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  2. MarkyMark says:
    July 13, 2023 at 8:55 am

    0f57a5a1-c402-4568-8fb0-126c84a03b2b-eedf3919-f68b-4c4d-b566-bc21569d4095

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  5. Up2snuff says:
    July 13, 2023 at 9:16 am

    TOADY Watch #1 – Toady in a tiswas
    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – What is on the front page of the Daily Express?

    As a keen long-term listener of TOADY and its predecessors, I remember Jack de Manio, I note that there is a certain amount of confusion in the TOADY Studio. Just like on some Saturdays, the missed the newspaper review at 6.45 a.m. and again at 7.45 a.m.. Could it be anything to do with the BBC’s embarrassment at certain of the newspapers coverage?

    Or is it the BBC’s over-interest in Nick Robinson’s TellyTaxpayers-funded ‘jolly’ around the Mediterranean? This morning Nick is reporting from Italy. I note that the Daily Express appears to be missing from the newspaper Blog: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-66184441. I wonder if its front page contains anything unfavourable to the BBC or its LibbyLeftLabour ‘running dogs’?

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    • Up2snuff says:
      July 14, 2023 at 7:32 am

      CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS DEPARTMENT

      It was not the Daily Express missing from the BBC Blog it was the Sun newspaper. It is often missing but was the Sun in conflict with the BBC over Presentergate?

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  6. BRISSLES says:
    July 13, 2023 at 9:30 am

    Nick Robinson in Italy?, hope his glasses aren’t steaming up too much in the 40deg heat 🙂

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  7. andyjsnape says:
    July 13, 2023 at 9:31 am

    Greek coastguard ‘pressured’ disaster survivors to blame Egyptian men
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66154654

    So what, there’s me thinking it was the illegals who were at fault, but no find fault in the coastguard

    And even use bbc verify to back this up

    As long as the media keep blaming the traffickers and not arresting the illegals they will be not be returned and be given “free” everything, housing, schooling, healthcare, etc

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    • MarkyMark says:
      July 13, 2023 at 9:42 am

      A reminder from Libya …..

      Gaddafi wants EU cash (£4bn) to stop African migrants {bbc.co.uk aug2010}

      “Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi says the EU should pay Libya at least 5bn euros (£4bn; $6.3bn) a year to stop illegal African immigration and avoid a ‘black Europe’.
      …
      ‘We don’t know what will happen, what will be the reaction of the white and Christian Europeans faced with this influx of starving and ignorant Africans,’ Col Gaddafi said…
      …
      He told them that Islam should become the religion of Europe and gave them free copies of the Koran, after he had lectured them for an hour on the freedoms enjoyed by women in Libya.”

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/06/10/start-the-week-open-thread-11-june-2018/comment-page-2/#comment-922325

      “Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi says the EU should pay Libya at least 5bn euros (£4bn; $6.3bn) a year to stop illegal African immigration and avoid a ‘black Europe’.

      “Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi says the EU should pay Libya at least 5bn euros (£4bn; $6.3bn) a year to stop illegal African immigration and avoid a ‘black Europe’.

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  8. Sluff says:
    July 13, 2023 at 9:39 am

    BBC star presenter takes time away from the New Broadcasting House HQ while all around he receives criticism for his actions.

    No doubt about it……….Nick Robinson’s so-called journalism in Tunisia is absolutely pathetic.

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  12. Guest Who says:
    July 13, 2023 at 10:09 am

    Moving, or trying to, Vile style.

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    • Ian Rushlow says:
      July 13, 2023 at 11:14 am

      I can understand where Vine is coming from. Imagine if newsreaders had to check the age of teenagers before they ask them to send them mucky pictures or meet them. Or, if migrant rape gangs had to check the age of their victims to make sure they weren’t underage.

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    • Fedup2 says:
      July 13, 2023 at 11:39 am

      The very question is click bait . Vine is clever to be ‘controversial ‘ hence enabling him to keep his moral high ground and pay .
      I wonder what his listening / viewing figures are like . I find him … from the same stable as comrade c Robinson …..

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    • MarkyMark says:
      July 13, 2023 at 11:54 am

      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

      https://memory-holed-news.blogspot.com/2023/05/this-government-would-reduce-and.html

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  13. Guest Who says:
    July 13, 2023 at 10:15 am

    In other news, the state vs. the people.

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/13/ellesmere-port-residents-derail-hydrogen-heating-trial/

    We got an LPG car a long time ago. No real problems, except Eurotunnel. Compressed cylinders of explosive gas were deemed an issue.

    Luckily there are E… oh.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54634802

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  14. andyjsnape says:
    July 13, 2023 at 10:43 am

    “the BBC complaints department is soooo busy” – interesting, love to be a fly on the wall

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    • Guest Who says:
      July 13, 2023 at 11:21 am

      Cue them issuing a template blow off.

      Fascinating this is their default to the most serious issues.

      Almost like it is a cynical game.

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  15. taffman says:
    July 13, 2023 at 10:53 am

    “Tourism: Wales failing to attract overseas visitors – MPs”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-66171190
    Shortage of hotel space ?
    Perhaps already full with “visitors “?

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  16. Dickie says:
    July 13, 2023 at 10:59 am

    worldwide trafficking of children:

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    • MarkyMark says:
      July 13, 2023 at 11:52 am

      Liverpool council finds 24 adult asylum seekers who are posing as children as it launches legal fight to stop almost £1million in taxpayers cash being spent on their care
      Liverpool council say 39 refugees with age in doubt have arrived in the city
      Following assessments 24 were found to be adults, while only 15 were under 18
      Support for under-18s is much better than for adults, so some lie about their age
      By LIZ HULL FOR THE DAILY MAIL

      PUBLISHED: 00:03, 8 December 2018 | UPDATED: 00:19, 8 December 2018

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    • RightSide says:
      July 13, 2023 at 3:51 pm

      I’ve seen the film and it’s daytime TV film quality. It is fiction.

      There is a review at https://odysee.com/@Blackpilled:b/freedomsounds:e

      3 out of 10

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      • Guest Who says:
        July 13, 2023 at 4:11 pm

        So? I doubt I’ll watch it, but not even ‘based on a true story’ with Lenny Henry as Cleopatra?

        So? Never heard of them.

        So?

        Does Mike Wendling pursue other actors from B Movies that score poorly on this review platform?

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  17. Guest Who says:
    July 13, 2023 at 11:14 am

    As one interested on matters environment, future, etc… for my children you understand, I pay attention to the swirling morass of govt, media, NGOs, activists who drive policy.

    Only yesterday I was witness to a discussion between ‘sustainable funding’ experts from some Draculaesque Cephalopod organisations gaily batting around the trillions of public taxes they can skim if only their pets can kick more governments into cooperating.

    It was impressively horrifying. As was how many of these young bankers there were, all vying to boost their bonuses for Net Zero.

    Relying on the help of studios with massive screens in red and purple.

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/whats-causing-this-record-breaking-heat/?

    No doubt toenails has created a local heat dome in Greece.

    Can’t wait for Surkeer, Rach, Ange, Ed and Dawn to get in.

    https://apnews.com/article/europe-climate-change-plan-nature-fcc04f4397ef373ba584a8112f18cee4

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  18. Guest Who says:
    July 13, 2023 at 11:23 am

    https://newsthump.com/2023/07/12/second-mortgages-to-jump-by-500-for-people-buying-taylor-swift-tickets/?

    And enough spare to get a €300 coat (plus tax).

    Not a BBc repeat.

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  19. Guest Who says:
    July 13, 2023 at 11:27 am

    Every so often a science correspondent surprises.

    https://www.acsh.org/news/2023/07/09/fathers-milk-cdcs-science-free-breastfeeding-advice-17184

    “The CDC recently issued guidance related to breastfeeding for “transgender and nonbinary-gendered individuals.” It may be the most absurd set of recommendations the agency has ever released.”

    They are part of the BBC’s TNI set, right?

    QT needs to get in Nancy (not that one).

    https://dailysceptic.org/2023/07/11/celebrating-stonewall-ceo-nancy-kelleys-achievements/

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  20. Fedup2 says:
    July 13, 2023 at 11:36 am

    If you like unintentionally funny tick box ‘social justice ‘ propaganda dress up – why not listen to 30 minutes of From or our correspondents ‘
    – coloured folk as victims £ ‘reparations ‘
    Coloured folk illegally getting into Europe –
    Something eco – about dams
    Coloured folk who don’t like tourists – Algeria

    There might have been the usual treatment of queers in bongo bongo land but I was laughing too much ……

    Shall we send Huw a sexy ‘get well card ‘?

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  21. JohnC says:
    July 13, 2023 at 11:40 am

    Just saw my news feed proclaim that Sopel is publicy supporting Edwards. Must be thinking how lucky he is that it wasn’t him in the news.

    But I do notice that the narrative has changed to ‘lets all feel sorry for him’ because he’s conveniently put himself into a mental-health hospital and is playing his trump card. The terminology has switched from ‘doing something wrong’ to doing ‘something criminal’.

    But I realised we still have no idea of the victim. It occurs to me that it proves it is a boy because if a 58 year old pale-and-stale had been paying a 17 year old girl £35K to strip off on Skype, he would have been crucified my the misandrists.

    But if it’s a rent-boy, it’s clearly not so bad. Males are less important.

    What an interesting double-standard to add to the list.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      July 13, 2023 at 11:45 am

      His wife, Rachel, has 30 per cent and the remaining 19 per cent is owned by Martha, one of their two daughters. Richard Murphy, an accountant at Tax Research, said: ‘He is obviously using the company to reduce his tax bill. It is perfectly legal, and perfectly allowed. ‘What is a little unusual is his daughter.7 Mar 2015

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2983593/Jeremy-Vine-daughter-10-shareholder-lower-tax-bill.html

      Let’s be honest, she (Vine’s 10 year old) is unlikely to have said, “Daddy (BBC Jeremy Vine) , I want to spend my pocket money on shares in the company”.’

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      • Guest Who says:
        July 13, 2023 at 11:53 am

        As F&F69 intones… “It’s all about family”

        Interesting claim (unverified) in comments to the Pesto/JulesHB spat:

        Sir Gareth T Wildebeest III 💎

        Interesting that Peston is choosing to attack everyone but edwards himself on his programme. Hey wait a minute, isn’t Edwards wife the editor on his show ? This circle didn’t take long to square did it

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  22. Sluff says:
    July 13, 2023 at 11:56 am

    Don’t you think it’s appalling how the media really target an individual?

    Check these headlines out, all from the same source.

    BBC to resume enquiry
    More on Huw Edwards
    Who is Huw Edwards?
    The Huw Edwards story so far
    How the allegations unfiolded
    Wife Vicky Flind’s statement in full.
    This is such dramatic news.

    Truly The Sun is totally despicable…………errrr……wait a minute.
    Just joking.
    These are ALL on the BBC webshite front page at the time of writing.

    What was that about glass houses and stones?

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  23. andyjsnape says:
    July 13, 2023 at 11:56 am

    Huw Edwards: Naming is a huge shock for viewers
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66182728

    We will be shocked because the bbc tells us. But after many high profile people who have worked for the bbc, i’m not shocked

    Quote
    “Edwards became one of the main anchors on the Six O’Clock News in 1999” maybe a W missing

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    • Fedup2 says:
      July 13, 2023 at 4:07 pm

      Surely the only shock was that it took so long to ‘come out ‘…. Even the car was telling me ‘huw ‘ ‘Huw’ ….

      I really hope the girl who provided the pictures sells her story ….
      … and it seems ‘bbc insiders ‘ are now talking about the conduct of Edwards …. Have they stopped his pay ?

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      • Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:
        July 13, 2023 at 4:24 pm

        “Huw Edwards’s conduct was reportedly being examined by BBC News journalists including Newsnight presenter Victoria Derbyshire, before The Sun’s claims.

        On Wednesday, Edwards, 61, was revealed to be the suspended presenter at the centre of allegations, after it was claimed an unnamed BBC star paid a young person more than £35,000 for sexually explicit images.

        After several other claims, the Met police confirmed there is no evidence of a crime being committed, and Edwards’s wife shortly afterwards released a statement on his behalf.

        … … …”

        Source: Metro.co.uk

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  24. tomo says:
    July 13, 2023 at 11:58 am

    Sheesh …

    Telegraph Ukraine piece shonky on so many levels…

    https://archive.is/YlKsE

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  25. Up2snuff says:
    July 13, 2023 at 12:41 pm

    TOADY Watch #2 – like the BBC, is the UN past its use(fulness)-by-date?

    Nick Robinson, is uncertain where he actually is in Italy (he mentioned he was in Sicily at one point but then he was in Sardinia – maybe travelling madly – the BBC emitting CO2, so you don’t have to!) and interviews a gent from the UN with an English name who has responsibility for refugees for Italy. The thought occurs that the UN is probably as wasteful of taxpayers money as is the BBC and the UN may have a dedicated someone for all 204 nations in the world responsible for their treatment of refugees.

    Anyway, this UN gent was obviously suffering brain damage or a lack of brain cells judging by what he said about illegal migrants. He claimed that the Italians had lost the equivalent of a large town or small city (sorry, cannot remember name) and that Italy needed these illegal migrants and their skills. I laughed out loud at that and would have spluttered my breakfast all over the computer screen and keyboard had I been eating it at that stage. I immediately went to the PC to check the unemployment rate in Italy. It is nearly 2 yes, two million in June this year out of a population of nigh on 60 million.

    Nick played the ‘Far Right Georgia Meloni thing’ throughtout the programme. The last bit I heard was Nick interviewing people at fishmarket in, I think, Sardinia. Do they want more illegal migrants in Italy? Do they want more refugees in Italy? Apparently, in Italy as in the UK, immigration reduces wages or take jobs that the UK unemployed could do.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      July 13, 2023 at 1:15 pm

      Dear Anna Soubry,

      Can you tell me why people have to “Suck It Up” regards immigration when your party leaders have said the following:

      1978 … “Every country can take some small minorities and in many ways they add to the richness and variety of this country. The moment the minority threatens to become a big one, people get frightened.” – Margaret Thatcher 1978

      2012 … “Two and a half years ago, the coalition governme nt 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…. And we know that for people in low-paid jobs, wages are forced down even further while some people are forced out of work altogether. … So there is no case, in the national interest, for immigration of the scale we have experienced over the last decade.” – Theresa May 2015

      Yours sincerely

      Video of Anna Soubry saying “Suck it up! Suck it up!” “Anna Soubry vs Caroline Flint on the Norway/EEA option.”

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    • MarkyMark says:
      July 13, 2023 at 1:17 pm

      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…. And we know that for people in low-paid jobs, wages are forced down even further while some people are forced out of work altogether. … So there is no case, in the national interest, for immigration of the scale we have experienced over the last decade.” – Theresa May 2015

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  26. vlad says:
    July 13, 2023 at 1:10 pm

    Call me cynical, but I wonder exactly when Huw suddenly discovered he had serious health issues needing hospitalisation. At about the time sordid revelations started leaking out, perchance?

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    • JohnC says:
      July 13, 2023 at 1:32 pm

      Vlad, I’ll bet my hat he checked himself into the hospital – maybe even at the suggestion of the BBC as part of the damage limitation strategy. And of course they are laying it on very thick with as much ’emapthy’ as they can get away with by interviewing other BBC staff.

      They key point of course is that he wasn’t depressed or in hospital when he did it or threatened those who didn’t go along with him. Here are the main headlines for the BBC ‘live feed’:

      Imagine how Edwards must be feeling – colleague

      ‘We have to shine a light on ourselves as well’

      Edwards angry and let down by coverage, Sopel says

      ‘Desperately sad’ situation, Welsh first minister says

      The Sun needs to explain its coverage – former legal correspondent (actually a former BBC legal correspondent)

      Did the Sun get it wrong? Nicky Campbell

      “I think he’s been very naive in trusting people perhaps before he really knew them.”

      As much as you can trust someone you meet on a gay chat forum then pay £35K to strip off while you watch on skype with your boxer shorts round your ankles.

      The BBC are doing their usual trick to force their agenda view down everybodies throats.

      The ‘victim’ in all of this who is now a drug addict (if it’s true) has been totally and utterly dropped by the BBC. He’s not helpful for the agenda.

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      • BRISSLES says:
        July 13, 2023 at 2:19 pm

        Yes it’s ALL about Edwards and HIS welfare. Not a word for his poor wife and kids that have had to deal with the fall out. If his mental condition was so flaky that he crumbled as soon as he was challenged about the allegations, then he shouldn’t have been on air.

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  27. s.trubble says:
    July 13, 2023 at 1:50 pm

    What,s come out of HUWGATE for me the the absolute cynicism the bBC has for us…
    By us I mean British people on the whole….the prime funders of its existence under threat of law.

    Furthermore, it is now many months since Ms Dorries put forward a formal request to the nonentity who calls himself a Director General.

    WHERE IS THE PLAN TO convert your organisation to a subscription based model.

    The contempt that this bBC has for us can only be repelled by the wholesale cancellation of Licence Fees.

    Its a sad state of affairs that something purporting to be a Conservative party is the exact same as VINE and his pals
    ” they wont read the room”

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    • Kaiser says:
      July 13, 2023 at 2:00 pm

      remember the good old days when Cecil Parkinson resigned due to having an affair with a woman of a suitable age for him.

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      • TrickCyclist says:
        July 13, 2023 at 2:13 pm

        Kaiser,
        I also remember the days when Leslie Grantham, BBC EastEnders star and convicted murderer, got caught pulling himself off on a webcam in front of an undercover reporter.
        He later claimed he was set up – how does that work, then?

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  28. Guest Who says:
    July 13, 2023 at 2:12 pm

    Lunchtime T-surf.

    Of course not, silly. Or media. Or, clearly, a brain is optional.

    Even Doctorates mean little. Shola… this guy.

    Citing himself in Mad Al’s BrexWeenie Wahh Mag.

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  29. Terminal Moraine says:
    July 13, 2023 at 2:24 pm

    I think it was AsISeeIt on here who described our PM as ‘Swindon Regional Manager’ which is a fine description, and has always stuck with me.

    I just heard him on the public sector pay rises and he came across as Swindon Regional Manager doing a guest spot on Jackanory. It was the disturbing oratorial effect of a PM bot designed by AI and run through CBeebies software in post production that came to mind.

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  30. MarkyMark says:
    July 13, 2023 at 2:26 pm

    David_Brent_111.jpg

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  31. Terminal Moraine says:
    July 13, 2023 at 2:32 pm

    Here’s Wendling asking the star of the child sex trafficking movie that the liberal media would rather wasn’t doing so well to take him — and presumably the BBC — seriously.

    BBC fact checkers looking a bit like they’re being reduced to the journalistic equivalent of ambulance chasing.

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  32. Siempre Recht says:
    July 13, 2023 at 2:56 pm

    Any one else watching the women’s semi-final at Wimbledon, between the Russian hating bigot Svitolina from the Ukraine, who refuses to shakes players hands, against some Czech?

    The BBC’s bias for the Ukrainian is simply outrageous!

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  33. Sluff says:
    July 13, 2023 at 2:57 pm

    Siempre.
    Yes.
    And in another fine example of equality…….

    Wimbledon women’s singles semi final.
    A tight, gladiatorial match. Ebb and flow. Great athleticism.
    Errrr, no.
    Straight sets (two).
    Match all over in 1 h 15 m.
    The loser managed to win a magnificent…..four games.
    Well worth the equal pay (£600,000) as the men. Not.

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  34. tomo says:
    July 13, 2023 at 3:17 pm

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    • MarkyMark says:
      July 13, 2023 at 3:21 pm

      China? Saudi? Russia? USA?

      ……………..

      500,000
      Barry Gardiner defends donations worth £500,000 from Chinese agent

      Jeremy Hunt: everyone will be paying more tax after autumn statement 2022

      Everyone. Everyone. Everyone.

      1,860,000
      Theresa May, Former UK PM earned £1.86 million in her 2 years since leaving Downing Street, figures show

      500,000
      Barry Gardiner defends donations worth £500,000 from Chinese agent

      400,000
      Matt Hancock, who lost the Tory whip after it was announced he would be appearing on the ITV programme, is still being paid as an independent MP and is rumoured to have been paid £400,000 to appear on the I’m a celebrity.

      315,00
      Boris Johnson earns £315,000 for 30 minute speech and ‘fireside chat’ in United States

      65,040
      Chuka Umunna Advisory Board of The Progressive Centre UK think tank (also known as Global Progress)

      20,000
      Jeremy Corbyn Labour party leader accepted up to £20,000 (about $27,000) for appearances on the Iranian state broadcast network Press TV

      18,450
      Keir Starmer £18,450 from Harper Collins as an advance payment for a book.

      15,000
      Boris Johnson Accommodation for a private holiday for my partner and me, value £15,000 Destination of visit: St Vincent and the Grenadines

      10,000
      Jeremy Hunt £10,000 from Citigroup Centre for speaking at an event on 9 March 2021. Hours: 4 hrs. Fee paid direct to charity. (Charity not mentioned)

      5,822
      Nadhim Zahawi MP promises to repay the part of £5,822.27 expenses claim for second home energy bills that relates to electricity for stables

      2,200
      MPs to get £2,200 pay rise from April for ‘dramatically increased’ duties last year

      1,950
      Philip Hammond accepts £2,000 watch from Saudi sheikh, despite ban on donating expensive gifts

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    • Dickie says:
      July 13, 2023 at 4:40 pm

      JUST IN – China has penetrated every sector of the UK economy.

      Including takeaways😂😂. How awful.

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      • Fedup2 says:
        July 13, 2023 at 5:12 pm

        Can’t really understand why China would waste the effort with Blighty – apart from the subs it hasn’t got any defences – got a dead economy – huge debt – a one party state just like China – a dominant state broadcaster – huge welfare dependency – no threat at all ….

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        • MarkyMark says:
          July 13, 2023 at 6:02 pm

          The UK may not be the top priority for China when it comes to espionage and
          interference, but it is nevertheless of significant interest, mainly given our close relationship
          with the United States (US): China sees almost all of its global activity in the context of its
          struggle with the US. The UK is also of interest given its membership of international
          bodies of significance to China and the perception of the UK as an opinion-former – which
          plays into China’s strategy to reshape international systems in its favour. These factors
          would appear to place the UK just below China’s top priority targets, as it seeks to build
          support for its current ‘core interests’: to mute international criticism and to gain economically.

          Click to access ISC-China.pdf

          Does China own part of Thames Water?

          Thames Water is owned by a consortium of pension funds and sovereign wealth funds, including the state-owned China Investment Company and Abu Dhabi’s own national investment authority.28 Jun 2023

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      • BRISSLES says:
        July 13, 2023 at 5:44 pm

        And my Chinese takeaway (as those in Chinatown, London) only takes cash – no nasty cards or cheques for them!

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  35. MarkyMark says:
    July 13, 2023 at 3:23 pm

    Click to access ISC-China.pdf

    Intelligence and Security
    Committee of Parliament
    China
    Chairman:
    The Rt Hon. Sir Julian Lewis MP

    ….
    The Rt Hon. Sir Julian Lewis MP
    I receive a complimentary car parking pass from South West Trains (valid until June 2003). (Registered 12 July 2001)

    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=10358

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  36. MarkyMark says:
    July 13, 2023 at 3:25 pm

    PP. The UK’s academic institutions provide a rich feeding ground for China to
    achieve political influence in the UK and economic advantage over the UK. China
    exerts influence over institutions, individual UK academics and Chinese students in
    order to control the narrative of debate about China – including through the use of
    Confucius Institutes in the UK – and it directs or steals UK academic research to
    obtain Intellectual Property in order to build, or short-cut to, Chinese expertise.
    However, the academic sector has not received sufficient advice on, or protection from,
    either.

    Click to access ISC-China.pdf

    …………….

    2017 … 2017 ….

    Amber Rudd, are schools teaching “Islamist extremist material” being tracked?
    A DEGREE OF INFLUENCE: The funding of strategically important subjects in UK universities
    “What is noticeable from the research undertaken in this report is the disparity
    in the levels of funding from the countries studied. There are huge amounts
    of cash currently being donated by Arab and Islamic sources (University of Cambridge / £1.2m / UAE / Appointment of a full-time lecturer specialising in Islam / 1996), and this has undoubtedly
    led to a degree of influence in the oversight of UK universities. China,
    however, while donating only a relatively small amount of cash, has managed
    to gain a disproportionate amount of influence in UK higher education via its
    Confucius Institutes. What is also clear is that, in terms of money donated, the
    likes of Japan and Russia do not appear to have the desire to influence higher
    education in the same way as China or certain countries in the Muslim world.”

    https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/07/10/start-the-week-open-thread-132/comment-page-4/#comment-851565

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  37. Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:
    July 13, 2023 at 4:00 pm

    The BBC’s Ben Rich, in an article “Where has the Summer gone?” on their website:

    “… … …

    But March brought a huge turnaround with places that had seen almost no rain in February receiving a real deluge. It turned out to be the UK’s sixth wettest March on record.

    Spring warmth was hard to come by. After a cool April very warm weather was distinctly lacking in May. Nowhere reached 24°C until the month was nearly over, on the 27th.

    However, that theme changed dramatically in June. Temperatures soared to 32.2°C, with a heatwave being declared in many places. Ultimately it was the warmest June on record which, according to the Met Office, bears the “fingerprint of climate change”.

    … … …”

    Although it doesn’t show here because of how I copied it, the last nine words are underlined and bolded! So the effect is:

    [… according to ] THE MET OFFICE, BEARS THE “FINGERPRINT OF CLIMATE CHANGE”.

    Exclam!!!!!

    The BBC really is childishly pathetic at times.

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  38. MarkyMark says:
    July 13, 2023 at 4:14 pm

    8efe2be7-0e78-476a-96f2-af053add8115-1f63532a-89b9-43ca-81f8-4e3d8f092e95

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  39. Fedup2 says:
    July 13, 2023 at 4:30 pm

    The bbc now has a programme called ‘VERIFY ‘- It is bought to you by the ministry of Truth ….

    At the moment it seems pre occupied with investigating drowned third worlders off the Greek coast – with not a TV licence in sight ….

    VERIFY gives its politics away by the subjects it deals with – very much in the way BBC News had a poisonous ‘100 days ‘ to assassinate president trump throughout his term – but not so much with the false president …

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    • MarkyMark says:
      July 13, 2023 at 5:54 pm

      YOUR COMPLAINT:

      President Trump’s 100 Days President Biden’s 0 Day 

      Dear Winston Smith in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth,

      You covered President Trump’s 100 Days and then produced a Beyond 100 Days to hold power to account.

      Why have you not done the same for President Biden to hold power to account?

      ‘Omission is the greatest form of lie.’ 

      ———-

      Thank you again for contacting us,

      BBC Complaints Team
      http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints

         5 likes

  40. Dickie says:
    July 13, 2023 at 4:50 pm

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  41. Doublethinker says:
    July 13, 2023 at 4:58 pm

    If the BBC policy of persuasion that dear Huw was the victim of the Sun and social media and is totally innocent of any wrong doing , maintains its current momentum then it is on the cards that he could reappear on our screens within a few months.
    I can imagine the BBC eagerly reporting that its switchboard is jammed by callers desperate to see their best friend Huw back on tv.
    Whatever happens I’m sure that the scandal will be used to try and tighten up the regulations , not those of the BBC but those which restrict the press and censor social media. Amazingly rather than do great damage to the foul corporation the scandal surrounding Edwards could be turned to the advantage of the BBC and the woke brigade! Even Dr Goebbels would be impressed.
    It shows how difficult it is going to be to overthrow our hyperglobalist woke oppressors by democratic means.

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    • JohnC says:
      July 13, 2023 at 5:29 pm

      Amazing how they are all complaining about the behaviour of the media now – but nobody had a bad word to say about it when the BBC did the same thing against every Brexit/BBC Defunding member of the cabinet until they finally got rid of them. Even if it took weeks on onslaught.

      That period was absolutely outrageous BBC political agenda. It only ended now they have all gone.

      So I have no time whatsoever for the shameless hypocrites like Sopel suddenly taking offence at it.

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  42. Guest Who says:
    July 13, 2023 at 5:31 pm

    Saw a post with a term that made me laugh, bitterly: “grievance archeology”.

    And boy is the far-gone BBC staffed up for that. Especially when distraction or hits are needed.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66166795

    Far-right Finnish leader Riikka Purra sorry in racist posts uproar

    ***

    But, she has apologised, so they claim another scalp. No word on her hospital plans.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      July 13, 2023 at 5:51 pm

      “Mr Orpo made clear on social media there was and each of the government’s ministers were committed to working against racism at home and abroad.”

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66166795

      ………………

      “zero tolerance for racism”

      ………………….

      The BBC has sparked a discrimination row after only allowing people from ethnic minorities to apply for a trainee position. The broadcaster is advertising a one-year, £17,810 trainee production management assistant role with its Science Unit in.19 Jun 2021

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  43. JohnC says:
    July 13, 2023 at 5:37 pm

    Ronan Kanda: Teens sentenced for boy’s mistaken identity murder
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-66187503

    With the pic:
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    Murdered by these two:

    _130372713_combo.jpg.webp

    Ah I thought at first. Yet another story about India from the BBC. But a quick click later and I realised what a stupid assumption that was : it was West Midlands.

    I wonder how many times the BBC need to run such a vastly disproportionate number of murder stories involving black and Asian people before they twig something just isn’t right.

    Only kidding : they know full well – but it’s against their far-left agenda so they ignore it. One of many extreme racist double standards they have.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      July 13, 2023 at 5:54 pm

      1985 ….

      Ahmadis suffer vicious persecution around the world. The main source of fuel for that persecution is in Pakistan, but what happens in Pakistan does not stay in Pakistan.

      I know that from my experience in the Yorkshire market town of Batley. In August 1985, when I was 11 years old, my parents organised an inter-faith meeting in the town hall. It was interrupted and disturbed when, according to West Yorkshire police,

      more than 1,000 extremists, led by Pakistani hate preachers funded by the Pakistani state, were bused in from around the country.

      The mob brutally attacked my English mother and my father, a dermatologist; my eldest brother and I; and a Welsh Ahmadi schoolteacher who was with us. My first cousin, a GP, was by chance driving through the market town that day. He saw the mob and saw his family and friends being attacked, so he stopped. He was recognised, pulled from his vehicle and savagely beaten up.

      https://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2020-03-12a.177.0&s=islam+batley#g195.0

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      • Up2snuff says:
        July 13, 2023 at 7:35 pm

        MM, is that your own personal experience of Batley?

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        • MarkyMark says:
          July 13, 2023 at 9:11 pm

          Never been – I know three teachers are hiding from Islam – possibly on strike though?

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      • StewGreen says:
        July 13, 2023 at 8:12 pm

        quote is Imran Ahmad Khan
        Former Conservative MP for Wakefield
        was jailed for 18 months after being convicted of groping the teenager at a party in 2008
        Released Feb 2023 after 9 months.

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  44. vlad says:
    July 13, 2023 at 5:46 pm

    The BBC are right about one thing: Huwie Boy did, indeed, represent BBC values, i.e. in the gutter.
    He was indeed the voice and the face of BBC News: extremely dodgy and slightly bonkers.

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  45. MarkyMark says:
    July 13, 2023 at 5:55 pm

    Cause the problem – fix the problem.

    This House is aware that the Post Office Horizon scandal has had a devastating impact on the lives of many postmasters since it began over 20 years ago.

    The Government is deeply concerned about ensuring the fair treatment of this group.
    (GOV LET IT HAPPEN AND HIDE IT)

    The tax treatment of payments made under the Horizon Shortfall Scheme (HSS) and the Group Litigation Order (GLO) scheme is of vital importance to ensure fair compensation, and a key part of this is the consistency of such treatment with other historic compensation schemes, and the principles behind such decisions.

    The Government has already announced its decision that payments made under the GLO scheme and payments made to postmasters with overturned convictions will not be liable for Income Tax and that top-up payments will be made to ensure that the compensation of those on the HSS is not unduly reduced by tax.

    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wms/?id=2023-06-29.hcws896.h&s=post+office+horizon#ghcws896.0

    With the Government being the sole shareholder in the Post Office, we will continue to work across Government and with the Post Office to ensure the postmasters get the full compensation they deserve.

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  46. davylars says:
    July 13, 2023 at 5:57 pm

    Huw Edwards mental health issues plus needing hospitalisation has to be taken in the same context as the ridiculous statement about nurses using food banks.
    Everyone knows it is bullshit, but nobody dares say so…

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  47. Lucy Pevensey says:
    July 13, 2023 at 6:01 pm

    Llanellians fighting for their town.
    We are going to have to keep this up everywhere, everytime.

       18 likes

    • MarkyMark says:
      July 13, 2023 at 6:06 pm

      The mayor of New York City is made to share Gracie Mansion with three African-American families from Harlem; migrants gather at coastal ports in West Africa and South Asia and swarm into Europe, Australia, and New Zealand; London is taken over by an organization of non-white residents known as the “Non-European Commonwealth Committee”, who force the British queen to have her son marry a Pakistani woman; millions of black Africans from around the continent gather at the Limpopo River and invade South Africa; and only one drunken Soviet soldier stands in the way of hundreds of thousands of Chinese peasants as they overrun Siberia.

      The epilogue reveals that the story was written in the last holdout of the Western world, Switzerland, but international pressure from the new governments, isolating it as a rogue state for not opening its borders, along with internal pro-migrant elements, force it to capitulate as well. Mere hours from the border opening, the author dedicates the book to his grandchildren, in the hopes they will grow up in a world where they will not be ashamed of him for writing such a book.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camp_of_the_Saints#Plot

         6 likes

    • taffman says:
      July 13, 2023 at 11:34 pm

      Lucy Pevensey, well spotted ! Well done GB news!
      Looks like the taffs in the south are putting up a good fight ? Let this send a message and an example to our cousins in England and Scotland that Wales is doing its bit to defend Great Britain from the government’s plans for the invasion of our homeland by foreign forces .
      Are you in England going to stand with us ?

      I have been told that there is more to this story than we are being told by the BBC.
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-66195039

         10 likes

  48. MarkyMark says:
    July 13, 2023 at 6:05 pm

    Kemble Water
    https://www.thameswater.co.uk/about-us/governance/our-structure

    DENG, Ying

    Role ACTIVE
    Director
    Date of birth
    April 1985
    Appointed on
    18 February 2022
    Nationality
    Chinese
    Country of residence
    England
    Occupation
    Manager

    Nationality
    Chinese

    Nationality
    Chinese

    Nationality
    Chinese

    https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05819317/officers

       5 likes

    • StewGreen says:
      July 13, 2023 at 8:07 pm

      Kemble currently has 16 officers
      8 are British
      3 are Chinese
      1 is Korean
      4 are Canadian/American/Norwegian

         3 likes

      • MarkyMark says:
        July 13, 2023 at 9:12 pm

        KIM, Jae Hun

        Role ACTIVE
        Director

        Nationality
        South Korean

        Country of residence
        United Arab Emirates

        Occupation
        Senior Investment Manager

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  49. TrickCyclist says:
    July 13, 2023 at 6:16 pm

    Currently the third most watched on BBC News homepage:
    “Woman with brain condition left with Welsh accent”

    Meanwhile, man with Welsh accent and mental condition seems to be rapidly disappearing from the same homepage.

       34 likes

    • StewGreen says:
      July 13, 2023 at 8:01 pm

      That woman’s mental condition is “attention seeking syndrome”
      Her brain plays around giving her all kinds of weird accents German, Welsh etc.
      I’m guessing some doctors would say that if people stopped rewarding her with attention
      then the accent changes would stop

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