We enter the doldrums of the year . The sons and daughters of BBC executives are doing their job experience as interns before continuing the dynasty on the taxpayers ‘ cash .Viewing and listening figures continue to plunge as the BBC happily destroys itself .
Midweek 9th August 2023
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Of course BBC does adverts PRasNews all over the place
pushing favoured agendas whilst suppressing other
Wind Farm [arts company is bragging about the long Countryfile item about them
as if the first thing you think about for countryside is components for INDUSTRIAL machines that fill the fields and seas
SSE as well https://twitter.com/sserenewables/status/1688507311437053952
I just checked over the item
as usual it’s easy to spot disinformation
The misled by saying the UK had a lot of turbines before 2000
Then she said the location generated “more than 100MW”
actually it’s about 48MW on average
She said that the inustry doesn’t track it’s wastage ..I bet that actually hey have to by law.
There another Green agenda in the prog
low tillage soils
An org tweeted twice about the PRasNews they got
.. https://twitter.com/AfbiSoils/status/1688508348172300288
Corruption in US 2020 presidential elections in Michigan:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/now-we-have-proof-tgp-exclusive-massive-2020/
Dickie – the planning for theft of the election by the Obama crew must have been immense – particulary the destruction of evidence and ensured non investigation by the Feds ….
.. but surely it is inevitable that some cases would get through – which the msm would duly ignore ‘ cover up and distract using political trials of trump …
.. it’s a bit like the attention the laptop has not had – there’s a sort of amnesia around it – meanwhile bbc msm suck in every breath of accusations against the true president .
How the US people accepted it is beyond me …
I honestly believe that a huge number of the US population are several sandwiches short of a picnic. There is a saying that the only way the Americans learn geography is by invading other countries.
One might have thought the BBC might’ve covered this – anyone seen a mention?
#FBILivesDontMatter
Black Knives do
Hardeep Singh Kohli charged with sexual offences.
He is a Scottish comedian of Sikh heritage.
He used to appear a lot on the BBC. Then he claimed he was put on a BBC blacklist because of his pro-independence views. The BBC denied there was such a blacklist. But I think they might have dropped him because there were whispers of “inappropriate behaviour”.
To be honest, I never liked him as a personality or as a comedian. I never thought he was remotely funny. I always thought he was a mirthless creep, controlling, manipulative and overbearing. And I am always suspicious of people who wear turbans espousing the Scottish nationalist cause.
Quite right – guys and gals …. Was he a friend of the prince of wales ?
Vile has been told to persist until things appear as desired.
Is his claim as quoted correct though?
It’s just the media has been known to blur actual with narrative.
Vile also likes to use quotes as headlines.
https://twitter.com/JeremyVineOn5/status/1689247206614736896?s=20
Seems Vile took inspiration from his political sages.
GW,
Can I advise on the comment re Abbopotumus?
Why not seen? – Awaiting the healing of wounds and black eyes her son has inflicted? Pure delicious speculation……
Meanwhile soak and dope chat to each other, with few others taking part.
Got to be a BBC QT panel certainty.
Or…..?
I defend Diane Abbott’s right to freedom of speech, absolutely.
Her some what ‘troubling ‘ comments suggest a one way ticket to the Lords – certainly starmer will want a more compliant token coloured girl at the cabinet table – thinking on though – I’m not sure if abbot has ever had real responsibility other than blabbing on Question `time and being the fool on lucrative BBC shows …
GW,
Some years ago, I worked with the Government on urgently required changes in law. This evil Goblin was involved.
That she is afforded any credibility at all, along with most others, is something the BBc should be ashamed of.
Note the sign she is holding – just not in her home.
Still sorting out the spare room… after how many years?
Diane beat them to the draw
….ooops – worth repeating.
Lampedusa isn’t Dover
Saves on UK hotel bills and benefits, in some small part.
I’m sure the Italians will be mourning their recent loss …
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
A BBC TNI partner.
GB News must be due another Ofcom investigation after this:
and do it all on Legal Aid – or with a bung from a Soros funded outfit
Disability TRUMPS Ability. Now all Amir Ali Majid’s 20 years of cases and immigration cases need to be reviewed … Blind immigration judge ‘had no idea of the law or his own powers’ says panel after 12 out of 13 appeals against his rulings succeed
“Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association chairman Adrien Berry said: ‘It is hard to see how he first passed the judicial exams and then why it has taken so long for his lack of knowledge to be exposed.”
When you give people special privilege above the law, you get no law and 1400 raped and tortured children over 16 years … ‘In August 2014 the Jay report concluded that at least 1,400 children, most of them white girls aged 11–15, had been sexually abused in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013 by predominantly British-Pakistani men.’
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/10/02/start-the-week-open-thread-144/#comment-870538
Guardian reports:
“A weekend of Eritrean cultural festivities in Toronto was canceled by city officials following outbreaks of violence and demonstrations by oponents [sic] of the Eritrean government. Clashes between attendees and protesters left nine people in hospital and were the latest in a string of global skirmishes that have drawn fresh attention to human rights abuses in Eritrea and tensions between diaspora populations.”
Not to be confused with the Eritrean cultural festival in Stockholm last week where a thousand people set booths and vehicles on fire. Or the Eritrean cultural festival in Germany in July that left 26 police officers injured.
Culture is part and parcel of living in a big city, right?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/07/toronto-eritrea-festival-canceled-human-rights-violation-protest-canada?ref=upstract.com
ITV local NewsPR beach traders complain about the poor summer weather
.. it could change a bit soon
People not attracted to a sea which is supposed to be warmer than normal .. probably still freezing cold
…………..
The EA said they are analysising a Bridlington beach’s water
they reckon ird poo could play a part, but they won’t have completed analysing until next year cos they are going to freeze today’s samples first.
Markymark made a comment earlier about quangos, which bears further scrutiny…
“Cameron’s ‘Bonfire of the quangos’ to cost double original estimate
This article is more than 11 years old
National Audit Office puts the bill for abolishing 262 public bodies at £830m, not the £425m ministers proposed in 2010
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/jan/20/cameron-bonfire-quangos-double-estimate”
While it’s still an article by the awful Graun, I wonder if anyone here has heard the term ‘Quango’ recently?
Have they all become extinct, or have they turned into ‘charities’, so they can save on tax?
I can understand jobsworths turning up for quango ‘meetings’ and pretending to know what they’re doing – it’s usual for those types, but somehow, the term seems to have lapsed in the general state of things…
Or am I completely wrong…?
I suppose that when labour become the government next year, we’ll have a whole host of new names for even more useless organisations – I wonder what they’ll call them…?
Sue Gray was one of the principals in Cameron’s proposed quango bonfire.
– just saying
Scroblene – I think red labour will go for ‘the Peoples committee for public safety ‘ and the like … – but it won’t be any different from the current blue variant of the same bottom – left right cheeks …
As far back as 2001, the powers that be were trying to rebrand Quangos.
The term I recall was NDPB which stood for ‘Non Departmental Public Bodies’.
Luckily we kept calling them Quangos, so we would know what they really were.
2010 … There is tension between reducing the influence of unaccountable
‘quangos’ and de-politicising controversial decisions
Quangos
plans for a ‘bonfire of the quangos’ included
plans to create 17 new ones,
such as the
Office of Tax Simplification and the Office
of Budget Responsibility. Despite politicians
of all persuasions pledging to reduce the
numbers of quangos, their growth has been
long-term and international.
Why is this so? Quangos can provide
specialist expertise and have a longer-term
focus than is afforded in a highly politicised
environment. They can also benefit from
the heightened authority resulting from their
relative freedom from political considerations.
The fiscal deficit has put yet more focus
on expenditure by quangos. But given
the deficit in public trust in politicians,
will the trend towards outsourcing
controversial decisions be checked in
practice?
Click to access key-issues-quangos.pdf
Quango (Quasi Autonomous NonGovernmental Organisation) is not an
official term. The Cabinet Office lists NonDepartmental Public Bodies (NDPB) in its
annual Public Bodies publication.
The larger quangos are quite simply out of control – emboldened by the abject failure to rein them in – anywhere.
NDPBs are a putrid farce.
What was the original budget of HS2?
A recent report from the National Audit Office revealed the anticipated cost of the station had hit £4.8bn, roughly 85% higher than the original £2.6bn budget.25 Apr 2023
The quango called OFCOM says that any reports about ‘mass murder’ using a bioweapon on the public (hidden by the ONS under pressure from five eyes) is not authorised and harmful to government and big pharma viewers. GB News OFCOM compliance officer, Nick Pollard is compliant with ‘mass murder’ and has warned Laurence Fox not to mock OFCOM by using a German accent. Neil Oliver has also been warned by Nick Pollard not to be angry about OFCOM’s censorship of mass murder. Mark Stein is in trouble for content harmful to mass murderers, by allowing for primary source evidence directly from Pfizer’s own documents released under court order, presented in reports compiled by 3,500 medical and scientific experts, including oncologists, radiologists, medical fraud investigators, RNs, biological scientists, and a range of other physicians and clinicians who found that Covid vaccines are very dangerous and ineffective, risking harm to viewers who were not given informed consent, due to government censorship of mass murder revealed in these documents, which OFCOM thinks should remain secret for 70 years, because of ‘harm’ to those in authority if legal action is taken against them by someone like Bobby Kennedy Jnr, or Elon Musk. This is because a psychopath is someone who thinks that ‘Harm’ to OFCOM is more serious than ‘Mass Murder’
Richard
Surely you must support BBCOFCOM for safeguarding the public from unapproved thoughts or doubt ? And surely the public shouldn’t be troubled with the disclosure of facts ?
More seriously – as the Chinese virus is excised from the collective public consciousness – and replaced by COLC ©️
( Cost of living crisis ) and green crap – people won’t worry about the premature death of sports types , celebrities and the proles – or that long term illness people now suffer after dodgy batches of jabs ( my theory about lack of quality control ).
Besides – there’s a public inquiry – and – I reckon – a shadow inquiry which will not be disclosed even in existence – one for ms spring there…
Making fun of BBCOFCOM should also be discouraged and made a criminal offence . Perhaps the existence of BBC OFCOM should not be acknowledged by the British State as it might undermine the approved messages taxpayers are meant to consume ….
TPTB must resent Blair’s babes for taking seditious libel off the statute books?
Well, thanks everyone for these explanations of what QUANGOS are capable of these days…
I guess that by this time next year, there’ll be so many more red labourites stuffing themselves into a myriad of new ones, all ineffective, but sucking even more on the taxes paid by the Private Sector!
Brown spent his last few months in No10 creating so many new ‘charities’, and lots of new ‘committees’, all capable of getting our money in vast swathes, that there was never any time – or inclination, to do what Cameron muttered, there were just too many!
All Ofcom seem to be doing with their tax money, is spending it on trying to bring down GB News, but you’d expect that with so many ex-Beeblings hanging in there.
Comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli charged with sex offences
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-66454248
‘Mr Kohli has presented several programmes for the BBC’
Oh dear, being a bit economical with the truth there again BBC:
‘While working as a reporter for The One Show, he was suspended for six months following allegations of sexual harassment of a researcher. His contract was never renewed.
A BBC spokesperson said at the time: “Producers of The One Show received a complaint regarding Hardeep’s behaviour towards a production colleague.’
… and yet another lefty SNP/BBC favourite turns out to be a nasty sexual pervert behind the mask of hypocrisy they all hide behind.
Nothing new to see here. Move along.
What’s the charge sheet look like exactly ? Bang goes the token gong . Maybe Mary truss will give him one …
… speaking of which – I reckon when Rishi gets back from his green card holiday at the weekend I wonder if he’ll see where starmer et al are and then publish the highly embarrassing truss honours list …..
… how is he going to react when the public ‘ media say – collectively WTF rishi ? Where is your honour ?
Crucially, Mr Kohli ticked a particular box at the BBC which made him one of their faves for a few years.
As Rolf Harris used to say, ‘can you guess what it is?’
Rare return of the ‘Maybe It’s Because I’m Londoner’ feature.
Passing through Vauxall (Lambeth) one notes the signs high up on the lamp posts advertising something about a “Vibrant Centre”
Further down one of those same lamp posts – a further item of official signage – this time a warning: “Street Robbers Opperate In This Area”
Asiseeit
Congratulations on surviving Vauxhall – I recall having to chaperone a New Yorker around London for a firm I was working for . We were on the tube . The tanoy kept on about pickpockets and reporting suspicious objects . Yet he’d been told he’d be safe in londonistan because it is low on crime ‘…
…
I really could nt answer him – apart from saying people don’t waste their time reporting crime because all the plod are on twitter on suspended pending discipline …
I’ve just bought Senora O’Blene a ‘new’, (nearly new), iPhone, as she needs some of the stuff on it for blood testing etc. (She never uses it for calls – except emergencies).
It cost £120.00 on Amazon, and as far as I can see, it’s in perfect nick, but now you’ve got me wondering if it was ‘borrowed’ in places like Lambeth…
Apparently, there’s a well-known gang operating around W1, who are taking these phones at knifepoint – there was a discussion on LBC about this the other day!
I used to tell, (‘tell’ – paaaah), my daughter to keep her iPod out of sight on the tube, and she’d look at me in the same way as any 25year-old might…
I think one way to deter these thieves, is to have a fake wallet full of photocopied notes, glued inside, together with several razor blades tucked in between, so the chavvy criminal has half a chance of bleeding to death! Not sure how to do that with an iPhone the size of a TV set though!
Scrobie, 🙂 x10.
It would be even more fun sewing some fish hooks in as well Uppers, you know, the sort which are tipped with Curare…
Then leave a phone number inside for the blood/pain emergency the chav will undoubtedly endure, get the said chav to tell us where he is, and that he has just 24 hours to live, then we can go round and bash him up very harshly!
The tell Plod that it was his mates at the same address…
Looks like Khant’s chariot
Scores of black youths run riot in Oxford Street on an organized shoplifting spree. The are a few minority whites interspersed in the crowd.
Why can’t we build more jails?
Hello Harry
The shoplifting was advertised on the bbc webshte the other day, and how easy it is to get away with it
I just looked at some sample windfarm constraint payments – pfff …. some wind farms look to be being paid more to switch off than they make from supplying electricity…
Why isn’t constrained wind output directed to nearby ASHP users and electric water heaters? WHY are *we all* paying in some cases more in constraints to wind turbine owners than actual production?
I’d use my profits from selling crap PPE to building wind farms and getting even more taxpayers ‘ cash from them – the fraudulent covid ‘loans I’d applied for will also help get a new private jet …
For those inclined – it must be so easy – particularly if there are relatives in government departments ….
It looks like a mob of enrichers have been out and about in London’s west end, doing a bit of illicit shopping. I’ve heard that JD Sports was targeted. Well, it’s been quite warm today and these youngsters all need new trainers…Bless ’em…
Apparently these half-wits advertised their intentions on a social media platform, Tic-Toc I believe it’s called. Of course, this alerted the police (even the bloody Met’ couldn’t f@ck this one up) and there have been a number of arrests. You do have to wonder about the IQ…or lack of…with these people. Just how bloody thick are they?
Second thoughts, don’t answer that…
Jeff
the post midnight central London enricher troupes thing is regular and intimidating. Plod watches on CCTV and does bugger-all.
After an FoI struggle…
Looks like Fauci and chums used their position the feather their own nests….
https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/faucis-royalties-and-the-350-million
https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/
PANDORA PAPERS
The largest investigation in journalism history exposes a shadow financial system that benefits the world’s most rich and powerful. Read more.
https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/
THE PANAMA PAPERS: EXPOSING THE ROGUE OFFSHORE FINANCE INDUSTRY
A giant leak of more than 11.5 million financial and legal records exposes a system that enables crime, corruption and wrongdoing, hidden by secretive offshore companies.
China’s economy has slipped into deflation as consumer prices declined in July for the first time in more than two years.
The official consumer price index, a measure of inflation, fell by 0.3% last month from a year earlier.
Analysts said this increases pressure on the government to revive demand in the world’s second largest economy.
This follows weak import and export data, which raised questions about the pace of China’s post-pandemic recovery.
The country is also tackling ballooning local government debt and challenges in the housing market. Youth unemployment, which is at a record high, is also being closely watched as a record 11.58 million university graduates are expected to enter the Chinese job market this year.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66435870
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If there is a bottleneck in world energy prices
the price rises
then supply ramps up
and then months later prices fall
that significant chunk of peoples expenses was always likely to fall
UK fuel prices include Mining tax, fuel duty, carbon tax and VAT on the lot
Many countries don’t have all those taxes
Fuel duties are levied on purchases of petrol, diesel and a variety of other fuels. They represent a significant source of revenue for government. In 2023-24, we expect fuel duties to raise £24.3 billion. That would represent 2.3 per cent of all receipts and is equivalent to £867 per household and 0.9 per cent of national income.
Fuel duty is levied per unit of fuel purchased and is included in the price paid for petrol, diesel and other fuels used in vehicles or for heating. The rate depends on the type of fuel:
the headline rate on standard petrol and diesel is 52.95 pence per litre, it has been frozen since 2011-12 and it reflects a temporary 5 pence cut in 2022-23 and 2023-24. This also applies to biodiesel and bioethanol;
the rate on liquefied petroleum gas is 28.88 pence per kilogram;
the rate on natural gas used as fuel in vehicles (e.g. biogas) is 22.57 pence per kilogram; and
the rate on ‘fuel oil’ burned in a furnace or used for heating is 9.78 pence per litre.
VAT is applied after fuel duty, so, for example, the pump price of a litre of petrol currently reflects the pre-tax price plus 52.95p for fuel duty plus 20 per cent VAT on the pre-tax price and a further 10.59p for VAT at 20 per cent on fuel duty.
https://obr.uk/forecasts-in-depth/tax-by-tax-spend-by-spend/fuel-duties/
The publication ( not leak ) of the details of the officers and staff of the PSNI – is really one of those events which demands a fast Public inquiry . Who re leased the data ? Why? What safeguards ? Who is going to resign – apart from the Chief – who should be gone by now ….
The result of the inquiry should be published by halloween..
A bit of looting going on in Londonistan. Inspired by TikTok according to reports:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12389745/Police-launch-crackdown-threat-Oxford-Street-TikTok-crime-wave-Officers-arrest-youths-outside-McDonalds-cops-ramp-patrols-shopping-district-viral-social-media-posts-urged-followers-rob-JD-Sports.html
That’s really good news -kill the tourist industry – plod unable to cope despite the warning – recall parliament – vote of no confidence – early general election – let it be …
Seriously – maybe the shops needed to be closed – an exclusion thing declared and anyone still trying given the tazer treatment …
I bet the woke commissioner is away in his dacha
MZ tweets
BBC “we are reliable , we get facts from 2 independent sources before we print”
Activists “Hello BBC, we have a HUGE anti-oil claim”
April 13th BBC “Great will run with that, we DONT need another source .. here anti-oil people you can retweet our article”
April 24th Oil Regulator “Yes we gave the activists those numbers, but we now realise there were errors in our database”
BBC “OK we will suspend our article”
Oil regulator “Double checking shows that the claim “42% of pollution releases were above limits ” was wrong it’s 6.1%”
BBC August 8th “OK since the articles figure were wrong, we have removed the article”
The BBC Corrections page lists the progs that carried the withdrawn stats
: Today programme, Good Morning Scotland, BBC Radio Cymru, BBC News Channel, BBC News website, Newsround, 13 April 2023
Anti oil activists “We couldn’t give a toss, we’ve done our anti-oil PR, we aren’t going to tweet any corrections”
BTW the dozens of activists tweets mostly got zero Likes
So the BBC story was not high impact
Maybe confirmation at the BBC means Toenails (yawn) reading it in The Critic Magazine?
Using Human Rights legislation reinforced by the extraterritorial ECHR. The legal system has decided that it runs the Country rather than Parliament.
Why is this the case? Parliament is populated by a very large proportion of Lawyers, Solicitors and Barristers. The said Lawyer MP’s are only too delighted to pass more crap, badly drafted legislation which creates even more work for their colleagues. Bliar was the architect of the 1998 Human Rights Act which is an extremely poor piece of Law which has resulted in a huge overreach of the Courts against a democratically elected Government.
Joe’s crew send Nuland out to remonstrate with the ingrate uppity natives in Niger – and likely threaten them…
RT dripping sarcasm is quite good
I have to say that I cannot muster any interest in what is happening in Niger whatsoever.
No matter who is in charge in those countries, it’s the same. They are all corrupt to the core and the EU/USA will soon be bribing a different set of dirty scumbags. Life will not change for the poor.
Africa is coming here by the BOAT load ….
Police race to London street after TikTok riot plot sees youths brawling
Police descended on the heart of London’s West End as warnings of youths planning to cause mayhem in the city spread on TikTok.
By HANISHA SETHI
17:58, Wed, Aug 9, 2023 | UPDATED: 21:27, Wed, Aug 9, 2023
JohnC
true
what’s slightly different this time is the dispatch of Nuland – if I understand what I’ve read – the coup crew are nearly all expensively US trained and were not expected to show any initiative…..
Two Doors Down creator Simon Carlyle dies aged 48
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-66457511
Firstly this is not aimed at Simon. Any death is sad and who knows what Simon lived through.
But I see that – like Sinead O’Connor – they keep well away from any possibly causes of death. Which experience has taught me to assume it was self-inflicted until I hear otherwise.
And as happens so often in these situations, I do a search and discover he was gay. I don’t care about that – my point here is that the BBC has a vastly disproportionate amount of staff who are from minority groups who are about as far away from the average British citizen as you can get. Yet they wield enormous power to force their political agenda onto the whole country. The complete farce around the removal of Boris and virtually ALL democratically elected Brexiteer MP’s from positions of power prove it beyond doubt.
To me this situation is absolutely unacceptable. They should either be FORCED to represent the people and the country which is forced to fund them (which simply cannot be done at this stage as they are completely infested with the far-left) or only those who agree with their warped propaganda and want to watch it should have to pay for it.
Candidate in Ecuador’s presidential election Fernando Villavicencio shot dead
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-66457472
Coming soon to a North American country near you if they can’t jail him first and he looks good in the polls.
“A candidate in Ecuador’s forthcoming presidential election who has campaigned against corruption and gangs has been shot dead at a campaign rally.”
TOADY Watch #1 – (puff, puff) “man, this stuff is strong, hhmmn, what can I say about The Band?”
There were at least two chuckles if not outright guffaws at the start of TOADY today that might have left some listeners a bit puzzled. They played a clip of Robbie Robertson, who has dies, speaking of his group ‘The Band’ and it was a stream of semi-unconscious consciousness, pronounced gibberish, g i b b e r i s h, (high squeaky voice) gibberish.
Southall: Woman charged with murder after body found in canal
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66451939
Another murder which is unusual enough to warrant a mention on the UK news front page. But strangely it’s gone straight to ‘regions’.
Maybe the name of the woman charged gives us a clue why : Arizo Nour
However this DOES warrant a front page report (according to the BBC):
‘Calls to drop unfair tax on period pants’
I find it endlessly amusing how woman demand equality one minute then special rules for themselves the next. Surely in this case, mens ‘personal hygiene’ products should be VAT exempt as well ?.
The point about activists is that if you give them whatever they demand, it NEVER stops there. Their demands just change. It’s the ‘act of demanding’ they want, not the end result.
The wokes have be busy on the comments of the deputy chairman on the blue Labour Party – lee Anderson – about suggesting that if illegal invaders don’t like the taxpayers accommodation provided – they should Eff off back to France .
Apparently comrade Robinson – whom some mysteriously refer to as ‘toenails ‘(yawn) changed the comment to ‘eff off back home ‘ which is in keeping with the Far Left narrative of racism in the unapproved . Some papers have said this is evidence of lefty bias – which of course it is .
But I don’t thing the msm gets just how furious Joe Public is about the spectacle of any British government failing to deal with these daily invasions yet alone the consequences – which towns and cities are only really starting to feel now .
My view is to tow them back on sight and if the sink they sink . Survivors can either deposited on the French coast or make their own way back ….any treaties preventing this can be torn up .
The state needs to declare war on the invasion industry targeting lawyers, charities -gangs – countries refusing to take them back ….
And if the reputation of the Uk is ‘damaged ‘ so what ?
Rearranging stuff to fit is very BBC.
Here is Vile doing what Vile does best… stirring.
On what planet YAB is considered anything of value can only be one he inhabits.
The sooner the B Ark is filled and dispatched with him, O’Brien, Myska, etc, the better.
BBC star Jeremy Vine made his ten-year-old daughter a company shareholder to help lower his tax bill by channelling funds through private firm
BBC’s Jeremy Vine appears to have used daughter to avoid tax payments
Daughter Martha, aged 10, is shareholder in Jelly Vine Productions
The presenter has been funnelling cash through the limited company
Controversial move highlights BBC practice of paying some presenters off the books using money from millions in earns in licence fee money
By KATHERINE RUSHTON FOR THE DAILY MAIL
UPDATED: 15:52, 7 March 2015
“Is it OK for police to make social media gags?”
Maybe get some rich people on to question?
JohnC
I notice the British Museum ‘stabber ‘ story died a death …..was the alleged assailant named ? Or head for the unnamed’mental issues ‘ deceit …?
“Arizo Nour, 33, of Northumberland Crescent, Feltham appeared in custody at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66451939
Even Zoom plus many a sub-edit slip edition
One’s first job each morning is to sub-edit all those news headlines the sub-editors have neglected to properly correct: Cost of living crisis forces student ‘Covid generation’ to live at home (Guardian) – should read: Cost
of living crisisof money printing crisis forces student ‘Covid generation’‘Lockdown generation’ to live at homeEven Zoom Is Making People Return to the Office… The tech company that helped millions of people work from home is finally tired of its employees being far away… “We believe that a structured hybrid approach — meaning employees that live near an office need to be on site two days a week…” (New York Times)
Even Zoom is calling its workers back to the office — at least 2 days a week… Employees unhappy with new policy asked questions during Zoom meeting last week (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) – Oh, the humanity!
Get back to the office! When even Zoom employees are now required to go… some of Australia’s biggest employers have issued mandates requiring team members to get back to the office… And tech companies that suggested employees could work from home “forever” just a couple of years ago have also seen a fast turnaround in their willingness to provide such options… So is this the end of working from home as we know it? It’s possible when even Zoom – the company providing the tools that have become synonymous with remote work – announces it’ll now require employees to work from home at least two days a week – (was that a Freudian slip at the end there – mistaking Zoom’s new two days IN the office rule for a two days at home rule? – by Angela Priestley writing (I’m guessing from home) for debutant organ hereabouts Women’s Agenda – a hub sharing the latest news and views affecting how women live and work… a growing independent media company, and one of few in Australia that’s 100% female owned – no less)
They do say that what’s good for the goose is good for the gander… however…
The Biggest Holdouts on the Five-Day Office Week: Bosses.
Nearly half of the most senior employees are holding fast to their work-from-home days… An unexpected group of workers is leading the resistance to the five-day office week: top-tier executives… As the corporate push to get workers back to the office widens, new research from McKinsey shows that an influential group of senior employees strongly prefers the option of working from home (Wall Street Journal)
ON THE JOB – shouts this morning’s cheeky Daily Star: We’re all taking naps, doing the gardening… and even enjoying rumpy pumpy when we should be working from home. Apparently! One in eight people who work from home sneak off for a spot of bedroom Olympics when they should be hard at it.
That’s it for the sports news this morning
Surveys eh?
The FT’s latest Datawatch feature survey seeks to confound what we had assumed to be their in-house ideological adherence to free market capitalism: About two-thirds of Britons strongly back or tend to back public ownership of energy suppliers and train operators. Some 69 per cent think water companies should be publicaly owned – depends how you ask the questions though, doesn’t it, YouGov…? Try again with the formulation: “Would you prefer these industries managed by civil servants with strategic decisions made by politicians?”
Civil servants with £100,000 yearly pension pots treble (Telegraph); The Whitehall blob grows! The number of civil servants has risen by 100,000 since 2016 with taxpayers footing a £17 billion bill for salaries. Research found that more than 100,000 officials have been taken on since 2016. It is estimated that the total salary bill for Whitehall is now topping £17billion. The civil service has grown by almost a quarter in recent years, the biggest increase in half a century, a report reveals today (Daily Mail)
Hmmmmm…
It’s victory for the Blob! Almost half of civil servants still work primarily at home, shocking new figures show. More than 44 per cent said their residence was their main place of work (Daily Mail, May 2023)
Why is the Scottish Civil Service so expensive? New figures have revealed that the Scottish Government’s wage bill for the Civil Service has increased by more than £600m in seven years. The figures – revealed by the Taxpayer’s Alliance – show that staff salaries within all forms of government and quangos in Scotland has risen by over 60% from an estimated £1.010bn in 2016 to £1.623bn in 2023. But what does the Scottish Civil Service do, and why are costs so high? Two main factors have sparked the rise in staff and costs: Brexit, and the Covid pandemic. (The Herald)
Just a wee sub-edit required there: Two main factors have sparked the rise in staff and costs:
Brexit, or rather former EU contributions to the Brussels-based civil service now counted as direct costs and theCovid pandemicLockdown.While we’re thereabouts north of the would-be SNP border – news of another data breach and of Scots public sector gaffs: Adopted children’s names were disclosed on Scotland’s People website… It is operated by National Records of Scotland (NRS), an official arm of the Scottish government (BBC)
By the way, have we noticed how the Tories – who could apparently declare the most draconian overnight dictats so as to enforce Lockdown – meanwhile rather than act to fix the so-called small boat crisis would rather put it off to make it a general election election issue? The plan presumably being to scrape an election win and thereafter still do nothing to stem the hyper-immigration.
Rishi, however, looks more than ever the seat-warmer for Starmer.
UK elects most diverse parliament ever but it’s still not representative… Jennifer Hudson and Rosie Campbell assess the diversity of the new parliament and write that while the Class of 2015 has more female and BME MPs, it is still a long way from being descriptively representative of the population it serves. (The Constitution Unit Website) – that’s true enough… by my rough reckoning there ought to be a block of at least a dozen hardline islamist MPs by now to properly represent our diverse population
Give me a pale male PM with great policies over a ‘diverse’ one reinforcing inequality (Kenan Malik, Guardian writing from a rare conservative point of view under the Gruan banner)
However, the prevailing message seems to be that voters require MPs that look like them so as to properly represent them. So I guess I would have to vote for Starmer over Sunak?
On working from home – having worked in very competitive environments the adage ‘out of sight out of mind ‘ applies very strongly to career advancement . Also – I think it’s easier to fire people ‘working from home ‘ unless they are regularly seen as being of at least being equal to those who take the trouble to go to the work / office .
I’m sure the coming recession / depression wil ‘vet’ those enjoying their work life balance at the expense of the organisations who pay them …..
Lastly – impose a ‘working from home tax’ …. Which can be used to subsidise public transport for those making the effort to go to work …
TOADY Watch #2 – ha, ha, ha! that’s a good one
BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – the picture is worth a thousand words but it has been taken down
TOADY were a bit desperate this morning to re-inforce the Global Warming and Climate Change ‘narrative’ despite waiting until well into the second week of August to have a bit of summer here in the UK. Somebody has ‘suggested’ or some body has done a report that in future people will be visiting Belgium in their hundreds of thousands to escape the heat elsewhere in the world.
A former colleague of mine was from Belgium (Brussels) and said it was the most boring place in the world. I have spent half a day in Bruges which I thought quite attractive, but it was warm and sunny which helped as it was early October! The photo that was on the BBC web-site briefly was of a large family (iirc, four adults, three children) on a multi seat ‘land pedalo’ cycling along a rainswept promenade possibly in Belgium of all places.
Shame it has been taken down; it showed the desperation of the Climate Cultists at the BBC to perfection.
Allister Heath writes in the Telegraph that the part to Net Zero has been mapped out by the state bureaucracy in a series of four year phases which all political parties agree on .
These , according to Heath , really do contain measures such a limiting travel , reducing meat and dairy consumption as well as the more imminent ban on gas and oil boilers, ICE , forced installation of heat pumps etc.
it is clear that the public will not vote for such draconian measures so the bureaucracy must have planned for that and the implementation of these measures will not require public support. Either this will be done by simply not allowing any opposition party to LibLabCon on the ballot , so we have elections but no choice, and by widespread use of psychological pressure , or if necessary , by using force.
I think that many of us on this site have feared that we were heading in this direction but to see it so clearly laid out in a national newspaper is a bit of a jolt. By the way I’m impressed that the DT , usually a very timid paper , has been bold enough to publish this article.
650 MPS to eat bugs for a year and reduce family size to 1 child – to save the planet.
Surely there is a policy case for killing the first born ? After all killing unborn babies is perfectly legal ? All to savs the planet from whatever …
Double – the conditioning into green crap compliance is so. Complete with the bbc using nazi propaganda methods to demonise non believers .
I read the article to which you refer but preferred the one about women feeling ‘uncomfortable ‘ on the beach because they are being’ looked at ‘. The article doesn’t suggest this but maybe beaches should be banned – or women only – or minimum clothing requirement ( bhurka) .
Obviously this article was planted for those on beaches to yap about . But soon – today – I will be on a hot beach … biting my lip / recoiling in horror … and looking out to see.
Burn that diesel …
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-in-q2-2023-rebound-to-2021s-record-levels/?
Two wrongs do not make a right.
That said, the political cowardice/ineptitude/insanity in beggaring the West from any hope of coping with whatever comes, whilst ignoring the threat from the East at the same time, is beyond credulity.
I support sensible measures to save waste, improve efficiencies and assist sensible birth control in areas unable to sustain population growth currently resolved by paying people smugglers and labour politicians.
But #NetZero is institutional, ill informed wilful state suicide and I cannot for the sake of my family’s future (I will be gone) support it unchallenged.
Double,
That is a very good article and tells it like it is.
DT have a habit of demoting contentious articles lower down the page, so catch it while you can.
We are being run by the CCC and are controlled by the legislation that is in place to reprogram us all with enviro lawyers seeing to it that compliance is maintained.
There is no longer any democracy, the MSM are seeing to it, through ‘nudge’ articles that the only way forward is to comply with whatever ‘measures’ the government (small g) are obliged, by law, to implement.
Only approved scientits (sic) are allowed space to ramp-up the slightest anomaly that can never, ever, be of natural causes.
All data is ‘fudged, manipulated to feed the public frenzy, as it’s designed to.
Change the government as much as you like, but things will be just the same, the restrictions, banning and policing will just hit you in a different order.
All instigated by the Millibands. David gets a Soros-funded sinecure with £400,000 per annum and no doubt “banana” man Ed will be similarly rewarded once his usefulness in Parliament is finished
Before WildWoman gets scrambled I do believe that David was the banana, and Ed was… so many things, but in food terms erring on bacon.
David gets a mill p.a. over there in Biden’s place, his brother doesn’t yet, but soon will.
The yanks pay so much to charities to excuse their ‘Mom’s apple pie’ sentiment, and make themselves feel good, while their guns still blaze in their schools.
Biden is now rated as the worst president they ever had, but who cares over here in a reasonably acceptable democracy, we’ve enough problems with Kneeler and Pixie/Growler planning our future for next year!
https://sonar21.com/united-states-plan-b/
Plan B
There is little evidence that the US had a Plan B. There should have been a sophisticated analysis of potential blow-backs, side-effects, boomerangs, and possible outright failures of Plan A. Something similar to an Environmental Impact Statement should have been prepared. A “Conflict Impact Statement” would have analyzed alternatives to the proposed action, as well as the potential side-effects of each alternative. It is unclear whether anything like this was produced. However, it is unlikely that many American politicians, steeped in exceptionalism and hubris, would have considered a backup plan necessary or desirable.
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Synopsis:
This title is the “New York Times” bestseller – now in paperback. In “America Alone”, Mark Steyn uses his trademark wit, clarity of thought and flair for the apocalyptic, Mark Steyn to argue that America is the only hope against Islamic Terrorism. Steyn addresses the singular position in which America finds itself, surrounded by anti-Americanism on all sides. He gives us the brutal facts on these threats and why there is no choice but for America to fight for the cause of freedom – alone.
About the Author:
Mark Steyn’s writing on war, politics, the arts and culture can be read around the world from the Atlantic Monthly to the Australian and from the Jerusalem Post to Hawke’s Bay Today in New Zealand. He is a frequent guest on national television and radio. He lives in New Hampshire.
“About this title” may belong to another edition of this title.
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30896425575&ref_=ps_ggl_2039220669&cm_mmc=ggl-_-UK_Shopp_Tradestandard-_-product_id=UK9781596985278SIGNED-_-keyword=&gclid=Cj0KCQjwldKmBhCCARIsAP-0rfzFkGIUbhntbRssfQVNeywK66tqNmMLdH9muAmHgchy-knJXCihhxIaAkgTEALw_wcB
Those higher temperatures … are caused by you?
Many people are aware that Mount Pinatubo changed global weather – Hunga Tonga is getting different treatment….
If there was ever a summary of what is being faced:
Bloomberg Green
JPMorgan bets on CO2 removal
With £200M.
I’m betting they will still see a healthy return for no results.
So called “wildfires”
https://community.ukcolumn.org/forums/environment/latest-arson-target-maui-same-pattern-emerging
Dickie, I heard from a relative recently that the French are threatening to pass a law that states where land or buildings are destroyed by fire, there can be no building on the land and the fire damaged buildings cannot be rebuilt or torn down and replaced.
Apparently, there is a lot of it about!
Happened in Oradour-Sur-Glane once…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradour-sur-Glane_massacre
Been there and felt decidedly sad.
Inside Tony Blair Inc.
“The stink on this ex-politician is overwhelming.
Freddie Sayers sits down with UnHerd’s political editor Tom McTague to explore Tom’s new report into the inner workings of the Tony Blair Institute.”
https://rumble.com/v35a11i-special-report-inside-tony-blair-inc..html
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Dear BBC £3.5 billion paid under threat of prison complaints department,
Could you revisit the 2009 UK MP expenses again, I would not like to find out that MPs like Tony Blair have ran to the shredder prior to your investigations.
Here are some details, can you use Journalists who are avoiding the BBC Gary ‘£1.75m’ Lineker Pay Gap and see why an MP on £77K salary tops up their money with a job giving them £65K extra a year.
Maybe find other MPs on such amazing schemes and why they are getting free tickets to concerts when they have so much cash sloshing around in their MP expenses accounts.
Chuka Umunna MP, Streatham (tax payer pays him £77K per year) is being paid £65,040 a year Advisory Position at Global Progress (London) Ltd …
1) Look into what he produces for £65K a year.
2) Look at who owns the company and other players – Tony Blair is linked to it.
3) Find other MPs doing the same.
4) Ensure they are paying taxes on the extra money.
5) Maybe interview them and ask some questions rather than how they feel today?
For a head start you can find the details on :
THEY WORK FOR YOU
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=24950
americanprogress.org
https://www.americanprogress.org/about/staff/browne-matt/bio/
COMPANIES HOUSE
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11079851/filing-history
Good luck and let me know how you get on,
Mr. M. H
p.s. I also see that MPs claim their MP Office BBC TV Licenses Tax on their expenses, thus the UK tax payer has to pay their own TV License and their MP’s TV License. Might want to consider stopping this for the 650 MPs.
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/10/21/start-the-week-open-thread-22-october-2018/comment-page-6/#comment-949061
Bliar
“Like the CEO of a big company”.
More like a Messianic complex.
I truly despise Bliar. I think he’s the most revolting person I know of.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/08/world-bank-group-goes-woke.html#more
“Will World Bank loans to Kuwait, Pakistan, Kenia or the Vatican now only come with vague value mandates attached to them?
How is that supposed to help the World Bank’s to fulfill its core mission?
This stinks of a very specific intervention in the World Bank mission by some woke Democrats.”
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/08/world-bank-group-goes-woke.html#more
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Pakistan: man sentenced to death for blasphemy on Facebook
Taimoor Raza was found guilty of insulting the prophet Muhammad during an argument on social media with a counter-terrorism official
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/11/pakistan-man-sentenced-to-death-for-blasphemy-on-facebook
On Talk Radio this morning they interviewed a retired Assistant Chief Constable from the PSNI on the security leaks. Bearing in mind it was 7 in the morning the guy was suited and booted, suit, shirt, tie and well groomed. Old school.
Bare this in mind with two recent interviews I watched on TV from this side of the Irish Sea. One 5 foot nothing with spiked and flashed hair, a Chief Constable no less and another a Chief Superintendent addressing a press conference dressed in a off the shoulder cocktail dress.
This country is failing because we are promoting by box ticking and not merit, and time is running out.
ex-UN peacekeeper !!!!
Niger’s coup leader General Tchiani: The ex-UN peacekeeper who seized power
Published
9 hours ago
MarkyMark
It’s better than that
Most of the coup plotters are US Trained as I understand it – which makes Nuland’s jaunt all the more delicious .
“Gretchen Bradford decided this year not to pay for home insurance.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66367224
Gretchen Bradford lives in Pontchartrain Park, a once-segregated black neighbourhood in New Orleans
HA HA HA “a once-segregated black neighbourhood in New Orleans”
Gretchen has nice teeth worth a million!
MM, those earrings, if real gold, might be worth a bob or two.
“Can’t wait. As someone who has recently racially transitioned, I’m glad my culture is going to be celebrated!
It’s been a long journey. First the hair curling, then the course of white blockers. It’s just great to finally be myself.”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/laurence-fox-sues-man-over-30667640
Laurence Fox is allegedly taking legal action against a social media user who called the former actor, 45, a “racist pr***” on Twitter in May, it’s been revealed today.
Mukhtar Ali Yassin took to Twitter this afternoon [August 9] to tell his followers: “Hi everyone, @LozzaFox has sued me. I did not get the letter as it was sent to the wrong address. I will be defending it & @mlewislawyer has agreed to act on “no win no fee”. If I need to crowdfund for any disbursements, I’ll let you know. But it’s on.”
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HU’S THAT GUY? The Human Ken Doll opens up his PRE-SURGERY photo album as he reveals he was ‘born in the wrong body’
https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/nintchdbpict000344857988-e1504614386630.jpg
More and more added to the waiting list every day as we get new ‘arrivals’ on our undefended shores.
https://www.rebelnews.com/shocking_scenes_unfold_at_the_trans_march_in_montreal_unveiling_startling_truths?
Is it April 1st
Taliban repression of women a crime against humanity, says Gordon Brown
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66459171
Gordon can grab an AK47 and solve the problem?
Nah … lets have a whip-round and buy him a ticket
“Russian convicts released to fight with Wagner accused of new crimes”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66364272
Not very nice, with reports of murder etc.
But the BBC still can’t just tell the story without bias.
Why not report what’s happening on both sides of the war.
Missing out facts, like that it was Ukraine that started the convict recruitment, back in February 2022. (Months before Russia)
eg here
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-army-russia-prisoners-jail-b2024985.html
No reports what happened to those, or even if all Ukrainian prisons are still secure and in use, like the ones that featured in YouTube uploaded documentaries eg
The World’s Toughest Prisons – Colony 100, Kharkiv, Ukraine
BBC article:
“Wagner recruited 49,000 prisoners to fight and only 32,000 returned. That’s a much lower proportion than he originally promised. But independent researchers believe the real number of survivors is even lower, about 20,000.”
So that’s 17 to 29 thousand who won’t be reoffending ever.
Every single report we get is how bad Russia are. We never get any reports in the MSM which are negative against Ukraine.
Hence our entire Western media cannot be trusted to tell us the truth about anything. One of the most useful purposes of this war has been to show us all just how corrupt our media really is and what a complete farce ‘journalistic ethics’ actually are.
My faith in our society has been absolutely shattered. In many respects, we are no better than Russia. We just hide it better.
Welcome to the club John
and the state broadcaster is pivotal in the concealment of particularly official wrongdoing.
It was nice last week to see the kneejerk removal of the bed&breakfast charges for innocent prisoners – they can move quickly when needs be.
The social media / snooping stats must’ve been horrendous…
On BiasedBBC:
Target the boats with explosive drones “I’m way past caring if any die.”
“drop an atomic on the bastards and rid the world of them… why are they even alive?”
“Just let the race wars commence and be done with it”
“If the Blacks enjoy stabbing one another to death, that’s fine with me.”
“They could all drown as far as I’m concerned.”
“set up Auschwitz style ‘farms’ in every country to deal with the Muslims. Like immediately.”
“I’d love to see certain people dangling whilst still twitching from a lamppost”
“Pity we couldn’t have the former (hanged, drawn and quartered) penalty for Treason”
“[Biden] should be wearing a plastic bag over his head tied down by a zip tie”
Also on BiasedBBC:
“My faith in our society has been absolutely shattered”