Will the Far Left Social Campaigning Broadcaster – known to some as the BBC – manage to bring the democratically elected Prime Minster down ? The campaign is back to full flow . Wall to wall Fixed Penalty Tickets adorn the airwaves . The Third World War must wait . Putin must laugh .
Midweek 13 April 2022
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TWatO Watch #1 – in which the Montacutie moans for forty minutes ……
… about the Government’s announcement of the transfer of bogus asylum seekers to Rwanda. Is this a record? No essential questions were asked or answers obtained from HMG despite inviting a spokesman, Andrew Griffiths, on to the programme. I would like to know “How much will all this cost the UK?” and “Will we be deducting this cost from the sums that we are sending to Brussels to buy ourselves out of the EU?”
Surely to prevent the bBC rounding up all the dissidents to oppose the Rwanda Processing they must be held offshore.
Their status is illegally attempting to enter the UK.
Should the bBc attempt to become a significant opponent then its operating Licence must be suspended.
BBC Conversion Therapy …
‘Wild, loud, glamorous’: Drag cultures around the world
31 January 2022
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/4d31a84c-36e9-4c66-8519-cd470608e05e
“Drag makes me feel superhuman,” she continues. “It makes me feel beautiful on days where I don’t feel that I am. It makes me feel that I was put on earth to do this art.
“It makes me feel like I am at the place where I am supposed to be.”
Sources of support related to LGBT issues can be found via the BBC Action Line.
Art?
Isn’t it all bluddy amazing, s.trubble, that the BBC spends days burbling on about how people have to be held accountable for their actions, mustn’t break any law whatsoever (e.g traffic offences ?), and must suffer the consequences…….. until it comes to illegal immigrants, of course. Swift sidestep by the Beeboids at every level.
And note, this removal from the UK will only apply to single men – women and children (accompanied or unaccompanied) will be exempt…..can the ‘captain’ of a RIB perform marriage ceremonies on the high seas, and (what was the phrase the BBC seemed very eager and pleased to widely promote the other day ?…..oh, yes) ‘polyamory’ marriages at that ?
And anyway, what is likely to be the biggest impact of this new process….. why, it will almost certainly act as the biggest deterrent to illegal immigrants we could ever imagine….not many of them will be willing to risk travelling across the 30-mile wide English Channel route by inflatable dinghy, only to have 4,000 airmiles added to their account when they get here. So it is likely that very few such criminals in this category will ever need to be evicted by the UK. Everybody can therefore be happy.
At the time of writing this (2:50 pm 14th April 2022) the BBC News website in Business / Market data shows that the GBP has reached a 5-year high against the EU Euro. It is currently 1.220 Euros. I wonder if this will be reported by the BBC ?! It certainly would be if it reached a 5 year low. Is this despite or in of spite of Brexit BBC ??
Apologies (my fat fingers) it is 1.2110, however this is still a 5 year high so same message applies.
I remember some anti Brexit expert opining that the exchange rate was the most important measure of the health and power of a country’s economy. I’m not sure I agree with that but nonetheless that was his opinion. Of course it was his opinion at a time when the pound was at around 1.1 Euros. No doubt if the pound keeps rising his opinion will have changed.
In the aftermath of the referendum I was prepared to give Remainers time to grieve . As the years have gone by I have lost patience with their refusal to accept a democratic result and I am now furious with them, all of them.
Mind you one thing I suspect might be true Is that the shock of Brexit, Trump , Poland, Hungary and Salvini has forced the hand of the globalists and they are now proceeding full speed ahead with the abolition of democracy and the nation state in favour of a world government which they of course run.
China is now the model for all countries – see BBC and polticians.
UK – Now Tiger’s wife and mother to their four children, Fajila, is campaigning to join him on the council. She would be the Tories’ first Niqab-clad councillor if victorious. Asked by the Mail if she was offended by Boris’s historic comments about the veil, she said “I do not agree with everything a Conservative Party politician says or does.”
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Iran – Woman dragged across street and beaten for dancing and not wearing hijab
https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/19/woman-dragged-across-street-beaten-dancing-not-wearing-hijab-10010981/
“It claims (BBC Panorama) to have found 5,000 Muslim schoolchildren being taught that some Jews are transformed into pigs and apes and that the penalty for gay sex is execution. Some textbooks are said to teach the correct way to chop off the hands and feet of thieves. A spokesman for the programme said the pupils, aged six to 18, attend a network of more than 40 weekend schools across the country which teach the Saudi national curriculum to Muslim children.” – {guardian nov2010}
Remember when the BBC actually chased the story …
“…birthdays, remember, are the practices of disbelievers and immoral people. {bbc panorama video 2010}” @8:33
“… the books (supposed to originate from London) turn out to be the Saudi Official National Curriculum. {bbc panorama video 2010}” @22:13
New Cross stabbing death: Boy, 16, named by police
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-61105723
Another black person gone
Teon Campbell-Pitter is the third teenager to be stabbed to death in London this year
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-61105723
2021 BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58675153
“In our Sharia it’s clear, for those who have sex and are unmarried, whether it’s a girl or a boy, the punishment is 100 lashes in public,” Badruddin said. “But for anyone who’s married, they have to be stoned to death… For those who steal: if it’s proved, then his hand should be cut off.”
2018 UK GOV
Independent report
Applying sharia law in England and Wales: independent review
Independent review by Professor Mona Siddiqui and a review panel of experts into the application of sharia law in England and Wales by sharia councils.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/applying-sharia-law-in-england-and-wales-independent-review
MM,
The real message in the ‘Review’ is in the link you give: “…..independent-review”…….
No more needs to me said.
How many Christians are politicians in Islamic countries?
Now Tiger’s wife and mother to their four children, Fajila, is campaigning to join him on the council. She would be the Tories’ first Niqab-clad councillor if victorious. Asked by the Mail if she was offended by Boris’s historic comments about the veil, she said “I do not agree with everything a Conservative Party politician says or does.”
“Some comments are indefensible. I am not trying to make a statement I am just trying to show that as a woman I can make a difference.”
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Bringing a Bible into the country, or having any non-Islamic religious items on your person, can land you in trouble. The government has hinted that personal Bibles can be brought into the country for private worship. But waving one around in public may see the religious police report you to authorities.9 Oct 2019
WE ARE ALL EQUAL. SOME MORE SO ….
Actor Cuba Gooding Jr has admitted forcibly kissing a woman, in a plea deal that is expected to bring criminal proceedings against him to an end.
The Oscar winner pleaded guilty to a misdemeanour charge of forcibly kissing a waitress in a nightclub in 2018.
He must continue counselling for six months and avoid any further arrests.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-61105177
“I am a celebrity figure. I come into contact with people. I never want them to feel slighted or uncomfortable in any way.”
One of the two other women addressed the court on Wednesday, telling how Gooding Jr had grabbed her breast “as if I was a piece of meat for dinner that night”, according to the Associated Press.
“I feel very sad and feel very lost for what I can do,” she added.
Gooding Jr still faces a civil lawsuit brought by a woman who has accused him of raping her twice in 2013, which he has denied.
It should be remembered that Immigration and Asylum matters are a huge source of revenue for a lot of Solicitors and Barristers. I would have thought most of it Legally Aided by Taxpayers.
What is Sadiq Khans previous job?
He subsequently worked as a solicitor specialising in human rights issues and chaired the Liberty advocacy group for three years. Joining the Labour Party, Khan was a councillor for the London Borough of Wandsworth from 1994 to 2006 before being elected MP for Tooting at the 2005 general election.
Sadiq Khan
Mayor of London
Expenses for the financial year 2021-22
Last review date: 31-Oct-21
Taxi
Invoices
Taxi
Expense
Claims
Other
Domestic
Travel
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Other
Expenses TOTAL Date Details
196.20 196.20 19/05/2021 Train-London to York-Mayoral Visit to York-19 May 2021
104.10 104.10 19/05/2021 Train-London to Liverpool-Mayoral Visit to Liverpool-26 May 2021
85.53 85.53 13/08/2021 Train-London to Bristol- Mayoral visit to Bristol – 13 August 2021
57.22 57.22 15/10/2021
Train-London to Coventry-Visit to Launch London’s new EV strategy at the London Electric Vehicle
Company Factory (Coventry)-15 October 2021
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0.00 0.00 443.05 0.00 0.00 443.05
Click to access sadiq_khan_expenses_1_apr_2021_to_31_oct_2021.pdf
Is Sadiq Khan doing more business with Chinese Pakistan?
I’m not sure who photoshopped Khan into this picture but they clearly don’t appear to realise that this is the Golden Temple of Amritsar Holy to Sihks NOT Muslims.
Secondly, the reason Imran Khan was ousted from Prime Ministership was because the Chinese are no longer backing Pakistan which is really going to suffer come this Autumn when the food shortages start to bite.
Expect lots and lots of hand wringing from the BBC and Red Boris the bottler. You can expect that the food which we have available to feed the British people will instead by sent by the cowardly hand wringing virtue signaller to Muslim countries which the BBC and the Woke left approve of. (Not the horrid White people who they hate).
In November 2016, China announced an additional $8.5 billion investment in Pakistan with $4.5 billion allocated to upgrade Pakistan’s main railway line from Karachi to Peshawar including tracks, speed, and signaling, and $4 billion toward an LNG terminal and transmission lines to help alleviate energy shortages.
In 2022 China didn’t announce anything, they quietly withdrew their support and this was the reason of the fall of Imran Khan.
” Listen up people. This is a direct instruction from BIG BROTHER
of the BBC diversity department. I demand that EVERY single
image on the BBC website involving the general public, be
it ,a motorist filling up with petrol. A cricketer starting the
new season, a resident from Grenfell Tower, they should be ethnic” “Why is
this big brother?” Because the BBC stands for inclusiveness.”
But big brother shouldn’t the 85% indigenous citizens be
included ?” ” Smith everybody is as inclusive as the next
person . BUT some are more inclusive than others.” ” Oh I understand big brother , that
is why when we image golf ,it’s always a
picture of Tiger Woods. ” ” YES Smith you
are now getting it. Now get me an image for
the start of the new cricket season. And make it
INCLUSIVE !!! ”
i
The BBC is totalitarian in it’s views (agree or don’t progress or even get in) and cannot be penalised for doing anything wrong such as giving a paedophile celebrity status and allowing him to groom kids on national TV.
The BBC now believes it has the answer to what the demographics of a truly diverse company should look like …
“By 2020, the BBC wants its employees to comprise 50% women, 8% disabled people, 8% lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people and 15% people from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds.{bbc.co.uk 14sep2017}”
The BBC believe they can keep news on their website that hides refugee being nasty …
Chaos as police stop Hungary migrant train – Gavin Hewitt – BBC -Sep 2015 @53s”
The BBC can reveal news about EU Referendum campaign using £350 million per week but not refer to it’s own fact finding web pages which show £350m before rebate and £261m after rebate.
The BBC believe all it’s presenters are following the BBC impartial guidelines even when they twitter the following ‘It’s hard to see a single positive (in BREXIT)‘
The BBC report on ‘Canada has quietly granted asylum to LGBT Chechens {bbc.co.uk sep2017}’ but don’t mention the why or what the leader believes.
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/09/27/mid-week-open-thread-126/#comment-869525
“Starmer could not even decide what is a man or woman.”
Interesting that Starkey picks up on the same issue I have illustrated many times here, the poor pay on offer to British politicians.
He notes that Churchill was paid the largest ever advance for his book four times that of the Prime ministers salary.
This at the time was £10 000 pa or the equivalent of £500 000 today.
I cannot believe that raising the pay of politicians will raise the standards or efficiency of Parliament.
If anything it could make things worse , as a bigger wage means they have more to lose if they don’t toe the party line and occasionally use their conscience, not the tribalism that’s there .
The great wages and bonuses of the bankers didn’t stop the banking crisis of 2007 .
Also where are these better class of politicians going to come from ?
It doesn’t automatically flow that someone who is the best industrialist, artist , writer or financier will make the best politician, or even an adequate politician.
Wellington was the best general but not the best Prime Minister .
Nibor, you’re not wrong that someone who is skilled/successful in another field wouldn’t necessarily make a brilliant politician.
However, what we have at the moment all seem to be either ex(?)lawyers and those who’ve been to Eton and read PPI at Oxford… neither of whom seem much good as politicians either.
I’d be willing to give people who have more ‘life experience’ in various PRACTICAL fields a chance at running the country, or to put it another way, I’m not sure they could do any worse.
Big Brother Corporation,
The answer seems to be to revert to older times . Or radical overhaul.
Perhaps every candidate for election has to declare how much he will take as his renumeration plus expenses.
Or every constituency, via the local council, decrees what the successful MP earns .
One constituency might be generous, another not so .but the constituents decide .
I’m willing to agree with Thoughtful’s précis if it means more democracy and accountability, but so far I think it doesn’t.
Evil Merkel … Merkel offers cash handouts worth millions of pounds for migrants to return home in an embarrassing U-turn
The German chancellor agreed measures to speed up deportation
An estimated 450,000 rejected migrants are set to be sent home
Scheme includes £76million of cash incentives to leave voluntarily
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4213978/Merkel-offers-cash-handouts-migrants-leave.html
You do realise this is 5 years ago and Merkel is no longer the German Chancellor?
You do also realise that the UK will also offer bogus asylum seekers this amount, because it’s cheaper than forcibly returning them?
According to the wonks’ research, among those given money by the Cultural Recovery Fund, National Heritage Memorial Fund and Arts Council England were:
£18,966 A ‘Family Sex Show’ for children as young as five, featuring nudity and discussions about “pleasure, queerness, sex, gender and relationships”
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Does anyone seriously believe the government plan to relocate some migrants in Rwanda will ever happen? The BBC has already started using emotive words such as ‘cruel’, and combined with the massed ranks of the well-organised left including the incredibly powerful army of ‘human rights’ lawyers, plus the other loudly shouting left-wingers, some of whom will be prepared to tie themselves to the aeroplanes scheduled to remove migrants, it doesn’t stand a snowflake’s chance in Hell. But then Boris and Pritti Patel will be able to say ‘Well at least we tried’, without actually having to remove one illegal migrant from Britain.
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
‘Lost Track ‘ implies they lost them by accident or because of inefficiency or lack of resources etc etc. In truth it is almost certain that they deliberately lost them.
Britain spends £500,000 a year to keep Channel migrants’ boats piled up in a car park in case the ‘owner’ comes forward to claim them – and now plans to build a £2MILLION processing facility in Dover
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9871467/Britain-spends-500-000-year-storing-boats-used-migrants-cross-Channel.html
Surely to goodness, MarkyMark, it would be a darned sight cheaper to just destroy them, and if ‘someone’ does come along to claim damages, then immediately demand incontovertible proof of ownership, and if they can’t provide proof of a fully-investigated claim of theft with the French police, then let it be known that they will automatically be charged with aiding and abetting ‘people trafficking’.
Let’s stop pussy-footing around with these b’stards.
Wouldn’t surprise me if someone from this inept cluless Socialist shower decided it would make some money if they took them back to France and sold them there !
Members’ Interests Imran Ahmad Khan
February 2021, received £3,000 from Bindmans LLP (law firm), 236 Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1X 8HB, for participation in a fact finding panel into the detention of Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef and Prince Ahmed Abdelaziz Al Saud. Hours: approx. 50 hrs. (Registered 09 February 2021)
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=25822
According to the Daily Telegraph if you’ve a queen you don’t need electricity – or something…
Will the BBC’s Harrabin, Rowlett & McGrath opine in the matter?
The BBC are delighted to announce that another black man was killed by cops (after resisting arrest and grabbing the cop’s taser).
Play your cards right, BBC, and we could be in for another year of Burn, Loot and Murder.
On the other hand, the Dems are probably not too keen to weaponise race hate on their watch, so the story will probably die away quite soon (unlike the criminal Lloyd George, which they fanned the flames of in order to discredit Trump. Strangely, the riots stopped the day that criminal Joe Biden got into power).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-61102065
Lloyd George, the Liberal Prime Minister in the First World War ?
Or George Floyd , the criminal who became a cause celebre for leftist activists.?
It was inevitable. 6pm BBC1 news and Mark Easton suggests one of the terrible reasons for sending illegal immigrants to Rwanda was they were being sent to a country they hadn’t been to before. And there I was assuming they hadn’t been to the U.K. either.
And now we are having another reporter, Nick, saying ‘some say’ it won’t work. He didn’t say who ‘they’ are, perhaps they are his BBC colleagues or left wing lawyers, but he didn’t say.
I might add telling us that the potential new immigrants on the French coast were surprised at the announcement,, which they said at least three times wasn’t great reporting. I expect the BBC thought Boris should have gone to France and discussed the Rwanda plan with the potential immigrants before announcing it.
BBC1 6pm news and there was Katie standing above a motorway at Swanley warning how busy things were going to be this weekend on the roads. Well perhaps everyone has already reached their destination or perhaps the cost of fuel, or even diesel shortages are having their effect. However one side if the motorway was so quiet I thought the road was closed and the other wasn’t much better.
10,000 Ukranians a day returning to Kiev. That’s the difference. Muslims want to live in a Muslim community but not in a Muslim country….better off being a Muslim in the west than being a Muslim in Asia.
And this, kids, is how it works.
Col giving Gap Brain a serve.
This is rather conflicted and confusing as well:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-61111915
UK asylum deal: Is Rwanda a land of safety or fear?
Maybe I’m just tired, but it took me a while to work out ‘Wrong’ was the name of the author of ‘Do not disturb’, apparently a recent book about how evil Rwanda is.
It actually sounds like a fair deal for any real asylum seekers to me, they’re saying they’ll be taught to drive, if they can’t already, and have free language and trade lessons, plus clean, healthy, modern housing… all they have to do is not badmouth the hand that’s feeding them, and maybe spend the last Saturday of every month doing a bit of a clean up of their litter, and if that’s too much – leave.
If I, and my family, were fleeing for our lives, I’d take them there – gladly.
“Out of Kigali, Wrong says it is a “poor agrarian society where every inch of fertile land is being cultivated and which doesn’t really have room to take refugees”.”
Outside of London, we’re not all wealthy either, and we need every ‘inch of fertile land’ too… if we were faced with a crisis where food prices started rocketing and we couldn’t import all the food we need, we’d really be stuffed… oh…
I hope The Guardian isn’t implying that Rwanda is a stinking African hellhole?
That would be (shudder)… racist!
The Far left and BBC have their hopes raised regarding the continuation of censorship on Twitter.
Billionaire Saudi Prince – major shareholder – rejects Musk’s offer
Saudi cavalry rides in to save the left.
https://nypost.com/2022/04/14/saudi-prince-alwaleed-bin-talal-rejects-elon-musks-twitter-takeover-bid/
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQUuLokXIAAGdWg?format=jpg&name=900×900
Interesting how the left, BBC, etc, seem very comfortable with stuff in the West being run pretty much by the lads in the dish-dashes.
Often with Russian oligarchs, but not any longer because… optics, eh, Amol?
Ahhh… I wonder which group of eco-loons this was?
– anybody know?
I see Sky News incisive reporting in action ….
as the man says… explains quite a bit….
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-61075197
‘Doctor Who: ‘I wanted The Doctor to whisk me away from everything awful”
‘Doctor Who to let trans people tells(sp!) trans stories’
I’m sure that’ll get all those Doctor Who fans who HATED the new woke, female Doctor back watching again!
Newsbeat(!) – that’s the BBC aimed at teenagers, in case you’re wondering
Next item:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-61098158
‘STIs: ‘Very few’ online tests meet official standards’
Rwanda or bust.
Easy peasy, send them to Rwanda, or put Income tax up by 5%, council tax up by 10%, NI up by 10%. The choice is yours. It’s got to be paid for somehow. Watch the lefties squirm!
Not only the new arrivals, but all the estimated 2 million illegals working in the black economy, in cheap shit burger shops, pretending to be the taxi driver on the ID in the taxi cab, or working in the ‘Exotic Supermarket’ for a bowl of rice and pocket money. These people cost the economy billions, if they get ill, the NHS treat any f**ker, whether they are entitled or not. It’s just got to stop.
Brit Aiden Aslin who was fighting with Ukrainian army and captured by Russians in Mauripol when they surrendered. Interviewed about his involvement
As predicted.
Managing two versions of quotes is a bbc plus.
Lest any doubt remain as to the BBC/Labour Mot du Jour synergy.
Dan Wooton making an arse of himself with The respect my sex mob of left wing loony one sided nutters, with fawning admiration.
He almost swoons over JK Rowling, and doesn’t even pause to think about her hate of the Tories and her far Left Socialist opinions.
China Daily of the Moskva
Anybody going close (within missile range) to that coast without a tuned-up + capable anti-missile and CIWS capability is looking to get seriously shredded.
Not much of a surprise – what took them so long?
What’s missing is context – what missile? / how far off coast?
BUT…
There are so many of these accounts that pretend to be independent, but toe the Russian line.
Here’s a 30 min video from Alexander Mercouris of The Duran saying the Russians managed to put out the fire, so it’s not that bigger deal
… https://youtu.be/VmsznRUOHYY
Many of the accounts simply ignore the practicalities of the situation – a vessel sea skimmer defence system has < 30 seconds to detect / classify and launch countermeasures. As I understand it the "standard" Ukranian launcher has 4 tubes and only 2 were used – fairly trivial to instruct the participant munitions in the salvo to approach from different directions.
The Russians were quite simply extremely foolish to place a ship inside the zone without it having early warning and a capable + tuned up anti-missile system on a hair trigger – having rows of missiles along the side of the ship – well – that just compounds the exposure…
The Ukranian missiles likely had 75% of their fuel left too – would've made a helluva mess.
'Twas but a scratch
Now why is the government’s proposals about putting (bogus) asylum seekers into Rwanda a “distraction “ ?
A distraction from Partygate ?
If Partygate is bad , any distraction would have to be a popular distraction. A distraction that the ordinary Joe likes . One that takes his mind from a bad thing – partygate ? – to a good thing – er perhaps control of borders !
You wouldn’t distract voters from a potentially embarrassing situation by an UNpopular policy .
So even if the Rwanda policy is a distraction (?!) its A Good Thing . Because it’s populist. And populism is not a Bad Thing in a democracy.
The BBC might like to try it with a subscription method , or voluntary payment.
yuge! – if true – as they say…
– but two Federal agencies are now investigating Tesla and there’s squealing in the CNN camp about investigating SpaceX
Funny but the involvement of the Saudis in Newscorp who own Fox news until they sold the shares compromised the reporting of the entire group.
Now we find the same Saudi is one of the major shareholders of Twitter and again is affecting the freedom of speech there.
Why is anyone surprised by this? For long time on these pages I have been warning people about the malign influence Saudi money has on the West, how it bribes poorly paid Western politicians, how it exerts influence over the media and universities. There’s even a wikipedia page dedicated just to the way Saudi and the Arab world uses its enormous wealth to promote it’s horrible version of Islam around the world, and yet people simply choose not to even see what is happening.
You think Putin is bad? Well he’s got nothing on Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, a man who is executing children on the mere suspicion or suggestion they might be gay!
Cost of living crisis?
Tesco are on their 25% off six bottles of plonk until Monday, so we’ve splurged the pension on a couple of cases, and can relax until – er – the end of the month!
So Rishi, your depressing unpopularity and poor management of the economy, which is nearing the disgrace of Gordon Brown’s crass/reckless ‘prudence’, is to be expected by normal citizens, but as you don’t seem to be very British, I suppose that’ll be your problem when Bozza decides to hang up his hair! Thought you might like to know that! Odds lengthening as we speak!
Just a thought, but how many little beeboids are recognisable these days? I don’t think any of them are, they’re becoming a bit ‘indistinct’! Won’t be good when they have to go private!
And I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine!”
On a more serious note, the Tesco’s wine deal which I have been taking advantage of for years now is no longer what it once was, prices of many wines are increased before the deal, then given a discount, and prices then come back down when the deal is over.
The number of deals where there is a reduction and then 25% off are few and far between, and nothing like as attractive as they once were.
What’s the best thing about being Joe Biden?
Waking up every day and learning that you’re the president.
‘How to have an easier Easter‘ promises the Daily Telegraph: ‘From bubbles to barbecues, top chefs share their tips for fuss-free entertaining‘
There’s no such thing as a fuss-free family get together for the Royals: ‘Harry and Meghan’s shock visit to Queen‘ – exclaims the Mirror.
‘Royal world exclusive‘ boasts the Sun headlining the story carried by the Mirror, Mail, Express and Telegraph – in fact all major titles other than the snooty lefty ones that pretend they aren’t interested in the Royals.
It was veteran BBC Wimbledon commentator Max Robertson who employed the catchphrase: “Oh I say!” in connection with tennis – but perhaps we should think more of that caddish comic character actor Leslie Phillips and his: “I say, ding-dong” when we read: ‘Tennis scandal. Revealed: Power abuse and sexual favours rife in umpiring‘ (Telegraph) – is nothing sacred?
Some very late news just in from the Middle East: ‘Jesus died after “dislocating shoulder”‘ (Telegraph)
This was, apparently, a sort of occupational injury suffered whilst carrying the cross. I suppose we all have our crosses to bear.
Lest we cry heresy, we ought at least note the Telegraph is the only national daily frontpage to acknowledge how it is that today is a rather important date in the Christian calendar.
Although the Daily Star comes close with one of their trademark typical punning weather shock reports: ‘Good fryday‘
The Express proves the old adage great (tabloid) minds think alike: ‘23c… A sizzling good fryday‘
Let’s not get carried away. 23 celcius is actually just a smidgen above room temperature and I wouldn’t trust the Express to barbecue the sausages – which require something in the order of 190c to fry.
Whether they tell you something 2,000 years after the fact, or just a day late, sometimes it is simply too late: ‘Check in luggage a day early to beat queues, flyers told‘ (Telegraph)
There’s an irony to the Guardian’s take on the Rwanda migrant plan: ‘PM outlines proposal to send people 4,500 miles on one-way tickets‘ – but that’s exactly how they choose to rock up here in Britain – on one-way tickets.
Irony again from the left-leaning ‘i’ newspaper: ‘Patel faces legal battle over “cruel” Rwanda plan‘ – these are of course illegal entrants to the UK.
‘PM wants first Rwanda migrant flights in weeks‘ (Times)
Or at least not see his proposed flights blocked and grounded by legal challenges or runway protesters until after the 5th May local elections – like we know damned well is exactly what is going to happen.
Like the bbc, Labour does know how to pick them, so they prevail no matter what.
Clod and Mark Easton would make a lovely couple.
Bloody Webbe: RESIGN you disgraceful criminal and in the meantime keep your gob firmly shut.
The BBC internet has a feature on the local elections. It is
headed ” I honestly don’t have a clue” This is the face of BBC TV now. It is the face of a black man.
The BBC has given up any pretension of being a NATIONAL
broadcaster. It has become in presentation more similar to
for instance the Jamaica Gleaner or the Daily Jang in Pakistan
or the Dainik Bhaskar in India.
There are nothing wrong with these media outlets. They
represent the people from their countries. The BBC no
longer represents the indigenous population of the UK.
A bbc ‘local democracy’ reporter.
A Labour MP with his own bbc selfie room.
Wales.
Certainly knocks Ginge’s effort for six.
BBC playing down comparisons whilst whinge of color is in the zone?
Apology and back in work within two weeks ?
Or is that only for black racists ?
Or, for muzzie racists, no apologies at all and supported by the bbc
At fist glance that photo looks a bit photoshopped to me
I wonder if there is any provenance ?
The armband and hat look very big compared to the head.
“The image appearing to show Colin Davis several decades ago was sent to Jewish News this week”
“Another source familiar with the photograph alleged it had been taken during the 1980s, and had been found at a property previously lived in by Davis and his former wife.”
“Asked to explain the photograph ahead of his suspension, Davis initially told Jewish News he could not recall dressing up as a Nazi”
He said “Presumably somebody has supplied you with the photograph and presumably they can offer you some details on how and when it was taken and everything else.
“I do not recall parading around… at the time I suspect I was a serving member of the British Army reserves.”
Yes one thought is, if you were photographed as a cadet etc. It would be easy for someone to photoshop in a Nazi hat and uniform.
I don’t see anything wrong with mocking actual WW” Nazis just like TV comedy does.
“I don’t see anything wrong with mocking actual WW” Nazis just like TV comedy does.”
There is something of a contradiction, ‘black face’ = bad
+ ‘joke nazi outfit’ = bad, are they both bad for the same reason? Does that make any sense?
For those interested in climate Science. Cave research in Australia, has, shock, horror, found that there has been bush fires, floods and droughts in the pre-industrial past.
https://phys.org/news/2022-04-stalagmites-reveal-australia-pre-colonial-bushfire.html
Funny, so called primitive man can produce a wide variety of subjects, whereas my local toilets is just knobs with stuff coming out the end and advice on the sexual habits of certain local girls along with their mobile numbers.
Natalie’s mobile must be busy.
evolution huh ?
What, like Femi, YAB or Champion, Jez?
Jez Vine is a pointless prop.
BBC Shires
“Welcome to Worcestershire”
Alla, Yeva and Ostab are living with Simon and Sylvie in Martley through the Homes for Ukraine sponsorship scheme. The two families say they’ve already formed a deep bond. They’ve been talking to our reporter Isabel Kimbrey.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0c1bh9l
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Here we go.
More blondes than a bbc anchor makeup suite.
The comments so far extend to “the cute ones I ordered arrive next wee”.
Likely a BBC Local Democracy Wet Dream Editor needed.