Midweek 8 June 2022

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 ?

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  1. Zephir says:

    The luvvies are starting to feel the pinch ? and blame it on Harvey Weinstein ha ha

    NOT the racist diversity agenda then ?

    ‘We’re seen through the lens of Harvey Weinstein’: Former Doctor Who star Christopher Eccleston says white, middle-class, male and straight actors are the new ‘pariahs of the industry’

    Christopher Eccleston opened up about the ‘uncertainty’ he is facing in career
    Former Doctor Who Star said he is ‘seen through the lens of Harvey Weinstein’
    He said ‘white, middle-class, male, and straight’ actors like him are ‘new pariahs’

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10902607/Christopher-Eccleston-says-actors-like-white-male-straight-new-pariahs.html

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Zephir
      I got a bit of time for this chap because he made a good video for a dementia charity ….

      But luvvies moaning about the world they helped create ? Nah… there was something earlier in the week about some films and theatre not earning money – go woke – go broke ..

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  2. Zephir says:

    What a surprise ? Guardian favoured by Google search 38 times….

    “Is Google biased to the Left? Culture Secretary vows to act after Mail audit reveals web searches for ‘Boris Johnson’ give far more results for news sites hostile to him
    Analysis showed Google promoted news stories from Left publishers over right
    Guardian came up 38 times in search results and Independent was cited 14 times
    Telegraph came up four times, Daily Express three times and MailOnline twice”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10902459/Mail-audit-reveals-web-searches-Boris-Johnson-results-news-sites-hostile-him.html

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  3. Zephir says:

    “Google decides where to rank news outlets’ stories on its search website based not on clicks, but based on an algorithm devised by the tech firm.

    This means it is not the most read story which tops the list, but those stories that Google determines carry more relevance and authority.”

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  4. Fedup2 says:

    BBC News watch

    It’s like hearing a familiar album you haven’t heard for a long time – it’s the ‘do the trump’ .

    This time it’s a lead story with words like ‘insurrection ‘ over the disorder in Washington after the US election was stolen .

    In passing the BBC mentioned that the inquiry was by the Democrats …. Then went on to uncritically report the democrat propaganda being pumped out to undermine any attempt by president trump to win a fair election in 2024 ….

    … but the songs went on – favourites like ‘trump is a monster ‘ and ‘kill trump ‘ were played at maxi volume ….

    But there’s a risk that more people might look at Biden/Obama – and then at president trump – maybe think ‘how did this dementing old man get elected ? Was it fixed ? ‘…..nut then back to the approved msm onslaught ….

    Much attention being given to 2 Uk nationals in the Ukraine war – playing into the hands of Russia – a diversion …..

    Meanwhile – injunctions will be issued to stop criminal entrants to the UK from being deported to bongo bongo land …. Some lefty judge will frustrate both parliament and the British people ….
    The bbc will be full of glee

    There’s other stuff about charities wanting more or less of something –

    Of the government doing too much or not enough of something –
    Just the usual far left BBC song of bias really … off switch ….

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  5. Zephir says:

    I really have not the time or inclination to research. maybe others here can asist with their input, but:

    I am aware the Blair regime were responsible for thousands of new laws per year :

    Sweet and Maxwell (2006) :

    “Tony Blair has been responsible for 54% more new laws per year in office than Margaret Thatcher, reveals research by Sweet & Maxwell, the information provider. According to figures from Sweet & Maxwell’s Westlaw UK and Lawtel online legal information services it is estimated that an average of 2,663 new laws were added every year under
    Blair, compared to an average of just 1,724 under Thatcher ”

    I am wondering, to what extent this Government, with a large majority, is actually legally hamstrung to be able to enact policy.

    There are so many legal challenges, it seems civil servants and lawyers are governing this country.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Certainly the civil service is now resisting any unapproved policy – eg border control – and it doing its best to destroy the likes of nut nut – Patel – sunak – Dorries – even though they are lefties – in my book …

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      • Zephir says:

        @F2, agreed, but how far does the legal system assist left wing traitors via previous governments legislation ?

        I find it hard to believe this government is willingly dragging its feet on certain policies and wonder why.

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Zephir – it is because it is led by someone who only believes in himself – he has no doctrine – no honesty – but there is no choice outside the Tory party and little choice inside it – there is a big gap where’ right wing ‘ should be ….
          There is a choice of either Left or Far Left …

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  6. Zephir says:

    Additional to the above from Sweet and Mawell:

    “Professor Sealy points out that the Blair years have seen a dramatic increase in the amount of EU legislation that becomes law in the UK without it ever having to be passed through UK Parliament as a statute or statutory instrument (i.e. they would not be included in the above statistics).
    Says Professor Sealy: “There were over 2,100 European Regulations in 2006. A random selection shows the huge range of subjects they cover: cross-border insolvency; importing of bed-linen; import values of certain fruit and vegetables; the buying-in of butter; evaluation of statistics on labour costs; access of poultry to open-air runs.
    All became law here without our legislators having to lift a finger.”
    Professor Sealy says another recent phenomenon is not simply the number of statutes but also their size. Of the 2006 Acts, five had over 100 pages, three over 200, one over 300, one over 500 and one over 700! The Companies Act 2006, was the longest Act of 2006, and is also the longest Act in British Parliamentary history, with 1,300 sections, covering nearly 700 pages, and containing no less than 15 schedules.
    The research by Sweet & Maxwell, shows that 98% of new legislation introduced over the last ten years have been
    introduced as statutory instruments.
    Sweet & Maxwell explain that statutory instruments receive less Parliamentary debating time and, potentially, less scrutiny than statutes. It is why Governments prefer to use statutory instruments and opposing parties feel they stifle the scrutiny new legislation demands.”

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  7. Guest Who says:

    Champion spreading around tv studios Rayner style…

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  8. Guest Who says:

    To be white and woke is divine.

    To be white, woke, unaccountable and err with no consequence is BBC.

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  9. Zephir says:

    #metoo ?

    Nope, no way, not this time………

    “Revealed: The damning testimony of woman who says her rail union boss sexually harassed her… and how it was covered up
    Claire Laycock is one of seven women to come forward with harassment claims.
    The claims are all levelled at TSSA firebrand General Secretary Manuel Cortes”

    “The 2018 Christmas party held by the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association was, according to at least one who was there, a rather boozy affair. After dinner, washed down with plenty of drinks, partygoers decamped to a nearby pub.

    There, alas, the festive atmosphere swiftly soured when the trade union’s firebrand General Secretary, Manuel Cortes, allegedly made a drunken attempt to kiss one of his female members of staff, former casino waitress Claire Laycock.

    Fast forward three-and-a-half years and highly damaging claims about what happened that night — not to mention during the months that followed — have led to calls for the resignation of 55-year-old Cortes, along with a cultural shake-up of the entire British trade union movement.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10902121/The-damning-testimony-woman-says-rail-union-boss-sexually-harassed-her.html

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  10. Guest Who says:

    Often I share the whole piece of a BBC Moaning Emole ‘story’ to illustrate the predictable depths they can plumb.

    Today all required is the email subject line.

    Trump accused of ‘attempted coup’

    No word if Nick Robinson read it on CNN and told Lurch who told Saz, who told…

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    • Guest Who says:

      You know* they know* they are on thin ice when they mess with the language.

      *Hence not using ‘what you need to know’, ironically.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Timmeh!

        Je t’accuse!

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Names, faces and tori of pipo wey die for Owo church attack
        https://www.bbc.com/pidgin

        On Sunday June 5, 2022, some jaguda pipo enta di St. Francis Xavier Catholic church, Owo, Ondo State, Southwest Nigeria begin shoot and kill pipo.

        Police tok say di gunmen wey dress like worshippers use explosives enta di church while odas begin shoot.

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  11. Fedup2 says:

    Today watch

    A useful idiot for Russia has died . I won’t name him because he deserves to be forgotten . He was big in CND – Robinson interviewed the current head of CND – Russia funded -no doubt .
    There was no challenge – no mention that Ukraine is how it is because it was dumb enough to get rid of its ‘ own weapons on an empty promise that the west would defend it .

    I don’t know about you – but if I was in control of a country the first thing on my list would be nuclear weapons …and border control of course .

    … Build a wind far along the channel – then link it by fields of barbed wire …. Worth the cost …5 or 10 miles long ?

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  12. Guest Who says:

    Reprising a young Jean Reno in the prequel?

    Natalie Portman in an Oscar winning performance by Nat King Cole.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      On 22 March 2020, 7-year-old Emily Grace Jones was stabbed at Queen’s Park in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, while riding her scooter and died shortly afterwards. Eltiona Skana, a 30-year-old Albanian woman unknown to the Jones family, was arrested on the scene and later charged with murder. Wikipedia
      Start date: 22 March 2020
      Cause of death: Stabbing

      CLAP HARDER FASTER LONGER

      Emily Jones: NHS trust criticised after girl killed by patient
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-61436706

      GMMH chief executive Neil Thwaite said: “We accept the findings of the external review into the tragic incident.”

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  13. Guest Who says:

    On the subject of the BBC, propaganda, the msm, disinformation, censorship and a good Friday laugh…

    I subscribe to Full Fact for the same reasons I used to follow Springster, or read a Wiki explanation… at best a start to a story, usually laughable.

    And guided by key media narrative principles such as agenda, reliance on credulity, and assumption of credibility no longer viable… etc..

    Hence, enjoy:

    ***
    Claims that the BBC “censored” footage of Boris and Carrie Johnson arriving at the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee thanksgiving service to remove audio of the crowd booing have been shared widely on social media.

    Conversely, there have also been widespread claims that the BBC overemphasised the booing in the crowd in order to cast the Prime Minister in a negative light.

    The truth is less exciting.

    The core explanation is that the events at St Paul’s were being captured by different crews from different places, which picked up more or less booing or cheering.

    The claim of censorship comes when comparing two instances where the BBC showed footage of the Prime Minister arriving at the service. In the first, the booing is quite prominent. In the replay a few minutes later, the booing is less pronounced.

    That’s because the BBC had multiple filming crews and they used a clean feed for the replay. The reason they couldn’t use the original feed again is because presenter Jane Hill’s commentary was captured on the same feed as the booing. Using this again would have clashed with her ongoing interview.

    We’ve put together a mock-up of what it might have sounded like if the BBC had used the audio from the first clip again for the replay 👇

    [spoiler: it sounds like a complete mess]

    How it might have sounded using the original audio for the replay

    This has been corroborated by sound engineers on social media and a statement to Full Fact by the BBC. Those at the event can also, at the very least, confirm that loud boos were heard at St Paul’s.

    ***
    Uh huh. A statement by the BBC.

    At the very least, Full Fact, good luck next funding appeal.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Guest who
      I think voting should be replaced by election through ‘booing ‘ .
      It would remove the fraud of postal voting –

      students would have to be in two places to boo

      It would be harder to hide unapproved boos than votes

      VAR could be used to measure boos

      Opinion polls would be more accurate as people called be asked to boo according to policies

      Proportional representation through booing could be used

      One person – one boo …

      Silly season has arrived …

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  14. Thoughtful says:

    Now where is Marianna Spring to report all the lies in the Biden Washington Post Op Ed he wrote on the state of the US economy?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      YOUR COMPLAINT:

      President Trump’s 100 Days President Biden’s 0 Day 

      Dear Winston Smith in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth,

      You covered President Trump’s 100 Days and then produced a Beyond 100 Days to hold power to account.

      Why have you not done the same for President Biden to hold power to account?

      ‘Omission is the greatest form of lie.’ 

      ———-

      Thank you again for contacting us,

      BBC Complaints Team
      http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints

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  15. andyjsnape says:

    Sir Keir Starmer: Labour leader in Belfast after Dublin visit
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-61750917

    Nice and easy “reporting” brought to you by the bBC. Im not sure what Keir will do being in opposition, but the bbc like him

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  16. AsISeeIt says:

    Female benefits and a Baltic beauty just happens to show up for a selfie edition

    There’s still precious little laughing matter on the press frontpages: Matt is away (Telegraph) – WFH?

    To be fair it would be a tough gig for the house cartoonist to find the funny side of the main headline: Captured British fighters sentenced to death (Telegraph)

    As Oliver Hardy would tend to accuse Stan Laurel: “Well, that’s another fine mess you’ve gotten us into

    Ukraine conflict: Liz Truss backs people from UK who want to fight (BBC February 2022)

    Of course we recall a time, not so very long ago, when every TV comedy sketch show contained a Mexican firing squad gag. Try getting that past the censors these days.

    The bollinger bolshevik Guardian takes an oddly anti-socialist line: ‘A Soviet-era show trial’ Mariupol Britons sentenced to death – of course you have to remember the mantra – Communist Russia wasn’t REAL socialism

    The Guardian is taking a brief stroll down another dodgy path fraught with bear traps for their left-liberal outlook here: Footage of violence at Paris final was deleted… Many supporters also complained about getting mugged around the stadium. – gosh, what if a protected group of men was doing the mugging, surely it would be ok to scrub the CCTV in the interests of community cohesion, no?

    Speaking of those well-heeled enough to be able to afford a well developed social conscience…

    Look who’s out selling the Big Issue says the freebie Metro: William goes undercover – and just happens to get photographed and his pic splashed all over the media. By the way, a welcome guest appearance hereabouts – by proxy – for the sold on-the-streets charitable publication The Big Issue

    Surprise. Wills with Lithuanian tourist Laura Zaulkuskas (Mirror) – and what a lovely she looks. The Duke of Cambridge was happy to have his picture taken with passer-by (Times) – well, why wouldn’t he? With her fashion model looks she is quite some upgrade on the scruffy short dumpy headscarfed (Romanian? Albanian?) typical everyday Big Issue sellers standing outside my Sainsburys.

    Their attire being a far cry from anything editors would put on our frontpages – in contrast with: J-Lo’s frock shock (Daily Star)

    Eastern European Lithuanian Laura is quite the smart-casual fashion plate in her sun shades.

    Quite some contrast with her distant cousins brandishing a desultory copy of that magazine, supposedly for the homeless charity, but in reality in lieu of sidestepping immigration restrictions (such as they are) and grabbing token emploment status with British national insurance numbers by the back door – the open sesame to a plethora of State benefits – including housing benefit of course.

    Back to the frontlines – there’s a war going on, you know…

    New Ukraine war horror – shouts the Daily Mail: UK outrage as two Brits face firing squad – outrage? You’ve only just told us – give the British public at least half a chance to think it over and then get back to you with our opinions.

    The giveaway Metro propagates some daft opinions but kudos to it today as it sees through some of the faux outrage and comes close to the crux of the matter: Putin’s pawns. Fear POWs are Russia’s bargaining chips after ‘sham’ trial

    Sham trial? Seems like tit for tat…

    A Russian soldier is sentenced to life in prison in Ukraine’s first war crimes trial (NPR May 2022 – National Public Radio is near enough America’s answer to BBC Radio 4 – all the pompous liberal bias and anti-Israel sentiment without the Desert Island Discs)

    Speaking of mercenaries: Transfer sensation. Raheem to Chelsea? (The Sun)

    Biden blames media as approval rating drops (Telegraph) – what, the US media are not sufficiently Democrat leaning for old Joe?

    Speaking of needless destructive long-drawn out conflicts – it’s always Women’s Hour at the Gruan: Laura Dern. On the return of Jurassic Park – and why men in power are the real dinosaurs – why give is a movie review when you can preach leftist politics?

    By the way, the left-leaning ‘i’ newspaper didn’t like this movie either: Dino-bore. A Jurassic Park reboot with no teeth. This film is terrifying for all the wrong reasons

    Europe’s ‘largest ever’ predator dinosaur found on Isle of Wight… scientists say. (BBC) – what’s with the scare quotes? Follow the science, trust the scientists for goodness sake, BBC!

    Speaking of lovable old dinosaurs: Stones rock Anfield. Jagger dedicates first UK show of new tour to Charlie Watts (Mirror)

    Like Russia v Ukraine, Tory v Labour, Stones v The Beatles – we all have our favourites and you apparently can’t have one without the other: Sir Paul McCartney at 80 (Telegraph)

    Judith Woods in the Telegraph talks sense: Can’t we just ditch the mawkish NHS love-in?

    The unsanitary truth about period poverty – and what governments can do (World Economic Forum – always there in the background and keen to tell governments what they ought to do)

    Fraser Nelson. The Blob has taken back control (Telegraph)

    I’ve likely told this before but it amused me. Passing my local library – they seem to only deal in books as a sideline these days – I noticed a notice in the window advertising free period products. Being keen on vintage items I enquired further only to be disappointed to discover this was a women’s thing. Of course this was pre Keir Starmer’s remarks implying how though born as a chap I could equally avail myself of such female benefits.

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    • Zephir says:

      “The Duke of Cambridge was happy to have his picture taken with passer-by (Times) – well, why wouldn’t he? With her fashion model looks she is quite some upgrade on the scruffy short dumpy headscarfed (Romanian? Albanian?) typical everyday Big Issue sellers standing outside my Sainsburys.”

      This one ?

      https://www.newidea.com.au/media/93668/queen-harry-2.jpg?width=720&center=0.0,0.0

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      • AsISeeIt says:

        Yep, Her Maj, the very last more-or-less British woman to wear a headscarf

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “The unsanitary truth about period poverty – and what governments can do”

      EU leaders have agreed a deal that will allow the UK to scrap the so-called “tampon tax”, British officials say.

      Two options have been put forward that would permit a zero rate of tax on sanitary products.
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35834142

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    • TrickCyclist says:

      AsISeeIt,
      “Laura Dern. On the return of Jurassic Park – and why men in power are the real dinosaurs -”
      Reading The Grauniad’s one-star review of the latest duff Jurassic Park sequel, it transpires that the villain of the film is a character called Lewis Dodgson, played by Campbell Scott.
      Trivia: Dodgson was in the original 1993 film but was then played by an actor called Cameron Thor. Thor was unable to reprise his role as he was sentenced to six years in prison in 2016 for performing a lewd act on a child.
      How very Hollywood. . .

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  17. MarkyMark says:

    Tom’s right, the only real solution to the housing crisis is to build more houses – “build back better” needs to be more than just a slogan. The rest is just tinkering around the edges…

    order-order.com

    ……

    “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/2017/11/06/start-the-week-open-thread-148/comment-page-2/#comment-879035

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  18. andyjsnape says:

    Boy, 14, stabbed to death and mother hurt in Manchester
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-61757631

    The suspect was described as “Asian” and wearing dark clothing

    Must be a reason “Asian” has been stated? Normally the colour of the skin isn’t mentioned… Guess it does help when trying to find the wanted

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Asian – Russian?

      asia-map.png

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      • Wild Bill says:

        The Police know it was a domestic and the killer was known to the victims, so why dont they know his name?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Andy
      Do you not think it is sad that one has to read a ‘news’ report and re code it according to what has been included and what it not there ?
      It kind of blows the ‘fact-checking ‘ and ‘truth ‘ which the BBC claims – is just a sham …..

      They can’t fool of the people all of the time ….

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      • andyjsnape says:

        Hello Fed, years ago I would start my day with looking at the bBC website for what I thought was useful info/news

        Over the years less and less became of interest, and now its just for a laugh

        For me the following sums it up
        https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.bbc.co.uk

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Andy
          Funny that – I just forced myself to listen to the media show – the one where an upwardly mobile BBC type interviewed the chief exec of GBNews as it approached the end of year one ….

          ….. the approach was as interesting as the content ….

          Lots of talk about money – but no mention about the BBC source of funding .

          I didn’t realise the boycott of GBNews by all UK advertising agencies is continuing – presumably the hand of ITV and now Murdock is responsible for this – with those two hoping to starve GBNews to death – and either killing it or taking it over ..

          The BBC clearly has a fixation with Nigel Farage – the BBC clone couldn’t stop mentioning him – ……

          And the bbc prosecution had built up a list of focus points to hit GBnes with – actually there were not many – although the evil gutto hari ‘taking the knee ‘ and refusing to apologise was focused on ….

          Hari of course now works for nut nut – says it all …

          The attitude of the interview was hugely adversarial – as might be expected with a constant attempt to bait the GBNews chap into something ‘hostile ‘ which never came .

          It’s clear that the BBC is frightened of a minnow like GBNews because it cannot be easily controlled – even though it knows that the BBCOFCOM is forever ready to strike it down .

          I think the MSM is waiting for a solid attack to destroy GBNews – perhaps it will lie with Steyn or Dan jobbie – …
          I did recognise a couple of failings of `GBNews – it hasn’t been as ‘outside London ‘ as was expected – and it has been too far into crappy Westminster politics with different presenters going over the same trivia during the day …

          However – the interview – failed to achieve its’ aim of attacking GBNews – but for those supporting GBNews – it’s time to list those advertising agencies and – if possible – boycott them ….

          Good luck with year 2 GBNews … be brave …

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          • moggie63 says:

            I think that even the thickest person, who is actually aware of OFCOM, knows they are BBC protectors. Waste of time and money, much like the various other ***COM’s.

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    • harry142857 says:

      Honest Harry’s bookmaker odds for “Asian”

      1/5 Pakistani
      12/1 Vietnamese
      16/1 Chinese
      20/1 Tibetan
      25/1 Indian
      100/1 Japanese.

      (bound to be described as British)

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  19. Flotsam says:

    The Home Office have backed down from deporting three illegal immigrants in the face of a legal challenge. I’m assuming for now that they did this to prevent a legal precedent that would prevent all deportations.
    What can one do when the enemy is within?

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    • moggie63 says:

      Deport them. And their lawyers. Let them appeal from their 3rd world sh**hole (I include France in that description, much like the UK is rapidly becoming). With no Legal Aid. Watch the lawyers squeal and run home, having done nothing.

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      • BRISSLES says:

        Why hasn’t the Government’s Legal Department dotted the i’s and crossed the t’s so that no challenges can be made ? They knew this would happen so every loophole should have been checked !

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        • Up2snuff says:

          Brissles, my dear old thing (well it is the cricket season) Priti probably left a Civil Servant to do that job, in addition she would have asked the Home Office lawyer whether it was legal. You know the same sort of Civil Servants and Government lawyers who said that having leaving dos and birthday parties in No.10 Downing Street during Lockdown was perfectly acceptable as it was a place of work.

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Oh Brissles darling – don’t you know it’s a pantomime – Patel and nut nut can appear to be doing something but know full well it will never happen ….

          There is only one solution to the invasion problem and no British government would have the courage to do it …it involves the use of force …

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  20. MarkyMark says:

    YOUR COMPLAINT:

    BBC is causing mental anguish 

    Dear Winston Smith at the BBC Complaints Department twinned with the Ministry of Truth as authored by your previous employee Eric Blair,

    If the BBC is causing mental anguish by producing News that contradicts reality then should it extinguish itself or at least give people the choice of paying the BBC rather than forcing them to pay a BBC TV TAX under Government protection and threat of prosecution (est. 180,000 in 2017)?

    Maybe you can do a BBC programme on it?

    Cheers,
    Mr. H

    CAS-4987700-SY1FTF : BBC NewsWatch says boredom with pro-Brexit march.

    CAS-4963895-3HKGDN: Tommy Robinson: Are you reporting on him?.

    CAS-4844672-N8FDYY: Update on the MP Expenses 2009 scandal in 2018.

    CAS-4939547-J71Z1V: Here’s hoping Ireland do the right thing G.Lineker.

    CAS-4937378-YKMWBJ: BBC not reporting ‘Day of Freedom’ March 06may2018.

    CAS-4906141-BFJQL0: I take offence that presenters promote their books.

    CAS-4892811-C820SC: I am offended that I have to pay the BBC TV Tax.

    CAS-4824332-633N1P: What happened in Italy was not covered …

    CAS-4933135-ZV3V7F: The omission is the most powerful form of lie … 

    ———-

    Thank you again for contacting us,

    BBC Complaints Team
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints

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  21. MarkyMark says:

    “When I grow up ….”

    How much aid does the UK give to Pakistan?
    £305m
    the top 3 recipients of UK bilateral country specific ODA were Pakistan (£305m), Ethiopia (£300m) and Afghanistan (£292m) UK bilateral ODA to Yemen was £260 million, an increase of £94 million compared to 2018 – this was the largest increase to any country in 2019.

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  22. MarkyMark says:

    Cheeky ….
    PRC_82850758_1567493004.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&h=630&crop=1

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  23. StewGreen says:

    BBC local news gives us a PRasNews item about
    “a conference of the HUTH BAME staff network starts at 1pm today”

    Black presenter Shirley Ann Henry
    tweets “Much more on @looknorthBBC
    at 1.30pm”

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Cineworld axes screenings of The Lady Of Heaven after protestors label film about Prophet Muhammad’s daughter ‘blasphemous’
      Comment
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      Jess Bacon
      Wednesday 8 Jun 2022 12:27 pm

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  24. Johnda says:

    I had a bet with the wife what the bbc news would lead with at 1:00pm
    I said I wonder what Boris has done today. I was wrong it’s Trump
    And now it’s the poor migrants going on a trip to Rwanda
    Give me strength!

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  25. G.W.F. says:

    GB News joins the anti Trump brigade. Takes the evidence provided by the Dem inquiry into Jan 6th without criticism.

    https://www.gbnews.uk/news/donald-trump-said-mike-pence-deserved-to-be-hanged-during-capitol-hill-riot/314801

       7 likes

  26. Fedup2 says:

    Keeping sweet with BBCOFCOM

       6 likes

  27. Flotsam says:

    Rwanda deportations, legal action:
    In a previous post I made a comment about the “enemy within”. It turns out that this is closer to the truth than I thought. It turns out that one of the applicants in the High Court action is in fact the Civil Service Union. Their grounds are that their members would be exposed to danger and might be asked to act illegally. Here’s me thinking that the Government ran the Country and the Civil Service carry out what the Government needed done.

    https://www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/article/union-seeks-to-block-first-rwanda-flight-as-legal-challenge-kicks-off

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  28. s.trubble says:

    How long do you think we have got?(We being us posters)

    I reckon they’ll use Google or something to send us notifications

    Dear xxxx,

    We put it to you that we believe you are thinking the wrong thoughts

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Maybe 2 or 3 years …

         7 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      “lawfully sacked for writing tweets which criticised government policies.” {bbc.co.uk aug2019} – the death of freedom of speech.
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-49259942

      1765 …. **In a republic worthy of name, freedom to publish one ’s thoughts is a citizen’s natural right.** They may use a pen or their voice, and should not be prevented from writing any more than speaking …That is the law in England, a monarchical country, where people are freer than elsewhere because they are more enlightened. – Voltaire, Republican Ideas, 1765

      2019 …Australia’s highest court has made a landmark ruling that a public servant was lawfully sacked for writing tweets which criticised government policies. The court rejected her claim that she had been denied a right to free speech. – Australia, 2019

      1765 … **In a republic worthy of name, freedom to publish one’s thoughts is a citizen’s natural right.**

      2019 … ** a public servant was lawfully sacked for writing tweets which criticised government policies.**

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2019/08/06/midweek-open-thread-7-august-2019/comment-page-4/#comment-1005808

      1765 …. In a republic worthy of name, freedom to publish one’s thoughts is a citizen’s natural right.They may use a pen or their voice, and should not be prevented from writing any more than speaking …That is the law in England, a monarchical country, where people are freer than elsewhere because they are more enlightened. – Voltaire, Republican Ideas, 1765

      2018 … In addition to reporting hate crime, please report non-crime hate incidents, which can include things like offensive or insulting comments, online, in person or in writing. Hate will not be tolerated in South Yorkshire. Report it and put a stop to it #HateHurtsSY – UK South Yorkshire Police, 2018

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  29. MarkyMark says:

    First official international trailer for The Lady of Heaven… the historical untold story of Lady Fatima .. Aisha the 6 year old Bride might be clucthing her Teddy Bear.

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  30. StewGreen says:

    How much of anti-government feeling
    is due to Government workers doing empire building ?
    Any large organisation is apt to become inefficient, cos departments are prone to empire building and instead of focusing on their actual mission, they focus on depending on their own empires.
    I wrote earlier How I noticed that the prime beneficiaries of do-good projects often turn out to be the workers who get a salary/pension out of it, rather than the actual needy… now I notice big overlap problems.
    : Councils set up projects eg the Social work team spend £5m on helping drug addicts
    Then the next year another department say the health outreach team set up their own costing £8m.
    The council recognise the overlap so cut the first budget by £1m
    You then end up with a whole department shouting “Evil Tory cuts ! Austerity !”
    When in fact austerity is often not real cos there are two projects more money is being spent helping drug addicts, it’s not like after WW2, rather these days government spending is ever increasing.

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  31. Thoughtful says:

    How long before this happens here?

    Norway to Track All Supermarket Purchases

    Statistics Norway wants to receive several million daily receipts from food stores, signalling a new era in state data collection. Privacy advocates and the supermarkets themselves are unhappy.

    https://www.lifeinnorway.net/norway-to-track-all-supermarket-purchases/

       9 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Mark Zuckerberg Called People Who Handed Over Their Data “Dumb F****”
      He might as well have predicted Facebook’s downfall

      By Laura Raphael
      20 Mar 2018

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    • moggie63 says:

      ‘How long before this happens here?’

      Can you be sure it isn’t already?

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    • jazznick1 says:

      Waitrose already collect information on what you buy in their stores if you have a Waitrose Card. They currently use it to give you money back on items they note you buy regularly.

      M&S can provide ‘sparks card’ holders with electronic receipts to your e-mail detailing what you’ve bought.

      So we are being tracked already.

      Yes, there is obviously potential for this information to ‘leak’.

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  32. Up2snuff says:

    Does Sky Glass* represent the beginning of the end for the BBC Telly Tax or the start of funding the BBC from universal taxation? *I assume that when Sky tell me that it is the future of television, it can be programmed so that it shows no BBC TV programmes in real time and thus does not require a TellyTax to be paid.

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  33. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Many of you will have seen it.
    I’ve just watched a film which is a year or two old and found it quite watchable which is very unusual with the modern film makers efforts.

    It’s called Don’t look up and it’s about an extinction level asteroid crashing into Earth killing everyone.

    I suppose it’s a bit similar to Yes (Prime) Minister brought up to date as it’s full of todays type of politicians and msm being themselves and we see how useless they are.

    Jennifer Lawrence looks very unflattering with her ‘ginger growler’ look.
    Merely Streep is good as President and Cate Blanchett is terrific as a news anchor.

    It’s unusual to be able to enjoy modern films as they are almost all woke, pc and just tedious to watch.

    It’s no life of Brian but it’s a decent watch.

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  34. StewGreen says:

    Local BBC “Hey there is a new 52m high tower in Hull !
    Why’s that ?
    It’s a silo for storing imported cement
    “Damac said the huge silo was needed to help meet soaring demand in the construction industry”

    The omission there :
    The local establishment fake-greens like the BBC ruthlessly campaign for NetZero
    so making legitimate business difficult and costly

    The result was Cemex just closed the South Ferriby cement plant 15 miles away in South Ferriby
    To import from abroad instead

       10 likes

    • tomo says:

      Why am I thinking Nigeria?

      – next you know there’ll be diesel generators in near every garden…

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  35. Guest Who says:

    Labour has sent The BBC a blatant, cringe, daft propaganda piece.

    So of course they have run it asap.

    BBC Radio 4
    4h ·
    “If people saw the guy that I see every single day, they’d just absolutely love him as well”
    Angela Rayner spoke to #BBCNewscast about Keir Starmer’s public and private personality.
    Newscast | Listen on BBC Sounds 🎧 https://bbc.in/3zuANWH

       7 likes

  36. taffman says:

    “Rwanda asylum plan: UN warned UK deal was unlawful, court told”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61758828

    Of course we all knew this was going to happen , why didn’t our government know?
    Or, …………did they know ?

       12 likes

    • taffman says:

      “Rwanda asylum plan: UK court allows flight planned for Tuesday”

      All Change !
      But does the UK court overrule the UN’s refugee agency ?

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  37. StewGreen says:

    Twitter pushes a promoted tweet into my feed
    See the online magazine Joe.co.uk is PAID by the BBC to make tweets promoting BBCthree which the BBC then pays Twitter to promote
    .. https://twitter.com/JOE_co_uk/status/1533804622036488192
    Another .. https://twitter.com/JOE_co_uk/status/1533802536934809600

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  38. StewGreen says:

    The local Asian presenter is allowed to tweet bimbo glamour pics
    even though that wouldn’t fit with the BBC’s normal woke culture.
    .. Got 221 Likes which is much more than the actual news tweets normally get .. Like one Like and zero replies.
    .. https://twitter.com/monikaplaha/status/1534936618477531138

       5 likes

  39. tomo says:

    It’s not unreasonable I feel for that Jan 6th circus presently playing Washington to invite Ray Epps into the ring to explain himself…?

    Chances of that happening – a big fat ZERO.

       7 likes

  40. Fedup2 says:

    US inflation figures still out of control despite the putting up rates – markets take a kicking as they see even more rate rises until the recession kicks in .

    No doubt Biden / Obama / pelosi / MSM will blame President Trump for that …
    ……. And of course – if the US slides so will the UK ….unless someone deals with Putin and his gangsters ….

    Everything else is throth compared to that ….

    …. Meanwhile the BBC hardship fetish continues gleefully reporting ‘heat or eat ‘ choices – but no mention of cancelling the TV licence in order for the kiddies to eat …

    £13.25 a month would buy a few things to eat …

       10 likes

  41. Northern Voter says:

    Re, Sue Barker leaving Wimbledon, according to the Mail, the shortlist is as follows, 1 Alex Scott, 2 Clare Balding, 3, Someone I’ve never heard of, 4 John McEnroe, so that’s 1 bame, 1 lesbian a yank and a n other. Just like the make up of the UK population. Not

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  42. Foscari says:

    What a hard choice it is to pick between watching the Londonistan
    programme on the BBC with Riz Lateef, Asad Ahmad,
    Alice Bhandhukravi etc. Slagging off the Metropolitan Police, the
    Toreeeees, the Bosses of TFL, the NH etc. Yes I know that they
    are only aping the scripts on the autocues written by their
    anarchist Marxist editors. But I must admit that when they support the Tube train drivers earning over £1500-00 a week
    with overtime . Who can afford to go on strike for at
    least several weeks a year. For a job an 9 year old child
    could learn to do in a couple of hours, it makes me want to vomit. Paris Metro trains and many others are AUTOMATIC !!
    No, I watch the Country Farm Shows where we are allowed
    to see a few whities producing Sheep’s milk vodka. Or
    Honey Bees mead. Yes much more satisfying than
    watching the Grenfell Tower story every night. Or how
    nasty the fuzz are to the black drug gangs. You may
    say i am being cynical about Grenfell Tower disaster. BUT
    it is forbidden to talk about the elephant in the room
    so far as this terrible disaster was concerned. The
    illegal subletting.

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  43. Up2snuff says:

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – now I do know that you should always be consistent with your data in a Pandemic

    The BBC have messed around with the statistics – again! – for Covid infections. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274 This breaks the first rule of information gathering: Be consistent. No longer can I monitor my and other districts for increases and reductions in Covid infections. I wonder why? I suspect something is going on. Would it be that Civil Servants and the BBC want to make the present Government look bad at some point in the future?

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  44. StewGreen says:

    The Patrick Christy show
    .. He’s at the the Vue cinema where Christian protesters are protesting against the dinosaur film, on the grounds it’ blasphemous against the Bible ..cos the Bible doesn’t mention dinosaurs.

    Cinema management refused to address the issue.

    … One of his Fakenews stories that actually had a point.

       9 likes

  45. Zephir says:

    News: Govt win Rwanda scheme court case

    Now name and shame the traitor lawyers please who want benefit and housing thieves in to steal from those who have paid into the system all their lives.

       7 likes

    • Thoughtful says:

      Or better still name and shame the traitor ministers and civil servants who aren’t demanding the taxayers costs for the liberals failed court case.
      How is it that we the taxpayer pays the court costs when they win but waive them when they lose ?

         9 likes

  46. Guest Who says:

    Di meedya, dey dam predictable… it so funny one…

       2 likes