Weekend 5 November 2022

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  1. Up2snuff says:

    Another chance to go for three in a row. Whooopeee. It was noticeable that this working week past, the BBC have started to increase their attacks, not just on Suella Braverman but also on Rishi Sunak as well. Maybe the BBC are hoping to go for three PMs in a row.

    I just wish they would be caught just like Guido Fawkes and his fellow conspirators below Parliament and HMG would take revenge and the BBC would find themselves sold off to raise a bit of extra cash for ‘the services’ that they attack the Conservative government for not providing.

    Have a good weekend everyone.

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  2. Flotsam says:

    Bent Police and Bent Solicitors
    A friend of mine, now deceased was a legal executive in the Merseyside area. He knew of a number of Bent Police and Solicitors. The method was simple, crime organisations would groom youngsters from families they knew, through good schools and University. They would take up a Police or Legal career but would be on tap to do whatever was needed by gangsters. Some might wonder, why Solicitors? The fact is that Solicitors are incredibly powerful, most people are not aware of this. Fraudulently created documents can be used to steal Estates, Property and businesses. Legalised Blackmail can be done.
    If you are ever puzzled why some strange things happen just understand how much corruption there can be.

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  3. TrickCyclist says:

    Just been watching the Alf Garnett series In Sickness and in Health on That’s TV (Freeview 65).
    They bleeped out the words ‘coon’ and ‘darkie’ but left in ‘honky.’
    I suppose lighter skinned people are assumed to have thicker skins as well.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Quote : There was a recent episode where black performer Kenny Lynch and chums visit the pub
      Easter Special from 1967. “Till closing time us do part.”
      with Jimmy Tarbuck, Arthur Mullard, Joan Sims plus some other familiar faces Ray Barrett etc

      There were quite a few bleeps.
      They bleeped out calling Kenny Lynch a C**n but when Alf said he should up the market selling ties.
      Kenny says (unbleeped) “That would make me a tycoon”
      https://www.comedy.co.uk/forums/thread/11343/5/

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      • BRISSLES says:

        Its not only skin colour. I worked for a Jewish psychiatrist, and he told me that its ok for jews themselves to tell jewish jokes, but woe betide anyone else doing it. Rappers regularly use the N word so that’s alright then.

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        • TrickCyclist says:

          About the N word.
          This is from 2007 but it doesn’t get old. If you’ve never seen it before, it’s very funny.

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  4. G.W.F. says:

    Rasheed bows to pressure to cancel the proposed move of the British Embassy to Jerusalem.
    Another U turn?
    By United with Israel Staff

    Britain’s new prime minister has reneged on a commitment made by his predecessor, Liz Truss, to move the country’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the UK Jewish News reported.

    “It has been looked at,” Sunak’s spokesperson stated on Thursday. “There are no plans to move the British embassy.”

    Sunak is apparently caving in to pressure. He was reportedly warned that the “entire governmental system” would be in an uproar if he carried out the promise to move the embassy, made by his predecessor Liz Truss during her mere 44 days in office.

    https://unitedwithisrael.org/disappointment-british-pm-breaks-promise-to-israel-jewish-community/?utm_source=newsletters_unitedwithisrael_org&utm_medium=email&utm_content=British+PM+Breaks+Promise+to+Israel%3B+NJ+Synagogues+Under+Threat+of+Attack%3B+Netanyahu+Wins+Big%2C+will+Form+Gov%27t%3B+Why%2C+When+and+How+to+Make+Aliyah%21&utm_campaign=20221104_m170275863_British+PM+Breaks+Promise+to+Israel%3B+NJ+Synagogues+Under+Threat+of+Attack%3B+Netanyahu+Wins+Big%2C+will+Form+Gov%27t%3B+Why%2C+When+and+How+to+Make+Aliyah%21&utm_term=British+PM+Breaks+Promise+to+Israel_2C+Jewish+Community

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    • NCBBC says:

      PM Sunak appears to be a person who bends the way the wind blowing. His adherence to Climate Change scam is just political. He will change his tune if the wind direction changes.

      The tragedy for Britain is that for all the change in leadership, the country is still adrift.

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    • tomo says:

      tells you Sir Humphrey holds the whip hand

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  5. Thoughtful says:

    Guy Fawkes was right !!!!

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  6. Guest Who says:

    There’s mince thick, and then there is bbc sub thick…

       18 likes

  7. StewGreen says:

    XR think the are ENTITLED to break laws
    laws that are there for good reason
    eg laws that say can’t blockade roads
    From Berlin

    The death of a cyclist in Berlin has prompted leaders of Germany’s Green party to accuse climate change protesters of endangering the lives of others.

    The woman was run over and trapped under a concrete mixer lorry on Monday.

    The fire service says a specialist rescue vehicle was delayed by traffic because of a climate protest held by a group called “Last Generation”.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63517102

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  8. G.W.F. says:

    No Mr King, you can’t go and play politics at the Cop Conference.
    But you can have your own little Cop Conference here and speak at it before 200 eco freaks and world leaders.
    And that is OK with the BBC and government.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63516054

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  9. JohnC says:

    Brexit adding to cost-of-living crisis, Mark Carney says
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-63515486

    So a project-fear co-conspirator and the BBC get together to infer the cost of living crisis is in no small part due to brexit.

    Well what a surprise.

    Then they show a graph of inflation reaching 10.1% as their proof.

    A very quick Google search for the Eurozone inflation puts it at 10.7%. No need to ask why they didn’t show this extremely relevant comparison.

    This article is extreme in it’s bias and shows just how confident the BBC are now that they can do or say anything they like about certain topics without fear of being held to their charter of being unbiased.

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    • Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

      The trouble for the globalist traitor BBC is that a minute or two of searching on the internet exposes their constant lies, distortions and omissions – which is why they’re so keen to censor it.

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  10. Eddy Booth says:

    “Ukraine war: Putin allows former prisoners to be conscripted”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63517680

    “Convicted murderers and drug dealers who have recently left prison in Russia face being conscripted to fight in Ukraine under a change to the law”.

    Haha the more I see from Putin the more I like him!
    Of course the BBC are having a good cry about them not getting an exemption.
    BBC have no problem with Ukraine and probably half of Europe being flooded with donated weapons, and asks no questions about Ukraine prisons these days.

    I wonder what Vladimir would do if Russia was invaded by rubber boat trash, do they have Premier Inns there…

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    • JohnC says:

      Putin is what Putin is.

      He’s a very clever, shrewd man who sees the world as it is and a lot of what he says is straightforward common sense untainted by agenda.

      But then he is also a corrupt, brutal and savage product of the Soviet system which means human life is cheap and you go for what you want using whatever dirty tricks you have to.

      I’m a lot more concerned about Putin being deposed than I am about him staying in power. I’m certain there are plenty of hardcore zealots he is keeping in check who want to mobilise for full-scale war and restore the Soviet Union.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        JohnC
        If he was that clever he wouldn’t be bogged down in Ukraine …

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      • tomo says:

        Indeed… Putin is what he is – but one aspect of Russia that doesn’t get much play is the role of mafia / organised crime (some posit that includes the state…) – the BBC in particular rarely if ever cover that ground. I’m not going to launch into an essay – but the presentation of who are the good guys (if there are any…) is imho a fantasy – demonstrated in large part by the near complete absence in the case of Ukraine by near zero combat footage.

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  11. BRISSLES says:

    Hotel migrants are now complaining that the food provided is making them ill. One was interviewed on GBN and he said the food was terrible, when asked what he was getting he said, chicken and rice, and cornflakes. The ingratitude is just astonishing. If this carries on I can see petrol bombs not just being confined to the outer walls of detention centres !!

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    • G says:

      Brissles,

      The exasperation with the police and politicians is now becoming very obvious. I see growing consolidation in the publics attitude toward taking an active role in ‘policing’ e.g. motorists ‘removing’ oil protestors. All part and parcel of the people working toward taking over the Mad House which the deranged have made it.

      Farage, your Coronation awaits.

      Never mind about Covid, Derangement is now the greatest disease amongst the ‘Great and the Good’. Fortunately, mainly because I had a 1940’s upbringing tin bath and all, I’m immune to the disease.

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  12. taffman says:

    The mass invasion is no longer on the front page of Al Beeb despite the fact that most of the people of Great Britain are against the invasion of these sacred islands, or the
    the despicable bunch of lying politicians that are behind it!

    Relocate the invading criminals to the MP’s constituencies that voted them in and
    their term in office will soon end .

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  13. JohnC says:

    US midterms: What does Trump want from the elections?
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63476147

    A BBC snipe-fest at Trump, it’s almost funny.

    ‘That’s an 89% success record, although experts have said some of these candidates were already likely to win.’
    What an absolutely meaningless attempt to tarnish the 89%. Of course ‘some’ were likely to win.

    ‘For Mr Trump, the success of his favoured candidates may allow him to better gauge the level of influence he has over voters.’
    Directly implying he is deviously convincing them, not that they might just agree with him already.

    “If his endorsed candidates lose, it could raise questions about his political acumen,”
    Of course it will – particularly in the Leftist media.

    I’m really, really hoping the polls are the distorted propaganda we have become used where leftist fascism has made people scared to speak the truth and the Democrats are routed next week.

    Even better would be some attempt by the Democrats to cheat that is so desperate, they can’t hide this one behind the biased media and we all see in plain sight what we already know.

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    • tomo says:

      I’m wondering at the efforts to suppress reporting of stuff like Pennsylvania senatorial candidate Fetterman’s mental impairment – I saw a TV piece on Fox where the reporter elaborated his impressions on site (in Pennsylvania)and while you are looking at partisan accounts – the hiding of both the man’s very real problems and his administrative record is absolutely epic – crossing well into farce territory…

         15 likes

  14. Guest Who says:

    Bryant is good value. Lammy level. The entire thread….

       13 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

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  15. Guest Who says:

    Still being editted?

       10 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      The BBC is unhappy . Now that Twitter is considered not to be the Lefty Approved Censored Nice Place where The US President can be silenced – that it was – it’s not happy …..

      Any dissent is to be crushed – or declared ‘misinformation – contrary opinion ? Cancelled . So if Mr Musk fires half the useless woke kidults it’s a bad day …..

      The BBC anti twitter – anti musk – propaganda will ratchet up …
      Elsewhere – they interview that Kennedy groupie – Johnny Kerry – by the sound of it nothing will happen at the WEF ( cop) nonsense
      So it’s good news – I’m sure the meals the good and the great are served will be meat free and insect based ….

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      • G says:

        Kerry?

        You’ve got to give credit where credit is due. Those who originally decided to highjack normal cyclical climate change over millions of years and directly associate it with ‘Man-made Global Warming’ had an ever dynamic paradigm to live off.

        Kerry does not have the brain to have conceived of the idea.

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  16. Guest Who says:

    Media greaseball opens up can of worms on media terminology.

       11 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      When a company downsizes cos it’s losing money and you get a severance money, we call that being made redundant not being sacked/fired.

      Though why does Crick a UK journalist thinks Musk will read his reply out of thousand
      He’s just showing his contempt for Musk, cos maybe he feels Musk is not supporting his gang.

      BTW when a US company offers a generous “exit package” that’s usually cos it means you have to sign saying you’re dropping your right to sue them

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    • tomo says:

      Can Mr Musk bid for the privatised parts of the BBC?

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      Piss off Crick.

         5 likes

  17. Guest Who says:

    One for Springster to check?

       16 likes

  18. AsISeeIt says:

    Swimmin’ with the wimmin edition
    Apologies to that cheeky-chapy George Formby – there’s one for the teenagers to Google

    State can’t fix all your problems, says Sunak – in the dripping wet Tory rag which was once the patriotic Times.

    Not exactly his sentiment when he paid the nation to linger under the duvet for months on end as the State presumed to cure us of a world-wide pandemic.

    Remember the former splashy the cashy Rishi: The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in very high levels of public spending. Current estimates of the cost of Government measures announced so far range from about £310 to £410 billion. This is the equivalent of about £4,600 to £6,100 per person in the UK (House of Commons Library)

    PM seeks to rebuild trust after Truss ‘sugar rush’ (Times) – if the Kwasi Kwarteng/Liz Truss budget can be described as a sugar rush then Rishi slipped the nation a tab of LSD with a cocaine chaser in our box of Quality Street that sent us on a prolonged psychedelic trip where we thought we could fly and were convinced we met Jesus doing a TikTok dance with the NHS angels in a deserted A&E ward.

    The Times frontpage dishy Rishi pin up pic has him posing as about as unconvincing a hunk as his laughably unconvincing conservative economics. The rich short geeky brown man is sadly juxtaposed with a teaser for the Times’s rugby guide featuring an action shot of a properly macho chap who we take to be Manu Tuilagi.

    If the Times has to present itself these days as a soft porn mag for the ladies then the appropriately named Lesley Manville is right on message with: Younger men, sex scenes and my part in The Crown. Also frontpage some beefcake brandishes a barbell: How to age-proof your body and brain. It’s never too late. Whilst some relining unnamed totty in dark glasses asks: Have you got hangxiety? The rise of midlife guilt.

    Hangxiety, you ask…?

    ‘Hangxiety’: why alcohol gives you a hangover and anxiety (Guardian) – report accompanied by a pic of a woman (natch) looking much the worse for wear – obviously having drunk from a wet glass. What’s all this anxiety, luv? Men initially tell themselves never again and then forget and get right back on the sauce. I digress.

    So much for the Thunderer – the once venerable Times may as well rename itself Karen from HR’s Guilty Pleasure – newsagents to file under liberal-leaning female interest.

    Ditch ‘triple-lock’… and we won’t vote Tory again – threatens the Daily Express – but given the Tories sole USP (unique selling point) is that they aren’t Labour – where’s a voter to flee to?

    The welcoming arms of the Left…?

    We will be doomed without climate pact, says UN chief (Guardian) – we’re all doomed, I tell ee, doomed – was of course the catchphrase of platoon grumbler Private Frazer of Dad’s Army.

    As MrAsI has previously alluded hereabouts concerning our present UN boss – in stark contrast with all his famous predecessors you’ll note this UN chief is so timidly disinclined as a peacemaker over the Ukraine war that even our over-educated supposedly peacenik Guardianistas wouldn’t recognise his name – and the editor knows it.

    The Guardian would have readers: Embrace your inner Scandi without leaving the UK – this time not so much a political call for Swedish levels of social democracy, more: Winter wellness – a feature where Karen and her pals from HR have donned woolly hats with their swimming cossies.

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  19. Foscari says:

    I am so pleased for the BBC !! They showed us something in
    the Breakfast Programme that they only wish they could do
    all the time . The Christmas adverts from the usual suspects
    showing us mixed race families !!
    Less than 1/10 of 1% folk from the Indian sub continent
    marry outside their own ethnicity. Its under 2% for black folk.
    BUT near to 100% on TV adverts !!
    I bet the diversity department of the BBC were in an orgasmic
    state as the Christmas adverts were rolled out.
    .

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    • AsISeeIt says:

      With a mutiny on the Quality Street Bounty Bars in the news recently and our PM descibed in some quarters as not a true brown man one was surprised Cadbury were still using a black chap on posters to promote their Dairy Milk chocolate Fingers – we may soon look back on that as problematic.

      Other confectionary-related racial epithets are available.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        AISI, haven’t read your paper review yet but I was amused by the pic on the front of the Telegraph that hints that the PM went to the King’s Climate Reception with his trouser’s fly undone.

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        • StewGreen says:

          doh all it shows is that at the moment the pic was taken his hand was in front of his crotch.
          No one twitter talks about his flies.

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          • Up2snuff says:

            Stew, don’t rain on my parade! 😉 The pointing finger of HM and the laughter sets it all up to look like that! That is all, dozoh!

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        • tomo says:

          Remember Broon picking his nose (and wiping the consequences on the back of his tie) on camera in the HoC + going to the White House with one trouser leg inside his sock ?

          Tradition – we’re supposed to be world leaders….

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          • Up2snuff says:

            Yes, or the comment Gordy made after talking to a voter when he forgot there was a live mic around.

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    • BRISSLES says:

      Back at the beginning of the 1970s I worked with someone who was an active member of the National Front – some may remember it was very big at the time. Anyway, he had extreme views about migration, and he said something that I never forgot, and which resonates today. “Give it 50 years and you’ll see the rise of the mixed race generation”. (well, he actually said ‘coffee coloured’ so I’ve watered it a bit).

      With this in mind, and how prophetic that was, its not unrealistic to believe that what we believe this country will be like in another 50 years – mainly a Muslim population, may well be the norm.

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  20. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – hmmmnn, a squeaky, high-pitched Australian wimmin, makes a change from the American female Professors, I guess

    EcoFear and EcoAnxiety is ‘all the rage, all the go’ as they used to say in the 1920s, I am told. I was not around then, but if the BBC keep this up for the duration of COP27 and its aftermath, I will probably feel that old and keel over and ‘drop off my twig’, so to speak. Another ‘Woosterism’ that the great PG would, no doubt, approve.

    Tessa Khan (hard K, surprisingly, from HarshMistress Mishal who was Haan-ing her way through the programme yesterday) was given an easy time by aforesaid HarshMistress as was the other female contributor, apologies for forgetting her name. More trouble is on the way, apparently, from these and other ‘Eco-Anxious’ wimmin.

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  21. Fedup2 says:

    I had to turn that off as they gave me a headache and I got fed up with air heads… their tune will change when the power goes off …
    ………..burn that diesel – the whole green crap built on false science hysteria and certainty …

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  22. StewGreen says:

    Indian journo ex-BBC surprised that you get pick pocketed on Oxford St and that the police do nothing
    … She is mocked for including Sadiq and Sunak in her tweet
    Did she do that, cos she thinks they will fix things for Indians ?

       23 likes

    • Dickie says:

      Probably the Met what did it

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    • tomo says:

      The street gangs are indigenous peeps struggling with the cost of living crisis – obviously.

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    • G says:

      Lucky she wasn’t assaulted by hordes of blacks ransacking and looting Oxford Street.

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      Just wait until Sakshi Joshi finds out about Hatun being stabbed in the neck in broad daylight at Speakers Corner in front of hundreds of witnesses and tens of police and thousands of CCTV cameras.

      What happened @MetPolice? Zero, Zilch, Nothing!

      Londonistan is not safe.

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    • Framer says:

      Colossal number of Indians responded to her tweet who don’t like her sense of entitlement and her previous reportage, especially on BBC. I wonder does she know her elite views are not so loved as in her bubble?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Sakshi Joshi
      @sakshijoshii
      Independent journalist, Digital News Editor, Producer 1232KMs (streaming on Hotstar),Ex BBC,India TV, News24
      delhiyoutube.com/c/SakshiJoshi_…Born December 21Joined January 2010
      974 Following
      1.1M Followers

      ….

      https://crime-in-india.github.io/cities/Delhi/
      The chart below shows how the rate of violent crimes in Delhi have changed since 2010. To compare how Delhi fares nationally in violent crimes, click here.

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  23. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #2 – aah, another little bit of the truth escapes captivity

    It appears from HarshMistress Mishal’s interview in the 7-7.30 a.m. segment of TOADY with Sir David Normington, former Permanent Secretary at the Home Office that the slowing of illegal migrant asylum claims is due to Brexit. ‘Nuff said.

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  24. StewGreen says:

    Gina Miller has a new party and her technique is to ask Labour and Liberals to stand down so she have a clear way against Chris Grayling cos she wants to smash him cos he’s a Brexiteer.
    .. https://www.twitter.com/tomorrowsmps/status/1588551394575134722

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Stew, she gets around; LibDems, Change UK, now ‘True and Fair’ Party (sic).

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      • tomo says:

        She follows the money – and the BBC aren’t keen to elaborate who’s the sugar daddy in this case….

        elsewhere – you’d be forgiven for not noticing but Harvey Weinstein is in LA court again at the moment – ‘ole Harv is spilling some beans – top of the list seems to be that California governor Newsom’s wife is claimed to trade in sex in rather a direct and old fashioned way – needless to say USA MSM nowhere on that.

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        • Up2snuff says:

          tomo, is she not very wealthy in her own right as a trader on the London markets?

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          • tomo says:

            I seem to recall claims around 2016 that she’s “not entirely self funding” – she’s largely fireproofed to MSM inquiry it would seem

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  25. G.W.F. says:

    Migrants are revolting. Government have not been kind enough to them.
    So far the BBC have not placed blame on the far right, but wait

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63525332

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  26. tomo says:

    Looks like Twitter is stuttering – anybody else seeing rendering issues with web Twitter? (large, persistent black blocks on screens) ?

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  27. Doublethinker says:

    You would imagine that the reaction of the Met to the way BBC treat them would be to push back against the Corporation. But in the woke hierarchy the BBC well outranks the police so the response will likely be for the Met to grovel and adopt even more woke policies to show that they are pure and garner praise from the high priests of the movement.
    It interests me that we seldom get even anonymous reports from discontented bobbies , or members of the border force , or the RNLI , that Wokism is crazy , that their jobs are degraded, that they are ashamed of what they have to do.
    Do they go along willingly with this rubbish? Are they scared that their anonymity will be breached and severe repercussions will follow? Or does the MSM merely suppress reports of any discontent.
    I have to say that I was a great respecter of the police but that began to wane years ago and is now rock bottom. Until recently I gave generously at RNLI flag days but no longer. I now regard all three of the mentioned institutions as enemies within.

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    • Chevalnoir says:

      … does anybody know if RNLI and others collecting the illegal economic migrants receive payments for their exceptional/non-standard emergency ‘life saving’ activities?

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  28. Guest Who says:

    BBC priority gob opines.

    #CCBGB

       12 likes

  29. Guest Who says:

    BBC defends.

    Not unlike their corporate structure.

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  30. G says:

    I think I did it some years ago. Can’t remember. But I have just joined (or re-joined?) the Reform Party.

    I’m living in West Wales so with the total 100% enduring devotion to the party, “who my old Grandfather voted for” I see my membership as a financial contribution to Reform only.

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  31. tomo says:

    On past experience they’re going to try and foist it on people even if they aren’t successful – aren’t they?

    Fgoo-S2-EXEAAkb-PI.jpg

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  32. StewGreen says:

    8am and 9am BBC Radio Humberside news
    #2 “Hull Labour MP Diana Johnson says when her train arrived at Hull station the toilets were closed !
    and part of the building was taped off
    .. so she calling for a public enquiry and the public execution of station operators TransPennine Express

    #3 “There is a LGBTQ+ march in Hull today”
    .. Of all the events in the region today is that the ONE they select for promotion ?

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  33. StewGreen says:

    The opening news item was rather complicated
    so was dropped by 10am

    The Shadow industry minister has written to Grant Shapps to say to save British Steel ‘throw more cash to make it green etc ”
    – On yesterday’s afternoon show the NUJ union guy presenting invited the GNB union guy on to talk about the letter.
    Some claims were made, many things were omitted.
    Thus this news item took a line that Tories were doing nothing to green steel, and cropped it in.

    However that is deception, cos the Tories do already have a green steel hydrogen CCS project already under construction.
    The holes and digging in the countryside around here are not an optical illusion.
    The letter says Labour will change the UK steel industry to green steel by injecting £3bn.
    It doesn’t mention that hydrogen steel will be more expensive than that made using conventional coal tech.

    The Tory plan is first : hydrogen made from natural gas in Hull,
    That process actually increases steel industry CO2
    So phase 2 is to install CCS tech in Hull and pump the CO2 into old gas fields
    Phase 3 is to somehow make hydrogen using wind electricity , something that is super costly.

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    • tomo says:

      That Radio Humberside piece does nothing to allay the perception that both the “Green Tories” and the union-y guys are ignorant, innumerate + deluded twerps with access to piles of other peoples money. Counterproductive hardly does the thing justice – dangerously deranged and deluded is a lot closer.

      Hydrogen doesn’t add up – I see that the ludicrous rainbow “colours of Hydrogen” PR tropes have largely subsided which is a small mercy.

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  34. tomo says:

    Cant decide if this is absurd, obscene or quite possibly both

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63514562

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    • Guest Who says:

      The highest concentration of carbon will be in the life forms that infest those buildings.

      Might be a plan.

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  35. markh says:

    I see that the latest washed-up lefty that the BBC have found under a rock to present HIGNFY is the intellectual giant Gary Neville who won nothing as an England footballer. Cue half an hour of oh so predictable anti- Government drivel. The BBC call this entertainment, how out of touch can they be. Come back Angus Drayton, all is forgiven.

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    • Beltane says:

      Wasn’t it here that someone said: ‘If I want the opinion of a ball-chasing attention seeker, I’ll ask my dog’ ?

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      • Scroblene says:

        Cue John Cleese in an old Monty Python scetch…

        Interviewer “So Gary, what have you to say about this…”?

        (very long pause….)

        Neville “Oi’m opening a boutique”!

        It was very funny back then, but seeing how the diminutive mindset of such people tends to get in the way of real intellect, it’s no wonder that the awful BBC want to have such morons on the box to try and increase their ratings from ‘very poor’ to ‘still very poor’!

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    • Guest Who says:

      Just saw Ian and Paul talk themselves out of the Labour Xmas card list with the simpering twerp, so something remains.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Plot Twist!

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  36. Sluff says:

    Been away for a few days with a group. We met a friendly couple from Chesterfield, a place we know slightly.

    On BBC news last night we had a feature from…….Chesterfield FC.
    The goody two shoes football club have opened a community cafe where those on the receiving end of the ‘cost of living crisis’ can meet and keep warm. An elderly lady was shown, who appeared to be quite lonely and so was there mainly to enjoy the company. There were about 20 people there.

    Now let’s think a little deeper. Chesterfield has a population of around 100,000. The football club has a very new looking ground and despite being one tier below the football league can get a crowd of 7000.

    20 out of 7000? Out of 100,000? Not exactly representative. And since time immemorial have not councils often offered such meeting places (before they were starved of central government cash which was redirected towards our NHS heroes)? Not to mention churches and the like? So why not a prosperous football club, doing a bit for the community that supports it?

    In other words, it’s a total non-story but an act deliberately selected and portrayed by the BBC to perpetuate its ‘cost of living CRISIS ( get that, CRISIS) narrative.

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    • Framer says:

      Like all their charity-led churnalism about heating and not eating which never report their actual incomes.

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  37. Guest Who says:

    WARNING: does include footage of Vile’s pet little brown bear, hired to do just this.

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  38. Guest Who says:

    There is little than cannot be resolved by pointing to… fellow BBC fave, Mitch Benn.

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  39. Zephir says:

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  40. tomo says:

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  41. digg says:

    Double standards…

    White Nutter throws petrol bombs at detention centre, nobody harmed then kills himself, within hours the police point the finger at right-wing ideology.

    Meanwhile the judge in the trial of a person of certain faith who went on a murderous spree in London says he cannot be named as this might fuel resentment in a certain group.

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  42. Tabs says:

    Compare these 2 BBC articles:

    Dover attack driven by right-wing ideology – police
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-63526659

    Detainees cause disturbance at London immigration centre
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63525332

    The first was one man with makeshift weapons but labelled a “right wing ideology”

    The seconds is (quote) “group of detainees left their rooms and went into the courtyard at the immigration centre armed with various weaponry” but that is a ‘disturbance’ apparently. No “attack”, no “left wing ideology”.

    All one sided reporting as we expect from the BBC

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      If one didn’t know better and was cynical, one might think that the revelation of the Dover attacker was timed in such a manner as to divert attention from the arguably far more serious events at the London immigration centre.

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  43. Guest Who says:

    Some random tweets that likely involve our glorious media estates and what is, isn’t, should not be and literally must be ignored. A climate of distrust.

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  44. Guest Who says:

    Still, there is always Law and/or D’uh.

    Merica, where all is now well. reportedly.

    https://variety.com/2022/artisans/news/celebrity-hairstylists-black-hair-hollywood-struggles-1235411800/#

    FIGHT! Really. It is.

    Love these claims.

    Just read a dish from an attendee that it is basically Labour lite. So THE BBC will love them even more.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Just occurs there is another difference between our common separated shores.

      Here the police intervene on behalf of one side, give them tea and arrest the others they are bullying.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Common sense?
      …..

      How do we start to decolonize science? @0:10

      “Through the black magic, witchcraft you are able to send a lightning bolt to strike someone, Can you explain that scientifically … ” @0:50 – one of the speakers
      “It’s not true” – audience member
      “I need to address you directly (audience member who says witchcraft does not work). When we started this we agreed on certain house rules. By you doing that (arguing) you are disrespecting that sacredness of this space. I would like you please first to apologise …” – another speaker

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/10/18/mid-week-open-thread-129/comment-page-4/#comment-874895

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  45. Sluff says:

    What has happened?
    After months of this website ( and others) pointing out the glaringly obvious, it has suddenly occurred to the BBC that a sizeable number of ‘vulnerable refugees’ on the rubberised cross channel ferries are in fact young male miscreants from Albania and, if not enthusiastically, are now reporting the fact!

    Has some newsroom junior not read the official narrative but has reported what they saw? If so they will be spending a long time on the naughty step.

    But to compensate and resume their perverted version of normality , first item on the BBC news webshite is the alleged attack on a Dover migrant centre being driven by ‘right wing ideology’.

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      I have no idea why the bBC honk on and on and on and on about the ‘attack’ on the migrant centre like a stuck car horn. Why? Nobody died!

      Meanwhile a fatal shooting in Londonistan including a Deliveroo driver and others goes almost completely unreported.

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      • Guest Who says:

        One was mostly unremarkable.

        The other was the end of democracy.

        Depending on editorial takes.

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    • theisland says:

      Mentioned by Tucker here (NBC News refused to comment), also Fetterman and more of The Left’s Big Lies.

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  46. Guest Who says:

    Risking sensitivities on all sides, this piqued interest.

    Obviously beastly. But, despite all, she seems to have persevered to tell her tale.

    Ignoring the slight whiff of a Panorganda investigation to the narrative, another issue is highlighted, namely the use of the fairer sex in war zones. A no lose in media story terms, certainly.

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      The BBC missed out the bit where the Russian soldier threatened to take her baby to President Putin, so he could eat it.

      (BBC editor – feel free to add the above if you revise the story)

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  47. MarkyMark says:

    Woke army introduces new easier combat fitness test that swaps tough leg tucks for planks and lowers standards across the board to be more inclusive for women
    The Army will trot out a new fitness test on April 1 that eases standards in fitness
    Planks will replace knee tucks after nearly half of all female Army soldiers failed the test
    Running times were extended by a minute for men. Women must run two miles in less than 23 minutes
    The change in the fitness test comes after the Rand Corporation determined that the harder test was increasing a gender gap in the Army
    By JANON FISHER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

    PUBLISHED: 02:33, 24 March 2022 | UPDATED: 16:06, 24 March 2022

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10645629/Woke-army-introduces-new-easier-combat-fitness-test-women-armed-forces.html

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    • moggie63 says:

      I frequently walk to my local library, which is 2 miles away, in 30 minutes.

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      • moggie63 says:

        I should qualify, I’m average height and fat but even I could up the pace enough to walk it in 23 minutes.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Is that the same Rand Corporation which measured success in Vietnam by the ‘body count ‘ which meant America actually won that war ?

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      • Guest Who says:

        That metric of political success always seemed bizarre.

        One of course matched and maybe exceeded by Tony and Alistair, and then the WEF now.

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      Affirmative action kills people. It results in employing people who are unsuited to the job. For example remember the doctor from Nigeria oopps sorry I meant Germany who came over to the UK to treat patients and killed two of them over here.

      Funnily enough it is not possible to get him to be sent over to the UK to answer questions by the medical council. Germany simply refuse to organise his flight. This because they are good europeans and consider his uman rights.

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  48. Guest Who says:

    He headed to COP27?

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  49. Guest Who says:

    One day there will be a Muslim Walker #prasnews tweet from another Dept…

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