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  1. davylars says:
    September 8, 2023 at 8:58 am

    Turbines whizzing around producing 0. — zero. %
    This morning
    Good job we still use coal..
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    Will this be BBC. News.

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  2. MarkyMark says:
    September 8, 2023 at 8:59 am

    Keep buying Chinese solar panels and trinkets … ha ha ha ha….

    “In the first half of this year, a whopping 65,000 people from Hong Kong applied for a special five-year visa to live in the United Kingdom. They’re fleeing China’s tightening grip on the Asian financial hub for the safety of the former empire that once ruled them.25 Oct 2021”

    65,000 people from Hong Kong applied for a special five-year visa
    Bangor (County Down) (Irish: Beannchar) population = 65K

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

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  3. Sluff says:
    September 8, 2023 at 9:12 am

    Just when you think the NHS cannot possibly get any worse…..

    They are now prescribing …..wait for it…….home heating !!!!!!!
    Yes, despite the £400 winter fuel payment, people with respiratory issues still refuse to put their heating on, so the NHS can ‘save money’ by paying the heating bills for them.

    Unbelievable. But totally true.
    Clap. Clap. Clap.

       20 likes

    • MarkyMark says:
      September 8, 2023 at 9:15 am

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      https://www.letstalkaboutit.nhs.uk/directory-of-services/chemsex-support/

      NHS ….. chemsex … natural …

         8 likes

    • MarkyMark says:
      September 8, 2023 at 9:29 am

      “Hormone therapy in children and young people
      Some young people with lasting signs of gender dysphoria who meet strict criteria may be referred to a hormone specialist (consultant endocrinologist) to see if they can take hormone blockers as they reach puberty. This is in addition to psychological support.”
      https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/gender-dysphoria/treatment/

      …

      Do NHS workers get gym discount?
      Low-Cost 24 Hour Gym Memberships – 10% off for NHS.

      …..

      ‘Deeply worrying’ research suggests 25% of nurses in England are obese
      05 DECEMBER, 2017 BY JO STEPHENSON

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  4. MarkyMark says:
    September 8, 2023 at 9:14 am

    Rishi Sunak has suggested that the English Channel crossings problem is too “complex” to allow him to fulfil his promise to stop the small boats by the next general election.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-small-boats-braverman-b2396623.html

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  5. Sluff says:
    September 8, 2023 at 9:24 am

    The government’s auction of offshore wind farm concessions has produced a magnificent zero bids.
    This must mean that private companies do not think wind power can pay its way without taxpayer funded subsidies.
    So……maybe this green power malarkey is not quite all it’s cracked up to be.

    An inconvenient truth if ever there was one, and sure to be buried by BBC news.

       21 likes

    • MarkyMark says:
      September 8, 2023 at 9:30 am

      Russia or China not bidding to get land? Saudi maybe to buy the land?

      …..

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    • G says:
      September 8, 2023 at 9:51 am

      Sluff

      Perhaps they’ve cottoned on to the fact that the Russians are spying on the UK offshore wind developments which will feature in the ‘opening shots’ of war unfolding.

         4 likes

    • Flotsam says:
      September 8, 2023 at 9:58 am

      As I have said a few times before, offshore wind is extremely expensive to install and maintain. The marine environment ensures a shorter operational life as well.

         12 likes

  6. MarkyMark says:
    September 8, 2023 at 9:32 am

    In India, Modi makes New Delhi’s poverty temporarily disappear for the G20 summit
    The Prime Minister has spared no expense to beautify the Indian capital, in an attempt to meet the standards of the G20, whose leaders are meeting on September 9 and 10.

    By Sophie Landrin(New Delhi, correspondante)
    Published yesterday at 8:58 pm (Paris)
    Time to3 min.
    Lire en français

    HA HA HA – see – problems can be solved when you need them to disappear.

    A New Delhi slum hidden behind G20 posters, September 5, 2023. ARUN SANKAR / AFP

    A New Delhi slum hidden behind G20 posters, September 5, 2023. ARUN SANKAR / AFP

    A New Delhi slum hidden behind G20 posters, September 5, 2023. ARUN SANKAR / AFP

    A New Delhi slum hidden behind G20 posters, September 5, 2023. ARUN SANKAR / AFP

    Hundreds of thousands of plants have sprouted along the roadsides, walls have been freshly painted, road tunnels adorned with murals and traffic circles decorated with new fountains and statues of lions and elephants. Lawns are freshly mowed and cleared of debris. The city, once hostile to pedestrians, is now equipped with sidewalks, even bicycle paths and street lamps. Giant foggers crisscross the roads, spraying water to settle airborne dust.

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  7. MarkyMark says:
    September 8, 2023 at 9:35 am

    “Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government hopes the elaborate effort to make New Delhi sparkle – a “beautification project” with a price tag of $120m – will help showcase the world’s most populous nation’s cultural prowess and strengthen its position on the global stage.”

    price tag of $120m

    https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/9/4/as-indias-capital-gets-makeover-for-g20-summit-poor-say-lives-destroyed

    ……………………………….

    The Department for International Development (DFID) stopped providing direct financial aid to the Indian government in 2015. The UK’s remaining bilateral aid portfolio in India, managed through DFID and subsequently the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), as well as other departments such as the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, shifted to other aid modalities such as technical assistance and development capital to private sector companies. UK aid to India is now largely focused on climate, infrastructure and economic development, rather than the provision of basic services such as health and education to the poorest states in India.

    As noted above, FCDO in India is unique in that it manages its own portfolio of development capital investments in private companies. This is separate from the India investment portfolio held by British International Investment (BII, formerly CDC). India represents BII’s largest portfolio, making up 25% of its active investments at the end of 2020. The UK also provides aid to India through core contributions to multilateral organisations including the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.

    Between 2016 and 2020, we estimate that the UK disbursed around £1.9 billion of aid to India.

    https://icai.independent.gov.uk/html-version/uk-aid-to-india/#:~:text=The%20Department%20for%20International%20Development,the%20Indian%20government%20in%202015.

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  8. atlas_shrugged says:
    September 8, 2023 at 9:55 am

    If our UK political system had any ability to select leaders with common sense, merit, and ability to govern sensibly then …

    This chap would be prime minister:

    IMHO

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    • MarkyMark says:
      September 8, 2023 at 10:03 am

      2018 …

      “…rightly reminded politicians of the importance of words they use. So when a politician uses words like this ‘Tory and Labour politicians are blaming each other. But as usual they are too political correct to mention the root causes of knife violence. A surge of migration of young people from Somalia and Congo, with a culture of where extreme violence is normal and on a completely different level to anything known before in the UK.’. That’s an example of language being used in a way that is dangerous, and my point to you is this. Is there any problem in this country that isn’t the fault of immigration?” – Sadiq Khan

      “Well this is Mayor’s Question Time so I’m asking you (Sadiq) the questions rather than you asking me the questions. Obviously you sit in a party with large problems of anti-semitism. And you sit in a Party that once retweeted that the victims of abuse in Rotherham should shut their mouths for the sake of diversity.” – David Kurten

      ** Video has been purged **

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/06/18/start-the-week-open-thread-18-june-2018/#comment-923971

         6 likes

    • taffman says:
      September 8, 2023 at 12:56 pm

      atlas_shrugged
      The Heritage Party , UKIP , The Reform Party and The Reclaim Party need to form an alliance to bring our OXO government down at the next election.

      “Stop The Boats”! The people of Great Britain are in danger.

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      • atlas_shrugged says:
        September 8, 2023 at 3:11 pm

        taffman
        > The Heritage Party , UKIP , The Reform Party and The Reclaim Party need to form an alliance

        Completely agree. We should plan the cabinet now. I’ll start:

        David Kurten – PM
        Andrew Bridgen – Minister of health
        Farage – Chancellor of the Exch
        Laurence Fox – Home Office
        Richard Tice – Foreign Office
        etc etc

        The dream team

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  9. MarkyMark says:
    September 8, 2023 at 9:58 am

    More damning still, Dispatches accused Blair of using his post to promote two contracts in Palestine that raise serious conflict of interest issues. He championed the development of a £6 billion gas field operated by British Gas off the coast of Gaza, and brokered a deal with Israel for it to supply the enclave. The British Gas group is a major client of J.P. Morgan.
    https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2011/10/blai-o06.html

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  10. MarkyMark says:
    September 8, 2023 at 10:06 am

    BBC’s disinformation correspondent and chief fact-checker Marianna Spring is accused of lying on her CV by falsely claiming to have worked with a Beeb journalist when applying for a job in Moscow
    BBC disinformation correspondent Marianna Spring alleged to have lied on CV
    She reportedly claimed to have said she worked with BBC’s Sarah Rainsford
    By PAUL REVOIR MEDIA EDITOR FOR THE DAILY MAIL

    UPDATED: 08:27, 8 September 2023
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12493713/BBCs-disinformation-correspondent-chief-fact-checker-Marianna-Spring-accused-lying-CV-falsely-claiming-worked-Beeb-journalist-applying-job-Moscow.html

    Ms Spring is said to have sent an email apologising for her ‘awful misjudgment’.

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  11. Flotsam says:
    September 8, 2023 at 10:10 am

    I had an amusing incident a couple of nights ago. I was heavily into drafting some letters on a computer while the TV was on but not in sight. The news came on and some of the news items started to raise my awareness. What! GB News with Green items, anti Government rhetoric. I was about to post something on biasedbbc saying that GB News has gone left wing, woke and green and then I realised it was on BBC1 news. I haven’t watched BBC anything for a few years now so not sure why it was on BBC1.

    What was truly shocking is how far the BBC have veered off to the left. It’s really atrociously biased now, far more so since I last listened or watched them about five years ago.

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    • BigBrotherCorporation says:
      September 8, 2023 at 11:57 am

      We cancelled our TV licence about a decade ago now, and it’s only now and again, visiting friends or relatives with the TV on, that I catch the BBC news – each time, I’m incredulous how blatant the bias is, and notice the clear obsession with certain (familiar to all here) agendas.

      For a long time I was amazed others didn’t seem to notice it, but they have gradually been waking up, one by one, over the last few years, and now I don’t think there are many I know who AREN’T aware of what the BBC are about, and don’t consider it biased, agenda driven, and unreliable.

      The BBC seems to be spiralling further and further away from reality and the majority of the population of the UK, on a trajectory to where exactly?

         19 likes

  13. MarkyMark says:
    September 8, 2023 at 10:29 am

    NOT WHAT YOU NOW BY WHO YOU KNOW ….

    “Rishi Sunak hopes for warm welcome at G20 as India’s ‘son-in-law’
    British officials hope the UK prime minister’s star status in India will help in negotiations with Narendra Modi”

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    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/08/rishi-sunak-hopes-for-warm-welcome-at-g20-as-indias-son-in-law

    ……

    Rishi Sunak is the UK’s richest prime minister and the only prime minister in history to be wealthier than the ruling monarch, King Charles III.28 Oct 2022

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  14. Jeff says:
    September 8, 2023 at 10:34 am

    So, the prime minister of Great Britain, an Indian, is in India, negotiating with the Indian prime minister, also an Indian, about how much more money we’re going to give to India, a space age nation, and how many more Indians we’re going to take in Blighty. Bloody brilliant!

    Yes, okay, it could be worse. Diane Abbott, a Jamaican, could be PM and visiting the Caribbean, negotiating with the Jamaican PM about…

    I’ve got to stop.

    I’m giving myself nightmares…

       33 likes

  15. StewGreen says:
    September 8, 2023 at 10:37 am

    10:24am Talk TV covered the Mariana Spring lying CV item
    the presentter said “she said she’d worked alongside the BBC’s Sarah Rainford and *****” ….”
    there was a gap as someone in TalkTV editorial pressed the twenty second dump button to delete 20s of dialogue

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    • MarkyMark says:
      September 8, 2023 at 11:53 am

      tags: misogyny HA HA HA HA HA
      tags: misogyny HA HA HA HA! Proving Orwell right! HA HA HA

      “Winston had disliked her from the very first moment of seeing her. He knew the reason. It was because of the atmosphere of hockey−fields and cold baths and community hikes and general clean−mindedness which she managed to carry about with her. He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones. It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy.”
      ― George Orwell, 1984
      tags: misogyny
      Read more quotes from George Orwell

      https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/258683-winston-had-disliked-her-from-the-very-first-moment-of

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  16. The Mouse says:
    September 8, 2023 at 11:24 am

    BBC News: Police looking at whether prison staff helped suspected terrorist Khalife escape.

    Now which group would sympathise with Khalife even to the point of breaking the law as they have a greater allegiance than to the law of this country?

    Good job we don’t have such people working in the passport office or border control.
    or national security or the military
    (Oh what did Khalife do before being arrested).

    Or in positions of power to influence young minds such as schools and places or worship (I suppose we have enough of them of our own already).

    It’s also good that the population of such is not increasing at a greater rate than the indigenous populace as they may become more openly misogynistic and target people of questionable sexuality.

    Of course the MSM (esp. BBC) and the Government are thinking long-term and everything is under control. /S

    It couldn’t happen though there may be some slaughter of the innocent on the way to utopia. MSM and Government must believe it is a price worth paying.

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  17. Thoughtful says:
    September 8, 2023 at 11:31 am

    I see Springster is back in the news, this time for faking her own CV stating experience she didn’t have in order to land the job !

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12493713/BBCs-disinformation-correspondent-chief-fact-checker-Marianna-Spring-accused-lying-CV-falsely-claiming-worked-Beeb-journalist-applying-job-Moscow.html

    The BBC’s disinformation correspondent is facing claims that she lied about her experience on her CV.

    Marianna Spring, 27, shot to prominence with her reporting on the way social media has been used to peddle false information.

    But she is now facing the embarrassing allegation that she gave misleading information herself – one claim of working with a respected BBC correspondent – to try to secure work.

       17 likes

    • tomo says:
      September 8, 2023 at 11:42 am

      I’m curious about her (Marijuana) links to senior spooks

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      • MarkyMark says:
        September 8, 2023 at 11:51 am

        Atlantic to publish Among the Trolls by Marianna Spring
        13th July 2021

        Atlantic Books has acquired UK Comm (ex. Canada) and audio rights for the debut book by the BBC’s first specialist disinformation and social media reporter Marianna Spring. Publishing Director for Non-Fiction Mike Harpley bought Among the Trolls: Notes from the Disinformation Wars in a hotly contested three-way auction from Trevor Dolby at Aevitas UK. It is due for publication in Autumn 2023.

        Marianna-Spring-e1626165894839-275×310.png

        ………………..

        “Winston had disliked her from the very first moment of seeing her. He knew the reason. It was because of the atmosphere of hockey−fields and cold baths and community hikes and general clean−mindedness which she managed to carry about with her. He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones. It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy.”
        ― George Orwell, 1984
        https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/258683-winston-had-disliked-her-from-the-very-first-moment-of

           6 likes

      • Terminal Moraine says:
        September 8, 2023 at 12:47 pm

        Will the BBC throw her under the bus? Hard to see how they can save face on this.

           10 likes

        • tomo says:
          September 8, 2023 at 1:23 pm

          I predict la-lala-la I can’t hear you on the cv fakery – ignore it and it’ll go away

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  18. Eddy Booth says:
    September 8, 2023 at 11:34 am

    “Ukraine war: Curfews and closures mark a Friday night in Kyiv”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66496

    Fluff article about nightlife in Kiev.
    Showing students (presently army draft exempt) out and about having fun, and navigating the 10pm curfew.
    Of course no questions about if they support the contuning war, or why they aren’t volunteering to fight themselves.

    Usual bitchy undertones

    “Kostiantyn invites us back to his apartment, along with his friend Diana, and cracks open some sparkling wine bottled in Bakhmut – the Ukrainian city of little strategic value Russia eventually captured this year, after months of grinding fighting that cost them thousands of soldiers.”

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    • MarkyMark says:
      September 8, 2023 at 11:49 am

      Ukraine army discipline crackdown sparks fear and fury on the front
      Critics say new legislation that punishes deserters and rule-breakers more harshly contravenes human rights and demotivates military personnel.
      https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-zelenskyy-war-military-law/

      There are those who have rebelled against commanders’ orders, gotten drunk or misbehaved; others, running low on ammunition and morale, have fled for their lives, abandoning their positions.

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  19. G says:
    September 8, 2023 at 11:51 am

    Voice for Justice UK –

    “… we shall make the West so corrupt, it stinks.” (Willi Münzenberg)

    “It would appear that this prediction by Willi Münzenberg, German communist and one of the founders of the now infamous Frankfurt School, is reaching fulfilment.

    To take a recent example, according to a recent report in The Times, most schools, including some leading independent schools such as Wellington and Brighton College, have now adopted gender-neutral uniform policies. The aim, it is claimed, is to allow children to wear clothes that “most reflect their self-identified gender” (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/skirting-the-issue-school-uniform-names-go-gender-neutral-pmkbqp7tw).

    How thoughtful, I hear you say – but what’s Willi Münzenberg got to do with this? The answer is simple – if, to many, unpalatable. Normalising and promoting gender choice for vulnerable children, by definition exploring who and what they are and their place in the world, can only heighten their confusion and further intensify the climate of moral ambivalence that has been steadily growing in the West. An ambivalence that is direct result of the focused attack on our civilisation, first orchestrated by Bolshevik intellectuals in the early part of the last century, as they attempted to impose Communism across Europe and the wider world.”

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    • MarkyMark says:
      September 8, 2023 at 12:00 pm

      Your letter to Darren Henry MP

      Dear Darren Henry,

      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

      Yours sincerely,
      Mr. H

      (Signed with an electronic signature in accordance with section 7(3) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000.)

         3 likes

  20. MarkyMark says:
    September 8, 2023 at 11:59 am

    7be2fc3b-e0e9-40d3-9ac0-27c21ba272b2-4aae9171-00eb-479a-8f42-7ecb176a24cd

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  21. Terminal Moraine says:
    September 8, 2023 at 12:19 pm

    BBC seem to be as giddy as a schoolgirl over a real life manhunt. Not for the 43,000 in the UK on the terror watch list (no one cares about them), but it’s all systems go for an Iranian dishwasher on the loose.

    Police have searched Richmond Park and the BBC have sent some of their finest off for a jaunt with some jam sandwiches. They’re pleased to report Sadiq Khan thinks the gov has questions to answer… specifically “questions about the link between ‘government austerity’ and Daniel Khalife’s escape from Wandsworth prison.”

    When Labour get in I look forward to a reboot of the Shawshank Redemption, where it’s discovered that Andy Dufresne’s wrongful conviction in 1947 for murder was the tories fault, and his heroic escape was made possible because the prison was built out of reinforced aerated concrete; also the tories fault.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-66749354

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    • Terminal Moraine says:
      September 8, 2023 at 12:26 pm

      There’s lots of photos of Richmond park on the live feed and a map showing the spot on the South Circular where a van was stopped. Exciting times.

      Dominic Casciani says: “The police searches at Richmond Park are the clearest sign yet of the scale of the manhunt. But let’s not get ahead of events. We should not assume that police know Khalife is hiding in the thicket among the royal park’s deer herds.”

      Go on Dom, get ahead of events and make assumptions. It’s the BBC way.

         10 likes

    • MarkyMark says:
      September 8, 2023 at 12:27 pm

      2017 …. Piers Morgan to Sadiq Khan: Where Are The 400 Known Jihadists In London?
      Posted By Tim Hains
      On Date June 7, 2017

      https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/06/07/piers_morgan_to_sadiq_khan_where_are_the_400_known_jihadists_in_london.html

      ………………………..

      The Home Office is the lead government department for immigration and passports, drugs policy, crime, fire, counter-terrorism and police.

      Responsibilities
      We are responsible for:

      working on the problems caused by illegal drug use
      shaping the alcohol strategy, policy and licensing conditions
      keeping the United Kingdom safe from the threat of terrorism
      reducing and preventing crime, and ensuring people feel safe in their homes and communities
      securing the UK border and controlling immigration
      considering applications to enter and stay in the UK
      issuing passports and visas
      supporting visible, responsible and accountable policing by empowering the public and freeing up the police to fight crime
      fire prevention and rescue

      Priorities

      Our goals are to:

      cut crime and the harm it causes, including cyber-crime and serious and organised crime
      manage civil emergencies within the remit of the Home Office
      protect vulnerable people and communities
      reduce terrorism
      control migration
      provide world-class public services and contribute to prosperity
      maximise the benefits of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union

      https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/about#:~:text=The%20Home%20Office%20is%20the,%2C%20counter%2Dterrorism%20and%20police

         5 likes

      • taffman says:
        September 8, 2023 at 12:46 pm

        The Home Office is not fit for purpose .
        “Stop The Boats” deport the illegals and criminals.

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  22. Up2snuff says:
    September 8, 2023 at 12:59 pm

    BBC NON-TOADY Watch #1 – programme R4 just after the mid-day News Bulletin

    The Social: they are examining the phenomenon of ‘Body Count’. I switched off as it appeared merely to be an excuse for the BBC to indulge in their usual ‘misandry’, “Aren’t men evil, don’t they treat women badly?”

    It is a great shame that the BBC are not examining other body counts? For example:
    The number of BAME youths involved in London stabbings both as victim as well as perpetrator.

       12 likes

  24. Johnda says:
    September 8, 2023 at 1:20 pm

    The net zero bill.
    Has anyone herd any reporting of the life changing bill on the BBC.
    Soon we will all live in caves with no electric.
    Fined for not having smart meters etc.
    This should be headline news. Instead we have discussions about aero bars etc.

       18 likes

    • MarkyMark says:
      September 8, 2023 at 2:06 pm

      Omission is the greatest lie ….

         8 likes

    • G.W.F. says:
      September 8, 2023 at 2:20 pm

      I searched the day it was presented to the Commons. Nothing in any of the media. Farage had warned about it but no report from the Parliamentary debate, if there was one.

         11 likes

    • StewGreen says:
      September 8, 2023 at 6:59 pm

      @Johnda it’s not called the Net Zero Bill
      It’s called The Energy Bill
      perhaps not much reported
      but there was a page 3 days ago
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66715141

         0 likes

      • kingkp says:
        September 8, 2023 at 8:07 pm

        Well I never! It looks like us swivel-eyed, conspiracy nut jobs were right again! A 15,000 GBP fine or up to one years imprisonment if you don’t upgrade your home to comply with Net Zero standards. You will own nothing, and you won’t be very happy about it, but we warned you all and at some point people are going to have to wake the fck up to what is going on.

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  25. Sluff says:
    September 8, 2023 at 1:48 pm

    Network Rail have been fined £6.7 m for not predicting a landslide near Aberdeen which caused a train to de-rail, killing two train workers and one passenger.
    ( btw, in other words, trains are incredibly safe as every accident gets all this attention).

    But let’s think again. Network Rail is a public quango, politically created by Labour around 2001 to be ‘not-for-profit’.

    So either Network Rail now spend £6.7 m less on infrastructure and maintenance. Or future rail passengers and/ or the taxpayer foots the bill.

    It’s heads we win, tails you lose.
    And no real accountability.

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  26. MarkyMark says:
    September 8, 2023 at 2:01 pm

    WE ARE ALL SUFFERING UNDER THE COST OF LIVING …

    Name of donor: Emirates Literature Foundation
    Address of donor: Dar Al Adaab, Al Shindagha Historical Neighbourhood, P.O.Box: 24506, Dubai, U.A.E
    Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Travel, accommodation and food for me and a member of staff, value £8,911.51
    Destination of visit: Dubai, UAE
    Dates of visit: 31 January – 4 February 2023
    Purpose of visit: To speak at a literature festival and conduct meetings in my capacity as Shadow Foreign Secretary.

    https://www.parallelparliament.co.uk/mp/david-lammy/financial-disclosure

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  27. Sluff says:
    September 8, 2023 at 2:12 pm

    With all the billions they get from the licence fee, why can’t the useless BBC get simple things right?

    Pursuing their global warming narrative, a feature report about a snow patch in Scotland melting. Yawn!
    Here is the report.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-66739259

    They write ‘ The snow patch forms on Braeriach, Britain’s third highest mountain’ and they show a rather nice, if cloudy, photo of a mountain with a ridge and a lake in front.

    Except….that it isn’t Braeriach!!!!

    It is a mountain called Cairn Toul.
    Now I don’t get paid a penny by the BBC, unlike their hundreds if not thousands of ‘journalists’.
    Pathetic.

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  28. MarkyMark says:
    September 8, 2023 at 2:29 pm

    The immigrants make their way north, having no desire to assimilate to French culture, but continuing to demand a First World standard of living, even as they flout laws, do not produce, and murder French citizens, such as factory bosses and shopkeepers, as well as the ordinary people who do not welcome them. They are also joined by the immigrants who already reside in Europe, as well as various left-wing and anarchist groups. Across the West, more and more migrants arrive and have children, rapidly growing to outnumber whites. In a matter of months, the white West has been overrun and pro-immigrant governments have been established, while the white people are ordered to share their houses and flats with the immigrants. The village containing the troops is bombed flat by airplanes of the new French government, referred to only as the “Paris Multiracial Commune”. Within a few years, most Western governments have surrendered. The mayor of New York City is made to share Gracie Mansion with three African-American families from Harlem; migrants gather at coastal ports in West Africa and South Asia and swarm into Europe, Australia, and New Zealand; London is taken over by an organization of non-white residents known as the “Non-European Commonwealth Committee”, who force the British queen to have her son marry a Pakistani woman;

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

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  29. Up2snuff says:
    September 8, 2023 at 2:30 pm

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – ‘The BBC’s Cost-of-Living-Crisis’ Crisis? What crisis? ©James Callaghan as PM 1978

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66740556 Further evidence that ‘The-cost-of-living-crisis’ is an artifical construct cooked up by the BBC, Left-leaning newspapers and the Labour Party for political reasons. What could those reasons be? One might suggest making a Conservative Government look bad.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      September 8, 2023 at 2:33 pm

      Wetin be G20 summit and wetin leaders dey tok about dia?
      https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/cjrz11lpjzgo

         4 likes

    • Up2snuff says:
      September 8, 2023 at 6:22 pm

      I have just skim-read the BBC’s web article on vapes being thrown away: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66740556 and I note there is no mention of the cost of a disposable vape. Of course, it would create questions as to whether there is an actual cost of living crisis or whether it is a Left/Libby/Socialist poitical construct. I have done some journalism and have prodded the calculator buttons.

      If it is true that five million disposable vapes are thrown away each week, that is a likely expenditure of nearly £35 million pounds each week, yes, thirty-five million pounds sterling each week. Let’s say that I found the price for a relatively expensive vape at £6.99 and an average cost is nearer £5, that is still £25,000,000 per week or £1.3 billion a year.

      Dear BBC, there is probably no cost-of-living-crisis at all. I think you and the Labour Party have made it all up.

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  31. Dickie says:
    September 8, 2023 at 3:09 pm

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  32. MarkyMark says:
    September 8, 2023 at 3:24 pm

    Shock and Awe – Footage from the 2003 Invasion of Iraq

    Ukraine war ….

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  33. MarkyMark says:
    September 8, 2023 at 4:43 pm

    Is rishi Swimming pool made of RAAC?

    Rishi Sunak has electricity grid upgraded to heat his private pool
    This article is more than 5 months old
    PM will pick up cost of upgrade work in North Yorkshire, and no suggestion he received preferential treatment
    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/12/rishi-sunak-has-electricity-grid-upgraded-to-heat-his-private-pool

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  34. MarkyMark says:
    September 8, 2023 at 4:53 pm

    Accepting cookies on sky news web site .. ha ha ha ha….

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    • moggie63 says:
      September 8, 2023 at 5:27 pm

      This is what I always assumed was the goal. It’s why I won’t have one in the house until they make it law. I suspect that will be very soon.

         9 likes

    • tomo says:
      September 8, 2023 at 6:21 pm

      We need a roll of the guilty / hall of shame including the drafters and departmental heads who are running this – MPs only sign what’s put in front of them.

         7 likes

    • Up2snuff says:
      September 8, 2023 at 6:45 pm

      Dickie, I don’t think that will ever become law. Just think of the Human Rights situation for a start. Then also think back to the beginning of the Covid-19 Pandemic when the UK Govt. with a big majority in the House were panicked into the first of several Lockdowns by the media. The first little old lady freezing to death in her home in the dark will cause a media storm

      There will a massive rebellion just within the Conservative ranks and I can’t see Labour voting in favour even with Miliband Minor in the House. They would be totally daft to support legislation that will start the revolution that would see them out of power for ever.

      On the other hand ….

      Labour, daftness … hand in hand to oblivion

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  36. StewGreen says:
    September 8, 2023 at 6:06 pm

    7am Scampton : local planners apply Stop Work notices on the gates
    re Home Office breaking laws re listed buildings on the site
    as they were working turning the site into accommodation for Asylum Seekers.

    The Notice takes immediate effect and prohibits ongoing development of the site for 28 days unless withdrawn earlier.
    https://thejusticegap.com/home-office-re

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  37. tomo says:
    September 8, 2023 at 6:15 pm

    Toxic busybodies need some of their own medicine.

    https://youtu.be/7VmBYR3a3ko

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    and goon squad plods need ID-ing

    Going after Graham Linehan again

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  38. Dickie says:
    September 8, 2023 at 6:33 pm

    Sure there will be some hard-core feminists volunteering their services for the front.

    https://www.rt.com/russia/582598-ukraine-mobilize-women/

       2 likes

    • Up2snuff says:
      September 8, 2023 at 7:18 pm

      Dickie, you mean all those photos of attractive women fighting for Ukraine in our media in early 2022 were fake? Shirley not ….

         5 likes

      • atlas_shrugged says:
        September 8, 2023 at 7:33 pm

        Only feminists should be sent to the front lines. Until the same number meet their fate as men did in both world wars. That is what equality should be about.

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  39. TrickCyclist says:
    September 8, 2023 at 6:42 pm

    ITV Evening News reporting on Mo Farah’s endless retirement.
    They interviewed him in South Shields, it looked very misty and Farah was wearing a zip up brown fleece. I’m guessing the interview wasn’t filmed today.
    Sometimes the news just ain’t the news.

       4 likes

    • StewGreen says:
      September 8, 2023 at 7:01 pm

      In the afternoon LIVE footage the reporter was almost covered in mist
      Much of the northern east coast has the mist

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  40. Mart says:
    September 8, 2023 at 6:49 pm

    Friday BBC 6pm (selective) News

    BBC report no takers at all for new licences to build off shore windmills, interested parties are not interested because they can’t sell the electricity at high enough a price to return a profit.

    BBC says wind power has been a great success and produced a whole 14% of the countries needs and is considered the backbone of our power supply.

    BBC say fluctuating oil prices makes it an unreliable power source

    How much coal reserves does the UK have?
    Total resources could be as large as 187 billion tonnes.

    Words fail me

       11 likes

  41. tomo says:
    September 8, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    Tumbrel sales rising?

       2 likes

  42. tomo says:
    September 9, 2023 at 12:05 am

    tumbleweed from the BBC on Hawaii fire but Princess Diana’s sweater is up for auction apparently.

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