595 Responses to Midweek 24 August 2022

  1. MarkyMark says:

    Rishi last ditched attempt …

    Rishi Sunak has finally managed to grab the agenda during the leadership race, and finally not for a u-turn or a strategic cock up. Interviewed in The SpectatorSunak’s argues SAGE made historically bad predictions based on botched modelling and No. 10 never allowed a debate to be had on the cost-benefit of lockdown measures – particularly on closing schools. A culture of fear was decided on by the top of government and their scientific advisors, which was then set in stone. “Dissenting voices were filtered out and a see-no-evil policy was applied.”

    order-order.com

    ….

    ‘Science super-prowess’

    He was knighted, at Buckingham Palace, by the Duke of Cambridge, in July, having missed the initial ceremony after catching Covid.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-62407555

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  2. Sluff says:

    OT
    Good article in the Telegraph today by Ian Botham.
    He suggests that the professional protesters don’t really care about the issue in question, it’s about choosing subjects where the opponents of their cause of the day are centre-right,

    Thus animal rights people are highly selective. They oppose fox hunting but do not campaign against the RSPB who kill foxes to protect ground nesting birds, and also attach honey-flavoured cotton wool to the live wires of electric fences in order to kill badges.

    In other words the left wing protect the left wing. Animal rights people have as their main target the people not the animals. Thus the ‘right wing toffs’ who hunt, and by extension the Tories generally.
    So following Mr Botham’s logic, we may also conclude that
    ER don’t glue themselves to the road for the benefit of the climate but to oppose the ‘right wing’ who favour private transport and private business. Transgender activists exist primarily to embarrass right wingers who are more likely to resist their strictures and thus appear out-of-date and irrelevant.
    And so on. Often of course it’s the same ‘professional protesters’ appearing to support all the above causes. Destabilise and so destroy. The Marxist route to power.

    As for the BBC. Well, maybe the above is not so OT after all.,

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    • Thoughtful says:

      The animal ‘rights’ thugs are even more selective than that. They never intefere with the working mans sport of badger baiting or the highly popular Pakistani ‘sport’ of dog fighting’, nor what I believe to be the pikies favourite Hare coursing.

      Funny too how those men who like to dress up in fur lined dresses and curly wigs will support what they consider to be ‘protest’ but come down like a ton of bricks on anyone protesting outside their courtrooms, a la Tommy Robinson style.

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    • digg says:

      You could add to that list Unite and the rail unions, it’s not about pay it’s all about left wing political manoeuvring.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Labour MP received £500,000 in funding from Chinese Communist agent
        Barry Gardiner said he kept security services fully informed, after MI5 warned MPs they are being targeted by Beijing.
        https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/barry-gardiner-mi5-mps-chinese-labour-b976606.html

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        • G says:

          MM,

          Is it arrogance or just simply being naïve? Could be just plain stupid of course.

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          • MarkyMark says:

            Both – “Democracy Forum” ….

            Name of donor: Democracy Forum
            Address of donor: 34 South Molton Street, London W1K 5RG

            Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: The services of a strategic campaign consultant between 5 July and 5 September 2022 for Stop Fire and Re-hire Ltd of which I am a director, value £6,000

            Date received: 5 July 2022

            Date accepted: 5 July 2022

            Donor status: company, registration 07046518

            (Registered 13 July 2022)
            https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=10220

            ….

            Name of donor: Christine Lee & Co
            Address of donor: 86 Holloway Head, Birmingham B1 1NB

            Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: the services of a Parliamentary Researcher for 5 days per week from 28 February 2020 to 30 June 2020, approx. value £11,982

            https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=10220

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  3. MarkyMark says:

    WE ARE ALL EQUAL ….

    A leading private university in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) has been embroiled in an ugly controversy in recent months.

    A former assistant professor of the St Xavier’s University has told the BBC that she was forced to quit her job for sharing her photographs in a bikini on Instagram – a charge the university has denied.

    The 31-year-old, who requested not to be named, has accused the university officials of “sexual harassment” and says that she “was bullied, browbeaten, and subjected to moral policing”.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-62601044

    ………………..

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    • StewGreen says:

      That’s a bit of a strange story
      why should the BBC be now using UK public’s money to report in detail on a small story from India which happened LAST YEAR ??
      “The assistant professor says she joined the faculty of the CATHOLIC uni on 9 August 2021
      Two months later, she was summoned to the vice-chancellor’s office for a meeting.” about the parents complaint

      She said The photographs, in which she was wearing a two-piece swimsuit, were were posted on 13 June 2021
      on Instagram as a “story” – which means that they had disappeared after 24 hours.

      That’s like Snapchat, you are supposed to be able to post cheeky stuff, cos it’s not archived.
      But an aware person would know that that is rubbish and that boys are prone to screenshot anything remotely porny and possibly share it.
      So her side she is a victim of a kind of hack
      It wasn’t like he Instagram was a public account with a load of porn on it ..it was a private account which once previously had a bikini shots for 24 hours, before her job started.

      The unis story is that she failed to turn up after the holiday on Oct 25.
      Her story is that there was no point, cos despite her apology letter, the college had already said they would dismiss her.
      Then they said she needed to pay them £100K for defamation
      a clearly ridiculous amount
      Now almost 1 year later her side have got stuff in the Indian press
      and the BBC is copying from them,

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  5. MarkyMark says:

    Picture of child with title – no idea where KILL US came from?

    Rohingya: ‘Kill us, but don’t deport us to Myanmar’
    By Rajini Vaidyanathan
    BBC South Asia Correspondent

    Published
    9 hours ago

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-62658647

    READING KORAN IN HEAD SCARFS?

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    • Zephir says:

      They really should do something about the paving in Bradford High Street.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Team that will run Bradford’s City of Culture year are appointed
        24th August

        https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/20715733.team-will-run-bradfords-city-culture-year-appointed/

        A KEIGHLEY based artist and TV presenter and the man in charge of running Sheffield’s theatres have been picked to deliver Bradford’s 2025 city of culture programme.

        Today, it has been announced that Shanaz Gulzar, who played a key role in Bradford’s successful City of Culture bid, will be Creative Director of Bradford 2025.

        And Dan Bates, Chief Executive of Sheffield Theatres, has been named Executive Director of Bradford 2025.

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    • StewGreen says:

      It’s a quote in the middle of the article
      “The government of India doesn’t want us either… but I’d rather they killed us than deported us to Myanmar.”

      – They illegally crossed into India
      – After some years some Indian politician falsely tweets they will be given money
      – The governing party corrects that
      – Now the illegals say they are big victims

      ================

      I don’t think the photo shows the Koran
      Although it looks very similar
      The children are tiny and on zooming you see some have a letter chart book in front of them, as if learning to read
      The Getty image description is vague
      “Bangladesh on August 25, 2022. Rohingyas try to survive in harsh living conditions. (Photo by Md. Kamruzzaman/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)”
      https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/children-at-refugee-camp-where-rohingya-people-fleeing-due-news-photo/1242681177

      In most shots tiny children wear headscarves as if that is Rohingya tradition

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  6. G says:

    Getting closer to being the UK……………

    “Violent Crime Rocks Sweden Ahead of Elections”

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18826/sweden-violent-crime

    ‘Welcome Refugees!’

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Sweden has in just two generations gone from being one of the safest countries in the world to being one of the most dangerous countries in Europe. During the same time, mass immigration has dramatically altered Sweden’s population. 1.2 million of those eligible to vote in the elections in September 2022 were born outside Sweden…
      https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18826/sweden-violent-crime

      Riots in Sweden days after Trump’s immigration comments

      Riots in Sweden days after Trump’s immigration comments
      Close
      Swedish police have launched an investigation after a riot erupted in a predominantly immigrant suburb of the capital, Stockholm.

      Rioters threw rocks, set vehicles on fire and looted shops on Monday in Rinkeby, which has a history of unrest.

      Published
      22 February 2017
      Section
      BBC News
      Subsection
      Europe
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-39053125

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    • MarkyMark says:

      2017 Police spokesman Lars Bystrom said: “This kind of situation doesn’t happen that often but it is always regrettable when it happens.”
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39047455

      ….

      The French government on Thursday reported a 12-percent drop in the number of cars torched on New Year’s Eve – a ritual among revellers in the country’s high-rise suburbs. The number of vehicles set alight on the night of December 31 fell from 1,067 a year ago to 940, the interior ministry said in a statement.1 Jan 2015

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  7. MarkyMark says:

    So RIshi is a COVID DENIER?

    Rishi Sunak has finally managed to grab the agenda during the leadership race, and finally not for a u-turn or a strategic cock up. Interviewed in The SpectatorSunak argues SAGE made bad predictions based on botched modelling and No. 10 never allowed a debate to be had on the cost-benefit of lockdown measures – particularly on closing schools.

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  8. MarkyMark says:

    Unfortunately, such problems are no longer confined only to major cities. They are spreading to smaller towns and even rural areas across Sweden. Kalmar, a relatively small medieval town of historical importance, has experienced multiple deadly gang shootings.

    Swedes who want their families to be safe from violent crime are running out of places to move to — unless they decide to leave their homeland behind entirely, as some are doing already.

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18826/sweden-violent-crime

    …..

    Across the West, more and more migrants arrive and have children, rapidly growing to outnumber whites. In a matter of months, the white West has been overrun and pro-immigrant governments have been established, while the white people are ordered to share their houses and flats with the immigrants.

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

    ….

    Black Axe is an international and extremely violent criminal organization with roots in Nigeria. They are one of the many rival criminal gangs in the process of establishing themselves in Sweden. An official police report from 2019 indicated that Stockholm alone has at least 50 different criminal gangs currently operating in the city. They are also getting more aggressive and violent. Scandinavian countries traditionally did not have strong organized crime groups comparable to the mafia found in southern Italy. Now Sweden has dozens of different groups or clans competing against one another for control over the local market of narcotics, protection money or other illegal activities.

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  9. StewGreen says:

    11:04am Radio4 switch on bingo
    “The modern game is known to be quite WHITE and elitist”

    prog blurb
    Lacrosse may have the reputation as a white elitist sport, played in private schools. In fact, it was originally a Native American game, practiced across North America before European colonisers arrived.
    As white settlers pushed westwards, TAKING land and resources, they also took lacrosse as their own.
    They stopped Native Americans from playing it, alongside prohibiting other spiritual and cultural practices.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Seems to me BBC is doing the nature fallacy
      ie saying everything natural is fine until (white) man turns up
      In reality natural systems can be quite vicious
      and that extends to native tribes who often warred and enslaved each other etc.
      Aborigines burnt down more forest than they should
      In NZ Maoris wiped the giant moa out before white men turned up
      oh and wiped out the preceding Moriori people
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moriori_genocide

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      • BigBrotherCorporation says:

        “oh and wiped out the preceding Moriori people”

        Didn’t just wipe them out Stew they hunted and ate them.

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    • brexiteerkent says:

      I was just logging in to mention the same program ! Radio 4 about lacross and how badly the ‘indigenous’ people of America were treated. For a change I actually listened to it, was car bound anyway and quite interesting .. Learned a few things .. But will it be balanced by a program about how the indigenous British are being displaced from their homeland ? No, of course not !
      Nearly every docu style program on radio 4 has some sort of lefty agenda. The lacross program was to be followed by something about how wonderful a Nigerian who lived in Tottenham and moved to the USA’s music was. Off button time ..

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      • brexiteerkent says:

        Ps not sure why they called the ‘ Nigerian from tottenham ” Nigerian as opposed to their usual ” British” . I guess they change their opinion to suit. If it is “celebrating music” or something they perceive as ‘good’ then they use the actual nationality, if it is being arrested for stabbing it would be ‘ British’

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      • StewGreen says:

        A Career in Music is the story of Nigerian immigrants coming to Britain and working extremely hard to give their children opportunities they didn’t have,
        only for those children to take those opportunities in a completely different direction to that which their parents intended.

        since moving to LA in 2009
        He was born in 1980 so moved when he was 29

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “alongside prohibiting other spiritual and cultural practices”

      Q.1) Are all cultures equal? YES|NO

      Q.2) Should Charles James Napier have let India’s Suttee to continue – widows jump onto fires when their husbands die to kill themselves? YES|NO

      Q.3) Do you still believe all cultures equal? YES|NO

      Q.4) If Charles James Napier had NOT stopped India’s Suttee and it cotinued in 2018, would you allow Indians moving to Britain to still practice Suttee as part of their culture in 2018?

      Q.3) Do you still believe all cultures equal? YES|NO

      “Be it so. This burning of widows (India/suttee) is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.”
      – Charles James Napier

      (c) CANE Project 2018 – Cultures Are Not Equal Project

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/08/24/weekend-open-thread-24-august-2018/comment-page-4/#comment-938884

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  10. StewGreen says:

    Radio4 was tweeting #WhiteManBad stuff yesterday too

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Excerpt from Thomas Sowell’s “Black Rednecks & White Liberals”.
      Dr. Thomas Sowell is probably one of the most brilliant minds alive in America. In a series of long essays, It presents eye-opening insights into the historical development of the ghetto culture that is today wrongly seen as a unique black identity–a culture cheered on toward self-destruction by white liberals who consider themselves “friends” of blacks. This essay titled “The Real History of Slavery” presents a jolting re-examination of that tragic institution and the narrow and distorted way it is too often seen today. The reasons for the venomous hatred of Jews, and of other groups like them in countries around the world, are explored in an essay that asks, “Are Jews Generic?” Misconceptions of German history in general, and of the Nazi era in particular, are also re-examined. So too are the inspiring achievements and painful tragedies of black education in the United States. “Black Rednecks and White Liberals” is the capstone of decades of outstanding research and writing on racial and cultural issues by Thomas Sowell.
      Thomas Sowell: born June 30, 1930, is an American economist, turned social theorist, political philosopher, and author.

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  11. BigBrotherCorporation says:

    ‘Sewage in sea: French appeal to EU over UK discharges of waste’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62670623

    “Oh la la! La merde en la manche!”

    Just goes to show, what goes around comes around, utterly disgusting, but it’s not as if the French haven’t ever dumped their refuse in the channel, without any concern about it washing up on OUR shores.

    Some years ago I recall visiting Brittany on holiday and seeing stinking sewage literally pouring into the sea, and rubbish from crumbling, cliffside landfills strewn all over the beach… in case you were thinking I was speaking metaphorically.

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  12. andyjsnape says:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-62660072
    Scott Mills: Keeping people smiling in good times and bad

    Yeah right

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “We just tried to provide that escapism and keep people going through it,” he says.
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-62660072
      ………….

      A YouGov poll seen exclusively by the BBC found 57% of those asked said they censor themselves on issues including immigration and trans rights, particularly if their views are deemed at the less politically correct end of the spectrum.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59703257

      ‘You haven’t a real appreciation of Newspeak, Winston,’ he said almost sadly. ‘Even when you write it you’re still thinking in Oldspeak. I’ve read some of those pieces that you write in the Times occasionally. They’re good enough, but they’re translations. In your heart you’d prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You don’t grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?’

      https://orwell.ru/library/novels/1984/english/en_p_1

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  13. StewGreen says:

    Radio4 regular guests

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    • MarkyMark says:

      ‘Racist’ Gandhi statue removed from University of Ghana
      Published
      13 December 2018

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-46552614

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “At least Americans can move bit by bit against Trump. We here are stuck with Brexit loonies forever.”

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “The future looks bright then, until you notice those who use new technology without due care.Some crazed demons on Twitter believe anything goes. Written words matter and hold meanings beyond that narcissistic urge to send off instant thoughts. The Tory councillor who sent out a vile and scary message about me says it was a joke. After some thought I decided I will not press charges. My objections have been made and there is no need for more. Yet having read many blogs and tweets that followed the incident, I do wonder whether our manners and morals will survive and if English itself, the best thing about us, is now seriously endangered.

      Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Our most precious possession :: Post-colonials and their children in Britain have reclaimed English and made it their own {independent – Yasmin Alibhai-Brown – nov2010}

      http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/yasmin-alibhai-brown/yasmin-alibhai-brown-our-most-precious-possession-2134151.html

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    • MarkyMark says:

      She gets £800 to appear from th, BBC>

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  14. JohnC says:

    Just reporting more BBC racist and sexist discrimination. Move along, nothing new to see here:

    GCSE results 2022: How were grades decided?
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-53682466

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    In the last one both ‘mechanics’ have clean hands, perfect fingernails and brand new overalls. 100% fake.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Hmmmn, how many teenage school students are married and wear wedding rings?

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      • andyjsnape says:

        Up2snuff, depends on the country 🙂

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        • Up2snuff says:

          How many white teenage school students are married and wear wedding rings while getting their GCSE results?

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Marry at 6 in some places … inshallah

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        • JohnC says:

          Point out that a certain someone consumated his marriage with a 9 year old and the BBC will describe your comment as too offensive to repeat.

          They are quite happy to protect a paedophile when it suits their agenda.

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          • Fedup2 says:

            I know it might offend some and the language rules ( if fed the mod will allow me )… but I understand that there are more barstewards being born now than those of a recognised marriage – but I’m not sure how the Islam stats work …

            …. I’m also prejudiced when the bbc interview a single mum bringing up berata, Luger and colt but hasn’t got a farthing to run together …

            … I wait for the question about where the dad(s) contribute to the upbringing of the loin fruits but it never comes …although it seems they do…

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    • micknotmike says:

      I’m not sure how much it applies to car mechanics, but I can speak of a previous employment I had working underground in coal mines. There were two types of fitters; ones who didn’t wear a wedding ring, and ones who were missing at least one finger.

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  15. StewGreen says:

    It is ridiculous to suggest that Radio4 platforms the same lefty London mates again and again
    eg Tuesday morning a debate show had two guests
    one was Fiona Millar

    who is she ?

    Oh the one married to Alastair Campbell
    .. https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1378610909501915141

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  16. JohnC says:

    I think the BBC must be reasonably confident the killer of Olivia Pratt-Korbel was white considering how this one murder from many has been catapulted to ‘Live updates’ status.

    No such treatment for this boy. Not even on the front page. It’s pretty certain the ethnicity of the murderer for this one:

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-62656691

    It’s all so blatant, those hypocrite activists on twitter who choose to ignore it really disgust me.

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  17. StewGreen says:

    Defund The BBC is starting on TalkTV

    Item started with a clip of Maitlis’ speech

    “Emily Maitlis has said a BBC board member is an “active agent of the Conservative party”
    who is shaping the broadcaster’s news output by acting “as the arbiter of BBC impartiality”.

    Maitlis, has claimed that Robbie Gibb is an “active agent of the Conservative Party” within the BBC.
    Gibb is also the sole director of Jewish Chronicle Ltd, the mother company of the well-known newspaper and the brother of Tory MP Nick Gibb.

    Answer : While ⁦@UKLabour⁩ only have their agents in front & behind the camera🤔

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  18. Tabs says:

    House of the Dragon: Should graphic birth scenes have a trigger warning?
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-62652449

    What’s next? Lambing Live on BBC2 to be replaced by shepherds doing jazz hands?

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  19. MarkyMark says:

    Say ….
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  20. MarkyMark says:

    FREE BINS … Edinburgh Fringe visitors shocked by stinking bin strike mess
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-62664895
    ……………..
    FREE SPEECH …Edinburgh Fringe: Jerry Sadowitz show cancelled by venue bosses
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-62533592
    …..
    FREE BORDERS …_83925045_gettyimages-478954136.jpg at Glastonbury

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  21. Zephir says:

    Poor muzzies on the bbc radio news again, victims chucked out of their homes

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-62658647

    not a single mention for years of the Christian genocide going on in so many muzzie ruled countries, there was a short story in 2019 mentioning China as a chief perpetrator, meanwhile:

    “Journalist who reported on massacre of Nigerian Christians to stand trial for “cyberstalking”

    https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252066/journalist-who-reported-on-massacre-of-nigerian-christians-to-stand-trial-for-cyberstalking

    The 50 Countries Where It’s Most Dangerous to Follow Jesus in 2021

    Every day, 13 Christians worldwide are killed because of their faith.

    Every day, 12 churches or Christian buildings are attacked.

    And every day, 12 Christians are unjustly arrested or imprisoned, and another 5 are abducted.

    This year the top 10 worst persecutors are relatively unchanged. After North Korea is Afghanistan, followed by Somalia, Libya, Pakistan, Eritrea, Yemen, Iran, Nigeria, and India.

    Nigeria entered the top 10 for the first time, after maxing out Open Doors’s metric for violence. The nation, with Africa’s largest Christian population, ranks No. 9 overall but is second behind only Pakistan in terms of violence, and ranks No. 1 in the number of Christians killed for reasons related to their faith.

    https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2021/january/christian-persecution-2021-countries-open-doors-watch-list.html

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  22. Zephir says:

    ” Christian persecution

    It may be surprising, but Christian persecution around the world is one of the biggest human rights issues of this era.

    A woman in India watches as her sister is dragged off by Hindu nationalists. She doesn’t know if her sister is alive or dead.

    A man in a North Korean prison camp is shaken awake after being beaten unconscious; the beatings begin again.

    A woman in Nigeria runs for her life. She has escaped from Boko Haram, who kidnapped her. She is pregnant, and when she returns home, her community will reject her and her baby.

    A group of children are laughing and talking as they come down to their church’s sanctuary after eating together. Instantly, many of them are killed by a bomb blast. It’s Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka.”

    https://www.opendoorsusa.org/christian-persecution/

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  23. theisland says:

    From @MigrationWatch

    Astonishing visa / asylum figures issued by Govt today:
    330k+ work visas (+72% on 2019)
    480k+ study visas (+71% on 2019)
    75k asylum claims by main applicants and dependants (fifth highest ever and most since 2002)
    230k granted entry for resettlement (Ukraine, HK, Afghanistan)

    Remarkable takeaway from figures:
    226,400 grants were to *family* of people on other visas (180% more than in 2019).
    – Since then, student dependants rose *five fold*
    – Work dependants *doubled*
    Those entering have nearly full access to labour market
    Is that control?

    https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2022
    published 25 August 2022

    The options seem to be leave, or stay and FIGHT.
    But how?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Those entering have nearly full access to labour market” – FREE NHS

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.” – Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Can’t see nut nut actually fighting – or sending his children to fight . He’d rather see other parents ‘kids die – like Blair did ….

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Lara Johnson-Wheeler
          Mr Johnson’s oldest child was conceived ahead of his wedding to Ms Wheeler in 1993, with the 28-year-old now working as a journalist, writer, editor and broadcaster who lives in London.

          She went to the £33,000-a-year Bedales school before earning a place at St Andrews University where she studied Latin.

          ………………

          Milo Arthur
          Mr Arthur, whose exact birthday is undisclosed to the public but is believed to be 26-years-old, studied at Westminster School, which costs about £27,000-a-year, and is now a keen sportsman.

          He also studied at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies and can speak Arabic, Russian and French.

          ……………………………..

          Cassia Peaches
          The 24-year-old studied at Highgate School, which costs about £18,000-a-year, before going on to study at Trinity College in Dublin.

          Like her father and older sister, Ms Peaches is a writer and was a student editor for her school’s alumni magazine.

          Theodore Apollo
          Mr Apollo is now 22-years-old and studied at Cambridge University – the rival of his dad’s Oxford.

          Not much is known about Theo, but he is understood to have attended a private school in London.

          He has also been labelled a lookalike of Johnson, boasting the same distinctive hair colour and style.

          Stephanie Macintyre
          Ms Macintyre was born through Mr Johnson’s affair with property developer Helen Macintyre, and was born in 2009.

          https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/1469037/boris-johnson-children-wife

             5 likes

          • Fedup2 says:

            Marky – I had no idea – nut nut not big on population control then – actions not words – as time passes my view of him and his kind darken .

            I wonder if his ‘partners ‘ ( bitches ) signed agreements about finances for the duration of their mating – and whether the current one is moved on for the next version …..

               5 likes

      • Up2snuff says:

        TOADY Watch #2 – has Bojo got permission for all that CO2 from ‘er indoors

        Whether it is flying with the RAF or making a third trip to Ukraine, one cannot help but wonder what the present, soon to be outgoing, PM’s CO2 emissions are? Would Carrie approve?

           2 likes

  24. StewGreen says:

    4 hours of steady fine droughting
    The droughting was a few hours later than they predicted
    Thicker rain clouds seem to hug the hills a few miles away
    Although we won’t get that heavy rain, on top of us, it will still end up in our watertable.

       3 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Stew – a few hot summer days and the world is ending – a few wet ones in autumn – a few cold days in winter – the msm is making people bonkers …..

      … there seems to be an assumption that the seasons are ‘regular ‘ – but I think that is a dumb assumption and assumes the planet is at a constant – I reckon there are patterns driven by solar and volcanic activity ‘unknown to science ‘ …

         10 likes

  25. Loobyloo says:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62664981

    Google “airbrushes” out emissions from flying, BBC reveals

    Al Beeb don’t approve

       6 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

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

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

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

      …………………………….

      BBC ignored my Jimmy Savile complaint, claims former director
      This article is more than 9 years old
      TV veteran who worked on Jim’ll Fix It and Top of the Pops tells Sun ‘everyone would have known’ about alleged abuse

      https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/oct/12/bbc-jimmy-savile-complaint

      ……

      BBC News
      BBC One, 4 June 2022, 10.30pm

      We reported that the acclaimed British sculptor Sir Antony Gormley is to become a German citizen. We said he was giving up his British passport because of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union and that he had described the move as embarrassing and had plans for new sculptures that would reflect his view.

      In fact Sir Antony Gormley is not giving up his British nationality and has asked us to make clear the circumstances behind his application for a German passport.

      Sir Antony holds dual nationality as a result of having a German mother and has decided to apply for a German passport, which he will hold alongside his British one.

      In a statement he says he remains a proud British citizen and is grateful for the extraordinary support he has received from so many people and institutions across the UK but he is also keen to retain his links with and continue to show his work in Europe.

      We apologise for the mistake.

      07/06/2022

         1 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Who is BBC doing #NewsPR for there ?
      mid-article “… says Dr Doug Parr, chief scientist of Greenpeace.”

      “These include the creation of long thin clouds high up in the atmosphere – known as contrails – which trap heat radiated by the Earth, leading to a net warming effect on our planet.”

      Contrails trap heat ? ..FFS they are not very wide and don’t last that long
      The sun’s rays will probably bounce up off the top so the overall effect may be cooling

         7 likes

      • Guest Who says:

        Agree.

        Currently ‘scientists’, chief or not, are doing for credibility what Maitlis managed for the bbc earlier.

           6 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Oh… Rowlatt, the thinking glue sniffer’s pin up activist.

         5 likes

  26. StewGreen says:

    The dry Southeat corner seems to be getting heavy rain now

       3 likes

  27. StewGreen says:

    How much of this EA map is fake ?
    dated Aug 23rd yet around here the verges have been luh and green for a while
    Most people are weeding weeds growing 4 or 6 inches high on their lawns
    FbA0EgMWAAAdPvD?format=jpg&name=small

       2 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      It may be the reservoir situation. Here in the shires we have had intermittent heavy rain for a few days. I have refilled every bowser beyond overflowing in less than an hour. Yes, some parched open grass areas are still brown but all is recovering verdantly.

         4 likes

      • BRISSLES says:

        In my neck of the woods, we’ve just had overnight rain for the first time in 3 months ! all the earlier thunderstorms by passed us, and being part of Anglian Water area we have not had hosepipe bans restrictions.

           5 likes

    • Thoughtful says:

      Just for your info to counter the AGW idiots you might come across.

      This is the third la nina year, which is unusual. La Nina is a cooling cycle of the Western Pacific between Indonesia and South / Central America.

      Cooler waters mean less evaporation and hence less cloud leading to less rain, hence the drought conditions seen all over the world. It is a natural and normal phenomenon and nothing what so ever to do with climate change.

      We are also seeing an unusual hurricane situation where there hasn’t been a trpoical depression in the month of August this would be only the fourth of the past 60 years.

      There are meterological reasons for this too.

      It would appear to put us on course for a cold dry open winter if the current set up doesn’t change.

         12 likes

      • Yasser Dasmibehbi says:

        There ain’t no drought here, Thoughtful, Wind rain snow and wet wet wet causing floods and slips. Last winter was bad, this is worse.
        Global warming isn’t a fact. But in my opinion it is a desire. Bring it on.

           1 likes

  28. Guest Who says:

    The bronzed Strumpet pension pot corporation summarised.

       10 likes

  29. Thoughtful says:

    I see the unconscionable criminal shot while trying to escape in Liverpool is refusing the help the so called ‘Police’ with a name of the shooter who killed the 9 year old girl.

    We have a British Army unit dedicated to interrogating foreign agents, and doing so within the rules of law, so, given that they could always use some live exercise training on a scroat why doesn’t the government hand a few of these recalcitrants over for a spot of waterboarding until they cough.

    There are hard men trained to withstand torture softie gangstas aren’t those men, should be pretty easy to extract what is needed.

       14 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      dancecops.jpg?width=968&auto=webp&quality=50&crop=968%3A645%2Csmart

         7 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Yep good old inadmissible evidence . Besides – killer will get 12 – ( life ) be out in – 6 – cat C prison – improve gardening techniques – do an OU criminology degree – get a job with the BBC at the end of it – say 2029 …. ‘Still a young man ‘….

      … plod might as well let the ‘escaper ‘ go free so that his death sentence can be delivered without State interference …. And maybe no innocents in the way next time ….

      In Fed world – they’d both be executed

         14 likes

  30. Guest Who says:

    Not. Enuf. 🍿

       7 likes

    • Beltane says:

      Lots of smoke and mirrors from our Em in a cleverly timed deception piece that’s got all the usual Great Minds in a plume of faux outrage.

      Some might admire her bravery in walking away from BBC mega-bucks to forge a new and exciting career, but hubby’s hedge-funding will no doubt keep her in little black dresses.

         8 likes

    • Docmarooned says:

      Beggars belief that they think Maitlis is qualified to give this lecture.

         9 likes

      • Beltane says:

        Oh I don’t know Doc. After all, they think Linaker is qualified to talk about football.

           7 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Just gets better and better.

         4 likes

      • Fedup2 says:

        Cheers Chrissy- still doing the daily trump assassination show with katty ? C word .

        ( but it is nice to dissent in the ranks – and it must be serious if such creatures go public )

        One of the characteristics of the BBC is the silence – very few whistleblowers – a wall of mafia silence which Liverpool drug dealers used as their business model….

           8 likes

        • Guest Who says:

          Guido does not realise that at W1A there is BBC News, and ‘not newsworthy’.

          https://order-order.com/2022/08/25/active-agents-of-party-politics-on-the-bbc-board/

          Hence in the BS brain cell, what it thinks and doesn’t like is newsworthy, and anything that might counter that does not exist.

             2 likes

          • StewGreen says:

            Guido says
            Yes Maitlis did mention the 1 person on the BBC board connected to the Tory government
            Yet failed to mention Labour folks
            : Blair’s former SpAd Ed Richards left Downing Street to join the board of Ofcom,
            then went to the BBC strategy team and was in the running for BBC Director General
            : Gavyn Davies, the Goldman Sachs tycoon, midwife of Quantitative Easing, and adviser to Gordon Brown, was appointed BBC chairman.
            after he donated a chunk of his wealth to the Labour Party, of which he had been a long-term supporter.
            his wife, Sue Nye was also Gordon Brown’s right hand woman.
            : Greg Dyke, another Labour Party donor, was also on the board despite having made his money at ITV
            : Ian Hargreaves, a former editor of the left-wing New Statesmen, was a BBC board member.
            : James Purnell, a former Cabinet Minister under Blair was a BBC board member, and even appeared on Newsnight without his former political affiliations being mentioned by Maitlis in any way.

               7 likes

        • Guest Who says:

          This is what Katty, Sopes and gang created and still prop up.

          Interesting gesture.

          https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48293817

             4 likes

          • Fedup2 says:

            Unbelievable that the US MSM became a bunch of compliant tame mouthpieces for their party – the old boys’ medication was running out –

            – I see that Obama coloured thugs don’t turn up anymore and threaten journos ….

            … they’re got that bit better …

               1 likes

  31. BRISSLES says:

    Can the media please STOP this bloody annual ritual of showing kids of all ethnicities opening their exam results !!!! Who is interested ? no bugger, its just an excuse for the parents of these kids to switch on the tv recorder while their offspring shows their reaction. I don’t want to see screaming girls hugging each other and crying, or lads being interviewed grunting their way through questions asked. Jeeezus I got my results through the post at home.

       21 likes

    • Eddy Booth says:

      You used to have the notes the teacher wrote on the blackboard, and if you were lucky a textbook.
      Now there’s a massive amount of resources, shelves of books, past tests, mock tests etc.
      No surprise the grades have gone up over the years.

         9 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Brissles – the other tradition was the ‘airport ordeal ‘ where people who had been through a bad time where photographed at a UK airport – so often a pretty blond 18 year old ….

      Think they’ve switched to coloured folk now though …

         9 likes

      • Guest Who says:

        And… they’re off!

        If the BBC does not have CoLC Editor there by tonight I’ll be amazed.

           4 likes

  32. Jeff says:

    There’s another detective series on BBC 2 that I’ve been perusing over the last couple of weeks. Shetland is set on this strange, very northern and sparsely populated archipelago. Blimey, the amount of murders they get there they’ll soon be rivalling Midsomer as Britain’s most dangerous place to live. Anyhow…

    The really noticeable aspect of Shetland is the extraordinary ethnic make up of the islands. They pop up everywhere. The head of police is a young Asian woman. There’s a black artist. There’s a black landscape photographer. There’s a looming love triangle involving a bubbly young black girl. And, blow me down, just when they needed a technical expert to unlock a mobile phone, who appeared to solve the problem? You’ve guessed it; a bright young mixed race lass. Job done.

    I don’t know where we’d be without them…

       22 likes

  33. Fedup2 says:

    Safer?

       3 likes

  34. Guest Who says:

    In the interests of ‘balance’.

    Just joking.

       4 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      The BBC are both lefty
      and anti-Corbyn
      #WrongKindOfLefty

         3 likes

      • Guest Who says:

        Indeed.

        In fact it serves only to confirm their ambitions and machinations.

        Corbyn was the anti-Blair.

        They knew full well that his little cabal of loons would obliterate their puppet ambitions.

           3 likes

  35. StewGreen says:

    Wednesday night had
    9:30pm BBC 2 Its already time for a repeat of mother and daughter visit their ancestory in the Caribbean

    9pm Channel 4 from Savile to Cliff national treasures on trial

       4 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Ch4 really conflating a bloke who did nothing hammered by the establishment with a bloke who got away with everything thanks to the same bunch?

         6 likes

  36. theisland says:

    @ActivePatriotUK
    21m – Over 600 MIGRANTS have been escorted across the channel into ENGLAND today

       9 likes

    • taffman says:

      All sent over by France who are laughing their socks off at us and want more money.

         4 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      French fishermen being paid £1,000 a person to take migrants half way across the Channel before forcing them to complete the journey in flimsy boats
      They use the cover of legitimate fishing trips to take them halfway across
      Fishermen, are paid £1,000 per migrant, then make them complete the trip
      Tiny dinghies then used to cross perilous waters of The English Channel
      By ARTHUR MARTIN FOR THE DAILY MAIL

      PUBLISHED: 00:09, 31 May 2016

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3616970/French-fishermen-paid-1-000-person-migrants-half-way-Channel-forcing-complete-journey-flimsy-boats.html

         3 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Why did she make a point of saying his real name ?

      #1 It’s a lefty/Greenpeace INTIMIDATION tactic
      “I know where you live,
      so if you speak against our agendas
      or donate to orgs that oppose us ,
      something might happen to your house and kiddies”

      #2 a commenter “A common tactic being used by bailiffs and police nowadays,
      they’ll say your name or the address
      they’re at to try stop you recording, sadly it takes 2 seconds to cut out words in a video
      but on LIVE streams stuff like this you cant damage control.”

      To be fair to the cop YouTubestreamer guys , do bait and wind up the police so they will occasionally like her get caught doing the wrong thing.

      As it happens his name isn’t secret secret
      .. so I don’t think it’s a huge breach
      Her boss should apologise to AP

         1 likes

  37. StewGreen says:

    @Rufus both sites were down for a minute there
    “NixDomain error”

       2 likes

  38. StewGreen says:

    6:30pm The BBC’s transmitter contractors screwed up
    they switched BBC 1 to BTsports instead of BBC local for 1 minute
    The regular guy must be on holiday”

       3 likes

  39. Sluff says:

    GCSE results day.
    Another opportunity for the BBC to support its favoured themes and undermine the country.

    1. Foment discord and disunity. In this case by majoring in regional differences in results (conveniently ignoring the inherent ability of children entering the system)
    2. Obsessive focus on BAME. Did any white children actually take GCSEs? You wouldn’t think so from the coverage and the photos.

       15 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Our region has very few BAME
      so we got “more top grades that ever”
      FFS if everyone is given a top grade then its devalued.

         7 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      I got an A in diversity management . I am now on £90k as an NHS diversity manager – thanks folks ( this might be a lie )

         9 likes

  40. StewGreen says:

    ITV local newsPR
    Item #1 My interpretation “Hey it’s the hosepipe ban, so lets do a drought porn item
    we’ll interview people in the street where water leaks haven’t been fixed by the Evil Tory water companies.
    Itt will look great all the waste water going down the street
    ..darn it’s a rain storm and we look right idiots
    without hoods up, talking about droughts”

       6 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      ITV local newsPR
      Item #2 My interpretation “African nurses are brought in at expense to work in an NHS authority..
      You can’t have them running off to work in London after 2 months, cos then then you’d have to spend money recruiting someone else
      So it’s perfectly reasonable to make them pay £3,500 for breaching contract”

      Their interpretation was “look at this poor African nurse she’s a victim !”

         9 likes

      • StewGreen says:

        As ever what the tweet or web is different to what they put on TV
        One web story is “Special Constable Faran Hanson, 26, was convicted for sending sexually explicit messages to three women”
        ..Islamic first name there

           1 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      my typo “with our hoods up, talking about droughts”

         0 likes

  41. StewGreen says:

    BBC local newsPR
    Item#1 “School uniforms are expensive
    ..Evil Tories etc”

    Item #4
    These new street seats “People don’t want to sit in the street next to the road getting a dose of CO2
    FFS “dose of CO2” … it’s non toxic to humans you nutter.

       9 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Do people die if they go to a forest at night ?
      .. when trees are expelling CO2 ?

         6 likes

  42. Fedup2 says:

    GBNews- farage – covering the depressing channel crap again . Apparently the latest nationality is Albanian

    But apparently Albania only had a population of 2.8 million .

    So i have a solution – lets go and import them all and build a new city in somewhere like sandringhsm or windsor and put them there . Thered be no more dinghies .

    Or – breed sharks
    Sink all thd border force RNLI boats …

       12 likes

    • Jeff says:

      With all this guff we’re constantly being fed about global warming perhaps we might be able to encourage a few great white sharks, killer whales or salt water croc’s to patrol our waters.

      Or at least start a rumour…

         8 likes

      • Yasser Dasmibehbi says:

        Well Britain has the exceedingly unpleasant weever fish lurking on it’s beaches. Just talk up their size!

           2 likes

  43. Zephir says:

    Police seize bus caught displaying risky Inbetweeners quote in Cambridgeshire

    A privately-owned bus was displaying the message ‘Bus W****rs” where you would usually find a location

    https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/police-seize-bus-caught-displaying-24853896

    seized probably due to lack of insurance but, stopped in the first place for the sign….

    ohhhhh….. do the macarena

       7 likes

  44. Fedup2 says:

    Oh no
    John Simpson is still alive and has twittered about the unbiasness of his pension provider el BBC – lord Simpson of Broadcasting House must be on the cards …

       6 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      He’s not supporting Maitlis

         3 likes

  45. StewGreen says:

    I see RT did a 1 minute video about the rampage in McDonald’s in Nottingham
    but UK Twitter uses are not allowed to watch it
    .. https://twitter.com/ymnkv/status/1562568186582536194

       6 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Guessing tbose ferals see macee dee as a special treat whilst KFC is the everyday choice so the bargain bucket not targetted . Vermin .

         5 likes

  46. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    I wonder if any group of patriots might decide to pop down to Dover and glue themselves to the taxi boats stopping them from going out to collect the days enrichers.

    If they do would the police be bringing them cups of tea.

       21 likes

    • Yasser Dasmibehbi says:

      Saw an article in the media yesterday.
      “Boris makes surprise visit to Ukraine”

      Where’s the surprise in that? He’s flaming always over there.

      “Boris makes visit to Kent beaches” Now that would be a surprise.

         14 likes

  47. Guest Who says:

    Liked by David Shuckman

    Amazingly.

       3 likes

  48. digg says:

    Bit by bit the lefty Biden crap us falling apart in the USA. I now read that the much Dem trumpeted “Disinformation Board” they pushed has been quietly disbanded.

    They have realised they are losing the American people’s support with their crazy woke policies and are sweating the results of the mid-terms where I think they are going to suffer a blood bath.

    Added to this their mouthpiece CNN has a new less lefty boss who is dismantling the Marxist structure, getting rid of the activists etc, to try to reverse the free-fall in viewers they have suffered.

    I hope this trend goes World-wide..

    I also hope this signals the return of sanity and the trashing of all the stupid woke twats who have tried to do so much damage to the Country and the whole World in their quest to turn the World into a commune.

    Time for the adults to take over again,

       10 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Not unexpected ..when she resigned on May 18th
      a week or so after it was starting up
      Many people described it as shut down then.

         1 likes

      • StewGreen says:

        May 18
        Nina Jankowicz, who had been named executive director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board, announced her resignation Wednesday in a statement.

        Her appointment was absolutely mad, co she’ an an actual known disinformer

           1 likes

  49. StewGreen says:

    Media ‘Oh a *man* with a machete was arrested in Leeds
    after special stop and search session ”

    Twitter says ‘FFS it was like the Congo in Leeds on Tuesday
    so the police got special stop and search powers’

    ITV “The man arrested after being searched under Section 60 last night was charged with possession of a machete and two kitchen knives as well possession of crack cocaine and cannabis”
    .. So why is *the man’s* name not published ?

    Mail does have info about the fight
    Tuesday “Machete mayhem breaks out on city’s streets as rivals battle each other with 4ft blades while horrified residents look on
    Rival groups were seen wielding large machetes in a street in Leeds last night
    Video shows a large number of people involved in clashes in the Harehills area
    The footage shows some swinging the blades at each other shortly after 8pm”
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11141769/Machete-mayhem-breaks-citys-streets-rivals-battle-4ft-blades.html#v-2033192555757191237

       7 likes

  50. Zephir says:

    “Not very eco-friendly! Prince Harry sits in idling $9 million private jet for 30 minutes while he waits for staff to arrive in gas-guzzling Range Rover to deliver his forgotten polo kit

    Prince Harry was spotted arriving at a Santa Barbara airport in an electric Audi SUV, before boarding the $9 million Bombardier Challenger 600 on Wednesday
    He was about to jet off for an annual polo event at the Aspen Valley Polo Club to join his long-time friend polo star Nacho Figueras
    Argentinian Figueras, who has played polo alongside Harry many times, attended his wedding to Meghan Markle and he was the first of the royal’s friends to meet his son Archie in 2019
    The jet belongs to multi-millionaire US businessman Marc Ganzi, who is a close friend of the Royal Family and a polo enthusiast”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11143811/Prince-Harry-arrives-private-flight-electric-car-Range-Rover-drops-polo-kit.html

       11 likes