604 Responses to Midweek 24 August 2022

  1. Thatcherrevolutionary says:

    Oooft

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  2. taffman says:

    “Two-thirds of Europe is under some sort of drought warning, in what is likely the worst such event in 500 years.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62648912
    How true is this ?
    Just more fear, fear, and fear.
    So, what can we in GB do about it ?
    Zilch

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    • StewGreen says:

      Depends if you mean #WetDrought or proper drought
      The UK is not generally in drought
      The water grid has a reasonable amount of water in it
      The EA has declared a drought in some zones where reservoirs are 50% or even 80%

      Some streams in the southeast might be low
      some gardens dry, but it’s not like Africa.

      Drought can be a PR word

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  3. taffman says:

    Watch out, watch out, our pet troll is about!

       9 likes

    • Zephir says:

      There is speculation he / it is employed by the bbc.

      Judging from his last comment, he is at least showing some of the qualities of Jimmy Saville, Rolf Harris, Mark Page and Stuart Hall that endeared them to the nation, so should do well.

      Envy of da wurld innit..

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    • popeye says:

      Here’s one for him then. Ask if a BBC reporter would ever say the following:

      “Prime Minister, given this, and previous, Government’s policies on immigration it is inevitable that by 2050 the U.K. will be a Muslim-majority country. Could you tell us which present Muslim-majority country you are using as an example of what you would like us to be?”

      Supplementary Question: “Prime Minister, as you have been unwilling to indicate where the Government’s policies on immigration will inevitably lead, how do you feel about going down in history, together with your immediate predecessors, as being responsible for the destruction of a thousand years of civilization?”

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      • tarien says:

        Indeed popeye, responsible for the destruction of our nation-well on the way at present. I was saying not so long ago that the immigration situation was quite incomprehensible, given the costs to the taxpayer, given the history of the crimes then being committed by these loathsome individuals who had landed on our shores and quite uninvited-now today I say it is comprehensible and all its issues being seemingly supported by the authorities without consideration as to the very grave possibility that the United Kingdom ( if it is still one) being controlled by those that follow the teachings of Islam. I’m ready to fight.

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      • Wild Bill says:

        If you look at the history of a country such as Portugal, a long time ago they were overun with muslims, it took them hundreds of years to get rid of them.
        Now the muslims are getting back in again like they are everywhere else, why dont people see this?

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        • tarien says:

          I ask the same question Wild Bill, the reply one would expect never reaches us, the game seemingly just goes on-who is behind this calamity, as that is what it will be if matter continue-I am of the opinion that the power of Money aided by the likes of the WEF, WHO, Socialism, et al are clearly operating the signal to destroy this nation and its indigenous peoples.

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      • dhunter says:

        popeye – “Labour threw open Britain’s borders to mass immigration to help socially engineer a “truly multicultural” country, a former Government adviser has revealed.” – https://www.eutimes.net/2009/10/labour-wanted-mass-immigration-to-make-uk-more-multicultural-says-former-adviser/

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  4. Nibor says:

    AS an aside ,
    Nick Clegg is moving from California to England .

    This person, of international parentage , who speaks several languages , who espouses internationalism , is leaving California , where only 57% speak English as a first language and official communications are in English and Spanish ,

    is leaving multiculture diverse California to live in England .

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    • tarien says:

      Then Mr Clegg will find himself in a minority speaking English?

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      • Nibor says:

        Notice Tarien , he goes to Brexit England , not the United In Diversity EU .

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        • tarien says:

          He will love it- a fully blown Multicultural society, but not much Brexit to be seen as of now. Bring back Boris-well maybe not just yet or ever!

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    • Guest Who says:

      Comes to something when even Zux doesn’t want you.

      Straight back as BBC Newsnight roving reporter?

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    • Wild Bill says:

      Why is he coming back here?

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  5. Zephir says:

    “Former civil servant launches legal case claiming he was sacked for not being a feminist

    Kevin Legge, 50, said he was forced out of his job for not being a feminist. He is taking legal action against the Enivornment Agency as a result. He said said the interview process was ‘biased in favour of women over men’

    Mr Legge, who was based in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, said in a submission that he refused ‘to do (their) bidding by favouring women over men in recruitment or promotion’ as it would have amounted to sex discrimination.

    He cited alleged incidents including one in July 2019 when he told Ms Larmour he would not ‘positively discriminate’ after rejecting a female candidate based on merit.

    Another clash with Ms Larmour occurred in early 2020 when she allegedly stopped him from appointing a man to a senior adviser role despite him being ‘the best candidate’.

    Mr Legge claims he was advised to take on a less qualified female candidate when he protested at being told to re-advertise the post.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11139969/Civil-servant-launches-legal-case-claim-sacked-not-feminist.html

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  6. Zephir says:

    Greedy, self centred socialist shits on display again:

    “Good times never seemed so good! Conga-dancing Felixstowe dockworkers on strike belt Sweet Caroline as they party on picket line.

    On Monday, the second day of industrial action at the port, Mr Morton said Unite wants an improved pay offer in line with at ‘least the rate of inflation’, suggesting a figure between ‘7% and 12.3%

    Paul Davey, head of corporate affairs at the Port of Felixstowe, stressed there is a ‘7% plus £500’ offer on the table, and has urged Unite to let its members vote on it.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11140011/Conga-dancing-Felixstowe-dockworkers-strike-belt-Sweet-Caroline-party-picket-line.html

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    • Zephir says:

      “Militant unions are seeking to plunge the UK supply chain into anarchy and disrupt an estimated £700million of trade by galvanising around 1,900 Unite members to go on strike.

      There are fears that the mass walkouts – which come amid soaring 10% inflation and fears it could surge past 18% next year – will cause shipping chaos at Felixstowe, Britain’s biggest container port, and lead to shop and supermarket shortages through to Christmas.”

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      • tarien says:

        Yes Zephir that is exactly what they are about-target to bring not just this Government down but any other-one if not the oldest Parliament in the world will be destroyed and a bunch of uneductaed Arabs will then reside in that place. The EU and successive week government and absolute greed by a few to destroy the many.

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      • dhunter says:

        I keep on waiting for someone to say to those striking because “soaring 10% inflation and fears it could surge past 18%”, ok, as a business we can give you 8%, but any more & we go bust.

        and another thing, if inflation drops in the future will you take a pay cut, or again we go bust ?

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  7. andyjsnape says:

    Ukraine war: Kyiv counts cost of fragile independence
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62647062

    bBC does a “report” on Ukraine Independance day

    When driving into work this morning, on the radio they mentioned it was cancelled, strange

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  8. taffman says:

    Question: Is Albania emptying its jails and prisons?
    Question: Is the Ministry of Defence defending Great Britain?

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  9. taffman says:

    “ Melting glaciers: Germany’s ‘could disappear’ in 50 years”
    Operative word “could”.

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    • JohnC says:

      It’s one of the BBC’s favourite words. It allows them to use their global soapbox to infer an agenda based lie might be true without any accountability.

      And all paid for by the public – whether they like it or not.

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  10. brexiteerkent says:

    Dear police. If you really are so desperate to find the gunman who killed the poor 9 year old child. Why are you stil omitting the most important aspect of his description and the description of his intended victim ? ( who most likely shares this particular attribute with the gunman ) He has presumably changed his clothes by now !

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-62655200

    Can we assume then that what we are all thinking is correct ?

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    • JohnC says:

      It happens every time. He can change his clothes but he can’t change his skin. Whatever colour it is.

      Pushing the Leftists agenda is now more important to the police than catching murderers.

      History will look back on our times with the kind of disbelief of how warped it is that we have looking back on medievil England.

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      • brexiteerkent says:

        Lessons learned from Rochdale, Telford Rotherham etc ? Yes of course ! Main lesson learned is to do a better job of covering things up next time ! ( I know different ethnicity most likely involved in this case but same principle applies.)

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    • Guest Who says:

      Remind you of any national broadcasters?

      Ditto.

      Too.

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      • taffman says:

        They laughed at him then, but they’re not laughing now !
        Nigel , your country needs you !

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      • Thoughtful says:

        Just more proof that there’s no such thing as ‘racism’.

        Keep repeating this phrase and it drives the left crazy, they will respond that you are a ‘racist’ for saying that, at which point you can thank them for proving your point to be correct.

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      • tarien says:

        Come on Nigel get amongst the Pigeons and sort them out-you should without doubt be head of our Immigration and perhaps Home Secretary-Whoever becomes this nations new Prime Minister I say make certain Nigel Farage is in your Cabinet.

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    • Wild Bill says:

      They have arrested a man who was also shot and got away, he was out of prison on licence, he will know who was shooting and other names too, he should NEVER be released.
      Wonder what ethnicity he is?

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  11. JohnC says:

    Not quite BBC, but the BBC are one of the significant reasons we have ended up here.

    I was reading a report on a video game developer who has died through cancer. Here’s how it reads:

    ‘Prior to indie development, Hale had worked as a modder and developer on triple-A titles. Their first solo game, Waves, was a twin-stick shooter that released in 2011.

    “I know they would have liked to have completed that final project,” CJ continued, “but as Covid encroached, the need to have a more stable income was looming and between these factors and Rob’s struggles with their health, they never got the time to cap off this particular branch of their legacy.”‘

    I was completely confused for a moment until I realised the guy who died was being refered to as ‘they’ and ‘their’. It totally rubbishes the point of pronouns in the English language and highlighted to me just how ridiculous the Left are making this world.

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  12. Fedup2 says:

    Laura koonsberg has a new show on the BBC . She is doing interviews . There is a headline in the Daily telegraph which includes the words ‘women ‘ and’ abuse ‘

    I assumed this would be about the abuse of females by Pakistani racist Muslim Paedo gangs … but no- who care about that – it’s only northern white kids –

    No – this is about women in journalism being abused . I would have thought koonsberg would welcome this as it might take out competition .

    Meanwhile

    Plenty of stuff about fuel bills going up for the high street – restaurants being hit hard . Isn’t it strange that the papers glory in saying what the 2021 bills were and comparing to now …

    … and never mention that if the green crap – sponsored by Russia – hadn’t been so ‘bigger up ‘ then we’d be benefiting from our own fuel supplies at a lower price ( probably ) …..and might be a bit less worried about being dependent on very limited and expensive imports ….

    And then there is Liverpool plod – perhaps the buzzies will be too busy now to rehearse their queer dance steps ….

    …I wonder what happened to plod ? I suppose it got infected by far left woke like everything else we are forced to pay for …
    …maybe privatisation would be an option …

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    • dhunter says:

      “fuel bills going up” – but never a mention about how our wind farms/solar farms will save us from freezing this winter.

      wonder why ?

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  13. Fedup2 says:

    I was looking at the Liverpool echo to see how the killing of a 9 year old is being dealt with . Nothing about the killer – but – a story of someone caught trying to import 4 kilos of cannabis into Liverpool airport – and he got a suspended sentence … wow …I thought doing such a thing was serious ….

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  14. Thoughtful says:

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    As you can see the UK is paying the highest spot prices for gas purely because of the decision by the Monster Raving Loony Liberal Democrats when in coalition with the Tories that they would close Britains gas storage facilities !

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    • StewGreen says:

      It does depend how much gas is actually bought the day before
      probably a tiny amount.

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  15. G says:

    Spot the massaged Fake News, compliments of the Met Office.

    “New record from July heat”. July heat? Wow! That’s the whole of July isn’t it? Well no. read on:

    “A new highest daily minimum temperature record has been set during the unprecedented hot spell.”

    So, what was the average July temperature? Conveniently not mentioned – let’s do nothing to disturb the illusion that the planet is, ‘burning up’.

    https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weather-and-climate/2022/new-record-from-july-heat

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  16. AsISeeIt says:

    With inflation heading toward the 20% mark, soon we’ll all be Dicky Mint – as they say in Cockney rhyming slang

    There was a time us non-Liverpudlians only heard about the obscure, semi-legendary district of Knotty Ash from Ken Dodd and his friends the Diddy Men, who – as far as one could make out – were a squeaky-voiced Merseyside off-shoot of immigrant Irish leprechauns; who toiled away in vital local industires such as the Jam Butty Mines and the Broken Biscuit Repair factory doing jobs the locals didn’t want to do. Ah, but those were innocent days.

    Girl, 9, shot dead at home in gang crossfire… after the attacker allegedly entered the property in Knotty Ash and opened fire (Telegraph)

    Merseyside Police [police singular in the awkward BBC nomenclature] has appealed to anyone with information to come forward, including members of Liverpool’s “criminal fraternity” (BBC) – police and media being none too forthcoming as the nature of the these gangs and the specific brand of their criminality. My money is on drugs. And although the immediate area is typically rather like Ken Dodd’s jokes – elderly and white British – I’m guessing the gang may have Balkan connections.

    Albanians offer free bus ride to Channel… gangs are offering free mini-bus rides from southern Europe… promoting the “100 per cent secure” service in adverts on social media (Telegraph) – which could be handy, considering: Eurotunnel Le Shuttle: Passengers stuck for hours inside tunnel (BBC) – few such delays are to be expected these days on the one way ticket UK nationalised ferry service.

    Picture of innocence to shame lawless Britain – suggests the Daily Mail – given that there are now several well-defined issues into which our mainstream media just will not venture – such as the de facto official tolerance of drug- and people-trafficking – I’m reminded of that old gag about the delinquent kid: “He came from from a broken home, he broke it”

    Speaking of the Broken Biscuit Repair factory… NHS 111 chaos ‘will cause avoidable harm’ (Telegraph)

    Well, at least: Missing nurse found ‘fit and cared for’, say police (Guardian) – thank goodness for that – what with the nursing shortage crisis in the NHS we can’t afford to go losing them – good for her – although one suspects there’s quite some story there waiting to be told – one wonders if it ever will be?

    And what of those lucrative Jam Butty Mines? : Kwarteng to rein in green profits (we welcome a debut appearance hereabouts for Utility Week ’empowers utilities to transform with confidence in a fast-moving sector’ – empowers… see what they did there?)

    Editor’s picks from Utility Week include rather a lot of good news – from their point of view: Consumers willing to pay to avoid future water shortages. Around one-third of billpayers have indicated they would be willing to pay more to fund infrastructure to boost resilience against future droughts and flooding, a survey has shown. It also suggested water efficiency messaging has impacted behaviour, with 70% of adults who identified recent drought conditions as a ‘water crisis’ – so although as far as one can tell there has in reality been zero incidence of actual failure of water supply, the media nudge unit has been playing a blinder – as they say.

    Yorkshire sees demand fall in response to drought messaging – see what I mean?

    And so it goes on…

    Yorkshire to add 28 solar sites; Scotland’s largest offshore windfarm generates first power – and yet…
    UK is ‘out of time’ to act on energy crisis
    Energy crisis could last three years, says National Grid (Telegraph)

    Who’s up for a game of “Could, Fears, Crisis”?

    Well, we’ve already just this moment chalked off Could and Crisis in one single headline. The triple is not too far away.

    EU feared to be losing will to back Ukraine (Telegraph)

    War fatigue setting in?

    We love our Ukrainian guests, but can we afford them much longer? (Telegraph) – considering the Russian advance has supposedly run out of steam and the Ukrainians are pushing them back – how come the refugees can’t now return home to Kyiv?

    Anyway, a new propaganda push would seem to be rather timely…

    Ukraine war: Kyiv counts cost of fragile independence… Destroyed Russian military vehicles have been on display in Kyiv, to mark Ukraine’s Independence Day (BBC); Front line frontmen: Antytila, the rock band fighting Russia (BBC)

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    • G says:

      I remember not long back suggesting that if you wished to destroy a country from within, you would follow the Biden Marxist/Socialist playbook. Little did I realise that the UK Government would take that same playbook and follow it so closely. So quickly.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        “A nation can survive its fools (Boris Johnson), and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within (Theres May). An enemy at the gates is less formidable (ISIS), for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself (Islamist Politicians). For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.(Jeremy Corbyn) He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”

        ― Marcus Tullius Cicero

        https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/33210-a-nation-can-survive-its-fools-and-even-the-ambitious

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    • Up2snuff says:

      AISI, “Boracic Lint” is, I think, the correct phrase you are searching for, for line one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boracic_lint . It was certainly the one used by the Cockney who taught me rhyming slang.

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    • MarkyMark says:

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  17. andyjsnape says:

    Front line frontmen: Antytila, the rock band fighting Russia
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-62636408

    Scary stuff

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  18. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – doggone it! the dugongs gone but don’t let’s ask questions

    Only in China is the dugong said to be extinct but who knows, China is a large country, have the researchers looked everywhere? Ah but, yes but, no but when you read the article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62638485 on the BBC web-site you suddenly find “The likely disappearance of the dugong in China is a devastating loss.” (Prof. Samuel Turvey, Zoological Society of London)

    No hard questions about Chinese pollution. No tough interview with the Chinese Ambassador to the UK, pinning him to the wall with the pointed and barbed questions. Funny that.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Up2
      It was one of those WTF things . The ‘ research ‘ was based on ‘ asking thr locals’ who will always tell the Truth … waste of a negative story – but one extnction a day keeps the Greens happy ..

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    • StewGreen says:

      Local fishermen in Southern China traditionally revered dugongs and regarded them as “miraculous fish”. They believed it was bad luck to catch them and they were plentiful in the region prior to the 1960s. Beginning in the 1950s, a wave of immigrants from other regions that do not hold these beliefs resulted in dugongs being hunted for food and traditional Chinese medicine. This led to a steep decline in dugong populations in the Gulf of Tonkin and the sea around Hainan Island

      I don’t see any proper context info ..like saying “millions of dugongs used to exit in Hainan” or something
      If numbers were always limited to stray from southern areas
      then that would explain a zero count today.

      Also when count are close to zero POLITICS can lead to miscounts
      eg pretend you saw one ..then get a WWF grant
      or Pretend they’ve all gone and you can get on with developing a place without protest.
      Or pretend they have all gone ..and therefore keep poachers away from the ones you secretly know exist.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Quite right, Stew. I wouldn’t be surprised if we are told by the BBC in a year or two that the seagrass has returned and dugong have been seen with their young, feeding on the seagrass.

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  19. Guest Who says:

    When Getty goes… less diverse.

    Guess tagging certain groups might be seen as an outrage.

    Any pix of Timmeh! dressed as a Romulan getting his cheque from Gates around?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      650 MPS first – with data made public.

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      • StewGreen says:

        microchipping people is not the same as tracking
        Those tiny chips don’t transmit to a satellite etc.

        We all have fairly unique fingerprints anyway without a hidden chip.

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    • Charlie Farley says:

      Guest Who
      Microchip all illegals on arrival….could be useful if ( if being the operative word ! ) caught for Drug Dealing , Murder , Rape , Robbery the list is endless

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Home Office loses track of more than 600,000 people who should have left country, finds immigration watchdog
        UK border checks branded ‘shambolic’

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  20. theisland says:

    Clarity from Lord Sumption.

    The vagueness of the statute is going to be given precision by so-called guidance coming from Ofcom.

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    • MarkyMark says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Jo Brand: Ofcom to take no further action over battery acid joke
      Published
      27 January 2020
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51270007

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    • popeye says:

      This in response to theisland above – See also Prevention of Terrorism Act, first used to arrest an 80-year old heckler at the Labour Party Conference, then RIPA (introduced “purely” to assist the fight against terrorism lol) used by councils to catch people putting the wrong bins out. Give the Establishment an inch…..

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    • StewGreen says:

      The courts now
      “You insult a righty multiple times, that’s free speech”
      “You insult a lefty multiple times and that is harassment”

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  21. Guest Who says:

    Back on the QT panel in no time.

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  22. Guest Who says:

    Assumed this was the BBC Disinformation Chicago Office… until I saw the meat.

    So, not BBC Environment, Science and Flying Places either.

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    • Docmarooned says:

      The lotuseaters covered this item about this waste of space recently.
      It beggars belief that this type of snowflake life style is encouraged in the media and else where. Have these morons never heard of actual work?

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  23. Fedup2 says:

    Today

    Oh martha – talking to the liverpool police commissioner- labour – but not introduced as such – talking about shooting stats as though 2 years of covid never happened .

    Its all good in Liverpool – apparently – although the family of a 9 year old might think differently.

    Martha really is the softest of soft – maybe its the bees …

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  24. taffman says:

    “The Scots Guards perform Eurovision ‘Stefania’ tribute for Ukraine’s Independence Day”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-62653710
    Correct me if I am wrong, but is the still photograph being used of a Welsh Guard?

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    • AsISeeIt says:

      Yep, leek on the collar and green and white plume is Welsh Guards

      Watching the clip I also spotted an Irish Guardsman among the – mainly – Scots Guards band

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  25. Guest Who says:

    Might be worth checking.

    Priti?

    Nads?

    BBC?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Tuberculosis (TB) incidence has increased in England and Wales since 1987, with much of the increase in migrants from high TB incidence countries. …. The National Health Service increasingly depends on healthcare workers (HCWs) trained abroad, often from areas of high TB incidence. .. Pre-employment screening for active disease may not be enough to prevent the occurrence of these incidents (latent TB occurs much later). {Survey of tuberculosis incidents in hospital healthcare workers, England and Wales, 2005}

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    • G says:

      GW,

      I wonder if the Albanians were offered a choice? – US Southern Border or UK by Channel crossing. I imagine the UK option would be preferred if only to return to Albania often to visit mummy after they have set up their criminal enterprise in the UK.

      I wonder how long the public can go back in time to support pressing charges against the politicians for Treason. I’d go for Bliar to start with.

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      • tarien says:

        T Blair-most definitely- historically one of the worst traitors this nation has ever had to endure, however in far off days the traitor would have been sent to Traitors Gate, end of. Now our incompehensible system, gives them a Knighthood and then to add insult to injury makes them a member of the Garter, a very old tradition to which Blair is undeserving in every way. The system, as they say is broke.

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  26. Flotsam says:

    “Merseyside Police [police singular in the awkward BBC nomenclature] has appealed to anyone with information to come forward, including members of Liverpool’s “criminal fraternity” ”

    They’re struggling to find non criminals to talk to.

    Sorry about the Scouser “joke”

    Seriously there’s a lot going on in Liverpool that doesn’t make the news. Someone living in Liverpool I knew well ended up dead in mysterious circumstances last week. There’s been absolutely nothing in the news, not even in the Liverpool Echo. There is a Police investigation. Was it an accident, murder or manslaughter? No one knows.

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  27. Guest Who says:

    Luckily they can also cover news.

    Cows will need health warnings according to the Daisy Threat Charity asst. marketing spokesperson on BBC Bimbo Chicago.

    See, all that was needed.

    Back as generals in a month after gardening leave, per W1A policy?

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  28. Jeff says:

    Our old friend David Vance stopped by on this site on Friday, with a recommendation of a book; IS THAT TRUE OR DID YOU HEAR IT ON THE BBC?

    I sent off for it via Amazon and it arrived Sunday morning. It’s a cracking read. I wouldn’t usually use this site to endorse books, but this is really “right up our street”. The author, David Sedgwick, forensically exposes the lies, misinformation, bias and downright bigotry that the BBC deal in every day.

    He goes through their manufactured hysteria about “climate change”, their obsession with racial politics, their paranoid hatred of Brexit and Donald Trump and their rabble rousing coverage of the death of American thug, George Floyd, while completely ignoring the racist torture and murder of Kriss Donald and others on these shores.

    I’m heading up town to Westminster Abbey today to enjoy a brass band in the beautiful cloister gardens. I always enjoy reading while on the train so I might have finished the book by the time I get home.

    If the band aren’t up to much I will have finished it…

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  29. Guest Who says:

    And no BS.

    Well, any more.

    She has joined Groper, to ‘find her voice’.

    The next Pengecast with Sopes is aiming at double figures.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Eddie Izzard introduces us to Raghad and her story of living in conflict in Yemen.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EK3rTxKXkAAXSWs?format=jpg&name=900×900

      “I want you to go home and kill your Brexit voting parents.” Kumar

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    • Guest Who says:

      It’s the little things.

      https://order-order.com/2022/08/24/bbc-bias-twitter-bitchfight-henderson-versus-lineker/

      Guess Timmeh! might need to get a minion to wave this one off anonymously.

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      • MarkyMark says:

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        Dear Winston Smith at the BBC £3.5bn UK News Service Department,

        I noticed on the BBC news (2jul2019) you showed the opening of the EU Parliament and The Brexit Party facing the opposite way (outward looking) to the other MEPs (inward looking) and went on to show the Liberal Demoracts Party wearing bright yellow t-shirts front side only (not yellow vests).

        May I point out three bits of omission as it was a former employee of yours that said “Omission was the greatest lie.”.

        1) You showed the Liberal Democrats t-shirts but did not display what was on the back .. B*LL*CKS TO BREXIT. I added stars incase your system blocks swear words. This is missing the point that grown ups are swearing in Parliament.

        2) Your complaints page has been missing for at least two weeks that shows your omissions and corrections in 2018 like the one where you said NHS nurse but in fact she was a Labour Activist.
        http://www.bbc.co.uk/corporate2/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications/corrections_2018

        3) I see MEP Magid Magid got refused entry to the EU Parliament, but the article shows a nice t-shirt (IMMIGRANTS MAKE BRITAIN GREAT) and not the one he wore which was “F**K FASCISM” when trying to enter Parliament.

        From these 3 cases I hope you can see that omission lets the BBC tell a different story and can elevate those in favour and bring scorn to those out of favour.

        I know this email is on its way to the BBC Memory Hole but hope that at least one person in the BBC, you Winston, get a chance to raise an eyebrow.

        Many Thanks,
        A BBC TV License Tax payer helping the Few like Gary Lineker, Not the Many like the over 75s.

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  30. taffman says:

    IMHO there has been a phase shift in the UK’s politics…………
    UKIP and The Reform Party have become The New Conservatives.
    Conservative Tories have become The Liberals.
    Liberals have become the Labour Party.
    The Labour Party have become Marxists.

    And that’s why we are still paying the ‘Telly Tax’ , the ‘Green Levy’ and still have one foot in the EU.
    All at the same time as we are still being invaded from Europe by criminals.
    Thank’s Bo Jo!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Boris – Left of Labour to beat labour. Not coming back.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      taffman, policy-wise that is somewhat right. The BBC are desperately hoping that Der Starmer can halt the Labour slide to ‘autocracy’ and can do a Blair but the poor sucker has all the charm and electability of a wet sheep. It would be a great help to British democracy if UKIP and Reform would merge.

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      • taffman says:

        If the Tories and the LibDems can form a coalition, its pretty clear that UKIP and The Reform Party could merge.
        A winner !

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  31. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #2 – no, Amol – that is a fear for democracy

    Jair Bolsanaro, President of Brazil, is concerned that the forthcoming Presidential Election might be rigged against him. Amol decides that it is because Jair Bolsanaro is an autocrat. I would say it it is because Jair Bolsanaro wants free and fair elections and is a democrat and believes democracy is best.

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  32. Guest Who says:

    Light relief. Possibly an accurate bbc story.

       3 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      “It’s Always Brutal At The End”: Broadcaster Laura Kuenssberg Talks Boris’s Downfall, Internet Bullies, And Landing Her Biggest Gig To Date
      https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/laura-kuenssberg-interview
      …………….

      Laura Kuenssberg given bodyguards at Labour conference after abuse
      BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg has been assigned security at the Labour Party conference after receiving abuse from Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters, according to reports

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  33. Guest Who says:

    BBC teaching young reporters how things are done in the place all the oldies went to for the Olympics despite… moving on…

       4 likes

  34. BRISSLES says:

    Huh ! so the guy who forced his way into the house in Liverpool (chased by a gunman) is a prisoner on licence, so its back to clink for him. He’s been arrested in his hospital bed.

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    • Thoughtful says:

      I cannot for the life of imagine how terminally nosey someone would have to be, on hearing a masssive disturbance on the street involving firearms, decides the best course of action would not be to take cover and find out later what was going on, nor to go upstairs to get a better view and curtain twitch, but to open the front door to see what is going on, and no doubt give them a piece of her mind for making a racket!

      This is true nosiness on a world class scale and it resulted in the death of her 9 year old daughter, putting everyone in the house at risk.

      Toxic femininity? Possibly but we will never hear it described as such.

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      • StewGreen says:

        How could I judge when i wasn’t there ?
        Maybe her other child was outside
        Maybe she thought a pop was an exhaust backfire, not gun.

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    • Thoughtful says:

      Not necessarily back to the clink, he could be an innocent victim of someone trying to kill him and lets face it, if someone was chasing any of us with a live gun we would all seek what ever shelter we could.
      Liverpool plod are as big a joke as any of the Labour controlled big city forces and have arrested the guy for show that they are doing something.

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  35. StewGreen says:

    REDio Humberide just had a long item
    Gareth Forest of the TUC saying
    “it’s simple just make the minimum wage £15” etc.

    Then the presenter played a record
    and now an item live from Grimsby with Unite the Union
    who have organised a “pay the workers rally there”
    cos “we are here cos it’s a RED wall seat” .. (so it’s POLITICAL ..not about wages)

    Next presenter says “Hey I just read this in the Daily Mirror”

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    • StewGreen says:

      No the reality workers have to be POORER
      cos Guardianland policies make the UK poorer
      lockdowns
      furough
      greendream
      Calais migrants
      & now strikes
      COST the UK
      Will magic unicorns pay ?

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    • StewGreen says:

      11am news came on The #2 item was that Gareth Forest of the TUC clip

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  36. Foscari says:

    I suspect that I am right about this, and being a pale stale
    male I suppose you can say that I am being sexist at
    the very least. BUT the BBC have decided that Women’s
    football coverage is put on, at the very least equal terms
    as the men.
    You will see on the main page of the internet Sports pages
    several features about the women’s game. Appearing
    that the men’s game doesn’t even exist.
    I , like most patriotic sports loving folk in England were
    thrilled to bits that England’s women won the Euro’s.
    But honestly some of the stuff that they make major
    sports headlines , beggars belief.

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  37. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    On LGBBC newcastle radio this morning they had a wimmin on who was talking about a time when her autistic son had an episode in a supermarket and she was very upset.
    The other people there were very friendly and understanding to her which helped her.

    There was one man who gave her a hug to make her feel better and she said it helped her.

    I wouldn’t dare hug a stranger in her position for fear of being arrested for some sort of assault or whatever.

    In the olden days you could do this but with today’s wokies they are so easily triggered you would be best advised to keep your hands to yourself.

    If you came across an obviously lost child would you take their hand and lead them away to …. where?, a police station if you could find one. You would probably be arrested for abduction.

    It’s sad that it’s come to this.

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  38. MarkyMark says:

    Matt Hancock has become the first MP to join the metaverse. Since stepping down as Health Secretary the lover boy has picked up the baton of some niche political issues, not least the complementary causes of cryptocurrency and assisted dying. According to the press release, Hancock is now engaging with the Californian virtual reality platform as he “believes that the Metaverse should be open and free”. It’s a generous hairline…
    order order
    …………..

    1-NIGHT STAND BAN Matt Hancock tells people not to have casual sex and stick to ‘established relationships’ to stop coronavirus spreading
    Alex Matthews
    8:42, 24 Sep 2020Updated: 16:18, 24 Sep 2020
    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/politics/12753924/matt-hancock-casual-sex-ban/

       3 likes

  39. MarkyMark says:

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    In the 2010s, personal data belonging to millions of Facebook users was collected without their consent by British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, predominantly to be used for political advertising.[1]

    The data was collected through an app called “This Is Your Digital Life”, developed by data scientist Aleksandr Kogan and his company Global Science Research in 2013.[2] The app consisted of a series of questions to build psychological profiles on users, and collected the personal data of the users’ Facebook friends via Facebook’s Open Graph platform.[2] The app harvested the data of up to 87 million Facebook profiles.[2] Cambridge Analytica used the data to provide analytical assistance to the 2016 presidential campaigns of Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.[3][4] Cambridge Analytica was also widely accused of interfering with the Brexit referendum, although the official investigation recognised that the company was not involved “beyond some initial enquiries” and that “no significant breaches” took place.[5][6]

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  40. MarkyMark says:

    But Mr Hancock told anyone looking for a steamy affair in the winter months to think twice.

    He said: “In these rules that we have to bring in, there have to be boundaries, to coin a phrase.
    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/politics/12753924/matt-hancock-casual-sex-ban/

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  41. MarkyMark says:

    Olympian Katie Archibald said she tried desperately to save her partner Rab Wardell as he suffered a fatal cardiac arrest in bed beside her.

    The champion cyclist expressed her devastation after Wardell, a mountain biker, died aged 37 on Tuesday morning.

    His death came two days after he won the Scottish MTB XC Championships in Dumfries and Galloway.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-62657986

       5 likes

  42. tomo says:

    Chilling stuff…

       11 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      The knock of effect of stolen elections – lawless democrat cities . Millions of US taxpayers money wasted on corrupt airhead give aways …..
      In a democracy the remedy is easy . Decent people vote the vermin out of office – but if the Obama party has the voting system under control they know that they can do what they want using an unlimited supply of other peoples ‘ money .

      The other big mistake of course is treating feral a like young human beings when they are really animals and should be treated as such ….
      The perennial fight over crime – using force – or treating it as a disease – but screw the victims – they don’t count .

      ….elsewhere – same theme Lady Brooke talking like the queen asking what would happen to a witness to the latest killing in Liverpool if they came forward – they would be ‘protected ‘ ..until the latest drugged up corrupt plod sold their details to a dealer ….
      Lady Brooke not good on real life …

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  43. MarkyMark says:

    2021 … China hoards over half the world’s grain, pushing up global prices
    Testy ties with U.S. and Australia could be prodding China to boost food reserves
    https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Datawatch/China-hoards-over-half-the-world-s-grain-pushing-up-global-prices

       3 likes

  44. s.trubble says:

    I think it is fair to include the bBC in this but did anyone see the Liam Halligan show on GB NEws yesterday.

    He was comparing the crisis over the total liability presented by
    the massive scale of public sector pensions.

    Public sector pension liabilities are almost the same as the entire debt currently being carried by the UK.

    We’re talking trillions here…numbers with 11 zeros I think Liam said.

    The takeaway for me was that this level of liability is virtually unpayable and is of a design 50 years old where;

    1) life expectancy was much lower
    2) many pensions in the public sector are still final salary or average salary based
    3) that public sector wages now outstrip the private sector.

    When it sounds too good to be true etc?

    Watch for bBC rat exodus as they finally realise that yes that is water coming up through the floorboards.

       12 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      NHS to benefit from £13.4 billion debt write-off
      Health Secretary announces over £13 billion of debt will be written off as part of a major financial reset for NHS providers.
      https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nhs-to-benefit-from-13-4-billion-debt-write-off

         4 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Actually I saw the mega pension cost thing on Steyn
      The point is those pensions will be paid but over about 90 years
      eg a 20 yo civil servant will still be getting a pension when he is 110

      Likewise the NHS will be funded in 90 years time
      So the 90 year NHS liability will be about £130bn each year for 90 years scaled up for inflation
      so will be tens of thousands of billions, ie tens of trillions

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  45. StewGreen says:

    News …”blah blah blah ..hosepipe ban”
    “Now the weather : more rain around this afternoon”

       8 likes

  46. G.W.F. says:

    Not much reported about the artists who read extracts from the Satanic Verses in support of Rushdie.

    I managed to find this extract

    https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/new-york-salman-rushdie-satanic-verses-b2149213.html

       11 likes

  47. MarkyMark says:

    BOLTON MUSEUM: Michael remembers being transfixed by a painted plaster copy of an Ancient Egyptian Nefertiti bust (right) as a young child at Bolton Museum’s Egyptology gallery. “I just think it’s a very powerful image, so beautiful and regal. I remember being a little gay boy staring at Nefertiti thinking, ‘I want to have that face one day'”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/32164a39-1f6e-4339-bd03-fd7b323e0683

       4 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      ‘I tried and tried, but his heart stopped’: Olympic gold cyclist Katie Archibald reveals she desperately battled to save dying partner mountain biker Rab Wardell, 37, after he ‘suffered cardiac arrest as they lay in bed’

      The internet asked why a triple vaxxed athlete with no previous heart condition suddenly died of a heart attack
      Since it only just happened it is the family’s business so media are right to protect his name being hijacked by POLITICAL folks.

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