308 Responses to Start the Week 8th May 2023

  1. s.trubble says:

    FAO Culture Secretary Ms L. Frazer ,

    If the Culture sec or her spads are looking in we would wish to remind you of previous requests that the bBC produces a consolidated plan to reform its charging mechanism to a that of a subscription model.

    Mr Davie was set to be charged with the delivery of this plan without further obfuscation.

    There has been no sight of this plan nor indeed, Ms Dorries or Mr Tim Davie .

    You could say there have been more recent sightings of Mr E. Presley.

    to misquote Mr R.Burns

    “a plan.s a plan fir a that”

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  2. Dickie says:

    Anyone read any articles in the MSM about fungai affecting crops:

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  3. pugnazious says:

    So…if you wanted to discuss politeness and respect in politics who would you ask in to chat and advise? Alastair Campbell of course….famously one of the most intolerant, bigoted, partisan and bullying political thugs out there…..I guess he has the inside knowledge.

    A very cosy little chat with Justin Webb who didn’t bother to challenge Campbell on past behaviour and it didn’t take long before the real Campbell snarled his way out.

    Webb wanted to know what we could do about Brexit…literally….asking ‘What can we do about Brexit’…..meaning how can we get rid of it….hardly unbiased…the BBC has given up all pretence these days and just campaigns openly for Remain….or rather Return. Webb was hoping for a Labour return and a stealth reunion with the EU.

    Campbell, that paragon of politeness, the man who ran the New European rag that was nowt but a toxic propaganda sheet for the EU and who suggested we should punch and beat up Brexiteers, wasn’t slow to put the boot in and claim we were all lied to by Boris and Co whilst failing to comment on his own sides raft of lies and black propaganda…such as the BBC’s ‘Great European Disaster Movie’….the biggest lie of all, one that is still the BBC narrative today, was that Brexit was all about the economy…when of course it was all about sovereignty and control…hence the slogan…’Taking Back Control’.

    Never mind…..the kids all now say their futures have been stolen….because that is what the BBC et al have told them…Yeah….Europe is totally closed off now…..no jobs, no livng there, no travel…..oh well…they can always go to Amercia or Australia or, well, anywhere in the world……oh my god, their lives are ruined!

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    • Guest Who says:

      Then… Champion…

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      • Guest Who says:

        The replies are interesting.

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        • MarkyMark says:

          30 July 2021, received £11,425 from Simon and Schuster UK Ltd, 1st Floor, 222 Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1X 8HB, as third payment for writing a book. Hours: no additional hours. (Registered 31 August 2021) This is a late entry to which the rectification procedure was applied on 23 May 2022. Paragraph 15 of chapter 4 of the Guide to the Rules refers.
          8 December 2021, received £615 from Hoxton Minipress, 10 Coldbath Square, London EC1R 5HL, for writing an introduction to a book. Hours: 2 hrs. (Registered 10 December 2021) This is a late entry to which the rectification procedure was applied on 23 May 2022. Paragraph 15 of chapter 4 of the Guide to the Rules refers.

          https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/25364/jess_phillips/birmingham%2C_yardley#register

          …………

          5 August 2022, received £2,460 from Two Four Broadcast, the Westworks, 195 Wood Lane, London W12 7FQ, for appearing on a television programme. The programme has not yet been broadcast. Hours: 8 hrs. (Registered 25 August 2022)

          …………..

          Until February 2019, I employed my husband, Tom Phillips, as Constituency Support Manager. (Registered 07 June 2015; updated 14 March 2019)

          https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=25364

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      • moggie63 says:

        500? Almost a day’s worth. How many barges will there be? Oh, just the one?

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        • MarkyMark says:

          “As the fleet approaches the Suez Canal, Egyptian military forces fire a warning shot, causing the fleet to steer south, around the Cape of Good Hope. To the surprise of observers, the apartheid regime of South Africa floats out barges of food and supplies, which the migrants throw overboard. The international press is thrilled, believing the rejection of these supplies to be a political statement against the apartheid South African regime. Western leaders, confident the migrants will accept supplies from their “more virtuous” nations, organize a supply mission, funded by governments, charities, rock stars and major churches, to meet the migrants off São Tomé. However, the fleet does not stop for these barges either, and when a worker from the Pope’s barge attempts to board one of the ships, he is strangled and thrown overboard. The press attempts to contain coverage of the murder.”

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

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Manchester Arena bomber was rescued from Libya by Royal Navy
        This article is more than 4 years old
        Salman Abedi, who killed 22 people in a suicide attack last year, was saved from civil war in 2014
        https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/31/manchester-arena-bomber-was-rescued-from-libya-by-royal-navy

        ………………..

        Kirschbaum added: “Ash Sarkar is the voice of a generation. In Minority Rule she has coined a phrase and a concept that will enter public consciousness and debate going forward. I can’t think of a writer better equipped to characterise today’s culture wars, and we are all absolutely thrilled to welcome Ash to Bloomsbury.”
        https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/bloomsbury-bags-ash-sarkars-debut-1267162

        …..

        But communism is the only thing which says all things should be brought into the hands of commons to benefit all people. In the past, you’d call that communism. I think in the future, we’ll have to call that common sense.

        Ash Sarkar
        https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ash_sarkar_1072326

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  4. Sluff says:

    At 0818 this morning, andysnape posted that the BBC were featuring as their first story that the MetPolice were grovelling at the feet of the anti-monarchy protesters that they might have wrongly arrested on Coronation day.

    I’ve just watched the 6 pm BBC news and it is STILL the first story !!! FFS.

    What is it with the BBC? The experience of these Marxist- anarchists, no doubt on holiday from Extinction Rebellion, Animal Rebellion, Just Stop Oil etc etc etc, is of no interest whatever to almost all viewers.

    Yet the BBC are still banging on about it. And it’s even on BBC London News.

    Another proof that BBC news editors live in a parallel universe to the rest of us. They are the pits.

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    • andyjsnape says:

      Good morning Sluff

      The more and more I read and see on the internet I find the likes of the bbc a joke, they lecture and talk from a moral platform that they are always right (or should be that left, is the only way)

      The ex British broadcaster was what I watched as a kid, and felt then it had values etc, now I couldn’t careless if the government of the days mouthpiece just closed down

      Remember as a kid, all the classic/great comedies this organisation produced, Only Fools & Horses, Two Ronnies, Porridge and so on, now its just spineless and has programmes like Have I Got News For You… thats had its day and is just there for promotting leftist “news”

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  5. Guest Who says:

    BBC Local Democracy Propaganda.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      What is the breakdown by bike and foot? Why include both?

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    • StewGreen says:

      Daftest claim I ever heard
      Reality is While I buy £5 worth of stuff and put it on my bike
      the people next tome are buying £100 worth
      and putting it in their cars.

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  6. Guest Who says:

    Beyond him and Davie hooking up…

    Also speaking for the nation, BBC styly…

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    • MarkyMark says:

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  7. Sluff says:

    Hahahaha.
    The London Tube creates loads of dust. The trains brake and they give off particles from the track and rails. Particles of iron oxide and also chrome and quartz. Teams of cleaners work overnight but can only cover 40% of the network in a year.In an enclosed space such as the Tube it all sounds pretty dangerous, for workers and the public.
    So surely in the interests of safety Sad Dick Khan should introduce a ULEZ zone for dangerous polluting tube trains giving off particulates. Or better still, close down the tube network.

    After all , ‘safety is our number one priority’, as owners of older vehicles in London know only too well.

    Or maybe the ULEZ zone has nothing to do with pollution and everything to do with revenue-raising to infill the covid and post-covid black hole in the TfL finances.,

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  8. Guest Who says:

    Likely consternation in the cubicle gardens?

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  9. Guest Who says:

    Happened here too.

    Expecting frogs next.

    Maybe a bbc reporter.

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  10. Guest Who says:

    No word on what is preventing this.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The pair wed in 1999 but both struggled with drug addiction and Eminem later admitted he was abusive to Kim. The violent lyrics to 97 Bonnie and Clyde and Kim also saw him fantasising about killing her, and they split after she saw him beating a blow-up doll in her image, on stage, in 2000.13 Aug 2021

      MT-EMINEM-COMP-1.jpg?strip=all&quality=100&w=1500&h=1000&crop=1

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    • MarkyMark says:

      He can black face like Trudeau if he wants?

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  11. Guest Who says:

    Springster might need another holibags.

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  12. Guest Who says:

    Of course, as far as HMG, Met, mi5 and the bbc are concerned, some spotty loser in his basement ordering an SS dagger is worse than a fresh import in Manchester popping down to B&Q to fill the rucksack.

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  13. Guest Who says:

    22 minutes in… and he is still ignored.

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    • Guest Who says:

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  14. Flotsam says:

    Secret Illegal Immigrant Barge Plan

    It will be filled up with immigrants. At night, while they are asleep the barge will be untied from the dock and towed out to the mid Atlantic…….

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    • Charlie Farley says:

      Flotsam ,
      ” Das Boot ” remake ….” loose Torpedoes ” ! !

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  15. Jeff says:

    Net immigration into Blighty this year is estimated to be a record busting 675,000. It’s not only out of control, it’s out of this world…

    Before Blair came to power in May 1997, we had (roughly) a sustainable net immigration per annum, of between 30-40,000. It was doable. Just…

    But the figures we are seeing now are horrendous…and remember…these are the (so called) “legal” migrants we get.

    Just think, in 2023 we’ll have more foreigners entering our country by dhingy than ever came legally prior to 1997.

    Our corrupt politicians have systematically set out to destroy our country. Parts of England that I was familiar with as a boy no longer exist.

    I feel like weeping…

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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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    • Thoughtful says:

      When I wrote a piece elsewhere about the Tory failure had more to do with their complete inability to deliver on their manifesto promises, and that IDS was a completely out of touch idiot to suggest it was down to a lack of housebuilding one commenter told me I had a lot to learn.

      It didn’t take long for the pile on off other commenters supporting me and calling the other a complete idiot.

      Because we don’t live in a democratic country we cannot force those in power to do what the people want, nor what they promised the people they would do, there is little short of a revolution we can do but vote come the next election.

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  16. Thoughtful says:

    As I type this Biden is meeting other US senior people to find a way out of the debt ceiling crisis he has created. At the present time he is still saying he will not compromise and he expects congress to left the debt ceiling completely and to allow him to unconditionally squander to his hearts content.

    They have a figure in mind of how much they are going to allow and what spending programs they want to see cut.

    But this time it’s different, and it’s the Democrats own fault for the Republicans having such a slim majority, because if just one congressman disagrees they can force a re-run of the election for speaker process and as you might expect there is at least one who thinks the current proposals go too far.

    The world is de-dollarising mainly because of Bidens spectacularly inept and criminal government (none of it reported by the BBC) and a default would only make this happen faster.
    It will also push the USA into a deep recession if not a depression which will last many years and affect us even more here in the UK.

    Given the inept talentless people we like as political leaders because we won’t pay for the good ones we will suffer even worse than many other countries, and personally I don’t see how the EU would survive if this did happen, nor the Euro either.

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  17. Guest Who says:

    A bbc TNI partner.

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  18. Guest Who says:

    Oh, and JO’bsworth, AOC and gang are excited by another jury decision.

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  19. Guest Who says:

    And on the topic of disinformation, Wendy is out and about.

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    • StewGreen says:

      @BBCWorld have deleted their libelous tweet against Tim Pool
      Hence First part of the above Twitter thread is now missing
      I’ll pick it up on the Midweek thread

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  20. StewGreen says:

    Vine gloating at Steyn getting another Ofcom violation.
    My rule i that you shouldn’t equate thing to the holocaust
    But Naomi Wolf did ..that’s free speech, that makes her look an idiot
    Why punish Steyn ?
    People said hyperbolic claims the other way
    eg claims covid vaccines are 100% safe

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Hannah Arendt, one of the greatest philosophers of the last 100 years, said that: ‘Once something can’t be said, you’re already in a tyranny.’ So, it is indisputable that we are all now living, in 2023, in a tyranny”

      ……………………

      “He wrote to the scientific paper saying ‘take me off your fucking mailing list’ with a diagram. They wrote back saying your paper has been accepted.”

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  21. tomo says:

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    • andyjsnape says:

      Hello Tomo

      Thanks for sharing

      and there’s me thinking its only the Russian media that does propaganda (or so the bbc keeps telling us)

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  23. Zephir says:

    I see they have done an “Assange” on Trump, an “allegation” from the 1990s appears, just before a 2024 election…..

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    • Kaiser says:

      she accused him of rape

      had been claiming to have a dress with the dna on it

      the judge disallowed trumps teams request for the dress to be dna tested

      she wasnt sure of the date and sometimes not even the year

      her lawsuit, which was encouraged by anti-Trump lawyer George Conway and backed ($$$$$) by Democrat mega-donor Reid Hoffman

      there was no evidence
      no witnesses
      no cctv

      and a “NEW YORK” jury found him liable of sexual abuse not of rape

      🤔

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  24. Zephir says:

    “CIA conspired with the Biden campaign and HELPED produce letter calling Hunter’s laptop disinformation – and wanted it approved in a ‘rush’ before the 2020 election, Republicans claim in bombshell report

    Emails reveal editorial deliberation behind adding language that Hunter laptop ‘has all the classic earmarks of a Soviet/Russian information operation’

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12065659/CIA-HELPED-signatures-Hunter-letter-Republicans-claim.html

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  25. Zephir says:

    The CIA was actively involved in getting signatures for the letter from 51 intelligence officials discrediting Hunter Biden’s laptop as disinformation, according to bombshell Republican report set to be released Wednesday.

    The House Judiciary Committee is set to unveil a report titled: The Hunter Biden Statement: How Senior Intelligence Community Officials and the Biden Campaign Worked to Mislead American Voters. It alleges that the letter ‘was a political operation to help elect’ Joe Biden in November 2022.

    It alleges that a CIA employee ‘may have helped in the effort to solicit signatures for the statement’ and accuses former Deputy CIA director and Acting CIA Director Mike Morell and the Biden campaign of conspiring to quickly get the letter approved.

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  26. Zephir says:

    “University union boss agrees to pay libel damages to firefighter over tweets falsely portraying him as ‘a misogynist, pervert and liar’ after he asked a group of women on a train to stop swearing in front of his children

    Paul Embery launched libel claim against Dr Jo Grady, general secretary of UCU.

    Mr Embery, who was travelling on a train from London to Norwich with his children, publicly called out a group of women for alleged anti-social behaviour, which he claims involved drunken threats and the use of ‘sexually explicit profanities’.

    ‘One woman in particular was repeatedly using sexually explicit profanities.

    ‘Mr Embery considered it unacceptable that passengers, including his own children, should be subjected to this behaviour, so eventually he intervened and politely asked the women to refrain from swearing.’

    His request was met with ‘hostility and abuse’ and, despite a train guard intervening, their ‘loutish’ behaviour continued, which included Mr Embery being warned he would be ‘knocked out’ and being threatened with a beer bottle, the court heard.

    Mr Embery filmed the group on his phone, and tweeted a photo of them to train operator Greater Anglia in the hope it would ‘take action’ against the women.

    Over the next two days, Dr Grady published tweets, with one saying: ‘Grow up Paul and take a day off bullying women and pretending to be outraged for clicks. It’s pathetic at any age, but especially yours.’

    She also tweeted: ‘It’s creepy to record young women on the train, share that video, and lie about them on social media for clout.'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12063857/Woman-agrees-pay-libel-damages-firefighter-tweets-falsely-portraying-pervert.html

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  27. MarkyMark says:

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  28. MarkyMark says:

    £3.5bn News … “Prince Harry’s ghostwriter recounts frenzy around memoir”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65529055

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