410 Responses to Midweek 23rd August 2023

  1. tomo says:

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  2. tomo says:

    I noticed The Independent has a different label for deleted comments.

    “Comment Deactivated”

    Shame we can’t have The Independent deactivated

    New Covid wave has begun and masks should be worn again, scientists warn

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  3. Scroblene says:

    Any chance that the tiresome Beeboids could do something about all these highly-qualified engineers, chemists and space experts who arrive here illegally with tiresome regularity?

    There’s a good plane leaving for Delhi in a few hours, so the wondrous brains in W1AA could divert the rubbish they send to Wireless Asia or similar, and explain how get these new free-loaders to a place where they’re desperately needed to spend the huge amounts of British Taxpayers’ cash on useless ‘space exploration’.

    PS – How much money does the Telly tax go on foreign stuff? Do the foreigners actually pay for it? If they do, can we have some of it back please – we actually need it to look after some of our own indigenous people who are having quite a hard time at the moment!

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    • moggie63 says:

      Nobody in power in this country is remotely interested in the wellbeing of its indigenous people. We’re only here to provide the cash for the rest of the world’s needs.

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      • Scroblene says:

        Quite so, Moggie – it’s ‘reparation’ by the back door…

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        • moggie63 says:

          Until recently the money has been sent abroad to benefit the recipients. It still is, but it also appears that those recipients are now flocking over here, in ever increasing numbers, to obtain that money directly from the source. And they are welcomed with open arms, by left wing morons.

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  4. AsISeeIt says:

    Grudgingly edition

    Asylum backlogs cost taxpayer record £4bn (Telegraph) – and it becomes clear that no one involved in the system has any incentive to fix it.

    Meet the Companies for Which Asylum Policy is Big Business… Firms are winning multi-million-pound contracts to run immigration-related services (Byline Times – ‘what the papers don’t say‘)

    Suella Braverman says civil servants’ productivity on asylum claims is too low… Home secretary attacks rate of decision-making (Guardian – This article is more than 7 months old, December 2022)

    Take this chance to limit immigration or watch the abolition of our country… NOT long after the Brexit vote I was having a drink with a friend. We got on to the subject of the vast immigration levels that are altering so many aspects of life in England. ‘They’ll have to do something about it now,’ he said, referring to result of the EU referendum… ‘No, they won’t,’ I replied. I said ‘they’ – meaning the Conservative Party – would not do a damn thing about it, except employ more spads and PR staff to reframe the issue via their outriders in the mass media. Phrases such as ‘crackdown’ and ‘Australian-style points system’ would be bandied about but nothing at all would change, in fact levels would most likely increase. (Robert James, Conservative Woman, October 2022)

    For the corporate cronies the benefits are simply cash-based, for our left-leaning civil service a go-slow work routine spells one in the eye for their present Tory employers and for the Tories themselves a focus on what they’ve taught us to term ‘small boats’ acts as a distraction from the legal immigrant visas they shovel out in the millions.

    In fact we may complain of public sector poor admin response in terms of the delays to the issue of the likes of our driving licences or our holiday passports and there’s that interminable wait to connect to the GP receptionist – and yet: since 2010 there have been almost 7million new GP registrations by migrants in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (Conservative Woman); There were 1,311,731 visas granted in 2021… 36% higher than 2020… There were 2,610,024 visas granted in the year ending September 2022… there were 406,410 decisions on applications to extend a person’s stay in the UK (including dependants) in 2021, 75% more than a year earlier and 32% more than in 2019 (UK.Gov) – the figures are truly staggering – but well done to the public sector for coping with all that extra paperwork.

    Some other admin issues prove just too daunting for them to contemplate: Brexit border controls on food delayed for fifth time… Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has backed a fresh postponement owing to fears that the red tape will put up food prices further (FT) – despite decades of barcoding and computerised supply chain systems etc – and we’re now seven years on from the Brexit vote.

    And with a significant turnover of the presently sitting MPs expected at the next General Election: Pay-offs doubled for MPs who lose seats… Golden goodbyes are being doubled… following a rule change… with the taxpayer set to be stung for millions of pounds more in farewell payments… The Daily Telegraph can reveal.

    Let’s name and shame the crony corporate names: Meet the Companies for Which Asylum Policy is Big Business… Five companies have won £5.8 billion worth of contracts since 2010… The largest of these contracts was won by the outsourcing giant Serco, which was awarded funds worth at least £2.18 billion… One of the most recent contracts was given to Mitie, a London-based outsourcing company… worth at least £627 million… housing providers Mears and Clearsprings Ready Homes have also won large contracts… The final major contract was for Sodexo, with contracts worth at least £525 million. The company was tasked with organising the Aspen prepaid card given to people seeking asylum when they are living in the community (Byline Times)

    A five minute google reveals

    Serco donated £19k office space to MP Ranil Jayawardena [Conservative, North East Hampshire] (Basingstoke Gazette)

    Mitie’s largest single shareholders, Stephen and Caroline Butt, donated £52,000 to the Conservative Party between 2015 and 2021 (Corporate Watch)

    And that’s just the tip of the iceberg… speaking of which: Climate change: Thousands of penguins die in Antarctic ice breakup… Dr Peter Fretwell, from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), said the wipeout was a harbinger of things to come. “There is hope: we can cut our carbon emissions that are causing the warming. But if we don’t we will drive these iconic, beautiful birds to the verge of extinction.” (BBC)

    Leaving the only penguins for our kids to see in the future will be the ones pictured on those chocolate biscuit wrappers.

    But weren’t we told years ago the same or similiar story about North Pole polar bears? Our BBC has shifted the timeline forward to 2100

    Polar bears will be wiped out by the end of the century unless more is done to tackle climate change, a study predicts. Scientists say some populations have already reached their survival limits as the Arctic sea ice shrinks. The carnivores rely on the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean to hunt for seals (BBC)

    Leaving the only polar bears our kids will see in the future will be the ones pictured in the adverts for those hard transparent mints

    Or perhaps not

    Today, polar bears are among the few large carnivores that are still found in roughly their original habitat and range–and in some places, in roughly their natural numbers. (Grudgingly – World Wildlife Fund)

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  5. taffman says:

    “ Rishi Sunak says pressure on the asylum system is unsustainable”

    Hey Rishi, how about stopping the boats? Because a lot of Tory MPs will lose their seats in the next general elections. Will those concerned get compensation?

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  6. Jeff says:

    It’s the final brass band of the summer in the beautiful cloister gardens at Westminster Abbey next Wednesday. I always feel that this is a poignant occasion. It marks the turning of the year. Summer is nearing its end…autumn is within touching distance.

    We’ve enjoyed a good season this year and I’ve attended whenever the trains have been running. Last week’s Enfield Brass entertained us to rousing marches, some lovely film medleys and occasional ballads. Dads danced with their little daughters, old ladies dozed in the shade. It was all so civilised and quintessentially English…

    And at the other end of the cultural spectrum; this weekend we have the notorious Notting Hell Carnage. Hideous noise thumping from giant speakers, invading the streets of west London. Ridiculous, tubby policemen pretending to enjoy dancing with sleazy twerking black women. Thugs, drugs, gangs and violence, all brought together to celebrate the Caribbean contribution to my country. Noise, violence, ugliness.

    There will be the usual litany of crime. Muggings, street battles, the occasional knifing…and the BBC will tell us it all went swimmingly well.

    There you have it; my lovely old England, contrasted with the vile, ugly, noisy, brutish future that multiculturalism has brought us.

    I’ll give Nottinghill a miss.

    But I’ll be back at the Abbey next Wednesday…

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    • Scroblene says:

      Well said Jeff!

      Do the bands still play over the road in St James’ Park? The bandstand used to be a fabulous place to hear some decent music!

      The marvellous sound was occasionally spoilt by the sight of MPs strolling around when they should have been working though…

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      • Jeff says:

        Sadly, the bands in St James’s packed up for the Olympics in 2012 and have never returned. A real shame…

        I saw quite a few MPs wandering around there in the old days. One long ago summer Sunday I was enjoying an afternoon’s music when I heard an all too familiar voice, talking far too loudly. It was the MP, Dennis Skinner. Blimey, that bloke could rabbit. You’d think he did enough yakking during the week.

        Nowadays at the weekends, I have to travel to Regents Park to enjoy a few hours of this delicious indolence. They have a lovely ornate old bandstand beside the boating lake.

        Beautiful setting…

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  7. Guest Who says:

    Another studio haunting Khan offers ‘advice’.

    https://x.com/gmb/status/1694954506662904278?s=61

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  8. JohnC says:

    Couple injured in another homophobic attack in South London neighbourhood
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66606107

    Front page BBC news. One man got punched and sustained a split lip.

    Not even reported by the BBC from a couple of weeks ago:
    Live Barnet stabbing updates as man knifed to death on busy North London road
    https://www.mylondon.news/news/north-london-news/live-barnet-stabbing-updates-man-27476751

    ‘His attacker is still on the loose, with police appealing for any information from the public.’

    No description of the victim or the stabber. Based on experience, we can draw our own conclusions on that.

    This sums up the magnitude of the agenda-based lopsided reporting by the ‘impartial and unbiased’ BBC.

    They are an activist organisation. Why should we have to pay for them to do it ?.

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    • Guest Who says:

      But, was it ‘unprecedented’ too?

      Meanwhile… the BBC Moaning Emole completely misses what many know all too well…

      ***

      The history-making mugshot

      ***

      The blob getting the photo op it craved, in the way it has is not learning from history 101.

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    • AsISeeIt says:

      You’ve heard of Pride Month, you’ve heard of Black History Month…

      Now meet Black Pride

      BBC: Couple injured in another homophobic attack in South London neighbourhood… after spending the day at Black Pride. (By Lauren Moss, LGBT correspondent & Josh Parry, LGBT producer, BBC News)

      One feels sympathy for Pink News now having to compete with an entire BBC LGBT licence-funded department.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        “And the Home Office offered no explanation as to why they ignored those important clues in her presentation.

        Emily Jones: Father of killed school girl slams asylum decision
        Published
        22 May

        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-65675280

        Eltiona Skana, 33, a paranoid schizophrenic, stabbed seven-year-old Emily Jones in a park in Bolton.

        stabbed = decapitated

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  9. JohnC says:

    Gut problems may be early sign of Parkinson’s disease
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-66604155

    And just in case you don’t believe them, the idiot BBC-clone proves it with a picture which is an interesting mix of ‘totally pointless’ but infused with ‘scientific detail’ to make the uninformed casual reader think it is factual:

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    The modern BBC : News by children for gullible idiots.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      MM, to the way of thinking of Snuffy’s brain, which might be no better than scrambled egg, the research by the Mayo clinic in the USA was flawed because they used a healthy control group. Doh!

      I would have said you need an unhealthy control group with stomach problems and as the Mayo think the appendix is the culprit grumbling appendices but no discernible symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease, ie. small or ragged handwriting, walk, tremor and ‘thresholding’.

      You then require another ‘unhealthy’ control group: diagnosed Parkinson’s Disease sufferers who have had their appendix removed.

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  10. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – I know I keep going on about this but the BBC are lying to you

    In the Business segment of TOADY this morning, Felicity Hannah was repeating the myth that we have full employment in the UK at present. We do not. I’m old enough, sadly, to remember the shock when unemployment exceeded one million in the UK for the first time in the early 1970s. Prior to that we had what could be described as full employment in the UK with only around three hundred thousand unemployed. That period of full employment was driven largely by the car, bus and transport industries together with the air industry and it led to national prosperity for the UK.

    The current level of UK unemployment is around 3.7% of an ever growing workforce of around 34 million people. Do the sums ‘Fliss’, do the sums. Use a calculator if you run out of fingers and toes. Sadly, there are 12,500 shopworkers from Wilko who may be added to the unemployed statistic very soon if ‘rescue attempts’ for the Wilko chain fail.

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  11. tomo says:

    Reports from Hawaii seem to be getting the full “active disinterest” treatment.

    Most of the stuff I’ve been seeing seems to put the toll of lives at 4 times the official estimate and upwards and mobile phone footage of events on the day looks to be being suppressed.

    One has to wonder at the rationale behind the now rather obvious targeted omission… Kettling the locals into the burn zone might just have something to do with it?

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  12. MarkyMark says:

    “She twice told doctors that she lied in her asylum application, she twice told doctors and police that she wanted to go home, in 2015 and 2017.

    “And the Home Office offered no explanation as to why they ignored those important clues in her presentation.

    “And now we hear that the Home Office are paying Albanian convicts to go home. It didn’t happen here.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-65675280

    ……

    The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure. The Home Office plays a fundamental role in the security and economic prosperity of the UK.
    https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/about

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    • taffman says:

      “The Home Office” is not fit for purpose . Sack the lot and start again .

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      • Flotsam says:

        As I said earlier, the Home Office is run from London. It’s staff will be drawn from the near majority ethnic population in London. The white staffers will be London Metropolitan liberals. There’s little hope that the Home Office will carry out the wishes of this country’s majority.

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Flotsam – I think you’ll find a lot of ‘civil servants ‘ are of a vibrant nature – immigration and housing and passports are targeted by ‘switched on gangs ‘ who once in a while screw up but mostly operate under the radar using race as a shield against allegations – with HR playing support ….

          .. equally – if letby had been coloured – I think we’d have never heard of the killings……

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  13. MarkyMark says:

    False advertising … “The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure. ”

    https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/about

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    • Guest Who says:

      Not exactly Trojan Dinghy, but as a Trojan One Way PIA Flight from Islamabad, well played those mullahs.

      As to the cretinous pols and civ servs of pink left in the nicer parts of expensive cities now controlled by those they were outsmarted by; like the upper floors of The BBC, you do need to get through the cubicle gardens to get back to the gated communities and, in the case of The BBC, down to the bunker.

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  14. digg says:

    Lefties always screw facts to their advantage …

    “GCSE results show us a nation of overwhelmed, vulnerable children. Where is the support?” Demands Gaby Hinchcliffe in an obvious attempt to paste the blame on the Tory’s…

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/24/gcse-results-children-covid-19-social-media-tests.

    Of course we all know the headline should truthfully be

    “GCSE results show us a nation of overwhelmed, vulnerable children. Let’s go after those bogus health scientists and drug companies and panic-stricken media reporters who are really to blame”.

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  15. MarkyMark says:

    Today
    Radio 4, 23 August 2023

    In an interview with Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden there was a reference to the number of asylum applications in the ‘legacy backlog’ – these are asylum applications made before 28 June 2022. Our presenter mentioned a backlog of 92,000 applications which the government have pledged to clear by the end of 2023.

    While this figure was correct at the time of PM Rishi Sunak’s statement to the House of Commons on 13 December 2022, by the time of this interview, more recent figures were available, showing that the legacy backlog numbered 74,410 as of 28 May 2023.

    23/08/23
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications
    ……

    92,000 people = Chester is a cathedral city and the county town of Cheshire, England, on the River Dee, close to the England-Wales border.

    HA HA HA HA!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_the_United_Kingdom

    92,000 people = Chester
    92,000 people = Chester
    92,000 people = Chester

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  16. BRISSLES says:

    Our village has a new, and permanent (so far) doctor. Yeah ! Yesterday I got the Willy Wonka Golden Ticket of an appointment. My joy was short lived however.
    She’s a lovely lady, BUT I only managed to understand every couple of words she was saying. Yes she was black, but spoke fast and with an African dialect.

    What to do ?, I’m certainly not deaf, but politeness prevented me from continually saying “pardon?’ “Sorry?”. So I just kept smiling and hoped I gleaned enough info to deal with my problem. Equally its not much good asking the local pharmacist as he has an even worse Indian accent!

    I’m too much of a coward to gently mention this to the Practice Manager as I could be struck off for being a trouble maker.

    And there we have it. Living in my country of birth where I need a translator to get me through some exacting times in my life. Who’d have thought.

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  17. tomo says:

    After Khant’s peeps torturing of The Science – who’s going to believe this shit from The Royal Society?

    I’m not. They’re trying it on – again….

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Coronavirus: Welding Doors Shut
      3 years agoDocsDuration0:36
      In Wuhan, videos are emerging on social media of officials welding the doors of apartment buildings shut, locking the residents inside during the coronavirus outbreak.

      https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1703503427818

      ………………..

      The effectiveness of using certain behavioural science “nudges” to change attitudes or behaviour in relation to Covid-19 has been called into question by two studies.

      In a series of experiments, researchers from King’s College London tested nudges that have previously been shown to encourage people to think or act in desired ways.
      https://www.kcl.ac.uk/policy-institute/research-analysis/the-use-of-nudges-during-the-covid-19-crisis

      ….

      King’s College London is an internationally renowned university delivering exceptional education and world-leading research. We are dedicated to driving positive and sustainable change in society and realising our vision of making the world a better place.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Government scientist Neil Ferguson, 51 – whose death toll projections sparked lockdown – QUITS after admitting he allowed married mistress, 38, to break stay-at-home rules to visit him for trysts
      Prof Neil Ferguson, 51, warned UK could see 500,000 deaths if it didn’t implement mass self-isolation
      His advice, through a report he helped produce at Imperial College, led to the PM bringing in the lockdown
      But since it started he allowed his married lover to travel across London to visit him at home at least twice
      Antonia Staats, 38, lives with her husband, in his 30s, and two children in a £1.9 million house in south London
      The scientist has quit his role on the secretive SAGE committee – but Imperial College is standing by him
      Do you know more about this story? Email martin.robinson@mailonline.co.uk or tips@dailymail.com
      Here’s how to help people impacted by Covid-19
      By DANYAL HUSSAIN and MARTIN ROBINSON, CHIEF REPORTER FOR MAILONLINE

      UPDATED: 16:48, 6 May 2020

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8289921/Scientist-advice-led-lockdown-QUITS-breaking-restrictions-meet-married-lover.html

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      • Up2snuff says:

        MM, it was Antonia Staats who broke the rules. She is the one who should have resigned. What does Mrs Staats do? According to one tabloid: “Who is Antonia Staats? Ms Staats, 38, is a left-wing campaigner who works for US-based online network Avaaz. The organisation promotes global activism on issues such as climate change.”

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        • MarkyMark says:

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          • tomo says:

            IIRC Avaaz seems to employ people with obvious deep state connections too…

            “70,000,000 members” – from coopting the numbers from lots of other places – astroturf is one word – “fraudulent bunch of c***s” are some others.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Bit like having an ‘independent inquiry ‘ which really isn’t independent – of a ‘consultation ‘ which is a useless box ticking – or a petition – which is used to make mug taxpayers think they’re doing something …. Or referendums – which will never be seen in the UK again ( unless it’s fixed for staying in the EU ( we never left ))

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  18. MarkyMark says:

    WE ARE ALL STRUGGLING ….. TOGETHER …..

    Parliamentary watchdog Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) are more than doubling the taxpayer cash losing MPs will receive at the next general election, going from £8,600 to £17,300. IPSA say this is to ensure the payouts were “fair and provide the appropriate support to MPs and their offices when leaving Parliament”. The 71 MPs who have already decided to stand down are set to rake in around £615,000 between them…
    order-order.com

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  19. Flotsam says:

    Where is the large ethnic, non white growing population of Londonistan leading?

    London is the centre of political and commercial power in Britain. Civil Servants and administrators for Whitehall, head offices and the BBC will be drawn from the local population. This will mean that the country will have a large ethnic input into important decision making for all of us. We have already seen this happen with Sadiq Khan as Mayor but there will be many lesser roles that will impact our lives. In effect, people living in rural and non Metropolitan Britain will have decisions made for them by Pakistanis, Indians and Blacks who have a totally different culture and experience of life. It may account for some of the stranger things that seem to be happening these days.

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    • MarkyMark says:

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

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

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

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

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

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    • MarkyMark says:

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      • Up2snuff says:

        MM, funny South Korean Kimchi does not appear in south London. South London has a large and growing population of South Koreans.

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  20. MarkyMark says:

    We are of course free from any political influence or agenda.

    Dear Mr H,

    Thank you for contacting us about the BBC News website. We note and appreciate your concerns.

    We know that not everyone will agree with our choices on which stories to cover, or how much coverage each story is attributed across our output. Our news editors make these complex decisions, based on the editorial merit of all the stories at hand.

    We accept that not everyone will agree with each decision, however, we can assure you these decisions aren’t indicative of bias.

    We have highlighted in our reporting that Labour MP Barry Gardiner has received over £420,000 in donations from Christine Ching Kui Lee’s company over 5 years. I have provided links to some of this coverage below:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61271058
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59990451
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59984380

    We are of course free from any political influence or agenda.

    We do value your feedback about this. All complaints are sent to senior management and we’ve included your points in our overnight report.

    These reports are among the most widely read sources of feedback in the company and ensures that your concerns have been seen by the right people quickly. This helps inform their decisions about current and future content.

    Thanks again for taking the time to get in touch.

    Kind regards,

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

    We are of course free from any political influence or agenda.

    We are of course free from any political influence or agenda.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I see the Thursday night troll has resurfaced . I’m sure the quality of contribution has improved – always listing the way the BBC isn’t far left – anti white British biased – always evidence why comments on this are so wrong – always justifying the licence tax – and even the existence of a state broadcaster …
      … but in a year all will be well red labour will have its ‘150 majority and all those problems the blue variant either created or failed to solve – will be no more …

      If you dear reader read my previous comments about the source of the malaise is see Blighty in.. I’m still up for a discussion – particularly with regard to a remedy . Last time it was thatcher and the Lawson boom and the Falklands and right to buy and yuppie Dom …

      .. but this time ? Things are even more serious than a few million unemployed / skiving on the sick …. so I’m still thinking – unlike our troll …

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      • MarkyMark says:

        CONTROL! CONTROL! Language and minds!

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      • MarkyMark says:

        A bit of kick back is good for discussion – the EU is great**

        ** if you only focus on all the good bits and ignore the rest.

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  21. MarkyMark says:

    “The Crown producers promise to handle Princess Diana death delicately”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66613997

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    Martin Bashir: BBC religion editor leaves the corporation
    Published
    14 May 2021

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57120603

    ….

    BBC rehired disgraced Martin Bashir ‘after executive demanded the corporation win more awards’ – and he is STILL pocketing £2k-a-week
    Martin Bashir is still earning up to £2,000 a week from his £100,000 BBC salary
    The BBC’s former religion editor, 58, stepped down in April citing health reasons
    Broadcaster accepted his resignation, paying his salary for three-month notice
    By SAM GREENHILL and PAUL REVOIR FOR THE DAILY MAIL

    UPDATED: 08:15, 26 May 2021

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  22. Fedup2 says:

    My 2 year fixed energy contract is coming to an end . I was paying 10p a day on electricity and 10 p on gas . The new tarrifs have the standing charge jumping to over 50p each – each day …
    Go look at you bill …. The newspaper happily put out crap about saving energy – no stand by – turn the thermostats down – but no mention of the huge – huge – standing charges now –

    I know I’ve raised this here before – but it seems to come from the same school as ULEZ …. It’s just criminal – and done on a blue labour green crap watch …

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    • MarkyMark says:

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

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

      Everyone. Everyone. Everyone.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    DEMAND THAT FOR 650 MPS WHO GET A SALARY OF £80K PA TO REPRESENT THE PEOPLE AND DISCUSS LEAVING THE EU WE SHOULD FORM A COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS IF ADULTS CAN USE THE WORD SURRENDER IN PARLIAMENT AND TAKE THE REST OF THE WEEK OFF!

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  24. MarkyMark says:

    CORBYN GOLDEN YEARS.. HOW we want to forget….

    “Our Party must speak for the overwhelming majority in our country. Labour is a broad church and can be broader still.”
    – Jeremy Corbyn Labour Conference 2018

    overwhelming majority in our country

    The most recent Census in 2011 highlights that in England and Wales, 80 per cent of the population were white British. Asian (Pakistani, Indian, Bangladeshi, other) ‘groups’ made up 6.8 per cent of the population; black groups 3.4 per cent; Chinese groups 0.7 cent,Arab groups 0.4 per cent and other groups 0.6 per cent.

    overwhelming majority in our country

    According to the 2011 Census, Christianity is the majority religion, followed by Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Judaism and Buddhism in terms of number of adherents. Among Christians, Anglicans are the most common denomination, followed by the Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists and Baptists.

    overwhelming majority in our country

    “In 2016, around 2% of the population identified themselves as lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB). This has increased from 1.7% in 2015 (a statistically significant increase). London had the largest proportion of the population who identified as LGB (2.7%), which could be associated with a relatively young and diverse population.”

    overwhelming majority in our country

    General Facts and Figures: In Britain over 10 million people have a limiting long term illness, impairment or disability – this is over 18 per cent of the population. The most common types of impairment for adults in Britain are those associated with a difficulty in mobility, lifting and carrying.

    overwhelming majority in our country

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  25. Flotsam says:

    The cost of living is hitting hard. I’m fed up of paying large amounts of cash for a basic standard of living.
    I’m thinking of crossing the Channel by ferry, blacking up and re-crossing back to Dover in a rubber dinghy. I’ll be housed FOC, kept warm. given meals, pocket money and I may even be able to watch the BBC for free.

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  26. Fedup2 says:

    MPs to get double redundancy pay when they lose their seats next time – wonder if it’s pensionable ?( of course it is ) ….

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  27. Guest Who says:

    Ex BBC mini-YAB pulls a Sopes…

    Meanwhile she is fluffing JO’bsworth, ignoring (as all London MSM ‘journalist’ classlesses have and do) his Carl Beech attempt.

    London is welcome to the whole midden pile.

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  28. MarkyMark says:

    e6103e78-0a65-4212-a32d-cfac5e3843ac-bba04357-b2ea-4b16-9bc5-70440fdd5be9

    From BBC …

    We have highlighted in our reporting that Labour MP Barry Gardiner has received over £420,000 in donations from Christine Ching Kui Lee’s (CHINESE SPY! HA HA HA) company over 5 years. I have provided links to some of this coverage below:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61271058
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59990451
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59984380

    We are of course free from any political influence or agenda.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      The BRICS issue really doesn’t feature on the msm radar does it ? Maybe the UK should apply to join – although I don’t think they’d be happy to let a burnt out basket case’ sit at the table ‘ I reckon ….
      It will be interesting to see the reception sunak gets in India in a couple of weeks … maybe he can get India to sell us some ( cheap ) ex Russian oil ….

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    • Up2snuff says:

      MM, BRICS a block of developing countries?

      Brazil: achieved independence from Portugal (a very developed nation) early in the 19th century. Built a factory to produce a Volkswagen car (the ‘Beetle’), built a completely new capital, Brasilia, from scratch. Considered to be highly influential in the Americas and backed by a large army both in terms of personnel and equipment.

      Russia: in the news today, for selling oil to India to be refined into AVGAS.

      India: just landed a capsule on the moon. ’nuff said.

      China: a developed nation, in my view, that is a worldwide exporter, is highly industrialised and has the second largest population in the world with an army to match. Is building electric cars. Has been to the moon successfully.

      South Africa: built by white people from Netherlands and Belgium (both highly developed nations) and the South African Ambassador complained to the UK that we were stealing their teachers in the early years of the millennium.

      ‘Developing nations’!???!! Hahahahhhhaaaaa!

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  29. Guest Who says:

    Another example of the cosy, corrupt, and utterly clueless governance of all the usual suspects… HoP, activists, media…

    https://www.edie.net/report-slow-heat-pump-roll-out-to-cost-uk-65m-in-export-opportunities-annually/?

    Not. A. Clue.

    Richer. Than. Croesus.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      https://www.gov.uk/apply-boiler-upgrade-scheme/what-you-can-get

      What you can get
      You can get one grant per property. Grants are available for:

      £5,000 towards an air source heat pump
      £6,000 towards a ground source heat pump (including water source heat pumps and those on shared ground loops)
      £5,000 towards a biomass boiler
      You cannot get a grant for a hybrid heat pump system (for example a combination of gas boiler and air source heat pump).

      The system you install must meet certain standards, such as minimum efficiency levels (your installer can advise you on these).

      The system’s maximum capacity must be less than 45kWth – anything over is not eligible.

      ..

      https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/energy-at-home/heating-your-home/

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  30. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Somebody (in the Home Office?) is doing a good job.

    Many months ago, and tens of thousands of doctors and engineers ago, we were being told it was costing us £6,000,000 a day to keep them fed, housed and looked after.
    The numbers have increased a lot but this is still the same sum they use for their costs when the various talking heads mention it on tv.

    As all these extra ones must still be fed and housed etc somebody is doing a grand job by keeping the cost the same.

    * I wonder what the real numbers are. Will we ever be told?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Britain has spent about half a million pounds in the past year storing small boats used by migrants to cross the Channel, according to internal government estimates. Legislation requires the state to keep the boats for 12 months in case an owner comes forward to claim them.7 Aug 2021

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  31. MarkyMark says:

    HA HA HA … ” in case an owner comes forward to claim them”

    Britain has spent about half a million pounds in the past year storing small boats used by migrants to cross the Channel, according to internal government estimates. Legislation requires the state to keep the boats for 12 months in case an owner comes forward to claim them.7 Aug 2021

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  32. Terminal Moraine says:

    A few days ago I posted about a sugary migrants-as-victims BBC piece on the Greek fires. Well to be fair to them, they’re now reporting this: “Greece wildfires: 79 people arrested for arson”

    That sounds like a lot of people to me. What they are not reporting though is amongst those charged are 13 Pakistani and Syrian illegal migrants. One of the charges is for manufacture and possession of explosives.

    I imagine this will all be ignored and won’t dent the boiling planet/pro-migrant narrative.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66612781
    https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/08/24/fires-greece-13-pakistani-migrants/

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  33. Doublethinker says:

    The MSM reaction to the Tucker Carlson Trump interview this week is predictable but still funny. The interview has been ‘clicked on ‘ over 150 million times so far, more than 200 million looks a certainty.
    The MSM are claiming that such a high number means nothing because a lot of people might have clicked on it but didn’t watch the whole interview. They also claiming it was chaotic , the shape of things to come they claim, or that it was a boring re hash if Trump’s discredited policies . On and on they go with their by now almost terminal TDS infection.
    So far the only the Spectator , not known for its Trump support, makes the point that Trump is making, perhaps already has made , the MSM an irrelevance , old news , powerless, they just don’t realise it yet, by his use of social media and ability to connect with tens of millions of ordinary voters.
    With Musk at X the Dems and RINOs won’t be able to muzzle him like they did last time, even if they get him imprisoned. I’m sure that they will be considering applying the ultimate sanction to be performed by a lone gunman or an Epstein solution. If they don’t then a hell of a lot of big names will be facing very long jail sentences within Trump’s next term .

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  34. MarkyMark says:

    Feminists – Why would anyone stick up for men?

    Deaths in Battle

    Men 97.7%

    Women 2.3%

    Suicides

    Men 77.9%

    Women 22.1%

    Homeless

    Men 62%

    Women 38%

    Homicides

    Men 77.4%

    Women 22.6%

    Winners of custody

    Men 17.8%

    Women 82.2%

    (from order-order.com)

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  35. Terminal Moraine says:

    Verify’s Wendling showing he has no concept of informed consent, which prior to 2020 was seen as an important component of public health but now seems like a relic.

    Mike’s a BBC dimwit so thinks only conspiracy nuts would have concerns about hospital treatment after a 3yr programme of medical fraud, lies, state-endorsed threats and bullying.

    Meanwhile in Canada, an Alberta woman who was denied an organ transplant because she refused to take mRNA biotech injections also had the supreme court refuse to hear her case. And now she’s died. Something to fact check, hey?

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    • Guest Who says:

      Look at the engagement he generates. The BBC really is unique funding model for ideological idiots.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Mike Wendling
        @mwendling
        US National Digital Reporter,
        @BBCNews
        . former editor of
        @BBCTrending
        . Book: Alt-Right: From 4chan to the White House. michael.wendling@bbc.co.uk #billsmafia
        Chicago, ILbbc.com/newsJoined April 2008
        3,056 Following
        6,971 Followers

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    • MarkyMark says:

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      • Thatcherrevolutionary says:

        I don’t know if this is satire or not?

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        • MarkyMark says:

          In April 2020, the health and social care secretary announced that over £13bn of debt held by NHS trusts would be written off. All of the debts to be written-off are internal between NHS trusts and the Department of Health and Social Care, so the process does not include borrowing from external sources.

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    • Richard Pinder says:

      The Covid vaccines were unusual in that they were the first vaccines in which “informed consent” was withheld for 70 years, presumably until everyone had died. However a judge in Texas ordered the release of the documents which revealed that the vaccines “failed” and therefore kill more people than they can save. However this “informed consent” is censored by the BBC on the orders of OFCOM which punished Mark Steyn for allowing Naomi Wolf to “inform” viewers about what thousands of volunteer scientists found in the documents released by order of the Texan judge. Mark Steyn is taking legal action against the totalitarian commissars of the UK state censor Ofcom in the English High Court. The Nuremberg Code Society and prominent holocaust survivors talking in documentaries censored by the BBC, are also horrified about this censorship of “Informed Consent” by the liberal fascists.

      As for Anti-vaxer. The evidence gained from “Informed Consent” is that mRNA technology does not work for producing immunity. So mRNA jabs are nothing like Edward Jenner type vaccines that give life long immunity with one jab, so are not vaccines. Scientific experts who have investigated these mRNA jabs describe them as bioweapons. So therefore, I am an “Anti-Bioweaponer” for refusing the mRNA jab.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Richard
        I’d make an uneducated guess and bet that the Steyn action is ‘struck out ‘ on some obscure technicality – the British state won’t want light being shed on the vaccines or their side effects –
        If anyone thinks the judiciary is ‘independent’ think about who pays them and their pensions …. They are lawyers so share the same amorality as politicians …

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  36. MarkyMark says:

    Luis Rubiales has refused to step down as president of the Spanish football federation following his behaviour at the Women’s World Cup final on Sunday.

    Rubiales, 46, kissed forward Jenni Hermoso on the lips after Spain’s 1-0 victory over England.

    He had earlier grabbed his crotch as he celebrated at the final whistle.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66609945

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  37. MarkyMark says:

    “.. we reached for the stars. Acted like men. We aspired to intelligence and didn’t belittle it, it didn’t make us feel inferior. We didn’t identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election. And we … we didn’t scare so easy. We were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed. By great men.”
    [“Why America is NOT the greatest country in the world, anymore.”@3:58]

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Aaron sorkin going full Churchill …

      US politics has come a long way since they executed Richard Nixon for ‘playing the game ‘….
      I think someone earlier in this thread suggested President Trump wouid get the JFK treatment if re elected . …..
      The ballot boxes could be overflowing with trump votes and he will still lose ….. and the msm – Obama DoJ – the whole thing – wouid connive – again ….

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      • MarkyMark says:

        We are in A MESS.

        “‘I’ve killed him’: David Amess murder was last act of two-year plot”
        https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/11/david-amess-last-act-two-year-plot-ali-harbi-ali

        Ali saw himself as a soldier of Islamic State and wanted to punish a British lawmaker for the UK’s actions in Syria. The terrorist group had declared a state there, which became a magnet for violent extremists around the world.

        On Friday 15 October 2021, Ali bought a train ticket at 4.58am and set off from his home in Kentish Town, London. First he took a train across the capital, and then to Leigh-on-Sea’s small train station at 10.23am. He had booked his appointment for midday by email, providing a false address to deceive Amess’s staff.

        Ali’s plans to murder a politician had been frustrated so far and he finally chose Amess, who advertised his advice surgery with dates and times and places on the internet.

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Marky – there was a truly awful – awful – woke ‘documentary about the Islamic terrorist who killed 2 kidults before being thankfully shot dead on London Bridge .

          Motivation was barely discussed – the armed cops who bravely shot said terrorist didn’t really get a mention – and nor did Islam – the enemy within .

          Instead it was just the dead kidults and a couple of frankly soppy wimp witnesses – although one of them did ‘engage ‘ before the police ended the problem …

          It was – as I say truly Channel 4 awful …

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      • MarkyMark says:

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        • Fedup2 says:

          The meds were wearing off – the Obama staff must have been praying for a ‘technical issue ‘….

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  38. MarkyMark says:

    Summary of the main findings of the review of Islamist extremism in prisons, probation and youth justice
    Published 22 August 2016

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/islamist-extremism-in-prisons-probation-and-youth-justice/summary-of-the-main-findings-of-the-review-of-islamist-extremism-in-prisons-probation-and-youth-justice#key-findings

    tightened vetting of prison chaplains to assess association with organisations linked to extremism;

    Throughout the review the team emphasised the importance of faith to prisoners, and its potential to transform lives for the better. Its premise was that Islamism – a politicised, expansionist version of Islam – is more ideology than faith, and is driven by intolerance and anti-Western sentiment.

    is more ideology than faith, and is driven by intolerance and anti-Western sentiment.

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  39. MarkyMark says:

    A white bearded man appears with a big smile and a flash of red. The children go ecstatic. What’s in the large Government issue sack they all wonder? The children are told of the magic and wonder. How miracles happen and hearts are opened. Wonder is in the air. After such wonderful stories the children use their imaginations to guess what present they will receive.

    They are all given a parcel in brown nondescript paper – can’t offend anyone can we children? They tear at the paper and they see a bland wooden toy – children it’s environmentally friendly and recyclable! They look around and they all have the same toy, even the boys and girls – let’s rejoice that we all the same but different and diverse.

    He leaves in a dark limousine heading towards his palace drinking scotch thinking of all the good he has done today.

    ~ The End – Jeremy Corbyn as Santa ~

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  40. MarkyMark says:

    “The great march of mental destruction will go on. Everything will be denied. Everything will become a creed. It is a reasonable position to deny the stones in the street; it will be a religious dogma to assert them. It is a rational thesis that we are all in a dream; it will be a mystical sanity to say that we are all awake. Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer. ”

    https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/912551-truths-turn-into-dogmas-the-instant-that-they-are-disputed

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  41. Guest Who says:

    BBC arrange a line up.

    https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1695092845923733661?s=20

    ‘near’.

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  42. MarkyMark says:

    OLD POST…DIVERSITY IS OUR .. OH WAIT … EU … WAIT IS ….

    2971c1c4af5282328286f369153a1ae17d8d5f9bd595bcb66611a7ef8ae85b07.png

    Start the Week Open Thread 18 June 2018

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  43. tomo says:

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  44. Guest Who says:

    https://www.tvbeurope.com/business/petition-calls-for-uk-government-to-give-film-and-tv-crews-more-support-during-hollywood-strikes?

    By ‘the government’, this presumably means money, from… the taxpayer?

    Tricky one, as subsidising stuff has been, is and doubtless will be a lucrative turkey shoot based on who shouts loudest on their ‘contributions’.

    That said, the media world always has been lucrative, and whilst unfortunate, covering for a strike for more money in another country here errs on the stretch, especially given who has been allowed to founder in other areas before now.

    At least Mrs. Brown’s Boys has been assured of further outings, and a silly horny Italian has allowed the Mega Rapacious Po to ‘issue a statement’, in the US, about another national team, in Australia, for slavish pink haired dyke media weenies to pick up.

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  45. Guest Who says:

    In other non news, the amazingly still with us and astoundingly less worse than spud head ex Limp leader Survince has spoke.

    https://commentcentral.co.uk/the-net-zero-consensus-is-over

    Net Zero is over, in all but the fevered minds of every idiot pol in the HoP no matter what party.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The Conservatives’ opportunistic dabbling in anti-green populism and net-zero scepticism is deeply unhelpful to maintaining a political consensus but is a symptom of a deeper problem: the fragile nature of the net-zero commitment. It will not survive without an honest acknowledgement of the tricky trade-offs involved as well as careful design of policies to minimise costs and losers and to maximise self-interested benefits from the green transition.

      Sir Vince Cable
      Sir Vince Cable is a former Secretary of State for Business, and led the Liberal Democrats from 2017-19.

      ………………

      This article is more than 9 years old
      Vince Cable defends Royal Mail sell-off in Commons debate
      This article is more than 9 years old
      Business secretary insists the privatisation was a success but Chuka Umunna says taxpayers were ‘disgracefully shortchanged to the tune of hundreds of millions of pounds’
      Julia Kollewe
      Tue 1 Apr 2014 13.51 BST

      https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/apr/01/royal-mail-sell-off-chuka-umunna-urgent-question

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    • MarkyMark says:

      LONDON (Reuters) – British Business Secretary Vince Cable was on Monday summoned to face lawmakers for a third time over the government’s privatisation of Royal Mail, after a watchdog report last week said the postal company had been sold off too cheaply.

      In October last year the government sold 60 percent of Royal Mail at 330 pence per share, ending 500-years of state control and raising 2 billion pounds for the public purse.

      https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-royalmail-inquiry-idUKBREA360SQ20140407

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  46. tomo says:

    You might have thought (I did) that the Canadian debanking has wound up…

    Not so

    Trudeau’s stasi are still harassing people.

    https://rumble.com/v3bk9wc-trump-mug-shot-pat-king-trial-shelia-annette-lewis-died-a-world-of-injustic.html

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  47. kingkp says:

    The BBC is remarkably quiet on the events in Maui.
    Still over a thousand missing including hundreds of children who were kept home that day as they shut down the schools so were they incinerated while their parents were working? The police still refuse to say just how many children are missing.
    The only road out of the town was blocked by the police undoubtedly leading directly to many of the deaths.
    The water was turned off so the fire officers were unable to extinguish the fires effectively.
    The electricity was kept on the entire time throughout the disaster helping to worsen the situation as a power line fell on a gas station.
    The sirens were deliberately not activated even though they have regular tests otherwise for all kinds of threats including hurricanes. The police confirmed this in a press conference.
    The police chief is also the coroner.
    FEMA and the Red Cross refused donations from local people and blocked off the area to the public.
    And they expect you to believe this was caused by ‘global boiling’?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=Maui&d=HOMEPAGE_PS&seqId=53b31360-437a-11ee-8917-97d66a075174

      Search results for Maui

      Music, Money, Madness: Jimi Hendrix Live in Maui
      Chronicling Jimi Hendrix’s visit to Maui in July 1970.

      Music, Money, Madness: Jimi Hendrix Live in Maui
      Maui wildfires: Officials release list of 388 people still missing
      Authorities want any survivors on the list to come forward in order to narrow down the search.

      Maui wildfires: Officials release list of 388 people still missing
      Maui County sues Hawaiian Electric over wildfire negligence
      The energy firm is accused of not turning off electric equipment in high winds and dry conditions.

      Maui County sues Hawaiian Electric over wildfire negligence
      ‘We’re not recovering whole bodies’ but crumbling ash, Maui police chief says
      More than 1,000 people remain unaccounted for after wildfires gutted the town of Lahaina

      ‘We’re not recovering whole bodies’ but crumbling ash, Maui police chief says
      Maui fires: More than 1,000 still missing as search continues
      Officials are using cadaver dogs and asking families for DNA swabs, hoping to narrow the search.

      Maui fires: More than 1,000 still missing as search continues
      Newsday: Biden vows support for fire-ravaged Maui
      Hundreds of people are still missing after the wildfires.

      BBC World Service
      Newsday: Biden vows support for fire-ravaged Maui
      ‘We will rebuild the way people of Maui want to’
      US President Joe Biden visits Lahaina nearly two weeks after the Hawaiian town was ravaged by fire

      ‘We will rebuild the way people of Maui want to’
      Tim Laporte searches for his father missing in Maui
      Tim Laporte’s stepfather is one of hundreds still missing after the wildfires devastated the town of Lahaina.

      Tim Laporte searches for his father missing in Maui
      Hawaii wildfires: The red Lahaina house that survived Maui fires
      The 100-year-old wood structure was recently renovated but not fireproofed, say owners.

      Hawaii wildfires: The red Lahaina house that survived Maui fires
      Newsday: Maui fire: ‘There’s been so much loss’
      A survivor speaks about the catastrophic impact of the fires on

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