275 Responses to Start the Week 15 May 2023

  1. Guest Who says:

    Peak BBC.

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  2. Guest Who says:

    BBC TNi partner.

       21 likes

  3. StewGreen says:

    ITV local newsPR show
    Long drought porn item from the Met Office
    it rained 10 mins after

    BBC local newsPR show
    “coming up , do you want more onshore wind in your area, it will lower your bills”
    .. Nope wind is expensive and pays no mining tax.
    It demands huge subsidies so costs us all MORE

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  4. Sluff says:

    You absolutely cannot make it up.

    On the BBC there is a concern about the mental health of Londoners caused by…….wait of it…………the noise of Tube trains !!!!!!!!!!

    No doubt a large amount of tax payers will be demanded to deal with this. Cue lots of sickness and time off work caused by all this noise.

    Iincredible. But supports my theory that the strategy of the Far Left is to make the market economy implode by making it bear ever increasing amounts of expenditure on public welfare and related activity. And out of the ashes……..socialism !!!!
    The BBC are lined up to support by their choice of stories.

    Next story was about the young girl, one young girl in all of London, that died seven years ago because of allergy with. Pret A Manger sandwich. Sandwich administration and costs have rocketed as a result. Of course.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Sluff – having once upon a time being a londonistan commuter the remedy is ‘earphones ‘ – I reckon that maybe 70% of regulars use them …. Maybe there is just madness from wokeness …

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      • Sluff says:

        Great shout, Fedup.
        So……we can look forward to earphones being prescribed by the GP (if you can get to see one) and provided free of charge by the NHS!
        What’s not to like?
        My iPhone audio could do with an upgrade.

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        • Fedup2 says:

          SLUFF CAN YOU WRITE A BIT LOUDER AS IM A BIT MUTTON …..😎

          By the way – can I highly recommend ear wax -with which I am afflicted … the NHS used to do a syphon ( fantastic feeling ) but no longer – £60 Specsavers – buy one get one free ….

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  5. tomo says:

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  6. StewGreen says:

    The TRIC poll Nigel Farage wants you to vote in
    https://tric.org.uk/public-poll/
    He says voting has been suddenly extended for one more week, as if to allow time people to beat him
    If you put your real contact details in ..it gets put in their database
    All the categories are filled with garbage so I clicked skip
    except for Radio : Julia Hartley-Brewer (TalkRadio)
    Radio Personality Vanessa Feltz
    News show : TalkTV breakfast with JHB
    Then selected Farage for last category (News Presenter)

    Currently the page is unable to process my selctions I’ll click Submit again later

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    • popeye says:

      Remove Farage selection, it will then allow you to submit, as it did with me and many others. BBC – Nothing to see here

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      • JohnC says:

        Did the same for me.

        Makes you think it is just a glitch and no vote is ever registered so no evidence exists for cheating.

        Low-down dirty Leftist scum trick – and just like what the BBC would do. This is what we are up against. They have ZERO ethics.

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  7. tomo says:

    Starmer is a rudderless, mendacious opportunist

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  8. Terminal Moraine says:

    News from the Global Summit in Investigative Journalism — BBC look to launch another project to fight against things they don’t like the sound of.

    This particular presentation entitled “Truth Costs Money”. Not exactly dignified, but times are tough and the collection tin isn’t filling up so fast any more.

    I’ve taken a look at Bellingcat… if they’re the template for reliable truth-telling, it’s not reassuring. Turness should know that pulling back the curtain doesn’t always go to plan. In the Wizard of Oz it simply revealed the land was being governed by trickery and deceit.

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  9. Dickie says:

    Gamma ray radiation contamination in West Ukraine. Depleted uranium ammo stocks supplied by the UK hit by Russians. Well done Sunak and Ben Wallace. You must be very proud of yourselves:

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Come on – it might be radiation – but it’s British radiation so it must be betterer than foreign stuff …. Reparations ?

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      • tomo says:

        How much of a spike in gamma radiation?

        Very little interest it seems in relaying the detail…

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        • Rob in Cheshire says:

          If you want to take out a Russian tank, DU is ideal. The Russian tank is a rather more immediate threat to your health.

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  10. Philip_2 says:

    A new phone line has opened as part of an investigation into the conduct of former BBC DJ Tim Westwood.
    Anyone with concerns about Westwood’s sexual conduct, and the BBC’s knowledge of it, can share their experiences confidentially and anonymously.
    BBC News has reported multiple allegations of sexual misconduct against Mr Westwood by women who say he abused his position to exploit them.

    The former presenter for Radio 1 and 1Xtra denies the claims. ..

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65323999

    BBC Has Received Six Complaints Against DJ Tim Westwood Over Alleged Bullying & Sexual Misconduct, Comes Three Months After Director General Said “No Evidence Of Complaints”

    The BBC has received six complaints against disgraced DJ Tim Westwood over alleged bullying and sexual misconduct, including a historical one that was referred to the police, revealed just months after Director General Tim Davie said he had “seen no evidence of complaints” against Westwood….

    No evidence!.. its the DEFAULT employed at the BBC to defend all its employees until arrested by the Police (by which tie the Evidence IS overwhelming and then they deny that he was ever employed by the BBC. This is a self evident in past rulings. Deny all involvement.

    BBC reveals multiple complaints against ex-Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood – including one referred to police

    The BBC say they are taking the newly revealed claims “seriously” after the 64-year-old was accused of opportunistic and predatory sexual behavior following a joint investigation by The Guardian and the BBC earlier this year. Westwood denies all allegations against him.

    https://news.sky.com/story/bbc-reveals-multiple-complaints-against-ex-radio-1-DJ-Tim-Westwood-including-one-referred-to-police-12645662

    I like the ITV phrase ‘Veteran’ as as if he was a pioneer in sexual favours, not just a long line of previous BBC presenters caught in the act…

    In allegations made to the BBC and the Guardian, the former BBC Radio 1 DJ, 64, is alleged to have misused his position in the music industry to take advantage of seven women who were in their late teens or early 20s at the time.

    https://www.ITV.com/news/2022-04-26/veteran-DJ-Tim-Westwood-denies-numerous-sexual-misconduct-claims

    The trouble is, that so few have come forward (more than SIX black kids were abused) when it was widely known that he was a predator on black girls and widely accepted by those that surrounded him.

    The BBC took no notice of this practice as he was the BBC ‘star’ performer on Radio Extra ‘YOOF’ RAP music. They want the Young black audience, and he gave it to them. He had front.

    The rest is history. The abuses of past BBC presenters on both Radio and TV is shocking and usually covered up as, ” as it never happens” but it does and usually, if not frequently, on the BBC.

    Its something the BBC is proud of, It unique blend of perversion and sexual depravity mixed with opportunism that sets it apart from other radio and TV stations.

    The End of Tim Westwood?

    Oh No! — another one (BBC) will ‘pop -up’ in his place shortly( at BBC towers) ,as long as the TV license exists, they will abuse it. The civil service charlatans that could not run a whelk stall, run the National Broadcaster of shame. They don’t see it as a ‘crime’ just a ‘setback’.

    Normal service will be resumed. After the Police investigation.

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  11. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    If labour (red) want to give children the vote how long before one of their election pledges will be ‘Free Lollipops’

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  12. taffman says:

    “UK men offered £10K to pose as dads in visa scam, BBC investigation find”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65556437
    Question : Are they real British men or “those men” again?
    Operative word “UK men “.

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  13. taffman says:

    “Mueller Trump-Russia inquiry”
    “Durham report: FBI criticised by special counsel for Trump-Russia inquiry”
    “A long-awaited report has strongly criticised the FBI’s handling of its investigation into alleged ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65602909
    Interesting , very .

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    • tomo says:

      Interesting , very?

      Not to the US MSM

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    • tomo says:

      Allegedly…

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      • Doublethinker says:

        This story is mention in the Telegraph and on the BBC web site. It ought to be the block buster story of the day , the week, the month. A US President being deliberately undermined by the FBI in order to help the Democrats!!

        But no , the story makes the ‘front page’ in both outlets , the facts are reported , but the implications are not and anything which dilutes the impact of the report is used.
        Clearly the MSM plan is to play it down and move on as swiftly as possible because they don’t want the public to realise that the MSM is actually a key part of this story, a key part of what was and remains a conspiracy by the globalist elite to subvert democracy.
        The MSM is as guilty as the FBI and all the other institutions captured by the globalists of undermining democracy.
        The people must not know the truth because if they do it will make duping them into believing that hyperglobalisation, world government , mass migration, net zero , Covid measures etc are good for them.

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  14. Zephir says:

    And….ANOTHER BLM fraudster, how many more ???

    “Black Lives Matter activist is taken to court by British Film Institute over ‘missing £216K sponsorship money’

    The BFI is embroiled in a Court action against a Black Lives Matter activist”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12085693/British-Film-Institute-takes-BLM-activist-41-court-missing-216-000-sponsorship-money.html

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  15. Zephir says:

    Nov 2022:

    “Black Lives Matter demo organiser charged by police with fraud over missing money

    Exclusive: The 22-year-old from east London will appear at Bristol Magistrates’ Court in January ”

    https://www.bristolworld.com/news/crime/xahra-saleem-all-black-lives-bristol-co-founder-charged-by-police-with-fraud-over-missing-money-3911480

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  16. Zephir says:

    May 2022

    “Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors claims her mistakes with $90M in ‘white guilt money’ are being weaponized against her and she didn’t profit from $6M LA mansion and $6M Toronto ‘arts center’

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10831013/BLM-founder-claims-mistakes-90M-white-guilt-money-weaponized-against-her.html

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  17. Zephir says:

    Sept 2022

    “Black Lives Matter activists accuse executive of stealing $10 million in donor funds
    Organizers allege in a lawsuit that Shalomyah Bowers put the organization’s finances in his “personal piggy bank.”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-lives-matter-activists-accuse-executive-stealing-10-million-dono-rcna46481

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  18. Zephir says:

    Jan 2022

    “BLM’s millions unaccounted for after leaders quietly jumped ship”

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/blms-millions-go-unaccounted-for-after-leaders-quietly-jump-ship

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  19. Zephir says:

    Aug 2021

    “Police investigating after Black Lives Matter donations totalling more than £30,000 go missing”

    https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/police-investigating-black-lives-matter-donations-totalling-30000-go-missing/fundraising/article/1725118

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  20. Zephir says:

    Sept 2022

    “Man Spent Donations to Black Lives Matter on Himself, Prosecutors Say

    “There is no cause, no tragedy, and no event that fraudsters won’t seek to exploit,” prosecutors said in accusing a man of diverting funds from a group he ran that took in more than $450,000.”

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/27/us/black-lives-matter-fraud-atlanta.html

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  21. Zephir says:

    “Black Lives Matter’s missing billions

    More and more questions are being raised about BLM’s finances.

    On 20 December 2020, The Economist noted that $10.6 billion had been pledged to causes and organisations affiliated with BLM.

    As far as I can tell, no comprehensive or even partial audit of what happened to this staggering sum of money has ever taken place.”

    ‘To the best of our knowledge’, a spokesperson for #BLM10 stated in an open letter, ‘most chapters have received little to no financial support from BLMGNF since the launch in 2013’.

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/02/14/black-lives-matters-missing-billions/

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    • Guest Who says:

      Not newsworthy?

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  22. Zephir says:

    Anyone else notice there may be a pattern here ?

    “Now it looks as if Sistah Space, the charity run by Ngozi Fulani — who is currently waging a high-profile campaign against the Royal Family after an incident at an event at Buckingham Palace — might be in for a similar ride, having just paused its operations in the wake of the Lady Susan Hussey affair.

    In an eye-popping thread, a Twitter user known only as ‘James’ claims to have done a deep dive into the organisation’s records and practices and uncovered a litany of issues.

    These include: trustees posing as independent examiners to sign off the accounts; accounts being drawn up on the wrong basis; a 4703% year-on-year increase in administrative expenses; the use of donations to buy wares for sale in the charity’s shop; the use of unsubstantiated (and suspiciously round) numbers in grant applications; and much more. Of course, this is on top of the usual stuff about close links to businesses run by family and friends. ”

    https://unherd.com/thepost/now-ngozi-fulanis-charity-faces-the-spotlight/

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    • Docmarooned says:

      Sounds like what the SNP have been up to but not mentioned by the MSM.

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  23. G says:

    Shawbrook Bank opening page:

    https://www.shawbrook.co.uk/?utm_source=savings_welcome_logo_click%20medium=email/

    Four photos, two black one oriental……..last but not least, one very elderly white woman. Could the photographs pictorially signify their preferred customer ‘wish list’?

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  24. Fedup2 says:

    BBC News
    Gleefully reporting that some Uzbek ? Chap – who has an OBE and not subject to criminal proceedings – gave money to the blue Labour Party .
    If you are an ordinary punter (me) you wait for the punch line …but none comes . The grubby ‘Dominic casciani ‘ is the source of this seeming non story ….

    … the better story was the ‘British men’ being paid to say pregnant foreign third worlders were the ‘mother ‘ and therefore its British passport and benefits time …..

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  25. andyjsnape says:

    Vladimir Kara-Murza’s mother speaks to the BBC
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65601750

    The bBC does a report on Free Speech – it is in favour of this free speech

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  26. Guest Who says:

    Cue wall to wall Doc Shola, Lammy, etc from Breakfast to QT.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Bingo.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Plus a blonde.

        Make that two. Plus Corbyn.

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        • Guest Who says:

          O’Brien on Farage on Newsnight.

          Pesto on Braverman.

          The BBC political propaganda infestation of the msm is total.

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          • Guest Who says:

            QED.

            They are everywhere.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Earlier I watched the Lindsey Hoyle v badinock fight – which led to a knockout in thr first round by puncher Hoyle and the smell of ermine for the overpromoted badinock – who reminded me of one of those thick labour wimmin MPs trying to out race each other ….( where’s dawn butler these days )?

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  27. Guest Who says:

    BBC Moaning Emole Top story…

    Tory donor’s link to massive money laundering probe

    A businessman whose foreign companies were part of a global money-laundering investigation is a major donor to the Conservative Party, BBC News can reveal. Electoral Commission records show Javad Marandi, who has an OBE for business and philanthropy, donated £756,300 between 2014 and 2020. After a National Crime Agency investigation, a judge found some of his overseas interests played a key role in an elaborate money-laundering scheme involving one of Azerbaijan’s richest oligarchs. The Iranian-born Londoner can be named after losing a 19-month legal battle with the BBC to remain anonymous. However, Mr Marandi isn’t subject to criminal sanction and strongly denies wrongdoing. A spokesman for the businessman said: “Mr Marandi is deeply disappointed at the court’s decision to lift reporting restrictions, knowing the reputational damage that is likely to follow.”

    Baz Gardiner en route to studio.

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  28. Guest Who says:

    MSNBC/Vile/Panorama joint investigation?

    ‘Knowing’ is all it takes. Sources say.

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    • MarkyMark says:

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

      Everyone. Everyone. Everyone.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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    • tomo says:

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  29. Fedup2 says:

    A general comment

    I wonder – in the run up to the coming election – whether there will be a list of what the blue Labour Party promised and achieved versus what they didn’t achieve – before they return to their overfunded private jobs ?
    I think such a list – such as raising taxation – failing to fund social care – huge population group – turning londonistan into a cess pit – will bury them …..

    Unfortunately there’s not much by way of a real Right alternative ….( certainly not the reform party whatever that is )

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  30. AsISeeIt says:

    Farrago of fakery and custom-built suicide drones edition

    Suella: White people should not feel guilty (Express); No good reason Brits can’t be trained to be fruit pickers, says hardliner Braverman (Metro)

    One remains sceptical… afterall we can’t seem to recruit a native white British prime minister or pick a white British home secretary these days. Mind you, there’s Keir Starmer waiting in the wings to pick up the pieces – and he’s about the palest, most stale chap imaginable.

    Our BBC likes the Metro frontpage treatment of Braverman’s, frankly, empty posturing – promoting that title to top of their online press review, presumably the Beeb’s boys and girls enjoying its scoffing satirical slant – Very Ian Hislop/Paul Merton: Suella’s picking timebomb… Wrath of grapes… Ripe for debate

    After this farrago of fakery it will be a miracle if they last the week! – no that’s not about those empty Tory promises to control hyper-immigration – it’s the on-going big TV celeb news: Jan Moir’s Phil and Holly verdict (Daily Mail)

    Although the Tories do say one thing in public and do the opposite behind the scenes: Ministers warned of sharp rise in immigration by election… Influx of workers and students at odds with pledge to cut numbers, says Home Office… with another 1.1 million foreign workers and students projected in 2024 unless ministers take action (Telegraph)

    Brexit enables us to build a high-skilled, high wage economy – pleads our Suella in the Metro

    But official policy has consistently delivered the opposite – a low skill, low wage economy: Why is UK Productivity Low and How Can It Improve? …A standard measure of (labour) productivity is output per hours worked, which can be obtained by dividing the volume of goods and services produced by the country in a year (real GDP) by the number of work hours supplied by the country’s workforce during the same year… the UK economy’s industrial composition has changed, decreasing the share of the capital-intensive heavy industries… (National Institute of Economic & Social Research) – they nail the problem of our lack of investment in any highly productive industries on one side of the productivity equation – whilst taking care not to mention what amounts to a recent population explosion due to our wide open borders on the other axis on the graph.

    And as for anyone blessed to be on higher pay: Timebomb One in five will have to pay 40% tax (Express)

    Fifth of all taxpayers will now be in 40p band (Times)

    Stealth taxes backlash 1 in 4 teachers and 1 in 8 nurses set to pay higher rate (‘i’)

    The latter headline somewhat undermining public sector crying and whingeing and their supposed reversion to food banks over their pay disputes. Mind you, the latter examples – teachers and nurses – were bullish backers of Lockdown policy – which bust our economy – so frankly they had it coming. And since they’re paid out of our taxes and the tax which they pay is simply a rebound to their employer – there’s a certain karma, or for the materialists among us, at least a certain synchronicity in play there.

    Quick recap of our PM’s CV – green card manlet, Goldman Sachs office boy, head too big for his body and short-listed for Swindon regional branch manager – Rishi Sunak moves our wet Tories on from Cameron’s hug-a-hoodie to hug-a-Zelenskiy (Guardian spelling) – other spellings are available, although apparently other policies than proxy war and self-harming boomerang sanctions are not.

    Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine hugs Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, at Chequers, where he was promised a deliverty of custom-built suicide drones (Telegraph) – custom-built suicide drones…? Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror or what? But that’s your Tories, folks. At least the Telegraph there going with a less poncy spelling of the former soap opera actor’s name.

    Wet and wishy-washy Tory-Rishi loyalists in a remarkably revealing move show up in the Guardian of all places to counter attack Suella’s brave big man talk: Tory MP’s tell Braverman: quit the PM pitch and stick to the day job

    Custom-built suicide drones, eh…?

    ‘It’s all about getting rid of the Tories’ Ed Davey interview (Guardian)

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Irony about the tax situation is that those ever so left public sector types are really gonna be hammered when the red labour lot have sucked all the juice out of the ‘top payers ‘ ( although I suspect many will have relocated to a better country ) …..
      It’s hard to imagine / foresee just how bad things are going to get …

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  31. Guest Who says:

    D. Rooling Class.

    Sleepy even nicked the kids’ crayons.

    There is no alternative other than worse now.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      1 in 10 – want to or have done – why not show the split?
      wanting to and actually are different stats.

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  32. digg says:

    The BBC are to remove Pudsey bandana because some children have health issues which are not visible such as mental problems.

    Do they employ special brainless people to come up with addle-brained schemes like this?

    If you follow this logic, we need to take away sick peoples crutches and wheelchairs, deaf peoples hearing aids and stop putting plaster casts on broken limbs surely?

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    • Guest Who says:

      Capt. Pugwash to get rainbow eyepatch for flounce like a pirate day at W1A.

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  33. Guest Who says:

    And… they’re off!

    Again.

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  34. Althepalerp says:

    Over 65s population is 9% BAME
    Under 25s population is 28% BAME
    Just saying.. . .

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  35. Guest Who says:

    BBC Who You Know Non News

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  36. Guest Who says:

    BBC #angerover

    Deadens the sound of the dogs practicing tap, too.

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  37. andyjsnape says:

    Films to Not watch, as recommended by the likes of the bBC

    Cannes: Harrison Ford, Johnny Depp and Wes Anderson return to film festival
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65569899

    Can only imagine the woke crap they agree with

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    • taffman says:

      andyjsnape
      Go woke, Go broke! That’s why they need a telly tax to survive, all under the Tory Government .
      To MPs watch TV , do they pay the “tax” ?

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  38. taffman says:

    “Crisp packets and sweet wrappers dating back as far as the 1960s have been found on a Norfolk beach.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-65428452
    Headline news, or what ?
    How many convicted Child Groomers have been deported under the Tory Government in the last ten years ?
    Anything on Al Beeb , Yet ?
    Are you still paying the telly tax, yes the tax that robs from the poor to give to the rich?

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  39. MarkyMark says:

    He described the process as “very easy” and said he “would do everything” to get the child a UK passport.

    Thai, who didn’t advertise on Facebook, said he would concoct a convincing backstory in order to successfully dupe the authorities.

    He introduced the undercover researcher to a British man called Andrew, who he said would pose as a father. Andrew would be paid £8,000 from the total fee.

    During their meeting, Andrew showed his passport to prove he was a UK national. He also took selfies with the researcher.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65556437

    ……………………….

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  40. taffman says:

    A quick look at the value of the £ 1 GBP = 1.1494.
    Not bad, despite the doomsayers of BREXIT .

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  41. MarkyMark says:

    https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/attacks.aspx?Yr=Last30

    2023.05.13 DRC Kiyala 20 0 Twenty victims of ADF Islamists are discovered in a mass grave.

    2023.05.11 Nigeria Takalafiya 38 0 Thirty-eight villagers are buried in a mass grave following their slaughter by Muslim militants.

    2023.05.08 Chad Don 17 3 Seventeen Christians, including children, do not survive a Muslim attack on a Christian village.

    2023.05.04 Nigeria Bulayobe 3 11 Three farmers are murdered by ISWAP and eleven others abducted.

    2023.04.30 Nigeria Kebbi 40 15 At least forty villagers are massacred by terrorists near the Niger border.

    2023.04.16 Syria Hama 36 0 Thirty-six truffle hunters are machine-gunned by ISIS.

    …………….

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/chefs/nadiya
    Born in Luton to a Bangladeshi family, Nadiya has been baking for 10 years. She now lives in Milton Keynes with her husband and three children.

    After wondering why her father only served ice cream for dessert at his restaurant, as desserts aren’t a big feature of mealtimes in Bangladesh, Nadiya was encouraged by a school home economics teacher to develop her skills and now delivers beautiful masterpieces at family occasions. She won the Great British Bake Off in 2015 and released her first book ‘Nadiya’s Kitchen’ in 2016.

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  42. andyjsnape says:

    Microsoft’s Activision takeover approved by EU after UK veto
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65566438

    Luckily we left the 3rd reich, oww wait

    Also an advert for Greggs, surely a sponsorship deal for the bbc here
    Greggs bakery sales up nearly a fifth in past year
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-65607899

    Also a link at the bottom of the page for
    Greggs – About Us – this takes you straight Greggs website

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  43. tomo says:

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  44. MarkyMark says:

    600K Immigrants lost by the UK Home Office.
    20K Terrorists on the UK terrorist watch list.
    3K Extreme Terrorists on the UK terrorist watch list.
    22 Lost in Manchester according to Theresa May.
    1 More attack labelled bad driving this month of August.

    The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure. The Home Office has been at the front line of this endeavour since 1782. As such, the Home Office plays a fundamental role in the security and economic prosperity of the United Kingdom.

    https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/about

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  45. andyjsnape says:

    bBC keeps going on about mental health, especially keep seeing it reporting for the last few weeks

    Now its turned the “possibility of long term sick” as mental heath

    Record numbers not working due to ill health
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65596283

    Definately loads more to follow as it keeps going on and on about its new project to “report” on

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  46. Fedup2 says:

    BBC interviews Farage ? Really ?
    Says the tories ( blue labour ) have failed on Brexit …..
    …. And ambivalent on coming back into politics . I can’t see him doing it again .
    I think Blighty is beyond saving ….. it’s already overwhelmed by the third world and without any political will to stop it – it will get worse – another 10 million across the next 10 years ….. with no one to stop it ….

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    • andyjsnape says:

      Hello Fedup

      100% agree with your comments

      I often see people who have lived in the UK for hundreds of years are more passionate about the UK. It often seems people who have “arrived” are here for what they are take from the UK, benefits, healthcare, schooling. Why should we have built up this country over many years for it all to be given away

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Hi Andy – I’ve just ‘caught ‘ a programme on r4 callled ‘you and yours’ …. Tales of wo about the rising cost of rental accommodation – particularly in londonistan –

        The lefty running the show asked why the price hike ?

        Answer – less rentals because landlords are pulling out ….no explanation why …

        .. and no mention of huge immigration numbers ….

        Maybe there should be a background ‘sound ‘ for any issue which is affected by huge population increases – a sort of ‘screech ‘ so that maybe these wokes finally get the message about the consequences of their ‘open door ‘ beliefs …..

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        • andyjsnape says:

          Hello Fedup

          The silent majority often just put up with what is going on, the majority is getting to where its had enough, unfortunately too little too late

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          • Fedup2 says:

            Andy – I am more than troubled – although have taken steps to have contingencies should the situation turn really bad really quickly –
            My narrative is that an incoming red labour government will be left with a maxed out economy – thrashed taxes – and still not enough – falling pound value pushing inflation up and living standards falling a lot further for a lot of people .

            This will lead to sky high crime and public disorder – with no remedy from The State …. I’m glad than in my personal circumstances I can get out if needed …
            But I’m a born pessimist so will inevitably expect the worst ….

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      • MarkyMark says:

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  47. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      ” Three High Court judges invested in controversial tax avoidance schemes that were challenged by HM Revenue & Customs, including one judge who has ruled on tax avoidance cases, raising questions about the UK’s lax approach to disclosure of judicial interests.”

      ………..

      Disability TRUMPS Ability. Now all Amir Ali Majid’s 20 years of cases and immigration cases need to be reviewed … Blind immigration judge ‘had no idea of the law or his own powers’ says panel after 12 out of 13 appeals against his rulings succeed

      “Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association chairman Adrien Berry said: ‘It is hard to see how he first passed the judicial exams and then why it has taken so long for his lack of knowledge to be exposed.”

      When you give people special privilege above the law, you get no law and 1400 raped and tortured children over 16 years … ‘In August 2014 the Jay report concluded that at least 1,400 children, most of them white girls aged 11–15, had been sexually abused in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013 by predominantly British-Pakistani men.’

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/10/02/start-the-week-open-thread-144/#comment-870538

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    • MarkyMark says:

      ” The revelations raise questions about the judgment of some of the UK’s top legal minds, as well as the High Court appointment process and the absence of rules requiring UK judges to make formal disclosures about their financial affairs, either publicly or privately.”
      https://www.ft.com/content/6d3b5582-5653-4dcb-8fbb-5ff5b6d0e0fa?sharetype=blocked
      ……………….

      Dear Darren Henry,

      Do you think it is right that MPs can use expenses to buy air pods (headphones) at £158.99 when UK MPs are given a handsome wage which increases each year (2010 £65,738 to 2021 £81,932) ?

      14/01/2020 Office Costs Airpods with wireless charging case Equipment – purchase (Other office equipment) £158.99

      https://www.mpsexpenses.info/?#!/mp/421 https://www.theipsa.org.uk/mp-costs/interactive-map/ https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=24773

      Yours sincerely, Mr M

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  48. andyjsnape says:

    ‘Impossible’ not to rely on migrant fruit pickers says Herefordshire farmer
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-65607843

    A farmer said

    World class “reporting” from the bBC

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