499 Responses to Midweek 15 June 2022

  1. MarkyMark says:

    Authorities in Saudi Arabia have been seizing rainbow-coloured toys and children’s clothing, which they claim encourage homosexuality, state TV says.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-61813390

    Woman to sue NHS over ‘rushed’ gender reassignment treatment
    Comment
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    Jimmy Nsubuga
    Sunday 1 Mar 2020 5:39 pm
    https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/01/woman-sue-nhs-rushed-gender-reassignment-treatment-12330020/#:~:text=Woman%20to%20sue%20NHS%20over%20'rushed'%20gender%20reassignment%20treatment,-Comment&text=Keira%20Bell%2C%2023%2C%20who%20has,being%20born%20a%20biological%20female.

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  2. MarkyMark says:

    20 sent to Rwanda – HA HA HA HA …

    Home Office loses track of more than 600,000 people who should have left country, finds immigration watchdog
    UK border checks branded ‘shambolic’

    May Bulman
    Social Affairs Correspondent
    Thursday 29 March 2018 16:39

    ……………

    Theresa May The Secretary of State for the Home Department 12:37 pm, 20th April 2016
    The first priority of government is the safety and security of its citizens, and the Government have always made the integrity of the UK border a priority. We will never compromise on keeping the people of this country safe from terrorism, criminality and illegal immigration.

    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2016-04-20a.923.2

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  3. AsISeeIt says:

    The BBC habitually tends to think it got it about right…

    Realising their glitch BBC online press review has now ditched last Thursday’s cover of the ‘i’ newspaper.

    Let’s just see what headline joys we missed earlier from today’s left-leaning ‘i’…

    Boris Johnson’s ethics adviser Lord Geidt quits after admitting Partygate ‘frustration’

    i morning briefing: Will the resignation of Lord Geidt change anything? 

    Boris Johnson is ‘not worthy’ of office and Tory MPs should oust him, says ex-top civil servant

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Always check BBC headlines late at night – this is when they dump stores they hope will disappear in the morning – but can say they reported on them!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      PM
      BBC Radio 4, 22 March 2022

      After Shell’s decision to reconsider its decision on the Cambo oil field, we discussed whether energy security and the net zero agenda can coexist, and the practical steps that could be taken to alleviate rapidly rising energy prices.

      Both contributors to the discussion argued against Shell’s involvement in the oil field.

      We accept should have done more to provide a wider range of views or signal their existence in order to ensure the item met our standard of due impartiality.

      15/06/2022

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications

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  4. MarkyMark says:

    BBC are getting excited.

    “By-election: Is Tory marginal Wakefield ready to go red again?
    By Iain Watson
    Political correspondent, BBC News

    Published6 hours ago”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61811382

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    • theisland says:

      Voters in Tiverton and Honiton and Wakefield need to remind themselves that the by-elections are taking place exactly six years after the EU Referendum (23 June).
      Tiverton and Honiton voted Leave by 57.6% and Wakefield voted Leave by 62.6%.
      Labour and the LibDems despise the UK and despise all Leavers.
      They want us back in the EU single market (the LibDems have even set out a ‘road map’ for rejoining).
      Labour and the Liberal Democrats via their activists are colluding with each other in these two seats.
      All aided and abetted by the bBC.
      So
      If you live in Tiverton and Honiton and voted Leave – do not vote for the Liberal Democrats.
      If you live in Wakefield and voted Leave – do not vote for Labour.

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      • Thoughtful says:

        An apology for the Brexit vote was that people had done so out of spite and hate of David Cameron. It was a fatuous argument which didn’t gain much traction, but I don’t believe that so long after the Brexit vote it’s going to have much effect.

        Internal Tory documents show Red Boris now has all the electability and appeal to voters Jeremy Corbyn had.

        So my message to voters to to send a message to Blue Labour NOT to vote for them, and the more you support the party the more you should either abstain or cast votes against.

        An 80 seat majority means that there will be no meaningful effect on Blue Labour which is secretly comitted to rejoining anyway.

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  5. tomo says:

    and road fuel is the new tobacco – you must be fined for killing the planet.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      UNicorn farts and rainbow coloured energy are all that matter.

      25 years
      Wind turbines have an average life of over 25 years. Rapid evolution of wind technology has lead to an increase in the durability of wind turbines.

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      • tomo says:

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Jeremy Corbyn will no longer be a Labour MP
          The former leader was suspended following his reaction to a report into how the party handled anti-Semitism.
          https://www.politico.eu/article/labour-readmits-fomer-leader-jeremy-corbyn-after-suspension/
          …..
          Hunt for leaker after Jeremy Corbyn’s meal for nine
          https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hunt-for-leaker-after-jeremy-corbyns-meal-for-nine-7blwh5sm5
          ….

          Jeremy Corbyn: Labour on the threshold of power {bbc.co.uk 27sep2017}
          “Jeremy Corbyn is to tell supporters Labour is “on the threshold of power” and stands ready for government.”

          Where is the best place to be a woman in Britain? {bbc.co.uk sep2017}
          “Islington, in north London, was rated the worst place for women to live.”
          Labour MP in charge of Islington from 1983 to 2017 (34 years to improve the area) is Jeremy Corbyn.

          At the Labour 2017 Conference …

          6.45pm: ‘Labour’s shameful migration secret’ with Owen Jones, a Yarls Wood detainee and others. Buddies Cafe Bar
          8.30pm: Diversity Nite is back on! Infamously hosted by Keith Vaz, we’ve heard he’s back on this year. Walkabout

          “Keith Vaz has been appointed to a parliamentary committee preparing a new law to tackle corruption and money laundering. {dailymail nov2016} The Leicester East MP is currently under investigation by the Metropolitan Police … ”

          “Keith Vaz (67% voters for Labour in GE17), the senior Labour backbencher, claimed more than £75,500 in expenses for a flat in Westminster despite his family home being a £1.15 million house just 12 miles from parliament.”
          “Mr Vaz’s claims have always been in accordance with the spirit and rules of the Green Book,” – Reported 9 May 2009.

          https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/09/24/start-the-week-open-thread-143/comment-page-3/#comment-869482

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        • Thoughtful says:

          Has he joined the Tories then because they are also supporting Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Comment “What is worse 1.45GW of Nuclear Base Load energy is permanently switched off on 15th of July. At the present rate of WIND energy production another 23 GWs of Wind Energy Capacity will be required to replace it during the next 30 years of GSM Low Wind Strength production £23B cost”

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  6. andyjsnape says:

    British taxpayer funded:-

    Is Uni-Racist
    https://www.britishclassiccomedy.co.uk/category/1970s-itv-comedy

    I can’t be racist
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002rkq

    Health, schools and offices given anti-racist aims in Welsh government plans
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-61707532

    Sheku Bayoh’s sister believes Scotland is a racist country
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-61456777

    Just by searching “racist” on the likes of the bBC webshite, the list goes on and on, a bit like Partygate

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    • Thoughtful says:

      Write to the BBC which was for decades a protector and and an arbiter of the English language, showing presenters the correct way words should be pronounced and the context in which they should be used.

      So write a short letter asking this august body what their corporate definition of the word ‘racism’ actually is so that you might better understand the meaning when it is used by BBC presenters and their guests.

      I can tell you that you will be surprised and prehaps shocked that the BBC does not know what this word means, and leaves it to individual presenters to decide on their own version of its definition. This puts the viewer / listener in an invidious position as how are they to know which definition is being used at any particular time.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        https://www.bbc.com/pidgin
        LiveLIVEPolice discover hotel for alleged ‘pikin sex slaves’

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        • andyjsnape says:

          Hello Marky

          Sorry didn’t understand a word, can anyone translate Pigeon into English please

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          • MarkyMark says:

            Pidgin, first used by British and African slavers to facilitate the Atlantic slave trade in the late 17th century, has become one of the most widely spoken languages in West Africa, with up to 75 million speakers in Nigeria alone. However, it does not have a standard written form.

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          • MarkyMark says:

            “BBC Pidgin? I no fit speak Pidgin oooo”: the first year of a groundbreaking service for Africa

            https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/c6b3da72-9034-41a5-815b-b4df77a35154

            As BBC News Pidgin marks its first anniversary, we are in no doubt about how exciting the past year has been and what the future holds.

            The remit for setting up the service was simple – BBC World Service set out to expand its reach among young and female audiences in West and Central Africa – and BBC News Pidgin was the first of 12 new language services launched as part of the World Service expansion.

            It was important that by setting up the service the BBC was not focusing on covering negative reports about Africa, but connecting the continent’s needs and aspirations.

            * It was important that by setting up the service the BBC was not focusing on covering negative reports about Africa
            * It was important that by setting up the service the BBC was not focusing on covering negative reports about Africa

            Social Engineering…

            It was important that by setting up the service the BBC was not focusing on covering negative reports about Africa

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        • Wild Bill says:

          Do British licence payers pay for that rubbish?

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    • JohnC says:

      I wonder if psychologist Dr Keon West (black) in his ‘I can’t be racist’ slot goes anywhere near how every single black person I have ever met is anti-white racist to some degree.

      Of course he would explain to me that it is because of unconscious white racism. Which must make their type of racism OK to the Left. But I am quite certain a LOT of white people don’t like some black people because of the huge chip they have on their shoulder against whites. Which is still racism – and is even worse because they do it consciously.

      There are racist whites and there are racist blacks. And it’s simple racism to pretend the latter do not exist. I would bet my house that the percentage of racist blacks is much higher than the percentage of racist whites.

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  7. MarkyMark says:

    Manchester University students paint over Rudyard Kipling mural
    This article is more than 3 years old
    Students replace poem If by ‘well-known racist’ with Maya Angelou’s Still I Rise
    https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jul/19/manchester-university-students-paint-over-rudyard-kipling-mural
    …………..
    Mahatma Gandhi has been variously described as an anti-colonial protester, a religious thinker, a pragmatist, a radical who used non-violence effectively to fight for causes, a canny politician and a whimsical Hindu patriarch.

    But was India’s greatest leader also a racist?

    The authors of a controversial new book on Gandhi’s life and work in South Africa certainly believe so. South African academics Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed spent seven years exploring the complex story of a man who lived in their country for more than two decades – 1893 to 1914 – and campaigned for the rights of Indian people there.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-34265882
    ……………
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-46552614
    ‘Racist’ Gandhi statue removed from University of Ghana
    Published13 December 2018

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  8. tomo says:

    Teachers in California ….

    The land of fruits + nuts….

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    • MarkyMark says:

      EU is failing – we need more EU. etc.

      “Not Enough Renewables: Minister Blames Australian Electricity Shortage on Lack of Green Energy
      By Daniel Y. Teng June 16, 2022 Updated: June 16, 2022”

      “Yes, you can say the wind doesn’t always blow, and the sun doesn’t always shine. Well, the rain doesn’t always fall out there, but we managed to store the water,” he said.

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    • micknotmike says:

      I need to be sure I’ve got this right, The Aussies get most of their energy from coal, and they have enough coal to last so long, that Romesh Ranganathan won’t be on the bbc every five minutes (Yes, THAT long). They have decided to build some windmills and they aren’t performing as advertised, probably due to the experts not receiving enough money. So we have this new technology, and it’s a bit shit. The solution, rather than saying “Nice idea, but it’s a non-starter”, is to build more and more shit. Luckily, electricity demand will only reduce as more and more electric cars are introduced.
      Follow the money, I reckon.
      It’s a shame that there isn’t some readily-available alternative to electricity to power our vehicles. Some sort of fossil-fuel liquid, maybe?

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  9. MarkyMark says:

    Wetin police know?
    Tok-tok pesin for di Imo State Police Command Michael Abattam confirm di incident to BBC Pidgin and say two pipo don chop arrest.

    “Di suspect dey on di run even though two pesins don chop arrest.

    Abattam add say di suspect don japa and dem still dey look for am.

    ”We still dey look for di suspect.”

    Di police PRO also tok say irate youths destroy di buliding wia di inicident allegedly happun.

    “Angry mob raze down di house sake of di incident,” Abattam tok.

    https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/cv27709y1zzo

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  10. MarkyMark says:

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    Comment

    “Many companies have zero tolerance on drink, drugs and abuse of the internet (eg p0rn). Why are the people taxed with running the country so much less responsible?”

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  11. MarkyMark says:

    Many societies throughout history have practised slavery, and Muslim societies were no exception.

    It’s thought that as many people were enslaved in the Eastern slave trade as in the Atlantic slave trade.

    It’s ironic that when the Atlantic slave trade was abolished the Eastern trade expanded, suggesting that for some Africans the abolition of the Atlantic trade didn’t lead to freedom, but merely changed their slave destination.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/slavery_1.shtml

    The most notable of Muhammad’s slaves were: Safiyya bint Huyayy, whom he freed and married; Maria al-Qibtiyya, given to Muhammad by a Sassanid official, who gave birth to his son Ibrahim and was freed.

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  12. MarkyMark says:

    c2d6846c-c152-4875-b843-8c12cb9fab9c-0c4d6982-f297-4663-a921-01e30a3bc3b7
    ….
    RuPaul’s Drag Race UK
    Mama Ru presides as fabulous queens aim to be the UK’s next Drag Race superstar. Who will dazzle the celeb judges and the amazing Michelle Visage? Join the party, squirrel friends!

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p07kt8b4/rupauls-drag-race-uk

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  13. s.trubble says:

    Connections. Here’s an angle for a crack bBc investigative unit to check out.
    Perhaps Katya who’s now unemployed due to Brexit…in fact team her up with Adam? the other cheek of that **se.
    25 years ago I was going to Paris a fair bit ( work) and to avoid traffic the taxi routed close to St. Denis…momentarily I thought we were in another country…the driver said ” C,est L,afrique, monsieur.

    Now this area is adjacent to the stadium where Real Madrid and Liverpool played the CL final.

    Reports suggested both sets of fans were attacked and robbed
    by what was initially called gangs of local youth?

    Separately I have seen reports that it was gangs of black youth!

    Admittedly it may be a jump too far but judging by the young male content of these dinghies you do wonder if France is intentionally offloading some of these to the UK?

    You can see why France is using the N.I. debacle and Rwanda
    as deflection points .

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  14. Beltane says:

    Lord Geidt resigns having been put in ‘an intolerable and invidious position….’

    And the delay between reaching this decision and the potboiling heights of Partygate is pure coincidence.

    My Lord of Geidt will read the Guardian, obviously. The real conundrum is why he was appointed in the first – or in reality second – place.

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    • JohnC says:

      Knowing Boris as I do now, I suspect most of what he does is just what others have advised him to do.

      I regard him as an empty shell who takes the advice of others and presents it to the public with his likeable buffoonary and charm.

      Unfortunately that bubble has burst and his only use now is to keep a remainer out of the top job.

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      • Beltane says:

        Well worth reading both letters JC. The BBC report stresses that Geidt’s letter ‘came as a surprise’ to Boris, an implied continuation of the bumbling incompetence theme – but fail to quote the previous sentence which read: ‘When we spoke on Monday you said you were content to remain until the end of the year.’

        It’s the way they tell ’em.

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      • Doublethinker says:

        This is the age of far fetched conspiracy theories coming true. A few years ago everyone thought that the idea of the WEF becoming the all powerful leaders of the world ,was nuts, but it’s happening.
        Ten years ago anyone who suggested that the result of a well conducted referendum in the UK would be ignored by Parliament would have been laughed out of court.
        Six years ago could anyone have imagined that a four year long multifaceted plot to take down the POTUS by the CIA , FBI et al was real and not a film ?
        All these things have happened . It seems therefore quite likely that the Remainer elite are deliberately running the country into the ground so wrecking millions of lives in order to force us back into the EU.
        So we ought to see what happens not as a series of individual incidents unrelated to each other but as a political conspiracy involving a wide range of agencies and government departments with the aim of reversing Brexit by whatever means necessary.

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  15. Flotsam says:

    No one loves a Landlord do they? Certainly not this Government or the previous Tory ones, the Liberal media and BBC All sorts of new penalties, restrictions and extra costs are about to be imposed. Previously there has been increases in stamps duty etc.
    So we penalise Landlords, increase their taxation, costs and reduce protections from bad tenants, guess what happens,? Rents go up and the availability of rental property decreases. It seems to require the brains of a genius towork that one out.

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      I’d say it’s private tenants who are actually the government’s target for punishment – landlords are just collateral damage.
      Rents increasing and availability decreasing seem to be the intended plan.

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  16. MarkyMark says:

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  17. Up2snuff says:

    TWatO Watch #1 – BBC still, still in a tiswas over Lord Geidt’s resignation

    It isn’t a job offer it was frustration because the Government kept asking him for advice. You couldn’t make it up! Lord Geidt, apparently resented being asked. Aaaawww! Diddums …. But any and every opportunity to attack Boris Johnson and remind listeners of his litany of sins, gratefully received by the BBC.

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      • Thoughtful says:

        As I’ve said before it’s a complete pittance and no wonder they look to foreign countries to make their salaries up to something closer to what they should be.
        The average FOOTSIE 100 director is now trousering around £4.5 million pa which puts into perspective the poor pay for politicians, in fact the lowest in the Western world where even Lichtenstein and Iceland can manage to pay their PM a lot more than Boris receives.

        It’s said you get what you pay for so you must be very pleased with the shower we have now. Completely self serving and incompetent but never mind they’re cheap and you can save aroun a ha’penny every decade!

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Dear BBC £3.5 billion paid under threat of prison complaints department,

          Could you revisit the 2009 UK MP expenses again, I would not like to find out that MPs like Tony Blair have ran to the shredder prior to your investigations.

          Here are some details, can you use Journalists who are avoiding the BBC Gary ‘£1.75m’ Lineker Pay Gap and see why an MP on £77K salary tops up their money with a job giving them £65K extra a year.

          Maybe find other MPs on such amazing schemes and why they are getting free tickets to concerts when they have so much cash sloshing around in their MP expenses accounts.

          Chuka Umunna MP, Streatham (tax payer pays him £77K per year) is being paid £65,040 a year Advisory Position at Global Progress (London) Ltd …

          1) Look into what he produces for £65K a year.
          2) Look at who owns the company and other players – Tony Blair is linked to it.
          3) Find other MPs doing the same.
          4) Ensure they are paying taxes on the extra money.
          5) Maybe interview them and ask some questions rather than how they feel today?

          For a head start you can find the details on :

          THEY WORK FOR YOU
          https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=24950

          americanprogress.org
          https://www.americanprogress.org/about/staff/browne-matt/bio/

          COMPANIES HOUSE
          https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11079851/filing-history

          Good luck and let me know how you get on,
          Mr. M. H

          p.s. I also see that MPs claim their MP Office BBC TV Licenses Tax on their expenses, thus the UK tax payer has to pay their own TV License and their MP’s TV License. Might want to consider stopping this for the 650 MPs.

          https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/10/21/start-the-week-open-thread-22-october-2018/comment-page-6/#comment-949061

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Put them on minimum wages with bonus to implement their policies.

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  18. Thoughtful says:

    The dithering governor of the Bank of England has only managed to raise interest rates by .25% a third of what the US Fed who are also regarded as delusional about inflation.

    The governor also stated inflation would reach higher than 11% by October proving that the BoE is not doing enough to control inflation, in fact it’s doing so little that inflation is predicted to accelerate the opposite of what the BoE is charged with doing.

    The destruction of the value of the pound continues and while a barrel of oil at todays prices would have cost around £50 thanks to Blue Labours devaluation of the pound it now costs around £100

    Alas the Red Labour party and the media are obssessed with isms and fauxbias and have no one competent to comment on the countries economic collapse whilst the dullard in charge of Red Labour cracks what he believes to be awfully clever witicisms as the country collapses around him – and he has nothing to say about it.

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      The supposedly independent B of E old remit was to keep inflation between 1 and 2 %.
      With an embarrassing letter having to be written by the governor, to the prime minister if they missed in any month.
      They don’t seem to give a monkeys anymore.

      If I had any money I’d buy a pile of Roubles.

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  19. theisland says:

    Another corrupt organisation.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Britain spends £500,000 a year to keep Channel migrants’ boats piled up in a car park in case the ‘owner’ comes forward to claim them – and now plans to build a £2MILLION processing facility in Dover
      Estimates suggest government spends £500,000 a year story migrants boats
      Legislation states boats must be stored for 12 months in case people claim them
      Storing and transporting the boats is estimated to cost around half a million
      Comes as Priti Patel plans to build new £2m migrant processing facility in Dover
      By LYDIA CATLING and DANYAL HUSSAIN FOR MAILONLINE

      PUBLISHED: 10:52, 7 August 2021 | UPDATED: 10:56, 7 August 202

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      • Thoughtful says:

        They should tell the bogus illegals that they will return them to the country they came from, or they can return to France on the horse they rode in on.

        I wonder what the Froggies would do if they saw boats turning up on their shores like they do on ours.

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      • Wild Bill says:

        Glad I live hundreds of miles from Dover.

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  20. MarkyMark says:

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    The Nolan Show has uncovered yet more woke activism at the BBC: trainee journalists being taught to become trans and non-binary activists, and to use “their magical ally powers to access influencers and influence politicians”. In other words, to become political campaigners in direct contravention the BBC’s code of impartiality. Apparently they’ve learned absolutely nothing from the Stonewall fiasco…

    order-order.com

    By using “their privilege what ever that may be e.g. wealth, seniority, ethnicity, connections, social status, etc to access influencers for example leaders, celebrities – change the minds of the media, influence politicians, write or share stories and articles and tell people what is happening.”

    “They’ve just made hоmоsехualitу legal in the State of California. I’m leaving before they make it mandatory.” – Bob Hope

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  21. Fred Stubber says:

    DOCTORS, BBC1

    I watch this programme because the left/liberal wokery is so ludicrous it makes me laugh — it’s the best of a bad bunch actually because there’s no actual ‘comedy’ on the BBC that raises even a slight smile for me.

    This time though, I didn’t laugh. I was appalled. At the moment ‘Doctors’ has a storyline about a nurse who, ages before, was accused of racism, because she ‘mis-spoke’ (once) during a row with a stroppy patient. Now she’s turned up at the ‘Doctors’ surgery, the past incident has become known, so she’s being treated incredibly badly by every other person who works there. It’s a total witch hunt, and we see the girl being driven almost to a complete breakdown.

    I assumed that the story would pan out as follows: we would be given a lesson in forgiveness, the beastly behaviour of the other staff would be shown as unconstructive, unreasonable, and intolerant, the ‘mis-speaking’ would be shown as an unfortunate slip of the tongue, and the errant nurse would be rehabilitated; re-educated in right-speak.

    But no! The way the other staff piled on and tried to outdo each other in virtue signalling has been portrayed as good, moral, and correct. It’s astonishing that normal decency, based on our western Christian traditions of forgiveness and brotherly love, can be abandoned in this way. Anti-racism, it seems, trumps every other aspect of morality. In the cause of anti-racism you can be hateful, spiteful, and do everything you can to destroy another human being’s life, on the basis of nothing more than a dubious allegation. This is the morality the BBC is shoving down our throats.

    Fred

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The bonfires
      Savonarola started to encourage his followers to destroy anything which could be considered luxuries – books, works of art, musical instruments, jewellery, silks and manuscripts were burnt during the period of carnival around Shrove Tuesday.

      These events became known as the ‘bonfire of the vanities’: the biggest of these happened on 7 February 1497, when more than one thousand children scoured the city for luxuries to be burned. The items were thrown on to a huge fire while women, crowned with olive branches, danced around it.

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    • digg says:

      Your evaluation of this is spot on Fred! It has become a huge trend currently poisoning much of the BBC’s output.

      It can only be described as watching weird and brainwashed cult followers chanting the message handed down by their superiors and desperately trying not to do anything that deviates from the message.

      The message being that black people, trans people, queer people, gays, left-wing activists, climate nutters and etc. etc. must always be shown as the righteous people and any deviation from this is tantamount to heresy. Anyone who transgresses is seen as the devil incarnate, treated accordingly and must be cast out.

      This can only be the result of the infiltration of so many people into the HR departments, straight from metro universities who’s task is simply to break up the system and replace it with this pedagogy.

      These people are also untouchable as any criticism would be career ending right to the top. So the sheep keep their own thoughts hidden under a veil of lies and hypocrisy and chant the mantra to stay in favour with a few solitary exceptions who rapidly find their career is over like Laurence Fox for instance.

      This same disease is seen in showbiz and increasingly sport and politics. Eventually it will seep through the Military as this trend is under way right now.

      I can only imagine where this will end if unchecked and un-resisted in due course.

      Orwell was right about the 15 minutes of hate!

      The big question is that if these forces achieve the control they are working for will there be enough normal people left standing to initiate a counter attack when it goes tits up?

         14 likes

    • Up2snuff says:

      Along with some Bhuddism for good measure. See here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/ and scroll down to Three Things we Love Today. Aren’t Bhuddists meant to be forgiving and non-violent?

      The BBC are a disgrace.

         3 likes

  22. MarkyMark says:

    Tom Hanks shouts at fans after causing wife to trip

    BBC – top story

       4 likes

    • Thoughtful says:

      BBC not reported, it appears to be a single Black male who is the culprit.

         0 likes

  23. MarkyMark says:

    Anti-natalists: The people who want you to stop having babies

    “Wouldn’t it just be better to blow a hole in the side of the earth and just have done with everything?”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-49298720

    NOT A TERRORIST ORGANISATION …

       5 likes

  24. MarkyMark says:

    Australia’s energy minister has urged households in New South Wales – a state that includes the country’s biggest city Sydney – to switch off their lights in the face of an energy crisis.

    Chris Bowen says people should not use electricity for two hours every evening if they “have a choice”.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61821423

       4 likes

  25. Jeff says:

    I don’t quite understand all the outrage over the abandoned Rwanda flight.

    I know it’s irritating having some anonymous, foreign judge dictating our laws, but…

    There were only a handful of people on board. This was never going to be a mass exodus. Blimey, there were more passengers on the Harry and Megan flight back to the US than on this plane…

    On top of that, as I understand it, for every “refugee” Rwanda take from us, they give us one of their elderly or ill residents. That’s correct, isn’t it? They’ll be bunging up the NHS as soon as they get here. No waiting lists for them.

    Regarding immigration, we’re heading into very choppy and uncharted waters. We have never had immigration figures anything like these in our nation’s history. Political chancers waffle about building more houses and young men filling job vacancies. That doesn’t wash with me. We couldn’t possibly build these dwellings quickly enough and we’re struggling to feed those people that live here now…mainly dues to lunatic green policies.

    I believe we need to stop immigration pronto; legal and illegal. We need to catch our breath, to decide what to do with our country. We can’t simply continue to expand exponentially and so rapidly.

    Bunging a handful of middle eastern blokes onto a plane bound for Africa is about as effective as bailing out a sinking ship using a teaspoon. It’s all gesture politics.

    Don’t be fooled by it…

       27 likes

    • BRISSLES says:

      Very true.

      To my knowledge no-one has dare said that the influx of illegals already arrived ie 30,000 and the potential of more tens of thousands, will equate to towns the size of Barnstaple and Bicester being created. Its absolutely bloody madness !.

      Where do all these good doers think where these people are going ??? building more houses is not the answer. Every town in the UK is being extended with constant new developments. So its like plugging a hole in a dam.

         14 likes

      • Up2snuff says:

        Brissles, my dear old thing (well, it is the cricket season and England have won a Test series at last!) the BBC keep repeating the dire NHS statistics (repeated on TWatO today) without being intelligent enough to put two and thirty thousand and two together to make four GPs practices and a new hospital required along with new towns the size of Barnstaple and Bicester. Sooner or later something is going to give way!

           11 likes

    • Scroblene says:

      Spot on Jeff!

      Maybe a question – armed with a clenched fist – might be asked of all the leftie councils who squander their housing stock to illegals, while real British citizens have to go on a waiting list for ages.

      Hopeless London Boroughs like Tower Hamlets or Hackney just wallow in cash to make these new arrivals comfortable, but take no care of the British indigenous population. 

      If we had a national broadcaster which identified how we are all ripped off to pay for these illegals, the answer might well sink into the thick heads of most of our politicians, but that will never happen.

         15 likes

  26. Eddy Booth says:

    Ukraine war: Moroccan’s death sentence being ignored, sister says
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-61826961

    As expected The BBC is championing the Moroccan guy sentenced to death with the two British, neither the Ukrainian or Moroccan governments seem too interested.
    As usual bbc don’t bother with basic facts, ie explaining exactly how he ended up at the front..did he sign up, was conscripted

    125438542-ukrainedeathsentence-court.jpg
    Brahim Saaudun, 21

    125441851-a673b3da2d3adfc9b9343c489f97483c1f3edcad.jpg
    Brahim (L)

    “Like many countries in Africa and the Middle East, Morocco has avoided taking sides in the conflict in Ukraine, calling instead for a peaceful resolution to the war ”

    “He moved to Ukraine to study and received Ukrainian nationality in 2020 after undergoing military training required to access aerospace technology studies at a university in Kyiv, his father Tahar Saaudun said in an email to Reuters news agency.”

       6 likes

  27. Guest Who says:

    Nish Kumar retweeted this.

       6 likes

    • Scroblene says:

      We must also never forget that nish kumar is a tosser.

         16 likes

    • Jeff says:

      Just eight months ago Sir David Amess MP, was butchered by a militant Muslim extremist.

      We must never forget the threat that intolerant Islam poses to our democracy and the need to oppose it.

      In Sir David’s memory we should build a politics based on sound common sense, not left-wing dogma and race baiting.

      Pass that on the Nish…

         25 likes

    • Thoughtful says:

      We must never forget that Jo Cox was NOT murdered by a far right extremist,and as yet there is zero evidence to support that he was.

         14 likes

      • maxincony says:

        Thoughtful,

        We must never forget that Jo Cox was NOT murdered by a far right extremist,and as yet there is zero evidence to support that he was.

        From the trial of Thomas Mair. Sentencing Remarks of Mr Justice Wilkie:

        “It is clear from your internet and other researches that your inspiration is not love of country or your fellow citizens, it is an admiration for Nazism, and similar anti democratic white supremacist creeds…

        …There is no doubt that this murder was done for the purpose of advancing a political, racial and ideological cause namely that of violent white supremacism and exclusive nationalism most associated with Nazism and its modern forms.”

        Click to access sentencing-remarks-r-v-thomas-mair.pdf

           0 likes

      • taffman says:

        Probably had phycological issues like those “Men” that run around this country and Europe with knives and beards.

           9 likes

  28. Guest Who says:

    As pitches go, Ed Davey has a front bench winner here.

       2 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Then you look at the group hug brigade.

      That loop de loop Kennedy of course, but then..

      These are what end up in positions of influence?

         6 likes

      • moggie63 says:

        I’m sure both of them have more than enough money to piss off somewhere more to their liking. Let me know when it happens.

           14 likes

        • Scroblene says:

          Comment of the week, Mogs!

          Great stuff – thank you!

          Still laughing!

             7 likes

  29. Guest Who says:

    Ooo…. Images that are ne… BBC.

       2 likes

  30. Guest Who says:

    Nick Robinson rushing to his side?

    Or submitting for an award?

    One of the two.

    Nudge nudge.

       9 likes

  31. Guest Who says:

    What we have is awful.

    Then you get reminded of the bbc alternative.

       21 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Seems one for Ros and Springster to ‘investigate’.

         13 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      I’m going to Argos with my son now to buy some Lego and calm down from the shear terror that the fabric of our society is tearing.
      2:14 PM · Feb 24, 2019·Twitter for Android

         4 likes

  32. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    James Delingpole telling it like it is on Dewbs and Co tonight.

    I hope he becomes a regular.
    He’s not holding back.

       8 likes

  33. Guest Who says:

    Gaz goes full BBC #tellitoftenenough

    Goes… poorly.

       5 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      True. Also why he gets the big bucks.

         17 likes

      • MarkyMark says:

        “What’s the solution? If Muslim people are in the wrong and they are committing crimes… you know, no one is above the law.” – Stacey Dooley
        “If the law of the land is Islamic, we will respect the law of the land. If it’s not Islamic (the law) then the law of the land, and those who make them, can go to hell quite honestly.” – Anjhem Chordary
        “Oh my God!” – Stacey Dooley
        “Because Allah says in the Koran Q33v1 ‘Fear Allah, and do not obey the disbelievers and the hypocrites. Is David Cameron a Muslim of a disbeliever? Guys?” – Anjhem Chordary
        “Disbeliever!” – mumbles crowd of 5 other Muslims
        “So you (a Muslim) can’t obey him. So he (David Cameron) can go to hell.” – Anjhem Chordary

        https://youtu.be/b2nlIfn8tNA?t=3m17s

        Non muslims destined to go to hell, British Police Go To Hell Muslim Extremists. [May 2013]
        “Stacey Dooley returns to her hometown of Luton, in the UK, to investigate Muslim extremists protesting the arrest of Mona Thorney, the wife of the Stockholm bomber.”

        “Go put on some clothes.”
        – Muslim women wearing black Burqa talks to Stacey, who is wearing a pretty summer dress

        Not matter how hard you try – Obama wins the 2014 Islamophobia Award

        https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/07/13/the-great-replacement/#comment-852111

           3 likes

  34. tomo says:

    It’s all due to Pootin !!!

    Joe Biden says so …. 🤡

       0 likes

  35. StewGreen says:

    BBC2 now Celebrity Antique Road Trip episode
    : Clive Myrie and Reeta Chakrabarti

       6 likes

  36. Eddy Booth says:

    Jenny Hill
    BBC News, Moscow 15:01
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-6179206

    “Gazprom blames repair work for cutting the supply of gas through the Nordstream 1 pipeline to Germany to 40% of its usual capacity.
    Few here believe the Russian firm.”

    For a start it’s spelt Nord Stream…
    Russia’s version you dismiss :

    https://www.dw.com/en/gazprom-to-further-cut-gas-supplies-to-germany-via-nord-stream/a-62143155

    “Gazprom said, adding that the halt was due to the “technical condition of the engine” at a compression station.

    Gazprom initially blamed the delayed return of equipment that had been sent to German company Siemens for repairs.

    On Tuesday, Siemens Energy said the delay in returning the equipment to Gazprom was because they were taken to Canada for a scheduled overhaul and have not been returned due to Ottawa’s sanctions on Russia. “

       4 likes

  37. Thoughtful says:

    Looks like the widely predicted stock market collapse has started with falls across the world begining.

       2 likes

  38. tomo says:

    So it’s Trudeau who has caused gas delivered to Germany via Nord Stream 1 pipeline to drop to 40% of normal.

    – not that any MSM outlet in the west will frame it like that !

       5 likes

  39. Skeldings says:

    I had started to read, a few moments ago, an account of Steve Rosenberg’s interview with Russian FM Sergei Lavrov. While doing so, my peripheral vision was arrested by a sidebar picture of a black lady in a rather extravagant pink outfit. This was captioned: “In Pictures – Ladies’ Day at Royal Ascot”. Need one say anything….?

       9 likes

  40. Guest Who says:

    So what most are saying is… who cares?

       4 likes

  41. Guest Who says:

    What is so not needed is more Vile.

    Jaguars, yes.

       6 likes

  42. Guest Who says:

    That hand gesture kidnapped little girls are meant to know but experienced groomers don’t….

       4 likes

  43. Up2snuff says:

    Emily ‘No Mates’ has a Radio 4 series ‘The People Vs J Edgar Hoover’ and today’s episode was all about Senator McCarthy and his attempts to expose Communists in post-WW2 USA. Needless to say, but having identified both McCarthy and Hoover as Far Right and Fascists, Emily wasted no time in bracketing Donald Trump with them.

    I think the BBC are terrified that Donald Trump might receive the Republican nomination for the 2024 Presidential Election against Beijing Biden and will win without a Pandemic to hinder Trump.

       11 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Would BBC’s Andrew Marr say that the EU does not have much control over the UK … wait, what is he saying here …

      “… and mould the whole of Europe into a copy of Germany …. a good place to start is to ditch the easy historical comparison (ignore history and you will repeat it) … because Angela Merkel is a figure of our here and now and it’s vital to understand her better because she (Merkel) matters more to our future (UK) than, what, 95% of British Politicians.” – BBC’s Andrew Marr 2013

      “The Making of Merkel with Andrew Marr BBC documentary 2013 about Angel Merkel imp politician” {youtube}

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/02/07/mid-week-open-thread-134/comment-page-3/#comment-898034

         1 likes

    • tomo says:

      dunno about “no mates”

      Wonder if Emms’d do a series on Harry Hopkins and include Oleg Gordievsky’s evidence such as it is and Major George Racey-Gordon’s diaries?

      Iskhak Ahkmerov even.

      I see Kamala’s Kontrollers are having her head up Department of Misinformation “Task Force on Online harassment” – YouTube was hosting a presser stream as #1 in my YT home page 30 mins ago – watched some of it – oh my, she’s a dim bulb who can barely make it through a sentence without one of her signature “laugh” moments …

      – needless to say – the event has been memory holed / delisted.

      – just as the DNC controllers would like to do to any and all content that they don’t care for…

         5 likes

  44. digg says:

    I read Royal Mail Union mafia chiefs, emboldened by the looming Rail Strike are threatening an all out strike as well. The big difference that seems to escape them is that we no longer need to rely on Royal Mail. There are superb reliable private delivery companies out there now who will be delighted to hear the news which will inevitably lead to a huge uptick in their business.

    Whether it’s just a left-wing militant ploy to pile pressure on Boris by joining the rail idiocy is hard to say but Turkeys voting for Christmas comes to mind!

       9 likes

  45. StewGreen says:

    7:30pm BBC Four schedulers must have found themselves with 15 min to fill
    “ah we can fill it with a segment from an old episode of Coast”
    “but we can’t have them whities”
    “ah there is this : ‘A group of sea anglers from Zimbabwe chance their hand in the rolling seas off the coast of Yorkshire. On their annual day trip from Whitby, they find themselves all at sea.’ ”
    .
    .Actually that bit was only the first 5 minutes then we were back to them Whities in Falmouth.
    Oh hang on it’s about shipwrecked whitie turning cannibal, in 1884 stabbing the sickly cabin boy to drink his blood to survive.
    Death sentence commuted to months in prison

       15 likes

  46. Sluff says:

    Anyone notice how the BBC fails to do things…..
    They have a HYS on their webshite for all sorts of trivia. Think daily partygate self righteous indignation for instance.

    But when it comes to something important, such as can we control our borders and send economic chancers….errr I mean ‘vulnerable women and children’ to Rwanda……all of a sudden the BBC doesn’t want to hear from its viewers and listeners.

    Maybe they are worried that public opinion might go against their Leftoid open door immigration position.
    Oh, wait a minute……….i

       16 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Dear Marianna Spring (BBC wages paid under threat of prosecution),

      As I’ve had to look at your BBC news and use other sources to determine that your news is not news but selective editorial opinion I’d like to request that I have a refund for the last 4 years plus get the BBC free from now on.

      Please let me know how I can go about this as I am willing to create a full list of articles that I’ve had to investigate plus time taken for me to check your fact checker whilst realising that the BBC intentionally removes news rather than incorrectly report on it, uses images to sway opinion or misleads with the main titles hoping no one reads the full article.

      ‘Omission is the greatest form of lie.’

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

      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 …

      CAS-6005141-S1V9D1: Not seen a report on the UK Governments Covid19 

      Let me know how to go about resolving the issue of paying for something that wastes my time as I have to check each story rather than rely on its accuracy.

      Cheers,
      Mark
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications

         3 likes

  47. Philip_2 says:

    Who would believe it! The BBC trains its young journanalits that being ‘trans’ is part of the job requirements…

    BBC training told journalists to lobby MPs on transgender rights… Corporation’s impartiality questioned as trainees given lessons on influencing politicians’ views on trans issues

    (quote):
    ..Trainee journalists were told to use their “magical ally powers” to “influence politicians” and change the minds of the media in favour of rights for people who wish to change gender.

    One journalist who attended the training session, run by a trans group, said that it conflicted with the BBC’s code on impartiality and left him questioning whether he was being instructed to break those rules.

    ..The course run by Global Butterflies included a slide which told corporation staff to use “their magical ally powers”, and one of those present said that they “were given a lot of different points of how allies could use their influence to affect trans rights for people”.

    The BBC, which said that the course was voluntary, said the slide had since been removed from the training.

    The trainee added: “The second you join the BBC, impartiality is hammered into you and how we can’t influence people and you always have to be neutral. So as soon as I saw that I was thinking, ‘Well, how is that impartial?’”

    Indeed. How can the BBC claim to be impartial is one of the great mysteries of our media age.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/16/bbc-training-told-journalists-lobby-mps-transgender-rights/

    Time to Axe the Tax and downsize the BBC to the rump it is.

       6 likes

  48. Guest Who says:

    So, BBC SOP then.

    The bubble contracts further.

       27 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      PR trick from Gary the PR person
      He probably had a phone call from his Green PR mates

      Greens come up with crazy fakegreen policies
      .. then insist you must PAY and deny you a SAY

         14 likes

    • JohnC says:

      Gary is only tolerant of opinions which agree with his.

      How very, very Left of him.

         17 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      ‘Biased’ Gary Lineker savaged after defending BBC licence fee – ‘I am forced to pay!’
      GARY Lineker has been brutally savaged after saying he was “proud” of the BBC for providing “so much quality” with the licence fee despite viewers complaining they are “forced to pay it”.
      By RACHEL RUSSELL
      11:20, Mon, Aug 9, 2021 | UPDATED: 12:59, Mon, Aug 9, 2021

         5 likes

  49. StewGreen says:

    BBC 1! Since the BBC is very very diverse who will they have on the Ancestry prog Who Do You Think You Are ?

    Matt Lucas a BBC gay favourite
    Last week Ep2 : Richard Osman a BBC favourite
    Ep 1 : Sue Perkins a BBC gay favourite
    Last series : Series 18: 7. Ed Balls a BBC Labour favourite
    Series 18: 6. Joe Sugg YouTuber
    Series 18: 5. singer Pixie Lott
    Series 18: 4. Joe Lycett a BBC gay favourite

    Series 18: 3. Alex Scott a BBC BAME Lady footballer favourite
    Series 18: 2. Dame Judi Dench
    Series 18: 1. Josh Widdicombe Comedian
    Series 17: 4. BBC Silent Witness actor Liz Carr
    Series 17: 3. BBC Gavin and Stacey’s Ruth Jones
    Series 17: 2. David Walliams a BBC favourite
    Series 17: 1. Jodie Whittaker BBC Doctor Who actor
    Series 16: 8. Former TOWIE star Mark Wright
    etc.

    Diversity ??? I don’t see many non-London.. non-BBC, non-pecial victimhood group on

       26 likes

    • maxincony says:

      StewGreen

      Diversity ??? I don’t see many non-London…

      Richard Osman is from Billericay.
      Ed Balls is from Norwich.
      Joe Sugg is from Lacock.
      Joe Lycett is from Birmingham.
      Judi Dench is from York.
      Liz Carr is from Port Sunlight.
      Ruth Jones is from Bridgend.
      Jodie Whittaker is from Skelmanthorpe.

         1 likes

      • StewGreen says:

        I gave 3 criteria
        I don’t see many non-London/non-BBC/non-special victimhood group people

        meaning they fall into one or more of the 3

        Most work in London
        and where do you think Billericay is ?

        Jo Sugg and his girlfriend used to live in a flat in London now they moved to a house in Sussex

           10 likes

        • StewGreen says:

          Billericay is practically London
          It’s easy commuter belt ..It’s 4 miles into Shenfield and then you are on Cross Rail ..23 minutes into Liverpool St

             0 likes

      • digg says:

        The point being maxi my friend is that everyone on here can see them as the approved BBC in crowd in other words people they protect. Where they came from when they they were two years old is irrelevant they just became “BBC approved people” we all see it and you have a vested interest in denying it.

        One day it will all upend when Joe public who pay there stupid salaries realises.

        It’s a BBC gravy train in fact!

           20 likes

      • digg says:

        In fact I read today that Richard Osman is writing about his beginnings in Brighton so that shoots your research right out of the water my little grieving maxi friend. Sorry!

           6 likes

      • JohnC says:

        Is that it maxi ?. Your best comment ?.

        However much they are paying you, you are not worth it.

        Spiteful child.

           12 likes

      • Nibor says:

        Loads of ‘froms’ there Maxi . Have they stayed there ?

           6 likes