Midweek 26 July 2023

Integrity is meant to be big in the State Funded BBC . But in 2 weeks it has seen a leading Newsreader confined to a mental hospital after paying for sexual pictures of a ‘young person ‘ Now its ’ ‘business editor ‘ has been found to have received private bank details of a politician and misreported the circumstances of his cancellation by partly State owned bank .
The BBC path to self destruction is getting shorter …

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555 Responses to Midweek 26 July 2023

  1. StewGreen says:

    “Mayor of Rhodes said on channel 4 news last night that only 8000 hotel bed spaces out of 225,000 were affected by fires which only burned on 10% of the island and were now out..”

    Current satellite ground heat detection
    seems Rhodes fires are close to all being out
    .. https://twitter.com/No2BS/status/1684142352854548481

    click the active fires MODIS box bottom left
    https://effis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/apps/effis_current_situation/

    Note the system detects things in urban areas like AC units, oil refineries, steelworks etc.
    so some blobs are NOT wildfires

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    • StewGreen says:

      Also on burnt area view the map seems to over-estimate
      probably counts area where hot smoke was observed as “burnt”
      so in Palermo burnt area map it counts sea and housing estates

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  2. MarkyMark says:

    Voting is around the corner – “Keir Starmer has finally answered the impossible question: this morning he told Radio 5 Live’s Nicky Campbell a woman is “an adult female“.”

    Expect him to peddle backwards after the election!

    “When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    …………………..
    Facebook’s gender identities are a good start – but why stop at 56?
    This article is more than 9 years oldParis Lees
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/14/facebook-gender-identity-56-transgender-cis

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    • Lefty Wright says:

      I wonder if Sir Keir has checked his cervix lately?

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      • MarkyMark says:

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      • G says:

        Yes, all those men purporting to be women, should discuss a number of points with their GP. Such as,

        Abnormal Vaginal Bleeding
        Blood In The Urine
        Unusual Vaginal Discharge
        Pain In The Pelvis
        Pain During Sex
        Irregular Menstrual Cycles, et al.

        Who knows, a hysterectomy may be needed……..

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        • Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

          I recall a kid at school who facetiously suggested to the teacher that the hyphen in the French expression “vas-y” stood for the missing letters “ectom”!

             7 likes

        • BRISSLES says:

          Very good G. These penis women should have a taste of the gut wrenching period pain, or childbirth and they would soon run a mile at the idea of being a woman. It’s more than painting nails and eyeshadow.

             19 likes

  3. MarkyMark says:

    Gary Lineker – Pipe to Pipe Bushman P2PBSH

    Brass Eye Episode 07 – Paedogeddon! (Special)

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  4. Kaiser says:

    check out this nutcase

    The ‘ground-breaking’ first out transgender player at a Fifa World Cup

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66299441

    woman who doesnt want to be a woman so is transgender but is not a man but a transgender non-binary as opposed to just non-binary

    “ground breaking” by being a woman playing womens football

    “now seen as a role model for LGBTQ+ ” in a sport chock full of lesbians

    I dont know who is more confused , them? or me?

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  5. Thoughtful says:

    A very ‘green’ disaster is currently unfolding in the North Sea with a car transporter carrying 3000 vehicles from Germany to Egypt on fire and crewmen dead and injured.

    The cause of the fire? An EV on board whose batteries exploded and caused a fire which could not be extinguished. The comments certainly are only too well aware of the problems with these fuel cells, and here’s a question, if it’s so dangerous that you cannot post one without special safety precautions then how the hell are they supposed to be safe when there’s a whole load of them together in a vehicle which might well be involved in a serious collision?

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      • JohnC says:

        Luxury cars up in smoke after ship catches fire
        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60429584

        lol – I didn’t think the BBC would report it but they did.

        But get this : They completely avoid telling us it was started by an electric car.

        Another whopping agenda-based lie-by-omission from the BBC.

        They may not catch fire very often – but when they do, you can’t put them out. When everybody has them it will be happening very regularly. But the BBC will not go near that because it’s not in line with the agenda.

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        • G says:

          No dried kindling/timber on board then so they can’t blame climate change. Different.

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        • StewGreen says:

          @JohnC no you are wrong there .. you gave an OLD BBC story dated
          18 February 2022

          There was a follow up “A cargo ship that was carrying thousands of luxury cars has sunk off the Portuguese Azores archipelago, nearly two weeks after it caught fire.”

          Breaking ..as I type the BBC have put up a story about this ship
          The Freemantle Highway
          https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66310280
          It mentions EVs as a cause 3 times

          “A Dutch coastguard spokesman said the fire was probably caused by one of 25 electric vehicles on board the ship.”
          (99% of the cars on the ship are not electric)

          That line was used in a tweet 4 hours earlier
          So seems to me the BBC Hollingham woman is cutNpasting from the Dutch newspaper

          new “Extinguishing on the Fremantle Highway is hardly possible and experts therefore speak of a ‘very complicated’ operation.”

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    • G says:

      I imagine the ship insurers, now aware of the problem will sky-rocket premiums for the shippers. All the more the merrier I say. Greens will need to dig deeper to afford one.

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    • jazznick1 says:

      Won’t be long before house insurers will be asking home owners if they have an EV connected to their house overnight….

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  6. taffman says:

    Its high time our Prime Minister sorted out the woke BBC and the woke banks out.
    Its also the time for Nigel Farage to unite The Reform Party, The Reclaim Party, and UKIP together to form a new political party.
    Nigel Farage, the next British Prime Minister ?

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  7. StewGreen says:

    The BBC has apologised after one of its reporters asked the Morocco captain whether any of the squad are gay.

    Mike: “The BBC is so woke now that they think everybody thinks the same way they do.”

    Afua: “It’s just so stupid and short-sighted!”

    In the video from TalkTV, Kevin played the lefty card not someone called Afua
    https://twitter.com/TalkTV/status/1683937164067831808

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    • StewGreen says:

      All media say “The unnamed BBC reporter”
      6 people on Twitter say Mani Djazmi @BBC_Mani
      which fits cos he is the BBC reporter tweeting from the Morocco matches, still can’t be sure.

      “Born in Tehran, Iran in 1980, he later moved to England at the age of four, initially on a short-term basis to undergo a sight-saving operation which was ultimately unsuccessful.
      As a result of his blindness, in 2004, he was allowed to become the first male journalist to be allowed into any kind of women’s football in Iran.”

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  8. digg says:

    Rebecca Solnit of the Guardian writes a long piece about people giving up on climate action because it’s a lost cause..

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/26/we-cant-afford-to-be-climate-doomers

    OK that’s point of view but reading down the article uncovers this enlightening line….

    “The people putting out defeatist frameworks have more impact than outright deniers, not least because deniers are rightwingers and the right is already committed to climate inaction.”

    They are not “right-wingers” they are people who have considered the arguments and just don’t believe the bullshit and it has nothing to do with a political stance.

    So this sums up the Guardian and its smug stance. Anyone not toeing the climate line is a “right-winger” and thus a naturally horrible being, what a stupid and blinkered view and it sums up the childish vindictiveness of this class of people in one sentence.

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  9. Thoughtful says:

    An excuse for the Left wing bias often trotted out by the BBC is the false trope that the complaints of bias are fairly equally divided between right and left, and disregarding the reality that Owen Jones of the Guardian ran a campaign for people on the left to complain in order to falsify the reality of these numbers.

    Perhaps a better metric to use would be the number of times the corporation has been forced to apologise to people or organisations based on political bias.
    It’s not often the BBC apologise because they believe themselves to be perfect, however as we now see they can be forced into it, and although this would only work once it’s a better metric than number of complaints which is meaningless.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      BBC issues apology to Douglas Murray

      Comment “That was not an apology – they apologised for naming him as a hate preacher but did not retract the statement – in fact they repeated it.”

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  10. harry142857 says:

    Simon Jack is in The Priory hiding with Huw in the Jimmy Savile Wing.

    No visitors allowed.

    ————————————

    Maybe in years ahead July will be taught in schools as BBC (Suicide) History Month.

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  11. Terminal Moraine says:

    R5 now on Farage and banking – a neat pivot to discussing the right of everyone to have an account. According to the guest, it’s not victims of political hit jobs who are relevant, rather it applies to foreign nationals who haven’t been here long and those on low incomes.

    “The useful thing about Farage…” she says, is that he’s highlighted these issues that hit others (including one anecdote about Iranians being denied accounts).

    The globalist anti-Brexit bias is practically dripping off the radio.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      At least this story hasn’t been killed yet . I do wonder though – about ‘free banking ‘ in Britain . I have a Euro bank account in an EU country are the charges are eye watering . The service is even worse than in the UK ….

      … perhaps the way banks will ‘vet ‘ people will be to introduce charges ….. on top of crap interest rates …

      And as for Simon Jack – a bbc journo – at the centre of a huge national story – which went right to number 10 and 11 … and he goes on ‘Holiday ‘?
      Maybe Woodward and birnstein should have taken leave instead of pursuing watergate – gate …
      Funny that watergate has a gate in it like every other ‘gate ‘ now – do you think there’s a connection …

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      • Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

        On Radio 4’s brief news at 14:00, the Alison Rose story was down at item number four.

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  12. Flotsam says:

    Alison Rose. Co Chair of the Government’s Energy Efficiency Taskforce.
    She must be a great scientist to be chair of that committee. It’s pretty typical of this Country that a position like that is filled by people without any scientific know-how.

    A member of the Prime Minister’s Business Council.

    Sounds like a jobs for the boys to me. No wonder the Country is going down the tubes. Big business is where it’s at for these people

    It’s truly shocking that a Woke like Alison Rose is driving the Country’s Green agenda. I don’t why she broke confidentiality regarding Farage but must be pretty stupid to have done it.

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  13. Eddy Booth says:

    The Sun going full retard:

    “Russian tank engulfs in flames after direct hit by Ukrainian missiles near Zaporizhzhia”

    British media embarrassing itself worldwide..
    As it’s actually a NATO Leopard tank getting hit by a Russian Lancet drone.
    But why let the truth get in the way of a biased story.

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  14. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    EV’s catching fire. So difficult to put the fire out.

    Am I correct in thinking that many (maybe all) high rise blocks of flats have underground parking?
    If an EV started a fire in a crowded underground parking lot during the night (when charging or whatever happened to the one in the boat or the bus which caught fire near where I live or all the other EV fires) there’s the potential of another Grenfell type of fire.
    Even if you just have a garage as part of your home the EV could set fire to your house.
    I wouldn’t feel safe sleeping in the same building as an EV and I think household insurance will rise if one of your ‘risk factors’ is sharing the house with an EV in the integrated garage.

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    • Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

      This drawback was not mentioned by BBC Green Lefty Justin Rowlatt on their website:

      “The future is electric for the cars on our roads, but is the UK ready for such a major change?

      At the risk of infuriating all you petrolheads out there, let’s just get it out there – electric cars are the future.

      They are clean, quiet, fun to drive and help us tackle the biggest challenge of our era, climate change.

      But there are some big bumps along the road to the UK’s electric destiny.

      Electric vehicles (EVs) are expensive, there aren’t enough chargers, and the switchover could destroy one of the UK’s biggest industries.

      … … …”

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      • MarkyMark says:

        https://insideevs.com/news/672926/china-abandoned-electric-car-graveyard-byd-geely/

        The abandoned cars may have undergone a similar fate. So take the YouTuber’s allegations with a pinch of salt. They reportedly belong to a failed car-sharing service called Microcity, which had thousands of Kandi 11 models, as documented by the Chinese state-owned newspaper People’s Daily.

        Multiple car-rental businesses failed during the same period in China, which could explain the existence of these car cemeteries.

        Also, note that some of the drone footage is over two years old, while some local reports of cars lying abandoned are from 2019. It’s unclear what the current state of the EV graveyard is, and if any action was ever taken to bring these vehicles back to life.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      EG – but at least the residents would die going ‘green’ . The rush to this technology isn’t thought through …. Another symptom of mad times …

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  15. MarkyMark says:

    Eva Vlaardingerbroek
    @EvaVlaar
    Commentator | “Shieldmaiden of the far right” (thanks Dutch press) | As seen on Mark Steyn, Tucker Carlson & Achtung Reichelt | Resist Much, Obey Little | 🇳🇱
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    ~As I’ve mentioned, having groveled and kowtowed to the UK state censor Ofcom over my Covid coverage, GB News merely invited the ravenous beast to come back for more:

    Ofcom has opened an investigation into GB News following a complaint relating to its recently launched ‘Don’t Kill Cash’ campaign.

    Rule 5.4 of the Ofcom Broadcasting Code requires all broadcasters to ensure that their programmes – whatever their genre – exclude all expressions of the views and opinions of the person providing the service on matters of political and industrial controversy or current public policy.

    https://www.steynonline.com/13640/trystless-in-trieste

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    • Dickie says:

      Think BBC Verify should investigate and report on OFCOM.

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    • digg says:

      What the f*ck has wanting to retain cash got to do with F*ck*ing OFCOM?

      It’s a hideous political global club and the general UK population are not invited!

      We are going to have to deal with these stasis like the Dutch and kick them out of office by force of numbers in time.

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  16. andyjsnape says:

    Nigel Farage says more NatWest bosses must go in Coutts row
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66309899

    Why is the bbc keeping Nigel Farage as the top story on their webshte? We have seen this many times before where they go on and on about a subject. Maybe this time they are trying to get people annoyed and turn against Nigel, but other “news” is available surely

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  17. StewGreen says:

    Interesting the claimed timeline for the Alison Rose resignation as 2am

    BBC was late at 2:34am

    6pm “The under-fire NatWest chief executive was backed by the bank’s board today”

    The Times 9:30pm front page trailed
    “No 10 has put NatWest CEO Alison Rose under pressure to resign for having “no integrity” in leaking info about Nigel Farage to the BBC

    10:30pm @kelvmackenzie knew something
    “NatWest chairman Sir Howard Davies must follow Rose out the door.”
    (cos he’d just backed instead of sacked her)

    11 :13pm Sky editor Revealed:
    “The board of NatWest Group is meeting now to determine the future of Dame Alison Rose,
    .. It’s expected that she will step down although no final decision has been taken. More soon.”

    Daily Star tabloid boss Lizzie Cundy 6 minutes later tweeted
    “Breaking news ; NatWest is having a meeting right now and Alison Rose to step down tomorrow with immediate effect”
    a good guess or inside source

    by 12:13am GBnews
    “BREAKING: Dame Alison Rose set to QUIT as NatWest boss as company holds emergency meeting over Nigel Farage leak”

    1:52am Talk TV made it official
    NatWest boss Dame Alison Rose has stepped down

    That looks like TalkTV was breaking a 2am embargo

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    • Fedup2 says:

      £850 million wiped of the nat west cap value – talking about ‘go woke go broke ‘.

      It shows that if people are appointed for tick box purposes the consequences can be enormous – I really hope Nigel Farage shorted the stock as he’d have enough to buy a bank …..

      The financial figures are released on Friday so that could be another ‘event ‘ for nat west …..

      Where’s the BBC business editor – ? Maybe he has gone to Rhodes for his holiday …

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Rishi to give NatWest 80 billion to help the cost of living crisis for board directors?

        Howard Davies

        Chairman
        Date of appointment:
        14 July 2015 (Board)
        1 September 2015 (Chairman)

        Contribution to the Board:

        Howard brings substantial financial services knowledge and experience to the Board, together with a deep understanding of global economic, environmental and social issues. With extensive board level experience, Howard draws on his prior regulatory and supervisory expertise to contribute both strategic and practical insights to Board discussions and debate. Howard is also a highly adept Chairman with valuable leadership and stakeholder management skills.

        https://www.natwestgroup.com/who-we-are/board-and-governance/group-board/howard-davies.html

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  18. MarkyMark says:

    Rishi Sunak is currently being ripped to shreds at the Infected Blood Inquiry, as families laugh out loud at his repeated non-answers and obfuscation. The scandal happened decades ago, as he has discovered Prime Ministers still get the blame for everything. How will his wooden performance style fare on an election campaign? Just minutes in, he’s managed to agitate the audience already, dodging questions over whether any compensation plan would soon be in place.

    order-order.com

    ……………… Rishi hopes they will all die before it ends ……………….

    The Infected Blood Inquiry statistics report, published in September 2022, set out to establish the true numbers of those infected and includes David Spiegelhalter among its authors. The report found that around 1,250 people with bleeding disorders were infected with HIV in the UK and that at least a further 2,400 people were infected with Hepatitis C.[2] The report concluded that around three-quarters of those infected with HIV have died and that at least 700 people infected with Hepatitis C had died.

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    • Richard Pinder says:

      Desperate to hide his profiteering from the deadly mRNA jabs, Rishi Sunak is ploughing ahead with plans to scan all of our messages through powers in the Online Safety Bill. This will be one of the most authoritarian internet laws in the Western world and will be a disaster for free speech and privacy. These Orwellian plans include using new technologies that will be installed in our phones to snoop on our messages across entire messaging platforms. The Online Safety Bill, Rishi Sunak’s censor’s charter, will be used by his Counter Disinformation Unit [CDU] to monitor the speech of journalists, politicians, and members of the public online to keep tabs on dissent, and censor the fact that the current British Prime Minister is personally profiting from the Moderna vaccines, earning billions as a founding partner of London-based hedge fund Theleme Partners, a major investor in Moderna. The company is registered in the Cayman Islands, a tax haven which does not require companies to make their accounts public. Sunak placed assets into a trust. Control over the trust and its assets were given to an unknown trustee. There is a petition calling for Rishi Sunak’s ‘Ministry of Truth’ to be shut down: https://www.change.org/p/shut-down-the-ministry-of-truth

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      How many times has Rishi Sunak filled his car this week?

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  19. Fedup2 says:

    Money box live ….renting

    The BBC hates private landlords – so reports the hardship renters are suffering because of the ‘anti ‘ rhetoric of the BBC – blue labour and the rest – no change likely either ( I’m not a landlord – I’d rather leave it empty ) …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      What a result! Campaigning football star Marcus Rashford has bought five luxury homes worth more than £2million
      Campaigning football star Marcus Rashford has bought five luxury homes
      Striker, 23, has ploughed an estimated £1.5 million into three houses in Cheshire
      He has mortgages from the Queen’s bank, Coutts, for all five of the properties
      By ANDY BUCKWELL AND MAX AITCHISON FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY

      PUBLISHED: 22:06, 14 November 2020 | UPDATED: 18:25, 15 November 2020

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      Not sure what the psychology behind it is but BBC seem to relish running strories about a problem, here acute rental shortages, but without mentioning the cause, here obviously rapid mass immigration.

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      • BRISSLES says:

        Yet its BBCs Homes under the Hammer who show how many ‘property developers’ there are, and just look who most of the landlords are !

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        • digg says:

          Yes and see how many of the new landlords immediately slam another floor on the roof to make it suitable for the massively extended family including granny and grandad etc.

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    • Flotsam says:

      Renters are suffering because of punitive regulation and taxation of Landlords.

      The fun

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Yes -by a blue labour government with a hostile media – no wondering they are selling up ….

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        • BRISSLES says:

          I had never heard of Homes of Multiple Occupancy heard many times now on HUTH. It seems that any large 3 bed house can be converted to individually occupied rental rooms.
          Can’t say I’d like one next door to me. It’s a throwback to Victorian times onwards when young married started life in “rooms”.

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  20. Fedup2 says:

    Not much – no – coverage of the ship fire – electric battery fire ? Green crap cover up

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    • StewGreen says:

      updated 10 minutes ago
      “Salvage boats have been circling the ship in preparation for all possible scenarios and an oil-recovery vessel has been sent to the scene in case of a leak. Air traffic officials have barred planes from flying near the ship.”
      It said they already moved it once, out of the shipping lane

      They add that last ship in the Azores there fire was stopped but later the ship sunk whilst being towed.

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  21. MarkyMark says:

    Marcus Rashford … “He has mortgages from the Queen’s bank, Coutts, for all five properties, which were bought in the past three months. It is believed they will be used as buy-to-let investments.”

    Coutts?

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8949391/Campaigning-football-star-Marcus-Rashford-bought-five-luxury-homes-worth-2million.html

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  22. Fedup2 says:

    Good that Kevin spacey got x9 not guiltys. I wonder how strong the evidence was ….? Must have been tough coming to the UK to answer the charges ..

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  23. s.trubble says:

    R4 Toenails

    During his call with N.Farage , Nigel confronted him about being condescending. he immediately squawked ” I was only teasing you”

    They are clearly on a damage limitation mode and have sent Mr Simon Jack, a DJ….somewhere out the road….

    I hope Farage re opens the attack on bBC by asking who in the bBc the low level paper gatherer Jack spoke to after reconfirming with Ms Rose.

    I do beleive that the head of his division must have given green light….or even Mr Tim Davie.

    Or were they in on it.

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  24. Richard Pinder says:

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    Stop the Boats: Two people trying to escape to the wonderful Brexit Britain paradise, from France, due to riots in the collapsing and awful European Union.

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    • micknotmike says:

      Evening Richard,
      It may be that your considerable wit has gone over my head, but isn’t that a certain couple from Martha’s vineyard? If it is, who is running the u.s.of a. while they are away?

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    • Dickie says:

      Is that “Michael” in the front of him?

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      • micknotmike says:

        Hi Dickie,
        You know I’m not sure, it’s a heck of a coincidence if not. Way too subtle for me.

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  25. Guest Who says:

    Mikey makes Richard Littlejohn seem like Owen Jones.

    And the sad little weasel actually thinks a YouGov poll means anything.

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    • Guest Who says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      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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    • Guest Who says:

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Guest who – could you please decode the tweet you put up .

        The bigger ‘thing ‘ about Farage is what happens when a woke CEO of -say – a water company or electricty company decides they won’t supply water or power because of their ( legal) political views -?
        Because that is where this goes . It’s not just about Farage – it’s the next stage of cancellation – after that it’s the cattle trucks …

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        • StewGreen says:

          Carl Benjamin a libertarian is commenting on the way the lefty Daily Mirror journo is championing the right for capitalist firms to act without rules from government
          ie they get the right to do whatever they want
          This is against the typical lefty anti-libertarian way , which want to put whole range of controls on companies
          ie what price they can sell at, what wages they can pay etc

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      • StewGreen says:

        That graph actually says shares have only fallen 3%

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  26. Guest Who says:

    BBC N. America lost its shizzle again yet?

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  27. Guest Who says:

    BBC and LBC expert eeks.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Coppola is on, cos she HATES Farage
      not cos of anything she knows about banking.

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  28. MarkyMark says:

    Christine Lagarde convicted: IMF head found guilty of criminal charges over massive government payout
    But former French finance minister, who faced potentially one year in jail, will not face any punishment

    Peter Walker
    Monday 19 December 2016 15:15

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/christine-lagarde-convicted-imf-head-found-guilty-of-negligence-in-fraud-trial-a7484586.html

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  29. MarkyMark says:

    International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has been convicted over her role in a controversial €400m (£355m) payment to a businessman.

    French judges found Ms Lagarde guilty of negligence for failing to challenge the state arbitration payout to the friend of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/christine-lagarde-convicted-imf-head-found-guilty-of-negligence-in-fraud-trial-a7484586.html

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  30. Deborah says:

    I switched on the BBC1 news to hear how they treated the resignation of Dame Alison. I saw Lucy Manning reporting on Kevin Spacey. The disappointment in him being found not guilty was palpable.

    Apparently, according to the 6pm news, Nigel Farrage CLAIMED his bank account had been closed. Interesting use of ‘claimed’, I thought it was a fact that his account had been closed. The item finished by saying only 1400 accounts were closed each year. I do know someone whose accounts were closed. Perhaps it is chance but I wonder where the BBC got the figure of 1400.

    Of course Nigel then was unable to open an account at 10 other banks. I don’t suppose that is included in the 1400.

    I haven’t even got to Yemen or forest fires and climate change, cannot face it.

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  31. tomo says:

    Saw a tale about Hunter Biden earlier – apparently one Hunter’s lawyers impersonated a member of the Federal judiciary and convinced the IRS to not pursue disclosure evidence wrt Biden junior because of some arcane technicality…

    Sounds both desperate and criminal to this peon.

    Could find it earlier but The New York Post seems to have the story via a Google search

    It’s drama apparently ….

    https://nypost.com/2023/07/25/hunter-biden-lawyer-accused-of-deception-to-seal-damning-evidence/

    CNN are wibbling on about something too.

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  32. albion49 says:

    The BBC Wales NorthWest News website has the headline ‘Heavy rain warning for parts of Wales for Sunday’. That item is almost a week old – the warning was for LAST Sunday! And despite me sending in a complaint, the item is still there. Typical BBC shoddiness.

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  33. Fedup2 says:

    The inhumanity of sunak came to the fore today . The nhs infected haemophiliacs with contaminated blood products which has and is killing them . Yet sunak is holding off on compensation payments to ease suffering . More will die before any payments are made . Sunak knows this .

    Disclosure – a distant relative caught AIDS from NHS blood products and died a slow horrible death – his widow deserved better .

    Don’t forget to clap .

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    • StewGreen says:

      Em there already has been big compensation
      “In October 2022 the government paid £100,000 interim compensation to everyone currently registered on a UK Infected Blood Support Scheme”
      that’s living victims and widows

      I think the current argument is about how much other people should get
      eg children
      Well if you were 17 when your dad died, should you really get £100K ?
      and parents of children who died.
      If you had a weak child and they got a blood transfusion and died of aids at aged 2 , should you get £100K ?

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  34. Fedup2 says:

    I wonder what the court of appeal judgement is the innocent rapist case is going to look like ? Will any Greater Manchester `plod be held accountable ….how much of a fit up was it ?

    Whatever – that chap deserves a shed load of money – a shed load ….

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    • digg says:

      As well as a shed load he needs multiple ex Agamemnon cops to have their fat pensions removed and possibly jail time as well for perjury.

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  35. Sluff says:

    Stop Press.

    Hunter Biden’s plea deal is reported to have fallen apart.
    https://www.newsweek.com/hunter-bidens-sweetheart-plea-deal-falls-apart-during-hearing-1815507

    ….and various other news outlets.

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor – whose hit Nothing Compares 2 U propelled her to worldwide fame – dies aged 56

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66318626

      “Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time.”

      Tell us the details and we won’t need to ask..

      I can’t remember about her, was she pro jab, a muslim convert or something

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      • JohnC says:

        It’s a shame when anyone passes away so young – but she was absolutely batsh1t crazy. A very good example of the kind of ‘talent’ arty types such as the BBC idolize – and apply their usual double-standards to forgive all the bad things they do.

        As is so often the case for these people, I won’t be surprised one bit if it’s another suicide/drug overdose. Showbusiness has far more than it’s fair share of alcoholics/drug addicts/suicides which tells us a lot about the kind of people it attracts. And these days, those who would love to do it but don’t have any talent work for the BBC.

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Moderator note –

          I’m finding it very hard to keep up…

          I can’t even think to list the events of – what – the last 14 days –

          Even today
          A bank CEO dame woke is gone at 0200
          Farage is after more blood at 0900
          Bank bosses on the naughty step 1100
          Sunak won’t pay NHS victims 1400
          Spacey not guilty x9 – that’s x9 1500
          A horrendous miscarriage of justice – no Irish involved 1600
          Irish singer dies … 2000

          Blimey ….

          Then going back

          Mystery bbc newsreader at funny farm
          BBC newsread dies
          BBC business Ed goes on Holiday by mistake
          Bit hot in the med
          World to end in 2025
          X3 bi election ( yawn )
          No nato for blue labour Mod bloke
          Johnson babe made peer at 29 ( yes 29 )
          Inflation still bad – very bad
          NHS on strike as usual
          Boats keep coming – despite brexit
          Coloured boys killing coloured boys( usual )

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      • Dickie says:

        Probably both

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Eddy – i know it’s venal – but I always wonder what % of the royalties she got for that song .the writer – for whom there isn’t a thing on my type pad – must have got a lot eh? But he’s not around any more either ….

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  36. tomo says:

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  37. tomo says:

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      “This”😄
      Yeah I’m going to watch to find out..

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    • Dickie says:

      Saw this at the end of Monday’s UK Column news. Talk about cringe.

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    • StewGreen says:

      there’s double misinformation going on
      #1 It’s not a new video, It’s from 22 Oct, 2022

      #2 It’s not real nurses or NHS
      .. It’s Extinction Rebellion doing a Fake NHS Tik Tok dance dancing
      They mention Manifesto for Liz Truss

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  38. digg says:

    TV as it should be….

    For a wonderfully refreshing change from the constant skewed agenda rammed down my throat I love to watch “The canal boat diaries” on the Yesterday channel.

    It follows a young chap navigating his canal boat alone along the waterways of England and giving a lovely informative commentary as he goes.

    There is no enforced diversity

    There is no political skewing

    There is no thought police agenda

    There is no climate bollox

    There is no “message”

    Just a very very watchable and entertaining program beautifully delivered as they should be.

    Look it up, you won’t be disappointed!

    More like this please and much, much less appalling BBC mind control and society manipulation crap.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Digg – please keep quiet about the ‘yesterday ‘ channel – it seems to have slipped past the wokes for the time being -meanwhile the private ‘old films and show ‘ channel has to issue a list of ‘warnings ‘ about how things were 20 plus years ago …. Long before woke

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    • StewGreen says:

      em it is a BBC prog, it is OK
      The first PR said it got made cos he was going out with a BBC producer and she said ‘Well split up cos I can’t live on a boat with you , but it would make good tv series’

      Yesterday is one of the 7 commercial channels the BBC run
      mostly with its old progs

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  39. Fedup2 says:

    In an earlier post I said I hope Nigel Farage made a killing shorting NatWest shares – it seems the owner of GBNews ? Made £5 million today doing just that ….. excellent …

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  40. StewGreen says:

    Another Ratio for BBCweather
    ‘Doesnt everyone agree our weather map colours are completely honest ?’
    ..https://twitter.com/WatchRatio/status/1684264950619832320

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  41. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    The UK leads the world in its net zero efforts.

    This can now be proved without any doubt.

    While most of Europe and North Africa is a pile of glowing ash and doctors can now walk from Libya to Italy, we in the UK are enjoying cool to cold temperatures and constant rain.

    All our efforts are paying off.
    Maybe Greece should copy what we are doing so that the temperatures can drop by 20 degrees. If they start now they should be ok by next week.

    I must doff my cap to the greens who were right all the time.

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  42. MarkyMark says:

    Beano comic celebrates 85 years and features Stormzy and Harry Styles as cartoons
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/66298334
    _130511272_beanomainpic.jpg.webp

    Well, 3,000 children aged seven to 14 were asked that question and they picked Harry Styles and Stormzy.

    ……………

    “Never had a MAC-10 ( Military Armament Corporation Model 10 similar to an Uzi) or a trey pound (357 magnum gun/revolver)
    You were never bad then, you ain’t bad now
    Never had the MAC then, little nigga, back down” – Big for Your Boots by Stormzy

    – GQ Politician of the Year 2017: Sadiq Khan (or Kahn) (spelt incorrectly as ‘Kahn’ on the image {twitter – Kate Hopkins})
    – GQ Politician of Year 2016 Sadiq Khan
    – GQ Politician of Year 2015 George Osborne
    – Rapper Stormzy calls Theresa May a ‘paigon’ {dailymail.co.uk sep2017}
    – paigon. friend that lies betrays and isn’t true
    – ‘Tories have been reduced to personal name-calling’: Jeremy Corbyn criticises Boris Johnson’s ‘mugwump’ comment {telegraph apr2017}
    – STORMZY – OH JEREMY CORBYN at Glastonbury 2017 *MUST WATCH* {youtube} (p.s. not very good if you just went to Glastonbury for the songs and not a political broadcast)
    – Diane Abbott discusses online abuse “We are very clear in the Labour Party. That if you are known and you are peddling racist, homophobic, anti-semitic abuse, you will face a penalty. The problem with a lot of this abuse though is it’s anonymous. ” – Diane Abbott @1:56

    https://genius.com/Stormzy-brits-2018-performance-lyrics

    Yo, Theresa May, where’s that money for Grenfell?
    What you thought we just forgot about Grenfell
    You criminals and you got the cheek to call us savages
    You should do some jail time, you should pay some damages
    We should burn your house down and see if you can manage this
    . – MPs sniff coke we just smoke a bit of cannabis

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  43. digg says:

    Kevin Spacey found innocent, bloke released after years in jail due to false accusations by Police…

    Is this the worm turning against charlatans and gold diggers?

    Who is going to pay them back for the horrific pain they have endured or do we just look the other way?

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    • TrickCyclist says:

      And are they going to start showing his movies again on telly?
      Moon has been on (for which Spacey does a HAL-type computer voice) but I haven’t seen American Beauty, Se7en or any of his other flicks in ages.

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  44. tomo says:

    Newsnight out defending the NatWest poisonous woke witch with what looks like another broomstick jockey from the same stable?

    https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1681787977217736707

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    • digg says:

      They have a shared lefty bloody nose and are just circling the wagons.

      I hate them all….

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  45. Dickie says:

    Alex Christoforou in Moscow. Impressive metro system and shopping mall. Sanctions really working eh.

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  46. tomo says:

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  47. StewGreen says:

    Sopel, Maitlis, Blair
    they did it last year too

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Working with political leaders to drive change
      https://www.institute.global/

      Fit for the Future: A Modern and Sustainable NHS Providing Accessible and Personalised Care for All
      https://www.institute.global/insights

      ………………………

      Tony Blair’s £5m deal to advise Kazakh dictator
      By
      Robert Mendick,
      CHIEF REPORTER
      23 April 2016 • 11:29am

      …………………

      Blair’s bizarre deal to sell ‘deliverology’ to Colombia, paid for by the United Arab Emirates… and Cherie can come along too
      Former Prime Minister struck deal in 2013 to advise on mining industry
      Contracts boasts about his ‘on-the-job experience and politician instincts’
      Critics question whether ex-Premiers should work for other nations
      Blair’s office deny any conflict of interest involved in his business dealings
      By MATT CHORLEY, POLITICAL EDITOR FOR MAILONLINE

      PUBLISHED: 12:44, 19 April 2015 | UPDATED: 15:31, 19 April 2015
      …..

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    • MarkyMark says:

      25 years ago today, I was elected leader of the Labour Party. Labour went on to win 3 successive General Elections allowing us to deliver a better, fairer Britain through progressive policies and dramatic public services improvement. #thingsgotbetter – Tony Blair.

      ………………………….

      460,000 deaths in Iraq as direct or indirect result of the war including more than 60% of deaths directly attributable to violence.

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  48. MarkyMark says:

    2018 … Goodbye BBC reporting … hello HELLO Magazine …

    “Is that news? Are you serious? Somebody’s tooth brushing habits … I’m not going to waste the viewers time with this rubbish. Let’s talk about toothbrushing .. Emily do you floss?” Gorka @4:16

    https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/01/06/weekend-open-thread-172/comment-page-4/#comment-891452

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  49. MarkyMark says:

    “If you put to one side ….” …. £325,000
    Several of those on the highest-paid list for 2021 have since departed the BBC to join commercial rivals, freeing up Dan Walker’s £220,000 salary, the £325,000 paid to Emily Maitlis, and the £225,000 a year salary of the former North America editor Jon Sopel.12 Jul 2022

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