211 Responses to Start the Week 20th February 2023

  1. MarkyMark says:

    “Boris warning the government not to do exactly what he did to get a good deal with the EU is very Boris.”
    order-order.com

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    In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics’. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. Orwell

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    • taffman says:

      Reminder : We voted to leave and “Leave means Leave”!
      IMHO, the Tory government is trying to sell us down the river by ‘hook and by crook’.
      What next, give votes to illegal’s coming across the Channel in another EU Referendum ?

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      • moggie63 says:

        There’ll be no more referenda. We can’t be trusted to make the ‘correct’ choice. They will simply take us back in and say it’s the best thing for the country, citing 20 invalid reasons for doing so.

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  2. digg says:

    I notice that the media are sneakily re-introducing the woman known as Katie Price onto our screens.

    When I mentally compare the jail sentence handed you a young bloke for saying hurtful things about some footballers online with the multiple-timed banned from driving drugged and drink filled, car crashing KP, not to mention her not bothering to turn up at court fir sentencing on one occasion, I realise that there is parallel justice in this Country now depending on who you are or who you know!

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  3. Sluff says:

    Junior doctors have voted to strike.
    Nurses are on strike.
    Ambulance drivers are on strike.

    Given that the Nationalised Health Service costs we taxpayers £200 bn a year ( don’t forget the pension liability – everyone does) could the BBC, just for once, investigate exactly where all that money is going, instead of tugging at our heartstrings on a daily basis?
    Even all the diversity and inclusion managers don’t cost that much.

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  4. Zephir says:

    Ghetto Britain, I wonder why…..bbc investigation ?

    “Locals dub Bradford ‘lawless’ and reveal bus and taxi drivers AVOID certain streets for fear of attacks – as the city is voted among the worst places to live in England for being rife with crime. City recently visited by the King was savaged in an online poll released last week
    Locals in West Yorkshire insist it is now rife with drug crime and career criminals”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11772237/Locals-dub-Bradford-lawless-reveal-bus-taxi-drivers-AVOID-certain-streets-fear.html

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    • Jeff says:

      “Locals in West Yorkshire insist it is now rife with drug crime and career criminals.”

      Yes…and they’re all foreigners…

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  5. Terminal Moraine says:

    BBC reporting the Bulley family statement:

    “…the family condemn Sky News and ITV, which they say contacted them despite their appeal for privacy […] ‘We tried last night to take in what we had been told in the day, only to have Sky News and ITV making contact with us directly when we expressly asked for privacy’ […] It is ‘shameful’ the press has acted in this way, the family say.”

    No intrusion of privacy charges* against the holy BBC — praise be — who will now churn out another 500 articles on women’s safety and 300 radio phone-ins on the dangers of online speculation.


    * Martin Bashir and Cliff Richard’s helicopter with special exemptions

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    • BRISSLES says:

      Well, if it means that it keeps Sky journalist INZAMAM RASHID – him of the most depressing voice on tv, off our screens for a while, then that’s no bad thing.

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  6. Zephir says:

    Beasts of burden
    Insight
    12.09.1412.00 AM
    by Jess Mccabe

    Bradford council has taken a firm stance on Gypsy and Traveller residents’ horses at Holme Wood estate. Paul Hebden pays them a visit

    https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/insight/beasts-of-burden-40902

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  7. StewGreen says:

    ITV local newsPR
    big item pushing “organic chicken farming” which they kept saying is sustainable, “although more expensive, but there is a hidden cost to industrial farming”

    Em there is a hidden cost to organic farming : SAFETY
    My grandma kept chickens ..there are problems like rats, foxes and the way chickens can form gangs ang kill each other.

    The industrial chicken farms run laboratory checks almost every day
    My grandmother didn’t
    when you found an egg on the corner ot might have been there more than a week.
    The reporter Kevin Ashford seems to be a London reporter.

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  8. StewGreen says:

    BBC local newsPR has local young doctors union rep on
    Asked if he is really demanding a 35% pay rise
    he didn’t answer properly
    as if he doesn’t understand English that well

    Bio : Dr Vassili Crispi 🇮🇹🏳️‍🌈
    Junior doctor / wanna-be #neurosurgeon👨🏻‍⚕️
    Pronouns he/they
    Leader Association of LGBTQ+ Doctors & Dentists

    His pinned tweet is him on a Channel4 medix panel
    alongside a purple haired nurse.

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    • Guest Who says:

      They have a key ally.

      Still no word from Dr. Rosena on her claims about turning Wandsworth into a fiscal dream borough.

      Likely a bit busy keeping up with the overwork and money worries of also being an MP and BBC permanent gob.

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  9. Fedup2 says:

    Give them all a 10% pay rise if they contract as employees to the NHS only – and not do private stuff in the morning or profiting from agency work – self serving mafia – oh yeah – and work weekends too ….

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  10. Zephir says:

    So, now its chicken gangs… whatever next in broken Britain ?

    I’d best remember that on my country walks and see a chicken in a hoodie on a BMX bike.

    Is nowhere safe now ?

    I blame lack of discipline and a smacking ban in the incubators with these left wing farmers.

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  11. Eddy Booth says:

    So we’re meant to believe Nicola Bully was in that little river all the time?
    If that’s true, then the whole massive police search was for nothing, as the walkers would have found the body just the same had they done zero..

    I’m not buying it, that “broken” cctv and caravan park owner plus old fart dog walker relative , “finding” the phone + tieing the dog up and then waiting 90 mins to report anything ..

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  12. Zephir says:

    I got attacked by a swan last summer, God help us if they get tooled up in gangs.

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  13. atlas_shrugged says:

    ex BBC news mad-marxist Alix Kroeger smearing the Oxford LTN protesters:

    There are no words for this fruitcake.

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  14. digg says:

    Mastermind question, “What element in the atmosphere is associated with Global Warming?”

    Answer – “Carbon”.

    They will NOT let it rest will they?

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    • Kaiser says:

      the importation of american race grievance politics becomes ever faster

      how long did that one take a week maybe two

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  15. Jeff says:

    An interesting debate on GB News with Bev Turner grilling the pillock who introduced all these green boxes in the middle of the road to stop motorists in London.

    Bev was getting quite irate trying to explain how difficult it is for ordinary people to negotiate all these idiotic barriers, so that smug, chubby Julian can virtue signal while taking his morning stroll to pick up The Guardian.

    What with him and London’s midget Muzzie mayor introducing yet more levies on innocent motorists, they’re making driving in London a real pain in the arse. As is their intent…

    Julian’s response to the criticism was really telling, I thought…”I’ve had to do plenty of these trips while taking my daughters to ballet classes…” Oh dear, my heart bleeds, you smug xxxx. There are many working class people whose livelihoods depend on their vehicles. They’re the real people that keep this country going.

    Ponce…

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  16. Thoughtful says:

    Some really serious issues being discussed here which are going to affect the entire world, and have already begun to. There are issues to which he doesn’t know the answers, but you can make your own mind up. Quite a long interview but well worth taking the time.

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  17. theisland says:

    Mark’s show tonight.
    https://www.steynonline.com/13270/a-vax-update

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  18. vlad says:

    A Question of Sport, Top Gear, Catchpoint, I Can See Your Voice: more BBC shows flopping, or being axed or put on hold.

    Excellent.

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/21387889/bbc-shows-axed-paddy-mcguinness/

    p07cxkz0.jpg

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    • andyjsnape says:

      Hello vlad

      If anyone knows how to flog a series to death is the bBC. Take for instance Last of the summer wine for 31 series and 37 years

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  19. tomo says:

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  21. Eddy Booth says:

    East-Palestine.jpg

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  22. tomo says:

    phew…

    I thought the shoes were career ending but ….

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Keir Starmer Says He Prefers WEF Davos To British Democracy

      …………….

      “To cite the other person you just said that would *trigger you Sam Harris*, Mark Steyn said this the other day, *this is the conversation we will be having when the Mullahs nuke us*.Everyone will be discussing if someone is transgender despite the fact they’ve had no operation (ref Jack Monroe in UK)” – Douglas Murray when he’s angry, but he still makes sense.

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/09/04/start-the-week-open-thread-140/#comment-864386

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  23. Zephir says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Dover MP Natalie Elphicke told the Commons that the BBC’s “shocking report” contained the “breath-taking” disclosure of free French public bus services being used to ferry migrants from camps to Dunkirk beaches.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-63229010

      ….

      Today the BBC journalists Michael Keohan and Colin Campbell released a shocking report on the channel crossings. It showed people smugglers selling their wares brazenly in the migrant camps and many children living in unsafe and dangerous conditions, as well as—this is breathtaking—a free French public bus service that migrants can use to travel directly from the camps to the Dunkirk departure beaches. Will my right hon. Friend allow a statement on the issue of tackling the small boat crossings and the Government’s response in their work with France?

      https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2022-10-13a.258.0#g262.1

      SACK THEM ALL!

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  24. Fedup2 says:

    Today

    One of those intended bits of comedy on the BBc as the false US president lectures russia on ‘ democracy’ but leaves out the bit about stealing it …

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  25. andyjsnape says:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-64713099

    In one of the streams bBC reports

    “There has been no official Moscow reaction so far to President Biden’s surprise visit to Kyiv yesterday.

    But, state-controlled TV here has been reporting the trip, with headlines such as “Zelensky is paid a visit by ‘his master’”.

    It repeats the now-familiar false narrative of Kremlin propaganda: that Ukraine is ruled by a puppet government controlled by the West.”

    Maybe Russian state controlled tv has a point, unfortunately state tv here I dont believe you

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  26. tomo says:

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    • Greencoat says:

      These ever-growing horrors are driving more and more British people out of London. This makes it easier for alien forces to increase their power and influence.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Greencoat – as a lunduner – it’s not just the third world city that’s pushing me out – it’s the country – …. I’m glad my personal circumstances allow me to have a choice …

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    • StewGreen says:

      Our level of response to WokeSupremacists is to post 4 year old videos
      without mentioning they are 4 years old
      That video is Gareth Bacon in September 2019
      …. https://twitter.com/brexitblog_info/status/1178013488716926976

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  27. MarkyMark says:

    Dahl’s estate and publisher said works including The BFG and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory had been updated to be more suitable for modern audiences.

    Some said they approved of the changes.

    * Some * Some * Some * Some *Some * Some *Some *

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64702224

    ……

    ‘You haven’t a real appreciation of Newspeak, Winston,’ he said almost sadly. ‘Even when you write it you’re still thinking in Oldspeak. I’ve read some of those pieces that you write in The Times occasionally. They’re good enough, but they’re translations. In your heart you’d prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You don’t grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?’

    Winston did know that, of course. He smiled, sympathetically he hoped, not trusting himself to speak. Syme bit off another fragment of the dark-coloured bread, chewed it briefly, and went on:

    ‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

    – 1984, Orwell

    https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/10/25/mid-week-open-thread-130/#comment-876220

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  28. tomo says:

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Tomo – thanks – it’s tricky for an amateur anorak historian to work through what Carlson is suggesting . It’s seems pretty obvious that stronger links between Russia and China – to challenge a weakening America ‘ nato – is the way forward .

      Is it a modern nazi / soviet pact?

      I know as a basic rate taxpayer in a one state totalitarian system such thought is academic . But when the wheel comes off – the power goes – no internet – no 21st century I’d like to be able to understand ‘why’.

      I think the above is more likely now than a peaceful upward move in our living standards and quality of life . Must check that my clock work radio works …

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      • tomo says:

        Fedup2

        I suspect that the historical enmities between Peking and Moscow will override any marriage of convenience. The Russians I think really resent the CCP’s larceny of their intellectual property.

        Driving Russia and the ex soviet ‘stans into the Chinese orbit was about as stupid a move as it’s possible to make. When I look an Nuland, Sullivan and Blinken – I really wonder how they got there and really what they hope to achieve.

        That clockwork radio won’t help much…

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  29. andyjsnape says:

    Grammar schools still failing to boost number of poorer pupils
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-64714201

    Anyone for quotas? we know how standards drop when people are put in place for example by the colour of the skin, not the best candidate. Not sure what this has to do with the bBC

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  30. Fedup2 says:

    Blimey – if I was paying to avoid the far left state system I’d be pretty narked if the dressing gown mums turned up to drop their ‘vulnerable ‘ kids off ….. but the sort of ‘research ‘ the bbc does shows it’s political self . …..

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  31. Guest Who says:

    Sweeney! reports. Maybe.

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  32. AsISeeIt says:

    From our cold, dead hands… into Zelensky’s hot little hands edition

    The Guardian this morning considers UK gun laws and boldly asserts: Pressure is mounting on the UK government to over-haul the 50-year-old licencing legislation…

    Sounds archaic, right? Typical Britain… So behind the times! We’ve gone half a century without reform?

    Does that mean my dusty antique blunderbus that’s still there hanging over the old inglenook fireplace is street legal? Could I perhaps concealed carry if I could tuck it somewhere into my doublet and hose? I’ve read how Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson always packed a shooter when they ventured east of Aldgate.

    There’s been nothing done to tighten gun laws for 50 years? Wiki…?

    Offensive Weapons Act 2019; Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006; 1997 Firearms (Amendment) Acts; The Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988 – all of which tightened gun ownership, effectively banning private possession of handguns almost completely in Great Britain to the extent that with the award of the 2012 Olympic Games to London, the government was oblidged to announce special dispensation would be granted to allow the various shooting events to be held. (thank you Wiki)

    As usual we have here the rehersal of the lefty notion that anything that goes wrong in society must be due to some failure of managerial process: ‘Catastrophic failures’ led to Plymouth shootings – that’s your frontpage main headline (Guardian)

    The BBC agrees – albeit behind scare quotes: Plymouth shooting inquest find ‘catastrophic failings’ – and who could wonder that a legalistic managerial process inquest, set up to discover what processes may have failed… should conclude that some legalistic processes failed.

    To be fair to the Left they envisage society having no need for private citizens to defend themselves – a nice peacable utopian notion one must agree. Indeed, they see scant reason for anyone to have fun or sport with potentially deadly weapons.

    But meanwhile, in juxtaposition the Guardian celebrates with its main frontpage photo story : ‘This is part of history’: Bidens surprise visist to Kyiv raises spirits

    Guardianista in the former Kiev, Luke Harding, glossing his report with some fine poetic travelogue flourishes waxes lyrical on: a perfect blue sky… cobbled streets and ethereal gold-domed churches – yet the story here is about promoting a bloody proxy war on semi-european territory.

    It is about keeping up the flow of US, UK and European weapons of war into a warzone that will maime and kill tens of thousands, many of them, inevitably, civilians.

    Biden perhaps keen to visit his investments down there in Ukraine, so to speak.

    And so the Gruan markedly fails to object to US State Department war policy. All over a bit of an old fashioned thing like nationalism and some abstract semi-racial idea the likes of Brexiteers term sovereingty. Thank goodness the EU put all that behind us.

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    • digg says:

      Re gun law, it seems to me that people who are prepared to use guns to get what they want are normally criminal and couldn’t care about gun law whatsoever. Gun laws only remove guns from people who would not use them in the course of crime, possibly only ever and extremely rarely for self protection so in effect gun laws make gun totting criminals lives easier,

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      • Flotsam says:

        Interesting to note that Burglary in the US is far less common….for obvious reasons. The price however is a far higher gun crime rate. Our knife crime rate is very high…..again, for obvious reasons

        I do get the impression that the UK authorities want to keep power to themselves of course.

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  33. Guest Who says:

    Then Toenails passes off what Beff has said as news.

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  35. Jeff says:

    Well, poor old Putin must be shaking in his boots…

    Big Joe Biden has just told Ukraine that the US is “Staying for the long haul…” Oh yes, now where have we heard that before?

    Blimey, it wasn’t that long ago that the Yanks packed up and fled from Afghanistan, leaving their allies in the lurch and stacks of top-notch military hardware for the Taliban to make use of. Chased away by Musthavafag and his merry men, armed to the teeth with slingshots and stones. Surely, no-one is taking Sleepy seriously, are they?

    With friends like Biden, you don’t need any enemies.

    I wouldn’t trust him to tell me the time…

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    • Thoughtful says:

      Mitch McConnell is just as bad, a consequence of allowing old men power in their dotage.

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  36. theisland says:

    During a so-called debate in the Commons yesterday on the ‘Knowsley Incident’ the malign and insidious influence of Hope not Hate was blindingly obvious.
    https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2023-02-20/debates/4B7CA781-6170-43DC-9C81-9A70F04F1236/KnowsleyIncident

    Predominantly Labour politicians led by George Howarth parroted and even referenced (Creasy) HnH calling for the proscribing and prosecutions of Patriotic Alternative, Britain First, @YorksRose_84 and ‘migrant hunters’ (those who catch ‘men’ trying to meet up with adolescent girls).
    See thread here.

    @YorksRose_84 and @PatAlternative deny being in Knowsley.

    TR’s programme on Hope not Hate https://gettr.com/streaming/p232fc904db for those who care to watch.

    While representatives in parliament continue to take this organisation seriously there is certainly no ‘hope.’

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  37. Althepalerp says:

    Give the Train drivers the pay rise they want – and put the ticket prices up.
    Give the nurses and doctors the pay rise they want. And let them pay for their own pension like us normal people.

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  38. BRISSLES says:

    Further musical chair jobs at GBN. Darren McCaffrey on the way out as Political Editor and in comes Christopher Hope.

    Its a dizzying occupation trying to work out who is on and when, old faces gone, new faces shoe-horned in. Are they on short term contracts of around 6 weeks ? It must be a mine field for those creating the time table Spread Sheet of on-air presenters.

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    • Jeff says:

      Yes, have you noticed that the only person who isn’t presenting the Laurence Fox Show is…Laurence Fox.

      It’s confusing.

      Anyway, bring back Mark Steyn…

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  39. Eddy Booth says:

    “Putin suspends key US nuclear arms deal in bitter speech against West”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-64713099

    Bile overdrive from BBC:
    “patriotic bluster”
    “portrayed his country”
    “reeled off ”
    “so-called”
    “what he called”
    “illegally annexed”
    “Russian troops being driven out”
    ” reiterated previous claims”
    “predictably blamed”

    And on and on ….

    Meanwhile from elsewhere, Putin in his own words:

    “Putin : The United States and NATO openly say that their goal is to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, and at the same time they are going to drive around our facilities? I have signed a decree on putting new ground-based strategic systems on combat duty. Are we going to let them in there?

    Putin ended his message to the Federal Assembly with the words “the truth is behind us.”

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  40. Eddy Booth says:

    “Nicola Bulley: Ex-editor demands scrutiny of media coverage”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-64713045

    Body miraculously appears in river, conveniently right next to a road. No alarm bell ringing that it’s looking like murder.
    Instead shift all the focus to certain media outlets for allegedly not respecting the families privacy.
    It all stinks.

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  41. MarkyMark says:

    Sadiq Khan set an incredibly poor example in front of visiting schoolchildren today, as he called the Tory chair a “curmudgeon”, a “joke” and pulled faces all to “entertain” the visiting kids. The display came just one month after the assembly descended into farce because he accused Tory members of not caring about dying kids. He’s starting to make Boris look like a seasoned diplomat…

    order-order.com
    ………………….

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  42. andyjsnape says:

    Firms stick to four-day week after trial ends
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64669987

    Customer service probably gone down the pan, but the bBC seem to like it

    Asda limits sales of tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64718823

    The bBC even had to add this:-
    “It’s not Brexit”, says Mr Mortimer “Or at least, I don’t think so” – next the likes of the bBC will probably open a Have your say! Just to give the losers chance to blame Brexit for something years later

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  43. Fedup2 says:

    Hey come on – why only a 4 day week – lots of people don’t like Mondays or Fridays – so just work from home for 3 days – with 1 a training day – the other 2 can be sick with stress days ….
    … your call is important to us …..

    I play the ‘working from home ‘ game when I have to call a big company ( try not to ) – it feels like interrupting the kidults’ home life …
    Or even worse the Indian call centre ….

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    • andyjsnape says:

      Hello Fedup

      I knew someone who was from the Valleys in South Wales, and a very strong Welsh accent. When they used to call talktalks customer service centre in India – neither of them could understand each other 🙁 Nice profits for talktalk, until the customer leaves

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  44. Fedup2 says:

    More absurdity

    It seems supermarkets are beginning to ration fruit and veg …. There have been scenes of panic buying of iceberg lettuces and Jerusalem artichokes … fights have broken out in Waitrose over the last kiwi fruit ….
    Supplies of swedes are unaffected as no one likes them …..

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    • Terminal Moraine says:

      It’s a good thing though, because farming is killing the planet.

      All the Dutch farmers can be trained in new careers rewriting literature to remove potentially offensive trigger words like ‘food’.

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    • tomo says:

      Turnips all round then

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  45. Terminal Moraine says:

    A schoolgirl error by Kate Forbes in the SNP leadership race: “… she would have voted against gay marriage in Scotland when it was made legal in 2014 because it clashed with her views as a member of the evangelical Free Church of Scotland that marriage should be between a man and a woman.”

    BBC happy though, they can push the backlash button and trawl Twitter which will keep 30 of their reporters in work for another month.

    Looks like it’s over to Humza Yousaf for leader, with his more inclusive brand of politics, unsullied by divisive rhetoric:

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    • Fedup2 says:

      No no – humza will be the ideal leader of the SNP – he will make a bigger effort to import the third world rather than England being the ‘monopoly / rubbish bin ‘…..

      … and those thinking they won’t be affected because they are ‘rural ‘ will be surprised when local hotels ‘ disused buildings become Albanian embassies…. Or the few million afgees who were ‘employed ‘ by the British army ….

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      • Docmarooned says:

        Yousaf an absolute joke of a politician therefore ideal for the SNP.
        Every post he has held has been a miserable failure. The guy is a racist who screams racist to anyone making a dissenting comment.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      In Bollywoood white people feel the same. BAN BOLLYWOOD.

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  46. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Anybody else seen the pro immigration go-to person called Steve Valdez Simmons who pops up all the time to support the tens of thousands of doctors and rocket scientists floating over here on rubber boats.
    He talks as if he has a class of naughty, simple 5 year olds in front of him and his voice sounds like he thinks it’s incredible that others might have a different view than his.
    So annoying.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Steve Valdez-Symonds barrister since 1995. He worked as a Legal Officer for the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA) 2006-2012. Since July 2014, he has been working as Refugee and Migrant Rights Programme Director for Amnesty International UK.

      Married to a Ecuadorian born Brit who is also an immigration lawyer

      He’s probably Open Borders best PR man so he’s always put forward
      His most popular vid is him vs Alp Mehmet

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  47. Sluff says:

    BBC going apoplectic that ‘disadvantaged children’ make up a small % of the intake of Grammar Schools. This despite some Grammars changing their Admissions Policies to positively discriminate in favour of disadvantaged children, where allowed by the DfE Admissions Code.

    Let’s deconstruct that.

    Why are disadvantaged children disadvantaged?
    Are ALL their parents ( single? Married? Unmarried? Straight? Gay?) budding doctors, engineers, pharmacists, dentists, lawyers, BBC presenters who just had a bit of bad luck?

    Or are they disadvantaged because their parents were not very bright and/ or did not take their own education seriously and have ended up in low-skilled low pay work? And guess what? If the parents are not very bright, maybe the kids aren’t too bright either and so don’t have the aptitude for a Grammar School.. Shock. Horror. There are some exceptions, granted.

    Of course the related question is to what extent should the state replace parents who may not care too much about their kids and their education and so do the job for them?

    In other words, doesn’t Darwin get a say in all this, rather than Aldous Huxley?
    Not at the BBC, clearly. There’s a grievance story to promote and a Brave New World to aspire to.

    .

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    • moggie63 says:

      I went to a Grammar School and it got me owhere. Being thick, nowadays, is no barrier to getting somewhere. Look at our MPs.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Moggie – well I think your post was best of the day – grammar got you ‘owhere’ maybe you failed exams because you omitted the letter ‘n’.

        This could be most useful if using an abusive term for ‘people of colour ‘ which might incur the s5A public order act – you ‘ever k-ow 😎

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  48. theisland says:

    “Today is their birthday!” @mariannaspring

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    • tomo says:

      How come she hasn’t been replaced by Sam Smith?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      And now – fizz!

      An honour to talk about the brave people at the heart of investigations at the committee. Manchester Arena survivors from Disaster Trolls, Olly Stephen’s parents & those caught up in disinformation in War on Truth & Death by Conspiracy pods. Glass to them.

      …………………

      Dear Marianna Spring (BBC wages paid under threat of prosecution),

      As I’ve had to look at your BBC news and use other sources to determine that your news is not news but selective editorial opinion I’d like to request that I have a refund for the last 4 years plus get the BBC free from now on.

      Please let me know how I can go about this as I am willing to create a full list of articles that I’ve had to investigate plus time taken for me to check your fact checker whilst realising that the BBC intentionally removes news rather than incorrectly report on it, uses images to sway opinion or misleads with the main titles hoping no one reads the full article.

      ‘Omission is the greatest form of lie.’

      CAS-4987700-SY1FTF : BBC NewsWatch says boredom with pro-Brexit march.

      CAS-4844672-N8FDYY: Update on the MP Expenses 2009 scandal in 2018.

      CAS-4939547-J71Z1V: Here’s hoping Ireland do the right thing G.Lineker.

      CAS-4937378-YKMWBJ: BBC not reporting ‘Day of Freedom’ March 06may2018.

      CAS-4906141-BFJQL0: I take offence that presenters promote their books.

      CAS-4892811-C820SC: I am offended that I have to pay the BBC TV Tax.

      CAS-4824332-633N1P: What happened in Italy was not covered …

      CAS-4933135-ZV3V7F: The omission is the most powerful form of lie …

      CAS-6005141-S1V9D1: Not seen a report on the UK Governments Covid19 

      Let me know how to go about resolving the issue of paying for something that wastes my time as I have to check each story rather than rely on its accuracy.

      Cheers,
      Mark
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Brilliant Marianna – drinks on you babe – onwards and upwards – you must be due a ‘South Park’ episode – omg lol – hugs … any more pics – do tell …

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  49. Docmarooned says:

    Sums up if politicians if this is the quality of the evidence they listen to. My first question to her would be to outline what qualifications she has in order to be taken seriously .

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