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‘Global North ‘ = whitey The problem is that our ‘government’ wants to keep giving money to foreigners, particularly if… - Sluff Nov 23, 22:25
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I’m confused. I just heard, on the BBC news, Justin Rowlatt explain that the $300 bn offered by the rich… - pugnazious Nov 23, 21:57
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The problem with ethnic minority presenters on the BBC. The BBC’s white presenters are bad enough as they grovel and… - Lefty Wright Nov 23, 21:44
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Mark That poor kid still hasn’t found her lost marbles yet. - StewGreen Nov 23, 21:31
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“reports” ?? ..he actually tweeted that, but might be tongue in cheek - StewGreen Nov 23, 21:29
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Anybody who is anybody, is finding that they are blocked by H from Steps
.. they’ve probably never interacted with him
but H is using a Stasi-like list
Such shunning is school bully tactic. The bullies intimidate the other kids into turning their backs on a kid , just cos he is friends with the “wrong sort” of people.
Maybe the shunned accounts should wear a Yellow Star so everyone else can easily shun them too.
Stew – reminds of that judge line ‘who is H and who is ‘steps ‘?
Oh the anti Brexit blocklist
The Brexit Blocklist@BrexitBlocklist
We block inauthentic, troll, disinformation, and otherwise harmful accounts so you don’t have to.
One wonders if there’s a masterlist of blocklists being retailed to interested parties?
Telegraph leads on the death of a 22 month old girl turned away from a busy A and E without basic tests ( allegedly )
….. .. they can’t even establish cause of death until the holidays are over –
don’t forget to clap
Fedup2
I feel SO guilty. I WOULD try to clap but my fingers are so frost bitten that I honestly feel that they would shatter like a beer glass against a pub wall were I to make the attempt. SORRY.
I see the DT leads with the energy companies larcenous antics
https://archive.ph/rsKzO
Anyone watching Christmas University Challenge?
All the team members are supposed to be eminent. Writers, artists, academics etc.
But they are all thick. Their general knowledge is naff all.
A team of writers from this esteemed website would wipe the floor with them.
Just watched Durham v York on YouTube
The pompousness of the alumni usually turns my stomach.
Also their inability to follow the rules.
But these teams were cool.
I’m guessing the producers are usually lazy in recruiting contestants – leading to too many media types.
The answer to the first question was Desmond Tutu.
Off switch.
What was the question?
Highest degree awarded to any team members ?
Its freezing in New York:
“lets nick a large screen TV”
The usual suspects
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/12/26/22/65945931-11574935-A_group_of_brazen_thieves_were_caught_on_camera_stealing_a_telev-a-1_1672094146331.jpg
Trump was banned from Twitter, yet this lot are allowed, go figure….
“Iran threatens to raze Tel Aviv to the ground in chilling video explaining how Tehran would respond to an Israeli strike on its nuclear plant
The violent video, posted on Twitter, includes terrifying explosions and missiles
It contains a step-by-step process of how Iran would raise Tel Aviv ‘to the ground'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11574665/Iran-threatens-raze-Tel-Aviv-ground-scary-video-Tehran-respond-strike.html#comments
“According to the approvals of the relevant authorities, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, within the framework of related rules and relevant sanctions mechanisms and as a reciprocal action, has sanctioned the following institutions and individuals in England due to their deliberate actions in supporting terrorism and terrorist groups. and promoting terrorism, violence and spreading hatred that has caused riots, violence, terrorist acts and human rights violations against the Iranian nation:
The following institutions have been blacklisted:
1. RAF Menwith Hill Air Force Harrogate
2. UK Naval Support Facility (NSF)
3. British Committee for Iran Freedom (BCFIF)
4. The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
The following individuals were also blacklisted:
1. Michael Trautermann, Liaison commander of the German Air Force and Ramstein Air Base
2. Colonel Holger Kunkel, commander of the German forces in Iraq
3. Eric David, lawyer of the MKO terrorist group in Camp Ashraf and Liberty and the European Court of Justice
4. Bernard Kouchner, French politician, and diplomat;
5. Hannah Neumann, Member of the European Parliament;
6. Rita Sussmuth, former Speaker of the German Parliament;
7. Claudia Roth, former vice president of the German Parliament;
8. Volker Beck, a former member of the German Parliament;
9. Norbert Lammert, a former member of the German Parliament;
10. Kramp Karrenbauer, former defense minister of Germany”
https://irangov.ir/detail/401463
Perhaps the Iranians just don’t like neo nazis
“Agency leeches are sucking NHS dry: Middlemen charge HALF A BILLION pounds a year to provide locum nurses and doctors… and one group of staff were even given free trip to the Caribbean
Recruitment firms boasted record profits since the pandemic due to demand. Comes as NHS faces staffing crisis with shortfalls of 12,000 hospital doctors. NHS England spent £3billion of its total £136 billion budget on agency staff ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11575357/Middlemen-charge-NHS-HALF-BILLION-pounds-year-fees-agency-staff.html
£136 billion? That is just obscene. The NHS is draining our country, break it up and make it pay its way.
£80 – £130 per hour:
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/12/26/22/65948759-11575357-image-a-18_1672092894794.jpg
Another public funded and profligate organisation:
“BBC splashes out £7MILLION on new logos as over-75s are forced to pay licence fee. The BBC spent more than £7million on a rebranding exercise creating new logos for its TV channels and digital services, a Daily Express investigation can reveal.
Having spent the cash the BBC then tried to keep the cost of its “digital rebranding” a secret, rejecting repeated requests from the Daily Express under the Freedom of Information Act.
After an eight-month battle, the Information Commissioner ordered the broadcaster to reveal the cost of the exercise to us.
The revamp cost £7,261,039, and was rolled out in October 2021 after market research suggested some people thought the BBC’s branding looked “old fashioned”. The corporation hired the top advertising agency Wolff Olins to work on the project.”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1714081/bbc-rebranding-new-logos-millions-pounds-elderly-tv-licence-fee
We submitted our initial FOI in April, in which we asked what was the cost of the BBC’s rebranding process.
In May, the BBC replied and confirmed it held the information we asked for but had decided not to release it on the grounds it might harm their commercial interests.
Their response claimed: “Disclosing how much the BBC spent in connection with the logo re-design would be likely to prejudice its ability to secure value for money. For example, if the fee agreed with the supplier is revealed, future suppliers may expect to be paid a similar or higher fee than they would otherwise have sought.”
The Daily Express refused to accept the decision arguing that past contracts were irrelevant to future negotiations.
Following an internal review of the decision, the BBC accepted in June that there were insufficient grounds to justify withholding the information.
Funny that the Daily Express has dried up on the Minge and Ginge saga…
This is more like it though!
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1714081/bbc-rebranding-new-logos-millions-pounds-elderly-tv-licence-fee
ps – What is a synonym for C*R*A*P?
PPS – Hope you’re feeling better, Fed! We’re both down with the lurgy and know how you feel!
Not bbc
The mail carries a piece on the ‘scandal ‘ of Agency staff in the NHS . It supports my view that the medical mafia become addicted to money and the misplaced status the public give them .
The comments are interesting – particulary from someone who says they work in the NHS and as Agency . Agency pays far more and is free of any long term relationships – it must be great – and even better for clock watchers going through the motions .
Are striking nurses being re hired on strike days as ‘agency ‘ staff …? Nothing would surprise . …..
To me – the so called ‘royal colleges ‘( really unions ) restrict the number of trainee medic to keep the pay up – and this is supported by the deceit of the department of health .
Also not bBC
431 hotels @LittleBoats2020 have visited to confirm over 27 months.
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.8304295,-2.7483619,7z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m3!11m2!2su5XPlS_uRuu-mTwOEVq0wg!3e3
96 illegals trafficked in by our government on Christmas Day are now all in warm hotels.
96 illegals trafficked in by our government on Christmas Day are now all in warm hotels.
What a shame we cannot do the same for our own homeless, sleeping on the street in the winter.
Maybe they are too white.
Not BBC
Our socialist government has dug itself another hole and it will be filled in by aspirational professionals.
Hypocritically this is revealed in the Times by a survey commissioned by the LibDems. Since when did they give a flying f*** about aspiration?
The culprit is fiscal drag, whereby tax bands do not rise with inflation, it won’t be long before checkout staff at supermarkets will be paying a slice of their income at 40% tax.
But fast forward a few years. Can you imagine the furore when a future Tory government raises the 40% tax band. Or, god forbid, the 45% tax band. The roof will fall in. ‘The Tories are only interested in helping their rich friends’. You can predict it now.
The tactical ineptitude of this useless government knows no bounds.
Totally agree, Sluffers!
It’s not difficult to notice how many traditional Conservatives have had enough of this government, there’s no alternative at the moment, and the whole shebang is becoming a farce!
There are billions of energy windfall taxes to collect, including two of them in the built-up direct debits of citizens like us here! Within eight months of our last DD being set up, we were in credit by around £550!
Mind you, the useless Home Office can always find ten million a day to put up illegal gimmegrants! Why the overseas ‘budget’ used to shore up despots from 5th world countries cannot be diverted to get these illegals ready to be chucked back is another mystery which the useless government will do bugger all about.
I don’t think I’ve ever felt so pissed off with the Tories as I do now, it’s even worse than the John Major years!
Well someone has to pay for the Ukranians to keep warm and besides western inspired proxy wars are very, very costly – just ask the military industrial complex
Guns, germs, and tax steal edition
Sadly, from the victim’s point of view, our media finds itself with another photogenic, sympathetic innocent victim of the Gunfight at the OK Corral that is, apparently, modern Merseyside.
London is more of a modern whodunnit Knives Out scenario – shushhh… don’t spoil it and mention who done it.
Naturally our sympathy goes out to the relatives: The heartbroken parents of a beautician shot dead outside a pub left flowers at the scene yesterday (The Sun)
The 26-year-old woman …a beatician who police do not think was the intended target (Times)
Her picture in large format adorns: BBC online’s news top story; Sun; Express; Mail; Telegraph; and Times. Only the left-leaning ‘i’ newspaper otherwise engaged fretting over: Two-thirds of junior doctors ‘are trying to leave the NHS’ and the jokey Daily Star focused on: Bonkers weather… Blizzard of lizards… Warning: Frozen iguanas falling out of the trees – those two organs perforce will reproduce the photo of the shooting victim only in miniaturised form on their frontpages.
In terms of headlines, the downmarket tabloid is brash, succinct and apparently unfeeling on the story: Elle, 26, Pub gun victim (Star) – while the mid-market lefty tabloid gushes with borrowed sympathy, filed under Crime instinctively pressing that all too familiar buzzword button marked ‘Tributes’: ‘We’re all heartbroken’ Tributes to victim of Merseyside shooting
A quick survey of The BBC report shows up our media’s distracting obsession and maudlin focus on the victims in these cases: It follows other high-profile shootings on Merseyside in the past year including the deaths of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel and Knowsley Council worker Ashley Dale (BBC) – the former was a child but the best thing about the latter, in the mind of the BBC apparently, was that she worked in the public sector.
More to the point would be a thorough reporting on the activities of the perpetrators, availabity of illegal firearms and importantly the causes of these crimes.
Afterall, was it not Tony Blair himself (architect and beneficiary of our modern liberal media culture and indeed founder of our present liberal-minded Tory party – that’s not a typo) who proposed: From the archive: Tony Blair is tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime… In an article for the New Statesman from 29 January 1993, then-shadow home secretary made the case for talking about punishment and personal responsibility (New Statesman)
Arrests have been made – don’t rely on charges following – the cops always put out something of a reflex dragnet in these cases so as to appease the media.
They also always say this: Merseyside Police earlier said it had stepped up its presence in the area after the shooting (BBC) – perhaps they ought to have stepped up their presence a bit beforehand? Or not stepped down their stepping up following the previous Liverpool shootings recently?
Police PR on standard autopilot mode: “We are also appealing to motorists and residents in the area, who may have captured anything on Dashcam or CCTV to contact us and every bit of evidence is crucial to the investigation,” Det Supt Coombs said (BBC)
When the police attempt to extemporise things become confused: Merseyside Police believe Ms Edwards, who was also known as Ellie, was not the target of the attack. Detective Superintendent Sue Coombs described her death as a “cold-blooded shooting” (BBC) – cold-blooded doesn’t gell with what we are required to consider to be the obviously hot-blooded random shooting into a crowd killing of the wrong victim – or perhaps a mistaken identity.
To other matters…
The coronaphobic ‘i’ newspaper just can’t let go: A doctor’s A&E diary ‘Covid flashbacks and patients waiting for hours’
The formerly conservative Times frets: Middle-class couples face £40,000 hit to incomes… over the next decade as a result of Jeremy Hunt’s stealth taxes to reduce government borrowing
Now this is worth parsing – rather than passing quickly on…
Could this be the same middle-class that pot-banged in favour of vast infusions of cash into the closed-doors to patients NHS? White elephant Nightingale hospitals, anyone?
The same liberal-minded middle-class that happily worked (read skived) from home for months on end. Mr AsI recalls a middle-class female neighbour (teacher at a closed state school) aghast and disgusted (you could tell that from her WhatsApp group text) that the local window cleaner still came round to her house – who knows what she might have caught from proximity to his shammy leather and soapy bucket while he tried to feed his wife and kids and she ordered from Amazon and collected full salary.
The same liberal-minded middle-class that voted as a bloc to Remain to keep the open borders to cheap unskilled labour?
The same liberal-minded middle-class that hardly balk at the cost of hotels for illegal migrants but would perhaps instead prefer safe legal routes to solve the issue for those droves of irregular Channel crossers.
The same liberal-minded middle-class that took Greta to their hearts and still swoon over the latest and greatest of Sir David’s angsty pleas for our supposedly melting planet…
…then raised the old blue and yellow bunting for the proxy war with Russia – doesn’t that all come at a price?
Oh yes, of course they should pay higher taxes to fund the government debt they happily welcomed incurred on their behalf.
Asiseeit – fine words
Plod language could be fascinating if it wasn’t so sick . “Additional patrols to reassure the community” – I always like that one – “cold blooded killing “ well it wasn’t really was it ?
It’s like when they say ‘an isolated incident ‘ – oh really ?
As for your bit about tax – some calculation is sometimes done on what your / our real tax rate is ? – taxed on tax on tax – probably in real life no one is lower than 20% – even those below the income tax threshold – active tax payers are probably on 50% and upper rates on 70%?…
On the subject of typical reflex Plod language – my favourite was always: “This is the worst case I’ve ever seen in my entire career” – to which my response was “Get a more experience cop on the case then!”
Asiseeit – I was going to throw that one in . The other twist of language is the absence of detail – such as when the victim is white and the criminal is coloured . Be sure there is no or little reporting then …
.. the same theme is being applied now over the Paris riots – we can be pretty sure those of the third world communities in londonistan and parisistan are in communication about ‘their outrage ‘…
Only seldom does dissent register …
Can’t wait for a bejewelled plod to come on TV and say ‘He’s learned lessons’…
Of course they know who all these gang members are! Their names are always on the mountain of reports they have to file every hour of the day to appease the useless Home Office!
In our large-ish village, there are three decent council houses – design-wise, with the central one housing what used to be the police station.
Of course, they’re all private places now, but it must have been very comfortable knowing that we once had a sergeant and two constables regularly patrolling the village, and keeping the thieves and yobs under control!
Now the only plod we see are the turn-ups after our neighbour’s burglary, or maybe on one spot where speed-plod plonk their camera van.
I was told that there are three such vans…
…for the whole of Kent!
What is going on with the Guardian, a.k.a. the BBC’s ‘House Journal’? It has been missing a lot recently from the BBC’s web-site review ‘The Papers’. Is it taking a break from publishing over the festive season to save money?
Somalia’s opioid overdose: Young, female and addicted
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-64032267
Yet another amazing article from the BBC. An excuse is given for every drug addict to infer it’s not their fault:
“I started off chewing tabbuu with the girls I lived with,” she says.
‘They were a bad influence on me. I became addicted to tobacco then moved on to harder drugs'”
‘Ms Abdi says her drug use skyrocketed after she started having problems with her husband.’
‘… she told me she had started taking drugs because of peer pressure.’
I’ll bet my hat the problem of drugs is a hundred times worse for the men. But the misandrist BBC don’t care about that. Just like they don’t care about what happens to the men in Afghanistan, Ethiopia and Ukraine.
And – of course – the ‘reporter’ the BBC are employing to write this totally lop-side, agenda based guff looks like this:
A greater concern is when the establishment excuses them when their addictions impose on others.
A turning point for me was the reaction of the legal system and media to a feral mob of girls tearing out the hair of another in a race-based attack, forgiving them because they were not used to being pissed on account of… er…
Yes indeed : the Left always want minority groups and women in bad situations to be ‘victims’ so they can virtue signal and show how compassionate and morally superior they are.
It’s hypocrisy on a scale which is gradually destroying Western society.
My personal favourite came from the Guardian when they told us all that pointing out the truth that black people were doing all the viscious attacks on Asian people was wrong because ‘you can’t fight racism with more racism’. The person saying this was of course a black woman.
The 2005 case of 12-year-old Shanni Naylor, slashed across the face by a Somali girl with a razor. I particularly remember it as it was originally claimed that the Third Worlder had removed the blade from a pencil sharpener.
Excuses were made:
“The jury was told the defendant had an extremely low IQ and came from Somalia, where it is a cultural practice for women to settle disputes by scratching each other’s faces, usually resulting in superficial injuries.”
Young Miss Naylor’s injuries didn’t look superficial.
The BBC report of the 2006 conviction strongly implies that Shanni was the real villain.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/5131966.stm
I assumed that was news from some 3rd world African country – so I was unpleasantly surprised when I read it was in Sheffield.
When a Judge feels the need to make a statement like this:
‘I suspect few who have heard evidence in this case are surprised at that verdict. Rather they would take the view it’s another example of the jury system working at its best.’
You know something stinks. Particularly when savage customs from the 3rd world are used to defend what someone did here.
Judge and defence and media have inadvertently provided a lot of ammo in response to all the vibrant diversity arguments.
Import pencil sharpener ferals, get…
For some reason – the recent case of a ‘career criminal ‘( death penalty in Fedup world ) who killed a mother and 3? Kids really struck me .
He had been released from prison and convicted of randomly setting fire to a car . His defence barrister convinced the judge he had changed . A probation report suppprted this .
Trouble was – though – the probation officer was working from home and didn’t include all the factors a judge should weigh at sentencing .
So the animal was not sent to prison – and 3 weeks later killed and raped ….
My summary might be faulty – but even the in justice ministry can’t avoid an inquiry into what happened .
I understand the probation officer has resigned – but not topped themselves …
I can feel another identified group of hundreds of thousands of ‘deserving’ asylum seekers seeking ‘refuge’ in the UK, with various government funded pressure groups to support their claims and appeals…..
Why does the NHS rely on Zero Hour contracts?
Will Labour ban them?
Why can’t homeless charities take the homeless to France and bring them back in inflatable boats, they are then housed in nice, warm 4 star hotels.
Tell them not to speak or reveal they are British otherwise they’ll be back on the freezing streets
On the very rare occasions when some bombing, shooting, mass child raping or knifing actually isn’t committed by the lefty favourites, when someone the msm thinks can be safely labelled right wing, we always get the name and picture of the offending ‘white far right’ person.
On the other hand, when the usual suspects do this they are reluctantly named as ‘a man’ and that’s if they even get a mention.
The msm is being a bit politically incorrect here.
How do they know this person identifies as ‘a man’ when there’s a good hundred other options currently available.
This ‘man’ may be trans, gay, lgbt etc or any of the other names the left have for today’s gender choices.
The msm must be guilty of some ‘ist or other.
The withholding of any details about the shooters in the Merseyside murder is becoming extremely suspicious. There must have been many witnesses.
When this happens, I wonder how it works. How are all the newspapers informed not to go sticking their noses in ?. Or do they have guidelines now where they are not allowed to report anything about crimes where the perpertrator is BAME which has not been released by police ?.
Liverpool.
England’s Glasgow.
It’s a mixture of both. The NUJ (National Union of Journalists) publishes reporting guidelines on topics such as race, Islam, Gypsies, LGBQWERTY etc. Broadly speaking, they involve not saying anything remotely negative about these groups. As the NUJ is effectively a closed shop, they are followed religiously by most media reporters. Secondly, the government sometimes issues what is called a DSMA-Notice (Defence and Security Media Advisory Notice, known as a ‘D Notice’ until 1993). This is an official ‘request’ to news editors not to publish or broadcast certain items and topics. Whilst these requests are not mandatory in a strict legal sense, in practice they are always adhered to, with very few exceptions.
A late candidate for story of the year
Russian sausage magnate dies falling out of window at Indian hotel ( apparently not a friend of mr putin )
It would have been better with a small typo so he was a sausage magnet.
Falling out of high windows is a favourite way of getting rid of people in corrupt countries – particularly where the police are political tools under close government control and inconvenient things can be brushed quickly under the carpet.
We aren’t there yet, but we are on that road.
My cat’s a sausage magnet
I was once owned by one that had 2 sausages off my plate while I went to fetch cutlery which I had forgotten. Thieving furry bleeder.
Did you ever see the film ‘Z’ John/Zephir?
All about the Greek Junta and several such window flights were apparent…
Why do these magnet types always take hotel rooms above the ground floor? You’d think they’d have learnt by now.
Could a chatbot answer Prime Minister’s Questions?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64053550
I do enjoy a good comedy piece by the BBC – particulary why they don’t even realise because the person writing it is obviously a ‘quota’ employee who is totally clueless. They obviously want us all to think we are on the brink of ‘Terminator’ as I suspect that’s their only experience of robots.
As their evidence of how sophisticated robots now are, they link to another article called:
‘Robot falls asleep while being quizzed by Lords’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-63221954
Have a look at that video and see if you can spot which one is the robot.
It didn’t fall alseep at all. It crashed. And it wasn’t being quizzed, it was being fed pre-scripted questions.
And I particularly enjoyed the ‘Lord’ who felt competent to hypothesise why she needed sunglasses during the reboot and came out with such claptrap, she clearly does not have any clue at all about computers.
The author for this one is called ‘Kate Whannel’ who interstingly I cannot find any picture of at all. Must be a new starter straight from school.
Morning John,
Already been done, years ago in the days of nulabour, the blairbot :-
“What are you going to do about education tony?”
“Look, lets get real here, we’ve had twelve years of tory mismanagement….”
“Are you intending to increase taxes?”
“Look, lets get real here, we’ve had twelve years of tory mismanagement….”
“What abut the railway infrastructure?”
“Look, lets get real here, we’ve had twelve years of tory mismanagement….”
I don’t think I ever saw him answer a question directly. It’s going back a bit, but from what I recall, Hague used to tie him in knots in the blink of an eye.
Trains make a loss. Richard Tice says the subsidy costs £400 per household.
How can workers keep demanding MORE money
and no rationalisation.
I’m out of the country on 6 jan . Rail strike day – getting to the airport by mini cab ? £100… dig up the rails and make them roads … roads don’t strike
Highways authorities are striking. and I know from experience most of them are STILL working from home when they work.
I think I may have to frame this, after the litany of misery and scare stories in the press:
“Mother who thought her son had died after he went missing over a decade ago in France has hailed a ‘miracle’ after discovering he is alive and well
Joyce Curtis believed her son Nicholas died after last hearing from him in 2010. He left his Glasgow home in the mid-2000s to go travelling after losing his job. But she received the shock news days before Christmas he was alive in hospital.
Now she is looking forward to finally being reunited with her son after a decade.”
Probably “iss the Toreez innit” for the son’s job loss in the first place….
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11576313/Mother-thought-son-died-went-missing-decade-ago-France-finds-alive.html
Stab someone in the throat and get a couple of years in jail:
Couple are jailed for five years for ‘revenge attack’ on dog breeder who was stabbed in the neck on her own doorstep after selling them £800 Bullmastiff puppy which later died
Hayley Stoker sold Chelsea Rees and Michael Kingston a £800 puppy which died. The couple went to Stoker’s Swansea home and stabbed her in the throat.
Kingston and Rees were sentenced to a TOTAL of five years in prison.
She has 15 previous convictions for 33 offences including multiple batteries, common assaults, and assaults on police officers.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11576375/Couple-jailed-stabbing-breeder-sold-800-pup-died.html
From the Daily telegraph – a winge by a BBC saint –
JOHN HUMPREYS There is something truly wonderful – I almost wrote magical – about the end of Christmas. No more carols in shops.
I’m a sucker for a good carol. Many stay with us from childhood and the best are magical. But to be battered ceaselessly with them from the second you walk through the doors is soul destroying. How the poor staff cope with it for their entire shift defies the imagination.
But at least there is commercial logic to it. Endless research shows we buy more if there’s music in the background. Or foreground. Lord knows why but we do.
No such excuse is available to Radio 4 for destroying so much of its output with endless, repetitive, plinky-plonky background music. It is now virtually impossible to listen to what might well be a thoughtful, pre-recorded discussion on a serious subject without the voice of the presenter or the interviewee being overlaid with entirely incongruous music. Especially the sound of the marimba.
Not that I have anything against the marimba. It’s a bit like a xylophone but more mellow: a very ancient instrument in the percussion family that produces a perfectly pleasant sound. But why is it literally the first thing I hear if I want to listen to a programme in the Positive Thinking series about deep fakes or, God forbid, the singularity?
If I have enough intellectual curiosity to want to learn more about a hypothetical future point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable changes to human civilization, do I really need to be jollied along by the marimba?
The question answers itself, so the next question is why the BBC does it. That’s easy. Because of podcasts. Radio 4 is, perfectly understandably, desperate to stem the haemorrhage of listeners. The latest figures show a drop of more than a million and most loyal listeners are old. When I asked my boss why he wanted me to present Today back in 1987 he told me it was because I might appeal to a younger audience. Hard to believe but, yes, even I was young once.
The holy grail for BBC bosses today, then, is to attract all those youngsters who choose podcasts rather than Radio 4. Many programmes started life as podcasts and one defining characteristic is the relentless background – or even foreground – music. On one level it’s simply patronising – the listeners can’t concentrate on words for more than a few minutes. On another it’s simply manipulative: “Hey, boys and girls, the singularity can be FUN!”
Either way, the assumption is made that intelligent, unadulterated speech will drive the audience away. Well, perhaps it will. Or perhaps it will simply drive away those who don’t want their intelligence insulted.ENDS
Mr HUMPREYS seems to have missed the obvious – that the R4 content is now so ‘agenda ‘ driven that much is just beyond a listen .
Whitee – obviously – is becoming a minority – just dip sample the continuity announcers – innit …
BTW – the comments section could be a cut and paste from this site …. The users of this site are the convention public view of the bbc rather than an exception to it …
And this children, is why the BBC promoted Springster.
It’s not just the medbed scam. I’ve heard of several companies claiming to have a ‘vaccine’ for a cold/flu variant called Covid. Apparently these vaccines are based on a brand new technology which is largely untested and basically ineffective. Worst still, hundred of thousands of victims have been subsequently affected by Myocarditis, with many simply dropping dead. Despite this, governments have wasted tens of billions on this scam. Just last week, the UK government signed a new 10 year deal with Moderna for more of the snake oil. Not that we know how much money is involved, as it’s all secret – “commerically sensitive information, old chap, don’t you know”.
Fun fact: as reported in the BBC housepaper, the Guardian, one of the early big investors in Moderna was Theleme Partners, which put $500 million in it. One of the founding partners of Theleme, which is registered in the Cayman Islands tax haven, was Rishi Sunak.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/17/rishi-sunak-refuses-to-say-if-he-will-profit-from-moderna-covid-vaccine
Degree of surprise: 0
https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1714153/BBC-Breakfast-review-of-the-year-2022-biased?
Bias. And representation.
Imagine still paying for a licence to fund anything the BBC churns out.
Hard to imagine how it got worse. It has always been utter shit!
Xmas viewing figures
So, at best, the BBC spoke to a massive 7% of the nation.
Was ‘call the midwife ‘ the one with the third worlder with forged qualifications killing mothers and babies along with under qualified third world doctors ?( see Telford )….
That’s a big win for the BBC 7/10 wins over ITV …hopefully though – years after year their viewing figures all – sticking dads army on from 1974 just about sums up BBC talent ….
My wife watched 3 of those programmes. I, of course, being of sound mind, didn’t watch any of them. Just as well I don’t pay for it.
Wife said she saw some baking on ice in the jungle or something
How dare you -Mrs Brown’s Boys is just the BBC bringing award winning overseas comedy to British viewers.
The rain might taste a bit funny and the slightly yellow colour is natural.
Brendan O’Carroll could go into Eire politics – that’d be an improvement
Questions should have been asked years ago why the BBC keep funding it.
It smacks of ‘money for pals’ (like David Tennant) or ‘Weak BBC manager scared of aggressive ‘talent” (like Chris Evans).
But of course that’s why the BBC are doing everything they can to get rid of politicians who want to end the license fee. They can do whatever they like now : they get the same money whether anyone watches it or not.
Utterly lame jobsworth middle managers run around in £180k+ new cars and there’s enough funds to extend the trough to unionised production crews.
How much have they spaffed on the Stendrerz set?
It’s other peoples money and variations on that theme can be seen in NHS, Local Councils, Quangos, Academia et al (capitalisation or not – flip of a coin)
Yep – all too easy to understand that the recipients of public funds might defend what they feel they’re entitled to – eh?
January sales are going to feature a selection of bargain bridges?
Usual biased MSM crap. Of course it would be a record. Historically there was no wind power so anything is going to be a record. As I look out the window it is sleeting here with not a breath of wind so unlikely wind power generation is anything but minimal.
“and of course it’s windier at night”
Nope, it can on some days be windier at night
but sunlight is a partial driver of wind cos it creates heat differences.
WE often notice a still pre dawn can become a windy midday
“around 1,000 turbines might be needed to replace an average power station”
Nope cos wind doesn’t give you proper electricity, it gives you intermittent-E. It’s apples vs oranges.
Fossil Fuels are a worker who turn up whenever you ask them.
They can REPLACE windpower farms.
Wind/Solar who turn up whenever they feel like and by UK law immediately get priority and you have to lay the other workers off, but then when wind suddenly stops working you have to bring the other workers back.
ie Wind cannot REPLACE a fossil fuel plant
All they can do is reduce its running time from say 7)% to 10%
therefore making it run way less efficiently.
ie Windpower makes fossil fuel plants MORE expensive
#2 UK Push for wind has made UK fossil fuels more expensive
If we didn’t have wind we would have more UK gas storage and fracking . Thus when buying for deep future we’d have delivery week flexibilty
and thus not be pinned to the highest prices.
Wind is not “softening the blow of soaring natural gas prices”
‘Man stabbed to death on Birmingham nightclub dance floor’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-64101808
That one won’t stay as a headline for long and neither will we get any description of who did it any time soon.
As I was down in ‘Birmingham’ section, I though I’d have a quick look at the headlines from there:
It seems this man:
Was recently killed by this man:
By ‘ multiple slash and stab wounds’. Sounds extremely savage to me. I can’t understand how I missed it from the main news page.
Oh both were armed
Cyclist killed ‘neighbour’ in Birmingham stabbing attack after spat in street
Tamari Greaves, 21, was found guilty of killing Steven McCarron
Friday, March 11.
Mr McCarron was carrying a machete and Greaves drew two Zombie knives (which he’d just fetched from home and then gone looking for McCarron
caused ‘catastrophic injuries’. Some were with his own weapon, which had been taken from him by Greaves.
The moral being never take a zombie knife to a machete fight.
It sounds like the black guy was carrying his machete around already and did something to upset Greaves.
I find it hard to imagine the savagery of the ‘winner’ : he clearly used the machete to inflict some serious injury then took the knife off Greaves and attacked him with both in a frenzy of violence. I wonder how many times he stabbed him.
We never get told the truth of these attacks because people would be shocked at what these people do on a regular basis and it would not help the failed multicultural experiment one bit if they did. It’s better if the silent majority do not know.
You have it the wrong way round
McCarron is the white dead guy who was already carrying a machete
Tamari Greaves the black left him alone the first time, as if MCCarron had flashed the machete to say leave me alone. Tmri went back and fetched his zombie knives and apparently started the fight.
Ah yes – my mistake.
A reminder that there is plenty of white scum out there too.
I wonder if Mrs Brown’s Boys has been dubbed into German?
Worth checking your energy accounts a casual perusal found, despite my direct debit doubling , They had £700 of MY money in “credit” in THEIR coffers.
I demanded a refund, it was a week coming but done efficiently. And after a meter reading which they need before issuing a refund, my direct debit lowered by £30.
I just checked my mums for her today.
It was nearly £1,000 in credit but no payment had been taken for gas since the beginning of October. It has SMART meter reading till then but for some reason this marvel of technology doesn’t seem to be working any more.
The small gadget you have in the house showed a gas meter reading which bore no resemblance to the one I needed. In retrospect I think it was in KWH whereas the reading needs to be in cubic meters as far as I can make out.
So I took a reading from the meter and it was absurdly difficult. I had to press button 9 until it showed ‘volume’ then the display switched to show the meter reading !!!. I had to use google to find that out because the suppliers own ‘help’ did not work at all.
As soon as I sent that reading, they took £438 from the credit for it.
I have no idea what’s going on with the electricity because I put that reading in and it did nothing. She wants to know if she owes anything or needs to be careful but I can’t even see how much she owes and the last debit for that was in October as well.
It’s a complete shambles.
JohnC
I can’t beat the account build up because I always get my money back but … my fixed contract required a smartmeter . So they came to fit it . But couldn’t because the whole meter board ? Has to be replaced – which means they have to dig a hole in my drive – then fit a new intake and then get the supply company to fix the smart meter – so the digging is in February – the smartmeter – the summer …..
… and no doubt bill themselves £10K internally for all the work which is then added to the float which is charged to the customer one way or another.
I was told repeatedly, over a year, that I MUST have a smart meter fitted as part of the fixed contract. I eventually told them I had a resolution to the problem, changing suppliers. They weren’t best pleased and tried to keep me by saying I didn’t need one. I wasn’t going to be bullied into one, but how many people are?
Same here but after rearranging appointments a few times I always happen to be out when they finally arrive, what are the chances of that ? Hmm
I wouldn’t dare do that as the meters are on outside walls so I don’t need to be there.
When “smart” meters go “dumb” they are far more trouble to read than an ordinary old fashioned meter. As with so much in modern Britain, it is all a compete rip off.
What are they doing with all this cash, if it as common as some headlines suggest ?
Using the public as a source of interest payments.
The ghastly Monbiot opines on woodstoves.
3 woodstoves? – to heat an earth floored teepee in a Welsh marsh?
I had to check it wasn’t a spoof
No doubt it’ll trigger a few honorarium fees.
I look forwards to the great sage relating how the three deeply offensive woodstoves were ripped out and replaced by roof top hydro fed from the condensation from his heat pumps.
pug
as usual Monbiot can’t even get his reporting straight – and he certainly doesn’t volunteer what the highly offensive woodstoves have been replaced with and how that’s working out – eh?
Damian Carrington, woodstove expert eh ? – I wonder how that particular poisonous twerp’s abode is heated and cooled?
It must be a decade+ ago that we were regaled by George’s buying a car experience.
Oxygen larceny is what the Guardian does … Why hasn’t there been an eco-survival reality telly prog with MSM environmentalist correspondent-reporter peeps – optionally produced by Brendan O’Carroll?
Dress up in gender crossing way and build your own teepees in an Irish bog and burn peat or something for at least a year. I would pay to watch that – especially if it featured Roger Harrabin in a wig, lipstick and an ankle length hair shirt.
John O’Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance said: “Taxpayers will be shocked at the scale of the diversity industry in the NHS.
“While patients battle for every appointment and operation, woke warriors consume ever more resources. Ministers need to get a grip and ensure that funds are directed towards frontline roles.”
GBnews and TalkTV are both doing GOUT items simultaneously
… surely some PR guys are involved.
It will eventually turn up on the BBC I guess.
Apparently climate change is changing the smell of snow.
Democracy dies in darkness etcetera….
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2022/02/05/snow-smell-climate-change/
Mishal flown out to interview Smilla?
Adil Ray trolling on Christmas Day
Maybe his Bible is different : Mary and Joseph did not travel to be refugees
They had to go back to their hometown to to satisfy an imperial command that all individuals return to their ancestral towns “that all the world should be taxed.”
The family did later flee to Egypt to escape Herod’s child execution
“With one creative decision, Radio 4 has destroyed so much of its output”
The station is desperate to stop losing listeners, but there’s a real risk of driving away those who don’t want their intelligence insulted.
By John Humphies (ex BBC Radio 4 News presenter)
(edited)
No such excuse is available to Radio 4 for destroying so much of its output with endless, repetitive, plinky-plonky background music. It is now virtually impossible to listen to what might well be a thoughtful, pre-recorded discussion on a serious subject without the voice of the presenter or the interviewee being overlaid with entirely incongruous music. Especially the sound of the marimba.
…
…do I really need to be jollied along by the marimba?
The question answers itself, so the next question is why the BBC does it. That’s easy. Because of podcasts. Radio 4 is, perfectly understandably, desperate to stem the haemorrhage of listeners. The latest figures show a drop of more than a million – and most loyal listeners are old. When I asked my boss why he wanted me to present Today back in 1987 he told me it was because I might appeal to a younger audience. Hard to believe but, yes, even I was young once.
The holy grail for BBC bosses today, then, is to attract all those youngsters who choose podcasts rather than Radio 4. Many programmes started life as podcasts and one defining characteristic is the relentless background – or even foreground – music. On one level it’s simply patronising – the listeners can’t concentrate on words for more than a few minutes. On another it’s simply manipulative: “Hey, boys and girls, the singularity can be FUN!”
Either way, the assumption is made that intelligent, unadulterated speech will drive the audience away. Well, perhaps it will. Or perhaps it will simply drive away those who don’t want their intelligence insulted.
[end]
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/12/27/one-creative-decision-radio-4-has-destroyed-much-output/
As as we have seen with so many ex BBC presenters, the BBC only wants the left ‘yoof; audience. The problem for the BBC its that UK youth would prefer NetFlix and Scooby Doo than to listening to the BBC patronising and overt racially biased broadcasting targetted to rap music, asian networks sounds and weird African drumbeats. That and 24/7 dire climate CN announcements that we are all doomed. (Lies)
My kids would never watch the BBC, its an old people home (they say). No matter what the BBC do, its doomed. So they will never pay the TV license, they don’t see any point.
That’s the problem for the BBC. Unbelievable.
I commend this thread to the forum.
Strictly speaking we are still in an ice age, albeit towards the end
Sorry, Fed, but…
Guest Who
“Asylum seekers to be able to work” ?
All subsidised by the British taxpayer along with the benefits of free NHS , hospitals , doctors , education, housing benefits, etc, etc , …..
They are illegal and are lawbreakers .
This ‘government of ours’ does not look after its own people.
It needs Reform !
BBC4 walking with Alistair Campbell
Channel 4+1 Christmas with Sandi Tosvig and her guests Deborah Meaden, Fay Ripley and Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock .. repeat from 2021
Does woke telly reflect the public ?
Nope same old libmob mates all the time
Cody Fisher stabbed to death on Birmingham nightclub dance floor
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-64103150
A VERY unusual and lengthy ’empathy’ piece by the BBC for someone who was just stabbed to death – and the main headline no less. This is normally reserved for woman killed by a whitey.
I’ll bet my hat the BBC know whoever did it is white.
Not BBC.
But since the railways are on strike and………this has barely any effect on the vast majority who pay for them but do not use them………
Here’s a couple of quiz questions.
1. Why was there a 60 mph speed limit on the M1 around Northampton on the 24 th (a.m) and the 26th ( p.m)?
2. Why was there a ‘pollution reduction’ speed limit of 60 mph on the M1 around Sheffield…….on Christmas Day when there was hardly anything on the road?
The point being, these are essentially arbitrary decisions taken by some minor official in a control room.
Yet he/she/ it has the power to arbitrarily criminalise thousands and thousands of people, whilst the government hides behind a totally false ‘safety is our paramount concern’ cloak of convenience?
Arbitrary law in many other countries defines dictatorship.
Mrs Voter and I have been spending Christmas in blighty, in the airbnb we are using and her sister’s house there are so called smart meters. The one question I have is this, they always say to turn off all electrical items off at the wall as leaving them on standby uses lots of electricity, so what does the smart meter run on seeing as how it’s plugged into a socket?
Blind BBC News correspondent Sean Dilley defeats mugger who stole his phone
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64100975
‘Dilley sustained several cuts and injured his elbow in the incident, which happened just before 0600 GMT. He said he was concerned about protecting himself but also wanted to ensure the person was as safe as possible.’
What a lucky mugger. Personally I would want to ensure the b@stard couldn’t get a knife out of his pocket.
No description of his attacker of course – even though they have a first-hand witness who tried to help. I think we know why.
I have to say : I’m all for employing disabled people equally in positions where they can still do the job – but a blind ‘news correspondent’ ??. Mind you – the BBC don’t need to worry about where the money comes from for their ‘full range’ of employees.
I know it’s the same old record – but here’s the author for this agenda piece:
Sean Dilley and Kathryn Armstrong tried their woke gender neutral best –
The mugger is described thus
“A person..
..his attacker
..his attacker
..them
..their arms
..the person
..his assailant
..them
.. them
..they
..the thief
..their
Phew! all that effort, only to let slip:
“He picked the wrong blind person on the wrong day,”😀
Books of 2023: Prince Harry’s Spare kicks off publishing bonanza
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63708229
And next on the BBC we have another plug for Harry’s book.
Followed by this curious statement:
‘… including one of our greatest living writers, Salman Rushdie.’
What ???. I bet he wouldn’t have got that accolade if he hadn’t been stabbed and lost an eye. Ridiculous virtue-signalling.
And here’s the author of that one:
From BBC ‘sports’ to BBC ‘Arts and Entertainment reporter’ in one step …
Just watching Countryfile on bBBC, probably less than 50% of the people including presenters are white British.
I give up.