“Comment posted by Dan Dan Dan Dan, today at 12:01Dan Dan Dan Dan
12:01
Currently paying £1600 a month in rent. Haven;t missed a rental payment in 9 years. Would love to be paying £1600 a month off my mortgage instead, but don’t have the 30 grand I would need for a deposit, and it’ll take 15 years to save it. I, like many, are stuck. I cancelled my Netflix and everything!!”
Note Dan Dan has cancelled Netflix. TV licence also cancelled?
I hope ‘and everything ‘ includes the TV licence
….
..I caught a happily very confusing advert on the BBC of some bloke shredding a TV icebreaker and I think being told it’s all electronic now ….
I hope it acts more as a reminder for people to stop paying any TV licence – it seems the only dissent available now that the blue Labour Party has signalled the BBC is safe through the non privatisation of the comrades at C4 …
The BBC narrative is that thousands of “far right” Bolsonaro supporters, for no reason at all, have decided to occupy Brasilia. Why should that be? Clearly, it is not because of electoral fraud, because the BBC assures us that this is not possible. One can only conclude that these people are stupid, and have no idea why they are doing this.
My 5 minutes of Today on Monday morning, was a diatribe by Marianna Spring (is that her name) likening what is happening in Brazil to what happened in the US last January. She said a lot of the uprising had been organised on social media, blamed Elon for sacking the Brazilian staff who had been blocking the protestors. There was not an ounce of irony between her and whichever presenter it was, that it was ok for social media to block people whose ideas they don’t agree with.
‘Misinformation ‘ seems to be defined as something the (far) left doesn’t agree with …. I wonder sometimes whether the likes of the BBC girl are so driven by ambition thar they suppress reality or they are just really thick ….
Anything that comes from the Springster is left misinformation and consequently patently a lie. As I have said in previous posts the bBBC mantra from her is that misinformation is anything that is contrary to their opinion. She really is not very bright.
NHS nurse who used voodoo magic to force Nigerian women to work as prostitutes in Europe so she could fund a lavish lifestyle is found GUILTY of trafficking in the first case of its kind
Nurse lived double life between south London estate and mansion in Nigeria
She used a witch doctor in Nigeria to convince village girls they were under spell
They were trafficked to Europe in horrific conditions before working in Germany
Ground-breaking investigation and prosecution lead to her being convicted
By RICHARD SPILLETT, CRIME CORRESPONDENT FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 15:40, 28 June 2018 | UPDATED: 01:52, 29 June 2018
Last weeks Call the Midwife managed to shoehorn in a Lesbian story (3% of relationships are gay according to the recently published census data) amongst the main political target of the week – racism.
And the even more specific target was Enoch Powell.
Let’s fast forward a few years to an incident I remember when a presenter, possibly Robin Day, was reviewing the politics of the previous period with a Labour MP and a Tory MP. He asked each of them who on the opposite benches did they admire/ impressed them the most.
No less a person than Barbara Castle identified Enoch Powell as the most impressive Tory, particularly praising his powers of analysis. There was no mention of racism.
Clear evidence of the biased agenda/ narrative of these BBC programmes, today painting Powell as evil when even his fiercest opponents at the time rated him as the best.
What would he make of where we are now? ‘I told you so’ wouldn’t come close.
From the DT piece I put up earlier it seems that BBC commissioning committees have a ‘queer seat’ no double between the ‘Muslim seat ‘ and the ‘coloured seat’..
The BBC now believes it has the answer to what the demographics of a truly diverse company should look like …
“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}”
Powell’s greatest problem was the self-obsessed and paranoid Heath. He saw Enoch as someone capable of logical and sensible arguments against his mania for joining the EEC at all costs – as we now know.
Ok – so I didn’t see all of the Harry Hewitt- Windsor show on the ITV … but I did notice the ‘sniffing ‘… I’ve now seen a bit of the 60 minutes thing … and there is more ‘sniffing ‘… perhaps it’s a nervous thing – or he has a cold – or something else …
Actually – who cares ? Sorry to have wasted your time with this comment .. sniff …
Anything, no matter what, including the temporary income tax, prescription charges and dental charges, etc etc once they cost even just a penny, will rise and rise and rise, once the principle of charging is established.
Here we go:
“Middle-class families could face ‘modest’ charges to see GP and have routine ops under plans put forward by veteran Tory Ken Clarke to save the NHS”
The Income Tax Act 1842[1] (citation 5 & 6 Vict c. 35) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, passed under the government of Robert Peel, which re-introduced an income tax in Britain, at the rate of 7 pence (2.9%, there then being 240 pence in the pound) in the pound on all annual incomes greater than £150. It was the first imposition of income tax in Britain outside of wartime. Although promoted as a temporary measure, income tax has been levied continually in Britain ever since. In its detail, the Act of 1842 was substantially similar to the Income Tax Act 1803 introduced by Henry Addington during the Napoleonic Wars.
Instead ofpiling more and more money at the anychess, how about removing all work on operations that are not required e.g.:
Male circumcision
Breast enlargement
Breast reduction
Fertility treatment
Erectile dysfunction
Cosmetic surgery (unless to fix accidents or cancer)
Abortion
etc etc
If the above are required then they could be done privately.
Prince Harry hints at moving to Africa: ‘I feel more like myself’
By Brad HamiltonOctober 19, 2019 | 6:04pm
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Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, arrive to meet Graca Machel, the widow of the late Nelson Mandela, in Johannesburg, South Africa on Oct. 2.
Prince Harry hints at moving to Africa: ‘I feel more like myself’
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are happy to be out in Africa — and plan to devote themselves to improving the continent.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are happy to be out in Africa — and plan to devote themselves to improving the continent.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are happy to be out in Africa — and plan to devote themselves to improving the continent.
If the strikers believe they deserve this 10%+ pay rise because of inflation then logic would say that EVERYBODY working in the UK should get a 10%+ pay rise.
It’s only fair.
Also, if the firemen reckon that they cannot live on only £32,000 a year then surely that means nobody else can live on that amount and it should be the new minimum wage (when they get their rise added)
That would be good news for the big majority of people getting much less than this, especially the older pensioners on the full (if they’ve paid in enough) pension of less than a quarter of the fireman’s pittance.
So UK MPs get an 18% pay rise (since 2010) but still don’t have to buy tickets ….???
Changes to the Register of Members’ Interests
Chuka Umunna
Name of donor: Pinewood Studios Group
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: two tickets to the BAFTA Film Awards to the value of £1,920 in total
Donor status: company, registration 3889552
Gang invented 188 children and used them in £1.7m benefit scam.
The gang members are all Somalian but come from a specific area with its own dialect of Bravanese and were assisted in court by the only interpreter in the country.https://t.co/z0rMCdj8w0
— Tony #VoteAnyoneButLibLabConGreen (@Tony40335450) January 8, 2023
2012 report based on FOIs found that NHS trusts (that responded) spent £23.3m on translation services in 2010/11. We don’t have recent or complete figures for how much the NHS has spent on translators because no one collects that information. We can’t find a reliable source for the 128 languages figure.
Matt Hancock’s Turkish odyssey continues. Today he was spotted at a counterfeit brand market in Istanbul, browsing the various well-priced garments and soaking in the sunshine. Parliament returned today. Still no evidence of glistening white teeth or youthful new hairline. Not yet…
order-order.com
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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
“The media like nothing more than “ruined” holidays& will milk it. Mind, I started skiing 55yrs ago & one thing I’ve learned is that skiing the alps before mid-Jan has always been risky. Sure, not as poor as start of this season but you’re pushing your luck for good conditions.”
I would say the media love nothing more than a story they can spin in aid of the climate scam, which they have been doing with a vengence. As I said regarding the recent cold weather in the US, that will be completely overlooked as is the phenomenal cold bottled up in Russia and some parts of Eastern Europe at the moment.
Nor is it likely they will report this either:
“Quite amusing how barren ski slopes in Alps are getting media coverage, the heavy snow has began and over 1m (100cm) of snow is forecast in French Alps over next few days.”
Of course the medja luvvies want their posh expensive Christmas skiing holidays to be just perfect and will use their tools to moan if it is any less than. The truth however is something quite different to how they are portraying it, which is perhaps nothing unusual.
Interesting to see if anyone else has experienced this. Several years ago I managed to register with an NHS dentist. They have become over recent years very similar to my local doctors-completely useless.
As an example, my doctor’s surgery moved a couple of years ago from a rather nice suburban detached house to a purpose built practice half a mile down the road. When I pointed out to a ‘receptionist’ in not so many words how service had gone downhill since they moved. I was told ‘that’s the price you pay for progress’ ! (They also like to blame Covid) I have given up on my doctors and believe there are no doctors actually working there-just holograms. A friend who lives in Cumbria, having moved from the south coast tells me apart from the colder weather, in comparison, there is little traffic on the roads and he can walk into his doctors without an appointment. I do accept with an increasing population from such things as dinghies there are increasing pressures on all services, without a corresponding increase in numbers of doctors, practice nurses etc.
Sorry I digress. With regard to my dentist, or should I say my ex-dentist, after several cancellations of a routine check up I was told today ‘We only have two NHS dentists and unless it’s an emergency there are no routine appointments and we cannot accommodate you (indefinitely).However we can accept a private appointment. Would you like to make one’?
Mrs Concrete is private already. Her patience ran out long ago and it appears that her annual check up and polish costs around £70. My NHS was around £26 twice a year. Apart from the fact that they never answer the phone despite the 3 receptionists busily painting their nails and texting or something similar, with the usual phone message’ Your call is important to us’ blah blah….. (It‘s not.We all know that).
I actually think non private patients are no longer wanted and we are all being pushed towards the private route. I would have suggested that NHS dentists go on strike, but it won’t make a jot of difference to most.
I gave upon nhs dentists a while ago.
They weren’t cheaper because they caused me long term problems through their sheer uselessness.
If you can find a competent one you’re very lucky.
Before covid all the dentists were already mostly booked up a good while in advance.
I doubt they’ll get over the idiotic covid lockdowns and extra dental problems thus caused anytime soon.
You should be concerned when the waiting room, instead of containing old Readers Digests is piled with “investment opportunities with our dental practice ” leaflets.
And tooth pulling is the first (because cheapest) option
New from Glenn Greenwald : What really happened in Brazil yesterday?
starts with US CNN being zany “WE the US are the world’s OLDEST democracy clearly the world watches us on January 6th”
8pm BBC1 regional We Are Englandgprogs varied, we got Our Toxteth Cycle Club
With 74% of people from ethnic minority groups having never cycled, one Liverpool-based organisation aims to get more diverse groups interested and active in cycling. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h0cx
"I was surprised such a small organisation would get national attention"https://t.co/6KtLBBZ5js
‘Child migrants Britain let in were BALDING and BEARDED’ – fresh claim
DOZENS of adult migrants posed as children to get into Britain, a former Border Force chief admitted last night.
By GILES SHELDRICK EXCLUSIVE
00:01, Thu, Dec 14, 2017 | UPDATED: 22:55, Thu, Dec 14, 2017
Most social media types do embed automatically here
If in your comment you post the normal full URL on a fresh line
(not the mobile version, so for Twitter you change .mobile to .www)
That’s cos of the WordPress template comment handling,
That template doesn’t include Rumble
cos my comment above didn’t automatically embed.
AOC – a reminder that the supreme being wasn’t even handed in the distribution and arrangement of brain cells and that deficit of same brain cells is not a barrier to high public office.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Brings ‘Tax The Rich’ Message to New York’s Elite
The Democrat used the Met Gala — where tickets cost $35,000 each and business tycoons mingle with celebrities — to make a political statement.
“Trump search warrant: FBI took top secret files from Mar-a-Lago”
And:
“Documents stored at former President Donald Trump’s Florida home were likely concealed as part of an effort to obstruct an FBI investigation, Department of Justice officials say.”
And:
“Trump investigation: Empty folders marked classified found at Mar-a-Lago”
He probably means British F1
In the F1 driver list a third are non white
You have the Dutch driver Nyck de Vries who does look Indonesian like his grandfather. https://www.formula1.com/en/drivers.html
Stew, wasn’t there an Indian driver in F1 for one or two seasons, sorry BBC you will not know what I mean by Indian, a South Asian in Formula 1 for one or two seasons? Of course many years ago there was a Mexican or two, an Argentinian or two and a Brazilian or three but they were a bit white if you don’t count Ayrton as Silva. Pun intended.
Lewis Hamilton appears to be ignorant of the history of Formula One and motor racing in general. Anyone care to guess Prince Bira’s nationality or the make of car he drove in Grand Prix? Lewis might not be able to get it right.
Brazil
The Way the BBC reports the Brazil disorders is pretty raw far left bias. Demonstrations in favour of the far left new president are described as ‘pro democracy ‘ – allegations of fraud and corruption are just mentioned without any detail .
The result of the election isn’t mentioned apart from the lefty won . Any one not approved is – as usual – described as ‘far right ‘….
And naturally the false US President is completely supporting the Far left Brazilian one – I wonder what is the next election to be subverted by the Far Left ?
BTW – good news – the Richard Brandon ‘approved ‘ satellite launch failed last night – the 3 AAA batteries ran out – apparently …
Sometimes it’s really comforting that hype doesn’t work . The bbc reports that some bookshops opened at midnight to sell the book . And they interview some mentally affected woman who turns up at 6am when a Waterstones opened to buy a copy – she expected a queue around the block . But there was a queue of one .
Amazon discounted this self indulgent crap at 50% – I suspect in a month it will be discounted 80%.
Self-driving stroller aims to reduce parents’ stress – at cost of £2,700
Hands-free, AI buggy on display at CES 2023 automatically brakes, warns of danger and can pilot itself while empty
BBC Breakfast viewers cringe as ‘only one person’ in queue for Prince Harry’s memoir
BBC Breakfast viewers were left confused when just one woman was filmed queuing for Prince Harry’s tell-all memoir which hits shelves today.
Quite surprising that the BBC fact checkers haven’t been out defending EVs.
The Panglossian EV fan boys are getting all paranoid and doing the confession via projection thing after a few collisions with reality are documented in the UK press.
Since the recent uptake of electric vehicles in the UK has been so enormous, very understandably the reaction from the fossil fuel industry will be strident, noisy, determined and very very well funded. Expect a tsunami of negativity and absurd arguments.
12:05 am · 10 Jan 2023
“Since the recent uptake of electric vehicles in the UK has been so enormous, very understandably the reaction from the fossil fuel industry will be strident, noisy, determined and very very well funded. Expect a tsunami of negativity and absurd arguments.”
Gaslighting on stilts
#1 the media is filled with pro EV PR from the Greenblob
#2 The uptake of EVs is not enornous
#3 ” tsunami of negativity” about EVs will come from Fossil Fuel Industry .. an evidenceless conspiracy theory.
#4 UK EV’s are usually fueled by Fossil Fuels
His thread is an asylum for EV cultists
One tweets a story The fossil fuel industry has taken a leaf out of the Tobacco industry’s PR book.
road.cc “Greenwashing, pure and simple” – fury as Shell UK sponsors British Cycling
Members express shock at announcement of partnership, with many saying they will cancel their membership
What’s that ? A hyped up story by anti-Fossil-Fuel interests.. the exact opposite of what Robert Llewellyn says is happening
The famous book from one half of the seriously self-damaged famous couple is out now, pronounced NOWWW. Owww! Apparently, it was a bit of a JK Rowling moment with bookshops opening at midnight to cater for the rush. Alas and alack, alack and alas! The BBC did not inform me how long the queues were. I’m off to a well-known supermarket later, I wonder if I will be confronted by a display and have to avert my gaze.
Absolutely right. Er Harry, I don’t think anyone outside the noxious media could really give a toss. Our WH Smith has already discounted it by 50%. You’re just boring now.
Am back unscathed and ungazed from the supermarket trip. They used to sell books once upon a time. They used to sell computers and tablets and printers once upon a time. Now they have a phone concessionaire selling mobiles on which the twitteratti no doubt tweet.
The BBC want to put up your taxes. Even more.
Proof?
Three Toady articles in a row from 0710.
1. New treatment for diabetes. 100,000 will benefit at a cost of £6000 per year. Total cost to the NHS i.e. taxpayer. £600 million presumably. Not commented on. But will NICE approve it? Will the Tories allow it?
2. Whingeathon from the Federation of Small Businesses. Energy subsidies will be scaled back. Cost for the reversal. Not commented on.
So …two evil Tory stories.
3. In contrast, cuddly nice Labour want to help ‘hundreds of thousands’ (not challenged) who are not working but would ‘with the right help’. These are not working due to Ill-health or ‘being over 50’. Mmmm. Cost of schemes. Not commented on.
Pathetic reporting, pathetic interviewing. I say interviewing somewhat tongue in cheek. The sentimentalist, ‘bedside manner’ of JustRemainin is cringe-inducing,
Still, what would an organisation given £4 bn a year believe in, if not the magic money tree?
Today
Shameful interview between a lefty academic – Marge McMillan and our Justin – it started from the assumption that elections are not stolen – not corrupted – and all the ‘anti democracy ‘ is on the Right side of politics .
The approved view . Every thing else is ‘disinformation ‘ everything else is anti democratic . No one says the very act of protesting a corrupt result is democratic – it is ‘pro democracy ‘ –
Will a right wing party ever win an election again ? And if it does will the BBC be sending plane loads of ‘fact checkers ‘ to investigate the honesty of the vote ?
The longer you are exposed to the BBC the realisation that freedom / free speech is dying and likely to be dead in a decade – it there ….
@bbcsilentwitness subtly selling the normakity of immigration. Very clever scriptwriting to garner support. ' I am not an illegal I am an asylum seeker ' Its sickening what they will do to normalise this bollox
Maybe the bbc DU’h outfit is busy somewhere more newsworthy?
Three Labour MPs have received hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations from a firm that cannot be traced. Yvette Cooper,Wes Streeting and Dan Jarvis head the list !
Interesting piece. Folk ‘trying to fix’ smart watches.
Bloke in comments says he went to get his iPhone sorted but they failed. Back to the food bank then.
The H&S consequences are interesting given what they seem to be addressing in sunny Camden. As a vile landlord, PAT testing is top of mind. More lawyers in cities too.
The Men’s Shed here makes bird feeders and repair benches the local nitro pyros torch.
It’s the normal BLACK, GREEN, FEMALE
Instead of being about a normal Men’s Shed ..they have found a place where they can use a black women photo for the link pictures
and the article is tagged “climate”
plus uses the phrase “Climate Crisis”
Title : Repairing broken gadgets for a *greener future*
“If you use the language rules that your ideological opponent demands that you use, you cede (give up) the territory to them.” – {youtube – Jordan Peterson}
Migrant …. “a person who moves from one place to another in order to find work or better living conditions.”
Dreamer … a migrant with better dreams than anyone else.
Irregular … a migrant that is different to those who live in the place they are heading.
Undocumented .. a migrant who destroyed their documents for some reason.
Iranian Migrant .. a migrant leaving the wonderful world of Tolerant Islam to live in the Intolerant Western World.
‘groomed’ …. There were examples of children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent r*pes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone. Girls as young as 11 were raped by large numbers of male perpetrators. {Jay report}
Racist…. a word to hide 1400(estimate) child rapes over 16 years in 1 Town.
Islamophobe …. a word to stop you getting angry when 22 are murdered at a concert and your Prime Minister calls these people LOST.
Hate Crime .. words to stop you hating the government and leaders.
Brexit …. a word to describe racists and Islamophobe and people who like to hate things that are stupid.
I searched : #SilentWitness is the hashtag and a few people did complain about “asylum seekers” and “refugees” being crammed into the prog AGAIN.
But not many complained, I guess cos not many watch the prog any more
It seems almost every BBC drama is an opportunity to spew anti-British propaganda. #SilentWitness being the latest. Bad Britain, nasty Britain, treats 'refugees' so badly. #DefundtheBBC
Credit to Vile’s photo Ed on a food bank nurse who had to miss her daily replenishment stop to meet the skinny, but oddly healthy Asian not using our NHS.
Is the government failing to get a grip on striking unions?
The PM sounded optimistic as his ministers set out for talks with unions yesterday, but almost immediately nurses' unions said the meeting was "bitterly disappointing".
Surely time for Surkeer to announce a front bench comprised entirely of gobby wimmin of color junior doctors, so he is on his own at question time when every one is in every tv studio holding down their third jobs.
No questions on the council taxes in Wandsworth to be asked by media.
Actually although Sunak starts with “are you in business”
It is the homeless guy who then says he’d like to work in finance.
Many street people are into business
.. Heroin business, dope business, gay prostitution business
and have finance associates … who break your legs if you don’t pay
There was a time, some time in the past, when the formerly patriotic Mr AsI would have been saddened by headline reports such as these – nowadays, not so much:
UK space launch: Historic Cornwall rocket launch ends in failure (BBC)
Two British men missing in Ukraine, say officials (BBC)
The former article has the stamp of a typical eager BBC first ever about it – you know the sort of thing – as though this Virgin spaceship project were a woman or black: The first ever satellite mission launched from UK soil has ended in failure… word then came from the company that the rocket had suffered an “anomaly”… Cosmic Girl, the carrier 747 jet, returned safely to base… “It’s been really emotional,” said Melissa Thorpe, who heads the spaceport. (BBC)
It’s not unusual for aircraft to be named after a female – The Memphis Belle was famously a Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress. But the name of this plane with this satellite launch going off half-cock is simply begging for that quote from Rodney Trotter of Only Fools and Horses fame: “Cosmic”
Mr Hart from Virgin Orbit went to commiserate with his team in Cornwall, accompanied by UK science minister George Freeman. In a tweet, the minister made reference to the famous quote from 1960s US President John F Kennedy: “We do these things not because they are easy but because they are hard.” (BBC)
“Minister, you’re no Jack Kennedy” to borrow a remark made by Senator Lloyd Bentsen to Dan Quayle in response to Quayle’s mentioning the name of John F. Kennedy.
Speaking of some of the flotsome and jetsome of non-entities all but forgotten in the shadow of the great US presidents: Biden’s claim to presidential greatness (FT)
Meanwhile, in a country far, far away (to borrow from the Star Wars movie opening crawl): Two British nationals have gone missing in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine, Ukrainian police have said… doing voluntary work (BBC) – I guess we’ll take their word for that.
Mind you, there’s plenty of charity volunteering work required closer to home, for instance: We recruit, train and support our wonderful volunteers who make a difference to the lives of care homes residents… No one living in a care home should be lonely. Care Home Volunteers work with care homes to support elderly people across Swindon, Wiltshire and Bath and North East Somerset. (Care Home Volunteers)
One supposes vountary work out there frees up local men to do the fighting, thereby helping the war effort.
[H]is parents described the work he has been doing “delivering food and medicines and assisting elderly people move from near the battlefront of the war” In a statement issued to the media in New Zealand – where Mr Bagshaw lives… (BBC) – I thought back there in the headline both these two guys were British? Oh well, at least one of them has his excuse for not doing his voluntering in the UK since he isn’t local to Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath or North East Somerset… nor Ukraine, for that matter.
Let’s hope they are found safe and well anyway.
The formerly patriotic Mr AsI has heard no convincing argument as to what Britian’s interest is in fighting this costly war. What is our war aim and objective here? Raising the rainbow flag over the Kremlin? Putin is no worse a figure than Kim Jong-un or Xi Jinping. He’s no meaner to the gays than Qatar. I don’t see how Russia threatens Britain. If anything, the western-backed money-laundering sink Nato/EU-leaning Ukraine has been more of a threat to the integrity and way of life of the Russians.
One turns to what Mr AsI terms a formerly patriotic newspaper: Britain ready to lead way by sending Challenger tanks to Ukraine (Times)
“This could provide the punch needed to knock the Russians out of Ukraine” (Telegraph)- madness!
This could provoke an escalation in retaliation. Can we have a peace movement here now please? Where’s the Left in this country? The pacifists? The Greenham Common ladies? Million marchers against the Iraq war?
Where’s Wally?
How did this war get its boots on before Wally could tie his protest scarf?
Here’s Labour, busy being rehabilitated in the formerly Tory press: Ex-Tory minister quits party and backs Labour (Telegraph)
The FT feature Datawatch, perhaps unintentionally, captures for us a minor datapoint in the on-going muslimisation of Britain: Not so merry England… Young people in England are drinking less – or perhaps just not admitting to their drinking? % of respondents who did not drink
Come on FT, give us some solid data – not more of these filmsy survey opinion polls that have been heavily skewed by nudge marketing propaganda.
Speaking of which…
A bikini blonde, a bikini brunette and a black chap – that’s your frontpage Daily Mirror: The look of Love Island… Anna-May Robey, Shaq Muhammed and Lana Jenkins. Meet the new series hopefuls
We’ll conclude with a headline from the freebie Metro – it’s another tiresome Prince Harry report but one that this reader can readily endorse – both on the proximate subject matter and rather more widely: Britain Haz had enough
I think it’s an excellent idea to send all of Britain’s’ tanks to the Ukraine – those 3 tanks will make all the difference ….
… and if you recall – last summer there was talk that our last 3 tanks should be scrapped – so save the taxpayer money and send them to be scrapped by the Russians … those tanks could be replaced by about 20 diversity managers which the army really needs ….
The NHS has settled a legal dispute with private healthcare group Virgin Care for an undisclosed amount. The Labour Party said it was “scandalous” that the NHS had to defend a legal battle with the company, which is part of Richard Branson’s business empire.28 Nov 2017
UK space regulator issues Virgin Orbit licences ahead of UK launch
The UK Civil Aviation Authority issues the final licences to Virgin Orbit to undertake launch activities from the UK.
From:
Department for Transport, Civil Aviation Authority, UK Space Agency, and The Rt Hon Mark Harper MP
Published
21 December 2022
Establishing orbital launch capabilities in the UK is bringing investment and jobs into Cornwall and other regions across the UK. The growing space industry will boost innovation and is estimated to be worth £16.5 billion and support 47,000 jobs, with 2,500 apprentices opening the sector up to even more people.
More than 50 years ago, Britain became one of the first countries to develop its own indigenous satellite launcher. The Black Arrow rocket, launched from Woomera, placed the Prospero satellite into orbit on October 28th 1971. Despite this achievement, the programme had already been cancelled. Instead, the UK opted to use American Scout rockets, which NASA had offered for free. Oddly enough, the offer of free rockets was withdrawn as soon as Britain cancelled its own rocket programme…
Just a few years later, the market for launching communications satellites took off (no pun intended), in which Britain could have become a major player, had it continued with its own rocketry.
Britain is the only country in the world to have developed its own satellite launch system, and then walked away from it.
It’s worse than the Telegraph just quoting the minister
His Twitter account actually tweeted a premature success tweet
I’m guessing that was all done by his PR team who had tweets all lined up but send them too early
.. https://twitter.com/GeorgeFreemanMP/status/1612589258526674944
R4 Jim Al-Khalil show was good a food expert
and not the normal Climate angle that Jim likes his guests to have
Then right at the end
“You’ve taken a new job in Thailand”
“That’s right cos not only does it need help with food safety
it’s one of the top 10 countries that will be affected by Climate change”
.. Jim high fives him.
now a show with an activist who does trespass
wrote The Book of Trespass.
Here’s today’s application for the ‘you can’t make it up’ award,
In the Radio Times, there is a feature about a new BBC adaptation of Dickens’s ‘Great Expectations’.
There is a large picture.
Estella is black !!!!!!!!
Seems perfectly reasonable to me. Most British writers, including Charles Dickens, HG Wells, Jane Austen, the Brönte sisters, Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas, Robbie Burns, and not forgetting Chaucer, were black.
P.S. Spoiler alert: I obtained the above information from a preview edition of a book being prepared for this year’s Black Hysteria History Month, for use in schools.
“He’s showed us that the monarchy is not a team sport, it's more like survival of the fittest.”@maitlis and @jonsopel disagree over what Prince Harry’s revelations tell us about the monarchy's relationship with the press.
It is unclear what the documents relate to, the level of classification involved or why they were there.
A source familiar with the matter told CBS News the batch did not contain nuclear secrets and had been contained in a folder in a box with other unclassified papers.
You know that tedious thing I write about ‘red labour ‘ and ‘blue labour ‘ – being so politically near as to be the same ?
Well a blue Labour ex minister has left that party and joined the red one saying that she wants to have kier’s babies and red labour is the bestist party ever ….
… I prove my view ….. maybe there could be The Non Woke Party …..
She hasn’t actually joined Labour “Former Tory energy minister quits party and praises Labour competence
An MP for nine years, Mrs Perry O’Neill served as energy minister in Theresa May’s government for two years,
Then there’s the bloke who defected 1 years ago
“One of those politicians who received money from IX Wireless was Christian Wakeford, who was a Conservative MP at the time before defecting to the Labour Party in January 2022.”
‘Two British nationals have gone missing in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine, Ukrainian police have said.
Andrew Bagshaw, 48, and Christopher Parry, 28, were doing voluntary work, police said, and were last seen on Friday heading to the town of Soledar – where fighting has been intense.
The Foreign Office said it was “supporting the families”.
Mr Bagshaw’s parents said they “love him dearly” and were “immensely proud of all the work he has been doing”.’
Google search of Parry shows he also went missing here in Britain a year ago.
Why don’t the BBC mention this..
Makes you wonder what kind of special retard he and or his family are.
“Wake up: Support for rejoining the EU has reached a critical level,” warns Prof Sir John Curtice. “The Brexit case will have to be remade,” warns Curtice – Facts4EU agrees. Click here for ‘The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Truth about #Brexit and Rejoin’: https://t.co/4PUNunRYZ0pic.twitter.com/Kk00VNd58c
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.”
We are working with Westminster politicians and with other pro-Brexit organisations to fight back against the Rejoiner insurgency. We have less than two years until the next general election, when we simply don’t know what a potential change in government will mean. Our prediction is that this would result in us being taken back into the orbit of the EU’s empire by stealth.
‘Stealth’ being a particular speciality of the blob at the FCDO and the HO.
This week another disaster in Bidens catastrophic presidency comes to light with the failure to even begin to refil the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at a price the US government was comfortable paying.
This was blatant electioneering as it was done to lower the cost of fuel at the pump in the run up to the midterms, and as Americans are largely stupid, it worked, however that is corruption, and it is going to come at a price for the US people as the reserve is running dangerously low.
Bidens presidency has been a disaster, with the world heading no just to a recession but a depression in spite of the head in the clouds pronouncements of ‘transitory’, or soft landing, and we will be the ones to suffer.
The so called ‘cost of living crisis’ which would be more accurately called the cost of Socialism crisis is a direct consequence of Bidens reckless money printing, as is the out of control inflation.
I could go on but I think everyone here knows the issues Biden has caused the world.
I have it on good authority that the clapped out 747 from Dicky Branson was piloted by Virgin Airlines staff using gender-affirming uniforms and using personal pronouns.
‘Any kind of failure, it’s how you react to it, so for us it’s to get right back up again,” said Melissa Thorpe, who heads the spaceport.’
I don’t know if her role had anything at all to do with it – but as an experienced engineer, this is exactly the kind of thing I would expect to start happening more often when people are given jobs to meet quotas instead of by ability.
When I worked at BAE SYSTEMS, I saw several examples of women being put into team-leader positions who were not remotely competent to do it. They ended up being more like secretaries whose sole purpose was to report progress in management meetings and spent most of their time at the photocopier. They had little to do with the actual engineering going on below them.
It’s not just engineering. I worked in the ‘technical’ side of insurance and, when a branch closed, the ex branch manager was made the manager (position made up for her) of our department (all 2 of us). It was clear from the beginning that she didn’t have a clue what we did and she pretty much left us to our own devices.
lol, when I was there as a subcontractor I had a female team-leader whose sole purpose was to ask me how long things would take and report my progress in management meetings. I was the only one on her ‘team’.
She once said ‘If software is the most complicated thing man engineers then the system it is in must be more complicated’.
Which of course is why they needed subcontractors.
that said – Beardy’s booster has been a thing for a while and they’ve tested in California how many times?
If you’re going to iterate the wrinkles out – surely better to do it close to engineering support (the factory) before dragging your kit 5000 miles only to dump your client’s kit in the oggin.
There’s a lot of cash sloshing about but somebody’s maybe been pressured to go live too early…
Rockets are hard – but actually this is embarrassing – not least the “look at us! ” from George Freeman.
Guessing Scott Manley on YouTube will have a piece on this at some stage.
Remember when Gordon Broon erased/removed/expunged his “No More Boom and Bust” budget speech from the Treasury web site after the 2008 financial crisis?
There’s picture of the idiot woman with her copy of the Harry Hewitt book at Waterstones Piccadilly at 6 this morning . There must be a dozen plus photographers taking a picture of the ‘queue ‘ – being her.
I actually feel a bit sorry for the clickers having to get up and go to that ‘gig’ …. The booksellers seem to be claiming it’s ‘ok – there were loads of pre – orders ‘…..
Must be time to throw more petrol on the fire Harry ….
Here’s the first review on Amazon. There are more written in the same extreme style:
The searing image of Prince Harry and his brother Prince William walking behind their mother’s coffin is etched in all of our minds. And what I notice throughout is the most seismic event of Harry’s life, when he tragically lost his mother at the age of 12, which shapes the book. There are some interesting (sometimes funny) anecdotes about his royal life when he was younger, but threaded across the pages are also incredibly raw and emotional moments. What is also conveyed very deeply is the pitiful life of “the Spare” – often feeling as though your life has no value, no ultimate mission/goal, you have nothing to offer because you will never wear the Crown. As Prince Harry himself says, when his whole life has been told through the lens of the media, why should he not be able to (finally) tell his own story from the man who lived it! It is undeniably depressing that Harry and Meghan felt they couldn’t continue in their royal roles. They could have been a huge force for good, supporting communities in the UK and the Commonwealth, representing a true Modern Monarchy with their enviable platform and privilege. Leaked excerpts of The Duke’s memoirs don’t do his story justice. The book as a whole is a must read! Highly recommend 🙂
It’s completely obvious these reviews are fake. They are completely over the top. They tried the same thing in the DT comments years ago and got called out immediately then quickly disappeared.
Everything we see and hear from the media nowadays is lies. It’s now 100% about profit. That’s where globalisation inevitably leads. Which of course is why they want it : they can influence every part of lives to feed their greed.
Amazon is accused of removing negative reviews of Hillary Clinton’s campaign book ‘Stronger Together’ after readers slated it online
Clinton’s book Stronger Together has seen slow sales since its release
It’s also been subject to numerous scathing reviews of Amazon page
But some readers noticed that numbers of negative reviews went down
By KHALEDA RAHMAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 01:07, 27 September 2016 | UPDATED: 08:07, 27 September 2016
<The shop had hoped that Harry fans would flock to their store, with 400 books delivered before midnight. However only 12 were sold – three to Prof Imafidon – and the others to a small number of late night travellers passing by> https://t.co/4E1m8vyUQBpic.twitter.com/9hd4c0ZyoJ
'Royal secrets spill off the pages of the 416 page memoir from the Duke of Sussex. Prince Harry describing what it was like growing up, in what he sees, as Prince William's shadow.'@CameronDLWalker reports as Prince Harry’s highly anticipated memoir ‘Spare’ hits book shelves. pic.twitter.com/ATu8w5OT8l
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“Comment posted by Dan Dan Dan Dan, today at 12:01Dan Dan Dan Dan
12:01
Currently paying £1600 a month in rent. Haven;t missed a rental payment in 9 years. Would love to be paying £1600 a month off my mortgage instead, but don’t have the 30 grand I would need for a deposit, and it’ll take 15 years to save it. I, like many, are stuck. I cancelled my Netflix and everything!!”
Note Dan Dan has cancelled Netflix. TV licence also cancelled?
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I hope ‘and everything ‘ includes the TV licence
….
..I caught a happily very confusing advert on the BBC of some bloke shredding a TV icebreaker and I think being told it’s all electronic now ….
I hope it acts more as a reminder for people to stop paying any TV licence – it seems the only dissent available now that the blue Labour Party has signalled the BBC is safe through the non privatisation of the comrades at C4 …
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what did I learn on my short car journey this morning from 909
President lula ,some saintly politician in brazil, (no affiliation given must be some sort of centrist) is defending democracy from the far right
far right bolseonaro is linked to far-right trump
and all their far-right supporters are conspiracy theorists
the far-right brazilian police are not stopping the far-right running amok
this may lead to a far-right coup
thanks BBC how very balanced and informative of you
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The BBC narrative is that thousands of “far right” Bolsonaro supporters, for no reason at all, have decided to occupy Brasilia. Why should that be? Clearly, it is not because of electoral fraud, because the BBC assures us that this is not possible. One can only conclude that these people are stupid, and have no idea why they are doing this.
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My 5 minutes of Today on Monday morning, was a diatribe by Marianna Spring (is that her name) likening what is happening in Brazil to what happened in the US last January. She said a lot of the uprising had been organised on social media, blamed Elon for sacking the Brazilian staff who had been blocking the protestors. There was not an ounce of irony between her and whichever presenter it was, that it was ok for social media to block people whose ideas they don’t agree with.
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‘Misinformation ‘ seems to be defined as something the (far) left doesn’t agree with …. I wonder sometimes whether the likes of the BBC girl are so driven by ambition thar they suppress reality or they are just really thick ….
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Anything that comes from the Springster is left misinformation and consequently patently a lie. As I have said in previous posts the bBBC mantra from her is that misinformation is anything that is contrary to their opinion. She really is not very bright.
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Hands up all those offered a pay rise this year…
Oh, just you health workers and rail folk then…
Hands up all those not offered a pay rise this year…
Oh just everybody else then…
Hands up all those going on strike….
Oh just you health workers and rail workers then…
Hands up all those not going on strike…
Oh all the rest of you then….
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Key essential workers.
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Angels, everyone of them.
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NHS nurse who used voodoo magic to force Nigerian women to work as prostitutes in Europe so she could fund a lavish lifestyle is found GUILTY of trafficking in the first case of its kind
Nurse lived double life between south London estate and mansion in Nigeria
She used a witch doctor in Nigeria to convince village girls they were under spell
They were trafficked to Europe in horrific conditions before working in Germany
Ground-breaking investigation and prosecution lead to her being convicted
By RICHARD SPILLETT, CRIME CORRESPONDENT FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 15:40, 28 June 2018 | UPDATED: 01:52, 29 June 2018
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Last weeks Call the Midwife managed to shoehorn in a Lesbian story (3% of relationships are gay according to the recently published census data) amongst the main political target of the week – racism.
And the even more specific target was Enoch Powell.
Let’s fast forward a few years to an incident I remember when a presenter, possibly Robin Day, was reviewing the politics of the previous period with a Labour MP and a Tory MP. He asked each of them who on the opposite benches did they admire/ impressed them the most.
No less a person than Barbara Castle identified Enoch Powell as the most impressive Tory, particularly praising his powers of analysis. There was no mention of racism.
Clear evidence of the biased agenda/ narrative of these BBC programmes, today painting Powell as evil when even his fiercest opponents at the time rated him as the best.
What would he make of where we are now? ‘I told you so’ wouldn’t come close.
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From the DT piece I put up earlier it seems that BBC commissioning committees have a ‘queer seat’ no double between the ‘Muslim seat ‘ and the ‘coloured seat’..
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Yellow Chinese seat?
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“queer seat”
Surely a bar stool turned upside down ?
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No, that would take 4 queers, think of the spats they would have.
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I know I know it was my ‘carry on ‘ gene ‘coming out ‘ if you know what I mean matron
… but the ‘complexion ‘ of the BBC commissioning committee must be really something ..…
No wonder they make so much dross ….
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The BBC now believes it has the answer to what the demographics of a truly diverse company should look like …
“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}”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41265644
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Powell’s greatest problem was the self-obsessed and paranoid Heath. He saw Enoch as someone capable of logical and sensible arguments against his mania for joining the EEC at all costs – as we now know.
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Ok – so I didn’t see all of the Harry Hewitt- Windsor show on the ITV … but I did notice the ‘sniffing ‘… I’ve now seen a bit of the 60 minutes thing … and there is more ‘sniffing ‘… perhaps it’s a nervous thing – or he has a cold – or something else …
Actually – who cares ? Sorry to have wasted your time with this comment .. sniff …
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Political giants from Mhairi Black to St. Jac salute you.
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Wise words
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Want to ensure your own self destruction and permanent banishment from British society and the british public ?
1) Publicly attack the royal family, including the King and Queen Consort
2) Publicly attack the powers behind the throne
3) Get your wife to take the newspapers to court
4) Publicly attack the british press and journalists
5) Publicly embarrass your former colleagues in the British army
Job done.
BTW your wife, who caused most of this, doesn’t care she is happy over there, after she leaves you and bleeds you dry, you have a reckoning coming.
Your only supporters are professional race baiting grifters, antifa anarchists and their libtard fans.
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Anything, no matter what, including the temporary income tax, prescription charges and dental charges, etc etc once they cost even just a penny, will rise and rise and rise, once the principle of charging is established.
Here we go:
“Middle-class families could face ‘modest’ charges to see GP and have routine ops under plans put forward by veteran Tory Ken Clarke to save the NHS”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11614055/Middle-class-face-modest-charges-use-GPs-minor-ops-plans-save-NHS.html
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The other weasel words recently used are ‘pay a little bit more ‘- ‘those with the broadest shoulders ‘…
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The Income Tax Act 1842[1] (citation 5 & 6 Vict c. 35) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, passed under the government of Robert Peel, which re-introduced an income tax in Britain, at the rate of 7 pence (2.9%, there then being 240 pence in the pound) in the pound on all annual incomes greater than £150. It was the first imposition of income tax in Britain outside of wartime. Although promoted as a temporary measure, income tax has been levied continually in Britain ever since. In its detail, the Act of 1842 was substantially similar to the Income Tax Act 1803 introduced by Henry Addington during the Napoleonic Wars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_Tax_Act_1842
Charges on medications were introduced in 1952, by the Conservative government of Winston Churchill, at a rate of one shilling per prescription.
Now £9.35
An online inflation calculator suggests £0.05 in 1952 is worth £1.84 today
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Instead ofpiling more and more money at the anychess, how about removing all work on operations that are not required e.g.:
Male circumcision
Breast enlargement
Breast reduction
Fertility treatment
Erectile dysfunction
Cosmetic surgery (unless to fix accidents or cancer)
Abortion
etc etc
If the above are required then they could be done privately.
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atlas- shrugged
For gender re-assignment suggest a Stanley knife and bottle of disinfectant on prescription.
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atlas, think male circumcision will be done for free by the local Rabbi.
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Prince Harry hints at moving to Africa: ‘I feel more like myself’
By Brad HamiltonOctober 19, 2019 | 6:04pm
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Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, arrive to meet Graca Machel, the widow of the late Nelson Mandela, in Johannesburg, South Africa on Oct. 2.
https://pagesix.com/2019/10/19/prince-harry-hints-at-moving-to-africa-i-feel-more-like-myself/
Prince Harry hints at moving to Africa: ‘I feel more like myself’
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are happy to be out in Africa — and plan to devote themselves to improving the continent.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are happy to be out in Africa — and plan to devote themselves to improving the continent.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are happy to be out in Africa — and plan to devote themselves to improving the continent.
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If the strikers believe they deserve this 10%+ pay rise because of inflation then logic would say that EVERYBODY working in the UK should get a 10%+ pay rise.
It’s only fair.
Also, if the firemen reckon that they cannot live on only £32,000 a year then surely that means nobody else can live on that amount and it should be the new minimum wage (when they get their rise added)
That would be good news for the big majority of people getting much less than this, especially the older pensioners on the full (if they’ve paid in enough) pension of less than a quarter of the fireman’s pittance.
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So UK MPs get an 18% pay rise (since 2010) but still don’t have to buy tickets ….???
Changes to the Register of Members’ Interests
Chuka Umunna
Name of donor: Pinewood Studios Group
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: two tickets to the BAFTA Film Awards to the value of £1,920 in total
Donor status: company, registration 3889552
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=24950
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/10/21/start-the-week-open-thread-22-october-2018/#comment-948330
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2012 report based on FOIs found that NHS trusts (that responded) spent £23.3m on translation services in 2010/11. We don’t have recent or complete figures for how much the NHS has spent on translators because no one collects that information. We can’t find a reliable source for the 128 languages figure.
https://fullfact.org/online/nhs-translators-cost/
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https://order-order.com/2023/01/09/tory-mp-jokes-channel-4-is-so-left-wing-it-makes-the-bbc-look-neutral/
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Matt Hancock’s Turkish odyssey continues. Today he was spotted at a counterfeit brand market in Istanbul, browsing the various well-priced garments and soaking in the sunshine. Parliament returned today. Still no evidence of glistening white teeth or youthful new hairline. Not yet…
order-order.com
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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
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Bolsinaro didn’t kill himself
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Taken from a weather twitter feed:
“The media like nothing more than “ruined” holidays& will milk it. Mind, I started skiing 55yrs ago & one thing I’ve learned is that skiing the alps before mid-Jan has always been risky. Sure, not as poor as start of this season but you’re pushing your luck for good conditions.”
I would say the media love nothing more than a story they can spin in aid of the climate scam, which they have been doing with a vengence. As I said regarding the recent cold weather in the US, that will be completely overlooked as is the phenomenal cold bottled up in Russia and some parts of Eastern Europe at the moment.
Nor is it likely they will report this either:
“Quite amusing how barren ski slopes in Alps are getting media coverage, the heavy snow has began and over 1m (100cm) of snow is forecast in French Alps over next few days.”
Of course the medja luvvies want their posh expensive Christmas skiing holidays to be just perfect and will use their tools to moan if it is any less than. The truth however is something quite different to how they are portraying it, which is perhaps nothing unusual.
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We only have to cast our minds back less than six months, when the British meeja were behaving as though this country would never see rain again.
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Interesting to see if anyone else has experienced this. Several years ago I managed to register with an NHS dentist. They have become over recent years very similar to my local doctors-completely useless.
As an example, my doctor’s surgery moved a couple of years ago from a rather nice suburban detached house to a purpose built practice half a mile down the road. When I pointed out to a ‘receptionist’ in not so many words how service had gone downhill since they moved. I was told ‘that’s the price you pay for progress’ ! (They also like to blame Covid) I have given up on my doctors and believe there are no doctors actually working there-just holograms. A friend who lives in Cumbria, having moved from the south coast tells me apart from the colder weather, in comparison, there is little traffic on the roads and he can walk into his doctors without an appointment. I do accept with an increasing population from such things as dinghies there are increasing pressures on all services, without a corresponding increase in numbers of doctors, practice nurses etc.
Sorry I digress. With regard to my dentist, or should I say my ex-dentist, after several cancellations of a routine check up I was told today ‘We only have two NHS dentists and unless it’s an emergency there are no routine appointments and we cannot accommodate you (indefinitely).However we can accept a private appointment. Would you like to make one’?
Mrs Concrete is private already. Her patience ran out long ago and it appears that her annual check up and polish costs around £70. My NHS was around £26 twice a year. Apart from the fact that they never answer the phone despite the 3 receptionists busily painting their nails and texting or something similar, with the usual phone message’ Your call is important to us’ blah blah….. (It‘s not.We all know that).
I actually think non private patients are no longer wanted and we are all being pushed towards the private route. I would have suggested that NHS dentists go on strike, but it won’t make a jot of difference to most.
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I gave upon nhs dentists a while ago.
They weren’t cheaper because they caused me long term problems through their sheer uselessness.
If you can find a competent one you’re very lucky.
Before covid all the dentists were already mostly booked up a good while in advance.
I doubt they’ll get over the idiotic covid lockdowns and extra dental problems thus caused anytime soon.
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You should be concerned when the waiting room, instead of containing old Readers Digests is piled with “investment opportunities with our dental practice ” leaflets.
And tooth pulling is the first (because cheapest) option
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‘ole Anjem knows how to wind ’em up
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How is he still allowed to breath ?
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New from Glenn Greenwald : What really happened in Brazil yesterday?
starts with US CNN being zany “WE the US are the world’s OLDEST democracy clearly the world watches us on January 6th”
https://rumble.com/v24mywg-what-really-happened-in-brazil-yesterday-system-update-18.html
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8pm BBC1 regional We Are Englandgprogs varied, we got
Our Toxteth Cycle Club
With 74% of people from ethnic minority groups having never cycled, one Liverpool-based organisation aims to get more diverse groups interested and active in cycling.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h0cx
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‘Child migrants Britain let in were BALDING and BEARDED’ – fresh claim
DOZENS of adult migrants posed as children to get into Britain, a former Border Force chief admitted last night.
By GILES SHELDRICK EXCLUSIVE
00:01, Thu, Dec 14, 2017 | UPDATED: 22:55, Thu, Dec 14, 2017
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Do you think this is a purely American problem and it isn’t / doesn’t happen here?
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Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook restricting a story about Joe Biden’s son during the 2020 election was based on FBI misinformation warnings.
The New York Post alleged leaked emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop showed the then vice-president was helping his son’s business dealings in Ukraine.
Facebook and Twitter restricted sharing of the article, before reversing course amid allegations of censorship.
Zuckerberg said that getting the decision wrong “sucks”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62688532
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Is it possible to get Rumble video embeds working here?
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I don’t think so
and Rumble video quality is high, so uses big memory
so it might make the page slow.
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That was the case a while back – but is it still the case now?
I’ve not tinkered with and measured the comparison myself…
It’s clearly in Rumble’s interest to feature match as far as they can the Alphabet-YT offering.
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Most social media types do embed automatically here
If in your comment you post the normal full URL on a fresh line
(not the mobile version, so for Twitter you change .mobile to .www)
That’s cos of the WordPress template comment handling,
That template doesn’t include Rumble
cos my comment above didn’t automatically embed.
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What kind of monstrously ignorant f-ing eejit thinks that they can *extradite* a legitimate visa’d visitor back to their country of origin?
really?
Ah … AOC … the lady that wouldn’t accept Corbyn’s invite to London 🙂
Meanwhile the Brazilian Supreme Court has gone absolutely nutso repressive – BIG TIME.
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This one:
See some of her deleted tweets
https://projects.propublica.org/politwoops/user/AOC
2019
“It is one thing for a sitting president to break the law. It’s another to let him.
The integrity of our democracy isn’t threatened when a president breaks the law. It‘s threatened when we do nothing about it.
The GOP’s silence & refusal to act shouldn’t be a surprise. Ours is.”
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AOC – a reminder that the supreme being wasn’t even handed in the distribution and arrangement of brain cells and that deficit of same brain cells is not a barrier to high public office.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Brings ‘Tax The Rich’ Message to New York’s Elite
The Democrat used the Met Gala — where tickets cost $35,000 each and business tycoons mingle with celebrities — to make a political statement.
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Potentially classified files found at Biden private office
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64218179
Only potentially where biden is concerned, but has to bring Trump into it and slate him
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“potentially” indeed
The devious tripe from the anonymous cubicle creeps at Broadcasting House is endless.
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BBC, where Trump is the subject:
“Trump search warrant: FBI took top secret files from Mar-a-Lago”
And:
“Documents stored at former President Donald Trump’s Florida home were likely concealed as part of an effort to obstruct an FBI investigation, Department of Justice officials say.”
And:
“Trump investigation: Empty folders marked classified found at Mar-a-Lago”
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3 things today the bBC loves:-
2 people propose at the same time
Pianos are thrown away
and grammar
#defund
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Lewis Hamilton: Race an obstacle to making it in Formula 1
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-london-64178490
bBC promotes racist organisation, the Hamilton Commission. Which only helps black people
So many organisations only promote by colour – surely this is racist. Imagine promoting only white people – the outrage
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and yet the berk Hamilton has won how many titles?
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He probably means British F1
In the F1 driver list a third are non white
You have the Dutch driver Nyck de Vries who does look Indonesian like his grandfather.
https://www.formula1.com/en/drivers.html
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Stew, wasn’t there an Indian driver in F1 for one or two seasons, sorry BBC you will not know what I mean by Indian, a South Asian in Formula 1 for one or two seasons? Of course many years ago there was a Mexican or two, an Argentinian or two and a Brazilian or three but they were a bit white if you don’t count Ayrton as Silva. Pun intended.
Lewis Hamilton appears to be ignorant of the history of Formula One and motor racing in general. Anyone care to guess Prince Bira’s nationality or the make of car he drove in Grand Prix? Lewis might not be able to get it right.
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Brazil
The Way the BBC reports the Brazil disorders is pretty raw far left bias. Demonstrations in favour of the far left new president are described as ‘pro democracy ‘ – allegations of fraud and corruption are just mentioned without any detail .
The result of the election isn’t mentioned apart from the lefty won . Any one not approved is – as usual – described as ‘far right ‘….
And naturally the false US President is completely supporting the Far left Brazilian one – I wonder what is the next election to be subverted by the Far Left ?
BTW – good news – the Richard Brandon ‘approved ‘ satellite launch failed last night – the 3 AAA batteries ran out – apparently …
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The BBC’s output across near all its fields of activity is either farcically skewed or farcically abridged.
Is that true -or- did you hear it from the BBC?
Starve the beast
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63728020
– can we sail the entire 21,000. £4 billion BBC workforce to the central Pacific and have them find out?
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Could floating solar farms survive out at sea?
No.
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https://cliscep.com/2023/01/10/solar-fantasies-at-the-bbc/
Been in a storm out there.
No, too.
Still not convinced on 25yr lifespans for moving parts in aggressive cold, high wind. salt water environments either.
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Spare
Sometimes it’s really comforting that hype doesn’t work . The bbc reports that some bookshops opened at midnight to sell the book . And they interview some mentally affected woman who turns up at 6am when a Waterstones opened to buy a copy – she expected a queue around the block . But there was a queue of one .
Amazon discounted this self indulgent crap at 50% – I suspect in a month it will be discounted 80%.
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I hope they’ve printed enough copies to get us all through the coming cold snap.
Perhaps Drax has its uses recycling trees?
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It reminds me of Alan Partridge watching thousands of copies of his autobiography getting pulped.
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BBC Moaning Emole
“Readers queue for Prince’s memoir”
All in the marketing.
Which requires relentless #prasnews from idiots for idiots.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/07/do-you-need-a-3300-self-driving-stroller-to-be-a-good-parent-no-but-marketers-want-you-to-think-so?
Vile first in line? Maybe TVL can do a deal with a bottle of flavoured water?
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Self-driving stroller aims to reduce parents’ stress – at cost of £2,700
Hands-free, AI buggy on display at CES 2023 automatically brakes, warns of danger and can pilot itself while empty
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/04/self-driving-stroller-aims-to-lessen-parents-stress-at-cost-of-3300
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I enjoyed this on Guardian Twitter
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BBC Breakfast viewers cringe as ‘only one person’ in queue for Prince Harry’s memoir
BBC Breakfast viewers were left confused when just one woman was filmed queuing for Prince Harry’s tell-all memoir which hits shelves today.
https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1719177/bbc-breakfast-prince-harry-book-queue
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The GBnews reporter said it was about 40 reporters and one customer.
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Quite surprising that the BBC fact checkers haven’t been out defending EVs.
The Panglossian EV fan boys are getting all paranoid and doing the confession via projection thing after a few collisions with reality are documented in the UK press.
Man who pretends to be a stupid robot on telly is a stupid robot in real life and is surrounded by a crowd of clapping seals.
The BBC will schedule him in somewhere.
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Since the recent uptake of electric vehicles in the UK has been so enormous, very understandably the reaction from the fossil fuel industry will be strident, noisy, determined and very very well funded. Expect a tsunami of negativity and absurd arguments.
12:05 am · 10 Jan 2023
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“Since the recent uptake of electric vehicles in the UK has been so enormous, very understandably the reaction from the fossil fuel industry will be strident, noisy, determined and very very well funded. Expect a tsunami of negativity and absurd arguments.”
Gaslighting on stilts
#1 the media is filled with pro EV PR from the Greenblob
#2 The uptake of EVs is not enornous
#3 ” tsunami of negativity” about EVs will come from Fossil Fuel Industry .. an evidenceless conspiracy theory.
#4 UK EV’s are usually fueled by Fossil Fuels
His thread is an asylum for EV cultists
One tweets a story
The fossil fuel industry has taken a leaf out of the Tobacco industry’s PR book.
road.cc “Greenwashing, pure and simple” – fury as Shell UK sponsors British Cycling
Members express shock at announcement of partnership, with many saying they will cancel their membership
What’s that ? A hyped up story by anti-Fossil-Fuel interests.. the exact opposite of what Robert Llewellyn says is happening
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TOADY Watch #1 – was it more kind not to say …. ?
The famous book from one half of the seriously self-damaged famous couple is out now, pronounced NOWWW. Owww! Apparently, it was a bit of a JK Rowling moment with bookshops opening at midnight to cater for the rush. Alas and alack, alack and alas! The BBC did not inform me how long the queues were. I’m off to a well-known supermarket later, I wonder if I will be confronted by a display and have to avert my gaze.
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Absolutely right. Er Harry, I don’t think anyone outside the noxious media could really give a toss. Our WH Smith has already discounted it by 50%. You’re just boring now.
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Am back unscathed and ungazed from the supermarket trip. They used to sell books once upon a time. They used to sell computers and tablets and printers once upon a time. Now they have a phone concessionaire selling mobiles on which the twitteratti no doubt tweet.
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The BBC want to put up your taxes. Even more.
Proof?
Three Toady articles in a row from 0710.
1. New treatment for diabetes. 100,000 will benefit at a cost of £6000 per year. Total cost to the NHS i.e. taxpayer. £600 million presumably. Not commented on. But will NICE approve it? Will the Tories allow it?
2. Whingeathon from the Federation of Small Businesses. Energy subsidies will be scaled back. Cost for the reversal. Not commented on.
So …two evil Tory stories.
3. In contrast, cuddly nice Labour want to help ‘hundreds of thousands’ (not challenged) who are not working but would ‘with the right help’. These are not working due to Ill-health or ‘being over 50’. Mmmm. Cost of schemes. Not commented on.
Pathetic reporting, pathetic interviewing. I say interviewing somewhat tongue in cheek. The sentimentalist, ‘bedside manner’ of JustRemainin is cringe-inducing,
Still, what would an organisation given £4 bn a year believe in, if not the magic money tree?
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Today
Shameful interview between a lefty academic – Marge McMillan and our Justin – it started from the assumption that elections are not stolen – not corrupted – and all the ‘anti democracy ‘ is on the Right side of politics .
The approved view . Every thing else is ‘disinformation ‘ everything else is anti democratic . No one says the very act of protesting a corrupt result is democratic – it is ‘pro democracy ‘ –
Will a right wing party ever win an election again ? And if it does will the BBC be sending plane loads of ‘fact checkers ‘ to investigate the honesty of the vote ?
The longer you are exposed to the BBC the realisation that freedom / free speech is dying and likely to be dead in a decade – it there ….
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About time for a hard right Christian backpacker taking out Corrie during a Burnham photo op, surely?
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Maybe the bbc DU’h outfit is busy somewhere more newsworthy?
All at it, but top of the list surely deserves applause.
Dr. Shola seldom shares her expertise at the local Men’s Shed, but when she does, it is with a body positive assistant.
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Dear Darren Henry,
Can you tell me what these actual items are? Seems you have a lot of items under a generic name.
14/04/2020 Office Costs Banner March 2020 Stationery & printing £423.70
11/03/2020 Office Costs Banner February 2020 Stationery & printing £423.70
https://www.mpsexpenses.info/?#!/mp/993 https://www.theipsa.org.uk/mp-staffing-business-costs/your-mp/darren-henry/4794
Also, what are you buying from Amazon – no details of the actual item paid for … May 2020 AMAZON.CO.UK [***] £97.98 view details
Yours sincerely,
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Interesting piece. Folk ‘trying to fix’ smart watches.
Bloke in comments says he went to get his iPhone sorted but they failed. Back to the food bank then.
The H&S consequences are interesting given what they seem to be addressing in sunny Camden. As a vile landlord, PAT testing is top of mind. More lawyers in cities too.
The Men’s Shed here makes bird feeders and repair benches the local nitro pyros torch.
D’frent strokes in the shires.
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It’s the normal BLACK, GREEN, FEMALE
Instead of being about a normal Men’s Shed ..they have found a place where they can use a black women photo for the link pictures
and the article is tagged “climate”
plus uses the phrase “Climate Crisis”
Title : Repairing broken gadgets for a *greener future*
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“If you use the language rules that your ideological opponent demands that you use, you cede (give up) the territory to them.” – {youtube – Jordan Peterson}
Migrant …. “a person who moves from one place to another in order to find work or better living conditions.”
Dreamer … a migrant with better dreams than anyone else.
Irregular … a migrant that is different to those who live in the place they are heading.
Undocumented .. a migrant who destroyed their documents for some reason.
Iranian Migrant .. a migrant leaving the wonderful world of Tolerant Islam to live in the Intolerant Western World.
‘groomed’ …. There were examples of children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent r*pes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone. Girls as young as 11 were raped by large numbers of male perpetrators. {Jay report}
Racist…. a word to hide 1400(estimate) child rapes over 16 years in 1 Town.
Islamophobe …. a word to stop you getting angry when 22 are murdered at a concert and your Prime Minister calls these people LOST.
Hate Crime .. words to stop you hating the government and leaders.
Brexit …. a word to describe racists and Islamophobe and people who like to hate things that are stupid.
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I searched : #SilentWitness is the hashtag and a few people did complain about “asylum seekers” and “refugees” being crammed into the prog AGAIN.
But not many complained, I guess cos not many watch the prog any more
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Credit to Vile’s photo Ed on a food bank nurse who had to miss her daily replenishment stop to meet the skinny, but oddly healthy Asian not using our NHS.
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Meanwhile, lest certain media decide to bash selectively on pressures…
Surely time for Surkeer to announce a front bench comprised entirely of gobby wimmin of color junior doctors, so he is on his own at question time when every one is in every tv studio holding down their third jobs.
No questions on the council taxes in Wandsworth to be asked by media.
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‘Deeply worrying’ research suggests 25% of nurses in England are obese
05 DECEMBER, 2017 BY JO STEPHENSON
https://www.nursingtimes.net/news/research-and-innovation/deeply-worrying-research-suggests-25-of-nurses-in-england-are-obese-05-12-2017/
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Did he ask if she has is a business owner?
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Actually although Sunak starts with “are you in business”
It is the homeless guy who then says he’d like to work in finance.
Many street people are into business
.. Heroin business, dope business, gay prostitution business
and have finance associates … who break your legs if you don’t pay
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Wasn’t there something about obesity leading to huge strain on the NHS?
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Not so merry England edition
There was a time, some time in the past, when the formerly patriotic Mr AsI would have been saddened by headline reports such as these – nowadays, not so much:
UK space launch: Historic Cornwall rocket launch ends in failure (BBC)
Two British men missing in Ukraine, say officials (BBC)
The former article has the stamp of a typical eager BBC first ever about it – you know the sort of thing – as though this Virgin spaceship project were a woman or black: The first ever satellite mission launched from UK soil has ended in failure… word then came from the company that the rocket had suffered an “anomaly”… Cosmic Girl, the carrier 747 jet, returned safely to base… “It’s been really emotional,” said Melissa Thorpe, who heads the spaceport. (BBC)
It’s not unusual for aircraft to be named after a female – The Memphis Belle was famously a Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress. But the name of this plane with this satellite launch going off half-cock is simply begging for that quote from Rodney Trotter of Only Fools and Horses fame: “Cosmic”
Mr Hart from Virgin Orbit went to commiserate with his team in Cornwall, accompanied by UK science minister George Freeman. In a tweet, the minister made reference to the famous quote from 1960s US President John F Kennedy: “We do these things not because they are easy but because they are hard.” (BBC)
“Minister, you’re no Jack Kennedy” to borrow a remark made by Senator Lloyd Bentsen to Dan Quayle in response to Quayle’s mentioning the name of John F. Kennedy.
Speaking of some of the flotsome and jetsome of non-entities all but forgotten in the shadow of the great US presidents: Biden’s claim to presidential greatness (FT)
Meanwhile, in a country far, far away (to borrow from the Star Wars movie opening crawl): Two British nationals have gone missing in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine, Ukrainian police have said… doing voluntary work (BBC) – I guess we’ll take their word for that.
Mind you, there’s plenty of charity volunteering work required closer to home, for instance: We recruit, train and support our wonderful volunteers who make a difference to the lives of care homes residents… No one living in a care home should be lonely. Care Home Volunteers work with care homes to support elderly people across Swindon, Wiltshire and Bath and North East Somerset. (Care Home Volunteers)
One supposes vountary work out there frees up local men to do the fighting, thereby helping the war effort.
[H]is parents described the work he has been doing “delivering food and medicines and assisting elderly people move from near the battlefront of the war” In a statement issued to the media in New Zealand – where Mr Bagshaw lives… (BBC) – I thought back there in the headline both these two guys were British? Oh well, at least one of them has his excuse for not doing his voluntering in the UK since he isn’t local to Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath or North East Somerset… nor Ukraine, for that matter.
Let’s hope they are found safe and well anyway.
The formerly patriotic Mr AsI has heard no convincing argument as to what Britian’s interest is in fighting this costly war. What is our war aim and objective here? Raising the rainbow flag over the Kremlin? Putin is no worse a figure than Kim Jong-un or Xi Jinping. He’s no meaner to the gays than Qatar. I don’t see how Russia threatens Britain. If anything, the western-backed money-laundering sink Nato/EU-leaning Ukraine has been more of a threat to the integrity and way of life of the Russians.
One turns to what Mr AsI terms a formerly patriotic newspaper: Britain ready to lead way by sending Challenger tanks to Ukraine (Times)
“This could provide the punch needed to knock the Russians out of Ukraine” (Telegraph)- madness!
This could provoke an escalation in retaliation. Can we have a peace movement here now please? Where’s the Left in this country? The pacifists? The Greenham Common ladies? Million marchers against the Iraq war?
Where’s Wally?
How did this war get its boots on before Wally could tie his protest scarf?
Here’s Labour, busy being rehabilitated in the formerly Tory press: Ex-Tory minister quits party and backs Labour (Telegraph)
The FT feature Datawatch, perhaps unintentionally, captures for us a minor datapoint in the on-going muslimisation of Britain: Not so merry England… Young people in England are drinking less – or perhaps just not admitting to their drinking? % of respondents who did not drink
Come on FT, give us some solid data – not more of these filmsy survey opinion polls that have been heavily skewed by nudge marketing propaganda.
Speaking of which…
A bikini blonde, a bikini brunette and a black chap – that’s your frontpage Daily Mirror: The look of Love Island… Anna-May Robey, Shaq Muhammed and Lana Jenkins. Meet the new series hopefuls
We’ll conclude with a headline from the freebie Metro – it’s another tiresome Prince Harry report but one that this reader can readily endorse – both on the proximate subject matter and rather more widely: Britain Haz had enough
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Three ‘Love Island’ suicides raise concerns about reality show
Caroline Flack’s death follows that of contestants Sophie Gradon and Mike Thalassitis
Published: February 17, 2020 11:43
Bindu Rai, Deputy tabloid! Editor
https://gulfnews.com/entertainment/tv/three-love-island-suicides-raise-concerns-about-reality-show-1.69761973
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I think it’s an excellent idea to send all of Britain’s’ tanks to the Ukraine – those 3 tanks will make all the difference ….
… and if you recall – last summer there was talk that our last 3 tanks should be scrapped – so save the taxpayer money and send them to be scrapped by the Russians … those tanks could be replaced by about 20 diversity managers which the army really needs ….
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Is this the Government trying the equivalent of a crash for cash scheme? Send to Ukraine to claim on the insurance!
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Virgin spacecraft … didn’t go all the way.
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The NHS has settled a legal dispute with private healthcare group Virgin Care for an undisclosed amount. The Labour Party said it was “scandalous” that the NHS had to defend a legal battle with the company, which is part of Richard Branson’s business empire.28 Nov 2017
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If it’s a public service then there really isn’t a case for commercial confidentiality – end of.
Open tendering and open accounts – that’s it.
Thems should be the rules.
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stewgreen re:space rocket
I see the government minister concerned ejaculated prematurely…
An exemplar of Westminster competence?
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UK space regulator issues Virgin Orbit licences ahead of UK launch
The UK Civil Aviation Authority issues the final licences to Virgin Orbit to undertake launch activities from the UK.
From:
Department for Transport, Civil Aviation Authority, UK Space Agency, and The Rt Hon Mark Harper MP
Published
21 December 2022
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-space-regulator-issues-virgin-orbit-licences-ahead-of-uk-launch
Establishing orbital launch capabilities in the UK is bringing investment and jobs into Cornwall and other regions across the UK. The growing space industry will boost innovation and is estimated to be worth £16.5 billion and support 47,000 jobs, with 2,500 apprentices opening the sector up to even more people.
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More than 50 years ago, Britain became one of the first countries to develop its own indigenous satellite launcher. The Black Arrow rocket, launched from Woomera, placed the Prospero satellite into orbit on October 28th 1971. Despite this achievement, the programme had already been cancelled. Instead, the UK opted to use American Scout rockets, which NASA had offered for free. Oddly enough, the offer of free rockets was withdrawn as soon as Britain cancelled its own rocket programme…
Just a few years later, the market for launching communications satellites took off (no pun intended), in which Britain could have become a major player, had it continued with its own rocketry.
Britain is the only country in the world to have developed its own satellite launch system, and then walked away from it.
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It looks like the dud Virgin rocket was dropped inside the Eire EEZ
Shame that George Freeman didn’t wait and call it a European fail…
FFS Virgin Orbit is based in Mohave and Long Beach California and seems to be almost completely funded by the UAE.
Bwitish jobs for Bwitish workers would be some fork lift drivers and maintenance peeps for the 747
I wonder what taxpayer subsidies are involved
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It’s worse than the Telegraph just quoting the minister
His Twitter account actually tweeted a premature success tweet
I’m guessing that was all done by his PR team who had tweets all lined up but send them too early
.. https://twitter.com/GeorgeFreemanMP/status/1612589258526674944
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R4 Jim Al-Khalil show was good a food expert
and not the normal Climate angle that Jim likes his guests to have
Then right at the end
“You’ve taken a new job in Thailand”
“That’s right cos not only does it need help with food safety
it’s one of the top 10 countries that will be affected by Climate change”
.. Jim high fives him.
now a show with an activist who does trespass
wrote The Book of Trespass.
Red-io 4
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Here’s today’s application for the ‘you can’t make it up’ award,
In the Radio Times, there is a feature about a new BBC adaptation of Dickens’s ‘Great Expectations’.
There is a large picture.
Estella is black !!!!!!!!
#whiteactorsdontmatter
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Seems perfectly reasonable to me. Most British writers, including Charles Dickens, HG Wells, Jane Austen, the Brönte sisters, Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas, Robbie Burns, and not forgetting Chaucer, were black.
P.S. Spoiler alert: I obtained the above information from a preview edition of a book being prepared for this year’s Black
HysteriaHistory Month, for use in schools.23 likes
Sluff,
But just think, ticking away quietly: no doubt a few more will ditch their licenses as a result. Well done Black Broadcasting Corporation!
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They released some photos from filming 6 months ago
.. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FXg3pSMWYAUxnZM?format=jpg&name=small
One years ago they tweeted there would be two black actors
Maybe Ashley Harris was dropped.
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Sopes and BS in mixed singles. Captions are fun.
Here’s Dino with his new audience.
Shapps is a tool. These are not the people to hold such people to account.
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It is unclear what the documents relate to, the level of classification involved or why they were there.
A source familiar with the matter told CBS News the batch did not contain nuclear secrets and had been contained in a folder in a box with other unclassified papers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64218179
………………….
is unclear what the documents relate – batch did not contain nuclear secrets
is unclear what the documents relate – batch did not contain nuclear secrets
^^ how?
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You know that tedious thing I write about ‘red labour ‘ and ‘blue labour ‘ – being so politically near as to be the same ?
Well a blue Labour ex minister has left that party and joined the red one saying that she wants to have kier’s babies and red labour is the bestist party ever ….
… I prove my view ….. maybe there could be The Non Woke Party …..
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She hasn’t actually joined Labour
“Former Tory energy minister quits party and praises Labour competence
An MP for nine years, Mrs Perry O’Neill served as energy minister in Theresa May’s government for two years,
Then there’s the bloke who defected 1 years ago
“One of those politicians who received money from IX Wireless was Christian Wakeford, who was a Conservative MP at the time before defecting to the Labour Party in January 2022.”
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Two British men missing in Ukraine, say officials
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64214977
‘Two British nationals have gone missing in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine, Ukrainian police have said.
Andrew Bagshaw, 48, and Christopher Parry, 28, were doing voluntary work, police said, and were last seen on Friday heading to the town of Soledar – where fighting has been intense.
The Foreign Office said it was “supporting the families”.
Mr Bagshaw’s parents said they “love him dearly” and were “immensely proud of all the work he has been doing”.’
Google search of Parry shows he also went missing here in Britain a year ago.
Why don’t the BBC mention this..
Makes you wonder what kind of special retard he and or his family are.
“Young man Chris Parry with links to Cornwall has gone missing
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/young-man-chris-parry-links-6580429
“Chris Parry from Cheltenham was last seen on Friday (28 January) and has connections to Cornwall.
As of 1.50pm on Tuesday, February 1, Gloucester Police confirmed Chris has been found safe and well.”
Friday seems to be his favourite day to go missing..
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Classified files found at Biden’s former private office
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64218179
Earlier today this report by the bBC was “potentially” classified files founds – now changed to Classified
According to the BBC’s US partner CBS News – joined at the hips
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Noteworthy that the Biden files were found before the mid-terms but nobody mentioned it.
If US citizens don’t wake up and see what is going on they deserve everything the Dems hand them,
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“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.”
We are working with Westminster politicians and with other pro-Brexit organisations to fight back against the Rejoiner insurgency. We have less than two years until the next general election, when we simply don’t know what a potential change in government will mean. Our prediction is that this would result in us being taken back into the orbit of the EU’s empire by stealth.
‘Stealth’ being a particular speciality of the blob at the FCDO and the HO.
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This week another disaster in Bidens catastrophic presidency comes to light with the failure to even begin to refil the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at a price the US government was comfortable paying.
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-promised-to-refill-oil-reserves-at-a-profit-now-prices-are-too-high/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/using-up-americas-oil-reserve-was-easy-refilling-it-wont-be-11673220972
This was blatant electioneering as it was done to lower the cost of fuel at the pump in the run up to the midterms, and as Americans are largely stupid, it worked, however that is corruption, and it is going to come at a price for the US people as the reserve is running dangerously low.
Bidens presidency has been a disaster, with the world heading no just to a recession but a depression in spite of the head in the clouds pronouncements of ‘transitory’, or soft landing, and we will be the ones to suffer.
The so called ‘cost of living crisis’ which would be more accurately called the cost of Socialism crisis is a direct consequence of Bidens reckless money printing, as is the out of control inflation.
I could go on but I think everyone here knows the issues Biden has caused the world.
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I feel it’s clear it’s not Joes fault – he must have to have his shoelaces, fly zip and food residue status checked before he goes into public areas.
It’s the troupe of neocons, nitwits and spooks that are causing the problems.
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‘…as Americans are largely stupid…’ don’t you mean large and stupid?
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Thoughtful,
China? Good time to invade Taiwan……………..
Russia? I won’t even bother to speculate.
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G
As an armchair field Marshall – not sure about the Timing for china as they have ‘disquiet’ over their latest virus ….
… unless they use the foreign adventure thing to wrap the flag ….
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Meek Mill apologises for filming a video in Ghana’s presidential palace
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64221544
Luckily the guy isn’t a Trump supporter, the bBC seem to like Meek Mill, Obviously nothing to do with the colour of his skin
And he is 18% Ghanaian, yes 18%
#defund
#closedown
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UK rocket launched in Cornwall fails
Piloted by Jethro and the Wurzels ?
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I have it on good authority that the clapped out 747 from Dicky Branson was piloted by Virgin Airlines staff using gender-affirming uniforms and using personal pronouns.
https://www.cntraveller.com/article/virgin-atlantic-new-gender-neutral-uniform-policy
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I’m willing to bet that any skirt wearing male 747 pilots are on the receiving end of a fair bit of banter…
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To infinity and…………..the Irish Sea
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To boldly go where no cisgender has ever gone.
Why can’t they take a leaf from Nasa’s book and film the entire successful thing in a studio
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‘Any kind of failure, it’s how you react to it, so for us it’s to get right back up again,” said Melissa Thorpe, who heads the spaceport.’
I don’t know if her role had anything at all to do with it – but as an experienced engineer, this is exactly the kind of thing I would expect to start happening more often when people are given jobs to meet quotas instead of by ability.
When I worked at BAE SYSTEMS, I saw several examples of women being put into team-leader positions who were not remotely competent to do it. They ended up being more like secretaries whose sole purpose was to report progress in management meetings and spent most of their time at the photocopier. They had little to do with the actual engineering going on below them.
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It’s not just engineering. I worked in the ‘technical’ side of insurance and, when a branch closed, the ex branch manager was made the manager (position made up for her) of our department (all 2 of us). It was clear from the beginning that she didn’t have a clue what we did and she pretty much left us to our own devices.
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lol, when I was there as a subcontractor I had a female team-leader whose sole purpose was to ask me how long things would take and report my progress in management meetings. I was the only one on her ‘team’.
She once said ‘If software is the most complicated thing man engineers then the system it is in must be more complicated’.
Which of course is why they needed subcontractors.
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JohnC
fail fast and fix it
that said – Beardy’s booster has been a thing for a while and they’ve tested in California how many times?
If you’re going to iterate the wrinkles out – surely better to do it close to engineering support (the factory) before dragging your kit 5000 miles only to dump your client’s kit in the oggin.
There’s a lot of cash sloshing about but somebody’s maybe been pressured to go live too early…
Rockets are hard – but actually this is embarrassing – not least the “look at us! ” from George Freeman.
Guessing Scott Manley on YouTube will have a piece on this at some stage.
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The term “spaceport” is a rather overblown way of rebranding a small provincial airport. I still think of it as RAF St Mawgan.
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Is there a Minister for ‘Ooos, and Ahhhs?’
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Boris Johnson erased from Grant Shapps spaceport picture
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64223974
“He removed it as soon as it was pointed out. Obviously he wouldn’t endorse anyone rewriting history by removing the former PM from a picture.”
Not obviously – because the unaccountable BBC rewrite history with every program they make by putting people in places they never were.
And we got a direct admission from the Dr Who writer who said they deliberately lie about history in the hope it changes the future to match it.
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Remember when Gordon Broon erased/removed/expunged his “No More Boom and Bust” budget speech from the Treasury web site after the 2008 financial crisis?
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Another example (if we need it) of the hypocrisy of the BBC and the Left.
There are many things they do themselves which are suddenly not acceptable when someone on the Right does it.
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Gordo?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/267998/countries-with-the-largest-gold-reserves/?
UK seems awfully low, for some reason.
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“He removed it as soon as it was pointed out. Obviously he wouldn’t endorse anyone rewriting history by removing the former PM from a picture.
“He was proud to serve in Boris Johnson’s government.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64223974
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Spare
There’s picture of the idiot woman with her copy of the Harry Hewitt book at Waterstones Piccadilly at 6 this morning . There must be a dozen plus photographers taking a picture of the ‘queue ‘ – being her.
I actually feel a bit sorry for the clickers having to get up and go to that ‘gig’ …. The booksellers seem to be claiming it’s ‘ok – there were loads of pre – orders ‘…..
Must be time to throw more petrol on the fire Harry ….
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-64222323
And who did the BBC find to interview for their report ?.
A black man, a black woman and a white woman.
The queue outside is almost all reporters.
What a complete and utter joke this whole farce has become. With the BBC right at the middle of it.
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A BBC Local Democracy title tries to blur matters.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0h5qWYpxFtY3Buq9XTxLKtPJPrXEKKLfssMCg8gaPXRVNd75BgaWaz6wmPznXiS42l&id=166551193356834
#CCBGB
A few asking where in the shires this is, given the diverse population mix of braincells, media and public.
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Here’s the first review on Amazon. There are more written in the same extreme style:
The searing image of Prince Harry and his brother Prince William walking behind their mother’s coffin is etched in all of our minds. And what I notice throughout is the most seismic event of Harry’s life, when he tragically lost his mother at the age of 12, which shapes the book. There are some interesting (sometimes funny) anecdotes about his royal life when he was younger, but threaded across the pages are also incredibly raw and emotional moments. What is also conveyed very deeply is the pitiful life of “the Spare” – often feeling as though your life has no value, no ultimate mission/goal, you have nothing to offer because you will never wear the Crown. As Prince Harry himself says, when his whole life has been told through the lens of the media, why should he not be able to (finally) tell his own story from the man who lived it! It is undeniably depressing that Harry and Meghan felt they couldn’t continue in their royal roles. They could have been a huge force for good, supporting communities in the UK and the Commonwealth, representing a true Modern Monarchy with their enviable platform and privilege. Leaked excerpts of The Duke’s memoirs don’t do his story justice. The book as a whole is a must read! Highly recommend 🙂
It’s completely obvious these reviews are fake. They are completely over the top. They tried the same thing in the DT comments years ago and got called out immediately then quickly disappeared.
Everything we see and hear from the media nowadays is lies. It’s now 100% about profit. That’s where globalisation inevitably leads. Which of course is why they want it : they can influence every part of lives to feed their greed.
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If they are not fake reviews, someone is a very fast reader.
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Amazon is accused of removing negative reviews of Hillary Clinton’s campaign book ‘Stronger Together’ after readers slated it online
Clinton’s book Stronger Together has seen slow sales since its release
It’s also been subject to numerous scathing reviews of Amazon page
But some readers noticed that numbers of negative reviews went down
By KHALEDA RAHMAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 01:07, 27 September 2016 | UPDATED: 08:07, 27 September 2016
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3808907/Amazon-accused-fixing-critical-reviews-Hillary-Clinton-s-book.html
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This is US gossip rag Vanity Fair:
Prince Harry’s New Memoir: The Explosive Details, Shocking Revelations, and Consequences
Methinks some folk heavily invested in the money aspect of this are over egging the pudding.
As you say, normal folk are seeing right through the campaign and are moving from amused through angry to, worst of all, derision.
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A must read!!!! Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!
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The #prasnews backhanders must be huge.
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