Midweek 16 February 2022

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As the BBC campaigns to tell us it is ‘for all of us ‘ it just shows that deep down it knows the British public is getting Fedup with it .

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  1. MarkyMark says:
    February 17, 2022 at 12:24 pm

    NON MUSLIMS NEED NOT APPLY – RACIST?

    A rail company recruiting 30 female train drivers in Saudi Arabia says it has received 28,000 applications.

    The successful candidates will drive high-speed trains between the holy cities of Mecca and Medina after a year of training.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-60414143
    ….

    “and if two men be not available, then one man and two women, of such as you like as witnesses, so that if either of the two women should be in danger of forgetting, the other may refresh her memory.”

    …
    Saudis warned of jail time for posting rumours after harassment claims
    By Sebastian Usher
    BBC Arab affairs editor

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  2. vlad says:
    February 17, 2022 at 12:39 pm

    Maybe I’m paranoid, but the photo the BBC uses to illustrate the ‘violent truckers’ protest is slightly reminiscent of that other ‘violent insurrection’ in Washington.

    Are the beeb trying to subliminally conflate the two in readers’ minds?

    To paraphrase Woody Allen, ‘just cos you’re paranoid doesn’t mean the Beeb aren’t out to brainwash you’.

    Z

    Z

    He got sentenced to 41 months in jail. Seems a bit harsh for wearing a fur hat.

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  3. Thoughtful says:
    February 17, 2022 at 12:57 pm

    Interesting switching of positions that Labour deputy Leader Angela Rayner should be criticising the Tories over their rank fank failures on law & order.

    This of course should never happen, the Tories used to be the party of law & order but no more, and they now appear to have achieved the impossible and moved even further to the Left of Labour.

    But that’s not all this bunch of cowardly useless incompetents have managed, lets take a look at all the rest of what are normally regarded as the failures of Socialism under a Labour government.

    Failed law & order – a given as above
    Record levels of taxation.
    Record high state debt
    High Inflation
    Mass immigration
    No border controls
    ridiculous social control and anti freedom legislation.

    They’ve just about scored a full house of Labour failures! All they need do now is replace that tree graphic on their stationery with the hammer & sickle graphic instead to represent their true political values.

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  4. G says:
    February 17, 2022 at 1:23 pm

    What an absolute joke this country has become. The obvious joke is exacerbated by the fact that our, so-called, “betters” i.e. the political elite, treat the population as being dense and stupid. Take, for example, Priti Useless’ disclosure that she is engaging a ex Australian politician to advise on halting the rubber boat/channel crossings. Without withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights what a waste of money/effort. It will go the same as the joke Royal Marine efforts previously. Seems the more that can float in before the Aussie admits eventually that he cannot help, is the goal.
    I’d wager that to collar 650 random people in the UK and replace politicians with same in Parliament would be a complete improvement. Trump proved that to be politically successful, you do not need to be a career politician.

    Billy Bunter will not withdraw from the ECHR because membership of that Soros body is compulsory to be a member of the EU (another Soros body?). As we all now recognise, Bunter is working clandestinely to align the UK to that organisation.

    Any bets?

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    • Thoughtful says:
      February 17, 2022 at 1:35 pm

      As I have typed on many occasions before the ECtHR is not the problem. You don’t see any of the European countries having an issue with it in the way we do.

      The issue is how the corrupt Tony Bliar and his lawyer wife implemented the thing into British law, making it superior to ours and over riding it whenever the two came into conflict.

      In other European countries the ECtHR is merely advisory and therefore governments can take whatever measures they chose, even ignoring it altogether, but for us it is absolute law.

      The cowardly useless incompetent Tories could easily downgrade this to the status other EU members have, the fact they haven’t even tried shows what complete Lefties they really are.

      BTW ever Russia can manage to be a member of the ECtHR which should tell you something is very very wrong with the British approach to it.

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      • Fedup2 says:
        February 17, 2022 at 2:21 pm

        But that was always a reason why Blighty and the EU / conventions would always clash – the UK eagerly put into UK law any old crap coming out of the EU whilst non common law countries ignored the stuff if not in their national interest –

        Pull out of that convention and speed up uncoupling from REich EU laws – …eg VAT on fuel ….

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        • MarkyMark says:
          February 17, 2022 at 2:40 pm

          “In Europe, unless the law says you can do something then you assume can’t. In Anglo Saxon Britain unless the laws says you can’t do something you assume you can. And that is the fundamental difference between us (UK) and Europe.” @8:40

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          • StewGreen says:
            February 17, 2022 at 2:57 pm

            That is true
            However that bred two cultures, we obey laws
            whereas in Europe their culture is to count laws as just guidance
            particularly in the South
            but in Germany & Switzerland there’s loads of corruption cos of it.
            .. Meanwhile in Greece if you see a sign that says “no campervans”
            locals tell me that means ‘Oh it’s OK if it’s just for one night’

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          • taffman says:
            February 17, 2022 at 6:09 pm

            We voted to leave , get out and depart , lock stock and barrel.
            “To Get Brexit Done”! Remember ?
            Why is this Tory Government dragging its feet ?
            I can foresee a revival of the Brexit Party.

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        • G says:
          February 17, 2022 at 3:18 pm

          Essentially, the difference between our ‘Common Law’ and the European, ‘Roman Law’. Never the twain should meet. If we’d stayed in the EU there was the initial stirrings of plans afoot for us to largely convert.

          There is still a lot of confusion within the public about the extent of HRA, ‘rights’
          The Human Rights Act, (the vehicle) “…….states that certain Convention rights will apply which guarantee a number of basic human rights”. But not all rights – P.13 ‘A Summary of the Act’, ‘Human Rights Act 1998’ A Practical Guide published by Jordans. Recommended text for those taking HR at undergraduate level (at least, in 2000).

          In those rights contained in the HRA, UK Courts shall interpret UK law mindful of the established jurisprudence of the ECHR i.e. case law. The HRA does not ‘push aside’ any other pre-existing laws in the UK, it merely requires the UK courts to apply the case law of the ECHR no more, no less.

          For a concise view: https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/human-rights/human-rights-act

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          • Fedup2 says:
            February 17, 2022 at 4:05 pm

            G
            I was taking my first law degree as the HRA was going through – I don’t think I was exposed to EU case law until year 3 – even then the whole approach wasn’t just foreign – it was alien to me after being indoctrinated into the prose of common law judgements –
            My EU law professor – who was not British predicted that our membership of that organisation would not last – I just wish I’d put a pound on it back then ….

            We really need to stay away from EU . European issues as much as possible instead of shedding blood for some ‘moral high ground ‘….
            I’ve always worried that A 5 of the NATO would be the cause of a big one – but at least we wouldn’t be around for the ‘told you so ‘…

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          • Nibor says:
            February 18, 2022 at 12:27 am

            G ,

            While respecting what you post , my take on this is that full democracy , openness, accountability beats jurisprudence of whatever stripe any day .

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  5. MarkyMark says:
    February 17, 2022 at 1:40 pm

    “Braveheart is pure Australian shiteWilliam Wallace was a spy, a thief, a blackmailer – a c**t basically. And people are swallowing it. It’s part of a new Scottish racism, which I loath – this thing that everything horrible is English. It’s conducted by the great unread and the conceited w***ers at the SNP, those dreary little pr**ks in Parliament who rely on bigotry for support”
    —

    Billy Connolly

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  6. MarkyMark says:
    February 17, 2022 at 2:06 pm

    Exporting to China

    A Mauritian exporter can benefit from immediate duty-free access on the Chinese market on 7,504 tariff lines. Tariffs on an additional 723 tariff lines will be phased out over a 5 to 7-year period starting on 01st January 2021. In addition, a Tariff Rate Quota for 50,000 tonnes of Sugar will be implemented on a progressive basis over a period of 8 years with an initial quantity of 15,000 tonnes. More information on Tariff Rate can be accessed here.Rules of Origin : The exporter must ensure that his products satisfy the Rules of Origin to benefit from tariff preferences. The Rules of Origin are product specific and complete information on the Rules of Origin are available in Annex II.

    https://www.mcci.org/en/global-marketplace/trade-agreements/mauritius-china-fta/

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    • StewGreen says:
      February 17, 2022 at 2:53 pm

      I don’t know the relevance of that post
      but EU countries can’t buy cane sugar tariff free
      the UK could if we don’t stick to EU rules.
      That is why Tate & Lyle backed Brexit
      bit tough on UK sugar beet farmers, but that is free market.

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  7. s.trubble says:
    February 17, 2022 at 3:01 pm

    MarkyMark

    The core of the SNP is rotten.
    It is correct that they facilitate and promote hatred of England.

    What,s behind their vote is a moronic element who dont do facts, support Celtic FC, wave pro Palestine flags, Irish Tricolours
    and support the IRA and its political wing Sinn Fein.

    They are a whole bundle of William Wallaces…and you are correct c****.

    However , they are a noisy minority and following a string of complete disasters look to be on the wane.

    If you think Union supporting people are going to let this bunch of cretin strip us of our British identity together with 16 y/old “weans”…..I dont think so.

    ps bBC Scotland is full of them

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  8. BRISSLES says:
    February 17, 2022 at 3:21 pm

    I doubt if many of my fellow conspirators on here take time out to read ladies weekly magazines – which are normally full of recipes, fashion, agony columns, celebrity gossip and such like, and I’m not normally Mrs Victoria Meldrew, with a penchant for firing off letters or emails against some slight.

    However, I did today. A magazine I have spent decades reading, published a double page spread article on…. the critiquing of the Conservatory Party, the piece was entitled “A Scandal too many ?” with a variety of pictures, text and comments from readers as to how they will never vote Tory again. Can you imagine something like this in Runners Weekly or Allotments for the Aged ?
    I sent an email displaying my concern and dismay to the Editor of the Mag and Secretary of the Publishers, Future Inc.

    Yes, we all know that this government has proved pretty rubbish for most part, but what is happening when simple reading weekly mags are now getting involved with the politics of the day. Wokerism again ?

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    • MarkyMark says:
      February 17, 2022 at 3:33 pm

      Ask for an article on Barry Gardiner accepting £400K from China – no questions asked.

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    • StewGreen says:
      February 17, 2022 at 3:45 pm

      BRISSLES some way down the article it will start quoting an org
      That org will be who really wrote article that the magazine has cutNpasted.

      Future plc is a British media company founded in 1985.
      It publishes Women’s Weekly , Homes & Gardens etc.

      When I hear Women’s Institute people these days
      they speak like Marxists brainwashed the media
      It’s all foodbanks, NHS, Climate Emergency, care fore refugees etc.

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  9. tarien says:
    February 17, 2022 at 3:59 pm

    Can’t or couldn’t belive an article that stated that a new school syllabus on Black history has been added in a school in Bristol. Is that really necessary, and what history have they the Black people got to offer by way of a history? Thousands of them were sold into slavery by their own people to the Arab slave traders over hundreds of years-Blacks were employed by the Egyptians, the Romans, many Asian countries long before more recent centuries when they were sent to the America’s. The Black people of Africa for thousands of years never moved much further away, never as far as can seen invented anything that may have made them noticed in the rest of the world-it was whites that brought all modern inventions to them. Now through the whites education system many have taken advantage to bring themselves and their families into modern times-would they have done so without the white man?

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    • MarkyMark says:
      February 17, 2022 at 4:33 pm

      Many societies throughout history have practised slavery, and Muslim societies were no exception.

      It’s thought that as many people were enslaved in the Eastern slave trade as in the Atlantic slave trade.

      It’s ironic that when the Atlantic slave trade was abolished the Eastern trade expanded, suggesting that for some Africans the abolition of the Atlantic trade didn’t lead to freedom, but merely changed their slave destination.

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

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    • taffman says:
      February 17, 2022 at 4:46 pm

      tarian
      “Thousands of them were sold into slavery by their own people…….”
      Nail on the head !

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  10. MarkyMark says:
    February 17, 2022 at 4:34 pm

    BRITISH SLAVERY IS OK?

    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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  11. richard D says:
    February 17, 2022 at 4:50 pm

    To quote the Guardian – a thing I am neither pre-disposed to, nor am I proud to, do very often, the ‘gracious’ Ms Rayner, she who is to be obeyed by Mr Starmer in the Labour party hierarchy, is quoted as today saying…

    “ On things like law and order I am quite hardline. I am like, shoot your terrorists and ask questions second.”

    …and…..

    “On law and order, I think if you are being terrorised by the local thug, I want a copper to come and sort them out.

    You should be hardline on things like that. It’s not just: ‘Oh, you’ve been burgled, here is a crime number.’

    I want you to beat down the door of the criminals and sort them out and antagonise them. That’s what I say to my local police … three o’clock in the morning and antagonise them.”

    …. and, on the subject of antisocial behaviour….

    “It’s the usual suspects … I want the police to annoy the hell out of them until they realise disrupting lives is not OK. I am quite hardline on that.”

    Brilliant, the Labour party no doubt supports such actions against BLM, Antifa, the hordes of Extinction Rebellion, and their ilk.

    For once, I might just agree with their views….

    (Kidding – there is absolutely zero support within Labour to do this…it’s simply camouflage for the next election process – but, of course, not quite living up to the purpose of camouflage, easily seen through.)

    And, of course, one can easily imaging the reaction of the fragrant Ms Rayner the first time the police deployed such tactics against such groups.

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  12. taffman says:
    February 17, 2022 at 4:57 pm

    “Priti Patel orders review into work of Border Force”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60414021

    Horse and Stable door comes to mind ?

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    • MarkyMark says:
      February 17, 2022 at 5:37 pm

      The Home Office has lost track of more than 600,000 foreigners who should have left the UK, according to a report that lays bare Britain’s “shambolic” border checks. … Home Office staff admitted that they lacked confidence in the system, with one saying it had been “mis-sold”.29 Mar 2018

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  13. G.W.F. says:
    February 17, 2022 at 5:08 pm

    Warning of winds. We hope the RNLI and Border Farce will be safe whilst assisting dinghy heroes.

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  14. Guest Who says:
    February 17, 2022 at 5:22 pm

    DEVELOPING…

    Sounds like a match made i… North of the border.

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    • Guest Who says:
      February 17, 2022 at 5:23 pm

      It has already been recognised she might have parachuted into a very cosy new bubble, but surely if the beat is N. America, the peace and love there is fairly… ‘unique’.

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  15. Guest Who says:
    February 17, 2022 at 5:26 pm

    A Perfesser writes.

    What is more bizarre is not grasping how the MSM does worse, deliberately, to mislead.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      February 17, 2022 at 5:36 pm

      EXPERTS ….
      BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast
      BBC Radio 5 Live, Wednesday 3 January 2018

      During a phone-in on the programme a contributor, Danielle Tiplady was introduced as a staff nurse. We should have established and made clear on air that she was a political activist.

      08/01/2018

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

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    • digg says:
      February 17, 2022 at 6:04 pm

      The “Prof” is obviously under the impression that what she calls Social Media is or should be a sort of fount of all wisdom instead of the gossipy tittle-tattle chat app that it is and should be the final arbiter of value and truth of every comment!

      Such thick-headed nonsense from a “Prof” is beyond belief. It can only be explained by someone spending far too many hours looking at what people are saying about them so is a form of extreme Narcissm.

      For her information, social media is composed of vast , impersonal money machines that churns zillions of dollars back to US based tech types in California and all they want to see is more, more, more! Any sane intelligent person would see this and give it no credibility whatsoever and thus disregard and steer clear of it.

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    • Docmarooned says:
      February 17, 2022 at 8:20 pm

      Sridhar! Another ghastly self publicist. Was a mouthpiece for the Sturgeon hag!

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    • StewGreen says:
      February 18, 2022 at 12:41 am

      Devi Sridhar’s tweet is false and flawed.
      It demonstrates she doesn’t understand the scientific method

      #1 Argument stands on its own merits NOT on who the messenger is
      believing otherwise is the Fallacy of Argument from Authority

      #2 The standard example : The small boy is not qualified in making Emperor’s suits
      but when he states The Emperor is naked he is speaking truth
      and the royal tailors and the couriers are not.

      #3 Everyone has to PAY both in ££s and loss of freedoms for govt policy
      So everyone gets to have a SAY.

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  16. digg says:
    February 17, 2022 at 5:30 pm

    Polly Toynbee in the Guardian claims it is time to finish off the Monarchy when the Queen exits and replace it with a sort of Republic. So we could have someone nice like the delightful Trudeau or Macron running things.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/17/britain-monarchy-end-royal-jubilee

    Polly would like to see the end of things like remembering our war dead heroes etc. as it gets in the way of convincing people to be good little Globalist Marxists.

    Our Polly takes no account of the overwhelming majority of British people who are proud to have a Monarchy in place with thousands of years of history and would defend it.

    We must remember that Polly is of course only speaking to Guardian readers.

    Polly should have an eye on the perilous circulation figures of the left-wing rag she gets paid by as it doesn’t even feature any more in the top list of British National Newspapers, in fact The Guardian were so ashamed of their sagging circulation figures they decided to no longer publish them back in 2020. Well it’s around 100,000 about the same as the population of the small town I live in. And I believe around a third of that is handed to their sister ship the BBC.

    So Polly you might just find that your dreams of a Socialist Utopia are in fact just that, dreams.

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  17. MarkyMark says:
    February 17, 2022 at 5:32 pm

    This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition. Polly Toynbee
    Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/polly-toynbee-quotes

    https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/polly-toynbee-quotes

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  18. MarkyMark says:
    February 17, 2022 at 5:35 pm

    Will easy, early abortions become another casualty of the Tories’ culture war?
    Polly Toynbee

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/10/abortions-tories-culture-war-doctors-covid-women

    The public worry more about Spanish donkeys than child poverty
    Polly Toynbee, columnist of the year

    Only Gordon Brown can win the fight for Europe
    Polly Toynbee
    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2004/apr/28/eu.politicalcolumnists

    GUADIAN LIFE STYLE
    https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/feb/17/dining-across-the-divide-i-nearly-laughed-out-loud-when-she-said-boris-johnson-was-a-go-getter
    Dining across the divide: ‘I nearly laughed out loud when she said Boris Johnson was a go-getter’

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  19. MarkyMark says:
    February 17, 2022 at 5:36 pm

    UK politics: Angela Rayner says terror police should ‘shoot first and ask questions later’ – as it happened
    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2022/feb/17/boris-johnson-labour-keir-starmer-tories-covid-coronavirus-uk-politics-live

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  20. digg says:
    February 17, 2022 at 5:55 pm

    There is every indication that Major Khan thinks he is the equivalent of the devolved leaders in the Countries of Scotland, Ireland and Wales but in his case the country of “London”.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/met-cressida-dick-resigns-khan-tweet-b2017611.html

    He prefers to think of himself as a big hitter in UK political matters rather than the usual mayoral duties he is supposed to look after such as rubbish collection, street cleaning, etc. etc.

    He is probably thinking ahead in terms of sliding into the position of Prime Minister all in due course.

    All I can say is that this “Devolution” instigated by Labour for party political reasons has done more harm to the UK then anything else and Khan is determined to fan the flames.

    After all he knows he has a majority of citizens in his “region” who align with his background and can be relied on to propel him up the tree for their own advancement and power.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      February 17, 2022 at 6:06 pm

      “London chose me as their mayor, not just an ethnic minority, not just a religious minority, but a Londoner of Islamic faith.” – Sadiq Khan, {cnn.com sep2016}
      . . .
      Very odd that Sadiq Khan’s London Manifesto 2016 does not mention voting for him because of his Islamic Faith? I might be wrong – but could not find a sentence saying ‘Vote for me because I believe in Allah’.

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  21. Foscari says:
    February 17, 2022 at 6:04 pm

    Considering how slippery it was on the ice I thought
    that Kamila Valieva did pretty well in the Olympics.
    Anyway one good thing came out of it. I
    remembered to take my Ramapril, for my heart
    failure. I expect that Valieva will win the international
    BBC Sports personality award.

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  22. Thoughtful says:
    February 17, 2022 at 6:13 pm

    Shocking scenes in the Canadian parliament this evening a few minutes ago as a clearly out of control drunk on power Justin Trudeau accuses a Jewish member of the opposition of standing with the Swastikas, i.e. being a Nazi

    Truly sickening stuff of just how bad the left really are:

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  23. Fedup2 says:
    February 17, 2022 at 10:59 pm

    Marky – thank you – on my read – true do is toast ….has he got a kid to carry on the corrupt dynasty ( Kennedy style )?

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  24. Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:
    February 17, 2022 at 11:43 pm

    From the BBC Sport website (please stick with it, the sting is in the last para’):

    “Montell Douglas is a Team GB bobsleigh brakewoman, set to race with Mica McNeill at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. She is also a former sprinter for Great Britain, competing in the 100m and relay at the 2008 summer Olympics, also in Beijing. This is her fourth BBC Sport column.

    We’ve been in China for nearly three weeks now, but our competition doesn’t start until Friday.

    This time has been important for my team-mate Mica McNeill and I to adjust to the time zone, adjust to the evening race schedule and get our bodies and minds prepped for what is to come.

    But it also meant I could go to the opening ceremony, and it will forever be one of the most memorable moments of my sporting career.

    Walking out onto a lit floor towards those Olympic rings, in my favourite stadium in the world, was indescribable.

    Fourteen years ago, in the very same stadium, I walked at the closing ceremony and helped Great Britain welcome the Olympics to its new home for London 2012.

    That was breathtaking, but to be back experiencing the beginning of a journey for this Games and many athletes, but the end of my journey, was emotional.

    In 2008, I never got to go to the opening ceremony as we weren’t in the village yet, so it was important for me to go this time in the same stadium I ran the 100m in at my first Olympic Games.

    Back then, I had no idea I would be attending another Olympics, let alone a winter one. The journey up until now has been a whirlwind – full of ups, downs, injuries and celebrations. It is not easy as one can imagine.

    The percentage of those that make an Olympic Games is very small. Those that go to two is even smaller. Then there are those that get to go to both a summer and winter Games. And finally, those who go to a summer and winter Games that are held in the same city. I am those. Those are me.

    I think there is only one other woman, Brazil’s mountain biker turned cross-country skier Jaqueline Mourao, who went to 2008 like me.

    The odds for this occurring are so low, I daren’t work it out. I’ll leave it to the statisticians,

    But the odds for me, a black South London girl, born to teenage parents in the 1980s, with no family background of higher education or sporting elitism, to even have had half the experiences I have, were also not favourable. Yet here I am, so I’m soaking it all in.”

    Note the self-obsession in the fourth-to-last para’ and elsewhere. By the way, for those not greatly interested in sport, her story isn’t new ground. For instance, the British athlete Colin Campbell took part in the 1968 Mexico Games (400m and 4x400m) and the 1972 Munich edition (800m) before switching to bobsleigh for the 1976 WInter Olympics.

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  25. Guest Who says:
    February 18, 2022 at 7:03 am

    There’s irony.

    Then, there is BBC irony.

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  26. Scroblene says:
    February 18, 2022 at 7:13 am

    Probably a bit late to this set of posts, but an erstwhile gentleman on Guido, Sir Percy Blakeney, noted that Crapita get £456m to enforce the TV tax!

    Apparently it’s 15% 0f the tax itself!

    Disgusting!

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    • MarkyMark says:
      February 18, 2022 at 9:39 am

      BBC to say to old that then should heat their homes and ignore the BBC TV Tax – as a charity thing!

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  27. Fedup2 says:
    February 18, 2022 at 7:27 am

    Pug

    Sounds like John smith s daughter is never coming back … I always thought she sounded like an SNP MP . Has the SNP made any comment about this ?

    I’ve mentioned here many times just how much the SNP hates England and the English ( me) – they can’t even say ‘England ‘ – they replace it with ‘London ‘ or ‘Westminster ‘…

    They have a deep seated inferiority complex and I think live on past badness –
    If they ever got true independence – free of all things English – including our money – I think they’d turn on each other for not being Scottish enough .

    Me ? Build a wall if it’s total independence – passports – visas – the works – can’t have cake and eat it …. And give Shetland back its ‘oil ….

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  28. Fedup2 says:
    February 18, 2022 at 7:29 am

    Project Doom
    It seems that the weather might get a bit blowy today / tomorrow … yes it’s winter – climate change – green taxes – too windy for wind farms … I’m out of Blighty – will it still be there next week when I get back ?

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    • Scroblene says:
      February 18, 2022 at 8:24 am

      Probably get a few stories of the blasted windmills blowing over, but you’ll only hear about it from normal citizens’ rags and independednt radio stations!

      The BBC will blame Brexit!

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  29. Fedup2 says:
    February 18, 2022 at 7:34 am

    Need to be careful .

    Apparently Andrew Neil ( of ego fame ) has started defamation proceedings against an American lady who was a companion of nut nut – (Acuri?) ….
    It seems there is an allegation involving Jeffrey Epstein – a black book – and the maxwell lady …. It all originated on the twitter last year .. popcorn ….

       13 likes

  30. Fedup2 says:
    February 18, 2022 at 7:40 am

    The BBC loves that Matthew Taylor bloke . If I recall he was a tony Blair mouthpiece and has got a job on some NHS quango which does nothing constructive apart from making noise .

    Anyway – he was on toady … I was listening at a distance – he kept using the term ‘we want ‘ – ‘we want ‘this and ‘we want ‘ that…
    …. I got the impression that as Chinese virus restrictions are lifting the medical mafia is getting worried that they might have to start treating people again .

    It must be frightening for GPs (£200 k pa ) to have to meet patients …. And that perhaps more will be expected from them now – like – er – examinations and treatment …

    I’m sure mr Taylor is getting paid as much as an NHS diversify manager – which is what I want to be when I grown up …

       17 likes

    • StewGreen says:
      February 18, 2022 at 11:17 am

      Who ? Matthew Taylor is head of The NHS Confederation
      a body representing NHS bosses.
      … I don’t think anyone thinks that normality on the street
      means there should be zero Covid protection measures for NHS staff.
      I’d recognise that there is some risk to them and their families.
      So overweight sickly NHS staff shouldn’t be on the frontline etc.

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  31. Guest Who says:
    February 18, 2022 at 7:54 am

    Goes to stand outside, in orange.

    Colourful.

       7 likes

    • Guest Who says:
      February 18, 2022 at 7:57 am

         8 likes

    • Banania says:
      February 18, 2022 at 7:04 pm

      Porthcawl is where I should like to launch the rubber dinghies containing the rape gangsters whose massed photographs appear fleetingly in some newspapers. I would wait till the sea was suitably, shall we say? lively.

         1 likes

  32. Zephir says:
    February 18, 2022 at 8:13 am

    The truth is slowly dawning for the econuts, or rather those that listened to them:

    (as I mentioned a couple of weeks ago)

    It now is becoming more widely reported:

    The shocking truth about charging electric cars: Just one in five power points is the fast tech version… throwing 2030 target into doubt

    Fewer than one in five electric car chargers installed last year was a rapid version
    It can take hours to recharge a battery with a standard powering point
    Just 17 per cent of new public chargers in 2021 had rapid connection
    But the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicle sales is set to be banned by 2030

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10525039/The-shocking-truth-charging-electric-cars-One-five-power-points-fast-tech-version.html

       10 likes

    • Banania says:
      February 18, 2022 at 7:07 pm

      “…the fast tech version…”
      Is that USB3? It is hard to keep count. To what madness we have allowed ourselves to be delivered!

         0 likes

  33. Guest Who says:
    February 18, 2022 at 8:14 am

    This picture intrigues.

    Between the ingress by the Hole in the Wall Gang, or use of ‘jumpers for goalposts’ kids arty.

       4 likes

    • Guest Who says:
      February 18, 2022 at 8:39 am

      Any of BBBC military experts got a view? About zero of that shot alone makes sense, much less the linked video.

      If it is a classic bbc/activist/para six effort, poor show.

      If a classic bbc/activist cameraman/breathing shroud effort, poorer show.

      Mike Wendling brought in Tank Boy Jez yet?

         4 likes

      • Wink1 says:
        February 18, 2022 at 10:56 am

        I too can not understand this ‘false flag’ .How does ‘Russia’ bombing a Ukrainian nursery mean that Russia will use it as an excuse to invade Ukraine?? Am I missing something??

           4 likes

        • Banania says:
          February 18, 2022 at 7:09 pm

          Oo-er, perhaps it means that we shall use it as a pretext to invade Russia. That should take everybody’s minds off the vaccines and Canada.

             0 likes

      • Ian Rushlow says:
        February 18, 2022 at 11:01 am

        Not much commenting by the BBC military experts on exercise ‘Winter Camp’ held at the beginning of the month, when NATO held its largest ever winter exercise in Estonia, approximately 100 miles from the Russian border. Still, I’m sure we’d all feel happy and safe if there were, say, Russian troops exercising in an independent Scotland.

        Remember, We Are Always The Good Guys ™.

        https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_191451.htm

           7 likes

  34. Guest Who says:
    February 18, 2022 at 8:27 am

    A Green Pol tries to out Rambo Fick Ange…

    Goes… poorly.

       13 likes

    • Fedup2 says:
      February 18, 2022 at 8:32 am

      Jenny on her way to make something else illegal … ban unapproved people on trains perhaps . And what were those vermin doing in first class ?

         9 likes

    • R P McMurphy says:
      February 18, 2022 at 9:38 am

      Greenies in the HOL. Why, what have they ever done to get there ? The other one ( Skippy ) the leader at the time, couldn’t answer a question and just faked
      a coughing fit hoping all would go away, and the reward for this unbelievable p*ss take…..a seat in the Lords £350 a day plus expenses for life, making laws for you and me to obey.
      Democracy, you can stick this model.

         10 likes

  35. Fedup2 says:
    February 18, 2022 at 8:29 am

    Ok – checklist for bad weather

    Power cuts ( why not reconnected yet? Blame )
    Flood defences breached ( blame )
    Idiot washed away taking pictures of sea
    Someone drowns saving the dog in storm
    Trees hit cars
    Cars hit trees
    Roof falls off
    Scaffolding lands on something
    Airplane trying to land
    Rare bird blown in
    Something very old gets blown down
    Wheelie bin tragedy
    MP calls for wind to be banned
    Train passenger ordeal
    More green taxes
    Nut nut calls for minus zero
    Storm has power of 10 hiroshimas
    Biggest storm since records begin
    No Andrew Windsor story
    No party story
    No covid story
    No Ukraine story
    No dinghy invasion story ( no change )
    NHS demands more money …..

    And now the weather ….

       25 likes

    • Deborah says:
      February 18, 2022 at 8:45 am

      Dudley brought down a small branch in our garden. During the night we did have a lot of rain but now a blu Sky with branches gently waving. Is this a calm before the storm or is it all over? I haven’t a clue and I don’t expect the BBC weather or the Met Office on GB News to help. I noticed last night on BBC news the weasel words about how one individual event couldn’t be put down to climate change but these sort of events were going to occur more frequently because of climate change.

         15 likes

      • Zephir says:
        February 18, 2022 at 8:51 am

        In this woke world I am reminded of Mark Twains words:

        “I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”

           17 likes

      • Banania says:
        February 18, 2022 at 7:12 pm

        “Dudley”, how sweet! I once heard a market stallholder calling out to another, What’s the weather forecast? The reply: Four gales coming, and they’ve all got names.
        These names are just a device to alarm us: personalized dangerous nature.

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  36. davylars says:
    February 18, 2022 at 8:43 am

    BBC terrorising the public with storm eunice this morning.
    Another attempt to link climate change.
    Reporter asked a chap from wales railway.
    “Is this the worst storm you have ever experienced “
    Bloke replied “ its the worst one we have ever prepared for”

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    • Guest Who says:
      February 18, 2022 at 8:47 am

      Idiots.

      Just read another that said ‘in 30 years’.

      Which is it? Factually. Not a Dai the Death Vox pop.

      It is clearly serious, and worthy of sensible precaution and, hence, reporting. But there is no sense in reporting any more. Ever.

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  37. Zephir says:
    February 18, 2022 at 8:46 am

    I am in discussions with publishers on my new book, “The Observers Book of GPs and other Medical Staff”.

    Similar in concept to the popular books of the seventies with points scored for various staff actually seen.

    Only one point for bolshy receptionists who think they are doctors, a special section on A and E with points awarded for each gutbucket sunday footballer in an XXXXL Arsenal shirt with a twisted ankle and other likely attendees.

    Maximum points for a GP actually in a GP surgery, less if seen in local lapdancing club or talking to hs investment bankers.

    A few points for 20 stone nurses lecturing anyone on nutrition and exercise.

    50 points for a snotty kid with his head stuck in a saucepan and if anyone can understand the Nigerian doctor who has two GCSEs and a certificate off the internet.

    Still working on other categories but will be available in all good woke bookstores soon.

    “Where HAVE all our GPs gone? A critical shortage of local doctors is driving desperate patients to A&E, with a crippling impact on wards. Now this investigation exposes the troubling truth behind the crisis ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10525435/Where-GPs-gone-Investigation-exposes-troubling-truth-crisis.html

       22 likes

    • Fedup2 says:
      February 18, 2022 at 9:01 am

      There is no doubt sick people should be banned from going to hospital – they upset the statistics – cost money – inconvenience the staff and clog up the pay-as you – go car parks ..
      Don’t they realise they need to ‘protect the NHS’ ( which needs more money ) ….

         11 likes

      • Zephir says:
        February 18, 2022 at 9:04 am

        After the plethora of screaming kids in the supermarket the other day, which now seems to be de rigeur for any self respecting brat in any circumstance,

        I am starting an online petition to make saucepans on heads compulsory in public places.

           10 likes

        • Fedup2 says:
          February 18, 2022 at 9:32 am

          Zephir – was it a posh supermarket or a pleb one ?

             3 likes

          • Zephir says:
            February 18, 2022 at 10:04 am

            All of them (was wasting my time looking for a particular lightbulb which I still can’t find)

               2 likes

        • moggie63 says:
          February 18, 2022 at 12:01 pm

          I suspect you’d collect more signatures if the concept was a saucepan swiftly to the back of the head. After yesterday, I’d sign that.

             3 likes

    • MarkyMark says:
      February 18, 2022 at 9:44 am

      women in the work force – pregnant women reduce the capacity.

         3 likes

    • Banania says:
      February 18, 2022 at 7:16 pm

      The Observer’s Books were handy pocket guides to the various categories of whatever-it-was. The books with scores for spotting them were the I-Spy Books. I hope you will produce both; there will be a ready market.

         0 likes

  38. LastChanceSaloon says:
    February 18, 2022 at 8:52 am

    Durham, Durham, Durham, Durham, Durham,
    Not the Pink Panther Show.
    The Hillary Goes to Jail Show has been postponed indefinitely by The World’s Least Trusted Broadcaster.

    Meanwhile :-
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60425457
    BBC NEWS US&Canada 2022-02-18 01:00
    Judge rules Donald Trump must testify in New York investigation
    Time for more Saint Donald Trump bashing.

       19 likes

    • Banania says:
      February 18, 2022 at 7:17 pm

      “World’s Least Trusted Broadcaster” is now hotly contested between BBC, ABC and CBC.

         3 likes

  39. dafydd says:
    February 18, 2022 at 8:57 am

    Welcome from sunny Mid – Wales….

    Branches gently blowing in the wind and the sun has just appeared.

    Worse storm in a century..!!!! It was windier on Monday.

    BBC correspondent on a ravaged Welsh coast, not. He had to admit it wasn’t as bad as predicted. You can imagine the cameraman chucking buckets of water on him out of camera shot.

    BBC will have 20 minute slot later blaming Boris Johnson for the storm…..

    Followed by another 20 minute slot with Starmer telling us all how much better he would have handled the storm and how unprepared the government were.

    And between each slot there will be another 20 minute slot of how if the PM hadn’t been partying he could have spent more time on the storm.

    Followed by interviews of elderly and venerable people with no power because of the storm. Blaming the government because they can’t afford heating, heating they can’t put on anyway because of the power cut. But that’s irrelevant to the BBC, as long as they get a story.

       24 likes

    • Fedup2 says:
      February 18, 2022 at 9:02 am

      Storm Hyperbole has ‘land fall ‘… Russia blamed for wi fi failure

         9 likes

    • G says:
      February 18, 2022 at 9:31 am

      Dafydd,

      Only one failsafe for predicting in my view: Barometric Pressure. Spent too long at sea in small boats not to appreciate.

         8 likes

  40. AsISeeIt says:
    February 18, 2022 at 8:58 am

    I suppose this was inevitable in a nation where – I’m guessing – more than half the civil service are still dodging the commute to the office and cowering at home for fear they catch a cold: ‘Stay inside, Britons warned amid worst storm in 30 years. The Met Office has issued a rare “stay in doors” warning‘ (Times)

    Admittedly, I’ve not seen the latest civil service absenteeism figures – FT Datawatch only surveys what they want me to know: ‘High sales. Canabis retail value‘ – Frankly, I could have guessed California leads the way as the highest US state in terms of drug use. What’s the FT’s angle here? Legalise it, they’ll advertise it – and presumably invest in it? The most profitable of consumer products are certainly the ones we get hooked on.

    However, to return to the job in hand (as they say) based on this recent report from January 26th 2022: ‘Plenty of people on the Tubes (they’re just not going to Whitehall): As few as 10% of civil servants are ‘back at their desks’ despite order to end WFH‘ (Daily Mail) – I think what we have here is a cultural gulf between the managerial public sector – who seem to be health and safety-obsessed and rather mindful of their own comfort, to boot – and us poor saps who have to earn a living and experience increasingly greater difficulty accessing public services – whilst we’re paying more in tax for them.

    ‘Worst places in the UK for driving test wait times as 41 towns have NO tests available‘ (Daily Mirror February 11th 2022)

    ‘Due to Covid backlogs, passports are already taking up to 10 weeks to process, the Passport Office (HMPO) has warned. But delays delivering the documents are adding weeks on top of this, according to complaints on Trustpilot and Twitter.‘ (BBC November 25th 2021)

    And some backlogs are more serious than just an incovenience…

    ‘Number of people in England on NHS waiting list hits record high. NHS England says 6.1 million people were waiting for hospital treatment at end of December 2021‘ (Guardian 10th February 2022)

    ‘NHS waiting times: Woman in agony waiting for hip op‘ (BBC 17th February 2022) – Seems Boris, his health advisors, ministers, opposition parties and even all shades of our media were uniformly telling the truth… when they told us the NHS would soon be overwhelmed – just not by Covid.

    Funny how there doesn’t seem to be that much of a political storm over the huge mass potential early death, pain and misery caused by NHS extended waiting lists. I suppose the usual left-leaning opposition voices – political and media (but I repeat myself) have effectively gagged themselves on the subject by adhering to their demands for ever more lockdowns.

    ‘Warning on “gung-ho” lifting of Covid rules‘ (Telegraph)

    The BBC online news retains their report: ‘Is ending the last Covid rule ‘brave or stupid’?‘ – from 10th February. Presumably hoping for a gotcha moment due to an adverse change in the wind – pandemic-wise?

    The highly coronaphobic ‘i’ newspaper turns over its frontpage screamer headline, together with the familiar five bullet points, entirely to the weather: ‘UK braced for the 100mph sting jet storm‘ – I’m tempted to rediagnose the phobic condition here: ‘Some people may experience multiple phobias‘ (a rare appearance hereabouts for Mind.org) – Keen to tell us, by the way: ‘It’s LGBT+ history month!‘ But I digress from the main subject matter. And so do they… apparently.

    The Daily Star is no stranger to a Cor-blimey-wot-a-bit-of-weather report. One can’t help thinking the Star is a bit tongue-in-cheek today as it sees its supposedly serious middle class competitors mussle in on its jokey weather headline territory: ‘This week I shall be mostly staying in my bed‘ – the Star there borrowing the tramp-like Jesse character from the Fast Show who apparenly lived in shed on an allotment. Meanwhile, the white collar workers will have their stay at home excuse this week – not this time a sick note – more a weather report: ‘100mph killer storm‘ (Sun); ‘Storm of the century‘ (Express); ‘Red weather warning as Storm Eunice hits UK‘ (Guardian)

    ‘Red Alert!‘ shreiks the freebie giveaway Metro – punning both the Met Office traffic light weather warning system and the supposed on-going Russian threat. Press photographic representation of the putative war with Putin has ranged from pics of girls with guns (they’re on our side) to the heavy hitters of the opposition driving proper tanks. The Metro brings us what looks supiciously like a World War Two era truck-mounted Katyusha rocket launcher and asks : ‘Is this what Putin means about pulling out troops? Border drills continue as Ukraine crisis escalates‘ – looks as though he’s pulled that one out of a museum. They do say the weapon is pretty inacurate unless used for short range saturation bombardment. I’m guessing the main effect on modern troops would be psychological. Which is exactly how they are being deployed here by our media.

    ‘Russians say they will fight for skater’s medal‘ (Telegarph) – that I can believe.

    Our media don’t like to let a good story go. Especially when they get deprived of the money shot they promised us. They are still spinning a few plates here: ‘Duke allegations could still be heard in court claims lawyer‘ (‘i’)

    And finally. What is the left-leaning fascination with subjects the vast majority of the population have no interest in whatsoever? ‘Medal on ice. First podium guarenteed as GB curlers reach final‘ (Guardian)

    That reminds me, I shall have to go out there with a broom to sweep my front yard of all the litter of discarded paper face masks after the wind dies down.

       15 likes

    • Banania says:
      February 18, 2022 at 7:27 pm

      Superb summary!
      Aren’t the WFH elite fortunate that they did not work in supermarkets, etc! Now those (the supermarket workers, etc) deserved the clapping, should such demonstrativeness have been suitable.

         1 likes

  41. Guest Who says:
    February 18, 2022 at 9:01 am

    The bbc does not advertise politically by stealth.

       3 likes

  42. Zephir says:
    February 18, 2022 at 9:08 am

    BBC storm reporter spotted this morning:

       8 likes

  43. Zephir says:
    February 18, 2022 at 9:15 am

    Even the storms were better in the Eighties

       7 likes

  44. MarkyMark says:
    February 18, 2022 at 9:17 am

    Any women bin men?

       3 likes

  45. MarkyMark says:
    February 18, 2022 at 9:47 am

    Know who is the boss … kneel or get attacked …
    2_utils-5.jpg

       6 likes

    • Zephir says:
      February 18, 2022 at 10:07 am

      police should be ashamed of themselves, don’t they know there is NO appeasing those who use violence themselves ?

         15 likes

    • Fedup2 says:
      February 18, 2022 at 10:07 am

      Strange that those towns and cities which cut police funding are reversing them – and that a lot of US plod resigned to get different jobs and are not going back even when offered more money by loony democrats ..

         14 likes

  46. Zephir says:
    February 18, 2022 at 10:22 am

    Also strange how BLM leaders in US have million pound properties now

    makes a change from profiting from overseas Aid, Live Aid donations and email scams I suppose

       12 likes

  47. Jeff says:
    February 18, 2022 at 10:27 am

    Some really harsh news for all those un-jabbed chaps of a certain vintage…

    The delicious, the delightful, the delectable… Emily Thornberry won’t date you.

    Is there no end to this jezebel’s cruelty?

       22 likes

    • Ian Rushlow says:
      February 18, 2022 at 10:53 am

      Is there somewhere I can register as un-jabbed? Just to be on the safe side, in case the English flag hanging from my window isn’t sufficient to ward her off?

         14 likes

    • Up2snuff says:
      February 18, 2022 at 5:13 pm

      Jeff, phew, dodged a bullet and grenade shrapnel there!

         1 likes

  48. digg says:
    February 18, 2022 at 10:35 am

    I read that Met Police have been taping off parks and telling people out and about to go home as it might get a bit windy. It just took one epidemic to turn our police force into the The Stasi didn’t it?

    Not to be out done I hear the Civil Serpents are having a Cobra storm meeting, hope that’s without the famous Indian beer on tap.

    So it appears a few gusts are far more deadly than 200,000 Russian Troops!

    I despair of this generation.

    Gas masks and tin hats can’t be far into the future for us all.

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    • G.W.F. says:
      February 18, 2022 at 10:55 am

      I went shopping one hour after the warning said the storm would hit us. My God, the wind nearly blew my hat off.
      I looked for a BBC reporter so I could do a vox pop about my experience.

         19 likes

      • Ian Rushlow says:
        February 18, 2022 at 11:23 am

        Unless you are a member of a minority, the BBC would not be interested.

        Next on Newsround:
        “Does Storm Eunice disproportionately affect people of colour?”
        Followed by a Panorama special:
        “Are these climate crisis storms caused by the unvaccinated or the Russians?”

           14 likes

  49. StewGreen says:
    February 18, 2022 at 10:49 am

    Here in the east, it’s been bright sunshine most of the morning
    a gusty breeze, but typical of this time of year
    In fact when I was out on the bike it was easier than last week
    … oh now just a few drops of rain.
    But we must have had a rain storm in the night as the empty water butts are now full.

       12 likes

  50. Guest Who says:
    February 18, 2022 at 11:02 am

    Fear not parents!

    BBC can re educate on two, make that TWO… fronts!

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