450 Responses to Midweek 1 March 2023

  1. Zephir says:

    I hope all the luvvies and labour twats are proud of themselves, obviously pointing out that a black criminal is a criminal is waycist:

    “Revealed: Jamaican spared deportation after appeals by celebrities and Labour MPs had 17 previous convictions and used ‘right to family life’ to stay in Britain before he went on to commit murder

    Ernesto Elliott was due to be aboard a Home Office charter flight in Dec 2020. Just six months later he murdered a 35-year-old man in a horrific knife fight”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11804351/Jamaican-offender-used-right-family-life-avoid-deportation-going-commit-murder.html

    “Ernesto Elliott’s appalling criminal record spanned 18 years from 2003, shortly after he arrived in the UK from his homeland.

    An open letter campaigning against the Jamaica flight which was supposed to deport Elliot was signed by supermodel Naomi Campbell, actor Thandiwe Newton, and broadcaster and historian Professor David Olusoga.

    A separate letter was signed by Labour politicians including Jeremy Corbyn, Diane Abbott and Baroness Shami Chakrabarti.”

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    • FrankZ says:

      Out of curiosity, looked at the Twitter feeds of some of these main enablers – Olusoga, Campbell, Lammy, Abbott, Corbyn, etc. to see what they had to say for themselves – as if one couldn’t guess. Total silence, naturally. They’re pathetic. My contempt for them, and they for the rest of us, is total.

      However, was amused to see this nonsense re-tweet from Abbott.

      [url=https://imgbb.com/]Abbott-re-Tweet.jpg[/url]

      It’s impossible to imagine what’s going on in the heads of these morons. What leads to a worldview that’s as infantile and one-tracked as theirs?

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      • Zephir says:

        This is extremely important:

        The virus should be chucked off Twitter cos it is waycist

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      • Guest Who says:

        This will explode a few heads in the cubicle gardens of W1A.

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Yellow Lives Matter?

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        • Rob in Cheshire says:

          Perhaps because “Asian” students (which in the US means Oriental) are hard working and don’t cause trouble? Obviously, the fact that a racial minority can do well by working hard and obeying the law gives the lie to all the theories that blacks do badly because the USA be raciss. So “Asians” can’t be a racial minority, they be white.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Yellow lives matter?

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      • BRISSLES says:

        The Mail reported on the silence of the ‘slebs’ when asked for a comment – none was forthcoming. I bet they just love the negative publicity their insane actions has brought.

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    • moggie63 says:

      They should be arrested and charged as accessories to the crime.

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  2. Thoughtful says:

    Please take the time to watch this mans educated vision of the future (decade) he even explains why the US blew up the Nordstream pipelines.

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  3. harry142857 says:

    Staff working for the BBC’s regional services in England are to stage a 24-hour strike in March over plans to merge some local radio shows.

    The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) said the stoppage would start at 11:00 GMT on 15 March, which is Budget day.

    Further strikes during May’s local elections, coronation and Eurovision are being considered, the NUJ said.

    The BBC has announced plans for its 39 local stations to share more shows in afternoons, evenings and at weekends.
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    That would be 39 people to read the news, 39 people to read the weather report, 39 people to read the traffic news etcetera etcetera.No wonder the BBC wastes billions of pounds.

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    • vlad says:

      You forgot the 39 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officers.

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      • Scroblene says:

        It’s a fact that any autocue-reader, subsidised by the taxpayer (who is under threat of prosecution if the TV tax is left unpaid), will probably not be good enough to relate to the real world, and actually try to seek out and publish stories!

        Luckily, since all those self-proclaimed ‘sleb’ ARs, (autocue-readers in future – saves ink), have had to go elsewhere, possibly because they’re a liability to the soft touch of the civil serpents’ PR division, (the bbc) so most normal citizens can avoid their whinging and yapping to their heart’s content!

        Just glancing through the BBC’s website this morning is a boring chore and reveals about the same level of AR skills as yesterday’s freebie rag on a number 11 bus!

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  4. Deborah says:

    I am somewhat confused about the story of the aristocrat and her lover. I can understand that now she has been found with her lover and without a baby, there is concern. But according to the BBC1 news at 6pm, the police have been hunting them for months. I have not heard an explanation of why the police were searching for an unmarried couple and their baby. There is obviously more to the story than we are being told. I am nosy! Does anyone know what this is really about?

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    • Thoughtful says:

      Baby’s probably dead dangerous father no medical attention for the mother

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      • taffman says:

        How did he get in to our country ? Another Home Office failure ?

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        • Rob in Cheshire says:

          Taff:

          He’s actually British. The Americans expelled him after he served his sentence for rape, because they are not members of the ECHR. Same reason Brits who commit crime in Australia get sent back. It’s what ordinary, self-governing countries can do. Just not us.

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      Best guess the girls rich eccentric father was / is trying to steal the baby from her.

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    • JohnC says:

      I’ve been saying the same thing : all this attention and expense for some people who chose to go live it rough. Clearly escaping from something yet that possibility absolutely and deliberately ignored.

      So I read this article with interest to see what the arresting charges were : ‘suspicion of child neglect’ ???. They were carrying it around with them FFS.

      Maybe they were too scared to say they suspected the black rapist was forcing the girl and baby to go with him because it’s racist to point it out – though it would have been OK if he was white.

      The point for me about this whole story is that we cannot trust what the BBC or our police tell us any more. We are only told what it suits them to tell us.

      Perhaps the BBC will tell us the total cost of this search for people who -as far as I can make out – did not do anything illegal. No – of course they won’t. Though it could be a big story for them if it meant getting rid of another Tory Brexit supporter.

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  5. Fedup2 says:

    I haven’t seen the BBC 10pm news for an age – so a piece by a lefty called ‘Michael Buchanan left me even more shocked at the bias than I expected – it was about ‘homeless ‘ people .

    It wasn’t a news report – it was a political broadcast – expecting the State to provide housing for drug addicts and other failures in that typical bbc nanny state way .

    Buchanan often turns up on ‘today ‘ doing the same lefty preaching ‘give me ‘ give me ‘ a ‘ benefits junkie warrior …..pretending to be a journo yuk .

    The lead was the dysfunction pair and their baby which is either dead – non existent or being housed by a friend . How it’s the main news is beyond me .

    The off switch came with a story about a bloke rapist pretending to be a trannie to screw the system … now where’s that damn death penalty …?

    What people don’t grasp is that criminals spend 24 hours a day in prison trying to work out how to screw the system – aided by lawyers after their percentage . So the trannie nonsense is a new income source for the trash . BBC loves it though because they can get off on ‘human rights ‘ crap …£

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    • TrickCyclist says:

      Buchanan is the bloke who speaks with a pretentious, in-your-face Scottish accent.
      He made some comment about the homeless “on English streets.” It was clearly a pointed remark but obviously BBC reporters can’t be expected to keep their prejudices to themselves.

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      • Zephir says:

        The sickening part is the bbc tax avoiders demanding we are taxed more to pay for their endless demands.

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  6. Thoughtful says:

    The US has within the last 6 months just spent $290 million on a drug called ‘Nplate’ “The Nplate treatment works by stimulating the body’s production of platelets, which counteracts the reduction in platelet count caused by radiation sickness”

    Get that? radiation sickness on such a scale? Here’s the real kicker though the drug only has an 18 months shelf life !

    Why would any country spend that kind of money unless it knew something was an immenent risk? They never stocked this before so why now?

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      Why because someone is cashing in at the tax payers expense?

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    • Terminal Moraine says:

      Thoughtful I’m undecided about this being a sign of immanent nuclear doom. But have a look at the NTI (Nuclear Threat Initiative), who are working with the WEF to establish global DNA protocols.

      There’s a growing list of “threats facing us” determined by global agencies, many of which require more DNA gathering. Covid tests have set a baseline.

      Public Health England and the Joint Biosecurity Centre came under one roof during the C19 — UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). Note how healthcare is transforming away from clinical practice into a top-down global security issue… and there’s no doubt that gene-editing tech is being pushed on humans, animals and food. “For our safety”.

      “NTI and World Economic Forum Release New Report on DNA Synthesis Technologies”

      https://www.nti.org/news/nti-and-world-economic-forum-release-new-report-dna-synthesis-technologies/

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  7. JohnC says:

    Ukraine war: Viral conspiracy theories falsely claim the war is fake
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64789737

    ‘A number of US right-wing accounts with large followings posted a series of baseless claims that suggested the entire Ukraine war might be a hoax perpetrated by Western media and governments.’

    All right-wing accounts. Of course they are.

    As I read this article, I see the BBC concentrate on disproving claims that the actual war is a complete hoax. The idea that it is what we are being told that might not be true is not even considered.

    Next we are told:
    ‘Those spreading the most viral claims included some who had previously been suspended from Twitter and allowed back onto the platform following Elon Musk’s takeover.’

    What a pathetic, spiteful attempt to infer it’s all Elon Musk’s fault.

    They start with the bold, large font heading ‘The war is not fake’ just to make sure you are onside before they get going. It’s so blatant and childlike, I almost laughed.

    Then we get:

    ‘Another Twitter influencer with 1.4 million followers claimed there was “no footage” and “no detailed updates” of the war.

    That post was later shared by former US national security adviser Michael Flynn, who added: “I double dare anyone to say he is wrong.”‘

    I agree with that comment 100%. It doesn’t say the war is fake as the BBC are trying to imply, it says that what we are being told by the Western media is a deliberate scam. And everything I have seen supports that. The scam is that we are supposed to believe the Ukranians are good, Russia is bad and Russia must be destroyed.

    I have mentioned several times here that I find it almost impossible to find the kind of war footage which was all over the internet during the war in Syria. Unedited head-cam stuff of engagements on the ground where you can actually understand what is going on.

    Now all I can find is WW2 propaganda-style 15 second clips of glorious Ukraine blowing up another Russian helicopter or tank.

    Then the BBC do their usual tricks to swamp the real story with pictures of irrelevant stuff which is definitely not fake such as damaged apartments to leave the casual reader with the impression anyone who disagrees with the MSM is wrong.

    Funnily enough, they didn’t include their own fake pictures used to support certain stories. Because they were absolutely 100% fake.

    Normally I don’t care when they do this for wars elsewhere. But this time it’s different : we are being led into WW3 on the back of outrageous propaganda, deceit and deliberately misleading information. And the BBC with their ‘trusted news feed’ to swamp news feeds with selected rhetoric are right at the heart of it.

    Another story I saw confirms it. Note how the huge story of the Nord pipeline was dropped almost immedately. That proves to me that everyone knows the USA were behind it. Now I read it has caused an ecological disaster in the area. But not a peep from the BBC. Normally this would be front-page, headline news for these virtue-signalling hypocrites.

    At the moment, Russia are winning and they are doing so through sheers weight of numbers + artillery shells. You try to find that information on the BBC. Their top story is a drone which crashed near Moscow. Totally irrelevant in the scheme of things.

    This level of disinformation worries me far more than Putin.

    I feel like a German in the 1930’s who has to listen to the Nazi rhetoric and can see where it is leading but can do nothing about it.

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  8. taffman says:

    St David’s Day !

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    • Scroblene says:

      Have a digital daffodil Taff!

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      • Zephir says:

        Where’s the digital tomatoes you promised ?

        They are not in my inbox yet, not even in the spam.

        I’m making some virtual salsa, binary peppers would be useful also if you have any.

        I have some analogue vinegar.

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        • Scroblene says:

          Ha ha ha!

          Hows about some lbgqwertyuiop tomatoes as well?

          All colours, shapes, smells, especially for you, from Guardian Gardeners Inc!

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          • Zephir says:

            I thought the Guardian only did big, hairy gooseberries pretending to be grapes ?

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      • taffman says:

        Traditional emblem is the Leek.

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    • Calon lan says:

      Yay Taff Yma o hyd.

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  9. JohnC says:

    Nato boss Jens Stoltenberg says Ukraine to join bloc in ‘long term’
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64797212

    Good God – considering this possiblity was cited as a reason for this war, what on Earth are NATO doing making such a pledge at this time ?.

    It guarantees it isn’t going to stop. I wonder if they put it out because some countries are starting to ask about peace deals.

    And it’s NATO you BBC imbecile.

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  10. taffman says:

    “Don’t create drama over Brexit deal, Rishi Sunak tells Tory MPs”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64804971

    I small a rat ?

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    • JohnC says:

      The stink coming from our politicians and the BBC since Brexit is much stronger then one rat taffman!.

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  11. Zephir says:

    Thin end of the wedge here ?

    “New anti-spying law risks curbing freedom of Press, warn peers who are challenging the National Security Bill as it makes its way through Parliament.

    The National Security Bill puts journalists investigating serious scandals at risk of being jailed for up to 14 years if their activities are deemed to assist foreign intelligence agencies.

    Lord Black has warned that the wide definitions used in the draft legislation ‘could potentially criminalise one of the core functions of journalism: reporting on leaks… about governments, organisations and companies’.

    Baroness Stowell, who chairs the Lords communications committee, warned: ‘We must not legislate in a way that risks journalists not legitimately exposing serious failings or wrongdoing by government or public servants.’ ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11805327/New-anti-spying-law-risks-curbing-freedom-Press-warn-peers-challenging-National-Security-Bill.html

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    • popeye says:

      I wonder what the REAL intent of the Bill is?

      PTA (Prevention of Terrorism Act) first used to arrest 80-year old heckler at Labour Party Conference, Brighton

      Perhaps the BBC Investigative (warning: oxymoron) journalists could look into it

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      • tomo says:

        Many seem to have forgotten about Craig Murray’s incarceration and the details (or lack thereof).

        We will see something resembling seditious libel in use if we’re not careful.

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  12. Zephir says:

    Here is democracy socialist style: (just imagine the whining faux outrage from Sturgeon if The Conservatives had done similar)

    “Embarrassed SNP have media blackout as journalists banned from leadership hustings.
    Scottish Labour and the Conservatives condemned the SNP’s decision to bar the press from a series of hustings where the three candidates will debate their views in front of party members.

    “The party have adopted a ‘nothing to see here’ attitude, when the public ultimately want to see the three candidates to replace Nicola Sturgeon properly scrutinised on their plans for Scotland.

    “The SNP are famed for their lack of transparency but this really takes the biscuit. They have laughably said by excluding the media that these events will be a safe space for members. What do they think the media are going to do to them?”

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1740580/snp-leadership-hustings-events-media-journalists

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  13. Fedup2 says:

    BBC News

    They like stories about plod looking for things don’t they ? Last week it was the dog Walker in the river – today it’s the baby of a rapist and his ‘moll’

    What will the coverage have in common ?

    It took too long
    Why wasn’t it found earlier
    And if the body was found by the public – why?

    To me these stories are tragic to those involved – but don’t warrant the national blanket coverage it gets . Funny that we don’t get much detail about the rapist …..

    Meanwhile
    The splash by the telegraph of memos / twitters from the Health Secretary is greeted by one of his lackies as ‘a leak of confidential information by someone agenda driven ‘….

    … well for anyone who lost someone in a care Home because a decision by Osborne – they will want to know ….

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  14. Fedup2 says:

    Isabel oakeshott – writing in the DT justifies her publication of the Chinese virus messages by claiming the British state whitewash – sorry – inquiry – has all the ingredients of the so called ‘Bloody Sunday ‘ 10 year lawyer extravaganza .

    Other countries have already done their inquiries but in truth – despite a bill of £85 million of your money – it hasn’t really started .

    I really hope her work shakes the tree – but the swamp won’t like the truth coming out – and nothing will change …. Apart from loved up ego maniac ministers covering their tracks a bit better …. Delete ….

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Call Me Dave: The Unauthorised Biography of David Cameron

      He has led the Conservative Party for a decade and entered his second term as Prime Minister, but he remains an enigma to those outside his exclusive inner circle.

      by Michael Ashcroft (Author), Isabel Oakeshott (Author)

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    • tomo says:

      let’s not mention van der Leyen’s text messaging ludicrous obsolete vaccine buying antics or indeed the mad piles of containers of (duff) PPE containers constipating Felixstowe container park for months…

      I wonder how many of those containers were direct government buys and how many were ordered by spouses of government connected people who’d got “contracts to supply”…

      Handoncock has now moved on to pimping cryptocurrency I see.

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  15. Fedup2 says:

    It seems the TV licence is to be suspended during the coronation of Charlie Windsor ( previously Saxe-Coburg and Gotha )so that TVs can be watched ‘communally ‘ without raids by TV licence stazi ….

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  16. Guest Who says:

    They do need to take a breath inbetween appearing on bbc platform opportunities.

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    • Guest Who says:

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Prof Jay said: “No-one knows the true scale of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham over the years. Our conservative estimate is that approximately 1,400 children were sexually exploited over the full inquiry period, from 1997 to 2013.”

        Revealing details of the inquiry’s findings, Prof Jay said: “It is hard to describe the appalling nature of the abuse that child victims suffered.”

        The inquiry team found examples of “children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone”.

        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28939089

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      • Zephir says:

        MP of the year

        Muppet Politician ?

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    • R P McMurphy says:

      Just down the road from Batley where a teacher and his family are in hiding in fear of their lives, abandoned by the school, his union and the MP for the area. The police and authorities desperate to keep a lid on what would follow here.

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      They are the masters now.

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    • tomo says:

      The only sensible response to Usman is GFY

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  17. Guest Who says:

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  18. MarkyMark says:

    According to the 2022 BP Statistical Review of World Energy, Venezuela has more proved oil reserves than any other country in the world. Venezuela’s 304 billion barrels of proved reserves just edges out Saudi Arabia’s 298 billion barrels. Both are far ahead of U.S. proved reserves of 69 billion barrels.21 Feb 2023
    ………………………..
    Inflation 2022* 210%
    ……………………….
    Thieves stealing Venezuela zoo animals to eat them, say police
    This article is more than 5 years old
    Zoo head says a wave of thefts in recent weeks had affected 10 species including a buffalo, which he said was cut up and sold

    Reuters
    Thu 17 Aug 2017

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    • Guest Who says:

      bBQ at Corbyn’s as he stands solidarity shoulders with just about any loon out there?

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  19. Guest Who says:

    “…have been quietly allowed to….”

    There, fixed that for you.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Home Office loses track of more than 600,000 people who should have left country, finds immigration watchdog
      UK border checks branded ‘shambolic’

      May Bulman
      Social Affairs Correspondent
      Thursday 29 March 2018 16:39

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    • G.W.F. says:

      Was it a name change or some kind of justice that enabled the disappearance of sex offenders?

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  20. Guest Who says:

    For a PR communicator of the year… unwise.

    Reminds me of bbc editors paid a lot to explain stuff who act as channels for things folk like her hand them to run out as ‘news’.

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    • Guest Who says:

      #prasnews needs PR and… ‘news’ editors.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      A good quality, modern wind turbine will generally last for 20 years, although this can be extended to 25 years or longer depending on environmental factors and the correct maintenance procedures being followed. However, the maintenance costs will increase as the structure ages.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Have you a link to the studies on that?

        Clearly ‘factors’ can vary, from loads to conditions. I have serious doubts on the cost effectiveness maintaining a large sea farm one of that period in an aggressive salt water environment.

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        • Rob in Cheshire says:

          Guest:

          You are right. No-one knows how long wind turbines will last out at sea, but it will be a lot less than on land.

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          • Guest Who says:

            Given the numbers flying around, it seems something worth pinning down.

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    • tomo says:

      Emma is a real piece of work …

      and an extremely well remunerated one too I’d wager.

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  21. AsISeeIt says:

    Ornithologically speaking edition

    Our NHS may be a busted flush, with our government flushing our good money after bad: NHS £14bn recovery plan already failing to meet targets, MPs warn… ‘It’s a crisis with all the metrics going in the wrong direction’ (Guardian) – that’s metrics (whatever they are?) not medics going in the wrong direction… which apparently they are…

    Thousands of new doctors opt for a better life abroad… Disillusioned medics are quitting the NHS and heading for countries such as Australia (Guardian); NHS hiring more doctors from outside UK and EEA than inside for first time… Jeremy Hunt questions ‘morally dubious’ recruitment as thousands hired from poorer countries (Guardian) – practitioner population replacement, anyone?

    They say the camel was designed by committee.

    Our NHS was the lovechild of the Second World War and State rationing, bureaucractic central planning with full-on managerial socialistic control of every aspect of economy and society. Cradle to grave, indeed; the utopian notion lives on… and on to this day: TV chef Tom. Why I back free school meals (Daily Mirror)

    Ultimately governments cannot control the market. Escalating costs of advanced modern healthcare and the excessive demand side growth (the less said about that the better because governments might have controlled immigration to a certain extent) doomed the NHS freebie at the point of access model.

    Speaking of models… Lockdown was the mistaken State policy straw that broke the camel’s back. Mind you, Lockdowns fitted well with the top-down therapeutic State model that cherished the NHS as some be all and end all, all-singing all-dancing (the less said about those TikTok dances the better) institution for institution’s sake, putting that love of the institution, or the notion of the institution, above all actual public health concerns.

    The direction of news flow ought to be broadcast and on-line first, next day paper print press second. When that natural flow is reversed you know something is up: Covid: FBI chief Christopher Wray says China lab leak ‘most likely‘ (BBC two hours ago... when the Telegraph told us yesterday – so they knew the day before)

    If ministers had stopped to think for a moment… if that really had been a worldwide epidemic that had thousands dropping in the street every day and it had overwhelmed our NHS – then who could actually blame the Tories for the China bug – other than for failing to secure and quarantine our borders sooner?

    With the camel’s back now seen to be broken, chickens noticed coming home to roost and assorted other proverbs currently in play politically, someone will have to carry the can…

    Scapegoat to be thrown to the wolves in chief: Hancock rejected Whitty’s advice on care home tests (Telegraph) – notice we’re not being encouraged to ask for instance about the policy of dispatch of those vulnerable elderly patients from NHS hospitals tout suite into the care homes.

    Loyal Tory girl plays her part well: Isabel Oakeshott. I had to release these messages to avoid a Covid whitewash… 100,000 leaked WhatsApp messages (Telegraph) – Dominic Cummings involved this time, or someone else still in the loop, we wonder?

    There’s another liberal Tory girl fretting today and wishing all the awkward unpalatble at the dinner party table conservative policy stuff away: Brexit cost me friendships and my marriage… I pray Rishi can finally end this uncivil war. Sarah Vine (Daily Mail)

    Don’t worry, the lucrative corporate crony bandwagon has some way to roll yet: Jaguar owner Tata demands £500mn of aid to build battery plant in Britain… India group weighs location… Ministers given weeks to pledge funds… Electric future at stake (FT)

    NHS data contract battle… A group of domestic companies has said it wants to challenge US frontrunner Palantir to build a £480mn operating system for the health service (FT) – that’ll be spent on computer operating systems, not surgical threatre operations.

    Big corporate business to flee UK post-Brexit?

    City was in danger of losing its largest company as Shell explored move to UK (FT) – that’ll be Royal Dutch Shell – they didn’t want to move to Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Paris or some European borse?

    Don’t create drama over Brexit deal, Rishi Sunak tells Tory MPs (BBC)

    And finally… The Daily Star provides what perhaps represents some of the most useful advice for media consumers available anywhere in the press today: How to spot a Tit & other Warblers – ornithologically speaking.

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    • AsISeeIt says:

      Erratum

      City was in danger of losing its largest company as Shell explored move to UK (FT) – sorry that’s move to US

      Point being… not a move to EU

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      • Fedup2 says:

        With such a negative attitude to profit / capitalism why would any multinational company base itself in a third world ‘country ‘ such as Britain . Corporation taxes are only gonna be going up so base elsewhere ….

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    • Zephir says:

      The tits around my house love my fat balls

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  22. Guest Who says:

    Tough call, but Rachel Reeves’ social media team still edge it for tweets that drag Labour backwards quicker than doing an Ed Pede and STFU.

    Between bald soi boi Chief Constables nodding to bearded imams and Labour gurners looking longingly at media chicks, podium conferences with rows of doofuses holding mics send a clear message.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I’m not so sure ,.. last week the blue Labour fools were talking about treating domestic violence like ‘terrorism ‘ … I think they’d do better treating it like parking on a yellow line …. Where I live there’d be no domestic violence at all as the moped stazi tour their domain ….

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  23. andyjsnape says:

    Selective caring brought to you by the bBC

    Hundreds of UK sex offenders went missing, figures show
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64624921

    If only it would open a Have your say forum on this

    Drone crash near Moscow was failed attack, governor says
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64802453

    “Ukraine does not claim responsibility for attacks inside Russia” Strange, does not? thats in regular, surely there must be a specific relating to this drone attack

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  24. Guest Who says:

    My wife, who is a woman, will not be listening.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I wonder if the BBC reflects the sexual preferences of the general population – what I mean is – it’s fully of lefty queers …

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  25. Foscari says:

    The BBC have an agenda on the internet . And nothing
    is going stop their inverted racism. They continue day after
    day after day after day feature Getty’s imaging with black
    advertising models in particular for cost of living features.
    They are just sticking two fingers up at the 85% indigenous
    population of the UK , with their perceived positive discrimination,
    inclusiveness, diversity, quotas, wokeness. Call it what you will.
    I will call it it inverted racism . Where less than 5% of the
    population are given near to 100% imaging priority. As if
    the 85% are not also suffering from the cost of living crisis.

       26 likes

  26. Guest Who says:

    Pat, clearly, has not heard of ‘not newsworthy’ ©️BBC

       27 likes

    • Zephir says:

      European yuman rytes innit, same thing that stops our favourite gang rapists from getting sent back to their natural sh@t holes

         19 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      “I’ve just heard: a man at the Freedom March last Sun took his children for a day out. One child told his primary school teacher who then reported the father to the police. He was then summoned to meet the police at the school. I am alerting the press of details. Story unfolding.”

      “Here is a suggestion: why not just deport foreign criminals? If they are just migrants – deport. If they have been given British citizenship,but have dual citizenship, remove British citizenship and deport. Just a thought.Gerard Batten MEP added,”

      “Why on earth would anyone want to join the British Army under these current circumstances? And of course they are having trouble recruiting. If the IRA can have an amnesty so can the British VETs.”

      “We were lied to about the EU since the beginning, and we are still being lied to now. UKIP told the truth about the EU, and we are telling it now. The Establishment is betraying Brexit. If you don’t want that, join and vote UKIP.”

      “The African slave trade under Islam. Full video a must watch here https://youtu.be/mcmNCyhUQI8

      Gerard Batten MEP @GerardBattenMEP
      UKIP Member of the European Parliament for London. Working for Britain’s withdrawal from the EU. UKIP Leader & Brexit Spokesman.

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/05/13/start-the-week-open-thread-14th-may-2018/#comment-916158

         14 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Man who raped child in swimming pool because it was ‘a sexual emergency’ has jail sentence increased on appeal
      Defence lawyers for former Iraqi taxi driver had appealed the initial six-year sentence, saying their client did not know that the 10-year-old victim did not consent

      Adam Withnall
      Wednesday 14 December 2016 10:30

         12 likes

  27. taffman says:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64807127
    Is the ‘Covid truth’ beginning to come out ?

       11 likes

  28. JohnC says:

    FBI chief Christopher Wray says China lab leak ‘most likely’
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64806903

    Without a shred of shame, the BBC report this story like it is news.

    No mention whatsoever of the bile and venom they vented at Trump for calling it the Chinese virus nor any criticism of twitter and facebook censoring people and calling them conspiracy theorists.

    Will they now reconsider their use of the phrase ‘false claims’ against other statements which they cannot possibly know to be false ?. Of course they won’t.

    I had a happy few moments searching google for ‘trump covid china bbc’ and reading the articles the BBC must be dying to delete.

    ‘Why you can trust the BBC’.

    You absolutely cannot. They are without shame or remorse. The agenda is everything. They lie as much as they can get away with.

    In my browsing I also found this which is interesting to read:
    ‘China shows zero tolerance for fake news by banning BBC World News’
    https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202102/1215538.shtml

       20 likes

    • theisland says:

         17 likes

    • Loobyloo says:

      I read this bbc article and thought that after the initial reporting of the fbi stance, they did their utmost to rubbish it – citing all the previous theories and opinions:

      “Many scientists point out there is no evidence that it leaked from a lab.“

      “And other US government agencies have drawn differing conclusions to the FBI’s.”

      ”A natural origin is still the more likely theory, said Professor David Robertson, head of viral genomics and bioinformatics at University of Glasgow.“

      Etc

      In fact, many more words spent trying to confirm its origin from animals/natural source.
      Chinese funding anyone?
      https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/china-warns-elon-musk-covid-lab-leak-comments

         9 likes

      • Terminal Moraine says:

        “drawn differing conclusions…”

        Almost as if it was long known outside of the BBC ‘trusted experts’ that available evidence supports more than one scientific theory.

        The sort of crazy ideas that got you kicked off social media or fired from your job.

           9 likes

  29. theisland says:

    Leading experts …

       8 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      BBC call fake news … corrections …

      Monday 11th March 2019: BBC News bulletins, BBC One and BBC News Channel, 3 March 2019
      In an interview with Shamima Begum’s husband, we incorrectly stated that in the UK, “sex with someone under 16 is statutory rape.”

      In fact, that charge does not exist in UK Law. The Sexual Offences Act 2003 instead refers to this as “sexual activity with a child”.

      Friday 1st March 2019: World at One, BBC Radio 4, 17 January 2019
      We said, “At the moment, offshore wind is now £57.50 per MWH”. We should clarify that we meant to specify that this is the current estimated cost for 2022-2023.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2019/03/12/midweek-open-thread-13-march-2019/comment-page-3/#comment-975254

         8 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Utter BS.

      Not the Maitlis kind.

      ‘Experts’. A couple of young ingenues handed a cubicle, a PC, a Google search account and the BBc secret stuff edGuds is but a recipe for #propagandabacked by censorship, and no amount of ‘telling’ it often enough using the word ‘trust’ will change that.

      Look at the engagement. A phone booth talking shop that makes the Limp Dem conference look like a Trump Rally.

      I don’t like words like ‘correct’ as they are presumptive, but certainly surfing around is only sensible;e to make your own mind up, and now what a ditzy bimbo is told to tell you.

      https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2023/02/28/insanity-wrap-the-correct-take-on-scott-adams-n1674305?

      ““Dilbert” creator Scott Adams went on a racist rant over the weekend that got his comic strip canceled from newspapers, calendars, coffee mugs — everything. He threw his career away by calling black people a “hate group.”

      Except that’s not what happened.

      Before jumping on the “OMG Scott Adams is a RAYCISS!” bandwagon, I did something far more radical than anything he said. I watched the video. I read takes from both sides. I looked to see what Adams had to say about it, and about the reactions (both positive and negative) that he received.”

      Best I can tell, the BBC cut and pasted what its TMI partners punted out without reading either.

      Now…

      “I get the feeling that might have been his goal all along, to get Dilbert pulled from newspapers that despise its creator. Adams is taking his comic strip private, available soon to subscribers only on his Locals page.”

      Rings true. Like every tweet from Starmer and his front bench circus clown show, and every hack Beeboid from Maitlis to CroxOf, when it sinks in they are strapped to the mast of a sinking ship or about to be. Only the likes of Lammy or Rayner are too thick to twig, and Naga is bound to BBC employment no matter what by her own cursed melanin hue.

      And who is holding the BBC to account?:

      https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/information-for-industry/bbc-operating-framework/performance?

      Yeah, good luck with that.

      And for good measure:

      https://informationrightsandwrongs.com/2023/02/28/foi-embarrassment/#like-6611

      The BBc routinely blows of FOIs (hell no) and even the ICO (hell even more no) but is allowed to.

      By government…

      The old form of democracy was flawed, but there was a level of oversight from completing parties and their ideologically aligned wing media complements.

      No longer, the ‘new form of democracy’ ©️BBC/XR etc pits the establishment (all parties, all media) against the actual voting public’s interests to rig stuff to suit the formers’ agendas and wallets.

      Hence, NetZero pushed through by BBC #28Gate Arts grads and local democracy hacks in council areas.

      I just had a follow up to my Citizens’ Climate Assembly attendance, in the form of a research from from a researcher at Lancaster University.

      Unsurprisingly, as utterly rigged as the Assembly to generate the ‘story’ to feed to the media to back up the government classes. It was frankly a travesty of research practice.

      And I said so. I expect a knock at the door soon. Or a banning.

         9 likes

      • Guest Who says:

        Reeducation by media?

        Looking at Wendy and Springster… pass.

           7 likes

    • tomo says:

      Oxymoronic pap from the BBC then

         4 likes

  30. G says:

    Day after day, more things annoy me. I can’t be alone?
    I’ve now taken to keeping a pouch containing a multi-tool (including knife) on my belt to enable me to get into the packaging of items unnecessarily over protected from the purchaser getting their hands on the item. Difficulty must be by design.

    To cap it all, this site has annoyed me today. The frequency of having to log in is being reduced to now, every couple of days it seems to me. Why?

       4 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      G
      Try embracing the futility of it all as entertainment . I enjoy the challenge of opening a tin and avoiding a trip to the Aand E triage triage – thereafter being infected in a waiting area by a third world benefits tourist .

      And there is the ritual of the log in / on – which just doesn’t work or ‘time out ‘ .treat a visit to the site without log in an unexpected treat

      In the past few days I have defeated a plod accusing me of doing a ‘no entry ‘- repulsed a large utility after £1800 by 1 April and challenged a local council busybody ( nice ID tag) telling me to do something I don’t want to do ….

      The above is on,y a snippet of the challenges made against me in the last few days

      I see it as a modern version of the 40 days The Lord spent in the desert .

      My favourite challenge was the ‘person ‘ who stopped their car in the middle of a 40 MPH road whilst I drove merrily behind on my motor scooter behind said car .

      Being some one who assumes every other road user will try to kill me I was ready for the act of attempted murder .__

      That one went in the file too

         10 likes

    • Zephir says:

      @G

      I am still drilling my way into the blister pack containing a toothbrush I bought last year (I get a weekly report from the drilling company)

      Razors are much the same, maybe why there are so many beardies around.

         6 likes

      • G says:

        Z,

        My multi-tool as described above even helps me retrieve the dedicated disk/coins from out of Aldi’s shopping trolleys when returning same . Need the pliars tool because not enough of the coin can be ejected and grasped to pull on.

           4 likes

        • Zephir says:

          I just keep a plier for when the five foot wimmin in an Audi Q7 who can’t see over the dashboard parks diagonally into me to prise my car door open and edge into it

             2 likes

  31. G says:

    Anybody watched the set-up on GB News yesterday evening?

    Rees-Mogg ‘interviewed’ David Davis on the topic of the NI Protocol. All warm words of support from, apparently, two stalwarts of Brexit. A ‘viewer’ is likely to have concluded that, ‘well if those two agree the deal is good, it must be’. Well, perhaps not.

    Mogg touched upon the issue of VAT levels. This topic was explained by a DUP member earlier in the day and, as I understand it, a number of aspects of the fictitious NI ‘autonomy’ depends on whether the EU view any actions by NI to constitute the EU being left at a commercial disadvantage. Plenty of unwritten scope there for EU mischief et al. and the ECJ seems to me.
    No mention by the two, stalwarts…………….

       15 likes

  32. StewGreen says:

    Last week BBC and all told us VENICE was in drought due to Climate Change
    (The photos actually came from tides being lower than normal for a number of factors)
    Today I still have the Venice weather page open

    Venice, Venice, Italy As of 12:38 CET
    Disruption due to wind +2 More
    Rain likely for the next several hours.
    Localized flooding is possible.

    Today’s rain is not heavy but there is more to come
    10 Day forecast
    Thu 02 AM Showers
    Fri 03 Partly Cloudy
    Sat 04 13°/3° Sunny
    Sun 05 Partly Cloudy
    Mon 06 Light Rain
    Tue 07 Showers
    Wed 08 Showers
    Thu 09 Partly Cloudy
    Fri 10 Showers
    Sat 11 AM Showers

       13 likes

  33. StewGreen says:

    Local radio Humberside is just playing a track
    “Is it because I am Black … You’re special” by Lizzo

    Lizzo is singing about loving herself
    Is it just because I’m Black and heavy?
    Y’all don’t hear me though
    .. Fame is pretty new but I been used to people judging me
    That’s why I move the way I move and why I’m so in love with me

    It’s not yet on the A level English Exam syllabus, maybe next year.
    https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/lizzo/special.html

       13 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Save the planet – lose weight.

         9 likes

    • tomo says:

      That’d be the Lizzo that poses at executive jet doors that she’d likely need a tub of Vaseline to get through?

         10 likes

      • Guest Who says:

        With a ground crew risking T-stoff and C-stoff mixing for the boosters to the Lear so it can hit rotation before mid Atlantic.

           4 likes

  34. Guest Who says:

    On a lighter green note.

    https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/03/01/radio-2-dj-scott-mills-misses-holiday-after-getting-locked-in-electric-car-for-five-hours/

    ‘Flight’ Scott… to Amsterdam?

    Hmnn. Oh, and…

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/car-window-breaker/s?k=car+window+breaker

    If mates in the office are stuck in green rooms with young audience members.

       7 likes

    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      Anyone who voluntarily has an electric car is a dick.

         20 likes

      • Zephir says:

        I recommend not googling electric dick, especially after a couple of beers and pressing the wrong button.

        It makes a great cocktail mixer and terrifies the cat, every cloud…

        I have fond memories of a lady I once knew who had problems with her plumbing and called a plumber, he found one of the above in her bedside cabinet which was in close contact with the bedroom wall, still turned on.

           4 likes

  35. andyjsnape says:

    Brexit deal: Sausage, plant and potato firms welcome new framework
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64785114

    A favourable “report” on Brexit from the bBC – I thought strange, maybe a distraction from being tied to the eu, and the european courts

    I guess with the bBC being sponsored by the eu, they will always be favourable to the eu

    Very sad

       11 likes

  36. andyjsnape says:

    BBC makes huge change to licensing fee for King Charles coronation weekend
    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/bbc-makes-huge-change-to-licensing-fee-for-king-charles-coronation-weekend/ar-AA182FT3?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=2fdc0603333b414dae6d5d40a53ebe7a&ei=12

    I STILL DO NOT WANT TO WATCH BBC, EVEN IF ITS FREE!!!!!!!!

       21 likes

  37. MarkyMark says:

    “I know the Right Honourable gentleman, he made a rare trip out of North London to visit Davos recently…”
    – Rishi Sunak.

    ……………………

    Ff2OUKOWYAQxQ_D?format=jpg&name=small

       17 likes

  38. Guest Who says:

    BBC staff rushing there from Mastadon?

       3 likes

  39. Guest Who says:

    BBC sub cretins work their magic.

       6 likes

  40. Guest Who says:

    Not news vs. News.

       13 likes

  41. Fedup2 says:

    After PMQs Lizzie Kendall asked an urgent question about the telegraph expose . The blue labour care minister was unable to admit that the government lied about protecting care homes and the subsquent huge number of deaths .

    But what really happened ? There were not enough tests at the start of the Chinese virus – they were prioritised to the NHS staff – then the government was too slow to equip care homes / people going to them – so the virus was spread and people died .
    Lesson – avoid the state – avoid care homes – like the plague ….

       15 likes

  42. Guest Who says:

    Vile getting in Femi, YAB, Lammy and that Bonkers blonde German version of Emma Kennedy?

       14 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      The immigrants make their way north, having no desire to assimilate to French culture, but continuing to demand a First World standard of living, even as they flout laws, do not produce, and murder French citizens, such as factory bosses and shopkeepers, as well as the ordinary people who do not welcome them. They are also joined by the immigrants who already reside in Europe, as well as various left-wing and anarchist groups. Across the West, more and more migrants arrive and have children, rapidly growing to outnumber whites. In a matter of months, the white West has been overrun and pro-immigrant governments have been established, while the white people are ordered to share their houses and flats with the immigrants. The village containing the troops is bombed flat by airplanes of the new French government, referred to only as the “Paris Multiracial Commune”. Within a few years, most Western governments have surrendered. The mayor of New York City is made to share Gracie Mansion with three African-American families from Harlem; migrants gather at coastal ports in West Africa and South Asia and swarm into Europe, Australia, and New Zealand; London is taken over by an organization of non-white residents known as the “Non-European Commonwealth Committee”, who force the British queen to have her son marry a Pakistani woman; millions of black Africans from around the continent gather at the Limpopo River and invade South Africa; and only one drunken Soviet soldier stands in the way of hundreds of thousands of Chinese peasants as they overrun Siberia.

         6 likes

  43. Guest Who says:

    The sad legacy of Springster.

       4 likes

  44. Zephir says:

    Here you go Springster, fact check this, references available or just google bbc tax dodgers:

    Who demands more pay rises ?

    The bbc

    Who pays for public sector pay rises ?

    The taxpayer

    Which publicly funded organisation has people working for them who pretend not to in order to dodge paying tax ?

    The bbc

    Here is an easy start for you Spring:

    “BBC to pay out millions to settle historic tax avoidance claims”

    https://www.taxwatchuk.org/bbc-tax_avoidance/

    “India accuses BBC of tax evasion amid Modi documentary row”

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/17/india-accuses-bbc-of-tax-evasion-amid-modi-documentary-row

    “800 BBC presenters face investigation over alleged tax avoidance ”

    https://citywire.com/wealth-manager/news/800-bbc-presenters-face-investigation-over-alleged-tax-avoidance/a1176265

    “BBC presenters forced into ‘disguised employment’ lose tax case
    Tribunal acknowledges that broadcaster compelled them to create companies to receive payment”

    https://www.ft.com/content/0c30880e-dad0-11e9-8f9b-77216ebe1f17

       8 likes

  45. Guest Who says:

    Cecilia says she’s a reporter.

    Has this been fact checked?

    Seems most scouring twitter for ideologically promising goss are fresh from Uni twerps.

       7 likes

  46. Guest Who says:

    Next, Clive of Kviv, or Jez Does Ditch?

       5 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      To be fair to the lads from BBC Balcony Corps, they at least take the gear seriously.

      She looks to have protected her jublees and brain alone, and likely those are incapable of further damage.

         4 likes

      • Zephir says:

        I am more intrigued by the request to “press” plastered over her breasts.

        I bet she does not wear that on the Notting Hill Carnival front line, I can imagine the vibrant scrum developing.

           5 likes

  47. s.trubble says:

    What should we read into the not so subtle alterations injected into the Bargain Hunt format,

    1) the presenters largely gammon but variously dressed in either red or yellow pantaloons

    2) the growth of hair amongst the more elderly presenters

    3) the over animation and excitement at the auction with said presenters jumping up and down with feigned excitement

    4) the burdensome overchat by the hidden voice over with a barrage of banal commentary

    5) the variation of the line up at the end?

    From the depressing reality of our sedentary positions in the WilingBrook chairs? Stuffed to the gunnels with cremation adverts and over 50,s life insurance surely we deserve a return to the old format?

       6 likes

    • Zephir says:

      Ken Bruce is off due to BBC prejudice, but I was getting increasingly peed off with the number of men on Popmaster talking about their bleeding husbands.

      Hardly likely to be representative looking at the demographics.

      Yet, being based on knowledge, the bbc wisely kept Nykikadzino Chigbu III and his ilk at a distance, or on endless hold on the phone.

      ( it would likely take a while when he innocently asks about his wife and they went through the list one by one, then the kids)

      The bbc are actively creating the resentment that will out eventually, so I have no shame in giving like for like.

         13 likes

  48. Zephir says:

    I was always intrigued, during covid restrictions, who were the most paranoid.

    It was inevitably , in my personal experience, the purple hair / hippy brigade.

    I vividly recall, on browsing a small town High Street just after shops were opened, most shops were welcoming. Then we saw a sign outside one of those crystal, witchcraft etc etc shops.

    In big letters outside : Sanitise, masks, even if you are wearing gloves you will sanitise etc etc

    We truly are destined to go back to the middle ages if that lot get their way.

    So much for their bleeding spells if they can’t even handle a cold virus.

    Witch ducking ponds were there for a purpose, probably just to shut them up for a few minutes.

       9 likes

  49. Guest Who says:

    Who is utterly shocked? Not.

       13 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      On the afternoon of January 14, 1988, 1,000 protesters gathered in Bradford, UK to burn a copy of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses. The protest marked a dramatic escalation in the controversy surrounding the 1988 novel, which would eventually elicit a fatwa from Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini sentencing Rushdie to death.14 Jan 2014

         6 likes

  50. Zephir says:

    I can think of only a few in this country that actively and publicly demonstrate hate:

    Muslim activists

    Black activists

    Trans activists

    They are all hateful and full of bile and intolerance

       33 likes