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Yippee.
Whoops – minutes late. Burn that diesel? Nah! Cancel that TV Licence DD. Much better saving.
C4 just ran a pretty questioning piece on FBI – CIA – Dem collusion in the tsunami of anti Trump shit…….
Could this be the start of real journalism again in the UK?
And maybe a path to truth and real freedom for the Western World?
If so I for one salute C4.
Come on BBC, get off your arses and evaluate this and start to report the truth as well!
I was quite surprised tonight when Newsnight did a bit on it.
As Humphrey Bogart joked in the movie ‘All Through the Night’:
“Say, there’s more here than meets the FBI.”
I haven’t seen this piece but I would be astonished if C4 did anything that strayed far from the hyperglobalist MSM playbook of attacking Trump and his supporters whilst protecting Clinton, Obama and Biden and their supporters.
In my view the MSM have been a key player in the undermining of democracy throughout the West over the past twenty plus years and I remain highly suspicious of anything they say or do.
Doublethinker….I think they are getting as near as they can to the lifeboats on the Dem ship before it hits the rocks, a sort of a belt and braces exercise. In fact typical left leaning msm hypocrisy.
But I do suspect we will soon see another FBI shit shower thrown at Trump to try to take the heat off this.
In the past week I have heard two centre right pundits arguing that Britain needs a substantial ( not defined any more closely than that) amount of immigration because we need workers .
Rubbish.
TheUK would indeed benefit from the arrival of highly qualified engineers, medics, scientists even first class managers and entrepreneurs because these folks will each generate multiple jobs for us natives. The low or unskilled need not apply!
So creaming off the top of the skill pile is sensible but for the UK but how many of such folks are there in the ‘developing’ world and wouldn’t it be better for their countries if they stayed at home? We certainly don’t want the useless mouths we are getting , legally and illegally , at the present time. It’s national suicide to keep letting these folks in.
But Why would anyone from a developed country want to come here? Lousy weather, public services that cost a fortune but are grossly inefficient , taxed to the hilt , attacked if you are successful, unable to speak your mind , simmering racial tensions in many parts, hugely overcrowded, high inflation , rapidly falling educational standards , surrendering ground at an alarming rate to Wokism, a country which is being robbed of its heritage and a people who are losing their identity.
Not an attractive proposition unless you are a criminal or planning to live on benefits and contribute little. But no politician and very few pundits and commentators dare to say this even though it is the truth and blinding obvious to anyone but a fool.
Double, we have at the very least 1.2 million unemployed people in the UK; I suspect it is more like 1.3 million to 1.4 million unemployed. Where is the outrage from the Labour Party and the BBC?
Nowhere to be seen.
Up2
The thing which pre occupies me is ‘what will the red Labour Party be able to do differently to the blue lot ?’
So much borrowed money has been thrown at welfare – where will labour get the sort of cash to buy votes if there ever is a free and fair election in the UK again ?
Possibly the most BBC headline I have ever seen- ‘How is climate change affecting our mental health?’. It isn’t affecting mine at all, thank you for asking. Two sacred cows in one sentence- I bet they’re popping the champagne corks over that one.
I can’t actually see such a news story on the BBC website
I do see a radio prog of the same name
but its 1 year old
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct3kj0
Not the BBC (but the other cheek of the same arse):
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/16/food-insecurity-us-college-students
‘‘I can’t afford groceries’: why one-third of US college students don’t have enough to eat”
The photos tell a different story.
Do they think we are stupid ????
Starving gut buckets ????
Climate change has obviously affected the mental health of the Just Stop Oil and XR loonies.
There’s no doubt that the constant stream of negative climate change propaganda has affected the mental health of young people and impressionable adults. Let’s face it, images and talk of the World ending literally every day and probably every hour is damaging the young and vulnerable adults. The BBC is in the lead with this campaign of course. Rational thought has been pushed to one side and it has become a cultish religion.
Government and big business are conspiring to delude us with measures which are expensive, impractical and simply not scientifically or economically effective.
No newspapers is good newspapers edition
It was Liverpool’s favourite sons The Beatles who sang: ‘I read the news today, oh boy’
And in that vein our BBC gifts us the headline: ‘Eurovision was like Christmas’ – accompanied by a (very likely staged for the camera) photo of the statues of the Fab Four draped in the proxy war blue and yellow flags of Ukraine. However, I do recall John Lennon famously said something along the lines of: ‘All we are saying, is give peace a chance’ ?
Meanwhile our BBC are insisting: Liverpool event better than we imagined, businesses say
I’m hearing echoes of Keir Starmer trying to sound reasonable and insisting he’s spent the last three years listening to businesses – rather than what he’s really been doing which is testing himself and Mrs Starmer for covid nine times a week and plotting his big purge of the Corbynistas
Our BBC online news website fails for some unknown reason to put up the morning’s press frontpages – someone forgot to pay Mr Abdulla in the corner shop his papers bill? I jest of course.
Oh well, let’s survey the BBC’s own England news page instead – somewhat amazed as we are that such a thing exists – that’ll give us all the vital news.
Greggs wins right to sell late-night sauage rolls
Luckily, perhaps, there’s no Carry On film-style comics around these days to make some sort in innuendo out of that headline.
Paltry vital news content there methinks
Two poultry workers test positive for bird flu
WHO no doubt on high alert ready to declare a worldwide pullet pandemic
There’s a fair deal of crime reported by our BBC. Crime – the last resort of the local news hound scoundrel – a lot of it apparently committed against women.
Mother-of-four stabbed to death named by police
Most of the crimes reported are rapes – nasty – a good deal of it apparently committed by the cops themselves – talk about make-work schemes
Met Police officer charged with rape after 2019 incident
Rapper Slowthai appears in court after rape charge
It’s not what you might think – he’s as white as a sheet. Cultural appropriation anyone?
And there’s child abuse – very nasty
North Yorkshire teacher Jamie Wheeler jailed for child sex abuse
And then there’s the bloke done for talking about sex
Chester man given nationwide sexual comments ban… A man has been banned from making sexual comments in public to any woman across England and Wales.
I say bring back tomorrow’s chip papers BBC – give us back all those lying biased salacious trashy newspaper headlines of old.
Certainly a lot of sex about – ex labour Mp banged up for child porn for 2 years – now a blue Tory referred to the whips for more sex allegations ….
I do like that greggs has won the right to sell late night sausage rolls … although I suspect the anti sausage roll legal team will get an injunction from an unnamed Albanian £ human rights £ judge £ late at night …
BBC News
The priority of News shows the confused propaganda messages from the kidults running news ….eg
Today
The lead is on the car industry moaning about tarrifs being imposed on exported cars without the right level of EU components –
But the bbc hates cars – loves bikes . So not having a car industry and car exports is a good thing in bbc world ?
Private rentals – comrade gove is going to make it even less attractive to be a landlord – good socialist stuff Michael – all that clubbing went to your head? ( obviously huge population growth doesn’t get a mention
( yesterday in a bbc phone in someone griped that the government should ‘do a furlough scheme ‘ for renters to siubsidise them )
Next – moves to get illegals out of hotels and into rental type accommodation …. Bad in bbc terms – when the sensible thing would be throw a few back in the channel
Then approved news – the blue labour have found £200 million of tax money to subsidise bus travel . But why pay at all ?
Yesterday the BBC was crowing about a record level of ‘workers ‘ being on the ‘sick’ 2,500 000 – apparently . It seems it’s a result of the ‘workshy’ virus – the spread of which is facilitated by benefits and bbc approval and crap about work / life balance .
I won’t mention the thing about promised hospital bits haven’t been built – because either everyone is sick or on 3 day weeks or on strike ….
Without doubt we are currently ‘le..’ overseen by a rabble of incompetent chancers in government.
However, the alternative, as pushed by a bunch of ex, current and invited back in BBC propagandist clowns from Vorderman, Femi, Esler, Oh’Brien, etc is infinitely more horrifying.
They use the BBC and the BBC uses them to try and fool all the public all the time.
We are clinging on to our barely affordable cars as long as we can until some kind of rational predictability becomes apparent on political planning, logistical networks, raw material realities, affordability, resale, cost hikes, etc are apparent, and held to account by any media not part of the Kool aid cabal.
And if… IF… we ever have to get another, it will not be a Vauxhall. And I very much doubt more than a few in W1A studios has one either.
Guest – I think the greatest achievement of the coming red labour government will be the nationalisation of all green bits of Blighty in order to house the existing 10 million foreigners as well as the coming 20 million over the next 20 years and more .
I mean – why need a green belt ? And without cars we won’t need so many roads . Travel restrictions can be put on people – more travel taxes and fines for leaving the living area approved for you – much better air quality – some 14 year old kid with asthma won’t die – so it’s all worth it …
It’s not the roads, it’s the car parks. Just imagine the amount of housing that could be built on them.
Or rather, we don’t have to imagine. Somebody is already imagining on our behalf.
We can decide on tariffs?!
Under the EU.
…..
5th November 2012
But it was another Turkish loan decision made that day among nearly €4 billion worth of lending that this week sparked uproar among Southampton Euro MPs and unions.
Meeting at the bank’s headquarters in Luxembourg – a striking glass-roofed building, its 28 directors and 12 alternate directors signed off up to €190m of funding for a Ford Transit factory in Turkey.
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/10026411.focus-on-ford-the-80m-eu-loan-for-fords-turkish-transit-plant/
Apparently Conservatives are meeting to discuss policy – so it’s a small meeting . I heard a bbc political correspondent accusing them of ‘nationalism ‘ . ‘Nationalism ‘- is a Bad Thing – unless you are an Irish Republican ( terrorists) a Scottish nationalist ( communist ) welsh nationalist ( benefits junkie ) …. Funny that …
The back-to-Africa movement was based on the widespread belief among some European Americans in the 18th and 19th century United States that African Americans would want to return to the continent of Africa. In general, the political movement was an overwhelming failure; very few former slaves wanted to move to Africa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-Africa_movement
Hello Guest
bBC finds fault with Brexit, who would of thought it
The BBC finds only what, and who finds them to serve their mutual interests.
Vile’s pet idiot is always in their studios spouting cherry picked wibble.
Another they can’t get enough of:
With added bile to Femi’s juvenile potty mouth.
Meanwhile….
I walk past a Vauxhall dealer each morning. Hugely expensive e-cars lined up. Where are they going to charge? Who pays? What happens when they are banned too?
We are nation overruled by donkeys held to account by weasels.
All political decisions are filtered by media whose staff either live on top of work or are funded by the public to get around.
Addendum:
Why the BBC packs QT with Remainers in the face of this is a myst… ok… it is not.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/17/french-president-macron-sells-out-climate-activists-calls-for-a-pause-in-new-regulations/
Our Green/Indy council was turfed out as they were obsessed by NetZero and city centric idiotic proposals and wasted projects that ignored the rest of the county.
A few limps staggered in and the media are now trying to form a coalition.
Stellantis, eh? Would the be this Stellantis, or another car making company of the same name?
https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/25/23141165/stellantis-pleads-guilty-300-million-fine-emissions-fraud
Someone ought to tell the bBC that Vauxhall are owned by Renault and have been for the past 3 or 4 years ever since they bought General Motors.
We know the DNC is utterly shameless – it’s becoming increasingly clear that the RNC is utterly gutless….
The sheer paucity of talent anywhere in any ‘establishment’, political or media, is beyond comprehension.
And it is in no small measure due to a media estate that rewards the worst.
Gary and Rory must be so proud.
Champion back on Newsnight tonight?
And this is Iain Dale’s LBC pushing one of the more bonkers blondes out there using ‘quotes’….
“Thorough research by the Home Office suggested that the impact of this benevolence would in any event be ‘relatively small, at between 5,000 and 13,000 immigrants per year up to 2010’. “Events proved these forecasts worthless. Net migration reached close to a quarter of a million at its peak in 2010. Lots of red faces, mine included.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/13/jack-straw-labour-mistake-poles
Deport 50,000 immigration lawyers and judges per year.
That would save the public purse about £10B / year.
As the shad cab front bench remedial kindergarten tweets about what impossible promises ‘they’ will fulfil once ‘they’ are ushered into power, not critiqued but boosted by the propaganda of the BBC, one looks at the ‘talent’ behind, starting with a BBC chum…
And BBC heroine…
Labour MP Clive Lewis apologises for ‘get on your knees’ comment
This article is more than 5 years old
Female MPs criticised Lewis for language used at a conference fringe meeting, with Tories urging Corbyn to condemn remarks
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/oct/20/labour-mp-clive-lewis-apologises-for-get-on-your-knees-comment
Video from the Momentum event in Brighton surfaced on Friday in which Lewis, the MP for Norwich, told the actor Sam Swann to “get on your knees bitch”. The language attracted widespread condemnation from politicians on all sides but Swann later described the situation as “jovial”.
Nadia Whittome has the same IQ as her shoe size
Clown shoes?
She’d be out of her depth on a moist lawn
Very small shoes, then.
No one competent or sane is in politics now.
Our council is pleading for councillors to fill gaps still open post election.
No takers.
The main trad parties here are universally loathed, the Greens a joke, Indies seen as one of the others in disguise, and the Limps now donating and rigging away merrily.
All held to account by BBc local new form of democracy reporting with some actually trying to drum up a Limp, Green, Indy overtly.
Next election will be 10% turnout, if that. BBC and satellites will all still be uniquely funded.
Name of donor: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, London Office
Address of donor: Pelican House, 144 Cambridge Heath Road, London E1 5QJ
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Outward flight £716.84, return flight £313.57, hotel £393.51, taxi in Helsinki £68.04 and taxi to Norwich £353.57; total value £1,845.53
Destination of visit: Finland
Dates of visit: 14-17 February 2023
Purpose of visit: A delegation of MPs to meet Finish parliamentarians and civil society organisations, to learn about social and economic policy in Finland.
(Registered 01 March 2023)
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=25356
Name of donor: Open Society Foundation
Address of donor: 7th Floor Millbank Tower, 21-24 Millbank, London SW1P 4QP
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): return flight costing £940; accommodation costing £1,370; transport, food and registration fee costing £375; £2,685 in total
Destination of visit: Washington DC, United States
Dates of visit: 11-15 September 2018
Purpose of visit: Delegation of European policymakers and civil society leaders to the Transatlantic Minority Political Leadership Conference.
(Registered 07 December 2018)
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=25356
The tweet from Nadia Whittome (no, me neither) implies fealty to OpenDemocracy.Net. This is a Soros-funded organisation, which might explain her voting record. It is also receives funding from Joseph Rowntree and Rockefeller’s.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/supporters/
“Without money to buy influence, protest is one of the few tools working class people have to push for change.”
I don’t know if she’s noticed but the working class tend to be the ones hauling protesters out of the middle of the road. You know, so they can get to work.
Biden’s boobs oblige their paymasters
Dear Darren Henry,
Can you reconcile these two statements please ….
Barry Gardiner defends donations worth £500,000 from Chinese agent.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/barry-gardiner-chinese-lee-sky-news-jeremy-corbyn-b1992752.html
The code also sets out the general ‘duties of members’ (to be faithful to the Queen, to uphold the law, to act in the interests of the nation and especially constituents…
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/article/explainer/mps-code-conduct
£500K from a Chinese spy.
Act in the interests of the nation.
Yours sincerely,
Mr M, H
Sleepy Joe will sign any piece of paper they put in front of him, so long as it’s not nap time.
Rental reform.
Political and media bubbles vs. reality.
As with the car industry, a fetid stew of meddling and ideological opportunistic obfuscation.
Starring the BBC and, of course, racist Getty (all BBC ‘news’ features the inevitable cornrow victim.
I am a small landlord. Everything possible has been done to make life difficult for me to provide a decent rental to my tenants, specially by the extreme left, such as that oaf Corbyn whipping up his mob. Some grasp the facts.
Keith Vaz owns five homes
by DAVID WILLIAMS and DAVID HUGHES, Daily Mail
Keith Vaz, the Minister caught up in the Hinduja passports affair, owns at least five properties worth more than £1 million, it was revealed yesterday.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-22145/Keith-Vaz-owns-homes.html
John Redwood is a good man but he is pissing in the wind.
The government knows there are more people who rent than who are landlords, so it is currying favour with them. The fact that it will end up destroying the private rental sector is a price they are prepared to pay.
And then, as night follows day…
And as Sky follows the BBC.
Magic Gramps has the solution!
Want to fix the housing crisis?
Build new council homes, introduce rent caps and end the scourge of empty homes.
We need housing for public good, not private profit.
One poor sod tried to point out how council and tenanted properties are often left by those who know they are teflon.
Jez’ thug squads responded as expected.
Media and race.
Meanwhile ever more women of spaghetti hoop hair do’s agents find their phones ringing from tv producers.
Or no hair, when in the mood.
Luckily, we still have the past to celebrate. The Windrush Wonders (Lancaster/Mosquito mash up).
Weapons of Mass Distraction
WGAF ?
Clickbait at best
Is that Guy Gibson? I suppose if Cleopatra can be black, we are all black now.
Seems the way to go. Unless you are Mrs. Smith making a dodo. Sorry, doco.
No, that’s Guy Gibson’s dog and a Labrador puppy……
And as I actually get back to work… finally.
Across the same pond…. served by the same propaganda team..
With added BBCJezBollocks:
Comments mixed, but many pointing out The Friends of Jez Corbyn Brigade rockets do not come with a notice to quit in advance (see what I did there?).
“What the root of racism, what the root of sexism is. And sexism doesn’t come from women (says a man who says he’s a women). So of course it’s caused by men.” {youtube – Racism: Piers Morgan vs. Munroe Bergdorf – @2:50}
– racism : prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior.
– sexism : prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex.
– indeed this is backed up with words … “LOUISE O’NEILL: It is impossible for women to be sexist towards men {irishexaminer jan2017}”, then it goes into different degrees of sexism “Women cannot be ‘as sexist as men’”
“To cite the other person you just said that would *trigger you Sam Harris*, Mark Steyn said this the other day, *this is the conversation we will be having when the Mullahs nuke us*.Everyone will be discussing if someone is transgender despite the fact they’ve had no operation (ref Jack Monroe in UK)” – Douglas Murray when he’s angry, but he still makes sense.
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/09/04/start-the-week-open-thread-140/#comment-864386
The back-to-Africa movement was based on the widespread belief among some European Americans in the 18th and 19th century United States that African Americans would want to return to the continent of Africa. In general, the political movement was an overwhelming failure; very few former slaves wanted to move to Africa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-Africa_movement
R4 9:30am prog about London black policing (10 part series)
R4 9:45am daily book prog about London black policing
The BBC is very London, and very black.
Damn – missed it – I’m sure the coloured next of kin of the three coloured ‘boys ‘ murdered in NE London last week ( by coloured killers ) will have been avid listeners ….
And not well policed!
The other day I had a thought, does happen very often
I thought google companies outside the UK and see if they all have about 85% black people in the adverts
Difficult to find any, but nearly all the adverts, websites in the UK have enforced this by the likes of the ASA, and constantly on the ex British bbc
Just so people in the UK think its the norm to see SOOOOOO many black people
“If you tell Google that you would like to see images of ‘Black men’ the images that come up are all portrait photos of black men. Indeed, it takes more than a dozen rows of images before anybody who isn’t black comes up in the images. By contrast a search for ‘White men’ first throws up an image of David Beckham – who is white – but then the second is of a black model. From there every line of five images has either one or two black men in the line-up. Many of the images of white men are of people convicted of crimes with taglines such as ‘Beware of the average white man’ and ‘White men are bad’.”
― Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10035658-if-you-tell-google-that-you-would-like-to-see
MarkyMark,
……and if you tell Google to put up black couples it does just that. If however you ask for white couples you get a 50%/50% of white couples and mixed race couples.
The social engineering continues unabated until we are all controlled consumers without identity, without gender, without family loyalty, with national identity, without race identity, without belief in anything beyond survival and material need.
See the aviva website – play spot the whitee
Re Vauxhall and the anti-brexit news “report” brought to you by the bbc
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65612295
Funny comments in the forum, with the bBC still giving people hope that the UK will return to the 3rd reich
Why does the likes of the bBC go against the majority who voted out and feels it knows best and STILL tries to overturn the vote even to this day
The emir of londonistan has written to me. He is telling me that in 104 days he will be charging me £12.50 a day to use an ‘unapproved ‘ car in his Fiefdom .
Apparently he will take my family into slavery if I don’t pay his fee ….
Does he have armed bodyguards?
A few twigging it is a BBC rigged headline and the rest still delusional about national governmental net zero flip-flopping.
Speaking of which, the media… courtesy of Enders…
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The challenge of net zero
The full report is accessible at the link below.
Climate change is again a core theme of this year’s Media and Telecoms 2023 & Beyond Conference, as it has been since 2021 when the UK hosted COP26.
Published in March 2023, the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report[1] points to alarming warming trends due to rising greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. While 56 ‘hard pledge’ Paris Agreement signatories, including the UK, European Union (EU) and Japan, covering 53% of global GHGs, had laws by 2020 primarily focussed on reducing GHGs, the two largest emitters, ‘soft pledge’ China and the United States, contributing 38%, did not. Global GHGs will be 10% above 2010 levels by 2030 based on 2022 policy settings.[2] Echoing the messaging of COP26 and COP27, the IPCC implores signatories: “Emissions should be decreasing by now and will need to be cut by almost half by 2030, if warming is to be limited to 1.5°C.” Warming will also exceed the upper limit of 2°C by 2100, with 3°C forecast for that year.
The climate crisis is already provoking irreversible changes to the environment, including biodiversity. Ocean sea levels and salinity are rising and currents are slowing. On land, weather conditions are more extreme, especially heatwaves and droughts. Warming will cruelly impact the most vulnerable countries in Central and South America, Africa and East Asia with further water and food poverty and insecurity.
With many governments stymied by short-term political exigencies, it is businesses and people that must harbour the ambition for net zero that our planet requires.[3] Mandatory emissions reporting by businesses is required by ‘hard pledge’ Paris Agreement signatories, galvanising the adoption of plans for emissions reductions aimed at net zero, independently validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), as well as reporting to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) for investors and shareholders. Many businesses in ‘soft pledge’ countries such as the US are also engaged in voluntary reporting and climate action.
This year’s report on the climate change initiatives of TMT companies highlights their adoption of science-based targets to decarbonise operations. Many companies have revised their initial net zero targets for 2030 to the more realistic goal of halving scope 1 and 2 emissions, including by shifting from fossil fuels to 100% renewable energy sources in line with global climate action objectives, while also addressing upstream and downstream emissions (scope 3). Case studies of the Guardian, WPP, Ad Net Zero, Bertelsmann, Vivendi, Sky, BT Group, and Virgin Media O2 provide best practice learnings.
This year’s report also highlights the society-leading role of media companies towards the environment. Media businesses are mobilising their touchpoints with their audiences—from news, to magazines, to audio-visual productions such as films, TV programmes, games and advertising—to inform them of the climate crisis and win over hearts and minds in favour of climate action. It is now accepted that the climate crisis is the greatest challenge to face the world’s population and their progeny.
“The media help shape the public discourse about climate change. This can usefully build public support to accelerate climate action. In some instances, public discourses of media and organised counter movements have impeded climate action, exacerbating helplessness and disinformation and fuelling polarisation, with negative implications for climate action.”
IPCC, Sixth Assessment Report, page 18
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Media businesses are mobilising their touchpoints with their audiences—from news, to magazines, to audio-visual productions such as films, TV programmes, games and advertising—to inform them of the climate crisis and win over hearts and minds in favour of climate action.
It is now accepted that the climate crisis is the greatest challenge to face the world’s population and their progeny.
Speaking for… who again?
Globally, at least 1.8 billion people use a drinking-water source contaminated with faeces.
https://www.afro.who.int/health-topics/water
Nearly half of India’s 1.2 billion people have no toilet at home, but more people own a mobile phone, according to the latest census data. Only 46.9% of the 246.6 million households have lavatories while 49.8% defecate in the open. The remaining 3.2% use public toilets.14 Mar 2012
Would that quote be from the summary report for policymakers or is it the actual report ? (cannot be arsed to check)
There’s been (sometimes wildly) conflicted assertions between the TL:DR main report and the “lite” versions (Climate for politicized fractional wits) for years iirc
Funny? Most are borderline psychotic.
I see one that the mods left in that if anyone but a Remainer would get them banned.
A few pointing out the BBc only posts for the faithful or ratings. Likely soon to be removed.
US political corruption at the highest levels. Some views and comments on the John Durham report
https://sonar21.com/the-corruption-of-america-takes-a-dangerous-turn/
https://technofog.substack.com/p/the-durham-report
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
Yours sincerely,
Mr. H
Russians?
“Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation – an inquiry into government corruption, lies to secret courts, the weaponization of the US intelligence apparatus, the FBI’s attempt to take down a sitting president – has concluded.
“The FBI discounted or willfully ignored material information that did not support the narrative of a collusive relationship between Trump and Russia.”
”
https://technofog.substack.com/p/the-durham-report
It seems strange that there is no balance in the reporting of the hunter Biden laptop, the bribes – and the organised effort by the ObamaDoJ to damage the true president – on top of the demo at the Capitol and the fixed civil action just concluded …..
So might even see a conspiracy to destroy the biggest threat to the current false president – obama and the dementing Biden
I see the trip to Asia is cancelled because of the current debt hitting the ceiling ….
Everything is spiralling downhill, and most if not all this side traceable back to Blair and thug Campbell and their thrall media poodles this side of the pond, and across…
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/16/obama-yearns-for-the-days-when-establishment-media-set-the-national-agenda/
Likely in covert concert.
How’s it all working out, lads?
Words, punctuation and pauses (Obama pauses a lot) have a price … Barack Obama’s $400,000 speaking fees reveal what few want to admit {theguardian may2017}
“The reason many of us have been critical of Barack Obama’s outrageous $400,000 speaking fee is that it robs us of a fantasy: that sooner or later, the first black president was going to use his considerable powers, in or out of office, to help the economic ravages of the poor, who are disproportionately black.
That Obama’s project was or ever would be racial and economic justice was always a dream – and the sooner we let go of this and recognize Obama for who he is and what he does, the better we’ll all be.
Some people who disagree with me believe I am racist … I fantasized that he’d join us on the front lines of marches, battle for the salvation of Obamacare in ingenious ways, and maybe turn up at a Black Lives Matter event. But this was all a fantasy. …”
. . . . . .
Barack Obama delivers veiled but withering rebuke of Donald Trump {guardian 19oct2017}
“Back in the public fray at a rally in Virginia, the former president delivered his views on the current political climate in his strongest terms yet”
– How much was Obama paid to appear? Did the Guardian ask? $400,000?
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/10/20/weekend-open-thread-166/#comment-875009
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/05/16/durham-found-zero-merit-to-trump-russia-claims-so-what-was-mueller-doing-for-two-years/?fbclid=IwAR2NPnqOsHDIKX295J7aBcNtsKQLn59JYiMBcBhSWlnt8WJcJC0x0Td4Xr0
May 16, 2023 | Sundance | 475 Comments
People ask why I find it difficult to write about the Durham report empirically confirming everything we previously outlined in the past five years. Here’s my answer.
Eventually, after the shock & awe of the Durham confirmations wear off, I am hopeful that people will stand back and realize the bigger question that covers all of the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy nonsense. This was a United States government operation to conduct full-throated surveillance on a U.S. presidential candidate, and then remove that candidate from the office of the presidency after his victory in the 2016 election.
With John Durham outlining in granular details how the FBI, DOJ and larger intelligence apparatus acted politically to weaponize government on behalf of an allied presidential candidate in Hillary Clinton, a bigger question remains. There never was any merit to the Trump-Russia nonsense, so what exactly were Robert Mueller and Andrew Weissmann doing for two years?
No consequences.
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Join Hillary Rodham Clinton as she travels the United States this fall. She’ll connect with audiences with a story that’s personal, raw, detailed and surprisingly funny. She’ll take you with her on her journey and talk about What Happened, what’s next, and what’s on your mind.
What you’ll see will be her story – Live. Her story of resilience, how to get back up after a loss, and how we can all look ahead.
It’s about Hillary’s experience as a woman in politics – she lets loose on this topic, and others, in a way she never has before.
http://hillaryclintonmemoir.com/events.html
Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner
Couldn’t help but overhear supermarket staff chatter about a recent shoplifting incident:
“The police won’t come out for less than £200. They know that, so that’s why they do it, because they know they can get away with it”
I also have my complaints about the supermarket. All the visible staff were busy shelf-stacking while customers either used self-service tills or queued hopefully for the eventual arrival of someone at the counter to serve booze or cigarettes.
Meanwhile, there’s what the citizens of communist regimes used to term Tractor Stats…
BBC 6 January 2023: Met Police: London homicide figures fall in 2022
Some interesting comments:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-mulls-severing-ties-poland-us-supplied-himars-deployed-near-kaliningrad
In The Sun today there’s an article about 2 girls who have spent ‘a week in the sun’ at a Spanish holiday resort and they have not used any of their annual holiday entitlement.
How have they done this?
They say they are working from home.
Apparently they are keeping office hours and working all day at the holiday resort in Spain.
Definitely not sunbathing on the beach, just sitting in front of their computers.
It’s possible that they are actually doing this but somehow I think they may well be finding multiple reasons to not be sitting in a room in front of their screen.
Mind, if their employers are daft enough to go along with this then why not go on holiday, sorry, work from home.
Surprisingly, this is not new!
During the dark days of the lockdowns, one of my colleagues was allegedly ‘working from home’ whilst enjoying some R&R with a ‘friend’ in Thailand!!
Good on the Irish..
Asylum seekers ‘blocked’ from accessing accommodation by locals
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/asylum-seekers-blocked-from-accessing-accommodation-by-locals/ar-AA1bgH1e?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=37386fe97fa44430a34498072904f309&ei=11
The UK majority probably feel the same, but in the like of the bBC land its all bliss
Shocking …it seems that someone called ‘holly ‘ has left someone called ‘phil’ alone on a couch on live ITV . Surely such a serious issues demands the return of the PM from Japan ? An inquiry ? Must stop looking at the mail website ….
My philosophy has changed. I used to get sad or angry but you know what.. .
Every civilization and empire has its day. Inca, Egyptian, Roman, British.
And now Western civilization is collapsing I don,t hold out much hope.
I love doom and gloom on the bbc – apparently the temp is going up 1.5 degrees in the next 5 years so we are all doomed .
But don’t worry – the 70 million or more in Blighty will save the planet . You – yes you reading this can cut your carbon use – whilst billions in other bits of the planet will hopefully be better off and burn more carbon …..
Really it’s just an excuse for controlling our lives – making up msy more taxes and live poorer lives . Eff em
A picture for the madness of our times really
Ain’t it just!
Our energy tzar!
She looks like she’s just realised she’s shit herself.
The other 4 have had the operation?
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/05/17/cop28-climate-summit-offering-multi-million-pound-sponsorship-packages-for-exclusive-access/
Multi millions might swing you a Greta Dominatrix Half Hour, but Soaf is next level.
Ask the UN good ole boys.
I keep being reminded of those cabbage patch dolls that were all the rage some 20 years ago.
1.5 in 5 years lmao , I did hear that in passing on the radio
roll on 2028 so that can be de-bunked
not that it matters to them the forecast will be 2033 by then
Durham report: FBI criticised by special counsel for Trump-Russia inquiry
Published
1 day ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65602909
“Mr Durham and his investigation are not likely to disappear from the national headlines in the immediate future.”
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HA HA HA HA HA HA
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Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook restricting a story about Joe Biden’s son during the 2020 election was based on FBI misinformation warnings.
The New York Post alleged leaked emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop showed the then vice-president was helping his son’s business dealings in Ukraine.
Facebook and Twitter restricted sharing of the article, before reversing course amid allegations of censorship.
Zuckerberg said that getting the decision wrong “sucks”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62688532
Katty , Christian. The lurcher? One ,Sarah smith , Sopel – all on the case – or struck dumb
“helping his son’s business dealings in Ukraine”
– I love a well turned euphemism
GBNews web story £UK weather forecast: Britain set to be hotter than Spain as sizzling heat to bake nation”
Go on guess the temperature of “sizzling heat to bake nation” ?
You would expect temperatures around 30c from this headline. In fact they’re talking about 18 to 21c.
But it’s a goo bot tester
accounts that retweeted this ridiculous headline
@davegre92641717, @AnnaWilliams41
(no bio), @jay_fuad (1 follower), MSNuk (22,000 followers, zero Likes)
M region’s 15 day forecast shows mo day over 20 and just 1 sunny day
most are rain days
I don’t know what the original wording actually said but it might be a very misleading use of data again. Britain might have a hotter day or two than Spain but on average Spain will always be hotter whatever global warming might do.
I noticed on a TV program on the Mayan civilisation that it was climate change warming that caused their demise……centuries ago. They must have overdone the 4 x 4’s.
Edit: I notice the Wikipedia entry for the Maya refers to “environmental degradation and drought” as the issue causing Mayan downfall while studiously avoiding mentioning climate change.
Further to all above…
https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2023/05/17/bbc-kicks-off-2023-alarm-season-global-warming-set-to-break-key-1-5c-limit-for-first-time/
Like GB, the BBC has turned its thermal imagery up to 11.
The image on their ‘report’ looked more like Mars.
Comments, well, Matt should not give up the current job.
There’s a sidebar panel currently:
Busted’s Matt Willis: I’m nervous about my kids seeing my drug and alcohol past
All good other Matt. No one under 21 reads anything on the BBC anyway.
Oops my keyboard kept failing there and I didn’t see it due to the sun
“UK weather forecast: Britain set to be hotter than Spain as sizzling heat to bake nation”
40 people just hit retweet as if the story makes sense
Only one was a blue tick a conservative politician Dawn Melvin Westgate
She tweets every few minutes
I wonder if those accounts that retweet crap are accounts managed by social media firms
Most of the retweets were from Conservative leaning accounts rather than alarmists.
#1 Sally Nugent “Infamous Dambuster raids”
#2 Tim Westwood perv allegations
#3 BBC stranhe stealth editing of Derry Girls award speech
#4 Mae Muller theBBC specially selected loser
White faced Canadian Dam Buster, Fred Sutherland, renamed Justin Trudeau, for movie remake
Let`s frighten the BBC .
Start a petition to get the Battle of Britain Flight to fly over BBC headquarters .
“Why does the BBC hate this country ?”
Something I asked here yesterday !
Promotion for dearer egg prices brought to you by the bBC
Egg shortages: Warning shortfall could last another year
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-65615890
The likes of the bBC is doing an eggcellent promotion 🙂 for price increases generally and the exchequer must be so pleased with the extra income we all keep paying with the “cost of living crisis”
Verify launches today:
“BBC Verify is transparency in action – fact-checking, verifying video, countering disinformation, analysing data and explaining complex stories in the pursuit of truth. This is our promise to consumers – we understand that their trust must be earned and we will show them how we are doing that each and every day.”
I mentioned yesterday that Bellingcat’s open source research is the model for their new project. Interestingly Musk just yesterday called BC out for peddling psy-ops. The beeb are fortifying themselves for more battles against good information… perhaps they’ve realised that Marianna and Wendling et al are just too lightweight.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/bbc-news-transparency-bbc-verify/
Verify – We guarantee that all disinformation stated by us to be the truth the whole truth and nothing but OUR truth.
Are they just to keep issuing ‘Tell It Often Enough’ BS like this in hope that one day someone might believe them?
On Musk… the BBC is on manoeuvres again…
Other three letter acronyms are available.
Doubtless a BBC TNI partner…
https://hotair.com//ed-morrissey/2023/05/17/cnbc-asks-musk-why-criticize-george-soros-rather-than-make-money-n551386?
Pure BBC SOP:
“Shouldn’t Faber be asking that question of himself? After all, it’s Faber “introducing” that idea in the interview, while attempting to distance himself from it with weasel wording (“I don’t think you are… that probably is the case”). Why did Faber bring it up at all, especially when Musk’s criticisms of Soros are on policy and politics?”
I do have one small niggle from the story; that word ‘progressive’. It no longer means what I know it used to mean.
And no amount of telling me often enough otherwise will change that.
The Ministry of Truth will transparently check all facts and verify all video content to counter government censored information about the vaccine. The Ministry will analyse all data and explain complex stories to those who do not think for themselves. The Ministry of Truth decides what is the “truth”. This is our safe and effective promise to the proles. The initiative of our behavioural scientists is to brainwash you with a psy-ops nudge, into making you trust the BBC on pain of punishment by OFCOM.
@TalkTV employ Nicola Thorp as the mad lefty on their panels
who? she only found fame because she set-up a petition demanding a ban on dress codes forcing women to only wear high heels at work. this was based on her personal experience when she got sacked as a temp-receptionist for refusing to wear high heels
That led to her getting a role in Coronation St (two stints, one a a year, one a month)
She is engaged to actor Nikesh Patel a stage actor ..who has recently had TV parts like a role in Dr Who
“Albanian prisoners paid by UK government to return home”
A scheme to send criminal migrants back: “In the tiny northern-Albanian town of Krumë, 60% of the population has already gone. The first man I meet on the street there speaks English effortlessly, with a London accent. Local politicians say more of the town’s voters now live in east London than here at home.”
How interesting that the BBC instantly bump into the one person who speaks perfect English. 99% of the ones who have flooded my part of London speak Albanian, and they don’t look too keen on chatting to the locals.
Lucy though sympathises though with how attractive fab Britain remains for these plucky travellers.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65533198
Lucy cloned off the first BBC female discovered?
My own website says “I kept meeting people from Kukes who live in London” 9-11/8/2010
That side of Albania I never met any other tourists
Kukes is a special place different from the majority of Albania
cos it’s on the border into Kosovo , so the traffic is mostly business/smuggling between the two.
Looks like a small boy.
How many immigrants have arrived since 1991.
This was when the last UK Resevoir was built (Carsington)
We were getting hosepipe bans back then because of water shortages.
Just one example of the infrastructure failings to cope with mass immigration.
it’s one of my bugbears that people think the UK needs lots of new reservoirs.
We can manage water differently than to the old days by using water ring mains, a lot of money has been spent on this
whilst selling off prime spot land the nationalised water corp was wasting.
Carsington was 1992 (36 million cubic metres)
Roadford Lake Devon 1989 same size
Colliford Lake Cornwall 1983 (29 million)
There are at least 2 reservoir project underway
The UK spends a lot time getting rid of an excess of water.
Not BBc, but they’ll soon be on it like herpes.
‘The Boy Who Cried Meghan’ is a delightful fable.
She’ll the death of him one day.
The Sussexes publicity people must have been smoking some really good shit to come up with this one.
I’m so looking forward the Netflix special starring all NYPD officers, scores of blacked out Chevy SUVs, a yellow taxi being driven by Danny Devito, flying pedestrians, Raymond Reddington and Lord Lucan selling corn dogs.
Was Doria driving? Was there any coke? And I don’t mean smokeless.
FFS. The world is in such as state and it’s ‘ Oh no, look at what’s happening to us” for the Sussexes.
As someone wiser than I said, “Get a life and get out of mine”.
Exactly my thoughts Mik.
It’s reported that Harry Windsor and his husband nearly did a ‘diana’ in the US – nothing to do with the court cases he had running at the moment ……
… avoid Paris and mercs H …
Luckily all vehicles involved were obviously ICE’d. The logistics of recharging while maintaining the illusion of ‘catastrophic pursuit’ and ‘terrifying brushes with danger’ hardly bears thinking about.
Burn that diesel harry
Beat me to it, Fed…
Yank-devised stunt!
Did they stop half-way through to re-charge the limo?
Near catastrophic car chase in New York.
Says a spokesperson for …..errrr……..Harry and Meghan.
Mmmm. How fast can you go in New York City?
Traffic lights every block. Traffic density.
For two hours?
Where is the CCTV? Where is the proof?
Where are the bits of phone video?
Why are the NYPD so quiet?
But better not suggest this may be an over-blown or trumped up version of events, someone rich might sue………
Better wait for the Oprah Winfrey special on city traffic congestion.
Surely the US mobsters can posse up a band of special brothers to look after them? They can all even come over here if they want as long as they wipe their feet and don’t spit everywhere! The Met could hold a diversity seminar to teach them the rules, then leave them to it!
Where’s ma horse, and hold ma beer…
OMG.
Amazing.
Unbelievable.
Incredible.
BBC London News was presented by a white English male !!!!!!!!
I don’t remember this happening for months, if not years.
I wonder if it will happen again? Maybe some junior producer is ‘avin ’ a larf. They’ll be on the naughty step faster than you can say ‘diversity’.
wut?
– on the front page
– I don’t think so
How to be a man in the 2020’s:-
Start as a woman.
Remove some bits, bit by bit,
Add other bits, bit by bit.
Colonel Douglas Macgregors assessment on the present state of the US military and the country in general:
Not the BBC – but alistair heath in the DT on the blue Labour Party
STARTS It is time for the Conservative Party to get real: it is on course for a landslide defeat of historic proportions, brought about by its own cowardice and incompetence. There is too much delusion in Toryland, too much residual hope that Rishi Sunak will pull off a miracle, too little honest appraisal of public opinion. Poll after poll paints the same picture: yes, the Prime Minister is relatively well liked, but his party isn’t.
The current 17-point gap may narrow: Sir Keir Starmer may overreach, frightening some electors. But barring a major black swan event, it is overwhelmingly likely that Starmer will be PM next year, quite possibly without even needing the support of other Left-wing parties. There will be tactical voting, and he may win the most votes even in England, as Tony Blair did in 1997 and 2001. He will wield immense power.
Why am I so pessimistic? The Tories have failed in almost every way, and repeatedly betrayed their electorate, in wanton, even occasionally gleeful, fashion. They don’t seem to believe in conservatism any longer, and all of their old-anti-Labour arguments now lack credibility. Even their most ardent supporters cannot list more than a tiny number of successes, or point to any reason other than “Labour will be even worse” for continuing to back them. Under such circumstances, why wouldn’t floating voters opt to give the other lot a chance?
There have been too many broken promises. In 1991, 1.6 million people in the UK were paying the 40p tax rate, 3.5 per cent of adults; by 2027, 7.8 million people will be paying the 40p, 45p or some even higher rate – 14 per cent of adults, the IFS predicts. Every Tory manifesto since 2010 pledged to cut immigration, yet, farcically, the latest net migration figures are expected to hit between 650,000 and 997,000, a record.
Which genius imagined that a rapid increase in the population, combined with building less, would be electorally successful? Housebuilding, already woefully low, is falling precipitously, partly as a result of yet more red tape (this time with a green tinge) combined with the imbecilic refusal to allocate massively more land to residential development. Reforming the state, breaking with Blair-Brownism, delivering on manifesto promises, being truly conservative, it turns out, is too difficult, too costly, too unseemly: the whining is unbearable.
The Tories have presided over out-of-control inflation, mass public sector waste, widespread strikes, declining real wages, an explosion in the national debt and far lower growth. They have made Britain a less conservative nation than it was in 2010, undermined the work ethic, penalised self-reliance and promoted dependence on the state. They have shifted the climate of opinion to the Left. They have undermined capitalism, trashed competitiveness, introduced myriad regulations, waged war on enterprise, fuelled envy and jealousy, squeezed the City and normalised anti-free market prejudice. They are nationalising businesses and picking winners.
They have continued to undercut the family and presided over declines in fertility to levels far lower than women would like. The drive to reform welfare has stalled, with 5.3 million stuck on out of work benefits. State education has improved, especially reading skills, but is back on a path of union-driven decline, and they have institutionalised a scandalous discrimination against private schools. The railways, roads and airports are a disaster, and they have launched a war on cars.
Energy policy is a calamity: they have embraced net zero with no plan, have taxed North Sea oil and gas to death, refuse to build enough nuclear, and risk horrific blackouts. If you are a suburban, aspirational, hard-working family, desperate to own your own home, to save money, to educate your children, to have two cars and to travel abroad, you are being hammered in every possible way and made to feel bad for your ambition and effort. What was the point of voting Tory?
The police’s flirtation with a zero tolerance approach is over. The Tories have done far too little to recapture cultural and educational institutions now totally dominated by woke revolutionaries. They have even passed laws that make this worse. They have empowered the Bank of England and other financial bodies to pursue anti-Tory policies. School children are taught an atavistic, terrifying version of environmentalism as a secular religion, rather than balanced analysis.
The Government has failed to take on woke capital, and is content to see museums “decolonised”. The Tories have had some successes fighting extreme trans activists, but have failed to tackle critical race theory. They have allowed a malign ideology to take hold that depicts Britain as a uniquely evil nation: what hope is there for conservatism if this deranged viewpoint becomes hegemonic among the next generation? Set against that, a handful of mini-victories – new laws to crack down on motorway protesters, say – matter little.
Even though government health spending was 13.5 per cent higher in real terms in 2022 compared with 2019, the NHS is imploding. “Free” healthcare has led to a surge in demand, and encouraged irresponsible behaviours; a mental health epidemic is raging, partly because of lockdowns, and the number of beds has fallen to 2.43 per 1,000 people versus 5.73 in France and 7.82 in Germany, countries that rightly embrace private, competitive insurance in their health systems. The Tory paradox is that they are being destroyed by their absurd support for totemic Labour policies: Clement Attlee’s archaic NHS model, his socialist housing planning system, Tony Blair’s high-migration economic model.
Last but not least, Brexit, where the Tories seem intent on turning their one great triumph – albeit one imposed on them – into a damp squib. Why did they fail to work out how to ditch more EU regulations, including the ones their voters hated so much? Why can’t they design incentives to woo companies such as Vauxhall, and hopefully the likes of Tesla too? Why pursue a nihilistic semi-socialist tax, regulatory, fiscal and monetary policy that is delivering Eurozone-style 0.1 per cent growth a quarter?
The Tories are as bad as the Eurocrats they replaced. It has been a catastrophic record of failure, an unpardonable exercise in second-hand, pantomime conservatism. Voters don’t like being taken for fools, and their revenge will be savage.ENDS
unfortunately no credible remedy is suggested ….
Harry and Meghan involved in ‘near catastrophic’ car chase while in New York, spokesman claims.
It lasted around two hours and was very dangerous before we managed to lose them and they gave up said the papparazzi.
Classic !
Hey BBC, Durham report….. any thoughts?
Thought not you A-holes!
Tumbleweed as bloody usual.
Lying by omission as bloody usual…..
What a disgusting organisation imposed on us by UK law pretending to be the voice of the nation but is actually pretty much a left-wing activist support group.
According to the BBC, the Durham Report played a central role in the creation of the Dominion of Canada.
According to the BBC, the Pfizer Documents ***** *** ** ****** **** ******** ****** *** OFCOM
“PM refuses to commit to migration level pledge”
Why?
Tonight, the BBC’s promotion of women’s football took on a new level of absurdity when two WSL games were given billing ahead of the crucial and high profile Championship play off semi-final second leg between Middlesbrough and Coventry. This was on the BBC’s “Football” and “Scores And Fixtures” pages.
This was noticed by myself and a number of others who questioned the billing reasonably and politely within the comments section of the WSL Everton vs Arsenal game. You can guess what happened next. All of these comments were deleted for being off topic. Fair enough. However, the comments from the one poster who defended the billing order were allowed to stand, despite being off topic too. So much for consistency.
I’ve encountered this sort of BBC moderation before. The “Off Topic” excuse is used frequently to delete comments they don’t like, but it doesn’t matter how off topic your comments are if they fit the narrative. As far as women’s football is concerned there is a clear agenda to promote it beyond its actual level of interest and no criticism will be tolerated.
I notice all the wimmin officials in the male world cup and yet from 2019:
“Fifa have rejected high-profile demands to use both male and female referees in future Women’s World Cups , following the chaotic scenes during England’s last-16 win over Cameroon on Sunday.
Former England captain Faye White and her ex-international team-mate Casey Stoney have called for a mix of male and female referees for future tournaments, amid criticism of Qin Liang, the Chinese official who took charge of England’s contentious 3-0 win in Valenciennes.
“At the World Cup, it should be the best referee for the job,” White told the Daily Mail. Stoney, Phil Neville’s former assistant in the England set-up and now manager of Manchester United, has suggested that many of the female officials in France are out of their depth, telling the BBC: “Where are these referees refereeing week in, week out? Then we put them on the biggest stage.
Liang, who usually officiates low-intensity matches in front of tiny crowds, did not issue red cards to Cameroon for an early elbow on Nikita Parris and a stamp on Steph Houghton”
https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/fifa-reject-call-for-male-referees-at-women-s-world-cup-a4175256.html
In the age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act: https://rumble.com/v2kq1ws-reverse-engineering-the-propaganda-machine-interview-with-michelle-stiles.html
If the BBC tells you that the Vaccines are ‘Safe and Effective’ they are Lying: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anyone-Tells-Vaccines-Effective-Lying/dp/1091757712/
2022:
Female referees to officiate at men’s World Cup for the first time
Three female referees and three female assistants selected
‘Quality counts for us and not gender,’ says Fifa’s head of referees
Ha ha now its “quality” hmmm
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/may/19/female-referees-to-officiate-at-mens-world-cup-for-the-first-time
The bbc love victims so, here’s a victim for you….
“Lee Rigby’s son Jack, 12 – who was so shocked by his father’s murder he lost the ability for talk for months – speaks about the ordeal for the first time and reveals how he wants to honour his hero dad.
Jack Rigby, 12, son of Lee, is raising money for the charity Scotty’s Little Soldiers
He hopes to raise £10,000 to mark the 10th anniversary of his father’s death”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12095867/Lee-Rigbys-son-speaks-publicly-time-hopes-raise-10k-charity.html
Instead, the last story from the bbc in this, we have:
2021
“Lee Rigby killer Michael Adebowale in hospital with Covid-19”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-55794995
“Labour’s plot to ‘rig’ elections would give 10MILLION teenagers and migrants the vote – including citizens from countries such as Russia and North Korea
Includes 3.4M European Union nationals who had lived in the UK before Brexit”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12096035/Labours-plot-rig-elections-10MILLION-teenagers-migrants-vote.html