Start the week 14th August 2023

VJ Day is commemorated on the 15th of August . Will it be treated with respect by the BBC ? Will it be ignored ? Used as a ‘multicultural campaign weapon ‘? Take your pick . So much sacrifice .

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261 Responses to Start the week 14th August 2023

  1. Up2snuff says:

    TWatO Watch #1 – now we know what ‘Five’ have been up to, Fed

    I switch on late in time for the headlines: three people have been arrested for spying on behalf of Russia. Now that you have that job done, perhaps you and your colleagues at ‘Six’ can go after the traffickers?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Up2
      Judging by various institutions attitude to data the russians need only send a few FOIs about nuclear sub timetables and staffing …

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Fed, 🙂 x 5!

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Yes Up2 …’… but surely that couldn’t happen ….’

          … if only all the personal details of BBC employees – and their wages … got leaked online ….

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  2. Thoughtful says:

    I see seven seperate charges against FTX head Sam Bankrupt Fraud have been quietly dropped.

    These charges directly linked the Biden Democrat crime syndicate with the fraud and there could well have been some unfortunate evidence disclosed the corrupt Biden bunch would rather had been kept away from public eyes.

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  3. Fedup2 says:

    ‘Oil boiler ban starts in 2026 and here’s how to get round it ‘

    A headline in the DT. But does it not illustrate the gulf between people and the bastards imposing the green crap on us …. ?

    It makes no difference whether they are red or blue – they are as mad on green crap as each other . 1% and less of total ‘carbon ‘ activity – not even a spit in thr ocean but governments punishing voters – the effers . Rant ongoing … gggrrrr

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    • Guest Who says:

      https://cliscep.com/2023/08/14/the-elephant-in-the-room/

      ..”the concluding paragraph is oxymoronic. It is simply impossible to achieve all the things that are summed up in one short sentence – homegrown energy, which is also secure and more renewable, and allows us to benefit from that change. ”

      Moronic is the sheer number of highly paid folk in positions of authority making very poor decisions for very dubious reasons.

      Held to account by the same in media.

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    • Sluff says:

      Re Fedup/GW posts above.
      A bit slow on the uptake here.
      But……..
      In transport policy I’ve argued that the real deal is not safety or even global warming or even clean air but the socialist collectivisation of transport.,socialists hate with a passion individuals making individual decisions, which is why they hate the private car – far less easy to control the plebs if they can scoot off when and where they like.

      Now let’s consider oil boilers. They are used mainly when there is no gas supply and thus mainly in the country in isolated houses and communities.

      Heating homes works much better in district heating systems, apartments and terraced houses where the external/ internal wall ratio is much lower. Where would you get those? In high density urban housing of course, no doubt with few car spaces to ‘discourage car use’. So we are seeing the beginnings of a socialist collectivisation of home heating, masquerading as ‘climate change policy’.

      Collectivist institutions such as the public sector and the BBC will be fully on board.

      I await to be proved wrong.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        AGA ban by 2025…

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Sluff, I have seen what a neighbourhood designed to the Prescott Principles looks like (part of the new housing on the Greenwich peninsular) and it is a disaster. I live in Kent in a house built to the Prescott standard, I assume, and it is a disaster although that may be down to the developer.

        It is said they young ‘greenies’ want to live in cities with good public transport and cycleways and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. Funny thing, but when the Pandemic came along everyone wanted to get out of cities into the countryside. Ho hum!

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Fed, next year we will find out what the Conservatives’ chasing of the Green Youth Vote will achieve. Or will the Tories come out with a non-Green Manifesto and pledge to put off the ICE ban, the gas boiler ban, the oil boiler ban and instead promise a ULEZ and LTN ban in England?

      Of course if they do, they will face endless hostility from the BBC!

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  4. Foscari says:

    It is said that it hard to point to the exact political
    position of the BBC. I think I can say what it is.
    I would say that Mick Lynch the firebrand anarchist
    Marxist leader of the Railwaymen is the political
    benchmark for the BBC, Lynch has said that he hopes
    England lose in Ladies World Cup. He cant stand
    the pompous press writing about the ” Dam Busters”
    spirit being used.
    Maybe it was an acolyte of Lynch . One of many at the
    BBC who composed the autocues for Sally Nugent and
    Jermaine Jenas to tell us about the INFAMOUS
    Dambusters Raid.

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  5. Guest Who says:

    Meanwhile… Springster gets scrambled to 5-oh.

    https://x.com/bbcnews/status/1691365657131073536?s=43

    An old friend observes…

    Roland Deschain
    @DsRoland
    ·
    1h
    I didn’t give these claims any credence until BBC Verify felt the need to step in.

    Usually ‘misinfo’ and ‘viral’ involving the BBc means they are dealing with something.

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    • Lunchtime Loather says:

      They could send her to Hawaii for a couple of weeks, on expenses of course. She’d like that.

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    • JohnC says:

      That video should be required viewing for anyone who comments on the war in Ukraine. It’s the only summary which actually makes sense.

      It’s about as far away from the cretins who flood any BBC HYS on the subject as you can get. Their limit is calling ‘Putin’ ‘Putrid’ and getting masses of upticks for doing it.

      I really do despair for the future when I see such complete ignorance combined with the arrogance of being so sure they are right because of groupthink. This is what the BBC are cultivating in all their agenda topics now.

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  6. Fedup2 says:

    One Elton charles – the son in law of a lefty Tory called lord Patton – convicted of being the getaway driver in a robbery ….

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  7. Fedup2 says:

    Not sure how diverse the suspect in the queer stabbing in londonistan is … other stabbings are available – every day …

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    • Sluff says:

      When the BBC occasionally get round to mentioning yet another stabbing in Londonistan, they never, but never take the default knee-jerk position of labelling it a heterophobic attack.

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  8. Scroblene says:

    More spit/dribble from yet another Beebollock…

    “Can Trump still run for president?
    Yes, there’s nothing in the US constitution to prevent Mr Trump from continuing his election campaign even though he has been charged with multiple crimes.

    But there are practical considerations.

    Trials can last for weeks and he will be required to sit in court throughout, not to mention paying for a legal team.

    All this would be a major drain on his time, energy and election cash at a time when he would prefer to be holding rallies and meeting voters.

    His support remains undiminished, however. He has strengthened his hold on the Republican race and remains the frontrunner to face Joe Biden again next year.”

    They really can’t let this one go, can they!

    Even without the sneering Sopes, and the hideous Maitlis and other sundry past-it-twonks yapping on regardless, the tiresome Beebists still try to make the British citizens believe that the US Former President is a ‘wrongun’!

    The style of the narrative coming from these nauseous auto-cue readers and their handlers is so biased, it is actually laughable, but as ‘humour’ was banned by the mindset of the trashy ‘comediennes’ they parade with tiresome regularity, their bubble allows them to ignore what really is going on!

    Roll on the disgraceful Biden crime stories soon about to unfold, and let’s see how they try and hide those under Radio Shropshire – midnight edition!

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    • G says:

      Scrob,

      “…..soon about to unfold…..”. That’s the n****r in the woodpile though – will it “unfold”?……………..

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  9. Fedup2 says:

    It seems someone called Stephen Nolan – a BBC employee – sent pictures of another man’s’ organ of reproduction to co workers by telephone . The BBC has investigated and Mr Nolan continues to work for the State Broadcaster – a mr Huw Edwards has not commented …. How’s it hanging Huw ?

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  10. Calon lan says:

    Not sure how to post a you tube video! But hopefully someone can put up Mandalay recited by Charles Dance for VJ Day. Never fails to make me weep. We will remember them (Well my generation will). Thanks

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    • Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

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      • Scroblene says:

        Yes, thanks Mustapha!

        This is absolutely brilliant, and was very popular when some unknown singing victim refused to sing the musical version on such an imposrtant day because he thought it was waaycist, which is utter borrocks.

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  11. tomo says:

    Meantime…

    At The Edinburgh Festival:

    https://twitter.com/andrewdoyle_com/status/1691476464879783936

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