356 Responses to Start the Week 29 August 2022

  1. G says:

    Just visited Curry’s / PC World online. Virtually all its employees shown are either black or asian. I’m searching elsewhere now.

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  2. Guest Who says:

    Enrichment European tour leg.

    Those pointing out his/her right hook was defensive rather missing the diverse element still applies.

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  3. Up2snuff says:

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #2 – I sense the BBC are fully on board and campaigning away at full speed

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62708413 Three days in a row now, since it was first mooted in the print media, I think the BBC have had the article up to grab web-site viewer’s attention. Those of us with long memories and who have lived in the Thames Water Co. catchment area know that drinking the urine of other people – after it has been carefully treated – is quite all right.

    The old joke goes that in London, the water has been drunk at least twice, if not three times, way out west before it even gets into the glass, coffee mug or tea cup of a Londoner.

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    • Terminal Moraine says:

      “Sir James Bevan said the ‘unpopular’ move would help protect the UK’s water supply.”

      There seems to be an increase in institutional propaganda geared towards saving institutions at the cost of human wellbeing these last few years.

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  4. Fedup2 says:

    The dead 21 year old at the Notting hill ‘party’ is named as
    Takayo Nembhard – a rapper from Bristol .

    No more rapping for Takayo ….

    ( I left ‘rapper’ off my list of potential ‘victims ‘ above )

    Does ‘revenge ‘ beckon …?

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    • Tabs says:

      It is usually drug dealer or rapper as the only 2 career choice options. Some might argue they are the same and therefore only one career option.

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  5. Flotsam says:

    HMS Prince of Wales disabled by a damaged propeller shaft. I wonder if they’ve run over too many illegal immigrants and rubber boats?

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  6. digg says:

    Roger Bolton being “let go” by BBC radio after 23 Years against his will.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62712155

    Anyone fancy opening a book on the characteristics of his replacement?

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  7. tomo says:

    Meanwhile in China, Washington + New York the virus researchers squabble etc…

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  8. s.trubble says:

    The largest rotten apple in the barrel full of them has identified herself.

    Ms Emily Matliss.

    Contrast her fiery removal with the quiet footsteps of Sopel and Marr…who tiptoe into the vast pool of licence fee funded pensions pots.

    As Sir Sean would have said

    “Sho long Shaggy Boobsh”

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    • Guest Who says:

      And entourage, raking in the audience.

      Bet The Times gives him lots of awards too.

      Maybe a whippet.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Looks like a ‘community’ effort.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Get the feeling the Times has raided BBC royalty bargain basement?

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      • MarkyMark says:

        BBC Complaint Summary:
        I take offence that presenters promote their books

        Full Complaint:

        I see that BBC presenters use their twitter accounts to promote items outside of the BBC
        …. Katty Kay (The Confidence Code and Womenomics),
        Jon Sopel (If Only They Didn’t Speak English),
        Chris Evans (Call the Midlife)
        Gary Lineker (goalhangerfilms.com) …

        there might be more around.

        Does the BBC charge the presenters for using the BBC brand to promote these items?

        Does the BBC get a kick back to reduce the TV License with each successful sale of these products?

        Can you tell me how this works … do the items on sale conform to the BBC core values and guidelines?

        Many Thanks.

        https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/04/27/weekend-open-thread-184/comment-page-5/#comment-913976

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  9. BRISSLES says:

    So Merseyside Police have blitzed organised crime in Liverpool with over 200 arrests, and seizure of guns and drugs etc. So why the F… haven’t they done this before ???? why does it take the death of a 9 year old to get them off their fat (yes, fat) arses for them to do anything ? It shows it can be done, and what we need to see on a regular basis.

    Now, what can the Met do about the thuggish Albanians in the capital.

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  10. BRISSLES says:

    Jeezus, I don’t know why I get so worked up about this – I’ll be checking out in a few years, but I can’t help but think back to the style of policing when ‘Jack Regan’ was the type of copper who wasn’t afraid to get stuck in, and the plods walking the streets were built like brick sh…….ses who no-one would dare to mess with. Now this baby faced generation are still using wet wipes to remove their street dancing make up.

    Listening to GB News this morning, the two hosting presenters could not remember 9/11 !!!!! one wasn’t born, and the other was too young as she had “just arrived in this country” !

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    • Guest Who says:

      I worked in advertising then. Helicopters flying massive fag packets to banging classical music. Throwing account execs out windows.

      Now…

      “London creatives protest fossil fuel clients

      A network of creatives called Glimpse is campaigning against agency fossil fuel advertising by, inter alia, handing out a pamphlet ‘The ‘The Brief Sabotage Handbook’ outside the London offices of WPP agencies and big PR firm Edelman. The handbook, said to be satirical, contains tips on sabotaging work for clients including BP and Shell”

      Handing out a pamphlet. Rock…. and roll.

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  11. pugnazious says:

    LOL….Just had my two minutes of hate with James O’Brien on LBC….just what did Newsnight see in him?

    Apparently, and I can hardly see the keyboard as the tears of laughter roll down my face, he is going to break the rules, his own rules, and ask listeners about their feelings….normally of course he wouldn’t do this because, lol, feelings aren’t facts and he only deals in facts….but feelings are important too.

    This from the man, the Gossip Goebbels of LBC, who pumps out a fetid torrent of pure fantasy and lies on his programme day in day out, a stream of pure propaganda based almost entirely on his own feelings with the odd fact thrown in to create an impression of credibility to buttress his lies….much like Carole Cadwalladr whose technique is to blast out a barrage of lies, half-truths and slanders in the hope hat at least one is true and hits the mark….thus ‘proving’ all her other fabrications.

    Just think…he could still be at the BBC if he hadn’t voluntarily jumped.

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  12. theisland says:

    Steve Laws
    Home Office To Hide Boat Arrivals 3min video

    The Home Office has been building a new gangway at the new Tug Haven facility in Dover which cost the taxpayer around £2.5 million. The gangway has been strategically placed to make it difficult for the press and the general public to see how many are arriving.

    The obvious intention behind this is to prevent the public from keeping count of how many arrive. The MOD does release the daily figures, however, there have been numerous times when the number that arrived failed to match up with the MOD figures released.

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  13. Fedup2 says:

    Looks like the murder at the Notting hill carnival is unapproved and less important than Paul pogba and his tribal witchcraft …
    Culture eh? Left off the national BBC news ….

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  14. Fedup2 says:

    Two vintage hours of BBC radio ‘position’-‘ you and yours ‘must have breach some OFCOM guidelines about balance – there was none – a pro union onslaught with no one – no one – to even attempt a contrary view – the phone in was rigged . The ethnic present was wetting herself with pro union glee .

    The lady Brooke sneering at the idea of taking oil and gas out of the North Sea – cheering on some SNP/ Green type who wants us all to die this Christmas to save the effing planet – burn that diesel /gas / Petrol / oil …burn

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  15. MarkyMark says:

    Jon Trickett MP
    @jon_trickett
    Born and bred in the Great County of Yorkshire. Former Leader of Leeds City Council. Proud Labour MP For Hemsworth constituency. There is a better way.
    Democratic Socialistofficeofjontrickett.co.ukJoined September 2010
    5,409 Following
    95.8K Followers

    …..

    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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  16. Kinell says:

    The BBC and MSM like to promote how Londoners think how wonderful the Notting Hill Carnival is.

    I have moved out of London now.

    My family lived there for generations and my own Family over 50 years.

    I don’t know a single person that’s been to the Notting Hill Carnival.

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  17. Docmarooned says:

    BoJo warning we are in for a “tough time” Thank you you useless pile of blubber. His policies have been ruinous for this country after he was elected with a great majority and done nothing. Sadly as is now apparent he is no statesman and just a waffling oaf.

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    • taffman says:

      Replace him with Nigel Farage & Richard Tice . Get The Brexit Party in charge and dump the wet Tories .

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    • Wild Bill says:

      Sad to say, I stuck up for Boris right up to when he got thr boot, but even I am sick of him now.
      I hope Nigel Farage is thinking of another comeback.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Bill – history is really gonna dump on him …

        There’s a bit of me that hope liz truss will Do The Right Things whatever the election outlook or what the SPADS say – but I worry she will be another Useless T May …D Cameron …

        .. on the upside … her decision not to kneel before Comrade Robinson shows there is someone in the camp who can think things through . If her cabinet avoids the BBC they’ll do themselves great good…

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  18. taffman says:

    “Brexit: Tenterden brewery says new export rules have hit sales”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-62690456
    That should bring the price of beer down for us Brits then . More Remainer guff !
    We the Great Brits, voted to Leave ! Get over it .

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  19. tomo says:

    Bloomberg , then deBlasio pushed rafts of stupid nannying laws and now this – no wonder that many are voting with their feet and leaving New York…

    What is it with people who keep voting these twits into power?

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    • BigBrotherCorporation says:

      Whippet sniffing the latest craze? Am pretty sure I’ve seen photos of Mz Mateless and a whippet, or two, being under the influence might explain some of the ‘impassioned’ tweets she’s been emitting recently.

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  20. Zephir says:

    Awaiting the bbc : a mostly peaceful immolation ?

    “Teenage Hindu girl is burned alive ‘by Muslim stalker in India who set her alight with petrol as she slept’: Protests break out over ‘love jihad’ bid to ‘force her to convert to Islam’

    Ankita Singh, 19, died after Shahrukh Hussain allegedly set her on fire in Ranchi
    Shahrukh had been harassing Ankita for months and threatened to kill her
    Her death has sparked protests after Hussain, a Muslim, is said to have wanted to convert Ankita, a Hindi, to Islam”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11160071/Teenage-Hindu-girl-burned-alive-Muslim-stalker-India-set-alight-petrol.html

    Ahh here we are bbc India news:

    “Ankita’s death has sparked protests by Hindu right-wing organisations who have alleged that Shahrukh, a Muslim, wanted to commit “love jihad” by converting the victim, a Hindu, to his religion.

    “Love-jihad” is a controversial term used by radical Hindu groups to accuse Muslim men of converting Hindu women by marriage. ”

    Get the “right wing” and “controversial” and “radical” referring the the victims faith in there won’t you bbc ?

    makes you almost sorry for the poor muzzie murderer

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  21. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      BIG FAT GYPSY MESS Travellers who trapped residents in their own homes leave scene of destruction including smashed-up car
      Alex Winter
      14:34, 31 Dec 2021Updated: 15:17, 31 Dec 2021

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    • G says:

      Mostly use Calor/Propane………..

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      And somewhere in the distance, the world’s smallest violin plays a sad tune.

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  22. Flotsam says:

    Meghan Markle is troubled by the “N” word…………..

    Nonroyal

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  23. tomo says:

    getting seriously pissed about the BBC reporting on this particular Ukraine topic.

    A couple of times over the weekend I caught BBC peeps opining that the wikkid wushins were going to blow up the nuclear plant.

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    • theisland says:

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Ahmadis suffer vicious persecution around the world. The main source of fuel for that persecution is in Pakistan, but what happens in Pakistan does not stay in Pakistan.

        I know that from my experience in the Yorkshire market town of Batley. In August 1985, when I was 11 years old, my parents organised an inter-faith meeting in the town hall. It was interrupted and disturbed when, according to West Yorkshire police, more than 1,000 extremists, led by Pakistani hate preachers funded by the Pakistani state, were bused in from around the country. The mob brutally attacked my English mother and my father, a dermatologist; my eldest brother and I; and a Welsh Ahmadi schoolteacher who was with us. My first cousin, a GP, was by chance driving through the market town that day. He saw the mob and saw his family and friends being attacked, so he stopped. He was recognised, pulled from his vehicle and savagely beaten up.

        https://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2020-03-12a.177.0&s=islam+batley#g195.0

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      • harry142857 says:

        I thought if they all drown, then it is Allah’s will. Can’t have it both ways.

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  25. Zephir says:

    Meanwhile, in the Congo, sorry, London:

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  26. MarkyMark says:

    Meghan interview: We upset Royal dynamic just by existing, says Duchess of Sussex
    Published
    3 hours ago

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62717696

    ……………….

    Persecution of people with albinism (sometimes abbreviated PWA[1]) is based on the belief that certain body parts of albinistic people can transmit magical powers. Such superstition is present especially in some parts of the African Great Lakes region, it has been promulgated and exploited by witch doctors and others who use such body parts as ingredients in rituals, concoctions and potions with the claim that their magic will bring prosperity to the user (muti or medicine murder).[2]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_people_with_albinism

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  27. Zephir says:

    Crapping in a phone box. Is this Africa ? nope Stratford:

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    • MarkyMark says:

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      • G says:

        Mostly heading this way………………

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      • Doublethinker says:

        Given the energy crisis and the knock on effect on the cost of nitrogenous fertiliser , not to mention the action of some governments to limit the use of such fertilisers , I am sure that the green lobby will want us all to defecate and pee out doors. Each of us will be assigned a square of land which we must toilet on to increase its fertility. Those who live in towns and cities where fields are beyond walking distance , no ICE upto to be used but cycles will be allowed, will be given a slop bucket which they will have to drag to the fields at weekends.
        Monty Don will hold special human waste fertiliser classes on Gardeners World . A BBC spokesperson said that trigger warnings would be issued as some of the footage is considered graphic.

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      • Sluff says:

        Well it certainly gives new meaning to the concept of enrichment by African economic migrants…….errr I mean vulnerable families.

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      • G.W.F. says:

        C’mon. What about the million or so in Londonistan?

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      • BigBrotherCorporation says:

        Up to 1% of Britons defecate outdoors?

        Ok, ok, camping in the woods, late at night, and all that, but, I normally use a toilet personally, it just seems… polite.

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  28. Guest Who says:

    Allegedly.
    Reportedly.
    Sources say.
    According to critics.
    People are….

    This is a good way to get what you want out there and smell divine in the process.

    https://fullfact.org/online/nadine-dorries-fake-tweet-dog-warm/?

    As promoted on social media.

    And almost all comments agree it was what she might have posted.

    Only she didn’t.

    They show a version… of a mock up that was ‘circulated’.

    My first thought was how could a blue tick name be hacked.

    This is where they are now.

    BBC trending will probably pick it up in a week.

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  29. Guest Who says:

    On an historical, mental image basis…. unfortunate.

    Still reeling the fan in.

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  30. Thoughtful says:

    I am amazed no one has photoshopped an ‘N’ into the title of this magazine yet, what is the internet playing at, or is such horseplay being censored perhaps?

    61832573-11159869-The_Duchess_of_Sussex_has_given_a_bombshell_interview_to_The_Cut-a-25_1661859880571.jpg

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    • Doublethinker says:

      I think that The Duchess seems increasingly mentally ill. I’m sure that she has serious problems . I used to think that she said all the exaggerations and lies because it made her money one way or another. But now the tales are becoming so bizarre that no rational person would ever expect anyone else to believe them . So whatever it is she is suffering from is likely to get worse , her claims more outlandish, and she will become a laughing stock rather like David Icke did with his lizard theory.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        A cheering end to a thread – a cut and paste from The Guardian than mr J vine breached BBC impartiality rule through his mad support for cycling – like many cyclist they develop and unquestioning belief that they are right .
        Enjoy

        STARTS
        The BBC has warned staff against expressing support for low-traffic neighbourhoods, after ruling that Jeremy Vine breached impartiality rules by backing safe cycling measures near his London home.

        The Radio 2 presenter, a well-known cyclist, has posted repeatedly on Twitter about his support for LTNs – and publicly criticised individuals who objected to the introduction of the traffic-calming scheme near his house in Chiswick.

        One local anti-LTN campaigner complained to the BBC, arguing that Vine’s repeated tweets in support of the scheme represented “a campaign of abuse” against a legitimate campaigning group. They claimed Vine breached the corporation’s new impartiality rules by expressing a view on a controversial matter in a manner inappropriate for a “journalist who should be non-biased”.

        After an investigation, the BBC’s editorial complaints unit has sided with the member of the public and concluded that Vine breached impartiality rules. It ruled that taking a public side in the debate over whether LTNs are good or bad is the “kind of topic to which considerations of due impartiality applied for the BBC”.

        Vine is influential in the cycling world, commutes to his jobs at the BBC and Channel 5 on a bike and regularly posts video footage of near-misses with car drivers. Earlier this month, he told the Guardian his support for safe cycling was “not political”.

        The broadcaster’s repeated support for the Chiswick low-traffic neighbourhoods led to him branding anti-LTN campaigners – who claimed a cycle lane would make it easier for robbers to stage getaways – as a “source of persistent malevolence towards cyclists in my area”.

        He also praised the introduction of a contentious local cycle lane – which angered some car drivers for taking up road space – for “improving safety, allowing kids to cycle, reducing pollution, increasing footfall in the shops, calming traffic”.

        The BBC director general, Tim Davie, has put enormous emphasis on impartiality, although which topics are considered contentious can be difficult for staff to work out. Racism, homophobia and climate scepticism are considered settled topics – but if a journalist takes a public stance on issues that anger certain media outlets or political parties then it can lead to internal investigations.

        Two other BBC staff told the Guardian they had been informally warned by managers about expressing public support for LTNs near their homes, because it was seen as a politically contentious issue.

        The BBC emphasised that Vine and other staff in the broadcast’s news division were well within their rights to use social media to express generic enthusiasm for cycling and call attention to the potential benefits of riding a bicycle. They also said that Vine was within his rights to highlight personal attacks on anti-LTN websites in the Chiswick area, such as when individuals celebrated the broadcaster injuring himself by falling off a Penny Farthing.ENDS

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      • digg says:

        Sorry double thinker but my take is that she is a greedy Hollywood tart with a stupid ex royal stooge she is using to get to the top of the pile and he is too thick to see that he is being used big time!

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    • Wild Bill says:

      I’m blacker than her and I’m at least tenth generation Anglo Saxon.

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  31. tomo says:

    Try selling stuff to pay your energy bill…

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    • digg says:

      Simple solution, get off eBay and tell them to do one…

      They will soon reconsider if enough people do this.

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  32. Guest Who says:

    GB has little to worry about.

    Looks like someone dropped their Samsung in an enclosure.

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    • Guest Who says:

      The best bit is Sopes mentioning… of all things… his intention to cover…Trump.

      At least he didn’t try and flog his book.

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  33. Guest Who says:

    Wonder if Toenails will be passing off this one too?

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  34. tomo says:

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    • Guest Who says:

      The bizarre thing is how the bbc simply runs #prasnews from all these clowns’ ‘people’ without engaging a brain cell.

      Meghan, Trudeau, Khan, Jean Pierre… #tellitoftenenough assumed to still overpower the clear evidence of rational senses.

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  35. Zephir says:

    Heres some news bbc:

    “An incredible place’: New video shows David Beckham gushing about Qatar ahead of the World Cup as the £10m face of the country’s tourism industry – despite it being illegal to be gay and women needing permission to study or marry.

    More than 6,500 migrant workers have died there while building the infrastructure for the tournament, the Guardian, citing government figures, reported last year.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11161451/New-video-shows-David-Beckham-gushing-Qatar-despite-illegal-gay-there.html

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  36. Zephir says:

    “‘Overcoming 60 years of apartheid is not the same as marrying a white prince’: Nelson Mandela’s grandson slams Meghan Markle for suggesting South Africans celebrated her wedding the same way they rejoiced his freedom

    Meghan Markle has spoken about royal life in bombshell interview to The Cut – part of New York magazine
    In it she shared an anecdote where a South African told her: ‘We rejoiced in the streets the same we did when Mandela was freed from prison'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11159869/EXCLUSIVE-Nelson-Mandelas-grandson-slams-Meghan-Markle.html

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  37. Zephir says:

    “Notting Hill clean-up crew fill entire SKIP with cannisters of ‘EXPLOSIVE’ Dutch ‘hippy crack’: 200 binmen are slowed by having to separate volatile nitrous oxide cans from normal waste as they clear streets of 300 TONS of trash”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11159957/Army-200-binmen-collect-giant-aerosol-cans-Dutch-hippy-crack-Notting-Hill.html

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  38. digg says:

    Ready for a treat from BBC2 shortly at 9pm?

    “Days that shook the BBC and how we kept our independence under pressure….”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001bnqn

    Can’t wait!

    Should be “Days that annoyed the BBC and how we ignored it to keep on doing what we want to!”…..

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    • StewGreen says:

      Yes I was just about to put that up.
      Days That Shook the BBC with David Dimbleby
      Ep 1 of 3, Independence
      Focusing on controversies from the recent past, David Dimbleby examines the way the #BBC has dealt with power and how it has preserved its independence.

      @UnitedAgents promote it , I guess they are his book agents
      On Saturday Dimbleby was on R4Today promoting this series
      ..Item was NOT news, it was PR

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  39. Fedup2 says:

    As a kind of Luke warm Republican – I can’t see the fuss about the American actress and her ginger husband . So she says she is more popular than Christ or something .

    But is it just a distraction from worrying about the September Dual Fuel DD ? Because I understand that the power charges coming in on 1 October will start to be seen in September DDs .
    So even if Liz truss tries to stop everything – they’ll still be taking those pumped up DDs from bank accounts . Bank overdraft charges kick in – credit ratings suffer – money is borrowed at 26% on credit cards used to pay the debts ….

    Reduced use of juice – ‘lifestyles ‘ changing to save energy – maybe the clocks won’t go back – power reductions at peak times on cold days .__ blackouts because the grid can’t buy juice from anywhere . ….

    I was looking at timelines – open gas fields in the North Sea – minimum time 12 months – most 5 years .

    Nuclear power stations – 10 years minimum

    Fracking ? How long – I guess 3 years at a push ….

    So where does the power come from ? No idea – if France and Norway and the Dutch can’t deliver because of their own needs – it’s trouble ..

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    • digg says:

      I can’t help but suspect that much of the hysteria whipped up in the media, is simply a staged rerun of the same smear tactics they used for partygate, get Joe public angry then point the finger at the Tory Government at a crucial time in the replacement of its leader.

      They will never clarify that this is a Global crises largely created by Russia and Ukraine and there is practically zilch that the UK government can do about it whether that government be Tory or Labour.

      This is a fight that will run and run as long as the lefty media get their way.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        digg, Russia v. Ukraine is a factor which is entirely 2022 but it all started before COP26 in the previous year. That is what is driving the energy crisis along: NetZero barmyness.

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        • digg says:

          Guess so up2 maybe the head honchos at the energy companies think it’s time to have a bonanza percent bonus before armegeddon.

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  40. StewGreen says:

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I’m sorry that you are sorry for me being sorry …

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      • BigBrotherCorporation says:

        I’m awfully sorry that someone thinks I should feel sorry, when really I’m just sorry that I got caught saying something I really meant, and which we all think about that sorry twathole Linekar.

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  43. Fedup2 says:

    And so one thread ends and another starts

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  44. pugnazious says:

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/31/ron-desantis-republican-party-fascism

    Curious how our Misinformation Messiah at the BBC doesn’t raise an eyebrow when politicians, including the now President of the USA, use deeply malign slanders to discredit opponents….if it was Joe Blogs on Facebook she’d be there claiming this threatens democracy, a dangerous undermining of respect for institutions…but when the President of the USA or his useful idiots stoop to such depths she’s completely silent.

    Classic lefty attempt to deflect and discredit criticism by calling you a fascist etc…not only are you guilty of ‘of homophobia, transphobia, racism and misogyny’ and thus are a fascist, you are a fascist because you deny you are a fascist and object to being called one.

    ‘I’ve been watching the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, for some time. Last Tuesday I tweeted: “Just wondering if ‘DeSantis’ is now officially a synonym for ‘fascist’.”

    I was surprised at the outrage my little tweet provoked in rightwing media.

    The Washington Examiner, for example, called me an “ultra-leftwing elitist” who wrote an “insulting slur”, which is “what leftwing ideologues do when they discuss Republican politicians who pose any threat to the existence of their political ideology … Anyone the Democrats don’t like or disagree with is a fascist.”

    This was among the kindest responses.

    After a half-century in and around politics, I’ve got a thick skin. But the size of the blowback on my little tweet makes me think I struck a nerve.

    LOL…‘I think I struck a nerve…Perhaps my “just wondering” tweet about DeSantis hit the nerve of the fascism now taking root in the Republican party?’….if you object to being called a fascist you are a fascist.

    Erm…but…his description of Fascism….

    ‘Fascism also includes hatred of “them” (people considered different by race or religion, or outside the mainstream, or who were born abroad), control over what people learn and what books they are allowed to read, control over what had been independent government units (school boards, medical boards, universities and so on), control over women and the most intimate and difficult decisions they’ll ever make, and demands that the private sector support the regime.’

    Kinda think that pretty much sums up the Democrats and the Left doesn’t it? And the Democrats are sliding inexorably into Fascism using Fascist regimes’ techniques to control and silence dissent….going so far as to use proxy militias like BLM to riot and intimidate not to mention using the FBI to attempt to force opponents out of the Presidential election as well as faking documents to try to unseat an actual President….all things that would seem very familiar and useful tools to the commissars of the Soviet Union.

    Nothing indeed that would seem untoward in the bowels of the BBC where such tactics are trusty weapons to be deployed when necessary…and they do….never mind how they denounced Tommy Robinson but they were quite prepared to do the same to established political parties, the PM, and of course UKIP and anyone who supported Brexit….the BBC constantly making reference to the Nazis, dictators and the ‘1930’s’ which apparently Brexit was a harbinger of.

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  45. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    I’ve just been going through my Sky menu to see what to record.

    Just about all the choices have something in common. You click on them for more information and the picture comes up, black boys and girls with a token white.

    Angela Black, I looked at it but it was the usual tv couple on the picture.
    Several others all showing black people (the 3% of the population)

    I’m not against having black people in films and tv series’ but the problem is it makes it easy to guess the plot because the black characters are always the good guys, always noble and more intelligent than the whiteys who are invariably dirty, shifty and stupid.
    Even when it looks like a black person is guilty it then unfolds to be a false ending because the true culprit (whitey) ends up being found out.
    It’s like every terrorist plot is the far right (when everyone in the real world knows who it really is)

    Have you noticed that every President of the USA in films (the more recent ones) is either a good President (black) or a bent President (white)

    It wasn’t always like this.
    Lots of old films are colour blind.
    If you go back a long time it does become a bit embarrassing such as Sanders of the river but from the 50’s or so onward there was a balance.

    I’m finding that I don’t want to watch films and tv series’ from the last 15-20 years because they come over so false and I’ve normally guessed the outcome based solely on the cast.

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    • G says:

      EG,

      Just think about the cost, organisation and implementation of the plan to change the demographic perception of the UK. It is a conspiracy of immense magnitude and will not have been implemented without a single driving force providing total confidence in the secrecy, money, training and supervision. ‘History Debunked highlights the parallel efforts the secret ‘entity’ is applying to the written word – in particular with children in focus. This is a war, otherwise known (aka The Balkans) as ‘ethnic cleansing’.

      One day, perhaps, someone will break ranks.

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      • pugnazious says:

        G…it is ethnic cleansing as they try to erase British, ie White, history, culture and influence from the world….and it goes further….not only do they joke #KillWhitey but they actually mean it….they import immigrants in order to ‘Brown’ Britain and America…you can see and hear frequent comments on the BBC and in the Guardian celebrating ‘Whiteness’ disappearing and populations becoming majority ‘Brown’….all passed off as mere ‘demographic change’ rather than the truth…ethnic cleansing.

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  46. pugnazious says:

    Apparently the BBC have got hold of CCTV images from the London bus that took Shamima Begum on the start of her journey to join ISIS. Sadiq Khan denies that London Transport was part of the trafficking ring that fulfilled her wishes and delivered her to the Islamic paradise where chopped off heads and a severe and strict Islamic regime held no fears for her….he says that Begum was self-radicalised having been already mentally prepped by her Muslim upbringing…she searched out material on the internet and was encouraged to go by her friends already out there….it was not the fault of London Transport….just as it’s not the fault of the ‘trafficker’ who brought her to Turkey….she wanted to go, he merely provided the transport.

    ‘Trafficking’ is a term and technical description that is being weaponised in order to allow criminals and terrorists to slip through loop-holes in the law…criminals can block deportation from Britain by claiming they were trafficked…and Begum is trying to use the same trick to come here.

    Surely ‘trafficking’, as most people would think, and certainly in a case like this, is meant only to describe the process of forcing or conning unwilling people to come here often to work as slave labour and is not a catch-all term to describe anyone who facilitates someone entering a country however illegally…but voluntarily?

    Odd the BBC is claiming the credit for this non-story….it came out in a book not as a result of their investigations…and why is the BBC once again acting as a campaigning lobby group for a terrorist, someone who hated Britain and Western culture so much they scarpered to live in an Islamic hell-hole and who when in the refugee camp showed no remorse and indeed kept up appearances of being an Islamic hard-liner until she decided she wanted to come back to Britain and all those ‘home’ comforts’ casting off her veil to jump into jeans and tee-shirt to make the pretence she was no threat to anyone?

    Is the BBC guilty of attempting to traffic her the other way as they try to get her shipped back here?

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