359 Responses to Weekend 2nd September 2023

  1. MarkyMark says:

    CHANGE COMES WHEN YOU GET A ROYAL VISIT … Simon Dudley, the leader of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead council, wrote on Twitter there had been an “epidemic of rough sleeping and vagrancy” in the town and said he wanted police “to focus on dealing with this before the #RoyalWedding.”4 Jan 2018

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Marky – can you mark it up by age before I waste my time reading it ? 2018 ffs?

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Sorry – does say 2018 at end – will try to add at start. Get excited sometimes!

        Maybe if the royals visited everywhere there was homeless people it would end having homeless people?

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  2. MarkyMark says:

    Guido Website … “Guido, my last post, successfully posted, then disappeared, !!!!!!!!!!!! explanation please.”

    Response (comical) … “these comment areas are heavily policed. thought crime will not be tolerated. we must all be more woke.”

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  3. MarkyMark says:

    Four sons set out on a perilous migration route. Only one came home
    Published
    13 hours ago

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-66665299

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    As the fleet crosses the Indian Ocean, the political situation in France becomes more charged. At a press conference about the crisis, a French official who offers a speech in praise of the migrants is confronted by a journalist who claims he is merely trying to “feed the invaders” and demands to know if France will “have the courage to stand up to” the migrants when they reach France. The official decries this question as morally offensive and threatens to throw the journalist out when he continues to yell. Other journalists seek to inflame tensions between the French and Africans and Arabs already living in the country. Over time, these journalists begin to write that the migrant fleet is on a mission to “enrich, cleanse and redeem the Capitalist West”. At the same time as the fleet is praised by those in Paris, the people of Southern France, terrified of the migrants’ arrival, flee to the north.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camp_of_the_Saints

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  4. Eddy Booth says:

    ‘Samuel Newey: British volunteer killed in Ukraine ‘had a giving heart’ ‘
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-66697732

    BBC heavily spinkling on the saccharine for this ex student (psychology) mercenary, who got blown up by a shell whilst on a killing safari in Ukraine:

    “had a giving heart
    very kind
    aid agency
    was a medic
    could make anyone laugh
    brave fallen
    the light of all of our lives
    the whole family’s baby boy”

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Samuel Newey carried out “mission after mission” in Ukraine, said his family”

      If you travel to Ukraine to fight, or to assist others engaged in the war, your activities may amount to offences under UK legislation and you could be prosecuted on your return to the UK.

      https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/ukraine/safety-and-security#:~:text=If%20you%20travel%20to%20Ukraine,your%20return%20to%20the%20UK.

      “He became a fighter but he also always helped on the humanitarian side as well so if anybody ever needed help, he would always answer the call,” she said.

      If you travel to Ukraine to fight, or to assist others engaged in the war, your activities may amount to offences under UK legislation and you could be prosecuted on your return to the UK.

      OMISSION IS THE GREATEST LIE!

      Was his family actively supporting him?

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  5. atlas_shrugged says:

    No doubt media hysteria about the ‘malteser cement’ will be extended from schools to: hospitals, court houses, libraries, police stations etc. But if they were all to be closed let us say forever would the UK people suffer or benefit?

    Do all these institutions benefit the UK people? Just as one example go into the Cranebridge central library and there is always rainbow flags on display and a celebration of pride week/month/year. In the German section ‘Hitler’ is bad but in the Russian section there is almost nothing about Uncle ‘Joe’. The library refuses to stock the ‘Light’ newspaper. Does this library really educate me and tries to tell the truth? Ditto with courts, police stations, hospitals etc etc.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Hannah Arendt, one of the greatest philosophers of the last 100 years, said that: ‘Once something can’t be said, you’re already in a tyranny.’ So, it is indisputable that we are all now living, in 2023, in a tyranny”

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  6. Fedup2 says:

    Not bbc ( again ) but the telegraph ( again ) with an interview with comrade blunkett which thinks he was one the ‘right ‘ in the Blair cabinet . Not what I remember ..

    … anyway blunkett thinks starmer needs a miracle to win the coming election . Presumably this is the new Labour Party HQ brief in order to prevent socialists thinking they are so far ahead that they need not vote. Sadly it will be a landslide of people Fedup with an unelected PM and a crap government …

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  8. MarkyMark says:

    Britain risks ‘taking for granted’ its historic ties with Commonwealth countries as China pushes to replace the UK, Rishi Sunak has been warned.

    MPs have urged ministers to form stronger deals with Caribbean nations in an attempt to bolster ties.

    A number of countries are considering following the lead of Barbados, which became a republic in 2021, removing the British monarch as its head of state.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12474701/Rishi-Sunak-warned-Britain-risks-taking-granted-historic-ties-Commonwealth-countries-China-pushes-replace-us.html

    ………….

    “Moment Prince Charles almost falls ASLEEP at midnight ceremony to mark Barbados becoming a republic ending four centuries with British monarch as head of state”

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

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

    …………

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  9. MarkyMark says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Daniel Carey-Dawes is a 35-year-old Labour activist who has devoted much of his adult life to the cause, spending four years as the party’s constituency secretary in his native Hackney and five years as its research and support officer at London’s City Hall.

      He stood, unsuccessfully, as a Labour council candidate in 2010, spent a couple of years as PA to the Corbynist London Assembly member Jennette Arnold and, according to his profile on the social network site LinkedIn, also “developed policy” which “formed part of Sadiq Khan’s manifesto”.

      This week, Carey-Dawes, who describes himself as a “lifelong Labour voter”, was found to be helping advance the party’s agenda via his current day job.

      On Wednesday he used X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, to help his employer circulate a highly controversial series of social media posts calling Rishi Sunak and two senior Tory ministers “LIARS!”

      The messages looked, and read, like party-political attack adverts. They featured a sinister black and white image of the Prime Minister alongside his housing secretary Michael Gove and DEFRA supremo Therese Coffey. “LIARS!” was rubber-stamped across it in blood-red text.

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  12. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    There’s some accents/voices that make me immediately want to switch channels when they come on.

    One is Nigel Nelson, a GB News senior political commentator person (leftie) who sounds a bit smarmy and apologetic.
    The other is Steve Valdez Symonds who talks down to you as if you were a three year old naughty child.

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  13. BRISSLES says:

    Glad it’s not only me then Emm, especially the Symonds bloke. I also cringe when I hear another voice, don’t know her name but its high and whiny . She’s of Asian extraction with long dark hair and quite young. I think she’s a doctor.

    Apropo the crumbling concrete. I do worry about multi storey car parks – enough said.

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  14. Guest Who says:

    Unprecedented Ally rather highlighting the value of the BBC as a source of anything objective.

    https://x.com/historic_ally/status/1698036202950017418?s=61

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Main news story on BBC Scotland news:

      No a bad day oot eh

      Independence is coming, and momentum is building”

      …………….

      Alistair Heather
      @Historic_Ally
      Writer & Presenter. Columnist
      @TheCourierUK
      documentaries on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Scotland TV
      Newbigging, Scotlandthecourier.co.uk/tag/alistair-h…Joined June 2015
      6,775 Following
      15.6K Followers

      documentaries on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Scotland TV
      documentaries on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Scotland TV

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Never seen so many white people (c) Jon Snow.

      “Independence convention absolutely packing oot Dundee’s Caird Hall – and queues of folk still filtering in fae the square”

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  15. Guest Who says:

    Goes on the BBC to get the soundbite.

    https://x.com/bphillipsonmp/status/1698325787621908640?s=61

    The actual debate is in the comments.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Children sat in classrooms literally held up with props to stop the ceiling falling on their heads.

      The defining image of 13 years of Tory neglect.

      The chickens are coming home to roost for the Conservatives.”

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  16. MarkyMark says:

    Ulez hypocrisy: Ed Davey asks for EXEMPTION in his own constituency despite voting for it
    order-order.com

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  17. MarkyMark says:

    year 2020 … Council admits it ‘wrongly approved’ Grenfell’s cladding because of out-of-date documents
    By Gerard Tubb, news correspondent, and Chris Robertson, news reporter

    Wednesday 29 January 2020 18:00, UK

    https://news.sky.com/story/grenfell-contractors-ask-for-no-prosecution-guarantee-from-inquiry-11920712

    The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) has admitted the combustible cladding on Grenfell Tower was wrongly approved by its building control department, which was working from out-of-date documents.

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    • tomo says:

      Grenfell

      The architects were professionally liable as I understand it – they demonstrated their guilt by fleeing / scarpering in the most undignified fashion imaginable 🙂

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  18. tomo says:

    Trump J6 judge Tanya S. Chutkan is just a tad conflicted….

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  19. MarkyMark says:

    “Labour reshuffle: Sir Keir Starmer to shake up shadow cabinet”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66702016

    When you have a pack of 52 jokers why bother?

    ………………..

    https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/diane-abbott-jewish-costume-comment-question-time-tube-passenger-video-1.469648
    Diane Abbott walks away after she’s asked to explain Jewish ‘costume’ comment

    Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott has refused to clarify remarks she made on BBC Question Time earlier this year where she suggested members of the charedi community became targets of hate crime because of the “costume” they wore.

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  20. harry142857 says:

    When you can’t afford to hire diverse actors for your advert.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      27 April 2011

      A musician was arrested after a performance of the 1970s song Kung Fu Fighting at an Isle of Wight bar sparked an alleged racism row with a passer-by.

      Simon Ledger, 34, of Shanklin, said he was playing the Carl Douglas hit at the Driftwood bar, Sandown, on Sunday when the man of Chinese origin took offence.

      Police said the passer-by claimed he was then “subjected to racial abuse”.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-13205220

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  21. tomo says:

    New Zealand lefties have found a worthy replacement for the ghastly Ardern

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    Say hello to Chris Hipkins

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Vaccination as a condition of deployment
      (VCOD) for healthcare workers
      Frequently Asked Questions
      8 February 2022 Version 1
      On 31 January 2022, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced to the House
      of Commons that it was no longer proportionate for NHS staff to be required to have a full
      course of vaccinations against COVID-19.

      Click to access C1584-vcod-for-healthcare-workers-faqs.pdf

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  22. Northern Voter says:

    So, Mrs V was watching Songs of Praise, this evening, from Canterbury. Show opens with a hymn set to the tune of Deutschland uber alles, they then manage to find a female reverend who welcomes refugees with open arms, she worked in Greece and Calais, welcoming refugees. Who would have thought it. Not me.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      2018 … Archbishop of Canterbury to lead Wonga rescue effort
      This article is more than 4 years old
      Welby to rally non-profit group to try to protect borrowers after loan firm collapsed

      2018 … Church of England pulls out of Wonga rescue effort
      This article is more than 4 years old
      Justin Welby says church has decided not to participate in buyout of payday lender


      The head of the Church of England has said he was embarrassed to find out that his organisation had invested indirectly in a short-term loan company which he had vowed only days earlier to drive out of business.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Comment at top “This whole sorry saga is completely incomprehensible.
      A novel technology is used (mRNA and lipid nanoparticles). You could just about justify its use for extremely vulnerable people, but no one else.
      The global safety and efficacy monitoring of this novel technology is abysmal.
      But the novel technology is continued despite increasing concerns about safety and efficacy. Moderna is going to open new plants in the U.K.
      I simply don’t comprehend.
      Maybe it is all about the money- Moderna’s 400 million USD to the NIH?
      I hope the truth will out….”

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      • atlas_shrugged says:

        MarkyMark

        1000 likes.

        I don’t understand either. It must be a collective insanity.

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    TV Licensing has launched new radio trails on BBC Radio 1, 1Xtra, BBC Radio 2 and the Asian Network. The trails are part of a campaign encouraging students to make sure they are covered by a TV Licence in their student accommodation if they plan to watch or record live TV or watch or download BBC programmes on iPlayer1.

    Students need to be covered by a TV licence if they are watching or recording live television. The law changed last September, meaning students now also need to be covered by a licence to download or watch programmes on demand – including catch up TV – on BBC iPlayer. This applies to laptops, mobiles or any other equipment.

    The trails were created by marketing agency Proximity London in partnership with TV Licensing. The amusing, playful creative highlights the differences between what can and can’t be done at uni and the questions asked by students of parents back at home

    https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/cs/media-centre/news/view.app?id=1369783736506

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  24. Up2snuff says:

    TWoTWeeee Watch #1 – did I miss anything?

    The Noxious, Naughty Naughtie was presenting but I missed the first twenty minutes. In the bit I did hear Naughtie was interviewing a US military man, a General who I think has been on BBC R4 before, sorry forgotten his name. Jim was at pains to get the General, speaking of US politics, to repeat the phrase ‘a vocal Republican minority’. They were discussing in Washington the progress of some ‘support Bill’.

    It was quite apparent why the Noxious Naughtie wanted that phrase ‘a vocal Republican minority’ repeated. Did Jim Naughtie cover the EU or Scottish Independence in the first twenty minutes? I would have expected so. 🙁

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  25. MarkyMark says:

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  26. MarkyMark says:

    @0:56 – “Thousands of people each day try to migrate to Africa to find work.”

    Author and academic Kehinde Andrews outlines his provocative vision for a future newtopia – a world where Africa is the “promised land”.

    This video was made by Somethin’ Else.

    Do you have a curious mind? You’re in the right place.

    Our aim on BBC Ideas is to feed your curiosity, to open your mind to new perspectives, and to leave you that little bit smarter.

    So dive in. Let us know what you think. And make sure to subscribe! https://bit.ly/2PrmLhW

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Before his removal in a military coup, Gabon’s hopelessly corrupt President Ali Bongo was courted by Obama and feted from Washington to Davos. The US war on Libya which destabilized the region may not have succeeded without him.”

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  27. Lucy Pevensey says:

    This looks like the future of The Notting Hill Carnival if we allow it to continue.

    BBC here giving us an overview of “The Eritrean community” wrecking streets in Tel Aviv. These are Eritrean “protesters” we are told. Smashing up shops and cars.

    The BBC woman repeatedly using the term “asylum seekers” She does not seem to mind that the asylum-seeking Eritreans are treating someone else’s country as a war-zone.

    “Israel’s hardline government” considering deportation” she says. “Members of the “far- right” have long wanted to tackle this issue. All the usual stuff. Migrants are victims despite the damage they do. In this case extreme damage. Any objectors must be framed as baddies.

    “Now Mr Netanyahu is saying he wants to see the immediate deportation of those involved in the latest violence”
    BBC woman reckons this is-
    “very worrying for asylum seekers & migrants here in Israel”

    As usual with the scum media, not an ounce of concern expressed for Israelis who might be injured or killed on their own streets by violent foreigners.

    This piece had me shouting at my screen. “He is the Prime minister! He is doing his job you dumb broad! (or words to that effect)

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    • MarkyMark says:

      2017 … BBC News
      If you’d travelled across the world to pursue a better life, would you move back in return for money?

      Germany is betting that the answer is yes.

      The country has long offered migrants and asylum seekers financial incentives to leave its shores, and until 28 February 2018 it’s prepared to pay out extra.

      Individuals will get €1,000 and families up to €3,000 (£2,650; $3,540) to cover rent or resettlement costs back in their home countries – things like basic kitchen or bathroom facilities.

      Critics say Angela Merkel’s government is trying to bribe its way out of a tricky situation, but supporters say the scheme will help sad, exhausted migrants who just want to go home.

      Germany is by no means first to this approach. So where else has done it – and is it morally wrong?

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42235232

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      • tomo says:

        Only a thought ….

        Why can’t we send migrants to New York, San Fransisco and Los Angeles?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      As the fleet approaches the Suez Canal, Egyptian military forces fire a warning shot, causing the fleet to steer south, around the Cape of Good Hope. To the surprise of observers, the apartheid regime of South Africa floats out barges of food and supplies, which the migrants throw overboard. The international press is thrilled, believing the rejection of these supplies to be a political statement against the apartheid South African regime. Western leaders, confident the migrants will accept supplies from their “more virtuous” nations, organize a supply mission, funded by governments, charities, rock stars and major churches, to meet the migrants off São Tomé. However, the fleet does not stop for these barges either, and when a worker from the Pope’s barge attempts to board one of the ships, he is strangled and thrown overboard. The press attempts to contain coverage of the murder.

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

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    • MarkyMark says:

      ““He is the Prime minister! He is doing his job you dumb broad!”

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    • MarkyMark says:

      21 August 2023 … Hundreds of migrants killed by Saudi border guards – report

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-66545787

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  28. MarkyMark says:

    “Africa never needed Western Pity” @2:00

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