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Headline from the realclearpolitics website:- Voting for Harris & a 4th Obama Term Would Bring Risks – Holman Jenkins, WSJ… - MarkyMark Oct 24, 11:10
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Authoritarian Labour’s Attack on Free Speech in Pubs Strikes at the HEART of British Culture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB0hkSri6D4 …………………………… - MarkyMark Oct 24, 11:00
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SAVE THE PLANET …. “Doughnuts from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau were delivered to Sir Keir Starmer’s jet during a… - Zephir Oct 24, 10:56
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Notice the Starmer henchman assaulting a pub landlord… https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=w-I9BYO0JEA - MarkyMark Oct 24, 10:55
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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - MarkyMark Oct 24, 10:55
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Using the English Language or Industrialised technology? - Northern Voter Oct 24, 10:55
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Like his father before him, he’s full of sh1t. - vlad Oct 24, 10:54
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“Commonwealth leaders to defy UK on slavery reparations” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd6vy79p750o Reparations ? Ok, how about a ONE-WAY ticket back to Africa? - Zephir Oct 24, 10:49
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“Jeremy Hunt has said everyone is going to be paying higher taxes but those who earn the most will have to make larger sacrifices.13 Nov 2022”
What a twat that clown is…
A small hike in tax to a fat snivel serpent/local authority bloke on £250,000 won’t make a happorth of difference to him and his usual spending on the sort of stuff he/she likes doing , but it bloody well will to pensioners and low-income earners!
Snivel serpents and fat cats in LAs must be rubbing their podgy hands with glee, as they can get all this money, pension contributions and the rest, and never worry about a thing, after a life of laziness, poor work and general uselessness.
Sunakians are the bane of our indigenous British society, and I hope that blasted bloke really does get stuffed next year!
The main point is that the government spending is so out of control that we should all be paying 90% tax
When you pay only 390% a hell of of a lot if borrowing is done in your name.
Stew – if you add the tax you really pay – income tax plus national insurance plus council tax plus VAT —— The State is taking a lot – maybe 70%? The there is stamp duty CGT and the IHT killer …..
And a TV tax ….
Jaded as I am … story of ‘something ‘ spotted in Loch Ness – titanic pleasure trip – guess the next one ? Aliens ….
BBC Hull Look North local newsPR show, is trolling by taking the Daily Mirror partygate video and adding a Pogues soundtrack to Hull streets, and asking people what they thought.
To me it’s cynical fake outrage
It seems to be a team of young people who work together
including a couple dancing who probably live together anyway.
I see little risk to public health.
When old people died of Covid, it is they who should have been protected, not that all young fit people should have become monks.
The ITV local news PR show was also cynical, bring on a woman saying “they partied while my husband died”
Fire them all – if only for being Dumb …
https://twitter.com/moonrakin/status/1670849446492483584
hmm – is that Twitter embed showing for everybody?
same tweet works if I insert www into the URL
but not without www
https://twitter.com/moonrakin/status/1670849446492483584
For anyone interested
https://t.me/s/intelslava?before=49002
Jon Snow and the BBC will be devastated.
Ban Stormzy for singing burn down Theresa May’s house?
In 2017, with the support of an extraordinary grassroots movement, British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn came close to becoming prime minister. The establishment trembled. Britain stood on the threshold of huge political change. But within three years all, it seemed, was lost. What happened and why?
https://www.platformfilms.co.uk/
…asks if the movement which backed Corbyn could rise again.
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– Jeremy Corbyn does not say who will get what, will Jeremy get all the power and wealth? is it 50/50 or 10/90 or 1/99? Words have no meaning in the hands of Labour.
” … redistribution of power and wealth …” – will Keith Vaz give up all his 5 homes?
” … redistribution of power and wealth …” – will David Lammy return his £650 bike on expenses?
” … redistribution of power and wealth …” – will Jeremy Corbyn pay for this two free tickets to Glastonbury he gave his family in 2018?
Freedom of speech in UK
“lawfully sacked for writing tweets which criticised government policies.” {bbc.co.uk aug2019} – the death of freedom of speech.
1765 …. **In a republic worthy of name, freedom to publish one ’s thoughts is a citizen’s natural right.** They may use a pen or their voice, and should not be prevented from writing any more than speaking …That is the law in England, a monarchical country, where people are freer than elsewhere because they are more enlightened. – Voltaire, Republican Ideas, 1765
2018 … In addition to reporting hate crime, please report non-crime hate incidents, **which can include things like offensive or insulting comments, online, in person or in writing**. Hate will not be tolerated in South Yorkshire. Report it and put a stop to it #HateHurtsSY – UK South Yorkshire Police, 2018
1765 … **In a republic worthy of name, freedom to publish one’s thoughts is a citizen’s natural right.**
2018 … **which can include things like offensive or insulting comments, online, in person or in writing**
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2019/08/06/midweek-open-thread-7-august-2019/#comment-1005370
A Bill to make provision for and in connection with the regulation by OFCOM of certain internet services; for and in connection with communications offences; and for connected purposes
https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3137
https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/49376/documents/2822
Official OFCOM Guidance on the Censorship of ‘Mass Murder’:
We the highly trusted Ofcom, strongly advise you to take particular care when broadcasting statements that seek to question the wonderful and highly trusted NHS or undermine the advice of highly trusted public health bodies. Any mention of the Pfizer documents showing mass murder, or mention of mass murder by the use of the patented Coronavirus bioweapon or the patented mRNA bioweapon used as a vaccine, is officially ‘BANNED’ by the trusted authorities of England & Wales. Banned for undermining people’s trust in the wonderfully trusted advice of truthful mainstream sources of information, as is any mention about the use of internationally illegal health protocols using remdesivir or midazolam and morphine, banned by the now defunct Nuremberg Code. Such banned views should always be censored and not be presented at all, not even using a robotic voice, so as to not risk undermining viewers trust in the wonderful & officially authorised true advice from those in authority. Ofcom will consider any breach of censorship of officially authorised Coronavirus-related programming to be potentially serious and will consider taking appropriate regulatory action, which could include the imposition of a statutory sanction banning any mention of ‘Mass Murder’ by the authorities. Doctors will be struck off if they say anything that violates the safety of those higher up in authority.
The ethical experience and lessons of China’s and the world’s response to COVID-19 will be debated for many years to come. But one feature of the Chinese authoritarian response that should not be overlooked is its practice of silencing and humiliating the whistle-blowers who told the truth about the epidemic.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7445730/
BE IT ENACTED by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and
consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
160 False communications offence
(1) A person commits an offence if—
(a) the person sends a message (see section 163),
(b) the message conveys information that the person knows to be false,
(c) at the time of sending it, the person intended the message, or the
information in it, to cause non-trivial psychological or physical harm to
a likely audience, and
(d) the person has no reasonable excuse for sending the message.
https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3137
WE ARE TRULY F**KED!
BBC can lie everyday!
161 Exemptions from offence under section 160
(1) A recognised news publisher cannot commit an offence under section 160.
(2) An offence under section 160 cannot be committed by the holder of a licence
under the Broadcasting Act 1990 or
MM,
That includes us, here.
“Who is Hamish Harding? The billionaire explorer said to be on missing sub”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-65953941
Ok let me guess
“…he was described by newspapers as a space tourist last year.
Harding holds the Guinness World Record for traveling around the earth via North and South Poles.”
Is he the man with the world’s biggest carbon footprint?
“Harding is now the chairman of Action Aviation, an international company…. based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.”
Or just a regular tax dodger?
Film script ? Book deal ? Netflix …. Stop me …
All done before he gets rescued by Elon Musks robots.
There is currently no personal income tax in the United Arab Emirates. As such, there are no individual tax registration or reporting obligations.23 Mar 2023
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Brexit – UK still paying EU vat rates! HA HA HA HA!
Yeah – and try ringing crap HMRC or using the closed ‘crap government gateway crap “
( yes I realise there are 3 craps in one poorly constructed sentence ) …
Jeremy Hunt: everyone will be paying more tax after autumn statement 2022
Everyone. Everyone. Everyone.
1,860,000
Theresa May, Former UK PM earned £1.86 million in her 2 years since leaving Downing Street, figures show
500,000
Barry Gardiner defends donations worth £500,000 from Chinese agent
400,000
Matt Hancock, who lost the Tory whip after it was announced he would be appearing on the ITV programme, is still being paid as an independent MP and is rumoured to have been paid £400,000 to appear on the I’m a celebrity.
315,00
Boris Johnson earns £315,000 for 30 minute speech and ‘fireside chat’ in United States
65,040
Chuka Umunna Advisory Board of The Progressive Centre UK think tank (also known as Global Progress)
20,000
Jeremy Corbyn Labour party leader accepted up to £20,000 (about $27,000) for appearances on the Iranian state broadcast network Press TV
18,450
Keir Starmer £18,450 from Harper Collins as an advance payment for a book.
15,000
Boris Johnson Accommodation for a private holiday for my partner and me, value £15,000 Destination of visit: St Vincent and the Grenadines
10,000
Jeremy Hunt £10,000 from Citigroup Centre for speaking at an event on 9 March 2021. Hours: 4 hrs. Fee paid direct to charity. (Charity not mentioned)
5,822
Nadhim Zahawi MP promises to repay the part of £5,822.27 expenses claim for second home energy bills that relates to electricity for stables
2,200
MPs to get £2,200 pay rise from April for ‘dramatically increased’ duties last year
1,950
Philip Hammond accepts £2,000 watch from Saudi sheikh, despite ban on donating expensive gifts
Crewed by Sino Swearingen’s chief test pilot John Siemens and Hamish Harding, chairman of UK distributor Action Aviation, the SJ30 flew from San Antonio Texas to Goose Bay, Labrador and then from Goose Bay directly to Farnborough, a distance of 4,400nm (8,100km).
https://www.flightglobal.com/farnborough-sino-swearingen-sj30-long-range-business-jet-sets-two-world-records-en-route-to-farnborough-air-show/68487.article
Farnborough: Sino Swearingen SJ30 long-range business jet sets two world records en route to Farnborough air show
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Blue Origin auctions seat on first spaceflight with Jeff Bezos for $28 million
PUBLISHED SAT, JUN 12 20211:08 PM EDTUPDATED SAT, JUN 12 20212:57 PM EDT
Not enough stabbings and sexual assaults in leafy Sevenoaks I guess.
Listen: Nick Ferrari asks a squirming Yvette Cooper if she has taken Syrian refugees into her home
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/listen-nick-ferrari-asks-a-squirming-yvette-cooper-if-she-has-taken-syrian-refugees-into-her-home/
Lucy,
“…Refugees, whose work is invaluable.”
I guess that means holding or challenging the DHSS or Home Office to account via ‘Liberty’ org or CAB or those other lovely lawyers who obtain Legal Aid for their clients. Remarkable when seen in person, those lawyers are virtually all Asian. A stich up if I’m not mistaken.
MUSK WILL SELL HIS SOUL ….
Musk has long maintained that he was considering taking Tesla private at the time he made the tweet. He has said his “funding secured” comment was based on talks with Saudi Arabia’s enormous sovereign wealth fund, which he said had urged him to take the company private and offered to increase its investment in Tesla. Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund invests in entities that are important to the country’s economic growth, and says it had $620 billion assets under management as of early 2022.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/04/cars/elon-musk-tesla-lawsuit-saudi-investment/index.html
Mohammed nazim – blue labour mayor of keighley resigns because he apologised for attending some queer bash … or did I read it wrong ….?
Can always blame the …
“Lord Ahmed had been suspended from the party after he was reported to have been caught on camera blaming his prison sentence – for sending text messages shortly before his car was involved in a fatal crash – on pressure placed on the courts by “Jewish friends who own newspapers and TV channels”.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/may/13/lord-ahmed-resigns-from-labour-party
The mayor of Keighley has resigned after being criticised for describing his attendance at a Pride event as a “lapse in judgement”.
In a Facebook post, Mohammed Nazam said his participation had contradicted his “personal religious beliefs”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-65954361
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0frf1zb/bbc-trailers-glastonbury
Watch this Somerset field get transformed into music paradise.
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BBC sending more staff to Glastonbury than World Cup
This article is more than 9 years old
Corporation says 300 staff will have ‘clear and accountable roles’ at annual music festival, with 272 covering Brazil 2014
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jun/06/bbc-staff-glastonbury-world-cup-brazil-2014
The BBC will send more staff for its coverage of Glastonbury Festival than it is dispatching to the World Cup in Brazil.
Corporation music chief Bob Shennan said 300 staff were being lined up for the weekend, outstripping the 272 who are to head to Brazil to work on its football programming in the coming weeks.
The BBC said it was trying to keep numbers down wherever possible, but each member of staff had a “clear and accountable role” to bring hours of coverage from the Somerset festival.
Saudi woman given 34-year prison sentence for using Twitter
This article is more than 9 months old
Salma al-Shehab, a Leeds University student, was charged with following and retweeting dissidents and activists
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/16/saudi-woman-given-34-year-prison-sentence-for-using-twitter
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Lucy – lol thanks 😎
Isn’t it ‘Muslims against queers ‘?
Saudi buy the Golf and Football – no one cares.
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Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund has taken ownership control of four soccer clubs in the Saudi Pro League—Al-Ittihad, Al-Nassr, Al-Hilal, and Al-Ahli—as part of the Kingdom’s newly announced Sports Clubs Investment and Privatization Project.5 Jun 2023
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Golf no one cares ….
‘Golf truce shows how Saudi money is changing world sport’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/65837770
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Concerns are growing for a Leeds student who has been jailed for 34 years in Saudi Arabia for using Twitter.
Mother-of-two Salma al-Shehab, 34, was charged with following and retweeting dissidents and activists after returning to her home country for a holiday.
She travelled back to the Middle East in 2021, reportedly to see family, but was arrested on arrival. Before the trip she had retweeted content from several Saudi activists questioning the kingdom’s regime.
She was initially sentenced to serve three years in prison for using a website to “cause public unrest and destabilise civil and national security”. An appeals court later handed down the new sentence of 34 years in prison and a 34 year travel ban.
https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2022-08-18/uk-student-jailed-for-34-years-in-saudi-arabia-for-using-twitter
England footy ads -Doritos – and apparently ‘online hate leaves a scar ‘- poor woke kidults -maybe should try real life – without trying to ‘stream ‘ it ….
Relax – he just miss-spoke
Lucy – wanna ticket ? If you play your cards right I know some one – it’s called the ‘gouge the infidel eyes out tour ‘ – great tee shirt …
He does I great ‘stand up ‘ “take my misseses’ please …
Remember – rich golfing people have a red line – unless it’s drawn with money ….
“The PIF’s creation of LIV Golf a year ago, reportedly at a cost of $2 billion, attracted many of the sport’s top players away from the US-based PGA Tour and Europe-based DP World Tour by offering big dollar prize money. It led to a year-long legal battle that banned LIV golfers from the established tours and brought some unwanted attention to Saudi’s human rights record. Critics of LIV Golf accused the Saudis of backing the new tour as a form of “sportswashing” its reputation.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/07/investing/saudi-arabia-pif-golf-liv/index.html
2022 – Stormzy heads programme to ‘inspire change’ and address ‘lack of diversity off the football pitch’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63498884
BUT NOT CHINESE OR JAPANESE FOOTBALL – THAT WOULD BE RACIST.
“The planet will be absolutely fine. If it needs to get rid of the human race, so be it. We haven’t got an exclusive right to exist here. Enjoy your life folks. The people scaring you to death aren’t scared.”
Comment at bottom …
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65948544
Interesting opening segment on war casualties in Ukraine ie not being reported truthfully by the western media:
https://www.ukcolumn.org/
“The first casualty of war is the truth”
Agreed MarkyMark. Give it a million years or so, whatever humans do now it will not change a thing. I would even have a bet on it.
EU to tax your farts.
The EU noxious vapours ( human emissions ) directive bans such human activity – except in France and Germany . Member States are expected to hold it …
https://21stcenturywire.com/2023/06/19/irish-green-party-goes-full-orwellian-restricting-speech-for-the-common-good/
Dominic Frisby sings Nicola Sturgeon😂😂😂
TalkTV 22:10pm I thin Iam watching ridiculous theatre marked as news
TalkTV’s Political Editor Kate McCann “ohh something interesting can’t see Jacob Rees Mogg name on the list of 6 Tories who voted FOR Boris
I texted him to ask if that is true
Oh another text coming in now
Yes it’s him ..he says correct he didn’t vote”
Presenter and her “Un ah I wonder why”
Surely GBnews at 8pm viewers watched JRM telling Farage that Boris didn’t want people to vote, so he JRM wouldn’t be voting
And then since JRM was presenting his own show on GBnews from 8-9pm it was obvious he wan’t voting
There wouldn’t be time in an ad break to run down to vote and get back.
oh JRM didn’t present tonight, Farage presented until 9pm but Mogg appeared as a guest.
Oh no
Green crap billionaire hits ice berg which should have melted cos of climate change fury shock – is Nessie beck ? Page 1 2 3 10. 🦦artists jobby …l
Business news —
“Amazon has pledged to hire 5,000 Ukrainian and other refugees in Europe as part of a wider drive to help people fleeing persecution. Hilton Hotels, Adecco and Microsoft are also among the firms promising to offer work or career support […] Amazon has already committed to hiring at least 5,000 refugees in the US by the end of 2024 under its Welcome Door programme.”
How fortuitous that the increasing number of low-skilled refugees have such caring corporate benefactors looking out for them as they flood into their new countries.
Career support… Welcome Door… I guess calling it ‘Operation Drive Down European Wages’ or ‘Great Replacement’ didn’t make it past marketing.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65954249
Not BBC but the Guardian reporting more Muslim / LGBT high jinks following the Keighley affair: “‘A sense of betrayal’: liberal dismay as Muslim-led US city bans Pride flags”
The former mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan says “We supported you when you were threatened, and now our rights are threatened, and you’re the one doing the threatening […] the majority is now disrespecting the minority. She noted that a white, Christian-majority city council in 2005 created an ordinance to allow the Muslim call to prayer to be broadcast from the city’s mosques five times daily. It did so over objections of white city residents, and Majewski said she didn’t see the same reciprocity with roles reversed.”
You couldn’t make it up. It’s precisely what scholars, historians and laypeople — in fact anyone with a brain — has been warning for years: that once the demographic shifts and Islam becomes the majority, those minority rights so precious to progressives suddenly aren’t worth a fig.
Only the very special (i.e. dullwitted) minds at the likes of the Guardian and the BBC couldn’t foresee the absolute mess that their O-level sociology version of the world would drag us all into. It would be funny if it wasn’t so tragic.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/17/hamtramck-michigan-muslim-council-lgbtq-pride-flags-banned
Weedkiller rather than the Russians putting hormones into Thames Water is now thought to be the cause of the empowerment of LGBT politics, Gender Fluidity and the pride of cutting off breasts and penises in Greater London, supported by BBC PRIDE: https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/kennedy-is-right-atrazine-and-gender
media keep telling me pasta is expensive.
It isn’t.
https://www.grocerygazette.co.uk/2023/06/20/grocery-inflation-drops/?
Springster and Investigative Unit headed to Fortnums to check?
Boris Johnson: MPs back Partygate report as just seven vote against
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65953605
The bbc still going on and on and on and on and.. about yes, partygate
Surely a better report the bbc could do is why parliament has wasted so much money and time about partygate, instead of getting on with day to day running of the country – there has to be a better way than the useless bunch wasting taxpayers money in the houses of parliament
While I completely acknowledge that ‘Partygate’ is wrong, it has been blown up way, way, way beyond it’s importance. Boris was backed into a corner by the BBC’s relentless, daily headline pressure and if he said anything at all which admitted it, it would have been front page news for a week.
It’s ALL about the civil service and the Remainers being determined to utterly destroy Boris so he can never come back. Anybody voting against it will be singled out and their career will be over too.
They are trying to do exactly the same to Trump. It’s no coincidence that the two most popular right-wing leaders prepared to take on the Leftists globalists are being persecuted with such venom. They can do it because the media ‘check and balance’ has become completely politicised and has absolutely failed in it’s duty.
All of this means democracy has now failed in the West. We are now entering yet another period of Left-wing fascism where opposing voices are being silenced. They just can’t help themselves.
Hello JohnC
Hope all is well
100% agree with your comments, and was about to say as the likes of the bbc doesnt ever agree with Trump they do the same – biased organisation, but some still fall for its “reporting”
funny how it all came out after he finally grew a pair and abandoned lockdowns
2022 BBC Host Goes Quiet as His Question for Novak Djokovic Backfires
A period of silence from Amol would be most welcome.
If impossible.
Rajan is amongst the slimiest reptiles on the planet – perfect for employment by the bBBC.
We need the Benny Hill music for this:
“You couldn’t make it up. The launch of Labour’s green revolution got off to a stuttering start in Edinburgh when the eco-friendly, hydrogen-powered bus booked to ferry journalists to Keir Starmer’s press conference failed to turn up.
No explanation was given and the vehicle was hurriedly replaced by a planet-destroying diesel, which promptly took the wrong turning after leaving the station.
Instead of heading east to Leith, the driver set off west towards Glasgow. Fortunately, Scottish Daily Mail reporter Tom Eden was able to point him in the right direction. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12212327/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-thought-Tories-plans-make-poorer-mad-aint-seen-nothing.html
Just for you Zephir 😀
Thanks !!
“The only surprise yesterday was that Ed Miliband wasn’t driving the bus. After all, he’s in the driving seat when it comes to formulating Labour’s energy policy.
Starmer seems to have sub-contracted control of Net Zero to his North London Green Manalishi. It has been a remarkable comeback by the ex-Labour leader, who should have been dead and buried after losing the 2015 election.
Mister Ed set us on the road to ruin in 2008, when he was Gordon Brown’s climate supremo. He announced an arbitrary 80 per cent of Britain’s carbon emissions would be cut by 2050, a target way beyond any other country, with no clue as to how much it would cost.
Although there wasn’t — and still isn’t — any credible way of achieving that goal, it was passed into law with a shameful lack of Parliamentary scrutiny.
The Conservatives, first under Call Me Dave, then Mother Theresa and Boris, lacked the courage to rip up this insane economic suicide note, anxious as they were to clamber on the green bandwagon.
In 2019, 80 per cent was increased to 100 per cent, without any kind of vote in the Commons. “
Hello Pug
I remember the bbc doing a “report” on the UK would run out of sandwiches, and the funny Brexit survival kit with some gullible lady falling for it
Honestly why people fund this organisation, its had its day
“About the only concession to public opinion the Conservatives have made is maintaining a moratorium on onshore windfarms, where local communities object.
Even that doesn’t go far enough for Starmer and his Net Zero guru Miliband. Yesterday, Starmer announced that the ban on onshore windmills will be scrapped by an incoming Labour government.
While he has backpedalled on tearing up existing oil and gas licences in the North Sea, he still believes that Britain’s clean energy future is blowing in the wind.
Maybe if he’d opened his eyes in Scotland yesterday, he’d have paused for thought. One of the most beautiful landscapes on Earth has been comprehensively vandalised by the proliferation of these War Of The Worlds monstrosities. Not only are they utterly useless when the wind doesn’t blow, they have to be turned off when it gets above a stiff breeze.
Despite agreeing not to cancel North Sea licences retrospectively, Starmer is signed up to Miliband’s madcap obsession with eliminating fossil fuels altogether.
That’s regardless of the fact that in Scotland alone it is estimated 150,000 jobs depend directly or indirectly on the North Sea. No wonder the unions are furious.
It’s worth remembering that not so long ago, in 1984, Labour went ballistic when the Tories proposed closing 20 loss-making collieries, with 20,000 redundancies. A year-long miners’ strike, called without a ballot, only served to accelerate that process.
Now Starmer and Miliband appear quite happy to sacrifice more than seven times that number of jobs on the altar of Net Zero. The claim that the slack will be taken up by new jobs in clean energy is at best wishful thinking, at worst risible nonsense.
Most of the wind turbines in Britain are made abroad — in Scandinavia, Spain, the U.S. and, increasingly, in China.”
One thing you can be certain of, though, is that there won’t be any windmills erected on Hampstead Heath, in Starmer and Miliband’s backyard.
Uganda ADF school attack: I covered myself in blood to hide
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-65950983
This is about the absolutely horrific Muslim terrorist attack in which 20 children were hacked to death with machetes and 17 burned alive.
What do we learn about this terrorist group from the BBC ?.
‘It was formed in the 1990s and took up arms against Mr Museveni, alleging persecution of the minority Muslims population.’
Then the entire article concentrates on conjuring up empathy and sympathy about victims.
The word ‘terror’ or ‘terrorist’ does not appear once. The word ‘Muslim’ only appears as part of that sentence intended to infer blame onto non-muslims for what these people did.
I don’t really need to document the type of people the BBC have writing this kind of outrageous agenda-based garbage covering up for Islamic terrorists – but here they are:
THAT is what the BBC is now is. It is absolutely unrecognisable from what it used to be.
Today
An airhead discussion about the ‘need for more lighting at night ‘ . Apparently young men won’t be stabbed to death if it’s ‘light ‘ ….
There were no stats to support such an expensive plan – or indeed how much it would cost taxpayers . There was no opposition – there were no stats for killings in the dark versus killing in the light .
Meesh led the piece but clearly wasn’t interested . I only listened because it was crap .
In the dark, at least you can see the stabbers when they grin
Fed,
Any old crackpot idea gains immediate traction in these febrile times.
G
I did like that one about kids ripping holes in teachers by self identifying as cats or ‘the moon ‘-‘ the moon ‘ one made me laugh out loud .
That kid must be really full of itself …
Hmm. Difficult dilemma. Costs associated with ethnics filleting each other in the streets of London, versus increased costs of Global Warming due to greater use of lighting. Tough one. Who’d be a liberal with moral challenges such as this? Perhaps a curfew on ‘young men’ being out after dark might help…
(Yes, I know global warming isn’t real but let’s pretend for the sake of argument)
In the dark, at least you can see the stabbers when they grin
Today again –
Apparently the crap parliament spent yesterday talking to each other about an ex MP called boris . This should happen more . It will mean less crap laws and even maybe less taxes .
Meesh talked to that red Labour chap Toby Elwood – a man clearly in love with his own voice . I tried to listen but his words just became a drone… Toby has never done anything wrong – never sinned – so was ok stabbing the knife into the ex PM MP .
Now there is glitter gate where police time will be spent investigating a party from 3 years ago ….. standards in public life eh? And the end of the blue Labour part …
“They voted for (a border wall) in 2006. Then-Senator Obama voted for it. Sen. Schumer voted for it. Sen. Clinton voted for it.”
“We still don’t understand why the Democrats are so wholeheartedly against it. They voted for it in 2006. Then-Sen. Obama voted for it. Sen. Schumer voted for it. Sen. Clinton voted for it. So we don’t understand why Democrats are now playing politics just because Donald Trump is in office.”
The Secure Fence Act of 2006
The Secure Fence Act of 2006, which was passed by a Republican Congress and signed by President George W. Bush, authorized about 700 miles of fencing along certain stretches of land between the border of the United States and Mexico.
The act also authorized the use of more vehicle barriers, checkpoints and lighting to curb illegal immigration, and the use of advanced technology such as satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles.
At the time the act was being considered, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer were all members of the Senate. (Schumer of New York is now the Senate minority leader.)
Obama, Clinton, Schumer and 23 other Democratic senators voted in favor of the act when it passed in the Senate by a vote of 80 to 19.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/apr/23/mick-mulvaney/fact-check-did-top-democrats-vote-border-wall-2006/
Obama’s Mixed Legacy on Immigration
There are just no two ways about it: President Obama created the harshest and largest immigration enforcement regime in American history.
https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/obamas-mixed-legacy-immigration#
Immigration Policies Under Barack Obama
During the first years of Obama’s presidency, the number of immigrants deported from the U.S. increased each year, peaking at 409,849 total deportations in fiscal 2012. At the time, pro-immigrant groups nicknamed Obama the “deporter-in-chief” in protest of the policies. After 2012, the annual deportation number decreased, totaling just 235,413 deportations in fiscal 2015.
https://www.boundless.com/blog/obama/
a/ “In their book How Democracies Die, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt argue that democracies slide into autocracy or tyranny, not generally via a cataclysmic moment (e.g. a coup d’état), but by the gradual erosion of political norms and institutions. They identify four indications of this: (1) rejection of democratic rules; (2) denial of the legitimacy of political opponents; (3) toleration or encouragement of violence; and (4) curtailment of opponents’ civil liberties. Levitsky and Ziblatt argue that healthy democracies require ‘mutual toleration’ and ‘institutional forbearance’.”
https://ukconstitutionallaw.org/2023/06/19/tim-sayer-the-passive-virtues-and-the-abuse-of-delegated-legislation-courts-the-political-constitution-and-the-public-order-act-1986-serious-disruption-to-the-life-of-the-community-regulations-20/
b/ UK: “Examples of recent constitutional abuse are myriad, but these include: avoidance of proper democratic deliberation and oversight by side-lining Parliament (or trying and failing to do so); an unusual willingness by ministers to disregard the rule of law; a lack of respect for Parliament’s members; a lack of respect of the devolution settlement and the Belfast/Good Friday agreement; a (putting it mildly) strained relationship with the truth; and, in this case, increasing use of delegated powers to avoid scrutiny.”
You would find it hard to find fault or disagree with this commentary by the The UK Constitutional Law Org.
Tyranny here we come…
Today
Our Justin interviews the blue labour minister for the DWP . He spends 5 minutes talking about the nut nut vote .
Now listen – since March I have had to contact both the DWP and HMRC both through the phone and the internet . It takes hours .
If you are lucky enough not to get automatically cut off the wait time can be over 90 minutes . Yet does this get raised by our Justin ? No effing way . Instead it was actually 10 minutes talking about nut nut .
The BBC is fixated by him . I think they wish he was politically and actually dead . He is ‘unacceptable ‘ in corporate BBC life .it’s a madness .
BTW – the DWP / HMRC website is just crap . But who cares ?
Market rate talent hunt.
https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2023/news/axed-dailies-editor-bounces-back-with-new-bbc-role/?
BBC Emole briefs the W1A staff on what to look forward to…
“Sir Elton John is preparing for the final UK show of his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour – and he’s doing it on the biggest stage of all: Glastonbury Festival. Inventive to the last, he says he’ll be rocking an entirely new setlist and…
…fans should expect the unexpected.”
Putting together a setlist is like sex’ – Elton aims to end on a high
So, totally expected ratings punt over music?
Got to love those red velvet rope VIP areas away from the music.