712 Responses to Midweek Thread 6 July 2022

  1. Guest Who says:

    Two countries, separated by…

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    • Thoughtful says:

      I’m begining to wonder if Biden is compromised by China.

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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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  2. taffman says:

    “Boris Johnson: People in Wales react to resignation”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-62077957
    Who choses these people to interview, or who selects the people with the ‘correct’ answers ?

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  3. Tabs says:

    My local news, BBC South Today, were interviewing people for and against Boris going.

    One man said, “the 14 million who voted for Boris should have a say and we want to keep him. We should march to London”.

    The BBC guy said “that’s a bit Trumpesque”.

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    • StewGreen says:

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    • StewGreen says:

      The BBC guy said “that’s a bit Trumpesque”

      who is being Trumpesque ?
      Projection is a libmob characteristic

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  4. StewGreen says:

    David Starkey is on GBnews , talking a lot of sense
    anti-Green, anti HS2, anti-woke etc.

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  5. Fedup2 says:

    Steyn says that the recorded covid programme will play next week . Farage is on his hols for a week – GB News News

    Strange listening to those who have known nut nut for a long time – such as Steyn or Conrad black consistently describe Nut Nut in the same way …

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  6. StewGreen says:

    Dan Walker isn’t pleased, he tweeted
    Anyone else get the feeling this isn’t over?

    He didn’t use the word ‘resign’ and every time he speaks he talks about his personal ‘mandate’ from the last election.

    Boris Johnson will continue to cling on for dear life.

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  7. Fedup2 says:

    Someone on the twitter suggested that someone should try turning the UK off for a bit and then restarting it . I think that sums up our current times pretty well …

    … other countries which still hold the UK in some esteem must just wonder WTF?

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  8. MarkyMark says:

    BBC GIVE ALISTER CAMPBELL £800 a night.

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  9. tomo says:

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  10. Sluff says:

    How can the BBC possibly shoehorn in positive messages about Islam into, of all things, Wimbledon tennis?

    Easy. A Tunisian woman has won through to the the Ladies Final. Which means that she is the first African, first Arab, to get to that position.
    And that’s not all. Clare Balding cheerily informs us that the match will take place during Eid.

    So it’s game, set, and match to Islam.
    From Wimbledon.

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    • Wild Bill says:

      Does she wear the full burkha for tennis, I would pay to watch that game?

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  11. MarkyMark says:

    Four organisers of a joke Facebook event have been arrested in Egypt on charges of “planning a riot” and “using reactions… to make money”.

    “Helwan Real Batman Battle” was set up after two users argued in jest over whether they were the caped crusader.

    A third proposed that they dress up in superhero costumes and “fight a battle” in Cairo’s Helwan district on the night of 13 August to “solve this issue”.

    “Whoever is still alive is the real Batman,” the event’s description said.

    The post prompted a wave of memes, jokes and quotes, and attracting favourable reactions from Egyptian celebrities.

    However, a few days later TV channels loyal to President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi expressed concern about the event, suggesting that it could be used to promote violence against law enforcement agencies.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-62077423

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  12. MarkyMark says:

    BEN WALLCE? SALARY FRO WIFE?
    Until 30 April 2019, I employed my wife, Liza Wallace, as part-time Research Assistant.

    Name of donor: The Royal Automobile Club Motor Sports Association Ltd (trading as Motorsports UK)
    Address of donor: Motor Sports House, Riverside Park, Colnbrook SL3 0HG

    Amount of donation, or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets with hospitality for the British Grand Prix, total value £1,220 (£610 per person)

    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=11668

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  13. tomo says:

    Energiewende funktioniert!

    = just not in the larks tweeting over pastoral upland where Teletubbies gambol across lush meadows sort of a way…

    The modern Morgenthau plan is working…

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  14. MarkyMark says:

    Name of donor: Government of the United Arab Emirates
    Address of donor: PO Box 31966, Abu Dhabi, UAE
    Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): Travel and accommodation with a value of £3,500
    Destination of visit: United Arab Emirates
    Date of visit: 23-26 March 2013
    Purpose of visit: To meet Government Ministers, Members of the Federal National Council and senior business figures together with British diplomats in order to build on the bilateral relationship and promote trade and investment ties.
    (Registered 24 April 2013)
    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=11668

    …………………………
    Allegations of worker exploitation at ‘world’s greatest show’ in Dubai
    This article is more than 5 months old
    Migrant workers employed at Expo 2020 allege confiscated passports, racial discrimination and withheld wages
    https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/feb/02/allegations-of-worker-exploitation-at-worlds-greatest-show-expo-2020-dubai

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  15. Sluff says:

    Next up on the tick box BBC.

    Gardener’s World. Featuring………wait for it………..a Thalidomide victim Gardner. I bet you’ve seen thousands of them.

    Now I’m being a bit cruel. Those poor victims have performed absolute wonders to live a life without limbs. I worked with a couple in the 1980s and admired their fortitude hugely.

    But when people like that appear on the BBC you know, you just know, that an agenda is being followed.

    Able-bodied, white, Anglo Saxon, straight males from a Christian culture are the real minority at the BBC.

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    • Tabs says:

      They have a Hijab wearing Muslim gardener too.

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      • Wild Bill says:

        Yeah I saw that, the garden was a mess, we know the real reason she was on.

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    • BigBrotherCorporation says:

      That sounds kind of interesting actually, or it would do if the BBC wasn’t CONSTANTLY producing identikit documentaries and dramas in which we’re all supposed to accept every form of conceivable deviation from the norm as… well, completely and utterly normal, and the normal people as the deviants.

      As it is, it’s ALL the BBC produce now… which is why I, and millions of others, don’t watch it, and don’t pay a license fee anymore (you’d think they’d get that message, wouldn’t you?).

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  16. Nibor says:

    Whatever about the soon to be ex Prime Minister Johnson, if I were to post an empty envelope addressed To The Worst Prime Minister We Ever Had , it surely would be delivered to Theresa May .?

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  17. tomo says:

    Meanwhile Joe does what Joe does

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  18. dafydd says:

    So finally the establishment and more specifically the BBC has got there man…

    It’s no secret that I’m a rabid Tory and member of the Party but as of 20 mins ago I cancelled my membership ..What his own MPs did to him is appalling but more importantly by there actions they have already lost the next election..The disloyal clique in the party have won…They have lost my vote and going by what I’m reading on the internet they have lost the support of thousands as a result of there back stabbing behaviour against Boris

    What Boris needs to do is leave the Tory Party and sit in parliament as an independent and then set up a new Political Party..A true right wing party. He would have a massive following.

    You can imagine the delight in the BBC this evening, parasites

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Dafydd
      But surely nut nut isn’t a Conservative . ? I contemplated joining because I could vote on the new PM – but not sure that there’d be someone of the Right to choose from .

      But I realised the Conservative Party isn’t of the Right any more – nut nut won’t hang around too long because he needs money and will get it with his book and after dinner speeches …
      Any Right Wing Party will be crushed in current conditions . But wait a year and the Recession and there might be a change …
      Having watched events over the last 48 hours I expect more traitors and enemies to surface and throw more soil on the nut nut coffin ….

      Elsewhere there is talk about the honours list for a departing PM .
      I think it’s going to be very short …

      BTW – I put £1 on Liz truss at 8/1 today – other candidates are available …

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      • dafydd says:

        Fedup2….

        ….I genuinely believe if Boris sets up new right wing party he would have a free reign to implement radical policies…I also believe a new more radical party would destroy the existing Tory Party.He owes those back stabbing bast–ds sod all. And as I said I genuinely believe he would have a massive following.. Let’s not forget Mr & Mrs Joe Public love Boris…This is why I believe the establishment and the clique in the Tory party have completely mis- judged the public mood when it comes to Boris…

        New leader…My monies is on two people.Penny Mordant or Ben Wallace

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Dafydd- his wife would not let him ….

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          • dafydd says:

            Fedup2…

            I read somewhere that Carrie was livid at the way he was treated.. She may allow him to do it as Payback time…

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            • Fedup2 says:

              Dafydd
              Once he is gone Carrie is just another wimmins ‘ hour guest – or maybe dessert island discs …

              Or maybe thought for the day – 120k treehouse or new apartment in number 10 ? Ffs

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        • taffman says:

          Dafydd
          Ben Wallace voted against any referendum on a Brexit withdrawal agreement.

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          • Yasser Dasmibehbi says:

            Ben Wallace could be the Remainer choice for the job. It is important that the candidates are made to state clearly what they stand for and what the public will and will not be getting.
            I have absolutely no sympathy for Boris. He had lost all credibility long before ‘party gate’ as far as I’m concerned and if he can lose a by-election in Honiton he was certainly going to lose the next GE.

            So far only one candidate has put their cards on the table and that is Suella Braverman. According to the Daily Express this morning she has the backing of the leader of the Common Sense group. From what she says it looks to me as if she is in line with 90% of the views of those of us on this site!
            We need to see what the others are willing to put forward. I thought Penny Mordaunt might be a good choice but we don’t know what she has to offer yet. Braverman has got herself off to a good start that is showing initiative and ambition.
            Instead of bewailing the loss of the obsolete Boris it’s time to get behind a good pro-brexit anti-BBC candidate law and order candidate.
            Let’s demand that the candidates produce firm policy positions so that the best choice can be made.
            Ignore the gloom mongers, two years is ample time to turn around the fortunes of a party under strong leadership.

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            • Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

              Agree – I don’t know a whole lot about Braverman but have been quite impressed by what I’ve heard recently.

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              • Yasser Dasmibehbi says:

                https://uk.yahoo.com/news/voices-suella-braverman-next-prime-084553576.html

                Want to know more about Suella? This article says it all. It is entitled Be afraid, be very afraid and goes on to show what a dangerous person she is. In the end they warn that she could be Britain’s Trump!
                If the Left are that scared of her it’s a good reason to cheer her on!

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                • Zelazek says:

                  Yasser, thanks for that. I wonder if Suella might just be the candidate we are looking for. She seems to have courage and determination which anyone who wants to defeat the woke folk will need plenty of.

                  The article’s lefty author, with a sense of horror, puts his finger on one of her greatest strengths: The media won’t be able to accuse her or anyone who votes for her of racism.

                  I see she is a Buddhist. I’m happy with that.

                  Om Mani Padme Hum.

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                • Thatcherrevolutionary says:

                  Nice impartial article.

                  If she gets filth like this upset, she gets my vote.

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  19. StewGreen says:

    BBC local news
    – “Boris was tremendously popular in our area …then they went into a montage epilogue
    – Grimsby doing vox pops
    such vox pop are stupid co half the people never voted Tory in the first place, o of course they are anti-Boris.

    – Local Tory MP live ..presenter is looking for gotchas, she resisted

    – Reporter goes to Tory area to look for anti-Boris soundbites, didn’t get many
    – Labour MP Emma Hardy is live, not quite given free reign to lecture
    .. she want a vote of no confidence and says everyone else is playing politics

    – Political reporter ..lot of hyperbole about future politic programmes.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Just a note
      I’ve listened to GBNews a lot over the last 48 hours – and the presentation has been a lot better than I expected . Maybe someone got a grip …

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    • StewGreen says:

      ITV local news also went to Grimsby for Vox pops then Sheffield
      It’s clear their intention from the start was to air both people who are anti-Boris and sympathetic towards Boris
      ..still vox pops are lazy news
      And the second part has biased framing insinuating that we all 100% locked down our relatives dying alone, whilst the evil Boris partied non-stop

      – Then long PRasNews item for a later ITV prog

      – PRasNews for sign language app

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  20. StewGreen says:

    Switched to the Microsoft Bing homepage
    what a lot of clickbait trash

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  21. Tabs says:

    Derek Chauvin sentenced to 20 years for violating George Floyd’s rights
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62088103

    Chauvin, who is white, was convicted on murder and manslaughter charges in Minnesota for kneeling on Mr Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes.

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    • JohnC says:

      Chauvin is the modern-day equivalent of a lynching. There was never going to be any other outcome from this trial.

      It shows human nature has not changed at all.

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  22. StewGreen says:

    History Debunked has an extremely strong anti-BBC video
    “David Olusoga and his attempt to rewrite British history”
    .. https://youtu.be/TxNXrMgU7sc

    his conclusion is that the BBC Olusoga’s false history of black Roman emperor’s and black legions on Hadrian’s wall is so ingrained now
    we can’t fight it .

    But in balance his previous video had tackled the traditional British view of the history of the Battle of Waterloo
    And he Demonstrated that is false as it portrays the allied forces as almost entirely British
    but in truth the forces that saved the day were the much bigger German forces.
    .. https://youtu.be/h_iEoDWUf8k

    I think we already know that, that some traditional romantic views of British history are misleading.
    But that is an entirely much bigger crime to start cementing new false ones today, like bbc and Olusoga do

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  23. Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

    I was looking for anything on the Dutch farmers’ protest on the BBC webshite (unsuccessfully, but maybe I didn’t look through enough pages) and came across this:

    “A senior HSBC executive who accused central bankers and officials of exaggerating the financial risks of climate change has resigned.

    Stuart Kirk, the bank’s global head of responsible investing, was reportedly suspended in May after he said in a speech: “There’s always some nut job telling me about the end of the world.”

    He said on Thursday his comments had made his position “unsustainable”.

    “A cancel culture destroys wealth and progress,” he added in a LinkedIn post.

    Mr Kirk’s role, which is based in London, involved considering the impact of investments on environmental, social and governance issues.

    Big banks fund new oil despite net zero pledges
    HSBC suspends banker over ‘nut job’ climate speech

    In his resignation statement, he said he had “only ever tried to do the best for my clients and readers” in a “27-year unblemished record in finance, journalism and consulting”.

    “Ironically given my job title, I have concluded that the bank’s behaviour towards me since my speech at a Financial Times conference in May has made my position, well, unsustainable,” he said. “Funny old world.”

    HSBC came under pressure to investigate Mr Kirk after he gave the presentation entitled “Why investors need not worry about climate risk” at a conference.

    In the address he made light of the risks of major floods and said that he had to spend his time “looking at something that’s going to happen in 20 or 30 years”.

    During the 15-minute address, Mr Kirk said climate change was “not a financial risk that we need to worry about”.

    “Unsubstantiated, shrill, partisan, self-serving, apocalyptic warnings are always wrong,” a slide showed as part of the presentation said.

    Later in the presentation, he said: “Who cares if Miami is six metres underwater in 100 years? Amsterdam has been six metres underwater for ages and that’s a really nice place.”

    Mr Kirk said on Thursday that investing was “hard” and “so is saving our planet”.

    “Opinions on both differ. But humanity’s best chance of success is open and honest debate. If companies believe in diversity and speaking up, they need to walk the talk. A cancel culture destroys wealth and progress,” he added.

    “There is no place for virtue signalling in finance.”

    Mr Kirk also announced he had been gathering a “crack group of like-minded individuals” to deliver “what is arguably the greatest sustainable investment idea ever conceived”.

    “I will continue to prod with a sharp stick the nonsense, hypocrisy, sloppy logic and group-think inside the mainstream bubble of sustainable finance,” he said.

    HSBC declined to comment when contacted by the BBC.

    Following Mr Kirk’s speech, the bank’s group chief executive Noel Quinn said he did not agree “at all” with his remarks, adding “they are inconsistent with HSBC’s strategy and do not reflect the views of the senior leadership of HSBC or HSBC Asset Management”.”

    Food (or lack of) for thought.

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  24. TrickCyclist says:

    Extraordinary Portraits, episode 4 of series 2, on BBC1 at 12:25.
    The blurb:
    “Artist Amar Stewart explores his own heritage as he paints a portrait of powerlifter Karenjeet, who summons the power of her ancestors to gain strength before she competes.”
    Of course she doesn’t. Don’t be so bloody silly.

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  25. Nibor says:

    Whatever Tory leader emerges, will he/she :

    Prove the Conservative Party is the stupid party by chasing votes from people who will never vote for them , like university lecturers ?
    Or
    Not be afraid of the name callers calling them populist, and appeal to normal people ?
    There’s more votes in patriots than professors.

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  26. BRISSLES says:

    The 3 witches of Macbeth Rachael Shabi / Christina Patterson / Sonja Sodha are clapping their hands, and after listening to her piece to the camera tonight, there is a 4th witch – McBEFF !!!!

    Interestingly I read a comment which has more than a ring of truth about it, but it suggested that Sr Keir Starmar has to do something about his VOICE ! its not a vote winner.

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  27. JohnC says:

    Just reading around about Boris and notice the BBC have – as predicted – opened yet another HYS. And the Leftist youngsters who they have whipped up into a frenzy are all over it with hypocrisy, spite and hate like I rarely see.

    Then I listened to the progress of the Ukraine war on the ‘Military and Foreign Affairs Network’ and the guy – an American – says that in his opinion, the root of this Ukraine crisis is all about EU ‘lebensraum’. And when I thought about it, it made a lot of sense.

    Apparently something MUCH worse is going on in Ethiopia where an entire region is being quite deliberately starved to death. And we are being told absolutely nothing about it. No doubt the empathy stories will start later when it’s too late with pictures of starving children and pop stars trying to camera. And of course we have the media quite deliberately supressing any news of what is going on in Holland.

    I am beginning to realise that all of this is effectively the rise of the Fascist Left with the ultimate goal of world domination – with the BBC right in the middle of it. I know it sounds completely whacky, but I can’t ignore what my eyes and ears are telling me.

    We are already at a level of fascism I can hardly believe (the definition of the word which means the suppression of opposition and dissent, not the more recent one the Left changed it to which specifically includes ‘far-right’).

    The root cause is the same : the desire to dominate based on a perception of superiority over others. Hitler because of a misplaced perception of racial superiority, the modern Left because of a misplaced perception of mental superiority.

    The choice of the next PM could be the most important one in history. I will be watching to see how far the BBC are prepared to go to force someone in who fits the required profile.

    We may well be living in the times of the beginnings of the new Nazis. This time with the USA on-board.

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  28. Scroblene says:

    Blimey, if you thought the awful bbbc were crowing about Boris going, just avoid listening to the rabid lefty Darren Adam on LBC!

    I only picked up the last twenty minutes, but to even feel the spittle dribbling from that particular commie was too much to bear!

    Thank God Steve Allen came on and made life more normal from 4 o’clock!!

    I suppose the undermanagers in LBC like to balance the squawking types like O’Brien and Adam with much better people like Ferrari and of course Steve, who is a legend in his own Bentley!

    Now Steve Wright’s gone from the BBBC Ken Bruce must surely be next, so they’ll have bugger all for normal citizens to listen to, rather like the last few years wokity stuff, but worse!

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    • JohnC says:

      I did a search for Starmer to see if anyone is reporting on Starmer and beergate and ended up on a Reddit thread discussing GB News talking about the injunction.

      Jesus H Christ : I’ve never so much hate, bile and spite in a thread since the DT comments running up to Brexit.

      Then I saw which group it was posted under : Labour members

      What a vile set of creatures they are. Their hypocrisy when accusing everyone else of being morally bad makes my blood boil. They are the nastiest scum of all.

      I never liked Steve Wright on the radio but I feel the same about him as I do about Boris. It’s not that they are gone which matters, it’s why they are gone.

      I have a hard-disk full of old radio now. My favourites at the moment are Wogan, Paul O’Grady, Kenny Everett, Ed Stewart,Alex Lester and a bit of Lisa Tarbuck now and then.

      Ed Stewart is absolute classic middle-class BBC who thinks everybody else is middle class as well. He banters with the traffic totty about things like the nice glass of wine they had with their lunch in the BBC canteen and such like.

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      • BRISSLES says:

        John, I thought I was on my own who wasn’t a fan of Steve Wright, but agree that the dumping of older staff by younger ‘right on’ kids is so wrong – but this isn’t peculiar to radio, its in all working life.

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  29. AsISeeIt says:

    “In a short time, I will ask you to carry out an emergency stop. I will do so by giving the signal, “stop”, and raising my hand. When I do, I’d like you to stop as quickly and as safely as possible”

    Well, that’s the driving test procedure for the emergency stop. Boris got his similar ultimate instruction from a senior cabinet line up that reads somewhat akin to a cast list for a Bollywood movie.

    After 59 resignations and a cabinet revolt… It’s (almost) over – scoffs the Guardian. Which reveals to us taxpayers the fact there are far too many cabinet, junior ministerial, and minor ministerial placeman appointments these days. Too many chiefs among the Indians. Have you seen recent photos of Downing Street cabinet meetings? They pack them in round that table like sardines. As obscure figures such as The Rt Hon Michael Ellis QC MP Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office turn up a bit late like a tardy distant relative at a family Christmas dinner – one imagines staff have to rush around Number 10 to seek out for him some sort of miss-matched item of garden furniture to sit on.

    We’re well accustomed to the political U-turn – Keir Starmer has attempted to pull off an extremely risky one on Brexit just the other day. I contend we’ve just seen Boris ordered to do the emergency stop.

    Speaking of driving tests – and with due apologies for encroaching somewhat on the province of Simon Webb of History Debunked who plays that rather amusing guess the ethnicity from the crime modern parlour game… one alights on the BBC headline: Llanelli woman jailed for taking 150 driving tests for others – and rejects immediately the notion this apparent putative Carmarthenshire woman involved in the report might for one moment be imagined in the traditional Welsh garb of red woollen cloak and tall black hat.

    Criminology tells us of organised and disorganised crime – the mind boggles at the level of organisation required here – if, for no other reasons, than the tedious waiting list timelag and backlog of the UK driving test system of late. Therefore when one plays the ethnicity bingo game for this sort of caper one must reject outright the denizens of Tiger Bay-types – great singers such as our beloved Shirley Bassey – but not criminal masterminds.

    The finger of geographic suspicion moves either east of the Oder–Neisse line or further on beyond Europe toward the Sub-continent.

    Police said she was taking tests for people who had difficulty with English. (BBC) – and we’re pretty sure those challenged in their comprehension of the English tongue will likewise be bemused by BBC Cymru.

    OK, we’ve now prolonged the agony longer and more excruciatingly than a Noel Edmunds Deal No Deal final box opening…

    Inderjeet Kaur, 29, of Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, admitted taking the tests between 2018 and 2020… Kaur took the tests in Swansea, Carmarthen, Birmingham and London – see what we mean by the term organised crime?

    Det Ch Insp Steven Maloney said Kaur’s crimes were motivated by greed. – No shit Sherlock – as they tend to say in the vernacular.

    Caroline Hicks of the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency said fraudulently-gained test passes could be cancelled. – could be??!!

    The FT and corporate advertising giveaway Metro are just as pleased to see Boris go as the avowed lefty press. And they notice he hasn’t gone meekly: Johnson quits, defiant to the end (FT)

    Other frontpage news is scant but juxtaposed with the wall-to-wall Boris coverage – on the cover of the FT is this little report: Climate-row banker slams cancel culture as he quits – any and all dissent or deviation from the mainstream narratives will not be tolerated and will cost you your job.

    The left-leaning ‘i’ columnists queue up to put the boot in: Anthony Seldon History will judge him unkindly; Ayesha Hazarika He makes people around him worse human beings

    You have to excuse them their bile – that Brexit thing really messed them up.

    But what of Carrie Johnson? The left-leaning ‘i’ remembers its feminism, or common curtesy, or magnanimity and graciousness in victory, or some such – probably it’s the feminism: Controversial yes – but pelted with misogyny.

    I thought for a mad moment about watching some of the womens football this weekend – but I’m in no mood to be pelted with misandry.

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    • JohnC says:

      Lots of accusations of misogyny are based on misandry.

      But have you ever seen a woman accused of being a misandrist on the BBC ?.

      Or a Muslim/Black person being accused of racism ?.

      THAT is the fundamental hypocrisy of the Left which I despise so much.

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  30. andyjsnape says:

    bBC reports
    We need complete break with Johnson years – ex-minister

    bbc reporting over the years:-
    Knock Brexit
    Knock Brexit
    Bad Brexit
    Knock Brexit
    Overturn Brexit
    Negative – Brexit etc etc

    Is the overthrow by the bbc of Boris a way of continuing this trend to overthrow Brexit?

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    • JohnC says:

      This is not the end of the BBC campaign.

      In fact, buoyed by their success in getting away with a virtual coup, I suspect the red-line just moved another inch and they will get even worse in the run-up to selecting his replacement. Then the pressure will be applied to take us closer to the EU.

      Activists NEVER stop unless someone stops them. The more they get, the more they want. Always.

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  31. Fedup2 says:

    Today – BBC

    It should be funny but it’s not. Having helped to murder the PM it now wants to decide what should happen to the body – getting witnesses ( MPs ) on to discuss whether to bury it now or stick it on ice .
    Then it moans about ‘government paralysis ‘ – as though the bbc has had no involvement in what has happened .

    If the dust ever settles I hope the culture secretary remembers what the bbc did ….

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    • taffman says:

      “culture secretary”

      What Culture Secretary ?
      What has she done about scrapping the archaic telly tax , the creeping wokness in the Civil Service, The National Health, Education Etc?
      Most importantly of all , the Biased Broadcasting Corporation?
      Has she done anything at all ?

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  32. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – they have abandoned all pretence now at the BBC

    Much joy and glee and lightheartedness in the studio now that they have got rid of Boris as PM. What happens now? Well the BBC arrange to rattle the NHS Collecting tin under their shrinking number of listeners’ noses. There has been a report. And what does this report tell the public who are unaware of how Government works? The NHS is falling apart and needs more money.

    Those of us who were taught some ‘Civics’ at school and know how “Government” works realise that once again, the Department for Health is not doing its job properly. Those of us who were taught some ‘Civics’ at school and know how “Government” works and are a little more realistic about the NHS and the BBC know that the BBC are using this to promote the Labour Party at an early start to the campaign for the next General Election, now that Bojo is going, going, gone.

    Cynical? Moi?

    I could not possibly comment.

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    • micknotmike says:

      Look on the bright side. Now that Boris is old news, the bbc can go full tilt for the Keir Starmer / beergate story, camping on his doorstep, demanding the truth, do the decent thing, etc.

      I also notice (Under H for hypocrisy) that the situation in Sri Lanka is now such that the population have no food, no power, and no fuel. It isn’t a subject for crass humour, but here goes. Why aren’t the bbc praising them for improving air quality and lowering their carbon footprints? No food? Starving? yes, but look at the pretty windmills!

         18 likes

      • Guest Who says:

        The supposed holding to account 4th estate has moved from bad joke to outright complicity.

        The Tel has vaguely muttered something about rainbow police e-cars being effective only as LGTBeco billboards stuck in country lanes, but hey Ho.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Listening the fick ang ( aka ginger growler aka scum ) trying to remember the 5 messages the Labour HQ gave her to pump out on Today – it was just a gentle reminder of why the ‘opposition’ isn’t the Labour Party – it’s the BBC ….

      I get the feeling one of the motivations for comrade Robinson to be so obsessed with hate of nut nut was envy . Robinson couldn’t get that nut nut had gone from a lazy journo to PM ..

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  33. Guest Who says:

    This is how ‘it’ works now…

       14 likes

  34. Guest Who says:

    WARNING: language of color.

       13 likes

  35. Guest Who says:

    Kind of miss Sopes. As a US reporter at least he talked about the weather, sports, his car and book tours.

    What is the useless, oily little excuse for a media type up to now?

       4 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Even the most ardent trump hater must look at her and just go WTF did we do ?
      She has been able to make it acceptable to not have a clue – eg the question she got on Obama Biden selling the strategic oil to China India by the day …..

         9 likes

  36. Guest Who says:

    But… no…. Wimmin.

    Consternation amongst the girls at Salford.

    Especially the wimmin.

       11 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Oh, hang on…. My bad.

      No…. colourful ones.

      The male blonde holding his balls why?

         2 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      HATE CRIMES

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    • Thoughtful says:

      I seem to recall despite Derek Hatton being a total Marxist W*****r he availed himself no end in the capitalist persuit of money making an d did so pretty ruthlessly at the expense of others.

         7 likes

  37. Guest Who says:

    Did it make the BBC headline review?

       12 likes

  38. Guest Who says:

    Not Jussie, presumably, or the media would be all over it.

    Possibly a ‘mostly untraumatic rape’ in bbc cubicle garden relative terms?

       16 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      2014….

      Revealing details of the inquiry’s findings, Prof Jay said: “It is hard to describe the appalling nature of the abuse that child victims suffered.”

      The inquiry team found examples of “children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone”.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28939089

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  39. Guest Who says:

    Oh, and, in other news… a very bbc headline…

       4 likes

  40. Thoughtful says:

    I think this morning as a conservative myself, this article from Breitbart sums up how I feel about the Tory leadership elections:

    “Send in the Clowns: Britain Faces Gallery of Fools, Flyweights, and Fake Conservatives as Next Prime Minister”

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/07/07/send-in-the-clowns-britain-faces-gallery-of-fools-flyweights-and-fake-conservatives-as-next-prime-minister/

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  41. MarkyMark says:

    Zelenskyy has shown ‘leadership can be transformative’ – Tom Tugendhat MP

    Payments from Associated Newspapers Ltd, Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, Kensington, London W8 5TT:
    22 August 2021, received £1,200 for two articles. Hours: 2 hrs. (Registered 03 September 2021)
    25 November 2021, received £1,000 for an article. Hours: 1 hr. (Registered 07 December 2021)
    20 January 2022, received £1,000 for an article. Hours: 1 hr. (Registered 21 January 2022)
    27 January 2022, received £600 for an article. Hours: 1 hr. (Registered 27 January 2022)
    25 May 2021, received £500 from News Corp UK & Ireland Ltd, News UK Group, 1 London Bridge Street, London SE1 9GF, for an article. Hours: 1 hr. (Registered 01 June 2021)
    29 June 2021, received AUS$5,000 (around £2,700) from the Center for Independent Studies, Level 1, 131 Macquarie St, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia, for a paper on UK-Australia relations. Hours: 10 hrs (plus extra researcher input). Payment used to cover office costs and research assistance. (Registered 30 June 2021)
    Payments from the Telegraph Media Group Ltd, 111 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 0DT:
    24 August 2021, received £200 for an article written on 14 August 2021. Hours: 1 hr. Fee donated to charity. (Registered 24 August 2021)
    8 February 2022, received £250 for an article. Hours: 1 hr. Fee used to cover office costs. (Registered 08 February 2022)
    22 February 2022, received £250 for an article. Hours: 1 hr. (Registered 22 February 2022)
    Payments from Connor Broadley Ltd, 7 Curzon St, London W1J 5HG:
    1 November 2021, payment of £2,500 for a speaking engagement. Hours: 1 hr. Fee paid direct to charity. (Registered 09 November 2021)
    3 November 2021, second payment of £2,500 for a speaking engagement. Hours: no additional hours. Fee paid direct to charity. (Registered 09 November 2021)
    15 November 2021, payment of £350 from Mohamed Jasim Hineidi (Director of EMAN) [private address] on behalf of the Extremist Monitoring Analysis Network (EMAN), Unit 150, Maple 2, Dubai Hills Estate, United Arab Emirates, for a speaking engagement. Hours: 2 hrs. Fee paid direct to charity. (Registered 30 November 2021)

    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/25374/thomas_tugendhat/tonbridge_and_malling#register

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    • tarien says:

      Totally unsuitable for a Leadership chance, however better than having two individuals in the race who follow the teachings of Islam.

         1 likes

  42. andyjsnape says:

    Boris Johnson: Tories vie for leadership as race to replace PM begins
    “reports” the bbc

    Is a race?

       6 likes

  43. Fedup2 says:

    News blackout on Dutch farmer protests continue – but spreading to other EU mini states ..?

    Panic buying coming ?

       15 likes

    • andyjsnape says:

      bBC unlikely to report on the Dutch farmers, as they can’t blame brexit for it

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    • 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

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  44. pugnazious says:

    The Democrats…

    defund the police
    close police stations
    hunt down officers who do their job
    take away people’s guns
    remove the right to defend yourself
    remove the ability to defend yourself
    prosecutes, lynchmob style, anyone who dares to defend themselves

    All looked upon with approval by the BBC which on the other hand whips up and excuses the criminals who use race as cover for their crimes.

       9 likes

    • Thoughtful says:

      And how much of this is inspired by the meddling of the Chinese Communist Party? We know they have been heavily involved with the BLM movement and the George Floyd death events.

      Who does all the above policies benefit, because it isn’t the people of America or the criminal Democrat Party.

         10 likes

  45. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #2 – the BBC are terrified of a resurrection of Boris Johnson

    Harshmistress Mishal was despatched by the BBC to try to put a stake through Boris Johnson’s heart while he is in his coffin of resignation, a silver bullet through his brain and to drape a garland of garlics around Boris’ neck and a silver crucifix on each of his eyes during her interview with James Cleverly MP, SoS for Education. Cleverly by name cleverly by nature and words.

    James refused to play into Mishal’s hands and describe Boris Johnson as a liar, a scoundrel, a turncoat, a rascal and all the other labels the BBC, no doubt, would like attached to Boris Johnson. “Paint him black” must have been the wish of Harshmistress Mishal but she was dealing with a wise Secretary of State for Education who is in charge of Harshmistresses. Just in case, if some way down the line, Boris Johnson attempts to make an impact in politics once more, Harshmistress Mishal wanted Boris’ name blackened.

    Hell hath no fury like a women scorned.

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    • tarien says:

      Cleverly is the traitor, why did he continue to accept his position knowing how he felt about the man who appointed him. One can only feel utter contempt for such an individual. Let us hear no more of this slithering snake.

         1 likes

      • Up2snuff says:

        tarien, “Let us hear no more of this slithering snake.”

        Who: Cleverly or Johnson?

        Perhaps Cleverly knows the ex-PM better than you do and that is why he accepted the job.

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  46. tomo says:

    The Biden admin sold 1 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to a Chinese oil company that Hunter Biden has financial ties to, during an energy crisis

    Don’t expect the MSM to frame it like that … but… it happened

       15 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Experts have raised alarms that individuals might buy the artworks – expected to fetch between $75,000 and $500,000 – to try to curry favor and gain influence with Joe Biden. They also accuse Hunter of trading on his father’s name and position in a manner that, while not illegal, flouts ethical norms.

      “I find it deeply troubling,” said Walter Shaub, who was director of the Office of Government Ethics under President Barack Obama. “Merely following the incredibly weak ethics rules that we have doesn’t win you any points and the legalistic approach blinds you to obvious commonsense problems. And here we have an obvious problem.

      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/16/hunter-biden-joe-art-ethics-paintings

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  47. MarkyMark says:

    Blair ignored warnings on what would happen in Iraq after invasion
    The report says that between early 2002 and March 2003 Blair was told that, post-invasion, Iraq could degenerate into civil war. In September 2002, the US secretary of state, Colin Powell, predicted “a terrible bloodletting of revenge after Saddam goes”, adding: “Traditional in Iraq after conflict.” Sir Christopher Meyer, UK ambassador to the US, added: “It will probably make pacifying Afghanistan look like child’s play.” Chilcot rejects Blair’s claim that the subsequent chaos and sectarian conflict could not have been predicted.

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/06/iraq-inquiry-key-points-from-the-chilcot-report

    Barry Gardiner defends donations worth £500,000 from Chinese agent
    The Labour MP said Christine Lee appeared to be ‘operating as a legitimate person in the UK’.
    Amy Gibbons
    Thursday 13 January 2022 20:23
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/barry-gardiner-chinese-lee-sky-news-jeremy-corbyn-b1992752.html

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  48. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    It looks like Steve Baker will be entering the race to be PM.

    I was going for Penny as the best of a bad bunch because she is a brexiteer but I’ve since heard she supported remainer hunt against brexit Boris in the last PM vote and is herself a bit woke so I’ve changed to supporting Steve Baker who appears to be a real Conservative and a proper brexiteer.

    I don’t understand why Wallace is favourite as he is a remainer.
    Surely the Tories must realise if they elect a remainer as pm they are finished.

    I suppose the way to find out the best option is to see who the bbbc attack most.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Surely the Tories must realise if they elect a remainer as pm they are finished.”

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

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

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

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

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

      Marcus Tullius Cicero

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/10/21/start-the-week-open-thread-22-october-2018/comment-page-3/#comment-948724

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Trust non of them … Saudi of the Wind! (goes begging to Saudi for oil) Free society! (3 locked up in Batley) Safe Society! (1400+ raped kids still continues under all goverments)

      Anti-green MP Steve Baker considering running for PM
      Exclusive: High Wycombe MP says if he won leadership race he would dismantle green policies
      https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/07/anti-green-mp-steve-baker-considering-running-for-pm-if-boris-johnson-goes

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      • Thoughtful says:

        How can you dismantle Green policies when they are clearly stated in the Manifesto ?

        While I don’t agree with the Green lunacy I can’t agree with a manifesto being nothing more than a book of lies either.

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        • MarkyMark says:

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

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

          20,000 more police and tougher sentencing for criminals.

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

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

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

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

          BORIS JOHNSON
          PRIME MINISTER

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

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    • Flotsam says:

      Wallace is polling highest among Conservatives

      Looks like we’re re-negotiating entry into the EU soon.

         6 likes

      • Fedup2 says:

        Maybe the msm aims to split the blue Labour Party into traitors and brexiters ….

           6 likes

  49. MarkyMark says:

    Lord Frost writing in the Telegraph today. The man is spot on !

    “To set us on this track, a successful leader of the Conservative Party will need to make certain things happen.

    First of all, protect Brexit. There can be no return to the EU customs union or single market, while the Protocol issue must be resolved so as to put Northern Ireland firmly, durably and fully within the UK. There must also be radical change to inherited EU law. No candidate who is not completely committed to Britain’s independent future can be party leader nowadays.

    Second, the tax rises implemented and planned must be reversed, and any headroom used to reduce taxes further. Spending must be robustly reviewed and pointless projects like HS2 junked.

    Third, we must have an energy policy that delivers security of supply at a price people can pay. That is not straightforward given the appalling decisions of recent years. VAT and renewables subsidies need to come off bills, storage capacity increased, and the crazy rush to technologically suspect renewables slowed.

    Fourth, we must stand up for free speech. The Online Safety Bill should be stopped and rethought.

    Fifth, we must control immigration, and that means reducing numbers. The Rwanda plan has to be delivered, if necessary by derogating from parts of the European Convention on Human Rights.”

    From order-order.com comments

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  50. pugnazious says:

    Remarkable how shameless, but not blameless, the BBC is as it blares out claims that current political chaos is disrupting NHS services….headline news for the BBC today….

    ‘The hospital leaders said the current political situation – with the government looking for a new leader – complicates matters.

    “This kind of political paralysis and instability is deeply unhelpful for the NHS when we’ve got a whole range of critical decisions that need to be made not only in capital investments but also NHS pay,” said NHS Providers chief executive Saffron Corder.’

    Also Today wheeled business leaders to claim the same…they just can’t invest with so much confusion and uncertainty in the air…..lol…and yet we’ll find later that investment continued apace if not more than usual as with previous ‘crises’.

    Hmmmm….isn’t that the chaos, doubt and uncertainty caused by those who decided to remove the PM regardless of the consequences? ie… the BBC and its remainer allies.

    A vacuum of power created by the BBC whose years of streaming highly partisan political attacks against Boris eventually got their man and has unleashed the very politicial, economic and social chaos upon the country that you ironically complain of in your ‘news’.

    However to the BBC it’s all a game as they tried to encourage Ministers to resign live on air and Justin Webb stated this morning that all the resignations were ‘quite funny’….yep, glad it’s all a joke and very amusing to the BBC.

    And of course it continues as Mishal Husain conducted a highly partisan interview with James Cleverly which was solely intended to smear Boris and all who served under him.

    She declared it was all a matter of personal integrity and trust…ie Boris’ lack of…the BBC now openly spreading the lie that Boris was an immoral, unscrupulous character bereft of that integrity and trust….but that’s a characterisation almost purely invented by the BBC itself….on the one hand they claimed, when it suited, that Boris was a disorganised shambles with no head for detail but now claim, when he forgets something or says something off the cuff, that it is in fact him being a machiavellian dissembler with evil intent to deceive and deprive you of democracy. Boris is a despotic dictator, or a wannabe one….a ‘populist’…hmmm….a man who won an 80 seat majority, who won the Brexit referendum with the largest turn out of voters in history…this is a man who is undemocratic with no mandate? However a small group of elitists who sneer at the voters and treat them with huge disdain and which wants to rule Britain, if not the world, from their BBC studios, are the pinnacle of the democratic ideal?

    And back to Husain who has decided that no government minister can now make any decisions because it would tie the hands of the incoming PM….of course that is twisting the narrative…’tying the hands’ of the next government was purely about Boris suddenly creating extreme and radical new laws or conditions rather than the run of the mill decisions that governments have to take to keep the country running…such as paying for public services.

    Consider the BBC headlines above..complaining about instability causing paralysis….well Cleverly said that wouldn’t happen because he will be making those normal, everyday decisions….however Husain objected and tried to suggest he would be ‘tying the hands’ of the next government’ and thus shouldn’t be making such decisions…..good of her to think it is for her to decide.

    The BBC isn’t interested in truth or news or informing…just in scoring political points, in gotchas, in trying to take down ministers or whomever it decides is worth targeting.

    You can see that in Husain’s next move as she tried to claim that Cleverly was only in it for himself because he didn’t do enough to dethrone Boris. Husain sanctimonioulsy suggested it was all a matter of ‘trust and personal integrity’ and as Boris didn’t have any why did Cleverly stay?

    Cleverly of course said he was there to serve the country and the people and to maintain a stable government ensuring the country continued without chaos.

    Not good enough for Husain who claimed Cleverly had dodged her question and therefore she must conclude…. you stayed in government because it clearly didn’t matter to you that Boris was such a immoral character.

    A classic BBC trick oft deployed by Nick Robinson to fabricate a whole scenario that was clearly untrue, make the minister defend his position, when the minister does so, and actually answers quite clearly the question, for Robinson or whomever, to clam he hadn’t answered and ‘therefore I must conclude…’ and Robinson then invents his own interpretation and closes the interview thus the BBC deciding for the listener or viewer what to think.

    This line of attack from Husain will probably be the new one to smear any who served under Boris…why didn’t you depose him earlier…why did you serve under a man who so clearly, in the BBC’s world, was lacking in trust and personal integrity?

    OK…..so Mishal Husain….why do you still work for the BBC, why have you never spoken up about the BBC’s anti-Semitism, the support for Islamic terrorism and Islamic supremacy, or about its cheerleading for race based terror and destruction, its support for eco-terrorism and hard-line marxism and trans anti-woman extremism?

    I must assume that because you haven’t spoken up you support the BBC’s stance on these issues and or they just don’t matter to you as much as your career.

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