267 Responses to Weekend 26 November 2022

  1. Zephir says:

    “Islamist terrorist disciple of hook-handed hate cleric Abu Hamza is quietly deported from US back to Britain after serving seven years for trying to start terror training camp in Oregon

    Haroon Rashid Aswat found guilty of trying to start terror training camp in 2015 
    Islamic terrorist disciple of Abu Hamza was deported by US authorities to UK 
    Was sent to Heathrow from Boston a week ago but unclear where he is now
    Aswat plotted the camp with hate preacher Hamza when he moved to London”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11472331/Islamist-terrorist-disciple-hook-handed-hate-cleric-Abu-Hamza-quietly-deported-Britain.html

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  2. JohnC says:

    Two boys, 16, die after being stabbed a mile apart in London
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63770727

    No information whatsoever is given.

    ‘The Metropolitan Police urged anyone with information to contact them.’.
    Not a chance anyone will do that. These people live by the laws they brought with them, not ours.

    Now we have the standard procedure to cover it all up by slowly releasing details so the story has died down before we learn the truth. The BBC won’t mention it again until someone is actually arrested for doing it. And as usual they probably won’t be identified either ‘for legal reasons’.

    What a shining example our centre of diversity and multi-culturalism sets for the rest of the country. Which is now being stuffed with more from the 3rd world so the middle-class liberal-left can show just how morally superior they are to everyone else.

    But not anywhere near where they live of course.

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    • micknotmike says:

      I have no details about these incidents. I am, however, pretty sure that it will be my fault.

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      • JohnC says:

        Yes, you are absolutely right.

        Black gang-members from single-parent families stab each other because you and I are racists.

        Apparently.

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  3. Guest Who says:

    Maybe a gold Rolex will help?

    Still, gets things away from where he is.

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  4. Guest Who says:

    A million cubicles.
    A million droids.
    A million PCs.
    A million Press Releases.

    Shakespeare.

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  5. G says:

    I have been advocating promoting and adopting methods of halting tax flowing into the Exchequer for some years now. That in an attempt to curb the reckless behaviour of the Government who enjoy wasting taxpayers money. Also toward bringing them to heel. Seems I have a fan. Neil Oliver. Go! Neil and maybe you can add on ‘Spoiling the Ballot’ if voting is the only other way to obtain change.

    Maybe there are some unexpected readers of the Biased BBC blog looking to the level headed older generation to gain ideas?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “We should not be afraid.”

      “The bold effort the present (central) bank had made to control the government . . . are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it.”

      “Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves.”

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  6. AsISeeIt says:

    Brussels and sprouts edition

    Journo Isabel Hardman, gifted a column in the Observer shafts the Tories with it: Tory legacy After 12 years in power what have the Conservatives achieved?

    Well, there’s…  The Tory wet… I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! Soak it up: Matt Hancock in yesterday’s Cyclone bush tucker trial (Sunday People) – pictured frontpage wearing what can only be described as a pair of Kylie Minogue’s cast off gold lamé hot pants. Possibly considered Australian national costume – but strictly for the Sheilas, surely? And those with – how shall we say… the physique of a gazelle, or a Kylie? I suppose if Eddie Izzard can cross-dress and stand for Parliament…

    But… so as not to dwell on one rogue Tory with a suggestive name we return to Ms Hardman’s Monty Pythonesque question – What have the Tories ever done for us?

    Well, there’s all the Green nonsense: Gove fuels Tory revolt as he backs onshore wind farms (Sunday Telegraph)

    There’s Gay Marriage, you can’t now buy a 100-watt incandescent light bulb, we’ve had two years of small business destroying on/off Lockdowns, enormous inflation stoking public spending, money printing and borrowing, then there’s our wide open door to Hyper-Immigration: Manston failures led to migrants ‘with dipththeria’ being moved around UK (Sunday Times)

    But Isabel, dear, clearly the Tories disappoint you as having under-achieved. And so you frame your question as what have the Tories achieved? They’re not supposed to change things – the clue is in the name… Conservative. They’re supposed to conserve.

    Just a tad of background on our Isabel – former President of the National Union of Students, assistant editor of the leftist Spectator magazine, named Journalist of the Year at the Political Studies Association’s annual awards, frequent BBC guest – so we’re sensing not exactly a super friendly critic of the conservative tendency.

    Hardman began a relationship with a political cock in 2016 – not Matt Hancock this time but John Woodcock.

    Who he? Life Peer, former Labour and Co-op MP, now cross-bencher in the Lords, subject of a sex-texting scandal when a former staff member made complaints circa 2017 causing him to fall out badly with the Corbynite Labour Party. Citing a witch hunt against moderates, he strenuously denied any inappropriate behaviour on his part but got our Isabel Hardman up the duff shortly after he joined an anti-Brexit grouping of MPs known as The Independents in July 2019. They married in 2021 (Woodcock and Hardman, not Woodcack and The Independents) she becoming Lady Walney into the bargain.

    Dishonourable members – that’s the Daily Star Sunday’s thought for the day – giving us a fair litmus test of public opinion of our current crop of politicians. There’s a whiff of something unpleasant in the air at Westminster – and it’s not just that renown species of veg on the seasonal menu: Sprout of order… The snouts are in the trough again, folks! Inflation? MPs will stuff faces with a 5-course Xmas meal at same price they paid in 2021 (Daily Star) – wasn’t that Christmas cancelled? Or am I thinking of Christamas 2020?

    Whatever the state of the nation, our left liberal Blairites do seem to still prosper. The only significant blot on their horizon is Brexit. But they’re working on it: Blow to Brexit as ‘landmark’ new deal sees trade slump. Key agreement with Japan branded a failure. Figures come as UK lags behind its rivals (Observer)

    One doubts even the Tories have the sheer brass necked effrontery to be seen to take us back into the EU.

    Whereas, just as football pundits in seemingly concerted chatter call for the England captain Kane to be rested on the bench: Does Gareth Southgate trust Harry Kane too much? Match of the Day’s Mark Chapman, Jermaine Jenas and Ashley Williams discuss… (BBC); Start Foden and rest Kane, Cole tells Southgate (Telegraph); England’s Harry Kane needs a rest – Alan Shearer (BBC)

    So we can envisage the Tories taking a time out and Labour’s Sir Keir having his moment – and just look at all this mess we’re in… EU reentry can be back on the agenda.

    I’m guessing the plan would be a preliminary agreement with Brussels involving little detail other than big economic prospertity promises.

    This followed by a referendum – or should that be a referen-dumb (?) online electronic casting of votes, including 16-year-olds, along with recent migrants and visitors included, on the Welsh government electoral model – then having secured a reversal of 52-48 as endorsement for reentry – all the bad news about our new rules can then be thrashed out with Brussels.

    The ground is being laid for the Tory lay-off: Thousands in 12-hour A&E waits every day (Telegraph) – but we know the Tories dare not reform the NHS – sophisticated liberal-minded voters concerned about their health will reason that only a moderate Labour administration could ever tackle that life-threatening blob.

    Police failings a ‘damning indictment’ of Tory rule (Observer) – liberal-minded law and order voters (I assure you they exist) will perhaps recall Tony Blair talking fairly tough on crime. And could Labour really do any worse?

    Migrants housed in forces homes… Plans to move refugees into military units while 2,500 British veterans are homeless (Sunday Express)

    Come on goal hanger Starmer, it’s a wide open goal – he sees the target, he shoots, he… Sir Keir Starmer: Britain’s ‘immigration dependency’ must end in CBI conference speech (Sky News); Keir Starmer: Immigration not quick fix to NHS problems (BBC) – well, soon enough, we’ll see if he scores.

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  7. Guest Who says:

    What is the person behind doing?

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  8. Thoughtful says:

    Today is the first Sunday in Advent and one of the few broadcasts the BBC do do well is the service from St Johns College Cambridge:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pvbl

    A Service for Advent with Carols
    Choral Evensong

    A service for Advent with carols, live from the Chapel of St John’s College, Cambridge.

    Introit: O pastor animarum (Hildegard von Bingen)
    Processional Hymn: O come, O come, Emmanuel (Veni Emmanuel) (descant: Hill)
    Bidding Prayer
    Carol: The seven joys of Mary (Whitehead)

    I The Message of Advent
    Sentence and Collect
    Antiphons: O Sapientia and O Adonaï
    First lesson: Isaiah 11 vv.1-5
    Carol: Adam lay ybounden (Ord)
    Second lesson: 1 Thessalonians 5 vv.1-11
    Motet: Laetentur coeli (Mathias)

    II The Word of God
    Sentence and Collect
    Antiphons: O Radix Jesse and O Clavis David
    Anthem: Drop down, ye heavens, from above (Weir)
    Third lesson: Micah 4 vv.1-4
    Carol: The Cherry Tree Carol (arr. Cleobury)
    Fourth lesson: Luke 4 vv.14-21
    Hymn: Come, thou long-expected Jesus (Cross of Jesus) (descant: Robinson)

    III The Prophetic Call
    Sentence and Collect
    Antiphons: O Oriens and O Rex Gentium
    Carol: A Prayer to St John the Baptist (McDowall)
    Fifth lesson: Malachi 3 vv.1-7
    Anthem: This is the record of John (Gibbons)
    Sixth lesson: Matthew 3 vv.1-11
    Hymn: On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry (Winchester New) (descant: Robinson)

    IV The God –Bearer
    Sentence and Collect
    Antiphon: O Emmanuel
    Carol: O virgo virginum (H. L’Estrange)
    Seventh lesson: Luke 1 vv.39-49
    Carol: There is no rose (Pott)
    Magnificat: Service in E (Murrill)
    Eighth lesson: John 3 vv.1-8
    Sentence and The Christmas Collect
    Carol: A Gallery Carol (Gardner)
    Hymn: Lo! He comes with clouds descending (Helmsley) (descant: Robinson)

    The College Prayer and The Blessing
    Organ Voluntary: Chorale Prelude ‘Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland’ BWV 661 (Bach)

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  9. Sluff says:

    I’ve received an energy reduction payment of £66. I’ll get one for each of the next 6 months through the winter.

    This will bring my actual bill down to about the same level as 2 years ago,

    So…what’s all this about eating or heating that the BBC delight in propagandising at every opportunity?

    And PS the winter fuel allowance for pensioners has also gone up.

    Given that the £66 monthly rebate is fixed, by my reckoning there will be a few million people out there who will actually turn a profit on the whole thing. Courtesy of current and future taxpayers. If we arrange that Mrs S gets only a gas bill and I get only an electricity bill do we get double bubble?

    The socialists currently in government are scared witless of negative publicity from any and every hard luck story. Irony of ironies. Look at where it’s got them.

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      I wonder how many of those righteous citizens who regularly look down their noses at, and vent about precieived welfare scroungers, turn down this new £66 a month, government benefits handout?
      Or will their windfall giros just be quietly spent at Mark’s and Spencer’s-
      the new spongers fecklessly exchanging them for wine or posh TV dinners…

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  10. digg says:

    Somewhat satisfying to see the Footie teams of the major European countries getting a walloping by teams who are concentrating on the game rather than faux bleating over some minority group or others constant wailing!

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  11. Guest Who says:

    Hopefully the BBC finest might run this past a few folk before just running the house journal per usual.

    I guess if our surgery lined all on its books up in a field and the GPs, part time, locums, long weekends and paternity leave looked out the window, that might count.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      (1000 * 10 mins ) / 60 = 166 hours

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    • StewGreen says:

      The Guardian like the BBC have stupid clickbait headlines
      The text actually says
      “The Aspen practice has just over 30,000 patients on its books; on any given Monday
      , like today, 1,000 of them will be in clinical contact with the surgery

      It’s entirely possible that a big practice might get about 1 call per minute all day
      most of which say “I’d like to book a Covid/Flu vax” “I’d like a repeat prescription” etc.
      They will have multiple call handler, even some automated maybe.

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    • digg says:

      Yes I worked it out at around 20 seconds per appointment. Maths not a strong point in the Observer junior reporter room I guess….. or maybe the GP’s are having group appointments of 50 patients at a time in the car park? “Put your hands up all those with a headache!” …… “Nurse, give those people with their hands up a prescription for paracetamol….”….next…..
      Or maybe the NHS have perfected the mass laying on of hands technique and the GP just zooms round the waiting room touching everyone on the head?

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    • Loobyloo says:

      ‘English GP’
      Bit racist that they’ve used a white guy then though he’s a bit gingery

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    • Demon says:

      If each patient gets 10 minutes then according to my calculation each GP works 166 hours a day. That must be very tiring even using a TARDIS.

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  12. Guest Who says:

    What gets a bbc pic and story out there these days..

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    • Tabs says:

      Just now on the BBC1 Politics England programme that had 2 woman “struggling to find rental properties at an affordable price”.

      One was a heavily tattooed single mother chav, the other was a mother of 6.

      At no point does the BBC ask these people where all their income goes leaving them not enough for rent. They did ask the politicians “what are you going to do to help?” though.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Cancel BBC license – save £159!

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      • Fedup2 says:

        BBC hates landlords but then moans about shortages for the likes of those. Glad I never rented out – more to life than money and worry ….. screw them

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      • Scroblene says:

        Fags – £30.00
        Tats – £75.00
        Piercing – £50.00
        Sky – £40.00
        HP on a 72″ flat screen – £100.00
        Takeaways – £50.00
        Mobile – £ 50.00

        Soon mounts up doesn’t it…

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Scroblene – im pleased to see your social model neither drinks nor takes drugs …. Where I live the smell of
          ‘puff ‘ is pretty constant . God knows what it does to their heads …

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    • StewGreen says:

      The tattoos will have cost some big money

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      • Scroblene says:

        Sorry Stew, I’m working from a ten-year old laptop, and the scroll down doesn’t work that well, and you’re right of course!

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Small tattoos, size is no more than a few square centimetres, start at around £60. Meanwhile, pieces covering large areas of the body can cost upwards of £700, with an average professional tattoo artist’s hourly rate in the UK at about £130.

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  13. Johnda says:

    On Laura Ks show its all about public sector workers pay.
    No mention of the people who create the wealth FFS.
    So we’ve gone from NHs(clap) to all the workers at the trough(clap) I despair.
    Also woman from a trade union who was allowed to speak fully and then she interrupted everyone else.
    Scrap the BBC

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  14. pugnazious says:

    ‘What the papers say’…and first three stories are negative ones about Brexit…..of all the news going on in the world today the BBC chooses three Brexit stories that it spins as a negative….and everday now at every chance the BBC tries to link Brexit to some bad news story….even as they reported the EU was suffering a labour shortage they still managed to suggest Brexit was the cause in the UK…oh…and Brexit was good for Germany as all those Poles that would have been here go to Germany now…and yet they’ve still got a massive labour shortage….how so? And how do we have a massive labour shortage when there is record net immigration?

    Some might think we were being lied to again just as when they told us there were only 3 million EU migrants here when in fact 6 million applied to stay after Brexit.

    Just where do 500,000 migrants go? Where do they live, what schools, what NHS services, what council services do they use, what roads do they clog up, what power and water resources do they need?

    And that’s just the legal ones…the illegal migrants, the invaders, cost £3 billion a year just to house…and then the councils have to look after them under their ‘duty of care’ requirements…..a large fortune….disease, crime, overcrowding, division and distrust as society is overturned and disrupted.

    Just gotta love open borders and mass immigration.

    Pure insanity.

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  15. pugnazious says:

    ‘Labour shortages felt all over Europe’

    The BBC will always try to claim Brexit causes labour shortages when we know across Europe it’s the same situation…and in Britain it’s accentuated by people deciding not to return to work at all….up to 600,000 have vanished off the pay-roll….even France is being hit by the same ‘big quit’ as people look for a better lifestyle rather than a big pay-cheque…

    ‘Since the Covid-19 pandemic, more and more employees have been quitting their jobs. Businesses are also realising that a pay cheque isn’t all their staff are looking for. So has the so-called Great Resignation or Big Quit reached France? ‘

    But if not Brexit then what? The obvious you might think….after covid East Europeans decided not to return to their jobs….not just in Britain but across the EU….so nothing to do with Brexit [as 6 million who decided to stay here might suggest]…and of course aging population.

    ‘One of the reasons for the shortage of workers in the richer EU countries might lie in the disruptions that the COVID pandemic brought to intra-EU migration.

    Gerhard Huemer of SMEUnited said: “What we see most of is Eastern Europeans having returned home during the pandemic and choosing not to head back to Western Europe now.”

    However, the Eastern European returnees seem to be everything but idle in their home countries. In Poland, for example, the unemployment rate is at its lowest in 32 years and more than half of the companies are concerned about the labour shortage.’

    Germany…

    ‘As Germany grapples with an energy crisis threatening its future as an industrial leader, an acute shortage of workers is compounding problems for manufacturers already struggling to stay competitive.

    Recent surveys found a record 50% of firms are cutting output due to staffing problems, and it’s costing the economy as much as $85 billion per year. 

    In France, around half of the companies recently surveyed by the largest French employers’ association CPME were trying to hire. Of them, 94% say they struggle to find the right fit – or any candidates, for that matter.

    Across the Rhine, the picture looks very similar. As many as 87% of German family businesses surveyed by the Munich-based Ifo Institute on behalf of the foundation for family businesses said they felt the effects of the workers’ shortage.

    Even in Spain, where the unemployment rate is still rather high, at 12.6%, companies struggle to find workers, especially in gastronomy, tourism, and construction.’

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  16. pugnazious says:

    The BBC has been pumping out anti-Brexit propaganda for weeks now…..and now has the cheek to say that Britain is turning against Brexit….any wonder if true?

    If there were questions about Brexit it would only be directly due to the barrage of anti-Brexit propaganda that pours out of the BBC et al day in day out.

    The BBC once again trying to, and seemingly succeeding, to distort and corrupt British politics and democracy.

    It is the most dangerous peddler of fake news and disinformation out there….even this morning telling us of the ‘asylum seekers’ who had diptheria…which, they assure us, poses no risk to us at all as these ‘asylum seekers’ are sent across the country to spread their diseases.

    They are not ‘asylum seekers’ and as so many of the population are themselves migrants and likely not vaccinated they are at risk.

    The BBC and its ilk are of course to blame….firstly for encouraging the illegal migrants and then doing what it could to disrupt government attempts to manage them…forcing the illegals to be scattered across the country at huge cost…and now spreading disease along with them.

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  17. pugnazious says:

    Boris’ attempt to alter the unworkable treaty with the EU and make the protocol work for all was portrayed as an outrageous illegal flouting of international law….the world could now no longer ever trust Britain and Boris had made further treaties impossible as other countries couldn’t trust Britain to stick to them.

    Hmmmm.

    However.

    If you want to completely rip up the Brexit agreement and rejoin the EU that’s fine….never mind it’s both overturning an international treaty and trashing one of the biggest democratic votes ever held in this country.

    Yep…that’s fine and dandy…the BBC is quite happy with that.

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  18. pugnazious says:

    The BBC and others determined to take control of the internet and information, all information, exploit the Molly Russell story….the 14 year old girl who killed herself….’due to online content’….

    ‘ ….the death of 14-year-old Molly Russell, who took her own life in 2017 after viewing online material related to self-harm, suicide and depression. In a groundbreaking verdict, the coroner ruled that the “negative effects of online content” contributed to Molly’s death.’

    Surely the real problem was whatever else was going on in her life, the root cause of her depression that made her susceptible to suggestions. Home life or school life?…maybe sort that out before casting all the blame onto the convenient scapegoat of ‘the internet’ and social media companies.

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  19. Althepalerp says:

    When reporting the record Immigration figures, what the MSM fail to mention is that 85% are male. Its the same every year.
    Eventually the country will run out of Women.

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  20. Eddy Booth says:

    World Cup 2022: Fifa opens disciplinary proceedings against Serbia over controversial Kosovo flag
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63768983

    “The flag showed an outline of Kosovo filled with the Serbia flag, with the words ‘no surrender’.’

    “Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008 but Serbia – an ally of Russia – does not recognise it as an independent country.”

    Why bring Russian friendship into it?
    And Kosovo isn’t recognised by Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia and South Africa.,
    Maybe over half the worlds population..
    How the BBC treat the annexation of Kosovo and Crimea differently

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  21. StewGreen says:

    Tor @SimonClarkeMP
    “In today’s @Telegraph, I make the urgent case for why we should drop our *blanket ban on onshore wind*”

    Doh There is no “blanket ban on onshore wind”
    There are planning rules
    A locally popular project would get planning permission
    But projects demand big subsidies.

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  22. MarkyMark says:

    Boris Johnson — AEI Annual Dinner 2018

    Name of donor: American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
    Address of donor: 1789 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036

    Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): For myself, flights £6,666.09, hotel accommodation £1,459.52 and other costs of £1,059.56; for my staff member, flights £6,666.09, hotel £994.82; total £16,846.09

    Destination of visit: Washington DC, USA

    Dates of visit: 13-15 September 2018

    Purpose of visit: To receive Irving Kristol Award at AEI Annual Dinner.
    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=10999

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    Jeremy Hunt: everyone will be paying more tax after autumn statement

    1,860,000
    Theresa May, Former UK PM earned £1.86 million in her 2 years since leaving Downing Street, figures show

    500,000
    Barry Gardiner defends donations worth £500,000 from Chinese agent

    400,000
    Matt Hancock, who lost the Tory whip after it was announced he would be appearing on the ITV programme, is still being paid as an independent MP and is rumoured to have been paid £400,000 to appear on the I’m a celebrity.

    315,00
    Boris Johnson earns £315,000 for 30 minute speech and ‘fireside chat’ in United States

    65,040
    Chuka Umunna Advisory Board of The Progressive Centre UK think tank (also known as Global Progress)

    20,000
    Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn accepted up to £20,000 (about $27,000) for appearances on the Iranian state broadcast network Press TV

    18,450
    Keir Starmer £18,450 from Harper Collins as an advance payment for a book.

    15,000
    Boris Johnson Accommodation for a private holiday for my partner and me, value £15,000 Destination of visit: St Vincent and the Grenadines

    10,000
    Jeremy Hunt £10,000 from Citigroup Centre for speaking at an event on 9 March 2021. Hours: 4 hrs. Fee paid direct to charity. (Charity not mentioned)

    5,822
    Nadhim Zahawi MP promises to repay the part of £5,822.27 expenses claim for second home energy bills that relates to electricity for stables

    2,200
    MPs to get £2,200 pay rise from April for ‘dramatically increased’ duties last year

    1,950
    Philip Hammond accepts £2,000 watch from Saudi sheikh, despite ban on donating expensive gifts

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    • tomo says:

      To fund stuff like:

      £7000 a month to a couple running 8 unwashed children and 36 poopy dogs

      I make that equivalent to £84000 after tax – a person would need to earn £140000 a year before tax. You’d need two average diversity coordinators tax contributions to support that little tribe.

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      • MarkyMark says:

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        Brogan was given an 18-week prison sentence which was suspended for two years. She was handed a five-year ban for all animals, 30 rehabilitation activity days and 100 hours of community service work. Bennett was sentenced to 18 weeks’ imprisonment and was disqualified indefinitely from keeping all animals.

        suspended for two years

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  24. Dickie says:

    Oh dear, this should get the Beeboids chattering and spluttering into their morning soy flakes:

    https://tapnewswire.com/2022/11/twitters-brussels-office-is-dismantled/

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  25. pugnazious says:

    Was Liz Truss right?

    ‘Real incomes are falling, taxes are rising and buying a home or starting a family is getting increasingly unaffordable. Scores of highly skilled workers – many of whom are already working remotely – may soon wonder whether they too would be better off somewhere else.’

    As taxes rise till the pips squeak, mortgages become unaffordable and energy bills cripple people and the economy looks to be hamstrung by austerity you might wonder if lowering taxes and borrowing long term to help fund those massive energy costs would have been the sensible answer?

    Shell is now looking to reverse its statement that windfall taxes wouldn’t stop it investing, the BBC is shocked that ‘green’ energy providers might also be hit…and stop investment, skilled, well paid workers are looking abroad for a better life than here because of all this.

    And yet lowering taxes, for the better off as well, subsiding energy short-term and not imposing swingeing windfall taxes were decreed bad.

    Tightening the screws, stopping the public spending, keeping energy prices high, imposing crippling mortgage rates at the same time is good?

    Austerity is now good? Well it was a short while ago when the BBC wanted to get rid of Truss…but now….reality strikes…oh…and an election looms [as Starmer says he will, er, lower taxes…unfunded anyone?]….austerity will be painful….and now that’s the BBC message.

    But what is their answer? You either stay out of it and let inflation rip and energy prices crush people or impose some austerity, or you borrow and lower taxes.

    Previously the BBC was all for borrowing…Stephanie Flanders was the Plan B girl…constantly telling us to borrow ‘to invest’….Keynes was her poster boy. Spend, spend, spend.

    Not so much when Truss wanted to do it…..and remember, what the BBC forgot to tell us, is that the IMF claimed that Britain under Truss would have the highest growth in the G7….but now we’re heading into a two year recession…thanks in large part to the BBC’s interference.

    But austerity is also out.

    Soooooooo…..what to do?…well, you know…..let’s just elect Starmer and see what he comes up with.

    Hmmm…what does he suggest?….well…nothing yet really but you know once in government with all the figures available……trust us….

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Keir Starmer: It’s wrong to say ‘only women have a cervix’

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Fascinating that such a small number of sexually perverted types receive so much attention – And that grown ups like Starmer tie themselves in knots trying not to offend women – men – dogs and trannies ( whatever they are ) ….
        BBC as usual just obsessed by such a dismal issue ….

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  26. tomo says:

    More stuff unlikely to see the light of day on the BBC….

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  27. MarkyMark says:

    King Charles, Defender of the faith .

    Bradford has been revealed as the winner of the hotly contested UK City of Culture 2025 competition.

    The City of Bradford gained international attention in January 1989 when some of its members organized a public book-burning of The Satanic Verses, evoking as the journalist Robert Winder recalled “images of medieval (not to mention Nazi) intolerance”.

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  28. MarkyMark says:

    The Tories Have Failed to Control Our Borders

    The Tories admit they have failed to stop illegal immigration and have failed to control our borders.

    Only Reform UK will stop the boats.

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  29. tomo says:

    so, Sunday is a faith day I suppose…

       7 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      I find this deeply offensive – I bet the devil – led ‘dean’ wouldn’t say something naughty about Mohammed because someone would make him dead ….

         19 likes

      • tomo says:

        Damned right – add in that Saudi / Qatari bags of cash will be featuring in funding these absurd venal twerps in academia to attempt to have the ivory towers converted to minarets?

        – although when it comes to managing whores – the UAE win that hands-down.

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      • digg says:

        Pretty clear that the Marxists have now infiltrated theological colleges just like all the others. Personally I fail to understand how anyone with a reasonable intellect could be so blind to what us happening and tolerate this bilge let alone assist with its evil dissemination.

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    • MarkyMark says:

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      ^^ Women at the back!

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  30. tomo says:

    I see that the UK Government’s “Net Zero Tsar” is jumping ship …

    Skidmore is a bald faced liar with his hand in the till (imho)

    If he ends up like the last Russian Tsar it’ll be a win all round.

       11 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Net zero tsar to stand down as MP as Tory exodus continues
      Chris Skidmore to focus on environmental issues outside of politics as he becomes latest Conservative to say he will not fight next election
      By
      Will Hazell
      and
      Tony Diver,
      WHITEHALL CORRESPONDENT
      26 November 2022 • 8:00pm

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    • MarkyMark says:

      29 August 2022, received £3,207.09 for research work as senior research adviser in August 2022. Hours: 40 hrs. (Registered 11 October 2022)

      https://archive.ph/emKS0#selection-1341.6-1341.15

      12 November 2010, received £850 from Quickfire Media, for two days of filming. (Registered16 November 2010)
      12 November 2010, received £9,810.63 US signature advance. (Registered 16 November 2010)

      Changes to the Register of Members’ Interests
      Chris Skidmore

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  31. Zephir says:

    Good news of the day

    “Moment angry cyclist swears at driver parked in bus lane without realising it’s an unmarked police car – before he’s confronted by officer who accuses him of ‘public order offence'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11474195/Moment-cyclist-swears-unmarked-police-car-officer-accuses-public-order-offence.html

       10 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      The footage shows that awful superior attitude too many cyclists have . The road belongs to them – even though they don’t pay for it …. Should have wound him up with some sort of fixed penalty thing …..

         11 likes

      • tomo says:

        Are Just Stop Oil simply cyclists without bicycles?

           11 likes

        • TrickCyclist says:

          I grew up at a time when it was possible to believe sentiments like “A man on a bicycle is the enemy of no-one.”
          Trouble is, it was never really true – terrorists the world over, including the IRA, have used bicycle bombs for decades.
          My last experience of cycling was commuting in Luton. Foreign blokes would come out of junctions towards you on the wrong side of the road riding scrapheap women’s and children’s bikes. Once saw one – well, I heard him first – on a sports bike with no rear tyre. Absolute nightmare.

             11 likes

          • tomo says:

            Just been out driving around and 3 of 6 cyclists seen were unlit on A roads between towns.

            – and you just know that if you hit one – it’ll be the car driver’s fault

               3 likes

  32. tomo says:

    What mind mangling drugs are these people on?

    – literally a circus if the tent is anything to go by.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Dog looks scared.

         4 likes

      • tomo says:

        MM

        It’s likely the masks …

        – but the dog can likely sense that it’s near erratic eejits with the same IQ as their shoe size – but they’re vegan – right?

           4 likes

      • Fedup2 says:

        Sorry – what is a ‘Terf’?( I don’t want to risk googling it )

           1 likes

        • MarkyMark says:

          TERF (/tɜːrf/) is an acronym for trans-exclusionary radical feminist.

          First recorded in 2008, the term was originally used to distinguish trans-inclusive feminists from a group of radical feminists who reject the assertion that trans women are women, the inclusion of trans women in women’s spaces, and transgender rights legislation.

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          ……………….

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             3 likes

          • Fedup2 says:

            Marky
            I’d like to say I’m grateful – but does it mean ‘women who don’t approve of chaps pretending to be girls ?’

            If possible – yes or no would be good . 😱

            Got to be something in the water …

               3 likes

        • moggie63 says:

          TERF is an acronym for trans-exclusionary radical feminist.

          Can’t say I’m any the wiser.

             3 likes

  33. Jeff says:

    I caught a snippet of an advert yesterday for the RNLI. Now, up until quite recently, when this worthy charity became the main cross-channel Uber service for illegal aliens, I used to slip a few coins in the box at my local newsagents. Not any more. They’re a bloody ferry service.

    As for this commercial… It seems things might be getting a bit tight at the RNLI…perhaps they’re losing donations (I wonder why?)

    The little drama begins with the brave lifeboat crew thrashing through stormy waves attempting to rescue some poor soul at the mercy of the ocean. If only…

    We see a young couple going about their daily life when the emergency call comes. And this is where woke takes over. It’s not the young man that rushes to put on his oilskins, it’s his wife. The pathetic poor sap is left, lips a trembling, waiting on the shore for his heroine wife to return.

    Jesus H Christ, can they do anything else to further emasculate the image of the already enfeebled British male? I’ve just about had enough of it.

    Whatever next?

    Kneeling footballers too cowardly to wear their pansy armbands…

       30 likes

    • tomo says:

      Jeff

      I suspect (as in don’t know the detail) – but I reckon that few volunteers are working the RNLI boats on the ferry service – I’d guess they’ve drafted in some freelance crew.

      as in – the RNLI are likely lying … a quick scoping of the AIS for the RNLI vessels in the Dover area would evidence that assertion ….

      Not much novel there, but it really should be clearly stated that the water taxi drivers are all unpaid volunteers – the fact that the RNLI seem reticent about that deserves closer attention.

      It is bluidy tiresome for mariners working the channel – if you call Dover Coastguard on Ch 16 to report a possible migrant boat and you’ve an English accent (even on a foreign registered vessel) – they try to get you to pick them up – I’ve not actually heard it but some bridge crew have said that they felt that there was overt pressure to intervene where no distress was apparent.

         16 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

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  34. tomo says:

    Meanwhile in CCP land….

       10 likes

  35. Eddy Booth says:

    Made the mistake of watching world cup for a few minutes.
    Just before half time and..
    Goal !! Belgium 0-1 Morocco
    Of course 4 minutes later it’s cancelled.
    The CCTV assistant surveillance camera didn’t like it.
    Zzzzz
    Can’t quiet put my finger on it but there’s something creepy about it, like a little part of a long term globalist control plan to take away spontaneity from every aspect of life : and etablishing that everything needs checking by some remote hidden authority?

    Regardless it appears poor multi cutural shithole Belgium are back 1-0 down 😀
    Update 2 down ..👍👍

       18 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      So many ‘class ‘players not turning up – good for snoozing though and carefully editing out the woke pundits

      One of the itv games has a female presenter and 2 female pundits yesterday – I wonder if this out woked the BBC ?

      Off switch

         16 likes

  36. tomo says:

    W.T.F.

    – just keep wearing that mask,
    – taking the jabs
    – clapping for the NHS
    – eating flies
    – welcoming Albanians
    – televoting for Matt Hancock

       11 likes

    • digg says:

      If Trump somehow gets back in the driving seat, I would like to see him open a thorough investigation into the money that has been slushed away into the drug barons pockets and to determine whether it was disgusting fraudulent activity with suitable very, very long jail terms for all involved.

      We have already seen UK snouts in the PPE trough revealed although I am astonished at the lack of any punitive action or even deep reporting by BBC etc. which makes me think they just don’t want to go there as too many bigwigs would be plucked out from beneath their stones!

         17 likes

  37. Zephir says:

    Is the “Jesus was a trans” vicar in hiding yet ?

    If not why not ?

       13 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      People in Batley still feel ‘very raw’ about the way the teacher was hounded from his home, he added. ‘The mob turned up at the school gates and applied immense pressure on the school. The pressure they put on ended up with the teacher having to go into hiding – and it can never be right. ’26 Mar 2022

         8 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Is he dead yet ?

         2 likes

  38. MarkyMark says:

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  39. Fedup2 says:

    In the space of a week at least three male coloured teenagers have been stabbed to death – one in Cambridge midweek ans x2 yesterday in the same bit of londonistan .

    Now – to be Frank – I don’t care.there are too many to care about . But it seems the MSM – that high and moral mighty voice of the people just records them – you might get a picture of the latest dead promising footballer / law student / young father – but that’s it .

    Yet when a 14 year old girl self harms herself to death for whatever reason the likes of the BBC and certain liberals won’t let go of it – with the dad popping up all over the place demanding regulation .

    Who do these equate ? I can only deduce certain lives count – and others really don’t ….

       11 likes

  40. tomo says:

       1 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      The Piltdown Man was a paleoanthropological fraud in which bone fragments were presented as the fossilised remains of a previously unknown early human. Although there were doubts about its authenticity virtually from the beginning, the remains were still broadly accepted for many years, and the falsity of the hoax was only definitively demonstrated in 1953. An extensive scientific review in 2016 established that amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson was responsible for the fraudulent evidence.[1]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piltdown_Man

         1 likes

  41. tomo says:

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  42. Tabs says:

    BBC1 FIFA World Cup coverage ending at 18:00 had Gabby Logan and 3 other black presenters to cover one match.

    Why oh why are the BBC still using white presenters?

       18 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      “By 2020, the BBC wants its employees to comprise 50% women, 8% disabled people, 8% lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people and 15% people from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds.{bbc.co.uk 14sep2017}”

      ….

      Protests for China against govment strict Covid measures don increase, as some pipo publicly dey vent dia anger at di Communist Party leaders.

      Thousands of protesters don come out for Shanghai, wia di BBC don see as dem bundle pipo inside police cars.

      Students don also demonstrate for universities in Beijing and Nanjing.

      Di latest unrest dey follow one protest for di remote north-west city of Urumqi, wia dem don blame lockdown rules afta 10 pipo die for one tower block fire.
      https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/cjr2ev2x98qo

         3 likes

  43. MarkyMark says:

    Regulator Ofgem has been asked to look at making billing “more responsive”.

    Energy firms warned over hiking direct debits
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63773595

    “more responsive”. – you will be happy , then said within seconds

    “more responsive”. – you will be happy , then said within seconds

       0 likes

  44. MarkyMark says:

    How Somalia double car bomb blasts kill 100 pipo for di kontri capital

    https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/cx8wg1xdejxo

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       2 likes

  45. Guest Who says:

    Always sad when family falls out.

       5 likes

  46. MarkyMark says:

    Fiction:Within a few years, most Western governments have surrendered. The mayor of New York City is made to share Gracie Mansion with three African-American families from Harlem; migrants gather at coastal ports in West Africa and South Asia and swarm into Europe, Australia, and New Zealand; London is taken over by an organization of non-white residents known as the “Non-European Commonwealth Committee”, who force the British queen to have her son marry a Pakistani woman; millions of black Africans from around the continent gather at the Limpopo River and invade South Africa; and only one drunken Soviet soldier stands in the way of hundreds of thousands of Chinese peasants as they overrun Siberia.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camp_of_the_Saints

    ………………

    NonFiction: Home Office records only one case of diphtheria at Manston despite 50 reported
    The government is being urged to explain their official data on the number of people with the disease
    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/27/home-office-records-only-one-case-of-diphtheria-at-manston-despite-50-reported

       3 likes

  47. digg says:

    Three things I have noticed in the past week.

    1. It’s bleeding freezing and wet out there.

    2. The climate road-sitters and paint sprayers have gone quiet.

    3. The BBC have paused their shrill screams of climate armegeddon.

    Now could these phenomena be linked in any way? I believe it is what used to be called winter!

       19 likes

  48. digg says:

    Having managed to prevent people from the great unwashed building houses near his Hampshire property, Chris Packam is now attacking “some” supermarkets for selling mass produced chicken.

    Singled out for good practice are Waitrose and Marks & Spencer, who have may I say a certain level of customer profile having no problem paying twice the price of the others.

    In fact only the supermarkets that sell lower priced products to the same great unwashed are in his firing line such as Lidl etc.

    Basically only people with deep pockets should be allowed to partake of chicken. The rest should be content with turnips as a Baldrick would say.

    How delightful!

       13 likes

    • Charlie Farley says:

      Digg
      Packam is probably the most unpopular person in the New Forest , a high accolade indeed ! . He has upset many with his attitude to Foresters and their free roaming animals , one his rants was against locals shooting crows …..several dead ones were nailed to his Gates just to prove a point obviously !
      We’re still BBC free and no licence for many years. OH JOY !

         11 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      What area of New Forest does Chris Packham live?
      It is not known where the star lives in the New Forest, however he is believed to live in a cottage with his two dogs. An outspoken anti-hunting activist and campaigner, Packham has endured physical and online attacks for his causes over the years.28 May 2022


      http://thetalentzone.co.uk/wp-content/themes/project-ar2-master/thumbs/Chris-Packham-house.png

      FRANCE HOME

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         2 likes

  49. Guest Who says:

    A combo of Brillo and Ch4 gives one…

    Impressive. And horrifying these cretins will get in because the current lot are almost as bad.

       5 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Jeremy Hunt: everyone will be paying more tax after autumn statement 2022

      Everyone. Everyone. Everyone.

      1,860,000
      Theresa May, Former UK PM earned £1.86 million in her 2 years since leaving Downing Street, figures show

      500,000
      Barry Gardiner defends donations worth £500,000 from Chinese agent

      400,000
      Matt Hancock, who lost the Tory whip after it was announced he would be appearing on the ITV programme, is still being paid as an independent MP and is rumoured to have been paid £400,000 to appear on the I’m a celebrity.

      315,00
      Boris Johnson earns £315,000 for 30 minute speech and ‘fireside chat’ in United States

      65,040
      Chuka Umunna Advisory Board of The Progressive Centre UK think tank (also known as Global Progress)

      20,000
      Jeremy Corbyn Labour party leader accepted up to £20,000 (about $27,000) for appearances on the Iranian state broadcast network Press TV

      18,450
      Keir Starmer £18,450 from Harper Collins as an advance payment for a book.

      15,000
      Boris Johnson Accommodation for a private holiday for my partner and me, value £15,000 Destination of visit: St Vincent and the Grenadines

      10,000
      Jeremy Hunt £10,000 from Citigroup Centre for speaking at an event on 9 March 2021. Hours: 4 hrs. Fee paid direct to charity. (Charity not mentioned)

      5,822
      Nadhim Zahawi MP promises to repay the part of £5,822.27 expenses claim for second home energy bills that relates to electricity for stables

      2,200
      MPs to get £2,200 pay rise from April for ‘dramatically increased’ duties last year

      1,950
      Philip Hammond accepts £2,000 watch from Saudi sheikh, despite ban on donating expensive gifts

         2 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      1 million jobs on the road to Net Zero – you cannot afford to drive to work!

         4 likes

  50. Guest Who says:

    This the money sink that has given us Sofe?

       3 likes