Let’s hear it for Lucy Fraser . Lucy is the new ‘culture secretary ‘ – the last one lasted about 4 months . Good for your pension Lucy – let’s be sure you’ll be a good / bad as previous ‘culture secretaries ‘ …. It may be a sign that the current socialist government doesn’t care too much about stuff like the BBC or OFCOM or the end of free speech . Just imagine – they still have a great big majority …
Midweek 8 February 2023
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The Prevent report quickly buried now, which condemned the ‘culture of timidity’ (which may be about the only thing the BBC are world leaders of these days). By total coincidence on the home page today — and in no way a puff piece written in advance to cover up negative press — “How hip-hop led me to convert to Islam”.
“Ismael Lea South is the founder of the Salam Project which works to engage children and keep them out of trouble […] Ismael soon began noticing more about what his favourite artists were saying. ‘This was a time when a lot of the rappers were using Arabic phrases, and they weren’t necessarily Muslims, so they would say things like ‘Inshallah’ [meaning God-willing].’ He also started paying more attention to acts who had greater depth to their music. ‘There would be some rappers who would rap about how they started looking at life a bit deeper and they’d rap about spirituality,’ Ismael explains.”
When do the BBC ever do promotional work for Christianity? They regularly publish case studies like this that read like they’ve come straight off the pages of the Saudi Take A Break magazine.
A reminder that the day after the Telford report into CSE (also buried quickly) the BBC decided to put this story on their home page:
Former counter-terror chief hits out at ‘insulting’ findings of Prevent review
Neil Basu claims parts of government-backed review of scheme are driven by ‘rightwing viewpoint’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/08/prevent-scheme-failing-to-tackle-non-violent-islamist-extremism-review-says
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https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/attacks.aspx?Yr=Last30
2023.01.30 Pakistan Peshawar 101 221 A Fedayeen suicide bomber goes off at a rival mosque, killing over one-hundred worshippers.
The blindfold goes over our eyes … “Islam is peaceful. Just ask Rafiqi
Islam, a loving husband, who told his wife that he had a present for
her, blindfolded her to make it a surprise and then cut off her
fingers. Then the rest of the Islam family mopped up the blood, while
Mr. Islam threw her fingers into the trash, and after a few hours took
her to the hospital where they warned her to tell the doctors that she
had an accident.”
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“Either we go on playing the game of blindfold and machete, or we take
off the blindfold, take away the machete and show Mr. Islam the door.”
Breaking up with Mr. Islam by Daniel Greenfield {sultanknish jun2016}
http://sultanknish.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/breaking-up-with-mr-islam.html
“How hip-hop led me to convert to Islam”.
Disturbing truth about how Janet Jackson’s marriage was doomed from the start: Tensions over their VERY different cultures and his obsession with privacy continually rocked their relationship
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4396272/Disturbing-truth-Janet-Jackson-s-marriage.html
MM, Basu has form for this kind of deliberate fudging of the meaning of extremism (Nov 2020): “Metropolitan Police counter-terror chief Neil Basu calls for action on coronavirus anti-vaxxers”
“…there should be a discussion about whether it is ‘the correct thing for society to allow’ people to spread ‘misinformation that could cost people’s lives’ as he responded to concern that false claims online could undermine the take up of Covid-19 vaccines.”
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/met-police-terrorism-coronavirus-anti-vaxxers-b73161.html
16 Vote in Wales.
15 Join Isis.
10 change gender.
6 marry mohammed.
Listening to ‘Nazis – The Road to Power’ (Thursdays, BBC R4 2.15 – 3.00 p.m.) I thought I heard a gratuitous ‘swipe’ at former US President Donald Trump, right at the end of this factionalised/fictionalised drama. When will it be repeated? During the US Primary season or when the US Election campaign is under way in the run-up to November 2024?
I wonder?
MRP poll shows the Tories performing so badly they would come third in a general election retaining just 45 seats such is the woeful state under their leader Rishi washee.
No backbone, no clue which direction to take, and no real policy ideas because they became so damn lazy when the EU was making the policies for them and they didn’t have to do anything.
They have failed utterly to seize the opportunities Brexit offered, and it’s a struggle to think of a single one of them who deserves to hold a senior position at all.
The Conservatives are the stupid party .
Polls show that most of the electorate are slightly liberal / left about economic policies but conservative about social policies .
What do the Tories do ?
Muff it .
Tomo – I think it’s very unfair that all because the false president and his happy helper promised to blow up the nordstream -that the US blew it up …. Of course the Russians would blow up their own pipeline ….
Main page miserable headline
“CLASSY AND COMPLEX
‘Never fashionable but never out of fashion’ ”
BBC journalist:
Let me think of a cute, trite statement then shoehorn it into the story…
I think he was as fashionable as you got for a song writer.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-1157399
“He developed an interest in jazz as a teenager, often blagging his way into many of New York’s jazz clubs while technically under age.”
He was underage or he wasn’t.
‘The sheer familiarity of Bacharach’s music meant the cleverness of much of it was sometimes overlooked: it was dismissed as “elevator music” or “easy listening”.’
They clearly make stuff up ,.
More dystopian crap from the US socialists:
‘It’s out of control and dangerous’: Furious California residents rage at prostitutes being allowed to linger on streets – with women in thongs on street corners, twerking at traffic and pimps following mothers to school after Gov. Newsom passed woke laws
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11731621/Furious-California-residents-rage-thong-clad-prostitutes-allowed-linger-streets.html
You can hardly rage at something you voted for, and if given the chance would do so again!
Australia : Covid Police overreach
media complicity
Now Avi Yemini’s security guard given large settlement for unfair targeted arrest.
More https://www.rebelnews.com/rebel_news_security_awarded_massive_police_payout_over_unlawful_arrest
We all know that most delinquent plods will continue to misbehave until the punishment comes out of their own pockets – it’s the way it is…
Simon Webb about inverted racism in countryside issues
Afghan withdrawal a dark chapter for UK, says Defence Committee chair
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64591600
This article is beyond belief.
The BBC are virtually blaming the UK for the Afghanistan disaster.
Not one mention of the false president whose decision to overrule the military for his own politcial benefit caused it all.
Just imagine the polar-opposite report we would be reading it it was Trump who caused it.
I’m simply astounded at how much do the people at the BBC hate this country now. To them, we are all right-wing scum who voted for Brexit.
And in that article, they STILL have a sub-heading under politics for ‘Brexit’. And to my complete amazement, of the 7 articles, SIX are open for HYS. And the only one which isn’t is one about Lammy proposing closer security ties with the EU. Which would have been proper ridiculed.
How do we rid ourselves of these traitors ?.
JohnC
Yes – listening to the BBC version of the afgee defeat one might not realise the cause . But I’m disappointed that only are few thousand afgees are ‘entitled ‘ to come to the land of benefits . What about the rest of the country ? Why can’t they all come ?
And how many have been killed by peace loving mudlim taliban ? If they are still alive then surely they should stay in their own country to ‘rebuild ‘it – bit like the coming swarms of Jonnie Turks and Syrians heading to the UK after their earthquake – which of course was caused by global warming .
Oh yeah – there must be a public inquiry to learn lessons from when a demented false US President pulls the plug on imperialism without telling the mugs helping him …
Today
Excellent news for the blue Labour – the turn out for some godforsaken red labour ‘stronghold ‘ was only 30% yesterday – and the swing to red labour was only 10% – this is a clear victory for the green card PM and his corruption free party –
– although it was a victory for Rishi whoever the candidate was is not the MP – some ex charity worker is – after the last MP thought working in the NHS was a better gig than being a free loader MP ….
The BBC commentator on this excellent result for the blue labours obviously spun it to be a huge victory for the benefits party ….
Today –
Oh dear – the UK isn’t in recession – bad day for comrade Robinson .
But more seriously – does this swamp stat really mean anything to you and me ? No . The price of a chicken and milk is still heading up – interest savings rates are frozen – petrol price is not dropping along with cost … and we continue to be ripped off ….
BBC Core
(Getty disabled)
The rot started with Osborne, the Tory Government has declared war on Landlords. A number of changes to the tax treatment, increases in interest rates and minimum energy performance for properties. Landlords with older properties are faced with huge bills to make properties lettable
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A single mother of four, or in other words a benefits scrounger who never worked and thought she could have even more money if she didn’t given the landlord the money taxpayers had been forced to gift her but could instead spend it on partying
Thoughtful,
“A single mother of four, or in other words a benefits scrounger who never worked and thought she could have even more money if she didn’t given the landlord the money taxpayers had been forced to gift her but could instead spend it on partying”
Or in other words: A single mother of four who had a job and was forced to leave because her landlord is selling the property.
But hey, don’t let the facts get in the way of your bigotry, ‘Thoughtful’.
Bravery that inspires.
Lol
Rescuers have reported being hampered by BBC news teams looking for dead / injured people who can speak English .
It can only be a mattter of time before one of those awful self serving charity shows is put on – geldoff and that coloured brummy blokd must be on the phone right now – dreaming of the ‘admin fee ‘…
BBC will be bored with it by next week
Drop the Dead Donkey was a video training series
Sky flew the thick slapper out for this…
Hope her hotel had a balcony.
That is Snopes done.
Next, BBC D’Uh.
BBC not too worried about a big pharma locating a new factory in Eire versus Uk – presumably the Irish pay better bribes …
UK economy narrowly avoids recession last year
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64584295
One thing you can bet on is the bBC will talk us into one sooner or later
Maybe Kay and Toenails could do a Twatcast somewhere more to their liking?
The Indian government has defended its purchases from Russia, saying it has to source oil from where it is cheapest. The US government had been critical of these purchases, although it’s now made clear that it accepts that India can continue to buy discounted Russian oil.6 Dec 2022
“although it’s now made clear that it accepts that India can continue to buy discounted Russian oil.” Well, that’s big of the good ol’ US of A. How magnanimous.
I liked the ones with semi nekkid hotties off ovary back in the day.
Sam Smiff rolling in butter flogging ‘Ham Pour Xe’ … less so.
J’adore starring Mr Bean [DeepFake]
Strikes Update: How Friday 10 February’s walkouts WILL affect you
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64579672
They won’t
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We thought bBC didn’t go comedy anymore:-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-64377364
“But perhaps the most important issue facing the leaders of the world’s two biggest presidential democracies will be convincing their own nations, and the world, that democracy is alive and well”
Democracy is alive and well – apparently
Ok – sad news – I’ve just discovered that ‘Nadine Dorries’(anagram? Who was apparently a blue labour MP is to ‘stand down ‘at the election before the electorate is given an opportunity to show this mouthy useless bint the door .
Ms Dorries somehow managed to achieve high ministerial office – the meedja secretary and achieved absolutely nothing although did spout many words .
She leaves parliament with a big pension – a peerage from boris and a non job £ on a quango ….. when asked to describe ms Dorries most people responded with an im motive ‘who?’ …
2021 “Nadine Dorries is also a published author who has written more than a dozen novels since 2014 and has sold more than 2.5 million copies”
some are erotic fiction
Politica of envy, is what Corbyn followers do
moaning about someone elses wages doesn’t improve the world.
On the subject of big pensions…….paid for by the likes of
you and me
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/nicola-sturgeons-tax-returns-reveal-29144262
I wonder if the plethora of current news…..Turkey earthquake, a lady called Nicola who has gone missing, Zelenskyy on a tour, influenced in any way the timing of this release?
Nicola Sturgeon’s tax returns reveal gold-plated £460k pension since she became First Minister
The Nats leader promised to publish her tax returns every year in 2016 – and then promptly forgot all about it until today. Even then, blundering officials had to remove the documents after they forgot to redact her bank details
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/nicola-sturgeons-tax-returns-reveal-29144262
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Revealed: ‘anti-oligarch’ Ukrainian president’s offshore connections
This article is more than 1 year old
Volodymyr Zelenskiy has railed against politicians hiding wealth offshore but failed to disclose links to BVI firm
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/03/revealed-anti-oligarch-ukrainian-president-offshore-connections-volodymyr-zelenskiy
Stew will approve
Glad to see somebody glad politicians get well rewarded….- compared to the non elected ….
Loved his island.
Today
The absence of really bad economic news led to a lacuna in the 810interview – poor comrade Robinson had to please himself with a ‘businessman ‘ who wants to import foreign labour into the UK to make him more money – and someone ex bank of engerland ….
So they blabbered on about stuff and flatlining and everyone else is betterer than us – but there’s no growth …. Surely comrade Robinson and the lovers of green crap don’t want growth ? They want lots of dead people to ‘save the planet ‘ …. Just don’t get it
The entire BBC N. America team was hired on this basis.
When you are BBC and young, priorities…
The forerunner of the Defend Free Speech campaign was called “Reform Section 5”. This speech by Rowan Atkinson at the launch event in Parliament in 2012 should be heard by every politician, journalist and campaigner before they start calling for laws to silence those they regard as ‘extremists’.
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We would all like to see a lot less of them. But who should decide whether words, posters or ideas are insulting? Individuals? The police? A judge? Should it ever be a criminal matter? It might surprise you to know that under Section 5 of the Public Order Act, the police and the courts can decide if you or someone else might feel insulted.
http://reformsection5.org.uk/
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Do we really need the police and the courts to deal with insults? Should we not just accept that the risk of insult is a fair price to pay for living in a society which values free speech? We think so, and here’s why.
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“Insulting words or behaviour” are outlawed by Section 5, and this is having a chilling effect on free speech right across our country, in a wide range of communities. The law rightly protects us against unjust discrimination, incitement and violence. It should not be used to protect us from having our feelings hurt. It’s time to reform Section 5.
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Anjem Choudary
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cj27z4ed48pt
Getty Image staffer pulls in Calais.
Phew, Sky Getty to the rescue…
Bet she won’t be lonely for long.
Rising bills mean Tasnia Kazi, 20, and her mother are struggling to set aside £50 for groceries each month
https://e3.365dm.com/23/01/1600×900/skynews-inflation-cost-of-living_6035897.jpg?20230125141351
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Qatar Airways is the new sponsor of Sky News Weather. Qatar Airways is the new sponsor of Sky News Weather. The 12-month deal marks a first for Qatar Airways, which has never before used television as a promotional tool in the UK.
Give The Lads a Whirly Burley catch the Red Eye out to Turkey as she heard it was caused by a Tall Boy?
Islam Provides Remedy to Alcoholism
https://www.islamicity.org/1144/islam-provides-remedy-to-alcoholism/
Yeah, about that…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2070562/Muslim-girl-gang-kicked-Rhea-Page-head-yelling-kill-white-slag-FREED.html
Girl gang who kicked woman in the head while yelling ‘kill the white slag’ freed after judge hears ‘they weren’t used to drinking because they’re Muslims’
Judge: ‘Those who knock someone to the floor and kick them in the head can expect to go inside, but I’m going to suspend the sentence’
story is from 2011
The Somali Muslim women who repeatedly kicked Rhea Page in the head & called her a “white bitch”were spared jail
Judge Robert Brown gave suspended sentences, saying they were not used to the effects of alcohol
FullFact : ” the prominence given to a small detail of the case creates a misleading interpretation of why the women received lesser sentences.
In reality, the article in the Mercury endorsed by the Judicial Office implies this was actually because of unreasonable force exerted by the victim’s boyfriend on to the attackers”
Interesting that newspaper page was deleted and is not in any archive
maybe blocked from archiving.
mmm The Guardian. Should the article not be written by their own objectionable brummie boozehound Chiles. A revolting creature!
A former police chief has called on Google to amend its technology to help stop the spread of terrorist material.
Ex-Met Police assistant commissioner Sir Mark Rowley says it is a disgrace a jailed radical preacher ranks top for search term “British Muslim spokesman”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48068912
“British Muslim spokesman”.
“British Muslim spokesman”.
“British Muslim spokesman”.
I imagine in Soviet Russia people went straight to gurus who translated what Pravda actually meant.
Now we have to go to Simon Webb to translate the mainstream media
even though I think he is sometimes wrong.
Today he says don’t take the Ashford school white racist girls story at face value
cos the video clearly shows they are Irish traveller people, yet the media fail to mention this.
Hierarchy of victimhood ?
UK Traveller communities fear ‘cultural annihilation’ over upcoming trespass laws
Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people face imprisonment or hefty fines under new England and Wales Police Bill that ‘criminalises’ nomadic life
Blyth Brentnall
25 January 2022, 11.33am
This ‘cultural’ enrichment…?
Usually a few thousand to clear up.
StewGreen
“…cos the video clearly shows they are Irish traveller people, yet the media fail to mention this.”
Cos they’re not proper “white people”…
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Is it a myth that the signs “no irish, no blacks, no dogs”
were common ?
Cameras were common at the time
So you’d expect to see lots of different examples
yet when you image search with Google
that one sign seems to be the only contemporary sign that features
StewGreen,
“Is it a myth that the signs ‘no irish, no blacks, no dogs’ were common ?”
There are many eye witness accounts of such signs, Stew. But as I expected, a suitably feeble response when caught out displaying the exact same racial prejudice:
*They’re not White – They’re Irish traveller people*
Maxi “eye witness” accounts are not concrete accounts
cos such memories can be false
People say “oh I remember seeing such ‘no blacks, no Irish no dog’, signs as a child” etc. in a kneejerk way
The lack of photographic proof is evidence that the particular signs were very rare.
No one here said “They’re not White – They’re Irish traveller people”
Webb is merely pointed that media have deliberately chosen to OMIT context.
They could in other stories say ‘Coventry man attacked some Lemington man’ etc. but choose to add context like ‘White Coventry guy attacks Lemington black guy’ etc.
Maxicinconey ,
Please tell us where that is quoted on any Biased BBC thread .
If you dare , over on the new thread .
Otherwise your comments are superfluous .
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
How apt for our present times
Titter ye not edition
One step forward, two steps back, in the bizarre real life pantomine (who’s behind you?) which is our so-called gender politics this morning: Scottish prisons scrap gender self-identity (Telegraph); Church faces schism over gay blessings (Telegraph)
Pricipal boy (or eighth dwarf garden gnome look-a-like – a Sleeping Beauty she ain’t) Nicola Sturgeon dreamed up the former fairy tale (oh yes she did!) whilst our Baron Hardup, Justin Welby, pencilled into the sacred text the latter eleventh commandment – thou shalt celebrate the gays in thy CofE.
Frankly, Mr AsI has never seen the fun side in a chap donning a frock – popular as that hobby seems to be these days. I think it’s best left to entertainers the likes of Danny La Rue (there’s one for the teenagers). At least the Scots can get it out of their system with a kilt. When Frankie Boyle was still funny he cracked the gag “What do you call a man in a kilt? A Scotsman, or an Englishman at a wedding”
There’s more fashion news on the frontpage of the Daily Mail: Will YOU mourn (or cheer) the end of the floral midi?
The freebie advertiser Metro pushes: M&S Plunge bra £10 – frontpage. Frankly, even at that price, I’m still not tempted. Or, from the same retailer for the more conservative among us (small ‘c’ or capital ‘C’) – afterall, that’s where Maggie Thatcher bought her knickers: Responsibly sourced-cotton pyjamas £15
Not such responsible sourcing going on here: Britain has paid a fine of more than £2.3 billion to Brussels for allowing Chinese criminal gangs to flood Europe with cheap clothes and shoes (Times)
This report should teach us several lessons.
Firstly, the EU only believes in free markets withing its own borders – to the rest of world it is a restrictive mercantilist tariff-heavy trade bloc (like it or loath it – but don’t associate the EU with the notion of free trade): Customs failed to check impossibly low valuations put on Chinese consignments arriving in Britain. In one case it found that the average value declared at the UK border for women’s cotton trousers was E0.91 per kg, compared with an EU average of E26.09 (Times) – presumably the former were on their way to a Primark near you.
Lesson two is that our civil servants have been doing as bad a job at running Customs as they have at securing our borders from illegal immigration. No wonder our civil servants like the notion of open borders – it gives them less work to be bothered with: An EU fraud investigation found that over a six-year period… fraudsters could make huge savings by declaring the goods in the UK… (Times) – and of course all stripes of politician these days invariably call for ever more public sector regulation of just about everything. Trust the public sector to do a good job, eh?
So it’s no wonder the likes of Priti Patel and Dominic Raab lose their rag with them: Raab: high standards don’t make you a bully (Telegraph) – I’m sure most ministers will employ more of a live-and-let-live attitude toward our failing public sector. Anything for a quiet life. Or, faced withe the power of the blob, they just throw in the towel: I’m a Tory MP… get me out of here (Telegraph); ‘I have to remove myself’: Nadine Dorries to step down as an MP. Boris Johnson loyalist announces on TalkTV that ‘sheer stupidity’ of his removal as PM led to her decision (Guardian)
Lesson three is that no one in authority will ever take responsibility for their cock-ups: In an announcement slipped out before the parliamentary recess, the Treasury revealed it had paid the European Union to settle… The sum which would have been enough to give nurses a pay rise of about 3.3 per cent – has been paid in three instalments over the past seven months, and includes hundreds of millions of pounds in interest because the government did not settle earlier (Times)
And if all that didn’t make for a gloomy Friday – the FT analyses morbidity: Datawatch Earthquake deaths… The earthquake that has struck Turkey and Syria has killed almost 20,000 people so far. But natural disasters have caused far higher fatalities over the past 50 years.
We reach for the Daily Star for some glimmer of hope and a smile: Vote Chuckle – I thought we already did that with comedy Boris and now opinion polls suggest we’ll do it again with dull straightman (who can’t tell when it’s a real woman or when it’s a bloke in drag) Sir Keir.
Titter ye not – as Frankie Howerd would exclaim. This is the fun manefesto of Paul Chuckle brought to you by the Star – hardly less preposturous than something Starmer or Sunak, Lib/Lab/Con (whatever happened to the Libs?) with the emphasis on the con (to you, to me, to you, to me…) might all dream up between them: End cancel culture which is turning comedians dull – well, that would be a good start – if that was all the next government did to us.
“End cancel culture which is turning comedians dull”
https://www.steynonline.com/7515/where-the-streets-have-no-jokes-cont
The German government has approved a criminal inquiry into a comic who mocked the Turkish president, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced.
By law, the government must approve any use of an article of the criminal code on insulting foreign leaders.
Mrs Merkel stressed that the courts would have the final word.
I like Raab . His forensic use of language – eg “the allegations are ‘mostly’ untrue “ . I enjoy the speculation of what the word ‘mostly’ is going to turn out to be …..
… on today one of the comrades from the snobby sounding ‘first division association ‘ *( which has a sort of national socialist twang to it ) popped up to say his union was Fedup if speculation and rumour and leaks outside the inquiry – and then proceeded to rumour , leak and speculate – not necessarily in that orderisation.
* I understand that the First division association is now the FDA – Having been found to have been in breach of trade description purely because the civil service is crap .
Always wondered if there is a second division association – or even a ‘prem’?
‘wondered if there is a second division association – or even a ‘prem’?’
More like the Isthmian League – with members such as Canvey Island and Hashtag United
The First Division Association should rename themselves the Fifth Column , such are their antics.
‘I have to remove myself’: Nadine Dorries to step down as an MP. Boris Johnson loyalist announces on TalkTV that ‘sheer stupidity’ of his removal as PM led to her decision
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PROMISES
BBC licence fee to be axed and replaced by new funding model, says Nadine Dorries
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/bbc-licence-fee-nadine-dorries-netflix-subscription-model-b997073.html
The BBC licence fee could be axed and replaced with a new funding model after 2027, Nadine Dorries has said.
Late to the party and not BBC.
Just watched the last episode of ‘Vera’ on ITV.
The cast of key characters included- in the same story.
A female dwarf
A mixed lesbian relationship, one white, one black
A black female army commander
A black male army commander
Need I say more?
I heard a radio advert telling people to ring 999 is they think people are having a stroke . So sick that I laughed out loud ….
‘We couldn’t get an ambulance for my husband then he died’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-64243044
Ambulance bosses have apologised to the family of a man who died after he had a heart attack but no ambulance came.
Martin Clark, 68, started suffering with chest pains at his home in East Sussex on 18 November – before any strike action started in the NHS.
His family rang three times for an ambulance and after waiting 45 minutes drove him in their car to hospital.
Maybe the 999 number should be replaced with a sort of fruit machine thing where the emergency number rotates and if you get lucky someone answers – maybe calls cost no more than £5 all proceeds to Albanian hotels …
Lottery Postcode!
Sluff – having never seen or heard of ‘Vera ‘- did the cast fight it out with the cast of another no see ‘unhappy valley ‘ ?I feel left out of the mass cultural references created by these – presumably – stereotype – based plod shows …. Did anyone from that wildly successful plod corruption show – yes you `Ted – turn up ?
Fed up
Vera is one of my favourites. Set in the North East in the fine county of Northumberland. Nice scenery in the Cheviots, decent coastline, and Newcastle city centre by the Tyne with all the bridges. Makes a change.
There was it has to be said a gigantic continuity error. Vera’s remote farmhouse (clue in name) seems to have relocated to Lindisfarne as she was seen driving across the causeway. Quite an interesting situation for an on- call DCI when at high tide the island is cut off for about 6 hours a day.
I wonder how many lesbian disabled BAME residents she has as neighbours.
Sluff thank you – but I challenge your attitude to the role of the on call DCI – he/ she is entitled to a work life balance and the right to a family life – therefore no causeway should be an impediment to the delivery of her script of the furtherance of her career .
Did she run into ‘’Lewis ‘ and sergeant Lawrence fox ?
45% of the top listed actors with thumbnail pictures are non caucasian from Sundays episode.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26655773/
Thank you Harry.
I forgot to mention that the white male pathologist has been replaced with…guess what……..no prizes…….a BAME female one.
Oh, and I also forgot to mention there was a transgender in the plot too !!!!!!
EVERY box was thus ticked.
But while I’m on, I’ll admit an error. One of the army commanders was not in fact BAME, ‘only’ female.
So what we have here is drama by quota, the quota of white Anglo Saxon straight able bodied people being significantly underrepresented.
Palpable egg on face at the BBC this morning.
They were all ready ‘like greyhounds in the slips, straining upon the start’ to give it large on the recession after the latest GDP figures only to find….when the figures were released just as Toenails was speaking….we avoided it, albeit narrowly.
Cue audible moments of BBC deflation while they hastily re-wrote the narrative.
Hahahahahaha
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Yes the absence of the screechy shadow chancellor and other red labour types was noticeable – now move on – let’s talk bout a chippy jap actress …
Another day – another plod charged with rape – this time it’s one Jordan Brown – – of the met plod …. One can only wonder how many are suspended and ‘on bail ‘….? There’s no picture of ‘pc brown’….
“While I recognise the inevitable strength of public feeling, it is important that nothing is said that will put those proceedings at risk.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64557102
Turkey-Syria earthquake: King thanked for ‘generous’ donation to DEC disaster appeal
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64568254
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UK’s Prince Charles received $3.2m from former Qatar PM: Report. The Sunday Times reports there was no suggestion that payments for the prince’s charity over a four-year period were illegal.26 Jun 2022
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King Charles redirects £1bn windfarm profits towards ‘public good’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/19/king-charles-redirects-1bn-windfarm-profits-towards-public-good
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Queen Will Be One of Biggest Beneficiaries of UK’s Green Agenda
John Lubbock
4 October 2021
Hogwarts Legacy, a major video game adaptation of the wizarding world created by JK Rowling, has arrived, following a fierce online debate.
An open world adventure title like this has been at the top of some Harry Potter fans’ wish lists for some time.
But others are calling for a boycott because of Rowling’s public comments on issues about transgender people.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64572328
Trans activist Eva Echo feels it’s important for people to understand the strength of feeling in the LGBTQ+ community. “By buying the game you’re sending a clear message that it’s taking priority over the lives of trans people,” she said.
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February 1, 2023
World Hijab Day is observed every year on February 1 to honor Muslim women who wear the hijab. It is also a day to urge women of various origins and beliefs to try on the hijab and see what it is like to wear it.
In re; the Dominic Raab allegations.
I hate senior civil servants. They never answer the question you put to them , but answer a question they can bat away easily . They lie , they obfuscate, they cause negation by delay , they are devious, indolent and self serving.
And secretive.
For example, Gus ODonnel , when head of the civil service, did everything in his power to increase immigration into this country.
Why ?
He is not elected . He is not accountable. Why should he impose his way via the civil service on the rest of us ?
If they have given the same level of service to the minister which they give to the general public then they deserve worse than a bit of intimidation. They deserve to have small holes bored into their heads and nitric acid poured on their brains .
Nibor I had long exposure to these creatures. I’m thinking of just one who helped me instead of hiding behind rules / practices which stopped good stuff getting done . I admit I upset quite a few – which is also best avoided because they then gang up – which is what looks to be happening to Raab …
… move them all to Hull …
………and it’s been going on for a very long time.
https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/briefing-paper/121/the-full-statement-by-stephen-moxon-the-home-office-whistle-blower-reported-recently-in-the-sunday-times
The Home Office has been openly pro unfettered mass immigration for two decades.
The Fall of Kabul, the Fall of America
August 22, 2021
The soi-disant “superpower” now resembles one of those stories you see from time to time on Eyewitness News: the 700-lb bedridden guy unable to get up, even to go to hospital, and requiring the fire department to slice off the upper wall of the house just to winch him out of there. The inability of Lloyd Austin, Thoroughly Modern Milley, Tailspin Taylor and the other beribboned buffoons of the Potemtagon to adapt swiftly and effectively to ground conditions that are changing hour by hour is as telling as anything.
It is not just that General Milley and the Joint Buffoons of Staff cannot plan; they cannot execute. Compare the 2,500 Americans evacuated from Kabul over this last week to the 7,000 Americans and allies choppered out of Saigon in just nineteen hours. Can Milley do anything in nineteen hours other than call his tailor and order up his next row of ribbonry?
https://www.steynonline.com/11628/meltdown-of-a-superpower
Matthew Sweet tweets massively about @GBNews
6 times in the last hour
Now he appears to be trying to pick off Neil Oliver
Shouting “that’s a conspiracy theory” is NOT a guaranteed argument winner
Sure people who assert a conspiracy theory is true without providing evidence, are misleaders.
Floating the possibility of a conspiracy is OK and is free speech
You’ll note that the left often make grand conspiracy statements claiming “deniers are funded by Big Oil”
yet they are not condemned.
eg Owen Jones the other day on R2 Vine was shouting that BP funds climate denial
yet showed no evidence
And the truth is Big Oil was always going to be a benefit of crazy green policies which restrict oil/gas supplies/exploration and therefore massively push up prices.
Stew – still a bit vexed about what Matthew sweet is ? Is he a new form of linaker – ?is the one the bbc is paying to destroy GBNews and its’ staff via a direct line to OFCOM .
I notice he bitches like a girl when someone challenges / slags him on the twitter – but if that’s the world he chooses to infect that s the least of a personal penalty he will receive …..
..btw .. I have never engaged on twitter … and never will …and pleased to use no other social media …. ( note the security file 77th brigade to check )
New bonkers news “Dr Matthew Sweet has challenged himself to watch more than 700 episodes of former ITV soap Crossroads.
in aid of St Basil’s in Birmingham
help people aged 16-25 who are homeless or at risk of homelessness”
He’s raised £5K
but frankly I can’t see the reason
If Sweet and nedia chums wanted to give them £5K. they could do it using a small part of their salaries.
https://www.justgiving.com/page/matthew-sweet-1670941345645
Ofcom only list one item on their website against Steyn
“Ofcom has today opened an investigation into an episode of the Mark Steyn programme broadcast on GB News on 4 October 2022.
We consider that comments made during an interview with author and journalist Dr Naomi Wolf about the coronavirus vaccine rollout raise potential issues under our Broadcasting Code.
Specifically, our investigation will consider whether this programme broke our rules designed to protect viewers from harmful material
We received 411 viewer complaints about Dr Wolf’s comments.”
4 months to investigate 10 minutes in one prog !
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/news-centre/2022/investigation-gb-news-mark-steyn
In a way – it may mean OFCOM has to adjudicate on whether those vaccines can be harmful or not – and as we know – the government has a formal scheme to ‘compensate ‘ those harmed by the vaccines …, their next of kin … but not -I think – for the funerals the vaccines can lead to ______
… tricky eh OFCOM ( one for 77 brigade monitoring file )
Doco maker plugging his grooming gangs doco
Injunction ?
Criminal proceedings against officers in the MET, are now higher than the population as a whole.
Al – I did wonder – and the nature of the allegations – off duty – also point toward something really wrong . I think it was because they dropped vetting ( at all ?) in order to drop standards on order to get the right colour of faces into their organisation ….
I understand they are all being checked- but only on computer to see what convictions they had before joining .
Quite something to see how easy it is to destroy an organisation – and quickly …
The criminality for MPs and peers must also be above the national average ? ( especially if fraud is added – fraud includes having to pay money back to parliament )…
BBC and media love Lincoln Christmas market
but of course they don’t have the same experience s normal people,
So BBC Lincolnshire today is obsessed with the news the market format is being cancelled.
On Twitter they have a thread, 15 replies but the first 4 are from themselves.
They haven’t generated much public response and that there is is mostly against the BBC line.
King Charles’s coronation concert offers 10,000 free tickets in ballot
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64584611
BBC chief content officer Charlotte Moore said: “The coronation concert on the BBC will bring the nation together to mark this momentous occasion and we are thrilled to be able to offer the public the opportunity to be part of the event at Windsor Castle through a national ballot, as well as providing audiences with exclusive coverage across TV and radio.”
bBC bringing the nation together, apparently, makes a nice change
“Ukraine war: Belgorod locals live in fear but won’t blame Putin”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64543618
Hahaha at the angst of poor Steve Rosenberg.
He just can get it into his bigoted little head that others have different views to his globalist one think.
Apparently brainwashed Russians can’t see the truth, as patriotic messaging is feeding a firewall that hides it; they just can’t join the dots.
Appears law student Ksenya needs some re-education :
“Ukraine is a Western puppet,” Ksenya says, “and the West has always wanted to destroy Russia. Hitler wanted to grab our land. Who doesn’t? We have such an enormous country.”
“Produced by Will Vernon”
This little article needed a producer 😃
13:45pm BBC prog trying to explain energy prices
As with a lot of BBC “sciency” progs it’s been ladyfied
so even more arts student like
.. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hx88
I thought they sounded like art students
Take a guess
Are Dr Victoria Bateman the crazy NUDE anti-Brexit protester
…. and Radio 4’s Resident economic historian two different people ?
Nope, they actually recruited her,
Who would have thought she’d fit right in in the supposedly far right Brexit loving BBC ?
I’ll spare you the photos ..she’s a rounded Jane Austin looking lady.
I search on Bing Why is the BBC so biased ?
.. gives me a list of results all claiming the BBC is biased IN FAVOUR of the Tories
… big tech #Gaslighting, cos the BBC is obviously anti-righties
Piece today in the telegraph asking why blue labour MPs are stepping down at the next election . 9 out of 18 interviewed say they won’t win .
I admit – I couldn’t be bothered the whole article because the blue Labour Party is of no interest to me and won’t be getting my vote .
My MP – the MP for the weegers – used to represent chingford . He clearly could care less about his constituency so he can go reserve his parking space in the peers’ car park ….
.. unfortunately he is likely to be replaced by the ISIS rubbish trying to get back into the UK ….
Misreporting JK Rowling’s views
#BBCAntiSocial by @adamfleming et al on @BBCRadio4
. Today’s episode is about Delilah 🎶. Longish form discussions,
“The song is not as offensive as the Rangers fans ‘Up to oor knees in fenian blood’ that Radio Scotland play at every match report.#antisocial”
“Kill Bill” is the second track on SZA’s sophomore album SOS. The title references the iconic Kill Bill film duology directed by Quentin Tarantino. As expected, the lyrical content details SZA’s homicidal fantasies about an ex-lover while coinciding with the plot of the movies.
video shows her the black female swinging a sword all over
https://genius.com/Sza-kill-bill-lyrics
I did it all for love (Love)
I did all of this on no drugs (Drugs)
I did all of this sober
Don’t you know I did it all for us? (I’m gon’ kill your ass tonight)
[Chorus]
Oh, I just killed my ex, not the best idea (Idea)
Killed his girlfriend next, how’d I get here?
I just killed my ex, I still love him, though (I do)
Rather be in hell than alone
Met Police chief Cressida Dick calls on social media giants to remove Drill music videos that ‘glamourise’ gang life to quell London’s tide of violence
The Scotland Yard chief calls on social media giants to remove Drill music videos
She says they have a ‘social responsibility’ to take down clips from the internet
The Met Police boss says they have a ‘terrible effect’ on the rise in violent crime
Drill is a hip hop sub-genre and is said by campaigners to be fuelling gang wars
By ED RILEY FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 12:38, 18 May 2018 | UPDATED: 15:54, 18 May 2018
The coroner has been sitting on a case for than a year
of whether the suicide of Peter Newbon was driven by Michael Rosen’s pile on against him for making a parody image of Corbyn reading an anti-Semitic book