299 Responses to Weekend 5 February 2022

  1. BRISSLES says:

    I could have written the following, as they were my thoughts exactly when watching the reports……..

    Amanda Platell in today’s D/Mail writes..

    “BBC NEWS has been running several interviews with families who say they have to choose between heating and eating to survive. This is a delicate issue but I would be more convinced if some of the interviewees did not seem to have a Body Mass Index of more than 30 ”

    One woman in her 20’s, pasty complexion with spots, and literally bursting out of her velvet track suit, even said that sitting with a hot water bottle under a blanket she was still cold. Where do they find these people ????? They NEVER interview those who are hard up but enjoy cooking meals from scratch that are eked out over a couple of days. Not many 20 stone pensioners in my area – but I do see them hanging around the supermarket freezer when prices are being reduced. No Deliveroo for them.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Brissles – dear – I heard one of these ‘accounts ‘ where a lady was explaining that she had both cut down on her heating and also her food intake because she had become unemployed .

      The BBC droid seemed to think this was a bad thing – but surely losing weight is good ? And in BBC world cutting down on using power ( fossil fuels ) is also ‘good ‘….

      I suppose their small minds are so busy trying to get the government blamed for everything that they miss that .

      We must be due for ‘energy banks ‘ where cold people can go to warm up ….
      The ‘independence ‘ gene seems to be rapidly being bred out of Blighty ….

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Fed, energy banks – Public Lending Libraries and Community Centres. If I heard that specific BBC vox pop and it was the same as yours (TWatO yesterday?), the woman was obviously willing to work but once unemployed felt that everything should be handed to her on a plate. As you correctly observe: “The ‘independence ‘ gene seems to be rapidly being bred out of Blighty ….”

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Up2
        I have to be careful because I am not currently poor – but nor am I ‘rich ‘ . I didn’t grow up in a ‘benefits ‘ home . There was no inherited wealth but nor did my parents expect the state to ‘provide ‘. They just worked hard .

        So listening to benefits dependants – with no drive to sort their lives out without the state – is painful . I realise I am ‘out of my time ‘ and might fall into the ‘working class Tory ‘ classification but that doesn’t trouble me .

        What does upset me is the constant BBC indoctrination of entitlement and blame and no personal responsibility .
        It’s one of the reasons I spend time and effort with this site .

        You were correct in identifying the propaganda piece I described ….

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    • Zephir says:

      Probably the same as this lot:

      Ex-Tory councillor who said NHS A&Es are ‘full of fat mums in Pot Noodle-stained leggings taking their kids for a day out to harvest Facebook likes because their darling little snot-covered Asbo fell over’ is suspended for bullying teacher

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10464429/Ex-Tory-councillor-suspended-bullying-teacher.html

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      • StewGreen says:

        That whole bit “made comments on Twitter, calling A&E patients “fat mums in pot noodle-stained leggings”
        is not news
        All that happened last year

        This news event is a completely different matter ..
        the failure of his appeal
        about his 3 month bullying suspension
        after he bullied a teacher
        It had been recommended that sentence be reduced to 2 months
        but the committee declined, and have kept to 3 months
        The say they were totally unaware that delaying the suspension and then keeping it as 3 months, means here will be unable to stand in the May elections.
        https://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/19893656.chirk-politician-bullied-teacher-loses-bid-reduce-suspension/

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      • Fedup2 says:

        ‘Pot noodle -stained leggings ‘ – poetry …

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  2. vlad says:

    Despite Big Tech’s massive censorship and algorithm-bias, there are plenty of images and videos of peaceful demonstrators happily congregating and even dancing in Ottawa. (Click link https://fb.watch/a_pOtRweg5/)

    So which image does the unbiased BBC choose to illustrate its report on the truckers?

    2Q==

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60267840

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  3. MarkyMark says:

    Alan Dershowitz Interview
    News Channel and BBC World News, Wednesday 29 December 2021

    The interview with Alan Dershowitz after the Ghislaine Maxwell verdict did not meet the BBC’s editorial standards, as Mr Dershowitz was not a suitable person to interview as an impartial analyst, and we did not make the relevant background clear to our audience. We will look into how this happened.

    30/12/2021

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications/archive_2021/

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  4. Guest Who says:

    It’s on a loop.

    Woo. P. Doo.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Sopes on oversight?

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      • StewGreen says:

        “The left erupting, wants Joe Rogan cancelled”
        It’s ironic that all media fawned over Avenatti in 2018
        but the one show he wasn’t on was …. Joe Rogan

        He was on Tucker, but Tucker ripped him apart.

        OK there are some context issues there
        #1 Avenatti’s downfall didn’t happen now,
        It happened in July 2021 with his jailing for defrauding Nike

        (Jail that has been put off *due to Covid* FFS)
        That’s when Tucker put out the video that that tweet rips off
        .. https://youtu.be/VJtnl_lzIS4

        #2 The new news is that he will serve extra jail time
        after a jury yesterday convicted him of defrauding Stormy Daniels.

        … BTW Further extortion cases against him are in process

        #3 “seedy” ? Nah, he straight forward forged her signature and stole her book advance money, and told her i hadn’t come yet.

        It is also true that this time MSM only put out the odd short item
        whereas Fox and Newsmax were there straight after the verdict doing long items which are on YouTube.

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      • StewGreen says:

        The BBCnews item is quite straight forward
        and unusually is not used to push hate at Trump.
        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60262716

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  5. StewGreen says:

    “bur Labour say the government’s measures don’t go far enough !”
    … That’s the news programmes’ catchphrase
    .. That they could shout out whatever the topic.

    Today the topic is new internet censorship rules.

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  6. dafydd says:

    Surprisingly but interesting to read on Sky News that certain Tory ministers loyal to the PM are openly saying that they believe there is a remainer clique in the party desperately trying to tople the PM….

    Nothing on the BBC because I dare say they are in cahoots with the same said clique.

    Boris at chequers this weekend, something tells me he is going to come out fighting..

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  7. Zephir says:

    The libtard media and politicians gets it wrong yet again …

    Supporters rally around Canadian trucker convoy providing food, gas and rides
    Canadian truckers surprised by the outpour of support

    https://www.foxnews.com/world/supporters-rally-around-canadian-trucker-convoy-providing-food-gas-and-rides

    GoFundMe backtracks on redistributing money for Canadian truckers, under threat of fraud investigation

    https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/gofundme-backtracks-canadian-trucker-money-fraud-investigation-threat

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  8. StewGreen says:

    Local BBC news this morning came from the normal school playground and was read by the normal school bully gang
    I paraphrase

    #1 “That fat Boris from Tory College he smells, even Gibb says he’s not going to be his friend now !”

    #2 “That Diana Johnson from Labour Institute we like her, she’s so pretty !
    She says that there is a chance that the Hull railway might be electrified after all.”

    They kept alternating between the beginning the news with those two headlines all day.
    Even week there are always a few Diana Johnson clips

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  9. StewGreen says:

    ITV local news : “Saint Diana Johnson says that there is a chance that the Hull railway might be electrified after all.”

    “Female football college plan for Worksop College
    here’s a black girl who is the first to sign up”

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    • Guest Who says:

      BBC…

      How did a portrait painted in 1770 become a symbol for 20th century gay pride?

      ***
      Small boy in satin? Likely first in the corridors of the bbc.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Last night’s BBC local news : had the rail item with a different speaker
      but Diana Johnson and Emma Hardy were in the background all the time , taking selfies.

      ====
      Lincoln Soldiers return from mission in Mali
      .. It was not mentioned that they were fighting Muslim rebels there.

      ===========

      4 Hull students have been a sustainability living week
      .. sure this was in another item before
      student “I’ll be making sure I turn lights off ” ..Wow what an achiever !

      ==============
      “And now viewers comments, but they are far too sensible and anti-green-dream so we’ll rush through them”

      ======================

      Saturday’s local news
      A rushed 5 minutes of padding made up of items that were on the radio a few days ago

      ==================
      Sunday’s local EVENING news is on at 3:20pm
      ..That’s a bit early.

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  10. Guest Who says:

    BBC News

    The Conservative referred to the morning after pill as an “abortifacient”, but the drug does not induce abortions.

    ***
    Another from the BB… Labour attack unit.

    Luckily, offering a fire full backdraft in Scotland gets a pass.

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  11. vlad says:

    Salty’s colourful take on developments in Canada, namely the latest GoFu**Me shenanigans and a car attack on the truckers – as not reported by the biased BBC.

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    • JohnC says:

      ‘Who are holding unacceptable views that they are expressing’

      How very, very Far-Left of him.

      In the real world, it’s called fascism.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Salty is a bit over-stating as usual
      The establishment are holding back info and taking very long
      So it’s still impossible to say whether it was
      a drunk or a terrorist etc.
      Eventually about 24 hours after the incident, yesterday the police held a briefing
      They said they had caught the guy soon after and listed the charges
      however they held back from naming him .saying “the charges have not been formerly sworn to, yet”
      .. https://youtu.be/jaT1CBcIJCE
      Of course authorities wouldn’t want to provoke a violent kickback from convoy supporters etc.

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  12. Guest Who says:

    BBC News goes full BBC News.

    Isobel missed her 6th and 7th birthday parties and wants the UK prime minister to “say sorry”.

    Never go full BBC News.

    Think of the process that got that on screen.

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  13. Thoughtful says:

    Many here will remember the series Colditz BBC 1972, just re watching it and remembering what life was like back then, but as I come to the end it feels increasing like the end of Boris’s time as PM.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Thoughtful
      Colditz ( around 1974 ? ) was on ‘talking pictures ‘ not so long ago . It has aged pretty well . I don’t see a parallel . I think the media (bbc ) is trying to depict nut nut as ‘in the bunker ‘ –

      – I have fallen for that but think it is wrong because he has more support than the msm suggests – and he is a tough cookie .

      I say this despite thinking that we could do better as far as PMs is concerned but the stakes are far higher than just him as an individual …

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    • JohnC says:

      I disagree. I think that the media are lying to us about how much resentment there is to Boris. Most people broke lockdown rules at some point and in other news, the media say lockdown didn’t prevent much at all anyway. I think people aren’t that bothered about it. Certainly on the scale of importance, it’s right at the bottom.

      Their problem now is that if Boris survives, they have shot their bolt. That’s why the are increasingly desperate. Lucky for them Cummins has gone because the payback would have been ruthless. But even so, Boris can now justly replace the remainers he appointed for political reasons with Brexiteers.

      Whether he will or not is another matter. But this has the possibility of being the biggest own-goal the BBC ever scored.

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  14. vlad says:

    In yet another example of Big Tech political bias, Facebook has shut down the page of a US truckers’ protest.

    “Facebook removes ‘Freedom Convoy’ page of truckers against vax mandates.”

    https://nypost.com/2022/02/04/facebook-removes-page-of-truckers-against-vax-mandates/

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    • digg says:

      Quite coincidentally BookFace have just revealed a massive loss of equity along with collapsing use of their platform by public and therefore advertisers.

      Unable to add two and two together they blame Apple for no longer allowing Facebook to rifle through the browsing history of visitors and therefore rendering FB less able to serve up relevant ads and thus losing advertisers.

      Nothing of course to do with their nazi style blocking of anything remotely Republican and especially President Trump.

      Any sane person can figure out that there are millions of ex Facebook users who didn’t agree and so took action against the brazen left wing actions that Facebook decided to take.

      Crash and burn I say and hopefully in this Country, the BBC, Guardian and Independent will surely follow.

      They all have one thing in common, a blind ambition to cancel anyone who doesn’t think like them.

      Good luck with that!

      Maybe 2022 will be the era of the beginning of the extinction of these unsavoury dinosaurs.

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  15. Northern Voter says:

    So, last night Mrs Voter and I got home from a quiz, and she watched the Grand Opening of the Communist Olympics (she’d recorded it earlier), anyway the Mostly Black and Bent Broadcasting Corporation were gushing over the ceremony, flashing lights, fireworks, even more flashing lights, lasers and other such electrical special effects. Not one word said about where the leccy was coming from. I’ll give you a clue, it didn’t appear to be windy and it was dark, must have been produced using unicorn crap.

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  16. Up2snuff says:

    Covid stats are out bad news, deaths up by 4, sad but you would expect that in winter. Good news, infections down by almost 24,000. 🙂

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I take it the geographic distribution of infections still isn’t announced … I do wonder if stats will ever be truthful enough to be meaningful in terms of types of people affected by the Chinese virus as well as the areas of the country most affected .
      Certainly if there is a racial aspect to infection that will be suppressed unless there is a political propaganda gain to be had by socialists such as BBC editors …

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    • JohnC says:

      I think those figure must be wrong.

      I was told – by the BBC – that infections would be around 1 million per day by now.

      And two thousand deaths per day.

      Unless it was another agenda based lie ????.

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  17. ScottishCalvin says:

    A lot of senior newspaper people laying into the PM. I can only assume the other half all got an invite and know when to keep their mouth shut…

    Something I scribbled:

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  18. JohnC says:

    Woman in her 30s dies in Shoreditch bus crash
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-60271127

    ‘The woman, in her 30s, was injured in the collision and later died at the scene, the Met Police said. The force said there had been no arrests.’

    And yet another BBC report which has so much information missing, it doesn’t make sense.

    Will they report everybody who dies on our roads from now on ?. That will be 5 such reports every day.

    Or is there something about this woman or maybe what happened to her which makes it newsworthy, but they don’t want to tell us why ?.

    I have to say, I have zero confidence in anything the BBC say at this point.

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  19. BRISSLES says:

    I’m a sucker for ‘make over ‘ programmes so have just caught up with BBC2’s Your Garden Made Perfect. Well, I know prices have risen but I sat open mouthed when the budget for a small garden was £25,000 ! Jeez, it wasn’t that long ago when for that money you could expect a good single storey brick extension, and we’re talking a bit of paving and a few plants on this show. Even worse the final budget was £32,000 ! So, does half this money pay for the ‘designers’ on the programme because I don’t see a lot for the money spent. Or is it me.

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  20. Guest Who says:

    Ex bbc, iirc.

    Interesting how the left’s ‘tell it often enough’ gets engaged, and does gather momentum… but can also stall when outside its comfort zone.

    Charlie is a left Charlie. Clearly.

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  21. taffman says:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-60238344
    We have tons of this stuff underground that could supply this country with enough gas for over a hundred years without digging it out and Its not fracking.
    Stuff the Chinese, the Russians and the EU, wake up Brits !…………..
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_coal_gasification

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    • StewGreen says:

      Ooooooh can’t have coal-gasification development
      . that’s a fossil fuel …
      We have to pretend we are leading the world in abandoning fossil fuels, however practical and low CO2 they are.

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  22. taffman says:

    “Boris Johnson names two new aides after No 10 party turmoil”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60274440
    He’s floundering . It won’t be long now .

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  23. StewGreen says:

    Local paper is as bad as the BBC, cos the staff are in some grand centre 100 miles away they know nothing about the area and constantly mix things up.
    Often they don’t appreciate that Scunthorpe and Grimsby are two completely different areas.
    But from one Grimsby story I see something
    They have a story about a police woman who has been sacked for making a false complaint against a male colleague.

    The paper are not clever enough to explain that the woman 24 is a Special (volunteer) and that he is a full time officer.
    She complained, oh this strange officer had sent her an explicit video of himself.
    They asked her if she’d been in a relationship with him
    She said no . Then they got texts she’d sent to someone else saying she’d dumped him. (the officer).

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  24. vlad says:

    “Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win.”

    Author Peter Schweizer demonstrates that the Biden Crime Syndicate received at least $31 million from Chinese officials with ties to top levels of Chinese Intelligence.

    But it gets worse: The CCP has successfully pulled off what they call “elite capture” of numerous institutions in America.

    Will the BBC investigate and report this huge story, or will they keep shielding their favourite crook in the White House?

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    • Doublethinker says:

      Which must be a big part of the driver to have removed Trump because he wasn’t in China’s pocket.

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  25. Zephir says:

    My thoughts as well:

    PETER HITCHENS: If we get revolutionary Sir Keir Starmer for a decade, we’ll look at Boris Johnson’s years as a Golden Age

    “I don’t like Johnson. In fact, I think he is terrible. But here’s why I won’t join in. Because things could be a lot worse.

    By the end of his time in office, Major was just a target. Cartoonists drew him wearing his underpants outside his trousers or as a corpse surrounded by bluebottles. I can’t even remember the petty supposed scandal that dogged him through his final years.

    But there was no arguing about it. He was doomed.

    And then remember what happened when we got rid of him. The Blair Revolution irreversibly changed the country for the worse, breaking up the nation itself, raping its constitution, spending great piles of money we did not have to remarkably little effect on the public services he was supposed to be saving.

    The whole nature of life changed. The remnants of Christianity were bulldozed aside to make a new official religion of Equality and Diversity. Marriage and the traditional family were turned into eccentricities. The futile and damaging expansion of the universities raised the school leaving age to 21.

    It also put a generation in debt without actually producing more educated people. We developed the national habit of hurling ourselves into foreign wars where we had no business. These idealistic conflicts did nothing but harm.

    At the same time we gave up defending ourselves from our real enemies. A bloody terrorist dined with the Queen at Windsor Castle. And all because we thought it was time for a change and joined in with the jeering crowd.

    Well, here it comes again. Do you have any idea who Keir Starmer really is? Did you know he belonged to a Marxist faction, obsessed with Green policies and sexual revolution, well into his adulthood – and has never said he was wrong?

    Do you really think all revolutionaries look like Jeremy Corbyn? No, they look like Starmer and Blair and Mandelson, and it is that lot who are now back in the saddle in the Labour Party.

    Here’s a simple thing for you to ponder. Starmer has very little chance of getting a majority at the next Election. His only realistic route to No10 is by forming some sort of pact with Nicola Sturgeon of the SNP. She will demand a new referendum in return and Scotland could be gone from the Union within a couple of years.

    So Labour needs to devise a way to stay in office after Scotland has gone. Votes at 16? Very likely. But I think they will also want to push through major electoral reforms (the SNP won’t mind helping, they’ve done the same themselves).

    And who will be surprised if those reforms mean there is a permanent majority at Westminster for the hard Left, the sort of people who, if in power now, would have us all muzzled and locked down for the rest of our lives?

    Ten years of that and you’ll be looking back on these times as a kind of Golden Age.”

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  26. Zephir says:

    George Osborne’s biggest job yet: British Museum’s new chairman has to raise £1billion for radical modernisation project

    The proposed renovation work is part of the so-called ‘Rosetta Project’
    It is aimed at shifting the museum’s focus away from European history

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10481381/George-Osborne-seeks-1billion-British-Museums-radical-modernisation-project.html

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  27. Zephir says:

    Labour MP Jess Phillips is laughing all the way to the bank after Have I Got News for You performance earns her £15,000

    Her constituents may struggle to pay their heating costs in the coming weeks – but Labour frontbencher Jess Phillips is likely to have few concerns about her own bills.

    The MP for Yardley in Birmingham received an astonishing £15,000 to present a single edition of BBC1’s Have I Got News For You.

    The 40-year-old, who has lamented that it’s ‘awful to hear people on the doorstep saying, “You politicians are all in it for yourselves,” ’ hosted the show on December 10

    Her bumper payment arrived in time for Christmas and is recorded in the Register of Members’ Interests, which states it was in return for a mere 12 hours’ work

    ‘Scriptwriters start writing Monday lunchtime and finish on Thursday night. Normal recording time is about two to two-and-a-half hours.’

    Maybe Jess was mistaken – or perhaps she thought her constituents in Birmingham would find the idea of about £1,000 per hour more palatable than £7,500 per hour for presenting the show.

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  28. Scroblene says:

    Call me old fashioned, but with Camilla being allowed to be Queen to Charles when Her Maj pops off, what does that say to citizens who believe that the proposed Head of The Church of England never kept to the rules when he was married to Diana?

    When ‘religion’ keeps so many people on their toes these days, you’d hope that both the RC and CofE communicants could be able to stand up as truthful opponents to Islam and all its tawdry foreign bolt-ons.

    Charles was reported as philandering lots of his time before and after marrying Diana, and Camilla seems to have been doing the same to her old man, who was also ‘at it’ – and no I don’t have proof, as I’m a normal citizen, but if I was taught anything when I was a kid, it was that the Queen was in charge of the church, and BTW, ‘take my advice, don’t go putting it around’, because it’s not within church rules!

    If we’re supposed to be fighting this dreadful, murdering bunch of ‘religious’ islamists, then surely the GB example should be to strengthen our own religious foundations, not weaken them?

    Mybe a BBC ‘Thought for the day’ could challenge all this, but expect nothing of any importance, as they’re certainly part of the problem with their liberal gushings at ‘diversity’ and other rubbish.

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  29. pugnazious says:

    Remarkable how a car driven into the protestors in Canada, injuring 4 of them, is totally ignored by the BBC….unlike Charlottesville which you can find mentioned regularly still on the BBC today.

    And of course we have the old lie about Trump not condemning neo-Nazis….

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40915569

    ‘Mr Trump condemned violence by “many sides” – but stopped short of explicitly condemning the far-right.’

    Hmmm….clearly The Beauty must have missed the part where Trump said…

    ‘…the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists should be condemned totally….’

    Apparently Trump clarified later…excpt of course he was quite clear in that press conference…the BBC lies…..

    ‘The White House has since clarified in a statement that his condemnation included white supremacists.

    “The president said very strongly in his statement yesterday that he condemns all forms of violence, bigotry and hatred. Of course that includes white supremacists, KKK, neo-Nazi and all extremist groups,” a spokesperson said on Sunday.’

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  30. pugnazious says:

    Oh dear, how sad, never mind….

    ‘Emir Abdelkader: French sculpture of Algerian hero vandalised’

    French Lives Matter.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60273502

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  31. pugnazious says:

    The BBC not at all exercised by the theft of millions of dollars from the ‘Freedom Convoy’ by Big Tech….nor of course of the theft of ‘Freedom’ itself as Big Tech takes it upon itself to decide what we can and can’t say.

    I imagine if they did this to Extinction Rebellion or BLM there’d be plenty of lefty outrage…the evermore obnoxious and Stalinist Trudeau gets a free pass from the BBC whilst the Truckers are quietly smeared….

    ‘Freedom Convoy: GoFundMe seizes funds of Canada ‘occupation”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60267840

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    • theisland says:

      The ‘article’ is one day old and clearly out of date.
      You would expect someone from the hallowed bBC to be keeping half an eye on the situation, but all we get is regurgitated propaganda from the Canadian press.
      This – as with everything else it seems – is either (a) deliberate collusion to distort and/or omit the facts or (b) laziness or stupidity on the part of the beeboids.
      Perhaps the bBC is just planning to use (b) as its excuse come the final reckoning.
      “We are sorry but all the managers, editors and journalists we employed were lazy and stupid.”

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      • Scroblene says:

        No doubt Dominion are counting the ‘votes’, so the BBC will believe them anyway!

        Lazy and stupid is a perfect description, they usually get their US and Canadian stuff from CNN or Huffpo anyway, as they can’t be arsed to get a proper story out of the place! Sopes was useless, and Lurch just pathetic!

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  32. Zephir says:

    Labour Remainer MP Neil Coyle is suspended from House of Commons bars after launching a foul-mouthed anti-Brexit rant at an aide

    Labour MP suspended from House of Commons bars after he ‘foul-mouthed rant. Staunch Remainer Neil Coyle, 43, accused of bawling ‘f**k you’ at a Labour aide
    The aide was berated after he claimed Brexit had worked out ‘fine’ for the UK

    And when a Tory MP tried to intervene to calm the row, Mr Coyle allegedly replied: ‘F**k off and lose some weight.’

    https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/02/06/00/53824591-10481013-In_2020_Mr_Coyle_was_forced_to_apologise_over_a_now_deleted_twee-a-45_1644106106832.jpg

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10481013/Labour-MP-Neil-Coyle-suspended-House-Commons-pub-foul-mouthed-anti-Brexit-rant.html

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Zephir – ‘drinking in the workplace ?’ Perhaps in our puritan times it is time to close the bars in the Palace of Westminster – subsidised booze for subsidised politicians .

      I have been invited into a few of the more ‘public bars ‘ – and my nose just smelt entitlement and corruption in the ‘club ‘ …

      Maybe a side effect of the number 10 Garden nonsense will be closure – but I am sure they will look after themselves – as they always do .
      I hope this incident is treated as a ‘criminal ‘ one – again applying the high horse attitude of enemies of nut nut / brexit …

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  33. AsISeeIt says:

    Official and media fascination with pointless and what are 50% likely to be duff statistics continues in 95% of the realms of human endeavour: ‘Ukraine tensions: US sources say Russia 70% ready to invade Ukraine‘ (BBC)

    One assumes the experts have been using their computer military modelling forecasts to advise the politicians and public. Speaking of military modelling, is Airfix still a thing? Or has it been bought out by the Chinese?

    Speaking of forecasts, my layman’s theory is that this statistical tendency spread initially from our weather forecasters. Ignoring cloud formations, sea weed, etc, these days I will look at the weather app on my phone and be informed it is 80% likely to rain at a certain hour. I take an umbrella, knowing in my heart that should it remain dry and I dare challange the app makers I would be told – sorry, they were quite correct – I was in the 20% bracket of probability.

    So don’t be surprised if the Ruskies aren’t 70% ready to invade.

    You’ll need a tank division to drag me out of Downing St, Johnson tells allies‘ (Sunday Times) – luckily for Boris, Britain probably doesn’t have one of those anymore. Given the financial squeeze, I’d guess it’s 75% likely we don’t. And if we did it would only be 30% ready.

    Perhaps we ought to worry? If the Daily Star is to be believed Britain can’t keep a military secret: ‘Plan for Her Maj “to quit within year”…. We can reveal military chiefs have been ordered to prepare…‘ – Wait for it… winter steppe camo off, red-white-blue bunting on, 2-3-4!

    Orf to her bed‘ – is the Star’s slightly disrespectful main headline. Perhaps Her Maj fancies some of this civil service-style working from home furlough she’s been hearing so much about?

    Royal revelation. Camilla will be Queen‘ – claims the Mirror.

    Duchess should be given the title, says Her Majesty on the day of Platinum Jubilee‘ (Telegraph)

    I hope she has cleared that with Carrie?

    Carrie uncovered: The explosive book by LORD ASHCROFT that’s set Westminster alight – including a close friend’s claim that “Carrie is the reason Boris has squandered the chance to become a great Prime Minister”‘ (Daily Mail)

    Our Princess Nut Nut has her fans and supporters in the press: ‘Carrie Johnson: puppet master of Downing Street – or easy target?‘ (Guardian) – that claim not being based on Lord Ashcroft’s book but rather on the general Guardianista instict and outlook: ‘Some argue Boris Johnson’s wife is pulling the strings at No 10 but others note that claims contain more than a whiff of sexism

    Ah, sexism versus feminism. We’ve been fighting that battle almost as long as the Calcutta Cup has been contested. By the way, has the BBC rechristened it Kolkata Cup yet? Dare I use the word christened?

    We interrupt this press review for a quick sports report from BBC Pidgin service on the Winter Olympics: ‘Only five African kontris go dey represented for di Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics‘ – Cool Runnings.

    Where were we? Ah, feminism. The Sunday Telegraph seeks to grab our attention: ‘Get your kit off. Women are turning their backs on bras‘ – first I’ve heard of it. Could this be the government nudge unit planting press stories again? Are they keen to preserve short-supply and vital elastic stocks for NHS PPE?

    Carrie Uncovered‘ – shouts the Mail on Sunday trumpeting their exclusive on the Ashcroft book.

    Greenflation nation‘ – observes the Telegraph – ‘Why the price of net zero is too high to pay

    From my conservative standpoint I find lefty world leaders rather ridiculous. There’s Canada’s Justin Black-&-White-Minstrel-Show Trudeau who I regard as a bit of a plank. A chicken who runs away and hides from protest. Kiwi horse toothed Jacinda Ardern I view as a prissy primary school marm.

    The Left however, go for broke. From their point of view Right-leaning leaders are literally Hitler.

    Emma Smith in the Sunday Observer goes Shakespearean on the PM’s ass: ‘Johnson could be Falstaff: carnal, cheerful, pragmatic. But beneath lies something venal‘ – and she don’t refer to Carrie.

    Is this a dagger which I see before me, The point toward Boris’s neck?

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  34. Guest Who says:

    Between the eager support droid and bristling diversity hire, BBCB sounds right hoot.

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/17546755/naga-munchetty-turns-her-nose-up-at-tom-kerridge/?

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  35. Guest Who says:

    Leo and BFF Shuckster bond with their fan.

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  36. Guest Who says:

    Ben on the hunt?

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  37. Guest Who says:

    https://twitter.com/berniespofforth/status/1490243573131919360?s=21

    The BBC Politics show will need to seduce over Lammy from LBC, who has asked him in to talk about being laughable, hilariously.

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  38. Guest Who says:

    Meanwhile…

    A cracker between two slices of Godminster Truffle.

    So vile.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Vine is mates with Nana Akua the conservative anti-BLM GBnews presenter ?
      He said “Nana is a decent person and a good friend.”

      Henry Bonsu and Nana Akua both appeared regularly on opposite sides of Vine’s Channel 5 panel.

      Bonsu broadcaster who went to Oxford uni
      Ex- R4Today producer
      “In 2006, he helped launch Colourful, a digital radio station targeting Europe’s African and Caribbean communities.
      Bonsu now works as an international development moderator for the United Nations and major private sector organizations.”

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  39. vlad says:

    Day 2 of the exciting Genocide Games.

    Today’s event is called Turning a Blind Eye to Police Torture.

    Gold Medal goes to… the BBC. Yay!

    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSLJU7FaSWrCaQfQBZoWXUyxiqgqj9jYvmSYQ&usqp=CAU

    Z

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    • StewGreen says:

      Tweet reads
      Johnson putting his old gang back together
      (ex-BBC man) Guto Hari is the new No 10 director of communications ”

      “Guto Hari, famous for crashing GB news by taking the knee,
      and Andrew Griffith, who used to head up the governments Net zero business strategy.

      This is the solution to getting things back on track, & delivering for the Brexit base???
      Unfathomable stupidity.”

      Yep Boris’s Blue Islington SOCIALIST Party
      Starmer’s Red Islington SOCIALIST Party
      Same, same.

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  40. Guest Who says:

    Champion more a studio kinda gal.

    Not Salford though.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Ah yes – property prices – it must be time in the cycle for one party to achieve political oblivion by suggesting ‘capital gains tax’ on house sales …
      The liberals did that and landed up having party meetings in a phone box … ang and Jess would love the idea ‘pay a little bit more tax’ – yeah right …

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    • StewGreen says:

      Allsopp is trending
      #1 She didn’t write that headline
      She didn’t say it is easy
      #2 The article is clearly PRasNews for her property TV show.

      UK house prices are a gigantic PONZI scheme,
      and are about to collapse
      .. I have been saying for 40 years.

      (Where I lived in Indonesia a new house costs £7K, yes seven)

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Buckingham Palace has some free rooms since Prince and Meghan left!

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    • StewGreen says:

      “Someone changed the Wikipedia page for GoFundMe.
      The truth lasted for only a couple of minutes, as corporate truthers didn’t approve the new changes.
      But it was great while it lasted. Lol”

      Before the page was locked down, on Feb 5th it said
      GoFundMe is an American for-profit crowdfunding platform
      that allows liberals to raise money for liberal causes,
      and shut down free speech or steal money from people who actually have souls.
      ..
      Type of business : THEFT”

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    • theisland says:

      Z – brilliant
      FK237nPWUAMgVll?format=jpg&name=small

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  41. StewGreen says:

    Who is the bad man ? Joe Rogan … or the MSM guys
    … Look at their record

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  42. Fedup2 says:

    Worth the screen shot – the truth doesn’t last long now …

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  43. Fedup2 says:

    HMS Simon Heffer -dreadnought class – firing a full broadside at the BBC in the DT … enjoy

    STARTS Following Nadine Dorries’s coarse attack on the BBC, in which she threatened to abolish the licence fee, the Corporation placed a two-minute video on social media proclaiming it “belongs to all of us”. Insofar as it is a public service, that is true; though more accurately, the BBC belongs to all who pay the £159 annual fee to consume its output legally.

    However, if the contention is true, an important consideration follows. If the Corporation belongs to us all then it has an obligation to make a range of programmes for us all: and it doesn’t. Many educated, middle class people of a conservative disposition find little or nothing in the BBC’s output that appeals to them. Its television programmes are formulaic, patronising and make assumptions about viewers’ values and interests that seldom coincide with reality. Its drama output portrays an urban, diverse, socially liberal Britain that is not everyone’s experience, or everyone’s desire.

    BBC2, launched in 1964 for more sophisticated viewers, teems with programmes about homes and gardens, cooking and antiques, and the odd woke comedy show. It used to be fascinating for its nature programmes, but now outrageously provides the main public showcase for the class warrior Chris Packham, a man destined to be unhappy until human beings are wiped out and the world is run by wildlife.

    BBC4, designed to fill the intellectual void left by BBC2’s departure into drivel, is stocked with repeats considered too highbrow for BBC2, and focusing on ‘accessible’ documentaries presented by personalities such as Dr Lucy Worsley, whom the BBC regard as an expert on almost every aspect of world history from the Romanovs to the American Civil War (a series dressed up as a collection of ‘fibs’, which tells one all one needs to know).

    I would happily pay my licence fee simply to listen to Radio 3: sadly, I suspect most wouldn’t, but would like a little more before splashing their cash. If BBC2 and BBC4 no longer provide high quality television, most radio is little better. Cricket lovers are grateful to hear Test Match Special, even if the quality of its commentators has nosedived, with most sounding like moonlighting soccer pundits. Radio 5 is a capable news station but lacks the punch and variety of LBC. And Radio 4, that former stalwart of middle Britain, has become a travesty.

    Its own pursuit of diversity creates the impression that it is on a permanent box-ticking mission. Its documentaries seem all to follow the same template, are dull and often about people wronged or oppressed in some way: in our household it is known as “Grievance FM”. The issues raised in these programmes are rarely the preoccupations of the intelligent middle-Englander for whom Radio 4 was for decades the default station.

    Two decades-old daily programmes, Woman’s Hour and You and Yours, tend to be epics of complaint. The four big news programmes – Today, The World at One, PM and The World Tonight are of varying quality and for the most part rooted in presumptions that are far from universally shared.

    This is the BBC’s centenary year. Its first General Manager – later Director General – John Reith would be horrified by the tone and quality of much of what his institution now produces. I don’t doubt his present successor, Tim Davie, is sincere when he says that there must be changes. The changes required are to end internal groupthink, develop a genuine diversity that represents conservative-minded people as well as urban hipsters, and to start to make alienated millions believe the BBC really might belong to them. Because, at the moment, it seems to belong to Islington. ENDS

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    • Doublethinker says:

      Well indeed change is needed , badly needed, and the quickest and easiest way to get that change is to force the dreadful BBC to become a subscription only service. If most of its subscribers want a Wokeness it can continue to churn out its current muck. If the subscribers want something different to woke morning noon and night then it had better give it to them or go bust.
      I’m afraid that Heffer is much too polite about the corporation . Just as Grade was yesterday. Polite won’t cut it with the BBC. Just stop the license Fee .

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  44. StewGreen says:

    #ToryScumOut is trending
    Why’s that ?
    Sunday is the day that Labour send their human-twitter-bot army out.
    … “Kinder gentler politics”, my ass.

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  45. Fedup2 says:

    Mail on Sunday reprints the Ashcroft book on Carrie and Boris – if she hadn’t seen it before she won’t be happy …. But it does describe a less than attractive person who may well be instrumental in bringing down a PM ….

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  46. Guest Who says:

    The BBC’s fave award winner writes about her fave topic… herself.

    For a change.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Dear Marianna Spring (BBC wages paid under threat of prosecution),

      As I’ve had to look at your BBC news and use other sources to determine that your news is not news but selective editorial opinion I’d like to request that I have a refund for the last 4 years plus get the BBC free from now on.

      Please let me know how I can go about this as I am willing to create a full list of articles that I’ve had to investigate plus time taken for me to check your fact checker whilst realising that the BBC intentionally removes news rather than incorrectly report on it, uses images to sway opinion or misleads with the main titles hoping no one reads the full article.

      ‘Omission is the greatest form of lie.’

      CAS-4987700-SY1FTF : BBC NewsWatch says boredom with pro-Brexit march.

      CAS-4844672-N8FDYY: Update on the MP Expenses 2009 scandal in 2018.

      CAS-4939547-J71Z1V: Here’s hoping Ireland do the right thing G.Lineker.

      CAS-4937378-YKMWBJ: BBC not reporting ‘Day of Freedom’ March 06may2018.

      CAS-4906141-BFJQL0: I take offence that presenters promote their books.

      CAS-4892811-C820SC: I am offended that I have to pay the BBC TV Tax.

      CAS-4824332-633N1P: What happened in Italy was not covered …

      CAS-4933135-ZV3V7F: The omission is the most powerful form of lie …

      CAS-6005141-S1V9D1: Not seen a report on the UK Governments Covid19 

      Let me know how to go about resolving the issue of paying for something that wastes my time as I have to check each story rather than rely on its accuracy.

      Cheers,
      Mark
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications

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  47. StewGreen says:

    The GoSendGo page is at US$2.6m so far

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  48. JohnC says:

    Lata Mangeshkar: India bids farewell to beloved singer
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-60094193

    Every time the BBC have a front-page headline announcing the death of some obscure BAME which the 85% white people of the UK have never heard of, I always think of Tony Selby (‘Get Some In’ and many others) who the BBC did not even mention on his death.

    Just who do these racist scumbags think they are here to serve ?. The people who are forced to pay for them or their own far-Left agenda ?.

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