Start the week 7 February 2022

Is the BBC reporting the spreading protests by ‘truck drivers ‘ or is it trying to ‘non report ‘ as part of its’ propaganda programme ? Selective reporting and non reporting of events just makes it easier for people to see the bias in action . Time to end it .

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  1. micknotmike says:

    Every cloud…
    Cheese and wine isn’t the big story now, is it?
    I can’t see starmer throwing the dirt around any time in the near future. Please don’t tell me that the protests were “abhorrent” and “not belonging in a decent society”. If he was the guy in charge when the Saville case was being hushed up he deserves more than a bit of pushy-shovey. That knighthood should go for a start. He got it for his work at the CPS, if I recall correctly.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Libmob have this double standard
      “It’s OK when we do it”
      .. Their demonstrations can be aggressive and rough, but when their opposition copy the same tactics … libmob start an outrage bus.

      Here’s the Hull Labour MP giving *the thumbs up* to milkshake attacks in 2019, like the ones against Tommy, Farage, Sargon
      He can get away with leaving his tweet up.

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  2. AsISeeIt says:

    Dead cat bounce?

    Seems that far from inspiring popular protest in favour of his leading us to the bright uplands of socialism, our failing leader of the opposition has provoked quite the opposite. However, the media opposition to Boris can’t quite agree with which brush to tar the crowd’s motivation: ‘Labout leader is rescued by cops from thugs shouting Savile abuse‘ (giveaway Metro); ‘Starmer attacked after Boris Johnson’s disgraceful Savile lie‘ (Mirror); whereas… ‘Angry MPs blame Johnson’s “poison” after anti-vaxxers set upon Starmer‘ (Guradian) – so which is it? Or did those vile anti-vaxxers only become agitated with Starmer after hearing Boris’s Savile comments – which doesn’t tend to make much sense?

    The scenario puts the BBC in a bit of a bind. If Boris’s taunt was beyond the pale because linking a person to Savile’s apparent immunity from retribution is the most heinous slur imaginable… then the BBC’s own record on Savile is brought back into question.

    Naturally the BBC tries to chart a balanced course through these dangerous waters: ‘Some of the mob were heard criticising Sir Keir for backing Covid jabs, but there were cries of “Jimmy Savile”

    Oddly enough the formerly highly coronaphobic ‘i’ newspaper prefers to go with what it terms the: ‘Jimmy Savile slur‘ – hinting they are editorially nowadays more Borisphobic. The vax issue can presumably wait for another day… another varient?

    We know our left-liberal media don’t do irony but one had to smile at the headline to the ‘i’ heath feature today: ‘The toxic chemicals you didn’t know were in your body

    Seems Big Pharma has got us a flavour of the month jab for every ill these days: ‘Weight-loss jab heralded as “game changer” to be available on NHS‘ (Times) – file that with the ant-cancer jab, but will it be compulsory for NHS staff?

    I believe it was Carry On star Hattie Jacques, in her memorable screen role as matron, who first set the trend for over-sized nurses. A trend which has escalated exponentially – to crib some statistical phrasing: ‘One in four NHS nurses are obese, study reveals. Obesity rates among nurses and care workers higher than people in non-health and care related jobs‘ (Independent December 2017) – physician heal thyself.

    That was pre-covid. Now they have their ready excuse: ‘Workplace stress triggering unhealthy coping responses. Our annual well-being survey suggests many nurses are struggling to find healthy outlets for stress as the pressures of the pandemic and staffing issues continue Stressed-out nurses are turning to food, alcohol and antidepressants to cope with the pressures of work, a Nursing Standard survey suggests.‘ (a rare appearance hereabouts for Nursing Standard the magazine of the Royal College of Nursing) – confirming our anecdotal impression they were getting fatter and futher causing us to suspect them of being lushes, possibly doped up to the eyeballs. But the pandemic.

    There’s no excuse for this behaviour: ‘Prem star’s vile attack on cat. West Ham’s Zouma boots pet across floor‘ (The Sun) – I wonder if Boris once said something to have provoked this?

    Meanwhile, for those NHS staff who are jab refusniks the tabloid Daily Star has good news – a cure for obesity that may be more acceptable to NHS staff than a vax: ‘Sleep more… weigh less. Extra hour in bed saves 270 calories… Staying in bed for an hour longer may keep us slim, eggheads say‘ – I’d consider this myself but then you lucky people might have to forego your daily press roundup.

    In less-reported news – a minor headline in the Telegraph mentions in passing: ‘Ottawa at a standstill as truck demo goes on‘ – I wonder if Savile was mentioned? I wonder if Trudeau can fix it?

    A bad day for entertainment Jimmies: ‘Has Jimmy Carr had his last laugh?‘ (Times) – they already got him on his taxes.

    The culture war still rages: ‘RSC makes much ado about Bard’s racism‘ (Telegraph)

    News from Europe is bleak but all too familiar: ‘ECB rate expectations force up Greek and Italian borrowing costs‘ (FT); ‘Macron seeks to avoid war. Vladimir Putin sits opposite Emmanuel Macron at an oval table in the Kremlin‘ (FT) – I’m unsure why the FT is so interested in the furniture rather than the substance of these talks. At least talks with the French haven’t yet reached the point of taking place in a railway carriage – there’s one for the historians.

    The globalist state-corporate-cronyist FT still pins hope on the dubious assertion we can spend our way out of all and any problems: ‘Indebted council defends investment for services‘ – this is Labour-run Warrington: ‘A LABOUR-RUN council in the north-west of England has become one of the most financially leveraged local authorities, with over £1.6billion in borrowings on its books compared to just £135million in reserves‘ (Daily Express)

    Warrington Council began lending in 2013, in hopes that their investments would yield a profit that could then be funnelled back into public works.However, the Council has come under fire for its 2019 investment of £18million in a 50 percent stake in Scottish energy firm Together Energy. The company went bust last month, along with other small energy suppliers as the global cost of natural gas soared, reportedly leaving the Council with an exposure of £52million.

    Expect to see this pattern mirrored on a massive national and then perhaps global scale sometime soon.

    And if that doesn’t make you want to kick the cat…

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    • richard D says:

      Aaahhh…local council employees and Labour activists/councillors, AsISeeIt – they always were the best investment analysts money could buy… errrr…..which was why they were employed in local authorities, rather than in investment firms ?

      And when you stir into the mix just a dash of political wishlisting – such as the ‘Together Energy’ investment (a 50% stake, no less…. didn’t any one of those clowns wonder why so much of the equity had not been snapped up by ‘real’ investors ?), you have the perfect recipe for a disaster. It wasn’t even a local company, for goodness’ sake, where at least some of the investment might have got back into the local economy

      But, never mind, I am sure all the nearby Labour-run local authorites will club together and cough up chunks of their local council tax income to see their mates right….

      And if you believe that, rather than the fact Warrington Council will demand more income from the general taxpayer, I have a bridge or two you might be interested in buying….or perhaps I should toddle off to Warrington, and propose the council should buy said bridges in order to rescue/re-instate the council’s finances – they seem like the kind of people who might go for it….. unlike you sodding sceptical lot on this blog.

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  3. Fedup2 says:

    I think it’s important that politicians meet members of the public who don’t agree with them once in a while . If they don’t like it – there s never a shortage of politicians …..
    ….. the same applies to journalists …. They all deserve a bit of feedback from time to time ….

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    • Zephir says:

      they could possiby research, like this site ? no lets pop over to Spring’s cubicle, the silly bitch that takes self congratulating selfies and whines online when challenged about her limited intellect, BA in French she can tell us about epidemiology, world politics, demography or maybe did you see Strictly and Dancing on Ice last night ?

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      • Guest Who says:

        Speaking of the cubicle gardens, good to see Tulip back in the frame, albeit in a support role to assist on the Essex massiv for Gabs.

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      • StewGreen says:

        Marianna was created as a brand by the backroom boys
        Their whole point is that people will get personally nasty to her, then “she” will be the victim
        and you the bad man.
        They already cultivated a big Marianna fan club, that will be against you.

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        • JohnC says:

          And I’m quite sure bimbo Marianna has no idea why she really got the job.

          She’s just bait. The fact they are creating fake accounts to try and get males to abuse them is particularly dirty. You can be quite sure they will be targetted at white, right-wing males.

          My experience of comments on the DT in the run up to Brexit was that the Left wing trolls were by far the most nasty and spiteful. Particularly some of the the Irish who hated with a passion. It’s the same on the BBC HYS. I put it down to the fact that most of them are probably students and have yet to grow up.

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        • Guest Who says:

          Likely, yes.

          A recent Citizens Assembly had an organising and modding team that was almost all female.

          The supposedly impartial activists were relatively balanced, but if any male on the assembly started querying inaccurate claims responses were to shut things down to avoid girls, and some of the wimmin, running to the well-being counsellor, or actual scientists being advised not to mansplain.

          Effective, crudely. Very bbc.

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  4. Guest Who says:

    News. And comedy.

    Not bbc.

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  5. StewGreen says:

    Latest truckers press conference
    ‘We are asking you to prepare to come to Ottawa to help us
    We want to solve issues by talking
    Yet the government seems intent on using force
    .. Last night they already did that in Winnipeg

    Here in Ottawa the police are building up numbers,
    We expext that within days or hours the police will take down our media
    and then move in and start kettling us
    … we ourselves are peaceful have always been peaceful”
    ..There maybe more I only listened to first 8 mins
    .. https://youtu.be/x6fBFdLGUZw

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    • Zephir says:

      So, that is how democracy works, white people feel so disenfranchised that they protest peacefully and are vilified

      Black people feel the same, apart from the fact that there was a black president. but still loot riot and kill and that is ok

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      • Guest Who says:

        Every promotional page on the Citizens Assemblies, Councils, Sortition, media #prasnews, has it down as ‘a new form of democracy’, ‘getting the people involved’, etc.

        No, it isn’t. Flawed though it is, democracy is qualified mature adults voting on issues, one to a vote, in a secret ballot, after hustings, in an election, preferably in person.

        Citizens Assemblies are a selection of a selection, representing a fraction of the public whole, pushed through a democratic filter machine to get a group that stands the best chance of being conned into a rigged presentation panel’s agenda and subjected to peer pressure.

        So identical to any BBC QT.

        Pure establishment #propagandabackedbycensorship.

        Not democracy. And Sir Boaty should be ashamed.

        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-58495142

        iPlayer so cannot view.

        Ironically that headline quote was used by every council cabinet member from the greens.

        Asking about other Green Party policies not allowed.

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  6. Guest Who says:

    Gabs and subs thought long and hard on this one.

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    • StewGreen says:

      ” 1 in 10 women will experience early pregnancy loss”
      I thought the lifetime chance is much higher
      Like in their lifetime 1 in 2 or 1 in 3 mothers will have had a pregnancy that does come to term.

      I don’t think the stat is 1 in 10 women
      NHS say “1 in 8 pregnancies” fail
      Children’s charity says
      “An estimated 1 in 5 pregnancies ended in miscarriage (1 in 8 if we only count women who realised/reported the miscarriage)”

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      • StewGreen says:

        “Black women have more miscarriages”
        My dentist told me that much of his work is due intermarriage
        that the genetic mixing often produces teeth that are too big for the mouth. (He’s tribal and is talking about intermarriage with Europeans)

        I guess the same applies for pregnancies
        that yes in populations that are purely one race there is a number of miscarriages
        but if you start mixing the races, even of the same skin colour, the risk of miscarriage is likely to be higher.
        Although in other ways mixing may produce advantages.

        White people tend to have a major genetic difference to black people in that they have some Neandatal DNA so of course outcomes are not the same.

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    • Zephir says:

      Today. I launch a month long season looking at 12 year old girls raped by Pakistani gangs, 1400 at least have been gang raped whilst being beaten, whipped and racially abused, ignored by the police, ignored by social services and ignored by the bbc

      Oh sorry that was wrong lets talk about miscarriages

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    • G says:

      GW,
      8 miscarriages.

      No doubt a copy of the Factories Act can be found hanging on the wall inside her home.

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      • G says:

        “In Britain, black women are more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth than white women” True or False?

        Here, facts on the matter. As usual, Simon gets the facts right.

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        • MarkyMark says:

          In Africa …

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        • richard D says:

          Good video, G.

          A truism….

          “If you don’t properly define the problem and its real causes, you cannot properly define the appropriate solution….. and basically, if you follow down that path, you will continue to have the same issues.”

          Throwing more epithets and accusations about ‘micro-aggressions’ and ‘systemic racism’ will never solve a genetic problem.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      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.

      It’s misleading to use phrases such as ‘Islamic slavery’ and ‘Muslim slave trade’, even though slavery existed in many Muslim cultures at various times, since the Atlantic slave trade is not called the Christian slave trade, even though most of those responsible for it were Christians.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/slavery_1.shtml

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  7. Guest Who says:

    Unconfirmed as from a traditionally dodgy source…

    Captain Tom Moore’s daughter and son-in-law spent 10% of donations on consultancy fees.

    https://www.joe.co.uk/news/captain-tom-foundation-has-spent-more-than-10-of-donations-on-consultants-316029?

    More money was paid to their own businesses than the British Legion.

    ***
    One for Springster to check?

    Or… not, as the can of worms on who gets who where to garner what might open up.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Guest – but who wouldn’t keep it in the family? Dividends for life …..now clap …

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      • Zephir says:

        And if he was around would he object to his family profiting ?

        I would not, good luck to those

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      • Guest Who says:

        Clap? More a Jess Phillips area now, surely?

        Pour encourager les profiles.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Tom walked so the NHS could spent it on … NHS’s diversity tsar is paid £35,000 more than its chief executive with her £230,000 salary enough to fund nine new nurses or 20 hip replacements
      Prerana Issar joined NHS England as Chief People Officer in 2019 on £230,000
      The sum is equivalent to the salaries of nine newly qualified nurses
      The salary is far higher than that of Boris Johnson – who is paid £157,332
      And it is £35,000 more than that earned by her now former boss Lord Stevens

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  8. Guest Who says:

    GB follows where others lead. Nige nods along.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Wonder where the evidence for that claim comes from ? And whether we will see it ? Methinks GBNews would have done well to engage in that BBC favourite ‘non reporting ‘ rather than bowing to the requirements of OFCOM

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      • Guest Who says:

        Soft Scots accented political gobs seem mandatory on tv.

        And all appear utterly partial.

        At least the Neils are honest.

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      • Deborah says:

        Once Tom Harwood had tweeted that several people have had similar treatment to Sir Kier, the episode made more sense. But GB news, like the DMail kept talking about a crowd (I couldn’t face even 5 minutes of the BBC yesterday) – it wasn’t – it was a small group. But where did the link to Boris’ remark about Savile come from? GB news and Nigel were very quick to make the link. Somebody or some people behind the scenes are driving this narrative and GB news has sadly joined the pack.

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  9. Sam S says:

    Well, it seems the BBC is now entirely communist. They spent 15 minutes on today lobbying for a windfall tax on BP – an idea that seems to have come from the BBC itself. The presenter obviously loved it and couldn’t think of any reason it may be a bad idea.

    Seriously, they cant think of any downsides to the economy as a whole if the country were to expropriate profits? Venezuela?

    Sure, BP just reported a £2.3 bn profit, but BP made a £20 bn LOSS in 2020. In volatile commodity markets you need to look at average profits over time or you would totally mislead listeners, but I’m sure that was unintentional.

    And BP is worth £100 bn so their profit really doesn’t look so big now (the BBC didn’t mention that).

    With a national broadcaster like the BBC I’m not sure this country can be saved.

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  10. Zephir says:

    To listen to the radio, or bbc radio: i have copied and pasted this

    “You now need to sign in. (name, date of birth FFS, address. phone number) It’s quick & easy.

    And we’ll keep you signed in.”

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    • Guest Who says:

      The ICO was told to sod off by BBC DPA for data misuse breaches.

      Another unique exemption.

      They do know where you live.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Zephir, as usual the BBC lie. They don’t keep you signed in overnight. It is not quick or easy as you have to have, and remember, yet another password of a certain length, provide them with a mobile ‘phone number and also have and remember your ‘posting’ name. It looks like the BBC are preparing to go behind a paywall. If they do, I’m off.

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  11. MarkyMark says:

    Assuming the idiots who harassed Starmer hang on the whims of PMQs is a huge stretch, and drawing a direct link to Boris is unjustified – as Brendan Cox this morning pointed out to Nick Robinson, telling him “It’s very hard to draw a direct link and say the PM is in some way responsible…”. Which didn’t stop Robinson trying to make the link.
    order-order.com

    ….

    Brendan Cox resigns from charities amid sexual assault claims
    This article is more than 3 years old
    Husband of murdered MP denies allegations but admits ‘mistakes’ while at Save the Children

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/feb/18/brendan-cox-resigns-from-charities-amid-sexual-assault-claims

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  12. MarkyMark says:

    “Hubble was caught in an NHS fleet BMW 220D M Sport Auto on a temporary 50mph stretch of the M62 motorway near Manchester between September 3 and September 22, 2020. ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10488489/Mother-five-banned-roads-six-months-speeding-five-times-three-weeks.html

    The bottom line: Understanding the NHS deficit and why it won’t go away
    This briefing reveals the true underlying state of the NHS’s finances today, and outlines prospects for the next three to four years.

    https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/research/the-bottom-line-understanding-the-nhs-deficit-and-why-it-won-t-go-away

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  13. MarkyMark says:

    Jo Brand battery acid joke ‘went too far’, BBC rules
    Published29 August 2019

    *** NO ACTION TAKEN ! HA HA HA HA HA HA

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49508231

    Following the complaints unit’s ruling, a BBC spokesperson said: “We note the findings and that the BBC’s ECU concluded the comments did not condone violence and that no subject matter should be beyond the scope of comedy.

    Jimmy Carr: Pressure grows over comedy routine but what do the fans think?
    By Katie Razzall
    Culture editor

    Published15 hours ago
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60292675

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  14. Flotsam says:

    Every BBC news summary is repeats the line that Johnson”s comments on Starmer are “false”. The mostly left wing interviewee’s can assert that but the BBC should keep it’s own views to itself. Besides which Starmer can surely defend himself? Or can he?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Maybe the BBC drama will clarify it?

      The Reckoning: Everything we know so far about blasted Jimmy Savile drama, including cast, backlash and release date
      Comment
      author image
      Cydney Yeates
      Tuesday 28 Dec 2021 4:56 pm

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  15. Zephir says:

    The trouble with this country is this

    we tolerate all the obvious injustices and offences to our senses daily

    but when it comes to an election it surprises those that think they know

    Whuich tells us that all they know is nothing but stupidity

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  16. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – if what you say is true, Mr Robinson, why did Keir Starmer apologise?

    The BBC really love Labour and Keir Starmer and really hate Boris Johnson and hate, even more, fomer President Trump. It started at 6 a.m. this morning (Marky Mark has covered it already) and re-started just before 8 a.m. with Nick having a sneer at populism and Donald Trump as well, of course, at Boris Johnson. Nick Robinson appears to be a ‘stranger to the truth’.

    Jimmy Saville was not prosecuted while Keir Starmer was head of the Crown Prosecution Service. Keir Starmer has since apologised for that. Fact and fact, Nick. Would you withdraw your allegations and slurs on the Prime Minister and former President Trump? No?

    Another one for dismissal with Kuenssberg, D-G.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      populism – corbyn being popular good.
      populism – anyone other than corbyn being popular bad.

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  17. digg says:

    Here we bloody go again, the same old lefty shite. Boris is now acting like Trump, stirring the mob as on Jan 6th in the US say the left wing chip-papers and the BBC in concert.

    They must have had a zoom call last night to be be in such lock-step.

    High time the British public let these press gremlins and Marxist creeps know that they do not run the Country.

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  18. MarkyMark says:

    On 15 October 2021, Amess was stabbed multiple times while holding a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea. He died at the scene.[2] A 25-year-old British citizen, Ali Harbi Ali, who is understood to have extremist Islamist beliefs,[3] was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder and later detained under the Terrorism Act. On 21 October, he was charged with murder and preparing terrorist acts.[4][5]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Amess

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  19. MarkyMark says:

    Ali Harbi Ali pleads not guilty to murder of MP David Amess
    This article is more than 1 month old
    Twenty-five-year-old accused of stabbing politician to death also denies planning terrorist attack
    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/21/ali-harbi-ali-pleads-not-guilty-mp-david-amess

    Amess was stabbed 17 times and died in the church. He was so badly injured paramedics could not even get him to hospital.

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/21/ali-harbi-ali-pleads-not-guilty-mp-david-amess

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  20. digg says:

    I wouldn’t be surprised if Starmer and the Police had this all arranged up front between them to create the furore myself.

    What was Starmer doing in a Public Street? Why did he get so close to a demo about something totally different? How do we know that any Saville chants were made by real protestors and not plants?

    Dont expect the BBC to examine these sort of questions though!

    It is after all a standard lefty “play victim” tactic as we are seeing in the US and Canada as well as most of the woke community..

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      • MarkyMark says:

        https://www.barrygardiner.com/

        Welcome to my website. You can use it to find out more about my work, both in Parliament and in Brent North as well as finding out how to contact me for help with issues or support. I hope you enjoy your visit.

        PLEASE NOTE:

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  21. Flotsam says:

    BBC “Politics Live” and PMQ’s.

    I’ve noticed the curious way PMQ’s is presented on Politics Live. Before PMQ’s the panel consists of a BBC presenter, a Government member, an Opposition members and a Political commentator, usually from a left wing media rag.
    After PMQ’s the commentator is replaced with a BBC person, usually Laura Keunsbsberg. As there is a BBC presenter already, why? I joke to myself that Laura is there to give the BBC’s opinions.

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  22. Zephir says:

    The charming left and their words

    “New documentary to expose ‘conspiracy of smears’ used to destroy Corbyn”

    “Boris Johnson tried to get himself out of trouble by trying to smear [Labour leader] Keir Starmer with the Jimmy Savile scandal,” he said.

    “This is ironic considering that Starmer himself has used fake allegations of anti-semitism to purge hundreds of members of his own party.

    “It just illustrates the way smearing has become the weapon of choice in politics today.”

    Donations to the documentary, being produced by independent movie makers Platform Films, can be made at: gofundme.com/f/labour-the-big-lie

    Labour has been contacted for comment.

    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/new-documentary-to-expose-conspiracy-of-smears-used-to-destroy-corbyn

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    Aztecs to pay back the slave people?

    “In the event of a nobleman’s death, slaves could be killed, and buried with him, to assist him in the underworld, as they assisted him in life. The body parts of sacrificed slaves could be taken home and eaten with maize and salt as an extension of their sacrifice.”

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  24. MarkyMark says:

    BBC News at Six
    BBC One and BBC News Channel, Tuesday 9 January 2018
    A report on News at Six mistakenly used the annual figure, rather than the weekly one, for waiting times in A&E departments in Scotland.

    The weekly figure for patients not seen within four hours was 5686. This was used in all subsequent bulletins and coverage.

    15/01/2018

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications/corrections_2018/

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  25. MarkyMark says:

    NHS impacts?

    “The number of babies born with birth defects in Bradford is nearly double the national average, research conducted in the city has shown. The study found this was largely because of marriages between first cousins in the Pakistani community.4 Jul 2013”

    WE ARE ALL THE SAME. REPEAT.

    The brave daughter who is tackling an ethnic taboo that costs the NHS millions: Aisha refused to marry a cousin, so great were her fears over rising numbers of disabled children
    Aisha Khan, 36, lost her twin brother, Ahmed as well as another brother Kasim
    Her older sister Tahira has serious learning difficulties but they were preventable
    Aisha’s Pakistani-born parents are first cousins, now living in West Yorkshire
    There’s growing evidence that marriage between relatives may be causing genetic disorders in their children

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  26. Flotsam says:

    Jimmy Savile is of course a very sensitive subject for the BBC.

    Starmer could perhaps, more easily, be taken to task for the lack of action regarding the Asian grooming gangs abuse scandals. Is Boris saving that one up?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The inquiry team found examples of “children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone”.

      ‘Racism’ fear
      The report found: “Several staff described their nervousness about identifying the ethnic origins of perpetrators for fear of being thought as racist; others remembered clear direction from their managers not to do so.”
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28939089

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  27. MarkyMark says:

    Only the South should pay for slavery crimes?

    President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free.”

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  28. MarkyMark says:

    Britain will not flinch over Ukraine, Boris Johnson tells Russia
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60300323

    Britain will not flinch over Ukraine, Boris Johnson tells Russia
    About 350,000 UK passport holders, and 2.6 million others eligible, will be able to come to the UK for five years.
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-53246899

    Britain will not flinch over Ukraine, Boris Johnson tells Russia
    Afghanistan: Tony Blair says withdrawal was driven by imbecilic slogan
    By George Bowden & Lauren Turner
    BBC News

    Britain will not flinch over Ukraine, Boris Johnson tells Russia
    Published22 August 2021
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58295384

    How US military pullback in Iraq could benefit Iran
    By Frank Gardner
    BBC security correspondent
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-57976007

    Britain will not flinch over Ukraine, Boris Johnson tells Russia

    In August 2014 the Jay report concluded that an estimated 1,400 children, had been sexually abused in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013 by predominantly British-Pakistani men. British Asian girls in Rotherham also suffered abuse, but a fear of shame and dishonour made them reluctant to report the abuse to authorities.

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  29. MarkyMark says:

    Are Russian forces getting ready for war in Ukraine? At least 100,000 troops are positioned within reach of Ukraine’s borders and US President Joe Biden is expecting some kind of military move.
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56720589

    Home Office loses track of more than 600,000 people who should have left country, finds immigration watchdog
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/home-office-immigration-visa-out-stay-lose-track-uk-people-customs-control-a8278966.html

    Home office loses 6x number of Russian Troops! HA HA HA

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  30. MarkyMark says:

    Jimmy Savile was abusing children on BBC premises as recently as 2006.

    The presenter’s alleged sexual assault of a girl, aged between 13 and 16, at the final recording of Top of the Pops will make it difficult for the corporation to explain the Savile scandal as a symptom of the social culture of a bygone era.

    BBC Television Centre has been named as one of six “main premises” for the presenter’s sex attacks. According to Scotland Yard’s report, Savile’s offences on BBC premises took place undetected over 47 years from 1959 to 2006.

    The BBC said it was “appalled” at the new revelations about sex abuse on its premises, and added: “We would like to restate our sincere apology to the victims of these crimes.”

    The corporation’s governing body, the BBC Trust, described the new claims as “truly shocking” and also reiterated “our sincere apologies to all the victims of Jimmy Savile”.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/abuse-at-tv-centre-continued-as-late-as-2006-8448114.html

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  31. MarkyMark says:

    Savile’s offences on BBC premises took place undetected over 47 years from 1959 to 2006.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/abuse-at-tv-centre-continued-as-late-as-2006-8448114.html

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  32. MarkyMark says:

    David Lammy comparing himself to … man with a gun …

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  33. MarkyMark says:

    “While the Prime Minister’s words were not disorderly, they were inappropriate. As I said then, these sorts of comments only inflame opinions and generate disregard for the House, and it is not acceptable. Our words have consequences, and we should always be mindful of that fact…”

    order-order.com

    As one of 650 UK MPs I believe it is my duty to tell the electorate “Suck It Up! Suck it Up!” when it comes to discussing immigration. (parody title)

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  34. MarkyMark says:

    Barry has been helping constituents for over 24 years and is here to support and represent constituents of Brent North

    https://www.barrygardiner.com/

    …..

    Name of donor: Christine Lee & Co
    Address of donor: 86 Holloway Head, Birmingham B1 1NB

    Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: the services of a Parliamentary Researcher for 5 days per week from 12 March 2019 to 31 December 2019, value £32,625

    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=10220

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  35. dafydd says:

    BBC now showing comments by angry Conservative MP’s over the PM Savile remarks..

    And right on cue its the same old Boris haters..ROGER GALE, TOBIAS ELWOOD, ANDREW BIDGEN etc etc etc

    Im genuinely staggered by the incredible hysteria being shown by the media and in particular the BBC….Im struggling to get my head around it.

    Is there anybody on here who is or was offended by Boris’s Savile remarks. I dont know anybody that is.

    I did a little experiment this morning (turning into a geek). Sally Nugent was interviewing the Tory Minister for technology who was introducing a policy to stop a very serious issue, child pornography. The interview lasted 9 mins. This is how it went.. 8 mins on Savile and the Johnson remarks, 1 minute on child pornography…. It really is becoming a serious issue the behaviour of the BBC…

    Im bloody well seething that the Tory politicians just sit there like blubbering idiots and take it…

    PATHETIC

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  36. MarkyMark says:

    All cultures are equal … black lives matter …. etc …2011 … not protests … all cultures are equal … repeat …

    The villages and farming communities that surround Uganda’s capital, Kampala, are gripped by fear.

    Schoolchildren are closely watched by teachers and parents as they make their way home from school. In playgrounds and on the roadside are posters warning of the danger of abduction by witch doctors for the purpose of child sacrifice.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15255357

    Pastor Sewakiryanga says without the full force of the law, there is little that can be done to protect Uganda’s children from the belief in the power of human sacrifice.

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  37. s.trubble says:

    Something occurred to me ;

    1) Why are the bBC so desperate to link the P.M. s statement on Savile to Mr. Starmer.

    Could it be that they wanted no further light shone on them , lets face it, for Savile’s enablement.

    Or indeed could they have played any kind of role in dissuading
    Savile,s prosecution? Back at the time when Starmer was in charge?

    By way of contrast there is a court case coming up in Scotland.
    The first ever class action in Scottish history.

    It involves 25 victims of an alleged paedophile ring which has operated inside Celtic football club.

    It is claimed there are over 200 other victims waiting the outcome of the class action.
    Those identified in the ” ring” number between 5-9 already identified.

    Savile was a regular visitor to Celtic Park during his peak period of fame.

    There have been numerous calls for an independent external inquiry into these matters.

    Declined by the SNP and Scottish Justice ? system.

    More worryingly the bBC in Scotland have played virtually no part in putting their investigative people in among this,

    makes you wonder why?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      2018 …. Telford grooming ‘tip of the iceberg’, says solicitor
      Published13 March 2018

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-43385049

      Mr Berry agreed with Mr Afzal’s assessment that the cases so far had been “potentially just the tip of the prosecutions”.

      He also backed calls for a new inquiry, and called on the authorities to get local organisations involved.

      “Often community groups know more about what is going on on the ground,” he said.

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  38. Philip_2 says:

    TPA Newsletter this morning: ‘We’re barely into 2022 but the BBC is already off to a bad start after the culture secretary Nadine Dorries announced her intent to scrap the BBC licence from 2028 onwards. This is a welcome step forward, but we say – why wait?

    As we pointed out (at TPA) in our press release to the national media, instead of kicking the can down the road until the BBC charter comes to an end in 2027, ministers must legislate to unshackle the Beeb from the taxpayer and let the corporation stand on its own two feet.’

    https://mcusercontent.com/6a2974dcc884b539ef3b5f40a/images/f79ddce3-9301-cf6b-5970-4f119dc1fa57.jpg

    TPA has long campaigned to an end to the TV license fee. It has to happen during this parliament or it will never happen. It should have happened 20 years ago under Labour, under Milliband, Blair, Brown et al.

    There is no reason to keep a dead corporate body alive.

    https://mailchi.mp/78c6e15fb49a/bbc_demands_more_money-10075250?e=49047cb219

    PLUS:

    Jonathen Aitkin (ex BBC) talks about where the BBC is being spent and abused (since John Birt modelled the BBC on The Guardian as a means of survival).

    https://www.taxpayersalliance.com/an_insiders_critique_of_the_bbc_tpa_talks_with_robin_aitken

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  39. dafydd says:

    THE BBC AND MEDIA NEEDS REMINDING WHAT LABOUR POLITICIANS HAVE SAID IN THE PAST…

    John McDonnell fantasised about killing Margaret Thatcher

    John McDonnell’s famous “lynch the b*tch” comments on Esther McVey

    John McDonnell accused the Tories of ‘social murder‘

    John McDonnell wanted to garrot Danny
    Alexander

    Ed Davey called for a remain alliance in Uxbridge to “decapitate” Boris

    Jess Phillips said she will “knife Corbyn in the front”

    Lloyd Russell-Moyle shouted “These Tories are dirty, dirty, chaos-mongering people that we will sweep out of this country“

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  40. MarkyMark says:

    We have always been at war with someone, put not sure who that is anymore due to censorship and editing the past ….

    An episode of The Simpsons in which the American cartoon family visit Tiananmen Square is missing from the Disney+ streaming service in Hong Kong, adding to concerns about mainland China-style censorship in the city.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-30/china-tiananmen-square-simpsons-episode-missing-disney-plus/100660616

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  41. Zephir says:

    The bbc do not like Fox News = I like Fox News

    holding people to account

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  42. Zephir says:

    GiveSendGo founder rips ‘authoritarian’ Big Tech after GoFundMe seizes Canadian trucker’s cash
    Canada ‘Freedom Convoy’ donors flocked to Christian crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo after GoFundMe gave them the boot

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/canada-freedom-convoy-givesendgo-founder-big-tech-gofundme-authoritarian

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  43. JohnC says:

    Miscarriage: ‘I was in pain and they did not listen’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-60243152

    Another article about a black woman by Tulip Mazumdar and Smitha Mundasad.

    ‘These include a lack of quality research involving all ethnicities – but RCOG head Dr Edward Morris says implicit racial bias is also affecting some women’s experience of care.’

    More black BBC reporters writing about other poor black victims and calling white people racist. Of course they are. Because THEY are racist.

    The amount of articles like this by the BBC in a country which is 85% white is utterly racist.

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  44. Fedup2 says:

    Mad numbers. Population of UK 60 million ? ( really 80 to 90 million ) ?

    Number waiting for operations 6 million ?

    Yesterday I heard that could rise to 10 million ….
    Is the population really that sick .,,?

    Just asking – maybe it is . ?

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Had to smile at 1pm News on TWatO, Fed, becuase they played a clip of Wes Streeting up on his back legs in Parliament complaining about Wicked Tory Cuts to the NHS whereas, if I recall correctly, it was the Conservative Party who continued to finance the NHS above all else during those years of ‘austerity’. Streeting made reference to ‘targets’ which were introduced by Labour because the NHS had become so rotten during thirteen years of Labour misrule that waiting lists exploded. Where does Starmer get these people from? The paddock at the back of his house?

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  45. Zephir says:

    What happens in the US usually happens here sooner or later, especially the communist marxist sh@t which is why I post some of the barmy crap from there

    I also believe the average US citizen has a damn site more bollocks to stand up and challenge this democrat crap

    And, here we go the fight back starts

    “Tlaib has paid out $170,000 to firm of anti-Israel activist who supports defunding the police
    Rasha Mubarak tweeted in April 2021 that she believes police should be abolished”

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tlaib-spent-150k-consulting-anti-israel-activist-defund-police

    Mubarak, a “Palestinian Muslim American community activist,” has a history of making anti-Israel statements online and calling Israel an “apartheid state.”

    “These aren’t clashes— it’s an ongoing occupation. These aren’t evictions— they are forced expulsions,” Mubarak tweeted in May of last year. “This isn’t a conflict— it’s settler colonialism, it’s ethnic cleansing, it’s oppression, it’s apartheid.”

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  46. G.W.F. says:

    From the Socialist Worker Party fronted Unite Against Fascism – founder member former PM David Cameron.
    Just shows innit, Boris is linked to death of Jo Cox and the attack on Starmer and Lammy.

    https://www.facebook.com/UAFpage
    Unite Against Fascism
    5l2t14S17a8hnlso2uc5he198 ·
    The nazi killer of Jo Cox used the word ‘Traitor’ in relation to his butchery, the same toxic word used to threaten David Lammy
    & Keir_Starmer last night
    Boris Johnson is most cynically playing with fire to save his own skin; eternal shame on him.

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  47. Zephir says:

    How many churches in Iran or Iraq? how many Christians murdered ?

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  48. Zephir says:

    ‘I was groomed and sexually abused by MP let back into Labour by Corbyn’
    A woman who won an employment tribunal case against Mike Hill last week has revealed how her life was left in ruins

    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/i-was-groomed-and-sexually-abused-by-mp-let-back-into-labour-by-corbyn-90rdlld25

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