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  1. Thoughtful says:
    November 17, 2022 at 8:51 am

    Crime is now so bad in Democrat controlled cities it is affecting the profits of major US companies.

    The DIY chain Target this week reported results which were dreadful and claimed a loss as a result of criminal activity of and eye watering $400 million.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurendebter/2022/11/16/target-hit-by-a-dramatic-rise-in-theft-so-big-its-taking-a-bite-out-of-profits/

    How much worse does it have to get before the brain dead Democrats and the sheeple who vote for them realise that what they are doing is making everyones lives much much worse.

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  2. Guest Who says:
    November 17, 2022 at 8:55 am

    Specifically, lobby tv studios with Labour front bench idiots.

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  3. Guest Who says:
    November 17, 2022 at 9:04 am

    #ccbgb

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    • theisland says:
      November 17, 2022 at 9:31 am

      Strange that Ascension Island is suddenly newsworthy. This is where all ‘asylum seekers’ and their lawyers should be sent while their applications are processed.
      There the former can be given the option of working for their food and lodgings (tents) by clearing up the plastic, or being removed from British territory altogether.
      The latter (lawyers) will obviously work for free because they are such virtuous humanitarians.
      In fact, why not shift the entire Home Office there?

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  4. Thoughtful says:
    November 17, 2022 at 9:05 am

    Anotehr example of the neo Nazism now infecting the UKs institutions with an Ubermenschen and an Untermenschen firmly established.

    In this example a race hate attack by two Pakistani Muslim men unpon a White male neither of them were sent to prison and are probably laughing all the way to the mosque.

    Neither of them were sent to prison as a White male perpetrating such an attack certainly would have been, and it didn’t make the media, in the way it would have if a White male had done it.

    https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/thugs-smashed-beer-bottle-strangers-25524761

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    • theisland says:
      November 17, 2022 at 9:54 am

      Why were these men charged with ‘violent disorder’ and not ‘grievous bodily harm’?
      Recorder Usher presided over a case of the latter, see here, where he sentenced the perpetrator (white) to 15 months saying that there was no alternative to a prison sentence because “It would sent [sic] out the totally wrong message to the public as to how seriously the courts view a serious assault causing serious injury.”
      Therefore is the problem with the charge itself, or some other factor?

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    • StewGreen says:
      November 17, 2022 at 9:54 am

      Amjad’s defence: he was a ‘young man of considerable talent’ who had made ‘positive’ progress in the years since the incident.
      Amjad was a ‘force for good in the community’, and had kept a clean record since the assault
      He got 24 months suspended.
      + 240 hours of unpaid work (about 7 weeks)

      Shukat’s defence : he was just 17 at the time of the incident.
      “That doesn’t remove his responsibility, but significantly mitigates it.”
      “He tries very hard to keep his nose clean. It is my submission that he is unlikely to offend in this way again”
      FFS that was contradicted by the judge saying he was considerably concerned’ about a separate conviction of possession of cocaine and cannabis and possession of bladed article, following an incident in October 2021 – over a year after the assault in question

      He got 14 month suspended
      + 180 hours of unpaid work (about 5 weeks)

      “He was minding his own business and someone in your group decided that he wasn’t welcome where you were and made a racist remark to him.”
      There was a time when gang members escaped punishment by saying I was in the gang that killed the guy, but I was the weak one just going along, someone else was the killer.
      So then courts said , no if you are in a gang. that’s Joint Enterprise you bear big responsibility even without evidence you were the actual killer.
      This judge seems to have gone back to the old days.
      He seems to be saying he can’t pin the worst part on them
      and that the offenders were young.

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  5. Guest Who says:
    November 17, 2022 at 9:16 am

    Clue might be in the name. Trust them.

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  6. AsISeeIt says:
    November 17, 2022 at 9:25 am

    Egg and soldiers edition

    For the easily suggestible, and those with an under two-minute attention span, the Daily Mail shrieks: Supermarkets to ration eggs Asda and Lidl are first to limit number of boxes you can buy as bird flu and war in Ukraine hit suppiles

    Our feminist-minded celebs have this covered: Celebrities who have frozen their eggs: Kourtney Kardashian, Chrissy Teigen and more. With Jennifer Aniston bravely opening up about her wish that she would have frozen her eggs when she was younger, our attention has turned to the A-listers that have made the decision to freeze their eggs. (Hello! Magazine) – I jest, of course.

    For once one rather admires the terse BBC online press review commentary on the Mail’s throwaway headline alarming over the supposed lack of availabilty of a shopping staple: The Daily Mail’s lead focuses on a decision by some UK supermarkets to ration eggs and limit the number of boxes people can buy. It says bird flu and the war in Ukraine are to blame for shortages. (BBC)

    I hadn’t noticed the little lion on my egg shells had been replaced with the blue and yellow of Ukraine as a major supplier – so quite how the proxy war affects eggy production must have some complex supply chain justification?

    To be fair, I did notice a dead pigeon in the gutter the other day. Urban legend claims you never see dead pigeons. Pigeon crisis anyone? Some might blame Putin or perhaps a stray ‘defensive’ Ukrainian missile shot it down? Which, by the way, just goes to prove why we in the west should send Zelensky even more and better missiles.

    Kyiv pleads for western air defences (Times)

    Can we call the war off now? Here’s suggested peace terms. Russia gets to keep the Russian-speaking Don Bas, the rest of the country stays out of Nato & the EU and western elites can go back to all their money laudering activities in Ukraine.

    Refreshingly, the Guardian may at last be shedding some of its pro-war gung ho stance with this headline: ‘We’re afraid’. Stray missile revives fear of the war next door

    Where were we? Ah yes, the egg shortage… and it’s not even Christmas yet, with Easter still months off… and as a concluding thought – if only our BBC could bring itself to be equally as subtly dismissive of headlines and news sources of which its news staff actually approve.

    I see the Guardian frontpage is keeping their readers’ chins up despite all the dire economic news: How to win at Eurovision? It may come down to your costume

    Football provides a – slightly – more manly distraction from all the doom and gloom.

    World Cup politics ban – offers the left-leaning ‘i’ newspaper – if only that were true! If only we could have our football back without all the politics, says Mr AsISeeIt

    Clearly the ‘i’ regrets the politics being given a time out (to borrow a phrase from Yankee sports): Fifa erects signs at stadiums warning fans about their behaviour – one trusts the no doubt migrant labour engaged in these erections had safe and suitable working conditions?

    Is this propagandistic signage campaign particularly unusual? Last time one was at a Premier League match in north London one was subjected to a half-time five minute audio visual barrage of LGBTQ propagada which left one wondering where do they go from here – graphic images of man-love on the big electronic screens? (Apologies there for the naff phrase man-love but it is a bit early in the day – we’ll get salacious later in the review so read on)

    Gay Qatari warns of ‘retaliation’ against LGBT people after tournament (‘i’) – the simple solution would seem to be a general adherence to that old saying ‘when in Rome…‘

    The Times proffers readers: The alternative guide to the World Cup plus play our drinking game – is strictly for the stay-at-home fans – if the implied alcohol drinking is involved.

    The Daily Mirror meanwhile suggests we have a flutter: World Cup 2022 sweepstake kit go on have a bet is the prompt – as does stablemate Daily Star

    Whereas The Sun tells us the players are gambling when they shouldn’t (alegedly): HOTSHOT striker Ivan Toney was sensationally charged with 232 breaches of FA betting rules – so this wasn’t a one-off, you can see the conflict of interest that might be involved.

    If soccer or Eurovision isn’t your idea of entertainment there are other options. Theatre, perhaps?

    First review of the hottest ticket in town: Wagatha Christie live on stage! (Daily Mail) – vaguely football-themed, admittedly.

    This show sounds like a dud: ‘The Sex Party‘ is inept. Like your least favourite uncle woke up after 30 years asleep – a one star review from the ‘i’ – one is being picky here but isn’t the word ‘asleep’ somewhat redundant in that headline?

    Anyway, now we’ve piqued your interest…

    Terry Johnson’s play has the air of a formerly esteemed writer raging against changing times. It’s about as subtle as an atom bomb – get her! So what has so upset reviewer Fiona Mountford? Sounds to me as though the politics of the play fall short – from her point of view. One quotes at length here because one is concerned with cultural-political norms as promulgated in our media.

    “Everyone is very careful now. I was full of resentment about it before I took this play on. But I’ve had to adjust to a whole new vocabulary and attitudes,” says playwright/director Terry Johnson in a programme interview… This whole inept and embarrassing project has the air of a formerly esteemed and award-winning writer alternately grappling with and raging against changing times, climes and mores… Unfortunately, there is no nuance in play here and the title doesn’t lie: we are indeed at a sex party, being hosted in Islington by Alex (Jason Merrells) and his much younger partner Hetty (Molly Osborne)…. Their seven guests are a hard-to-believe mixture of people… There’s an unwritten rule in theatre that if the set is the best thing about a show, the production is in big trouble. Let me tell you that the dark wood-panelled kitchen, with glimpses of a chic little courtyard garden, is glorious… The women – sigh and yawn – soon get down to their scanties while the men remain fully clothed… The naughty business happens in the unseen living room, while Alex stays in the kitchen and frets about wine stains on the rug, which seems a rather peculiar concern for a man hosting a sex party in his front room. For all the talk of men being liberally orally pleasured – the particulars of female desire don’t get a look-in… Just when we think that this frighteningly flat and fun-free scenario can’t get any worse, Lucy (Pooya Mohseni), a trans woman, turns up and these seemingly liberated Islingtonites are bamboozled. Kelly Price’s Camilla inexplicably turns herself into the language police and they all launch into the Great Pronoun Debate.

    Gosh! For a moment the thought of 1970s classic Mike Leigh Abigail’s Party is conjured. It’s patently obvious that it is the sexual politics of The Sex Party not being up to snuff that has given our Fiona Mountford the hump. Why oh why can’t all artists and writers just conform to the present thing?

    Not a million miles away from John Lewis furnished Islington sex parties – more like 10,000 miles away: Matt Hancock’s Covid shame lover flies in. Jungle fever Hancock’s girlfriend Gina in Oz lastnight (Daily Mirror)

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    • Fedup2 says:
      November 17, 2022 at 9:32 am

      But seeit- you cant leave us hanging?
      Is the girlfriend going into the desert or whatever it is ? Will they couple / breakup ?

      I have never seen the show but seem not to avoid it . Did dec die or was it his brother ? Who is dec and where does tony? Fit in ? Are they a couple ? In qatar or kuwait or where ever ?

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  7. StewGreen says:
    November 17, 2022 at 9:27 am

    BBC local news “Hull maternity hospitals paid out £34m compensation for birthing errors over the last 10 years”
    No context or explanation was given.
    It seems the story was lifted from the local paper.
    https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/hull-hospital-trusts-pay-34m-7820921

    It seems like 99.95% of births are fine
    but in the 1 in 2000 they screw up at , lifelong compensation gets paid
    That cost is so huge it amounts to £10,000 per day
    ie each time they have a birth they need to put £700 into the compensation pot.

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  8. Guest Who says:
    November 17, 2022 at 9:30 am

    Who else is there with him?

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  9. MarkyMark says:
    November 17, 2022 at 9:34 am

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  10. digg says:
    November 17, 2022 at 9:37 am

    In the middle of the night the BBC report “Republicans win House by small majority”… this morning, this quite important story has evaporated.

    Same deal with the Guardian, Express, Daily Mail….so it seems to be a media pact!

    Our National Media hey?

    Shameless!

    Like children closing their eyes when frightened!

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    • MarkyMark says:
      November 17, 2022 at 9:42 am

      Dear Winston Smith of the BBC Historical Corrections Department,

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

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

      ‘Omission is the greatest form of lie.’

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

      CAS-4963895-3HKGDN: Tommy Robinson: Are you reporting on him?.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

      Cheers,

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints/make-a-complaint

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2020/05/03/start-the-week-thread-4-may-2020/comment-page-2/#comment-1053313

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    • StewGreen says:
      November 17, 2022 at 11:05 am

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-63629003

      On BBC actual news is quietly reported or buried
      whereas NewsPR is amplified, with banging on.

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  11. StewGreen says:
    November 17, 2022 at 9:38 am

    I don’t often do Nazi analogies.
    Someone here explained that the advertising industry decided black people should not be shown in a negative light in advertisement, so made rules that they must be shown in a positive light. Thus every advert has a happy mixed race or black family and quite rarely features a white father.
    That does seem like 1930s Germany where convention meant every poster showed happy Aryan families.

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    • Demon says:
      November 17, 2022 at 9:55 am

      Occasionally there will be a white father. It’s when the advert script calls for a bit of a simpleton. For that role only a straight white man is acceptable.

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    • G says:
      November 17, 2022 at 9:58 am

      History Debunked never fails to summarise an issue succinctly.

      “The great ‘Famous Black Inventors’ scam and how it is worked on credulous dupes and simpletons”

      All part and parcel of the ubiquitous lies that surround us.

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      • digg says:
        November 17, 2022 at 5:33 pm

        In my experience, in certain sections of the World’s populations winning is far more important than truth. It’s people’s are admired for any wealth and status they can get hold of by any means rather than their moral fibre or righteousness.

        It is even a tenet in certain religions in the Middle East.

        Hence the semi-admiration for gang culture and ruthless violence as long as it brings ill-gotten gains to the perpetrator. Also the relentless tide of scammers from abroad trying to steal anything they can from any unsuspecting Joe they get on the hook.

        Not the mention the career drug barons who are happy to live with wealth at the expense of the health of their gullible “clients”.

        This is all very well as long as it’s understood by those in power who have control over the population.

        In this Country, the Church used to lead the way in guiding it’s people to be honest, non-violent and upright and to look out for one another. However even the Church is bending the knee to the darker voices coming into the population and in fact has now virtually lost it’s true purpose.

        Once a Country’s leaders, both politically and ethically begin to overlook, embrace and sometimes applaud this behaviour to garner support that Country is destined for the garbage heap.

        It takes strong-minded, realistic, clear-headed leaders to guide a Nation along a safe and righteous path.

        In the West, the new breed of leaders fail to understand this and simply chase after “likes” from anyone they can attract.

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    • JohnC says:
      November 17, 2022 at 9:59 am

      I’ve said this many times : the Left are treading the same road as the Nazis. They are taking over institutions and trying to silence those who do not agree with them by increasingly nasty methods.

      The earlier video of Raynar and her hate-speech about Tory scum and the cheering crowd are very sinister modern-day reflections of what went on before the Nazis got power. That was pure hate.

      Time changes but human nature doesn’t. Just imagine that same crowd with absolute power.

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      • tomo says:
        November 17, 2022 at 10:47 am

        For me, it’s Ms. Rayner’s footwear that seals the deal….

        Angies-clodhoppers.jpg

        I can’t wait for Labour’s sartorial policy initiatives – they’re going to be epic aren’t they?

        I did wonder if the Star Wars clodhoppers found their way onto an expenses claim.

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    • popeye says:
      November 17, 2022 at 2:01 pm

      In response to StewGreen above. Not sure that it was the advertising industry that decreed this. Miscegenation is the declared policy of both UN Agenda 2030 and the WEF on the grounds that if we were all brown there could be no racism. Same as if there were no nations there could be no wars (hence immigration and EU). When one is a billionaire and own advertising agencies among other organs such as TV and the press you set the direction of everything.

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  12. JohnC says:
    November 17, 2022 at 9:53 am

    I wonder who at the BBC considered this story to be worthy of the front-page considering all that is going on in the world today:

    Reshma: The Kashmir trans icon who fought pain to bring joy to people
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-63539236

    A wedding singer by profession, Reshma injected joy, humour and vitality into the lives thousands of Kashmiris who live under the shadow of violence and conflict.

    India and Pakistan both claim Kashmir in full, but control only parts of it. An armed revolt has been waged in the India-administered region for over three decades, claiming thousands of lives.

    ‘armed revolt’ means ‘Muslims who want everyone else out’ of course.

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    • tomo says:
      November 17, 2022 at 10:40 am

      A quick skim of that Kashmiri trans icon article – given the disputed nature of Kashmir I wondered if Reshma was Pakistani or Indian – the article seems to swerve that – leaving the reader afaics to guess….

      It’s of some passing curiosity to me as I recall troupes of trannies on the streets of central Karachi looking (and sounding!) as if they’d used Monty Python’s Terry Jones as a role model.

      In all though – it makes me wonder at the sheer volume of vacuous twerp-ery that infests the cubicles at Broadcasting House.

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  13. tomo says:
    November 17, 2022 at 10:26 am

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  14. Sluff says:
    November 17, 2022 at 10:30 am

    Astonishing news on the BBC.
    It’s raining! In November !
    People are having to wait at bus stops in the rain!!!!!!
    And are using umbrellas !!!!!!

    Shock. Horror. Hold the front page.
    Think I’m joking ?
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63659585

    Surprised they didn’t put it down to Brexit.
    The BBC. The home of world class incisive, investigative journalism.

    You absolutely cannot make it up.

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  15. Tabs says:
    November 17, 2022 at 11:05 am

    Autumn Statement: When is it and how will it affect me?
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63555313

    Judging by the photo, it could turn all of us black.

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    • StewGreen says:
      November 17, 2022 at 11:49 am

      BBCnews used same photo on 24 Oct 2022
      First-time buyers hit by drop in mortgage deals –

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      • AWOL says:
        November 17, 2022 at 12:02 pm

        By Michael Race
        Business reporter, BBC News

        Race baiting?

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      • G says:
        November 17, 2022 at 12:02 pm

        Note they search for images of black people where the features are more ‘Western’. Same for colouring: lighter the better.

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        • JohnC says:
          November 18, 2022 at 3:39 am

          The black women are always light-skinned and very attractive.

          Not like the real African women it’s sometimes my misfortune to be near in an airport. They are generally very fat, wear very bright dresses which stink and they shout at each other and across the room making a hell of a fuss as if they are the only ones there.

          Or the one sat next to me recently (very fat and stank) who was the most abrupt and rudest person to the flight attendent I have ever witnessed. Even worse than the German businessman who previously held the record.

          That’s my real world experience. I don’t care what colour a persons skin is. It’s their behaviour which matters.

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  16. StewGreen says:
    November 17, 2022 at 11:33 am

    Radio4 trailer comes on
    It’s for today’s drama about an Indian worker building Qatar football stadiums.
    I guess the character will get injured or die.

    How will drama blame Britain ?

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  17. Guest Who says:
    November 17, 2022 at 11:33 am

    Lie? Hard to substantiate in light of the claim, for sure.

    One for Spingster once she hets back from Pakistan in her Hunter wellies.

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  18. tomo says:
    November 17, 2022 at 11:56 am

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  19. markh says:
    November 17, 2022 at 12:13 pm

    So Jeremy Hunt is saying that we will have to start paying more tax. Good, we need to. Cue the BBC with its analysis aimed at five year olds, and the predictable victimhood squealing from those who sat on their arses for two years being bailed out by the taxpayer. One disappointing note- the Health budget is not being reduced. Why not? The NHS is a drain on this country.

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    • JohnC says:
      November 18, 2022 at 3:41 am

      … and we need to stop spending so much of it on people who have never done anything to contribute to it.

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  20. andyjsnape says:
    November 17, 2022 at 12:55 pm

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-63591754

    Reeves said
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  21. Zephir says:
    November 17, 2022 at 12:57 pm

    Blessed are the cheesmakers

    “Vegan ‘cheese’ market booms as demand grows” bbc

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63633479

    yeh, right, a little like vegan fudge

    milk, sugar and butter, nope, Christ knows how they manage that, I can only suppose its, erm

    sugar

    brown sugar ? nope thats racist

    I give up

    why not enjoy some dolphin friendy, free range, nuclear free, fair trade broccolli instead, save some time and effort

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    • Zephir says:
      November 17, 2022 at 1:19 pm

      Just talking about it gives me a hankering for a tofu burger, £6 at Euston Station

      Those bloody tofus must take some serious hunting and processing to justify the price. a bit like those pesky avocados in Hampstead

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  22. G says:
    November 17, 2022 at 1:06 pm

    As I see it, problem now, is unless the WEF Twins blow it, e.g. partying at No 10/11 they’ve got a clear two year run up to the next election within which to safely implement WEF policies. Starting with the 11.3 BILLION ‘Reparations’ package. This, until they are totally wiped out at the next election. We can only sit back and watch the acceleration of our own demise.

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    • Fedup2 says:
      November 17, 2022 at 4:02 pm

      I understand that on the day after the mid terms in the US the DoJ announced that none of the documents seized from President Trump were ‘secret ‘…..and there will be no proceedings – for the time being ….

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  24. Zephir says:
    November 17, 2022 at 1:58 pm

    I’ve sent a working title to the bbc

    NHS nurses versus WPCs “Fat Arses on Ice with starving kids watching”

    Winner gets into a doughnut eating play off against Jo Brand

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  25. s.trubble says:
    November 17, 2022 at 2:01 pm

    Funny how sometimes a name can turn out to be a predictor of your future.

    Bankman – Fried.

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    • Fedup2 says:
      November 17, 2022 at 4:04 pm

      I remember when maxwell floated the Mirror a finance type wrote a piece where consec paragraphs began C R A P ….wish I’d noticed ….

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      • Rob in Cheshire says:
        November 17, 2022 at 4:51 pm

        Yes, it was “Can’t Recommend A Purchase”. The crook and swindler Maxwell got him fired. A bit too close to home.

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  26. StewGreen says:
    November 17, 2022 at 2:17 pm

    Coldwave in Australia.
    If somewhere has a heatwave, it’s like somewhere else has a cold wave.
    It’s not fair if you report one and not the other.

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  27. Up2snuff says:
    November 17, 2022 at 2:25 pm

    TWatO Watch #1 – the Montacutie asks ….

    … “How have the Markets responded?” Dharshini David says in reply “They seem to approve.” Don’t rely on the BBC for economics. Faisal Islam doesn’t appear to have turned up for work again today. That bloke is a waste of TellyTax money, especially when compared to Robert Peston or, more so, Steffie Flanders.

    The markets have grimaced: shares down, the all important £:$ rate which had been improving this week is down by quite a large fall, 1.5 cents. Good news is that oil and gas are down as well. Bad news is that the UK’s oil (Brent crude) is a high quality oil much in demand. That produces overseas revenue for the UK. 🙁

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    • Fedup2 says:
      November 17, 2022 at 3:12 pm

      As I was watching mr hunt I just wondered what did happen to the Conservative Party ? Did it get lost about 30 something years ago and replaced by Blue Labour ?

      I think my next ballot paper will be spoilt with the words – they are all the same ….
      Everything else – misbehaving ministers – MPs – PMs – is just swamp stuff – although the coloured chancellor one managed to inflict damage in a very short time …. Just another tick box …

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      • Zephir says:
        November 17, 2022 at 3:51 pm

        Economics Zimbabwe style

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      • Up2snuff says:
        November 17, 2022 at 4:37 pm

        Fed, the Conservatives usually looked after the welfare of the poorest (unlike Labour) but insisted on education as a route to work. Now the Conservatives just ‘cross-dress’ in their rivals’ clothes in a sort of obscene virtue signalling contest. Sunak only inflicted damage as Chancellor because he did what every other Government did while having the world, ie. media, SAGE, a sick boss, Civil Servants, regional Mayors, devolved Parliaments and a dodgy Cabinet on his back as well as Remoaners.

        If you think it is bad here, try Canada or New Zealand or Australia, mate!

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        • Fedup2 says:
          November 17, 2022 at 4:43 pm

          Up2
          I was waiting for a sane Tory – John Redwood to give his view but after supporting the last idiots – Mary and kwazi – I think he’s keeping schum . ….

          Must be very difficult for red labour not to stand up and applaud …

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  28. pugnazious says:
    November 17, 2022 at 2:50 pm

    BBC being, of course, entirely negative about the Autumn Statement….WATO telling us the tax rises will ‘crash the economy’…hmmm…not long ago they were telling us tax cuts would crash the economy…and now borrowing us good whereas under Truss it was apocalyptic. So where does the money come from if not tax rises or borrowing? The BBC, and Labour, of course don’t tell us.

    The BBC is insistent that the cause of the current problems is Brexit…it’s the first thing out of their mouths when asking what is that cause. They even blatantly lie about it….Nicky Campbell stating that the Bank of England’s Andrew Bailey said Brexit was the main driver and the reason Britain’s growth was lowest in the G7….except …er…no…he never said that as the Telegraph reports…..

    ‘A surge in early retirement and long-term sickness has left Britain facing a unique “labour force shock” among rich nations, Andrew Bailey has warned.

    The Governor of the Bank of England told MPs the UK is the only industrialised economy to have suffered a sharp fall in the size of its workforce since the pandemic.

    The shrinking labour force is one of three drivers behind surging inflation, Mr Bailey said. Data showed price rises climbed to a 41-year high of 11.1pc in October.

    The Governor blamed the price rises on a shrinking workforce, supply chain bottlenecks and Russia’s war in Ukraine. Unlike the later two factors, Britain stands alone among developed nations when it comes to a shrinking workforce.

    “The UK is the only OECD country showing this pattern of labour force shock,” Mr Bailey told MPs on the Treasury Select Committee.’

    That also answers the question as to where have all the workers gone? Back to Poland? No….into early retirement, sick leave or escaping to a new lifestyle post-covid….but the BBC keeps on insisting it’s Brexit.

    Bailey did say Brexit had an effect but it was in no way the maikn driver….such as covid, Ukraine and those elusive workshy workers.

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    • Fedup2 says:
      November 17, 2022 at 3:14 pm

      I think the £125k 45% tax hike will hurt a lot of bBC types …

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    • Up2snuff says:
      November 17, 2022 at 4:59 pm

      pug, I think you have to accept that the Court of the BoE may not have the best interests of the UK at heart outside of the EU. It is interesting that the Office for National Statistics doesn’t give a specific number for the unemployed since 2021. They give a percentage figure. I will try to get around to finding out why that is the case but my time for citizen journalism is a bit restricted at present.

      There is actually currently no shortage of workers in the UK, unlike the claim of Andrew Bailey and others, including the BBC. We currently have 1.3 million unemployed and as that is the figure carried by Blair and Brown throughout 1997-2010 (during a period, it was claimed by them, of exceptional growth) the economist in me wonders whether that is now a new floor – which has to be supported by working taxpayers – for unemployment in the UK.

      That is worrying.

      In addition, it was reckoned that people who were economically inactive, not necessarily through choice, during that time (1997-2010) grew to 5 million. I saw a recent updated figure for those economically inactive but I cannot remember what it was. I think it had grown to 8 million thanks to the Pandemic.

      There are plenty of people who could work in the UK.

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    • popeye says:
      November 17, 2022 at 7:26 pm

      The main driver must be the billions wasted on Covid but they can’t say that as fingers would be pointed at those responsible, including those taking advice from a failed epidemiologist and a senior member of the Communist party

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      • Up2snuff says:
        November 17, 2022 at 7:43 pm

        popeye, Boris made several blunders apart from Hancock at Health. Boris bodged Brexit and then, when the virus got going, he hid behind a Committee. That is the worst thing to do with a virus. Committees. They are like viruses, themselves. I would like to know when exactly Boris got sick? I would like to know, too, if the source of the infection was traced.

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  29. theisland says:
    November 17, 2022 at 2:50 pm

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    • MarkyMark says:
      November 17, 2022 at 3:09 pm

      Have they all been jabbed and eat bugs?

         4 likes

      • Rob in Cheshire says:
        November 17, 2022 at 4:54 pm

        No, it only applies to the plebs.

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        • Northern Voter says:
          November 17, 2022 at 6:01 pm

          I remember years ago having to carry inoculation certificates, they were yellow in colour, and for such things as Yellow fever, etc. This was whilst serving in the RN in the 60’s and 70’s. I even had to leggit into London having lost one, and waiting for a flight to Singapore from Gatwick. 56 years ago.

             6 likes

    • G says:
      November 18, 2022 at 8:34 am

      The Trap is closing.

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  30. MarkyMark says:
    November 17, 2022 at 3:10 pm

    Dover MP Natalie Elphicke told the Commons that the BBC’s “shocking report” contained the “breath-taking” disclosure of free French public bus services being used to ferry migrants from camps to Dunkirk beaches.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-63229010

    ….

    Today the BBC journalists Michael Keohan and Colin Campbell released a shocking report on the channel crossings. It showed people smugglers selling their wares brazenly in the migrant camps and many children living in unsafe and dangerous conditions, as well as—this is breathtaking—a free French public bus service that migrants can use to travel directly from the camps to the Dunkirk departure beaches. Will my right hon. Friend allow a statement on the issue of tackling the small boat crossings and the Government’s response in their work with France?

    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2022-10-13a.258.0#g262.1

    SACK THEM ALL!

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  31. MarkyMark says:
    November 17, 2022 at 3:12 pm

    Jeremy Hunt’s wife presents show on China’s state-run TV ‘that whitewashes Communist Party’s human rights abuse’
    Lucia Guo, wife of Jeremy Hunt MP, regularly appears on Sky TV’s China Hour
    Programme is owned by state-owned China International TV Corporation
    Guo has been accused of ‘whitewashing’ the Chinese Communist Party’s abuses
    By JAKE RYAN and LUKE MCWILLIAMS FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY

    PUBLISHED: 22:05, 25 December 2021 | UPDATED: 22:37, 25 December 2021

    BUDGET-SKETCH-HUNT-AUTUMN-STATEMENT.png?fit=600%2C675&ssl=1

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  32. Zephir says:
    November 17, 2022 at 4:04 pm

    Is there anyone else out there as popular as me ?

    Since having someone knock at my door, uninvited last week telling me this is your smart meter appiontment maker, just to get him to go away I said OK

    Now, they just cannot leave me alone

    Phone is ringing now, for the 6th time from them, and they lied and said it will be obligatory in 2023 and would then cost me £273

    what is the advantage for me ? none it seems apart from not having a meter reader come round, and for them ? who knows

    possibly knowing when you use electric may affect how they charge you

    The last time they phoned me I was using my phone to negotiate my way via satnav through Exeter city centre in a rainstorm with their highly imaginative one way systems, with a wife sitting next to who has trashed her car three times but still feels the need to advise.

    so they can get lost now

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    • Zephir says:
      November 17, 2022 at 4:41 pm

      Negotiating with Scottish Power, whilst explaining to a passenger driver that one way signs are not voluntary in England whether or not they might be in bloody China has put me off smart meters

         5 likes

    • StewGreen says:
      November 17, 2022 at 5:21 pm

      Door knockers could be just a scam
      They try to get personal info off you to build a database
      so fraudsters can impersonate you.
      If granny hands over an electricity bill, that is a form of personal ID they can use to impersonate her.

         10 likes

      • Scroblene says:
        November 17, 2022 at 6:39 pm

        That’s sound advice, Stew – I normally chuck any paperwork like that, but even an hour ago, was working out how to burn everything instead of recycling it!

        After all, coal and wood is very expensive on a pension, so sod the recyclable stuff, burn it on an open fire and create some wamth, knowing that clots like Ed Millionband can act more like a total tool than he already does!

        Just off out to the paper bin – and I may be some time…;0)

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  33. Guest Who says:
    November 17, 2022 at 4:08 pm

    Might swerve Twitter, as every nut job Remainer, from Femi to the blonde old biddie to Mad Al, is currently issuing the same template.

    And, somehow, Labour will solve it all.

    iirc the Mayor is Sadiq Khan, and the new council is Labour, with Dr. Rosena helping.

    But at least their council taxes are now lower… right?

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    • Guest Who says:
      November 17, 2022 at 4:13 pm

      By The BBC undoubtedly.

      And this is who they think will improve matters.

         12 likes

    • MarkyMark says:
      November 17, 2022 at 4:27 pm

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

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

      _60960298_lammy_bbc.jpg

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    • Fedup2 says:
      November 17, 2022 at 4:45 pm

      Nice quality CCTV ….

         4 likes

    • G says:
      November 18, 2022 at 8:41 am

      Well, well. It it the first random Home Invasion? Certainly the only one broadcast to my knowledge.

      As the recession really bites, early next year probably, start to see more. It is the inevitable development of this violent crime.

      Develop procedures. If you are expecting a package at a certain time, as normal open the door. View those on the other side before opening.

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  34. tomo says:
    November 17, 2022 at 4:09 pm

    Harsh …

    but fair

       3 likes

  35. Kaiser says:
    November 17, 2022 at 4:26 pm

    who will pay for the torys mess

    sneaking in with the small print

       9 likes

    • Fedup2 says:
      November 17, 2022 at 4:47 pm

      Cyclists will be so pleased …

         5 likes

      • Up2snuff says:
        November 17, 2022 at 5:06 pm

        Fed, if true that then shows that Jeremy Hunt is an economic illiterate and is in the wrong job. I have stated it before, I’ll state it again: Hunt is in the wrong job he should be at Health, especially now that the nurses have voted to strike.

        Hancock should never have been given the job of Health by Boris Johnson.

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        • Fedup2 says:
          November 17, 2022 at 7:11 pm

          Up2 – I presume that once the thing about duty on juice going up will cause an ‘urgent question ‘ in the House ….
          I can’t see that budget winning the blue Labour Party in 2 years time . I did ‘support ‘ them in the absence of anything better but I can’t see a reason to vote for anyone more – I’ll just spoil it ….

             5 likes

          • Up2snuff says:
            November 17, 2022 at 8:00 pm

            Fed, I wonder if it is a spoiler for an incoming Labour Government? The Conservatives have given up the thought of winning in 2024 without Boris as PM. I thought that when Truss & Kwarteng cut the Top Rate of Income Tax. ‘We’ve lost the next Election, let’s get some benefit while we can.’

            I did see it suggested somewhere (cannot now remember where – may have been on TCW) that Sunak and Hunt would create some ‘elephant traps’ for an incoming Labour government after the style of Blair and Brown.

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            • Fedup2 says:
              November 17, 2022 at 8:08 pm

              Up2
              I can’t see any logical strategy – in 2 years time it’s gonna be grim . Even if the Russian war ends tomorrow the UK level of borrowing isn’t coming down – nor will inflation – nor will interest rates – nor population levels.

              The biggest danger for red labour is the consequences of a 200 majority – the chance of a Labour Party civil war again .

              Otherwise red labour can do its usual ‘blame the last lot ‘ when anything bad happens ….

              Maybe a nuclear war or new more serious virus will change this story though ….

                 10 likes

              • Up2snuff says:
                November 17, 2022 at 8:37 pm

                Fed, it keeps inflation high, because the BBC and the rest of the LeftMob media have created a largely artificial ‘cost-of-living-crisis’ they have set a hare running that Labour will have to catch. That said, I cannot see any sign of a Fuel Duty increase anywhere in the BBC’s analysis of the Autumn Statement so maybe it is FakeNews. However, the BBC are really missing Steffie Flanders. I looked through the ‘Autumn Statement at a glance’ which was anything but. Steffie would have had it, straightforward, listed in a word or several and she would have Blogged on it as well!

                Faisal Islam? Nowhere to be seen. Is he hogging the TV cameras on Telly?

                   7 likes

                • Fedup2 says:
                  November 17, 2022 at 8:43 pm

                  Up2- kaiser – above – has the GBNews segment where the duty rise is referred to in the OBR papers ….

                  …. I’ve just realised that Hunt has bought Patricia Hewitt back to ‘help’ sort out the NHS .

                  That’s the comrade Patricia Hewitt – good pal of Hattie Harmon – real plot loss …

                     7 likes

      • atlas_shrugged says:
        November 17, 2022 at 9:16 pm

        So a 23% increase in petrol / diesel tax in 2023.

        Add to this a con-gestion charge of £5/day to get into the nearest town.

        Anything a shop orders in by truck / goods vehicle has to pay a £20/day con-gestion charge.

        If you want a plumber to visit he has to pay a £20/day con-gestion charge.

        Then the traffic lights have been doubled, and the timing made non-optimum.

        And the car wrecking and fuel wasting sleeping policemen. To make sure even more fuel gets used and wasted.

        And then there is Stinky Rebellion blocking the road to make a journey even worse, and the water board digging up the road, and jabba jabba drivers crashing here and there, and …

        And the chinese ANPR spy cameras with their back doors to fine you for being 1mm in the wrong place for 1 msec.

        This cyclist has a word for all of this …

        LOOTING

           11 likes

  36. tomo says:
    November 17, 2022 at 4:49 pm

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  37. Zephir says:
    November 17, 2022 at 5:05 pm

    Apropos of nothing to do with the bbc

    why is there a permenent 60 mph speed restriction on the M4, a 70 MPH motorway?

    no queues, no accidents, no incidents, I was in a contract interview a while ago, he asked me can I ask you a question outside of the interview, as I have some career knowlege, OK why is the M4 always at 60 MPH ?

    mm no have no idea, and travelling back from Devon the same

       11 likes

    • tomo says:
      November 17, 2022 at 5:25 pm

      usually a revenue opportunity.

      The speed cameras on the M4/M5 X-over are turned on when the carriageways are nearly deserted.

         10 likes

      • Zephir says:
        November 17, 2022 at 5:35 pm

        The speed restirctions are now on all day, that was my point, no disrespect to you this is every day

        I am well aware of Highways England, National Highways, and all the other names they keep calling themselves

        Their latest mission statement or vision or whatever crap is “putting the customer first”

        Great I can do 60mph on the m4 whislt my wife informs me theres a lorry driver looking at my tits, ovetrtake him

           10 likes

        • tomo says:
          November 17, 2022 at 6:00 pm

          I do M4 – M5 several times a week – the speed restrictions are pretty random….

          One thing that really grates is the 40 mph camera’d average speed on the M32 – a bogus measure driven by the cretinous virtue signalling twerps at Bristol City Council

             16 likes

  38. tomo says:
    November 17, 2022 at 5:23 pm

    I’m sure it’s going to be fine…..

       10 likes

  39. MarkyMark says:
    November 17, 2022 at 5:30 pm

    Buried amid the Autumn Statement, today reams of MP expenses data were published, which Guido spent the afternoon flicking through. Here are some of the biggest eyebrow-raisers…

    Five MPs spent nearly £1,000 on the spellchecker website Grammarly
    Clive Lewis – £114.25
    Drew Hendry – £110.01
    Kate Osborne – £114.02
    Stephen Farry – £110.01
    Kate Griffith somehow managed to spend £475.41 on the subscription service
    Mel Stride spent £53.98 on an iPhone case
    Esther McVey spent £9.80 on “sweets as prizes for school visit in parliament”
    Meg Hillier spent £384 on photography
    Sir Robert Syms bought a thousand pound iPad
    Alan Campbell spent £13.11 on “long life milk”
    There appears to have been a vermin problem in three MPs’ offices:
    Alison Thewlis spent £500 on a deep clean of her premises after a rat infestation
    Bridget Phillipson spent £90 on vermin control
    Lloyd Russel-Moyle spent £10.75 on fly papers to “deal with an office fly infestation”
    Anna McLoughlin spent £39.99 on a “sneeze screen in case team meet constituent exempt from wearing a mask”. It was purchased in March 2022…
    Anna McLoughlin also spent £89 to “provide drink water for staff without having a long walk to the nearest kitchen area”. How far away is her kitchen area?
    Barry Gardiner spent £1,155 on video editing
    Chris Pincher spent £960 at Westminster Digital videos
    Claudia Webbe managed to spend £115.37 on a phone case
    Pauline Latham topped the chart for taxi journies, spending £300 on a ride from London to Derbyshire on the day of a train strike
    David Davis expensed a £11.99 YouTube Premium subscription
    Douglas Chapman spent £5.25 on a “snack for a guest” in Portcullis House
    Grant Shapps spent £79.99 on Microsoft Office. Expensing his famous spreadsheet…
    Leo Docherty expensed £8.87 on a Ukrainian flag
    Luke Pollard purchased a £2,195 air-conditioning unit
    Matt Hancock expensed a £43.33 Times subscription, despite the fact MPs and staffers are all entitled to free subscriptions
    Tobias Ellwood used your tax money for a £7.99 Amazon Prime subscription
    Perhaps doing penance for appalling behaviour in his private life, Imran Ahmed Khan actually repaid £1,438 for a Macbook he’d purchased. Recession? What recession…

    order-order.com

    ……………….

    Matt Hancock ‘to be paid £400k for I’m a Celeb stint’ as petition to axe him from show reaches 34,000
    The Tory MP is set to become one of the highest paid contestants in the ITV show’s history

    https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/matt-hancock-i-maceleb-pay-packet-b1037297.html

       7 likes

    • Kaiser says:
      November 17, 2022 at 5:52 pm

      “£8.87 on a Ukrainian flag”
      so committed to the cause he cant even pay for his own virtue signal

         17 likes

    • Fedup2 says:
      November 17, 2022 at 7:07 pm

      I think these expenses claims show the true nature of these politicians – of any type – are they still charging taxpayers for the poppies they wear ?

         8 likes

  40. Emmanuel Goldstein says:
    November 17, 2022 at 5:54 pm

    I still haven’t seen the 23% rise in fuel duty going across the bottom of the tv screen.
    Did hunt think that by not mentioning it nobody would ever find out about this 12p per litre rise.
    It affects EVERYTHING else, all food is transported, all deliveries, tech items, going to work, everything.
    This means everything else will cost more.

    The drop from 150k to 125k is still headlining along the bottom of the tv. This affects a tiny number of people, probably none of us on here.

    It is probably the biggest news of the budget yet they are trying to keep it secret.

       19 likes

  41. tomo says:
    November 17, 2022 at 6:01 pm

    “a corrupt eastern european man in a track suit getting as rich as he can from American handouts”

    and more

       9 likes

  42. Guest Who says:
    November 17, 2022 at 6:07 pm

    Via the bbc.

       5 likes

  43. Guest Who says:
    November 17, 2022 at 6:21 pm

    Very bbc.

       5 likes

  44. Guest Who says:
    November 17, 2022 at 6:38 pm

    They have art critics?

       5 likes

    • Fedup2 says:
      November 17, 2022 at 7:02 pm

      Haven’t got a great fondness for Unionist terrorists but that’s a fine work – did they provide any other pictures ?

         4 likes

  45. Guest Who says:
    November 17, 2022 at 6:42 pm

    HobNobism is a scourge.

       5 likes

    • Docmarooned says:
      November 17, 2022 at 8:57 pm

      Usual bBBC utter bullshit. Gastroparesis is hardly rare and can be a complication of diabetes. But hey why get in the way of a piss poor story by equally shoddy so called journalists.

         12 likes

  46. Thoughtful says:
    November 17, 2022 at 7:12 pm

    WOW just WOW
    This document from the new CEO appointed to oversee the bankruptcy of FTX lays bare the situation allowed by the Democrat oversight bodies who clearly didn’t actually do anything to regulate and oversee.

    Click to access 042020648197.pdf

    4. I have over 40 years of legal and restructuring experience. I have been the Chief Restructuring Officer or Chief Executive Officer in several of the largest corporate failures in history. I have supervised situations involving allegations of criminal activity and malfeasance (Enron). I have supervised situations involving novel financial structures (Enron and Residential Capital) and cross-border asset recovery and maximization (Nortel and Overseas Shipholding). Nearly every situation in which I have been involved has been characterized by defects of some sort in internal controls, regulatory compliance, human resources and systems integrity.

    5. Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such a complete absence of trustworthy financial information as occurred here.
    From compromised systems integrity and faulty regulatory oversight abroad, to the concentration of control in the hands of a very small group of inexperienced, unsophisticated and potentially compromised individuals, this situation is unprecedented

       11 likes

    • tomo says:
      November 17, 2022 at 8:36 pm

      Strangely quiet about the shaking dweeb “FinTech Wunderkind” and no reporters dispatched to Argentina to get his side of the tale.

      The whole thing reeks….

         6 likes

      • Thoughtful says:
        November 17, 2022 at 10:32 pm

        It’s the statement to the court requesting the company is placed into bankruptcy, it’s unusual for a paragraph such as number 5 to be included in such a document.

        The phrase “potentially compromised individuals” could be dynamite depending on upon what or how they were compromised

           4 likes

    • Eddy Booth says:
      November 17, 2022 at 8:49 pm

      Ok how did they go bankrupt? Basically taking a commission on crypto currency bought and sold?

         4 likes

  47. Foscari says:
    November 17, 2022 at 8:47 pm

    BBC IMAGE WATCH -” What the Autumn Statement means
    for uou,And the cost of living” Simon on History Debunked has
    also spotted, that the BBC has decided to CANCEL the 85%
    indigenous Caucasion population of the UK when it comes
    to Getty’s supplying them with images of ethnic models on
    every public interest feature ,you can think of. This is out and
    out inverted racism!

       13 likes

  49. digg says:
    November 17, 2022 at 10:43 pm

    Zelensky seems to be getting a bit if a bloody nose right now. His constant goading of the West to fight his war (and save his arse) is getting a bit thin as more info comes to light.

    Meanwhile the EU court has now tried to help the shyster one more time by inventing Russian villains for the Air disaster way back!

    Far, far to convenient!

    I am more and more inclined to go with Putin the more these puppets try to meddle with the facts and keep getting caught out.

    The truth will out!

       17 likes

  50. Square-Eyed says:
    November 17, 2022 at 11:32 pm

    Makes a change from impeaching Trump for the umpteenth time.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-republicans-make-investigation-biden-top-priority-2022-11-17/

    Any mention of this yet from the world’s greatest broadcasting organisation?

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