243 Responses to Weekend 14 January 2023

  1. Northern Voter says:

    Don’t eat yellow snow, its racist against the Chinese! Twice in a row, catching up to fed.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      NV, well done but Brissles will be upset. That was a great PJW video. I thought he should have looked down mournfully at the end at his immaculate white shirt.

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  2. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Well done Laurence Fox tonight on GB News.

    The first person brave enough to do an honest report on the Andrew Bridgen speech.
    The first half hour of his show featured a Doctor, probably ruining his career prospects by speaking honestly about the vaccine.

    Nobody else has given Bridgen a fair hearing.
    Ian Collins on talk tv has twice had a go at slagging off Bridgen but every phone caller was supporting Bridgen. Same with the emails sent in, every one supporting Bridgen. Fair play to Collins for reading them out (or maybe there were none against Bridgen)

    Maybe Neil Oliver might give him a mention.
    The great man himself will stand by Bridgen when he’s back after his heart attacks.
    Otherwise….nothing.

    How long before Bridgen is shown to be right (and then the cowards will come out with their excuses “I always thought there was something iffy with the vaccine” type of thing.

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    • Jeff says:

      One of the most disgusting things about the whole Bridgen affair is little Matty Hancock’s involvement. Christ, he makes my flesh crawl…

      The Uriah Heep of the British politics immediately went running to Rishi with tall tales of antisemitism…even though the original post came from a Jew…Isn’t he just the creepiest little man…

      Against my better judgement I eventually had the vaccine, though I now wish I hadn’t. However, I’m a bloke of a certain vintage and old and ugly enough to know better. There’s absolutely no rhyme or reason on God’s Earth to jab kids. Their chances of being harmed by Covid are miniscule. We have no way of possibly knowing what long-term problems these experiments might inflict on them.

      It’s just bloody sinister…

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      • NCBBC says:

        There is a lot more that is going to come out about this so-called vaccine. This is going to break in the USA, where they still have some remnants of the 1st Amendment. Too, Elon Musk has freed Twitter.

        Meanwhile the BBC is going to do its level best to hide and obfuscate the deadly tragedy that is the “vaccine”. Or memory hole it aided by the MSM and politicians.

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    • StewGreen says:

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      • StewGreen says:

        One legal guest said that racism is about white privilege
        and insisted there is never any black privilege
        ..Em if orgs adverisie jobs and give grants based on non-white skin colour ..that is black-privilege.

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        • RTW says:

          If there is white privilege then why do so many successful mixed race people such as Obama, Lewis Hamilton and Rio Ferdinand always seem to identify as black?

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        • maxincony says:

          StewGreen,

          ..Em if orgs adverisie jobs and give grants based on non-white skin colour ..that is black-privilege.

          *..Em If orgs give free blankets to people sleeping rough ..that is rough sleeper privilege.*

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      • taffman says:

        StewGreen
        I am sure that there is a place in The Reform Party for Andrew Bidgen. Other Tories take note, because ‘The ConSocalists’ are finnished because they have betrayed the people of Gret Britain.

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      I thought the video defending Bridgen by Prof Norman Fenton was very good:

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  3. Flotsam says:

    So Keir Starmer decides to Ponce around Northern Ireland and pretend to be someone important. He speaks as if he’s the man in charge and the actual Government should do something about the Northern Ireland protocol. What Starmer fails to admit to or possibly even grasp is that he is responsible for weakening Britain’s negotiating position after the Brexit vote. He continuously attacked the result of the Brexit vote and campaigned for a second referendum. Starmer and his Remoaner supporters will have given the EU enemy much heart and given the EU leaders and negotiators hope that the Brexit vote would be overturned. The result was delays and obstruction and forced Britain into concessions such as the NI Protocol, fishing rights etc.
    Starmer, as far as I’m concerned, is a traitor.

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  4. Flotsam says:

    So the C of E decided to go woke and pay reparations for events that happened 2-300 years ago.

    Stand up Spain and the RC Church. The level of destruction caused by them for example in South America far exceeds anything done by Britain.

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  5. Eddy Booth says:

    Elephant in the room: Hampshire and Isle of Wight edition…

    “Jennie Gow: BBC F1 broadcaster suffers serious stroke”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-64261533

    ‘The 45-year-old, who covers Formula 1 for Radio 5 Live, wrote on social media that she had been treated at hospitals in London and Surrey, and her recovery “might take some time”.’

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  6. StewGreen says:

    Weekend Quiz : Who has used the term “pregnant people” in tweets

    A) Andrew Bridgen ?
    B) Full Fact ?

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  7. StewGreen says:

    45 yo Jennie Gow: BBC F1 broadcaster suffers serious stroke

    PJW is recommending news aggregator Ground News
    https://ground.news/article/jennie-gow-bbc-f1-broadcaster-suffers-serious-stroke_f06f8b

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  8. StewGreen says:

    Guardian : BBC criticised for letting cardiologist ‘hijack’ interview with false Covid jab claim
    Aseem Malhotra’s ‘misguided’ views linking some Covid vaccines to excess heart disease deaths should not have aired, say experts

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/13/bbc-cardiologist-aseem-malhotra-links-covid-jabs-to-heart-disease-deaths

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    • Docmarooned says:

      As per usual, Anything against their thinking is misguided. The arrogance is breathtaking. I would believe a cardiologist before the deluded Guardian and the bBBC.

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  9. Zephir says:

    I had a wonderful drive through rural Essex in the winter sunshine yesterday, winding roads through ancient villages and stopping along the way to visit some lovely little towns.

    Although, after some televisual entertainment the day before I realised I must have entered another country, not one black person, let alone mixed couple, NOT ONE in all the towns and villages.

    Or maybe, just maybe, the bbc and ad agencies with their racist union Equity are just lying to us. When I came home and watched the Drama Channel there were THREE ads in a row with a white woman with a black man, how racist.

    I was in an antique shop in one town and saw a photo in the window with the headline “this is what a real policeman looks like”, as we were browsing I asked about it.

    The lady proprieter said she had been raided a while back with £10,000 stock taken and the police did not even turn up. And when she went to the public meeting with the crime commissioner for that area to voice her concerns, she asked a question and found he alone had TWELVE people on his staff.

    So, back home I did a little research and found this :

    “After five shops were broken into in Saffron Walden in one night, and a Range Rover stolen, victims have spoken bitterly about the weak police response.

    The Range Rover Evoque, worth £32,000, was stolen on Monday afternoon. Owner Nicola Brooks of Brooks Dress Agency in Rose and Crown Walk, has now put in a formal complaint to the police.

    Miss Brooks said the car, which she had only owned for six months, had been parked 50 yards from her shop.

    She believes the thieves “cloned” the key which was in her handbag with the shop door open. “At home, I keep the key in a tin but I didn’t think I needed to do that in here – in the middle of the day.” She had parked the car in the morning and it was gone by 4pm. There was CCTV in use but Miss Brooks says the police declined to look at it.

    Speaking to the Reporter yesterday (Wednesday) she said: “I have written a formal complaint to the police headquarters at Chelmsford. The police still haven’t been to see me, I went into the Market Square to find them.

    She says having dialed 999, she was told it was not an emergency. But on dialling 101, she waited half an hour before the call was answered giving the thief an hour to get away.

    She reported the crime at 4.30pm. At 6.45pm, she received an email from the crime bureaux saying the case was closed.

    “This ignored any CCTV footage. An officer in Saffron Walden who said he had been patrolling the town on day said he had not been notified of the theft and would have been able to react accordingly if he had.

    “If Essex Police have no intention of investigating the theft of a £32,000 car stolen in broad day light in the centre of Saffron Walden, is it any wonder criminals appear to see the town as fair game?” ”

    https://www.saffronwaldenreporter.co.uk/news/21885961.thieves-raid-shops-steal-car-town-centre-spree/

    Now, compare and contrast the major investigations (19 MONTHS, INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION) undertaken for someone writing a hurty tweet about a black England player:

    “Racist troll who abused England and Chelsea star Reece James is ‘tracked down to the Middle East’ just three weeks before 2022 World Cup in Qatar, with tormentor ‘to be arrested imminently’ after 19-month investigation”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-11371751/Racist-troll-England-Chelsea-star-Reece-James-tracked-Middle-East.html

    And, a “special unit” set up:

    “Police unit set up to investigate racist abuse of England players after Euro 2020 final. A dedicated team are working through a surge in reports of abuse targeting footballers on social media.”

    https://news.sky.com/story/police-unit-set-up-to-investigate-racist-abuse-of-england-players-after-euro-2020-final-12356384

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    • Chevalnoir says:

      … this is not the England we want. It’s no wonder some think about alternative solutions …

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  10. Zephir says:

    We truly are living in a dystopian nightmare in this country.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      They will still expect public support when they need it – but it’s a two way street. Once ordinary taxpayers become victims and find plod isn’t interested support continues to die away . I have no time for them – too left – too anti white – too woke for me .

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    • G says:

      Z,
      ……..and getting worse by the day.

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  11. Scroblene says:

    Did we talk here about Biden’s garage having classified docs stacked there on the mid-week post?

    Seems the awful beeb aren’t sure what to do about the story and it looks like they’ve been caught with their Janet Regers around their ankles…

    Flying around like a fart in a colander springs to mind…

    (No more silly metaphors please Scrobs, we’ve all read the story on Guido)!

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Hello Scroblene …. There was some coverage of biden breaching national security – but don’t worry – it was only a few documents ( to quote one bbc correspondent ) and there’s no question of him breaking the law – and he isn’t president trump so it is all okay . And he’s old . And it’s ok .

      Today watch
      The bbc doesn’t approve of the hanging of some Iranian ex minister . But it does approve of the prospect of the ousted president of Brazil being extradited from the US to be fitted up with years in prison / death …. They even got a Biden mouthpiece on to say so .

      … approved / disapproved ….

      I sometimes think there should be a weekly summary of disappearing stories – eg

      The Muslim murder / stabbings in Paris 3 days ago …. The various trials where feral coloured boys have killed other members of their tribe ….

      The latest green crap lies – such as a 300 page report by a blue labour lefty commissioned by that freak – truss.

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      • Scroblene says:

        Oh! Thank goodness for that Fed!

        I thought for one moment that there was a real issue with secret documents being taken away and lost! After all, the Beeboids made a huge lickspittle about President Trump legally taking documents, so if they say it’s alright, well, we know the truth really, don’t we!

        Always believe the opposite of what beeboids splutter, it’s easier than having to Google the truth!

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  12. Guest Who says:

    One could ask the BBC to check, but they are likely too busy blocking anyone asking questions that don’t suit.

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  13. JohnC says:

    Alireza Akbari: Iran executes British-Iranian dual national, state media says
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-64273520

    ‘The UK had urged Iran to halt the execution and immediately release him.’

    And they didn’t ?. I am surprised.

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    • micknotmike says:

      Morning JC,

      “Some would say” that it’s a shame the Iranians didn’t start the that policy a few years back. It could have saved you and I paying four million quid to repatriate a certain individual who shown nothing but ingratitude since.

      Not my views of course. As I say, “some would say”.

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    • Chevalnoir says:

      … spineless government … NFI …

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  14. AsISeeIt says:

    In defence of the medical-pharmaceutical orthodoxy a rare questioning voice needs be ostracised: MP Andrew Bridgen has Tory whip removed after comparing COVID vaccines with Holocaust (Sky News)

    Tory boys piled on – in circumstances akin to: A woman was savaged to death by a pack of seven dogs she was walking… (Daily Mail) – for example: Even for lazy Westminster, Andrew Bridgen the anti-science spud will no longer do (Matt Chorley Times)

    Meanwhile the medics’ own trades union members happily prescibe the self-same Godwinesque-style metaphor: Hard-left British Medical Association members have described Tories as “almost genocidal” (Telegraph)

    We know the hoary old saying the emperor has no clothes – in terms of our still yet by and large media-vaunted NHS – the back-fastening surgical gown is now exposing a naked bare arse to the crowds

    NHS crisis sparks boom in private medical provision (FT)

    Even Labour are adjusting their message more nimbly with shifting public opinion these days: Labour: NHS too often run for doctors, not patients (‘i’)

    Not that an incoming Labour party would attack the blob once they were actually in power – but at least they may now say they would – to get into power

    If Lockdown taught us anything it is that the Tories are terrified of getting the blame for NHS failings and up until the switch to the reality of a covid-only NHS sank in, we still banged the pots for the old habitually overwhelmed service.

    Period romance. Why Brits love crumbling piles (FT) – it might as well be but that’s not a commentary on the NHS but a House & Home feature

    Medics must accept change to transform the NHS, including more flexible hours, says Labour’s shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting in interview with i

    Tabloids and broadsheets alike fret over the troubled offspring of royalty this weekend

    SPARE US! Harry: I’ve got enough for 2nd book (Daily Mail)

    Tragedy of Elvis’ only child. Lisa Marie ‘died of broken heart’ (Daily Mirror)

    The Duke of Sussex says he edited out revelations about his father and brother because ‘they wouldn’t forgive me’ (Telegraph)

    ‘She never really stood a chance’ Neil Mc Cormick on Lisa Marie Presley and her struggle to find peace (Telegraph)

    We’ve heard the expression get woke go broke…

    Our airforce is perhaps feeling the effects of a go woke get grounded tendency: Revealed: RAF faces ‘urgent’ fighter pilot shortage (‘i’)

    In the interest of defending of the medical-pharmaceutical orthodoxy a rare questioning voice needs be ostracized: MP Andrew Bridgen has Tory whip removed after comparing COVID vaccines with Holocaust (Sky News)

    Tory boys piled on – in circumstances akin to: A woman was savaged to death by a pack of seven dogs she was walking… (Daily Mail) – for example: Even for lazy Westminster, Andrew Bridgen the anti-science spud will no longer do (Matt Chorley Times)

    Meanwhile, the medics’ own trades union members happily prescibe the self-same Godwinesque-style metaphor: Hard-left British Medical Association members have described Tories as “almost genocidal” (Telegraph)

    We know the hoary old saying the emperor has no clothes – in terms of our still yet by and largely media-vaunted NHS – the back-fastening surgical gown is now gaping wide exposing an obvious naked bare arse to the crowds

    NHS crisis sparks boom in private medical provision (FT)

    Even Labour are adjusting their message more nimbly with shifting public opinion these days: Labour: NHS too often run for doctors, not patients (‘i’)

    Not that an incoming Labour party would boldly go where Tories fear to tread and attack the blob once they were actually in power – but at least they may now say they would – to get into power

    If Lockdown taught us anything it is that the Tories are terrified of getting the blame for NHS failings and up until the switch to the reality of a covid-only NHS sank in, we still banged those pots for the old habitually overwhelmed service.

    Period romance. Why Brits love crumbling piles (FT) – it might as well be, but that’s not a commentary on the NHS but a House & Home feature

    Medics must accept change to transform the NHS, including more flexible hours, says Labour’s shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting in interview with i

    That Rastafarien-like patois self-reference unique to the left-leaning ‘i’ newspaper never fails to amuse

    Tabloids and broadsheets alike fret over the troubled offspring of royalty this weekend

    SPARE US! Harry: I’ve got enough for 2nd book (Daily Mail)

    Tragedy of Elvis’ only child. Lisa Marie ‘died of broken heart’ (Daily Mirror)

    The Duke of Sussex says he edited out revelations about his father and brother because ‘they wouldn’t forgive me’ (Telegraph)

    ‘She never really stood a chance’ Neil Mc Cormick on Lisa Marie Presley and her struggle to find peace (Telegraph)

    We’ve heard the expression get woke go broke…

    Our airforce is perhaps feeling the effects of a get woke get grounded tendency: Revealed: RAF faces ‘urgent’ fighter pilot shortage (‘i’)

    Ease up on the woke, chaps. We still may need young white boys to die in our forever wars.

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    • AsISeeIt says:

      Apologies for some weird editing function glitches there

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    • TrickCyclist says:

      AsISeeIt,
      “RAF faces ‘urgent’ fighter pilot shortage?”
      Do you mean to say that the mixed-race females they’re trying to appeal to in their adverts haven’t filled all those empty cockpits?

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    • Chevalnoir says:

      … and it will be young WHITE boys, won’t it …

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  15. JohnC says:

    Brit Awards 2023: Why are no women nominated for best artist?
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64264069

    Bear in mind here are only 5 nominated from a list of 70.

    As it is the woke BBC, you can be 100% sure that the most likely answer – that they weren’t considered good enough – will not be among the possible answers.

    And you can also be 100% sure that if they were all female, it would be a triumph of equality.

    Next year at least 2 will be women. Whether they are any good or not.

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    • Scroblene says:

      But the Beeboids love awards, John!

      All those expensive ceremonies, paid for by an exasperated/bored/disinterested public! All the unknown luvvies coagulated together in one sweaty room with lots of microphones and glitter balls!

      Sure is a cop-out option from doing real programmes!

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  16. Zephir says:

    This should have every green, antifa eco terrorist loon choking on their free-range garlic muesli if it were brought to their limited attention span :

    “More from Less”

    The counter intuitive argument from Andrew McAfee:

    “Consumption of natural resources has already started to decline. Modern smartphones take the place of cameras, GPS units, landline phones, answering machines, scanners, tape recorders, video recorders, alarm clocks, compasses, torches and much more.

    The collaboration between technology and capitalism has made this possible. Capitalism’s quest for higher profits is a quest for lower costs; materials and resources are expensive, and technological progress allows companies to use fewer of them even as they grow their markets. Cars, planes and other transport have become much much lighter, cleaner and more fuel efficient, precision agriculture lets farmers harvest larger crops while using less water and fertiliser.

    ‘In More from Less Andrew McAfee conclusively demonstrates how environmentalism requires more technology and capitalism, not less.

    https://andrewmcafee.org/more-from-less/overivew

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  17. StewGreen says:

    Local news covered laws banning disposable plastic cutlery at UK takeaways
    by 8am they added a clip of a local Greenpeace person

    “The UK is the world’s second-biggest producer of plastic waste per person, behind only the US”

    OK that comes from a Greenpeace report 2 years ago
    They say “The vast majority of it is food and drink packaging”

    #1 I don’t believe the statistic is report ..it is too lucky to be true so seems like a PR claim

    #2 Plastic waste is not a problem as all can be safely converted into energy in high temperature incinerators
    The problem is people throwing it all over the nature.
    And that happens less in UK than many other countries.

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  18. Zephir says:

    And to add to the apopletic fits around the eco nutter breakfast tables:

    NJ congressman demands investigation into whether offshore wind projects are killing whales.

    ‘I demand that all offshore wind activity be halted until it is properly determined what the effects of these activities are having on our marine life,’ Van Drew said.

    Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., announced on Friday that he would be calling for an investigation into the increasing number of dead whales that have washed up off the coast of New Jersey over the last month once committee assignments for the 118th Congress are finalized. 

    In less than two months, seven dead whales have washed up along the New Jersey-New York coastline, local media have reported.”

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nj-congressman-demands-investigation-whether-offshore-wind-projects-killing-whales

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  19. Fedup2 says:

    Today
    A fixed ‘discussion ‘ about rejoining the EU – of all people – the far left mental patient – alistair Campbell and some labour Asian woman who dream of rejoining . It’s always economy . Never on the principle of being in a corrupt far left organisation .
    Can you imagine what the EU would do to punish the UK on rejoining ? In fact – it wouldn’t be a country any more … just a place for Europeans to come an exploit even more than now …
    Robinson facilitated comrade Campbell s various rants without any kind of challenge – the EU fans haven’t gone away you know …

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    • digg says:

      I agree, if the UK were somehow returned to the EU aided and abetted by those Europhiles in our midst, the masters in Brussels would take the UK apart politically and financially to make sure it can never again be a sovereign nation and as a warning to all the other members not to even think about it.

      The EU is a globalist cult of power mongers and is determined to become the masters of the whole of Europe with a grip on power that can never be challenged again.

      The 4th Reich in fact come to reality!

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  20. Zephir says:

    Glastonbury festivalgoers are told to practise what they preach as they leave tents and camping gear behind two days after fans cheered Greta Thunberg’s eco message

    Volunteers have begun the painstaking work of cleaning up thousands of discarded items at Worthy Farm
    The same crowds that cheered Greta Thunberg’s eco-messaging have left the site buried under rubbish 

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    • moggie63 says:

      I posted a comment further up before I read this far but I stick by it. Not a single person leaves while there is any rubbish lying around.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        moggie, that is a brilliant suggestion. Cannot think why no-one has thought of that before now.

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        • Chevalnoir says:

          … the excuse will be cost of security/we have no power to enforce/police would prevent us enforcing …

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  21. Sluff says:

    General comment, precipitated by Zephir’s post at 0848.

    We need a term, a new word, or reprogrammed existing word ( E.g. gay).

    This is to define the phenomenon whereby a single person or event or a decision framed by one person has a massive negative impact on thousands of others. But the interests of the thousands are ignored.

    Examples – Zephir’s whale man, would impact on thousands of electricity users.
    Example – one child dies due to asthma and Sad Dick Khan introduces the ULEZ for which thousands of mainly poor people will have to get rid of their cars.
    Example – trans rights (0.2% of population) outweigh those rest of us (99.8%).
    Example – trans with giant prosthetic breasts in the USA forces a rethink on business attire affecting everyone else.
    Example- wild camping on Dartmoor is halted because of one couple.
    Example – reduced speed limit caused by accident which is just that – a random event. Other so-called safety examples may occur.

    Mass changes in society where the rights of the few outweigh the rights of the many.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Sluff, you could re-purpose a word from the card game whist and bridge … er, perhaps on second thoughts, maybe not.

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      • Zephir says:

        To be fair to the whale man, he is hardly on his own regarding this:

        (my first thought is, are environmental impact studies for these as rigourous, or their findings taken as seriously as those for other developments ?)

        “Green energy projects face stark environmental, local opposition nationwide

        The American Bird Conservancy, which predicts there will be 1.4 million annual turbine-caused bird deaths by 2030, has filed numerous lawsuits opposing wind projects and has advocated for stricter siting laws for wind developers. Grove said while the group was committed to promoting climate change solutions, it would continue using litigation as a last resort in cases where wind projects present a major threat to a local bird species.

        Similarly, local fishing industry and wildlife groups have filed multiple lawsuits opposing offshore wind development. In August 2021, a group of “environmentally-concerned citizens” filed a lawsuit opposing wind development off the coast of New England over concerns it would reduce endangered whale species and fishing groups filed their own lawsuits opposing projects in Massachusetts and New York.”

        https://www.foxnews.com/politics/green-energy-projects-face-stark-environmental-local-opposition-nationwide

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        • Siempre Recht says:

          Van Drew was once a Democrat, until he started to like Trump. Also, not sure if he is just winding up the Dems?

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  22. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – the Truth and Lies edition – there is withholding information ….

    Jair Bolsanaro is something of a hate figure for ‘the Left’ as is former President Trump of the USA. Bolsanaro is currently in self-exile in the USA. Nick Robinson chats with Congressman Joaquin Castro (although I think I heard Nick introduce him as Congressman Joaquin Cortez, an interesting slip) but what Nick doesn’t tell us is the Congressman’s political affiliation.

    I wonder why?

    Said Congressman Joaquin Castro (Democratic Party) along with others (all Democrats? – we are not told) has asked President Biden to revoke the right of the Former President of Brazil to remain in the USA and to deport him back to Brazil. There are calls for Jair Bolsanaro to stand trial for instigating ‘the attack’ on the Parliamentary buildings in Brasilia.

    There are omissions that are close to being economical with the truth.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Up2 – I noticed that too – if the affiliation isn’t mentioned – then it’s a lefty – whether some approved yank or some sobby medical mafia ……
      And it seems the medical unions want to avoid picking up the blame tab for dead heart attack cases – they really £ care £ …

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      • Chevalnoir says:

        … vax providers were exempt from consequences from the outset of delivery when jabs started …

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    • Siempre Recht says:

      Castro is a complete and utter fraud. He’s proud that he and his brother, both of whom don’t even speak decent Spanish, used their last names to get into the Ivy League (I believe). He’s a p o s, and apparently now, believes that the US should export political prisoners. What ever happened to the left?

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    • maxincony says:

      Up2snuff,

      Truth and Lies… but what Nick doesn’t tell us is the Congressman’s political affiliation. I wonder why?

      This is a lie. What Nick Robinson actually said:

      “The echoes with what happened two years ago in the U.S. are clear for all to see and have lead to some Democrats in Congress to suggest that Bolsanaro should now be deported. I’ve been speaking to Joaquin Castro, a Democrat Congressman from Texas…”

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  23. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    It appears that not much, if anything, is going to happen regarding Biden and the documents he kept in his garage.
    This is in contrast to the media meltdown over Donald Trump having some documents at home.

    The reason being put out seems to be that Biden had fewer documents at home and that made it less bad.

    Someone should have told Harry to say he (only) killed 10 Taliban and nobody would be bothered because it’s not so many (compared to 25)

    Or does it not work like that. No answer required, we all know.

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  24. Dickie says:

    On dear. Won’t hear this on the BBC or MSM

    https://sonar21.com/us-army-vet-from-iowa-rats-out-ukrainian-corruption/

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    • Fedup2 says:

      So some meaningless music award removed the male / female category . This year no wimmin are good enough to be selected . But if there was a ‘ female ‘ category someone would have gone into it . ..

      … sow and reap .. go woke …

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  25. StewGreen says:

    Subha Nagalakshmi Munchetty-Chendriah (born 25 February 1975), also known as Naga Munchetty,

    It’s entirely reasonable for people with a public presence to use a stage name
    The problem is with double standards, and punishment dead naming .

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I cited this characters’ name on here once and was accused of being racist … guilty .. of the Truth ..

         11 likes

    • maxincony says:

      StewGreen,

      Subha Nagalakshmi Munchetty-Chendriah (born 25 February 1975), also known as Naga Munchetty,

      Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, also known as Tony Blair.
      Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, also known as Boris Johnson.

      Is Stew Green your “stage name”, or simply an abbreviation of your actual name, Stewart?

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  26. StewGreen says:

    Lets see how FooC is cherrypicking to spin our picture of the world

    Alastair Leitheadin Portugal : writes about his experiences of trying to live an off-grid lifestyle

    David Adams : Florida escaped much of the worst of the recent freeze in the US, he reflects on
    could be a canary in the coal mine for *climate change*>
    (Yeh just like the coming snow on Wednesday is)

    Stephen McDonnell : China’s Great Reopening ahead of the New Year festival.
    Many in the country are divided

    Katy Watson : The storming of Brazil’s congress, presidential palace and supreme court by supporters of Jair Bolsonaro has led many to draw parallels with the attack on the Capitol building in Washington in 2021.

    Zeinab Badawi is in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, where she meets Sinhalese artist, Jagath, whose work mainly focuses on the country’s brutal history. She hears the story of how one of his monuments to commemorate those who died in the conflict was destroyed in favour of a new building project.

    Ah that was back in 2011
    The monument to civilian victims of terrorism entitled the “Shrine of the Innocents”, which was erected in Colombo in the mid-1990s.
    built in response to demands for memorialisation from the Mother’s Front, an organisation of mothers of the missing and killed victims of violence in Southern Sri Lanka in the period between 1988 and 1991.
    Cos it belonged to no political side no authority maintained it.

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  27. Siempre Recht says:

    Haven’t been here for some time, usually am told off for my language (you lot are simply TOO polite; you can’t be polite with the leftist fascists nowadays), but has anyone watched Saturday Kitchen today?

    I came close to hurling the remote at the Panasonic! My “tipping point” was when some token, South African, female, BME from some dancing reality TV show, was talking up South Africa, though naturally she doesn’t live there.

    She then claimed that “honky” had been oppressing her people for “thousands and thousands of years”, and they only gots their freedom, 33 years ago.

    I was back to my screaming days, until the other half told me off.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Siempre….
      You are welcome … I’ve become a bit slack about language recently and between you and me got a bit fed up doing the occasional editing …

      As for your suffering – I have never seen ‘Saturday kitchen ‘ because I am busy doing my ritual full English ( delete as applicable ) fry up – no garlic -cumin -herbs -…..

      … but what I wanted to say … apparently Blighty has agreed to send a? Tank to the Ukraine war – I wonder what the effect will be on Russian public opinion since they have more of a ‘folk memory ‘ of tanks than us….

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      • Charlie Farley says:

        Fedup2
        Thanks to Richie Rich he’s giving away our Challenger 2 Tank’s…I think there’s more than one ! , this will escalate the War even more , who’s going to train the Ukrainians then ? our Troops presumably ….the Russians have been wanting to find out about the ‘ secret Chobham Armour ‘ for years , surely the Germans could give a few of there’s as they have more of a history of touring Europe in Tank’s !
        This will please our wonderful BBBC no doubt !

           17 likes

      • moggie63 says:

        Tanks for the memories?

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    • Zephir says:

      @ Siempre Recht

      Well done South African BAME whoever you are:

      Yep, freedom to rob, rape and murder:

      “When compared to other countries South Africa has notably high rates of violent crime[7][8] and has a reputation for consistently having one of the highest murder rates in the world.[9][10][11] The country also experiences high rates of organised crime relative to other countries.

      In February 2007, the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation was contracted by the South African ANC government to carry out a study on the nature of crime in South Africa. The study pointed out different factors which contributed to high levels of violence.[19] Violent and non-violent crimes in South Africa have been ascribed to:

      The normalisation of violence. Violence is seen by many as a necessary and justified way of resolving conflict, and some men believe that coercive sexual behaviour towards women is legitimate.
      A subculture of violence and criminality, ranging from individual criminals who rape or rob, to informal groups or more formalised gangs. Those involved in the subculture are engaged in criminal careers[20] and commonly use firearms, with the exception of Cape Town; where knife violence is more prevalent. Credibility within this subculture is related to the readiness to resort to extreme violence.
      The vulnerability of young people due to inadequate child-rearing, followed by poor guardianship and youth socialisation. Due to poverty and deprivation, unstable living arrangements and inconsistent parenting,[20] some South African children are exposed to risk factors which increase their chances of becoming involved in criminality and violence.
      High levels of inequality, poverty, unemployment, social exclusion and marginalisation.
      The consumption and abuse of alcohol is a demonstrable cause or contributing factor in many violent crimes including murder, attempted murder, assault,[21] gender-based assault and rape cases. These incidents regularly occur in or directly outside bars, taverns, shebeens or nightclubs.[22][23][24] In addition many South Africans, including on-duty policemen,[25][26][27] are arrested for drinking and driving,[28][29][30][31] a crime which is linked to 27% of fatal road accidents.[32]
      In traditional African culture, cattle theft from rival tribes served an important social and cultural function within chiefdoms, and was considered a rite of passage for young warriors.[33][34]
      Tax profitability of crimes such as smuggling, tender fraud and state capture, besides tax evasion and VAT fraud itself, due to the alleged inefficiency and lack of procedural measures at SARS, the priorities of which is geared towards cooperative and law-abiding citizens.”

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

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    • maxincony says:

      Siempre Recht,

      She then claimed that “honky” had been oppressing her people for “thousands and thousands of years”, and they only gots their freedom, 33 years ago.

      This is a lie. She said nothing about “Whites” (or “honky”) oppressing “her people”.

      What she actually said:

      “I’m 33 years old and that’s when freedom started to come… Mandela was released in 1990 but we were only a democracy in 1994; so 24 years of freedom. People are still trying to work around that and it’s about changing your mentality over something that happened thousands and thousands and thousands of years ago. It’s tough but it’s a job that we all have to do together.”

         1 likes

      • taffman says:

        maxincony , who rattled your cage ?
        Just like last time, your efforts at trolling are just a waste of your time . You merely turn more telly tax payers against ‘the tax that robs from the poor to give to the rich’ .
        Which remind me to ask you yet again, if you have paid the Telly Tax or do you get it free ?

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        • maxincony says:

          taffman,

          Just like last time, your efforts at trolling are just a waste of your time

          So nothing to say about Siempre Recht’s lie? Or Up2snuff’s lie? Or StewGreen’s lie? You don’t actually have much to say about anything do you “taffman”; apart from a few empty slogans that you trot out at regular intervals.

             1 likes

          • taffman says:

            Why should I give you an answer ? You never give me an answer ? You are just a troll, a waste of time.
            Simples.

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  28. Zephir says:

    Nov 2022:

    “Crime ‘worrying’ in South Africa: 7,000 murdered in three months

    Quarterly crime statistics show a rise in murder, rape and kidnapping figures compared with the same time last year.

    Quarterly figures showed that the murder rate rose 14 percent between July and September, compared with the same timeframe in 2021, when 6,163 people were killed.

    Almost 1,000 women were among those murdered during the period in 2022. More than 13,000 women were also victims of assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, and 1,277 women were victims of attempted murder.

    “The rate at which women are abused, violated and some killed in South Africa remains worrying and unacceptable,” Police Minister Bheki Cele told a news conference.

    The figures also showed that kidnappings doubled to more than 4,000 compared with the same time last year; and rapes, in a country notorious for sex attacks against women and children, were up 11 percent, with 10,000 cases opened across the country.

    Carjackings rose 24 percent to more than 6,000.

    And between April and September, more than 550 children were killed.”

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/23/crime-worrying-in-south-africa-7000-murdered-in-three-months

       16 likes

    • Sluff says:

      But who is killing who? And where?
      Would it be fair to suggest that the murder rate in Newlands or Franschoek might be a tad lower than in say Langa or Khyelitsha?
      Or would that be waaaycist?

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    • JohnC says:

      I worked with someone who had to go to South Africa.

      He had to go on a training course to learn how to get car-jacked without being shot.

      You won’t read anything like that on the BBC because they are racist.

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    • Thoughtful says:

      As a sidenote to this, the Left always full of rage hate and violence still fondly remember the fight they had to destroy the old South African regime, and have now moved onto their next target Israel.

      They never ever talk about the fight to rebuild that country, now what they have done to help a once prosperous nation recover from the hell on Earth the Socialists have made it.

      No, there is no better illustration of what Socialism is all about than South Africa. Fighting hating, anger, destruction, nothing of any positive contructive nature to offer at all.

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  29. Zephir says:

    Notice any common factor here ? (hint: lack of honkeys )

    Murder rates, Similar Country Ranking

    Country Name Per 100K Population
    Jamaica 44.95
    South Africa 33.46
    Mexico 28.37
    St. Lucia 28.32
    Belize 25.65
    Colombia 22.64
    Brazil 22.45
    Dominica 20.84
    Guyana 19.96
    Guatemala 17.47
    Grenada 12.44
    Namibia 11.92
    Costa Rica 11.19
    Suriname 9.38
    Dominican Republic 8.86

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    • moggie63 says:

      A lack of honkeys doesn’t mean it’s not their fault. Because it clearly is. Ask the BBC.

         17 likes

  30. Sluff says:

    Another BBC case of the right hand not having a clue what the left hand is doing. Or not wanting to know…

    Yes, It’s another ‘eat or heat’ ‘crisis’ dilemma. Not.m

    ‘Holidaymakers spending more as bookings rise’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64234234

       14 likes

    • Sluff says:

      …….and then……..within moments……
      Normal service is resumed.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-64213649
      ‘Cost of living: ‘We had to bath our kids in the kitchen sink’

      Guess what? He’s disabled, doesn’t work, and lives in a house with oil heating. Well, at least he’s white.
      How much searching did the BBC news room do to find him, out there in the Derbyshire Dales.

      Gotta keep the agenda flowing.

         19 likes

    • Chevalnoir says:

      … what cost of living crisis …

         3 likes

  31. Docmarooned says:

    bBBC plumbing the sporting depths today. Prime TV live snooker and netball FFS!

       6 likes

    • Zephir says:

      Snooker and netball..the mind boggles,

      I suppose the primary skill is not getting the snooker cue tangled in the net

         9 likes

  32. JohnC says:

    Settled down for the first episode in the latest BBC Father Brown last night. I planned to watch it until the first black person appeared as a main character.

    It started badly where Father Brown went through implausible explanations of why almost all the usual cast have disappeared.

    The ‘event’ happened after 7 minutes 25 seconds. And it wasn’t just the usual downtrodden black gardener either : it was a twenty-something black girl making a speech as leader of the local community to rally everyone together to prevent something or other getting built.

    And she was doing it in memory of her father who had lived in the village all his life apparently. This is early 1950’s England.

    What totally ridiculous racist rewriting of history and ‘women in charge’ combined. I find it hard to believe what stupendous double standards the Left have.

    I didn’t watch any more in case his new sidekicks are all BAME.

    The BBC has become a complete joke. Everyone sees it except them and those who are like them.

       35 likes

    • Nodding Dog says:

      Sadly it’s pretty much the same which ever channel you watch.
      Just put ITV on to watch Tipping Point and caught the end of the previous program which was a live rugby game presented by a woman and two black men.Didn’t see the game but I bet the vast majority of the players,crowd and those watching at home were white men which is something that the TV companies have little control over but they can control who they put in front of the camera!

         16 likes

    • BRISSLES says:

      Here’s a “truth” of living in a rural environment back in the 50’s, which will have the BBC reaching for the smelling salts.

      Recently I spoke to an old-timer (older than me), who was born and brought up in the village – his Dad worked on a local farm, and the old chap and school friends would spend summer holidays like we all did, just roaming around making our own fun. One day they stopped in their tracks (his words), as they saw a black man walking towards them. What did they do ? turned tail and ran off back to the farm to tell Dad – who picked up his air gun and followed them back to the lane. None of them had seen a black man before. No harm was done, the gun wasn’t fired, the black man had been offered work locally and was walking back to the bus stop. The old boy I spoke to said they all hid behind his Dad, but this was the reality of rural Britain, not the idealised version of Father Brown or Grantchester.

      Let’s not forget, I grew up with 50’s comics that portrayed black men as half naked cannibals with a bone through their nose dancing around a cauldron with a white explorer in it !

         22 likes

      • BRISSLES says:

        Nodding Dog….

        APROPOS Tipping Point. Just as an aside. For a few years in the 60’s my Dad worked for an amusement machine company. Dad and the boss would sit designing new machines to install around the countless arcades around the country. Dad came up with the Tipping machine, and he developed the prototype in Mum’s front room (to her disgust), it was developed and manufactured, resulting in worldwide distribution. Dad’s idea, but received neither glory nor profit. Sadly he was just the employee. Hey ho !

           8 likes

        • Nodding Dog says:

          Brissles He did an excellent job….for the arcade owners that is and they should be eternally grateful to him for inventing a machine that takes in a lot of many but rarely pays out that’s my experience of them anyway 😃

          Whenever me and Mrs ND visit the seaside we usually take a stroll through the arcades and if we have any spare change we’ll try our luck but we just seem to add to the large stack of coins already in the machine that look ready to fall!

             6 likes

          • Zephir says:

            He owes me big time, I lost at least 30p in Cromer last year.

            Ended up in Gamblers Anonymous.

               10 likes

      • Chevalnoir says:

        … or ‘cole blacks’ as was sometimes termed …

           3 likes

        • BRISSLES says:

          Sorry fella’s, those machines have a low percentage pay-out, but still people keep putting their pennies in !!!!

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          • Zephir says:

            I hope he realised the trouble he caused.

            In Hunstanton, I ended up with a rucksack full of candy floss, winkles and battered sausages trying to get more change to play.

            On the bright side, I cancelled the restaurant that evening, although the wife seemed to lose her appetite and didn’t speak to me all the way home .

               6 likes

  33. tomo says:

    The BBC would never….

       7 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      There can be no doubt – no question – no examination – I take it those muppets are ‘journalists ‘…. The ultra tanned one was – I think – challenging the ‘grim reaper ‘ –

      Twitter types are suggesting that there is a ‘gradual revelation ‘ going on with the occasional msm comment …as well as the CDC just suggesting there may be ‘side effects ‘…….

      I wonder what happened to NZ ?

         9 likes

      • Guest Who says:

        Bizarre bunch, physically as well as mentally, albeit exactly what you would imagine knitting at a St. Jaq guillotining of wrong thinkers.

        And that is before the mute was sweeetched offrf.

           7 likes

  34. Guest Who says:

    The left, debate and, often, the bbc.

    https://order-order.com/2023/01/09/leftie-upset-bbc-correctly-contextualised-his-rant/

    Not getting into who is correct or not, but just noticing how things get swerved when the BBC is in the mix.

       10 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      One advantage of social media -‘useful idiots ‘ really do declare themselves …

         8 likes

  35. StewGreen says:

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  36. StewGreen says:

    I’m reading the Times, it’s rubbish
    Apparently it’s criminal to appropriate the language of The Holocaust, cos that disrespects true victims.

    But it’s OK to appropriate Grooming Gang language

       14 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Yes my Times subscription is gone in a week – go woke go broke – it’s just dumb now …

         11 likes

      • tomo says:

        I nuked my Times sub some time ago…

        I got a call from the retention team while it was still fresh.

        I politely walked the guy through my disappointment – to the point where he realised that no reduction in sub was going to compensate for the ill informed, partisan activist propagandising that permeating their energy + environment coverage. Their international stuff likewise swerved telling uncomfortable truths

           6 likes

        • Fedup2 says:

          Thank you Tomo – I will avoid my natural default of prevarication and ring them this week ….for some reason one cannot cancel online – another Murdock style feature .

             2 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      However it is not entirely untrue
      Bridgen does seem to tweet mad Infowars stuff
      which makes grand claims but gives no robust evidence
      As if antivax cultists are feeding him stuff and he just retweets it.

      I’ve seen that kind of stuff before when someone’s partner is using their Twitter account

      I can’t see the worg “gangs” in the article
      which doesn’t substantiate its claim
      Rather it points at Dr Malhota as being an associate and influencer of Bridgen, and that he had been interviewed by Matt Le Tissier
      and that he has previously shared posts by Mike Yeadon.
      That’s all an attempt at portraying Guilt By Association.

         9 likes

      • StewGreen says:

        Ah Calvin Robinson quotes the bit about gangs

        “Those involved in the government’s vaccine roll-out, which Bridgen had lauded, said his case was a classic example of ‘radicalisation’ by antivaxers who operate like ‘grooming gangs’.”

        He adds
        “@marioledwith I’m curious, was this attack piece your idea
        or where you put up to it?”

        Basically the Times headline says
        “Andrew Bridgen is a NONCE, isn’t he ?”

        I’d be careful of people who put that label on other people.

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    • StewGreen says:

      GB news presenter Beverley Turner tweeted
      Regardless of whether you think @ABridgen
      was wrong to use the Israeli Cardiologist’s holocaust quote, this @marioledwith Times article’s framing is disgusting.

      Patronising to the MP.
      Offensive to the fully informed trying to do good & the racial undertones are clear!

         9 likes

  37. digg says:

    So the vile left in the UK are copying their counterparts in the USA.

    They fear the prospect of a Boris return so are marshalling the Civil Service and the media to try to put on a trial-by-media in a desperate attempt to try to tarnish him so badly that he will be unable to return to power.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/14/boris-johnson-partygate-testimony-broadcast-tv

    We have seen these dirty tactics played out in the US over Trump.

    It represents a new form of anti-democracy that Countries like China and North Korea would be proud of.

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  38. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #2 – the Truth and Lies edition – then there is the language or words used ….

    The BBC appear to have something of an obsession with Andrew Tate. I wouldn’t have known who he is but for the BBC and their endless reports of his recent arrest and imprisonment by Romanian police. Apparently, he is ‘a Far Right influencer’ which may explain the BBC’s obsession. Strangely, the BBC are never concerned about ‘Far Left influencers’.

    I wonder why?

    Apparently there is some gentleman who has formed a group called Progressive something or other to try to undo Andrew Tate’s influence on boys in schools in the north-west of England. He has a cosy chat with Amol Rajan. Progressive.

    Now for what is progressive an alternative word?

       15 likes

  39. StewGreen says:

    Esteemed economist Alice Roberts , said the NHS would obviously have more money if it cuts out contracting services from biz that makes a profit.
    Why doesn’t she get Unite the Union to run it ?

    Oh hang on Their £30m hotel turns out to have cost more than £100m.

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  40. TrickCyclist says:

    Just seen a trailer for Michael McIntyre’s programme where, thanks to trick photography, he is seen interviewing himself.
    Like when Bernie Winters bounded onstage to join his brother Mike at the Glasgow Empire: “Christ! There’s two of them!”

       10 likes

  41. digg says:

    Drip-drip-drip, bit by bit it’s all starting to fall apart.

    https://www.foxnews.com/health/cdc-identifies-possible-safety-concern-certain-people-receiving-covid-vaccines

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/dr-leana-wen-slammed-admitting-theres-been-overcounting-covid-deaths-two-half-years-late

    What will the BBC do if it really breaks?

    As our Will wrote… “The Truth will out….”

       14 likes

  42. Guest Who says:

    The BBC does like to do PR for stuff it likes.

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  43. Guest Who says:

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  44. TrickCyclist says:

    Celebrity Mastermind with Clive Myrie.
    Actress Victoria Smurfit’s specialist subject is 80s movie The Breakfast Club. Inbetweeners’ James Buckley’s is sitcom The Office. Dumbing down?
    A rainbow haired comedian called Ria Lina (?) does Rosalind Franklin. Clive gives us a feminist bio of her as the introduction. Surprisingly, one of the questions features Francis Crick as the answer.

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  45. Thoughtful says:

    Wow, there are now over 1000 lawsuits now pending against the NHS and the disastrous Tavistock centre and its far left (Tory) ideological based treatment of children as opposed to common sense tentative care.

    https://theconversation.com/tavistock-clinic-fallout-what-the-courts-would-consider-in-litigation-by-former-patients-149788

    Just to put that into persective, that’s over 1000 children with lives so wrecked by Socialisms appalling intransigence that their parents consider the only adequate restitution to be via the law.

    This isn’t the case of medical negligence we so often hear of someones life being affected by errors made, this was calculated and deliberate done because of political ideology NOT clinical practice.

    We as taxpayers will all have to pay the cost of this as we always do, and the Socialists will walk away looking for something else to destroy as they always do, and inadequates in government will willingly allow them to do it without a second thought.

       19 likes

    • Chevalnoir says:

      … vax providers were exempt from consequences from the outset of delivery when jabs started …

         9 likes

  46. Guest Who says:

    State broadcasters; what are they like?

       12 likes

    • tomo says:

      Excellent job in Eire

      I sampled their media for a couple of months involuntarily last year – they deserve whatever comes their way – a shower of shits.

         3 likes

  47. taffman says:

    Breaking …………….
    Shootings in London . Have guns replaced knives now ?
    This nation needs a strong government to sort this mess out .

       7 likes

  48. Zephir says:

    A drive by shooting of a funeral

    victims not white

    More enrichment

       10 likes

  49. Chevalnoir says:

    … I admire your optimism …

       4 likes