499 Responses to Midweek 15 June 2022

  1. MarkyMark says:

    The Taxpayers’ Alliance investigations campaign manager Elliot Keck adds:

    “Taxpayers are fed up of paying for diversity non-jobs. We’re told that tax cuts are years away, yet the tax collectors are still happy to splash the cash on needless hires. Government bodies should get a grip on these unnecessary posts.”

    All these jobs should be part of the human resource department’s responsibilities. At least we can rest assured when the taxman raids your pockets, he/she/zi/zir represents the whole community…

    order-order.com

    ..

    June Sarpong to leave high-profile BBC diversity role
    It comes as a string of senior executives of colour have departed the corporation within the past year amid concerns around racism and lack of diversity.

    Nadine White
    Race Correspondent
    Tuesday 05 April 2022 20:27

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/june-sarpong-quits-bbc-b2051519.html

    June Sarpong will be quitting as the BBC’s diversity tsar after less than three years in the £267,000 three-day week role. Ms Sarpong, director of creative diversity at the BBC, took home £1,700 per day she worked after she was appointed to the role in November 2019.5 Apr 2022

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  2. BRISSLES says:

    Little snippet from today’s Mail, tucked away in a corner………

    “CORPORATION TO DEMAND DIVERSITY FOR EVERY SHOW….
    An executive at the BBC has said the corporation will not commission shows from companies if there is not enough diversity in their production teams or on screen.

    BBC Director of nations Rhodri Taifan Davies, pointed to the broadcaster’s policy which expects 20% of the team working for external producers on significant commissions to come from minority backgrounds.

    ‘If we don’t see diversity in the production team that’s not a commission that’s going to go ahead’ he told the Wales Screen Summit.

    The BBC executive said if there was not ‘meaningful diversity on screen’ that would also not work as a project.

    In 2020 the BBC said it wanted suppliers to commit to the 20% figure for production teams. Under-represented groups include those from ethnic minority, disables and lower-income backgrounds.

    Nothing new there then.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      1963 ….USA …
      “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
      – Martin Luther King’s I have a dream speech August 28 1963

      2017….BBC, UK …
      Last week the BBC also revealed it would be removing qualifications from new applicants’ CVs in a bid to increase their social diversity. {telegraph.co.uk 21sep2017}

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      • Lefty Wright says:

        MarkyMarkot
        I think the BBC idea of diversity is “White,Conservative, male hetertosexuals need not apply” But the BBC is not alone.The media in general, given that we still have a white majority in Britain, appears to be infected with the same malady.
        I firmly believe in and love the idea of diversity between nations but pushing too much diversity within a nation, in my view,will eventually lead to the death and destruction of the indigenous culture. I am assuming that the BBC is OK with that.
        Well I, along with millions of whities are not. There will be resistance.
        By the way I,m 82 years old so the coming conflict will not affect me much but my grandchildren will have decisions to make.

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    • TrickCyclist says:

      The little bit of Tennis at Queen’s (BBC2) I’ve seen this afternoon has had a couple of close-ups of Pride flags flying over the courts.
      From the list of 32 below, I think it’s the Progress Pride Flag, but I could be wrong.
      TBH, I had no idea self-obsession came in so many colours.

      https://www.rd.com/list/lgbtq-flags/

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    • Doublethinker says:

      Which is one of many reasons why I don’t watch or pay for the foul corporation.

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  3. Thoughtful says:

    Sorry to do this one again folks but like the bad penny it keeps on comiing around as the Biden administration is considering limiting oil exports which is only going to hit one continent – Europe.

    Obviously someone has told the senile old man that more supply means lower prices so if more is kept back then prices will fall and the expected bloodbath come November might not be quite as bad.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-16/white-house-mulls-fuel-export-limits-as-pump-prices-surge#xj4y7vzkg

    Sorry it’s paywalled but it’s pretty much breaking news atm.

    And just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse there are rumours of the Iranians threatening to mine the straits of Hormuz – again.

    And in other news Saudi’s oil Minister visited Moscow yesterday to discuss oil production, which is just ahead of the Biden begging tour when the President of the once most powerful nation on Earth looks like making a fool of himself as his begging is refused.

    Biden is as we know a complete dangerous idiot who criticised the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, and refused to meet with him grandstanding his “presidency has to stand for something” now he’s on his knees cap in hand.

    https://www.vox.com/22881937/biden-saudi-arabia-mbs-khashoggi-yemen-human-rights

    Why would any country stand for some jumped up pipsqueak who continues to wreck his own country and oil industy and assist him by acceeding to his wishes?

    “Saudi-Russia relations ‘as good as the weather in Riyadh’, Saudi energy minister says as Biden visit confirmed”

    https://english.alaraby.co.uk/news/saudi-russia-ties-good-weather-riyadh-minister

    If Biden and his loons are allowed to continue in power for much longer the only monument left to a once great nation is going to be its colossal debt. Socialism wrecks everything it touches, it is a toxic ideology and the speed at which it has been capable of destroying the USA is truly revealing.

    All the power is now in the hands of Saudi and its OPEC partner Russia wants to see an end to the world dominance of the USA and wants an end to the dollar being the reserve currency, all MBS has to do is demand his oil is paid for in another currency and the USA falls to pieces, and with a man like Joe Biden in charge that is more than a possibility.

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  4. StewGreen says:

    Thu BBC local news “Hull’ Labour Group i calling for the government to support the city after a firm moved”
    FFS they are moving 8 mile .. it’s down the road

    Item “Margaret Iqpo has told MPs that foreign doctor will leave the country if they are not made to feel welcome ”
    .. Hmm I get the impression that she is talking about foreign medical students who have paid money to study in the UK, thinking that entitles them to an automatic job and work visa in the UK”

    Vox pop “Oh you jut can’t get a GP appointment”

    She ghost wrote a Daily Mail article
    .. https://twitter.com/docmagsy/status/1537074186740441089

    They then mentioned the Home Office reply
    “This is needless scaremongering”
    AFAIK they have a student visa but no work visa unless they have a job
    so yes have no right to remain in the UK a years after qualifying
    “Sometimes up to 75% of courses are filled with trainees from abroad”
    She said “sometimes the day they finish training is the day the visa expires
    .. she didn’t context that with what percent of Trainee GPs are removed..
    (The write it the other way GP trainees for some reason)

    She didn’t give examples of any REMOVED by HO

    It’s not really a new new story
    It was reported a month ago
    https://www.gponline.com/home-office-accuses-rcgp-scaremongering-visa-threat-gp-workforce/article/1787728

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    • StewGreen says:

      I see zero examples on Twitter of recent GP trainees who were actually removed.
      Rather it is mentioned that the GP trainees takes NHS jobs instead.

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      • StewGreen says:

        So why didn’t the studio reporter simply ask her.
        how many GP trainees have been deported ?

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  5. G.W.F. says:

    I won’t be climbing Everest again this Summer. It’s melting due to …. yes…. Climate Change

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-61828753

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  6. Deborah says:

    6pm BBC1 news. There are several items already I could have commented on including adverts for LGBQT season on BBC3.

    They had to talk about the weather and mention climate change. But they had a lady of colour reporting about the heat from the Cambridge botanic gardens. This was where the highest ever temperature in the U.K. was recorded a couple of years ago, but she didn’t tell us that nor did she explain it was because there were fans for the glasshouses close to the thermometer.

    But the reporter was full of word salad. Apparently the average June temperature is 20 degrees. Today it was 32 and she said some sort of rubbish like it was temperatures were already high for this time of year (32 Celsius is 90 Fahrenheit which I am sure will have happened before) but what the lady said was just rubbish, she is a reporter for the world’s best loved broadcasting (!) and she couldn’t make sense.

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  7. StewGreen says:

    ITV local news
    “Here we are in Cleethorpes people are spending money”

    Item PR for Hull singer Callum
    why ? “I was having issues with my sexuality”
    a song about gay issues was then played.

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  8. Up2snuff says:

    BBC 6 p.m. Radio 4 News: Covid cases are increasing across the UK as a result of the Jubilee Celebrations. Er, I don’t think so, BBC and ONS. According to the map it is limited to one constituent nation of the United Kingdom who may well have taken some interest in celebrating our Monarch’s 70 years on the throne but who are still suffering a repeat of the cold, wet, weather at the Coronation, 69 years ago this month.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274

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    • StewGreen says:

      Neigbours have just come back from the TT
      they said a lot of foreign visitor were noticed coughing on the ferry.
      A few day later 2 out their 3 came down with Covid
      The fella who’ had before didn’t get it again.

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  9. tomo says:

    Its 4D chess – keep ’em guessing in Beijing + Moscow

    – eh?

    “reflected in leadership” – how does that work with Joe ? …. answers in large print with no words longer than 10 characters.

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    • gb123 says:

      I sincerely hope Beijing and Moscow aren’t using google and thinking the 4 star appointment was a Naval appointment. Because it says 4 star Admirals are only appointed in times of War. This could be yet another gaffe of Bidenesque proportions.

      https://www.military-ranks.org/navy/admiral
      ” Admiral is a four-star flag officer in the U.S. Navy, equivalent to the rank of General in the other Armed Services. The rank of Admiral is temporary and generally used only in times of war.”

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  10. G.W.F. says:

    GB News drops one when they Tweet that a police officer was killed during Jan 6th events. So keen to condemn Trump they produce fake news. But after howls of protest the Tweet was removed and this is the sanitised report, admitting that the officer died of natural causes.
    Watch GB News, they have an agenda.

    https://www.gbnews.uk/news/prince-william-praises-officer-who-died-after-capitol-riot-as-girlfriend-says-trump-does-not-give-two-c/320354

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    • StewGreen says:

      I can’t belive no one was smart enough to archive the page before the stealth edit
      The current page has no edit note
      and the video doesn’t work

      I haven’t found any evidence of a deleted tweet yet.

      writer George McMillan seem to have form
      Bio : “Previously @Daily_Express @DailyStar @TheSun”
      .
      His ratioed Covid story https://twitter.com/soul_bouy/status/1472930643944296449

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      • StewGreen says:

        OK I now see a few people replied to the deleted GBnews tweet

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        • G.W.F. says:

          When I tried to locate the GB News tweet it said that the tweet had been removed by the author. I have given up the attempt to locate and supposedly have to accept that I must have made the story up.
          However, I swear that the tweet stated that the officer was killed and then the story followed with the snide comment about Trump. There were many replies almost all pointing out that the officer died of natural causes.
          Sod GB News

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          • StewGreen says:

            @GWF.. No I do have the text of the deleted tweet of course
            \\Prince William praises officer killed during Capitol riot after girlfriend says Trump ‘does not give two c****’ //
            Then it links to both the GBnews story
            and their YouTube channel

            Type that phrase into a latest 24 hour Google search
            and see how the MSM all parrot it
            As if ordered to do so.

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  11. atlas_shrugged says:

    Just wanted to let you know about a new petition to change the name of the BBC to ‘Britain Today’

    https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/617730

    I guess the idea is that if the BBC is run by mad marxists then why not make the name similar to another media outlet that is also run by mad marxists.

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  12. StewGreen says:

    8pm Trailer : AIDS: The Unheard Tapes
    Monday 27th June, 9pm, BBC2.

    BBC groupthink “Don’t call AIDS the gay thing”

    ..em doesn’t look like the trailer features any straight people
    In fact its all male gay people
    ,, video trailer
    https://twitter.com/Lorna_TVeditor/status/1537839695387828225

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  13. Wild Bill says:

    Drag Queen on Gardeners World now, FFS, I give up.

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  14. StewGreen says:

    Trump Jr on Fauci’s Covid infection

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  15. Northern Voter says:

    I remember back when I was a lad, late (50’s early 60’s) I used to listen on a tranny to the BBC when it was the British Broadcasting Corporation nowadays all the bBC does is bang on about trannies.

    Went to the local bar here to meet up with a group of expats, nearly all of whom lean to the left, in some cases it’s more than a lean, I only go to ignore them, They dont like it. One of them is an avid climate change nutter. I asked if Venus’s atmosphere is nearly all CO2 and there were no Venusians, where did the CO2 come from? His answer, there were Venusians but due to the fact there was so much CO2 they now live underground. FFS.

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  16. Skeldings says:

    The BBC sidebar agenda rolls remorselessly on.

    Fuel Prices: Could I save money driving an electric car? Pictured – white (looking) woman wearing Muslim headscarf.

    Is the UK Getting Hotter? Pictured – black gentleman wearing mask.

    Three things we’re cutting back on as prices rise: the BBC talked to people in Birmingham and Kent to find out how they’re adapting their day-to-day spending.

    1. Paul and Amanda – black chap, white woman.

    2. Rebecca and Jess – lesbian couple.

    3. Georgia – obese-looking single mother

    4. Lisa – disabled powerchair user.

    5. James and Susan – middle class heterosexual parents who both work very hard and don’t have time to whine to the BBC.

    Guess which is the made-up one….

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  17. StewGreen says:

    Twitter have suspended @English_Citizen account for posting a MSM section of @GBNEWS on Sudden Adult Death Syndrome.
    (after vaccine)

    A video clip from the Steyn Show
    .. https://twitter.com/English_Cit2/status/1537900441308000259

    BTW The HarryEnfield show repeat on 7
    starts with a disclaimer ‘Reflects standards of the time, May cause offence”

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  18. Eddy Booth says:

    Russia releases video of two captured Americans

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16gr0aOcYzM

    “I am against war.”

    Got to blame mainstream media for mesmerising them with war fever.

    “U.S. military veterans Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh and Alexander Drueke left their homes in Alabama to serve with Ukraine’s army on the battlefield”.

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