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Looks like Springster and Katty are set to deploy.
Katty Kay vs. Tulsi Gabbard – now that … I’d pay to see.
I’d give my vote to Tulsi …. But it must really grate on the woke metro democrats to hear Tucker giving his supportive view of her …..
I wonder how their system works when someone ‘ crosses the floor ‘?
BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – just how is that ‘market turmoil’ going, BBC ?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63230001
Funny thing but when someone or some organisation takes a specific action or says something, the markets do not respond as expected. OPEC recently had a meeting with Putin and he persuaded them to restrict the oil outputs of OPEC members. Normally the price would rocket with a restriction in supply just as in 1973/74. But no.
Bank of England Governor, Andrew Bailey telegraphed his intention not to support Gilts after Friday. This would normally crash the £ sterling Mark Carney-style but no, so far so good. Sterling has appreciated to almost $1.11 today and although there is one and a bit days to go, so far so bad for the turmoil lovers at the BBC.
The Just Stop Oil put up a dumb poll
Started off badly, maybe they’ll do something to rig it
All these groups are really XR.. #PRtrickery
gawdin bennet… love a duck
The UK’s favourite TV soap does climate change
They will cancel the poll and rerun it – polls are to form opinion not show it.
You should watch this because it might surprise you how the government changed the rules following the 2008 banking crash, this is the USA but the UK is the same with the amount guaranteed just £50K.
It’s explained very well, but I think people are going to be very shocked and surprised at just how vulnerable there money in a bank actually is:
Actually in the UK The FSCS deposit protection limit is £85,000 per authorised firm.
and for joint accounts it’s £170K
https://www.fscs.org.uk/what-we-cover/
ie a UK couple could safely have £500K protected if they spread it through 3 different banks/building societies.
The reality is you have no protection. The bank can use your money and you won’t get it back until the government sorts the mess of the collapsed bank, and sees if there is any money left to pay creditors, only after that would the government pay out on its guarantees and that could be years away.
T, your guy is talking about the USA and their banks. Did you not spot his accent, the dollar bills, etc.? The rules might different for the US and their banks when compared with the UK. In addition the bank branch network is very different in the US, with lots of small, individual, ‘Savings & Loans’ so-called ‘banks’. There is some rubbish in the vid so far and I’m only 10% through and it strikes me the guy has a book to sell!
A mate of mine was in Argentina for one of their banking fiascos in the noughties – said it was a good natured street party atmosphere as people launched Molotov cocktails into bank branches and destroyed ATMs
Jacob Foggy Moggy has been on the BBC to complain about their bias. Of course his useless party who have been in power for 12 years have done absolutely nothing to address this, but he was very lucky the ignorant Leftie interviewing him didn’t pick up on his lying about the interest rate disparity between the USA and UK is to blame for the bond market turmoil.
Moggy is a party of Somerset Capital Management, and thus an ‘expert’ who should know about the workings of such things, therefore I’m not going to call him ignorant, but suggest he deliberately set out to mislead.
A very polite note was sent to HoC members by the BoE explaining that although the markets are to some minor extent affected by interest rate disparity this was catagorically not the reason and the timing of the bond market proves that it was Kwartengs budget behind the turmoil, which has not been rolled back and is still causing massive problems.
I’m now hearing a number of Tory MPs believe the damage to the country Truss is causing is so great that they would vote against the government and lose their own seats in a no confidence motion.
Yes I wonder if Truss will make it to 5 November yet alone Christmas . Today she said she will not cut public spending . Yet she is cutting income tax in 6 months time ….
The decline in retail spending is going to kick in as rates go up – the sums don’t add up .
Thoughtful & Fedup2
She could recover if she stopped the invasion of this country by illegals and scrapped the Green Levy. Otherwise the Tories will be toast .
Vote for UKIP and or The Reform Party..
Simples
UKIP and Reform have no chance while the Left control the majority media. I was even shocked at how Left-Wing the Telegraph has become yesterday and some of the articles I see in the Guardian (who seem to be the only newspaper the BBC use for their stories) are extreme Left-wing hatred of the Right.
Our society is totally politically corrupted now.
It is vital for the future freedom of thought for the people that the BBC is made accountable. Which can only be done by making them compete for customers under a subscription model.
Then the truth will come out …
The Brexit Party did quite well despite the ‘meeja’ ?
Yes, but only because things had got so bad due to us being in the EU.
The media were caught unawares : they were shocked by how many votes The Brexit Party got. Now they have completely cancelled Nigel, the show he presents and have labelled anyone right-wing as ‘far-right’. They won’t let it happen again.
Only GB News stands up for us. And they’ve been cancelled by the MSM too. They are never mentioned by the BBC unless it’s bad.
Just look at the BBC’s other arse-cheek’s coverage of GB-News. 100% negative.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/gb-news
People tend to wake up about 2 years too late in my experience.
2 years to go then until the next general election, who will you vote for then, Tories ?
You may be left with Labour ?
More and more people that I know will be voting for The Reform Party, that’s the old Brexit Party .
Including those of The Red Wall .
If I think my vote will make any difference, I will have to vote Tory even though I would much rather vote for The Reform Party.
The worst possible scenario is Labour getting in. the Left are a cancer. They are without scruples, morales or ethics once you strip away the virtue-signalling. Their excuse is always ‘The ends justify the means’ – which is exactly what terrorists say.
The BBC smell blood just like they did with Boris. Whatever she does, the BBC will do their best to destroy it. They will go at her relentlessly now until she falls. And OFCOM will be silent.
Only an election and Labour government will satisfy them.
The Sky at Night, BBC Four 11:55 – 0:55.
“A special ‘Question Time’ edition, with an expert panel answering questions from viewers on all things astronomical.” -BBC blurb
I tuned in late at 0:10 and thought, “Ooh, I wonder if they’ll allow a question on climate change?” I got my answer within two minutes.
Is there a racial or sexual angle to astronomy? I expect I’ll find out if I keep watching.
Gas taps can still be turned on to EU, says Vladimir Putin
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63231826
The headline adds ‘But Germany quickly rejects the offer’.
Which morphs into ‘But Germany quickly rejected Mr Putin’s offer to send gas via Nord Stream 2.’ inside the article and we also get:
At the same time, a government spokesman in Berlin said Nord Stream 1 – which is not under sanctions – was an option, but gas was not flowing “because Russia did not deliver”.
I’ve been told they have been blown up (by Russia if you believe our media+governments, by the USA if you are sane). Now it seems I haven’t been given the full story at all.
What are the chances of Germans calling for negotiations to end the fighting soon ?.
Now accepting the fact that Russia clearly started the actual fighting, I feel like I am reliving the extreme propaganda of World War 2 – but it’s us and Ukraine with Goebbels in charge.
This should sort it out:
Iran protests: Women around the world cut their hair
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-63204259
I doubt anyone in Iran has seen it.
Last month : Afghanistan
Last week : Ukraine
This week : Iran
All instantly thrown under a bus when the virtue-signalling-at-the-coffee-machine value wears off.
ISIS were 100 times worse and they said nothing because – and I quote BBC guidelines – one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.
As we all know, the word “Muslim” rarely features in BBC articles when a follower of Islam commits a serious crime, even if that crime is a terrorist attack in which the attacker’s faith was clearly a motivating factor.
Compare and contrast with this headline and story in which the killer’s faith is of paramount importance to the BBC’s agenda.
“Devout Christian decapitated her church friend, trial told”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-63214454
They disgust me beyond words.
Maybe they could turn it into a spy movie?
Not rarely, LR, never.
I’ve been monitoring BBC terrorist reports for years now and the absolute closest you will get to any recognition of who did it is ‘so called Islamic State’ if they were involved.
They won’t even use the word ‘terrorist’ or indentify any group who did it who are officially terrorists (like HAMAS). The only time that word ever appears is if it is part of a police statement because even the BBC know better than to go editing them.
Their warped reasoning is that many Muslims (including those here) see the terrorists as ‘freedom fighters’ and so for some bizarre reason, they must not be offended.
And as your example shows, no such rules apply to Christians. Hindus or anyone else. Especially not if they are right wing : they always get ‘far-right’ multiple times in the article. The BBC hate the Right with an absolute passion.
It’s like satire now.
Once they have power .. they want more power.
As Mark says, Activists are like blackmailers : give them what they want and they will ALWAYS want more.
That’s why the current appeasement by showing blacks way, way beyond their percentage of society will solve absolutely nothing except antagonise whites because of the clear, illegal racist discrimination against them.
A good example why you don’t let youngsters dictate policy like they have done on social media. They have no clue about real life. When they are 40, they will think back and realise just how stupid they used to be.
Which is also why the Left want to lower the voting age …
I’m gonna campaign for an old man with grey hair, specs and hearing aids emoji, as if I care.
Has the bbc got in the FT and Femi yet to applaud them for how quick?
By demanding via BBC Too Many People, Not Enough Content, that there should be more money? Or something?
The replies are hilarious. Why the hell would videogame developers even consider such a nonsense idea. Still never say the bBBC will not make a story out of nothing. Video games by definition are visual. Tell this clown just listen to cd’s.
RAF to employ blind pilots.
Cliff Richard Rules.
SO presenters can tell lies and get away with it?
The Atlantic was, of course, another Sopes fave. How are he, BS, Hurly, Dino, Lewis and gang doing now?
BBC Emole, may have been edited for further effect.
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Operating theatres go unused as NHS backlog grows
NHS waiting lists in England are growing and there is a commitment to bring them down – but fewer operations and treatments are being carried out than before Covid. With nearly seven million people waiting for treatment, the push to tackle the hospital backlog is being undermined by the struggle to get services back to full strength. NHS England data shows that in the past year an average of nearly 254,000 inpatient treatments, including hip and knee replacements, have been performed each month – that’s 3% lower than the year before the pandemic.
One of those people waiting for treatment is typical BBC featured victim Marcus Mansukhani, who has needed a hernia operation since 2018. The hernia has grown 4.7in (12cm) in size and is so big he is struggling to walk. Operating theatres are not being used due to a lack of beds and staff, frustrated surgeons say, from the courses on Fridays or Mondays when the signal reaches the clubhouse. That is “tough on patients and tough on staff who want to get on and treat patients”, according to the Royal College of Surgeons of England, at a BUPA retreat. NHS Providers, which represents hospitals, accept there is “still a long way to go” but NHS England says the health service is “making significant progress” and the twerking and pot banging by our idiot public must continue to get MORE MONEY for diversity advisers for Marcus.
Easy to see why the bbc want to snag Amol from the awesome media audience lure that is the Indy.
Theresa May asked why Asia Bibi wasn’t offered asylum in UK
Wed 08 May 2019by Cara Bentley
https://premierchristian.news/en/news/article/theresa-may-asked-why-asia-bibi-wasn-t-offered-asylum-in-uk
Making Black History Now, apparently
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2mYczKqKXYplkMh9lXgxpZ4/1xtra-future-figures-2022
Brought to you by the racist bBC
White history bad, never to be celebrated
Following on from the success of 2021’s inaugural 1Xtra Future Figures, celebrating Black British movement makers, BBC 1Xtra is back this year celebrating 20 pivotal individuals, groups and organisations from across the UK ‘Making Black History Now.’
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Are adverts deliberately being racist?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-43554424
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‘How is this legal?’ BBC bans white people from applying for Springwatch & One Show job
THE BBC has found itself at the centre of a discrimination storm after banning white people from applying for a production management role, as one furious critic musing “imagine the riots if it had been the other way round.”
By LAURA O’CALLAGHAN
12:03, Sun, Jun 20, 2021 | UPDATED: 13:42, Sun, Jun 20, 2021
MM,
While the Government acquiesce by silence and contrary non-action happy in the knowledge that that which they started and grew initially, has now got legs of its own. There will be consequences in the not too distant future.
Tony Blair laughs and continues to make himself and his family richer as Boris flies off to the USA to speak for £150K whilst his constituents look how to pay bills this winter.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11309045/Medieval-violence-leaves-Yorkshire-town-lawless-terrified-Machete-wielding-teens-cut-hand.html
Pakistanis it seems.
Medieval violence leaves a Yorkshire town lawless and terrified: Machete-wielding teens in balaclavas slice off man’s hand leaving it ‘twitching’ on the floor of a working men’s club
Violence has become endemic in Huddersfield as gangs go to war over territory
Several weeks ago two teens hacked off a man’s hand in broad daylight
‘Friendly’ Deighton’s Working Men’s’ Club has now become a violence hotspot
By PAUL BRACCHI and MARK BRANAGAN and TIM STEWART FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 22:00, 12 October 2022 | UPDATED: 22:40, 12 October 2022
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1985 ….
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
It has to be said that the man who lost his hand was a drug addled idiot who thought he was being clever by not paying the young drug dealers who then attacked him and he paid a heavy price for it.
For any market to flourish there has to be a buyer as well as a seller, and the buyers are equally as bad as the sellers.
We need far harsher punishments in the UK for drug use. A 5 year driving ban for drug driving unless remorse is shown, and a 2 year ban if it is.
Remorse takes the form of giving credible information as to where the drugs were sourced from, to prevent greedy weasels always using it as a bargaining chip for a lesser sentence.
Senior useless brigade officers paid minimum wage and the rest made up by results based bonuses, many would not receive more than the minimum wage.
Wild Bill,
Sad, but nice to see it in a way. Nice to have your own previous predictions of this sort of thing, confirmed in reality. Nice to have your own views that our Government do not give one tiny Sh*t about the population also confirmed.
Only conclusion? – ‘Coming to a town or city near you soon’…………..
Wall to wall Jess on BBC everything soon?
Growler on Sky?
Might be different now, but when investing, taking out loans, etc, there was a caution things can go in various directions.
Seems Jess figured there is always someone else.
Jess Phillips (£80,000-a-Year) Implies She Can’t Afford A Printer
Max on Groper on Newsnight….
Thread.
Shame we didn’t get Diane Abbott as PM – now that would have been fantastic.
She probably wouldn’t have been as destructive and toxic as Liz Truss is proving to be
I fought to become Britain’s first Black female MP – now my party is taking Black people for granted
Meanwhile, the Tories have seven Black and brown cabinet ministers, and there is not a single white man in one of the great offices of state, writes Diane Abbott MP
6 days ago
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https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/black-history-month-diane-abbott-forde-report-racism-b2196785.html
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors” – Plato
It might be the case, but the pay is so poor it’s only ever going to attract the inferiors, and when a law graduate fresh out of university can start a job in London on three times an MPs salary you know something has gone wrong, and as a result it only attracts the kind of people like fick Ange a woman with more kids than O levels who couldn’t hope to earn the kind of salary she has in the private sector, or Dianne Abbot who would have been forced into retirement years ago. The same was true of Claire Short, and many others.
It’s often said you get what you pay for and boy have we suffered as a result of that.
I know you say we should pay more …
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What is the Average UK Salary in 2021/2022? According to the ONS, in 2021 the average UK salary was £38,131 for a full-time role and £13,549 for a part-time role. This is a slight decrease from the average UK salary in 2020, which placed the average UK wage for a full-time role at £38,552 and part-time at £13,819.8 Mar 2022
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https://www.mpsexpenses.info/#!/search
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/
https://www.theipsa.org.uk/mp-staffing-business-costs/your-mp
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Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi admits taxpayers paid power bill for his stables
This article is more than 8 years old
MP promises to repay the part of £5,822.27 expenses claim for second home energy bills that relates to electricity for stables
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/10/nadhim-zahawi-admits-taxpayers-electricity-stables
FFS – what is their problem ? Good luck to any politician who gets his / her stables electricity supply funded by the voter / mug taxpayer .
After all – UK politicians are paid very badly – there’s even one who has to ‘Croft ‘ to make ends meet .
I wish someone else would pay for the electricity for my stables . I even have to get the moat cleaned using my own off shore funds ….
It’s smells awful in the summer – apparently – but I’m off to my second home – or sometimes third ….
( l see ‘thoughtful ‘ is after a pay rise again – above lol )
Hello Fedup
Hopefully the claim for the moat cleaning went through
The average salary includes people in rural Wales Northen England and other low paid places.
The average salary however for inner London is £60500 for a 37.5 hour week, but MPs work much longer hours than that so by no measure could they be described as well paid.
There are those who believe we should be government by the sharon & tracy types, or those who steal mopeds, or own vicious dogs, because wouldn’t have to pay them as much, but I will ask you this, if you had the money to pay for surgery with a substantial risk of death if not carried out competently, would you want someone on £20K £50K or £100K to operate on you?
Similarly if you were engaged in a legal dispute which migh lead to substantial losses would you go to the cheapest lawyer you could find or the most competent and pay the extra?
It should be a no brainer. At the moment you have the cheapest you can find, looking to make the paltry salary up by income from Saudi or on the chat circuit after office.
I think there is enormous importance to getting talented people into government and that means paying them the going rate.
You aren’t going to get a Rolls Royce when you only want to pay for a clapped out mini.
“but MPs work much longer hours than that” – No timesheets no proof.
The job entails looking after your fellow man – is that not payment enough?
Toady toady toady
The BBC free food for every one campaign continues . Every kid to get free food for the 190 days of school . But what about the other 175 days ? And leap years ? Are the poverty stricken families to starve ? Feed them all – what about feed the world …?mmmm
But there is a stigma to getting free food – paid for by someone else – it’s only £500 000 000 a year – nothing ….
There should be no stigma in living off welfare and parents not being able to pay for the offspring – let someone else pay – who cares about them ? – let them starve …
But there was a telling comment by a parent with dignity who works and gets no free food – and some one on welfare who has more disposable income at the end of the month .
What mug ? Why work ? Be feckless – or go on the sick – the blue Labour Party will chuck money at you – fuel bills paid – food banks – the works – or no work ……
In passing the BBC has learnt that thousands of ‘children ‘ have disappeared from hotels . They think is is a bad thing – but surely it’s great ? Frees up beds – not paid for by the taxpayer – what’s not to like?
Nationalise Football to pay for it?
Marcus Rashford/Salary
10.4 million GBP
How much does Marcus Rashford earn per week?
What is Rashford’s salary in the 2021/22 season? Rashford currently earns approximately 240,000 euros per week at Manchester United, which equates to 12,4 million euros a year.13 Mar 2022
You might want to look into the people pulling the strings of Marcus T Rashford, he is not what he might appear to be.
Hello Fedup
An idea, the “free” food to be funded out of the telex tax billions
I worked out 2/3 days ago that on ONS stats, about 29% of kids of 5 were of foreign parent origin. That was excluding the foreigner’s, born in the UK. I was adrift in assuming one child per 2 parents, whereas, with islam, numerous children to two parents and blacks, numerous children to many male parents
Hello G
The takeover and outnumbers are nearly complete
Welcome to the islamist state of great britain
Politics these days – it’s all Greek to me
Yes, yes, we get it, Tory MPs would have preferred Rishi Sunak as leader: Tories in open revolt against Prime Minister (‘i’) – unfortunately the party constitution demanded there be an elelection and the membership voted for Liz Truss. And by the way, the party members, when polled, said they would have preferred Boris to have stayed on – as the chap most likely to win a general election for the Tories – unfortunately, the MPs revolted against him.
And what of that notorious Greek scholar?
But Boris still has it! Ovation for US speech (Express)
More from the minister for the central Athens constituency later…
This is what you get when MPs respond to forces other than their constituents and local party membership – I refer of course to their lingering adherance to Brussels or to their fear of the slings and arrows of our liberal media… permanent civil service, left-captured institutions and quangos.
This tendency toward political rift betwixt party membership and MPs is hardly confined to the Tories. Think of the fun and games the Labour party had with Corbyn. One doubts Starmer is as yet immune to the machinations of his own rank and file activist left – he’s about as immune as a fully vaccinated person is to covid (apparently, if new revelations from Pfizer are to be believed – but I digress from what’s on the frontpages and such concerns certainly ain’t – give it time…) – although Starmer’s presently being out of power and the general sympathy for him eminating from much of our media will protect him from too severe a scrutiny at present.
You may justifiably ask yourself how it is that the left-leaning ‘i’ newspaper takes quite so much delight in apparently promoting the interests of Tory backbenchers: Backbenchers confront Liz Truss at angry meeting – is this not time for the socialists to tell us exactly what it is that they would do instead?
As Napoleon Bonaparte once remarked: ‘Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake‘
So it is that the very flag-bearer for left-libarilism, the Guardian, also appears to cheer on the Tory backwoodsmen: Truss faces new peril as Tories go on the attack over economy
Meanwhile the Gruan features an appropriate think piece: The art of the U-turn. Can politicians ever get it right? – just a guess, but I’m guessing, from the Guardian perspective, our lefty politicians are the ones who get it right?
The Daily Mirror has no truck with such subtle dialectics and wears its red rosette on its sleeve (to mix metaphores somewhat): Truss told to see sense. U-turn or you go. PM under pressure to reverse disasterous tax cuts as economic chaos mounts
So the prospective medicative prescription for the economy would seem to be higher taxes and higher public spending?
Rip up your tax plans, top officials urge Truss (Times) – Oh for the rule of “top officials”, eh?
The Telegraph steps back from the excitment of the moment to take a wider perspective: Britain has become a zombie economy. Truss and Kwarteng are scapegoats – the rot goes far deeper – we are reminded by columnist Allister Heath
If a zombie economy is one that looks frightening but won’t die and keeps on biting you – until you knock its head off – then he may have a point there.
The Daily Express suggests a head that certainly ought to roll: Angry Tories attack bank chief’s ‘stupid move’ – this is Andrew Bailey, who – in a move not dissimiliar to that of Gordon Brown when he sold our gold reserves – blabbed to the markets about his future intentions over Bank bond buying.
The fact is the country is now hooked like a junkie on the Quantitative Easing drug. What the media vaguely describes as a “market crisis” is in fact jonesing for another fix of inflationary sovereign debt. Cheap money. Living beyond our means.
Truss and Kwarteng made the mistake of going sudden abrupt cold turkey.
At some stage we do need to be weaned off the delights of the drug – or we’ll eventually end up over-dosed in a gutter somewhere.
Meanwhile on the other war front – the culture war against Britain rages on and on…
Coronation row looms over crown for Queen… Koh-i-nor diamond has ‘painful memories of colonial past’ says Indian government (Telegraph)
BBC: Elgin Marbles: New body aims to return sculptures to Greece… A former Conservative culture minister will chair a new body… Lord Vaizey, culture minister from 2010-2016, says he is confident “a deal is within reach”.
Incidentally… and finally…
Parties told to improve the calibre of new peers (Times) – Amen to that.
Parties told to improve the calibre of new peers = more diversity.
Today again
A hilarious piece about the Met police setting up a ‘dedicated ‘( 9 -5 weekend off ) ‘abuse command ‘ which is to ‘investigate allegations of sex / domestic abuse by Met police staff .
They interviewed the lady boss who eagerly explained they’ve already got 600 allegations and would get more . Isn’t that great ? Say there are 40000 working for the Met . That means 1.5% of staff is under investigation by itself . No wonder crimes committed against the public don’t get dealt with
I thought it was funny because it is was just beyond belief ….
Terrorism in the UK: number of suspects tops 40,000 after MI5 rechecks its list
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/terrorism-in-the-uk-number-of-suspects-tops-40-000-after-mi5-rechecks-its-list-pqm6k62ph
It’s no surpise. This article is an excellent example of what we are importing. And we are allowing tens of thousands of them to come here.
Kerala’s TJ Joseph: The Indian teacher whose hand was cut off for an exam paper
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-63141119
They key to this is that on the basis of a rumour he insulted the prophet, six men armed themselves with an axe and went to chop him to pieces. This is not one lunatic as is ALWAYS the case with far-Right nutters, it is ‘normal’ people acting together in groups. It is entirely different and much, much worse.
It should be mandatory that all these boat people that are housed in the same neighbourhoods as those Leftists who are vocal in supporting this madness. Being the shallow, virtue-signalling sheltered idiots that they are, they would soon turn nasty about it.
The blindfold goes over our eyes … “Islam is peaceful. Just ask Rafiqi
Islam, a loving husband, who told his wife that he had a present for
her, blindfolded her to make it a surprise and then cut off her
fingers. Then the rest of the Islam family mopped up the blood, while
Mr. Islam threw her fingers into the trash, and after a few hours took
her to the hospital where they warned her to tell the doctors that she
had an accident.”
…
“Either we go on playing the game of blindfold and machete, or we take
off the blindfold, take away the machete and show Mr. Islam the door.”
Breaking up with Mr. Islam by Daniel Greenfield {sultanknish jun2016}
http://sultanknish.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/breaking-up-with-mr-islam.html
I thought you’d be all in favour of this Marky, not paying politicians much so they need to go to coutries like Saudi to make up the paltry salary, which means you can save a ha’pennt every decade. Surely the Islamisation of Britain is a price worth paying to keep our politicians wages down isn’t it?
Only this very week it turns out the incompetent Chancellor Kwami Karzi has been accepting ‘inducements’ from Saudi, but it’s all OK so long as we can keep the wage bill down eh?
Actions have consquences welcome to the consequence.
Interesting – maybe we should up the pay for 8 years and see if it helps – say £200K – minus visits to Football stadiums and timesheets shown every month?
Thoughtful:
I doubt many here who have watched our MP’s speaking in the Commons would agree with you that they are underpaid.
Toady again
Whenever the BBC want to attack the government they go to the usual suspects – gus O’Donnell – hezza ( still alive ) gauke – various remainer traitors to throw buckets of manure about .
Today it was o donnell – one of those unelected ego driven now a peer who has all the answers .
The bbc interviewer is in a happy place – no interruptions – no challenge – just nodding …
Like so many ‘interviews ‘ – there is no opposition view – it’s a disservice and just more bias …
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – That’s the UK voter?
No, not the UK voter, It’s more like a case of them not realising they are in a one party state and continuing with the charade.
Prime Minister Liz Truss addressed Conservative Party Conference 2022 and outlined our plan to Get Britain Moving.
Here is what she said:
My friends, it’s great to be here with you in Birmingham.
It’s fantastic to see the cranes across the skyline building new buildings…
…the busy trams coursing down the streets…
…and the bull standing proudly at the heart of Birmingham.
My friends, this is what a city with a Tory Mayor looks like – it’s positive, it’s enterprising, it’s successful.
And Andy Street is a human dynamo, delivering for the people of Birmingham.
And our Teesside Mayor Ben Houchen is also delivering new jobs and investment.
This is what modern Conservatism looks like.
Let’s get Tory mayors elected in London, in Manchester, in West Yorkshire and right across the country.
We gather at a vital time for the United Kingdom.
These are stormy days.
Together, we have mourned the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the rock on which modern Britain was built.
We are now in a new era under King Charles III.
We are dealing with the global economic crisis caused by Covid and by Putin’s appalling war in Ukraine.
In these tough times, we need to step up.
I am determined to get Britain moving, to get us through the tempest and put us on a stronger footing as a nation.
I am driven in this mission by my firm belief in the British people.
I believe that you know best how to spend your own money, to get on in life and realise your own ambitions.
My friends that is what Conservatism is about.
It is a belief in freedom, in fair play and the great potential of the British people.
So, I’m not going to tell you what to do, or what to think or how to live your life.
I’m not interested in how many two-for-one offers you buy at the supermarket, how you spend your spare time, or in virtue signalling.
I’m not interested in just talking about things, but actually in doing things.
What I’m interested in is your hopes and fears that you feel every day.
Can you get a good job locally?
Is it safe to walk down the high street late at night?
Can you get a doctor’s appointment?
I know how you feel because I have the same hopes and fears.
I want what you want.
I have fought to get where I am today.
I have fought to get jobs, to get pay rises and get on the housing ladder.
I have juggled my career with raising two wonderful daughters.
I know how it feels to have your potential dismissed by those who think they know better.
I remember as a young girl being presented on a plane with a “Junior Air Hostess” badge.
Meanwhile, my brothers were given “Junior Pilot” badges.
It wasn’t the only time in my life that I have been treated differently for being female or for not fitting in.
It made me angry and it made me determined.
Determined to change things so other people didn’t feel the same way.
I remember growing up in Leeds, where I saw too many children being let down.
Let down by low expectations.
Let down by a Labour council who were more interested in political correctness than they were in school standards.
But I was lucky to have been brought up in a family that cared about education.
They taught me the value of hard work and enterprise.
And I stand here today as the first Prime Minister of our country to have gone to a comprehensive school.
That taught me two things.
One is that we have huge talent across the country.
And two, that we’re not making enough of it.
This is a great country.
I’m so proud of who we are and what we stand for.
But I know that we can do better and I know that we must do better.
And that’s why I entered politics.
I want to live in a country where hard work is rewarded…
…Where women can walk home safely at night.…
…And where our children have a better future.
To deliver this, we need to get Britain moving.
We cannot have any more drift and delay at this vital time.
Let’s remember where we were when I entered Downing Street.
Average energy bills were predicted to soar above £6,000 a year.
We faced the highest tax burden that our country had had for 70 years.
And we were told that we could do nothing about it.
I did not accept that things had to be this way.
I knew that inaction would be unconscionable.
Families would have been unable to heat their homes.
Businesses would have gone bust.
Jobs would have been lost.
And we would have had worse public services, including the NHS.
I could not allow this to happen.
I refused to consign our great country to decline.
That is why I promised on entering Downing Street to act.
Now later on in my speech my friends I am going to talk about the anti-growth coalition.
But I think they arrived in the hall a bit too early, they were meant to come later on.
We will get onto them in a few minutes.
But what we did is we acted.
We made sure that the typical household energy bill shouldn’t be more than around £2,500 a year this winter and next.
We followed up with immediate action to support businesses over the winter.
We are determined to shield people from astronomically high bills.
So much so, that we are doing more in this country to protect people from the energy crisis than any other country in Europe.
Our response to the energy crisis was the biggest part of the mini-Budget.
It was the biggest part for a good reason – because we had to do it.
But it’s not the only challenge that we face.
For too long, our economy has not grown as strongly as it should have done.
I know what it is like to live somewhere that isn’t feeling the benefits of economic growth.
I grew up in Paisley and in Leeds in the 80s and 90s.
I have seen the boarded-up shops.
I have seen people left with no hope turning to drugs.
I have seen families struggling to put food on the table.
Low growth isn’t just numbers on a spreadsheet.
Low growth means lower wages, fewer opportunities and less money to spend on the things that make life better.
It means our country falling behind other countries, including those who threaten our way of life.
And it means the parts of our country that I really care about falling even further behind.
That is why we must level up our country in a Conservative way, ensuring that everywhere everyone can get on.
Conference it is wrong to invest only in places which are thriving, as economic models often have it.
We need to fund the furthest behind first.
And for too long, the political debate has been dominated by the argument about how we distribute a limited economic pie.
Instead, we need to grow the pie so that everyone gets a bigger slice.
That is why I am determined to take a new approach and break us out of this high-tax, low-growth cycle.
And that is what our plan is about: it is about getting the economy growing and rebuilding Britain through reform.
The scale of this challenge is immense:
War in Europe for the first time in a generation…
…A more uncertain world in the aftermath of Covid…
…And a global economic crisis.
That is why in Britain we need to do things differently.
We need to step up.
As the last few weeks have shown, it will be difficult.
Whenever there is change, there is disruption.
And not everyone will be in favour of change.
But everyone will benefit from the result – a growing economy and a better future.
That is what we have a clear plan to deliver.
I have three priorities for our economy: growth, growth and growth.
Growth means more money in people’s pockets it means businesses creating jobs.
Growth means people can feel secure and they can plan for their future.
Fundamentally, growth helps people fulfil their hopes and their dreams.
That is why our dynamic new Chancellor and I will be taking action in three areas.
First of all, we will lower our tax burden.
Over the summer, we had a robust debate.
The Conservative party will always be the party of low taxes.
Cutting taxes is the right thing to do morally and economically.
Morally, because the state does not spend its own money. It spends the people’s money.
Economically, because if people keep more of their own money, they are inspired to do more of what they do best.
This is what grows the economy.
When the government plays too big a role, people feel smaller.
High taxes mean you feel it’s less worthwhile working that extra hour, going for a better job or setting up your own business.
That, my friends, is why we are cutting taxes.
We have already cut Stamp Duty, helping people on the housing ladder – especially first-time buyers.
We are reversing the increase in National Insurance from next month.
We are keeping corporation tax at 19%, the lowest in the G20.
We are helping 31 million working people by cutting the basic rate of income tax.
We need to be internationally competitive, with all our tax rates attracting the best talent.
Cutting taxes helps us face this global economic crisis, putting up a sign that Britain is open for business.
The fact is that the abolition of the 45p tax rate became a distraction from the major parts of our growth plan.
That is why we are no longer proceeding with it.
I get it and I have listened.
Secondly, we will keep an iron grip on the nation’s finances.
I believe in fiscal responsibility.
I believe in getting value for the taxpayer.
I believe in sound money and the lean state.
I remember my shock opening my first paycheque to see how much money the taxman had taken out.
I know this feeling is replicated across the country.
And that’s why we must always be careful with taxpayers’ money.
It is why this Government will always be fiscally responsible.
We are in extraordinary times.
It would have been wrong not to have proceeded rapidly with our energy and tax plan.
I am clear we cannot pave the way to sustainable economic growth without fiscal responsibility.
So we will bring down debt as a proportion of our national income.
We are seeing rising interest rates worldwide in the wake of Putin’s war and Covid.
The Federal Reserve has been hiking rates in America and has signalled more rises to come.
Inflation is high across the world’s major economies.
We will do what we can as a government to support home-owners, such as cutting stamp duty.
But it is right that interest rates are independently set by the Bank of England and that politicians do not decide on this.
The Chancellor and the Governor will keep closely co-ordinating our monetary and fiscal policy.
The Chancellor and I are in lockstep on this.
Thirdly, we will drive economic reforms to build our country for a new era.
We are taking a new approach based on what has worked before.
Previously, we faced barriers to growth like militant unions, nationalised industries and outdated City regulation.
Now, we must breakdown the barriers to growth built up in our system over decades.
Decisions take too long.
Burdens on businesses are too high.
Infrastructure projects get delayed for years, and years and years.
As a result, we have seen economic growth choked off.
Houses have not been built where they are needed and wanted.
We have become averse as a nation to doing things differently.
I love business.
I love enterprise.
I love people who take responsibility, start their own businesses and invest.
They generate profits, they create new jobs and they power our success.
I want to see more of that.
That is why we will back businesses to the hilt.
We are cutting taxes and simplifying red tape to help businesses realise their ambitions.
This is what our new investment zones will do, helping us level up across the country.
We will be inspired by the great hubs of industry like Bournville, here in the West Midlands.
That is what zones in places like here and around the country will deliver.
We want to create the zones in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Now is the time to harness the power of free enterprise to transform our country and ensure our greatest days lie ahead.
This is the United Kingdom at its best, working together and getting our economy growing.
And we will face down the separatists who threaten to pull apart our precious union our family.
Next year, we will host the Global Investment Summit.
This will show the world’s top investors there is nowhere better to invest than the UK.
And we are seizing the new-found freedoms outside the European Union.
We are the party who got Brexit done and we will realise on the promise of Brexit.
We are building an economy which makes the most of the huge opportunities Brexit offers.
By the end of next year, all EU-inspired red tape will be history.
Instead, we will ensure regulation is pro-business and pro-growth.
Leaving the EU gives us the chance to do things differently.
And we need more of that.
That is why over the coming weeks, my team of ministers will set out more about what we are going to do to get Britain moving.
We will make it easier to build homes, to afford childcare and to get superfast broadband.
We will help you set up your own businesses and get a mobile phone signal wherever you are in the country.
We are in tough times.
But I want you to know that day in, day out, I’m thinking about how we get this country moving.
I’m working flat out to make sure people can get through this crisis.
So let me be clear, we have your back.
That is why the Government took decisive action to tackle the energy crisis.
It is why we are pushing ahead with our plan for growth.
Economic growth makes life better and easier for everyone – and it will level up our country.
I know that is what people want to see.
Economic growth will mean we can afford great public services such as schools, the police and the NHS.
Our fantastic Deputy Prime Minister and Health Secretary will deliver for patients so they can expect a GP appointment within two weeks.
She will ensure that those who need urgent care will be seen on the same day.
And she will get ambulances out there faster and she will improve A&E.
And she will bust the Covid backlog.
That is not all and she will bolster social care so that everyone gets the care they need.
We are working to put this country on the path to long-term success.
That means ensuring we are safe and secure.
One of the reasons we are facing this global crisis is because collectively the West did not do enough.
We became complacent.
We did not spend enough on defence.
We became too dependent on authoritarian regimes for cheap goods and energy.
And we did not stand up to Russia early enough.
We will make sure this never happens again.
So we are taking decisive action to reinforce our energy security.
We are opening more gas fields in the North Sea and delivering more renewables and nuclear energy.
That is how we will protect the great British environment, deliver on our commitment to net zero and tackle climate change.
We are also taking decisive action by strengthening our borders by beefing up our Border Force and expanding the Rwanda scheme.
Our brilliant new Home Secretary will be bringing forward legislation to make sure that no European judge can overrule us.
And while she is acting meanwhile, the Labour Party has absolutely no plan to tackle illegal migration.
But my friends we cannot have security at home without security abroad.
That is why our tough Foreign and Defence Secretaries are updating the Integrated Review to make sure we can face down these threats.
It is why we are increasing defence spending to 3% of GDP by the end of the decade.
This will ensure that our Armed Forces are ready to tackle new and emerging threats.
We are working with our friends and allies to support Ukraine in the face of Putin’s brutal war.
The brave Ukrainian people aren’t just fighting for their security but for all our security.
This is a fight for freedom and democracy around the world.
Putin’s illegal annexation of Ukrainian territory is just the latest act in his campaign to subvert democracy and violate international law.
We should not give in to those who want a deal which trades away Ukrainian land.
They are proposing to pay in Ukrainian lives for the illusion of peace.
We will stand with our Ukrainian friends however long it takes.
Ukraine can win, Ukraine must win, and Ukraine will win.
I know that President Zelenskyy and the people of Ukraine will welcome our solidarity with them at this very very difficult time.
To take on Russia and other authoritarian regimes, free democracies need strong economies.
Economic growth makes us strong at home and strong abroad.
We need an economically sound and secure United Kingdom.
And that will mean challenging those who try to stop growth.
I will not allow the anti-growth coalition to hold us back.
Labour, the Lib Dems and the SNP…
…The militant unions, the vested interests dressed up as think-tanks…
…The talking heads, the Brexit deniers and Extinction Rebellion and some of the people we had in the hall earlier.
The fact is they prefer protesting to doing.
They prefer talking on Twitter to taking tough decisions.
They taxi from North London townhouses to the BBC studio to dismiss anyone challenging the status quo.
From broadcast to podcast, they peddle the same old answers.
It’s always more taxes, more regulation and more meddling.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
We see the anti-growth coalition at work across the country.
Keir Starmer wants to put extra taxes on the companies we need to invest in our energy security.
And his sticking plaster solution will only last six months.
He has no long-term plan and no vision for Britain.
Mark Drakeford in Wales is cancelling road-building projects and refusing to build the M4 relief road.
Nicola Sturgeon won’t build new nuclear power stations in Scotland to solve the energy crisis in Scotland.
Have these people ever seen a tax rise they don’t like?
Or an industry they don’t want to control?
They don’t understand the British people.
They don’t understand aspiration.
They are prepared to leave our towns and cities facing decline.
My friends, does this anti-growth coalition have any idea who pays their wages?
It’s the people who make things in factories across our country.
It’s the people who get up at the crack of dawn to go to work.
It’s the commuters who get trains into towns and cities across our country.
I’m thinking of the white van drivers, the hairdressers, the plumbers, the accountants, the IT workers and millions of others up and down the UK.
The anti-growth coalition just doesn’t get it.
This is because they don’t face the same challenges as normal working people.
These enemies of enterprise don’t know the frustration you feel to see your road blocked by protesters, or the trains off due to a strike.
In fact, their friends on the hard Left tend to be the ones behind the disruption.
The anti-growth coalition think the people who stick themselves to trains, roads and buildings are heroes.
I say the real heroes are those who go to work, take responsibility and aspire to a better life for themselves and their family.
And I am on their side.
We will build roads, rail, energy and broadband quicker.
We will be proudly pro-growth, pro-aspiration and pro-enterprise.
That is how we will forge ahead on our long-term path to national success.
In this new era, we are taking a new approach.
My friends, we are focused on boosting growth and opportunity across our country.
This mission will be difficult but it is necessary.
We have no alternative if we want to get our economy moving again.
I am ready to make hard choices.
You can trust me to do what it takes.
The status quo is not an option.
That is why we cannot give in to the voices of decline.
We cannot give in to those who say Britain can’t grow faster.
We cannot give in to those who say we can’t do better.
We must stay the course.
We are the only party with a clear plan to get Britain moving.
We are the only party with the determination to deliver.
Together, we can unleash the full potential of our great country.
That is how we will build a new Britain for a new era.
https://www.conservatives.com/news/2022/prime-minister-liz-truss-s-speech-to-conservative-party-conference-2022
The award for the longest ever post goes to …..
Liz Truss!
MM no doubt you work hard to gather all your facts, but honestly my life and day is too short to read all your missives.
Sorry to burden your life. Ignore as you see fit.
Just interesting to record what these people say – then compare to what they do.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. (Boris Johnson)
But it cannot survive treason from within.(Theresa May)
An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. (Anjem Choudary)
But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.(Jeremy Corbyn)
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/10/21/start-the-week-open-thread-22-october-2018/comment-page-3/#comment-948724
Yeah – reading it was one thing – scrolling it down was another . Free speech – love it ….
It might be useful if you wanted to see what a failed ex PM said before 2023. What crap she turned out to be – and the idiot running the treasury ? Incredible .
Will summarise and add link next time… lazy on my behalf.
TLDR.
So Friday then – collapsing pension funds – fire sales of assets – plunging stock markets ( more than xxx billions wiped off shares ) banks failing – contagion – grave consequence …. Chancellor resigns/ nowhere to be seen
Bank of England boss sez something else dumb ( don’t panic ) …
Or maybe just another Friday ….
Yes, on your basis, that’s still the UK voter.
Choice has been removed.
‘Speaking about the 22 babies I lost is seen as taboo’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-63141283
Imtiaz Fazil has been pregnant 24 times, but she only has two living children.
She first fell pregnant in 1999 and, over the subsequent 23 years, has had 17 miscarriages and five babies die before their first birthdays due to a rare genetic condition.
The 49-year-old, from Levenshulme in Manchester, told BBC North West Tonight her losses were not easy to talk about, but she was determined to do so, in part because such things remained a taboo subject among South Asian groups.
Condoms?
….
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09zrm5s
Is it morally acceptable to have children?
The philosophy of ‘antinatalism’ is growing in popularity as more and more people are questioning the morality of having children. Professor David Benatar argues the case for more antinatalists.
Image: Boy dressed in blue
Credit: solidcolours/Getty Images
Release date:22 October 2021
It’s only white people who advocate or practise antinatalism.
Take a trip round maternity wards and you will find vast numbers of BAME babies.
MarkyMark – That second link….
A Sethifriken philosophy professor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Benatar
– and noted 5* nutter
It’s often quite amazing how far the BBC will go to dredge up sh1t
I notice there’s no production credits obvious on the listing – so one might reasonable assume that the effort is an institutional BBC “what you should think” piece.
– they can farkorff as can the poisonous prof
David Benatar is a South African philosopher, academic and author. He is best known for his advocacy of antinatalism in his book Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence, in which … Wikipedia
Fortunate for Benetar that his parents didn’t have the same philosophical leanings😂
How about this for a free Labour Party political broadcast by the BBC?
On Toady yesterday, there was a feature/ propaganda piece about extending free school meals to everyone on Universal benefits. Subtext – the evil penny pinching Tories won’t do it.
On Toady today, they referred to this story a second time and then stated that some local councils have taken it on themselves to provide this, paid for presumably out of council tax. Cue an interview with a council spokesperson.
From ‘Labour’ (Toady’s words) …and guess where……’Islington council’.
Grade A bias.
But as we used to say, ‘it takes one to know one’.
The more I read about Jeremy the more I worry …
Where is the best place to be a woman in Britain? {bbc.co.uk sep2017}
“Islington, in north London, was rated the worst place for women to live.”
Islington performed near the bottom of the distribution on wellbeing, environmental quality, housing affordability and safety. Scoring 379th out of 380 on personal wellbeing overall, residents of Islington reported among the lowest levels of happiness (371st) life satisfaction (372nd) and feelings that their life is worthwhile (379th). They also reported among the highest levels of anxiety (367th). The borough also ranked second to last on the environmental qualitydomain, with particularly high concentrations of NO2 and PM10 (ranking 377th and 378th) and limited access to green space (ranking 358th). Housing in Islington was among the least affordable in Britain, with the median house priced at over 16 times the local median income. Islington was ranked 369th out of 380 in crime, with 122 reported offences per 1,000 people.
Woman’s Hour Report: The best places in Britain for women {sep2017}
Who is in charge of Islington … Islington North (UK Parliament constituency) {wiki}
2017, Labour, Jeremy Corbyn, 40,086 73.0% +12.7
2015, Labour, Jeremy Corbyn, 29,659 60.2% +5.8
2010, Labour, Jeremy Corbyn, 24,276 54.5% +3.3
2005, Labour, Jeremy Corbyn, 16,118 51.2% −10.7
2001, Labour, Jeremy Corbyn, 18,699 61.9% −7.4
1997, Labour, Jeremy Corbyn, 24,834 69.3% +11.9
1992, Labour, Jeremy Corbyn, 21,742 57.4% +7.4
1987, Labour, Jeremy Corbyn, 19,577 50.0% +9.6
1983, Labour, Jeremy Corbyn, 14,951 40.4% −12.2
1979, Labour, Michael O’Halloran, 12,317 52.6% −5.3
Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn “Excessive rents & a lack of affordable housing are ruining the lives of young people. @UKLabour will cap rents to provide homes #ForTheMany.” {twitter jun2017}
Many years ago I knew the socialist republic of Islington pretty well . It was third world 20 years ago – with enclaves of very wealthy properties surrounded by council estates .
It was famed for having one of the highest population densities in the UK .
Luckily I’ve not been there for a very long time ….
BBC don’t do adverts …..
Parenting Hell: Beckett and Widdicombe podcast ‘redressing the balance’
oh gawd, further idiots who have graduated from the school of unfunny comedians. (I always thought that a comedians job was to make people laugh).
Not if you want a show on the BBC.
Further to my free school meals post.
It is worth pointing out all the missed opportunities for proper scrutiny that the BBC somehow miraculously fail to spot or to question or investigate.
On the original story they interviewed a woman from the grievance capital of the world – Liverpool (how was she chosen- does she have any affiliation- we need to know). Both she and her partner/ husband worked part time (why?, why does one not work full time). They earn a total of over £18,000 and receive benefits (why?) but free school meals are only payable to those with a level of some unstated category of income below about £7500 (now OK that seems low but it was not pursued). The woman seemed to think that £2.50 for a hot meal was too much but that a packed lunch was somehow derogatory (I took a packed lunch for most of my working like even in office environments earning quite a bit more than £18000 so what the hell is wrong with that) – was the woman implying she cannot actually cook? The woman also stated that she knows people who get more in benefits than her family gets even though they work ( now THAT certainly is worth investigating).
But from the BBC? What was investigated? What was questioned? Absolutely nothing. Zippo.
They are only interested in drumming up unfettered anti-government whingeing and grievance, not investigating what is actually going on.
Todays bit of blatant bbc bias which caught my eye :-
“116 child migrants disappear since uk arrival”
These poor kiddies are likely to be trafficked, exploited and are at all sort of risks, commensurate with their guaranteed victim status.
No mention of the possibility that some of these “teenagers” are likely to be in their early thirties, and will spend their newfound freedom engaged in rape, burglary, and any other misdemeanor which takes their fancy. They will have the “traumatised refugee” card to play with the usual “racist”. If those fail, they will be safe in the knowledge that their antics will go unpunished.
Twenty-four asylum seekers who claimed they were children after being sent to Liverpool were found to be adults, the city’s council has said.
The authority said another 15 asylum seekers “should have been identified as children” by the government and accommodated in London instead.
A Home Office spokesman said age-disputed cases remain “a very challenging area”.
Liverpool City Council wants to recover £657,000 for supporting the children.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-46494675
Liverpool ‘child asylum seekers’ found to be adults
Published
8 December 2018
Those cannabis plants won’t grow themselves you know.
the biased bbc daily tell us how bad the Russians are doing in Ukraine.
Also showing the map with gains or retains for Ukraine – loads of Russian gains and a bit of Ukraine losses/gains
Russians must be doing something right, but we aren’t ever told of any but negative “reporting” gives us the impression Ukraine might win
https://ukrstream.tv/en/liveuamap
Hello Marky
2 Ukrainian planes crashed – according to the link above
I’ll look on the bbc website for no information on this 🙂
Like the BBC reporting on the Yellow Vest protests?
I see our dopey excuse of a Prime Minister, the toxic Liz Truss has got into bed with the war mongering Democrats and declared China a threat.
Well Duh!
We’ve know what the Chinese Communist Party were ever since HMS Amethyst and the Yangtse inicdent, not that Toxic Truss could hold a candle to the stature of the politicians of those days.
How long is it going to be before this idiot decides she too is going to take a pop at Saudi Arabia and watch our oil go into short supply and the price per litre goes towards £10 !
As for America, it seems that Biden considers it his sworn duty to make almost the entire world his enemy, and if it does turn out the US bombed the Nordstream pipeline we canb include Europe (and the UK) in that list too !
T, you’d really like Boris back in No.10, wouldn’t you ?
What financial problems did our country have under Boris that weren’t Covid induced, apart from him having a birthday party we seemed to be ticking along nicely?
‘We’ve transformed our democracy’ – How Johnson signed off from Commons
Here’s the full text of what Boris Johnson had to say as he concluded his final answer in PMQs
“I want to use the last few seconds to give some words of advice to my successor whoever he or she may be.
“Stay close to the Americans, stick up for the Ukrainians, stick up for freedom and democracy everywhere.
“Cut taxes and deregulate wherever you can to make this the greatest place to live and invest. I love the Treasury, but remember, if we’d always listened to the Treasury we wouldn’t have built the M25 or the Channel Tunnel.
“Focus on the road ahead but always remember to check the rear view mirror. And remember above all, it’s not Twitter that counts. It’s the people that sent us here.
“The last few years have been the greatest privilege of my life and it’s true that I helped to get the biggest Tory majority for 40 years and a huge realignment in UK politics.
“We’ve transformed our democracy and restored our national independence. I’ve helped to get this country through the pandemic and helped save another country from barbarism.
“And frankly that’s enough to be going on with. Mission largely accomplished for now.
I want to thank you Mr Speaker, I want to thank all the wonderful staff at the House of Commons, I want to thank all my friends and colleagues, I want to thank my right honourable friend opposite, Mr Speaker and, I want to thank everybody here and…
“Hasta la vista, baby.”
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1400 raped kids in Rotherham
1000 raped kids in Telford
3 teachers hiding in Batley
NI border in the Irish Sea.
Afghanistan ran by Warlords.
In May last year NHS Test and Trace (NHST&T) was set up with a budget of £22 billion. Since then it has been allocated £15 billion more: totalling £37 billion over two years.
https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/127/public-accounts-committee/news/150988/unimaginable-cost-of-test-trace-failed-to-deliver-central-promise-of-averting-another-lockdown/
3 million hong kongs escaping China.
20K afghans escaping Islam.
Dinghies every day.
‘We’ve transformed our democracy’ – How Johnson signed off from Commons
‘We’ve transformed our democracy’ – How Johnson signed off from Commons
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-62232038
I wonder if Busy Lizzie Truss now knows the difference between the geographical locations of the Baltic and Black Seas
No not at all! I’d like to see Margaret Thatcher back, but that’s never going to happen
It might be said that the governor of the supposedly independant Bank of England is using his position to prop up Toxic Truss’s Blue Labour government.
If he had done nothing and allowed the pensions industry collapse and millions of pensioners many of whom wanted Truss as leader lose their income, her government would have fallen in days.
If he had taken a route of raising interest rates to prop up the markets, the financial distress felt by both business and home owners would have also caused to country to collapse.
So he piles up the debt even more postponing the day of reckoning to another day and Truss stays in office, but he cannot do this forever, and come the end of this week he say it is the end of debt buying, but what will happen then?
The market should be allowed to run its course and the true effects of what Truss and Kwarteng have done come to fruition.
“but he cannot do this forever” – just until he leaves.
It is the job of the BoE to regulate financial markets, and act as the lender of last resort. We have not had a decent Governor of the BoE since Mervyn King.
bBC keeps talking, reporting on change of PM
This organisation needs knocking down a few pegs
Selectively opening Have your say forums to slag off the current government when it suites its agenda
TITLE: Tory conference: Labour favourites to win power at next election, says John Curtice
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63110539
CONTENT: “The thing that always comes up with Starmer, and still does, is that he has no views, no ideas of his own.”
Asked about the qualities needed in a modern leader, she said: “It’s very hard to support a leader who is uninterested in, or despises, you.
The caring bBC, well that is when its not their money, reports on
116 migrant children gone missing
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63231470
If thats a small percentage of the actual migrant children in the UK and hotels paid by the tax payer – I wonder what the actual total of the spongers are, plus fathers, mothers, plus more than 1 wives for some, etc
Besides offering free everything and RNLI taxi service to get here – whats the percentage of the illegals get send home I wonder
2018 … Home Office loses track of more than 600,000 people who should have left country, finds immigration watchdog
UK border checks branded ‘shambolic’
May Bulman
Social Affairs Correspondent
Thursday 29 March 2018
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/home-office-immigration-visa-out-stay-lose-track-uk-people-customs-control-a8278966.html
Charles openly showing contempt for Ms. Truss? – where I wonder…?
Them jewel encrusted boots are a bit tight already then?
In June, the Times reported that in 2015, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani — formerly the prime minister of Qatar — handed Charles bags crammed with €1 million on three separate occasions. These gifts were also earmarked for the PWCF, but more importantly, what kind of bags are we talking here?2 Aug 2022
John Fetterman’s thinking machine – un-be-effin etc…
I’d guess our new king’s ‘Oh dear, oh dear’ might have been the realisation that our equally new PM’s sizeable frontage will prove more attractive charlies than his ‘meaningful comments on the environment’.
It’s Di all over again, in a way. He hates not being the centre of attention.
Climate change: World aviation agrees ‘aspirational’ net zero plan
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63165607
“The world has finally agreed on a long-term plan to curb carbon emissions from flying”
Excluding the rich, celebrities, WEF, China, India, but the world has agreed
Sir Elton John has defended the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s use of private jets – and said he paid to carbon offset their trip to his French home. The singer said he provided Prince Harry, Meghan and their son Archie with his private plane to “maintain a high level of much-needed protection”.19 Aug 2019
I bet they don’t even like the creep really.
Elton John and the inconvenient truth about carbon offsetting
21 August 2019, 1:00am
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/elton-john-and-the-inconvenient-truth-about-carbon-offsetting
“BBC’s Question Time has appointed Gerry Gay as editor. Gerry is responsible for and decides on all aspects of the programme, including the panel, audience and venue selection, as well as topics to discuss each week. Gerry joins from his editor role at The Nine.”
Gerry sounds well in control. Hope he has all nut job NHS staff on speed dial for panel or audience, CVs redacted.
BBC News – No News.
Just opinions , propaganda and ‘ Nudges ‘.
Surely, The Tory Government knows this?
We all know it.
I’m confused – I was watching a daytime channel and there was an advert for the excellent RNLI – was going to donate the £3 they were asking for to save lives at sea .
But then the appealing RNLI girl said ‘we also provide a taxi service for any third world dross wanting a free ride to the land of free benefits ‘
Should I still donate ?
Elimination of modern slavery and human trafficking
https://rnli.org/about-us/sustainability/elimination-of-modern-slavery-and-human-trafficking
International work in partnership with lifesaving organisations around the world to raise awareness, reduce drowning and to advocate drowning prevention.
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https://rnli.org/about-us/our-people/equality-diversity-and-inclusion
Embracing the diversity of RNLI people and the communities we work in helps us deliver innovative solutions that save more lives and prevent drowning. We understand that it takes a wide range of diverse minds, abilities, cultures and experiences to engage effectively with communities – and this is what we’re building within the RNLI.
We are recognised as a Stonewall Diversity Champion and are also part of the UK Government’s Disability Confident Scheme.
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Liz Truss urges official withdrawal from Stonewall diversity scheme
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/liz-truss-urges-official-withdrawal-from-stonewall-diversity-scheme-9df7pvsrn
Fedup2
There must be a big reduction in donations for the Taxi Services , lots of begging adverts on commercial radio as well….leave money in your Will…Huhh fat chance !
They should all be sunk …and their crews can swim for it …
If I was younger my local Rescue Boat would have ” TAXI ” spray painted on it’s side !
It saddens me with all those that Died to keep this once Great Britain Free from Invasion and now we welcome the Rubbish to come here 😢
Hitler missed a trick and should have used rubber dinghys !
Two-way trade with India was worth £24 billion in 2021 and India is now the fast-growing fifth biggest economy in the world.
order-order.com
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The position of first cousins under the Special Marriage Act 1954 is in accord with the Hindu Marriage Act 1955 which also does not allow marriage with any first cousin.
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MP is criticised for saying that marriage of first cousins is a health problem
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1298844/
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Why is India turning into a racist country under the Modi-led BJP government?
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-India-turning-into-a-racist-country-under-the-Modi-led-BJP-government
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I got this off a social media post ‘suggested for me’. Seems the AI has twigged a few areas of interest beyond Meghan’s peachy nose.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-63229402?
Scotland generates record amount of renewable electricity
The post had a fair number of comments, spread as expected.
I see this one does too.
The ‘report’ does share a fair number of stats, which is good. But oddly free of ‘historic’ or ‘unprecedented’ hyperbole.
This link was an eyecatcher:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-56530424
Renewables met 97% of Scotland’s electricity demand in 2020
Wowsers. Who needs hydro… carbons?
I may return to this as the numbers might have had some BBC magic dusted on them.
And the comments are very… Scotch.
https://www.technocracy.news/is-president-biden-intentionally-trying-to-start-wwiii/
Is Biden trying to start World War III. Personally I’d say yes he is after falling out with around 90% of the peoples countries of the world he appears hellbent on destroying the world.
What financial problems did our country have under Boris that weren’t Covid induced, apart from him having a birthday party we seemed to be ticking along nicely?
Wild – inflation was heading up before Ukraine- then it went ballistic and the Bank of England called it ‘transitory ‘ – which was a lie .
So the Bank failed to react . The West imposed sanctions on `Russia so russia screwed us – and it’s recession ‘ depression time and rates going up too little and too late .
Then add an idiot PM and an idiot Chancellor and a blue Labour Party self destructing ….
Years of pain to come ….
It always appears that way when you start printing money like it’s going out of fashion, it’s now when the reflated economy begins to react by showing inflation you realise how the mistakes which were made by Boris Johnson are now begining to manifest themselves.
In other words Socialist economics by Biden EU and Johnson have caused this mess.
Quite unbelievable what this BLue Labour government has been getting up to on the quiet where they think no one is watching:
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04716690
This is the ISLAMIC HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
This is the Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Human_Rights_Commission
It is which has permission from the UK government to assist migrants trying to get into the country, it is claimed.
But then it transpires an Iranian official affiliated with the regime’s violent actions against women who refuse to wear hijabs is reportedly the co-director.
So we have a ‘charity’ set up to assist Shia Muslims enter the UK affiliated with the Iranian regime, and the BLue Labour Tories approve of this?
Why am I not surprised?
Saied Reza Ameli, who serves as Secretary of Iran’s Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution, also serves as the director of the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC).
It is interesting the anti Semitism and anti Israeli sentiment this Tory approved ‘charity’ promotes too.
Independent report
Applying sharia law in England and Wales: independent review
Independent review by Professor Mona Siddiqui and a review panel of experts into the application of sharia law in England and Wales by sharia councils.
From:
Home Office
Published
1 February 2018
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/applying-sharia-law-in-england-and-wales-independent-review
The review was chaired by Professor Mona Siddiqui, who was supported by a panel of experts that included experienced family law barrister Sam Momtaz QC, retired High Court judge Sir Mark Hedley, and specialist family law solicitor Anne Marie Hutchinson OBE QC. The panel was advised by two religious and theological experts, Imam Sayed Ali Abbas Razawi and Imam Qari Asim.