A rarity on the 7th – a conservative MP on live TV challenging a BBC reporter about the campaign the BBC has been running to oust the democratically elected Prime Minister of the UK . The BBC will put him on the target list too . Unbiased Right ?
Midweek 8 June 2022
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TOADY Watch #2 – not forgetfulness but deliberate misinformation from the BBC
Amol Rajan interviews Michael Gove who is not good at thinking on his feet: “You have been in power for twelve years, why haven’t you done this before now?” Correction: the Conservative Party have been in power for seven years. In 2010, they formed a Government in coalition with the Liberal Democrat Party and had to limit measures that they might introduce to those that would be supported by their Coalition partners.
Amol sneaks in a sneaky question to wrong-foot Michael Gove over the Gray Report. Gove, as I stated above, is not good at thinking on his feet. The question is about the way cleaners and other ancillary staff were treated in No.10 Downing Street. If Gove had been really sharp, he would have observed that Civil Servants have left Downing Street already for various reasons, much to the dislike of the BBC who criticised the Government at the time. If it was MPs who treated staff with disrespect “I am sure that they will have been spoken to by the Prime Minister and that is all I am going to say on the matter.” should have been the reply.
My, my.
So many children and so few brains.
Milliband’s serious, concentrated and posed expression of adoration and interest sums up everything that’s bizarre and false with the Climate Cult obsession by its deluded band-wagon jumpers.
It’s almost as if The Greta is about to hand him the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Gove however looks a bit less captivated.
Gove is smelling his finger – as it’s been in a pie.
Michael Gove just appeared on the Today Programme to trail the government’s plan to expand Right to Buy, ahead of Boris’s big “reset” speech later today. Aside from all the usual talking points, host Amol Rajan pinned Gove over the fact that these policies were only coming now – 12 years into Conservative rule…
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“Consider this, I give this example. If immigration continues at the levels it has average over the last ten years. Britain will be adding 10 million people to it’s population in the next 20 years. That means building a new house roughly every seven minutes. Now, we currently have no leadership from the Liberal Democrats, Conservative or Labour Parties saying they are going to do anything to change that course. @5:56 … if any party wishing to get into power doesn’t address this they are committing political suicide….@10:30″ {youtube – Douglas Murray – oct2015}
… but wait, someone, who is now in power to act out their words, did mention this problem and almost suggests that ‘too high immigration’ should be reduced …
“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. It’s difficult for schools and hospitals and core infrastructure like housing and transport to cope. And we know that for people in low-paid jobs, wages are forced down even further while some people are forced out of work altogether. … So there is no case, in the national interest, for immigration of the scale we have experienced over the last decade.”
Theresa May as Home Secretary // Speech to the Conservative Party Conference – in full / 06.10.2015
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/10/09/start-the-week-open-thread-146/#comment-872206
Geek-speak Mary Sues and City supermums edition
It’s the stupid economy front and centre this morning as our media’s goldfish attention span changes tack.
Globalist minority read the FT bubbles up to the top spot in the BBC’s online press review: UK growth set to be worse in G20, apart from Russia, OECD warns – one has to admire that snide reference to Britain being somehow almost as bad as Putin’s Russia.
A fascinating sidelight is thrown on that comment if one recalls that the US and friends wanted Russia chucked out of the G20 – except near half the members said don’t bring politics into economics – or some such: ‘Not G19’: Why Indonesia won’t bar Russia from the G20… The G20 not only includes the developed economies such as the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan, which have moved to impose tough sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, but also countries such as China that have taken a more ambivalent approach. Jakarta has so far maintained that it still plans to invite the leaders of all 20 members to the summit. (Aljazeera)
The FT headline story’s Jonah-like dire (but pretty plausible) prophesy for the UK continues: Zero expansion forecast for 2023 – not the population headcount, mind you, that’s growing exponentially – they mean the economy – and at last the Greens have achieved their economic ambition – quite some feat with just the one MP – I jest of course… the Greens would appear to have a few hundred MPs in their pocket plus corporations and all the complient mainstream media: Go Green! Times Earth Your 12-page guide inside (Times)
And tell us, FT, what’s the significance of this news from that supranational OECD with some shady links to the likes of the occasional denizens of Davos – World Economic Forum and OECD Sign Strategic Partnership Framework (WEF website) and why now at this precise moment?
The forecast underscores the difficulties a weakened Prime Minister Boris Johnson is likely to face in the months ahead… (FT)
And our alternative – via the rather appropriately titled left-leaning ‘i’ newspaper column Waugh on Politics: Johnson’s woes only highlight Starmer’s failure to cut through
So we’re looking at some form of Tory Party palace coup?
Let me speak for the Left for a moment here – We need a hero – contrary to what Tina Turner demanded back in 1985 as the theme song to Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome
No more heroes anymore claimed The Stranglers back in Silver Jubilee year 1977
Some former heroes appear tarnished, for some reason, in the view of some: Opinion Johnny Depp could call for online abuse of Amber Heard to stop. He still hasn’t (‘i’)
The formerly patriotic Times has front and centre: Natural order. Sir David Attenborough, 96… – they’ve given him another gong. In terms of airmiles, at least, he must be richer than any Ruskie oligarch.
A teen superhero is born – or so the Guardian assures us gifting a five star review to Ms Marvel recently aired on Disney plus
Kamala is a superhero fan with an imagination, particularly when it comes to Captain Marvel; Kamala feels like she doesn’t fit in at school and sometimes even at home, that is until she gets superpowers like the heroes she’s looked up to.
Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) is an Inhuman who goes through Terrigenesis and gains polymorphic shape-shifting abilities – come again?
Ms. Marvel Gets Review Bombed on IMDB After Disney+ Premiere (a rare guest appearance hereabouts from The Direct – some sort of youngster-aimed pop culture entertainment news site that covers Hollywood, movie and gaming news like Marvel, Star Wars etc – oh, and Review Bombed is an interesting concept – you’ll have realised that mainstream so-called independent review critics have all been thoroughly bought and sold by the corporates who also massage online review polls in favour of their product – so we have some projection from the corporates here who accuse naughty people presumably the denizons of their mum’s basements of co-ordinated negative reviews)
Point being the increasing disconnect between corporate promotional fluff combined with media identity politics motivated reviewing – and what the audience actually thinks about the product. Rotten Tomato becomes a rather apt reference to the parlous state of entertainment criticism these days.
Rotten Tomato: Critics Consensus: Ms. Marvel is a genuinely fresh addition to the MCU – both stylistically and substantively… Iman Vellani Is ‘Wonderful’ in ‘Vibrant’ Superhero Origin Story, Critics Say
Meanwhile negative fan reaction is dismissed: In news that is both depressing yet completely unsurprising, angry racists are review bombing Marvel’s new series Ms. Marvel. (The Mary Sue – “the premier destination for entertainment geeks, female or otherwise”. However, this source says of itself We pride ourselves on being an inclusive, feminist community and by the way, in geek-speak a Mary Sue is a term used to describe a fictional character, usually female, identity politics insertion, who is seen as too perfect and almost boring for lack of flaws)
Now where were we before we took a digression out of the middle aged comfort zone? Heroes!
Apparently there’s no laughing matter today since Matt is away (Telegraph)
Daily Telegraph frontpage pin up girl: Tory peer quits Whitehall role after criticising PM. Baroness Morrissey… has quit as non-executive director at the Foreign Office after she said Boris Johnson should stand down – nope, never heard of her. And, pray tell, what precisely is a non-executive director at the Foreign Office?
Judged purely on appearances she looks the type of lady one might, on a first date, tend to invite to accompany one to the opera – and gosh does the opera need the ticket sales: ‘Audiences are dying’ Star tenor Joseph Calleja on opera’s crisis (Telegraph) – there’s yet another crisis to add to the long list – NHS, education, housing, etc, etc
The female readship serving Daily Mail Why everything you thought you knew about washing your hair was WRONG feels it knows this lady and rather identifies with her: Forced out as Tory tsar, City supermum who said Boris was in wrong job – a very fetching frontpage pic is presented – a more alluring pose – if you like that sort of thing – from the same professional photoshoot as the Telegraph used.
The comuter giveaway Metro – passed out as a feebie at rail and tube stations – may possibly have figured out that if all urbanites are now WFH then its business model is bust. So it is that the normally left-leaning editorial comes out hard against strike-threatening rail unions: No shame. Union boss ‘apologises’ for walkout that will bring misery to commuters – let’s not forget the complimentary advertising sheet Metro leans both left and youthful – of all the potential inconveniences to travellers, all the event disruption – how’s this for a special pleading giveaway: Claims he didn’t mean to ruin Glastonbury getaway
Aren’t youngsters supposed to hitch to Glasto? Or all pile into a non-MOTed former ambulance painted in psychedelic rainbows?
We’ll all turn into Hobbits claims the Daily Star so what have they been smoking? Smoking age should rise, goverment report to say (BBC)
Kids these days, eh? Anxious acrchaeology students warned they might see old bodies… Skeleton-bothering uni students are getting trigger warnings in case studying mummified bodies gives them the heebie-jeebies… I want my Mummy! (Daily Star)
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle. One thing that helps toward it is to keep a diary, or, at any rate, to keep some kind of record of one’s opinions about important events.
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/in-front-of-your-nose/
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Section on Orwell Foundation …
EXPOSING BRITAIN’S SOCIAL EVILS PRIZE 2022 SHORTLIST
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-prizes/2022-prizes/finalists/
Meet Karenjeet Kaur Bains – the first Sikh female powerlifter to represent Great Britain
Meet Karenjeet Kaur Bains – the first Sikh female powerlifter to represent Great Britain
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Karenjeet Kaur Bains, 25, talks to BBC Sport’s Srosh Khan about being the first British Sikh woman to represent Great Britain in powerlifting at world level.
The English Bench Press Championships take place on Sunday.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/61741052
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India’s caste system is among the world’s oldest forms of surviving social stratification. The BBC explains its complexities.
The system which divides Hindus into rigid hierarchical groups based on their karma (work) and dharma (the Hindi word for religion, but here it means duty) is generally accepted to be more than 3,000 years old.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-35650616
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A few Islamic nations forced Modi govt to do what 200 million Indian Muslims couldn’t
If sentiments of Indian Muslims mattered, the likes of Nupur Sharma and Naveen Jindal would be sacked as and when they make a hateful comment, not after global condemnation.
Zainab Sikander
ZAINAB SIKANDER
7 June, 2022 08:45 am IST
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In One Month’s Time, BJP Will Have No Muslim Representatives in Parliament, Assemblies
The term of the BJP’s last MP in the Lok Sabha ended in 2014. It last had an MLA in any state or UT assembly in 2019 and its last Rajya Sabha MP is set to resign on July 7.
United Kingdom is approximately 243,610 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 400% larger than United Kingdom. Meanwhile, the population of United Kingdom is ~65.8 million people (9.3 million fewer people live in South Africa).
Marky, just in case maxi is lurking, think you have got UK population wrong. ONS have admitted that it is one million more than they thought and were estimating for 2021 @ 69,000,000+ so it was 70,000,000 and a bit in 2021. I don’t know what their estimate is for 2022 but I guess it may or may not be accurate.
Rising above 75 million as stats now show. We have had a population growth that is completely unsustainable as is being shown every where one looks. Over crowded towns, too many vehicles, GP and Dentist Sugery’s growning with the numbers-in our small town we have a Dental practice that also takes NHS patients, it has over 3500 patients. We all know the NHS cannot cope with the numbers flooding into A & E, as result in many cases of not being able to see a Doctor, yet a 4 day week is being considered for GP’s -Mad. For our small group of Islands the UK is well and truly overcrowded, and years of immigration both Legal and Illegal has been where the increase has mainly come from. An immigrant Muslim family coming to the UK twenty years ago, could well have prodcued 4-5 children and who now have those children. producing children. The percentage increase of child production with the Muslim family is far greater than that of the Christian-about 4-1/5 against.
tarien, I used to guess at 75m+ having done some ‘back of the envelope’ calculations years ago before June 2016. Think I’ve mentioned this on here before but every now and then, some statistics slip out – usually on the BBC or in print media – that enable a rough guess to made fairly accurately. One was UK driving licences held and tests taken and failed each year. Then there was the annual tally of road miles driven. Another was number of passport renewals that PA has to handle every year. Another could be the built area of the UK. It was 10% rising to 11%. I wonder what CABE estimate it to be now?
Agree that our population growth is unsustainable as are our unemployment levels because they are not as low as people are led by the BBC to believe. That is where the UK’s housing crisis, NHS access crisis and other problems come from.
But back to the official stats, I see Worldometer are below the previous ONS estimate of about 69,500,000 for 2021. They claim “The current population of the United Kingdom is 68,548,221 as of Friday, May 13, 2022” so they haven’t even taken the recent ONS correction of +1,000,000 into account. https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/uk-population/
The UK populations figures have been suspect for many years, the Government and other sources have been very reluctant to let us the tax paying public et al, know just how very serious the situation is and according to Migration Watch is getting worse as feeble efforts to put a strangle hold on the continued immigration problem get fed away with lies-lies, lies and continued lying-sadly we have been guilty of allowing the powers that be to take advantage of our supposed decency as a race of people. The evils of Multiculturalism have put paid to what our lives and living once enjoyed.
Not much news on illegal immigrants crossing the channel at the moment.
What galls me is the thought that France and the EU will be laughing their socks off at Britain while unloading their problem onto us. The illegal immigrants must think we’re absolute idiots, simpletons. Can you imagine the conversations they have?
I’m utterly fed up with all this pussyfooting around, these boats and people have to go back to France. I”m sure most countries in the World wouldn’t put up with it, and some would probably machine gun them.
Not much consolation but, I hear that French officials in the south give undocumented migrants 100 Euro and a TGV ticket to Calais – cheaper than locking them up locally…
I’d like to see an ethnicity breakdown of the dinghy people.
I have a baseless, anecdotal theory, that they’re mostly kurds, and there’s some shady government deal/ scheme in place to import a huge number of them.
The Home Office has lost track of more than 600,000 foreigners who should have left the UK, according to a report that lays bare Britain’s “shambolic” border checks.29 Mar 2018
Quite likely Eddy Booth, of course they will say, its the ravages of War that have caused the explotion of immigration. None however seem at all interested in fighting to save their country or would help to re-build as we in the UK had to do after WW2. In that awful War the British People had nowehere to run off to, they had to stand and fight, put up with the bombing and the caused devastation. The Ukrainian people have run away from their country in their millions-of course the cause of War was a reason, but why should they have thought the rest of the world would look after them? Yes we are Christian and would help, but I can’t help but draw the similarity of what we once had to face in WW2 in the UK and the stocisim of those men and women that pulled us through-I was 3 when WW2 ended and can remember those next 10 years well as the British set about rebuilding their nation.
Of course Flotsam those boats should for years now have been sent back to France-in fact France should have better secured its southern borders, which has been an easy landing place of the Middle Eastern Asian in particular. I know this because I lived in SouthWest France for some years-France because of its past association with Alegers have taken many Muslims into their country, but from what I experienced the Muslims were clearly restricted in what they could do-Mosques as purpose built places were not allowed-in the last twenty years however France have allowed and mainly as a result of the European Union, the expansion of those that follow the teachings of Islam to inveigle themselves into the lives of the French people-the expansion of Mosque building all over the country. Its explosive. There are now upwards of 60 miilion Muslims in Europe and at their birth rate it will in a very short time scale rise to near 100 million and yet nothing positive is being done to cull this rise. Their Ideology is far away from Western Christianity-they will never want to mix communities no matter.
Luckily, class in politics is being restored by Angela Rayner.
Lucky Nick Robinson did not read anyone who reported it.
Angela Rayner stands by labelling of Tories as ‘scum’
This article is more than 8 months old
Labour deputy leader refuses to say sorry, describing terms as ‘street language’ of her working-class roots
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/26/angela-rayner-stands-by-remarks-calling-tories-scum
It was Lisa Nandy on the phone apparently.
Phones should be banned from the HOC (they’re just like schoolkids after all).
https://www.politics.co.uk/parliament/tensions-boil-over-during-levelling-up-debate/
ti, some of the noise at PMQs sounds even worse than the most riotous school!
Complete waste of space is that Nandy women-no real answer of or suggestion to a situation only a criticism.
US philanthropists vow to raise millions for climate activists
This article is more than 2 years old
Fund donates £500,000 to grassroots Extinction Rebellion and other groups, with promise of more to come
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/12/us-philanthropists-vow-to-raise-millions-for-climate-activists
tomo and MM, you may be interested in this: https://www.netzerowatch.com/content/uploads/2022/06/Homewood-BBC-ClimateComplaints.pdf
Institutional Alarmism: The BBC’s Disastrous Climate Complaints
Paul Homewood
© Copyright 2022, Net Zero Watch
In 2006, it organised a secret
seminar, which has shaped its coverage of global warming ever since. It fought for years,
and at a cost of tens of thousands of pounds, to keep the details of the meeting secret.
In April 2022, the BBC upheld two complaints against its
climate editor, Justin Rowlatt. Both concerned a Panorama edition in November 2021, entitled ‘Wild Weather
– Our World Under Threat’, which was written and presented by Rowlatt himself.2
The programme was intended
to persuade viewers that climate change was making the
world’s weather more extreme, as Rowlatt’s opening comments made clear:
The world is getting warmer and our weather is getting
ever more unpredictable and dangerous. The death toll is
rising around the world, and the forecast is that worse is
to come.
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I wonder if anyone in the government has read it.
Why would they read it ? They are all signed up to green crap – and putting their constituents into ‘fuel poverty ‘ as a result ….
Personally, I think Cabinet members at least, ought always to listen to most of TOADY and also have a nose around various w-sites, like TCW and here. At least it would be better than looking for tractors while sitting in the House.
3 teachers hide in UK Batley due to Isllam.
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Hitoshi Igarashi (五十嵐 一, Igarashi Hitoshi, 10 June 1947 – 12 July 1991) was a Japanese scholar of Arabic and Persian literature and history and the Japanese translator of Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses. He was murdered in the wake of fatwas issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran – who, by the time of Igarashi’s murder, had died – calling for the death of the book’s author and “those involved in its publication.”
650 WORLD MPS – 0 UK MPS.
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BBC in court ? alongside Biden, renouned racist Whoopi Goldberg and Facebook owner ?
“Kyle Rittenhouse Secures Sandmann’s Attorney, Considers Defamation Suit
The teen, acquitted of all charges related to the August 2020 fatal shootings in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has retained attorney Todd McMurtry, who previously represented Covington Catholic student Nicholas Sandmann. The lawyer indicated that they planned to pursue defamation claims against at least 10 companies and individuals.
One of the anticipated defendants is Facebook, based on CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg’s statement that Rittenhouse was “involved in a mass murder incident.” McMurtry told Fox News, “It was clearly factually false. To call somebody a mass murderer is seriously defamatory. And then to use the power of social media to basically … censor any views that would take opposition to that mass murderer statement is a serious effort to destroy his character.”
“Based on Rittenhouse’s previous interviews, other potential defendants include LeBron James, Whoopi Goldberg, and President Joe Biden.
Rittenhouse said the outcome of the Amber Heard/Johnny Depp case motivated him to move forward. He recently wrote on social media, “Johnny Depp trial is just fueling me, you can fight back against the lies in the media, and you should!” Lawsuits have yet to be filed but McMurtry is investigating “whom to sue, when to sue, where to sue.”
Parler.com
“We’re Going to Be Taking Them to Court” – Kyle Rittenhouse Announces Lawsuits Against Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg and Media Outlets ”
“They announced their lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg for calling Rittenhouse a “mass murderer” and to use his platform to censor any views that would take opposition to his mass murderer allegation.”
“In February, Rittenhouse told Tucker Carlson that they had some politicians and celebrities in mind for lawsuits.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/going-taking-court-kyle-rittenhouse-announces-lawsuits-facebook-founder-mark-zuckerberg-media-outlets-video/?ff_source=Parler&ff_medium=Pos
“Kyle Rittenhouse said this week that he’s filing a lawsuit against NBA star LeBron James.
Rittenhouse on Tuesday also announced that he was looking at filing lawsuits against politicians and news organizations — and even specific people such as TV hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Cenk Uygur — for what he said was spreading lies about his character after he fatally shot two men and wounded a third in self-defense during 2020’s Kenosha, Wisconsin, riots.
What are the details?
According to the Daily Wire, Rittenhouse told journalist and host Drew Hernandez during Tuesday night’s broadcast of “Frontlines” that he and his legal team are sending James a letter and would “deal with [him] in a courtroom.”
“I think everyone wants to know,” Hernandez asked. “What are your plans for LeBron James?”
“He’ll be getting a letter, too,” Rittenhouse answered. “Anybody who defamed me, or lied about me, we’re just gonna send them…”
https://legal.parler.com/feed/3a223cff-5dff-45b5-bc7d-582b16e3254f
“”Whoopi Goldberg is on the list, she called me a murderer after I was acquitted by a jury of my peers. She went on to still say that. And there’s others, don’t forget about Cenk [Uygur] from the Young Turks. He called me a murderer before verdict and continues to call me a murderer.”
https://www.newsweek.com/kyle-rittenhouse-sue-media-murderer-accountability-project-1681238
“Following his appearance on Carlson’s show, critics have suggested that Rittenhouse may not have a case to sue people who still refer to him as a “murderer” as it is still considered opinion under the law.
Adrienne Lawrence, an attorney and host on The Young Turks media network, tweeted: “Did someone call Rittenhouse a ‘convicted murderer’?
“Because, to my knowledge, you can be a murderer factually, even if you’re legally acquitted. An acquittal doesn’t really change that one murdered another.”
In a follow-up tweet, Lawrence explained how Rittenhouse’s case is different to that of O.J. Simpson, who was cleared of murder in the highly publicized 1995 trial before a civil court jury ruled him legally responsible for the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
“O.J. could sue for defamation because he maintains that he did not kill. Rittenhouse, however, admitted to killing; he simply claims it was legally justified, which a jury agreed with,” Lawrence wrote.
Former MSNBC anchor David Shuster tweeted: “The courts have long established that calling somebody a ‘murderer’ is an opinion + a legal right, even after the person is found ‘not guilty.’ At that point, one can still call them a murderer, just not a ‘convicted murderer.’
This is the alternative to Boris:
“Labour chaos over strikes after frontbencher Lisa Nandy BACKS unions and says party is ‘on rail workers’ side’ over plot to hold UK to ransom with coordinated walkouts at airports, BT and Royal Mail”
“Labour’s leadership including Sir Keir Starmer, has dodged the issue so far. Several other MPs broke ranks, saying they backed the RMT ‘100 per cent’, but it also sparked red-on-red attacks from members who said Labour cannot support mass strikes and win a general election.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10899359/Labour-backs-union-plot-coordinated-walkouts-railways-roads-Tubes-airports.html
Zephir…
I dare say none of this information is on any of the BBC outlets
BBC account holding is very much ‘Toenails Averting Eyes’ in style.
“He called 999 six times. But she died before the ambulance arrived.”
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‘Bonkers’ NHS Charities advert that shows ‘Santa being struck down by coronavirus’ before medics save him is condemned by critics for ‘upsetting children’ and ‘looking for reasons to make this Christmas worse’
Old bearded man lies unconscious in NHS Charities-funded Christmas advert
NHS medics in full PPE are seen trying to revive him in the disturbing opening
Later revealed to be Father Christmas who has been nursed back to health
Shocked viewers believe the advert depicts Santa suffering from coronavirus
Several feared children would be traumatised thinking Santa was going to die
By JEMMA CARR FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 00:35, 12 December 2020
I expect everyone supports the right to strike as one of the fundamental freedoms enjoyed in a civilised society. What I can’t even fully accept is the astonishing greed of an 11% pay increase demand which I know is a starting point and they’ll settle lower, but it’s still a huge demand.
I think there needs to be further union reform to reflect the current working environment. If an issue is so serious to require a strike then it should be a full time strike, no messing about one day here one day there to cause maximum disruption, if you’re out you’re out and you don’t go back to work until the dispute is settled and every worker signs to commit they will not strike again over the same issue once it’s settled.
Employers should not be allowed to pay strikers who return to work without signing a settlement agreement pleging not to strike again over it.
Travelling by train in Britain is incredibly expensive already.
God alone knows why we’re building HS2. I dare say it will be very useful for Politicians, Civil Servants and expenses paid business travellers, useless to most of the country.
“God alone knows why we’re building HS2.
Not just the Almighty – the EU also knows. It was (is) Britain’s part of the Trans-European high-speed rail network (TEN-R), as defined by Council Directive 96/48/EC on July 23 1996. In turn, TEN-R is part of the EU’s Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T), a grandiose scheme to link all of Europe (plus Turkey and Russia, which they envisaged as becoming part of the EU) with integrated motorways, railways and shipping corridors.
Here’s an updated EU document from 2013, in which they have dropped Turkey and Russia (scroll to bottom for map).
Click to access IP_13_948_EN.pdf
NHS Test and Trace cost £13.5 billion in its first year
https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-test-and-trace-cost/
How much will HS2 cost? The current estimated cost of HS2 is between £72bn and £98bn (at 2019 prices), compared with an original budget of £55.7bn in 2015 (at 2015 prices). But this was made before the decision was taken to cancel the Leeds leg.18 Nov 2021
It’s to get BBC execs from Salford media city back to Hampstead more quickly.
And media should be encouraged to state the pay rates of the strikers involved, something they seem reluctant to do.
“Salaries for train drivers are an average of £54,001-a-year, according to Glassdoor, which collates data from staff. Trainees begin on around £25,000, which doubles when they qualify. The most experienced drivers can earn £70,000 before overtime with some operators.”
I’ve found out what Ofcom do…
Ofcom has brought in new rules to protect rural phone boxes from closure
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-61731594
Their main purpose is to provide employment for ex-BBC staff, thereby enabling the distortion of the British media landscape to “continue by other means”.
“…Of the 17 members on Ofcom’s content board that advises the watchdog on TV and radio standards, 11 have previously worked for the BBC…”. Daily Telegraph, 5th June 2021.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/06/05/ofcom-fire-bbc-links-wake-bashir-scandal/
Nadine Dorries plans to target Ofcom over ‘bias towards the BBC’ as officials raise concerns that 10 out of 14 of regulator’s content board members used to work at the broadcaster
The Culture Secretary is expected to examine the regulator’s role as part of an upcoming review into the Corporation’s complaints process
Officials have raised concerns that out of the 14 members of Ofcom’s Content Board, ten are ex-BBC employees
Over the past two years, only one complaint about the Corporation was investigated by Ofcom, out of 418 referred to it by the BBC
Ofcom has brought in new rules to protect rural phone boxes from closure.
The UK telecoms regulator said it will stop British Telecom (BT) from closing down phone boxes in areas with poor mobile signals if they are needed by local communities.
Ofcom estimates there are at least 1,400 phone boxes in areas without good mobile coverage.
This is lower than its original estimate that 5,000 phone boxes would be protected by new rules.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-61731594
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What did Mark do that was so jaw-dropping? Nothing much: he simply read out various numbers from the UK Health Security Agency’s April vaccine surveillance reports. Which apparently is not something that happens on other TV networks.
Next up was Leilani Dowding to comment on Covid’s damage to free speech, followed by a former Mr Universe, Eddy Ellwood, who opened his gym and got fined 55,000 quid.
We rounded out the hour with Rod Liddle on Africa, colonialism, leftie condescension, and lessons from Liberia for Boris Johnson’s genitals.
https://www.steynonline.com/12370/boosting-by-numbers
Make the most of them while you can as Mark is now under investigation from Ofcom…
“Climate change: New Zealand’s plan to tax cow and sheep burps
By Peter Hoskins”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61741352
Coming our way soon . Good luck with that one .
How long before some ‘green nutter’ comes up with taxing humans for the same offence ?
How about a tax on bullshit? That could work.
It’s lucky that these stories come along to give the bbc something to report. I’ll sleep easier knowing that there’s nothing going on in the world to worry about.
Maybe, instead of a ‘Ministry of Truth’, he needs a ‘Disinformation Unit’?
Then Ross can shuttle back on forth to do an AmeriPropacast with Saz?
Sam could help.
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They’re out to crucify him……………….
“They have got a brilliant vision to turn Sirte into the next Dubai.
“The only thing they have got to do is clear the dead bodies away,” he said, before laughing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41490174
Crucify him eh. Well um, er “Always look on the bright side of life………….”
TWatO Watch #1 – ooops! another inadvertent slip from Sarah
This time she wasn’t giving away her colleague’s role in the plot to oust Boris, but toward the end of the programme Sarah made reference to an event at which “President Obama is speaking.” A BBC Freudian slip of wishful thinking? Or something else? I realise that some on this site and also over at TCW refer to Barak Obama as the real power at the White House behind China Joe and Kamala.
As I understand it but could be wrong, you lose the right to be known as ‘former’ President when your successor’s successor is elected or if your successor is re-elected then at the start of that term. It would be correct to refer to Mr Barak Obama as a courtesy but a bit long winded. I’m sure Barak Obama would do.
BORIS giving speach about housing and other topics…Press asking relevant questions…In comes Chris Mason from the BBC..His question, ”are you fit to lead”..Pathetic.
Its got to the stage where im no longer angry at the BBC, Im actually finding there behaviour a joke and a source of hilarity..
BBC aint going to move on..!!
Ernest Emily Bridges, cyclist extrordinaire, now blames Boris for the ‘barrage of threats which have made her life a misery….’ after his saying that he didn’t feel biological males should compete in female sports events.
This is apparently enough to open the flood gates of bile and sexist prejudice, despite a valiant amount of black eyeliner as mega-feminine reinforcement.
The government of Iran is considered to be one of the most discriminatory towards homosexuals in the world.[5][6][7] It is estimated that hundreds or thousands[8][9][10] of people were executed in the immediate aftermath of revolution of whom some 20 were homosexuals. Ruhollah Khomeini called them to be exterminated in 1979.[11]
Transgender identity is recognized through a sex reassignment surgery. Sex reassignment surgeries are partially financially supported by the state. Some homosexual individuals in Iran have been pressured to undergo sex reassignment surgery in order to avoid legal and social persecution.[12] Iran carries out more sex reassignment surgeries than any other country in the world after Thailand.
Anyone know anything about this?
Would breach the echr – non starter because the blue labour mob have no courage …
Boris is left of Labour. See his policies.
I trust they are so principled that they will hand in their resignation from such a despotic regime -Not! Typical Sky(non) News garbage.
I am watching Garden Rescue on BBC.
The Two presenters are one Male one Female. Male looks Gay with a Mohican haircut.
Female is of African decent with a Male haircut.
Head gardener is a white Male with a long beard, Indiana Jones hat and a ring through his nose.
I didn’t realise this was representative of most Gardeners in the Country.
I haven’t watched it yet, but I bet there is a pergola involved or a bloody bench in the design !!! that’s all these fancy designers can come up with. Although the Rich Brothers shoved a bench every time into their designs. What the hell does a pergola achieve ? open to the sky with no purpose. Like those American beds with a post in each corner – why ????
If I was having them to my house and coughing up a few thousand, and I was presented with a bench that would never be used – who DOES use them ? it would end up on the bonfire. I want a proper chair, not some knocked up DIY effort.
Ukraine war: Captured Britons sentenced to death
“Aiden Aslin (left) and Shaun Pinner (centre) have been pictured in footage alongside Moroccan national Saaudun Brahim”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61745556
Britons Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, and Saaudun Brahim are accused of being mercenaries, Russian state media says.
“The court, which is not internationally recognised, is in the Russian-occupied so-called Donetsk People’s Republic.
The men’s lawyer said they all “wished to” appeal against the sentence, Russia’s Tass news agency reports.
All three men were charged with being mercenaries, the violent seizure of power and undergoing training to carry out terrorist activities, RIA Novosti”
Weak news agency BBC not saying if the Republic has ever carried out a death sentence, or that the British government can’t try and help much, as talking to the DPR, whom they don’t recognise would de-facto legitimise them, .
Appolgetic Aiden talking, pre verdict, last night on YouTube – his lawyer facilitates it somehow, never seen in any other trial worldwide.
I’d go Garry Gilmore!
Maybe..🙂
Ayes have it.
Stupid sods shouldnt have gone there in the first place, they knew the risks and now it could cost them dear…reap what you sow
Er, think one or both were married to Ukrainian women and were living there long-term.
Up2snuff…
If that’s the case then I stand corrected…
Gary Gilmore – remember the film with Tommy Lee Jones well. Also a punk song by The Adverts.
Crazy Investigation interview : Russian style!
Some Ukrainian soldiers (from Aiden’s and Sean’s brigade – 36th Marines) were drinking in Mariupol and decided to go attack their POW..
Subtitles available.
Meanwhile the LibDems raised £1,368,419, the SNP raised £364,606, and the Greens took in £166,046. Laurence Fox’s Reclaim Party, which currently has no representation at any level of government, actually raised more cash than the Greens, with £300,000. Kerching.
Labour accepted a total of £5,229,989, while the Conservatives managed £4,608,213.
order-order.com
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Barry Gardiner defends donations worth £500,000 from Chinese agent
The Labour MP said Christine Lee appeared to be ‘operating as a legitimate person in the UK’.
Amy Gibbons
Thursday 13 January 2022 20:23
Always interesting when the BBC defaults to #criticsaresaying
Ms Marvel has been described as a “significant piece of pop culture history”.
Ms Marvel: Critics praise Disney’s ‘joyful’ first Muslim superhero story
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Meanwhile…
Speccie
‘As a general rule, you should never talk about a film you haven’t seen. But The Lady of Heaven is proving a tricky film to catch…’
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Funny old world.
This being the BBC, I do not feel inspired to check further.
I doubt many others will either.
Probably because they are too busy proclaiming their rights to get on with proper work.
Since so many have chips they’ll be earning their living selling ‘fries ‘ in Mackee Dees won’t they ?
Probably because they are more concerned whether their nail polish is the right colour rather than doing the job.
Do the BBC have a victimology analyst ? – like Harrabin for environment.
All day I’ve been seeing talking heads giving their two penny worth about letting benefit receivers buy their houses yet not once has anyone mentioned the million plus immigration last year.
As well as pushing prices right up they cannot build enough plus all the infrastructure to go with these new houses.
As I type, on Dewbs a viewer sent an email in saying there are too many people and the 3 on the panel poo poo’d this as a reason for house shortages and rocketing prices.
They were unable to see the connection between an extra million people (the number the government admits to but we all know is much lower than the real number coming in) and a need for more houses.
They even were talking in a sneering way saying “how do we go about reducing the population” as if someone suggested killing them off.
I’ll tell them the answer.
Drastically reduce immigration.
I think the answer is to make heating totally unaffordable and kill as many pensioners as possible, thereby freeing up properties for dinghy paddlers and their extended families. But that would never happen. Would it?
BBC evening news tonight is going full bore to blame Brexit and Brexit alone for all the economic woes the Country is going through.
It is clear now that the whole partygate/vote of confidence thing was just another step in reversing Brexit.
It is also clear that the EU are involved and in step with the BBC and Boris is now battling against the EU, The Labour Party the BBC and the remain faction in the Conservatives.
This probably explains the fuel price fiasco, the travel fiasco, the jumped up unions ridiculous action, the appalling pantomime that is the black hole of the NHS, The French pushing illegals across the channel and probably being paid for it from Brussels etc. etc.
I believe these events are all springing from a common purpose which is to grind things in the UK to a halt and force the nation back into the clutches of the EU from which it will be engineered in such a way that there will never be another chance to escape.
This is a fight for the very existence of the UK as a Sovereign Nation.
Meanwhile Boris tinkers with right to buy for the unemployed! You couldn’t make it up!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-61726733
Severodonetsk will fall, Western official believes
“Russia is “now likely in control” of the city of Severodonetsk and will eventually surround Ukrainian forces in the area, a senior Western official says.
The official, who does not want to be named..”
Is it Sherlock Holmes ?
Looks like Twitter is strangling the views a bit too….
https://abc13.com/freeport-lng-explosion-at-oil-and-gas-company-surfside-beach-on-quintana-island/11938894/
Another day another vital US infra structure plant explodes, this time an LNG facility in Texas which sent UK gas prices up by 38% although they have since dropped back to only 10% higher.
If this were a deliberate sabotage by Russian agents it would not surprise as Putin appears to be using energy and food to attack Europe, and come the Autumn things are only going to get much worse.
Another link:
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2022/06/08/reports-of-explosion-at-lng-oil-and-gas-company-near-surfside-beach-police-say/
Thoughtful
People are complaining now about the cost of everything – helped along by the BBC broadcasting the most extreme cases – such as people on ‘end of life ‘ care not being able to afford high energy use ….
….. but hell is coming in about 4 months – the markets are assuming a .5% interest rate in July and again later – with upward inflation running through 2022 2023 ….
The blue labour government trumpets about cutting fuel tax by 5p – yet some weeks it goes up that much .
I don’t get it . I just cannot see how the government doesn’t realise how desperate things are going to get and seem to have no idea how to mitigate it …. ( although I don’t think there is remedy for the coming recession / depression )…
Fed.
Next Thursday (16th) is the next b of e interest rate decision date and it may well go up 0.5 then (as well as you mentioned, in July)
There is no way to mitigate it now, but they could admit they got their net zero fantasy completely wrong, and that it caused much of this.
The BoE needs a full 1% rise to strengthen the pound which would reduce import costs of gas & oil.
Other than that there’s not much else they can do at this late stage, planning for next year should be being done, but I somehow suspect it isn’t being.
Although the rate should be far higher than current – they are so timid that even a .5% rise will be seen as failure by them – for their dumb past decisions – so -.5% followed by .25% August – September – October – November …. Which still won’t be enough if there’s no improvement in raw materials ..
Notice Zelensky saying that there was a Russian plan to swamp Europe with migrants fleeing starvation.
https://www.politico.eu/article/zelenskyy-ukraine-grain-russia-blockade-spark-famine-migration/
Did anyone see this covered on the BBC?
In the early 1970s I was politically uncertain and attended a few Socialist Society meetings. A key discussion document was one supplied by the Soviet Embassy that exhorted socialists to defend and increase migration to destroy the cohesion of British society….
I’ve been posting about this for months, even the EU has caught on although they have zero proposals for a solution.
Here is a log of clear BBC Bias so far this week. I hope to maintain it for another 2 weeks.
http://www.thereandwhere.com/bbccumulativebias.html
Any comments or missed items gratefully received.
The news has broken that Sue Barker isn’t doing Wimbledon after this year – …. Do people still watch it ?
Will this be another job for Alex Scott?
Could she be blackballed, where did I leave my coat?
If you have a dim view of BBC “comedy” – look what they’re serving up stateside!
A Buchanan for the 21st Century?
With Clintons?
Wonder if anyone else has noticed that the media in general which appears yet again to be under central control, appears to have adopted an approach to pre 2000 photographs which are all Black & White, and post 2000 in colour.
Clearly this is deliberate, but is it to try to make everything pre millenuim look dated and from a different period? Colour photography came out towards the end of WWII and by the 1970s B&W was pretty rare.
Anyone else noticed them up to this new game?
Here we go.
With a Labour Cervix? Science?
“Winston had disliked her from the very first moment of seeing her. He knew the reason. It was because of the atmosphere of hockey−fields and cold baths and community hikes and general clean−mindedness which she managed to carry about with her. He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones. It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy.”
During the pandemic, the trains and tube were running. No furlough, no redundancies, massive subsidies, hardly any passengers during lockdown and working from home.
Was there a better time to take on the Unions and put in place proper modernisation and reduce the billions of pounds reliance on the taxpayer?
Just another example of the useless ineptitude of our blue Labour government as it misses another open goal. Another reason why my opinion of Boris is only marginally above SirKeer.
Been watching Silent Witness.
Two married couples in the main cast.
Both mixed !!!
What are the chances of that?
Very high of course, on the BBC.
ITV are no better now.
Nearly every episode of Vera has a mixed race couple even though they have 1% black people.
What always gives it away is when they don’t have a Newcastle accent while everyone else does. They have been shipped in.
Brenda Blethyn is from Kent, but is professional enough to pass for a reasonable Geordie. Surely the supporting actors should have the same skillset. Doesn’t the casting director insist on this during auditions. Maybe Dick Van Dyke will appear as a cockernee chimney sweep in a future episode.
I’ve come to the conclusion that they don’t have many black actors to choose from – so they just use whoever they can get because it has been mandated.
The last ‘Shetland’ had the least convincing new ‘chief of police’ you have ever seen – so I assume the choice of black women with Scottish accents is very small.
The black guy in the last epidode of the recent Father Brown was an atrocious actor. Proof if any were needed that he didn’t get the part through ability. Of course a better actor didn’t get the part due to racial discrimination.
BBC local news had a a long constructed item about Hull York Medical school making a statement about Trans Rights
Lots of segments in the 3 minute film eg shots of Boris saying Gay Conversion Therapy should be banned, but that trans issues are more complicated
Reporter “The Hull York Medical school has signed a charter condemning conversion therapy on anyone ..and are promoting diversity and inclusion”
Shaven headed Dr Kat Sanders (female voice)
I’m guessing that Kat is quite an activist and that the item was PRasNews instigated by “him”
The “news” is about 3 weeks old
https://www.hyms.ac.uk/about/news/2022/hull-york-medical-school-signs-up-to-the-uk-medical-schools-charter-on-so-called-lgbtq-conversion-therapy
Vox pop “I am a trans man” (female dressing herself as a man i guess)
student “my gay friends say …”
BTW I found that that apparently random vox-pop person Ballard wrote an article in the BMJ “Trans allyship in healthcare”
Funny, they all want to talk about ‘the struggle’ which is a perpetual part of the leftie ‘mind’, but none of them ever want to talk about the results of the struggle once they succeeded in overthrowing what ever government it is they want rid of, because the result is always a horror show, far worse than anything which went before, nor do they want to revisit the place to try to sort out the mess the created or even to talk about it, and certainly never apologise.
Why dont they just get on with studying medicine and not waste time on all this utter crap.
BBC local news
Long item
“oh look a Ukrainian refugee has opened a beauty salon after fleeing to her sister’s house in Grantham”
Another big headline was “local manufacturer to move 8 miles”
Refugee opened a shop not long after getting here ? how did that happen ? What about all the legalities, the NI number, the money to start it up, and no doubt the tax payer is coughing up the monthly grant amount to her sister for taking her in. What’s going on ?
Fraud / drugs / money laundering / organised crime operation
Another government target on its way, with smoking to be phased out by 2030, based on an independent review.
Funny because the Ardern dictator in NZ came up with the same plan in December last year. These independent reports all popping up at the same time, all independently and all totally for our own good.
The gov report is from Javed Khan, ex-Barnados CEO who said after the Jay Report into the Rotherham abuse scandal that “further investigations have shown the issue is not merely an Asian male problem […] what I’m seeing now from my visits is that since 2013 the majority of perpetrators are white”. Anyway be reassured that the future of our children’s wellbeing is what’s driven this review, and is therefore totally trustworthy.
So no more smoking, you’re priced out of owning a car and the pub’s been converted into a multi-faith community foodbank. You’ll still be allowed to sit alone at home though for an evening of Trans Muslim Superhero on the telly with your allotted ration of lab-engineered alcohol substitute* before taking the knee and retiring for the night.
*safe and effective
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/09/asia/new-zealand-outlaw-smoking-intl-hnk/index.html
This coordinated release of articles with similar language and buzzwords by the Left-leaning MSM seems to be happening more and more.
Goebbels would be proud of his children.
Legalise cannabis smoking though ….
… but on the upside .. there will be less deaths from lung cancer which means funding to the NHS can be cut along with taxes ….
This gentleman is a real Tory. Unfortunately the MSM do not give him much publicity……………….
Somewhat underwhelming. I hope that’s not his best shot.
whoops! Before Taffman insinuates I’m a troll again I’ll just make it clear that I hope the Reform Party do very well in the two coming by-elections. And I think Richard Tice is a good bloke and that I agree with all of what he is saying here.
It’s just that he takes too long to say it. I do know he is working hard in Wakefield on the ground, but two weeks before an election he needs to be snappier or shall we say deadlier, and he needs to mention other issues ‘cos he ain’t going to win on tax reform alone.
Yasser
And whom do you suggest as an alternative?
Your time has come, Taffman. Seize the hour!
8 minutes 18 seconds – even played at double speed he is tedious and repetitive – he said 5 million are on unemployment benefit 5 or 6 times ….
He doesn’t spell out what the disaster is to which the UK is heading under the current regime – I’d like to know his read of it …
But I’ll give you my read with out bells and whistles in no particular order
1 – food bank riots
2 – panic buying
3 – power cuts
4 – rationing
5 – rising crime
6 – home repossessions
7 – huge numbers of loan sharks
8 – a fully socialist government
9 – a dire pound
10- 1970s interest rates
11 – a government unable to fund welfare
12 increase taxes – yes even more …..
I apologise for another grim post but it really is grim ….
Capitol riot hearing: Trump accused of ‘attempted coup’
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61753870
What a sickening article and the BBC are fully behind it. But reading between the lines of what Lurch wrote suggests it was nothing like the BBC are trying to portray it.
The question of a ‘coup’ is instantly dismissed by the fact nobody had weapons. And I’m quite certain it wasn’t pointed out that the only person who died at the hands of another was an unarmed woman shot by a policeman (whose identity was kept secret for weeks, presumably because he is black with a dubious record).
This is banana republic stuff. They are getting increasingly desperate and their tricks more dirty because November is coming up fast.
There should be a referendum on this:
“Why we’re still paying the price of Labour’s drive to ‘rub the Right’s nose in diversity’: Far from carrying out their duties to implement government guidelines on immigration, some in the Civil Service are working to undermine them, writes DR ALAN MENDOZA”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10902201/Why-paying-Labours-drive-rub-Rights-nose-diversity-writes-DR-ALAN-MENDOZA.html
“REVEALED: Mutinous Home Office civil servants’ poster campaign against Rwanda deportations comparing Paddington Bear to an illegal immigrant and ‘refusing to work on policy'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10901273/Paddington-Bear-wanted-posters-secretly-Home-Office-mutinous-civil-servants.html
The head of the Home Office should take control and get the army in to remove the illegals .
Simples.
Taffman –
1I think you’ll find the ‘head of the home office ‘ doesn’t agree with ‘removing illegals ‘
2 there isn’t an army
3 there’s now a ‘minority rights defence branch ‘
There is only one deterrent to use to stop the third world from invading the UK and it can’t be used …
Not in the MSM I assume ? something that should be of concern to us all :
Biden has invited the US military to officially take over.
Biden has called a state of emergency, saying it’s about power blackouts.
The military needed to be invited in, otherwise it’s arguably against the Constitution:
“President Biden Invokes Defense Production Act to Accelerate Domestic Manufacturing of Clean Energy ”
“DPA Invocation Will Boost American Production of the Critical Technologies Necessary to Lower Energy Costs, Support the Clean Energy Economy, and Strengthen National Security.
WASHINGTON, D.C.— President Biden today issued presidential determinations providing the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) with the authority to utilize the Defense Production Act (DPA) to accelerate domestic production of five key energy technologies: (1) solar; (2) transformers and electric grid components; (3) heat pumps; (4) insulation; and (5) electrolyzers, fuel cells, and platinum group metals. The DPA determinations are part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s plan to lower energy costs for families, strengthen national security, and achieve lasting American energy independence that reduces demand for fossil fuels and bolsters our clean energy economy.
“President Biden has invoked the Defense Production Act so that the U.S. can take ownership of its clean energy independence,” said U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm. “For too long the nation’s clean energy supply chain has been over-reliant on foreign sources and adversarial nations. With the new DPA authority, DOE can help strengthen domestic solar, heat pump and grid manufacturing industries while fortifying America’s economic security and creating good-paying jobs, and lowering utility costs along the way.”
https://www.energy.gov/articles/president-biden-invokes-defense-production-act-accelerate-domestic-manufacturing-clean
sheesh….
Biden invokes state of emergency? (sure he did…)
That looks positively Venezuelan Bolivarian Revolutionary stuff…
After one would-be SCOTUS assassin – blue haired chanting loons turn up at Amy Coney Barratt’s house…
The twerps in Biden’s administration are losing it.
Next off they’ll be arresting Joe Rogan … I see that commentator Tim Pool (@Timcast) has been SWAT-ed yet again … One has to wonder if he’ll actually get a visit from some gun toting “progressives”?
Jan 6th Trump attacks I see the world’s best public broadcaster is all-in on the Jan 6th stuff presently playing out
– what’s that ?
– a squirrel?
Ahh now I see it:
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“Biden Declares State of Emergency in USA to Face Electricity Shortage”
https://see.news/biden-declares-state-of-emergency-in-usa-to-face-electricity-shortage/
The Biden Regime is being challenged. How much longer can they go on like this before a real coup attempt is made. The depths these people stoop to has no bottom.
I know this isn’t BBC but is it remotely likely that they would cover this? And it needs to be talked about because the “disinformation/ misinformation” scare which is being pushed in US , Canada and New Zealand as well as the the UK is a threat to free speech throughout and especially to sites like ours.
Make no mistake the battle is on and it is being fought in three continents and thanks to the WEF it is linked.
An excellent post. Freedom of speech and the right to hold dissenting views are being rapidly eroded across the West by globalists. They have the MSM and judicial system in their pockets .As a consequence we are close to , if not already in, the post democratic era. The vast majority of people don’t realise how much the power of their vote has already diminished but one day they will wake up and realise that their vote and the votes of everyone else counts for nothing, they have been disenfranchised.
The only hope is that the Republicans win the next election cycle and they follow Trump’s lead and are able to smash the deep state,the big tech monopolies , drain the swamp and preserve democracy. It’s a big ask .
I bet mr hawley is on the ‘target list ‘.. he really needs to look both ways crossing the road – poor America …