Start the Week 11 July 2022

The BBC has helped bring down a Prime Minister .Who does the BBC target next on the ‘unapproved ‘ list ? A harmless ‘Culture Secretary’ perhaps ?

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  1. Thoughtful says:

    Posted again as per Fedup2’s request

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    • taffman says:

      it’s the World Economic Forum stupid.

      What are the so called ‘Tories’ doing about it ? Nothing, but to continue to allow the ‘freebooters’ to come across the Channel to loot from the people of this country. Nothing at all!
      They Just continue to Tax us all .
      Our only salvation is https://www.reformparty.uk/

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      • Doublethinker says:

        Taffy,
        I know that you have been advocating voting for Reform for a long time. Previously I always thought that voting Reform was just going to allow Labour in so I voted Tory . But as the Tories seem little better than Labour I am asking myself what is the point of voting for them. We will arrive at the same liberal left destination only a little more slowly.
        I think that our democracy is completely broken . Even if we have a new PM who really tries to implement rightist policies they will be prevented from doing so by the blob.Not that I think any of the candidates would even try todo that.
        So casting a vote for Reform would at least show dissent from blob rule and an appetite for radical change. Apart from continuous civil disobedience , and I’m getting too old for that , there isn’t much else left for us to do in post democratic Britain.

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    • JohnC says:

      People around the world are puzzled why Boris resigned because there was no actual reason they can see significant enough to warrant it.

      They would have had to watch the BBC running headline after headline for weeks about the most trivial events and deliberately whipping the public into a frenzy about it. I never saw the BBC open so many HYS on one topic as they did about partygate.

      And in my opinion the reason is simple. The two people most responsible for Brexit are Nigel and Boris. Nigel has been suitably destroyed politically by the MSM and has been cancelled completely by the BBC. Now they finally got the chance to do the same to Boris. It’s the most basic ideological hatred and spite which has been simmering since Brexit. Nothing more. The current economic situation has served to make the public angry. They just channelled that anger towards Boris.

      IMHO it is a political assasination by the Leftist establishment – with the BBC holding the knife.

      Now we are seeing all those who resigned now seem to think they have a real chance to be PM. One really has to wonder what has gone on behind closed doors. I think it all stinks to high heaven.

      But of course Boris turning woke means his departure could be a good thing unless they get a remainer back into No 10. Which – given the skullduggery used to get us here – is a very real possibility.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Thoughtful – thank you – I might watch for a third time on x2 speed ….

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  2. Guest Who says:

    As one.

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  3. tomo says:

    4 months to go to USA mid term elections and Alphabet crank it on the critics of Biden…

    Do you think Alphabet aren’t tinkering with UK Internet? Then there’s Facebook VP Nick Clegg …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The Dragonfly project was an Internet search engine prototype created by Google that was designed to be compatible with China’s state censorship provisions.[1][2][3] The public learned of Dragonfly’s existence in August 2018, when The Intercept leaked an internal memo written by a Google employee about the project.[4][5] In December 2018, Dragonfly was reported to have “effectively been shut down” after a clash with members of the privacy team within Google.[6] However, according to employees, work on Dragonfly was still continuing as of March 2019, with some 100 people still allocated to it.[7]

      In July 2019, Google announced that work on Dragonfly had been terminated.[8]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(search_engine)

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  4. Nibor says:

    Hello ,

    As your new Prime Minister I’m going to govern for you , the ordinary Joe , and not for the people who think they have the Vision Of The Anointed , so I’m not afraid of them calling me a populist. In a democracy, populism should be a good thing .

    So there will not be the constant looking over my shoulder to see what the likes of the BBC and university lecturers are approving or denigrating about my Conservative and patriotic policies . What they don’t like is probably for the best .

    Which is why my immigration policies are guided by what the British people want , not by a self regarding so called intellectual class , and not by a union . A country has the right to decide who enters it , for how long , and what their behaviour should be . It’s not for international courts or out of date treaties to decide. And certainly not the BBC .

    The civil service will go back to what they should be ; public servants. Servants to the public and not what they consider is a higher moral calling . The age of secrecy and obfuscation will be dead . What they advise will be public knowledge and their names will be known .

    The judiciary will not indulge in judicial activism. Judges are not gods and they are there for us ,the ordinary people . If they want to indulge in politics then they have to stand for election for their positions. Everyone has conditions and restrictions in their daily jobs and the bewigged ones will have those too . Who has complete independence in how they do their work ?

    The future of politics is to be discussion, not intimidation. The days when anyone who falls foul of the self appointed elite can be catcalled Far Right , Extreme Right or racist will be stopped . An exchange of ideas will replace the sneering and threatening that thugs on the left and BBC employ , as exemplified by Any Questions and Question Time where a rigged audience whoops hollers and whistles with their herd mentality and boos , hisses and shouts at a token non liberal/ left pannelist is intimidated .Applause should only be given to someone of an opposite view to yourself who makes such a profound point that you question your position.

    We will engage in the culture war and push back the absurdities of the cultural Marxists . Our previous society of the fifties was a nice society with flaws like racism , homophobia etc , now we have a flawed society with niceties like no racism and homophobia. We will get a nice society with niceties .

    There will be no policies to be the first in tackling climate change , equality, and all the other cosmic justice shibboleths beloved by the self anointed ones . Our international policies will be for the good of the ordinary people here , not for civil servants, Foreign Office or even the Prime Minister to strut about the world stage . Again , no impoverishment of the British people for cosmic justice .

    And I haven’t even mentioned taxation.

    Yours
    A proper Tory Prime Minister .

    [ that’s what I hope ]

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  5. tomo says:

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    • NCBBC says:

      Nothing protects anyone from man-made Climate Change, as its a fraud.

      Whoever takes over 10, there is a slight chance that he/she may not be a hard Climate Change believer as Boris Johnson. The West has committed itself to the Climate Change hypothesis, as a means to control all aspects of life on earth. This would have led to a global disaster if the West was still a major economic power it was just a decade ago.

      Thankfully neither China, India, Russia or Japan subscribe to AGW/CC.

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    • NCBBC says:

      But this is coming to our shores soon

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  6. BRISSLES says:

    Its 11 and counting for the top job. Farcical doesn’t begin to describe it. The Cat is waiting in the wings…………..

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  7. BRISSLES says:

    Health warnings because its a bit hot. Christ how did we get through the Summer of 76 when it was around 80 deg for 5 months straight ! There were water bowsers in the street, along with stand pipes, and I don’t remember anyone whingeing. Not many people had home showers so it was straight into a cool bath when we got home from work, and Mum sat with her feet in a bowl of cold water. Plenty of tomatoes too, as I grew them in abundance on the windowsill at work !

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    • TrickCyclist says:

      In 1976 we lived on a main road. On the other side was a stinking slime pool optimistically labelled “ornamental pond” on the local map. I used to cross the road with my Dad that summer with a bucket in each hand so he could water the garden.
      I’ve got a feeling that such behaviour these days would result in some neighborhood snitch bringing Plod down on you – and the Plod being only too ready to see you punished.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Aye – lass – you ‘ad bath – you were lucky …😎( yes I remember the tar melting in 76 ) …phew

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  8. BRISSLES says:

    I see that ‘glamour models /reality tv contestants’ are now being re-branded as ‘Broadcaster and TV Personality’. ie Nicola McLean, who sits on the GB News sofa along with more serious talking guests. Doing a lot of giggling, and adds bugger all to the discussion.
    I wrote to GBN about this, as they appear to have form in dumbing down with their choice of thicko guests, like Lizzy Cundy, and Daniella Westbrook who contribute nothing except fill up the screen with their botoxed lips. Why are they doing this ? for cheapness ? its insulting to the viewer.

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    • Deborah says:

      Brissels, Mr D switched off GBNews this evening for the same reason. Last night we had a panel member with tattoos right up his neck and I think a ring in his nose. Both he and the young female Conservative commentator who couldn’t speak without a glottal stop could put forward a coherent argument and neither were easy to understand. I am sure I read that Naga Munchetty’s husband now works for GBNews, maybe these guests are the result. But this household is reacting with the off switch. GBNews you need to think of your viewing figures.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Deborah
        I ration usage of GBNews – I don’t really ‘do’ panels ….

        ..for those wondering what happened to the Steyn piece of vaccine damage – twitter says it is to be broadcast 8pm Thursday …
        Perhaps they could ‘break the mould ‘ and put a documentary but seem to prefer 24 hour same format – which I think it dumb

        Conservatives – liz truss has written a piece in thr times saying she will be a Conservative PM- that makes a nice time .
        However – as spotted in the comments – she does not say where savings will come from on promised tax cuts – nor anything about green crap nor the military – … but she sounds pretty straightforward …..

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      • R P McMurphy says:

        When they had Jennie Murray on I started to wonder. She has BBC DNA running throughout her body. Topping up he massive BBC pension paid for by the over 75’s. I don’t want to listen to a woman who has made a career whinging about men and crying it’s all not fair.

        And just as a footnote can someone at GBnews please tell Dan Wootton to slow down. Sometimes he talks at the speed of light.

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  9. tomo says:

    … and we all know that the BBC is creaking at the seams with culture warriors

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  10. StewGreen says:

    GBN hire righties
    and them ban them for saying something none-woke
    Dominiv Frisby said “the Jews” ..banned even though he is a Jew

    The tubby female comedian @abiroberts was banned
    after she argued with Jon Gaunt
    She’s been suspended off Twitter for vax crimes

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Jo Brand backlash after Nigel Farage ‘battery acid’ joke: ‘Why bother with milkshake?’
      JO BRAND faced major backlash after she made a joke about throwing battery acid at politicians such as Nigel Farage instead of milkshakes, an unearthed account shows.

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  11. JohnC says:

    South Africa: Fifteen shot dead in Soweto township bar
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62111893

    You can tell this is an agenda item because it’s all empathy. What place do statements like ‘Groups of women burst into song, dancing in the litter-strewn street.’ have in a report like this ?.

    It follows another mass-murder which I hadn’t even heard about where 21 children between 13 and 17 (at a bar) were murdered with poison apparently.

    So that’s 36 black people killed by other black people and barely a peep from the media. It proves once again that the Left only care about black deaths when white people kill them.

    But the real story here is the scale of the black violence in South Africa. We are told by the likes of the Guardian that black murder so many people because white people are racist. So they actually blame white people for it.

    But there are no white people to blame in Africa now. They do these things all on their own and they do it a much larger scale. Which rubbishes that argument.

    With the knowledge that throughout nature, different strains of the same animal have different characteristics – eg some tend to be much more agressive than others, I wondered if the recent unravelling of DNA might have discovered anything. I found this which was interesting:

    https://www.jax.org/news-and-insights/jax-blog/2015/december/the-genetics-of-violent-behavior

    It seems that genetics do play a part in violent people after all (of course they do) – and it’s clear the scientist don’t really understand any of it. They just think there is some link. But looking across Google, anyone even suggesting this might be possible is instant ‘alt-right’, a white supremacist and ‘abhorrent’.

    So we will ignore the science completely and destroy anyone who dares to even raise the question. And also ignore the hugely disproportionate murder rate because it is inconvenient.

    Humans haven’t changed much at all since medievil times. People tend to believe what they are told to believe by society group-think and those who question the narrative are persecuted. If they could, the Left would make them disappear. They are full of hate – and it is getting much worse thanks to Biden’s crew driving a wedge right through the middle of society and the BBC being fully complicit.

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  12. JohnC says:

    Boris Johnson resignation: Sajid Javid says prayer meeting moved him to quit
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-62113401

    ‘What resolved him to quit, he told the BBC’s Sunday Morning show, was hearing a sermon on integrity at a prayer breakfast in Parliament on Tuesday.’

    Excuse me while I throw up. Javid and the word integrity do not belong in the same sentence. The man who rushed back from holiday after another immigration crisis on his watch so he could write an article about it for the Telegraph and then do absolutely nothing.

    After they had Soubry endorsing Javid at the weekend, it’s now clear that this remainer shape-shifter is one of the BBC’s preferred choices.

    How long before John Major is wheeled out again to tell us what he thinks ?.

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  13. JohnC says:

    Boris Johnson: Why Monmouthshire turned against PM
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-62104576

    Hot on the heels of the most appalling ‘fact checking’ hatchet job I have ever seen which the BBC ‘Reality Check Team’ did on Boris a couple of days ago (where they simply selected things over his whole time as PM they could already prove to be false), now we have this one.

    I can only imagine the hate and spite they have stored up inside since Brexit. This is purely about kicking a beaten animal when it’s down. It has no news value whatsoever.

    Here are what the BBC tells us Tory voters think of Boris now:

    “I believe him to be the worst prime minister this country’s ever had,” said Andy Rainbow

    “Honestly, seriously, he should never have been prime minister,” Mr Butler said.

    “But unfortunately it’s his integrity – or lack of it – and all the lies.”

    “I also want to see a change in faces in the Cabinet – I think some of the Cabinet members like Jacob Rees-Mogg just perpetuate this impression that we’re a party for rich people’

    It’s clear they are following the example of the Democrats in the USA. They don’t just want him out : they want to utterly ruin him so he can never come back. That’s how the Left work. In another time when they had total power, they would remove people permanently. Thats how they have been throughout history.

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  14. AsISeeIt says:

    How we are about to be swayed competition edition.

    There’s a relatively innocuous yet instructive case of our media manipulating photo selection and captioning in order to promote a particular narrative to fit their own prized agendas this morning.

    At Wimbledon yesterday one might claim the rebel Serbian tennis ace employed his natural immunity to silence the likes of the compliant lefty conformist media: No-vaxx Djokovic: why his spiritual world view can have a dangerous side. The Serb’s views reflect how thin the line is between finding solace in spirituality and potentially projecting dangerous narratives, like opposing vaccination (Guardian April 2020) – article by Guadianista sportswriter Tumaini Carayol illustrated with a pic of Djokovic, teenth clenched and pointing his index finger to his head as though he were saying – I’m a right nutter, me!

    Novak Djokovic: Is his vaccine saga an unforced error for Australia? (BBC January 2022) – our stately national broadcaster getting into the weeds of the managerial process – clearly it was a tight line call. Arty photo of a banner featuring the Serb hero brandished by his supporters at a rally downunder.

    Nick Kyrgios has backed the Serb but many others resent his refusal to be vaccinated and his conduct in Australia (Observer January 2022) – report accompanied by a pic of Kyrgios grinning, covid theatre mask pulled down around his chin, whilst munching on a banana. Make of that what you will.

    On the heels of securing his seventh Wimbledon crown, Novak Djokovic reiterated Sunday he has no plans to change his stance on the COVID-19 vaccine ahead of next month’s U.S. Open. Djokovic, who defeated Nick Kyrgios in the men’s final to claim his 21st career Grand Slam, revealed to reporters he remains unvaccinated (Sports Illustrated) – article, oddly, unillustrated…

    Oh, by the way, there was a tennis match and the Serb defeated: …a sweary Kyrgios in the blazing sun (giveaway corporate metroplitan advertising sheet The Metro)

    To the case in point. At some stage on Centre Court our media darling, the gorgeous Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, put her hand to the brow of the cutesy boy George aka Prince George of Cambridge.

    The Metro takes the line that Kyrgios is a bad boy sweary invective-spitting crowd-baiting Aussie bludger. So their photo of the motherly Kate with her hand to her princeling’s brow and across his eyes is captioned: Not suitable for family viewing George! Fffff-our setter final – as if a hand in front of his eyes would protect him from witnessing the profanity or perhaps the family were out of earshot but the eight-year-old might be an accomplished lip reader?

    Same momentary pose caught a second or two away in the timeline and from a slightly different angle for The Daily Mail – which plumps for the hot weather angle – now mum is mopping the hot and bothered, habitually over-dressed lad’s brow with her cooling motherly hand: It ain’t half hot, Ma’am! George swelters on Centre Court.

    And that, media watchers, as we witness our media go to town on the cast of dozens of top Tories in their in-house least-knobbly knees competition, is a brief glimpse at how it can be done. How we are about to be swayed.

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  15. Fedup2 says:

    Today watch
    Ashworth ( labour ) being asked about funding their tax cuts –

    1 cutting charitable ( tax free ) funding for private education
    2 a ‘temporary ‘ digital transaction tax

    On -2 – above – there is no such thing as temporary – and what he is really saying is putting up VAT ….

    Nothing on fuels taxes or green crap

    If only these people could be slightly straight forward …. With the blue labour lot in self inflicted disarray one might think that a coherent opposition party would be ‘ preparing for government ‘ – but let’s face it – there is so little difference between the main parties that the main difference will be a change of faces …

    I guess the new blue labour leader will go for an election fairly soon – maybe this year – before the really bad stuff comes through the pipe – assuming the war carries on ….

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  16. Fedup2 says:

    BBC News watch

    It is reporting that Birmingham airport is the more unreliable and that on average planes take off 12 minutes late .

    So why not move the timetable so that all the planes take off 12 minutes later – then they and all be on time right ?

    And it’s being reported that it will be hot in the summer – government to blame – lessons will be learnt – it won’t be so hot when the red Labour Party gets elected …

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    • AsISeeIt says:

      Ah, but climate change or over-population or natural resource exhaustion or some such did for the ancient Mayan civilization. And their government sacrificed the population to change the weather to save the population.

      Come to think of it – our government are changing the population to better fit the warmer weather.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Good point – imported third world weather – fights – road rage – running out of cold stuff – melting roads – never happened before ….

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      • Greencoat says:

        AsISeeIt: Your last remark brought a wry smile to my Monday-morning face.

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  17. Guest Who says:

    Gaz of the BBC, impartially, trusted as ever.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Tookenart interviewed

      Woke
      Remainer
      Green
      Forget

      ( after the FCO or ministry of wasting money aka defence )

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  18. Guest Who says:

    Polls, gosh darned polls, and what the media have been told to make happen.

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  19. Guest Who says:

    Going more with become Labour MPs and live on Twitter.

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  20. G says:

    Caught the weather just before 0700 this morning – Susan Powell no less. ‘Doctor’ Susan Powell of the Met Office. The short debate between her and the Car Salesman questioning suggested that temperatures could rise to 45 C. at the end of this week and into next.

    Switch emphasis. My local Met Office forecast online, “Feels Like” temperatures up until Sunday next do not exceed 24 C. I took the “Feels Like” because invariably they are higher that the predicted.

    So, who to believe? The Met Office or the Met Office……………

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  21. Guest Who says:

    A few fair points on idiot wimmin of tv outrage there.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Guest who
      I resent you posting this because the white Scottish girl is far more likely to know what it is like to be coloured than the coloured girl is
      —- maybe being thick and offensive is another SNP tactic.
      I note the SNP girl is sitting behind the groping SNP whip ( what another one ?)

      More seriously – there is a truly racist assumption that all coloured folk are the same – think the same – and have the same experiences …
      It’s only us whitees that are like that ( I despair)

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      • Guest Who says:

        If I have caused resentment, a promising career in politics or media beckons.

        But being in proximity to such as that thick SNP harpie might be tricky to withstand.

        Though the look of incandescent frustrated rage at being bested on matters of race by Ms. B might have been fun to experience.

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  22. MarkyMark says:

    Conservative ….

    UK aid to superpower China hit a record £70 million in 2019
    Aid to the world’s second largest economy has now been cut by 95% following a revue of international development funding.
    https://news.sky.com/story/uk-aid-to-superpower-china-hit-a-record-70-million-in-2019-12288997

    ….

    Conservative ….

    Bradford is UK City of Culture 2025.

    Bradford has been revealed as the winner of the hotly contested UK City of Culture 2025 competition.

    https://bradford2025.co.uk/

    Conservative ….

    A teacher is still in hiding one year on from the Prophet Muhammed Batley school row. The teacher had shown a caricature of the founder of Islam, during a religious studies lesson at Batley Grammar School in March 2021.25 Mar 2022

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Yeah – I think one of the elephants in the room is to promise to stop sending taxpayers’ borrowed money to help elephants in the third world – aka cutting down the overseas giveaway cash to a more sensible number – say £1 – or re designate all that defence money going to Ukraine as ‘overseas aid ‘ …

      Will any bkue labour candidate be brave enough …?

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  23. Guest Who says:

    The Moaning Emole is as expected.

    Edited for reasons of illustrative purposes.

    ***

    The tax cut competition could turn ugly, says our economics editor Faisal Islam in his analysis. However, there is one candidate, former chancellor Rishi Sunak, who has played down the prospect of tax cuts before public finances improve.

    Questions have been raised about how pledges over taxes will be paid for, and opposition Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is expected to criticise prime ministerial hopefuls for now opposing tax rises after voting for them previously.

    ***
    Well, golly, SurKurry… BBC expects every vacillating sound bite provider to follow their lead.

    Then…

    ***

    Top politicians secretly helped Uber, leak reveals

    ***

    Who…. Tucked well down. But ‘top’.

    Low expectation that the bbc will be too harsh on those favoured.

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    • G says:

      “The tax cut competition….”

      All a whiff of, “Trinkets for the Natives” if I’m not mistaken.

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  24. MarkyMark says:

    Scientists design contraceptives to limit grey squirrels
    By Justin Rowlatt
    climate editor
    6 hours ago

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62096272

    …..

    OH WAIT …. GAY THERAPHY?

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    • Guest Who says:

      Isn’t Elizabeth Warren 83% squirrel, and hence OUTRAGED!?

      Saz Sands has the story.

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    • BRISSLES says:

      Um, why is it only limited to squirrels ? I could think of a better use.

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  25. tomo says:

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    • Guest Who says:

      That looks like a mostly lethal riot…. In BBC terms.

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    • MarkyMark says:

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      • Fedup2 says:

        9 minutes of high comedy – works well at x2 speed ..

        .. I wonder if he got out of his country with a prince Charles style suitcase of cash – now living with the ex president of afgee – next one please …. The COP WEF graveyard…..

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    • pugnazious says:

      You need to understand the green fanatics don’t care about your lives, your jobs, your ability to feed or keep yourself warm. They are quite prepared for you to live as a medieval peasant and for capitalism, consumerism and life in general to stop. It is of course a mix of Marxism and eco-zealotry…..Marxists see climate change as a vehicle to impose a level of state control upon western societies that they could ever have dreamed of…it is the perfect excuse to interfere in and dictate our lives….all they need to say is ‘It’s to save the planet’ and any lunacy is licensed.

      The reason CO2 was chosen as the climate villain was precisely because it is produced by industry and so much of the activities that the greens and marxists hate…such as buying things, eating meat, driving and flying….this tied in nicely with the Marxists who also want to close down industry and give them the authority to literally ration and run your life.

      There’s still no proof that CO2 is indeed the villain, the actual cause of global warming…it’s still a very expensive theory…the ‘science’ actually seems to point the other way….global warming causes a rise in CO2.

      The US Government’s NOAA points out that the period of climate ‘calm’ we have had for the last few thousand years is in fact unusual and the world’s norm is much warmer…global warming is taking us out of an ice age and back to that norm….maybe mankind has helped it along the way, or maybe mankind has slowed that warming… but nature seems to be asserting herself and global warming is part of that regardless of the CO2 pumping out of your car.

      Trouble is, cynical and dangerous Marxists allied to naive do-gooding politicians, and corrupt media, all push the man-made climate change scenario because it suits their agendas….all different agendas but which neatly tie in with each other…..and we all suffer as a result.

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      • Scroblene says:

        10/10, Pug!

        In a fantasy world, I see – through rose-tinted specs – a labour constituency, where every private employer upsticks and leaves the area, taking his workforce with him to a better neighbourhood.

        The Marxists can then set about completing the ruin of the area without any private cash! Could be hilarious, but they’d need a labour government to bail them out…

        There again, I’m just dreaming!

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  26. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – compare and contrast, as the examiners in summer were wont to say

    1. Amol Rajan’s interview (don’t know why the BBC do not sack all other presenters and let Amol do BBC R4 24/7! – he is all over R4 like an overcoat) with Labour Shadow demotee (SoS for Health to DWP) John Ashworth, with
    2. Amol Rajan’s interview with Alok Sharma SoS for BIS in the Conservative Government Cabinet.

    Socialist, Labour supporting, BBC worried about high taxes, no? Labour will have another new tax on the digital economy since Rishi ruined their windfall tax plans on the oil and gas producers.
    – v –
    Socialist, Labour supporting, BBC worried about high taxes, yes!
    What spending will you cut in Government to pay for cuts in taxes?

    The BBC have their Socialist understanding and campaigning on full display this morning. This all, after trying to smear Cameron and Osborne, Conservatives (past), and Boris Johnson. ‘Conservative (sort of) present’ with a Panorama type expose of Uber’s past lobbying.

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  27. pugnazious says:

    Odd….Today made a lot of revelations about Uber…but only mentioned British politicians…and Boris of course. Curiously the BBC website Panorama report shows this went far wider….including politicians from around the world…..in fact it never mentioned Boris and other Tories….

    ‘Thousands of leaked files have exposed how Uber courted top politicians, and how far it went to avoid justice.

    They detail the extensive help Uber got from leaders such as Emmanuel Macron and ex-EU commissioner Neelie Kroes.

    While French taxi drivers staged sometimes violent protests in the streets against Uber, Mr Macron – now president – was on first name terms with Uber’s controversial boss Travis Kalanick, and told him he would reform laws in the firm’s favour.

    They show how ex-EU digital commissioner Neelie Kroes, one of Brussels’ top officials, was in talks to join Uber before her term ended – and then secretly lobbied for the firm, in potential breach of EU ethics rules.’

    Surely that was worth a mention on Today? Today seems to have its own agendas and shapes its programming to suit.

    Looking at the report, and it’s a long one, there’s no mention of Boris Johnson or any Tory…..so why did Today target them in particular?

    The report was written by the Panorama team and Today was using that Panorama programme as the basis for its own report and yet they seem to be two completely different reports.

    I’m sure there’s an explanation.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62057321

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    • Up2snuff says:

      pug, the BBC did mention Boris and Uber on R4 during the first hour of TOADY in connection with the Panorama programme about Uber lobbying. He may not be mentioned in the TV programme. The BBC appeared desperate to smear the Conservatives as much as possible and also to try to bang another wooden stake through Bojo’s heart in case Bojo tries for a comeback.

      Mayor Kahane continued the Uber arrangements, if I recall correctly, that he ‘inherited’ from Boris Johnson until some group, was it London Black Cabs created a row over Uber’s driver qualifications and was passenger safety also involved in the row? Mayor Kahane then introduced some sudden restrictions on Uber.

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  28. Flotsam says:

    The ridiculous number of candidates for the Tory leadership,/PM illustrates how poor the assortment are. There are normally at least two obvious candidates, this time?

    In any case the tiresome Smarmer/Ginge/BBC will no doubt remind us several times a day that the new PM has no electoral mandate. Every opportunity will be taken to call for a General Election.

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    • JohnC says:

      The odour from this one tells me someone went around all these people and convinced them they had a chance to take over from Boris if they resigned in protest.

      Now they’ve done it and realise what happened, those with some integrity have pulled out leaving those who are either greedy for power (Javid at the top for that one) or too stupid to realise they never had a chance (the ex equalities minister wins for that one).

      Now we have to suffer the circus of the BBC fawning over those who match their agenda and being constantly just a touch negative about those who don’t.

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      • pugnazious says:

        Yep…the Tories will regret Boris’ assassination….the amount of mud being thrown and lurid claims hyped already is extraordinary….and that’s from the various candidates themselves. The BBC doesn’t need to do a thing…but that doesn’t stop Rajan & Co adding in the poison as they ask if any candidate will clear up the ‘stench of corruption and sleaze’ that Boris’ defenestration was supposed to end…thus two birds with one stone….Boris was sleazy and corrupt, says the BBC, and they force the candidate to admit that[or else why get rid of Boris?].

        The only winners here are the BBC et al and Labour….can’t see the Tories winning the next election unless Labour mess up badly…and as for the EU…the Tory candidates seem much in the same position as Starmer…remainers who make the necessary obeyance to Brexiteers but when safely in office ‘necessity’, the real world and ‘in the interests of the country’ will mean we have to rejoin the EU one way or another…..so why vote Tory now if you are a putative Labour voter who may have gone Blue in 2019?

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    • richard D says:

      In any democratic Party leadership battle, anywhere, the number of candidates, by definition, is unlimited in the first instance. Always has been and always will be. Anyone can put themselves forward. Until people put themselves forward for nomination, then no-one knows who they might be able to vote for. I should have thought that was pretty obvious. Others with a different view might believe that an initially large number of candidates indicates a position of strength, rather than a weakness in a party.

      The real test will come when the initial candidates are winnowed down, but unless that is by a process of reasonable elimination, then you might as well just dictate from whatever authority there may be, just who the next Leader of the Party will be…. which sounds to me like totalitarianism, such as exists in Communist states.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Richard, think the current rules of the 1922 Committee are that each candidate must have, initially, eight nominations. That rule may be changed by this evening. Am not sure if one MP may nominate more than one candidate.

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        • richard D says:

          They’re going to bow to pressure from the BBC and it’s party political wing, Labour, to increase the number of votes each candidate must have in the first round, in order to shorten the process…..makes for better TV, n’est-ce pas, Up2snuff ?

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    • Scroblene says:

      You’re right of course, Flots!

      The betting is getting quite heated now, and strangely Tugendhat is beginning to make waves!

      An excellent blog with which I have a passing acquaintance, is publishing additional names for the leadership…

      Basil Kalashnikov
      Ron Groat
      Amelia Newt
      Cynthia Molestrangler
      Norman Wibble
      PC Lumbersnatch
      Pastor Gilbert Flange
      Elder Lungeburt
      Toniatteline Sagtrouser
      Len Belch
      Frambreline Gruntrasher
      Prunella Lunge-Dachsund
      Brunhilde Gunke
      Countess Wilbertine-Starkers
      Nurse Fabriola Cruntstable
      Lady ffiona Horseperson
      Wimbert Lump
      Edwina Baggage

      Afficianados of this excellent record of a normal citizen’s life will understand of course!

      (Unfortunately the long lamented Fruning Graplecard is deceased, and therefore will not be included, or so it’s claimed).

         3 likes

      • Fedup2 says:

        Scroblene – I think you have put up the PMs farewell honours list by mishtake…

        .. and I think you’ll find Len Belch plays for `Fulham …

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        • Scroblene says:

          He did indeed play for Fulham, but it was the Sunday side, so didn’t count!

          I remember him playing at left full back against Charlton, and forgetting the two-three-five combination and finishing up in row three on the oppostion’s bench, much to the annoyance of Amelia Newt (mentioned above), who was seriously considering a post-match conjugation with Ron Newt, who was enamoured of her at that particular moment!

          As to be expected, the BBC missed all this and concentrated their dire recording on Liverpool v Tranmere which was apparently a farce, as Tranmere only had eight players, and Liverpool forgot how to get there in the first place!

             2 likes

          • Fedup2 says:

            Lol😎I thought it might have been palace but I got confused with good only Jonnie burp who missed out on the 66 final because he forgot his boots …

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            • Scroblene says:

              He bloody well did!

              His plimsolls were a laugh, as they still had his mum’s name-tag sewn in to the uppers! They all laughed at that in the changing room, especially as he had to take them off and every lout in the opposition saw his real name, in indelible stitchwork!

              It was Grogan Nargs!

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Scrobie, wot? No Nugent Dirt?

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        • Scroblene says:

          Bugger me, Uppers!

          I totally forgot him!

          He was legendary around the night clubs in the area, and was photographed on a regular occasion with Toniatteline Sagtrouser, (mentioned above), who was somewhat – er – free with her affections and was suspected of being in cahoots with at least eighteen foobollers of dubious distinction, but there you are!

          That’s the BBC’s saving ‘grace’, showing linehker’s rubbish at our expense…

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  29. tomo says:

    Flotsam

    the polling (well, that’s what they call it…) seems to indicate that the present field of runners and riders don’t enthuse the electorate much at all… as in 60% don’t care or actively dislike the proffered candidates

    – then again – Smarmer/Ginge/BBC popularity is righteously assumed eh?

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    • taffman says:

      tomo
      IMHO, any “Remainers” or “Rejoiners” in the above list should be discounted along with all the yes men/women that formed the previous “dodgy” cabinet that got us into the present ‘Green Blob’ mess.
      Anyone that cannot identify or describe a woman should not be considered

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    • pugnazious says:

      LOl…’none of the above’ wins.

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    • richard D says:

      Tomo – the left-hand column in the graphic above is probably meaningless. The vast majority of those people do not have any say in the election of the leader of a political party, since they are not members of the political party, so their views are pretty irrelevant in that context….. unless the question asked was a leading question. We shall probably never be given that information

      For all we know, the numbers of people who registered a ‘None of the above’ vote might actually prefer not to have had Boris Johnston leave his position, and as for the ‘Don’t Knows’….. well, given that the election process has barely started, perhaps that’s not unexpected.

      To bastardise a common saying, ‘there are lies, damned lies, and then there are statistics’. Polls are simply statistics, and depend heavily on the question being asked, the people you poll, and the options you might give people from which to respond. For instance, I might ask if the column labelled ‘British Public’ excluded or included the other column, ‘Conservative Party Members’, how many people took part in the poll, was it a true poll, or did people put themsemselves forward to respond. Without that information, the data gathered, as I said to start with, could well be meaningless.

         5 likes

      • Fedup2 says:

        Paxman put out a normal sneery piece about Johnson and the Conservative Party . The most notable thing is the size of the voting membership and their ‘demographic ‘ …
        You won’t find them in big cities – I think they are Thatcherite – hopefully old school – and see the word ‘woke ‘ as a term of abuse –
        So I think any false brexiters Will be dumped as well as those with dodgy tax arrangements / green cards ….

        -Paxman’s sneer is so old these days ….

        Tony seldon – another sneery liberal traitor was also given the opportunity ( £1000?) to pour excrement on Johnson’s corpse ….
        I’m glad I will never pay more than a bargain basement sum to get beyond the paywall …

           5 likes

        • MarkyMark says:

          Ban the spoilt elderly from voting says Jeremy Paxman (a cantankerous 67) who also accuses pensioners of ‘exploiting’ their vote by forcing politicians to focus on their own problems
          Paxman accused OAPs of betraying young people and holding MPs to ransom
          Blame his generation for the housing crisis, saying young people now struggle
          His salary was £240,000 for University Challenge and £800,000 for Newsnight

          https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5370159/Ban-spoilt-elderly-voting-says-Jeremy-Paxman.html

             3 likes

          • richard D says:

            Paxman …… “who also accuses pensioners of ‘exploiting’ their vote by forcing politicians to focus on their own problems”.

            Haha – try telling that to the Union Leaders and their Members, Paxman, who could never possibly look after their own interests by focussing their votes on a certain party ……… yeah, right !

            Edit – this clearly is not linked to Tomo’s response below, or that of Up2snuff – it just happens to be in the same thread. Apologies for any confusion I may have caused

               1 likes

      • tomo says:

        Richard d

        I agree

        – they did ask some people – who those people were, how they were selected and what the questions actually asked were – would be going too far in exposing the pollsters art?

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        • BRISSLES says:

          I’d ask any of the customers in my local C0-0P ( a good cross section of the public), who would get their vote for PM. I’m betting most would say the 2 names they only know or heard about……. Sunak or Javid. The others would not be names off the top of their heads, and maybe Truss and Hunt would come to them… eventually. The rest ? forget it.

          Which is why Polls are useless if its a straight “who would you vote for PM” with no names to choose from.

             6 likes

          • Scroblene says:

            Too right Brissles!

            My lovely till-lady would vote for me, and I’d certainly vote for her if I was thirty years younger…

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      • Up2snuff says:

        richardD, good analysis.

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      • MarkyMark says:

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  30. taffman says:

    The government could ease the cost of living of the people of Great Britain by scrapping the archaic TV Licence.
    What about the BBC ? Privatise it and tax any profits they make .

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    • Nibor says:

      Taffy ,

      My wise older sister posits that while the cost of living crisis is now , why not allow everyone to pay at the pumps the Green levy VOLUNTARY .
      As in ” that`s £36 do you want to pay the green levy ? , yes , so thats £56 is that cash or card ?”
      Let`s see .

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  31. tomo says:

    elsewhere

    I doubt I’m alone in wondering what actually possessed Hunter Biden to film himself weighing Crack + negotiating/pleading with whores?

    Seriously, what did he think (?) he was going to do with the video later? Hidden cameras à la Jeffrey Epstein is one thing – but to personally accumulate wild Kompromat on oneself (and then leave it lying around) – that’s on a whole different level…

    – the near non-existent reaction of the US lefty MSM (and BBC) speaks volumes about what’s going on stateside. Imagine if this were Donald Trump Jnr?

       16 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Bill Clinton Said He ‘Didn’t Inhale’ 25 Years Ago—But the History of U.S. Presidents and Drugs Is Much Older

      https://time.com/4711887/bill-clinton-didnt-inhale-marijuana-anniversary/

         3 likes

      • tomo says:

        Having a puff on a spliff doesn’t hold a candle to Hunter’s antics – one wonders if any of Hunter’s paid-for lady-friends accompanied him on official trips and if Hunter’s been smoking crack on Air Force aircraft? (I’d hazard a guess and suggest that the pattern of risky behaviour makes those things more likely than not)

        He’s evidently not bothered about being caught as evidenced by his ejection from the US Navy!

        That he’s off the rails is one thing – that he’s funding this lifestyle via corrupt deals that categorically involve “The Big Man” and American taxpayer funds – that is quite another matter.

        This is being enabled by Joe’s handlers – they simply *must* be aware of it – and Hunter knows that he’ll be protected from any consequences – not difficult to imagine that his drug suppliers (and pimps) are sanctioned by the FBI really?

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        • MarkyMark says:

          they simply *must* be aware of it.

          August 22nd 2018

          She is older now, her once dazzling looks undeniably faded, her famous beauty worn and creased.

          “Sorry about that,” she says. “I was supposed to get ironed yesterday.”

          Yes, it’s “that dress” — the dress that, 20 years ago this month, held the fate of a presidency in her lap. It has been two decades since the day she gave her dramatic testimony to the grand jury and then promptly disappeared into the federal witness protection program. Even as she recalls her brief moment in the spotlight, she looks drawn. But that’s because, following extensive reconstructive surgery, she’s been living quietly as a pair of curtains in Idaho.

          “What do you think?” she says, saucily brushing her hem against the sill as her pleats ripple across the mullions. “It cost less than Paula Jones’ nose job.”

          To be honest, I was lucky to get the interview. The dress was supposed to be doing the BBC — the full sob-sister treatment, Martin Bashir, the works—but, to protect her identity, they wanted to do that undercover secret-location protect-your-identity trick with the camera that makes part of the screen go all fuzzy and blurry.

          “Are you crazy?” she yelled at them. “It’ll look like I’ve still got the stain.”

          https://www.steynonline.com/8774/that-dress-twenty-years-on

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        • tomo says:

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          • Fedup2 says:

            I always do that too …

            … the laptop appears to be delivering what in ordinary times would be damning conduct of the bidens …
            ….. but fixed votes mean any ‘revelations ‘ don’t count a dooy…

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            • tomo says:

              Curious that Twitter allows video of Hunter consorting with hookers and fooling about with crack when they deem that stupid, tubby Democrat congressperson selfie-ing in a bikini standing on her head at the beach with legs akimbo “sensitive content”

                 4 likes

              • Scroblene says:

                “congressperson selfie-ing in a bikini standing on her head at the beach with legs akimbo “sensitive content”

                Did she get that idea from Crayons, Tomo?

                   1 likes

                • tomo says:

                  It wasn’t even a selfie – it was a TikTok video

                  I hope her next electoral opponent makes full use of it.

                  crayons? – you lost me?

                     1 likes

                  • Scroblene says:

                    Crayons = Fick Ange!

                    More kids than ‘o’ levels on leaving school…

                    Growlergate beckons – not!

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        • Grumbler says:

          The least Bill could do was splash out on a new dress for her!

             3 likes

  32. Flotsam says:

    Sorry to repost this but I feel there are some important issues (and some spelling and grammar to correct!)

    So Smarmer is innocent, OK? (Sure he is)

    Will we be privy to the investigation’s findings?

    Do we know if there was an injunction/Superinjuction after all?

    Do we know if Smarmer actually appealed and overturned a decision to fine?

    The timing of Durham’s Police was remarkable. Could it have been “a good time to bury controversial news”? Or possibly to allow Smarmer a clear run at the Tories at a difficult time for them.
    I think there should be a public inquiry.

       25 likes

    • tomo says:

      Flotsam

      The perps have worked the timeline to finesse the slippery Starmer’s escape.

         11 likes

  33. Fedup2 says:

    Have the Russians / comrade Merkel turned the gas off yet ?

       6 likes

  34. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Does anyone else think there could be some fiddling of the leadership voting?

    Two things worry me.

    Has beens like major and sourbry are saying there’s no need to allow the Tory party members to vote and it should be the MPs alone who decide.
    That stinks because MPs are mostly remainers no matter what they say out loud and we could end up with a remainer pm.

    Secondly, remember Leadsom and May where Leadsom reached the last two then dropped out leaving no choice and letting in remainer May.
    What if a similar thing happened again and one of the last two drops out leaving (it will be a remainer) the other to be pm.

    They will say they followed (their) the rules and the procedure was legitimate but we all know it would be a fix if it happened.

    They will try to get a remainer in as pm.
    They will say brexit is done, it isn’t.
    They will say it’s about tax or something else.

    Watch this very carefully because they are devious and they know they can get away with it.

       25 likes

    • JohnC says:

      And don’t forget Leadsom was bullied out of the race.

      The more I think about it, the more I realise this leadership election is effectively the ‘second referendum’ and we are going to witness a level of ‘fixing’ and bias like we have never seen before.

      They got away with it with Biden, they got away with it to get rid of Boris and now that line in the sand is about to be pushed out even further. The BBC now know for sure OFCOM will not do anything at all to stop them.

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  35. pugnazious says:

    How odd…

    ‘Watch the best shots of Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur in a three-set win against Tatjana Maria as she becomes the first Arab and African women to reach a Grand Slam singles final.’

    Before she’d just have been ‘North African’…but the BBC has dumped her actual identity for ones that suit their own agenda….’African’ of course being easily confused with ‘Black’….which she is far from.

    Ons_Jabeur_-_2022_The_Championships_Wimbledon_-_Day_13-DSC_0122_original.jpg?width=1440

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  36. digg says:

    The BBC are moving into phase two of their push to get a Labour Government.

    A BBC heavyweight Charlie, Ben Brown, outside Westminster pulled up a wonk lady professor from that seat of freedom, truth and democracy, the University of Bristol and asked “ Is it right that the general public have no say in who is elected to run the Country”…. Weasel words meaning we (The BBC) demand a general election now because Labour might get into power.

    Of course she politely agreed as you would expect.

    I think the BBC have set their sights on an imminent Labour government and I believe we are in for a Tsunami of BBC activism to try to bring it about.

    Whoever ends up running the Conservative show will get the short end of the stick as far as the BBC are concerned. Hunt bluntly answered the question put to him by a beeboid lady “would you keep the BBC license fee?” He just said “yes”. That of course will neither get him elected or guarantee his position if he won as far as the BBC are concerned. He is a sort of pallid Tory and hence a target to them.

    If the head honchos in the Conservative Party cannot see this they are blind. They should give the defund the BBC move a hefty shove or they are deluding themselves and the BBC will eventually depose them.

       20 likes

    • richard D says:

      Interestingly, I bet the BBC would not see the irony of Keir Starmer becoming Prime Minister if a General Election were called and Labour won.

      We have never, to my knowledge, in our parliamentary elections, ever had a general vote for a Prime Minister.

      And, of course, we did have an election to decide who would run the country – in 2019, for the next 5 years potentially, and the Conservative Government won the vote, by a quite significant majority, to do so.

      Where do the BBC get these morons….. apart from somebody’s speed-dial list ? What’s the betting that she was some kind of a ‘social sciences’ professor ?

         6 likes

    • Dickie says:

      As I have said before the Government, irrespective of its political hue, need the BBC to carry out political propaganda. It’s why nothing has been done to curtail their bias. The perception of whom they appear to be supporting depends on what a person’s political views are.

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  37. Fedup2 says:

    Liz truss video – 1 minute 47 – pretty short – the responses are ‘diverse ‘ but someone noted the website was registered on 8 June – if true – shows she has some foresight …. Best of the bad …?

       5 likes

    • theisland says:

      IMO she is far too in thrall to the civil servants at whichever department she is ‘heading’ at the time and has no real stomach for any fight with the establishment (or with the EU).

         5 likes

      • Dickie says:

        She is a warmonger along with the whole sorry cabal whether in government or opposition. All connected to the WEF.

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  38. Guest Who says:

    The BBC EdGuds Special Stuff Synonym section expands daily.

    https://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.com/2022/07/slur.html

    Of course, it is also what happens when you hit twitter after a £75 cheeky red or a solo photo shoot in yer Y’s.

    Seems The BBC has a wee problem looming.

    Propping up la Rayner and LaLa Bryant as leadership material with Kemi and Suella actually doing stuff and making sense will be quiet the challenge.

    One one is sure the w1A loins are being girded to address.

    But defensive vocab in the face of evident fact is hardly a good start.

       9 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Diane Abbott HAS got a head for figures… as long as they are her own! Blundering Shadow Home Secretary made £110,000 in licence fee payers’ cash for appearing on BBC TV

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4469820/Diane-Abbott-MP-100k-tax-payers-cash-TV-speeches.html

      Diane Abbott got figures wrong on police numbers on Nick Ferrari’s LBC show

      Said it would cost £300k to hire 10,000 new officers, paying police £7.50 a year

      She then corrected it to £80 million meaning officers were on £2,000 salaries

      She has been paid more than £110,000 in licence payers’ cash to appear on BBC

      Hackney and Stoke Newington MP also paid thousands speaking on expert panels

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      • pugnazious says:

        Lammy’s the same….undoubtedly raking it in for his show on LBC…..nothing less than a party political broadcast from him every show…..extraordinary it is allowed him being shadow foreign secretary.

        LOL….just looked at Labour’s top people….and Ed Miliband is…

        ‘Shadow Secretary of State of Climate Change and Net Zero’

        A minister for ‘net zero’….isn’t that a Labour Chancellor? There’s no money left!

        and what the heck is this?

        ‘Shadow Minister for Peace and Disarmament, Latin America and the Caribbean’

        You’ve go to laugh…a party that can’t define what a woman is has a minister for women…

        ‘Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities’

        https://labour.org.uk/people/shadow-cabinet/

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        • Scroblene says:

          Pug, there are proper presenters on LBC, and rabid lefties, as I’ve found out only recently…

          Abbot, O’Brien and Adam just spout childish bile, while the normal ones are entertaining!

          But at least we don’t have to pay them or listen to their crap adverts which I switch off every quarter of an hour! I really have no wish to sell my ‘coooorrrr’ at some junk motor fair at three in the morning!

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  39. MarkyMark says:

    To be trialed on 650 MPs first …

    UK lawmaker John Penrose proposes dystopian idea to give citizens a truth score on social media
    Massive overreach.
    https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-lawmaker-truth-scores/

    British Conservative Party lawmaker John Penrose, has proposed an addition to the UK’s controversial internet censorship bill, dubbed “The Online Safety Bill,” which continues to get even more Orwellian with each new proposed amendment.

    Like something out of dystopian fiction, Penrose, the MP for Weston-super-Mare, has proposed that the government forces online platforms to maintain a score of how truthful a person is, determined by their past statements.

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    • Emmanuel Goldstein says:

      Mark.
      On my iPad I only see half of your post as it’s too big and the right half is missing.
      This happens on a few other posts where only half a picture appears.
      I’m unable to make the rest of the message appear by making the post smaller as it’s not there.
      It’s a pity to miss out on posts because half is missing.
      Is it only on iPads or do others only get a half message.

      Maybe stew can tell us how to get a post to fit. I think he did before but us older ones keep forgetting how to do it.

      This is what I see (if it works)

      https://ibb.co/p1mLh4Z

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Will try harder.

        Not all support resizing – need a site to apply changes.

           0 likes

        • Fred Stubber says:

          This site doesn’t automatically resize images, so before posting an image you have to resize it yourself. The safe maximum width is 750 pixels. Absolutely any graphics program, including the free ones, will resize images.
          Alternatively, use your screen to resize. Display the image so it occupies about a third of your screen width. Press ‘PrtScn’ (Print Screen). That should you the whole screen on your clipboard. Crop it down to just the part you want. Save it as a jpg. Then you can use it for this site.
          Fred

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      • harry142857 says:

        Not ideal, but click on picture, then use preview image.

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      • StewGreen says:

        I just searched Twitter for “truth score”
        And right clicked over the image to pickup its URL

        FXXzKn9agAAVkSp?format=jpg&name=small

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  40. StewGreen says:

    #JeremyVine won’t be testifying in Nottingham court today
    Alex Belfield just put up a clip
    “court adjourned ’til tmw due to Covid”
    .. In yesterday’s video AB said he’d been told a QC has tested positive

       5 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      New EU Directive BBC Programme Labels – for a new transparent and accountable and gender fair BBC

      “I, Jeremy Vine, cost the public £750K* per year which is the equivalent to 21.5 nurses on £35K, declare that I have no other incomes derived from my broadcasting at the BBC. I have declared all my expenses and registered all gifts on the BBC expenses website. I, Jeremy Vine on this 30 minutes of show, with production time of 2 hours at an hourly rate of £1153 cost you the public £2884*. This does not include the studio and team wages. All monies I make from my ‘BBC Brand’ go back into the BBC. I follow the BBC guidelines – not giving my opinion on subjects that I know little about on twitter, facebook. If I do give an opinion then they are 100% in agreement with the BBC and have been approved by the BBC at time of publishing. Please note that reading out this EU compliant notice just cost you, the public enforced to pay my wages under threat of prison, a total of £76*.”

      * hourly rate is rough calculation, without knowing Jeremy Vines full wage it will be hard to workout. Figures are for illustrative purposes only. They may go up or down depending gender or TV Tax, but are NOT linked to the talent market.

      https://order-order.com/2018/01/08/bbc-silences-resigning-gracie/#comment-3697235313

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  41. Flotsam says:

    I don’t think getting rid of the BBC will end the problem. On election, Labour would probably set up BBC Mk II, to their spec of course.

    At least the licence robbery might stop.

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    • Doublethinker says:

      I think that Labour will abolish the TV license and fund the BBC even more lavishly out of general taxation. They know that with every passing month more and more people become refuseniks and that the rate is accelerating .

         5 likes

      • Scroblene says:

        Pug, there are proper presenters on LBC, and rabid lefties, as I’ve found out only recently…

        Abbot, O’Brien and Adam just spout childish bile, while the normal ones are entertaining!

        But at least we don’t have to pay them or listen to their crap adverts which I switch off every quarter of an hour! I really have no wish to sell my ‘coooorrrr’ at some junk motor fair at three in the morning!

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  42. StewGreen says:

    Australia : Victoria Police APOLOGISE to @Avi Yemini over ‘Unlawful Arrests’ 11 Jul 2022
    Rebel News video .. https://youtu.be/Xe0t4V7yTQM
    “Victoria Police sincerely apologises
    … On each occasion, @Avi Yemini was wrongly arrested and detained by members of Victoria Police while reporting for Rebel News.”
    SHARE FULL APOLOGY: https://rebelne.ws/3PiblbL

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  43. MarkyMark says:

    IN IT TOGETHER …

    The United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal was a major political scandal that emerged in 2009, concerning expenses claims made by members of the British Parliament in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords over the previous years.[1] The disclosure of widespread misuse of allowances and expenses permitted to Members of Parliament (MPs) aroused widespread anger among the UK public and resulted in a large number of resignations, sackings, de-selections and retirement announcements together with public apologies and the repayment of expenses. Several members or former members of both the House of Commons, and members of the House of Lords, were prosecuted and sentenced to terms of imprisonment.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_parliamentary_expenses_scandal

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  44. MarkyMark says:

    Ukraine plans a “million-strong army” equipped with Nato weapons to retake the south of the country from occupying Russians, the defence minister says.

    Retaking the areas around the Black Sea coast was vital to the country’s economy, Oleksii Reznikov said.

    However, the comments are more of a rallying cry than a concrete plan, says the BBC’s Joe Inwood in Kyiv.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62118953

    TITLE “Ukraine aims to amass ‘million-strong army’ to recapture south, says defence minister”

    REALITY “the comments are more of a rallying cry than a concrete plan”

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  45. MarkyMark says:

    TOO LATE – THE PARENTS ARE EVIL …..

    BBC London
    29 June 2022

    During an update on the story of Archie Battersbee – the 12 year old from Southend – whose parents are challenging a decision to end life support treatment our report incorrectly suggested that Archie had been at home by himself when he was found unconscious. We would like to make it clear this was not the case and apologise to Archie’s family for this error.

    06/07/2022

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

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  46. MarkyMark says:

    BBC Wishful thinking …

    BBC Context
    29 June 2022

    In our story about Poland’s role within Nato, the map wrongly named Poland over the territory of Belarus. We are sorry for the error.

    05/07/2022
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications

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  47. Eddy Booth says:

    “Germany’s government is worried that gas supplies could be reduced or cut permanently.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62121702
    Russian gas supplies to Germany via the Baltic Sea pipeline Nord Stream 1 have been halted for 10 days.
    The pipeline shutdown is also affecting Italy, where energy group Eni said it would receive about a third less gas from Russia’s Gazprom on Monday compared with average volumes supplied over the past few days.”

    Hahaha Putin is taming the globalist filth!

    Smart-Select-20220711-121530-Opera-Mini.jpg

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    • MarkyMark says:

      2017 … Closure of UK’s largest gas storage site ‘could mean volatile prices’
      This article is more than 5 years old
      Shuttering of Rough facility off Yorkshire coast by British Gas owner Centrica will increase dependence on imports, say critics

      A lit ring on a gas hob
      Centrica’s closure of the Rough facility is is expected to be broadly cost neutral because of the value of the remaining gas. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA
      Adam Vaughan
      @adamvaughan_uk
      Tue 20 Jun 2017 19.32 BST

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  48. Fedup2 says:

    One of the good side effects of the blue labour contest is the amount these representatives of the people are worth –

    Zedahwi? Spelling has a ‘family trust fund worth £100 million based in Gibraltar – but he doesn’t benefit from it of course ….

    I don’t mind people being rich – but when they become MPs it must be a bit of a stretch listening to constituents worrying about feeding or fueling …. Which will be big in about 10 weeks ….
    At least they know how much a cake is worth – it’s a political career …

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  49. MarkyMark says:

    Labour will control the MEMEs of Production …

    Labour’s free broadband plan fires up the election battle
    This article is more than 2 years old
    For Corbyn the proposal would create a ‘treasured institution’, but Johnson calls it ‘crazed’

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/15/free-broadband-essential-uk-compete-john-mcdonnell-labour-policy-openreach

    He said the service would become “our treasured public institution for the 21st century”.

    ….

    The 2019 Internet blackout in Iran was a week-long total shutdown of Internet. It was ordered by Supreme National Security Council and imposed by the Ministry of ICT. The blackout was one of the Iranian government’s efforts to suppress 2019 protests.

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  50. MarkyMark says:

    MEDIA CAN CANCEL A PM … BUT CANNOT FIND RAPISTS ROAMING THE COUNTRY AFTER 1400+ RAPED ….

    A blue plaque has been place by a savvy PR company outside News UK’s London Bridge HQ to commemorate The Sun newspaper’s political reporter, Noa Hoffman, landing the scoop that kickstarted a chain of events that saw the PM fall. Riot E-liquid, a quit smoking company with a sense of humour, claims the plaque is in “recognition and celebration of helping people quit”. Guido can see what they did there…

    order-order.com
    …..

    In 2018, investigations by the Sunday Mirror alleged that the extent of the Telford grooming gang was far more vast than had previously been believed, with claims of up to 1,000 girls, most of them white, having been victims of trafficking, drugging, beating, rape and even murder.

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