291 Responses to Weekend 22 October 2022

  1. gb123 says:

    Now that China has dropped Net Zero, does this mean our muppets in “government”, opposition and “meja” might have a change of mind?

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    • JohnC says:

      No, it means we will continue to pay through the nose for something which won’t make any difference.

      The payment and access to tax money is the key : when captilalism evolves into corporatism, this is the result. They control the governments.

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  2. Thoughtful says:

    I’m going to post this video even though it won’t display and you will need to go to You Tube in order to watch it, but I suggest you do to witness the thin end of the wedge coming into view as Aldi UK has announced its intention to stock bugs as protein food, and soon you might not be able to buy anything else.

    Do watch this because it’s important.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      What about a nice Soylent green burger …?

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      • Thoughtful says:

        It’s not far off is it. The plan I believe is to build enormous concentrated cities like the Neom or tristate city and then rewild the fields and manufacture food for humans from insects. While this might be some wealthy elites vision of the future it is being done without any kind of agreement of the proles, and force is begining to be used by governments to reach their goals instead.

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        • Scroblene says:

          It’s what BBC ‘reality shows’ are for isn’t it?

          Mental lightweights noshing locusts is the sort of item that the other nutters want to see, as it’s the level of their entertainment!

          Chuck in a few vegan nutters (who won’t be able to partake of such delicacies as a boiled house fly), and there’s the setting for yet another dreary off-switcher!

          Let’s hope they can get boring lefties like Gary Neville and Nursey from Blackadder on the show, then it really will bomb!

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    • Deborah says:

      I was buying cheese in Waitrose a couple of days ago. Amongst the continental and ‘interesting’ English cheese were those vegan ones made of ‘almonds’ etc. As someone with a nut allergy, this could be dangerous for me.

      I have noticed in all supermarkets, but especially Waitrose and M&S, these highly processed vegan foods are being slotted in amongst the real foods they are trying to emulate. The trend is growing.

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      • Scroblene says:

        Deborah, our Waitrose has had a revamp, as the government dictates that all fatty – blobby stuff is shoved to the back of the store now, and only ‘healthy’ grub is near the front. Your unfortunate nut allergy will probably not be accounted for as it’d make complications in display areas an impossible task! That’s rotten news for you, and I’ve seen the worst of a nut allergy result – it ain’t pleasant! Poor you.

        I’ve noticed how vegan shelves don’t seem the same too! Tesco are doing similar and I assume the rest of them are too! Mind you, if you can look at some cheddar cheese we bought recently – Dukeshill, Isle of Mull – it’ll be the best strong cheddar you’ve ever had! We were just lucky as it came in a hamper, as otherwise, we’d never have discovered it!

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        • BRISSLES says:

          Try eating tofu – a staple in the diet of the Japanese ! its like eating rubber, only rubber has more taste.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Tip : if you want to embed post from Twitter/Facebook/YouTube/Reddit here
      then post the link on a fresh line.
      However sometimes I don’t wont to block up page with YouTube boxes so I put a couple of dots or a word before the URL
      That way it comes up as a link rather than a box
      eg https://youtu.be/H338lN-9VGo
      Aldi Going “All In” On Bugs | Prices Of REAL Food Skyrocket
      .. I am skeptical of hyperbolic language like “skyrocket”
      Food is way cheaper than is used to be decades ago as a percentage of income.
      cos big corps new techniques
      Sure if you put fertiliser and diesel prices up that affects prices.
      but apples will still fall off the trees, so some food will continue to be cheap/free

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      • StewGreen says:

        Strange account name there Poplar Preparedness
        as if their original account had been banned.
        It’s a prepper.
        Their Twitter account is only 1 year old
        and doesn’t get much traffic.

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  3. Sluff says:

    Astonishing.
    BBC 5.20 pm news.
    A sizeable chunk of a 10 minute news programme was devoted to……..errr……..an Irish film set in the 1920s, with interviews of the two leads.

    WHY?

    I mean it’s not like there is anything else going on, such as Russia’s systematic destruction pre-Winter of Ukraine’s electricity infrastructure. Which did not merit even a microsecond of the news.

    And of course no mention of Andy Burnham being late for a transport conference…..because of a rail strike, no way that would make it on to the BBC news.

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    • Scroblene says:

      Did they mention the fact that Boris has now reached his ‘ton’, and what they’re going to do when he gets back into No10, and when he’s going to tell Nadine to stuff the whole W1AA bunch of layabouts for good?

      There’s a whiff of schadenfreude in the normal press, (and of course decent, informative and erudite sites like here – phew), about the whole issue! A proper investigative writer might even conjure up the imagination to say that the recent few weeks were planned all along…

      I certainly felt that ‘little tingle’ when Liz Truss won the final heat against Rishi! She deserves another crack at a ministerial post for being the ‘fall-gal’!

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    • tomo says:

      In the1920s eh?

      – pre or post 1923?

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  4. Fedup2 says:

    Scroblene – I think the parliamentary ‘investigation ‘ is starting this week – and that of all people comrade hattie Harmon – is ‘chairman ‘ because the over inflated Chris Bryant has excused himself on account of his mouth ….

    I think it will be a bit like the kangaroo ‘court ‘ created and run by the Democrats to stop the true president getting his White House back …

    … but somehow I can’t see nut nut getting the gig – green card sunak might ….

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    • Scroblene says:

      Fed – first – “the over inflated Chris Bryant has excused himself on account of his mouth”

      Comment of the week! Marvellous!

      I seem to be judging the candidates by the fury of the left these days; the more they try and hurt them, the more probable the winner will be someone they hate!

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  5. Fedup2 says:

    Biden was being interviewed by MSNBC and nodded off . The interviewed realised and called him –

    Forcing someone with dementia to do that task is cruel – and obama will get his ‘judgement ‘ ..

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  6. tomo says:

    Badenoch has been promised something ?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Quiet liked her speech …

      “Turning to this place, this building is intimidating. It reeks of the establishment and of power; its systems are confusing—some may say archaic—and it was built at a time when my class and my sex (female) would have been denied a place within it because we were deemed unworthy. I believe that the intimidating nature of this place is not accidental. The clothes, the language, and the obsession with hierarchies, control and domination are symbolic of the system at large. But the most frustrating thing has been to sit opposite those people who tell me that things are better, and that suffering has lessened for my constituents. … ” Laura Pidcock{youtube}

      verses

      “There are few countries in the world where you can go in one generation from immigrant to parliamentarian. Michael Howard spoke of the British dream—people choosing this country because of its tolerance and its opportunity. It is a land where a girl from Nigeria can move, aged 16, be accepted as British and have the great honour of representing Saffron Walden. … As Woody Allen said about sex, “If it’s not messy, you’re not doing it right.” The same is true of democracy. It is not always predictable; its results are not always elegant; it can throw up results that no one expected—but we adjust. The British Parliament always has adjusted, and that is why it is the oldest in the world: it takes its lead from the British people.” Kemi Badenoch{youtube}

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/08/30/the-jewish-lobby/#comment-863268

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  7. taffman says:

    Taffmen are not happy with the Welsh Ashambles .
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-63347684

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  8. taffman says:

    “Political turmoil the climax of Brexit psychodrama, says Plaid”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-63350055
    Like the ‘freedom loving’ nitwits in the north of these islands the Welsh Nats want independance to jump into an EU that would swallow them up and where they would have little say .

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  9. taffman says:

    Channel migrants: Dover RNLI releases dramatic rescue footage
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-63307506
    These illegals are deliberately put they’re own lives at risk as well as others that could be in need of the lifeboat. Not forgetting the lifeboat men them selves.

    It’s almost as if the UK government have signed some secret treaty with the EU to deliberately punish the people of Britain for their audacity in daring to vote for Brexit.
    Hence keeping one foot in the EU and dragging their feet in Brexiting. IMHO they fully intend to get us back in to Europe. I am afraid I do not trust the Tories any more.
    Vote for The Reform Party/UKIP next time.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Article is only promoted by 3 people
      one is chair of IOM UK
      That’s the UN’s International Organization for Migration
      “Promoting safe, regular and dignified migration”
      Why do the UN take taxpayers money and use it to promote migration ?

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      • StewGreen says:

        That UN migration official seems to have failed in Yemen and been redeployed to the UK
        So started this 7 week old Twitter account @Rottensteiner_C
        .. Only 2 people have ever tweeted her

        You’d expect a big official like her to have been mentioned many times on Twitter
        but no the first mention was 2 years ago
        and then only about 3 mentions until she opened this new Twitter account.
        Prior to these jobs she worked in the Department for International Development since 2006, born in Austria.

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    • StewGreen says:

      The BBC journo tweeted the story under the BBC dot com URL
      it was then retweeted by the Save The BBC PR account under the name of Laura Philips

      .. https://www.twitter.com/LauraPh222/status/1582687957525594112

      Laura doesn’t understand that the people who take 14 year old Afghan girls from SAFE France to the DANGEROUS English Channel sea are the baddies.

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  10. StewGreen says:

    Friday afternoon the BBC local radio jock was saying isn’t it good tonight Jo Brand is on BBC1 and Channel 4 at the same time

    Have I got news For You : Clive Myrie, with panellists Jo Brand

    Medialand’s claims of diversity are BS … constant gaslighting.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Jo Brand was on Channel4’s Friday Night Live
      a show which opened with Ben Elton being very nasty about Liz Truss and Tories whilst expressing zero empathy.
      The studio crowd clapped and whooped like seals.

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      • digg says:

        Ben Elton is another of those “humorous twats” who depend on the audience being lefties to get the right reaction. It only works if the audience is on side. Of course our great broadcasters only show this shite to make it appear mainstream.

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    • BRISSLES says:

      Clive Myrie AGAIN ? currently the favourite scarf wearing poster boy obvs. Has he done Country File yet ? or lined up to replace Fiona on Antiques Roadshow ?

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  11. digg says:

    Joe Brand has already shown herself to be a nasty vicious thick slug trying to appeal to the worst elements in the nasty left contingent. Not enough to stop her being the poster girl for our national broadcaster apparently. What utter bloody nasty twats they all are! She should be toast!

    The UK is better than this, blow these cretins away!

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  12. StewGreen says:

    Media seem to be hyping up the idea of a Boris going into the leadership race.

    Why ?
    Is it so Boris can be the stalking horse ?

    That instead of WEF Sunak vs a real Conservative
    We get Sunak vs Boris
    and the Boris caves in leaving the way clear for Sunak

    We are ruled over by the WEFcracy

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  13. BRISSLES says:

    The WEF has been loitering in the background for years, but joe public have not understood the relevance much until just recently, and now they’re getting wise !

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  14. BRISSLES says:

    I’ve noticed that all those interviewed who are backing Sunak – be it other MPs or members of the public, are all BAMEs, or maybe I’ve been unlucky and switched channels at the wrong time.

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  15. Zephir says:

    RE Brissles regarding the WEF:

    remember this ?

    “Ukrainian activist berates Boris Johnson over Russia response
    Daria Kaleniuk interrupts media conference in Warsaw to press UK PM over sanctions and no-fly zone. ”

    Daria Kaleniuk
    Daria Kaleniuk is a Ukrainian civil society activist who is the executive director of the Anti-Corruption Action Center, based in Kyiv.During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kaleniuk came to international media prominence when she asked British prime minister Boris Johnson at a press conference in Warsaw why some London-based Russian oligarchs had not been targeted with sanctions and why he did not support the establishment of a no-fly zone over Ukraine.

    What was NOT mentioned in reports that a little further digging will reveal :

    Kaleniuk was born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine and studied law at the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University[6] and has a Master of Financial Services Law from Chicago-Kent College of Law, supported by the Fulbright Foreign Student Program.[2][7] She is a member of the Young Global Leaders.

    and who / what is the “young Global Leaders” ?

    “The Forum of Young Global Leaders, or Young Global Leaders (YGL), was created by Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum. ”

    Oh, and just to muddy the waters further regarding her possible motives:

    “the Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, (through which she received money and a college place in the USA) is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal to improve intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of the United States and other countries”

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  16. Zephir says:

    Young Global Leaders

    (who heckle democratically elected UK Primeministers at press conferences )

    “Our growing membership of more than 1,400 members and alumni of 120 nationalities includes civic and business innovators, entrepreneurs, technology pioneers, educators, activists, artists, journalists, and more.

    Aligned with the World Economic Forum’s mission, we seek to drive public-private co-operation in the global public interest. We are united by the belief that today’s pressing problems present an opportunity to build a better future across sectors and boundaries. ”

    https://www.younggloballeaders.org/

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  17. Zephir says:

    “Drive” got that ? whether you like it or not

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    • Zephir says:

      “In a 2017 interview, Klaus Schwab said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had been recognized as a Young Global Leader, and also mentioned Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: “I have to say, when I mention now names, like Mrs. (Angela) Merkel and even Vladimir Putin, and so on, they all have been Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum. But what we are very proud of now is the young generation like Prime Minister (Justin) Trudeau … We penetrate the cabinet”

      some members:

      Emmanuel Macron, President of France
      Leo Varadkar, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Ireland
      Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand
      Peter Thiel co-founder of PayPal,
      Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia
      Elon Musk (2008) American entrepreneur
      Chad Hurley, co-founder and CEO of YouTube
      Mark Zuckerberg, Founder of Facebook

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      • G says:

        Z,

        “Mission”

        “History
        Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, created the Forum of Young Global Leaders in 2004 to help the world meet increasingly complex and interdependent problems. His vision was to create a proactive multistakeholder community of the world’s next-generation leaders to inform and influence decision-making and mobilize transformation.

        Through the Forum of Young Global Leaders, Klaus Schwab envisioned facilitating earnest dialogue and friendships across cultures to bridge divides, fostering fresh thinking and dynamic new ways of collaboration to shape a more positive, peaceful and prosperous society.”

        Schwab: “….to shape a more positive, peaceful and prosperous society.”? Has he had a word with Putin about Ukraine?

        Let’s face it, he’s failed miserably. Can we vote Schwab out?

        https://www.younggloballeaders.org/vision-and-mission

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        • BRISSLES says:

          At the moment, ask anyone on the street who Klaus Schwab is, and most would think he’s either a football player or manager.

          More light needs to be shone on the WEF and the shadowy Schwab who seems to have the ambition of being Master of the Universe.

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  18. JohnC says:

    Just reading the BBC pumping of Sunak and it seems to me that Boris has a very real chance of coming back. Though the BBC are very reluctant to say it : you have to piece together the information yourself.

    If only he and Sunak make the vote (which is looking quite likely) and it goes to the party members, Boris is going to win.

    One thing nobody is explaining to me is why they need 100 MP’s backing them this time when it was only 20 last time.

    I bet a lot of people are mortified at the prospect- particularly all those who stabbed him in the back like Sunak and Javid. They are all desperately backing Sunak now.

    I wonder how the BBC will handle it if it happens. This effectively gives him a brand new mandate after ‘Partygate’. They spent all that time and money getting rid of him – and trashed their reputation in the process. And it may all have been a complete waste of time. Except of course that Boris may now have a grudge.

    I wonder if Boris will have the balls to do anything about it or he will pander up to them hoping they give him another chance.

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    • Scroblene says:

      BBC are all Sunacked up this morning!

      Clearly not getting it as usual…

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      • JohnC says:

        Just reading the headline now:

        ‘Sunak well ahead in PM race’

        There is no ‘ahead’ whatsoever. If they get 100 nominations they are in. It’s absolutely irrelevant who gets the most or who gets them first.

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  19. AsISeeIt says:

    Johnson spooked plus our liberal elite and liberal media are spooked by Johnson – so are the markets, apparently

    What a difference a day makes…

    Today’s Sunday Express edition hauls down the temporary union flag raised yesterday at the masthead and reverts to the jolly Zelensky banner, to which we’ve all now become so well accustomed, some of us treat it as their own. That momentary – blink and you’ll miss it – motto about uniting Britain is gone too. Apprently we’re (re-) United with the people of Ukraine

    Perhaps the Express considers it’s already a case of job done with: Boris is back! Johnson claims to have 100 supporters for incredible second tilt at Prime Minister…

    Tilt, eh? There’s a word. One wishes he’d start to solve some of our energy problems, if becoming PM again, by taking a tilt at those bloody windmills… like the Man of La Mancha, Don Quixote

    Not sure what’s going on with the Daily Star on Sunday… they go with a tale of a favourite genre of their’s – the celebrity haunting story: AC/DC star spooked… It’s only rock and ghoul… Rock legend Brian Johnson says he was once spooked by the ghost of a World War One soldier – that’s a story that goes a bit over-the-top… illustrated, mind you, with a soldier in WW1 Russian uniform. Controversial. The uniform…? Mr AsISeeIt knows these things.

    AC/DC… eh? Mr AsISeeIt’s pronouns are “Mr” and “Sir” – in case anyone was wondering.

    The Labour-supporting Observer isn’t keen on BoJo: Top Tories say Johnson return ‘would risk the party’s death’… Ex-PM ‘could cause economic damage’ – if that’s true one wonders why the Guardian-on-Sunday would be so upset about his return? Don’t they want to see a Tory demise?

    I’m intrigued by those quote marks… says who, I ask?

    One reads on and notes the non-specific attribution to: Senior Tories – and to: Former cabinet ministers backing Sunak

    Ah, that old alliance between liberal Tories and our liberal press.

    Our so-called Tory press can see many of the problems we have in Britain but sadly can’t seem to ever rally behind anyone right-wing enough to do anything about it: Quango set up to save money now bloated with bureaucrats (Sunday Telegraph); Oil activists are paid to protest (Sunday Times); Zoe Strimpel. We’re stuck with the poisonous politics of envy (Telegraph); Cancer waits rise to 55 days (Times)

    There’s your litany of issues to start with – but where’s the support for some bona fide conservative leader genuinely wanting to change anything?

    The Telegraph makes a daring jab at big pharma: Are your daily vitamins just a con? We spend millions a year on supplements, but some of the benefits are dubiouscareful nowdown with this sort of thing… as Father Ted and Father Dougal, somewhat mildly, wrote on their half-hearted protest placards when their boss, Bishop Brennan, ordered them to take a stand against the blasphemous movie “The Passion of Saint Tibulus

    How many teachers does it take to change a light bulb?

    Answer: Forty-three. One to screw in the bulb and the rest to whine it was an un-paid extra-curricular activity.

    Teachers pull out light bulbs... (Sunday People) – no, really: … to cut bills as Govt implodes… Schools crippled by cost of chaos – frankly, I don’t see the connection, but hey-ho. I guess the Labour press consider we’ll too soon bore of endless NHS crisis reports.

    9 out of 10 schools ‘will run out of money within a year’

    Sunday People readership, having enjoyed the dubious benefit of a bog-standard Comprehensive education, do 9 out of 10, whereas your average Observer reader responds to percentages…

    Look how teacher’s pet the Observer has brought a nice juicy apple for sir: 90% of of our schools will run out of cash – heads

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    • JohnC says:

      Just as a headline phrased as a question means the answer is usually ‘No’, the shocking statements they put in those tell-tale quotes are always the convenient opinion of one partisan individual which may or may not bear any relation to the actual truth. The BBC use them all the time.

      Some of my ‘friends’ have been sharing posts by Leftists on facebook and it looks like Boris has them foaming at the mouth. ‘Hate’ is not nearly a strong enough word for their nasty venom. They would certainly cheer if he was murdered.

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    • Wild Bill says:

      I worked in a Primary school for 15 years, just retired a year ago, the old Head always said there was no money, the new head seems to have found the money tree, and has spent thousands on refurbishments.
      I also worked in a secondary school that was made an academy a few years ago, the money thrown at that place was incredible.

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  20. G says:

    It’s official now.

    No need to vote in future General Elections.

    Decisions will be made about a country’s governance and policies annually in Davos during the WEF Annual Conference. For the UK, it was made prior to the 1999 election which accounts for the confusion over the Red Tories Manifesto in that year which cannot be reconciled with the following actual events.

    ” My Guarantee If there is a majority of Conservative MPs on December 13th, I guarantee I will get our new deal through Parliament. We will get Brexit done in January and unleash the potential of our whole country. I guarantee: • Extra funding for the NHS, with 50,000 more nurses and 50 million more GP surgery appointments a year. • 20,000 more police and tougher sentencing for criminals. • An Australian-style points-based system to control immigration. • Millions more invested every week in science, schools, apprenticeships and infrastructure while controlling debt. • Reaching Net Zero by 2050 with investment in clean energy solutions and green infrastructure to reduce carbon emissions and pollution. • We will not raise the rate of income tax, VAT or National Insurance.”
    Signed (on behalf of the World Economic Forum), Boris Johnson

    [Note: “…..the New Deal…”]

    https://www.conservatives.com/our-plan/conservative-party-manifesto-2019

    Nb. Not forgetting stopping the rubber boats et al. !
    For a decent explanation of events:

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  21. StewGreen says:

    The metroliberals case is that stopping dinghy divers is an evil thing
    So to them the fact we have 500 to 1000 per day coming in should be good news
    Their media should be full of hundreds of successful grateful dinghy divers thanking the UK.
    But we don’t get that.
    We do get 1 or 2 BBC employees talking about they came in illegally
    but 99% of libmob media time is spent on the negative content against the British .

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  22. JohnC says:

    Just listening to the BBC radio 6 news and they are telling me that

    ‘Sunak has the advantage for the leadership race as he has the momentum to carry it off. But Boris might try to take it to the party membership for a vote.’.

    What kind of nonsense is that ?. Am I missing something ?. From what I understand if two people get 100 nominations it goes to a vote automatically. It makes no difference at all if one gets 200 in the first 10 minutes and the second gets his hundredth one minute before the deadline. They made it sound like Boris was trying some kind of trickery.

    I can just imagine all those sleezebag MP’s trying to work out if they think Boris might win before publicly backing him.

    What a shame Boris turned out to be such a wet lettuce. This could have been the big moment to sort out the rotten BBC.

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    • JohnC says:

      Even now the BBC are talking as if the winner is the one with the highest number of MP’s who vote for them.

      I can only assume that they are so desperate, they are trying to pressure Boris to concede if Sunak gets a lot more votes from MP’s without it going to the party members – where Boris will most likely win.

      It’s quite bizarre.

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  23. Guest Who says:

    Phil glued to the W1A microwave until they get an air fryer?

    Or too busy blocking anyone laughing at how blatant bbc propaganda now is?

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    • Charlie Farley says:

      Guest Who
      Tried to post a reply comment on Twatter to this idiot ” most people do not want to make comments like this…do you want to continue ? ” well yes of course I expect it will be removed … BBC influence no doubt !

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      • Guest Who says:

        I have had a few of these. #28gate has tentacles.

        Here he is again.

        Seems Justin Rowlatt is a fan, and of #scientistswhosay

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        • Guest Who says:

          With luck, bbc already have hired him.

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          • MarkyMark says:

            Islamic kids? Chinese kids?

            …..

            2019 … Dear Winston Smith from the Memory Hole Department,

            Legal definition of genocide
            ————————————-
            Genocide is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948) as “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part1

            ; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and]

            forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”

            **imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group**

            They (Anti-natalists) believe humans shouldn’t have children. Who are the anti-natalists – and how far are they willing to push their ideas? {bbc.co.uk 13aug2019}
            https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-49298720

            UN on Genocide: imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group

            BBC On Anti-natalists:They (Anti-natalists) believe humans shouldn’t have children.

            Terrorism: “Wouldn’t it just be better to blow a hole in the side of the earth and just have done with everything?”

            Seems your article might want to mention the UN definition of genocide and also mention it to the Anti-natalists.

            Cheers,

            https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2019/08/20/midweek-open-thread-21-august-2019/#comment-1007745

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        • JohnC says:

          I would help if they hadn’t been predicting climate disaster within 10 years ever since about 1970.

          And I thought the oil was supposed to have run out a long time ago ???.

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Wait till he finds out that …

          The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

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    • tomo says:

      This Todd fellow …

      never knowingly crossed his path but I’m blocked on Twitter – which either means I’m on a list or he blocks everybody ? curiosity triggered.

      In a trivial attempt to try figuring out who he is and why I might ne blocked I searched …

      @MRMATTHEWTODD SHARES ON 40 YEARS OF PLAYING WITH STAR WARS ACTION FIGURES.

      IMG-0648-720×623.jpg

      and a Stonewall stalwart ….

      https://www.matthewtodd.net/about/

      …. enough

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      • Guest Who says:

        Ah… clearly set for the next BBC mass market talent show ‘The Mystery Willy Pianist’.

        After the Goodtasteshed, obvs.

        Likely set to be a smash at W1A. Well, casting call, anyway.

        These pre vetting block lists are interesting. An algorithm to link them likely would quickly establish a very unsurprising bubble between media, idiot pols, activists, NGO, activist charity PR, etc…

        And Marianna Spring.

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        • Fedup2 says:

          I forced myself to watch the painful Benjamin Elton thing and forced myself not to mention it here …. So I wont … Er … er ….

             7 likes

      • theisland says:

        https://www.buymeacoffee.com/matthewtodd

        MatthewTodd
        is a writer and speaker with an LGB&TQ and environmental bent
        6 supporters

           2 likes

  24. Guest Who says:

    How thick are these MPs?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blair–Brown_deal

    Because they know no political editors will mention it?

       12 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Name of donor: European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development
      Address of donor: 23 Rue Montoyer, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

      Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Flights and accommodation £1,350; other travel £36; per diem £180; misc. expenditure £575; total value £2,141

      Destination of visit: El Salvador and Guatemala

      https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=24767

         1 likes

  25. Jeff says:

    I’ve been avoiding politics for a day or so, sometimes you just need a break from this pathetic parliamentary pantomime… also I’ve been busy laying a lawn. Made a good job of it too…

    Anyway, I have a question; I understand that the prospective candidates have to reach 100 supporters from the HOC. Rishi is already there and Boris isn’t too far behind. That much I’ve got. But what happens then? Does it go to the Conservative Party members? In which case, I’m guessing, Boris will walk it.

    Cheers…

       15 likes

    • JohnC says:

      From everything I’ve read, they whittle it down to 2 and they go to the members for a vote.

      If there’s only 1 who gets 100, they win by default.

      But reading the BBC articles, they don’t seem to like that at all – and they are trying to infer that the one who gets the most MP support should win (ie Sunak). I’m having trouble working out why they are being so coy. I strongly suspect they want to say ‘Sunak got 200, Boris got 100 so Sunak should be PM without a members vote’.

         14 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Jeff
      No answer to your question from me – any party members about here ?

      I’m sure the ‘today ‘ crew will be so excited to night they’ll be like little kiddies unable to sleep as the pantomime plays out ….
      I wonder if nut nut has checked how much a flight back to the Caribbean costs this week …?

         4 likes

  26. Tabs says:

    BBC1 Laura Kuennssberg “interviewing” Jacob Ress Mogg but as soon as Jacob answers the question with an answer she didn’t want to hear she just talked over him trying to drown out his answer.

       21 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      BBC SOP.

      Aspiring Toenails.

      Once she gets too comfy she can tweet as news what she saw on Champion Ash’s feed rather than check.

         6 likes

  27. Guest Who says:

    Not 277%. Not 279%. 278%

    Wonder if the stats are broken out by gender and ex nhs twerkers.

    Some hefty minxes there.

       7 likes

  28. tomo says:

       14 likes

  29. StewGreen says:

    Local radio presenter has posted a photo of her in her vest
    due to the studio heating being so hot

    #GlobalWarming “Do what we say, not what we do” #LibmobHypocrisy

       12 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      She playing the organ next in hope of her sweaty top getting her poached by Channel 4?

         5 likes

  30. Fedup2 says:

    Not BBC

    One of the Sundays has been trawling over ‘where truss went wrong ‘ – so it was a long article …

    Anyway – although the sources may be dubious – it falls into my theory about what makes any leader ‘successful ‘ – ie that they are surrounded by staff who are better ‘ cleverer than them .
    In the truss case it is argued she employed too many allies and people who had lifted her along the way . It focuses on the chief of staff – who had all sorts of ‘issues ‘ ranging from the recent death of his father – through to lack of experience in the cabinet type roll and not working all the hours God and the `devil sent -( it didn’t go into much detail about his mates or lobbying firm or other possibly clashing interests)
    I think even he admitted he didn’t start work until 0800 ….

    When I was a small time staffy my average days started by 0700 and it was normal to still be kicking around at 1900 . The shear volume of work and ‘crises’ of various types made days fly …

    As for the fundamental mini budget – it’s alleged truss had been warned about the lack of independent support OBR but wanted to press ahead to signal the coming changes . ….

    …. Now those changes are binned and it’s back to the money tree guys – subject to Jeremy Hunt – whom I suspect might ‘Walk ‘ if his budget is binned or he can see a fight coming or just gets fired …

    Personally I don’t care who does the job as long as they cut public spending – kill off all the diversity managers – look at who is really unable to earn a crust rather than living off other taxpayers –
    But then – i d be classed by the BBC as ‘far right’ …

       16 likes

  31. tomo says:

    Anychess in the nooze

       11 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      NHS hires diversity managers on £77,000 a year despite ‘war on wokery’
      A government review had suggested the roles should be cut back

      By
      Lizzie Roberts,
      HEALTH CORRESPONDENT
      27 August 2022 • 7:00pm

         10 likes

  32. MarkyMark says:

    Moment transgender singer strips NAKED live on Channel 4 and plays the keyboard with her PENIS
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11343947/Moment-transgender-singer-strips-NAKED-live-Channel-4-plays-keyboard-PENIS.html

    ….

       8 likes

  33. MarkyMark says:

    https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/boris-johnsons-final-speech-as-prime-minister-6-september-2022

    and through that lacquered black door a new Prime Minister will shortly go to meet a fantastic group of public servants

    the people who got Brexit done

    the people who delivered the fastest vaccine roll out in Europe

    and never forget – 70 per cent of the entire population got a dose within 6 months, faster than any comparable country

    that is government for you – that’s this conservative government

    the people who organised those prompt early supplies of weapons to the heroic Ukrainian armed forces,

    Together we have laid foundations that will stand the test of time

    whether by taking back control of our laws or putting in vital new infrastructure

    great solid masonry on which we will continue to build together

    paving the path of prosperity now & for future generations

    and I will be supporting Liz Truss and our new government every step of the way.

    Thank you all very much.

    Published 6 September 2022

       1 likes

  34. StewGreen says:

    8am Local radio news “someone from our region is going to the Church Action On Poverty conference in Sheffield”

    Surprisingly there was no big anti-Tory clip
    just “poverty action is as much needed today as when the charity was founded”

    Charities never say they have achieved their goals,
    cos that would be the end of the gravy train for their workers.

       8 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      So what’s going on there ?
      Poverty hype is a BBC agenda, anyone sending in PR about it gets aired.

      Whereas illegal immigration, grooming gangs and anti-lockdown are NOT BBC agendas
      so when people send in PR about their marches and conferences, it gets thrown in the BBC bin.

         10 likes

      • MarkyMark says:

        Lola: Girl’s murder an act of ‘extreme evil’, President Macron says
        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63344064

        Emmanuel Macron has called the murder of a 12-year-old girl an act of “extreme evil” in his first comments on a crime that has stunned France.

        The French president said the family of the girl, named Lola, needed “the respect and affection of the nation”.

        Lola’s body was found dumped in a plastic trunk in Paris last Friday outside the building where she lived.

        ………………

        BBC Last Touched on this story “Afghan murder suspect in Germany was jailed in Greece (convicted of attempted murder in Greece)” {bbc.co.uk dec2016}
        Germans were outraged by the murder of Maria L, a student in Freiburg who volunteered for a refugee charity.
        He was given a 10 year-sentence but was apparently freed after about 18 months.
        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38314498

           4 likes

        • StewGreen says:

          The new Lola story in France and the 2016 Maria story in Germany are different
          that was Hussein Khavari
          In 2013 attempted murder, got 10 years imprisonment in Greece
          2016 17 years of rape and murder in Germany
          “He had been given a 10-year jail term in Greece but was released just a year later due to overcrowded prisons”
          “turned out that Hussein was born in Iran, not Afghanistan, and that he could be as old as 32.”

             4 likes

          • MarkyMark says:

            “The new Lola story in France and the 2016 Maria story in Germany are different” – was giving an example of circular stories – washed away with a dance on BBC strickly.

               3 likes

          • StewGreen says:

            “this story” implied you were saying they are the same story

            Another similar crim : Anis Amri
            2016 driver of the truck that struck a crowd in Berlin, Amri, had already committed several crimes before hijacking the vehicle.
            A study reveals that many Islamists share a criminal biography.
            .. died at the age of 24, shot down by police.
            Already in his adolescence in Tunisia, his homeland, he had been arrested several times and was even sentenced to 5 years in prison.
            However, he fled to Italy before serving his sentence.
            There he would have committed several crimes of theft and aggravated assault. After trying to burn down his school, he was sentenced to four years in prison.
            https://www.dw.com/es/anis-amri-de-delincuente-a-terrorista/a-36902660

            Another 22-year-old Yousif A
            the Iraqi suspect arrested in the killing of Daniel Hillig had a string of convictions for crimes including fraud, drug dealings, and serious bodily injury — which earned him a two-year suspended sentence — and was supposed to be deported sparked public outcry
            https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/09/02/pictures-protesters-stage-mourning-march-in-chemnitz-for-victims-of-killer-migrants/
            Seems he went on the run after
            and only the Syrian stabber was jailed.

               6 likes

      • tomo says:

        aye … with the BBC it’s almost always about what they choose to supress / omit.

        I’ve been around it several times and been astonished at the procedural lengths they will go to to swerve reporting on some things.

        I found it a weird combination of frustrating and dispiriting and utterly at odds with their proclaimed values / virtues …. you live and you learn….

           7 likes

  35. MarkyMark says:

    14 December 2016 He was given a 10 year-sentence but was apparently freed after about 18 months.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38314498

       2 likes

  36. tomo says:

    Please don’t share

       4 likes

  37. MarkyMark says:

    Neil Oliver Live | Saturday 22nd October

       7 likes

  38. MarkyMark says:

    BBC fail to use the word DICTATOR – China Good. UK Bad.

    China congress: Xi cements power by packing top team with loyalists
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-63362548

    On China’s heavily censored social media platforms, the reaction has been muted. Tens of millions of Chinese watched Sunday’s proceedings on state media livestreams – but all comment sections were disabled.

       5 likes

  39. MarkyMark says:

    https://www.arabianbusiness.com/industries/construction/neom-new-drone-footage-shows-saudi-arabias-the-line-under-construction

    Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said “The Line” will embody “Zero Gravity Urbanism,” where city functions are layered vertically.

    “The designs revealed today for the city’s vertically layered communities will challenge the traditional flat, horizontal cities and create a model for nature preservation and enhanced human livability,” he said in a statement.

       0 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      I wonder if every one over 30 will have to go to ‘another ‘ place ….
      But it shows that some snake oil salesman can still sell tinned dreams ….

         2 likes

  40. MarkyMark says:

    D-I4TnQX4AAso1W.jpg

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  41. Guest Who says:

    Relying on Toenails, Laura, Brando, Pesto, Beff, etc, to adopt strategic silences no longer working out as well as before.

    #Ccbgb

    Meanwhile every blue flag, gold star, middle aged white person march with Femi as the token bin ornament here is met with more, in every sense, throughout as their beloved collapsing EU remains unmentioned by the MSM here.

    They should all resign in embarrassment.

       8 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      So Gordon Brown and Anthony Blair never happened ?

      The whole thing is unaccountable – parliament is unaccountable – even at its’ highest – the corrupt peers ….

      And whoever is ‘in charge ‘ the decine of the country ‘ economy will continue – just need to individually mitigate the personal effect ….

      As for Bryant – spend more time caring for your constituency mate rather than pretending to be serious ( cue underpants picture ) ….morality eh ?

         12 likes

    • JohnC says:

      Poor old Chris seems to be unaware that we elected the Conservatives as a party – not Boris.

      Democracy means they have a mandate to govern until the next election is due. No matter how many leaders they go through.

      That’s a seriously embarassing thing to post. It reads like a spiteful 12 year old wrote it. But nothing less than I expect from the Left.

         12 likes

      • Guest Who says:

        A spiteful 12 year old is about 6 years more mature than Bryant.

        Yet he is one of a limited cabal THE BBC haul on to gibber as he devotes his efforts to getting hauled on to gibber rather than being a competent political representative for constitute or party.

        The pool is shallow, but I am sure there are Labour MPs of thoughtfulness and insight who might off a sensible opposition case, but Surkeer does nor dare not surround himself with the tea party brigade.

           3 likes

        • Fedup2 says:

          Guest who

          The thing that amazes me is that Bryant’s self image saw himself as a suitable candidate to be the Speaker – if you recall – after the vermin traitor was deposed ….
          ( whose name must never be mentioned )

             4 likes

  42. tomo says:

    Tucker could oh, so easily be talking about the BBC

       9 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      The BBC is of course exempted, by itself, from accountability and inquiry.

      Toenails has, apparently, a million followers.

      Maybe 999,600 of them don’t pay attention to him any more as he is not only utterly partial, but so lazy doesn’t bother to check what he burbles for his handsome remuneration?

         4 likes

      • Guest Who says:

        The BBC just looks the other way.

        Boot on other foot, the entire 20,000 complement would be going mental.

           7 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Ms. Lake may have a point.

      That sycophant of color would go far in Our BBC too.

         2 likes

  43. tomo says:

    ouch

    Perilously-close-to-a-clown.jpg

       8 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      I’ll be boring again.
      To me pejoratives ..words or parody images about your opposition DIMINISH your own side
      It’s smear not argument.
      Usually it’s libmob doing it against Trump or Boris..

         6 likes

      • tomo says:

        If that opposition aren’t amenable to evidence or rational analysis and keep piling on – is one supposed to virtuously turn the other cheek and have that slapped too?

        Biden very simply shouldn’t have run – he chose to, and he’s making a mess of epic and historical proportions and lying his Botoxed and surgically dewrinkled face off – he isn’t yet in the final stages of dementia and the lies are conscious, calibrated and very deliberate.

        His demise will likely be quite quick and will likely escape being held to account.

           5 likes

  44. BRISSLES says:

    Not ANOTHER candidate to be the Labour MP for Sheffield.

       12 likes

  45. tomo says:

    “Climate lockdowns” are a conspiracy theory

       6 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Rich families will be OK they have 2 or 3 cars and change them often so 100 day rule wouldn’t apply to them.

         10 likes

      • tomo says:

        Bit like Oslo

        many bought Teslas as 2nd car as it allowed them to use bus lanes, swerve tolls, get reduced rate parking and congestion charge….

           6 likes

        • Northern Voter says:

          I seem to remember the Greek government trying this very same thing some years ago. The ploy was you could only drive your car on odd days in the month if the numberplate ended in an odd number, and of course vice versa for even numbers. People with brass went out and bought another car making sure that it differed from the one they had by one digit. Worked wonders for the second hand car market!

             5 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Island
      Anything is possible – being ‘fitted up ‘ with a minor breach of the ministerial code ( in comparison to others ) – unless she engineered it her self ( Machiavelli) – could be a way back …

      Looking more like Goldman Sachs is going to be MP

      Up to 144 now it seems …

         3 likes

  46. Guest Who says:

    ITBB still worth a dip daily in complement. There are some very solid exchanges on the monthly open threads still.

    https://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.com/2022/10/october-open-thread.html#

    I hope they won’t mind my sharing…

    Vrager 1
    When a trailer says Martha Carney is going to look at the income side of Britain’s balance sheet, one knows the level of ignorance and bias on a financial programme is huge. As every accountant knows, income does not appear on balance sheets, just assets and liabilities.

    Charlie
    The BBC are illiterate when it comes to business and economics. More likely they are deliberately misleading to make their point.

    Winter George
    But the BBC tell us that the huge salaries paid to their ‘world-class journalists’ are justified because they have to attract the very best.

    Anyone would think they only employ autocue readers who are happy to parrot the correct narrative, and that none of them are experts or world-class at all.

    Vrager 1
    Correct: Martha Carney / Kearney can read a script and got a Classics degree… what does she know about accounts and balance sheets? The UK government “balance sheet” would show if accepted accounting principles were used, assets such as the land and buildings, military assets, vehicles etc it owns, some debtors and cash … but on the other side it has huge liabilities – the national debt and promises to pay pensions and unlimited medical care, none of which is funded. In effect it is insolvent on a massive scale.

    Frankly damning of all ‘talent’, those who hired them at market rates, and those allow THE BBC to pretend to be a coherent source of anything except ideological propaganda.

    No wonder they only get in political pygmies to ‘hold to account’ and block or ban any asking question of them.

       15 likes

  47. BRISSLES says:

    Groooaaan ! I shall sleep for a week to escape the headlines if Sunak wins. ” Britain has First Asian PM”, “First British Cabinet where all tops jobs have Asian heritage”, “Second generation Asians hold top Offices of State”. Jay Blades is Culture & Craft Secretary.

    Wake me when its all over.

       26 likes

    • Scroblene says:

      Too right!

      I trawled several sites to get the facts about the election, and the most confusing was the BBC’s!

      Surely they don’t think that if Sunak gets the most votes by Monday, the public will be swayed by their deliberate obfuscation and will get out on the streets or do something else which will get him into No 10?

      This isn’t the 6th January in Washington beeboids, just tell the truth for a change!

         10 likes

  48. Guest Who says:

    The notion that QCs are smart takes another hit.

    Who in their right mind would hire anyone this dumb?

       7 likes

    • Scroblene says:

      Seems like LBC is getting a bit too leftie these days.

      Good guys like Steve Allen, Tom Swarbrick, Ian Payne and Richard Spurr are mainly on at night, and they only have one normal attack dog, Nick Ferrari, on at peak listening during the day!

      Other than that, the rest of them do the yapping and screaming at the Conservatives all the time, so get switched off when they start their slots – it’s much better for the blood pressure, and anyway, who needs to listen to some of the morons who ring in!

      And why does Clive Bull ALWAYS talk to a boring bloke in Newport right at the end of his programme? Is it his dad?

      As most of them once ‘worked’ at the BBC, you’d think that they might come to grips with reality, but it seems not! Is there some clause in their contracts whereby they can’t knock the awful BBC for so many years after they’ve left?

         10 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      David Lammy MP says absent fathers ‘key cause of knife crime’
      Published
      3 October 2012

      https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-19815831

         3 likes

  49. Guest Who says:

    Were the media anything but utterly bent, this would see her laughed into oblivion there and by HIGNFY here.

    Unfortunately, the media is utterly bent.

       4 likes