Midweek 18 January 2023

Bit by bit the BBC self destructs . Radio 2 loses another ‘talent’ along with his followers . Loyalty to the BBC continues to erode and our cause strengthens . Defund the Far Left Anti British agenda driven BBC .

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  1. Fedup2 says:

    BBC going big on ‘levelling up’ nonsense – millions being given taxpayers ‘ money to close down more roads and paralyse traffic -as well as traffic exclusion zones (ULEZ ) – excellent work – otherwise there will be green crap visitors ‘ centres in every town in Blighty

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  2. digg says:

    Scotland accuses Westminster of an attack on trans people by blocking its trans bill.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/19/westminster-trans-people-scotland-gender-recognition-reform-bill

    Let me correct that for you Guardian

    Westminster accuses Scotland of using trans people to attack Westminster….

    There, that’s more like it!

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    • Guest Who says:

      Perfection.

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      • Eddy Booth says:

        Jacinda Ardern has announced she will quit as New Zealand prime minister next month, saying she wants to pursue her lifelong dream of racing in the Kentucky Derby.
        “Ms Ardern, 42, said she had taken time to consider her future over several buckets of hay and carrots this summer.
        I really shouldn’t be prime minister,” she told reporters. “I should be running with the other horses in Kentucky.”

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      • Guest Who says:

        Gets better.

        The world needs more women like these in politics.

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        • Rob in Cheshire says:

          Pass the sick bucket, Beth.

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          • andyjsnape says:

            Hello Rob

            Why am I only allowed to like your comment on here once. In Peterborough they are allowed to vote more than once for their MP

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        • MarkyMark says:

          ” I’ve only ever seen political leaders forced out or voted out” = JUMP BEFORE PUSHED OR TAKE RESPON|IBILITY

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        • MarkyMark says:

          ‘I hated being the story’: Sky News’s Beth Rigby on her own Covid Partygate scandal
          VIEW COMMENTS

          https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/beth-rigby-sky-news-covid-partygate-kay-burley-boris-johnson-b987059.html

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          The Sky News political editor offered her resignation after being caught attending Kay Burley’s 60th birthday party whilst London was under Tier 2 coronavirus restrictions.

          The Standard caught up with her on a typically frenetic morning in Westminster where she has already conducted “pre-recorded” interviews for her show and then reaction to PMQs, saying: “I’ve had two outfit changes already.”

          “Men can just change their tie or put a bit of powder on their nose to be TV ready. But I don’t mind really I like wearing make-up.”

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      • andyjsnape says:

        Some of the twitter replies re Saint Ardern:-

        She’s a tyrant
        Inspirational to who?
        Jumped before pushed
        Jesus Christ get a grip
        Was that pic taken in Davos?

        As for the supporter comments, some of them need locking up

        We need her in the UK as PM, imagine

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  3. G says:

    Here we go again. Those > 65 watch out.

    “CDC and FDA Identify Potential Safety Signal (Ischemic Strokes) Linked to Pfizer Bivalent Booster”

    Trusted Trial Site News:

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  4. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    If any of you are thinking of watching the mini series called ‘Rules of the game’ here’s a brief review:

    All the whites are evil, bad and murderers.
    All the non whites are thoroughly decent, saintly and innocent.
    The end.

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  5. Fedup2 says:

    Pug
    Presumably marsh will wait for his gong when red Labour get power. But if there is an inquiry – it should include the decision to drop vetting standards – which I posit was in the name of diversity and getting certain types with cautions and convictions into plod ….
    The rapist – as I understand – had done a bit of army time – which I thought had become a disqualifying factor ….

    If Marsh thought vetting wasn’t important – vital – to public confidence – he should go find a job for which he might be better qualified – perhaps a BBC fact checker …

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  6. Eddy Booth says:

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  7. Eddy Booth says:

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  8. MarkyMark says:

    Shadow Commons Leader Thangam Debbonaire used an appearance on Newsnight last night to criticise some of the reporting by Sky and Tortoise on donations to MPs. After an interview about Nadhim Zahawi’s taxes, Kirsty Wark widened the discussion to questions about MPs’ finances as a whole. Citing the ‘Westminster Files’ data investigation by Sky and Tortoise, she described it as an attempt to shine a light on what MPs get from whom.
    order-order.com

    ………………………

    A February 2008 Freedom of Information Act request for the release of details of MPs’ expenses claims was allowed by an Information Tribunal but challenged by the House of Commons Authorities on the grounds that it was “unlawfully intrusive”.

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

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  9. theisland says:

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  10. Fedup2 says:

    If you see a lot of lights in the sky on Thursday night it is all those private jets coming out of Davos and heading back to the States from the evil WEF
    Tucker Carlson did a rich hatchet job on them but I think Mar Steyn ‘s impersonation of the megalomaniac kraut is better …

    Isn’t it strange how German breeds mad megalomaniac s?

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    • Zephir says:

      Plenty over here that hate Jews and want to ban certain books and teachers and it ain’t the ” far right”

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    • TrickCyclist says:

      I blame the way they speak.

      “It’s a funny language, German. For one thing, everybody shouts it. All those very long words: the literalism, the tinkertoy accumulation. It sounds pushy, beginning every sentence with a verb like that. And take the first person singular: Ich. ‘Ich.’ Not a masterpiece of reassurance, is it? I sounds nobly erect. Je has a certain strength and intimacy. Eo’s okay. Yo I can really relate to. Yo! But Ich? It’s like the sound a child makes when it confronts its own . . .”

      From ‘Time’s Arrow’ by Martin Amis.

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  11. Flotsam says:

    Starmer and Rayner have gone to the WEF bash at Davis. Starmer won’t have to go to the expense of hiring.

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  12. Philip_2 says:

    The BBC global pin up WEF global leader resigns from New Zealand.. Another failed progressive.

    “Ardern, who formerly worked as an adviser in Tony Blair’s government, failed to take heed of the first part of his slogan: “tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime”. The normally-placid country was shocked by a crime wave involving ram-raids and murders as the country reopened from its covid imprisonment. Police officers became sick of having to release delinquent youths they had arrested in the morning, only to see them reoffending in the evening. Then there was her war on farmers. New Zealand’s agricultural sector was the crown jewel of the country’s economy – one which, unlike its counterparts in other developed countries, stood on its own two feet, without subsidies. Then came Ardern’s extreme climate change agenda, which threatened to put many farmers out of business if they could not meet impossible emissions-reduction targets”.

    Another nail in the coffin in the BBC global WEF (global leaders – BBC dept – 101).
    Canadian failed ‘progressive’ Justin Tradeu is of the same failed lefty mindset that has locked up Canadians truck drivers during extensive unnecessary Covid lock-downs and forced COVID vaccinations that cause early heart attacks were ignored (still are by the left progressives).

    Then we learn Tony Blair was involved in training Ahrdern to ignore voters and ‘save the planet’ and net zero nonsense we are all forced to follow.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/19/poor-jacinda-ardern-defeated-vanity/

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  13. Flotsam says:

    Jacinda slipped out of the bunker before her Downfall

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  14. MarkyMark says:

    As Rishi faces backbench criticism for easing his rhetoric on China, Guido can reveal yet more incidences of warming relations with the authoritarian state. The Treasury today rolled out the red carpet to Chinese influence. Iain Duncan Smith should avert his gaze now.

    In a special themed meal, the department displayed Chinese flags and oriental decorations. Knowing Whitehall, someone’s going down for cultural appropriation.

    Co-conspirators won’t be surprised to see that the tofu-eating wokerati are making themselves at home in the Treasury, with “tofu, water chestnut and mushroom in black bean sauce” one of the meals on offer – for a modest £5.02. The meal went down well. A source claims the queue was the longest they’ve seen, adding that the dumplings “looked peng”. Guido’s just glad the Chancellor wasn’t behind the move. The coffers couldn’t handle the strain of subsidised sushi.

    order-order.com
    ———————————————-

    Barry Gardiner defends donations worth £500,000 from Chinese agent
    The Labour MP said Christine Lee appeared to be ‘operating as a legitimate person in the UK’.
    Amy Gibbons
    Thursday 13 January 2022 20:23

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  15. digg says:

    So Jacinda is stepping down in NZ.

    “I no longer have enough in the tank…”

    Odd expression for someone who has striven to vilify anything that even has a “tank”?

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  16. Fedup2 says:

    BBC News

    Not even an attempt at a neutral report on the NZ loon retiring ( maybe ) …. Like a club – as seen for Biden – crankie – dreadful but no surprise ….so I switched over –

    …there was a comedy sketch – a spoof of an NHS advert which suggested that if you think you’ve got cancer – contacf your GP surgery …. Lol …as if …

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  17. Zephir says:

    Will we see this latest enrichment on bbc news ?

    “Moment illegal immigrant kebab chef and ‘homeless Gipsy boy’ who targeted elderly millionaire in £4.6m romance scam brag in TikTok videos from her home after murdering her

    Kusai Al-Jundi, 25 and Mohammed El-Abboud, 28, found guilty of murder today”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11654785/Moment-homeless-Gipsy-boy-brags-TikTok-videos-home-woman-murdered.html

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  18. Fedup2 says:

    Alec Baldwin charged – so a democrat judge, prosecutor , jury .. fair trial ….

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  19. StewGreen says:

    NZ .. it’s a standard technique
    A governing party gets rid of the leader, just BEFORE an election
    then voting for them is a vote for change

    The Blue Socialist party was dumb to cave in and ditch Boris

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  20. StewGreen says:

    ITV local newsPR
    One item was PRasNews on steroids
    It was a 3 minute advert, for an ITV prog tonight
    “Your Car: Time To Switch”
    which will be a 30 min advert for electric cars.

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    • moggie63 says:

      I’m going to watch that to see just how much crap they come out with, whilst ignoring, or at the very least minimising, the obvious issues.

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    • JohnC says:

      Edd China converted an ice-cream van to electric and gave us all the usual propaganda about how vastly superior it was.

      Then when it came to give the van back, they insisted he took it all off again and refitted the diesel engine.

      Obviously not that ‘superior’ in the real world then …

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      • Zephir says:

        That would be a 1970s milk float then ?

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Ah – I remember driving the electric milk float when I was a kid – and – if I recall – having to find a phone box ( occasionally ) when the battery ran out because it wasn’t charged properly overnight … those were the days ….

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  21. Guest Who says:

    Earlier I mentioned this fellow…

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  22. JohnC says:

    Alec Baldwin to be charged with involuntary manslaughter over Rust shooting
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64337761

    No question about whose side the BBC is on for this : the fellow far-Left activist Trump hater.

    What is interesting though is how they tell us both will be charged ‘with two counts of involuntary manslaughter’.
    Then they tell us:
    ‘Both face up to 18 months in jail and a $5,000 (£4,040) fine if convicted.’

    But what they completely omit is that one of the two charges actually carries a mandatory 5 year jail term for the use of a firearm.

    Then they tell us:

    ‘After the shooting, Mr Baldwin said the gun had misfired. He added that he did not pull the trigger and was not aware that it was loaded. ‘

    But completely omit the statement from the FBI that the gun funtioned normally and hence Baldwin was lying.

    Just sloppy reporting by quota employees or deliberate to try and put him in the best light they can ?.

    Here’s one who wrote it. No surprises here:
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    Along with a guy called Gareth Evans who is another far-Left activist – in the short part of his feed I can see – manages to retweet a Guardian article, an article that Ukraine is a ‘catastrophe’ for Russia and some pointless anti-Trump rhetoric.

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  23. Guest Who says:

    Excellent.

    The pool is really that small and low.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Wow 5 years – the vine company director will be all grown up by then – she ll be … 17?

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    • Lunchtime Loather says:

      This is Vine’s escape route for when the inevitable happens to his career at Radio 2. I think he’s the eldest “daily” there now, can only be a matter of time.

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  24. Guest Who says:

    Sky News runs with inevitable ‘allegations’ following a media blitz.

    Turns off comments.

    This seems… typically dubious.

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  25. Guest Who says:

    Wonder if she went to Harvard with Lammy?

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  26. Wild Bill says:

    FFS Winterwatch just now, a poncey bloke probably trans doing drawings of birds, only on the prog for diversity and inclusion, another prog going down the pan.

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  27. Sluff says:

    The problem with Winterwatch (BBC2) is that it’s just too heterosexual !!!!!!!

    Cue a big feature with an affected male wearing heavy make up. He’s an ‘artist’ who draws birds. And he connects with them by wearing clothes like them.

    He also puts pansies where there has been a homophobic crime and photographs it.

    The feature closes by seeing him make up and wear headgear in order to resemble a mallard duck! And yes, I am being totally factual.

    Presenter Michaela, who last time I saw it actually lives in Cape Town, was effusive.

    Isn’t it all so sweet?
    You had to see it to believe it.

    PS Sorry Bill ( above). Just seen your post. I wasn’t writing from the end of the trail. Still. Great minds eh.

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    • Wild Bill says:

      Thats okay Sluff, you put it so well.
      Wasnt it Winterwatch or Springwatch who got rid of a white male popular presenter and replaced him with a black female whose speech was hard to understand?

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    • Jeff says:

      The BBC can’t resist anything like that, it’s in their DNA…

      Last year they covered The Chelsea Flower Show. I thought I was safe. I mean how the heck can they stuff that up? They did.

      I was sitting there, with my cup of PG Tips, enjoying a beautiful display of stunning bougainvillea, when suddenly we were introduced to a 6ft2 inch drag queen, in full regalia. Yep…just what was needed…

      We were told that he found gardening “tranquil” and “therapeutic” and he liked to flounce around in various gardens, while dressed up. Fantastic I really needed to know that. This nonsense went on for about twenty bloody minutes.

      We never had these shenanigans with Percy Thrower…

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      • Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

        The BBC’s DNA may, however, be amenable to modification.

        The following was quoted in today’s Geller Report:

        ” … …

        Facebook bans claims that COVID-19 vaccination modifies DNA

        By: Washington Examiner, February 17, 2021:

        “Project Veritas released video Tuesday of Mr. Zuckerberg raising questions about whether vaccines include risks of side effects such as “modifying people’s DNA and RNA” in July during a virtual Q&A meeting with staff.

        “I do just want to make sure that I share some caution on this because we just don’t know the long-term side effects of basically modifying people’s DNA and RNA to directly code in a person’s DNA and RNA,” Mr. Zuckerberg said in the video. “Basically the ability to produce those antibodies and whether that causes other mutations or other risks downstream.”

        He concluded: “So there’s work on both paths of vaccine development.”

        In a Feb. 8 post, Facebook updated its COVID-19 and vaccine policies “to protect people from harmful content and new types of abuse related to COVID-19 and vaccines,” saying it would remove posts that included “Claims that the COVID-19 vaccine changes people’s DNA.”

        Project Veritas president James O’Keefe said that the newly leaked tape showed Mr. Zuckerberg “violating his own code of conduct” and that “he would be censored on the platform today for what he said.”

        … …”

        One for the BBC to dig into, perchance?

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  28. Thoughtful says:

    As predicted the US has hit its debt ceiling thanks to Bidens ridiculous spending having burned through $2.5 trillion in just one year.
    That’s on top of all the tax receipts and also the receipts from the strategic oil reserve which he emptied for political advantage.

    It’s a shocking level of profligacy which has to be brought under control but Biden is not up for any compromise, and this is the issue which is leading to financial markets to speculate on a debt default.

    Here is Democrat supporting New York Times take on it:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/19/us/politics/debt-limit-economy.html

    “Newly empowered House Republicans have vowed that they will not raise the borrowing limit again unless President Biden agrees to steep cuts in federal spending. Mr. Biden has said he will not negotiate conditions for a debt-limit increase, arguing that lawmakers should lift the cap with no strings attached to cover spending that previous Congresses authorized.”

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Thoughtful – so a U.S. debt default means … meltdown ?

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      • Thoughtful says:

        It wouldn’t be the first US debt default, but it would be significant as the US AAA rating was downgraded to AA, this makes it more expensive for a country to borrow money, and with a $31.5 trillion debt that is not something the US wants.
        There’s the effect on the Dollar of course, and that would have a massive effect on US inflation

        The world reserve currency would be destabilised again, and the Russians will make a big thing of this together with the BRICS nations, to adopt a different reserve currency.

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        • Thatcherrevolutionary says:

          There seems a concerted campaign by Russia, China, Iran, India to move from the petro dollar standard.

          In the past the Yanks simply kill the head of state (Gadaffi, Saddam, etc) but this could be the long-overdue return of the gold standard.

          I’m sure the Davod filth will be working on a plan to save the dollar.

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  29. Sluff says:

    Not really BBC but certainly in their narrative range.

    Went running this afternoon. Circuits of about a mile in the local area. On the route , a primary school.

    At approx. eight minute intervals I therefore ran past it.
    Outside the school the parents were waiting to pick up their kiddies. There were a lot of cars.

    Over 16 minutes a woman (BAME as it turns out) had her engine running the whole time, keeping warm presumably while waiting for offspring to come out.

    Could she possibly be one of those same parents who complain about the effects of air pollution on their children?

    And as a result give sustenance to the likes of Sad Dick Khan who wants to ban old cars run by poor people.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Good to hear people keep their engines running outside schools – particularly if they are diesel – it’s important that kiddies develop a folk memory of hydrocarbon engines and warm cars before they are all forced to ride bikes in 10 years

      … I’d hope by then everyone needs an annual licence to use a bicycle – subject to a test of course …

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  30. Guest Who says:

    Compared to being in Davos?

    Dude.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      ON EXPENSES?

      Dino Sofos
      @dinosofos
      Founder CEO,
      @Persephonica
      | Executive Producer of
      @TheNewsAgents
      podcast | Creator of the BBC’s Brexitcast, Newscast & Americast | dino@persephonica.com
      London / Sheffieldpersephonica.comJoined January 2009
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  31. Sluff says:

    Not BBC but ITV.

    10 pm news. First story.
    Excess deaths due to the elderly being afraid to put the heating on.
    One 92 year old stares at her smart meter and allows herself £3 per….day we assume, it wasn’t specified.

    Now there is a winter fuel payment of £400 and there are special additional payments of at least £67 per month. More for those on benefits.

    Therefore the elderly CAN afford heating. But they are afraid. Why? Partly because of those dreadful smart meters, which people watch and see the numbers go up and get worried and want them to stop.

    Then there is the ceaseless coverage of the ‘energy’ crisis by the media. The elderly get frightened again.

    But ITV refuse to countenance the above factors and use it only as an ‘evil Tories not given out enough handouts’ narrative.

    An important story, selectively reported.

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    • Jeff says:

      There’s no need for any of this lunacy anyway.

      We’re an island surrounded by oil, with hundreds of years’ worth of coal and gas under our feet. We could and should have been building nuclear power plants, but none of these sensible options were fashionable…

      The fact that we have swallowed the communist green agenda is what’s caused these problems. We still hear cobblers about “net zero”. While China are burning more coal every year than Britain has done since the industrial revolution. All the mainstream parties are pissing in the same pot. There’s not a fag paper between the “Conservatives”. Labour, Lib-Dems and the Greens. Whether it’s the environment, asylum seekers or legal immigration.

      They’re all the bloody same…

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  32. Sluff says:

    Any news yet about St Greta of Thumberg going to China to campaign against coal-fired power stations?

    No, thought not.

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  33. Flotsam says:

    I find the earlier post regarding the association between Jacinda and Bliar interesting. I didn’t know about it.
    There is a saying that with age comes wisdom, Bliar and Jacinda came to power when very young, thus giving truth to that saying. Relentless authoritarianism is common to both of them.

    Bliar
    What on earth is he about?
    Bliar with today’s speech at Davos suggested that we should all be Covid vaccinated and certified, registered showed that old habits die hard. I find Bliar a very hard watch, very creepy. I think he’s a nut job, a very dangerous man. If I was running the Davos bash I wouldn’ t want him involved I reckon he must reduce the credibility of the event Jacinda will no doubt follow in his footsteps.

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  34. Sluff says:

    Another tearjerker from the BBC.
    Hankies at the ready?

    Cost of living: The Scots struggling to support family overseas

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-64292708

    Every month Wemimo Ugundiwin, who has lived in Glasgow for 17 years, sends money overseas to support her parents in Nigeria.
    “After my kids, my parents come first,” says the nurse and mother of five.
    “If I don’t provide for them, I feel they would lack and this is my chance to look after them.”
    Sending money abroad to help loved ones is a way of life for many in Scotland.
    Every year, billions of pounds are sent from immigrants in the UK to countries like Nigeria, India, Pakistan and Poland

    The BBC want us to feel sorry. I feel why the h*** are these people in our country except for their own economic benefit.

    No comment from the BBC naturally about the impact on the UK economy of migrants sending billions overseas instead of spending they’re arming in Britain.. Does the aid budget take this into account?

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    • andyjsnape says:

      ‘I can only send what I have’ – she says, no way! Must have a degree in Mathematics

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Migrant workers send home £8bn to families
      Published
      20 November 2018

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-46223217

      Migrant workers in the UK, many in low-paid jobs, are sending £8bn a year to support families in their home countries, says a report from the United Nations’ education agency.

      This is often used to help relations in poorer countries to stay in school.

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  35. Zephir says:

    Here we go AGAIN,

    “BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors’ cousin was tasered SIX times in 42 seconds as other officers tried to pin and handcuff him in the street as he yelled, ‘help me please’ before dying hours later in hospital”

    We have to delve further into the article to find:

    he began acting erratically when he attempted to flee from police and resist arrest after a ‘felony hit-and-run,’ car crash on January 3.  

    “He was transported to a hospital where he suffered from a medical episode and died four-and-a-half hours later. His cause of death has not be established and a preliminary toxicology report found cocaine metabolite and cannabinoids in his system.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11653937/BLM-founder-Patrisse-Cullors-cousin-tasered-SIX-times-offices-died.html

    Yet, still:

    “Anderson’s death has raised concerns by Mayor Karen Bass, and a number of community activist on whether the officers tactics were too excessive  “

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  36. Zephir says:

    apropos of nothing, this is first time I have heard this since 1978, before the world turned to sh@t

    Listening to the whole album now

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  37. Zephir says:

    I propose NOTHING in the last few years could ever approach music from this era, just some examples below

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  38. tomo says:

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    • andyjsnape says:

      Hello Tomo

      US has 250,000 illegals arriving on its southern border each month! 🙁

      Its bad here with the illegals coming in and RNLI ferries getting them here to the British Isles, but 250,000

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Thanks Tom -Funny how Nixon now becomes a history lesson ….and funny how the ‘deep state ‘ in the US compares with that in the UK….

      The account of the fall of President Nixon has the ring of truth about it …

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      • tomo says:

        Fed

        Tucker’s assessment of Bob Woodward was interesting – it seems rather likely that Tucker has been having chats with his dad

        Not the Dimblebys… !

        The use of journalists by the the UK deep state seems to be most obvious with the foreign correspondents although there are some notable exceptions…

        https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2022-06-21/journalists-lap-dogs-security-state/

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Tomo – I agree on the wood wood angle – I read too much watergate stuff as a kid and don’t recall woodwood being anything other than a journo ….but now I think of it – Robert Redford played wood wood but also played a CIA operative in some other film …. Suspicious eh?

          I actually think what Tucker said has a ‘ring ‘ to it …. And I always thought that the press attacks on Nixon were obsessive – until repeated with Trump …

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          • tomo says:

            Eric Hunley + Mark Groubert have covered quite a bit about the relationships between the CIA / deep state and US media and Hollywood on “America’s Untold Stories” YouTube channel.

            – yet they only provide “a lot of dots”! – when you see who’s doing what, in what sequence some conclusions are inescapable.

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          • Sluff says:

            Fed
            Three days of the Condor.

            Quite a good film, yet rarely shown.

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  39. Zephir says:

    Krown Jools, envi of da wurld etc etc

    “Why would I celebrate 40 years of BBC Breakfast when Frank Bough made life a misery – and I felt forced to kiss Jimmy Savile? SELINA SCOTT lifts the lid on the behind-the-scenes antics of Britain’s first early morning TV show

    so much of my time on the hideous red leather sofa made me feel I was a combatant in a war zone.

    When I was poached by the BBC, I was warned by old hands that I would find the snake-pit atmosphere generated inside ‘Auntie’s’ venerable walls very different. Boy, were they right.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11655611/SELINA-SCOTT-celebrate-BBCs-Breakfast-time-Frank-Bough-life-misery.html

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  40. andyjsnape says:

    Ukraine war: Allies to meet as Kyiv requests tank donations
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64341337

    Headline should be:-

    NATO sends tanks to Ukraine

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Proxy War – Yemen etc.

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    • JohnC says:

      That article is very revealing and should make everybody afraid.

      There is no doubt that Ukraine is now a world-war and Russia are going to mobilise on that basis. It is going to get much worse after the winter.

      Putin didn’t want NATO in Ukraine because he didn’t trust that they were a purely defensive organisation for it’s members. I have to say I agree with him on that.

      What worries me most is the WW2 level propaganda we are being spoon-fed and how completely people are swallowing it.

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  41. Fedup2 says:

    Im just waiting for a ‘crowdfund’ a tank scam …..

       10 likes

  42. Fedup2 says:

    Following on from the 3rd feature of the BBC News – it looks like we are due for another PM- and maybe another election next month .

    Yes The green card PM has ( allegedly ) broken the law . Travelling as a passenger in a car without wearing a seat belt is a serious matter – even jimmy saville would say ‘clunk click every trip ‘ when he was not busy raping children at the BBC .

    So Rishi must resign and take the family back to LA… should have gone to Davos Rishi ….

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    • andyjsnape says:

      Hello Fed

      For some reason the news/press seem to give certain people an easy time, ie Khan with knife crime, maybe the same reason will be applied to the current PM

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Well, that’s that then. This afternoon the Metropolitan Police fined the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of Exchequer for breaking lockdown laws. It follows an investigation into alleged Covid law-breaking at 12 gatherings in Whitehall and Downing Street. Both Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have maintained their innocence right up until this week. Below are six of the most memorable denials by the two men since claims emerged last year.

      https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/six-times-boris-and-rishi-denied-breaking-the-law/

      Six times Boris and Rishi denied breaking the law

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Clearly having a serial law breaker in number 10 is beyond the pale – there must be an independent inquiry about the seat belt incident – has he done it before . ? Surely an ‘urgent question ‘in the House with the new Bercow siding with labour in demanding a statement .
        Mad mad times ….

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        • MarkyMark says:

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

          Everyone. Everyone. Everyone.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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          • Fedup2 says:

            Interest rate decision `February 2 ( another .5%?) budget of 16th March ….5% increases in council tax …. April …

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  43. MarkyMark says:

    Ukraine war: Give us tanks, says Zelensky, as Western allies meet
    Published

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64341337

    Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky has made a direct appeal to Germany to provide tanks ahead of crunch talks involving dozens of Western allies at Ramstein air base in southern Germany.

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  44. Fedup2 says:

    Today watch

    I was so excited by the seat belt gate ©️story that I turned on ‘Today’. Pretty grim stuff – something about kids and homework ? Than the lees doosett running her war against the taliban . I wondered has she did her gig about wimmin education in afgee ( again ) whether the taliban listen to ‘today ‘… ?

    What do they think of lees ‘dissing ‘ them every day . The taliban want their Fatimas breeding more little Mohammeds rather than doing diversity degrees …

    … I’m sure they are impressed by this western liberal turning up and telling them the way she and the sister hood want it – after all those ( male ) allied soldiers died there for nothing ….

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  45. Fedup2 says:

    Waiting for the ‘Asiseeit ‘ daily digest – will the Met paedophile ring – as described in the DT – feature ?

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  46. MarkyMark says:

    ac7f2974-cf5d-4312-bb6a-0232aa63edbb-02a2bdb5-b27d-41a6-a8d0-a9e34e754cd5

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  47. Zephir says:

    This is the democrats and bidens legacy, this and Afghanistan

    “EXCLUSIVE: Inside America’s Zombieland: Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood looks like a scene from the WALKING DEAD as grim photos show ‘tranq’ addicts shooting up in broad daylight on sidewalks

    Exclusive pictures of Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia – long known as ‘ground zero’ for the city’s drug epidemic – reveal a shocking scene of drug devastation
    Many addicts are injecting themselves in broad daylight and lying passed out in the streets, with gruesome sores on their arms and legs ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11655809/Philadelphias-Kensington-neighborhood-looks-like-scene-WALKING-DEAD.html

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  48. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – aah, now I have heard of him …

    … TOADY and the 6 a.m. News brings me news of the death of David Crosby. In the normal course of life, the BBC are usually anxious to tell me of some American musician that I have never heard of and who never really achieved anything. I guess that is due to the BBC’s America obsession. I didn’t think much of the BBC’s choice of music in the news of David Crosby’s death. Perhaps they are missing Ken Bruce already?

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    • Zephir says:

      Wrong colour for the far left racist bbc

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Did they play ‘white Christmas ‘ ?

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Fed, it sounded like White Christmas but overlaid with several other tunes and songs. Pretty awful. I always associated Crosby with the musicality of the Byrds singing Mr Tambourine Man or Eight Miles High or the delicacies of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.

        We can make up for it here with Mr Tambourine Man:

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  49. Zephir says:

    And in the UK:

    “Hundreds of migrants in UK are ‘dangerous criminals’ amid call for ‘national outrage’
    Last year, over 44,700 migrants made the perilous journey across the English Channel in small boats to seek asylum in the UK.

    An investigation by The Sun has revealed that a large number of migrants who have arrived in Britain are “dangerous criminals”, including rapists, murderers, and terrorists. Among the hundreds who have been found to be serious criminals are also gangsters, child sex-offenders and drug dealers.

    A large number of the criminal migrants are currently living in homes funded by the taxpayer and are working illegally in the UK with cash handouts.

    The whistle-blower who asked to remain anonymous explained the situation to The Sun.

    They said: “If people knew the truth about these people, it would provoke national outrage – and it should.

    “Hundreds of serious criminals are living all over the country, with many continuing to commit crimes, work illegally and claim benefits.

    “And once they get into this country it is almost impossible to get rid of them.”

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1723787/migrant-crisis-uk-dangerous-criminals-national-outrage-ont

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