Sangita Myska
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A speeding train ran over pilgrims crossing railroad tracks in eastern India, killing at least 28 people, and an angry mob beat up the driver after the accident early Monday, officials said. The country is known for its vast but decrepit railway network, where on average 40 people die every day, some from falling off of overcrowded trains.
The pilgrims were crossing the rail tracks at the station in Dhamara Ghat, a small town in Bihar state, when they were struck by the Rajya Rani Express train, said Dinesh Chandra Yadav, a local member of parliament. Several other people were injured.
According to data from the National Crime Records Bureau of India, 2021 saw a total of 16,431 deaths and 1,852 cases of injuries from railway accidents. The majority (67.7 percent) of these were from people falling from trains or from collisions with people on the tracks (12,181 out of 17,993).3 days ago
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At three mothballed fabrication yards in Scotland, promises by Boris Johnson that the UK would become the “Saudi Arabia” of wind power rang hollow as their owner BiFab, a producer of giant foundations for offshore turbines, collapsed last month.
The move into administration by the 20-year-old Fife company, which at its peak employed up to 2,000 workers at the three yards, came just a fortnight after the UK prime minister had placed offshore wind at the centre of his “green industrial revolution”. Mr Johnson’s 10-point plan promised 60,000 jobs and turbines in British waters that would “power every home” by 2030.
Elon Musk calls British diver in Thai cave rescue ‘pedo’ in baseless attack
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Accusation directed on Twitter at Vern Unsworth, who called Tesla CEO’s offer of ‘mini-sub’ to help rescuers a ‘PR stunt’
British cave diver considering legal action after ‘pedo’ attack by Elon Musk
Neil Oliver: Whatever happened to government BY the people OF the people & FOR the people?
Gettysburg Address
Delivered at Gettysburg, Pa.
Nov. 19th 1863.
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. “Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. “But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us,that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
“We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable,” it says on the page titled “What we believe.”
Employment and earnings
Payments from Bloomsbury Publishers Plc, 50 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP, for royalties on a textbook:
31 March 2023, received £698.04. Hours: none since my election to Parliament. Fee donated to charity. (Registered 19 April 2023)
26 April 2022, received £685.29. Hours: none since my election to Parliament. Fee donated to charity. (Registered 21 April 2023)
Name of donor: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Address of donor: Unit 608-609 The Chandlery, 50 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7QY
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Flights, in-country transport, accommodation, translation and meals with a total value of £1,400
Destination of visit: Berlin and Thuringia, Germany
Dates of visit: 5-8 July 2022
Purpose of visit: To understand the political and economic situation in Germany and build understanding between Britain and Germany, including by meeting members of parliament and government officials.
27 April 2018, received £175 from Informa UK, 5 Howick Place, London SW1P 1WG, for writing and then updating of a textbook chapter. Hours: none since my election. (Registered 04 March 2019)
14 June 2017, received £7,438.69 final MEP salary from the European Parliament, 60 rue Wiertz, B-1047, Brussels, Belgium. Hours: none since my election to the House of Commons. (Registered 05 July 2017) https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=25618
I am free to burn the Holy Bible.I am not considered to be a Nazi. I am free to burn the Union Jack flag. I am not considered to be a Nazi. I am free to burn the Stars and Stripes flag. I am not considered to be a Nazi. I am free to burn the queers Rainbow flag. I am considered to be a Nazi. I am free to burn The Holy Koran but only if I wish myself an early death.
UK Parliament.
I would like Great Britain back please if it’s not too much trouble.
However, should you find that my request is not worth the bother you will, I’m afraid, have to answer for the dire consequences which,hopefully at my age, I will not live to endure.
Less well known [than other paradoxes] is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.
BBC are obviously EXSTATIC with their success with Boris…..he let us down with Green Rubbish , Brexit and Ukraine but this Country is no Longer a Democracy but then we all knew that didn’t we ! …..Talking of dead sheep I see John Major has crawled out of the ground , no doubt Heseltine will appear very soon !
Advert for Premier Inn popped up on my computer…..two bearded men in bed together…..celebrating LGBGTQWRTY month……hopefully the bed will be Fumigated before the next customers…..starting to feel guilty about being a normal married straight white male in this once Great Britain !
Thanks for the heads up. Just about to book some hotels for a trip and it will save me some time by not having to bother looking at Premier Inn. They are owned by Whitbread, whose other brands include Beefeater and Brewers Fayre, for those who are looking to eat and drink elsewhere.
In 18 months time the electorate may look at Blue Labour “as something smelly they inadvertently stepped in”.
We voted for Brexit to “stop the boats”. It never happened . We need a government of Reform……………… https://www.reformparty.uk
Two years, one year, even six months ago… they would have dismissed this report as some dangerous fringe tinfoil-hatted conspiracy theory. They would have unleashed the full might of the CDU and 77 Brigade on its authors. Now it’s allowed to slip out frontpage of the Sunday Times: Wuhan scientists created mutant virus before pandemic
I trust many of our denizens hereabouts are able to join Mr AsI in promotion of his favoured internet pronouns – which are of course: Told/You/So
The formerly-patriotic Times (of the formerly-English London) also today gifts us one of those captured by happenstance photo images that perfectly symbolically encapsulates how of late Britain Has Fallen – to borrow the construction as employed in that average-to-low quality action thriller movie genre series: Olympus Has Fallen; London Has Fallen; Angel Has Fallen; etc
The photo in question is captioned Passing out parade… A guardsman faints in the 28C heat of Horse Guards Parade… (Times) – let’s hope this trombone-wielding squaddie doesn’t get posted anywhere hot. We recall of course the concert party of It Ain’t Half Hot Mum fame were brought out in a sweat terrified of being sent up the jungle – as Battery Sarn’t-Major ‘Shut Up’ would tend to threaten.
This pic of one of our finest keeled over in a bit of sunshine (or more likely hungover after a late one on the sauce) stands representative, symbolic like the nominative determinism (name-driven outcome, thank you Wiki) of the late James Brokenshire’s appointment as a Tory Minister. You’ll remember Brokenshire (you probably live in one) – he was a Remainer… but let me narrow it down for you… he was the spitting image of kid’s cartoon character Danger Mouse’s sidekick Penfold.
Pass that poor passed out bandsman a refreshing cup of Times wet liberalism
Allies abandon Johnson as Tory mutiny falls flat (claims the Times leader spinning Rishi Sunak’s discomfort like a top)
Speaking of things falling flat – watch this space…
Ukraine counter-offensive actions have begun, Zelensky says (BBC)
Our BBC likes the Sunday Mirror for its top online press pick – and why wouldn’t it?: General Election now… Keir tells PM to ‘get a backbone’
It’s almost endearing to see the Labour-supporting Mirror wistfully call Starmer by his first name. If only the piggy-eyed, adenoidal, stuffed shirt were in fact sufficiently iconic to carry it off like an Elvis, a Madonna, Rihanna, Cher… or a Boris
Ah, Sir Keir Starmer… our PM in waiting… our would-be Blair-like leader – busy desperately whack-a-moleing his Corbynistas – sadly given our electoral system doomed forever to rainbow coalition with Scots Nats, Lib Dems and Greens of all sorts.
According to you, all the Q’s people want answered involve what to do in “future pandemics”. Ironically, the most important Q to avoid future pandemics is how did it start, something you journalists seem to have no appetite in uncovering. 🤦🏼♂️
Speaking of nominative determinism, how about the BBC’s (random?) pick of: Lobby, part of the Covid Bereaved Families for Justice campaign group – as emblematic and representive of Britain’s Lockdown experience now busy attempting to influence the covid inquiry? Lobby… get it? Spooky.
If the Ukranian counter-offensive fails after the billions of dollars worth of equipment they have been given, it is going to dawn on people that Ukraine cannot win.
I wonder how they will switch the narrative if/when they decide to try and stop it. Zelensky will certainly have to go if the Russians don’t get him first.
Saw this article and wondered why it made the front page when there is so much else going on which is far more significant.
So I checked it and sure enough, it was odd. It has this in it:
‘He also reminded people that by law the suspect could not be identified.’
‘He added the school was working closely with the police and urged parents and guardians not to engage in speculation or post about the incident on social media.’
Oh dear. That usually means enrichment did it.
So then I checked what they DIDN’T think was ‘news’:
‘Haringey murder: Gang members jailed for live for revenge killing’
Where these people were sent to jail for life for murder:
But the BBC don’t want you to know that.
I was particularly amused at the wrong word in the main headline ” ‘live’ instead of ‘life’. The BBC’s finest must have been in a bit of a rush to go get her nails done.
“Winston had disliked her from the very first moment of seeing her. He knew the reason. It was because of the atmosphere of hockey−fields and cold baths and community hikes and general clean−mindedness which she managed to carry about with her. He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones. It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy.”
― George Orwell, 1984
More than 166,000 exiles have fled to the UK in the three years since China’s crackdown. Many have found salvation in areas such as Salford, lured by cheap property and good schools — and they are helping to transform the community https://t.co/EAl2zKlJnj
— The Times and The Sunday Times (@thetimes) June 11, 2023
“and they are helping to transform the community” – who voted for this?
transform = Genocide
Definition
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Long telephone conversation with an old friend in the UK yesterday.
I explained that it was virtually impossible to speak to or see a local GP in West Wales thanks to the current Communist/Marxists in power in Cardiff. They’re assiduously determined to destroy the NHS in Wales in their full frontal attempt to destroy the whole fabric of life of the Welsh (and me as a self-declared ‘Refugee’ from England). Friend replied that where she is located, you merely would have to “wander” down the the GP surgery and get an appointment to SEE a GP that same day. Any referral to a specialist in the local hospital was equally as quick. Fond memories for many? What makes friend’s location so different? Me? Coughing up blood and given a guesstimate of 24 month delay in seeing a consultant in the local hospital.
The question is, like me, many are prepared to denounce poor service from their local health authority but others are non committal and/or silent about their own circumstances. Why?
Friend lives in Bradford. Btw, friend tells me that they have three white GP’s……. What are the chances of that?
The tiny mosque on the Outer Hebrides serving 60 Muslims
Community hails UK’s northernmost mosque, which was completed with crowd-funding project led by charitable Yorkshireman.
A Chinese protest against racism in London has descended into a brawl as participants fought with Hong Kong emigrants who criticized them for ignoring human right abuses in Hong Kong and Xinjiang province
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From a Theresa May speech …
As Martin Wolf, the chief economics commentator of the financial times, says: ‘The desirability of sizeable immigration is a matter more of values than of economics. It is not a choice between wealth and poverty, but of the sort of country one desires to inhabit.’
Cash support
You’ll usually get £45 for each person in your household. This will help you pay for things you need like food, clothing and toiletries.
Your allowance will be loaded onto a debit card (ASPEN card) each week. You’ll be able to use the card to get cash from a cash machine.
If you’ve been refused asylum
You’ll be given:
somewhere to live
£45 per person on a payment card for food, clothing and toiletries
You will not be given:
the payment card if you do not take the offer of somewhere to live
any money
If your accommodation provides your meals
You’ll get £9.10 for each person in your household instead.
Extra money for mothers and young children
You’ll get extra money to buy healthy food if you’re pregnant or a mother of a child under 3. The amount you get will depend on your situation.
Your situation Extra payment per week
Pregnant mother £3
Baby under 1 year old £5
Child aged 1 to 3 £3
Maternity payment
You can apply for a one-off £300 maternity payment if your baby is due in 8 weeks or less, or if your baby is under 6 weeks old.
If you’ve been refused asylum
You can apply for a one-off £250 maternity payment if your baby is due in 8 weeks or less, or if your baby is under 6 weeks old.
I fail to understand 3 things about being refused asylum:
(1) Why do you get anything? At all.
(2) Why are you still here?
(3) Why are politicians unable to deal with, or apparently even understand, the first 2?
2012 … “Two and a half years ago, the coalition government was formed, and we made a clear promise to the British public. After thirteen years of uncontrolled mass immigration, this government would reduce and control immigration.” – Theresa May 2012
2015 … “Because when immigration is too high (no figure given), when the pace of change is too fast, it’s impossible to build a cohesive society.” – Theresa May 2015
2018 … “Over the years, overall, immigration has been good for the UK. It has brought people with different backgrounds, different outlooks here to the UK,” – Theresa May 2018
When these barges get filled up with their 500 ‘asylum seekers’ who have escaped from France why not up anchor and sail off with them all. (South Georgia?)
Education
Your children must attend school if they are aged 5 to 17. All state schools are free and your children may be able to get free school meals.
Dover MP Natalie Elphicke told the Commons that the BBC’s “shocking report” contained the “breath-taking” disclosure of free French public bus services being used to ferry migrants from camps to Dunkirk beaches.
Why do the USA Presidents all seem to be taking huge amounts of secret documents home and keeping them in garages and spare rooms.
Why do they then keep hold of them after leaving office.
It’s not just Donald, all of them appear to have been doing it.
Why don’t they leave them in the White House or wherever they came from.
THEY NEED A SHREDDER LIKE TONY BLAIR HAD FOR EXPENSES!
01/09/2023 07:25 PM EST
Updated: 01/09/2023 10:23 PM EST
The White House said on Monday that it was cooperating with the Justice Department and the National Archives following the discovery of classified Obama-era documents in a private space at a Biden-connected think tank in November.
Well, Billary had loads of emails and documents on a public server, so any hacker with an ‘O’ level in Amstrad 464 Basic Programming could see what she and Slickers were up to!
Biden can’t use a PC so he has to have his stuff on paper with extra-large print.
Off topic a bit, but there’s a possibility that BoJo will form a new party to crack open all the nasties that are being chucked at him!
I’d certainly vote for him again as let’s be honest, a PM hasn’t got that much sway in gummint, he/she can appoint a few helpers, (ministers), but it’s the Cummings Disciples who really get their sleeves rolled up! At least BoJo has charisma and doesn’t give a stuff about what personal comments are made about him!
PMs can witter away with all the standard platitudes, but what is really needed is a hatchet job on the snivel serpent mandarins who just screw everything up whenever they can.
If he does start a new movement, the Beebonic Autocue-readers and their undermanagers, (runners), should start to shit themselves in advance!
Scrob – unlikely because he might lose £ influence £ – although after the 200 landslide labour win a dream team of Farage and Johnson to keep us out of the EU ?….. well ….
I wouldn’t waste another vote on the useless lump if he was the only man standing…Or any other (so called) Conservative leader.
Highest taxes since WW2, highest levels of immigration ever, absurd devotion to green politics and an utterly insane lockdown that crippled the economy, that we now know he didn’t actually agree with.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
FFS, fool me fifty times and I’m still voting for you lock me in a xxxxing loony-bin…
The trouble with Boris was we thought we were getting a Tory PM but we got a libdem PM.
Soon after getting in to number 10 he got Carrie’d.
I wonder what he would have been like if it wasn’t for her influencing him.
Tory MPs claim hundreds of pounds in driving fines back on EXPENSES sparking fury
Sir Alastair Graham, former chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, said it was ‘scandalous’, adding that MPs should have to pay their fines ‘like the rest of us’
Energy minister Amanda Solloway claimed back an £80 fixed penalty notice
BySophie HuskissonPolitical Correspondent
11:28, 28 May 2023
Nazi Symbols on Ukraine’s Front Lines Highlight Thorny Issues of History
Troops’ use of patches bearing Nazi emblems risks fueling Russian propaganda and spreading imagery that the West has spent a half-century trying to eliminate. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/world/europe/nazi-symbols-ukraine.html
“To be clear this was not the right choice of word”
Today
BBC Radio 4, 10 May 2023
In a report about the civil court proceedings brought by E Jean Carroll against Donald Trump we said that the former US President had been “found guilty of sexual assault” and the jury had decided he was “not guilty of rape”. To be clear this was not the right choice of word and we should have said “liable” instead of guilty as that’s the correct language for a civil trial. The programme made clear at other points this case involved civil, not criminal, proceedings.
TWoTWeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Watch #1 – and it was a lot of wee
Missed the first ten minutes of Naughty Naughties Narrative & Nastiness and came in to find him interviewing aged Labour MP, Margaret Beckett. Margaret opined that what is needed is for the public’s concerns to become perfectly aligned with those of MPs and Peers. No, Margaret. That is not what the Electorate want.
The Electorate want our politicians to become perfectly aligned with the what the Electorate wants, not the other way around. Margaret is in her dotage and obviously is confused as she will become a nonagenarian next year and will leave the Lower House at the next Election. Perhaps that is why Naughty Naughtie wanted to interview her. Is she a bit suggestable? Needless to say they were discussing Bojo.
Disgraceful. Off switch activated for the first time in protest.
“Nudge Unit”
The Behavioural Insights team, popularly known as the ‘Nudge Unit’, is playing a big role in helping the government formulate its response to coronavi
Fed, I don’t know if Naughtie was being ‘kept out of the way’, so to speak. Ed Stourton presented yesterday’s programme and Ed will normally do the Sunday TWoTWeee unless he has to get up early to present ‘Sunday’ after the News at 7.10 a.m..
tomo, no idea of Margaret Beckett’s domestic arrangements. I would have thought unlikely as she is nearing 90 years of age.
2022 … Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries today announced the fee will remain at £159 until 2024 and then rise in line with inflation for the following four years. The plans for the new licence fee settlement cover a period of six years and will take effect from 1 April 2022 until 31 March 2028.17 Jan 2022
OOPS
Just as we were on the second box of popcorn over boris Johnson he gets ‘ trumped ‘ by Nicki Sturgeon being Arrested over alleged ‘ financial issues ‘ ….
…. I’m guessing they would not have done that unless there is substantial evidence against someone .
A BBC favourite – fireproof for years – arrested … popcorn overdose …
If, as is being reported in some newspapers (D Telegraph), the bbbc are going to recruit a workforce which will lose its liberal bias and reflect the population does that mean we will have a bbbc which is 52% pro Brexit?
They will probably have to get rid of roughly 52% of their current employees to attain this.
How this plays out on The BBC will be fascinating.
Despite interfering with their dream of an all red Labour UK, The BBC has been more than kind to the SNP, attacking foes and ignoring clear matters of public interest and concern.
Will they do a Trump full blown allegation, critics are saying perp walk parade based on not much from clearly bent fellow travellers, or will they do a quiet Clinton memory hole on… facts?
Radio reports of more boats landing on our shores this morning but I cannot find a peep in the BBBC about it – why ?
We do get reports of the arrest of a certain Widow Twankey ?
Also, Radio traffic reports that Nigel may join BoJo in a Brexit team with The Reform Party ?
Taffman
Farage has a column in the DT today where he is not unsupportive of Johnson … with the State constantly derailing our freedom from the EU by keeping it easier to formally rejoin – so might say ..we haven’t left ….
What’s left of the blue Labour Party after the next election should split …
More fuel on the fire Monday – I reckon Comrade Harmon will publish her report on nut nut ..
…… it will be interesting to see if any of the so called ‘tories ‘. On the committee share the stage with her ….
The idea is to wait and hopefully the next story will knock off the previous story and the people will forget … mass amnesia.
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Ordinary Men is the true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, which was responsible for mass shootings as well as round-ups of Jewish people for deportation to Nazi death camps in Poland in 1942. Browning argues that most of the men of RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis but, rather, ordinary middle-aged, working-class men who committed these atrocities out of a mixture of motives, including the group dynamics of conformity, deference to authority, role adaptation, and the altering of moral norms to justify their actions.
currently heading the BBC’s response to disinformation, the Trusted News Initiative
Jessica Cecil, Director, BBC Trusted News Initiative
Jessica is a senior leader in the BBC, currently heading the BBC’s response to disinformation, the Trusted News Initiative. Previously, she led the initiative focusing the BBC’s digital services in the UK and worldwide. She is a former Controller of BBC Make it Digital which inspired a new generation to get creative with digital technology. With partner organisations, BBC Make it Digital developed a codeable computer, the BBC micro:bit, and gave it free to one million 11 and 12-year-olds across the UK, with a further four million now in the hands of children in 50 countries, from Finland to Singapore. Before this, she was Chief of Staff to four BBC Director-Generals. She is an Emmy-nominated programme maker and senior journalist, and was Assistant Editor of BBC Newsnight. She is a Trustee of the University of Bristol, on the advisory boards of Rand Europe and IntoUniversity, on the International Committee of the Wallace Collection and is a former non-executive Director of the London Ambulance Service.
Rishi Sunak is accused of rewriting history over claims he vetoed winter Covid lockdown
Rishi Sunak claims he flew back from the US to stop a national Covid lockdown
But Government sources say the ex-chancellor had little involvement last winter
One said Sunak was ‘totally silent’ when Sir Chris Whitty argued for a lockdown
By JASON GROVES POLITICAL EDITOR FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 22:36, 21 July 2022 | UPDATED: 11:20, 22 July 2022
TWoTWeeeeeee Watch #2 – and there was a lot more weeee to come
Before Naughty Naughtie got Nasty on the subject of former President Donald Trump he kept the dirty dishes spinning by asking Gus O’Donnell to opine on two Conservative politicians on both sides of the Atlantic blaming ‘the Blob’ for their woes. Gus O’Donnell is ‘the Establishment’ ie. ‘the Blob’, according to Naughty Naughtie. Gus is something of a BBC ‘go to’, ie. a favoured contributor and will come out with all the right noises. Do I recall correctly he is also a ‘snout in the trough’?
What ‘Lord’, nay, Baron O’Donnell seems to be unaware of is that the UK population has something of a long memory and used to be sat in front of a television set, en masse, if there was a good enough programme to watch. Now, do I recall ‘Yes, Minister’ and ‘Yes, Prime Minister’? Yes, I do. We oldies know how the Civil Service is supposed to work and we also know how it actually works, because we were taught about it when we went to school if we went to a decent enough school.
MarkyMarkNov 23, 15:31 Weekend 23rd November 2024 ““Shame” shouted some climate campaigners, “pay up!” shouted others.” pay up! ** it’s not about the money pay up! **…
MarkyMarkNov 23, 15:23 Weekend 23rd November 2024 Great to speak to @BBCNewsround at COP29 👇 https://x.com/Ed_Miliband/status/1859641277735895122 1/ The rise in the energy price cap will cause concern…
MarkyMarkNov 23, 15:21 Weekend 23rd November 2024 More laws – smoke and mirrors. A government can tax or ban! That is all. “Yvette Cooper to set out…
Fedup2Nov 23, 15:19 Weekend 23rd November 2024 Excellent news – the COP Green crap thing is hopefully falling apart – maybe President Trump can kill the gravy…
MarkyMarkNov 23, 15:18 Weekend 23rd November 2024 Love the BBC choice of photo – kids on a tractor – HA HA AH HAHA HAH HA H AH…
StewGreenNov 23, 15:15 Weekend 23rd November 2024 Birmingham last night : DOUBLE Shooting leaves One dead & another Fighting for life in Edgbaston; WM Police attended Rotton…
StewGreenNov 23, 15:13 Weekend 23rd November 2024 All media at 1pm “Euston station in Central London has reopened after a controlled explosion. Police were investigating a suspect…
StewGreenNov 23, 15:10 Weekend 23rd November 2024 Starmer had illegal Covid parties Rayner illegally bought a discount council house she was not living in but now that…
Fedup2Nov 23, 15:08 Weekend 23rd November 2024 Non – surprised that the Wes is favourite – I would have that the gobby northern would be a shoe…
non-licence payerNov 23, 14:55 Weekend 23rd November 2024 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62jdz61j3yo What the farmers’ protest tells us about their argument with the government This could be retitled “When the bubble…
Public announcement – the footy final 8pm saturday night is free via the BT sport app
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No idea, but if it’s free is it women’s?
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Er … no …
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Barf. Sangeeta trying to snag a Maitlis award from the girls.
And maybe some of the women.
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Fifa made false statements about the reduced environmental impact of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, a Swiss regulator has said.
Football’s world governing body claimed the tournament would be the first “fully carbon-neutral World Cup”.
Advertising regulator the Swiss Fairness Commission (SLK) has upheld complaints from five European nations.
“Fifa was not able to provide proof that the claims were accurate during the proceedings,” the SLK said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65834022
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Famous last words ” Is that a tunnel? “
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A speeding train ran over pilgrims crossing railroad tracks in eastern India, killing at least 28 people, and an angry mob beat up the driver after the accident early Monday, officials said. The country is known for its vast but decrepit railway network, where on average 40 people die every day, some from falling off of overcrowded trains.
The pilgrims were crossing the rail tracks at the station in Dhamara Ghat, a small town in Bihar state, when they were struck by the Rajya Rani Express train, said Dinesh Chandra Yadav, a local member of parliament. Several other people were injured.
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/8/19/india-express-trainkillshindupilgrimscrossingovertracks.html
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HS2!!!!
According to data from the National Crime Records Bureau of India, 2021 saw a total of 16,431 deaths and 1,852 cases of injuries from railway accidents. The majority (67.7 percent) of these were from people falling from trains or from collisions with people on the tracks (12,181 out of 17,993).3 days ago
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At three mothballed fabrication yards in Scotland, promises by Boris Johnson that the UK would become the “Saudi Arabia” of wind power rang hollow as their owner BiFab, a producer of giant foundations for offshore turbines, collapsed last month.
The move into administration by the 20-year-old Fife company, which at its peak employed up to 2,000 workers at the three yards, came just a fortnight after the UK prime minister had placed offshore wind at the centre of his “green industrial revolution”. Mr Johnson’s 10-point plan promised 60,000 jobs and turbines in British waters that would “power every home” by 2030.
https://www.ft.com/content/50cd8a9d-3f2a-461d-9335-08319c5f7626
Why UK pledge to become ‘Saudi Arabia’ of wind power rings hollow
JANUARY 8 2021
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Elon Musk calls British diver in Thai cave rescue ‘pedo’ in baseless attack
This article is more than 4 years old
Accusation directed on Twitter at Vern Unsworth, who called Tesla CEO’s offer of ‘mini-sub’ to help rescuers a ‘PR stunt’
British cave diver considering legal action after ‘pedo’ attack by Elon Musk
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/15/elon-musk-british-diver-thai-cave-rescue-pedo-twitter
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Neil Oliver: Whatever happened to government BY the people OF the people & FOR the people?
Gettysburg Address
Delivered at Gettysburg, Pa.
Nov. 19th 1863.
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. “Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. “But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us,that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
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from order-order.com
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“We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable,” it says on the page titled “What we believe.”
https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/aug/28/ask-politifact-does-black-lives-matter-aim-destroy/
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When they go on their parades and marches, why do they need to do it in their underwear and blow whistles?
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Isn’t Dodderer a Labour Starmer Slapper?
Looks like a Limp/Labour things to come facilitated by new form of democracy reporting.
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Dontcha love it when one ‘oppressed minority’ clashes with another ‘oppressed minority’? In this case Muslims vs LGBTQIA++.
The uber-woke BBC is wisely staying out of this one.
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Leave our kids alone – Aisha says marry at 6 .. leave our …
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Not sure Aisha had much say in it.
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Aisha was the first feminist of Islam – fact! BBC fact! BBC verified!
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I am free to burn the Holy Bible.I am not considered to be a Nazi. I am free to burn the Union Jack flag. I am not considered to be a Nazi. I am free to burn the Stars and Stripes flag. I am not considered to be a Nazi. I am free to burn the queers Rainbow flag. I am considered to be a Nazi. I am free to burn The Holy Koran but only if I wish myself an early death.
UK Parliament.
I would like Great Britain back please if it’s not too much trouble.
However, should you find that my request is not worth the bother you will, I’m afraid, have to answer for the dire consequences which,hopefully at my age, I will not live to endure.
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I’m probably already a dead man walking with my apparent misspelling of the Holy Quoran
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Less well known [than other paradoxes] is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
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https://rumble.com/v2n6gsk-the-great-awakening-june-3-2023-from-the-creators-of-plandemic.html
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https://tapnewswire.com/2023/06/western-msm-journalists-censored-by-the-kiev-regime/
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Not a Boring Beebonic Column, but surely this headline in the MOS is a bit of a contradiction in terms…
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1779514/john-major-slams-boris-johnson
Dead sheep anyone?
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BBC are obviously EXSTATIC with their success with Boris…..he let us down with Green Rubbish , Brexit and Ukraine but this Country is no Longer a Democracy but then we all knew that didn’t we ! …..Talking of dead sheep I see John Major has crawled out of the ground , no doubt Heseltine will appear very soon !
Advert for Premier Inn popped up on my computer…..two bearded men in bed together…..celebrating LGBGTQWRTY month……hopefully the bed will be Fumigated before the next customers…..starting to feel guilty about being a normal married straight white male in this once Great Britain !
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Thanks for the heads up. Just about to book some hotels for a trip and it will save me some time by not having to bother looking at Premier Inn. They are owned by Whitbread, whose other brands include Beefeater and Brewers Fayre, for those who are looking to eat and drink elsewhere.
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“Rees Mogg warns Tories……..”
Is there a general election on the way? Is this an opportunity for The Reform Party and disaffected Tory MPs and voters?
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As long as the blue labour still treat Reform (and UKIP etc.) as something smelly they inadvertently stepped in, it ain’t gonna happen.
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In 18 months time the electorate may look at Blue Labour “as something smelly they inadvertently stepped in”.
We voted for Brexit to “stop the boats”. It never happened . We need a government of Reform………………
https://www.reformparty.uk
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Two years, one year, even six months ago… they would have dismissed this report as some dangerous fringe tinfoil-hatted conspiracy theory. They would have unleashed the full might of the CDU and 77 Brigade on its authors. Now it’s allowed to slip out frontpage of the Sunday Times: Wuhan scientists created mutant virus before pandemic
I trust many of our denizens hereabouts are able to join Mr AsI in promotion of his favoured internet pronouns – which are of course: Told/You/So
The formerly-patriotic Times (of the formerly-English London) also today gifts us one of those captured by happenstance photo images that perfectly symbolically encapsulates how of late Britain Has Fallen – to borrow the construction as employed in that average-to-low quality action thriller movie genre series: Olympus Has Fallen; London Has Fallen; Angel Has Fallen; etc
The photo in question is captioned Passing out parade… A guardsman faints in the 28C heat of Horse Guards Parade… (Times) – let’s hope this trombone-wielding squaddie doesn’t get posted anywhere hot. We recall of course the concert party of It Ain’t Half Hot Mum fame were brought out in a sweat terrified of being sent up the jungle – as Battery Sarn’t-Major ‘Shut Up’ would tend to threaten.
This pic of one of our finest keeled over in a bit of sunshine (or more likely hungover after a late one on the sauce) stands representative, symbolic like the nominative determinism (name-driven outcome, thank you Wiki) of the late James Brokenshire’s appointment as a Tory Minister. You’ll remember Brokenshire (you probably live in one) – he was a Remainer… but let me narrow it down for you… he was the spitting image of kid’s cartoon character Danger Mouse’s sidekick Penfold.
Pass that poor passed out bandsman a refreshing cup of Times wet liberalism
Allies abandon Johnson as Tory mutiny falls flat (claims the Times leader spinning Rishi Sunak’s discomfort like a top)
Speaking of things falling flat – watch this space…
Ukraine counter-offensive actions have begun, Zelensky says (BBC)
Our BBC likes the Sunday Mirror for its top online press pick – and why wouldn’t it?: General Election now… Keir tells PM to ‘get a backbone’
It’s almost endearing to see the Labour-supporting Mirror wistfully call Starmer by his first name. If only the piggy-eyed, adenoidal, stuffed shirt were in fact sufficiently iconic to carry it off like an Elvis, a Madonna, Rihanna, Cher… or a Boris
Ah, Sir Keir Starmer… our PM in waiting… our would-be Blair-like leader – busy desperately whack-a-moleing his Corbynistas – sadly given our electoral system doomed forever to rainbow coalition with Scots Nats, Lib Dems and Greens of all sorts.
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Luckily, BBC ‘we’ is on it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65843811?
Covid inquiry: The questions we really want answers to
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#ccbgb
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Coronavirus: Peak District drone police criticised for ‘lockdown shaming’
Published
27 March 2020
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-52055201
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Mr Lobby
Speaking of nominative determinism, how about the BBC’s (random?) pick of: Lobby, part of the Covid Bereaved Families for Justice campaign group – as emblematic and representive of Britain’s Lockdown experience now busy attempting to influence the covid inquiry? Lobby… get it? Spooky.
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If the Ukranian counter-offensive fails after the billions of dollars worth of equipment they have been given, it is going to dawn on people that Ukraine cannot win.
I wonder how they will switch the narrative if/when they decide to try and stop it. Zelensky will certainly have to go if the Russians don’t get him first.
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Scabface 2, and him on a pile of $ with his leetle ‘fren, an F16.
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Blundell’s School: Boy charged with two counts of attempted murder
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-65867858
Saw this article and wondered why it made the front page when there is so much else going on which is far more significant.
So I checked it and sure enough, it was odd. It has this in it:
‘He also reminded people that by law the suspect could not be identified.’
‘He added the school was working closely with the police and urged parents and guardians not to engage in speculation or post about the incident on social media.’
Oh dear. That usually means enrichment did it.
So then I checked what they DIDN’T think was ‘news’:
‘Haringey murder: Gang members jailed for live for revenge killing’
Where these people were sent to jail for life for murder:
But the BBC don’t want you to know that.
I was particularly amused at the wrong word in the main headline ” ‘live’ instead of ‘life’. The BBC’s finest must have been in a bit of a rush to go get her nails done.
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JohnC ,
Another Mariana clone and Colour blind as well ….is there a BBC cupboard full of them ?
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“Winston had disliked her from the very first moment of seeing her. He knew the reason. It was because of the atmosphere of hockey−fields and cold baths and community hikes and general clean−mindedness which she managed to carry about with her. He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones. It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy.”
― George Orwell, 1984
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/258683-winston-had-disliked-her-from-the-very-first-moment-of
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A sexist and racist recruitment policy I suspect.
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How about a ‘bike shed’ full of them?
(Disgusting, Michael, you should know better)….
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But no more Carrie Gracie?
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“and they are helping to transform the community” – who voted for this?
transform = Genocide
Definition
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
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GW,
The ideal point upon which to make another point.
Long telephone conversation with an old friend in the UK yesterday.
I explained that it was virtually impossible to speak to or see a local GP in West Wales thanks to the current Communist/Marxists in power in Cardiff. They’re assiduously determined to destroy the NHS in Wales in their full frontal attempt to destroy the whole fabric of life of the Welsh (and me as a self-declared ‘Refugee’ from England). Friend replied that where she is located, you merely would have to “wander” down the the GP surgery and get an appointment to SEE a GP that same day. Any referral to a specialist in the local hospital was equally as quick. Fond memories for many? What makes friend’s location so different? Me? Coughing up blood and given a guesstimate of 24 month delay in seeing a consultant in the local hospital.
The question is, like me, many are prepared to denounce poor service from their local health authority but others are non committal and/or silent about their own circumstances. Why?
Friend lives in Bradford. Btw, friend tells me that they have three white GP’s……. What are the chances of that?
Anybody else spotting the differences?
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Bradford city of *future* culture.
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Cousin marriages cited as significant factor in Bradford child deaths
This article is more than 4 years old
Fatal genetic conditions more common in children of south Asian heritage in West Yorkshire city, study says
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/feb/15/cousin-marriages-cited-as-significant-factor-bradford-child-deaths
Fri 15 Feb 2019 16.37 GMT
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I can assure you that a lot of taffmen I know are getting fed up with the “Communist/Marxists in power in Cardiff.”
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So in the thousands of miles between China and Manchester, there was nowhere else that had cheap property or good schools?
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The tiny mosque on the Outer Hebrides serving 60 Muslims
Community hails UK’s northernmost mosque, which was completed with crowd-funding project led by charitable Yorkshireman.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2018/6/15/the-tiny-mosque-on-the-outer-hebrides-serving-60-muslims
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Chinese emigrants in London fought each other in group brawl
Local | 28 Nov 2021 6:24 pm
https://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news/section/4/183629/Chinese-emigrants-in-London-fought-each-other-in-group-brawl
A Chinese protest against racism in London has descended into a brawl as participants fought with Hong Kong emigrants who criticized them for ignoring human right abuses in Hong Kong and Xinjiang province
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From a Theresa May speech …
As Martin Wolf, the chief economics commentator of the financial times, says: ‘The desirability of sizeable immigration is a matter more of values than of economics. It is not a choice between wealth and poverty, but of the sort of country one desires to inhabit.’
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/home-secretary-speech-on-an-immigration-system-that-works-in-the-national-interest
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https://tapnewswire.com/2023/06/the-u-s-militarys-history-of-using-forest-fires-as-a-weapon/
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Saudi Arabia has 100,000 air-conditioned tents sitting empty, still won’t take Syrian refugees
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/15/saudi-arabia-has-100000-air-conditioned-tents-sitt/
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https://www.gov.uk/asylum-support/what-youll-get
Cash support
You’ll usually get £45 for each person in your household. This will help you pay for things you need like food, clothing and toiletries.
Your allowance will be loaded onto a debit card (ASPEN card) each week. You’ll be able to use the card to get cash from a cash machine.
If you’ve been refused asylum
You’ll be given:
somewhere to live
£45 per person on a payment card for food, clothing and toiletries
You will not be given:
the payment card if you do not take the offer of somewhere to live
any money
If your accommodation provides your meals
You’ll get £9.10 for each person in your household instead.
Extra money for mothers and young children
You’ll get extra money to buy healthy food if you’re pregnant or a mother of a child under 3. The amount you get will depend on your situation.
Your situation Extra payment per week
Pregnant mother £3
Baby under 1 year old £5
Child aged 1 to 3 £3
Maternity payment
You can apply for a one-off £300 maternity payment if your baby is due in 8 weeks or less, or if your baby is under 6 weeks old.
If you’ve been refused asylum
You can apply for a one-off £250 maternity payment if your baby is due in 8 weeks or less, or if your baby is under 6 weeks old.
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I fail to understand 3 things about being refused asylum:
(1) Why do you get anything? At all.
(2) Why are you still here?
(3) Why are politicians unable to deal with, or apparently even understand, the first 2?
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2012 … “Two and a half years ago, the coalition government was formed, and we made a clear promise to the British public. After thirteen years of uncontrolled mass immigration, this government would reduce and control immigration.” – Theresa May 2012
2015 … “Because when immigration is too high (no figure given), when the pace of change is too fast, it’s impossible to build a cohesive society.” – Theresa May 2015
2018 … “Over the years, overall, immigration has been good for the UK. It has brought people with different backgrounds, different outlooks here to the UK,” – Theresa May 2018
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When these barges get filled up with their 500 ‘asylum seekers’ who have escaped from France why not up anchor and sail off with them all. (South Georgia?)
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Healthcare
You may get free National Health Service (NHS) healthcare, such as to see a doctor or get hospital treatment.
You’ll also get:
free prescriptions for medicine
free dental care for your teeth
free eyesight tests
help paying for glasses
https://www.gov.uk/asylum-support/what-youll-get
Asylum support
Education
Your children must attend school if they are aged 5 to 17. All state schools are free and your children may be able to get free school meals.
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I suspect ‘the boats’ are already queuing up in the Channel to take up that offer ?
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Infinite – forever – no end.
Dover MP Natalie Elphicke told the Commons that the BBC’s “shocking report” contained the “breath-taking” disclosure of free French public bus services being used to ferry migrants from camps to Dunkirk beaches.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-63229010
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China to Require All Places of Worship to Fly The National Flag, Expanding Xinjiang Policy
2018.08.02
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/flags-08022018145629.html
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Why do the USA Presidents all seem to be taking huge amounts of secret documents home and keeping them in garages and spare rooms.
Why do they then keep hold of them after leaving office.
It’s not just Donald, all of them appear to have been doing it.
Why don’t they leave them in the White House or wherever they came from.
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THEY NEED A SHREDDER LIKE TONY BLAIR HAD FOR EXPENSES!
01/09/2023 07:25 PM EST
Updated: 01/09/2023 10:23 PM EST
The White House said on Monday that it was cooperating with the Justice Department and the National Archives following the discovery of classified Obama-era documents in a private space at a Biden-connected think tank in November.
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Well, Billary had loads of emails and documents on a public server, so any hacker with an ‘O’ level in Amstrad 464 Basic Programming could see what she and Slickers were up to!
Biden can’t use a PC so he has to have his stuff on paper with extra-large print.
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Off topic a bit, but there’s a possibility that BoJo will form a new party to crack open all the nasties that are being chucked at him!
I’d certainly vote for him again as let’s be honest, a PM hasn’t got that much sway in gummint, he/she can appoint a few helpers, (ministers), but it’s the Cummings Disciples who really get their sleeves rolled up! At least BoJo has charisma and doesn’t give a stuff about what personal comments are made about him!
PMs can witter away with all the standard platitudes, but what is really needed is a hatchet job on the snivel serpent mandarins who just screw everything up whenever they can.
If he does start a new movement, the Beebonic Autocue-readers and their undermanagers, (runners), should start to shit themselves in advance!
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“At least BoJo has charisma and doesn’t give a stuff about what personal comments are made about him!”
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Scrob – unlikely because he might lose £ influence £ – although after the 200 landslide labour win a dream team of Farage and Johnson to keep us out of the EU ?….. well ….
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I think that’s what I was trying to say Fed, but it was nearly drinks time…
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I wouldn’t waste another vote on the useless lump if he was the only man standing…Or any other (so called) Conservative leader.
Highest taxes since WW2, highest levels of immigration ever, absurd devotion to green politics and an utterly insane lockdown that crippled the economy, that we now know he didn’t actually agree with.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
FFS, fool me fifty times and I’m still voting for you lock me in a xxxxing loony-bin…
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The trouble with Boris was we thought we were getting a Tory PM but we got a libdem PM.
Soon after getting in to number 10 he got Carrie’d.
I wonder what he would have been like if it wasn’t for her influencing him.
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80 seat majority – 0 conservative policies.
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Oh, alright then, I won’t vote for anyone – they can all get stuffed…
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It’s a hard line – vote Labour get mad policies – vote Conservative get Labour policies – vote Brexit get delayed Brexit until we rejoin.
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Jeff
I think you express the view which will give red labour a huge majority – which I personally find frightening ….
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“What about President Obama – did he have his own server?”
Rep. Gowdy questions State Department Official on Hillary Clinton Emails (C-SPAN)
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“People like being bossed about by bureaucrats”
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The naughtie production company hired to do the biased world at one
Introduced President Trump as ‘ another politician with a grudge ‘ ( so no bias in presentation there – right BBC ? )
Off switch
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Tory MPs claim hundreds of pounds in driving fines back on EXPENSES sparking fury
Sir Alastair Graham, former chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, said it was ‘scandalous’, adding that MPs should have to pay their fines ‘like the rest of us’
Energy minister Amanda Solloway claimed back an £80 fixed penalty notice
BySophie HuskissonPolitical Correspondent
11:28, 28 May 2023
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Australia to introduce national ban on Nazi symbols
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-65840812
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Nazi Symbols on Ukraine’s Front Lines Highlight Thorny Issues of History
Troops’ use of patches bearing Nazi emblems risks fueling Russian propaganda and spreading imagery that the West has spent a half-century trying to eliminate.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/world/europe/nazi-symbols-ukraine.html
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MM, there were Pogroms in Ukraine in various centuries, not least the nineteenth century.
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New pogroms …
Labour to clarify policy over trans women on all-female shortlists
Labour conference: Wrong to say that only women have a cervix, says Keir Starmer
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-trans-rights-duffield-b1927169.html
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“To be clear this was not the right choice of word”
Today
BBC Radio 4, 10 May 2023
In a report about the civil court proceedings brought by E Jean Carroll against Donald Trump we said that the former US President had been “found guilty of sexual assault” and the jury had decided he was “not guilty of rape”. To be clear this was not the right choice of word and we should have said “liable” instead of guilty as that’s the correct language for a civil trial. The programme made clear at other points this case involved civil, not criminal, proceedings.
08/06/2023
https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications
“To be clear this was not the right choice of word “
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country wants to move on from Boris Johnson, says Shapps
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65870635
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Guess who I met yesterday who will be giving us a helping hand in transitioning to net zero!
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MM,
Whoever it was he met, that person has to be equally deficient in grey matter. Net zero indeed!
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TWoTWeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Watch #1 – and it was a lot of wee
Missed the first ten minutes of Naughty Naughties Narrative & Nastiness and came in to find him interviewing aged Labour MP, Margaret Beckett. Margaret opined that what is needed is for the public’s concerns to become perfectly aligned with those of MPs and Peers. No, Margaret. That is not what the Electorate want.
The Electorate want our politicians to become perfectly aligned with the what the Electorate wants, not the other way around. Margaret is in her dotage and obviously is confused as she will become a nonagenarian next year and will leave the Lower House at the next Election. Perhaps that is why Naughty Naughtie wanted to interview her. Is she a bit suggestable? Needless to say they were discussing Bojo.
Disgraceful. Off switch activated for the first time in protest.
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“Nudge Unit”
The Behavioural Insights team, popularly known as the ‘Nudge Unit’, is playing a big role in helping the government formulate its response to coronavi
11 MAR 2020
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/article/explainer/nudge-unit
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I’m guessing Maggie wasn’t asked if she is still claiming taxpayers ‘expense ‘ money for he rubber plants …..another paid for Lefty …
… I wonder if Naughtie was on because the BBC new Sturgeon was going to be arrested …? Mistimed …
Wonder if the SNP would have a referendum tomorrow …. £
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Fed, I don’t know if Naughtie was being ‘kept out of the way’, so to speak. Ed Stourton presented yesterday’s programme and Ed will normally do the Sunday TWoTWeee unless he has to get up early to present ‘Sunday’ after the News at 7.10 a.m..
tomo, no idea of Margaret Beckett’s domestic arrangements. I would have thought unlikely as she is nearing 90 years of age.
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is Maggie still living in an old caravan?
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2019 …Boris Johnson ‘looking at’ abolishing TV licence fee for BBC
This article is more than 3 years old
Remarks came amid row over PM’s refusal to look at a picture of a sick boy in hospital
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/09/boris-johnson-looking-at-abolishing-tv-licence-fee-for-bbc
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2022 … Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries today announced the fee will remain at £159 until 2024 and then rise in line with inflation for the following four years. The plans for the new licence fee settlement cover a period of six years and will take effect from 1 April 2022 until 31 March 2028.17 Jan 2022
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MEN ON TOP!
Labour Confirms Self-Identifying Trans Women Eligible For All-Women Shortlists And Women’s Officer Roles
Activist David Lewis suspended for claiming he’s a woman ‘on Wednesdays’
Paul Waugh
By
Paul Waugh
22/05/2018 09:55pm BST
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Updated May 23, 2018
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour-confirms-self-identifying-trans-women-eligible-for-all-women-shortlists-and-womens-officer-roles_uk_5b048276e4b0784cd2af3d32
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June 2023 – Nicola Sturgeon: Former first minister arrested in SNP finances inquiry
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65871857
Jan 2023 – Nicola Sturgeon on future: I’ve got ‘plenty left in the tank’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-64365488
** Note: 1400+ raped kids, 0 action
*** 1 corrupt politician, no action, pension, will move to New Zealand.
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OOPS
Just as we were on the second box of popcorn over boris Johnson he gets ‘ trumped ‘ by Nicki Sturgeon being Arrested over alleged ‘ financial issues ‘ ….
…. I’m guessing they would not have done that unless there is substantial evidence against someone .
A BBC favourite – fireproof for years – arrested … popcorn overdose …
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They’l slooow roll it for ca. 18 months and then drop it for lack of evidence.
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Labour Scotland benefits …. If they stay quiet and don’t mention rejoining / staying in the ReichEU ….
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It’s all ‘resting in her account’, or under the second bunk in the camper van…
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If, as is being reported in some newspapers (D Telegraph), the bbbc are going to recruit a workforce which will lose its liberal bias and reflect the population does that mean we will have a bbbc which is 52% pro Brexit?
They will probably have to get rid of roughly 52% of their current employees to attain this.
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Krankie arrested:
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Just being asked to answer a few questions according to the BBC:
‘As the third signatory to the party’s accounts, it seemed inevitable that Nicola Sturgeon would be required to answer questions at some point.’
This won’t stay the main headline for long.
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Ah, answered as being asked.
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How this plays out on The BBC will be fascinating.
Despite interfering with their dream of an all red Labour UK, The BBC has been more than kind to the SNP, attacking foes and ignoring clear matters of public interest and concern.
Will they do a Trump full blown allegation, critics are saying perp walk parade based on not much from clearly bent fellow travellers, or will they do a quiet Clinton memory hole on… facts?
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Radio reports of more boats landing on our shores this morning but I cannot find a peep in the BBBC about it – why ?
We do get reports of the arrest of a certain Widow Twankey ?
Also, Radio traffic reports that Nigel may join BoJo in a Brexit team with The Reform Party ?
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Illegal migrants plan could cost £6bn over two years, say government projections
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65789136
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Taffman
Farage has a column in the DT today where he is not unsupportive of Johnson … with the State constantly derailing our freedom from the EU by keeping it easier to formally rejoin – so might say ..we haven’t left ….
What’s left of the blue Labour Party after the next election should split …
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Farage stepped back to give Boris an 80 seat majority – so be could do conservative things – ha ha ha ha ha ….
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Search BBC migrants … “Portraits of people who relocated to other lands, influenced by music”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kct1j
https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=migrants&d=HOMEPAGE_PS
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More fuel on the fire Monday – I reckon Comrade Harmon will publish her report on nut nut ..
…… it will be interesting to see if any of the so called ‘tories ‘. On the committee share the stage with her ….
.. maybe she has ‘pictures ‘ of them – ….
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Lock her up, Lock her up.. . .
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The Telegraph ironic headline about the BBC
Newsnigt’s Deb Cohen jumps in to say she was always against loaded alarmist reporting .. https://twitter.com/deb_cohen/status/1667501544034410496
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Partial screenshot of article
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The idea is to wait and hopefully the next story will knock off the previous story and the people will forget … mass amnesia.
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Ordinary Men is the true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, which was responsible for mass shootings as well as round-ups of Jewish people for deportation to Nazi death camps in Poland in 1942. Browning argues that most of the men of RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis but, rather, ordinary middle-aged, working-class men who committed these atrocities out of a mixture of motives, including the group dynamics of conformity, deference to authority, role adaptation, and the altering of moral norms to justify their actions.
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currently heading the BBC’s response to disinformation, the Trusted News Initiative
Jessica Cecil, Director, BBC Trusted News Initiative
Jessica is a senior leader in the BBC, currently heading the BBC’s response to disinformation, the Trusted News Initiative. Previously, she led the initiative focusing the BBC’s digital services in the UK and worldwide. She is a former Controller of BBC Make it Digital which inspired a new generation to get creative with digital technology. With partner organisations, BBC Make it Digital developed a codeable computer, the BBC micro:bit, and gave it free to one million 11 and 12-year-olds across the UK, with a further four million now in the hands of children in 50 countries, from Finland to Singapore. Before this, she was Chief of Staff to four BBC Director-Generals. She is an Emmy-nominated programme maker and senior journalist, and was Assistant Editor of BBC Newsnight. She is a Trustee of the University of Bristol, on the advisory boards of Rand Europe and IntoUniversity, on the International Committee of the Wallace Collection and is a former non-executive Director of the London Ambulance Service.
https://www.babinc.org/jessica-cecil-bbc/
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The ideal red labour ‘dame’…
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https://archive.is/t0OJA
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“The BBC has a reputation as a truth teller”. It has?
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Have I Got News for You
BBC One, 28 April 2023
Chris Whapples was referred to as ‘Lead Scientist’ in this episode. He is actually a Parking Consultant and Structural Engineer.
17/05/2023
https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications
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And her qualifications as to be being a disinformation expert are zero. Just another voice to parrot the bBBC beliefs to us proles.
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Rishi Sunak is accused of rewriting history over claims he vetoed winter Covid lockdown
Rishi Sunak claims he flew back from the US to stop a national Covid lockdown
But Government sources say the ex-chancellor had little involvement last winter
One said Sunak was ‘totally silent’ when Sir Chris Whitty argued for a lockdown
By JASON GROVES POLITICAL EDITOR FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 22:36, 21 July 2022 | UPDATED: 11:20, 22 July 2022
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11037387/Rishi-Sunak-accused-rewriting-history-claims-vetoed-winter-Covid-lockdown.html
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TWoTWeeeeeee Watch #2 – and there was a lot more weeee to come
Before Naughty Naughtie got Nasty on the subject of former President Donald Trump he kept the dirty dishes spinning by asking Gus O’Donnell to opine on two Conservative politicians on both sides of the Atlantic blaming ‘the Blob’ for their woes. Gus O’Donnell is ‘the Establishment’ ie. ‘the Blob’, according to Naughty Naughtie. Gus is something of a BBC ‘go to’, ie. a favoured contributor and will come out with all the right noises. Do I recall correctly he is also a ‘snout in the trough’?
What ‘Lord’, nay, Baron O’Donnell seems to be unaware of is that the UK population has something of a long memory and used to be sat in front of a television set, en masse, if there was a good enough programme to watch. Now, do I recall ‘Yes, Minister’ and ‘Yes, Prime Minister’? Yes, I do. We oldies know how the Civil Service is supposed to work and we also know how it actually works, because we were taught about it when we went to school if we went to a decent enough school.
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“Why did the French go into it (European Union) then?”
“To protect their inefficient farmers from commercial competition.”
“That certainly doesn’t apply to the Germans?”
“No,no,no. They went in it (EU) to cleanse themselves of genocide and reapply themselves for admission to the human race.”
Yes Minister explains the EEC (EU)
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Lemme at ’em: EU’s anti-fraud agency wants Parliament access post Qatargate
Parliament has long argued that lawmaker immunity means the EU agency can’t enter offices or examine laptops during fraud probes.
https://www.politico.eu/article/european-anti-fraud-office-olaf-parliament-access-post-qatargate-ville-itala/
lawmaker immunity means TRUMP?
The EU’s anti-fraud agency has a simple way to fight corruption at the European Parliament: Let us in.
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Have the auditors signed of any accounts recently?
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They signed something which is progress .. ha ha haha
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https://www.eugyppius.com/p/the-meaning-of-the-rainbow-revolution?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1ODAwODU1NiwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTI3NTI5Nzk5LCJpYXQiOjE2ODY0OTE1MjIsImV4cCI6MTY4OTA4MzUyMiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTI2ODYyMSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.4O5Xul-4zAl3eFog-UfroLHIVFfiRwx0h1vRFvsaOqk
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There are people constantly on air who get invited on for reasons that defy explanation.
Femi, Mad Al, Dr. Shola…
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He can take 20 migrants in then.
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