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BBC finding people to condemn Britain for not taking in Ukrainian refugees .
Well down the road from where they broadcast is a Ukrainian church used by Ukrainian immigrants – or community as the BBC calls it . Plus they interviewed a Ukrainian lady who had been here for twenty years and is now a food writer.
Ukraine is not and never has been in the EU or our Commonwealth. So they can’t settle in Britain under those two schemes .
The BBC tell us Ukraine is a vibrant, democratic European country , so they can’t have settled here as genuine refugees.
So why are they here ?
He joined many others grafting in the factories and foundries across the West Midlands who saw the UK as “the mother country” after Yemen first came under British rule in 1839.
Fight for payment of UK pensions lost in Yemen warzone
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-56803551
To qualify for a Skilled Worker visa, you must: work for a UK employer that’s been approved by the Home Office. have a ‘certificate of sponsorship’ from your employer with information about the role you’ve been offered in the UK. do a job that’s on the list of eligible occupations
https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa#:~:text=To%20qualify%20for%20a%20Skilled,the%20list%20of%20eligible%20occupations
If you want to stay longer in the UK
You can apply to extend your visa as many times as you like as long as you still meet the eligibility requirements.
After 5 years, you may be able to apply to settle permanently in the UK (also known as ‘indefinite leave to remain’). This gives you the right to live, work and study here for as long as you like, and apply for benefits if you’re eligible.
On independence day, Ukraine foreign minister pushes for EU membership
In an interview, Dmytro Kuleba said the EU must expand its ranks to compete as a global power.
https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-european-union-membership-dmytro-kuleba-crimea-russia/
August 24, 2021
His message: It’s time to get some guts — confront Russia and welcome new member countries Moscow is menacing.
“Russia always had a strategy toward Belarus, and the West — not only the EU, but the West as a whole — never had a strategy,” he said. “And this is what happens when you don’t have a strategy. Things collapse.”
Kuleba’s willingness to dish out advice to Brussels reflects a new assertiveness from Ukraine. It has developed partly in response to an agreement by Germany and the U.S. to allow the completion of the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. The new pipeline would allow Russia to bypass Ukraine in transiting gas to Europe, which some analysts say would make it easier for a full-scale Russian military invasion.
“The European Union is the first-ever attempt to build a liberal empire, an empire constructed on … principles of liberalism and freedom,” he said. “This makes this project so unique in the history of humankind.”
But he said that he also warns them of the historic perils of empire-building in Europe.
“In the end, every good empire in this part of the world should split up between eastern and western,” he said. “And this is where they never smile.”
Instead of the purile lighting of buildings in Blue and yellow, if we really wanted to show some solidarity with Ukraine then we should have been sounding the air attack warning sirens in all towns and cities, so that people can know the terror of that awful sound.
I have never heard the siren being tested by the local authority and I wonder if they actually have any. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to get a pampered population thinking about a possible attack and what they might do in those circumstances.
For decades we kept the Left in line because of the threat of Communism, without that threat they have been allowed to get completely out of control. Some sirens might just wake people up again.
Wake the woke
Thoughtful. Heard the siren this morning, shades of WW2. It is situated at the gates of Devonport Dockyard and every Monday morning at 11.30 they test it out. I believe it is there to warn of any accidents in the nuclear/Trident docks. It is generally ignored and can only be heard if the wind is south west. Quite loud today!
Decades ago they issued a packet of iodine tablets to we who live within a mile or so radius, all forgotten now. You are quite right we need to be more alert to the unexpected. Too much ‘it won’t happen here’ mentality, but may be this is the plan all along.
I’m old enough – shame! I hear you cry – to remember WW2 sirens being tested during the Cold War in the 1960s.
I want to know what has happened to Hunter Biden’s Ukrainian interests. I am sure the emails found on his ‘lost’ laptop suggested Hunter was asking for 10% for his ‘old man’.
These interests may affect decisions made in Washington. The BBC doesn’t seem to be asking these questions.
I wonder how our own generation of youngsters would respond to invasion?
Brave Ukrainian warrior, presenting arms.
British Social Justice Warrior, presenting.
What is this order of which he speaks?
Also what ‘fight’? Sending some weapons, imposing some sanctions and tut tutting isn’t fighting. No the liberal international order may have the weapons but does it have the will to use them?
Too much irony
The likes of Bryant and his bbc buddies vilified president trump for his attitude – and threat – so they helped illegally depose him turning America into a crime ridden weak mess . ..and led to what are now successive foreign policy disasters .
In an honest system the democrats would be buried in coming elections – but they are fixed .
The US army is infiltrated with feminists, transgenders and and such Diversity nonsense. They will be defeated in short order.
China promotes education drive to make boys more ‘manly’
By Kerry Allen
BBC Monitoring
Published4 February 2021
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-55926248
Quite funny
@Pug BBC progs repeatedly say “The Great Replacement is a far-right CONSPIRACY THEORY”
..That is not a logical argument but rather ad hominem attack, dismissing a point by means of applying boo-word labels to the messengers.
In other news Australian aborigines have not been vastly outnumbered by immigrant populations /sarc.
We taffmen are off to the moon!
The Welsh Assembly has lost its way .
https://gov.wales/wales-sustainable-space-nation-html
Coal-Fired Rocket Engine
Brief report describes concept for coal-burning hybrid rocket engine. Proposed engine carries larger payload, burns more cleanly, and safer to manufacture and handle than conventional solid-propellant rockets. Thrust changeable in flight, and stops and starts on demand.
Document ID
19870000360
Document Type
Other – NASA Tech Brief
Authors
Anderson, Floyd A.
(Caltech)
Date Acquired
August 13, 2013
Publication Date
July 1, 1987
Publication Information
Publication: NASA Tech Briefs
Volume: 11
Issue: 7
ISSN: 0145-319X
Taffman
You already have a Space Station in Wales….its between your Illustrious Leaders ears ! !
This week I am celebrating 20 years without a TV LICENCE…..Just look at the money I have saved…..now I can afford the looming Energy Bills 😅
Apparently Putin is a white supremacist.
Psaki pushes renewable energy to stop dependence on foreign oil instead of increasing US production
Tilting at windmills ?
“many NATO countries such as Germany dependent on Russian oil to fuel their countries.
That dependence has also limited the international response to Russia’s invasion, with sanctions being specifically designed not to target Russian fuel exports amid fears such a move could send energy prices soaring in Europe.”
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/psaki-pushes-renewable-energy-stop-dependence-foreign-oil-instead-of-increasing-us-production
Biden in Delaware as Putin raises nuclear alert status
President Biden is at his private home in Delaware as the Russian invasion of Ukraine escalates
Putin ordered the Russian defense minister and the chief of the military’s General Staff to put the nuclear deterrent forces in a “special regime of combat duty.” The move signals tensions could boil over into a nuclear war.
At the same time, Biden remains at his private residence in Delaware and media communications with the commander-in-chief have slowed to a crawl.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-in-delaware-as-putin-raises-alert-status-of-nuclear-weapons
Z,
Shows how much confidence Putin has in his land/air/sea forces to even consider nuclear.
Rather like this!
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiY9K5DmzPAlssadAoHJMNQtkeLeWD2-jDNDNwxJTieq1nA8ZOZ9lb1nNAD5wB2PnrFApq-a1aqyVKHZrZOk_Gb3KLIJRVnEAKE4_x1FJqgugGQR_EHDuATREvvh2zYdYCjO57CZg29s3dj8CY0uYlt63MTFXpWt49dPXpmVd6cARpYCEjKXHqf5Pth=w400-h400
h/t Theo Spark
That’s ruined my breakfast, the thought of Biden as a pawn actor
https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/TOB-comp-page-4-5-feb-27.jpg?w=660
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fc4e91c88-e8cc-11eb-baaa-861dba20d87a.jpg?crop=3146%2C2097%2C161%2C107
https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/NINTCHDBPICT000602270218.jpg?strip=all&w=960
Disgusting. As reported that all 18-65 year old men should not leave Ukraine and be prepared for military service. Why only men? Surely in our times of equal opportunity and equality in everything, woman should be given equal consideration. Woman are just as good as men at everything and should be given major conflict roles on the front line alongside the men. Seeing woman making molotov cocktails in sweat shop conditions is so demeaning. Come on BBC, this is a disregard of the European rules on Human Rights and should be challenged. Question – I know that here in our progressively liberal UK some woman have been promoted to senior front line military roles – is this in times of war or does it apply to peacetime only ?
The M,
“…given equal consideration.” No, no consideration – join the menfolk.
Good news! The invaders are being held at bay and civilians are arming themselves to drive them back where they came from. Apparently the stiffest resistance is coming from a place beginning with K which I didn’t quite catch. It must be Kent.
This is really exciting and the nest news since Brexit. I’m so glad the Brits have found the guts to….oh hang on a minute.
Sorry I got that wrong. I misheard. It is the Ukraine where it’s all happening. It’s damned foreigners who are sticking up for themselves not the Brits. Silly me. The people of Kent are safe at home with their tellys and care not who is landing on their beaches.
Alas! The illusion was sweet while it lasted.
David Starkey’s analysis on Putin is brilliant.
Basically Putin is not mad ,he is BAD. He
considers himself to be another Czar. Another Peter the
Great or Catherine the Great.In the end he wants to be remembered as Vladimir the Great. You can see by the
way he holds court in his expansive palaces who he
thinks he is. Or knows he is.
And like Hitler he is practicing what he has preached in his
oratory .We need to believe him when he says he is prepared
to use nuclear weapons.
Starkey tells us that Russia is an extremely powerful military
country. Whilst the west has been concentrating on the use
of the correct pronouns and worshipping the likes of
Greta Thunberg, Russia’s military has grown out of all proportion.
We in Europe are no match for it.” While Rome burns we fiddled.”
Going down on our knees for the BLM organization and
singing “You’ll never walk alone” or” Imagine” is not going
to save us from Putin. BECAUSE sleepy Joe is not going to.
Next stop TAIWAN !!
I just watched an interview with Condaleezza Rice who met Putin on several occasions and had to negotiate with him.
She describes him as cold and calculating, and recalls something he said “once a KGB man always a KGB man”.
She now however says he has changed, become delusional – paranoid, and it’s difficult to predict what he might do next.
He appears to have honestly believed that the people of Ukraine would have welcomed the Russian troops as liberators, and overthrown the Zelenski government.
This could of course have been down to massively wrong intelligence, or Russian people in regions such as Donbas giving their opinions which are obviously going to massively prejudiced against Zelinski.
Either way and regardless of criminal actions on behalf of Putin we have to give both him and Russia a way out of this conflict without total humiliation. There has to be a carrot along with the stick, and the West needs to offer a relaxation of those sanctions which most affect the ordinary people of Russia.
The most important thing in this conflict is not giving the infinitely greedy weasels the prospects of some ridiculously high fees, but the saving of innocent lives, and if that means we have to give a little more than we might be comfortable with then it’s a price worth paying.
The chance are that Putin who is 70 already might quietly bow out to his enormous Dacha, or will be removed in some other way.
I am filled with fascination at the mental gymnastics performed by our far left and woke brigade, or shall we call it what it is ?
Hypocrisy (nothing new there really)
One minute they are mocking, sneering and joining that bbc Munchetty thing with her snidey sneering comments regarding “flag shaggers” and nationalists.
And next: close to tears and joining in flying the Ukranian colours and cheering on these rampant nationalists fighting for their country.
The consequence of that kind of nationalism is that they have 16 year old boys joining the men, not to run off somewhere at the first sniff of danger, but to send the women and children off and turn and fight.
While our wokes are no doubt now seeking counselling and a safe space, terrified about Putin’s nuclear weapon comments.
The Ukrainian refugees have the diagnostic characteristic of true, real, genuine refugees, they are mostly women, children and old men . The young men , in the case of Ukraine even men over 50 , are staying put to fight.
Contrast these refugees with the the hordes of men of military age crossing the channel who the idiotic liberals claim to be refugees .
Sky Sports presenter Hayley McQueen leaves fans concerned after ‘crying’ on air
Sky Sports presenter Hayley McQueen left fans concerned after appearing to be on the verge of ‘crying’ while covering the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine live on air
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/hayley-mcqueen-sky-sports-ukraine-26336760
McQueen, daughter to former Manchester United and Leeds United player Gordon McQueen, wore a blue top and yellow skirt during her Saturday morning slot – the same colours as the under-attack nation’s flag, perceived as a show of support.
bBC website has a new heading at the top of the page labeled “Ukraine conflict”
And meanwhile in “World” news the following
1) Kyiv curfew lifts as Ukraine wakes to ‘crucial 24 hours
2) Ukrainian cities on alert after night of shelling as a ‘crucial’ day begins
3) Ukraine conflict: Your guide to understanding day four
PS in world news I did manage to find some news which wasn’t related to Ukraine
Toady watch
So funny ( shouldn’t have been ) amyl tries to interview some big wig from the ReichEU . It didn’t go well . The EU bloke ( Italian ?) was so arrogant – he could have been Russian – that was being asked questions .
If it has been a British ( tory) type the beeboid would have gone ‘dirty ‘ but because it was the ReichEU amyl went into ‘best behaviour mode ‘.
When you hear this bias it just confirms where we are with the state broadcaster .
As an aside – if you have never seen RT – go have a look – particularity since it is likely to be gone in days – if not hours .
As further aside
It must be depressing for all those health experts used to strutting their stuff on the airways to be back in their box . I wonder if they’ll be held to account for avoidable failures ? ( no.)…
And … how will the English covid stats look this week as restrictions are removed ….?
If a anything good comes out of this war it will be the demise of the left in European politics.
Next time you see the news broadcast from the bordrlers cast your eye over the background there seems to be an awful lot of chancers mingling.
Hello Halifax
Strange that we might land up with a sort or ‘economic ‘ wall sealing off Russia from civilisation – no solid wall … making the assumption that there is no nuclear incident .
Can anyone envisage a Russian military actually using a nuclear weapon – even a ‘battle field’ one ? Putin might be mad but surely it is more likely to be an accidental nuclear ‘incident ‘….
As for the left – I think the likes of the ‘anti war ‘ muppets in parliament will be quiet — but deserve to pay a price ….
Can’t wait for the next XR protest in London demanding we give up all our energy independence and rely on Russia when the windmills stop working.
they really have not thought this through have they ?
Which, unfortunately, does not stop them being superior, smug. self satisfied and holier than thou
Toady
So how does that work ? The BBC favoured son – Robinson – was sent to Ukraine to emote from a hotel . Today – Monday – ‘mid war’ he has scarpered from Ukraine and is now in Poland telling us how it is .
Just a chapter for his book … ?
( or maybe the new attack on nut nut will be sad pictures of refugees arriving in Poland and allegations of failing to do enough ) …
To answer this, a three way on Breakfast with Toenails, Dan and David Lammy?
Ah… BBC ‘belief’ from Stevo…
Stories that are dropped in at midnight or 1am are PR not news
1am : “Climate change: UN report to show true scale of impacts
By Matt McGrath, Environment correspondent”
That’s promoting a report, instead of waiting for it to actually be published.
The Save The Children PR dept has already tweeted it
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60525591
main BBC tweet
.. https://www.twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1498191786442899456
Someone answers the BBC by posting covert footage of CNN staffer
saying that after their Stop Trump Campaign their new campaign will be Climate Change “whatever that is”
.. https://twitter.com/tommy_astros/status/1429666215467929603
BBC also trailed the report last week too
.. https://twitter.com/EarthEmail/status/1495962905069641739
Yesterday The Sunday Times guy was promoting the coming release
.. https://twitter.com/Ben_Spencer/status/1497883466104545283
I thought in the early days that Covid might makes the wokes grow up and begin to appreciate just how lucky they were to live in a western democracy which provided them with one of the highest standard of living ever known. But no I was wrong the wokes just carried on as before.
I have no illusions that the Ukrainian war might make them appreciate what they have and stop their infantile rantings. They will find a way to blame white Privilege ,or mis use of pronouns , or slavery for the war . They will continue to attack the country and the system which has given them so much .These folks are insane . If only we could swap a few million wokes for a few hundred thousand Ukrainian families.
Lot going on in that Vile image.
Little that adds up.
Green net zero guns?
Fight for Ukraine – you fight for the EU.
‘We’re defending Ukraine AND Europe’s future’: President Zelensky demands EU chiefs allow Ukraine into the bloc after Donald Tusk slammed ‘feeble’ leaders
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10554837/President-Zelensky-pushes-Ukraine-join-EU-day-Russian-invasion.html
Tell you what Jez, why don’t you get on over there with some of your lycra wearing friends and give us a day by day report on what it’s like on the front line?
I’d gladly tune in for your live reports, and who knows, you might even persuade some of your fans to sign up, which would be a win-win in my eyes.
Shots fired.
Media ones, so devastating in their impact.
Guess he is waiting for a dinghy full of coloured boys to turn up at Dover claiming to be Ukrainian ….. we cannot all be colour blind …
Yes, Krish, we empathise more with white Christian Europeans than with brown Muslim Arabs. Just as I suspect you empathise more with Indians of a similar background to yourself than with Syrians or Yemenis.
It’s called race realism.
Big news… of meeeeeee!
With a photo… of MEEEEEEEE!
In… oh,, the observer.
If a BBC “journalist” is being praised by the Observer, the Times or the bloody Guardian, it’s about as relevant as being praised by your mum and dad.
They’re all from the same middle class, lefty, greenie…never done a real day’s work in their life… strata of society.
It means sweet FA…
Yes pathetic reporting, sorry empathetic
Sorry I was in bBC reporting mode then
Why does this girl think that we are interested in the double act which is her and her chin? She has perfected the “please be nice to me because I’m so cute and loveable” look (© diana spencer 1981); the doe-eyed dippy-head thing is being practiced I’m sure. In terms of raw appeal I’d rate her somewhere between Sue Perkins and Sarah Millican. I can’t understand why her boss hasn’t called her in and asked simply “Why do you keep posting pictures of yourself?”.
I find this a lot on youtube; choose any 15 minute video and it will have at least 14 minutes of a man talking to camera. Here’s a clue mate, point the camera at the subject matter and then talk. We can still hear you. And don’t get me started on people who can’t put a camera in landscape mode or afford a tripod.
The penalty shoot out edition
With additional Deutschlandfunk
They think it’s all over… ‘Fifa refuses to expel Russia from international football‘ (Times) …apparently, it is now… ‘England refuse to play Russia. FA intervenes as Fifa finally reacts to calls for football ban‘ (Telegraph) – clearly this one will have to go to extra time or penalties or somesuch decider.
Hold the celebrations… Wait quietly a few more minutes… we’re only now getting the delayed VAR decision via the ref…
‘FIFA have announced that Russia will be banned from playing matches in their own nation, without spectators and without their national anthem or flag. The Football Association also announced that England will not be playing them in any competitive or friendly game in the forseeable future‘ (Talksport.com)
Let’s just check those upcoming fixtures…
‘Free world v Putin‘ (Daily Express)
‘3 Lions refuse to play Russia‘ (giveaway Metro) – matches postponed – for the forseeable. Due to frosty relations.
‘Footie [heart] Ukraine‘ – so says – or draws (in the case of the red heart) our Daily Star. “Putin has a small willy“ contraversially so claims the fan pictured with a small home-made banner. Careful, son, you’ll contravene some sort of sexual gender-orientation LGBTQ+minor-organ community hate speech law and land yourself with a lifetime ban from the ground.
The Bundeswehr may be moribund: ‘‘I am pissed off!’ German army official bemoans ‘bare’ forces as Russia invades Ukraine… Olaf Scholz’s Cabinet, told public broadcaster ZDF that “In retrospect, one must say … that the West was too naïve.”… the foreign policy spokesman of the SPD’s parliamentary group, Nils Schmid, told German radio Deutschlandfunk that: “Whether military aid from the West will help at this point remains to be seen.”‘ (Politico)
But the German that we know well is certainly doing all he can – symbolically – Liverpool FC coach Jürgen Klopp is photographed on the frontpage of the Star bearing a wreath in Ukrainian colours – with all the apparent sincere reverence of a Jeremy Corbyn at a PLO graveside.
One reflexively reaches for Shakespeare at a momentous moment like this: “Fans, footballers, people who aren’t my countrymen, lend me your ears, I come to bury Ukraine…”
‘Klopp’s Kop cup‘ – tongue twists the Sun sport headline. Chelsea (or Chelski as we like to call them down here in London) nil, Liverpool (the reds) nil. ‘Liverpool win 11-10 on penalties‘ (Sun) – that was your League Cup final or Carabao Cup as it is known. Frankly, I don’t know why they bothered with the 90 minutes of football. They might as well have had the taking the knee, all the political demonstrations, Klopp’s wreath laying and then gone straight to the penalty shoot out.
Speaking of penalties…
‘BP seeks to unload 20% investment in Rosneft as corporate backlash mounts… US and allies agree to impose sanctions on Russia’s central bank‘ (FT) – that could be a costly own goal, given our escalating energy cost crisis.
Meanwhile: ‘Fighting for Kharkiv and Kyiv. Ukrainian forces battle to hold on to major cities in fourth day of onslaught‘ (‘i’) – “early doors” yet – as they say in football. Armchair lefty-media generals shouldn’t get too excited about Ukrainian resistance. These look to me like light reconnaissance probes or diversionary pushes as the Russians secure the bulk of the largely Russian-speaking districts east and south of the country. Why get bogged down in city fights?
The hard-headed globalists at the FT seem to agree: ‘Resistance stalls push on Kharkiv and Kyiv but invaders gain in south‘
‘Ukraine’s president agrees to peace talks‘ (Times)
‘Ukraine president… agrees to send a delegation to peace talks with Russia “without preconditions”‘ (FT) – sounds as though he’s asking for an armistice.
From Putin’s point of view: “job’s a good ‘un” – a saying popularised by footballer Robbie Fowler, after scoring four goals in a Premier League match.
And the west can be left to pick up the pieces: ‘Aircraft leasing groups face the logistical challenge of recoverinmg hundreds of planes from Russia‘ (FT); ‘Dash to the borders‘ (‘i’); ‘Refugees. At least 368,000 have fled their homes in Ukriane‘ (Guardian); ‘Visa rules relaxed allowing Ukrainians to join family members in UK‘ (‘i’); ‘Today we launch the Sun’s Ukraine fund…‘ (Sun); ‘Ukraine refugee appeal. Inspiring start to Mail campaign‘ (Daily Mail)
Last week a typical IMPARTIAL Harrabin tweet from his BBC platform
He still there?
Almost as many engagements as a Springster selfie.
Has anybody seen WodJah and Moonbat together in the same room?
I wonder why the Russians are doing ‘peace talks ‘? The only reason I can see is to give an opportunity to give him a dose of the traditional nerve agent / car crash to ‘off ‘ him …
…. As noted here – strange how the BBC sneered at politicians and others being proud to show the national flag – and now they are wrapping themselves in the Ukrainian one . ….
Maybe we have hit peak woke ( I don’t think so – the parasite is too deeply embedded – only a direct real threat to these people would wake them up ) ….
9am R4 Start the week
“white man bad”
“climate change”
both tickboxes done
oh add
“partygate”
“Barnard Castle”
“Kilburn High St , there is a mosque opposite a pub”
“An Asian man said he would vote UKIP to stop further immigration” the author then asserted the man was half-tongue in cheek
From the blurb
“In a damning report commissioned by the NHS Race and Health Observatory earlier this month, it was revealed that minority ethnic patients suffered *overwhelming* inequalities.
(how the heck can you use that word ?)
If a new Beveridge is to be conceived *diversity will need to be at its heart*,
but the anthropologist Farhan Samanani is concerned that increasingly ‘difference’ is being seen as a threat to societal cohesion.
He has undertaken field research in the north London area of Kilburn – one of the most diverse in the UK. In How To Live With Each Other he explores the capacity of people to connect across divides and cultivate common ground.”
Their graphic
Topic “Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain”
Helen Lewis rushed on past European refugees to “Refugees arriving from the crumbling Empire”
(code words for non-white)
guest “colonial oppression” “racism in Britain”
HL “Britishness was redefined to EXCLUDE the former commonwealth”
The interviewer asked the guest onStart The Week if art or architecture has changed post covid. Well unless art is dashed off in a couple of days, including the guest, nobody yet knows. It was followed by the next stupid question, is art affected by what is happening in Ukraine. I guess that takes more than 4 days for anyone to know.
I saw this the other day and thought it was a joke, but…
Labour MP, Chris Bryant, suggested that Premiership footballers, as well as grovelling on the turf just before kick-off for Black Lives Matter, should also wear blue and yellow laces in their boots (Ukrainian colours) as a mark of solidarity with the invaded country.
My God, it’s that sort of inspired and courageous leadership that this country has been missing for decades. I’m wondering, is this man the new Churchill? “We shall fight them on the beaches, we shall fight them in the country lanes and in the towns, we shall never surrender!”
…”Wear some yellow and blue laces in your boots…”
Cometh the hour, cometh the man…
Lets not forget that before they appear, they’ve ‘moisturised’, shoved the hair gel on, put on a spot of lippy and made sure their nails are the right colour !
David Starkey is a brilliant Historia and commentator.
Regarding his lecture regarding Putin, the West and the Ukraine he seemed to be saying that the Ukraine wasn’t a real State but didn’t take that further. I could also take issue with his UK Budget figures. He said that 80% of our Tax money was spent on welfare, pensions and NHS. What about education?
Part of the issue with our lack of power has a lot to do with our term of membership of the EU. We were conned into believing that the days of European conflict were over and allowed ourselves to think the EU Commission would take care of us.
His contempt for Bliar and Brown is obvious, something with which I completely concur.
All matters that the BBC fail to engage with.
This Morning the pap program “Morning Live” is pushing green stuff and bad diets.
Keep up the good work Prof Starkey.
Flotsam – yes I’m pleased to subscribe to prof Starkey s you tube channel – and having seen his assessment of Putin and the role of ‘force ‘ in statehood I think my view is on firm ground .
Partygate obsessed
Ukraine asks for ceasefire ahead of talks with Russia
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-60542877
Best way out from this is to separate the Eastern half from the West and let it go under Russian control.
The EU will be happy (fast-tracked new member), Russia will be happy (buffer zone along their border) but Ukraine will not. Mind you, neither was Czechoslovakia when we gave them to Germany without asking them in 1938 but that’s world politics for you.
It could all be over in a few days.
JohnC
I reckon that is the most likely out come unless he is determined to take the whole country – which he might well do now he has committed …..
.. but then does western Ukraine then join the EU and NATO ?
And does that mean the remaining british army we have land up based on the new Cold War border … ?
I recall a discussion last year that we don’t need tanks any more … what a joke …
…. But we do have aircraft carriers … which achieve …. What ?
And now the Germans are going to start spending money on defence again .. but will that really happen and how long before they can defend themselves … ?
On the upside – we got out of the EU at a really good time ….
Undercover video of EU meeting
Fed:
You don’t know much about the navy.
We are an island and need a strong navy. Aircraft carriers enable the navy to operate outside the range of land based aircraft. What is so difficult to understand? Just because we need a strong army, does not mean we can do without a strong navy. We need both, and can easily afford the cost.
Agree was hoping Russia had a quick victory to ensure a fast partition.
Worse case is warmongers in the west providing weapons to stoke it all up, and non military targets start getting hit as it escalates
One week to go to International Women’s Day
so Twitter is pushing this at me
Not just any women, it seems.
Some Women Matter More Than Others, apparently.
Did you have to?
whats a UX Recruter when its at home
When it’s spelt right UX = User Experience
Hmm. Not sure I want a ‘User Experience’ with any of that lot…
The BBC informs me that “Hollywood pays tribute to Zelensky and Ukraine”.
Given that Hollywood can be relied upon to get everything spectacularly wrong, I may have to reconsider my own support for Ukraine.
Or perhaps it’s a case of even a broken clock being right occasionally.
Anyway, I’m sure some Ukrainian fighter, crouching in his freezing damp trench, will feel a warm glow to know that some pampered luvvies pay tribute to him as they tuck into their canapés and Champagne.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment_and_arts
A bit like war with Iraq, I was on the fence with that one for a while. Then Blair gave his assessment.
I came down off the fence immediately..
These Hollywood “tributes” always seem to me to be more about them than the actual cause of the day.
Give it a few weeks and they will be back on gender rights, climate change and Trump derangement syndrome.
Just for a bit of light relief BBC Sport text pages under the heading ‘Rugby Union’ report that Ireland swamped a 13-man Italian team while France thrashed Scotland with another display of Gallic brilliance.
The England Wales game was evidently not worth mentioning because it was on ITV.
The Civil Defence (General Local Authority Functions) Regulations 1993
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/1812/regulation/4/made
4.—(1) It shall be in each non-metropolitan county the function of the county council, for civil defence purposes—
(a)to make, keep under review and revise plans for their area and to carry out exercises based on such plans;
(b)to arrange for the training—
(i)of an appropriate number of suitable members of their own staff and of the staff of the council of every district in the county, and
(ii)of such other persons as they consider necessary,
for the purposes of carrying out plans made under sub-paragraph (a) above and discharging the other functions conferred by this regulation;
(c)at the request of the designated Minister, or where the county council consider it appropriate—
(i)to take such preparatory steps as may be necessary to ensure that plans made under sub-paragraph (a) above can be carried out;
(ii)to carry out any of those plans.
These laws came into force because of recalitrant Labour councils refusing to undertake any meaningful civil defence preperation on the grounds that CND had said a nuclear war was unsurvivable and therefore planning a preparation was pointless.
Of course this is a ridiculous Left ist lunacy and doesn’t take account of a dirty bomb or single nuclear device being detonated by a terrorist group.
We are now facing once again the threat of nuclear annihilation and it would appear local Labour government officials have given no thought to civil defence and have broken the law by not doing so.
I cannot imagine a conservative Prime Minister such as Margaret Thatcher allowing them to get away with this, but we have the cowardly Socialist Boris the bottler as PM so as per usual nothing is likely to get done other than waving a pointless rainbow flag.
Furious calls for Britain to do MORE to help Ukrainian refugees after minister suggested evacuees fleeing warzone should apply to pick fruit – while only those with family in UK can get a visa
Whilst these brave souls running away from their country can just turn up and get in ??
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fc4e91c88-e8cc-11eb-baaa-861dba20d87a.jpg?crop=3146%2C2097%2C161%2C107&resize=400&quality=3
Just don’t get it anymore..
BBC this morning interviewing Ben Wallace and right on cue , they start to politicise the interview. “Why did this government not have the foresight to see the invasion coming “, why did the government not arm Ukraine earlier”, “why did the government not do more for the refugee’s”, why did the government cut our armed forces”, etc etc etc..
The general consensus of opinion is that the government is doing a good job and Infact leading the world with the response.
I then turned to Sky and it was the same crap from the presenter.These cretins just can’t help themselves.
My prediction is that the other political parties will forget there promise to work with the government and will join forces with the media and try and crap on this government.
The Ukraine situation genuinely has the potential to escalate into a catastrophic outcome and serious ramifications for us all but that doesn’t stop the pond life at the BBC trying to assert the political agenda.
My loathing for the BBC has just gone up 20 notches on my hate scale… parasite’s
It isn’t an accident that the woke legacy media all use the same lines of questioning and attack. In the UK we see it from Sky , now owned by a woke US corporation, and from the BBC. I think it highly likely that these attack lines are discussed and agreed upon by Woke High Command and then briefed out to their ‘frontline ‘ reporters and interviewers at the Guardian , BBC and Sky etc.
TASS website hacked with anti war message
Tass website is OK now
Alleged earlier screenshot ..ah a reliable source is reporting it
official sites http://government.ru http://kremlin.ru http://gazprom.com
are still unobtainable for me
Russia’s main motorway has just lost it’s electric car car charging points ..apparently
More light relief in the form of two BBC trailers for eagerly awaited docudramas. One featured Kate Garraway, the other Katie Price.
Well, with the skids under Maitless and Sopel I suppose they have to fill the gaps with stars of equal status.
Maitless could take some advice from Price maybe on issues such as inflation ?
https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/10/x190/30562_2.jpg
She looks like a low rate, drugged up slapper. Is there anything we should know?
I’m offended. That statement is derogatory to low rate, drugged up slappers. Positively slapperphobic, in fact.
RT news love this:
Sanders-linked US group blasts NATO’s ‘imperialist expansion’
The Democratic Socialists of America claimed the US and NATO “set the stage for this conflict”
Sanders-linked US group blasts NATO’s ‘imperialist expansion’
NATO’s Secretary General meets Russia’s Deputy Defence Minister and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. © NATO / POOL / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images
In a statement released on Saturday, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) blamed actions by the US and NATO for having helped to spark the Russian invasion of Ukraine, sparking condemnation from other Democrats.
“DSA reaffirms our call for the US to withdraw from NATO and to end the imperialist expansionism that set the stage for this conflict,” the group said in a press release.
“While the failures of neoliberal order are clear to everyone, the ruling class is trying to build a new world, through a dystopic transition grounded in militarism, imperialism, and war. Socialists have a duty to build an alternative,” DSA added, ending their statement by declaring “no war but class war.”
DSA is the largest socialist organization in the United States, with over 92,000 members, including high-profile Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and former presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders. With chapters in all 50 states, it has previously endorsed Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and John Kerry, notably choosing not to endorse current President Joe Biden
https://www.rt.com/news/550837-democratic-socialists-nato-expansion-ukraine/
And who was in power during those years? Yep it was the Obamessiah he who must never be criticised and could do no wrong.
On independence day, Ukraine foreign minister pushes for EU membership
In an interview, Dmytro Kuleba said the EU must expand its ranks to compete as a global power.
https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-european-union-membership-dmytro-kuleba-crimea-russia/
August 24, 2021
His message: It’s time to get some guts — confront Russia and welcome new member countries Moscow is menacing.
“Russia always had a strategy toward Belarus, and the West — not only the EU, but the West as a whole — never had a strategy,” he said. “And this is what happens when you don’t have a strategy. Things collapse.”
Kuleba’s willingness to dish out advice to Brussels reflects a new assertiveness from Ukraine. It has developed partly in response to an agreement by Germany and the U.S. to allow the completion of the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. The new pipeline would allow Russia to bypass Ukraine in transiting gas to Europe, which some analysts say would make it easier for a full-scale Russian military invasion.
But he said that he also warns them of the historic perils of empire-building in Europe.
“In the end, every good empire in this part of the world should split up between eastern and western,” he said. “And this is where they never smile.”
The history of relations between Ukraine and Russia is as long as that between Ireland and England and Scotland but just as complex.
That long history is undoubtedly colouring the way the two countries have moved since the collapse of the Soviet Union. I think it will be very difficult for us foreigners to understand these complexities and hence the background to the hostilities that started in 2014.
The situation is made even more complex by the eastward expansion of NATO and the EU following the collapse of the USSR and the Warsaw Pact and the fear that this will have generated in Russia.
Is there an argument to be made that when the USSR collapsed the West ought to have offered something like the Marshall plan to the Russians and assimilated it more deeply into the West ?