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Tin hat time .
The enemy has seen how weak and woke the west have become . It’s 1939 all over again,.
How will the West react ?………
“Lessons to be learned”.
‘Weak and woke’ indeed, and none more so than Sleepy Joe.
And supposed jernilists.
It’s not NATO who have caused this. It is the EU.
I’m waiting for someone to actually admit it.
I’m guessing when you say EU – you mean the Franco German alliance – particularly Germany selling its ‘ soul for Russian gas ….
Taff
You are so unkind.
We do a much better job positioning pink ER boats at strategically significant junctions than Russia does.
I mean, they can only do that with tanks.
taffman,
Please don’t be so pessimistic. This may be a great opportunity to build some hotels and fill them up with refugees fleeing from eastern Europe, a nice addition to the economic migrants we have. On the downside we might not see so many coming from Hong Kong as they may see better prospects being part of China. Though we can’t house all our own people, can’t see a doctor, still on high alert for terrorist attacks, seeing the price of energy and food rising/soaring now and the huge national debt “we can do it” (Merkel). Break out all the candles and teddy bears and sing imagine. Hug a hoodie. Hopefully the weather will pick up as we approach the spring and we can expect our Africa and the RoW numbers making up any short fall. God help us as the government nor opposition can.
COVID restrictions ending .
What was all that about ? Was it an act of biological warfare?
We will have to see if the BBC will be “neutral” like the lot
in charge now would of been in 1939.Parties at number 10 BBC?
Diversity and transgender issues BBC ? These are still going to be
at the top of your agenda BBC?
For a start BBC stop calling the scum bag Putin MR PUTIN !!!!!
A bbc correspondent who is unfamiliar passes on wibble from Sleepy.
Next, Toenails ‘analysing’ a cake recipe from Kammy?
His oeuvre is not extensive, and goes back a while, but clearly appreciated.
He used to report on all the Hollywood gossip, so he’s clearly been dusted off and brought out of the wardrobe as he’s the only one awake.
Dangerous times.
A final Americast in the works?
Lies is there. Reporting.
Maybe Benjamin Butterworth, Femi, YAB and Vile can resolve it all?
Clinton:
How America’s NATO expansion obsession plays into the Ukraine crisis. The post-Cold War debates shaping the current standoff with Russia.
As Clinton became a frequent traveler to Russia and quickly plunged into statecraft, the promotion of democracy in Europe emerged as a primary US foreign policy goal. But it wasn’t clear that a military alliance like NATO would be the best way to advance that.
A debate over NATO’s merits erupted in Washington in the ’90s. George Kennan, the eminent architect of the Soviet “containment” strategy and a former ambassador to the Soviet Union, wrote in 1997 that expanding NATO would be a “fateful error” because it would “inflame the nationalistic, anti-Western and militaristic tendencies in Russian opinion.” Kennan was far from alone in his criticism, as journalist Peter Beinart noted this week:
Thomas Friedman, America’s most prominent foreign policy columnist, declared it the “most ill-conceived project of the post-Cold War era.” Daniel Patrick Moynihan, widely considered the most erudite member of the US Senate, warned, “We have no idea what we’re getting into.”
Meanwhile, military leaders saw enlargement as detrimental to US interests, the Congressional Budget Office saw it as too expensive, and, later, intelligence agencies outright opposed adding Ukraine and Georgia. Clinton’s Secretary of Defense William Perry wrote in his memoir that he nearly resigned over enlargement.
It was a way of incentivizing liberalization in countries that had been in the Communist bloc, showing that the US still has a mission in Europe, and a way of the US projecting power and checking alternative systems like the European Union.”
https://www.vox.com/22900113/nato-ukraine-russia-crisis-clinton-expansion
Students to pay off loans into their 60s, plans say, reports the bBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-60498245
or I report, loads of spongers wanted to not pay
Funny how the bbc and their, quite literally patners in crime, doubt when Putin says he is “mostly peaceful”. (peacekeeping)
Maybe if it was black Russians causing mayhem they would accept ?
Phew, Clive is there too.
The diversity was looking iffy.
I can imagine a war movie from Ukraine when the Americans get involved ….
US troops in a trench: Big shout “Incoming!”.
Screech of passenger jet tyres on runway.
Another unnecessary BBC unnecessary correspondent lands unnecessarily in Keeeev at LF taxpayers’ unnecessary expense.
Complete with his on trend scarf. Err, if all civil aviation has been halted to Kiev – how are all the sky/bbc journalists going to get out ?
Brissles, my dear old thing (well it must be the cricket season in Australia – still) that was the first thought when I heard that news. They will have to try a risky car journey overland to Poland. I do wonder if TimKing Davide (see what I did there?) has done ‘an Uriah’ on poor old Nick Robinson just to rid himself of a ‘difficult’ presenter.
Uptick for ignoring the spelling change. Who decided the change, and why is everybody suddenly copying it?
Sorry to disagree but “Kyiv” is correct, if you respect the Ukrainian version rather than the more familiar Russian “Kiev”.
The pronunciation is like the French “que” plus the English “yiv”. I think “keev” is wrong, though I understand why people are saying it.
Remember that Ukrainian has an “i” like our “i” and another one which is like the Russian Cyrillic “i” (to our way of seeing, it actually looks like a Roman “u” just to confuse matters) These letters appear side by side in Kyiv / Kiev.
Source: from the horse’s mouth, a Ukrainian I worked with in the early 2000s.
Of course, Kiev isn’t wrong. After all, we still talk about Lisbon and Florence instead of the more authentic Lisboa and Firenze; but Ukrainians prefer “Kyiv”.
Agreed, Mustapha.
Way back, I undertook a number of trips to the Ukrainian city of Kharkov (Russian) or Kharkiv (Ukrainian – actually pronounced ‘Charkeef’, where the ‘CH’ sound is similar to the Scots pronunciation of ‘CH’ as in Loch).
I noticed this morning that ‘Toenails’ Robinson was at great pains to pronounce Kiev as ‘Keef’, but fell over ten seconds later with the pronunciation of Lviv, which he pronounced as it is spelt, but which a local pronounced during an interview with him as ‘Leef’.
As George Michael might have said (earworm alert !!!!!)… “If you’re gonna do it, do it right”. ‘Toenails’ is definitely NOT your man (sorry…)
Will he be back in time for Mastermind?
https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2020/08/1862/1048/CNN-Headline-Fiery-2.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
Note to all:
For those of us not on Twitter, please note that links to Twitter pages are now often blanked out with Twitter banners urging us to “sign in or join” preventing non Twitter users from reading them
Ditto any footage via bbc iPlayer.
Wish there was a way around it.
I suppose a screenshot and then the image used via an image host but its a complicated work around
I’m not on twitter. If you select either ‘log in’ or ‘sign up’ when the box comes up you can then close whatever comes up by clicking the X in the top left hand corner. This lets you continue reading for a while until the blocking box annoyingly pops up again, at which point repeat the process.
Just open a twitter account, you don’t have to use it.
Just don’t bother…
Agree, don’t have the time, don’t have the memory for yet another password.
I bet the Ukrainians are really grateful for those helmets Germany sent them to help their war effort.
I just hope they were gay-friendly.
as it is relevant to this thread – hope Fed approves – I have copied my Midweek thread post here
TOADY Watch #1 – in which the BBC tries to make their gratuitous waste of taxpayer money and increased CO2 ….
…. seem important to the R4 listener. Nick Robinson goes unnecessarily to Keeev and another Beeboid (sorry forgotten name already – fog of war with Simon in the Ssssst tooodio) – unnecessarily plays sound of air raid siren. Everyone of a certain age (and even young people who have watched war films and documentaries) knows what they are and sound like. Beeboid 3 (Nick) talks to Beeboid 2 about what they haven’t heard and haven’t seen.
Beeboid 3 (Nick) talks to Beeboid 1 (Lyse Doucet) who has been in Keeev for sometime (experienced War Correspondent – note the capital letters – you know) gabbles at a Spike Milligan rate of 300 words a minute. Poor dear is shell shocked already (by the shelling that hasn’t happened yet) and hyperventilates in fear for the listener.
I switch off.
Up2
Yeah. – open house day – on a BA refugee plane back to blighty today – its posdible that theyll have run vodka..
I will miss the excited yet sombre coverage the BBC offers at times like these – and i know i shouldnt laugh at the embarrassing ‘all together ‘ crap they throw out .
But i dont expect to hear much about canada or covid either ..
No, bit of a surprise capitulation from Trudeau there. BBC will not like that. After all the Freedom Truckers demonstrating in Ottawa were all Extreme Far Right Nazis according to the BBC.
As you say, Covid and ‘Partygate’ will all be sidelined unfortunately for the BBC, the Labour Party and the sucker in charge of the Labour Party. I note from the FT’s front page that Starmer ‘has failed to capitalise’.
Canada – Turdeau realised that it wasn’t going to be ratified in the Senate hence any measures taken were illegal.
I listen to this guy who is a (non-practicing) lawyer.
Putin knows the West will not be this weak again for a long time. No way he is going to allow the possibility of a NATO country along the border with Russia.
Thank you Biden, Harris, Pelosi, BBC, Twitter, Facebook and all the Lefties in general who fully supported the ridiculously biased reporting (and cover ups), the election fraud and putting a senile old groper in the Whitehouse just because they hated Trump.
I remember when they told us Trump would cause WW3. Biden now has 2 military disasters on his watch in just over one year.
And a special ‘Shame on you’ award to you BBC. You are the only one who had an actual mandate to be impartial.
The Left and their hypocrisy disgust me. They don’t care about anything except themselves and their agenda.
Absolutely, to all the above.
JohnC, you forget who kicked off the Ukraine thing in the first place – EU meddling by Cathy Ashton.
The woman who has a face like a bag of spanner’s , an interfering warthog who’s never done a proper days work .
Her family were coal miners, what’s she think about fossil fuels now ?
Students to pay off loans into their 60s, plans say
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-60498245
Just recording more illegal BBC sexual and racial discimination in their article content. Nothing new to see here.
Perhaps there could be exemption if a person is a Woc? Just have the White males pay for everything? Less than 2/3rds of university students are Wimmin, so we don’t want to discourage them.
Woc = Wimmin Of Color
Don’t count it out.
Some whiteys were claiming not to be racists by pointing at the dictionary definition and some black people didn’t like that. So they changed the definition to ‘include a reference to systemic oppression’ to make it include ALL white people, no matter what.
If they can be that ridiculous, nothing is off the table.
Bring back O levels and proper A levels and most of them will not get near a university
In my time one would have had to be a genius to be allowed to take more than three A levels, let alone to achieve four or five grade A A levels
And that was when we had things called libraries and books where learning and research was done, and logarithm table books.
Note to millennial non mathematical wokes (its racist innit)
you won’t find log tables in Ikea
Likewise.
The rot started long before John Major’s expansion of the’univerdigties.
My cousin, now retired after a career as a teacher with the British army, tells me that at teacher training college (remember those?) in the early 1970s, there were more sociology lectures than education ones.
Around the same time, 1974 I think, a history teacher about 25 years old was removed from my school after parental and staff pressure for teaching that Churchill was a drunk warmonger and for going on endlessly about Rosa Luxembourg. Her mistake – less than 30 years after the end of WW11, most of the teachers were veterans.
I have been exposed to similar attitudes in education ever since.
God alone knows how many youg minds that teacher and those like her have corrupted in the years since 1974 – undoubtedly some of them will themselves have become teachers, and so the mindset promulgates until it pervades the entire system.
Just reflect that some of those people are just coming to the end of careers in the civil service.
The unis are only up to capacity since the awful Bliar arbitrarily pullled a 50% target out of the bag, to get kids onto all those mickey mouse courses. And now they’re whinging because their pay/studes’ loans etc haven’t increased. LBC had so many of these whining nasal twonks on this morning, the switch across to listening to real reporting on GBN was refreshing and informative!
Oh and yes, somehow, from then on, the numbers of kids with their parents paying for them all the way through Vegan Gender Studies for five years, didn’t appear on the unemployment lists! Funny that, as he and the idiot Brown were already doing their best to wreck UK Inc. There wouldn’t be any jobs for the kids to go to anyway after that dreadful recession, caused solely by that evil duo.
Yes indeed – just a gigantic (and temporarily highly successful) manoeuvre to mask the youth unemployment figures.
Education doesn’t create jobs, jobs create the need for education.
First Iran laughed at Sleepy Joe and resumed its nuclear programme.
Then the Taliban laughed at Senile Joe and took Afghanistan.
Now Putin is laughing at the Imbecile as he marches into Ukraine.
Next… Xi Jinping?
Gog (and possibly Magog) on the move in the End Times? Interesting.
Watch Israel.
Good time for China to make its grab for Taiwan. The West (as was) can’t even begin to cope with two war fronts. Plus China could easily impose sanctions, such as threatening to stop exports of cheap trash to the likes of Walmart and Poundland.
War under Turmp!
President Obama was caught on a live mic in 2012 telling Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he would ‘have more flexibility’ to negotiate on missile defense after his November election.
n an another infamous clip from the 2012 presidential debate against Senator Mitt Romney, Obama made fun of the governor for bringing up the looming existential threat of Russia and Vladimir Putin.
Obama said ‘the 1980’s called and they want their foreign policy back.’
At the time, lapdog journalists, including CNN’s Chris Cillizza, cheered the gotcha moment instead of taking Romney’s warnings seriously.
They applauded like seals over Obama’s cheap line – calling it the best moment of the debate.
“Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.”
Dominion. BLM. Antifa. Epstein ‘suicide’. A male admiral that looks like Whoopi Goldberg. Paris Islamic riots. A No.10 gay insider feeding cake stories for a month to an obsessed media. Sopes and BS holding the US to account. Solar battle tanks. Maternity suits for fighter pilots.
What did they imagine might happen when cultural differences are not going to be solved by a several hundred thousand £ diversity hire picking and choosing rules to suit?
Now I’ll have that Jeff Wayne tune in my head all day, thanks
“intellects vast”
https://c.tenor.com/K95nCJZbN4YAAAAC/dance-russia.gif
https://c.tenor.com/jMCcTMG5yNwAAAAC/russian-dance.gif
Here we have that twat in the hat and his gay Remain gaggle of cis goons.
Maybe it can be decided in a dance off?
Meanwhile…
Diversity exemptions apply, because… er… exemptions…
Curious how one minute Boris warning Putin not to invade was alarmist sabre-rattling for political advantage, and indeed wasn’t he himself the real threat to democracy[in this country…if Russia did nothing then how could we still trust all those politicians, like Boris, who called wolf!], the next he isn’t doing enough to stop the Russian monster!
Funny how Putin has invaded because Boris wasn’t tough enough…it’s all Boris’ fault….er…not the US or Europe or anyone else? They’ve all applied savage sanctions haven’t they? …and if so what good did that do as Putin’s tanks roll into Ukraine? I’m sure Putin quakes in his boots at the thought of our 100 tanks being mobilised.
I wonder who is playing politics….couldn’t be Labour could it as they try to portray ‘Russian’ donors to the Tories as Putin’s pals….and the BBC saying the same…never mind the ‘Russians’ are in fact British citizens entitled to vote here….a BBC presenter having to be corrected as he lumped all ‘Russians’ here into the same Putin fanclub.
Does the BBC apply the same rule to all immigrants in this country? Are they all suspect?
Is the BBC engaged in a faux ‘internment’ of ‘foreigners’, you know the sort of internment in WW2 of Japs in the US that the BBC abhors so much?
Amused to hear Nick Robinson state uncategorically that Ukraine is a ‘modern, democratic country’ and definitely no tinge of Neo-Nazism about it.
Hmmmm…I seem to remember many mentions of Ukrainian Neo-Nazis by the BBC over the past few years….here’s Newsnight in 2014 claiming a tiny group of ‘nationalists’ control half the government.
‘BBC Newsnight’s Gabriel Gatehouse investigates the links between the new Ukrainian government and Neo-nazis’
Urgent message from BBC Director General to Winston Smith:
‘Smith! Remove this video and any reference to it from the archives. Also delete any references to ‘Orange Revolution’, ‘EU flags in the Maidan 2014’ and ‘Soros-backed’.
War reporting millennial style…CBS news
“‘We heard several loud explosions… three to begin with followed by two more,’ he said.
A fighter jet suddenly flew overhead which took D’Agata off guard as he looked around to see if there was anything he needed to be aware of.
D’Agata appeared spooked by the sudden noise.”
CNN:
“I just heard a big bang right here behind me. I’ve never heard anything like it.”
FFS hope there is counselling available
Dan shares the FT sharing Tom sharing…
I think if the BBC havent got any more to show theyll jusr turn on a ‘weak’ nut nut for not sending our boys to die in someone elses war .
Easy for politicians to demand more coffins but Tom has ambitions ..
Not in any way underestimating the seriousness of this situation, but frankly treating the majority of western media as the utter joke they are might make the utter jokes western politicians are pause a bit before dancing to Twitter feeds of 24 yo bimbos, opportunistic ex Labour activists and whoever is with Toenails in his bunker.
‘Enders pR getting in there.
The BBC are screeching about the UK sanctions being wek, but the better news stations like GBN are telling us that in fact, Boris is leading the others, and that includes the old foool over the pond, and certainly the Frog!
Sickle Cell Disease.
Black Broadcasting Corporation: “New sickle cell treatment given to first patients in England”. Take a look at the photo. An African or person from the Caribbean?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-60498916
“What is sickle cell disease?
It is inherited from both parents, who pass on a particular gene
It is possible to carry the gene without having the disease
Nearly 300 babies are born with it each year in the UK
A simple blood test will show whether someone has it
Children with sickle cell are at greater risk of stroke
Other symptoms can include serious infections, anaemia and tiredness
Source: Sickle Cell Society / NHS UK”
No BBC, the NHS say, “Sickle cell disease is particularly common in people with an African or Caribbean family background.”
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/sickle-cell-disease/
Let’s get it straight, deceptive BBC.
There’s no such thing as ‘race’….we’re all genetically identical with no difference in physique, biology or mental capacity…the only difference is skin colour and that’s due to the sun not genetics!
‘Race’ is a social construct.
pugnazious,
“There’s no such thing as ‘race’….we’re all genetically identical with no difference in physique, biology or mental capacity…the only difference is skin colour and that’s due to the sun not genetics!”
If you are over 6 foot you are more likely to have a bad back.
Height is genetic.
Therefore tall people are a different ‘race’ to short people.
Proving you , Maxincony , are are a racist .
Just like sex then. Or perhaps I mean gender.
G, quite correct. Especially prevalent in West Africa and descendants of West Africans. A Nigerian friend of mine has it and lives with it OK.
“Each vial of the drug costs £1,000 but NHS England has negotiated a confidential discount and hopes to treat up to 5,000 patients over the next three years.”
Presumably the next time the media and politicians tell us how mass migration has benefited the British economy, they will have the decency to add a further £5 million into the deficit column of the spreadsheet. Or to paraphrase a supermarket: Every little doesn’t help.
AFAIK Their are just a few British white people with sickle cell anemia.
cos it’s almost impossible for people of 100% northern European extraction to have sickle cell.
Though it does effect all other races, including a fraction of Italian/Greek
There are 300 babies born with it in the UK
Even though there are 20 times more white babies born in the UK , than black, most with SCA are black.
No one seems to want to say the actual number.
I guess it’s like some men get breast cancer. but no men get cervical cancer.
G,
“Let’s get it straight, deceptive BBC”
Huh? Deceptive? How
Maxincony ,
Do you want a Ladybird book on real racists or a Janet & John easy read book about your mindset ?
Nibor,
“Do you want a Ladybird book on real racists…”
So you’re unable to explain how the BBC report is “deceptive”. What a surprise…
maxincony
Why don’t you explain why it isn’t “deceptive”?
It’s even more surprising.
Maxincony ,
It’s deceptive by its omission. No surprise except to racists like you .
Nibor,
“It’s deceptive by its omission”
Omission of what?
Not citing in total the NHS advice. I give a link, assuming you can read – Selective citing. But we know why, don’t we?
By the way, where are you? Beijing or Moscow?
Her husband on hunger strike yet?
Pity its not China the batteries would have run out by now and all the lead paint flaked off
Whatever happened to diplomatic language?
The recently ineffectual west, having dared Putin to act, apparently find he’s finally called their bluff: ‘Ukraine: Russia has launched ‘full-scale invasion‘ (BBC)
Although, given the news source, I’d check my footware for signs of urination before I’m convinced. Who could forget weapons of mass destruction launchable within 45 minutes?
Putin’s reputed invasion timetable seems to have slipped a bit since Christmas, New Year or during the Winter Olympics. What of our spooks, our espionage experts, what have they been up to since: ‘Out of the Shadows: Christopher Steele defiant on dossier, says Trump still ‘potential’ threat. The British former spy says the Russians still may hold “kompromat” on Trump‘ ? (ABC News October 2021) – more to the point, what do they have on Biden? What seems to have given Putin the confidence to do as he pleases without fear of real consequences?
Seriously, what of our spooks? Our 007s?
Do you expect me to talk? No Mr Bond, I expect you to think about your white priviledge…
‘Security chief tells our spies to go woke‘ (Daily Mail) ‘With full Ukraine invasion imminent, we reveal MI5 and MI6 officers were told to think about their “white privilege’ – and avoid using words like “grip” and “strong”‘
The mind truly boggles. One imagines a seasoned old marine commando sergeant brought in to teach young hopefuls how to silently take out a guard on the perimeter of a super villain’s secret compound – those word prohibitions are likely to strain his descriptive vocabulary somewhat.
Speaking of which: ‘Putin’s gone “full tonto” Defence Sec: we kicked Russia’s backside before… we can do it again‘ (freebie Metro) – whatever happened to diplomatic language?
The giveaway Metro, inevitably feels the need to give its readership a quick history lesson: ‘Referring to the 19th century Crimean War‘
Seems we’ve lost this one, since even before it’s begun we’re counting the cost: ‘Oil soars past $100 after Russia orders troops into Ukraine‘ (BBC)
‘Is it all over for Londongrad?‘ asks the Daily Telegraph concerned, no doubt, about house prices and about financial markets; ‘Putin pal Abramovitch not welcome in UK‘ the Daily Star ponders the effect on football – I guess with our black-balling of Russian money, in future we’ll have to make do with Arab and Chinese finance – Londonistan and London-ching.
‘Pressure grows on Tories to hand back £2m Russian money‘ (Daily Mirror) – won’t that simply enable the Ruskies to buy a couple more tanks?
Look on the bright side, eh? ‘Kyiv called up 200,000 reservists and Russia ordered 45,000 body bags while shelling intensified in disputed areas of Ukraine‘ (Daily Mirror)
‘Ukraine war could drive 5 million from their homes‘ says the Times. Already fretting about refugees. Come and live over here then?
‘Migrants who pay people smugglers simply because they want to come to “nice” countries are “queue jumping” says the Australian former minister hired by Priti Patel to shake up UK border measures‘ (Telegraph)
Despite the fact we’ve a Democrat president, the Guardian seems to think the US cavalry can’t nowadays save the day: ‘State of emergency in Ukraine as US warns Putin ready to invade‘
The FT puts their faith in the EU: ‘Brussels hits Putin inner circle as US hardens invasion warning‘ and regrets: ‘Starmer’s struggle to capitalise on Johnson scandals‘
In financial news…
‘Sunak vows to slash tax burden‘ (Telegraph) – that’s after he’s raised our tax burden: ‘Students set to shoulder £100K bill for degrees‘ (Times); ‘Britain should bring forward tax rises to head off inflation, IMF tells Sunak‘ (FT); ‘Rishi: I will cut taxes but you’ll have to wait‘ (Express)
Public health news…
‘“Hospital at home” hopes to plug NHS bed gap‘ (FT) – but what if our homes become overwhelmed? Speaking of the Crimean War… Nightingale tents in our back gardens?
‘Medics voice concern over plan to end home abortions in autumn‘ (Telegraph) – blimey, I’d have thought doctors would raise concerns that home abortions were a thing in the first place.
‘Meat-eating linked to higher risk of cancer‘ (Guardian) – I wish I could have bet a few quid on the eventual appearance of that headline.
Mind you, I’m not saying all public health messaging is de facto lies and bad for us: ‘On the Buses Olive killed by “cig in bed”‘ (Sun); ‘On the Buses Olive dies in blaze‘ (Daily Star); ‘Tears for On the Buses star after fire tragedy‘ (Mirror) – I’m old enough to remember when you had to go up on top for a smoke.
AISI, interesting photo on fp of Guardian this a.m.. Shows Putin ‘out of step’ with his military (and the rest of the Russian people?) and somewhat becalmed, bit like another ‘Socialist’ that I can think of who leads our UK Labour Party.
If we get dragged into this I am sure it will end up as a global conflict
A bomb on London will undoubtedly provoke a response from Pakistan, Nigeria and Somalia.
Could go nuclear very quickly. Tacticals at first, then ICBMs.
If I was in Putin’s shoes and could see how limp-wristed, deviant and pathetic Western governments and news media have become, I would not be concerned in any way about any retaliation. In fact I would probably see it as my human duty to normalise things.
Labour is very concerned about Russian interference in our democracy…and so is the BBC!
How soon they forget…in fact they ‘forgot’ instantly at the time.
Remember when the Russians supplied ‘stolen’ documents to the Labour Party which Corbyn used during the 2019 election to claim the Tories were going to privatise the NHS?
The BBC hyped the claims whilst not revealing where the documents came from merely saying…
‘Labour obtained uncensored government documents covering six rounds of talks between US and UK officials in Washington and London between July 2017 and July 2019.’
Of course…I expect someone just left them on a bus….might be good if the BBC actually asked the question about how Labour came by them.
Only later, well after the election do we get the truth from the Corbynistas…here’s the Guardian…
‘An anonymous online poster who disseminated documents later brandished by Jeremy Corbyn as evidence the Conservatives would put the NHS “on the table” in US trade talks was part of a campaign directed by Moscow, the site hosting the papers has said.’
Of course the BBC spent 4 + years insisting the Russians stole the election for Trump when the truth was Clinton was the main beneficiary of their ‘interest’….Clinton with so many links to Russia and indeed Saudi Arabia.
Lest there be any doubt on the role media plays.
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/tv/bbc-breakfasts-dan-walker-ambushes-23192636?
A no weight no mark bbc twat pulls an award winning photo gotcha on a minister trying to avert a war on air, and his groupies oop north wet their panties.
Is that the big gotcha Dan Walker claims ?
“confronting Liz Truss with a photo of her & other top Tories in the company of Lubov Chernukhin, a leading Conservative donor, who’s husband has close links to Putin”
“£1.6m in donations, the biggest female donor to the Tories”
.. Hmm that’s really not much money
Its from way back when Mrs May was in charge
Lubov is not next to Truss but rather to the right of Mrs May
Give the money back?
All is saved! Vile is getting in Kev.
Bet Emily’s next photo shot with the dog will be in jeopardy now.
More Diversity managers?
Now renamed Kyiv Maguire?
Zelensky:
Now would be a good time to take out of hiding, the remaining nuclear device you stashed away at the end of the Cold War and give it to the volunteer ex-Special Forces operative suffering from a terminal illness to take it to the Kremlin…………
Just waiting for China to start on Taiwan. Probably why the US is not putting significant numbers into Europe: Keeping Powder Dry.
The evil here is Europe / EU. A scandal. Sat back watching Putin build up all his forces while running down their military and reducing payments to NATO. Shame on them.
I recall reading somewhere that there was some debate at the end of WW2 as to whether the Allies, having reached Berlin, should continue pushing East to Moscow.
Churchill and Patton.
One voted out, the other had an ‘accident’.
This is probably a better picture of what is happening in Ukraine on the ground rather than the media.
Hey Joe, is this a “minor incursion”?
BLM is just an idea.
Russia is just an incursion.
And Biden is just an Imbecile.
All those principled BBC ‘stars’ who kept telling us the BBC was the golden standard bearer for the media, for truth, impartiality, accuracy, honesty, independence….how quickly they jump ship for huge pots of money and the opportunity to vent their own opinions rather than ‘impartial’ news.
All those anti-capitalist warriors money-grabbing like mad…all those woke warriors for truth mounted on their high horses suddenly gallop off to one of the most bigoted, partial, and increasingly hard-left, stations.
I guess they were living a lie and now revert to type…greedy, arrogant champagne socialists who like to lecture and hector us mere mortals….actually wasn’t that them at the BBC as well?
QED.
Any news from China?
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 2018 to 12 March 2019, approx. value £43,500
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=10220
Let’s call for Conscription!
All those aged between 16 and 40.
‘Dinghy Pound in Dover broken into overnight and all dinghies stolen’
‘Strange and sudden disappearance of all those in 3 & 4 Star hotel accommodation: BBC puzzled’
‘Mass exodus of Pakistani & Somali nationals through Heathrow’.
Meanwhile in a socialist loving country China in the year 2017 … “China Tackles ‘Masculinity Crisis,’ Tries to Stop ‘Effeminate’ Boys {nbcnews.com 09jan2017}” … “Chinese police order Muslims (Xinjiang) to hand in all copies of the Koran and prayer mats or face ‘harsh punishment’ {29sep2017}” … BBC has more news … …
“State (China) media billed the rallies as “anti-terror and stability (compulsory) oath-taking assemblies” {bbc.co.uk feb2017}”
I can see some fun ahead when the neo nazi Ukranian refugees start arriving on our shores and mingle with our other rag tag mobs of various hued immigrants.
Then maybe the far left will suddenly realise what nazi really means instead of using it as a term of abuse to all and sundry…..
[video src="https://videos.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2019/06/04/3738495248350166754/640x360_MP4_3738495248350166754.mp4" /]
Okay, I’m trying to look on the bright side…
Perhaps some good could come from Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine. It just might wake us up and get us behaving like adults. I think that for far too long we have had uninspiring and insipid politicians and a pathetically flaccid media, fretting about climate change and posers worrying about “personal pronouns”. Western democracies have become a bad joke.
We’ve turned daft kids like Greta into plaster saints, hanging on every silly syllable, but this is serious. It’s time for the grown-ups to regain control.
Britain is built on oil, coal and gas. It’s under our feet and in the sea. We have the lot at our disposal, enough for many decades, but we have become obsessed with bloody windmills and solar panels and therefore (because they’re incredibly unreliable) need to import energy from places like Norway. It’s stupid!
It could be a whole lot worse, we could be like Germany. In 2016 I attended a wedding in Germany and travelled about a bit, the entire country seemed to be smothered in these ghastly windfarms. Because of this green obsession they’re heavily dependent on imported Russian gas. There’s a pipeline from Russia, still not operational, that could supply energy for up to 26,000,000 German homes. What idiot thought that was a good idea?
The Ukraine is invaded and Germany is knackered.
We don’t need to be…
Jeff – at least we know that putin – russia – is a defined enemy and has to be isolated from the civilised world
Making the assumption that todays events will remain ‘local ‘
I dont think it will have any effect on the woke kidults – all theyd do is take selfies of rocket attacks
A brief moment for bbc jokes…
Newsround
CBBC Channel, Tuesday 8 June 2021
In a segment about vaccine approval for 12 to 15 year olds, a contributor claimed that the Pfizer vaccine is “100% safe”. This has been removed from the online article and video: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/57435861
https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications/archive_2021/
Ant and Dec in drag: ‘This will change LGBTQ+ children’s lives’
By Jennifer Meierhans
Newsbeat reporter
Published2 days ago
“They’re showing it’s fun. Anyone and everyone should try drag once in their lives, it’s such a liberating, freeing feeling.
“You get to become someone else while still being yourself.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-60464528
Plus… 50 reactions in 6 days.
2017 ….
Least we forget how it all works … videos, words, pictures … you don’t get to choose the arrangement …
Chaos as police stop Hungary migrant train – Gavin Hewitt – BBC -Sep 2015 @53s
“… the a really distressing incident happened. A women who was carrying a small baby began crying for help (photo of lady carrying baby). One of her companions tried to help her (photo of man with women on track, riot police reaching towards them) Somehow there became a push and a shove with the police. She ended up on the railway lines (by the male refugee dragging her and the baby to the floor, but this is not said) with the riot police trying to pull her back, and this of course inflamed all the other people…”
-Gavin Hewitt – Sep 2015
Watch the video and the male refugee (companion trying to help?) drags the women and baby to the floor, by force.
Even the Mirror (03Sept2015) says “… this refugee couple cradle their tiny baby, after throwing themselves (NO! Male refugee drags women and baby onto train tracks) on train tracks as police try to take them to migrant camps in Hungary”
Gets better. Two days (05Sept2015) later the Mirror then report it as
“Refugee who dragged pregnant wife and baby son onto train track did it because ‘death would be better’”
1. BBC Version uses words and pictures to hide the video version
2. The Mirror shows the video but uses words to tell a different version
Can I suggest a little story – “Male refugee forces pregnant women refugee holding child down onto a train track, police drag him away for her safety? Riot police then lift women with child off track with tender arms.”
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/07/03/start-the-week-open-thread-131/comment-page-3/#comment-849798
The West lacks the will, the means and the economic autonomy to deal with aggressors such as Russia or China . Our decadence has sapped our will , our scramble to divert resources from defence towards ever greater feather bedding of ourselves has reduced our military power and globalisation of the supply of every day essentials has rendered us dependent on our enemies .
The West can huff and puff but to quote Stalin when he was told that the Pope disagreed with his plan, ‘how divisions does the Vatican have?’
Today’s BBC news website goes big on the story of the day. Here are the lead headlines on the main pages:
Home page: RUSSIA LAUNCHES INVASION OF UKRAINE
World page: RUSSIA LAUNCHES INVASION OF UKRAINE
Europe page: RUSSIA LAUNCHES INVASION OF UKRAINE
USA page: WHY ARE BLACK AMERICANS BEING PUNISHED FOR THEIR HAIR?
Beats me. Is it because they won’t let Sleepy sniff it?
@Woodenfish – BBC very upset about black hair (above), but not bothered at all about the black killer of a white woman with 4 children who pleaded for her life. Maybe he was having a bad hair day?
White Lives Don’t Matter in Beebland.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10530535/Dashcam-footage-reveals-Uber-driver-38-pleaded-robber-shot-dead.html
Lets not play armchair general …
But how far does putin go ! ?
The whole of ukraine ?
Incidental attack on poland ?
Half of ukraine then peacekeeping ?
If we are stll about by the end of the day ?
Would this have happened under President Trump ?
Will those rich Russians in London flee London?
Or will they feel safe knowing that the UK is a paper tiger.
Stop Russianiophobia – wear a hijab.
Putin wants regime change, a puppet ruler, and a large chunk of Eastern Ukraine.
No, it wouldn’t have happened under Trump for a number of reasons, including his military and energy policies which would have left the US and the West in a much stronger position and able to offer real deterrence.
Trump projected strength; Biden exudes weakness.
US issues first gender-neutral ‘X’ passport
Published28 October 2021
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59076614
Russia is the enemy without. The enemy within:
The BBC
Corbyn
Smarmer
The Labour Pairty
The SNP
The Greenies
650 MPS … you will be cold and happy. They will be heated warm and fed.
The Gramscians
The Bilderburgers , Common Purpose , Franfurter school and Saul Alinsky.
Has nut nut addressed the nation yet ? I read on the twitter that he is going to do a Churchill gig – maybe in the number 10 garden ?…
Following Tuesday’s surprising announcement that Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel were leaving the BBC to join LBC, the station has now revealed what’s in store for its other big signing: Tonight with Andrew Marr will air Monday to Thursday from 6pm to 7pm, with the first show set for 7th March. Global also announced ex-BBC politics editor Rob Burley will re-join Marr as his Executive Editor, confirming Guido’s scoop from January…
Speaking this morning, Marr said:
“I’ve always thought journalism is about breaking stories, ruffling feathers and having some fun on the way. My new LBC show, Tonight with Andrew Marr is perfectly timed at 6pm, the end of busy political days, and stuffed with great guests, and will do just that. Anyone wanting bland, safe, wearily predictable journalism is strongly advised to look elsewhere.”
Still no announcements made yet on who will permanently fill Marr’s old Sunday morning slot at the BBC…
order-order.com
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“… and mould all Europe into a copy of Germany …. a good place to start is to ditch the easy historical comparison (ignore history and you will repeat it) …@1:06 because Angela Merkel is a figure of our here and now and it’s vital to understand her better because she (Merkel) matters more to our future (UK) than, what, 95% of British Politicians.” – BBC’s Andrew Marr 2013
https://order-order.com/2018/03/05/corbynista-wars-bastani-shanly-excommunicated/#comment-3787926717
“Ukraine is a country that for decades has enjoyed freedom and democracy and the right to choose its own destiny
We – and the world – cannot allow that freedom just to be snuffed out.
We cannot and will not just look away.” (c) Boris
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Batley Grammar School teacher in Prophet row ‘fears he could be killed, still in hiding and refuses to return to work’ (UK)
Thanks for reminding us that a great evil is in our midst and is protected by our rulers . One day this evil will rise up and devour us from within.