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TOADY Watch #3 – oh no, what? Another one? (© Brenda from Bristol)
Yes, there’s another BBC Panorama ‘exposé’ to watch for you lucky(?) people who haven’t dumped your TV Licences – yet – and guess what? It casts a shadow (some might use the word smear) on the British military and thence, by extension, on the present PM-less Conservative Government. Funny thing but it relates to the British military involvement in Afghanistan. Now when did that start, BBC? The 6 a.m. TOADY News mentioned 2010, sort of implicating David Cameron and his Conservative-led but Coalition Government in all of this. But when did that Afghan military involvement really start, BBC?
Would it have been as far back as 2003? Now, BBC, who was Prime Minister then? Not David Cameron. Was it John Major, another Conservative? No. Come on, BBC. Own up. It was Tony Blair, John Major’s current best buddy and a Labour lawyer leader just like the present sucker, in charge for the time being, of LacklustreLabour.
Listeners and viewers, you know you can trust the BBC. Not.
The Army is kicking out a Green Beret who saved a child from being raped
https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/green-beret-afghanistan-bacha-bazi/
A U.S. Army sergeant is being kicked out of the service over a 2011 incident in which he and his captain confronted an Afghan police commander who had brutally raped a local boy.
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Bacha bāzī (Persian: بچه بازی, lit. “boy play”;[1] from بچه bacheh, “boy”, and بازی bazi “play, game”) is a slang term in some parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan[2][3] for a custom in Afghanistan involving child sexual abuse by older men of young adolescent males or boys, called dancing boys, often involving sexual slavery and child prostitution.[4] In the 21st century, bacha bazi is practiced in various parts of Afghanistan and Northwestern Pakistan.[5][6][3] Force and coercion are common, and security officials state they are unable to end such practices and that many of the men involved in bacha bazi are powerful and well-armed warlords.[7][8][9]
During the Afghan Civil War (1996–2001), bacha bazi carried the death penalty under Taliban law.[10] Under the post-Taliban government, the practice of dancing boys was illegal under Afghan law, but the laws were seldom enforced against powerful offenders, and police had reportedly been complicit in related crimes.[11][12] Despite international concern and its illegality, the practice continued under the post-Taliban government.[13][14]
A controversy arose after allegations surfaced that U.S. government forces in Afghanistan after the invasion of the country deliberately ignored bacha bazi.[15] The U.S. military responded by claiming the abuse was largely the responsibility of the “local Afghan government”.[16]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacha_bazi
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Here is a method to help cope with the hot weather no one ever seems to talk about.
We insulate our homes to make them retain heat, so they do just that. Heat rises, and one of the areas most insluated is the roof space. Open the hatch to access the roof space and leave it open, this will allow the warmest air to leave via the roof, if you have velux type windows open them up to make it faster.
Open a door and windows on the coolest side ground floor of the house and it will act as a chimney, drawing the cooler air in through the ground floor of the house and out through the roof.
Just be careful doors are wedged open as it can generate quite a draught and slam them shut violently.
Generate possible opportunist theft as well………….
‘Top Stories
SAS unit repeatedly killed Afghan detainees, BBC finds’.
Hmmmm….‘The BBC finds…’….not a judge, a court or a jury….the BBC.
The BBC has become Judge, Jury and executioner it seems as they appoint themselves the final arbiter of what went on in Afghanistan.
BBC news stating absolutely that the SAS are guilty of killing prisoners…no ‘may have’ or ‘possibly’ or even ‘some say’…..BBC news clearly and unambiguously states SAS troops murdered people….Today claiming ‘Some say[lol] it is time to look again at SAS death squads that arrived in the night.’…..oh….so they were ‘death squads’…so they did murder people? OK…case closed.
Once again the BBC whips up hate against British troops…been there before as they enthusiastically spread lies about British troops in Iraq.
Now it maybe such things in Afghanistan did happen but it’s not for the BBC to make that absolute judgement…they can claim it may have happened but they can’t say it did….especially on what seems circumstantial evidence at present.
Note the BBC fails to mention this…..
‘BBC accused of putting front-line troops at risk over SAS ‘death squads’ programme ‘
‘The Ministry of Defence on Monday issued a strong rebuttal of the programme, which it said “puts our brave Armed Forces personnel at risk both in the field and reputationally”.’
The BBC frequently prints the most hyperbolic and inflammatory rhetoric from Black or Muslim groups claiming they are being put at risk by media stories but not in this case….the BBC misses out the bit of the quote that suggests the BBC is endangering, once again, British troops.
And of course such sensationalist stories feed into the Muslim grievance industry, generating anger, radicalisation and terrorism….leading to British troops being beheaded in the streets and British schoolchildren being slaughtered at music concerts.
Good old BBC.
Is it really a ‘Heartbreaking and inspirational story’…you know…Mo?
The BBC exploiting the tale to generate sympathy for illegal migrants and people ‘trafficked’ by criminals….ie we’re supposed to look at Mo’s[whatever his name is] story and relate it to the Channel traffickers…..not only are the illegal migrants sad victims but they will be brilliant and successful sportsmen or drug dealers or whatever….so open your borders and your hearts…let ‘m all in! So inspirational!
Good to see Black slavery alive and well in modern Britain….they bring so much cultural uplift and diversity to our bleak, grey, and all too white country.
22 gold medals.
22 lost.
About us
The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure.
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/about
The suicide bomber who killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester last year had been rescued from the Libyan civil war by the Royal Navy. Salman Abedi detonated a home-made bomb in the foyer of the Manchester Arena on 22 May 2017 as concert-goers, many of them children, were leaving the venue.31 Jul 2018
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2019/09/23/start-the-week-thread-23-september-2019/comment-page-2/#comment-1013866
You will also notice this (immigration) is a one way street. Not once in my adult life have I heard anybody say that the thing that Eritrea (Africa) needs most is an injection of Welshmen. They could do with some Welsh cooking or singing. ” Douglas Murray {@7:24 youtube}
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/02/09/weekend-open-thread-176/#comment-898348
Fascinating no? The decline of biodiversity in nature. Whatever could have caused it?
The BBC insists it is climate change….first thing out of the presenter’s mouth.
The expert had other ideas…it was mostly due to land change….ie house building, new roads, factories, increased demand for food and thus more industrial agriculture to feed the masses…never mind pressure on water and other aspects of the environment.
Of course that is mostly down to mass immigration in Britain….economic migrants flooding in here and needing all the usual facilities…that all take up land and resources.
But the BBC presenter’s take?…it’s climate change forcing people to migrate.
Guess we are going to hear a lot more on this and the only narrative we will be allowed to hear is the BBC’s….it’s all about climate change…..what you won’t hear are the dire outcomes of such mass migration, for whatever reason, and the wars, poverty and misery that will result.
Here is an odd story made feasible by current activity in New York. It comes from an Israeli source with links to CIA intelligence in the City.
There is a dirty bomb in New York. It is being moved around to prevent detection. It is actively shielded to prevent authorities being able to use the usual methods to detect where it is.
Not many countries have the capability to produce such technology to shield a dirty bomb (China Russia Iran do) It appears to be unknown who is behind this plot.
The Orthodox Jews have moved their kids out of the city early to a Summer camp North of New York.
The State and City of New York have begun briefing citizens on what to do in the event of a nuclear attack and preparing evacuation plans for the city. They appear to be the only city doing this which raises suspicions as to why.
There appears scant information on the motives target, or even the timescale to detonation for this device, but you can’t keep it hidden forever and there are only so many places to hide something like this so it’s possibly going to be a short term thing if it isn’t found first.
This is absolutely not something any State agency is going to report, nor is it going to allow the media to report it, given the panic it would cause.
There is a lot of detail in this story conspiracy theories don’t normally have, and there is corroborating action by state authorities to suggest there might well be more than a grain of truth to it.
Thoughtful – I would have thought the conspiracy – cum ‘end of the world ‘ fraternity would be all over this and chewing iodine tablets by the bucket …
Such an ‘event ‘ would sum up the early 2020s eh ?
Not many saw the 9/11 attacks coming and if anyone had told of them, they would have been treated as being absolutely crazy.
There are persistent rumours of the Orthodox being told not to go into work on that day, although several Jews were victims of the attack.
It would be difficult to keep something like this under wraps for too long. There is no information as to how this thing got into the city or when. No data on how intelligence is supposed to have learned of it save for some small signals representative of the fingerprint of such a device.
If this is genuine then it would have to be detonated in the very short term maybe to coincide with the Biden begging tour of Saudi Arabia.
Depending on the area of detonation and the spread, any effect could be catastrophic. These things are more area denial than anything else with people unable to access the contaminated area until it’s cleaned up.
There probably wouldn’t be many immediate deaths but the shock of it, especially with such a bunch of criminals in government would be also catastrophic.
Thoughtful
I’m not denying the existence of such a thing – just the amount or lack of chatter …. In NY of all places …
Thoughtful; orthodox Jewish friend of mine working on the 11th floor, didn’t hear any warnings ahead of 9/11. He survived to tell me that.
Some of the ‘chatter’ was to blame the Jews for what others did.
I worked with a bloke whose ‘chatter’ about 9/11 was of that sort.
His other favourite subjects for chatter were people like Michael Wittmann, Hans-Joachim Marseille, Otto Skorzeny. . . enough said.
Let me guess – they all won the Eurovision Song Contest ….
IIRC, “Star of Africa” Marseille’s main claim to fame – the shooting down of seven RAF fighters in one day – was thoroughly debunked by Aeroplane magazine some years ago.
1400+ raped in Rotherham … oh wait …
However, Yvonne Blake, vice chair of the General Council for Massage Therapies – a council representing professional associations – told the BBC that under current rules “absolutely anybody” can start practising massage without checks.
Callum Urquhart advertised his at-home massage services on social media, which is where Yas – not her real name – booked him. She says her massage started off professionally, with Urquhart asking for her consent before massaging certain areas of her body. But he quickly went on to sexually assault her.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62081247
Simple question. Having seen several BBC “interviews” with people who are not with the agenda. Do they ever stop interrupting? Or do they love the sound of their own voices so much they can’t stop themselves? I would love to be in charge of the microphones and the off switch.
Cocaine…
gb, you are in charge of your own off switch. I often activate mine in protest.
Deeply disappointed sharnt grapps has pulled out of the PM race – what a loss to the country – get back to those cycle lanes Grant – not completely clogged up our cities yet …close those roads …
Meedjah.
https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2022/news/council-hit-by-press-boycott-stops-sending-journalists-press-releases/?
Trouble in paradise.
Must be so tedious for councils to tell the press or public what it is doing …. I bet the ‘accounts ‘ are on the fruity side … nice fact finding trips to nice places maybe ….?
One of a few stories where both sides seem losers.
The council are a bunch of toe rags to be sure, but they can point to the freedom to see information if desired.
So the media have simply removed their chance to do a Beff and grandstand.
Which removes actual questions on light over heat.
I’d wager that Bristol City Council have got more people trying to groom the media than there are actual Journalists in the Bristol media.
Well, gosh will you look at that …
unt ja, Klaus ist infallible – you vill be happy.
And now, BBC makes all others puce with the politics of idiocy…
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2022/07/12/bbc-climate-check-for-june/#more-57239
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2022/07/12/bbc-climate-check-for-june/#more-57239
The image of Rog, Justin, etc cackling at the basket of Mdm la 28Gate looms.
Still, there is always our wimmin in Asia…
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2022/07/11/if-you-want-to-know-how-sri-lankas-president-destroyed-his-country-read-his-cop26-speech/
Or, the USA, eh, Saz?
https://issuesinsights.com/2022/07/12/theres-no-despot-so-tyrannical-as-a-green-politician/
The Independent Inquiry into “Child Sexual Exploitation” in Telford is due to be published today.
How many mentions of Islam, Islamic doctrine and Muslims will there be in it?
Lessons will (not) be learned.
0 in rwanda.
‘SAS unit repeatedly killed Afghan detainees, BBC finds.’
Not ‘BBC believes’ or ‘BBC asserts’ or ‘BBC accuses’ or ‘BBC shows’ no, the BBC have found that publishing the malicious untruths and deceit of those reared on taqiya is a far more fruitful basis for program making. Well it worked with the IRA, why not ISIS?
‘Our BBC’. Makes you so proud.
Gary Lineker stays top of BBC star salaries list
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/62122985
“Star” lol
… bbc is facing cutbacks due to licence fees being frozen for 2 years. I still wonder why so many channels and over 23,000 staff. It can easily absorb the freeze, downsize – problem solved
coz ‘ees werfit
Now here’s another one to support the Dirty Bomb in New York
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11003825/New-York-City-releases-new-PSA-NUCLEAR-ATTACK-three-simple-steps.html
New York City releases PSA for a NUCLEAR ATTACK after Russian state media boasted Putin could wipe out the US East Coast: Video says ‘keep radioactive dust away from you’
Keep radioactive dust away from you? How do you know it’s radioactive without a geiger counter?
There is no point what so ever telling people to hide in the centre of a building and planning evacuation routes in a major nuclear exchange because it isn’t going to be survivable, and you probably wouldn’t want to anyway.
A dirty bomb is survivable and evacuation routes are of course necessary.
Quite handy that the dirty bomb frenzy is launched ASAP after Hunter’s vids ?
– eh?
Coming up to the mid terms. Gotta distract the peeps. Perhaps even cancel the elections. Bet Biden isn’t told anything in case he lets the cat out of the bag.
I see that the “Mo Farah” tale at the BBC is into its 6th tweak
Mostly trivial but telling about the messaging intent I feel.
ref site problems, not fully loading etc. I’ve tried access through Tor and the site works perfectly.
Spooky
As I have observed before, our useless incompetent liberal global elites are aware that Putins use of food as a weapon, and his plan to mobilise the population of Africa and the Middle East into Europe is highly likely to occur.
Only the liberal fantasy land lunacy means that they are paralysed into inaction.
Imagine that, a known threat from enemy action, they know it’s coming and they can’t do anything about it because of their own stupidity. The answers are easy for someone with some courage.
This is enemy action and anyone attempting to enter the countries of Europe will be shot dead.
Failing that using ships to repatriate the migrants en masse would be preferable.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/07/12/global-food-crisis-eu-border-force-bracing-for-waves-of-mass-migration-as-global-south-goes-hungry/
The fact they have no ideas how to counter this shows how unfit for their positions of power they are and they would sell us all down the river with their liberal lunacy.
Is the tale of the Nickel dealing at LME an examplar for how the UK population might deal with the energy price rises?
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-07-07/nickel-big-shot-called-the-shots#xj4y7vzkg
So the bbc top ethnic, who can run a bit, now turns out to be an illegal immigrant who has been living a lie since he washed up on these shores. Great role model for the kids “See if you want something just deceive the English and it’s yours. They will even give you a knighthood”.
bBC did do a very favourable “report” on Sir whatever is name is today
Last nights’ Tucker Carlson show describes the non reporting of the corruption of the Biden family and the laptop …..
Meanwhile biden sends the FBI after political opponents – how quickly America has turned into a cess pit ….
A paranoid cynic might think that hyperventilating about a nuclear dirty bomb attack on New York is a deflection from the Hunter Biden self destruction show?
Joe’s on his way to KSA ?
– they’ve packed the right meds ?
As the Biden laptop stuff comes out I wonder if the public it will get to see / appreciate any of it ? The msm running it as a lie last time might work again in November ….
The just cannot let the demented old man anywhere off script any more …
And another thing bbc, when I open the page “War in Ukraine” I don’t expect the main picture to be a couple of perverts shoving spit in each others faces.
I can’t disagree with this after seeing what happened with 20mph “Twenty’s Plenty” shemes in Bath
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/local-news/baths-20mph-zones-increased-deaths-942560
Back to the Pony and Trap. I did ask Mark Drakeford whether they would be prepared to install water troughs on all thoroughfares effected. “We will get back to you within the next 10 working days”. That was late last year.
Needless to say, Nowt.
When they promote Wales for business investment, I do hope they emphasise to prospective investors that traffic in Wales cannot move around normally…………
Why not 5mph to be safer?
do.not.give.them.ideas
0 mpg? NET ZERO!
Lets borrow a phrase, “Net zero by 2050”. That’s where we are headed in the minds of the deranged elites.
NET ZERO CITIZENS
Just sent this to the Conservative Party:
“Since the majority of the population of the UK have no faith in the political system or the lying elite, the upcoming election of a new leader should be based upon the successful candidate being given a probationary period in office. Say one year to act in accordance with what the population want to happen.
Why not? What is to fear?…………”
Commission basis – 1 dinghy = loss of £100K from pay.
Made the mistake of having R5 on in the background — Naga Munchetty has women on talking about the perils of being groped during a home massage; Nihal Arthanayake talking about male friendships and blokes not opening up and talking about their emotions. Something like that, I’m not too sure — it’s the 817th time he’s done a piece on men becoming more like women so I zoned out.
You’d be forgiven for forgetting that the BBC are a serious news agency and not a bunch of O-level sociology students trying to re-engineer society.
Meanwhile for some light entertainment, check out Mo Farah’s convoluted ancestry. Not at the BBC, where he’s an icon, a Brit, a totally believable clean athlete, a hero, a refugee and a victim of bad things done by other people.
But elsewhere — where people do their research — he’s raising a few more question marks.
Mo avoided taxes all through his fake name?
You will also notice this (immigration) is a one way street. Not once in my adult life have I heard anybody say that the thing that Eritrea (Africa) needs most is an injection of Welshmen. They could do with some Welsh cooking or singing. ” Douglas Murray {@7:24 youtube}
The immigrants make their way north, having no desire to assimilate to French culture, but continuing to demand a First World standard of living, even as they flout laws, do not produce, and murder French citizens, such as factory bosses and shopkeepers, as well as the ordinary people who do not welcome them. They are also joined by the immigrants who already reside in Europe, as well as various left-wing and anarchist groups. Across the West, more and more migrants arrive and have children, rapidly growing to outnumber whites. In a matter of months, the white West has been overrun and pro-immigrant governments have been established, while the white people are ordered to share their houses and flats with the immigrants. The village containing the troops is bombed flat by airplanes of the new French government, referred to only as the “Paris Multiracial Commune”. Within a few years, most Western governments have surrendered. The mayor of New York City is made to share Gracie Mansion with three African-American families from Harlem; migrants gather at coastal ports in West Africa and South Asia and swarm into Europe, Australia, and New Zealand; London is taken over by an organization of non-white residents known as the “Non-European Commonwealth Committee”, who force the British queen to have her son marry a Pakistani woman; millions of black Africans from around the continent gather at the Limpopo River and invade South Africa; and only one drunken Soviet soldier stands in the way of hundreds of thousands of Chinese peasants as they overrun Siberia.
The epilogue reveals that the story was written in the last holdout of the Western world, Switzerland, but international pressure from the new governments, isolating it as a rogue state for not opening its borders, along with internal pro-migrant elements, force it to capitulate as well. Mere hours from the border opening, the author dedicates the book to his grandchildren, in the hopes they will grow up in a world where they will not be ashamed of him for writing such a book.
Had a quick lunchtime browse in detail and it ‘may’ have not improved my mood. Allegedly.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62083196?
SAS unit repeatedly killed Afghan detainees, BBC finds
By Hannah O’Grady and Joel Gunter
BBC Panorama 4 hrs ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62083197?
SAS killings: How a scandal was uncovered
By Panorama
BBC News 4 hrs ago
The same, but different.
Certainly the detail I see makes the first headline utter tripe journalistically and the second editorialising at best. At this juncture.
As an armchair general a few other techy things also stuck out.
I can punch a .22 air rifle slug through quite a lot. A mix of mud and straw might make impact craters as shown. I doubt the SAS use air rifles.
And assuming whatever made these holes went through a bloke, I’d expect a degree of evidence beyond the hole. Or evidence of actual bullets not on par in description with a suspiciously similar Pally Journo’s fatal ordnance. The dead tell no tales if custom forbids autopsies.
I might add if I knew some blokes with guns were coming and a trigger happy cousin had popped off I’d present a low target when prepping to return fire. Kneeling, lying down.
So things are shaping up suspiciously similar to Russians using round shot on Ukrainian music rooms, per local ‘evidence’ and testimony.
And the emotive language of the reports ‘suggest’ creation more by a paralegal.
The truth does matter, but whatever the first casualty here was, The BBC has added a new chapter to their global edition of war & War, via sources. Who say.
I call a lot of BS already. Even if bullets get ‘found’ or some DNA. Or a newly deceased minor relative. Subsequently.
Hannah and her sisters also seem an odd bunch to get free passage into the heartland of 3rd world central to get teary eyed tribal elders to ‘open’ up too.
Byline: Guest Who and Mandy Rice Davies (deceased)
Another talent lost to the country – this time it’s pritti absolutely Patel – her supporter met in a phone booth and said enough is enough …
Next ….
Tucker’s tail is up
No wonder the dirty bomb story is getting prominence!
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
MPs call for UK ban on two Chinese CCTV firms
By Chris Vallance
Technology reporter
Published
4 July
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-62003253
Imperial College London has received £55 million from Chinese funding sources since 2015, £5 million of which came from companies sanctioned by the US government, a The Times investigation has found.18 Feb 2022
Imperial Ferguson Funding was it?
The Aaron Sorkin West Wing version will be fun.
Gary Lineker stays top of BBC star pay list
Gary Lineker ‘turned down hosting the Qatar World Cup draw’ due to his misgivings about the host country’s human rights record… leaving BBC colleague Jermaine Jenas to take the gig after saying it would be ‘hypocritical’ for him to work on it
Gary Lineker reportedly rejected the chance to host the Qatar World Cup draw
The ex-England striker told Gianni Infantino accepting would be ‘hypocritical’
Lineker has regularly expressed his disapproval of Qatar as a World Cup host
The country’s alarming human rights record comes as a concern to many
Astounding wages….and so many of them woke warriors and social justice warriors concerned about poverty and the cost of living….lol.
And Zoe Ball?! I mean…she’s nice enough but nearly a million £? You’ve got to be kidding me.
I think they’re all obscene amounts, but the tw..t at the top of the tree and his ‘oppo Shearer are only getting paid for far less appearances than the rest of them. All of them must be on significantly more than is published because their Agents will be taking a cut so Lineker could easily be on closer to 2 mill.
I bet the top Professor of Brain Surgery in the UK wishes he was on half of Lineker’s pay.
To be fair to Zoe she does have a special ‘gift’- the Radio 2 Breakfast Show is now just inane Mumsnet twaddle. Come back Sir Terry all is forgiven.
Where is Jeremy Vine in that list? Is he not paid something like £700,000 by the BBC?
There is a lot of fakenews in this thread
That is not the real list of BBC top earners cos it excludes people who are paid thru BBC studio like Graham Norton who get about £2m
– Although that FOI request is dumb
The person doesn’t understand the basic principles of FOI
that personal info i not handed out.
Some MPs don’t pay for 2 licences
Well they can’t be conuming twice as much TV as the rest of u.
“Graham Norton’ got £4m in 2019, making the chat show host comfortably the BBC’s biggest earner, company accounts show.
The star received £3.23m from his production company So Television in 2019, an increase of £262,755 on the £2.97m he got the year before.
Together with his BBC salary of £725,000, for presenting programmes including Eurovision and his Radio 2 show, he received £3.95 million”
“Norton quit his Radio 2 show to launch a rival weekend programme on Virgin Radio, which is not required to publish his pay”
“MPs accused the BBC of disguising salaries by refusing to include payments from its BBC Studios commercial arm, which makes shows such as Strictly Come Dancing, and independent production companies.”
Would any one really miss any of these characters ?really ?
5 of them – I’ve never seen …. But then I don’t pay their wages …
Revolting sums awarded to individuals utterly unworthy. I trust and hope that their income tax is at least 70% of what is shown above as their salaries.
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
Each MP received a letter stating whether or not he or she would be required to repay any expenses claimed. Details of voluntary repayments by MPs amounting to almost £500,000 were also officially published.[9]
‘”We continue to operate in extremely competitive markets for talent, with inflation levels for pay often well above the average for the UK economy.
“This pressure, taken with the fixed £150,000 entry point to the list, suggests that more individuals will appear on these lists over time.’
So how do you define ‘talent’? I’d be fascinated to find out the BBC’s definition being that it values Munchetty, Shearer and Lineker so highly and seeing that, in all likelihood, they could put a monkey in their places and get pretty much the same audience….if not more!
Seriously, how is Munchetty worth so much?
‘Naga Munchetty received the biggest pay rise at the BBC last year, as the corporation awarded salary increases to the majority of its top stars.
Munchetty saw her pay rise by £110,000 to £365,000-369,999, after adding a Radio 5 Live show to her BBC Breakfast work.’
Almost three times what the PM is paid….and a lot more than a nurse or teacher…..and her announced pay doesn’t include any money for BBC programmes produced by outside production companies for the BBC nor any ‘gigs’ she might get such as speeches or chairing debates etc.
The BBC justifies it by saying it is market price for the ‘talent’ but again you have to ask is that ‘talent’ so unique or indeed even unusually good? Are the demands of the job so tough that only a very select group of people can cope? Or could someone pretty well off the street do the same or better at the job? And if so why does the public service broadcaster not nurture and develop new talent and if they jump ship for better pay then wheel in someone fresh and eager to learn and create….for much lower, PSB, wages?
I can’t help thinking that someone new, ‘off the street’, to the job could sit on the breakfast sofa or in Munchetty’s 5Live seat and get to grips with the job inside a week assuming reasonable intelligence and ability to speak and string some words and ideas together.
A licence-fee funded broadcaster should not be payinig commercial rates for ‘talent’ that you could argue is not as talented as we are led to suppose.
The information is exempt from disclosure (as it is personal information), although presumably every MP over the age of 75 could have (currently) claimed a free TV licence.
If you’re thinking they are given free TV licences by virtue as their status as MPs, then you’d be mistaken. That said many MPs do pay for a TV licence for their first, second, nth home and then reclaim the cost on Parliamentary expenses, but that is not within the control of the BBC.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/which_mps_receive_a_free_tv_lice
Could they reach her levels of snark though? Maybe that’s what she gets the big money for.
600K Immigrants lost by the UK Home Office.
20K Terrorists on the UK terrorist watch list.
3K Extreme Terrorists on the UK terrorist watch list.
22 Lost in Manchester according to Theresa May.
1 More attack labelled bad driving this month of August.
The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure. The Home Office has been at the front line of this endeavour since 1782. As such, the Home Office plays a fundamental role in the security and economic prosperity of the United Kingdom.
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/about
The ‘talent’ also involves a high degree of required box-ticking pugz. Muncher’s boxes are self-evident, as are many other similar ‘stars’, while Lineker of course enjoys ‘hero’ status to trade on.
Or at least he did, once.
Maybe Graham Taylor was a visionary, after all.
REF: MP’s Expenses
Thank you for your recent email regarding MP’s expenses.
Due to Covid MPs and their staff have to work from home. As constituency business is a
private matter and conversations should not be overheard by other members of the household
it is important we have headsets and earphones to be able to work in privacy.
It is right that MPs staff are not out of pocket for this. However I cannot comment on
individual claims, as this is a matter for IPSA.
Yours sincerely,
Darren Henry MP
Member of Parliament for Broxtowe
Non political …
What does $10bn buy you these days anyway?
Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News
That’s the much publicised ticket price for James Webb. Of course, you have to remember that most of that money was spent over the two decades of Webb’s construction.
But I’ll venture it’s been good value from money.
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In May last year NHS Test and Trace (NHST&T) was set up with a budget of £22 billion. Since then it has been allocated £15 billion more: totalling £37 billion over two years.
Read the report summary
Read the conclusions and recommendations
Read the full report: COVID-19: Test, track and trace (part 1) [PDF 330 KB]
Public Accounts Committee
The Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) justified the scale of investment, in part, on the basis that an effective test and trace system would help avoid a second national lockdown – but since its creation we have had two more lockdowns.
https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/127/public-accounts-committee/news/150988/unimaginable-cost-of-test-trace-failed-to-deliver-central-promise-of-averting-another-lockdown/
‘…irresponsible, incorrect [BBC reporting] puts our brave Armed Forces personnel at risk both in the field and reputationally….we strongly object to this subjective reporting.’
Even the Guardian highlights the MOD’s reaction to BBC claims about the SAS…
‘MoD hits out at BBC over ‘irresponsible’ SAS death squad claims’
‘The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has taken the extraordinary step of accusing the BBC of engaging in “irresponsible, incorrect” journalism hours before a Panorama documentary that will accuse SAS soldiers of killing Afghan civilians in cold blood.’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/12/ministry-of-defence-bbc-panorama-documentary-afghanistan-sas-civilians
The BBC’s very, very long report, that states that the SAS did kill people, isn’t too keen to reveal what the MOD really thinks….at first they give us this near the beginning of the report….fairly bland and certainly no criticism of the BBC….
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62083196
‘The Ministry of Defence said it could not comment on specific allegations, but that declining to comment should not be taken as acceptance of the allegations’ factual accuracy.
An MOD spokesperson said that British forces “served with courage and professionalism” in Afghanistan and were held to the “highest standards”.’
It is only way, way down at the end of the report we get the truth….
‘”Neither investigation found sufficient evidence to prosecute. Insinuating otherwise is irresponsible, incorrect and puts our brave Armed Forces personnel at risk both in the field and reputationally.
“The Ministry of Defence of course stands open to considering any new evidence, there would be no obstruction. But in the absence of this, we strongly object to this subjective reporting.“‘
So the MOD considers the BBC is putting British troops at risk with fake news….but the BBC isn’t too keen for you to know that.
What’s new?
Editor sacked over ‘hoax’ photos
Piers Morgan
The Mirror board said Morgan would be stepping down immediately
Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan has been sacked after the newspaper conceded photos of British soldiers abusing an Iraqi were fake.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3716151.stm
The most amazing thing regarding Gary Lineker’s salary ,
is what he gets it for! He presents a highlights programme
on the English Premier matches six hours after they are played!
The irony is that BIG BROTHER at the diversity department of
the BBC would most probably sooner have an ethnic or a
women ,as the presenter. As they do on most of BBC programmes.
He is OK at presenting , with his often facetious manner. BUT
I reckon scores of football pundits could do the job as
well for 1/4 or less of his salary.
I have been involved in football for 50 years now ,in the
gambling side of the sport. I make the odds for bookmakers.
I don’t watch Match of the Day because Gary Lineker is presenting it. Somebody like Simon Jordan from Talk Sport
and Gabby Logan , for a start are much more loquacious
presenters than Lineker.
Gary Lineker enjoying £1.2million Walkers deal – as Nick Knowles faces sack for cereal ad
Just been having a quick scan of the latest annual report: https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/reports/annualreport/2021-22.pdf
Just to make sure the BBC is the waste of my money that I think it is. It is.
Good to see that both Sharp and Davie have retained their “leaving a nightclub at 3am” look, with no tie and scruffy shirt. Slobs. Am I meant to have respect for these clowns? Neither look like they are capable of running an international multi-billion pound operation, so I can only assume they are not. I wonder if Davie was wearing his ridiculous white trainers when the photo was taken.
I see Mo Farrah is getting his name in the headlines again. I wonder if he has a book coming out shortly. He professes that at age 9 he realised that ‘something wasn’t right’ when he had to look after other children. Clearly in his early life there were responsible adults in his life, ie his teacher and a social worker.
So, if these people were privvy to his real back story, then why did he persist with the story of his family coming to England. He’s deceived a lot of people, not least her Majesty when she knighted him under the wrong name ! He could have righted this years ago, but chose not to. This guy always seems to want sympathy, and there’s always an excuse with him.
Equally, in the light of all those crossing the Channel and diitching their identity – this is no different to what Mo Farrah has done. He should be castigated for not putting this right as his fame grew, not sympathised with.
Cost of Living in Somalia
Select city in Somalia:
— Select city—
Summary:
Family of four estimated monthly costs are 1,363.79£ (1,618.09$) without rent.
A single person estimated monthly costs are 392.57£ (465.77$) without rent.
Cost of living in Somalia is, on average, 45.58% lower than in United Kingdom.
Rent in Somalia is, on average, 83.53% lower than in United Kingdom.
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=Somalia
More than two decades of conflict have nearly destroyed Somalia’s educational system, which is characterized by poor quality, insufficient numbers of qualified teachers, and inadequate resources. The educational deficit in Somalia is one of the most acute in the world.29 Jun 2022
Crime rates in Somalia
Level of crime
68.06 High
Crime increasing in the past 3 years
61.61 High
Worries home broken and things stolen
67.13 High
Worries being mugged or robbed
71.88 High
Worries car stolen
66.07 High
Worries things from car stolen
64.35 High
Worries attacked
64.91 High
Worries being insulted
62.50 High
Worries being subject to a physical attack because of your skin color, ethnic origin, gender or religion
62.73 High
Problem people using or dealing drugs
57.59 Moderate
Problem property crimes such as vandalism and theft
68.75 High
Problem violent crimes such as assault and armed robbery
70.00 High
Problem corruption and bribery
79.46 High
https://www.numbeo.com/crime/country_result.jsp?country=Somalia
His uncle, who ‘looked after’ him and his mother in Somalia after his father had died, let him go to the UK with people that he , his father, hardly knew. I wonder his much he got paid? Will the BBC investigate him or the traffickers. You know the answer and you know why, because they are black and hence cannot be guilty of slavery. The BBC bitterly regrets that no white folks have been involved. Still on the back of a few lies they might yet find a way!
Absolutely astounded to learn recently that an Indian could be this nations next Prime Minister. Sunak is not of Britian not an indigenous member of the culture and peoples of Britain. He may indeed hold a British passport and claim he is British but I repeat he is most defintely not of Britain, how could he be? This nation in presently an uhappy state, should have a true Brit in the position of Prime Minister, male or female. This nation has become one of immigrants, ruled and run for immigrants and seemingly for immigrants-sad situation.
Yeah – I E inflated the economy – now I’m gonna fix it – in a year or 2 or 3 ….
Fed, something to celebrate in all the gloom: the oil prices (both of them) have dipped below $100 per barrel. On the other hand, the gas futures price has climbed above 250p. 🙁
BBC News sticking to script
Telford sex abuse report published – but what does it lead with ? Lightweight blue labour Westminster bubble stuff – and a but rich for the msm to report it at all since they spent years – decades – ignoring or suppressing it .
Will any public officials – retired or otherwise – be prosecuted for something so serious – or will it be covered up ?
Belief is what the BBC feeds off.
That ‘investigation’ was a horrible stunt.
BBC hired Jussie Smollett and Amber Heard for the dramatised doco yet?
Atom bomb in New York!!!!!!!!
and VIRUS !!!!!!!!
BBC local news “Here we are at an airforce base in Romania where Lincolnshire RAF teams make up part of the 3,000 NATO force on this rapidly expanded base”
“We’ll have more tomorrow night”
What are they preparing us for ?
Fair question.
I really hope they don’t try some bravado laced hot dog shit down there.
BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – don’t the BBC just love deception?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/62133283
Posters on this site have pointed out the futility of believing the results pf political Opinion Polls and it does really depend on what questions that are asked and what the sample size is, etc. I note for the first illusion the BBC here ask young impressionaable minds: ‘What do you see: squares or circles?’ The true answer is: ‘Neither’. When is a square not a square? Not when it is a circle but when it is a rectangle. Are the BBC too stupid to not know the difference between a square and a rectangle? [ No, don’t answer that question.;-) ]
Or are the BBC fashionably but dangerously ‘gaslighting’ young, impressionable minds?
‘Our’ Stew may love number five on the list and might be able to show the dodgy work that has been done to it in a computer.
@Up2Snuff ‘Oh it’s an optical illusion, horizontal it looks more like a beach’
Does it ?
I spun the images the same way
made them the same size
& cropped to bottom left
Then zoomed in
… https://twitter.com/No2BS/status/1546978154140557313
The original horizontal one has a cue that hints people are swimming in the sea, the other one doesn’t.
Original unphotoshopped ..https://twitter.com/rxbxccarxilly00/status/1033126151458353152
(BTW the BBC give the wrong account name, it has two underscores not one)
original photoshopped https://twitter.com/rxbxccarxilly00/status/1034042618160787457
As well as the BBC writing the account name wrong, the user changed the account name
If it had been simpler I would have got straight to the thread and you can see at least 3 people pointing out the image is different
.. https://twitter.com/zgetawaydriver/status/1035522086062571520
@Up2snuff’s point about opinion polls, is that the answers depend on CUES
The second photo has a cue .. people swimming in the see
“Telford child sex abuse went on for generations, inquiry finds”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-61983584
This is terrible !
What’s our government doing about this ?
The BBC’s evidence against the SAS regiment seems to be testimony from members
“Served with” is not In . Could they be disgruntled foreign translators etc working alongside our forces ?
Probably diversity officers.