268 Responses to Start the Week 4 April 2022

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  1. Up2snuff says:
    April 5, 2022 at 6:26 pm

    I’ve been busy today on ‘other things’ so haven’t listened to much BBC R4. Caught most of the first hour of TOADY, including Lucy Powell (Lab) on the Channel 4 sell-off, but seem to have missed TWatO for some reason. Has there been much mention of Covid infections at all? It would seem that the BBC are now doing only Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for their Covid statistics. Updates used to be around 5 – 5.30 p.m. here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274 .

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    • Fedup2 says:
      April 5, 2022 at 7:44 pm

      Lucy is a fun gal – a little while ago – whilst sober – she suggested that she was putting forward a bill that everything on the web would be licenced … approved … can’t be many more enemies of free speech than our Lucy …

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      • Up2snuff says:
        April 5, 2022 at 7:47 pm

        Fed, did Lucy run for leader one time? We could have had someone much better looking than Keir Starmer leading the opposition. Maybe doing a better job of it as well.

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  2. StewGreen says:
    April 5, 2022 at 6:34 pm

    BBC local news Lincolnshire people show off their Ukrainian guests.

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  3. theisland says:
    April 5, 2022 at 6:44 pm

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    • Thoughtful says:
      April 5, 2022 at 6:46 pm

      Yeah right, of course he is, and he will be telling the British people his lies right up until the moment he isn’t doing it when the courts stop him.

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    • digg says:
      April 5, 2022 at 7:16 pm

      I think it would be easier for him to send all the white folk in The North to RWANDA to make room for the new arrivals.

      Would probably be easier to get through both Parliament and The Courts the way this Country is now.

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  4. Guest Who says:
    April 5, 2022 at 6:44 pm

    😂

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  5. Up2snuff says:
    April 5, 2022 at 7:12 pm

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – funny how everyone in the MSM, including the BBC, opposed the NI increase this month

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60928727

    Scroll down to reason #5

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    • StewGreen says:
      April 5, 2022 at 8:10 pm

      People earning over £34K are the ones who end up paying MORE National Insurance.

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      • Up2snuff says:
        April 6, 2022 at 8:49 pm

        Yes, Stew, all the way now to £100,000; they pay the most thanks to Rishi’s recent little adjustment. Under £34K as you say, nothing although the saving will not kick in until July apparently. Wonder what the Labour Party’s latest position is on the NI increase?

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  6. Thoughtful says:
    April 5, 2022 at 7:30 pm

    I see the Cheese eating surrender monkey Emmanuel Macron has run away from a TV debate giving no reasons for doing so.

    Marine Le Penn is ahead in the polls and hopefully this can only help her.

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/04/05/french-presidential-election-macron-bails-on-tv-debate-as-marine-le-pen-gains-ground/

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  7. StewGreen says:
    April 5, 2022 at 7:40 pm

    10:40pm BBC series about religious couples
    Last week the Muslim couple : black guy with white woman

    This week The Christian couple : white lesbians, moving onto a canal boat.
    .. https://twitter.com/BloomsburyCBC/status/1510893030135455750

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    • Fedup2 says:
      April 5, 2022 at 7:45 pm

      Stew – you made me snigger on that one —- vegans ? Solar panels ? Recycled droppings ?

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  8. StewGreen says:
    April 5, 2022 at 8:08 pm

    Steyn “Here’s the clip from last night”
    —
    Steyn “OK that wasn’t the clip I requested”

    GBnews tech fail again

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  9. StewGreen says:
    April 5, 2022 at 8:15 pm

    Truth is the French election is done by rounds
    And le Pen will come second on April 10th
    .. but then it depends on the Vote in the next round.
    and how many of Zemour’s votes transfer to her

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  10. digg says:
    April 5, 2022 at 8:28 pm

    The Labour Party are no longer the Government Opposition. That role has been taken over pretty much by biased left-leaning sections of the Media and Press.

    The howling against anything the Government try to do is not coming from Labour, it is coming from The BBC, The Guardian, The Independent and others. All of these dubious outfits are stuffed full of either full-on lefties or Liberals and their recent output shows that they have engaged in a war of attrition.

    They Guardian particularly is now a virtual copy of The Socialist Worker or The Morning Star.

    They cannot accept things like majority rule or the outcome of referendums, they will simply keep piling on the pressure in the hope that eventually they will topple the government.

    They are now even prepared to align with any grudge fringe group that comes along if it has the slightest left-wing flavour to demonstrate their woke credentials and get what they hope will be their support. Absolutely disgusting.

    The BBC once used to vet their employees to ensure political impartiality and prevent malign actors from getting on-board. This has now been reversed as illustrated by their heavy promotion of Justin Rowlatt who’s close relative is practically an eco-terrorist.

    This is against the whole spirit of democracy as they are totally unable to accept democratic decisions that don’t fot their agenda.

    Time for a full-on counter-attack which I don’t see either this Government or it’s PM being up to the job.

    If this Country ends up being effectively governed by the press by people with no legal mandate it is lost.

    The press will say it is simply reporting the news but that is a blatant lie, they are writing the news as propaganda.

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  11. Fedup2 says:
    April 5, 2022 at 8:38 pm

    But what is the remedy ?

    A few recently have mused about the pendulum and how far it can swing to the left and will it swing back ? And how far ? And when ,
    Upward cost of living is likely to lead to opportunist riots in the usual crap holes with a plod unable to cope again ..

    But back to the pundulum – i cant see a change in the current wokeness until there is a huge shock to the system …

    Or maybe once the last money tree is chopped down …

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    • Fedup2 says:
      April 5, 2022 at 8:54 pm

      Apparently the international queer conference – funded by the taxpayer – has now been cancelled .

      I was trying to work out what such a conference would achieve- apart from the exchange of bodily fluid …

      .. then i thought – is the queer conference followed by a heterosexual conference – can i have a ticket please ? ..

      Damn world gone crazy …

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      • StewGreen says:
        April 5, 2022 at 9:17 pm

        Apparently the conference was a manifesto committment

        ” Gov’s LGBT conference ‘Safe to be me’ has been cancelled after more than 100 organisations pulled their support due to conversion therapy row”

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    • Kaiser says:
      April 5, 2022 at 9:44 pm

      its got the feeling of the seventies coming along only this time its not the unions holding the country to ransom

      I was only a kid but can remember the news covering the price of bread almost daily

      I guess many youngsters are going to find out the reality of what its like to wake to ice on the inside of your bedroom window

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  12. Fedup2 says:
    April 5, 2022 at 9:41 pm

    Cheers Stew – thought is was some inclusive diversity vulnerable group woke crap on the taxpayers ‘ dime

    -anyway – a thread dies but another is born …

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  13. Guest Who says:
    April 5, 2022 at 10:15 pm

    You first, Jez.

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  14. Thoughtful says:
    April 5, 2022 at 10:29 pm

    Just watching Dan Wooton and he has some insane American swimmer objecting to trans people in womens sort, she then made the enormous howler of saying that women are not weaker than men.

    This is a ridiculous statement to make, of course women aren’t a strong as men, and if she believes women are not weaker than men, then what is the point of womens sport even existing?

    It seems toxic femininity will not allow certain women to accept reality, and be completely unable to realise the implication of their statements.

    Seems to me several of these women are following the pirate code – take what you can, give nothing back !

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