
I disagree being offensive is always free speech.
Sentencing is in March.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scot-posted-only-good-brit-26099298
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The UKIP guy is appealing the court decision of course.
Here is Dawn Bulter’s tweet
If his tweet is supposed to be inciting, why was Butler unafraid to retweet it ?
The context is that on 21 Feb 2021 Toby Young provoked people with his now deleted tweet quoting a Daily Mirror story about Dawn Butler claiming £18,000
.. people thought it was a new story, but in fact it came from 2009.
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BTW It’s the sentencing that is news
He was convicted a month ago.
Blue Tick accounts occasionally retweet the Mirror story to attack Butler
Here is the Sun’s political correspondent tweeting it 6 months before Toby Young did.
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You pay UNITE —- they pay for MPs to stay in hotels.
Name of donor: Unite the Union
Address of donor: Unite House, 128 Theobalds Road, London WC1X 8TN
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Five nights’ accommodation during the Labour Party conference, total value £1,100
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=11447
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Taking about a court case about a CARELESS Tweet Victoria Derbyshire is CARELESS in tweeting
#1 It’s not right to flippantly pose the question should someone get a bullet in the back of the head ?
#2 Neither is it right to tweet that someone has been been “convicted of threatening to shoot” Dawn Butler
.. when that is entirely untrue
British jails should not have people in convicted of tweets.
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Actually he was convicted of sending an ‘offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing message’
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People have a right not to have indecent, obscene or menacing messages sent to them.
They do not have a right to not be offended.
They always add a tame qualifier in with the bad ones like this to make sure they can use it for politcial reasons.
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JohnC that is a crucial point, Peddie did NOT send Dawn Butler a message
rather he posted a Tweet to Toby Young ABOUT her.
.. she then took offence.
Obviously when a politician sees such a tweet, they normally take it as RHETORICAL or nutty , rather than a realistic death threat or intent to incite other people.
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Accountability- civil service style.
Martin Reynolds, who issued the ‘bring your own booze’ email has resigned…………to go to a job in the Foreign Office.
So ….errr…..not that accountable at all.
Boris in contrast ate cake in his own flat.
So obviously he needs to lose his job.
Boris may be useless and maybe he should go, but the stench of hypocrisy, the incessant undermining, and the BBC acting as it’s own self-selected judge and jury, makes me want him to stay for the time being.
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…even Larry is looking for alternative accommodation!
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Larry the cat is hardly likely to support operation save big dog is he ….
…… I wonder if nut nut has thought about engineering a Ukrainian border incident to get the war going …?
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Meanwhile
The count begins at a bi election caused by islamic terrorism ( allegedly ) in the GE the tories had a 10000 majority on a 60+% turnout ….
…. This might be called a ‘ unique’ vote but nevertheless we might learn a few things … ( if its not fixed of course )
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Ah Joe Biden calling the leader of ISIS a coward for self immolating along with his family in usual Jihadi Muslim style.
The press however isn’t keen to admit that the worst President the US has ever had – the Obamessiah, actually had this guy held captive and released him in 2009 where he immediately ran to Al Bagdhadi and started his rise in ISIS.
As if that wasn’t bad enough the bent media went bananas about Trump assasinating Iranian terrorism facilitators, now they hypocritically cheer on Biden for doing a great deed.
https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/a-caliph-without-a-caliphate-the-biography-of-isiss-new-leader/
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I listened to Stephen Pinkers episode 2 of his series about critical thinking
‘Look at us we are cool Thinkers ! If you don’t believe in Climate change you aren’t a Thinker !
.. Here’s a list of logical fallacies ”
… OK that’s good
Then one of their cosy panel said
‘Yeh Bob at Bob’s climate blog is nothing compared to a real expert
you have to weight the OPINIONS of experts higher’
No, that is the fallacy of Argument from Authority
FFS In the old days at a skeptic meeting, there were these old timer guys who explained the rules of science
and how you can defeat a bad argument with logic
.. Then skeptic science groups got trendy and new kids came along
they liked disproving arguments, but not the work so they latched on to saying “yeh that guy’s argument is bad, cos here’s an expert who disagrees with him’
FFS that is not how proper argument works
The common example is that in the Emperor’s New Clothes story
It is the small boy that gives the truth., that the Emperor is naked
and the experts, the courtiers ..that ail to state the truth.
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GB News on BBC impartiality in general and Emily Maitlis in particular.
(The idiotic Martin Bell defends them, sadly but predictably.)
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Vlad
Thanks for putting that up – poor old Martin bell reminded me of corporal jones a bit when he was claiming legitimacy because he had ‘put his life on the line for the bbc ‘ by getting paid to be a tourist at other peoples’ wars – such as Serbia with Christians versus Muslims war number 10 ?
Anyway – he seemed to mount a defence of himself more than the evil institution he now vainly tries to justify – but I suppose he still gets the occasional ‘commission ‘ and pension so he would favour his BBC wouldn’t he .
He didn’t challenge the bias allegations either …..
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So sweet.
Tell it McOften Enough.
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Does that mean he has to sleep with crankie …?
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Please! Not an image anyone needs at this time of night!
You’ve ruined Mrs EP’s evening!
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Or even Mrs EJ’s, oops.
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Hope not, given the horrifying consequences of accuracy and curiosity, to be fair.
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“Four senior aides to Boris Johnson resign from No 10”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60253231
What’s all this really about ?
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Boris gave them a choice, resign or be sacked my guess!
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Well the results for the Southend By election are in and I can only say it was a complete humiliation for Ukip and other conservative parties. While the Cons won as we knew they would, second place went to the Psychedelic Party. A joke party. Ukip came in third with a grand total of 400 votes or 2.7 %. Wow! what a bunch of plonkers. There was a chance for them to capitalize on the unusual circumstances and they blew it. The kindest thing to do would be to euthanaze the pathetic remnant of a once dynamic movement.
The English Democrats were next with 320 votes which is 2,2%
In fourth place .
To my surprise Jayda Fransen manged 5th placewith 299 votes which is only twenty one votes behind the EDs
Of course we are dealing with miniscule amounts here but I would like to point out that the combined vote of the four right wing candidates is over 1200 which would have been not such a bad result. In fact if they had combined their resources behind a single candidate the result would have been much higher. People are looking for a competent alternative. when will these prima donnas coalesce into a formidable force?
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YD,
“….. and I can only say it was a complete humiliation for Ukip and other conservative parties.”
Not surprising to me at all. The sheeple need a strong jolt, a massive wake-up call. My view is that only a war or massive insurrection will do it. I favour the former, the latter needs a common purpose and that’s impossible. Just imagine conscription with the former? All the Indian/Pakistani/Middle Eastern/African/East European airlines will be completely booked with one-way tickets out. Commandos will raid the Dover rubber boat storage facility to enable the thousands to exit the UK.
I can dream…………..
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Whoopi suspended for 2 weeks for Holocaust racism
but she has “Liberal privilege” so won’t get cancelled like righties do for minor speech crimes.
She might even quit in rage
.. and then the liberal machine “will make her the new head of CNN”
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ITV local news : last night
another Amani Khani long 4 minute item on Ash Dieback
Today the item mentioned the point
“If we are to tackle climate change we have to stop forests dying”
They then went a local grower who said that Britain is planting trees, but is not set up to provide enough of it’s own saplings, so most are imported from abroad, mainly Holland.
The prog then went on about how it was important to police the borders to stop BAD TREES coming in
… So libs are in favour of policing the borders on some things !
.
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ITV local news reported the local crime
– “*Man* charged with murders of Janis Kozlovskis and Ryan Theobald in Doncaster”
Down the page it gave the name as Amrit Jhagra
..looks like a Pakistani name.
Guess did the story use a photo of him, or of the white victims ?
– Man charged with murder of 88 yo pensioner Freda Walker who she died of head injuries and obstructed airways following an alleged attack on her and her husband at their home
… Vasile Culea
..Guess where that name come from ?
.. Romania normally.
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How the BBC describe Savile:
‘Savile was a serial sexual abuser who attacked hundreds of women and children at locations including hospitals, schools and the BBC.’
Oh dear BBC, how typically economical with inconvenient truths. Another massive lie by omission. Again. Let me help:
‘Savile was a serial sexual abuser who attacked hundreds of women and children at locations including hospitals and schools while working for the BBC. Who knew what he was doing but covered it up.’
There. Fixed it for you.
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Re BBC plus ca change…
Female BBC worker ‘was raped’ on set of Stacey Dooley’s BBC Three cooking show Hungry For It
The incident is alleged to have happened in September during filming for show
A source told the Sun the attacker forced themselves on the female victim
City of London Police said the evidence in the case is currently being reviewed
BBC Studios, who made the show, said they were not commenting on incident
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10474215/Female-BBC-worker-raped-set-Stacey-Dooleys-BBC-Three-cooking-show.html
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See.. an anonymous Beeboid says they are not commenting.
Moving on…
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“Southend West by-election”
More of the same.
I am very sorry to say this but the present Tory government are running this once great, country like a bunch of schoolboys. We are facing a war with Russia and have a potential fifth column of thousands landing on our beaches each day. An enemy that is met by being housed in four star hotel accommodation . At the same time we have an energy crisis while we are sitting on a huge energy source ,
You just could not make it up!
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One can understand the low turnout (24%) but, sadly, a chance missed to vote for someone/anyone other than one of the ‘main’ parties.
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Seems the American Bookseller has not left, and is taking on the JonDon slot as the Egyptian is busy near to Tonga,
The BBC Downunder Moaning Emole…
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Australia – a country changed by Covid
It was the final full day of our summer holiday – January is the August of the southern hemisphere – and our friend had returned to the beach, in the golden hour of the late afternoon, to capture a few last snapshots.
By then, the sands had largely emptied. The sea looked too rough to swim in. But over the crash of the incoming waves, she could hear the anguished cries of a swimmer out at sea, who was obviously caught in a rip tide.
The woman looked like she was about to be swallowed by the swirling currents. But the closest lifeguard on duty was a mile away. So my friend called her husband on the phone – I was with him at the time – and told him to hurry down with his surfboard.
Not for one moment did he hesitate. He raced to the shore in what seemed like a flash. Then out he paddled, into the cauldron of a churning sea, to pluck the stranded woman from the ocean.
In my naivety, I thought that the moment he pulled her onto his surfboard was the endpoint of the drama. But in many ways his struggle was only just beginning.
Read full story >
Nick Bryant
BBC News
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‘News’. Apparently. Didn’t click the link. Guessing… it was St. Jac claiming asylum?
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“BBC Three relaunched on Tuesday night after six years off-air, when it was available only via the streaming video iPlayer service.
The decision to bring it back to TV — at a cost of £80 million — is quite extraordinary.
Even The Guardian, where criticism of the BBC is regarded as thought-crime, has called the scheme ‘a huge and probably futile gamble’. ”
On its opening night, the spotlight shone on Cherry Valentine, a 28-year-old drag artiste from Darlington who grew up in a Traveller family.
Cherry was the subject of an hour-long documentary, Gypsy Queen And Proud, about her ‘identity’ as a gay performer.
‘Identity’ is the BBC’s favourite buzzword, a shorthand for everything to do with race, sexuality, gender and self-esteem.
The bitter irony is that BBC Three has no identity at all. With its outmoded ‘yoof’ agenda and acres of sports coverage shored up with repeats, its schedule looks like the contents of the wastepaper basket at Radio Times.”
“It’s the broadcasting equivalent of a church hall disco, where the music is chosen by the vicar. Restoring BBC Three to the Freeview box makes as much sense as restarting the Radio 1 Roadshow with ‘Kid’ Jensen.”
Presiding at the relaunch party on Tuesday night were Radio 1 DJs Clara Amfo and Greg James — a bloke in his late 30s.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10474675/BBC3-appealing-young-church-hall-disco-waste-80m-revive-it.html
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‘Some of the finest bbc journalism’ does not mean what she thinks it does.
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And… yes… of course….
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Like most normal citizens, I look as Ed Miliband as a Grade 2 listed nobody, but reading a recent poll in one of the rags, 90% of the respondents didn’t want Sunak as PM!
Had I voted that would be 90.001%…
Rishi, if you put up my pension then I stay the same, when you steal it, I just have one less glass of red a week, but you’ll never get my vote again, and that goes for the rest of your mob!
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ABC slammed for suspending Whoopi Goldberg for Holocaust remark but firing Roseanne for offensive tweet
Roseanne was fired by ABC over a controversial tweet in 2018
Roseanne was fired for making a joke on Twitter but ABC said they don’t accept apologies. Whoopi downplayed the Holocaust and she gets a slap on the wrist. Double Standards Right ??”
“Roseanne Barr was declared a social reject, was fired from her TV show, branded a racist, and offered no time to ‘reflect’.” Actor Daniel Bostic tweeted. “There was no chance of redemption. She was taken out. Whoopi Goldberg gets a two week suspension and Hollywood pretends like they’re being fair. Joke.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/abc-slammed-suspending-whoopi-goldberg-holocaust-remark-firing-roseanne-offensive-tweet
Barr added that she believes ABC took her off the air in part due to her vocal support of then-President Donald Trump.
“All of Hollywood, they just hate him and they hate those of us who like him,” Barr said. “There is no way around it. So, yeah, I think they took me off because I liked him and I like him because I’m a Jew and he likes Israel.”
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Since Brexit and Trump, my opinion of the Left has evolved to where I consider them to be shallow, greedy, nasty, spiteful hypocrites.
But their most outstanding characteristic is/(are?) their shameless double-standards.
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When most of the lefties ‘work’ as cervical serpents, or are paid by the state, they’ll always hate people who actually create the wealth which pays them, and ‘work’ tirelessly to eliminate the culture of self-management..
As there are far too many in these soft ‘jobs’, which back in my younger days, were prize positions taken by men and women who were worthy of the public which they were proud to serve, we’ll get even more ads in the granuiad for diversity wasters, and lgbjdghfyr77 fanatics.
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As Beff and Laura and BS wet their knickers about middle management clowns getting the shaft, whoever the BBC has left in America appears to have missed something…
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I like Kamala and Joe.
They highlight the extreme bias and double standards of the BBC perfectly.
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Certainly they seem very much bbc kind of people.
Maybe Sopes, Nick and Katty can fly back for a Potter style reunion Americast, without irony. Or BS.
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Another comment suggests she reads Guido. Had to hurt.
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Ouch…
Bloody ouch!
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Sopes actually goes full QED.
What is thicker than mince?
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“Sarah Smith left to take Jon Sopel’s highly prestigious job in the US”
So what the hell is Jon Sopel’s actual role ?
Chief campaigner against politicians BBC doesn’t like ?
..They used him to campaign against Trump for 4 years
Then cos they’re not interested in attacking Biden, they bring Sopel back to the UK and use him be in their campaign against Boris.
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You know when you feel you are not being told the whole story about something ? I wondered if The number 10 types who left yesterday were responsible for getting nut nut in the position of breaking his Chinese virus laws?
They’d have known he doesn’t do detail and should have protected him and number 10 .
Also – are these characters the main subject of police investigations ? Have they been named in the full Gray report ? Again we don’t know .
Yes I know it’s really a bubble story but the end line is a full on socialist corbyn type government and a de – brexit …rejoining the Reich …
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Fedup2….
Sky political correspondent is actually saying that this is a fall out from the Sue Gray report and there departures were inevitable with possibly more to follow.
Of course that’s not the line the BBC are taking, they are calling it ” Downing Street free fall”.
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Absolutely, Fed!
Cervical serpents will also have to leave, but they’ll get ‘jobs’ elsewhere in some dreary diversity vegan management group for the illiterate – they’ll have some experience from being in Downing St in the first place…
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Dafydd / Scroblene
Although I’m limited in exposure to the msm – I mainly use either RT or GBNews – the drive the BBC has against nut nut really is part of the brexit . Charter battle .
After all nut nut has run policies the bbc should love – green crap – money tree – NHS love in – yet it still wants him gone despite he becoming a lefty in blue with his horror wife …
Cummings has had a free ride in his campaign to disorder the current regime – anyone might think he’d taken a bung from the Chinese …..
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I’ve had a chance to listen to RT for long periods this week, (Painting bathroom), and I’m really impressed!
When the bbc eventually gets kicked into touch, they must be one of the best go-tos for real unbiased news!
Can’t wait!
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Scroblene
At least with RT you know what you are getting – and can decipher the propaganda after exposure to years of Sloppy BBC stuff .
I think RT is funny when it ‘tries it on’ whereas in the days when I listened to the BBC it would just be an ‘eye roll ‘ and off switch …
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And the next award for Bryanteseque hyperbole…
BBC News
Allison Fluke-Ekren, who allegedly led an Islamic State squadron, was once a doe-eyed Kansas schoolgirl.
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“They’re on your six, Wing Commander Bambi!”
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Southend West by-election: Anna Firth wins seat for Tories
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-60254176
This is the by-election after the murder of David Amess by Muslim terrorist (which is not mentioned).
Compare with ‘… after Ms Cox was murdered by a far-right extremist in Birstall, part of the constituency, in 2016.’ they used for the Southend West election.
The BBC see fit to use all their resources to describe 2 specific spoilt ballot papers saying:
One featured the comment “Boris do a Brexit – get out”, while another member of the electorate scrawled “Get Boris out”.
Then later ace BBC reporter ‘Simon Deadman’ decided we needed to be told again about 2 spoilt ballots and wrote:
Some chose to write messages including “Boris do a Brexit – get out” – a sign that events in Westminster have played out here at the polls.
The magic, unspecified BBC ‘some …’ again to infer many. Unfortunately for liar Simon, we already learned it was just one.
Absolutely pathetic.
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Ironically – the action of the bbc – which is so transparent in getting revenge for brexit – might be the very thing that saves him –
However the power it has to shape the opinion of people who use it might be irresistible for weak minded self serving back benchers / remainer traitors looking for advancement from a new PM patrol .
Talking of remainer traitors – I see Teresa mst has sent the boy ‘gavin barwell ‘ out to throw poison about again . How he ever got a conservative seat is beyond me …
Must be a mason or something
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I’ve often wondered about the masons in the Beeb, Fed!
The police and clergy are high up in the membership, but I can never work out if masons like lefties, or lefties like masons!
Coming from a construction working life, I never really bothered to find out, although one company dance I went to , wearing my trouser leg rolled up, certainly buggered my chances for promotion…
I used to live in a pub during the week, when The Buffalos had their meetings, but they were all ‘working types’, so wouldn’t qualify for the BBC, but would have been too good for the corridors of W1AA!
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Isn’t it a shame that a non conventional candidate didn’t win ? Surely it is time …?
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They have no chance. Anyone who might upset the applecart is assasinated by the MSM and especially the BBC who seem to think it’s fine for them to cancel anyone on the right – such as GB news, Nigel and Trump – completely.
How’s that for ‘impartial and unbiased’ ?. As nobody ever questions it, I also assume the entire establishment is in on it, including OFCOM.
This is how revolutions start. We are entering a period of public discontent as the government starts raking the money in after COVID. Who knows what might happen.
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The bear, the dragon and healthy profits
The freebie Metro – which acts as news wing for its big corporate and government agency advertisers who pay its rent – makes a semi admission this morning:
‘Payback time as we emerge from pandemic‘ – let me just rectify that slightly misshapen headline… Payback time as we emerge from the governmental reaction to what they like to call the pandemic.
The formerly patriotic Times likewise takes up the theme of our economic woes: ‘Britons facing biggest drop in living standards‘
And the Express: ‘Tighten your belts… Britain in grip of biggest squeeze ever‘
The Sun which so often cleverly and most economically catches the mood simply says: ‘Ouch!‘
The globalist FT has globalism on its mind: ‘Wake-up call. It’s time for the west to tackle poorer nations’ debt pile‘
One wonders whether the FT now includes Britain in the poorer nations club: ‘Household budgets suffer biggest blow in three decades‘
Gosh, I wonder what could have caused that?
Look on the bright side – UK living standards are rapidly levelling-down toward equality with the developing world.
We could blame the Ruskies: ‘Ukraine tensions: US alleges Russian plot to fake invasion pretext‘ (BBC) – au contraire, seems to me it’s the west that has manufactured the threat of a Russian invasion. China’s threat to invade Taiwan looks far more serious and imminent a threat – once they have fully digested Hong Kong and got these Olympics over and done with: ‘Beijing Olympic sponsors accused of ignoring Uyghur plight‘ – apparently we’re happy to poke the bear but are afraid of the dragon’s bite.
We could justifiably blame big oil: ‘Shell to boost returns to investers… high energy prices produced a strong fourth quarter and healthy full-year earnings‘ (FT)
The BBC used to justify its apparent lefty slant in its political news stories because the press was THE TORY PRESS.
How does the game alter when the likes of the Daily Mail come out guns blazing against Boris?
‘Meltdown in Downing Street. Rishi puts knife into PM and won’t rule out No 10 bid‘ (Daily Mail)
The BBC just can’t help themselves. In coverage of the Southend by-election we get this snide aside: ‘The Press Association news agency said it had seen a number of the spoilt ballot papers containing messages directed against Prime Minister Boris Johnson. One featured the comment “Boris do a Brexit – get out”, while another member of the electorate scrawled “Get Boris out”. Mr Johnson is under scrutiny over the “partygate” controversy following gatherings at Downing Street during lockdowns, while four of his senior aides resigned on Thursday.‘
I wonder if at the Batley and Spen by-election in 2016, held in similar circumstances after Labour MP Jo Cox was killed, the PA spied any spoilt ballots with rude comments about her stance on Brexit or immigration causing the BBC to breathlessly report and sympathetically contextualise them?
The FT’s Datawatch feature is where lefty survey nerds gather to enjoy bashing conservatism: ‘Judgement on Johnson. How well is he doing his job?‘ – is the vital statistical data point today. What, no economic data to watch today?
To the Guardian’s culture corner where lefties go to enjoy artists bashing conservatism: ‘Mitski, the US’s best young songwriter: “I’m a black hole where people dump their feelings” Her songs can make you doubt what love, happiness and stability are even for‘ – If Adele tends to give you the hump (which she does me) then this girl… on the basis of that introduction… I’d rather stick pins in my ears, but I suppose we ought to learn a little more about why the Gruan gives her the big up.
‘With songs about heartbreak and capitalism, the cult pop singer is on the brink of the mainstream – but the intensity of her fandom has her fearing for her safety‘ – to quote that old Dragon’s Den catchphrase – for those reasons… I’m out!
Does it ever occur to readers hereabouts how the mainstream propagates, panders to and embraces anti-capitalist culture to its heart? Funny that.
Oh well, capitalism gave us our vaccine utopianism: ‘Javid: Cancer vaccine at heart of 10-year plan‘ (Telegraph) – just don’t ask him whether they will work or not?
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This logic needs explaining further.
Not by the bbc, or its shrieking harpie gofer.
Is this a way of getting in the notion that when everyone doesn’t watch the bbc, the tvl can go down but that’s cool as it will go straight to their pension shortfalls instead of programming?
Maybe Springster and Paul Mason could do a special… “It’s A Right Wing Plot! Stupid!”
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We know, don’t we?
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‘The proles are not human beings,’ he said carelessly. ‘By 2050 — earlier, probably — all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron — they’ll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually changed into something contradictory of what they used to be. Even the literature of the Party will change. Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like “freedom is slavery” when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.’
https://orwell.ru/library/novels/1984/english/en_p_1
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Mogg laughs!
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Funny thing is, she is going to be playing Whoopi in the biopic ‘Black Beauty, the Jewish Years’.
It’s a light role for an actress of her heft.
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Justin Trudeau to play Nelson Mandela as a bi sexual leader.
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How about the black actress who played Ann Boleyn apologise for denying a white actress the opportunity of playing a white historical character.
Or how about any number of historical novels that have been televised by the BBC (and others) and populated, incongruously, by numerous black actors who were shoehorned into white roles. I’m thinking particularly of Trollope and Dickens. I’m pretty sure Tiny Tim’s mum wasn’t black and David Copperfield certainly wasn’t Asian.
Ethnic actors are massively over represented on TV, especially historical programmes. They weren’t at The Battle of Hastings. Very few darker skinned people took part in the evacuation from Dunkirk. And as far as I’m aware, none took part in The Battle of Britain.
Mind you, when it comes to Crime Watch…
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The Bbbc aren’t giving this much attention at all. Nothing new in the political tensions I suppose, and it is of little immediate interest to the vast majority of the rest of the UK, but does it in anyway reflect too badly on their beloved EU?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-60243296
This article might help to explain wider-held Unionist opinion, an almost total sense of betrayal and of being sold-out by the Government, why we have come to this. A point of principle perhaps? An alien concept to those at the Bbbc and most of those in politics.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9451163/EU-fanned-flames-division-Northern-Ireland-says-historian-RUTH-DUDLEY-EDWARDS.html
The Bbbc are much more comfortable with, and regard with much more significance, this sort of shite. (Which is why I haven’t had a licence for 18 months and neither watch nor listen to any of their output).
“The LGBT history you probably didn’t learn in school”.
I won’t provide the link but it’s a Newsbeat headline, aimed at children of course. Firstly, I never learned any such history in school, nor have my kids. Nobody I know ever has.
And secondly, even though they are an Associate Professor of History at Nottingham University, I won’t be taking heed of any research on this matter by someone called Harry Cocks.
Fnarr, fnarr.
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“The LGBT history you probably didn’t learn in school”.
Many societies throughout history have practised slavery, and Muslim societies were no exception.
It’s thought that as many people were enslaved in the Eastern slave trade as in the Atlantic slave trade.
It’s ironic that when the Atlantic slave trade was abolished the Eastern trade expanded, suggesting that for some Africans the abolition of the Atlantic trade didn’t lead to freedom, but merely changed their slave destination.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/slavery_1.shtml
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The other little tit bit they don’t like to mention is that there are no descendants of the black eastern slave for one very simple reason, the men were all fully castrated .
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Recalling Africa’s harrowing tale of its first slavers – The Arabs – as UK Slave Trade Abolition is commemorated
https://newafricanmagazine.com/16616/
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Tory manifesto – net zero by 2050.
Orwell 1984 – newspeak implemented by 2050.
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‘The proles are not human beings,’ he said carelessly. ‘By 2050 — earlier, probably — all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron — they’ll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually changed into something contradictory of what they used to be. Even the literature of the Party will change. Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like “freedom is slavery” when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.’
https://orwell.ru/library/novels/1984/english/en_p_1
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Reaching Net Zero by 2050 with investment in clean energy solutions and green infrastructure to reduce carbon emissions and pollution.
https://www.conservatives.com/our-plan
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order-order.com “Rishi Sunak over the Chancellor’s snub to the PM at last night’s press conference: “I wouldn’t have said it”.”
Rishi is nicer than Boris – ha ha ha ha!
Rishi has a bottomless money pit.
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Radio 4 are actually promoting on Facebook their Beff Blonde tribute act saying the same thing over and over again to the Chancellor, politely pointing out what he is in charge of and there to talk about, rather than the awards committee voices in her peroxide addled skull cavity.
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HINDU EXTREMISM, RACISM AND THE OPPRESSION OF MUSLIMS UNDER MODI
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From the BBC’s print outlet, the Guardian, is an article about Tory far right rhetoric.
I don’t subscribe to the Guardian but read articles for free in the loony left facebook pages. This article is leading in today’s Unite against fascism FB page – you know it, a trot outfit of which David Cameron was a founder member.
A sample
‘The recent history of Tories flirting with far-right rhetoric
Boris Johnson was rebuked for bringing up Jimmy Savile in relation to the Labour leader. It brings back memories of other incidents
Nadine Dorries and Suella Braverman
Nadine Dorries shared a Tommy Robinson tweet and Suella Braverman used the loaded phrase ‘cultural Marxism’.
Keir Starmer’s accusation at prime minister’s questions on Wednesday that Boris Johnson was “parroting” conspiracy theories of fascists is not the first time that members of the current government and its backbenchers have faced such claims about their language.’
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/02/tories-far-right-rhetoric?fbclid=IwAR1jD07UE40UAYQHwMIXjLPPnkt-VSrYxPG7yA7oDXxFb6GgHsO_OHCcNvM
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Labour conference: Deputy leader Angela Rayner doubles down on Tory ‘scum’ comments – as minister criticises ‘absolutely appalling’ attack
“Vile taunts of the ‘kinder, gentler’ Left: They reached for the smelling salts over Boris’s ‘insults’. But when it comes to abuse, here’s the proof Labour and its cohorts are as bad as anyone else
‘I should have come down here with a bat and smashed your face in.’
Former Shadow International Development Secretary Kate Osamor talking last year to a reporter from The Times who had asked her for a comment on a story about her employing her son in her parliamentary office. She threw a bucket of water over the reporter, told him to ‘f*** off’ and rang the police to accuse him of stalking her.
‘The day that… you are hurting us more than you are helping us, I won’t knife you in the back, I’ll knife you in the front.’
Labour MP Jess Phillips on Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 — using violent language in spite of condemning John McDonnell for using it. Yesterday, she criticised the Prime Minister for using language that inflamed ‘hatred and division’.
‘Just watched The Riot Club and it’s genuinely left me wanting to burn every single Oxford college to the ground… preferably with every single Tory MP inside one at the time. The Conservative Party is a cancer on this country.’
Labour councillor Owen Collins, writing earlier this month. He later apologised.
You can f*** all the way off. Then, just when you think you’ve f***** off as much as it’s possible to f*** off, I’m gonna need you to dig deep and f*** off a little bit more.’
Kerry-Anne Mendoza, editor of the Corbyn-supporting Canary website, responding to a suggestion by Tony Blair’s former spin doctor Alastair Campbell that he might return to Labour following his expulsion earlier this year.
‘There was a whole group in the audience that completely kicked off … they were arguing, ‘Why are we sacking her? Why aren’t we lynching the bitch?’ ‘
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, discussing a ‘sack Esther McVey day’ organised in 2014 by Labour activists opposed to the then Cabinet minister. Fellow Labour MP Jess Phillips said the comments were ‘utterly despicable’.
‘It’s about time we started honouring those people involved in the armed struggle. It was the bombs and bullets and sacrifice made by the likes of Bobby Sands that brought Britain to the negotiating table. The peace we have now is due to the action of the IRA.’
John McDonnell again, using his blog to ‘honour’ IRA terrorists in 2015.
‘My answer is hate… make the Left hate again. I’m full of hate these days.’
Dr Paolo Gerbaudo, a lecturer at King’s College, London, at a conference of Corbyn-supporting Momentum in 2017.
‘Mr Cameron has known pain and failure in his life but it has always been limited failure and privileged pain… had he been trying to get the system to look after a dying parent rather than a dying child, he might have understood a little of the damage that his policies have done.’
Guardian editorial published online this month. After an outcry, the words were removed and the paper apologised. But it was not the first time a Guardian writer had used the death of David Cameron’s son Ivan to score political points.
‘Sit down, you c***.’
Andrew Stafford, a longstanding Labour councillor in Enfield, North London, speaking to a young Conservative during a 2015 debate. He apologised but rejected calls to step down.
Drive-by shooting.’
Deputy Leader Tom Watson at the Labour conference this week, responding to Jon Lansman’s attempt to abolish his position.
‘They don’t understand English irony.’
Jeremy Corbyn, discussing ‘British Zionists’ in 2013. The Chief Rabbi described the Labour leader’s comments as the most disgraceful made by a senior politician since Enoch Powell’s infamous ‘rivers of blood’ speech in 1968.
‘[David Cameron] uses stories about his dead son as misty-eyed rhetoric to legitimise selling our NHS to his friends.’
Guardian commentator and food writer Jack Monroe in a 2014 tweet. She was disowned by Sainsbury’s as the face of an advertising campaign but insisted: ‘I stand by comment the PM uses his experience.’
‘We will have a hell of a time. We will have comedians on and bands and we are going to enjoy ourselves. There will be a lot of men wanting to have a drink and celebrate.’
David Hopper, General Secretary of the Durham Miners’ Association, speaking after the death of Lady Thatcher in 2013.
‘He surrendered to the Brexit Party and he’s ready to surrender our NHS to Donald Trump.’
Frances O’Grady, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), talking about Boris Johnson in her speech to the TUC earlier this month. Not very offensive in itself, yet it uses the same word — ‘surrendered’ — which Labour MPs yesterday claimed was ‘inflammatory’ when the Prime Minister himself used it.
‘People often ask us what it is that makes us tick — it’s Boris Johnson’s head upon a stick, stick, stick.’
A mob of Left-wing supporters holding signs demanding ‘Tories out’ in a video published online last month.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7509345/When-comes-abuse-heres-proof-Labour-cohorts-bad-else.html
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‘The thickest bog trotting fish wife combined with the death screech of a castrated cat.’
Yes, it was Lyse Doucet on Desert Island slipped discs’.
I was facinated by her comment at 2:37s
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0013yzs
‘Where is the Syrian Story or Afgan story, it’s down our streeet’, etc. It sure is..!
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Looks like someone has set fire to her face and put it out with a shovel
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For fans of Gary Linacker – he had twittered a picture of the result of his covid test after returning from SA on BA42 . …
The C and the T are positive- for which he says sorry to the flight –
Some wag commented by saying “ i ll have a U and an N please carol’ ….
Get well Gary … …..
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Couldn’t have happened to a nicer person.😀
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Nicola Sturgeon has a genius new plan to improve ventilation in schools and crack down on Covid: hack the bottom off classroom doors. To the tune of £300,000, the Scottish government plans to “improve the natural flow of air” by taking an axe to over 2000 “problematic” class doors over the next few months, all in the name of the SNP’s “common sense” long-term plan to protect pupils from Covid. A move which Sturgeon dubbed the “basic rectification of the structure of classrooms”…
order-order.com
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why not remove top as well?
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MM,
“why not remove top as well?”
And/or create circulation………..
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Open the window boy!
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And this nutter runs the Country, God help the Scots!
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Presenting a fashion show for cougars with that peroxide victim in the cubicle gardens who forked out £200 for a coat plus EU surcharge?
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Pug,
Course corrections are impossible once the course has been set.
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BBC Comedy.
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Lest any doubt linger the BBC are well beyond a joke and halfway to the B Ark planet with fresh stocks of tissues.
BBC News
The rugby sides are set to play in red and green kits for Saturday’s Six Nations game, which can be hard to tell apart for colour blind people.
A comment:
“This has been the case for very many years. Why is it suddenly a problem this time around?”
A mystery indeed.
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Surprised it was mentioned, as Daltonism affects men about twenty times as much as women.
22,000 journalists to come up with drivel like this. Surely in Rugby the team face each other 99% of the time.
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@Harry “come up with ?”
More likely the beeboids sat on their arse and then when a Charity press release comes in they cutNpaste it
Who does this story quote ?
“… said Kathryn Albany-Ward, founder of Colour Blind Awareness.”
See how other media run this same story
… https://twitter.com/iPaperSport/status/1489146644012670976
The charity have put out 50 tweets in the last 3 days about the issue
.. BTW if one side wears black shorts it’s easy to tell the difference.
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Brad Pitt as Nelson Mandela in a new movie about colour.
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Because they have no friends outside the studio?
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I’m alright Jack
“Tube users face MORE strike chaos: RMT union calls for 24-hour walkout on March 1 and March 3 over ‘financial crisis engineered by the government’
Rail, Maritime and Transport union says around 10,000 of its members will walk out on March 1 and March 3
Union wants assurances over jobs, pay, pensions and working conditions amid fears of cuts in TfL funding
RMT boss Mick Lynch blames Government today for causing financial issues at TfL to ‘drive a cuts agenda’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10476063/RMT-union-calls-24-hour-Tube-strike-March-1-March-3.html
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DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Self-inflicted misery of our energy insanity
“How unnecessary this is. For Britain sits on an energy goldmine. We have vast unexploited reserves of oil, gas and shale. And we had the chance to expand nuclear power.
But hypnotised by the apocalyptic alarmism of eco-activists, our politicians have pursued an aggressive green agenda, shunning these abundant power sources.
It means we are left at the mercy of unreliable renewables and importing high-priced energy to stop the lights going out.
While Boris Johnson burnishes his credentials by recklessly committing to go further, faster, than anyone else to net zero – causing great suffering to consumers and businesses – China continues building coal-fired power stations, adding a UK’s-worth of carbon dioxide emissions every year.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10475187/DAILY-MAIL-COMMENT-Self-inflicted-misery-energy-insanity.html
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“Why are we paying billions to import all this energy when we are sitting on our own goldmine? ROSS CLARK analyses Britain’s idle energy reserves as we face soaring bills
As British households worry about keeping warm, Americans remain happy
In the US, electricity prices average $0.15 per kWh but $0.28 per kWh in Britain
America escapes the whims of international market by exploiting gas reserves
Europe and the UK now find themselves trapped in a perilous price hike”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10474649/ROSS-CLARK-analyses-state-Britains-energy-reserves-face-soaring-bills.html
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