“Ukraine conflict: Petrol at fresh record as oil and gas prices soar” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60642786
Time for Panodrama to investigate the profiteering of the petrol stations. Why are there so many different prices at the pumps ?
Fuel duty and vehicle excise duty revenues amounted to 37 billion pounds ($51.2 billion) in the 2019/20 financial year, equivalent to 1.7% of economic output, it said.19 Oct 2021
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They represent a significant source of revenue for government. In 2019-20 fuel duty raised £28 billion. That represented 3.3 per cent of all receipts and was equivalent to £1,000 per household and 1.2 per cent of national income.
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Sunday R4 had the second part of the drama/lecture about the Demerara slave uprising
A prog totally lacking in balance
The two episodes amounted to a 2 hour party political broadcast for Whitey must pay reparation Party
eg the writer Thomas Harding used the trope
“In modern Britain black women are 4 times as likely to die in pregnancy as white women”
BBC More Or Less has debunked this trope before
British born women whether white or black stand almost zero chance of dying in childbirth.
Something like 10 women a year do ..2 are white and 8 are recent immigrants from Africa .. whose body has ben influenced by what conditions they underwent in years in Africa
It seems it’s not NHS racism.
Guess which politician th writer chose to include ?
Not the first and probably not the last, and no doubt silence from Lammy about how many times we have seen this
Dizzee Rascal could face JAIL: Award-winning rapper, 37, is found guilty of assaulting his ex-fiancée by pushing her to the ground as the pair rowed when he took their daughter out for the day
Dizzee Rascal smashes photographer’s camera after being found guilty of assaulting ex-fiancee
“The hard facts about gender equality in the Caribbean”
“But in many countries of the Anglophone Caribbean, the life of a woman like Tricia holds a singular paradox: Women have more years of secondary school education and enroll in tertiary education institutes more than men, yet once outside the gilded doors of academia women are confronted by challenges such as lower pay, lack of parental support, insufficient protection from violence and harassment, and other obstacles to career progression. ”
“Working in male-dominated environment, Tricia is likely to encounter sexual harassment, that will impact her emotional wellbeing, career options and, ultimately the success of the companies where she will work. According to National Women’s Health Surveys, 25% of women in Suriname and 24% of women in Jamaica have experienced sexual harassment (the highest prevalence in the region among the countries for which data is available). ”
I haven’t listened to BBC radio for four or five years and I found it too much to stomach even back then, but judging from the title of this programme it seems to have deteriorated to something thoroughly repulsive . Surely this is in fact a programme which will further divide a society which has already become fractured along ethnic lines. If the BBC wants to create racial tensions than this type of programme will certainly do it.
I have just had two commentson different stories critical of the Tyranny of Justin Trudeau removed from the Daily Mail as a result of a ‘number of complaints’.
Trudeau is in the UK at the present time and has met the Queen, it appears he has a number of supporters anxious to cancel any criticism of their dear leader.
On a ‘special peacekeeping mission’ from God! Truck owned by church supplies firm reverses through the gates of Russia’s embassy in Dublin
A truck owned crashed through the gates of the Russian embassy in south Dublin
Footage showed the truck, owned by a church supplies firm, reversing in gates
The incident took place at around 1.30pm on Monday and a man was arrested
Lammy, instead of banging on and on and on about racism and slavery, care to comment on the UNICEF statement below?
Do they bring these charming traits to the UK with them ? reports seem to suggest so, look at Dizzee Rascal today.
“Latin America and the Caribbean is the region with the most inequality, discrimination and violence on the planet. The situation affects millions of children.”
“Gender Inequality Remains Persistent in the Caribbean – CDB Report”
“Drop outs of girls might be related to teenage pregnancies resulting in incomplete education. Gender-based violence as being endemic among the researched countries. The Report reveals a predominance of male perpetrators (reported cases), women and girls as the vast majority of victims”
“Studies show that increasing and escalating rates of violence prominently exist among Caribbean family and intimate relationships. As known to many, the social and cultural norms that underscore gendered disparities within Caribbean societies disproportionately increases the risk of violence for women and children. ”
The world does not need any more white saviours. As I’ve said before, this just perpetuates tired and unhelpful stereotypes. Let’s instead promote voices from across the continent of Africa and have serious debate.
The world does not need any more white saviours. As I've said before, this just perpetuates tired and unhelpful stereotypes. Let's instead promote voices from across the continent of Africa and have serious debate.https://t.co/LySa0BXeyi
David Lammy is a tragic individual because he doesn’t appear to be able to focuse on anything other than his personal obsession/delusion of black people being victims and white people abusing them.
There doesn’t appear to be any rational reason for his constant ranting and raving in regard to this, not today in 21st Century Britain, at least as far as I can see?
Is it a form of paranoia maybe? Or an obsessive compulsive disorder? Either way, it’s a form of mental illness, and the man clearly needs help.
Next up, Ian Blackford, another MP with an embarrassing, uncontrollable, and self-destructive, obsessive compulsive disorder.
The world does not need any more white saviours. As I’ve said before, this just perpetuates tired and unhelpful stereotypes. Let’s instead promote voices from across the continent of Africa and have serious debate.
The world does not need any more white saviours. As I've said before, this just perpetuates tired and unhelpful stereotypes. Let's instead promote voices from across the continent of Africa and have serious debate.https://t.co/LySa0BXeyi
“Ukraine military turns volunteers away as 140K Ukrainians come home to fight Russia
‘I was specifically told, ‘no room,” a journalist who volunteered to fight told Fox News”
“African students scramble to flee fighting in Ukraine
As Ukraine is battered by war, Africans studying in Ukraine are desperately trying to leave the country. Some say discrimination is hindering their escape. ”
““Everything is simple,” Ukrainian authorities said. “We are first to release women and children. Foreign men must wait for women and children to come forward. We will release all foreigners without hindrance,” he added, in a written response to questions. “Same goes for blacks.”
One of Satan’s little helpers praises his colleagues
(Labour Welsh MP Chris Bryant)
A massive tribute to every journalist who is bringing us the truth from Ukraine. @BBCNews@SkyNews@itvnews@CNN. Truth is a scarce commodity in this war of aggression and misinformation. Many are risking their lives. We owe you a debt.
CAS-4987700-SY1FTF : BBC NewsWatch says boredom with pro-Brexit march.
CAS-4844672-N8FDYY: Update on the MP Expenses 2009 scandal in 2018.
CAS-4939547-J71Z1V: Here’s hoping Ireland do the right thing G.Lineker.
CAS-4937378-YKMWBJ: BBC not reporting ‘Day of Freedom’ March 06may2018.
CAS-4906141-BFJQL0: I take offence that presenters promote their books.
CAS-4892811-C820SC: I am offended that I have to pay the BBC TV Tax.
CAS-4824332-633N1P: What happened in Italy was not covered …
CAS-4933135-ZV3V7F: The omission is the most powerful form of lie …
CAS-6005141-S1V9D1: Not seen a report on the UK Governments Covid19
Let me know how to go about resolving the issue of paying for something that wastes my time as I have to check each story rather than rely on its accuracy.
ITVnews had PRasNews for themselves
7pm from now on ITV national news will be extended until 7:30pm
“It will include more dedicated items on weather and Climate” .. and other woke agenda pushing too I bet.
Prostitution in Ukraine is illegal but widespread and largely ignored by the government.[1] In recent times, Ukraine has become a popular prostitution and sex trafficking destination. Ukraine is a source, transit, and destination country for women and children trafficked transnationally for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation. Ukraine’s dissolution from the Soviet Union, saw the nation attempt to transition from a planned economy to a market economy. The transition process inflicted economic hardship in the nation, with nearly 80% of the population forced into poverty in the decade that followed its independence.[2] Unemployment in Ukraine was growing at an increasing rate, with female unemployment rising to 64% by 1997.[3] The economic decline in Ukraine made the nation vulnerable and forced many to depend on prostitution and trafficking as a source of income.[4] Sex tourism rose as the country attracted greater numbers of foreign tourists.[1][5]
Also, the Ukrainian people were derogatorily labeled by the Polish media as poor, corrupt, criminal, HIV-positive and undemocratic.[13] As a result, in 2012 there was an outbreak of hysteria over “sex tourism” among Ukrainian soccer fans. At the peak of the obsession, roving gangs of local vigilantes even attacked foreigners who ordered prostitutes, and posted the videos of beatings online.[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_tourism_in_Ukraine#Media_coverage
“EU membership applications from Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova are going to be considered by the European Commission.
The decision to consider the applications, taken by EU ambassadors, needs to be signed off by the European Council – but that’s being described as a procedural formality.”
Current national threat level
The threat to the UK (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) from terrorism is SUBSTANTIAL. https://www.mi5.gov.uk/threat-levels
What the threat levels mean
Threat levels are designed to give a broad indication of the likelihood of a terrorist attack.
LOW means an attack is highly unlikely
MODERATE means an attack is possible, but not likely
SUBSTANTIAL means an attack is likely
SEVERE means an attack is highly likely
CRITICAL means an attack is highly likely in the near future
No smoke now
“Huge fire in London skyscraper
A fire has broken out in a high-rise building in central London.”
Not huge actually.
Firefighters are tackling a blaze on the 17th floor of a block of flats on Whitechapel High Street, Aldgate, in the City of London. Panels of glass can be seen falling to the street below, while flames and thick smoke pour from the building
The London Fire Brigade has said the fire is now under control. 60 people were evacuated from the building, and one resident was rescued with a fire escape hood – to stop toxic air. They are being assessed by the London Ambulance Service.
“The Brigade was called at 1553 and the fire was under control by 1907. Fire crews from Whitechapel, Shoreditch, Dowgate, Bethnal Green, Dockhead, Old Kent Road, Islington and surrounding fire stations were at the scene.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.”
One woman was led to safety inside.
On the ouside they had a supertall ladder that got to the fire. https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/incidents/2022/march/fire-at-block-of-flats-whitechapel/
Fear sells ..so most tweets make out the fire is still raging
A livestream showed it was out
I have wondered for some time whether the BBC would be trying to muddy things a little with the Covid statistics: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274. Now it becomes apparent that they are playing politics with the Pandemic, Partygate and Putin. The BBC have changed the numbers again. Recently they started at weekends to update the top two boxes in chart no.1 ‘Deaths’ and ‘Total Confirmed Cases’, now they have stopped. Instead today, they present a deceptive ‘Total Confirmed Cases’ number for three days, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. That makes it appear to the fast and too casual reader that the new infections are rocketing upward.
Actually the government no longer releases Covid stats at the weekend
So Monday stats are 3 days stats.
.. Anyway we should be looking at 7 day trends.
This is a graph re-adjusted to show positives by actual date.
We are back in a rising trend now ..dunno why
Stew, although they do mention that, as I put in my post, to the fast and too casual reader it makes it appear that the infections are increasing. In addition, I cannot believe that the BBC if they asked and really wanted to present accurate Covid infection figures could not obtain the numbers for Saturday and Sunday and present them on each relevant day. Remember this is the BBC that had the “power” to send Nick Robinson to Kyiv in a war zone and then brought him back again instead of sending him to Poland (a shorter distance) than pulling Mishal Husain from London out to Poland to to their border with Ukraine.
I take your point about a weekly trend watch but that can be done quite separately – if the BBC really wanted to but they do not.
What the BBC are doing here is apparently playing politics because the Labour leader is so lame.
Stew, some days show an increase, some days show a distinct fall: with a measurement it helps not to keep switching from Metric to Imperial and back again. 😉 Consistency is key.
Stew, four day rising trend is often matched by a four day falling trend (or at least a net fall if one day is an outlier) – the key thing for a major impartial broadcaster is to be impartial (and consistent) with the numbers. The BBC are not.
Why?
BBC = extra Labour Party.
Labour Party = BBC
The BBC is not impartial.
It beggars belief that an organisation the size and influence (it is claimed) can be so careless over Covid numbers.
The problem with Whitehall is that civil servants can completely disregard the express will of ministers – even the Prime Minister – when they think the law is on their side. They will not deviate from the legally binding 2050 net-zero target and the Climate Change Act.
I’m sure that it is accurate. The elected government has much less power these days than it did even thirty years ago. We are ruled by unelected civil servants and by an unelected judiciary . Our votes are worth very little. We live a post democratic country.
As MPs have so little power why are they getting a budget increase?
But i wondered what the relatives of others who were murdered by an islamic terrorist thought of being ignored .
You would have not known who else died .
The 30 minutes were very poor . It is all very well dealing out vicarious grief but achieved next to nothing .
The suicide bomber who killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester last year had been rescued from the Libyan civil war by the Royal Navy. Salman Abedi detonated a home-made bomb in the foyer of the Manchester Arena on 22 May 2017 as concert-goers, many of them children, were leaving the venue.31 Jul 2018
Dr Niloufar Omidi is a lecturer in Human Rights for Advocates at the Huston School of Film & Digital Media at NUI Galway and a community development worker with Galway Traveller Movement
ITV On Assignment
– @ragehomaar The beautiful cave paintings of Laas Geel are thousands of years old.
They are an important part of Somaliland’s archaeological heritage and are now playing a part in their political future.
– @AnushkaAsthana on Turkish border with Iran ‘gateway to Europe’.
It has become increasingly difficult for asylum seekers to gain entry to Turkey – meaning many undertake treacherous journeys
– The murder rate in America is at record levels in many cities.
@robertmooreitv investigates Philadelphia with more than 500 murders in the city last year.
Dozens of Ethiopian journalists, including those who live abroad, have called on the government to respect media rights amid increasing reports of persecution of reporters in the country.
They condemned ”all persecution of fellow journalists and media personnel in Ethiopia, targeted simply for doing their jobs,” according to a statement. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/africa
Theresa May on immigration … from ‘hard’ line to ‘pink no line’ …
2012 … “Two and a half years ago, the coalition government was formed, and we made a clear promise to the British public. After thirteen years of uncontrolled mass immigration, this government would reduce and control immigration.” – Theresa May 2012
2015 … “Because when immigration is too high (no figure given), when the pace of change is too fast, it’s impossible to build a cohesive society.” – Theresa May 2015
2018 … “Over the years, overall, immigration has been good for the UK. It has brought people with different backgrounds, different outlooks here to the UK,” – Theresa May 2018
The Archbishop of Canterbury has challenged former prime minister Tony Blair on how he handles feelings of guilt, in a series for BBC Radio 4.
Mr Blair, a Catholic, told the Most Rev Justin Welby his faith had helped him cope with knowing people disliked him.
The programme, part of The Archbishop Interviews series, included questions about the Iraq war, Afghanistan and negotiating the Good Friday Agreement.
“I had to do what I thought was the right thing,” Mr Blair said.
He said the decisions he took were complicated and warned people not to trust politicians who told them “simple slogans”. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60623502
He said people should “at least respect the fact of that complexity rather than reduce it to something that’s a simple slogan.
“Because the politicians you really shouldn’t trust are the people that get up and tell you the simple slogans.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60623502
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Tony Blair slogan
The main poster used in the campaign involved a picture of Labour Party leader Tony Blair on a black background with a strip of the poster appearing to be torn off across the eyes of Blair. The eyes were replaced with a pair of “demon eyes” with the slogan “New Labour New Danger” positioned below the picture.
Alex Belfield : So he was intimidated by false-reporting-trickery on Youtube into leaving YouTube and running his videos behind a paywall. He contracted Vimeo to do the hosting and now they suddenly instantly suspended his account, so he’s on a backup plan.
‘Britain’s wokest school’ gets downgraded by Ofsted as damning report says it placed more weight on ‘social justice’ than on ‘subject-specific knowledge and skills’
The £32,600-a-year American School in London (ASL) is now rated ‘requires improvement’ because of ‘failures’ in education and leadership.
A damning report found it placed more weight on teaching ‘social justice’ than on learning ‘subject-specific knowledge and skills’.
Inspectors visited the previously outstanding-rated school in December after parents complained pupils were being ‘indoctrinated’.
Families said non-white pupils had been recruited to ‘discriminatory’ affinity groups for after-school clubs and children were taught about ‘white fragility’.
Former head Robin Appleby, who introduced the agenda, resigned in November, saying she wanted to ‘focus on her own wellbeing’.
Ofsted’s report, due to be published shortly, said: ‘Teaching places much more weight on the school’s approach to social justice than on learning subject-specific knowledge and skills.’ It added: ‘Not everyone felt that they are able to express their views freely in class.’
Ofsted said that in the lower school curriculum for social studies, pupils ‘spend much time repeatedly considering identity (including analysing their own characteristics) rather than learning, for example, geographical knowledge.’
In middle school, pupils were having to focus on ‘social issues’ rather than ‘skills’ in subjects such as English.
The report concluded: ‘While recognising the importance of promoting equalities, a significant minority of parents and pupils told inspectors that a culture has developed where alternative opinions are not felt welcome.’
Last night, a current parent said: ‘As the report shows, teachers have been indoctrinating students with extreme, partisan views, academic teaching has been shoved out of the way by excessive teaching about ‘social justice’, and most students are afraid to express their views in class.’
Psaki claims Biden administration not slowing domestic oil drilling
The petroleum industry says the administration is hindering energy development during a critical time
When Psaki claimed federal policies are not limiting the supplies of oil and gas domestically, Doocy pointed out that Biden issued an executive order halting new oil production at public plants.
“says that a lot of policies that have been put in place by this administration, including a ban on new development of federal lands and federal waters,” are “really hindering American energy development during a critical time.”
“Also, he says the royalty fees increasing on drilling discourages investment,” Lawrence continued. “So are there any plans to reverse any of these policies to encourage investment?”
P.S. I’m not a Tory. Just saying it’s not the BBC’s job – or at least it didn’t used to be – to use any political crisis to attack the Tories. It’s not balanced, it’s biased. Mainly just annoyed I actually watched BBC News TBH. First time in over a year – it’s pants
— Martin Daubney ✌🏻🇬🇧 (@MartinDaubney) March 7, 2022
‘Covid shrinks the brain, say reasearchers‘ (Telegraph) – yep, I’ve noticed that. Who could have missed it during these last two years of “pandemic“. Unless you never watched TV news, never opened a newspaper, and never went out and saw masked masses on the streets – then you might have been immune to all the brain shrinkage.
Now let’s think about what effect a war has had on our media?
Left and right media, they’ve all gone bonkers…
‘The price we must pay to defeat Putin… Britons face higher energy and food bills in bid to end war‘ (Daily Express) – but if the war was ended the economic sanctions would end, no…? Surely it is the continuation of the war and the West facing off against Putin’s Russia that causes economic problems for us?
‘1.7m Ukrainians have now fled from Russian invasion… we’ve let in just 300‘ (giveaway Metro) – who’s “we” ? So… basically, something goes badly wrong with US-led Western foreign policy and we in Britain with our overcrowded, creaking infrastructure, housing crisis, not forgetting our almost overwhelmed NHS… ought to salve our consciences – which we’ve allowed to be whipped up by blindly taking sides in this quarrel – and although our self-neutered military threat can’t materially defend Ukraine and our talk loudly, carry a tiny stick – we dare not use anyway excuse for diplomacy likely caused the Russian anger by attempting to grab the place for the EU and NATO – now we help Putin rid the disputed areas of their non-Russian-speaking populations. Yeah, that makes sense.
In a statement on Friday, former President Bill Clinton said the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) will be making its comeback to address the many challenges facing the world today, from climate change to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to the coronavirus pandemic.”
“Cooperation and coordination has never been more urgent than it is now,” wrote the former president. “The COVID-19 pandemic has ripped the cover off of longstanding inequities and vulnerabilities across our global community. The existential threat of climate change grows every day.”
“Democracy is under assault around the world, most glaringly in Ukraine where Russia has launched an unjustified and unprovoked invasion that has put millions of lives in grave danger,” he continued. “The number of displaced people and refugees worldwide is higher than it has ever been—more than one in 95 of all people alive on the planet today has been forced to flee their home—and rising.”
When will we get politicians with the ability to think for themselves?
In a north London hospital one Tuesday in January, Boris Johnson gave Beth Rigby the most revealing interview of his premiership. Absent the bombast and bluster, the Wodehousian clown was now just an errant fifth-former sweating it in the head’s study. As his watery eyes scrutinised the floor, he said he “deeply and bitterly” regretted the boozy party held at No 10 the night before Prince Philip’s funeral. He was “deeply”, “heartily, heartily” sorry. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/beth-rigby-on-her-partygate-scandal-i-wish-i-hadnt-gone-it-was-a-mistake-plmqfnfdb
atlas_shruggedNov 2, 12:24 Weekend 2nd November 2024 Jewish and European lives don’t matter: https://twitter.com/i/status/1851913585393316264
Lazy CatNov 2, 12:23 Weekend 2nd November 2024 One hopes for a judicial reckoning for Starmer one day.
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ZephirNov 2, 12:13 Weekend 2nd November 2024 Further to the above, in Germany: “Father ‘impregnates his 12-year-old daughter while living together at refugee accommodation, forcing her to…
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Fedup2Nov 2, 12:00 Weekend 2nd November 2024 Yep – never plead guilty – and just remember the system is a game for everyone apart from the accused…
Eddy BoothNov 2, 11:58 Weekend 2nd November 2024 Another argument for pleading not guilty – waiting for the smoke to clear. Shame we don’t have journalists to look…
ZephirNov 2, 11:51 Weekend 2nd November 2024 Erm…… “Although a British citizen and born in the UK, during her parliamentary maiden speech Badenoch stated that she was…
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Guest WhoNov 2, 11:41 Weekend 2nd November 2024 Toenails’ take… https://x.com/bbcnickrobinson/status/1852675022764056945 Nick Robinson @bbcnickrobinson It would have been unthinkable a few years ago. The Conservative Party have chosen…
“Ukraine conflict: Petrol at fresh record as oil and gas prices soar”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60642786
Time for Panodrama to investigate the profiteering of the petrol stations. Why are there so many different prices at the pumps ?
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Fuel duty and vehicle excise duty revenues amounted to 37 billion pounds ($51.2 billion) in the 2019/20 financial year, equivalent to 1.7% of economic output, it said.19 Oct 2021
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They represent a significant source of revenue for government. In 2019-20 fuel duty raised £28 billion. That represented 3.3 per cent of all receipts and was equivalent to £1,000 per household and 1.2 per cent of national income.
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Sunday R4 had the second part of the drama/lecture about the Demerara slave uprising
A prog totally lacking in balance
The two episodes amounted to a 2 hour party political broadcast for Whitey must pay reparation Party
eg the writer Thomas Harding used the trope
“In modern Britain black women are 4 times as likely to die in pregnancy as white women”
BBC More Or Less has debunked this trope before
British born women whether white or black stand almost zero chance of dying in childbirth.
Something like 10 women a year do ..2 are white and 8 are recent immigrants from Africa .. whose body has ben influenced by what conditions they underwent in years in Africa
It seems it’s not NHS racism.
Guess which politician th writer chose to include ?
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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.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/slavery_1.shtml
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It is about time blacks like this shut their gobs and just got on with life we are all sick and tired of their whinges
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Not the first and probably not the last, and no doubt silence from Lammy about how many times we have seen this
Dizzee Rascal could face JAIL: Award-winning rapper, 37, is found guilty of assaulting his ex-fiancée by pushing her to the ground as the pair rowed when he took their daughter out for the day
Dizzee Rascal smashes photographer’s camera after being found guilty of assaulting ex-fiancee
“The hard facts about gender equality in the Caribbean”
“But in many countries of the Anglophone Caribbean, the life of a woman like Tricia holds a singular paradox: Women have more years of secondary school education and enroll in tertiary education institutes more than men, yet once outside the gilded doors of academia women are confronted by challenges such as lower pay, lack of parental support, insufficient protection from violence and harassment, and other obstacles to career progression. ”
“Working in male-dominated environment, Tricia is likely to encounter sexual harassment, that will impact her emotional wellbeing, career options and, ultimately the success of the companies where she will work. According to National Women’s Health Surveys, 25% of women in Suriname and 24% of women in Jamaica have experienced sexual harassment (the highest prevalence in the region among the countries for which data is available). ”
https://blogs.iadb.org/caribbean-dev-trends/en/the-hard-facts-about-gender-equality-in-the-caribbean/
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Its not black people who do the whinging , its mainly white Gramscian devious BBC types who whip up any whinging .
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THOMAS SOWELL – THE REAL HISTORY OF SLAVERY
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I haven’t listened to BBC radio for four or five years and I found it too much to stomach even back then, but judging from the title of this programme it seems to have deteriorated to something thoroughly repulsive . Surely this is in fact a programme which will further divide a society which has already become fractured along ethnic lines. If the BBC wants to create racial tensions than this type of programme will certainly do it.
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Great Britain was one of the first nations in the world to abolish slavery and to actively prevent it. …………………………
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Africa_Squadron
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I have just had two commentson different stories critical of the Tyranny of Justin Trudeau removed from the Daily Mail as a result of a ‘number of complaints’.
Trudeau is in the UK at the present time and has met the Queen, it appears he has a number of supporters anxious to cancel any criticism of their dear leader.
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He always looks to me like the kid who gets his head flushed down the bog at school.
Go on William….we won’t tell
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Canada Justin Trudeau sets World Record In avoiding questions – 18 Times – wastes everyone’s time in Parliament
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What an oily, smarmy, arrogant xxxxxxx
“public servants” ??
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On a ‘special peacekeeping mission’ from God! Truck owned by church supplies firm reverses through the gates of Russia’s embassy in Dublin
A truck owned crashed through the gates of the Russian embassy in south Dublin
Footage showed the truck, owned by a church supplies firm, reversing in gates
The incident took place at around 1.30pm on Monday and a man was arrested
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10586431/Truck-owned-church-supplies-firm-reverses-gates-Russias-embassy-Dublin.html
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Lammy, instead of banging on and on and on about racism and slavery, care to comment on the UNICEF statement below?
Do they bring these charming traits to the UK with them ? reports seem to suggest so, look at Dizzee Rascal today.
“Latin America and the Caribbean is the region with the most inequality, discrimination and violence on the planet. The situation affects millions of children.”
https://www.unicef.org/lac/en/gender-equality
“Gender Inequality Remains Persistent in the Caribbean – CDB Report”
“Drop outs of girls might be related to teenage pregnancies resulting in incomplete education. Gender-based violence as being endemic among the researched countries. The Report reveals a predominance of male perpetrators (reported cases), women and girls as the vast majority of victims”
https://www.caribank.org/newsroom/news-and-events/gender-inequality-remains-persistent-caribbean-cdb-report
“Studies show that increasing and escalating rates of violence prominently exist among Caribbean family and intimate relationships. As known to many, the social and cultural norms that underscore gendered disparities within Caribbean societies disproportionately increases the risk of violence for women and children. ”
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10926771.2019.1660442?journalCode=wamt20
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The world does not need any more white saviours. As I’ve said before, this just perpetuates tired and unhelpful stereotypes. Let’s instead promote voices from across the continent of Africa and have serious debate.
…
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David Lammy is a tragic individual because he doesn’t appear to be able to focuse on anything other than his personal obsession/delusion of black people being victims and white people abusing them.
There doesn’t appear to be any rational reason for his constant ranting and raving in regard to this, not today in 21st Century Britain, at least as far as I can see?
Is it a form of paranoia maybe? Or an obsessive compulsive disorder? Either way, it’s a form of mental illness, and the man clearly needs help.
Next up, Ian Blackford, another MP with an embarrassing, uncontrollable, and self-destructive, obsessive compulsive disorder.
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JO’bsworth surely aware of the BBC string section for sob stories?
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The world does not need any more white saviours. As I’ve said before, this just perpetuates tired and unhelpful stereotypes. Let’s instead promote voices from across the continent of Africa and have serious debate.
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“Ukraine military turns volunteers away as 140K Ukrainians come home to fight Russia
‘I was specifically told, ‘no room,” a journalist who volunteered to fight told Fox News”
“African students scramble to flee fighting in Ukraine
As Ukraine is battered by war, Africans studying in Ukraine are desperately trying to leave the country. Some say discrimination is hindering their escape. ”
““Everything is simple,” Ukrainian authorities said. “We are first to release women and children. Foreign men must wait for women and children to come forward. We will release all foreigners without hindrance,” he added, in a written response to questions. “Same goes for blacks.”
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“Some say” …
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One of Satan’s little helpers praises his colleagues
(Labour Welsh MP Chris Bryant)
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“Truth is a scarce commodity”
……
‘Omission is the greatest form of lie.’
CAS-4987700-SY1FTF : BBC NewsWatch says boredom with pro-Brexit march.
CAS-4844672-N8FDYY: Update on the MP Expenses 2009 scandal in 2018.
CAS-4939547-J71Z1V: Here’s hoping Ireland do the right thing G.Lineker.
CAS-4937378-YKMWBJ: BBC not reporting ‘Day of Freedom’ March 06may2018.
CAS-4906141-BFJQL0: I take offence that presenters promote their books.
CAS-4892811-C820SC: I am offended that I have to pay the BBC TV Tax.
CAS-4824332-633N1P: What happened in Italy was not covered …
CAS-4933135-ZV3V7F: The omission is the most powerful form of lie …
CAS-6005141-S1V9D1: Not seen a report on the UK Governments Covid19
Let me know how to go about resolving the issue of paying for something that wastes my time as I have to check each story rather than rely on its accuracy.
Cheers,
Mark
https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications
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Sometimes you have to feel sorry for the Queen.
I do hope she washed her hands afterwards.
BBC lapping it up, of course.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60650285
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She probably fancies him.
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The smarmy git probably thinks she does.
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I wonder if the Head of State for Canada asked troodoe if he had stoped freezing the bank accounts of protesters yet ?
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ITVnews had PRasNews for themselves
7pm from now on ITV national news will be extended until 7:30pm
“It will include more dedicated items on weather and Climate” .. and other woke agenda pushing too I bet.
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Ban Climate Change .. demand climate stability
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BBC Priti Patel – Ukraine Border Good. UK Border Bad.
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Prostitution in Ukraine is illegal but widespread and largely ignored by the government.[1] In recent times, Ukraine has become a popular prostitution and sex trafficking destination. Ukraine is a source, transit, and destination country for women and children trafficked transnationally for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation. Ukraine’s dissolution from the Soviet Union, saw the nation attempt to transition from a planned economy to a market economy. The transition process inflicted economic hardship in the nation, with nearly 80% of the population forced into poverty in the decade that followed its independence.[2] Unemployment in Ukraine was growing at an increasing rate, with female unemployment rising to 64% by 1997.[3] The economic decline in Ukraine made the nation vulnerable and forced many to depend on prostitution and trafficking as a source of income.[4] Sex tourism rose as the country attracted greater numbers of foreign tourists.[1][5]
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Also, the Ukrainian people were derogatorily labeled by the Polish media as poor, corrupt, criminal, HIV-positive and undemocratic.[13] As a result, in 2012 there was an outbreak of hysteria over “sex tourism” among Ukrainian soccer fans. At the peak of the obsession, roving gangs of local vigilantes even attacked foreigners who ordered prostitutes, and posted the videos of beatings online.[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_tourism_in_Ukraine#Media_coverage
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“EU membership applications from Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova are going to be considered by the European Commission.
The decision to consider the applications, taken by EU ambassadors, needs to be signed off by the European Council – but that’s being described as a procedural formality.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-60635927
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Current national threat level
The threat to the UK (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) from terrorism is SUBSTANTIAL.
https://www.mi5.gov.uk/threat-levels
What the threat levels mean
Threat levels are designed to give a broad indication of the likelihood of a terrorist attack.
LOW means an attack is highly unlikely
MODERATE means an attack is possible, but not likely
SUBSTANTIAL means an attack is likely
SEVERE means an attack is highly likely
CRITICAL means an attack is highly likely in the near future
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Fox on the insanity of the Biden Democrats’ energy policies.
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There is news, not news, and…
Now, did his people let their people know, did they trawl the bars of Glasgow, Clive’s mate… what?
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Any fighting for Russia?
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There are renewed calls for an EU army, God help us…
No doubt all guns will have to have warnings printed on them:
“may go bang” and
“may produce flashing images”
“If you have been affected by the issues involved in shooting someone please call this helpline”
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No smoke now
“Huge fire in London skyscraper
A fire has broken out in a high-rise building in central London.”
Not huge actually.
Firefighters are tackling a blaze on the 17th floor of a block of flats on Whitechapel High Street, Aldgate, in the City of London. Panels of glass can be seen falling to the street below, while flames and thick smoke pour from the building
The London Fire Brigade has said the fire is now under control. 60 people were evacuated from the building, and one resident was rescued with a fire escape hood – to stop toxic air. They are being assessed by the London Ambulance Service.
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“The Brigade was called at 1553 and the fire was under control by 1907. Fire crews from Whitechapel, Shoreditch, Dowgate, Bethnal Green, Dockhead, Old Kent Road, Islington and surrounding fire stations were at the scene.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.”
One woman was led to safety inside.
On the ouside they had a supertall ladder that got to the fire.
https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/incidents/2022/march/fire-at-block-of-flats-whitechapel/
Fear sells ..so most tweets make out the fire is still raging
A livestream showed it was out
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Stew ‘Fear sells’ – exactly!!! – see the point I was making in Web-Site Watch #1!
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BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – now that is interesting!
I have wondered for some time whether the BBC would be trying to muddy things a little with the Covid statistics: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274. Now it becomes apparent that they are playing politics with the Pandemic, Partygate and Putin. The BBC have changed the numbers again. Recently they started at weekends to update the top two boxes in chart no.1 ‘Deaths’ and ‘Total Confirmed Cases’, now they have stopped. Instead today, they present a deceptive ‘Total Confirmed Cases’ number for three days, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. That makes it appear to the fast and too casual reader that the new infections are rocketing upward.
Very deceptive. Very devious.
Typical BBC that cannot be trusted.
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Actually the government no longer releases Covid stats at the weekend
So Monday stats are 3 days stats.
.. Anyway we should be looking at 7 day trends.
This is a graph re-adjusted to show positives by actual date.
We are back in a rising trend now ..dunno why
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Stew, although they do mention that, as I put in my post, to the fast and too casual reader it makes it appear that the infections are increasing. In addition, I cannot believe that the BBC if they asked and really wanted to present accurate Covid infection figures could not obtain the numbers for Saturday and Sunday and present them on each relevant day. Remember this is the BBC that had the “power” to send Nick Robinson to Kyiv in a war zone and then brought him back again instead of sending him to Poland (a shorter distance) than pulling Mishal Husain from London out to Poland to to their border with Ukraine.
I take your point about a weekly trend watch but that can be done quite separately – if the BBC really wanted to but they do not.
What the BBC are doing here is apparently playing politics because the Labour leader is so lame.
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@Up2snuff the number of positives *is* an upward trend
Covid is no longer falling
Daily data have NEVER represented actual cases/deaths ..cos data has always contained delayed info.
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Stew, some days show an increase, some days show a distinct fall: with a measurement it helps not to keep switching from Metric to Imperial and back again. 😉 Consistency is key.
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The above graph shows a 4 day rising trend
and seems to me that the Thursday 3rd of March won’t end up much lower than March2nd
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Stew, four day rising trend is often matched by a four day falling trend (or at least a net fall if one day is an outlier) – the key thing for a major impartial broadcaster is to be impartial (and consistent) with the numbers. The BBC are not.
Why?
BBC = extra Labour Party.
Labour Party = BBC
The BBC is not impartial.
It beggars belief that an organisation the size and influence (it is claimed) can be so careless over Covid numbers.
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If this is accurate…
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Leaving Beff and Laura out was really no loss.
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Germany is paying to bomb Ukraine!
Merkel laughs.
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Guest, just look at the Home Office for your evidence.
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NetZero …. ZeroPeople.
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I’m sure that it is accurate. The elected government has much less power these days than it did even thirty years ago. We are ruled by unelected civil servants and by an unelected judiciary . Our votes are worth very little. We live a post democratic country.
As MPs have so little power why are they getting a budget increase?
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What crap is that ? ..It tells us nothing.
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^
What crap is that comment?
It tells me your sense of humour is somewhat lacking.
http://oneworld.press/?module=articles&action=view&id=1809
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I have to recommend defecating outdoors, especially if you have annoying neighbours, just make sure you do it in their garden after dark tho’.
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8pm BBC 1 : Manchester Arena Bombing: Saffie’s Story
,, Seems to be about the failings
Blurb is not yet available.
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Stew
I watched that for a variety of reasons.
But i wondered what the relatives of others who were murdered by an islamic terrorist thought of being ignored .
You would have not known who else died .
The 30 minutes were very poor . It is all very well dealing out vicarious grief but achieved next to nothing .
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About us
The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure.
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/about
The suicide bomber who killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester last year had been rescued from the Libyan civil war by the Royal Navy. Salman Abedi detonated a home-made bomb in the foyer of the Manchester Arena on 22 May 2017 as concert-goers, many of them children, were leaving the venue.31 Jul 2018
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2019/09/23/start-the-week-thread-23-september-2019/comment-page-2/#comment-1013866
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8:30pm BBC 1 London focus on a black family
… https://twitter.com/CANForumActon/status/1500866555667755009
Twitter is having difficulty ..so I put a link
Actually the other 5 editions seem to be all white people.
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9pm BBC2 The real peaky Blinders
I see that the prog says the Birmingham gangs were rooted in Irish immigrant families.
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Travellers’ culture is ‘ignored, rejected and marginalised’
Updated / Wednesday, 23 Oct 2019 15:48
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2019/1023/1085102-is-part-of-irelands-cultural-heritage-in-danger-of-extinction/
Niloufar Omidi
NUI Galway
Dr Niloufar Omidi is a lecturer in Human Rights for Advocates at the Huston School of Film & Digital Media at NUI Galway and a community development worker with Galway Traveller Movement
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Around here they have a criminal culture, it would be nice to see their criminality no longer ignored by the plod, I agree.
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Peaky Blinders does make me laugh when they throw in a few black faces. or alternatively the producers could be more realistic of the times
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It appears filmmakers don’t get funding these days unless they have a specific quota of BAME.
Even when it’s historical dramas where there would not have been any BAME.
It’s beyond ridiculous double standards. If white people are put in places historically filled by BAME, there is an outcry.
It’s things like this which me dismiss the Left as complete hypocrites. They put their agenda above truth. And that is a dangerous thing.
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RUSSIA TO APPLY TO JOIN THE EU.
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ITV has maps showing Russian which bits Russia controls
https://www.itv.com/news/2022-03-04/how-much-of-ukraine-has-russia-occupied
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https://ukrstream.tv/en/liveuamap
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ITV On Assignment
– @ragehomaar The beautiful cave paintings of Laas Geel are thousands of years old.
They are an important part of Somaliland’s archaeological heritage and are now playing a part in their political future.
– @AnushkaAsthana on Turkish border with Iran ‘gateway to Europe’.
It has become increasingly difficult for asylum seekers to gain entry to Turkey – meaning many undertake treacherous journeys
– The murder rate in America is at record levels in many cities.
@robertmooreitv investigates Philadelphia with more than 500 murders in the city last year.
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Dozens of Ethiopian journalists, including those who live abroad, have called on the government to respect media rights amid increasing reports of persecution of reporters in the country.
They condemned ”all persecution of fellow journalists and media personnel in Ethiopia, targeted simply for doing their jobs,” according to a statement.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/africa
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You pay for this revised shit ….
Two young MPs, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, are determined to modernise the Labour party against a backdrop of economic strife and dire election failures.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p09wgbfk/blair-brown-the-new-labour-revolution-series-1-episode-1
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Not really BBC
I was watching the outgoing Home Secretary addressing Parliament on the handling of Ukrainian refugees .
Then saw a report about the reality at calais – which is frankly an embarrassment for UK
For some reason the current government is treating real refugees worse that the criminal african boys in their dinghies
I dont get this . How can a government be so out of kilter with the wishes of the british public . ?
Even nut nut talks about the need for ‘visas’ !
Surely proof that someone is from ukraine is enough ? Am i wrong ?
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The false refugees need to be deported to allow space for the real ones .
Simples.
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Home Office loses track of more than 600,000 people who should have left country, finds immigration watchdog
UK border checks branded ‘shambolic’
May Bulman
Social Affairs Correspondent
Thursday 29 March 2018 16:39
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/home-office-immigration-visa-out-stay-lose-track-uk-people-customs-control-a8278966.html
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Theresa May on immigration … from ‘hard’ line to ‘pink no line’ …
2012 … “Two and a half years ago, the coalition government was formed, and we made a clear promise to the British public. After thirteen years of uncontrolled mass immigration, this government would reduce and control immigration.” – Theresa May 2012
2015 … “Because when immigration is too high (no figure given), when the pace of change is too fast, it’s impossible to build a cohesive society.” – Theresa May 2015
2018 … “Over the years, overall, immigration has been good for the UK. It has brought people with different backgrounds, different outlooks here to the UK,” – Theresa May 2018
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MPs to get pay rise of more than £2k
The rise is the equivalent of 2.7 per cent
SHARE
BySteven SmithNetwork Content Editor
16:22, 1 MAR 2022
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/mps-pay-rise-more-2k-23254703
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Petition : End the ban on fracking
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/608745
GBnews poll and thread result was 90% support
… https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1500939386174812160
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Petition to revoke Tony Blair’s knighthood hits 1m signatures
This article is more than 1 month old
Creator of petition says former PM ‘caused irreparable damage to constitution of UK’ with Iraq war
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/07/petition-to-revoke-tony-blairs-knighthood-hits-1m-signatures
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has challenged former prime minister Tony Blair on how he handles feelings of guilt, in a series for BBC Radio 4.
Mr Blair, a Catholic, told the Most Rev Justin Welby his faith had helped him cope with knowing people disliked him.
The programme, part of The Archbishop Interviews series, included questions about the Iraq war, Afghanistan and negotiating the Good Friday Agreement.
“I had to do what I thought was the right thing,” Mr Blair said.
He said the decisions he took were complicated and warned people not to trust politicians who told them “simple slogans”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60623502
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I remember Dr David Kelly.
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He said people should “at least respect the fact of that complexity rather than reduce it to something that’s a simple slogan.
“Because the politicians you really shouldn’t trust are the people that get up and tell you the simple slogans.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60623502
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Tony Blair slogan
The main poster used in the campaign involved a picture of Labour Party leader Tony Blair on a black background with a strip of the poster appearing to be torn off across the eyes of Blair. The eyes were replaced with a pair of “demon eyes” with the slogan “New Labour New Danger” positioned below the picture.
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Yeah – like ‘education, education, education’.
‘Trust’ Blair to use that to get the kids off the unemployment figures.
Get the parents to pay for useless uni ‘courses’ too.
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Sun front page
“A young Ukrainian girl singing “Let It Go” in a shelter”
(at least 10 million views on Twitter
.. https://twitter.com/ClearlyJane/status/1500612309823246343)
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Powerful stuff
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What a beautiful singing voice that little girl has!
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Alex Belfield : So he was intimidated by false-reporting-trickery on Youtube into leaving YouTube and running his videos behind a paywall. He contracted Vimeo to do the hosting and now they suddenly instantly suspended his account, so he’s on a backup plan.
Not a surprise really, one of the troll accounts that stalks him was making plans on Feb 24th
.. https://twitter.com/truth_checkers/status/1496782537212977153
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The crazy decision not to grant the Canadian Trucker spokes person bail has been over turned
Tamara Lich is out ..not allowed social media access.
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“Celebrate International Women’s Day”
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No funny hats, jelly and ice cream in this house
(until she’s done the hoovering at least)
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History Debunked “Grooming gang report : How is it possible to lie about this in such a barefaced fashion ?”
… https://youtu.be/lbVU3B2aSD8
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Skyfail .. https://twitter.com/WMcHBg/status/1500820769395417088
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‘Britain’s wokest school’ gets downgraded by Ofsted as damning report says it placed more weight on ‘social justice’ than on ‘subject-specific knowledge and skills’
The £32,600-a-year American School in London (ASL) is now rated ‘requires improvement’ because of ‘failures’ in education and leadership.
A damning report found it placed more weight on teaching ‘social justice’ than on learning ‘subject-specific knowledge and skills’.
Inspectors visited the previously outstanding-rated school in December after parents complained pupils were being ‘indoctrinated’.
Families said non-white pupils had been recruited to ‘discriminatory’ affinity groups for after-school clubs and children were taught about ‘white fragility’.
Former head Robin Appleby, who introduced the agenda, resigned in November, saying she wanted to ‘focus on her own wellbeing’.
Ofsted’s report, due to be published shortly, said: ‘Teaching places much more weight on the school’s approach to social justice than on learning subject-specific knowledge and skills.’ It added: ‘Not everyone felt that they are able to express their views freely in class.’
Ofsted said that in the lower school curriculum for social studies, pupils ‘spend much time repeatedly considering identity (including analysing their own characteristics) rather than learning, for example, geographical knowledge.’
In middle school, pupils were having to focus on ‘social issues’ rather than ‘skills’ in subjects such as English.
The report concluded: ‘While recognising the importance of promoting equalities, a significant minority of parents and pupils told inspectors that a culture has developed where alternative opinions are not felt welcome.’
Last night, a current parent said: ‘As the report shows, teachers have been indoctrinating students with extreme, partisan views, academic teaching has been shoved out of the way by excessive teaching about ‘social justice’, and most students are afraid to express their views in class.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10587955/Britains-wokest-school-gets-downgraded-Ofsted.html
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Psaki claims Biden administration not slowing domestic oil drilling
The petroleum industry says the administration is hindering energy development during a critical time
When Psaki claimed federal policies are not limiting the supplies of oil and gas domestically, Doocy pointed out that Biden issued an executive order halting new oil production at public plants.
“says that a lot of policies that have been put in place by this administration, including a ban on new development of federal lands and federal waters,” are “really hindering American energy development during a critical time.”
“Also, he says the royalty fees increasing on drilling discourages investment,” Lawrence continued. “So are there any plans to reverse any of these policies to encourage investment?”
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/psaki-says-biden-not-preventing-domestic-drilling-after-claiming-stockpiled-leases-and-permits
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Rory, BBC and the EU… a very special relationship.
Not quite Brando Cake Boy and his ‘sources’, virtue signalling in Poland special, but close.
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Women’s Day Today… Based on my experience, I thought that was everyday!
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Hello Rulez
When going to google.co.uk, its mentioned on the bottom of the screen
https://about.google/intl/ALL_uk/stories/accelerating-equity-for-women/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=hpp&utm_campaign=UK
I’d hate someone to miss out by not reading it! lol
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Talk loudly, carry a matchstick edition
‘Covid shrinks the brain, say reasearchers‘ (Telegraph) – yep, I’ve noticed that. Who could have missed it during these last two years of “pandemic“. Unless you never watched TV news, never opened a newspaper, and never went out and saw masked masses on the streets – then you might have been immune to all the brain shrinkage.
Now let’s think about what effect a war has had on our media?
Left and right media, they’ve all gone bonkers…
‘The price we must pay to defeat Putin… Britons face higher energy and food bills in bid to end war‘ (Daily Express) – but if the war was ended the economic sanctions would end, no…? Surely it is the continuation of the war and the West facing off against Putin’s Russia that causes economic problems for us?
‘1.7m Ukrainians have now fled from Russian invasion… we’ve let in just 300‘ (giveaway Metro) – who’s “we” ? So… basically, something goes badly wrong with US-led Western foreign policy and we in Britain with our overcrowded, creaking infrastructure, housing crisis, not forgetting our almost overwhelmed NHS… ought to salve our consciences – which we’ve allowed to be whipped up by blindly taking sides in this quarrel – and although our self-neutered military threat can’t materially defend Ukraine and our talk loudly, carry a tiny stick – we dare not use anyway excuse for diplomacy likely caused the Russian anger by attempting to grab the place for the EU and NATO – now we help Putin rid the disputed areas of their non-Russian-speaking populations. Yeah, that makes sense.
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Bonkers? Well past that.
Here’s Springster’s offsider chipping in.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/60589965?
Ukraine invasion: False claims the war is a hoax go viral
By Shayan Sardarizadeh
BBC Monitoring
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Meanwhile, Sky Slapper goes full ECU.
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The Clinton Global Initiative sounds horribly familiar.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/06/clinton-global-initiative-reactivated-long-hiatus/
In a statement on Friday, former President Bill Clinton said the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) will be making its comeback to address the many challenges facing the world today, from climate change to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to the coronavirus pandemic.”
“Cooperation and coordination has never been more urgent than it is now,” wrote the former president. “The COVID-19 pandemic has ripped the cover off of longstanding inequities and vulnerabilities across our global community. The existential threat of climate change grows every day.”
“Democracy is under assault around the world, most glaringly in Ukraine where Russia has launched an unjustified and unprovoked invasion that has put millions of lives in grave danger,” he continued. “The number of displaced people and refugees worldwide is higher than it has ever been—more than one in 95 of all people alive on the planet today has been forced to flee their home—and rising.”
When will we get politicians with the ability to think for themselves?
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This daft clown epitomises the state of media.
Yes, because the 8.05 Lubelskie to Lille Express is due any moment.
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It was that or Blue and Yellow to tag team on feelings of shame on piped ga… unprocessed moppets at Calais.
Both of them don’t even deserve the obit beat in Krankie’s spiritual junkie constituency.
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In a north London hospital one Tuesday in January, Boris Johnson gave Beth Rigby the most revealing interview of his premiership. Absent the bombast and bluster, the Wodehousian clown was now just an errant fifth-former sweating it in the head’s study. As his watery eyes scrutinised the floor, he said he “deeply and bitterly” regretted the boozy party held at No 10 the night before Prince Philip’s funeral. He was “deeply”, “heartily, heartily” sorry.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/beth-rigby-on-her-partygate-scandal-i-wish-i-hadnt-gone-it-was-a-mistake-plmqfnfdb
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If one tats, a bit of tit may not be unheard of.
Probs should have borne that in mind during contingency planning.
Or maybe it did not occur in Washington or Strasbourg as account holding media left you to your own devices and that is all you listen to?
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BBC News
Russian gymnast Ivan Kuliak is facing disciplinary proceedings for displaying the letter “Z” on the podium next to a Ukrainian rival in Qatar.
Ivan Kuliak: Why has ‘Z’ become a Russian pro-war symbol?
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Brad Pitt around?
He might also check those EU badges on APCs used to mostly peacefully disperse crowds.
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