360 Responses to Start the week 30 May 2022

  1. digg says:

    Diane Abbot tells us the the Uk immigration system is racist.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/30/britain-immigration-system-racist-laws

    I invite Diane to google “how can I immigrate to Barbados” to see how an immigration system is really biased.

    To immigrate to Barbados you need.

    1. A job or

    2. To set up a Company employing locals.

    3. Declare all you bank accounts and savings.

    4. Wait 3 years for a visa which last 5 years.

    Boot foot other !

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Elsewhere in the guardian – an editorial inevitably stabs the knife into the PM … they are determined not to let the party thing go – further divide the blue Labour Party – get a pro EU party into power and get us back into the corrupt EU ..

      Apparently the EU sort of agreed to cut oil gas imports from Russia – but we know that’s really not gonna h happen to enough to impact the Ukrainian ‘security operation ‘ – and Ukraine doesn’t matter tha much when it comes to the cost of electricity / gas in Italy ….

      Meanwhile inflation rates across EU countries are coming in higher than forecast eg 8% . The EU Bank meets in 10 days and a .5% rate hike is likely – just like here …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      When Jamaica gained independence in 1962, the murder rate was 3.9 per 100,000 inhabitants, one of the lowest in the world. In 2005, Jamaica had 1,674 murders for a murder rate of 58 per 100,000 people. That year, Jamaica had the highest murder rate in the world.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Marky – I had some dealings with Jam a while ago – and if you like to read about what goes on there – go have a look at some of the privy council (house of lords ) law reports on the murders there – i don’t know if the UK is the final court of appeal against capital punishment there – but it was ….
        Any one white going there need not too ….

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Safety and security
          Crime
          Crime levels are high, particularly in and around certain areas of Kingston and Montego Bay. Gang violence and shootings are common, and while these incidents are generally confined to inner city neighbourhoods there have been recent incidents outside of these where the risk of becoming a collateral victim does exist. Be especially cautious if you’re travelling to West Kingston, Grant’s Pen, August Town, Harbour View, Spanish Town and certain parts of Montego Bay, including Flankers, Barrett Town, Norwood, Glendevon, Rose Heights and Mount Salem.

          The motive for most attacks on tourists is robbery.
          https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/jamaica/safety-and-security

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    • MarkyMark says:

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      • BRISSLES says:

        This is old news from a couple of years ago.

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Trying to relate it to … “Boot foot other !” – when you have too left feet! HA HA HA !

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    • harry142857 says:

      Must have a book coming out.
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      You think I am joking.
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      Diane Abbott
      A Woman Like Me: A Memoir

      This title will be released 18th May, 2023.

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  2. MarkyMark says:

    When Language Is Used to Deceive You: How Doublespeak Distorts Reality and Corrupts Thought (1989)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVdC9-btnPI

    Doublespeak is language that deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms (e.g., “downsizing” for layoffs and “servicing the target” for bombing), in which case it is primarily meant to make the truth sound more palatable. It may also refer to intentional ambiguity in language or to actual inversions of meaning. In such cases, doublespeak disguises the nature of the truth.

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  3. dafydd says:

    BBC this morning trying to blame the Government for the carnage at the airports.

    It was a delight to see the Government representative fight back and stand his ground..He said why are you trying to blame the government, you need to direct your critisism at the Airports and airlines who have known for months in advance this busy period was coming, they are obviously ill prepared…

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  4. Terminal Moraine says:

    Dear good people of BBBC, it’s been a couple of years since I was last here, probably around Feb 2020.

    Have I missed anything?

    Are our TV adverts still wholesome affairs, with nuclear families joyfully tucking into their teatime Angel delight? Is our country still flourishing under the reassuring guidance of morally upright statesmen and stateswomen? Do men and women still exist?

    Is Fedup still fed up?

    Anyway following the France fiasco on Sunday night the BBC are doing their usual bit to unjoin the dots and evade any possible contact with reality.

    Multiple reports and footage now shows gangs outside the stadium storming the turnstiles and mugging and attacking fans after the match. The stadium is in Saint Denis. Thierry Henry ominously spoke of this banlieue before the match, saying “be careful, the stadium is in Saint-Denis, not Paris… trust me, you don’t want to be in Saint-Denis. It’s not the same as Paris…”

    Media babble though now focuses on the usual scapegoats — police failure vs dodgy Liverpool fans. This is as close as the BBC can bring themselves to saying the unmentionable: “Saturday’s TV footage showed young men who did not appear to be wearing red Liverpool shirts jumping the stadium gates and then running away from security.”

    Like Voldemort, those who must not be mentioned will receive their euphemism. They are “young men who did not appear to be wearing red Liverpool shirts”.

    More of the kind of top notch investigative reporting that we’ve come to expect from a £5bn broadcaster.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61630201

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Terminal – welcome back . The answer to your questions are –

      No
      No
      Yes
      Maybe
      Yes

      The wheels on the bus are turning very slowly … but perhaps the Queen thing will speed things up just a bit …
      … i suspect dissenters from the coming’ its a royal knock out ‘ will not be getting much attention as we are all in it together…
      I worry that mandatory clapping will be prescribed …

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      • Terminal Moraine says:

        Thanks Fedup.

        Mandatory banging of pots and pans while taking the knee is the new national anthem, at least that’s what I hear from the kids these days.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Everything is different – yet all is the same.

      “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.
      – 1984

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  5. MarkyMark says:

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  6. MarkyMark says:

    We have ONE CCP PARTY COMRADES …

    “Now John McDonnell – a man who, as the PM often reminds the Commons, was sacked by Ken Livingstone for being too left wing – has also leapt to the chancellor’s defence. McDonnell tweets:”
    order-order.com

    Looks like both the Tories and Labour don’t have a clue what either they, or their opponents, stand for anymore…

    ….

    Thus, at one moment Winston’s hatred was not turned against Goldstein at all, but, on the contrary, against Big Brother, the Party, and the Thought Police; and at such moments his heart went out to the lonely, derided heretic on the screen, sole guardian of truth and sanity in a world of lies. And yet the very next instant he was at one with the people about him, and all that was said of Goldstein seemed to him to be true. At those moments his secret loathing of Big Brother changed into adoration, and Big Brother seemed to tower up, an invincible, fearless protector, standing like a rock against the hordes of Asia, and Goldstein, in spite of his isolation, his helplessness, and the doubt that hung about his very existence, seemed like some sinister enchanter, capable by the mere power of his voice of wrecking the structure of civilization.
    https://orwell.ru/library/novels/1984/english/en_p_1

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  7. andyjsnape says:

    For weeks the MSM / bBC has been tell us how the Ukraine military has been holding its own, and the major losses the Russian forces have been taking.

    No mention of the losses (presumably major) that the Ukraine military is experiencing.

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  8. MarkyMark says:

    order-order ”
    Flash Harry
    “I think Bozo Johnson has managed to give away more money and more visas in two years than every Conservative PM in history.”

    …………..

    “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. (Boris Johnson)

    But it cannot survive treason from within.(Theresa May)

    An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. (Anjem Choudary)

    But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.(Jeremy Corbyn)

    For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”

    Marcus Tullius Cicero

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  9. Fedup2 says:

    Vexed – as i monitor the twitter – it seems there is a pre occupation where politicians stand on chaps’ chaps.

    Is this evidence of crazy times ? Has wokeness become so infectious that such non subjects ‘ get traction ‘ .

    Surely a chap isnt a chap unless the chap has a chap ?

    Those without chaps are not and never can be chaps … however much they dream of chaps …

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  10. harry142857 says:

    Radio 4 presenter’s statement that JK Rowling had ‘very unpopular opinion’ on gender issues is ruled ‘misleading’ by the BBC

    BBC rules presenter’s statement on JK Rowling was ‘misleading’ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10869649/BBC-says-presenters-statement-JK-Rowling-unpopular-opinion-gender-misleading.html?ito=native_share_article-masthead

    The BBC has criticised an arts reporter who made a ‘misleading’ comment on JK Rowling’s views on gender identity.

    Tom Sutcliffe made the statement on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row programme on March 24 that JK Rowling’s critical view on whether transgender women are women is ‘very unpopular’.

    The journalist was complained about 584 times and the BBC’s complaints unit said there is no evidence that Rowling’s view is in a minority.

    The Executive Complaints Unit (ECU) said in a ruling: ‘In the ECU’s view it was legitimate to discuss JK Rowling, because she featured in the interviewee’s book (a fact reflected in Mr Sutcliffe’s question).

    ‘As to comparing her case with others, the ECU noted that Mr Sutcliffe did so in the context of distinguishing between expressing opinions (as JK Rowling had done) and committing criminal acts, and considered that this was neither harmful nor offensive.

    ‘The ECU agreed, however, that Mr Sutcliffe’s reference to a ‘very unpopular opinion’ was potentially misleading because, while it had clearly proved objectionable to some, there was no conclusive evidence that the objectors represented a majority.’
    Sutcliffe was interviewing Erich Hatala Matthes about cancel culture at the time.

    Rowling features in a book that Matthes wrote about the phenomenon.

    Attorney General Suella Braverman has praised JK Rowling for her views on the transgender issues as she says schools should not have to pander to pupils who see themselves in a different birth gender.

    The Tory minister said the Harry Potter author was a ‘heroine’ for campaigning for female only spaces for those born women and added that schools should be able to treat all children by their birth gender.

    She said schools should not address trans pupils by their chosen pronouns or permit them to wear a school uniform of a different gender.

    And she added that since those aged under 18 cannot legally change their gender, schools are entitled to treat all children by their birth gender.

    The Attorney General also told The Times that Rowling, who has come under fierce criticism for her views on gender, is ‘very brave, very courageous’ and she is on ‘her side’ on the trans issue.

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  11. digg says:

    So the EU (Germany and France) have decided to embargo Russian Oil. But only the oil that travels by ship i.e. excludes Germany and France. Meanwhile they will still allow pipeline oil which of course goes mainly to Germany and France!

    Sounds fair to me!

    Sorry you drew the short straw Italy, Spain, the UK etc.!

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    • moggie63 says:

      But we’ll be fine. We have coal, oil, gas, all available under our feet so we’ll just bring that out. Who could possibly disagree? Oh, wait.

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  12. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – what cost of living crisis?
    TWatO Watch #1 – what cost of living crisis?

    Airport delays! Port delays! Flights cancelled! No cost of living crisis if so many Brits can afford to travel abroad, especially if they work for the NHS. The sad story is there for the world to hear on TWatO. The airlines UK representatives are talking nonsense, because they have had Easter to get started or to provide them with some practise, if they needed that sort of notice. I suspect there is something else going on.

    Normally, a commercial operation has staff salaries and profits and jobs in a laser-like focused beam from its executives and managers.

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  13. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #2 – back to bashing Boris
    TWatO Watch #2 – back to bashing Boris

    Travel chaos pushed the PM down to the number two spot in the BBC ‘Worry’ List. There’s a lot of wishful thinking going on but in true BBC style like the petrol shortage crisis, the BBC think that – along with the rest of the Socialist media – they can influence public opinion and get people to turn on the PM where they have Conservative Party MPs. A Guardian journalist is brought on by the Montacutie to comment on the PM’s future. But now it is shown to be about Brexit with the following contributor, George Freeman, Under-Secretary for Business, Science, Research and Innovation.

    Reading between the lines: It is All About Brexit.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Up2 – I love those seasonal airport chaos stories – I think they beat those football supporters being treated like animals when they go abroad .
      I was wondering if the French CRS saw the way the Liverpool boys booed the national anthem and ‘abide with me ‘ at the FA cup final … and took revenge on behalf of those professing loyalty to Blighty – and not somewhere else ….

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Fed, I think it may have been ‘political’ but not about booing the National Anthem, more about Brexit and Macron getting re-elected. The French are getting uppity to be TopDog in the EU, now that Mutti has left office. I think Blair is on his way back to UK politics and that the starting pistol for a new EU-Re-join Referendum was very definitely fired on Sunday last.

        All the problems would be mysteriously disappeared by our re-joining the EU (apart from giving up the £ sterling and paying the huge bill for rebuilding Ukraine) – oh dear – what would the BBC be able to wring their hands over? Ah, I know.

        The Obesity Crisis.

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Up2
          Brazier did a piece on blairs biggest failings

          1 mad devolution
          2 unrestricted immigration from the EU
          3 universal universities
          4 i think it was multi culturalism

          He really is deluded if he thinks he has any future at all ….

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  14. Ian Rushlow says:

    The BBC website is agit-propping reporting on the lack of GPs in some parts of the country – apparently there is “a shortage”. And indeed there is, caused by several factors: we do not train enough doctors; a generational change whereby most GPs are now female and only work part-time; older doctors retiring; the privatisation that began during the Blair regime (nearly all GPs are private, contracted to the NHS but not employed by it). The BBC references some of these causes, albeit only in passing.

    But there is another way of viewing things, and one which they would never mention. Perhaps there aren’t just too few doctors – maybe there are too many patients? Last week it was revealed that one million people were allowed to settle in Britain during the 2021. When the Conservative (sic) government enabled and permitted this, did it consider that these people would need doctors, hospitals, schools, homes, transport, energy, food, drinking water, refuse disposal and a myriad of other resources?

    As an MP or BBC executive might put it: “I have a private health plan, so I don’t see the problem. My children go to a private school, so I don’t see the problem. I live in a nice house in a gated community, so I don’t see the problem. I earn a lot of money and have a generous pension plan, so I don’t see the problem.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-61598158

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Ian
      I’ve often moaned about the medical mafia here. The self serving closed shop . But the failure to have enough home grown medics – who even stay in the UK if they are any good after qualification – is – I reckon near the top of the list of reasons why all that money thrown at the NHS makes for little improvement ….
      Nothing will change apart from the service getting far worse as the population goes up a million per year and the population ages …..

      Finding it very difficult to think positively about the future of Blighty at the moment ….but I suppose – for most – there are adequate distractions – I see there is a new series of ‘love Ireland ‘ which I guess is sponsored by the paddy tourist board …

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    • moggie63 says:

      I think even that is understated. “I have never had a problem, and never will. F*** you.*

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Data confirming levels of early retirements in 2020/21 come after BMA polling last year found that more than a third of UK GPs planned to take early retirement and over half planned to reduce their working hours after working through intense pressure through the pandemic.24 Feb 2022

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  15. Thoughtful says:

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  16. MarkyMark says:

    Best exercise time may differ for men and women, study suggests
    By Philippa Roxby
    Health reporter

    Published9 hours ago

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-61636805

    BBC “men and women”
    BBC “equality”
    BBC “Men have periods”
    BBC “men and women”
    BBC “gender is a social construct”
    BBC “Borders Bad, unless Ukraine border”

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  17. MarkyMark says:

    COP26: Carbon footprint of COP26 in Glasgow more than double that of COP25
    Carbon emissions from the Glasgow climate conference are expected to reach more than double the amount pumped into the atmosphere during the last COP, The Scotsman can reveal, with the event on track to be the most polluting summit of its kind.

    https://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/cop26-carbon-footprint-of-cop26-in-glasgow-more-than-double-that-of-cop25-3453546

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  18. Zephir says:

    REVEALED: Trans activist who heckled Nadhim Zahawi off Warwick University campus is the son of Ed Balls and Labour Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper

    Trans activists hounded Nadhim Zahawi at Warwick University on Friday
    He was visiting the campus to speak to the Conservative Association
    Protesters chanted ‘Tory scum’ and ‘Zahawi is a transphobe’ as he left the talk

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10870697/Trans-activist-heckled-Nadhim-Zahawi-Warwick-University-campus-son-Yvette-Cooper.html

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    • StewGreen says:

      Will the protested be coerced into signing confessions or get jailed like people protesting Anna Soubry ?

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  19. andyjsnape says:

    Ukrainian refugee from Popasna spots looted possessions on Russian tank
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61643533

    How lovely to be reunited with your boiler

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      Nottinghamshire resident spots immigrant family sat on their favourite bench in the park…

      How lovely it’d to be live in a less overcrowded country.

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    • JohnC says:

      If only the looters had been black – the BBC wouldn’t have reported it.

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  20. Zephir says:

    BBC ‘changed rape victim’s quotes to avoid misgendering her trans attacker’: ‘Woke’ staff replaced every reference to male-born abuser as ‘he/him’ to ‘they/them’ to be ‘inclusive’

    Story reported on violent threats and transphobia accusations aimed at lesbians
    One rape victim told her story but the pronouns were changed for publication
    Campaigners slammed BBC for making ‘unethical and disrespectful’ decision

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10870705/BBC-changed-rape-victims-quotes-avoid-misgendering-trans-attacker.html

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  21. Zephir says:

    Former gang member claims prison officers should not shout at inmates because they’re going through ‘trauma’ and it causes ‘distrust’ in the system in heated GMB debate

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10870689/Prisoner-claims-shouting-inmates-against-human-rights.html

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  22. Thoughtful says:

    A video from a year ago talking about Russias foreign policy and the long term objectives, plus how it views the Western world. Not just Putin, but many others behind the scenes as well.

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  23. Thoughtful says:

    Rumours are that the magic number of 54 letters have been received by the 1922 committee and there should be a vote for the leadership of the Tory party.

    Another story of Carrie Antoinette having a dispute with the head of the house at Chequers leading to her having to resign with a pay off. The stories don’t get any better.

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    • Beltane says:

      Boris may well pay the price, orchestrated by the BBC, Guardian and others. But the picture painted is very much at odds with his achievements – like the double first in classics at Oxford and his King’s Scholarship to Eton. Hiding his lights under the bushell of bumbling incompetence has hardly paid off, but it’s his innate laziness hiding a rapier sharp mind that has cost him in the end

      Once the dust has settled the reality behind Partygate – getting rid of Carrie-r-bag and her malign influence over our sadly priapic PM – will become clear. And Dominic’s aim in life will be achieved.

      Boris is simply collateral damage.

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      • Thoughtful says:

        Although I’ve never been a fan of the PPE degree, I have to say I’m not sure how the rhetoric of Thucidides or the story of the Capitoline Wolf fits someone to run a country.

        Margaret Thatcher had a science degree and a law degree, there would have been no pulling the wool over her eyes regards Covid or green lunacy.

        I can’t agree that it is laziness, it is rank incompetence, and inability to focus on the things which really matter, and a cowardice meaning he folds at the first challenge which will do for him.

        He is at heart a Socialist in the wrong party. The economy is going down the drain, blackouts are highly probably in the Winter, inflation is out of control as is the PSBR and the trade defecit 500 000 small business risk going bust over the next three months and the supposed party of small business is doing absolutely nothing what so ever about it.

        That is why he has to go.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Starmer to walk the floor and become a Conservative?

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  24. Fedup2 says:

    Ed Balls – Mrs Evette Cooper Balls Son is queer . He is a student at Warwick university – twitter has him part of a group which gave a very hostile greeting to a blue labour minister who had been invited to speak there …

    … apparently it was something to do with chaos’ chaps again . Sex is an obsession int it ?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      It was based on a database of 55 private documents leaked by The Daily Telegraph that purported to show that Ed Balls played a central role in a plot, launched two months after the 2005 general election dubbed “Project Volvo”, to oust Tony Blair as prime minister and replace him with Gordon Brown.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Labour shock: How Ed Balls received THOUSANDS from taxpayer after losing seat
      ED BALLS reportedly received a huge sum of taxpayers’ money as a “golden goodbye” when he lost his seat in the 2015 general election, according to resurfaced reports.
      By KATE NICHOLSON
      09:47, Thu, Jan 23, 2020 | UPDATED: 12:13, Thu, Jan 23, 2020

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    • MarkyMark says:

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      Parliamentary authorities have halted part of a major overhaul of MPs’ expenses because of an investigation by parliament’s sleaze watchdog into cabinet ministers Ed Balls and Yvetter Cooper, it emerged today.

      Balls, the children’s secretary and a close ally of Gordon Brown, and Cooper, the chief secretary to the Treasury, face a complaint that they may have broken the spirit or letter of the rules on Commons’ housing allowances.

      https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2008/jun/25/houseofcommons2

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  25. Guest Who says:

    Hopefully Emma does not have a taste for Fanta and Apple Watches.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      BBC Tax – £159 saved per year.

      The BBC’s top 10 highest earning on-air stars in 2020/21:
      Steve Wright – £465,000.
      Huw Edwards – £425,000.
      Fiona Bruce – £405,000.
      Stephen Nolan – £405,000.
      Lauren Laverne – £395,000.
      Vanessa Feltz – £390,000.
      Alan Shearer – £390,000.
      Scott Mills – £375,0000.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Somebody buy her a 1kg own brand porridge and a 3l own brand full fat carton of milk and get the change from a £5 note … enough breakfast for 2 for ….. 2 or 3 weeks …..?

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  26. Zephir says:

    And, there will be plenty more starving as they are not allowed jobs at the bbc and many other woke racist, sexist institutions which are now just for blacks and wimmin.

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  27. Guest Who says:

    A new BBC Mason line.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Boris Johnson’s Guarantee
      We will get Brexit done in January and unleash the potential of our whole country.
      I guarantee:

      Extra funding for the NHS, with 50,000 more nurses and 50 million more GP surgery appointments a year.

      20,000 more police and tougher sentencing for criminals.

      An Australian-style points-based system to control immigration.

      Millions more invested every week in science, schools, apprenticeships and infrastructure while controlling debt.

      Reaching Net Zero by 2050 with investment in clean energy solutions and green infrastructure to reduce carbon emissions and pollution.

      We will not raise the rate of income tax, VAT or National Insurance.
      Thank you for supporting our majority Conservative Government so we can move our great country on instead of going backwards.

      BORIS JOHNSON
      PRIME MINISTER

      https://www.conservatives.com/our-plan

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  28. tomo says:

    Hardly a surprise given the joke “DC jury”… farce isn’t the right word but it’s headed in the right direction. Robert Barnes has spoken regularly about the brazen and self evidently corrupt political antics that drive the DC jury pool…

    I wonder how things are going to work later when the Democrats get stuffed in the mid-terms…

    – people are getting past fed up and into angry territory.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Rep. Trey Gowdy: ‘We’re Going To Pursue The Truth’ About Benghazi | MSNBC


      ….

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      • tomo says:

        indeed….

        My point fwiw is that this is a charade that is run by the swamp.

        As far as Benghazi is concerned, my instinct is “follow the money” – and there wasn’t much around Benghazi – but the fate of Libya’s prodigious gold reserves – well, that’s a matter that as far as I’m aware hasn’t been publicly resolved after more than a decade.

        Trey Gowdy walked away from Washington …

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  29. BRISSLES says:

    I was more than sceptical hearing that “we don’t have enough doctors ……… etc etc” but having a minor op today at Lister Hospital in Stevenage, Herts, and chatting to the young surgeon, he informed me he lived in Croydon, Surrey and commuted every day, a 2 hour journey until Thameslink cut it down to an hour. When I enquired as to why he didn’t move locally, he said he could be ‘called out’ anytime to where he is needed, be it Cambridge or Reading, or anywhere within an 80 odd mile radius. Refreshingly he is considering in becoming a GP for the stability of home life.

    Things are pretty dire if a young plastic surgeon has to be on call to “go where he is needed”. Whatever happened to having on site surgeons who cover a multitude of disciplines ?

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    • Thoughtful says:

      Plastic surgery is a specialist field, mostly cosmetic so not so many in the NHS, it’s not the kind of discipline a jack of all trades would cover.

      If he was a heart surgeon or brain surgeon chances are he would be based at one single location such as Papworth.

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    • Khaa2091 says:

      He was probably a trainee – Stevenage is East of England meaning that rotations can be anywhere from Aldeburgh to Cambridge.

      We have much more specialist surgeons and the old fashioned general surgeon has been replaced by upper GI / Lower GI / HPB / Gynae / NS etc. Would you want someone to do your procedure who does it twice a week or twice in 10 years (the outcomes are much better for the twice a week)?

      It is why we have huge user unfriendly hospitals, because it is just not acceptable to not have access to intensive care, a blood bank and other specialties.

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  30. Thoughtful says:

    A little bit more evidence Boris might face a challenge:

    Another Tory declares they have sent no-confidence letter as Boris is warned he is ‘in real trouble’ with a crunch vote as early as NEXT WEEK – while MPs say he could be doomed even if he wins and poll gives Labour an 11-point lead

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10870357/Whips-brace-protect-Boris-Tory-no-confidence-letters-near-magic-number.html

    So Labour have an 11 point lead, but will the cowards be capable of making a difficult choice of not voting to get rid of an election loser?

    Probably won’t make much difference to the average Briton if Red Labour are elected given the far Left wing state of the Blue Labour party.

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  31. Fedup2 says:

    Starmer has been sent a questionnaire from Durham plod – I’ve seen a sneak copy – the questions –

    You didn’t breach the covid rules did you ?

    Nobody breached the rules did they ?

    You won’t need to resign will you ?

    We wasted your time didn’t we ?

    Sorry to trouble you comrade – good luck as our new remainer PM

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  32. Fedup2 says:

    Midweek thread coming up – it’s all getting pretty Royal ….

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  33. Changethebbc says:

    Nearly all of BBC Bias seems to originate in deeply ingrained globalist beliefs among the staff.

    The EU is a globalist project. Continuing trade with China is a globalist project as is “development” aid to open up markets and free migration.

    The BBC omits news that contradicts the globalist agenda. This is their bias.

    Globalism used to be the main-stream of Tory thinking but Labour’s shift towards International Socialism (Trotskyism) means that they are now the globalist party.

    Guess what is never discussed on the BBC or the globalist media in general: how globalism is destroying the world.

    Development, population growth, mass migration, the empowerment of Russia and China are all globalist projects.

    Those who are opposed to globalism have made a big mistake by rejecting climate change. Even if you don’t believe that climate change is man made it is the achilles heel of the globalists. If man-made climate change is happening globalism would be clearly responsible for it. Who runs the oil companies and multinational corporations: globalist CEOs. Who is most worked up about climate change: globalist individuals – the globalist grass roots.

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