Unpleasantness at the BBC . Staff are threatening to strike over the merger of 1 BBC propaganda News channel with another .There’s a petition to save it. At the time of posting this it has 2700 signatures in 48 hours .( There is also a petition to save Channel 4 from being sold – there millions of signatures – actually 9300… with 5800 in 4 months on the parliament site .).Any dissent within the BBC must be welcomed and encouraged – it’s a long battle to kill it – but we will .
Midweek 17 August 2022
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Kamal Ahmed was axed from ‘non-job’ £205k BBC editorial director role ‘after losing power struggle and was never forgiven for pocketing £12,000 for speech to hedge fund bosses days after sacking 450 staff’
The BBC say the cuts are part of a modernisation plan to save £80million
But it previously said all senior leadership groups should have at least two staff members from minority ethnic backgrounds and this will break that guideline
Ahmed’s role was created by Tony Hall in 2018 and Head of News Fran Unsworth said she was ‘thrilled he was joining her top team’
Pair were said to have fallen out and ‘most think he had it coming’, source said
By MARTIN ROBINSON, CHIEF REPORTER and DAN SALES FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 07:18, 11 February 2021 | UPDATED: 13:08, 11 February 2021
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9248545/Kamal-Ahmed-axed-non-job-205k-BBC-editorial-director-role-losing-power-struggle.html
Msrky
A personal request – please don t be offended – but if you are posting something ‘old ‘ can you please put the reference first because at the moment I start reading then realise it’s ‘old ‘ and I move to something new –
But if that’s your personal style and won’t change – knock yerself out .
Unless v busy I read everything here ….
Will do, will try and add date of article.
Thanks very much marky – appreciate it .
Some while ago, I had the distinct feeling that one, ‘Alexander Mercuris’ had pro-Russian Communist sympathies. Despite trying to conceal his leanings, for me, I could spot them a mile away. I’ve not watched his videos for years since.
What kind of man alleges this: https://www.stopfake.org/en/russian-media-columnist-alexander-mercouris-struck-off-over-claim-that-senior-law-lord-had-him-kidnapped/
Yesterday (August 16th) at 8.20, I heard a few minutes of the Today programme. They had on someone from Ofwat. Mishal was interviewing. She asked my why the fines for the water companies were so low, quoting £3 million when the CEO was paid £2 million. The chap answered that one company had been penalised so heavily (I wasn’t sure if it was a fine) that the company had to be taken over and the investors had lost all their money. Now I am not sure about the rights and wrongs of what he was saying, but what was obvious was that Mishal wasn’t listening. She kept asking questions about how lightly the water companies were being fined. The man from OfCom might as well not bothered to speak because Mishal certainly wasn’t listening. What a difference to GBNews where usually a discussion takes place and arguments are developed. Perhaps the difference is Nigel Farage when he has on someone he doesn’t agree with. But he lets them speak and he doesn’t interrupt, he is not looking to get a headline out of it. When they finish he just says something to the effect that they will have to agree to disagree but at least GBNews has heard their arguments. I bet he doesn’t get paid as much as Mishal or Nick.
There are only 2 options to properly manage that SNP rabble at the Perth, Scotland hustings.
And elsewhere where this bunch of malcontents traipse around Scottish towns and cities ( thankfully in decline)
1) Proper policing which would require the separation of Police Scotland from its management team a.k.a the SNP
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2) A legal requirement that such SNP related “protests” must be held with strictly only “scottish Gaelic spoken or indeed yelled.
“scum níl ann ach rud caca”
or words to that effect.
If ever there was any doubt that Vile is unfit for purpose, he retweeted this.
2022 ….
By your circle wagoneers ye shall know them.
Dear Marianna Spring (BBC wages paid under threat of prosecution),
As I’ve had to look at your BBC news and use other sources to determine that your news is not news but selective editorial opinion I’d like to request that I have a refund for the last 4 years plus get the BBC free from now on.
Please let me know how I can go about this as I am willing to create a full list of articles that I’ve had to investigate plus time taken for me to check your fact checker whilst realising that the BBC intentionally removes news rather than incorrectly report on it, uses images to sway opinion or misleads with the main titles hoping no one reads the full article.
‘Omission is the greatest form of lie.’
CAS-4987700-SY1FTF : BBC NewsWatch says boredom with pro-Brexit march.
CAS-4844672-N8FDYY: Update on the MP Expenses 2009 scandal in 2018.
CAS-4939547-J71Z1V: Here’s hoping Ireland do the right thing G.Lineker.
CAS-4937378-YKMWBJ: BBC not reporting ‘Day of Freedom’ March 06may2018.
CAS-4906141-BFJQL0: I take offence that presenters promote their books.
CAS-4892811-C820SC: I am offended that I have to pay the BBC TV Tax.
CAS-4824332-633N1P: What happened in Italy was not covered …
CAS-4933135-ZV3V7F: The omission is the most powerful form of lie …
CAS-6005141-S1V9D1: Not seen a report on the UK Governments Covid19
Let me know how to go about resolving the issue of paying for something that wastes my time as I have to check each story rather than rely on its accuracy.
Cheers,
Mark
https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications
Wonder who funds “STOP funding HATE”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9704411/Founder-far-left-campaign-group-Stop-Funding-Hate-history-posting-offensive-tweets.html
The tax payer I expect! I get a lot of unsolicited mail from charities most of which I believe are aiding causes with which I strongly disagree with eg RNLI. So I’ve started returning the begging letters , without a stamp , with my views scrawled across them.
Always ask what the real name is
“Is Stop Funding Hate”, an org that discourages funding all hate ?
Nope it’s an ambush name,
it’s actually pretty hatey, it goes around attacking people who are speaking legally and honestly, but who are daring to challenge Marxist and leftist dogma.
That’s like the mafia coming round and saying “you don’t want to be doing business with org”
Where were such checkers when the Guardian’s Jim Waterson wrote an attack piece on the Steyn Show ?
which was jam packed with fundamental errors like saying Steyn broadcasts from Canada
when he has never done any episodes of his show from Canada at all
Those hypocrites never stopped trying to cancel GB NEWS even before it started, it just shows how scared they really are of freedom of speech.
I have watched a lot of GB NEWS and I believe they have tried to be fair and equal, but they are not scared of covering subjects others wont touch.
I would actually pay to support GB NEWS instead of the bBBC.
Kinda miss the BBC’s pet nutter.
She Gary Lineker’s daughter?
Mohammed “I married a child aged 6 and then at age 9 ….”
Comments could be going better:
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/tv/bbc-newsreader-urges-licence-fee-payers-to-protest-new-ad-funded-bbc-news-channel/ar-AA10GhTx?ocid=ob-fb-engb-1511253547831&fs=e&s=cl&fbclid=IwAR0YkyNDBvXCUZO5voOQgBJtyYdLNZd8FJS9jv2iEwSaY7g3phKgi09ei6w
TWatO Watch #1 – Prof ‘Danny’ Blanchflower doesn’t know what he is talking about
No surprise there. He’s got the economy wrong before. On the other hand, he does know what he is doing because it is ‘a thing’ that the wealthy and highly paid do every time there is inflation in the UK economy: they talk up the risk of deflation. No surprise that a highly paid Radio presenter (Jonny ‘Disjointed’ Dymond has two jobs at the BBC) should invite on ‘Danny’ Blanchflower to raise the very shady spectre of deflation when everyone else is talking about inflation.
I’ve seen it before and if I live to 100 years of age I might see it again.
What the high paid and wealthy – who generally do really well out of inflation – do not consider, is that inflation always stays in an economy until you have deflation, or as I prefer to call it, negative inflation. Jonny was quick to point out at the start of his piece on the economy, the last time inflation was at 10% was in 1982. The BBC have been very keen to do that today on BBC RadioFlaw News because it was a Conservative Party government at the time led by the BBC hated Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister.
That 10% inflation we had back in 1982 is still in the price of everything that we buy in the shops today. Every good still has 1982’s inflation in it. Every State Benefit still has 1982’s inflation in it. The BBC Licence Fee still has 1982’s inflation in it for those silly enough to pay it.
The only way you will get rid of inflation is not to limit it to 2% and place that as a requirement for the Bank of England’s MPC as Gordon Brown stupidly did in 1997. That resulted in approximately 40% inflation over 13 years of a Labour Government. That meant that our money lost half its purchasing power by 2010. Thanks, Gordon.
The only way to get rid of inflation is deflation.
I must admit as I listened I wondered what his record was like – I had a feeling the best thing to do was do the opposite of what he suggests. He was the clown who came up the the BRICS thing wasn’t he .
Maybe the R needs to come out of that as far as engagement Russia will be having with the civilised world for a while – apart from hydrocarbons , corruption and spies of course …
Not sure on that Fed, wasn’t it someone else who is a regular ‘contributor’ to BBC R4 who named BRICS? It’s in their Wiki as I was reading it a while back. Sad, yes, isn’t it? Being interested in reading about econmists! It is not in David Graham Blanchflower’s Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blanchflower
Jul 31, 2020 | 4 minute read … This prevalence of gay women in football has been the case for a long time, too. As the sport grows vastly in popularity, researchers are paying more attention to how a culture of tolerance and openness towards LGBT+ players has been cultivated. Generally, this is put down to engrained gender expectations and how sport functions in society. It is impossible to claim any one theory as fact; identities are multi-layered, culture is complex and sexualities are not binary.
https://www.ucfb.ac.uk/news/ucfb-news-hub/in-focus-why-are-gay-women-over-represented-in-football/
Was media QUICK to report that an unvaccinated swimmer is being allowed into Australian to swim ?
“Just over six months after the deportation of Novak Djokovic rocked the Australian Open, the red carpet will be rolled out for famously unvaccinated US swimmer Michael Andrew.”
Reported the Australian Daily Telegraph
Someone tweeted the story at 10:30pm Monday night
When I checked the archive I see the newspaper had then moved the article and hidden it a few screens down another article
https://archive.ph/t84Yy#selection-1735.0-1739.175
search headline RED CARPET ROLLED OUT FOR UNVAXXED US SWIMMER
Then on Tuesday a Nigerian Newspaper republished the story
so cat’s out of the bag.
More media are carrying it.
BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – it is quite laughable what the BBC Picture Editor does at times
Home page, top line second from left, https://www.bbc.co.uk/ very blond woman looks in puzzlement at her shopping list and tries to unravel her own or her partner’s or housemate’s handwriting. She cannot be horrified at the cost of her shopping because she is very obviously still inside the store and is not at the checkout or even outside the store. Click on link and hey, ho, woman changes skin colour! Miraculous. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/business-62566828
People will make of that what they will and some will see it as inverted racism. On the other hand, the feminists will be outraged. Why cannot men go and do the shopping? Why is it left to the women? I would tend to agree with that latter view.
BBC Moaning Emole has the annual story.
Exam results day
It is left to the picture Ed on the traditional four luscious tressed blondes of ovary leaping.
Compromise is the order of the day.
Blonde still vaguely a component. Almost chipper. But now what looks like a solo teen Macaulay Culkin Mx the morning after a bender. Maybe the lady from Twilight.
Meghan Rapinoe will be jelly.
Someone posted the bunkbed Afghan people
then followed up with the video of the UK guy sleeping on the street
22 Lost in Manchester …
The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure.
1400+ raped over 16 years in 1 town ….
The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure.
30 Iranians cross the border and are allowed free entry ….
The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure.
30 year old men are pretending to be child refugees and sit in a class full of children …
The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure.
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
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2019/08/13/midweek-open-thread-14-august-2019/#comment-1006568
I see that when it comes to gas, the BBC are promoting a campaign that says you should withhold the money cos you think it’s overpriced.
… Doesn’t the same apply to the licence then ?
MPs to get £2,200 pay rise next month
Published
1 March
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60576639
Does that include Labour, Libs, Greens etc?
SG,
I remember successfully applying a little known area of law on some occasions. Known as, ‘Tortious Interference with a Subsisting Contractual Relationship’. Introduced to combat wildcat strikes when the strikers prevented a business carrying out their business to the detriment of their customers.
https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/5-382-9829?contextData=(sc.Default)&transitionType=Default&firstPage=true
AFAIK Something similar was used against Patreon
when they let righty bloggers sign up
and fans signed up to donate
but then Patreon banned the righty on a whim, just as big tech tends to do.
So that became them interfering in the contract between the bloggers and their fans.
Is Faisal Islam, BBC Economics Editor, on holiday?
Just asking.
When inflation figures come out, you would expect Faisal Islam to turn up for work. Poor old Simon Jack, another regular BBC absentee, had to cover for Faisal on TWatO.
You can see the full list of top earners, and their salaries within a range, here:
Gary Lineker – £1,350,000 – £1,354,999
Zoe Ball – £980,000 – £984,999
Alan Shearer – £450,000 – £454,999
Steve Wright – £450,000 – £454,999
Stephen Nolan – £415,000 – £419,999
Huw Edwards – £410,000 – £414,999
Fiona Bruce – £410,000 – £414,999
Vanessa Feltz – £400,000 – £404,999
Scott Mills – £400,000 – £404,999
Greg James – £390,000 – £394,999
Ken Bruce – £385,000 – £389,999
Lauren Laverne – £380,000 – £384,999
Naga Munchetty – £365,000 – £369,999
Emily Maitlis – £325,000 – £329,999
George Alagiah – £325,000 – £329,999
Amol Rajan – £325,000 – £329,999
Sophie Raworth – £305,000 – £309,000
Nicky Campbell – £295,000 – £299,999
Jeremy Vine – £290,000 – £294,999
Jason Mohammad – £285,000 – £289,999
Mishal Husain – £275,000 – £279,999
Sara Cox – £275,000 – £279,999
Nick Robinson – £270,000 – £274,999
Evan Davis – £270,000 – £274,999
Jo Whiley – £265,000 – £269,999
Andrew Marr – £265,000 – £269,999
Laura Kuenssberg – £260,000 – £264,999
Clive Myrie – £255,000 – £259,999
Justin Webb – £255,000 – £259,999
Martha Kearney – £255,000 – £254,999
Mark Chapman – £250,000 – £254,999
Sarah Montague – £245,000 – £249,999
Kirsty Wark – £245,000 – £249,999
Victoria Derbyshire – £240,000 – £244,999
Faisal Islam – £240,000 – £244,999
Jeremy Bowen: £230,000 – £234,999
Jon Sopel – £225,000 – £229,999
Michael Vaughan – £225,000 – £229,999
Dan Walker – £220,000 – £224,999
Jermaine Jenas – £220,000 – £224,999
Emma Barnett – £215,000 – £219,999
Mary Berry – £215,000 – £219,999
Katya Adler -£215,000 – £219,999
Trevor Nelson: £210,000 – £214,999
Fergal Keane – £210,000 – £214,999
Clare Balding – £205,000 – £209,999
Simon Jack – £205,000 – £209,999
Louis Theroux – £200,000 – £204,999
Reeta Chakrabarti – £200,000 – £204,999
Gabby Logan – £200,000 – £204,999
Micah Richards – £200,000 – £204,999
Alex Scott – £195,000 – £199,999
Charlie Stayt – £190,000 – £194,999
Sarah Smith – £190,000 – £194,999
Mark Easton – £190,000 – £194,999
Sue Barker – £185,000 – £189,999
John McEnroe – £180,000 – £184,999
Rachel Burden – £180,000 – £184,999
Stephen Sackur – £175,000 – £179,999
Jonathan Agnew – £175,000 – £179,999
Ben Brown – £170,000 – £174,999
Orla Guerin – £160,000 – £164,999
Harpreet Bhullar – £160,000 – £164,999
Colin Murray – £160,000 – £164,999
Joanna Gosling – £155,000 – £159,999
Clara Amfo – £155,000 – £159,999
Claudia Winkleman – £155,000 – £159,999
Chris Sutton – £155,000 – £159,999
Isa Guha – £155,000 – £159,999
Nihal Arthanayake – £150,000 – £154,999
Steve Lamacq – £150,000 – £154,999
Tony Livesey – £150,000 – £154,999
Lyse Doucet – £150,000 – £154,999
Carolyn Quinn – £150,000 – £154,999
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/bbc-pay-2022-full-list-newsupdate/
Alternatively, for those who like to measure prices using alternative units:
Gary Lineker. 8,490-8,522 TV Licences or 52 NHS Student Nurse salaries
Zoe Ball. 6,163-6,194 TV Licences or 37 NHS Student Nurse salaries
Alan Shearer. 2,830-2861 TV Licences or 17 NHS Student Nurse salaries
Steve Wright. 2,830-2861 TV Licences or 17 NHS Student Nurse salaries
Stephen Nolan. 2,610-2,641 TV Licenses or 16 NHS Student Nurse salaries
etc etc. You get the picture.
#YouPayTheyPlay
#NoDebateShutTheBBCDownNow
MM, no wonder Jonny ‘Disjointed’ Dymond does two jobs at the BBC; he doesn’t appear on your list and obviously has to keep up with those higher on the ladder.
The War on Terror began with men plunging to their deaths from the highest floors of skyscrapers hit by airplanes; it ended with men plunging to their deaths from the undercarriage of a US airplane taking off from what’s left of “Hamid Karzai International Airport” (the signs will be coming down even as you read this).
August 17, 2022
https://www.steynonline.com/12726/dead-superpower-walking
Gee, did anyone back at the anchor desk ask her what’s with the wardrobe switcheroo?
“We are all Equal, some more so….”
MPs will get a £2,212 pay rise on 1 April, seeing an MP’s basic salary go up to £84,144 a year.
The 2.7% rise will come in the same week that millions of workers see their wages hit by a National Insurance increase.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60576639
Steyn Clubber Eric Dale from Iowa appended this somewhat mordant comment to my Sunday column:
Do you think there’s any chance of getting Taliban commanders to teach at West Point? It might be a nice change of pace for cadets to learn from someone who actually won a war.
https://www.steynonline.com/12726/dead-superpower-walking
Greenford stabbing murder : MAN in CCTV
Actual description on BBC news page
“The man is described as wearing grey shorts,
a dark coloured T-shirt,
a white baseball cap and white patterned builder style gloves”
Wow, good job he is still wearing those clothes
Stew, the Met Police library has 4 photos of the suspect, and the BBC have gone with a low-res version when higher resolution photos are available. (The BBC image is on the left).
Incompetent picture editor or something else….?
https://news.met.police.uk/news/detectives-release-image-of-man-seen-running-from-scene-of-greenford-murder-452259
Well, well, I speculated earlier……………..
Twato had the incident in their headlines and I expected an elaboration later in the programme. Nothing. Wonder why. I see the Met notice is timed, “1320”. Could it be that, “Our Worlds Most Trusted” saw the notice and photos and immediately pulled the more in depth item? Not only that, it was not whitee wot dun it so, in keeping with their active shielding of black criminals, it conveniently disappeared. Perhaps he was running back to Broadcasting House. Still got the knife in left hand.
Interested to see how much coverage the BBC now give the murder, now they know it was…………………
Has this photo been on BBC news at six?
‘Sticking food on my head brings people joy’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0ctcsrg
TikTok content creator Shell Rowe is in remission from Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma and has taken a positive outlook on her hair loss by decorating her head with random objects.
BBC news is increasingly filled with items that “have gone viral online with over one million likes”.
TikTok may be ushering in a spiritual dark age but at least it doesn’t pretend to be a national treasure or cost £159/yr.
No 10 should follow parliament and ditch TikTok, says Tory MP
Ex-leader Iain Duncan Smith urges ministers to cut ties with Chinese-owned platform over data fears
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/03/uk-parliament-closes-tiktok-account-after-tory-criticism-of-apps-china-links
“until credible assurances can be given that no data whatsoever can be transferred to China”.
Content generators get next to nothing.
Tik Tok makes a fortune.
BBC copy pasters get paid for….
Always bear this in mind when seeing the “Hi, this is Jocasta Rack-Airhead from BBC Gay Pigeon 4; would it be alright to DM me to discuss using your work for free to justify my salary?”
As I said on Tucker last night, western civilization is sliding off the cliff, and most people in the western world aren’t even aware of that. Qanta Ahmed has this poignant vignette in The Spectator:
I was in Cairo in the days after a 2017 Palm Sunday terrorist attack in Alexandria on Coptic Christians that had emptied Egypt of tourists. On my flight down to Aswan, I noticed that I was the only non-Chinese passenger. One informed me she was a hydroelectric engineer travelling to study the Aswan Dam with her colleagues. My Egyptian guide wryly informed me later in Egypt the Chinese are known as the ‘conquerors’ — he meant of all Africa.
No “shock-and-awe”, just steely unyielding strategic purpose.
https://www.steynonline.com/12726/dead-superpower-walking
Lack of Diversity ….
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-62444316
Kenya elections 2022: Full results of presidential and parliamentary races
Published
1 day ago
Ahmadis suffer vicious persecution around the world. The main source of fuel for that persecution is in Pakistan, but what happens in Pakistan does not stay in Pakistan.
I know that from my experience in the Yorkshire market town of Batley. In August 1985, when I was 11 years old, my parents organised an inter-faith meeting in the town hall. It was interrupted and disturbed when, according to West Yorkshire police, more than 1,000 extremists, led by Pakistani hate preachers funded by the Pakistani state, were bused in from around the country. The mob brutally attacked my English mother and my father, a dermatologist; my eldest brother and I; and a Welsh Ahmadi schoolteacher who was with us. My first cousin, a GP, was by chance driving through the market town that day. He saw the mob and saw his family and friends being attacked, so he stopped. He was recognised, pulled from his vehicle and savagely beaten up.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2020-03-12a.177.0&s=islam+batley#g195.0
What is she looking at? Certainly not checking her train time.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61634959 or https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/5964/production/_126048822_gettyimages-723502157.jpg if you prefer.
I think they must be using a particularly rubbish picture editor at the moment.
Bizarrely an image search causes Google to throw up an Arabic phrase “سماع الموسيقى” (listening to music” as if the BBC image is secretly tagged with that
I see that Goldsmith is one of Truss’s team! I desperately hope that this doesn’t signal that she is going to have any truck with Net Zero and the eco loonies.
The three policy options she has which will differentiate her from Starmer and Johnston are :
A.ditching Net Zero
B. getting a grip of immigration, both legal and illegal , and reducing the numbers entering the country by a lot more than 50%, which I regard as the minimum to show serious intent.
C. Completing Brexit
I assume that both Labour and the Tories will have essentially similar policies on inflation and living costs.
Do those three things and she will win the next election easily and equally importantly I will vote Tory.
Of course doing , or attempting to do , any of those three things will incur the wrath of the liberals who are bringing the country to its knees. The civil service, the House of Lords, the MSM , charities , green nut jobs and all the usual bleaters will go bananas. Come to think of it she could promise to force subscription on the BBC as a fourth positive point of difference between Truss and Starmer.
Theresa May on immigration … from ‘hard’ line to ‘pink no line’ …
2012 … “Two and a half years ago, the coalition government was formed, and we made a clear promise to the British public. After thirteen years of uncontrolled mass immigration, this government would reduce and control immigration.” – Theresa May 2012
2015 … “Because when immigration is too high (no figure given), when the pace of change is too fast, it’s impossible to build a cohesive society.” – Theresa May 2015
2018 … “Over the years, overall, immigration has been good for the UK. It has brought people with different backgrounds, different outlooks here to the UK,” – Theresa May 2018
Easily confused.
Likely fewer staff in the luxury hotels.
Gary Linker opens up his home?
HA HA HA HA
I can sum all that up in one:
Liz is a remainer who turns her coat to be whatever she thinks people want her to be.
It has been engineered from the start to make her the next PM. That makes me very worried.
They did the same with Theresa May and – as I did with May – I am hoping she is transformed by the responsibility and turns out to be a strong, principled conservative who represents the people. But look how that turned out last time.
There is a bit of a difference between May and Truss in that May had everybody guessing as to how she would turn out. It is important to remember this. She played her cards very close to her chest. A bit of an enigma many thought at the time. I don’t recall her making any list of promises like Liz has done.
If Truss carries out just a quarter of her promises she still be a massive, welcome improvement on Cameron, May and St Boris the Martyr combined.
Maybe so – but I personally liked Boris a lot more when Cummins had his arm up his arse operating him like Sooty instead of nut nut …
I think the BBC would be working out their notice period by now.
@JR quotes BBC headline
“In parts of Scotland a week’s rainfall has fallen in just 24hrs.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62558667
How desperate do you have to be to think this is newsworthy? Let’s take Perth, for example.
At this time of year there are roughly 10 rainy days per month.
That’s 2.5 per week
Which means that a week’s worth of rain usually falls within a little more than two of its days.
This time it only took one day. Whoopy bloody doo!
Next they will be getting locals to proclaim that they haven’t seen puddles like this since the weekend.
“Liz Cheney: Trump critic blasts Republican ‘personality cult’ after defeat”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62578350
Something tells me the Beeboids are not happy bunnies .
Greenford: Elderly man on mobility scooter stabbed to death
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-62570923
As soon as you learn of a stabbing in broad daylight with witnesses and no description whatsoever of the murderer on the BBC, you know the most likely sub-branch of the human species which did it and they are deliberately not telling you.
Sure enough, here is prime suspect number 1 fleeing the scene:
It makes me laugh when they are all righteous about free-speech after Rushdie was stabbed – yet carry on as usual with their racist censorship. Total hypocrites. The BBC and the Left HATE free speech. It lets people tell the truth. They want anything which does not fit the far-Left agenda oppressed.
Maybe he is a model for TV adverts.
I have to question the accuracy of your using the phrase ‘human species’.
A decoy for maxi.
He practises the BBC kind of free speech.
Gloves ?
They’ve finally updated the article to include the picture. They describe him as:
He is described as wearing grey shorts, a dark coloured T-shirt, a white baseball cap and white patterned builder style gloves.
mmmm … one important part of the description which would rule out half of all people wearing similar clothes seems to be missing.
Which is odd because I’ve seen murderers described as white many times on the BBC. Yet I can’t recall any telling us he was black – despite the latter case occuring much more frequently.
JohnC Its wrong to say “They’ve finally updated the article to include the picture”
the page had the photo on 3.5 hrs before you posted
We discussed above.
Well, they had finally updated it when I checked Stew.
I don’t check there every 5 mins : having a look at the BBC news page is more of an ordeal than something I do regularly.
They most certainly didn’t have it for my original post when others did.
Poor old bugger, he was 87, means he was born in 1935, I think?
That would mean he was a child during the war, wonder if he witnessed the Blitz? Wonder if he lived in London all his life?
What stories he must have had, what changes he must have seen… gone from a city of predominantly white, locally born and bred, to one of overwhelmingly foreign born immigrants with no connections or ties to the city. What did he make of that? Was he welcoming and friendly, or suspicious? Was he ever mugged?
He was vulnerable, pathetically so, and in the end, it cost him his life. Did he think the police would keep him safe, or people in the street come to his rescue if he was attacked? It doesn’t look like a particularly rough neighbourhood, perhaps he felt safe there, or wasn’t aware what an easy target he was?
My parents have turned 80 this year. Will they be as vulnerable as this guy in a few years? Will some piece of scum like this knife them too?
Luckily they don’t live in London, but how long before this is going on in every provincial city and town in this country?
I’ve got 35 years to go until I’m his age, what state will this country be in by then? I don’t think I want to be alive to see it.
IF they ever catch this guy… well, there’s no way he should ever be let loose on the streets again.
BBC hearing how this harmless old gentleman met his end is very emotional. One can only imagine what his family must be going through. Bad enough losing a family member at any age, but at this age, disabled and in his scooter, its easy to imagine it could have been one of our own. An eye for an eye springs to mind. Its bad enough that ‘old folk’ don’t venture out at night, but it seems we may have to be ‘tooled’ up ourselves for a trip to the Co-op during the day, just in case.
I had friends living in that part of London since 1947, but in the past 40 years white flight really took off. My friends passed on years ago, but few whites remain. Shocking.
Romesh is on GMB tomorrow says the trailer
Shouldnt let that racist on.
ITV local news
“Ooh look at all the flood damage in Market Rasen from rain last night”
It was obvious that it was Oxford St
the same road that flooded on Monday lunchtime
that I mentioned here.
One store they featured was Euronics.
I don’t know why they had stock at ground level still. when the street outside was only just flooded on Monday.
Today by the end ITV were saying it seemed the drains were blocked.
I reckon the drains haven’t been properly attended to, cos management have been sidetracked on climate change projects.
BBC just did the same report
but they had their Global Warming mad reporter on the scene
so he spouted dogmatic slogans “rained on ground that has been baked hard for weeks”
Then he had them play that TV experiment video
“see rain doesn’t dissipate on ground after a heatwave”
.. That experiment doesn’t replicate when I try it
i can demonstrate that water does go into the grass quite quickly.
And as it happens Market Rasen is only about 20 miles from here, so the ground and grass will be in the same condition.
The BBC reporter’s claim is also double false.
The land around that street land night was no longer “baked hard” anyway
.. it had had a good dose of rain 36 hours earlier,
that’s when the street had flooded, but only to the steps of the buildings, not inside like this morning.
“You can’t say that!” ©️Burley, K.
Anyone watching Dewbs on GBNews?
Just had a discussion about lawlessness in Britain and they showed a video that would *never* be shown on the BBC – a group of youths descending on a shop, shoplifting, then running off en masse.
And the close ups seemed to show all the culprits were black.
Blacks running away from crimes seems to be a hot topic today actually…….
Mugging and steaming is back – will only get worse …
Plod won’t be anywhere near able to deal with 3 days of traditional Notting hill weekend mostly peaceful disorder ..
Just yesterday the BBC News channel had a fawning piece about the Taliban have reduced violence to zero in Afghanistan.
24 hours later they now report ‘Many casualties feared ‘ in Kabul mosque blast
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-62581102
You can always trust the BBC to back the losing horse.
“That Hitler, he kept the trains running on time”
Aug 9 BBCnews @SecKermani wrote
“Afghanistan: The Taliban sniper now working behind a desk”
“But for the first time in more than four decades the country is also no longer engulfed in violence,
while previously rampant corruption has been significantly reduced”.
Wonder how many innocent people his AK47 drilled holes in before he became a pen pusher BBC poster boy?
A military bunch wade into another country called Ukraine causing loads of deaths and they are the devils spawn and hated by the BBC.
A Para-Military group wade into a country called Afghanistan causing loads of deaths and they are fawned over by the BBC.
One group is Muslim brown people and the other is not.
Guess which?
Maybe his job was popping holes in mud walls at low level before a BBC ‘investigative team’ of wimmin arrive?
Mind-boggling ridiculousness in our armed forces to the point of becoming dangerous to the security of this Country.
The RAF are rejecting applications from young white men to fill their quota of diversity.
Young white men have been at the forefront of stepping forward to face danger to protect this Country since time immemorial.
What the hell does the RAF think it’s purpose is? A social Service?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62582156
This will only make Russia and China much more confident and belligerent.
Who the hell is behind this farce, the UN or Soros maybe?
It won’t be long before doctors are instructed to euthanise white, male babies at birth at this rate.
The BBC finally admits there was extreme abuse, violence, spitting, racism and sexism at the hustings in Perth….but…but…but….
Its first priority is to let Wee Shuggy have her say and she gets the first part of the piece to distance her from what went on……but the BBC helps out by not mentioning once that the ‘protestors’ were SNP supporters…a remarkable omission some might say….the BBC’s ‘analysis’ even suggests that it is the cost of living crisis that drove the ‘protests’….
‘Political leaders are at pains to paint any abuse as the work of an extremely vocal minority.
But there is no mistaking the fact that politics has a fairly angry tinge to it right now.
People are struggling amid rising prices and fuel bills, and it’s only going to get worse as we move into winter.’
Hmmmm…”Political leaders are at pains to paint any abuse as the work of an extremely vocal minority.’….Sturgeon you mean?…of course she’s at pains to try and suggest that….but it is after all her and her party that drive the hate and anti-English racism.
Buuuuttt…let’s just gloss over that eh BBC?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-62576062
Must be time for the SNP to have uniform brown shirts to suit their anti English totalitarianism …
Let’s play a sick game about the Greenford murder –
Let’s assume that the third world knife boy isn’t ‘local ‘ but recently got off a dinghy at Dover or didn’t go through any system .
Apparently a BBC type spotted ‘ spoke to him Wednesday after noon then he ran off .. this may be false news ….
RIP…
Fed Up-Maybe the BBC were interviewing him
for a job as a continuity presenter.
Late for paintball?
In days gone by, they may have been worried that msm media reaction would be negative.
A February 2008 Freedom of Information Act request for the release of details of MPs’ expenses claims was allowed by an Information Tribunal but challenged by the House of Commons Authorities on the grounds that it was “unlawfully intrusive”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_parliamentary_expenses_scandal
Reasons to hate the BBC #289,671 with a white heat …
The BBC would not play the Seekers single ‘Another You’ unless it was already a hit. This work to make it a hit was done by the pirate radio stations.
Judith Durham – A Goddess
Londonistan killings and killers do reflect the excellent multiculturalism which blesses the capital , so yo might recall a stabbing killing off Oxford street Tuesday . A 58 year old Asian has been charged with the murder of another Asian age 60 .
In this case Asian means Korean- not the usual paki criminals …who are – of course – Asian …
The a Capella version is sweet . Thanks atlas .
The seekers- Bloody wonderful
From the DT – the fall of paid TV?
Almost 600,000 British households cancelled their Amazon Prime subscriptions ahead of a price rise as the cost of living crisis hits streaming companies.
The number of UK Prime customers fell by 590,000 in the second quarter of 2022 according to Ofcom, the industry watchdog, a drop of 5pc. Amazon announced an increase in its fee by £1 a month to £8.99 in July.
Meanwhile Netflix endured a 1pc fall in subscribers, down by 210,000 year on year to 17.1m during the second quarter, as viewers tightened their belts to counter soaring inflation.
Disney bucked the trend by adding 1.8m subscribers to 6.6m – an increase of 38pc – as the Star Wars producer became the world’s biggest streaming service, although its rate of growth slowed from previous months.
Overall, Ofcom’s Media Nations report found the number of households subscribing to at least one streaming service had fallen by 350,000 to 19.2m
Despite the drop, the media watchdog said that some of those subscribers may return when the economic horizons brighten.
The regulator said: “Cancellations do not necessarily represent customers that have been lost for good.
“Ofcom’s survey of subscribers who cancelled earlier this year found that almost three quarters of customers said they thought they would resubscribe – reflecting the flexibility that allows customers to pick up and drop subscriptions depending on changes in programmes, needs or circumstances.”
The data calls into question how resilient streaming services are to economic downturns despite some analysts claiming they have become a necessity households cannot do without.
Sky was among entertainment companies to have proven recession resistant in the past because it had few commercial competitors in the UK.
However, it is now showing signs of strain as the streaming revolution hands customers the choice to downgrade to a cheaper provider such as Netflix.
Sky reported earlier this year that customer numbers had fallen by 255,000 to 2.7m for the three months to June, as it grappled with “macro economic challenges across Europe”.
Ofcom found that the number of subscribers to NOW, Sky’s streaming service, had dropped by 220,000 to 2.1m for the second quarter.
Disney has been among the outliers in the global streaming slowdown, as viewers lapped up the Star Wars series Obi Wan Kenobi and the Predator reboot Prey.
The world’s biggest entertainment company added 14.4m customers to its streaming service Disney+ in the quarter ending on July 2, taking total worldwide sign-ups to 221m.
It is now just ahead of rival Netflix, which has been losing customers and reported 220.7m total global subscribers.
The pressure to hold onto subscribers amid intensifying competition and tougher economic conditions has prompted Disney, Netflix and Amazon Prime to introduce advertising-funded options that make watching shows cheaper or free for viewers.
Meanwhile, Ofcom said the ongoing shift towards streaming meant the number of younger viewers watching broadcast TV had fallen by two thirds over the past ten years.ENDS
Some might say ‘go woke go broke ‘…..no mention of the drop in BBC DDs …yet …
Save money by scrapping the archaic telly tax.
Simples
9pm Channel4 “Oh look 2,000 war babies came from black wartime fathers from North America”
presented by BBC black guy Sean Fletcher
10:45pm ITV more black genealogy repeat of DNA Journey with The Chase star Shaun Wallace
9pm
TalkingPictures film : A woman incurs the wrath of her bigoted trade unionist father by announcing she intend to marry a black man starring Sylvia Syms
BBC tonight
2pm to 6pm and 6-10pm Clare Balding and Gabby Logan at the Euro Athletics
Then 10pm Sandi Toksvig presents QI
That’s two celebrity lesbians
8pm The Jay Blades show
Meanwhile on bbc4 it’s India night again
9pm Anita Rani getting all emotional about the partition of aindia
10pm Hanif Kurisha autobiography
11pm the Buddha of Suburbia
A director of OFGEM has resigned because of failure to protect people from fuel price rises . … a week before the new price limit is announced .
Will said lady be doing the rounds on Thursday morning ? She hasn’t got a gong yet so we ll see ….
Well, who knew?
Another way of saving money is by scrapping the archaic telly tax.
Simples
So Tories did an event
#1 Lefty Rentamob turned up and hurled abuse
#2 BBCnews narrative “OMG this is terrible someone hurled abused at a BBC holyman”
Full context the existence of anti-Tory hatemobs is a reality
Their aim is to intimidate, and it works some people stay away.
Their primary focus is Tories
#3 BBC staffers CAN put up with it
.. It just reflects badly on the lefties
However when normal grannies stay away due to the intimidation, then that shows the shouting is a form of violence cos it stops us going out our daily business.
BBC video
The intimidation against regular public
Steve Remainiac Bray tweeted this to his 178K followers and the Tory woman
“You chose to take your 15 year old daughter,
did you expect a hearty welcome???
It’s not just SNP that think and say this!
It is the majority of the UK!
That seems nasty and bullying
GBnews just put on another clip
That to me instantly looks like Socialist Workers Party and the Hatey Not Hopey front group,
cos they come equipped with the normal preprinted signs on sticks
#Rentamob
Guido
https://order-order.com/2022/08/17/scotnats-throw-eggs-spit-at-pensioners-and-call-bbc-reporter-scum/
The James Cook piece above just about shows what happens when the BBC becomes just an uncritical cheer leader for the SNP . There we have a demented SNP fascist telling a Scot’s man to go back to England .
The tribal – primitive – hatred for England really is troubling and the step toward terrorism can’t be too far away , when it happens the BBC will be shocked and wonder how it happened and of course who to blame .. it will be the English of course …
Now is that an officer who is female and recruits, or one who only recruits females, who are senior?
They tweeted that story almost 24 hours after Sky broke it ( on Tuesday 16 August 20:57)
and the BBC’s own story admits that the Sky story is the source.
So some female non entity non executive director resigns from OffGem, and the medja are all over it because of the leaked reason she gave for her resignation.
“A director at energy regulator Ofgem has resigned, accusing it of favouring businesses over consumers with a rule change that will add as much as £400 to the average UK household energy bill.”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/17/ofgem-director-christine-farnish-quits-over-energy-price-cap
Of course it being in the Grauniad and about the evil Towies putting business first the BBC are all over it but and this is the big question who is this Christine Farnish?
I thought I’d do some digging and find out, and yet there’s next to nothing about her and her background. She appears to be a civil servant, the type who is always around like a bad smell, and has no actual expertise or experience in anything.
She was on the board of “Consumer Futures” which dates back to 2008 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Futures
So if you hear about this do not take it at face value, this is a Whitehall perma plant without insight or knowledge of the industry she puports to regulate.
From Companies House.
In the public domain.
Christine FARNISH
Filter appointments
Filter appointmentsCurrent appointments
Total number of appointments 6
Date of birth
April 19**
PLATA FINANCE LIMITED (05197592)
Company status
Active
Correspondence address
Frobisher House, Southbrook Road, Southampton, England, SO15 1GX
Role ACTIVE
Director
Appointed on
4 May 2018
Nationality
British
Country of residence
England
Occupation
Director
She has resigned from the previous 5 directorships.
I have noticed that even the BBC weather temperature maps are fiddled and biased.
Tonight for instance they showed the max temp tomorrow of 25 for our area in scorching red. With more northern areas getting temperatures around 16 to 18 shown in orange to pale yellow to light green.
The next forecast ten minutes later illustrated the nighttime temperature for our area of around 16 degrees and you guessed it 16 became the new scorching red.
This is trying to say whatever the public think, the BBC want them to be climate scared.
I have been watching this sleight of hand by the BBC weather folk for a few days and if you keep an eye on it you will see the skullduggery they are up to.
It’s not so subtle climate alarmism. We just can’t trust the beggars.
I think I am going to photo the main weather screen temperature chart for a few days to find out just how much they are manipulating the maps, moving the goalposts and thus their viewers perceptions.
I don’t care how convinced they are that they need to lead Joe public by the nose on climate change, lying tactics like this, once spotted undermine everything they try to do.
Tucker does the Gretchen Whitmer plot
“Police hunt ‘prolific shoplifter’ who knifed busker Tom to death ‘in street robbery gone wrong’: Tesco security guard tells how prime suspect shown on CCTV had often been thrown out of the store the kindly pensioner played music outside”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11121875/Police-hunt-prolific-shoplifter-knifed-busker-Thomas-OHalloran-busted-street-robbery.html
He’ll probably be shielded by his “community”.
They are probably all sat round right now laughing about it all.