283 Responses to Weekend 10 June 2023

  1. Fedup2 says:

    Public announcement – the footy final 8pm saturday night is free via the BT sport app

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  2. Guest Who says:

    Barf. Sangeeta trying to snag a Maitlis award from the girls.

    And maybe some of the women.

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    • MarkyMark says:

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  3. MarkyMark says:

    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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  4. MarkyMark says:

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    • Dickie says:

      Famous last words ” Is that a tunnel? “

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      • MarkyMark says:

        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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    • MarkyMark says:

      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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  5. MarkyMark says:

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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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  6. tomo says:

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  7. MarkyMark says:

    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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  8. MarkyMark says:

    from order-order.com

    8d46442a-2514-45e7-9794-98dfc370ce1b-dd507938-0cd1-415f-8ae1-fcd5d58af6ed

    …..

    “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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    • Kinell says:

      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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  9. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      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)

      https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/25618/anneliese_dodds/oxford_east#register

      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.

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      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)

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    • MarkyMark says:

      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

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    • Guest Who says:

      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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  10. vlad says:

    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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    • MarkyMark says:

      Leave our kids alone – Aisha says marry at 6 .. leave our …

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    • MarkyMark says:

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      • Lefty Wright says:

        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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        • Lefty Wright says:

          I’m probably already a dead man walking with my apparent misspelling of the Holy Quoran

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        • MarkyMark says:

          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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  11. tomo says:

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  13. Scroblene says:

    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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  14. Charlie Farley says:

    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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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      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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  15. taffman says:

    “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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    • G says:

      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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      • taffman says:

        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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  16. AsISeeIt says:

    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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    • Guest Who says:

      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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      • Guest Who says:

        #ccbgb

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      • AsISeeIt says:

        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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    • JohnC says:

      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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  17. JohnC says:

    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:
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    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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  18. Charlie Farley says:

    JohnC ,
    Another Mariana clone and Colour blind as well ….is there a BBC cupboard full of them ?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “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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    • JohnC says:

      A sexist and racist recruitment policy I suspect.

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    • Scroblene says:

      How about a ‘bike shed’ full of them?

      (Disgusting, Michael, you should know better)….

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  19. Guest Who says:

    But no more Carrie Gracie?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “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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    • G says:

      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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    • Non Snowflake says:

      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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    • MarkyMark says:

      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

      …………….

      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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  20. MarkyMark says:

    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/

    …………. UK ……………….

    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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    • moggie63 says:

      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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      • MarkyMark says:

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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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      • Emmanuel Goldstein says:

        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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  21. MarkyMark says:

    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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    • taffman says:

      MarkyMark
      I suspect ‘the boats’ are already queuing up in the Channel to take up that offer ?

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  22. MarkyMark says:

    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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  23. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    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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    • MarkyMark says:

      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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      • Scroblene says:

        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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  24. Scroblene says:

    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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    • MarkyMark says:

      “At least BoJo has charisma and doesn’t give a stuff about what personal comments are made about him!”

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    • Fedup2 says:

      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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      • Scroblene says:

        I think that’s what I was trying to say Fed, but it was nearly drinks time…

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    • Jeff says:

      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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      • Emmanuel Goldstein says:

        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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        • MarkyMark says:

          80 seat majority – 0 conservative policies.

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          • Scroblene says:

            Oh, alright then, I won’t vote for anyone – they can all get stuffed…

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            • MarkyMark says:

              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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      • Fedup2 says:

        Jeff
        I think you express the view which will give red labour a huge majority – which I personally find frightening ….

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  25. MarkyMark says:

    “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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  26. tomo says:

    “People like being bossed about by bureaucrats”

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  27. Fedup2 says:

    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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  28. MarkyMark says:

    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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  29. MarkyMark says:

    Australia to introduce national ban on Nazi symbols
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-65840812

    …………….

    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

    ………………

    05.20.14news-trull-hitler-bus-edit.jpg

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  30. MarkyMark says:

    “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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  31. MarkyMark says:

    country wants to move on from Boris Johnson, says Shapps
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65870635

    ………….

    Guess who I met yesterday who will be giving us a helping hand in transitioning to net zero!

       4 likes

    • G says:

      MM,

      Whoever it was he met, that person has to be equally deficient in grey matter. Net zero indeed!

         7 likes

  32. Up2snuff says:

    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.

       12 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      “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

         1 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Up2
      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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      • Up2snuff says:

        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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    • tomo says:

      is Maggie still living in an old caravan?

         2 likes

  33. pugnazious says:

    So the BBC and friends have put the final nail in the coffin and Boris has been run out of town…so much for Democracy…a man with an 80 seat majority forced out of Office by a Media led coup….not to mention the sheer cowardice, treachery and corruption of his fellow Conservative MPs who were too scared of the Media to back him or hated him personally or those who wanted to reverse Brexit.

    The BBC naturally gives no credence to the claims that Boris is a victim of a coup…because they would have to turn the spotlight on themselves and examine the years of abuse and disinformation they have broadcast about Boris….years of trying to sow distrust in him, years of trying to paint him as immoral and someone unfit to be PM. The BBC that blatantly and frequently stated that Boris couldn’t be trusted and that he was a ‘liar’….the BBC that even tried to out his children and put them and their mothers under the media spotlight telling us it was crucial for democracy that we know how many children he has….how, they asked, can we trust a man who won’t say how many kids he has and who they are….the BBC willing to chuck those kids under a bus for their own nasty, cynical political reasons…the lowest of low type of ‘journalism’ one might suggest.

    You may have caught ‘Broadcasting House’ this morning….I switched on to hear Boris’ resignation speech being read out and put through the BBC mincer….a loud and aggressive buzzer used to stop the flow at points where they wanted to discuss, lol, take apart and discredit any point Boris was making….all entirely negative and intended to dismiss Boris’ claims.

    For example…Boris said…‘”I also remain hugely proud of all that we achieved in my time in office as prime minister: getting Brexit done, winning the biggest majority for 40 years’

    This apparetnly was a lie….because, as they said, Boris is a liar and he continues to do so….hmmmm…except it was in fact the truth…he won the biggest percentage of the vote since 1979….43.6% in 2019 as opposed to 43.9% in 1979.

    https://www.statista.com/statistics/717004/general-elections-vote-share-by-party-uk/

    This is the BBC lying not Boris.

    And it’s not just Broadcasting House of course, it’s the whole BBC coverage of his resignation….no credence given to the idea that there has been a massively undemocratic coup mounted to remove a Prime Minister…this being the same BBC that spent 4 years lying about the ‘Russian Hoax’ claiming it was true and similarly years telling us Brexit was stolen….but Trump saying his election was stolen is a huge threat to democracy…Clinton saying the same…er…not so much.

    The BBC so concerned about election integrity and yet it is the main corruptor of our elections, the main violator of democracy in this country….and quite happy to interfere in foreign elections as well….whilst at the same time complaining about Russian interference….oh hang on…except when the Russians tried to help Corbyn into power by hacking NHS documents and helpfully releasing them to the world…which the BBC all but ignored….odd eh?

    The BBC that launched a massive attack on Boris when he said Brexit was being betrayed and spoke of the ‘Surrender Act’….the BBC claiming he was using incendiary and provocative language that was driving abuse and even violence against MPs. Naturally this was highly selective of the BBC as similar language has always been used in Parliament…and even today we have Rayner shouting about Boris being a ‘coward’ which drew no censure from the BBC presenter and was subsequently used as a soundbite in all following news broadcasts…guess some provocative and incendiary language is OK.

    You cannot trust a word the national broadcaster says….it has a highly damaging and baleful effect on politics and indeed the whole of society as it works to ethnically cleanse white people, their history, culture and their very DNA from the land.

    We need an indepth and rigorous inquiry scrutinising the BBC’s reporting and the dire consequences of its bias and disinformation campaigning…it being the biggest lobby group in Brtain today…no longer a reporter but a campaigner.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      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

      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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    • Up2snuff says:

      Pug, I think Boris’ own state of total chaos in his head, personal life and also his health played a large part in his downfall. In addition, he really needed Dominic Cummings to help organise him politically and spot the ‘CS coup’. It would be interesting to know what happened between Bojo and DC: was it all down to Princess Nut Nuts?

      I have posted on here before that Ministers and I assume PMs do not even blow their noses before checking with a Permanent Under Secretary that they would not be breaking any laws. So apologies for repeating myself. Bojo was obviously lured in to ‘Partygate’, with unscrupulous journalists, who forget to wear their shirts or blouses for PR pics, on hand to spread the ‘news’. “We know how hard you have been working on this.” says it all!

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  34. MarkyMark says:

    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
    |
    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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  35. MarkyMark says:

    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.

    98cdcb40-7d3c-4d74-8d23-f9daebdfd1a1-0cc24346-0dc8-4e73-9492-cb0be32cdc21

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  36. Fedup2 says:

    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 …

       15 likes

    • tomo says:

      They’l slooow roll it for ca. 18 months and then drop it for lack of evidence.

         3 likes

      • Fedup2 says:

        Labour Scotland benefits …. If they stay quiet and don’t mention rejoining / staying in the ReichEU ….

           3 likes

        • Scroblene says:

          It’s all ‘resting in her account’, or under the second bunk in the camper van…

             4 likes

  37. pugnazious says:

    One of the BBC’s narratives as it tries to undermine Boris’ valid and legitimate statement that he is the victim of a coup is that the Privileges Committee has a Tory majority and thus it is all fair and above board.

    This disregards, deliberately, the fact that nearly all those Tories have spoken out against Boris and wanted him to stand-down. The BBC also forgetting to tell us that Harman had already declared Boris a liar and guilty even before becoming Chair of the committee….and never mentioning the fact that the SNP member was never ever going to be a Boris fan…..the committee was massively loaded against Boris….witness the fact that they invented a new rule that Boris would be guilty if he may have ‘recklessly’, even if unintentionally, said something that was untrue…even if unknown to him at the time…they deciding how to define ‘reckless’….kangaroo court does spring to mind.

    The BBC further suggests that Boris would have had the chance to put his defence in Parliament or to the electorate….but of course the same limitations apply here as for when the Tories originally ousted him…those too scared of the media to defend him, those who hate him, and those who hate Brexit…Boris may not have stood a chance in Parliament especially as they would not want to be seen to go against the committee’s verdict knowing that the BBC et al would blitz them with claims of a old chums stitch-up and that this was Tories defending Tories going against the verdict of a respected and principled inquiry.

    Boris was never going to win even if he won the vote in Parliament…and you can be sure if he went to a bye-election the BBC would fill the airwaves with toxic stories about him that were filled with half-truths, smears and outright lies…..pretty much the stuff of their Boris reporting for years now.

    The BBC really does ‘poison the well of democracy’…it is the most most toxic and dangerous organisation in Britain today.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      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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  38. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    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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  39. atlas_shrugged says:

    Krankie arrested:

       6 likes

    • JohnC says:

      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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    • Guest Who says:

      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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  40. taffman says:

    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 ?

       10 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Illegal migrants plan could cost £6bn over two years, say government projections
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65789136

         3 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      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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      • MarkyMark says:

        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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  41. MarkyMark says:

    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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  42. Althepalerp says:

    Lock her up, Lock her up.. . .

       3 likes

  43. StewGreen says:

    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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    • StewGreen says:

      Partial screenshot of article

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      • MarkyMark says:

        The idea is to wait and hopefully the next story will knock off the previous story and the people will forget … mass amnesia.

        ………………….

        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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      • MarkyMark says:

        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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    • moggie63 says:

      “The BBC has a reputation as a truth teller”. It has?

         6 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      3050.jpg?width=1200&height=1200&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&s=3970d10e5a15b563dae30cd336efb14d

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    • MarkyMark says:

      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

         2 likes

  44. Up2snuff says:

    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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    • MarkyMark says:

      “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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  45. MarkyMark says:

    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.

       2 likes

  46. Guest Who says:

    There are people constantly on air who get invited on for reasons that defy explanation.

    Femi, Mad Al, Dr. Shola…

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