Weekend 27 May 2023

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Will BBC VERIFY check the number given out this week that 606000 foreigners were added to our huge population in 2022. Was it really 750 000? Or maybe the BBC will look the other way ….?

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  1. StewGreen says:
    May 27, 2023 at 8:52 pm

    Looking at replies to Belfield’s tweets I spot listeners making predictions 2 years back.
    I think Belfield referenced a gay mafia that covered things up and protected people
    obviously first rooted in unfairness against innocent gay people, but then getting out of hand.

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  2. StewGreen says:
    May 27, 2023 at 8:58 pm

    Sharia news

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    • MarkyMark says:
      May 28, 2023 at 9:23 am

      Meccas is still closed to everyone – Open Mecca – make it inclusive.
      ** this message is 100% endorsed by Sadiq Khan and all UK muslims.

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  3. StewGreen says:
    May 27, 2023 at 9:40 pm

    Rugby final crowd swear at 2 toff whitey XR protesters
    who are rugby tackled and dragged off the field by black stewards
    The crowd seem dead against XR

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  4. taffman says:
    May 28, 2023 at 12:12 am

    “Ely: Aunt of bike crash victim says police are to blame”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-65734720

    People in taffland are sick and tired of avoiding kids on e bikes, riding irresponsibly on the roads and pavements, often at night in the dark . Are they legal, expensive? What is their speed and would anyone buy such a dangerous bike for a kid? I understand that they are quite expensive. Too expensive for people living in a poor community.

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  5. StewGreen says:
    May 28, 2023 at 12:35 am

    “Negroid” Up2snuffMAY 27, 2023 AT 9:56 AM mentioned that R4Today was clutching its pearls
    Speaking in hushed terms that an internal Post Office form 15 years ago at the time of early investigations into Post Master money losses classified apparent thieves by racial group one category using a word so horrific they couldn’t mention it
    Only to later say it s like the “N word” but not the actual N word

    Then tonight I get around to reading the BBC article
    First it has a trigger warning then deep down the page it names the category “negroid type”
    which it claims is “an archaic and offensive term from the colonial era of the 1800s that refers to people of African descent.”

    em that is FAKE NEWS
    #1 It was used in the famous Gerald Durrell book “My family and Other Animals” .. in recent editions they edit the line out
    #2 By setting the date search on Twitter I can see that prior to this week there were 200 tweets over the lat 10 years that used it
    mostly in a non aggressive way
    Indeed there are screenshots of books from the recent 20th Century that use it
    eg 1 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dqu_f6eVYAAlpQI?format=jpg&name=small
    eg 2 is a bit older 1937 https://twitter.com/nA_nokware/status/1439158870681735168
    Later 21C books are on Amazon
    Seems it was used in older Anthropology and Archaeology texts
    Oh More on Google Books

    #3 The BBC definition is certainly wrong
    “Negroid type” is not synonymous with African
    It doesn’t mean genetic or cultural link to Africans
    The Andaman Islanders (coastal India)& Aboriginal Australians are negroid but not African.”

    There are plenty of non-whites who deserve a lot of sympathy eg abused, sexually mutilated
    but when it comes to other people who learn there was word on a form used I think it’s a very cause for grievance
    My guess is that the person who compiled the form was not a native speaker, so their translation dictionary threw up outdated terms
    so they simply used them, without malice.

    the real malice is #1 from the PO team who knew the computers were at fault and that most/many people were innocent
    #2 From actual thieves who did steal but have used the Post office scandal to get off.

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  6. taffman says:
    May 28, 2023 at 1:12 am

    Home Office starts ad campaign to deter Albanian migrants”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65735660
    Do they really think that this will work ?

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  7. tomo says:
    May 28, 2023 at 1:25 am

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  8. tomo says:
    May 28, 2023 at 1:27 am

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  9. tomo says:
    May 28, 2023 at 1:55 am

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    • Scroblene says:
      May 28, 2023 at 6:45 am

      One for the Beebolids’ ‘Transmogrify’, methinks…

      He’s a ‘very-fine-man’ who authorised this disgraceful cheating to his taxpayer!

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  10. Fedup2 says:
    May 28, 2023 at 7:11 am

    BBC has found a new angle on the Home Secretary speeding thing . 3 blue labour and one snp mp claimed congestion charge fines on public expenses . To me that should be a resignation – instead it will be ignored .

    Politicians and morality ? No connection there ….

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    • MarkyMark says:
      May 28, 2023 at 9:24 am

      MPs asked to repay driving fines claimed on expenses
      Published
      6 hours ago

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65736601

      …………………

      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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  11. AsISeeIt says:
    May 28, 2023 at 7:22 am

    For the world-weary among us at least there’s no big surprises on the frontpages this Sunday.

    ITV daytime dolly Holly Willoughby is spread across several titles doing a quick impersonation of Manuel from Fawlty Towers…

    “I know nothing!”

    Holly: Phil lied to me (Sun on Sunday)
    Holly: I’m so hurt Phil lied to me (Daily Star Sunday)
    Holly: Phil’s lies were hurtful (Sunday Telegraph)
    Willoughby: “I’m hurt by Schofield deceit” (Sunday Times)
    Holly: It’s been very hurtful to find out Phillip lied (Sunday Express)

    Ok, ok, we know how you feel, luv… : False Promises on Immigration Will Be Tories’ Downfall. Politicians can’t keep promising one thing only to do the opposite. (Martin Ivens writing for Bloomberg – he’s the editor of the Times Literary Supplement. Previously, he was editor of the Sunday Times and its chief political commentator – which tends to imply the chattering classes have at least – at last – acknowledged the problem)

    While we wait on tenterhooks and with bated breath for that big Ukrainian counter-offensive we’ve all paid for…

    UK will match record Ukraine support in 2023. Prime Minister announces the UK will meet or exceed the amount of military aid spent on Ukraine in 2022 next year. From: Prime Minister’s Office, 10 Downing Street and The Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP Published 20 September 2022 (Gov.UK) – that’s one bit of financial profligacy from the Liz Truss disasterous mini-budget era our Rishi won’t be correcting anytime soon

    Pending tactical maneuvers in the Donbas, interestingly, the Labour party begin their inevitable Blairite attempt to outflank the Tories from the right on immigration: Labour vows to get tough on migrant job visas (Telegraph)

    Sunak meanwhile meets the socialists half-way with some nostalgia-inducing ancient 1970s era prices and incomes fixing policy: Sunak asks stores to cap food prices (Telegraph) – come on supermarkets… return the favour, the government gave you a massive profits boost with lockdowns by crippling your small scale high street competition while your footfall flourished, despite masking.

    We note that so-called Covid inquiry is working out just fine for highly-paid lawyers, lockdown enthusiasts and leftists in general: It is set to see prominent Tories from across the last 13 years of government – including David Cameron and George Osborne – interrogated about the steps they took to prepare for a pandemic and the impact of austerity on the NHS’s resiliance (Observer)

    So you imagined this official inquiry might question the efficacy of lockdowns? Of masking? The very term pandemic was realistically applied? The collateral damage of project fear and stay at home policy to general health, the demoralisation of the working population and the trashing of the economy? Certain ill-advised life-ending medical treatments applied early in the so-called pandemic? NHS doors closed and the vulerable shunted out to languish in care homes? That dictionary redefinition of the term vaccination? The profit motivations of Big Pharma? State indemnity gifted and proper safety testing precautions lifted for Big Pharma? You think this inquiry will go there? Think again. You’re probably one of those people who believe our Holly knew nothing.

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  12. Guest Who says:
    May 28, 2023 at 8:23 am

    Springster en route again to the USA?

    https://twitter.com/justineclaire65/status/1662514124855681024?s=61

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    • StewGreen says:
      May 28, 2023 at 11:47 am

      The BBC has tweeted twice that Musk will pull out of EU rules
      Interesting that sceptic accounts had reported that 24 hours earlier
      The vast majority of replies are anti EU and pro Musk

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  13. Scroblene says:
    May 28, 2023 at 8:33 am

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65736601

    For balance, will this sad little bit of autocuism be followed up with a list of Labour, SNP et.al. mis-spent expenses?

    Surely one for Vilify to ‘investigate’, as they must be impartial at all times…

    Fat chance!

    (Sorry Fed, I didn’t see your piece above, but here’s the link to anyone bored enough to yawn at the petty stuff churned out by the kidults these days)!

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  14. JohnC says:
    May 28, 2023 at 9:06 am

    Ukraine war: Kyiv hit by new massive Russian drone attack – mayor
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-65736730

    ‘Overall, Russia launched a record 54 so-called kamikaze drones on Ukrainian targets, 52 of which were shot down, Ukraine’s Air Force reported.

    In Kyiv alone, more than 40 drones were downed, officials said.

    This information has not been independently verified.’

    Sounds like the new 60-man BBC ‘Verify team’ could start checking some of these claims out BBC because quite frankly they are so ridiculous that it rubbishes the entire report.

    It seems that the recently-devised explanation for all the explosions and damage is that they are caused by ‘falling drone fragments.’

    Also quite a few warehouses got blown up – but we don’t dwell on that because remember : only 2 got through. I wonder what was in them …

    More interestingly I see the comedian Zelensky has been out of the country for a few weeks now – yet is still wearing his army T-shirt and not shaving to meet world leaders. Obviously he doesn’t need to make any decisions : his role is very definitely just a theatrical one. We won’t dwell on that either.

    I can scarcely believe how bad the reporting for this war is by the MSM and especially the BBC. It’s like they think everybody are idiots and will believe absolutely anything without question.

    What does interest me though is how they ALL instantly entered this bizarre cover-up with similar content and similar style. How did that happen ?. Did they all get together and decide it or were they all ‘informed’ on how to behave in some way ?.

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  15. Guest Who says:
    May 28, 2023 at 9:50 am

    BBC to get Vilidontlosethatnumber to check or get her in the studio as an ‘expert’?

    Comments… mixed… between supportive nutters and a few with insights or questions.

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    • Guest Who says:
      May 28, 2023 at 9:51 am

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      • Guest Who says:
        May 28, 2023 at 9:57 am

        Meanwhile…

        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65736944?

        Plans for supermarket price cap on basic food

        ***

        Seems Dutch farmers might voluntarily cap everything as their government has closed them down.

        But… Net Zero.

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      • Fedup2 says:
        May 28, 2023 at 11:04 am

        Ugh- no Waitrose – does that mean having to go with the plebs to the kraut shops or Tesco or sainsburys ….

        As for cutting prices … maybe a bit of VAT cutting might be better than blaming supermarkets for idiot money printing….

        Int rate at 5.5% by 2023..?

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      • digg says:
        May 28, 2023 at 3:36 pm

        My wife works in our local Waitrose and I can 100% confirm that there are quite a few products including sausages etc. out of stock.

        But this is entirely due to a massive IT breakdown in the Waitrose order processing system leaving all the stock undelivered to branches.

        Absolutely sweet F all to do with Brexit or the EU… bloody moron!

        Otto add that it would have hit all supermarkets and not just Waitrose if it had anything whatsoever to do with The EU.

        Her brain must be the size of a shallot!

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        • Fedup2 says:
          May 28, 2023 at 4:10 pm

          Digg – it’s the Russians – the Russians – they’ll pull the plug on air traffic control next …

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          • Scroblene says:
            May 28, 2023 at 7:51 pm

            My local small Waitrose had very few veg on display yesterday, but also most of the other stuff was missing as well! I mean, what can one do with just six pizzas, I ask you!

            The Tesco nearby didn’t seem to have that problem, and as they’re offering 25% off six bottles, the Pinot just bounced into the trolley…

            Sorry your sife’s having a hard time though Digg, I normally do like Mr Wait and Mr Rose’s stuff, but I really did notice the empty shelves, and lots and lots of yellow stickers..:0(

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    • G says:
      May 28, 2023 at 11:02 am

      The farmer alongside me has released his cattle into the adjoining field. He does this every year. This year I might claim that Nitrogen is affecting me…………..(NOT)

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    • StewGreen says:
      May 29, 2023 at 2:14 pm

      Vicious crime against poor Liz Webster

      #1 They Hacked her account to make it look like she’s an Anti-Brexit PR person

      #2 put a special anti-Brexit fence around Cirencester Waitrose

      #2 Got dozens of stooges to testify the empty shelves were due to an IT ordering problem

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  16. Concrete sea says:
    May 28, 2023 at 10:21 am

    My local plod story and probably true as comes from a recently retired cop.
    A member of staff (not sure if it was a civilian or a cop) has been allowed to work flexi hours because their dog doesn’t like being left alone. Wonder why they didn’t think of that before they purchased the mutt. Possibly not too bad, but another has been given compassionate leave because their mouse died. Really ? Poor old Mickey or Jerry. Perhaps another day off for the funeral. gently lowered into the ground in a little nest surrounded by a selection of favourite cheeses.
    Meanwhile ‘Sorry Mr Concrete we can’t attend your burglary due to Fido’s stress levels’ or ‘the tragic passing of Mickey./Jerry’.

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  17. G says:
    May 28, 2023 at 10:49 am

    Richard Vobes.

    Interesting concept.

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  18. Jeff says:
    May 28, 2023 at 11:53 am

    Just having a little GB News catch up before I head off for a hard afternoon of grafting (in my deckchair) at the allotment…

    Michael Portillo is telling us about “a splendid new Great Expectations adaptation”. Oh Gawd, I thought, probably set in Bombay, or Brixton and lecturing us about the evils of colonialism and racism. Pip will be a mixed race Muslim orphan with a speech impediment. Actually, I was wrong…it’s worse than that.

    Eddie Izzard, now known as Suzie Eddie Izzard is in one of these productions. Portillo tells us, “She has a one woman adaptation…” Cheers Mick. That’s all I needed to know.

    I can just se it…Some grotesque Window Twankey freak in a frock playing Miss Havisham, then a quick change and emerging as Mr Jaggers, then popping back as Estella and being told by all and sundry how wonderful he is. Oops, sorry, how wonderful she is.

    There’s only so much of this guff I can stomach.

    Off switch…

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    • TrickCyclist says:
      May 28, 2023 at 12:18 pm

      Jeff,
      Your name is actually a part of Izzard’s repertoire.
      To be fair, the joke about the computer password isn’t a bad one but other than that – laugh? I thought I’d never start.
      If you get nightmares easily, don’t watch to the end, where he’s padded out like a woman.

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  19. harry142857 says:
    May 28, 2023 at 11:54 am

    I of the kids who crashed their illegal scooter in Wales had been arrested 30 times in the last two years.

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    • Scroblene says:
      May 28, 2023 at 7:55 pm

      Amazing what about sixteen seconds of CCTV loss (chopping and cancelling), can do for a cheating, lieing Beebolid ‘story’…

      Thanks to all Bill Gates’ money they can do anything these days, except fool most normal citizens, but that’s not their audience.

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  20. Dickie says:
    May 28, 2023 at 12:12 pm

    UK MPs itching to try on their military uniforms ready to assist those democracy loving neo nazi Ukranian Azov regiments, oh, umm, err, perhaps not. Let’s send Zelensky and his cohorts some more tax payers dosh and of course more weapons instead. I feel for those poor ordinary Ukranians, many who are untrained, and have been sent to the front lines.

    https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/latest-headlines-digest-the-wests

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  21. StewGreen says:
    May 28, 2023 at 12:41 pm

    “Negroid types” On Saturday when R4Today was outraged that an internal Post Office reporting system had grouped criminals by skin colour type
    and according to them one term is so racist they couldn’t even mention it
    How come their empire of people never mentioned the skin group terms come from the STANDARD police code ident key ?

    Here’s today’s
    FgJ6lheWYAAuu0w?format=jpg&name=small

    Here’s how it used to be written

    A screenshot from the 2005 book
    Racialized Boundaries: Race, Nation, Gender, Colour..
    where it complains about UK institutions using an Ident Code Key IC1, IC3 etc.
    It uses the exact terms the BBC report said the PO used
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxNldG2XwAIP-7r?format=png&name=small

    Why on Saturday did R4Today fail to mention the Post Office internal crime reports used that standard key?

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  22. tomo says:
    May 28, 2023 at 1:19 pm

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  23. Fedup2 says:
    May 28, 2023 at 1:44 pm

    Nadine thinks there should be an inquiry about Holly as well as Phil . Has the ;’young friend ‘ come forward to tell his story ? Must be worth a fortune …
    Will the advertisers pull out of ‘this morning “?

    Do people really care about this stuff …?

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  24. Emmanuel Goldstein says:
    May 28, 2023 at 1:44 pm

    It seems that on just about everything, the conservatives are making a right old dogs breakfast of them.

    Almost every interview ends with something along the lines of “the Tories must sort this out or they will be voted out at the next election”

    On the boats, nothing is happening except lots of shoulds and we musts but no action. Then we hear “if they don’t sort this out they are toast”

    On the nhs, waiting lists/strikes/shortage of doctors etc. “if they don’t sort this out they will not get re-elected”

    On crime and policing, “if they don’t sort out the police, prisons, lawyers and judges they will be booted out”

    On legal immigration, “if they don’t get this right down they are out at the next GE”

    On Brexit, “if they keep on blocking everything and stopping our decision to leave they are finished”

    On net zero, “if they keep on with this crazy net zero business making everyone poorer they will not be voted back in at the next GE”

    There are so many other things they are either doing wrong or not doing at all and they always go against what the population want no matter what. Cutting the number of HM Forces, HS2, all this trans etc rubbish, ulez etc, keeping vat when it could be cut, fishing and I could go on and on.
    In fact, I can’t think of anything they are getting right.
    The only reason they can give to vote for them is (correctly) that labour will be worse.
    As well as that, the civil snowflakes are getting rid of the very few ‘real’ Tories still in the government.
    What a mess.

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    • Fedup2 says:
      May 28, 2023 at 3:20 pm

      Very easy to work out . Blue Labour believes in nothing . It thinks conservatives will vote for it because it is ‘blue ‘ when it is Red ….
      All the social issues stem from uncontrolled population growth -add that to financial incompetence and we are – as they say – where we are .

      The top of their party care less as they have their own Stash of £ …. .
      Sunak must look in the mirror and wonder how the hell he got into number 10 ….

      What difference will red labour bring –

      Continued uncontrolled immigration
      Even more censorship
      Elections opened up to anyone leaning left
      Much more taxation – stealthy and otherwise
      Single market
      Negotiate with EU to return ( we haven’t left )
      Free up narcotics
      Even less private transport
      Much higher Council taxes
      Increase overseas give aways
      Preserve socialist agencies BBC – plod – criminal justice – housing – NHS
      Blame blue labour

      Second term – rejoin EU
      Pay reparations to coloured folk
      Pay reparations to EU
      Unified Ireland ?
      Independent Scotland ?
      Blame blue labour

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  25. tomo says:
    May 28, 2023 at 2:14 pm

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      May 28, 2023 at 2:20 pm

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    • Fedup2 says:
      May 28, 2023 at 3:36 pm

      In fairness Hennessy is £35 a bottle and well worth the effort . …

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  26. tomo says:
    May 28, 2023 at 2:36 pm

    testing, testing, tap,tap… 1, 2, 3

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    • harry142857 says:
      May 28, 2023 at 3:34 pm

      BBC have women’s cycling on, 100% of the riders are, dare I say it, Caucasoid. Plus 98% of the crowd. Must be a sale on at Furniture Warehouse.

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  27. tomo says:
    May 28, 2023 at 4:01 pm

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    • Fedup2 says:
      May 28, 2023 at 4:15 pm

      Suppose next time the unvaccinated will land up in camps ….shows how unified the MSM is

      though it’s a very long 11 minutes …

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      • Jeff says:
        May 28, 2023 at 8:31 pm

        They did end up in camps in Australia.

        The world went mad, but the Antipodes went even madder…

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  28. taffman says:
    May 28, 2023 at 4:19 pm

    A new Albanian song ?
    “We’re all goin’ on a summer holiday, “We’re all goin’ in a dinghy or two” ……………….

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  29. tomo says:
    May 28, 2023 at 6:30 pm

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  30. tomo says:
    May 28, 2023 at 6:48 pm

    Drakeford again

    no climate change or Brexit then.

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    • Guest Who says:
      May 28, 2023 at 6:52 pm

      Soaf been invited to share the Ministerial Daffodil wagon yet?

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      • Docmarooned says:
        May 28, 2023 at 9:00 pm

        Getting tedious luv – give it a rest! These unbearable wasters and bimbos need to get proper employment and stop acting as stooges for WEF/WHO etc.

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  31. Dickie says:
    May 28, 2023 at 7:01 pm

    Article produced by Der Spiegel after consultation with the CIA🤔🤔🤔😂😂😂. Is the Pope a Catholic? BBC Verify to verify

    https://www.eugyppius.com/p/nord-stream-update-spiegel-after

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  32. tomo says:
    May 28, 2023 at 7:13 pm

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    • Guest Who says:
      May 28, 2023 at 7:59 pm

      Marky has a historical look above about the value of a Labour ‘vow’.

      Milipede is the idiot’s idiot, so that ‘will’ seems… brave.

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  33. tomo says:
    May 28, 2023 at 8:09 pm

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  34. tomo says:
    May 28, 2023 at 8:14 pm

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  36. Fedup2 says:
    May 28, 2023 at 9:22 pm

    Thanks for all your contributions …. Time for the New Thread ……
    ……Leicester ‘/ Leeds / Southampton – Thoughts and Prayers

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