392 Responses to Midweek 7 September 2022

  1. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – a ‘Richie Benaud moment’ from JustRemainIn Webb

    Simon Clarke MP is ‘Levelling Up’ Secretary in Liz Truss’s first Cabinet (will there ever be a second one? – much depends on today in Parliament.) and was non-interviewed about the forthcoming announcement of a ‘Government intervention’ on energy costs to consumers. JustRemainIn asks a “silly question, really” (that RB moment) “Why can there not be a free market solution to the energy price crisis?” JustRemainIn is obviously worried that his children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren will be paying off the additional debt that HMG will incur today and that in the short term his Income Tax top rate might increase by 10%.

    Why is that a silly question? The BBC have been nagging and propagandising over Global Warming and Climate Change for what seems like half a lifetime. Oh, hang on. It is half my lifetime, pretty much! The Conservative Government have therefore seen fit to steal the political clothes and indulge in cross-dressing with the Greens, the LiberalDemocrats and the Labour Party in condemning fossil fuel use and setting a stupid NetZero goal.

    Simon Clarke missed a golden opportunity to destroy JustRemainIn Webb on air but then that is par for the course for Conservative Ministers and Secretaries, these days really. (that last bit best read with Australian accent)

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  2. Thoughtful says:

    Now we are hearing some pretty strong hints from monster dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan that he is going to go to war with Greece.

    Turkey currently has enormous financial and economic issues and has always adopted a turncoat mentality even in the cold war choosing whichever side it feels offers the greater benefit and unafraid of using its status to blackmail others.

    It appears now to have chosen the BRICS groups as the more favourable partner and will force the issue by creating conflict in the Eastern Med.

    Meanwhile we have Serbia and Kosovo on the brink of war as well and it is not going to be possible for the West (NATO) to be in all of these theatres at the same time.

    This is quite possibly the worst time the world could have with a senile corrupt weak President in the White House, and it could well be that the hijacking of the election was done by China / Russia in the knowledge someone like Biden would be the ideal stooge for them to run rampant over the globe.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Thoughtful – playing the game of ‘who benefits ‘ from the Biden puppet being in charge is quite an easy one to play ,

      But who actually runs Biden ? I’ve assumed it is really obamas third term – he having cut a deal with those who fixed the election to control the domestic agenda whilst leaving the likes of putin to do as he pleases …..
      ….but the financial support the US is giving Ukraine weakens this view .

      I suppose Turkey going to was with Greece would be the least likely event – would not NATO see it before it happened ?

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      • Thoughtful says:

        Both of them are NATO members Turkey invaded Cyprus and is still occupying it.

        We saw the threats made by Erdogan at the time just before Brexit pushing Syrian (and many other nations) into the EU as bogus refugees which treacherous Merkel allowed into Germany.

        Sanctions should have been applied back then to the Turkish state such as banning holidays there which is a vital part of their economy, and as it is very fragile anyway, it would probably have pushed it over the edge.

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        • Ian Rushlow says:

          The northern part of Cyprus is certainly under de facto Turkish control. Turkey invaded in 1974, having first double-checked with another NATO member that happens to own territory on the island – the United Kingdom – who effectively said ‘Yes, that’s fine, as long as you don’t go near Akrotiri and Dhekelia’.

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    • Wild Bill says:

      Thoughtful,
      Greece are EU members, Turkey are not, so do EU countries not have to defend Greece, after all they have been talking of an EU army?

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  3. StewGreen says:

    Sangita s show now about moderates
    She says she’s the moderates
    ..https://www.twitter.com/SangitaMyska/status/1567790038653583360

    She excluded me from all time debate for asking
    “is the use of the phrase Climate Crisis BBC editorial policy”
    #shunning is bullying

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  4. Zephir says:

    As an addedum to my post above, if you are not versed in bbc correct speak:

    Everyone we do not like is far right, BUT

    Ukranian far right nazis are never to be referred to as such, they are freedom fighters, end of, no further discussion.

    Any Ukranian nazi prison guards in concentration camps in WW2 were only following orders OK ?

    Now, lets find a Tommy Robinson story…and the bbc muzzies are demanding another far right Hindu story.

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  5. vlad says:

    Jim Davidson and Dan Wootton discuss ageism at the BBC and wokeness in comedy

    They also reveal how the BBC gets rid of its talent then bribes them to lie about it.

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    • tomo says:

      AIUI

      The BBC has bought several books by ex employees that contained embarrassing detail of life inside Aunty ….

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  6. tomo says:

    The CBS Ukraine documentary that’s been taken down… Not as I understand it for inaccuracies but more that it’s inconvenient.

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/g5OgTXkzzLy9/

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  7. StewGreen says:

    10am BBC local radio host opens the how by tweeting
    Tory hating reporter Pippa Crerar’s spin on fracking
    .. https://twitter.com/bbcburnsy/status/1567793861279227906

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  8. StewGreen says:

    Then 10:16am chat with BBC Parliament guy @petesaull
    who provided loaded FRAMING
    “very few communities want (fracking) to happen”
    “the idea of extracting POLLUTING gases”

    em gas is NOT polluting
    & CO2 is natural not a pollutant

    I don’t think think there is proper evidence
    that communities majorities don’t want fracking
    .. Rather bussed in intimidating “rentamob” dominate debate
    And locals often fear speaking openly in support

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  9. taffman says:

    Liz is Getting to grips with the soaring energy bills .

    What next, scrapping the Telly Tax ? Go for it Liz, it will help me a lot in paying for my Kilo Watts and Therms.
    My bill has just dropped through the door this morning.
    Now , can she stop the illegal invasion, because its a great cost to our economy that we cant afford ?

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  10. pugnazious says:

    Is there any irony in the BBC’s Sangita Myska, the woman who denounced on air as racist a caller who said Myska, someone not born here, shouldn’t interfere in British politics, Myska who called all Tories racists for not voting an Asian in as PM, should be hosting a programme that seeks to explore, analyse and bring an end to ‘extreme thought and polarisation’?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001brwy

    No coincidence that the BBC chooses as their speaker….

    ‘The son of a Holocaust survivor, Daniel has watched with alarm as extreme, vocal minorities increasingly hijack national debates in the United States.’

    …as Biden denounces Republicans as Fascists…the new Nazis…it’s, apparently, a slippery slope from being anti-mass immigration to the concentration camps we are told today.

    Myska continues the BBC’s long war against ‘social media’…not for any moral reasons or high principles but a highly cynical, if not sinister, attempt to maintain its grip on information and ideas….it wants to set the news agenda, what people see and hear and thence what they perceive and think, how they behave, how they vote…knowledge is power….control the knowledge, take control. The BBC proclaiming itself the ‘Ministry of Truth’ as it gaslights us and fabricates an utterly false narrative about who is a legitimate voice and what is true or not.

    Apparently social media platforms are ‘breeding grounds for extremism’ that is amplified on ‘some’ news outlets’…hmmm…which outlets? I’m betting Fox and GBNews is in her little head.

    What was interesting though, and not picked up by Myska still intent on decrying ‘social media’, was the claim that the problem was the MSM that focussed on the extreme voices and ideas and amplified them, making it hard for people to see other, more moderate, and more common, perspectives…..‘Common ground [between people] hidden by the media’.

    The result of this is small groups of extreme, partisan voices drive the news narratives and people’s views.

    Yeah…that’d be the BBC where a tiny group of like-minded people deep in their bunker attempt to control and rule the world, establishing certain ideas and beliefs as the only acceptable ones whilst portraying those with alternate ideas and beliefs as, well, ‘deplorables’…if not outright Nazis.

    As examples of extreme polarisation the first clip was of someone shouting ‘What do we want? Brexit now!’…and then a clip of Jan 6.

    So someone campaigning for Brexit is an extremist? And a rabble of protestors who went slightly too far…but possibly with encouragement from anti-Trump ‘government’ agents…and just how did they manage to so easily enter the Capitol building? Was it just too convenient to allow them in in order to then use that to create a whole narrative about ‘insurrection’ and Trump whipping up a civil war and thus justify a crackdown on political opponents? The power of nightmares? Was Jan 6 the Democrat’s ‘Reichstag’ moment…it’s cunning plan to steal power?

    Who then are the real extremists…the protestors or those who invent ‘extremism’ in order to silence democratic dissent, who whip up the hatred of Trump and those who vote for him?

    For example….no mention of this by Myska…Biden’s recent speech in which he demonised Republican voters as fascists…not to mention ‘You ain’t black if you don’t vote for me!’

    Biden’s speech was an extremist lie…a malign attempt to whip up hatred and hostility, to turn ‘Republican’ into a dirty word, to make voting for them an act of hatred, to associate it with the Nazis.

    Biden clung to the Flag, the Constitution, Democracy and ‘America’ whilst choosing to do so from what is possibly the Heart of America…as he said…no irony…

    ‘ …from sacred ground in America: Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pa.’

    He proclaims…

    ‘This is where America made its Declaration of Independence to the world more than two centuries ago with an idea, unique among nations, that in America, we’re all created equal.

    This is where the United States Constitution was written and debated.

    This is where we set in motion the most extraordinary experiment of self-government the world has ever known with three simple words: “We, the People.” “We, the People.”

    These two documents and the ideas they embody — equality and democracy — are the rock upon which this nation is built. They are how we became the greatest nation on Earth. They are why, for more than two centuries, America has been a beacon to the world.’

    This is a Democrat President whose party is engaged in what can only be described as a war against that very ‘America’ Biden just embraced so patriotically. The Democrats who want to smash America, its Constitution, its very idea of itself, its belief in its values, its history and its identity. The Democrats who did not just stand by, who didn’t just look on approvingly, but who actively participated and encouraged BLM and Antifa terrorism across the nation as they smashed up cities and spreading hate, anger and destruction as they tore down statues of Washington and Jefferson, founding fathers of the America Biden cynically and disingenuously claims to respect and venerate.

    The Democrats who want to rip up and trash that Constitution and the fact and symbolism of Independence Day and 1776 in favour of a new narrative that rewrites history and portrays the creation of America as an evil upon the world….to reinvisage and reinvent America as a place that was established in order to enslave Blacks in 1619.

    And yet Biden, from the place where the Declaration of Independence was made, makes a speech, ‘dark and disturbing’, that was fully intent on destroying the very things he declared were the very essence of America, that bright shining light, a beacon for the world as he denounced Republicans as fascists….following on from Clinton smearing them as ‘Deplorables’.

    Myska and the BBC admit no recognition of Biden’s and the Democrat’s extremism and polarisation….the authoritarian attempt to use a crackdown on ‘dissent’ as a way to make America a one party state…their whipping up of hatred, anger and paranoia, their collusion with the Russians to unseat the President, destabilise US politics and to steal and corrupt the result of the 2016 election as well as their use of ‘militias’ as proxy armies to intimidate and bully opponents and others to ‘bend the knee’, to surrender their values and beliefs and instead submit to Democrat ideology and dictat.

    No irony that the BBC doesn’t see any of this or of its own ‘liberal’ extremism as it campaigns for mass immigration, climate, abortion, the EU and against gun-rights, Brexit and white people and ‘whiteness’….campaigns for and demonises those who have different ideas.

    Extremism and polarisation? That’d be written into the BBC’s very DNA. The most dangerous organisation in Britain.

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/09/01/remarks-by-president-bidenon-the-continued-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-nation/

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  11. pugnazious says:

    Rod Liddle sticks the knife in…

    ‘[Newsnight] Down from nigh on one million at the turn of the previous decade to well below 300,000 (indeed 200,000, according to an insider) before its awful editor Esme Wren and its chief presenter Emily Maitlis departed.
    Confronted with shows consisting of four angry women, including Maitlis, all agreeing with each other about how beastly right-wing people are, the viewers got the hell out: Newsnight become the perfect example of that cliché, go woke, go broke. Had it been in the private sector Wren and Maitlis would have been given the heave-ho years before – but instead it existed in a bubble of rather smug self-approval. ‘

    LOL. True. Would love to see the figures for Maitlis’ podcast and who the listening demographic is. Is any normal person interested or is her audience whom you might suspect….other media types.

    But also….you may have heard Labour politicians on the BBC telling us how their constituents are freezing to death right now….now you may have raised an eyebrow and rolled your eyes as the heatwave rolled on and carried on with your life….but you did hear right…such things are being said as Rod Liddle notes…

    ‘I am becoming terribly worried about the people of Sunderland with regard to how they will cope in this coming winter. The greatly increased fuel bills will affect all parts of the country, of course – but none more so than the Mackems who, I suspect, will largely die as a consequence. Their particular problem was highlighted by the local Labour MP, Bridget Phillipson, on BBC2’s Politics Live hosted by the excellent Jo Coburn. Ms Phillipson said people in her constituency opened their doors to her wearing their coats and possibly mufflers, because they were trying to reduce their energy bills. The temperature up here has not dropped below about 21°C for the past two months, but these Mackems are apparently already close to hypothermia. So how will they cope when December descends?

    I live about 30 miles away and have been dressed in nothing more than a T-shirt since June and our central heating went off at the end of March. Perhaps the people of Houghton and Sunderland South are actually cold-blooded creatures and would be better served by basking on rocks during the daylight hours, rather than hiding inside their dark, freezing homes.’

    Haven’t heard any ‘journalist’ raise any doubts or questions about the line yet.

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-bbcs-new-direction

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  12. Fedup2 says:

    Official Royal Statement

    Following further evaluation this morning, The Queen’s doctors are concerned for Her Majesty’s health and have recommended she remain under medical supervision.

    The Queen remains comfortable and at Balmoral.

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    • G.W.F. says:

      It is beginning to look likely that Charlie will be taking his position, either as a regent or king. He will exercise power and support the green and mohamidan religions.

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      • Kaiser says:

        sorry G.W.F. just cant bring myself to upvote that depressing thought

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      • vlad says:

        @G.W.F. At which point I will flip from royalist to republican, as hopefully will many others.

        Get woke go broke applies to royalty too.

        Didn’t Charlie Boy once express the wish to be the Defender of All Faiths?
        I think he’ll find that quickly gets whittled down to ONE, if the experience of every other muslim country in the world is anything to go by.

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        • BRISSLES says:

          I would imagine that all the News Channels are gearing up now and checking to see that everyone has a black tie.

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        • Ian Rushlow says:

          Britain’s history is full of great kings and queens, but that’s where they belong – as part of our history. The greatest tribute to Her Majesty would be that the monarchy ends with her, as the pinnacle she represents will never be matched. The antics of some of her children and grandchildren show that they are part of the problem, not the solution.

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    • digg says:

      Beginning to wonder how long the forensic gaze of the BBC will be focused 24/7 on Balmoral. If Elizabeth battles on for lets say another 12 months will they still be rolling endless footage of the Balmoral Estate gates?

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  13. StewGreen says:

    @Zephir you can easily check for when Beeboids tweeted the term “far right”

    It’s no surprise that the people who object to the label “woke”
    often use the term “far right” in a derogatory way to smear their political opponents
    We spoke of the Beeboids endorsing Megha Mohan’s tweet against the labeL

    Matthew Sweet has used the label Far Right 10 times

    In a thread about people using the phrase “free speech is hate speech” Sweet labels RebelNews as Far right


    Note how the Rebel video begins with Mark Steyn
    So that suggests that Sweet is pursuing a long term vendetta against Steyn

    Sweet says “I cannot find evidence that anyone on the political left has ever used “free speech is hate speech” as a slogan.

    FFS that’s stupid.. the righties argument
    Is “My free speech gets labelled by the left side as hate speech
    so what they are saying is “my free speech is hate speech””

    No one is doing the same against the lefties so of course they don’t complain about it.

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    • Richard Pinder says:

      Violent and hateful University Student placards and shirts say either “Hate Speech is Free Speech” or “Hate Speech is Free Speech”.
      Posh upper-class Students have been taught by rich Communists that “Free Speech” is a right-wing idea thought up by the National Socialist German Workers Party. An example is that in Germany, Hitler was free to say what he liked. Today if Hitler spoke at Speakers Corner, plain clothes Police officers would turn violent, and then the uniformed Police officers would arrest the speaker for inciting violence. Hate Speech causes violent demonstrations against Free Speech by Students and Police officers. Only left-wing socialists and communists are allowed to use violent “Hate Speech” against their enemies in demonstrations. Right-wing people should be banned from speaking about Big Pharma and victims of the vaccine.

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  14. Fedup2 says:

    Listening to the energy statement and response – HMS Blackford was at flank speed telling us about the nasty conservatives .
    So far it looks like we have a conservative prime minister – the first one in a very long time …. The noise about ‘not enough help ‘ is very loud but it was always going to be .
    The detail will be important and hope the remedy will be put in place very soon …

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  15. Tabs says:

    Nothing to do with the BBC…

    John Lewis have a new TV advert out
    https://www.johnlewis.com/content/moments

    It features a totally white, non disabled, not trans totally normal family!!! Everyone else in the video is pretty much an ethnic minority though.

    Is this the start of the end of ‘go Woke, go broke’? Has John Lewis finally realised that their adverts need to appeal to the UKs majority population?

    I wonder how long before the BBC also wake up to this.

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  16. Beltane says:

    Part 2 of David Dimly’s ‘Days that shook the BBC’, a brave breastbeater on BBC probity contained a couple of questionable features.
    Divided into two sections, Iraq and Saville, the first provided ample and continuous evidence of Alistair Campbell’s utter contempt for truth and his arrogance when challenged on any aspect of his interpretations of it. This has to leave us wondering just how and why the BBC continue, repeatedly, to regard this lying thug as the go-to source of information and opinion and how the BBC reconcile this with DD’s theme.
    On Saville – bearing in mind the program is supposedly an honest appraisal of the events surrounding the peroxide paedo’s exposure – not once despite frequent references to Newsnight and the burying of their lengthy research was the name Yentob mentioned. He appeared for a few frames in the audience at an Entwhistle press conference but that was it.
    As an aside, Entwhistle’s brief tenure as Director General was revealed, perhaps accidentally, as that of the fall-guy – which tends to explain why someone with such a very common name could have been elected by the aloof elite on Floor 6.
    Dimly’s 3-part work has simply shown that the BBC concept of honesty is continuously crafted to suit the circumstances, which is no honesty at all. But they don’t seem to appreciate the fact.

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    • Lunchtime Loather says:

      Not watched this yet but will do. I watched part 1 the other day and laughed when DD said “The BBC was seen as being a nest of left-wing vipers”. First bit of honest and accurate news I’ve seen on the BBC for years. And nothing changes.

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  17. StewGreen says:

    Local radio presenter has just endorsed this tweet
    “I don’t understand why Christmas lights are not solar powered”
    He added “yes I don’t know why all buildings aren’t forced to have solar ”

    Doh cos UK solar is rubbish
    It only delivers in daylight and when it feels like it

    So of course solar powered Christmas lights are rubbish cos you need it to be sunny to power them
    Yet you only put them on at night.

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  18. Thoughtful says:

    https://jnews.uk/liz-truss-on-collision-course-with-bank-of-england-over-boosting-economy/

    Liz Truss on collision course with Bank of England over boosting economy

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    • Fedup2 says:

      World at one
      Full on anti government plan – Welsh disabled mum with 4 kids and unemployed husband .

      Wasn’t asked whether she smokes , has Sky , has a tv – has a licence – mobile phone – entitled entitled entitled … give me give me

      I’d have been interested about how much benefits she gets …. But the bbc too busy on the give me give me …

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      • tomo says:

        Benefits clients and the army of public sector jobsworths that service them …

        The BBC knows its core audience….

        It has really become unwatchable / unlistenable.

        The Tom Towers media analyst reckons they’re comprehensively lying about their audience figures.

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      • StewGreen says:

        ITV local NewsPR item on fuel poverty the other day
        The normal crap where some NGO is feeding them to cuyNpaste
        yet they pretend they have jut bumped into them
        #1 “Here’s poor person TOM”
        “I can’t afford the heating so I’ve turned it down”

        #2 “Here’s volunteer JULIE”
        “Yes I am inside the foodbank volunteering
        and the thing I when I am inside here I’m not spending money on heating at home”

        FFS no one has spent ANY money on heating for months
        It’s still summer , you gaslighters.

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  19. Halifax says:

    Our amazing monarch may not be around much longer. The totally irreverent BBC have updates on her health next to a message about NHS waiting list. The headline page also shares the queens health updates with pieces on Trans issues.
    I really do despise them they will treat her death as the end of colonialism and the monarchy. We will have a BME team commentating on events while sat with their feet on a union Jack as they did at the Platinum jubilee.
    They totally despise our culture and society so lets hope more people than ever call them out for what they are, evil communist 5th columnists.

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  20. andyjsnape says:

    Drag Race UK’s first trans queen Dakota Schiffer: ‘I’m excited to show trans joy’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/1ed90ce9-7e6c-42fe-995f-e315fbfae5d3

    I’m wondering how many people actually watch this, and the cost to make against the tele licence costs

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  21. Guest Who says:

    See, they have a plan to deal with questions they can’t answer.

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    • Richard Pinder says:

      Question: What does NET ZERO actually mean?
      Answer: NET ZERO WEALTH FOR ALL

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    • digg says:

      What happened that led to so many complete numpties getting into almost every government in the Western World including our own?

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  22. Guest Who says:

    Next on BBC Race, a star is yawn…

    BBC News

    “Our world has never been all white, fantasy has never been all white, Middle-earth is not all white.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62831102?

    Lord of the Rings stars condemn racist backlash to new Amazon series cast

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    • Richard Pinder says:

      But don’t the rules of Cultural appropriation mean that Blacks should be banned from speaking European languages or wearing European dress.

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      • Ian Rushlow says:

        Other way round. So-called European languages and European dress were actually invented by black people who were living here thousands of years, if not tens of thousands, or even hundreds or thousands of years, before White people evolved as a result of a genetic abnormality. It’s well known by Scientists ™ and Experts ™.

        https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/07/first-modern-britons-dark-black-skin-cheddar-man-dna-analysis-reveals

        And anyone who says that the Cheddar Man was a hoax that was quickly debunked by scientists, including some that were quoted in the original ‘study’, is a filthy racist and, er, er, climate denier and Putin stooge.

        https://www.newscientist.com/article/2161867-ancient-dark-skinned-briton-cheddar-man-find-may-not-be-true/

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        • Richard Pinder says:

          Ancient genomes indicate population replacement in Early Neolithic Britain: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10073386/1/Brace_NEE19_PreProofs.pdf

          As is found everywhere else, the inferior aboriginal population was probably massacred by the incoming superior and whiter Neolithic Farmers. Although we still are designed to get darker in summer by getting tanned.

          So British Blacks should be dressed in Mesolithic Hunter Gatherer dress, but as these inferior people became extinct 6,300 years ago, clubbed to death by the superior early Neolithic Farmers. They should not appear in Tolkien’s Third Age which followed about 6,000 years ago. It was not until the present era that we see a return of these primitive peoples enriching our vibrant inner city areas with crime and civilisation collapse as the whiter Neolithic Farmers types leave town in what is called “White Flight”.

          So the primitive Black population of Britain was below one percent between 4,278 BC and 1,962 AD. That’s 6,240 years with a 99% highly advanced population at its evolutionary peak.

          We now enter the Netzerolithic Era were White Liberals happily get clubbed to death by inner-city Netzerolithic peoples looking for food.

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  23. tomo says:

    Had the virus and got the antibodies to prove it?

    – we’d like to give you a vaccine waiver

    – said no vax maniac never

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  24. StewGreen says:

    Local radio is now doing PR for Any Questions
    cos it’s in Grimsby this week
    #1 sneery Victoria Derbyshire is speaking
    she’s the new host
    That must be BBCtickboxing
    Guests
    #1 “For Labour Hilary Benn MP”
    #2 Christine Jardine , Lib MP Edinburgh
    #4 The Tory MP guest is yet to be announced

    #3 Paul Drechsler
    Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce
    .. he heads so many boards including Greencoat who own 38 wind farms in the UK
    so I guess he will be promoting windfarms in the hope of getting applause from the Orsted workers bussed in

    They are still asking for people to come
    You can submit a question when you arrive at 6:30pm
    https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/grimsby-central-hall/radio-4-question-time/2022-09-09/20:00/t-ojjamkn

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  25. tomo says:

    seems a fair question

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    • digg says:

      I’d like to know what would happen if the driver of one of those tyre vandalised trucks had gone on the road without realising, lost control and wiped out a family in a small car on a motorway.,.

      Would that get plod interested in dealing with these outright criminals.

      Perhaps not in the same league as the teacher who they helped get jailed for refusing to call a boy a girl but maybe worthy of getting them to leave the police station?

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      • tomo says:

        Tampering with vehicles can get a custodial sentence iirc.

        Cut the brake lines etc.

        Even the Tweets could be actionable?

        edit: a few years back there was a local feud and some van brakes were tampered with – the perp iirc got 6 months.

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    • taffman says:

      Criminal damage that has to be paid for.
      Jail with hard labour !

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    • digg says:

      Adding to my last post, drilling a hole in a truck tyre is a very dangerous thing to do. Truck tyres are inflated to much higher pressures than car tyres and the sudden escape of high pressure air could theoretically cause the whole tyre to rip open and explode and possibly catch fire. The consequences to the driller or anyone in the vicinity could have been life changing as they were blasted by high velocity shards of rubber.

      Vacuous idiots!

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    • Tabs says:

      What I find shocking is how weak men are these days. The woman in that video handles a drill very well but the men put no effort into it.

      Same for the lots trying to smash the petrol pumps with a hammer. None of them can get any weight behind the hammers and have to hit 20 times before they can break a 2mm thick plastic window.

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  26. StewGreen says:

    I you sit down with a tea to watch BBC news
    You are the MUG.

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  27. Halifax says:

    All
    Difficult times for our amazing monarch. Whilst on here we strive to put everyone who cares for our culture and our heritage to the fore is now not the time to show a bit of reverence and reign in the trivial comments?
    Not being draconian but perhaps we can all take this moment to show our respect and solidarity for someone who stands at the forefront of Britishness.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Halifax – i think you are asking a bit much. Such events affect people in different ways .
      Premature announcements have already shamefully been made by Guido as well as some fool in BBC world service.,

      As i write a racist woman is being given airtime on the 5pm radio news with meeshall just letting her talk and talk snd talk and talk – professor anna whitelock – just awful .

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  28. BRISSLES says:

    WOW ! Huw Edwards already wearing a black tie !!!! Bit premature Huw !

       13 likes

    • Halifax says:

      Brissles im a long time reader of your posts, perhaps that one is a tad distasteful.

         5 likes

      • BRISSLES says:

        I don’t see how Halifax, its generally accepted that newsreaders wear black when someone in the Family have died. Our Queen as we understand is still very much with us, until we hear otherwise, so yes, I do feel him wearing black is a tad premature !

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  29. Up2snuff says:

    Biased BBC Weather Watch

    It has been droughting on and off all day here, and we have had at least 35 minutes of very firm rain the like of which we have not seen here for some time, possibly all year so far.

       10 likes

    • digg says:

      I’m in Gosport, Hampshire and here we have had quite a few inches of torrential rain in the past 24 hours. I took the chance of a break in the rain to get my rotavator onto my allotment as the ground has been baked hard up until now.

      I managed most of the plot before I rode over what looked like a damp patch only for my rotavator to dig itself 18 inches down into a sea of wet mud!

      It is a vintage Howard and very, very heavy so getting it out of the hole was quite a challenge involving ropes round trees with pulleys!

      Last week when using it it was bouncing and skipping over the ground as if it was concrete.

      What a change in just a few days, must be Global Damping!

         7 likes

  30. digg says:

    The “Heroin Addict” who writes for the Guardian manages to do a whole article in the Guardian comparing Truss to her predecessor without using Boris’s name once, simply refering to him repeatedly as “the Convict”.

    The “Heroin Addict” obviously thinks this a great wheeze as he constantly labours the point as I have seen him do before.

    This reveals such a juvenile streak in The “Heroin Addict” that his ramblings just have to be dismissed as sour grapes.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/07/unlike-the-convict-truss-gives-direct-answers-at-pmqs-even-if-logic-fails-her

    And for those who wonder who I am referring to this is who I am referring to:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Crace_(writer)

       9 likes

    • TrickCyclist says:

      digg,
      Thanks for telling us who. As someone unfamiliar with The Guardian, I would’ve assumed you meant Will Self, another heroin user who has written for it.
      I suppose I should add “former user” for the sake of this site, since we have to take people at their word.

         8 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Digg
      I used to look at crace from time to time but decided he is another one of those mental defectives – like al campbell and those other comunist kidults getting money from the gusrdian columns department.

      Not for me any more …

         1 likes

  31. Eddy Booth says:

    What is the energy price cap and how high could bills go?
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58090533

    “A typical household’s energy bill will rise to £2,500 a year from 1 October (from £1,971)

    However, most households aren’t actually typical. Many factors like the number of people in a house, the type of property and how much they use their heating all make a difference.”

    So why keep confusingly talking about it then.
    Petrol prices aren’t referenced to what a typical car users annual bill is.
    Why subsidise people’s energy bills anyway?
    They’re already getting £400.
    The more they spend on utilities. the less they have to spend on other things, cutting infation!

       9 likes

  32. Fedup2 says:

    Monitoring twitter and seeing that the ECB has hiked rates by 0.75% suggests an out of control EU inflation rate …

    … I’d rather write about that than some of the awful comments about HM The Queen … what happens to some people when they sit in front of a keyboard ?

       10 likes

  33. s.trubble says:

    I was wondering whether Mr Tim Davie (i think we’re getting it just about right) had been receiving medication from Nurse Ratchet.

    I think they even shaved his head while medicated.

    Ms Donelan over to you.

    Please put this man and his band of left wing zealots out to the marketplace at Warp factor 7.

       5 likes

  34. tomo says:

    An “Energy Minister”

    – we’re f’d aren’t we?

       6 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Well, yes.

      On a local shire media forum page they shared Liz’s cap wheeze, and the comments are… feisty.

      As an aside our supplier informed us that they were jacking up our DD to cover shenanigans they estimate at several thousand by the same time next year.

      Seems they are trying to stock up on our money for no one else paying at Christmas.

      I have told them that is not a favoured option.

      Maybe not in those terms.

         6 likes

      • Guest Who says:

        Just got this from our ‘new’ supplier…

        ***

        Green energy and tree planting

        From 1 October, 100% renewable electricity will only be available to customers with a smart meter¹. Getting a free smart meter is the simplest way you can help to create a greener energy system.

        We’re also changing how we go about planting trees – from planting one tree a year for every customer, to planting 1 million trees every year. Our goal remains the same – to create greener spaces across the UK with the support of our partners at The Woodland Trust and The Conservation Volunteers.

        ***

        Well, that is just lovely. I will not be getting a smart meter, unless the Gov pulls a bbc and forces it on me. And even then…

        Meanwhile, about trying to scare folk into handing over scarce savings in advance to cover your estimates, based on idiot projections and decisions…

        That also sounds too BBC unique to swallow.

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  35. Tabs says:

    BBC News channel appears to be running with a 2 minute delay. Usually it is around 10 seconds. Anyone know why such a long delay?

       3 likes

    • digg says:

      Probably to cut out the cheering and whooping from the commie lizards in the junior reporter room next door!

         10 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      I reckon they need to be sure before they make any official announcement .
      Getting it wrong ends careers

         2 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      In case Harry emerges from a Heinkel 111 with an Alsatian?

         1 likes

  36. JohnC says:

    The BBC are absolutely loving the current situation with the Queen.

    It’s a golden opportunity to pour out their fake empathy and they will go into overdrive when HM finally exits after a very good innings.

    I’m not sure I will be able to stand it.

    Then the process starts to gradually undermine, discredit and finally remove the Monarchy. Their success with Boris will give them confidence to go just a little bit further – and Charles will be another easy target.

       14 likes

    • Thoughtful says:

      It’s virtually free content to them and they are able to then sell their coverage to news networks the world over.

      Odd how they can be so anti capitalism, and then so eager to indulge in it when it benefits them isn’t it?

         12 likes

  37. Zephir says:

    Yes just checked the bbc news special, 4 members of Royal Family just arrived at Aberdeen airport off to Balmoral, Harry and Nutmeg were not part of the group.

       7 likes

    • Tabs says:

      If those 2 could quickly sign another Netflix contract to film the unfolding events they would be there like a shot.

         9 likes

  38. Thoughtful says:

    I am sure all of our deepest concerns lie with Her Majesty who has served this country faultlessly throughout her long reign.

       23 likes

  39. Zephir says:

    Unfortunately a sentiment not shared by the anti Tory scum left, already being reported that a few have posted Twitter posts about Liz Truss “poisoning” the Queen and other tasteless posts.

    “Joe Politics account sparks outrage after posting distasteful tweet about Liz Truss and the Queen before being forced to delete it”

    “‘They should be ashamed’: Jedward are told to ‘grow up’ as they are slammed for ‘insensitive’ tweets about the Queen’s health as they mock Liz Truss’ visit to Balmoral”

       13 likes

    • JohnC says:

      I fully expect the shallow and nasty far-Left woke brigade to celebrate when the news finally breaks.

         11 likes

  40. vlad says:

    One more reason to eschew Hollywood and hope for its rapid demise:

    Jennifer Whorence Says She Has Nightmares About Tucker Carlson

       3 likes

  41. Guest Who says:

    There appears to be a new US Disinformation Reporter called Mike Wendling.

    What are the odds?

    Unless it is the ex-head of the one here.

    In which case it seems a rather quiet move.

    Anyone know? Bar this chipper minx:

    Marianna Spring
    @mariannaspring

    My mum found this award I won for my local paper’s reporter scheme when I was 15. Becoming a correspondent, presenting #Americast & launching undercover voters on Newsnight – and another podcast & TV investigation soon. 15-year-old me would be v excited for this 26-year-old!

    Like a blonde Meghan. That summary seems factually very well phrased. Bet Sopes, BS, Lurch, Katty and Saz are pleased.

       7 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Might be him. Lucky America. Seems they got another one as impartial as the rest.

      https://www.listennotes.com/top-podcasts/mike-wendling/

         4 likes

    • Terminal Moraine says:

      Reply to Marianna from a Sky News correspondent.

      What hope for journalism when it increasingly sounds like a teenager’s afternoon out?

         3 likes

      • MarkyMark says:

        Dear Marianna Spring (BBC wages paid under threat of prosecution),

        As I’ve had to look at your BBC news and use other sources to determine that your news is not news but selective editorial opinion I’d like to request that I have a refund for the last 4 years plus get the BBC free from now on.

        Please let me know how I can go about this as I am willing to create a full list of articles that I’ve had to investigate plus time taken for me to check your fact checker whilst realising that the BBC intentionally removes news rather than incorrectly report on it, uses images to sway opinion or misleads with the main titles hoping no one reads the full article.

        ‘Omission is the greatest form of lie.’

        CAS-4987700-SY1FTF : BBC NewsWatch says boredom with pro-Brexit march.

        CAS-4844672-N8FDYY: Update on the MP Expenses 2009 scandal in 2018.

        CAS-4939547-J71Z1V: Here’s hoping Ireland do the right thing G.Lineker.

        CAS-4937378-YKMWBJ: BBC not reporting ‘Day of Freedom’ March 06may2018.

        CAS-4906141-BFJQL0: I take offence that presenters promote their books.

        CAS-4892811-C820SC: I am offended that I have to pay the BBC TV Tax.

        CAS-4824332-633N1P: What happened in Italy was not covered …

        CAS-4933135-ZV3V7F: The omission is the most powerful form of lie …

        CAS-6005141-S1V9D1: Not seen a report on the UK Governments Covid19 

        Let me know how to go about resolving the issue of paying for something that wastes my time as I have to check each story rather than rely on its accuracy.

        Cheers,
        Mark
        https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications

        ……………….

           0 likes

      • Docmarooned says:

        Me me me! A rival for Markle methinks.

           4 likes

  42. tomo says:

    I’m not content that Farage hasn’t obviously provided more context on those Albanians at the shooting range.

    Some trivial searches didn’t enlighten much – anybody seen elaboration – or was it just for effect?

       2 likes

  43. StewGreen says:

    OK so there i this Lebanese guy in Canada
    #1 Starts a media social justice project
    #2 says he’s fighting far right and “white supremacists” etc.
    You can see how that works cos libmob has this hierarchy
    It ticks libmob boxes so gov gives him a big grant
    #3 August 12th journo starts working out
    that he posts a lot of anti-Israel anti-Semitic stuff
    #4 He doesn’t really live in Canada it’s more like he’s based in Lebanon

    So David Aaronovitch also has this hierarchy thing, so now he’s found out the guy is strongly anti-Jewish he’s done a Jewih Chronicle article
    Don’t ignore the ugly faces beneath the virtuous masks
    https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/all/dont-ignore-the-ugly-faces-beneath-the-virtuous-masks-tu3U16F5LyxGUPBAcCzA0

    It must be based on the work of earlier journos
    yet he doesn’t acknowledge anyone

    Jonathan Kay @jonkay @Quillette editor
    seems to have it all on Aug 12 th
    in a long thread https://twitter.com/jonkay/status/1558209639698890754
    Then 25th Aug article https://quillette.com/2022/08/25/the-increasingly-blurry-line-between-anti-racism-and-racism/
    Kay later added “One of Marouf’s speakers was this guy, who helps dole out the Libs’ $595m media fund (He’s a journo professor, naturally)”
    Seem the course ran and some journos attended it, but didn’t notice anything wrong
    Their names seem secret.

       5 likes

  44. tomo says:

    The fuel shortage hits Islington

    >> a new BBC daytime reality show about wood scavenging in the capital?

       2 likes

  45. Thoughtful says:

    https://www.dailysabah.com/business/transportation/erdogan-echoes-putins-gripes-wants-russian-grain-to-be-exported-too

    This is significant news, not so much for what the content is but because Erdogan is echoing Putin publicly giving a show that he and Turkey are aligning with Russia and the BRICS.

    This is a further chipping away of the US hegemony which is the grand strategy. America had better start getting used to not being the world superpower and throwing its weight around in an irresponsible manner because when Bidens Presidency is over – even if he is removed from office the USA will be massively weaker than when he came to office, irreparably so.

       6 likes

  46. Concrete sea says:

    Yalda Hadim- who ? Apparently she describes herself as ‘Anchor and Correspondent. Host of BBC World News. Impact with Yalda Hakim’. Still never heard of her ? An Australian born in Kabul. She recently tweeted…
    “I tweeted that there had been an announcement about the death of the Queen. This was incorrect, there has been no announcement, and so I have deleted the tweet. I apologise.”
    Obviously she won’t be sacked, disciplined or smacked on the wrist.

       8 likes

  47. Guest Who says:

    The bbc seems rammed with those whose renown, or even familiarity, in their own bubble heads is likely well out of sync with their market rate.

       6 likes

  48. MarkyMark says:

    Where is International Blasphemy Day? BBC Omission

    Dear BBC £3.5bn News Service paid under threat of prosecution by the Many, Not the Few,

    I searched for “international blasphemy day” on the bbc.co.uk website and your site only returned ….

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=international+blasphemy+day

    * Click: International Women’s Day
    * Click – Short Edition: International Women’s Day
    * Leeds International Piano Competition
    * Manchester International Festival
    * Dana International
    * Manchester International Festival: MIF 2017

    “International Blasphemy Rights Day, educates individuals and groups about blasphemy laws and defends freedom of expression, especially the open criticism of religion which is criminalized in many countries. Blasphemy Day was introduced as a worldwide celebration by the Center for Inquiry in 2009.”

    1989 … Satanic Verses causes Iran to create fatwa for death of Salman Rushdie.

    . . . 4 years later and they mention it . . .

    1993 … Satanic Verses mentioned by United Nations.

    . . . .10 Years of the UN doing nothing . . .

    1999 … Iran say they will not hunt for the head of Salman Rushdie.
    {meforum jun1999}

    . . . 27 years later and the UN have been laughed at . . .

    2016 … Fatwa on Salman Rushdie renewed by Iran.
    {independent feb2016}

    . . . 29 years after Satanic Verses.. maybe the UN could have more serious words with Iran . . . .

    2018 …. Iran release state emojis that show ‘death to America’ and ‘death to Israel’.
    {bbc.co.uk 25apr2018}

    “The omission is the most powerful form of lie, and it is the duty of the historian to ensure that those lies do not creep into the history books.” – George Orwell

    BBC Nick Robinson Twitter 07nov2017 …‘”If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”. I’m proud those words now adorn BBC HQ’

    . . . .

    Can the BBC £3.5bn News Service explain why this important day has been omitted from history when other international days are reported on? Was it too difficult to report on?

    https://ssl.bbc.co.uk/complaints

    https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/10/15/start-the-week-open-thread-15-october-2018/comment-page-2/#comment-947333

       2 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      In fact cos of the Rushdie attack BBC radio4 are in the middle of repeating their 2019 series Fatwa
      today they talked about assassination attempt on the Norwegian publisher
      bullets missed his vital organs
      Meanwhile Iran had said they wouldn’t send army out for Rushdie.
      The UK was trying to negotiate to give the Iranians a way of backing out
      but had to be quit cos of effective hostages in Iran.

         1 likes

  49. tomo says:

    It just occurred to me that Ursula VdL (flatten the energy curve speech) has a good track record of flattening things – she flattened the entire German armed forces as Merkel’s Minister of Defence.

       7 likes

  50. StewGreen says:

    6pm ITV we are not allowed to have normal news
    we get death speculation porn instead.
    Bubbleworld media look to turn everything into a media special .

    Personally I show an interest in people when they are alive
    and don’t bother with funerals etc
    BBC local news has been scheduled for 7pm.

       0 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      There does seem to be a sick aspect of the MSM to be the first to give out bad news .
      I feel fortunate not to have a TV at the moment showing outside broadcasts from the gates of various place …

      … in other news the permanent secretary to the Treasury has been fired ( peerage pending ) maybe it will concentrate the minds of other obstructive remainer types …

         4 likes