Midweek 20 September 2023

The Director General has ordered an inquiry into Mr Russel Brand and his employment by the BBC across a number of years – whitewash time

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  1. StewGreen says:

    Hatey graphic used by Lefty tweeters

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       19 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Where do Labour members appear in this?

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    • JohnC says:

      The Left do that kind of imagery a lot which is totally meaningless in any logical sense at all. That diagram is just a list of their labels with no logic whatsoever.

      They especially like to doctor pictures of people they hate to make it look like they are doing something quite disgusting and unpleasant.

      It all fits in with the spiteful-schoolboy mindset I see everywhere they congregate in groups (such as HYS comments). They are completely shallow, worthless little oiks.

      Which is why I find it so amusing when they try to take high moral high-ground for anything at all. Cut through their veneer of hypocrisy and you find a nasty little snake.

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  2. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Have you seen the current advert asking “Have you had a cough that has lasted 3 weeks?” and then the girl voiceover goes on to say you should contact the NHS because it could be serious, possibly cancer, and that the NHS want to see you to get some tests.
    Well.
    Good luck with that given the many millions already on a waiting list.

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    • Terminal Moraine says:

      EG, it’s hard to know what the NHS are doing these days other than wanting to inject people. Which part of the world they’re doing it is also up for grabs.

      NHS-winter-jab.jpg

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Chemsex Support
      Our team of Health Advisers are on hand to support you with your chems use.

      If you have any concerns about chemsex, you want to cut down or just play more safely, talk to us confidentially.

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

         8 likes

    • Richard Pinder says:

      Have I had a cough that has lasted 3 weeks? “No never” but I have read that ‘Long Covid’ was caused by DNA in the mRNA jab. In some jabs, they found that up to a third of the mRNA, was actually DNA. The book ‘mRNA Vaccine Toxicity’ by Doctors for COVID Ethics, also mentions that the jab caused mRNA-induced autoimmune and immunosuppression diseases. Which means they get Covid over and over again. Trice rolling Covid would last 3 weeks.

         9 likes

    • tomo says:

      I wondered about the rash of text messages from the local NHS asking me to come in for routine scheduled tests (new and unrelated to any existing condition)

      Has the aura of a PR move.

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  3. StewGreen says:

    The official @JustStop_Oil account

    Sunak is responsible for policies equivalent to mass murder.

    It’s time to do something about it: http://juststopoil.org/zoom 🦺

    That is the language of extremists

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Just Stop Oil protests: Arrests after emergency service vehicles blocked
      Published
      11 October 2022

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-63203547

      Home Secretary Suella Braverma described the actions of those demonstrating as “self-defeating” and “completely indefensible”.

         8 likes

    • tomo says:

      Stew – for some reason I get JSO main and a whole rash of associated provincial extremist nut jobs bombarding one Twitter account – several recently I thought if applied to a different topic would attract plod attention…

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  4. Terminal Moraine says:

    R5 has a whole day of #BBCTeen23 Summit — listening to teenagers’ concerns about everything from climate violence to trans issues to climate violence.

    Caught a bit of Nicky Campbell earlier discussing a voting age of 16. He had on a neuroscientist who said that the 16yr old brain is in some ways more able to make rational decisions than that of older people. I’d be interested to see the research behind that, and whether it first appeared in the prestigious publication Journal of Revolutionary Sociobiology or somewhere else.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Shamima Begum: How can you lose your citizenship?
      Published
      23 February
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-53428191

      Who is Shamima Begum?
      Ms Begum is one of three east London schoolgirls who travelled to Syria in 2015 to support the IS group.

      She was born in the UK to parents of Bangladeshi heritage and was 15 when she left.

      Her citizenship was stripped on national security grounds in 2019.

      Spy for Canada smuggled Shamima Begum to Syria

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      I saw 8 London teenagers interviewed on the one o’clock news. They must not have been able to find a white one. Shame, but it’s da future, innit?

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    • StewGreen says:

      “16yr old brain is in some ways more able to make rational decisions than that of older people.”

      Tell that to the relatives of someone killed by a 16/17 year old driver
      Tell that to the relatives of someone stabbed by a 16/17 year old stabber

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      • Dickie says:

        Well the Ukranian neo Nazis certainly have no problem with 16/17 year olds being sent to the eastern front lines. Come to think of it, believe they are now sending pensioners as well. No age discrimination there.

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  5. MarkyMark says:

    The Prime Minister has said he wants to be honest about the “costs and trade offs” of tackling climate change.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66867679

    honest about
    honest about
    honest about

    ……………….

    Sunak borrows Sainsbury’s worker’s hatchback for mini-Budget photo shoot
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-spring-statement-fuel-b2043138.html

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  6. s.trubble says:

    Liz Truss said the other day that it was astonishing that the British state public sector had reached almost 50 % of GDP.

    There are so many tentacles of that blob intent upon taxing and controlling us that you have to wonder where its headed AND that it has its own version of stormtroopers aka militant Marxist trade unions.

    It can.t end well that’s for sure.

    Maybe the public sector should be told that without a vibrant private sector their promised ( gold plated ) pensions will never be paid. Indeed that they will need a barrowfull of 10,s and twenties just to get a loaf.

    Tempting to sell up and watch from a distance!

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    • Flotsam says:

      It would be true to say the Government has no money other than that generated by businesses.

      I was in a “Three” mobile phone shop a few days ago. One of the sales people said he had only recently found out that the mobile phone companies had to buy the space in the radio spectrum from the Government to operate. Indeed the right to use the radio spectrum is auctioned or possibly tendered which ensures maximum return for the Government and maximum cost to phone users.
      It’s just one of the multitude of ways we are invisibly taxed.

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      • StewGreen says:

        In 2000 spectrum auctions raised £22.5 billion for five UK 3G licenses.
        However, 4G licenses only raised £2.3bn ( £1.2 billion less than forecast – auction design is said to play a significant role.)

        5G £1.4 billion. so far
        UK regulator @Ofcom’s plan to auction a total of 6 GHz of #spectrum in the 26 and 40 GHz bands

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        • Flotsam says:

          Interesting. Enough to pay for some of the asylum seekers.
          I forgot to point out that I was well aware that spectrum was paid for. Most people aren’t.

          The reduced yield from the spectrum auctions might be due to mergers between operators so less players to compete in the auction or simply due to less profitability. One wonders if the top execs had a little chat.

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  7. Eddy Booth says:

    Did she decline her lifetime pension for being PM for 2 weeks

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    • MarkyMark says:

      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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    • StewGreen says:

      Ex PM’s don’t get a special £115K pa pension
      It’s a system where you can claim office expenses upto £115K to do with matters arising from being a PM

      “Cabinet Office accounts released on Tuesday show the Conservative MP claimed £23,310 in her first five months after resigning.” that to the April 22/23 accounting year

      “Sir Tony Blair and Sir John Major were the only former leaders to claim the maximum amount in 2022-23, though Gordon Brown was close on £114,627.”

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  8. Flotsam says:

    So Sunak will row back on some of the green crap. Will it matter? Probably not as Smarmer and the Labour eco loons will ensure we’re fully subscribed to net zero
    Nothing Sunak does now will make the slightest difference to anything, whether Green crap, illegal immigration or EU. He might limit or stop to the ridiculous HS2 but I’m not sure what Smarmer’s position is on HS2.

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  9. Fedup2 says:

    Hilarious program about medical stuff -increasing amounts of syphilis . They spent 6 minutes with a chap from canada who has syph – here in after clap .

    The chap wasnt asked if he was queer or home many partners he engaged in sex with – which anyone listening wantef to know.
    Then a speciailst queers doctor who spoke of increase – from once a month to twice a week .

    I dont know if clap still kills – but cause ? Well i can guess – can you ?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Monkeypox outbreaks across Europe linked to gay sauna and fetish festival
      May 23 2022
      Written by Rachel Badham

      https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/05/23/monkeypox-gay-bisexual-sauna-darklands-fetish-festival-spain-belgium/

         8 likes

    • Flotsam says:

      Syphilis is a very serious illness that can be fatal long term. It’s treatable as long as the meds keep working

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Flotsam – I was as intrigued as to how the BBC would handle clap as it affects a fully approved type more than others .

        As a result it skirted around the subject with unhygienic sexual practices left unmentioned . But it seems there’s a lot more of it about . HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases barely got a mention ….
        Bit odd really – but woke beats health

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Although case counts for gonorrhea and primary and secondary (P&S) syphilis dropped below 2019 levels during March and April 2020, cases of both STDs surged the rest of the year. By the end of 2020, reported cases of gonorrhea increased 10% and reported cases of P&S syphilis increased 7% from 2019 to 2020.11 Apr 2023

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  10. MarkyMark says:

    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

    ………….
    The agenda for Tory conference has finally been published – co-conspirators can view all 127 pages of it here. They’ve debuted a new slogan emblazoned on the cover: “Long-term decisions for a brighter future”. Memorable…
    order-order.com
    ………….

    “Long-term decisions for a brighter future”

    Loved ones mark fourth anniversary of Manchester Arena attack: Mourners lay flowers and remember 22 lives lost in terror blast at Ariana Grande show

    “Long-term decisions for a brighter future”

       8 likes

  11. MarkyMark says:

    China on Monday condemned German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock after she labeled Chinese President Xi Jinping a “dictator.”

    “China is strongly dissatisfied with and firmly opposes the German side’s remarks, which are extremely absurd, a serious infringement of China’s political dignity and an open political provocation,” China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said Monday according to local news.

    “China has made serious inquiries to the German side through diplomatic channels,” she added.

    https://www.politico.eu/article/china-blasts-germany-annalena-baerbock-called-xi-jinping-dictator/

    ……………………..

    This article is more than 2 years old
    Ren Zhiqiang – who called Chinese president a ‘clown’ – jailed for 18 years
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/22/ren-zhiqiang-who-called-chinese-president-a-clown-jailed-for-18-years

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  12. JohnC says:

    I’ve been to the BBC news site a few times today and every time I’ve quickly closed it down in exasperation at just how many of their headlines are agenda-related more than actual news related.

    Here’ what I see on the main page right now. Remember, these are the most important stories in the world today (according to the BBC):

    ‘Don’t falter on green pledges Johnson urges Sunak’
    ‘What is net zero and how are the UK and other countries doing?’
    ‘Could Sunak’s green review threaten UK net zero?’
    ‘Rishi Sunak speech on changing green policies imminent’
    ‘Iranian women face 10 years jail under hijab bill’
    ‘Met officer to be charged with murder of Chris Kaba’
    ‘Channel 4 boss : Brand allegations are horrendous’
    ‘Torture, rape, killings in Manipur: An Indian state’s brutal conflict’
    ‘Why do rape and sexual assault victims find it hard to go straight to police?’
    ‘A slave at 13 – but how did a Ghanian man end up changing UK history ?’
    ‘Is Spain’s football crisis really over ?’
    ‘Teenage girls say they feel unsafe in everyday life’

    I’m sick to the back teeth of it. It’s absolutely relentless.

    How do we rid ourselves of these activist parasites ?.

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  13. taffman says:

    “Could Sunak’s green review threaten UK net zero?”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66867679

    It looks like the Green Emperor’s New Clothes are slowly becoming transparent ? What will Boris’s wife say ?

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    • taffman says:

      Lets face it, electric cars have a long way to go before they overtake the efficiency and cost of the ordinary petrol/diesel cars.

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      • moggie63 says:

        A long way, presumably with multiple charging stops on the way.

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        • Scroblene says:

          What doesn’t seem to be discussed these days, is the fact that most pensioners – including yours truly, have either petrol or diesel cars, and at my time of life, (76), I don’t give a monkey’s about style or picking up birds, I just want to get the shopping done, meet a few chums at the pub, get Senora O’Blene to the hospital occasionally, and that’s it! I certainly will take not the slightest notice of green rubbish being spouted at every turn!

          Our car, an ordinary VW Golf, is ten years old, has only 20,000 miles on the clock, and I have a damned good garage where I expect to pay a few notes over the top, but get fabulous service.

          So my sums, on the back of a fag packet, point to keeping it forever, letting the bits that go wrong get mended, buy enough petrol for around 3,000 miles a year, and forget worrying about any ridiculous green crap! Any future government twonkness and BBC adverts can get stuffed!

          By the time I’m 85, our Golf will still be serviceable, we’ll still have our pensions to pay for it to keep going, and and by the time I’m 90, I won’t be that much worried about anything anyway!

          The only blot on the horizon, will be my garage man ringing me up in a few years saying, “Scrobs, we’ve got a nice little runaround coming in tomorrow, and I think you ought to have a look at it…”!

          Spit the bullets out of that Sunak/Starmer!

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          • BRISSLES says:

            You’re not alone Scrobs ! I bought my Toyota Rav4 in 2006, and it has just over 100,000 miles on the clock. It’s regularly serviced, and expect it to see me out too.

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            • Scroblene says:

              Marvellous, Brissles!

              There used to be a saying that you could buy a Volvo when you started driving, and never have to buy another car again!

              An old boy near me nearly managed that!

              As for your car and ours, what could be more ‘sustainable’ than re-cycling all the parts that get bust, using parts from other cars, and generally giving work to mechanics who like to get a bit of grease under their fingernails, not some fancy woker, piddling about with the connections to a battery and that’s about it…

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  14. Guest Who says:

    She must have more compromising stuff on the upper floors than Champion Ash.

    Beyond it all, her propensity to block anyone who has concerns about the accuracy of the Verify mission has already rendered her, and the corporation, a bigger joke than ever.

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  15. Fred Stubber says:

    Moments after Sunak’s statement reducing the pace of Net Zero BBC News reads out Sunak’s measures with a matrix of four pictures on the screen, all showing floods, drought, hurricanes, etc.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Anyone would think that the BBC acts like a giant Global Warming political campaigning PR agency

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      • Scroblene says:

        That’s why this feeble government keeps them going!

        Like an above post, I really won’t give a monkey’s about the next fifteen or so years, let the new wokists, Starmer, the stupid Rayner, the idiot Abbott and the rest of the ridiculous crowd who’ll be the ‘government’, try and sort it all out!

        They won’t of course, and the Beebonics will just be hanging on to every stupid thng they say, getting them on sad little programmes, calling their stuff ‘news’, and generally pissing off the majority of the population!

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  16. JohnC says:

    She’s a proven liar when it suits her.

    How on Earth is she still in her job which is entirely about honesty ?.

    Oh, it’s the BBC. They can do whatever they like : they still get the money.

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  17. taffman says:

    “Wales’ 20mph speed limits: More being considered – minister”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-66802849
    Oh No ! This man has to be removed before he does more damage . Many, many, taffman are furious at the idiot’s bright ideas. He and his demented master, Mr Drakeford have to go before the Welsh Assembly gets scrapped

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  18. taffman says:

    “Wales’ 20mph speed limits: More being considered – minister”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-66802849
    Oh No ! This man has to be removed before he does more damage . Many, many, taffman are furious at the idiot’s bright ideas. He and his demented master, Mr Drakeford have to go before the Welsh Assembly gets scrapped.

       4 likes

    • tomo says:

      I wonder how many voted tribally and assumed “they can’t be that bad”

      Will they swallow the promises next time around?

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  19. Fedup2 says:

    Seems the outgoing pm has delivered his green crap changes at a number 10 press conference. Too little too late .

    If he wanted to do something real he d speed up energy independence but they care less .

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    • Scroblene says:

      Outgoing?

      He went months ago, Fed!

      He needs the oiks at W1AA so much that it’s curtains for normal citizens to consider who to vote for next year!

      Sunak is toast, he’ll never get the Conservatives back in ‘power’ – whatever that is with 50% of the country ‘working’ in public services, and he might just as well cash in his green card and bugger off somewhere, hopefully taking his lot with him!

      I really wish Nigel Farage would get his arse in gear, but that’s a bridge too far now sadly.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Scroblene – in fairness – he is the outgoing lame duck US PM – he has a year before the removal van and he takes the family back to their LA home … i can’t see him bothering with the cenotaph or returning as an ex PM for those ceremonies – the killer will be all those tearful defeated blue labour types wondering why voters killed them – and their socialist government ,

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  20. StewGreen says:

    Online lecture about grooming
    Wednesday, 27 September
    Understanding the grooming process
    Part of the We Stand Professional Training Talks collection
    A one-hour training webinar unpacking the grooming process of Child Sexual Abuse
    https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understanding-the-grooming-process-tickets-671508258277

    It’s by We Stand (Formally Mosac Mothers of Sexually Abused Children)
    The four mothers started a phone helpline in Greenwich in 1991)

    That was among the stuff Eventbrite send me
    which was dominated by black history stuff they send me.

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  21. StewGreen says:

    ITV local news PR
    ostensibly an item about footpaths
    but we know their agendas
    “Areas which are less diverse have 144% more footpaths”
    then we get a black prof

    Lets unpack that
    144% is a way of making a difference look huge
    It really means one area has 10 footpaths another area has 14

    “Areas which are less diverse” = countryside

    Do they have checkpoints keeping brown/black people out ?
    Nope it’s just they often prefer to live in urban ghettos.

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    • StewGreen says:

      BBC local newsPR starts
      “there is a shortage of youth boxing clubs in rural area”

      Wow it’s almost like you’d find them in non-white urban areas.

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  22. StewGreen says:

    Both itv and BBC are using the same framing word trickery

    “Sunak’s GAMBLE”

    Why call a logical policy a “gamble” ?

    Ultimately the council have organised mobile youth club teams

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    • Scroblene says:

      “Gamble” – beeboidspeak for yet another stab at our country’s leadership.

      The bosses in W!AA gamble with their luck every day – their ‘news’ is usually nonsensical, their presenters are just poor, and unable to ask questions, create a logical argument, and their presence immediately induces a hatred for the sort of smug ‘know-it-all’ stuff one used to get when the Fifth Form debated whacking at school!

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  23. Guest Who says:

    Chris and Rog go wild.

    https://x.com/chrisgpackham/status/1704465964970938598?s=61

    On Ch4, so six people will see it.

    Rog still got all his diesels?

       4 likes

  24. Guest Who says:

    Let’s give the Lizard people a go.

    https://x.com/ukpolitoons/status/1704547677478776924?s=61

    They could hardly be worse.

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  25. Fedup2 says:

    The announcement that over 7 000 000 people are about to get their next lump of taxpayers money – £300 straight into the bank account in the next month has barely registered – £300 fags / booze / drugs / tattoos / killer dogs /take aways …..

    At least you’d expect this sort of stunt with red labour – but ‘tories ‘ – what crap

    And they wonder about some many people not working any more ….

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  26. digg says:

    Sunak has put his career in danger over the green slow-down, I hope he realises this and is prepared.

    As with Boris over Brexit, the combined efforts of the BBC, The Guardian, The Civil Service Blob, The Unions and the rag-tag bunches of pseudo scientists and activists will now launch into a frenzy of personality attacks, watch now for stories about anything however slightly dark they can dig up in his past to start emerging, especially if it has a hint of profiteering off fossil fuels.

    This is the way they now work. It’s the rule of the whole rabid pack and they will work in concert to try to get him.

    I imagine hordes of BBC-ites are gruelling through his history as we speak to dig up any grift they can find, and this will include his wife and family.

    I just hope there are enough citizens who are able to see through it and put these weasels back in their boxes at the ballot box.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Digg
      I think that’s a real misread . Politics is a status game for sunak . He is an unelected foreigner – green card US citizen in waiting – lucky to get the Top Job before returning to LA..

      He has no principles – like starmer ( lawyer ) but might have woken up to the extinction of his office and party next year .

      I can’t work out whether the leak was done on purpose or whether it was meant to be announced at the gutless party conference . His home Sec was right about green crap not bankrupting people – which is what it is already doing .

      I find the likes of sharma – goldsmith – May – selymen gummer revolting in their absolute disregard for the effect of green crap policy on us stupid punters who haven’t destroyed them ..

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      • Scroblene says:

        The Beeboids rely on ‘leaks’, Fed!

        They stick to the ridiculous Ofcom ‘rules’ so that they can then say, ”Sources say’, or ‘The BBC has learned’, and get awy with the dross they spout to the lumpen masses!

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Scrob
          You miss the point whether the leak is a malicious act or whether done in a number 10 plan – not that it matters to real people ( taxpayers ) as opposed to the swamp …

          The blue labour lot have no strategy or belief and are unworthy of the vote ….

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  27. vlad says:

    The BBC in trouble over Russell Brand. Excellent.

    Bonus: lefty Channel 4 too.

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  28. Dickie says:

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  29. Guest Who says:

    An ‘explainer’ from mini Sopes.

    https://x.com/thenewsagents/status/1704545028234707211?s=61

       3 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      ♻️ Rishi Sunak had been in line with David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Theresa May and his Labour opponents on the UK’s green commitments… until today. 🌳

      So why has the government retreated on so many of its net zero pledges?

      @lewis_goodall
      has the answers.

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  30. Jeff says:

    Well, that was an eye opener. I’ve just discovered that black people built Stonehenge…Yes!

    As Michael Caine famously said, “Not many people knew that.” Yep, I bloody well didn’t.

    Is there anything these amazing people haven’t done for us? Any other iconic British architectural monuments they’d like to lay claim to? Westminster Abbey? St Paul’s Cathedral? Buck House? Well, why not?

    Joking aside…How is it if some gormless bimbo popstar wears her hair in dreadlocks, she’s instantly admonished by the likes of Dawn Butler and Diane Abbott of cultural appropriation? It’s a near mortal sin. And yet, these folk are allowed, in fact encouraged, to rummage through our entire bloody history and help themselves to whatever they bleedin’ well like.

    It’s amazing. Over here they’ve made everything, while back in Africa they made sweet FA.

    Curious…

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    • Scroblene says:

      “It’s amazing. Over here they’ve made everything, while back in Africa they made sweet FA.”

      Yup!

      They could have made things, designed motorcars, built cities, helped tribes congregate, built dams for water, planted lots of crops, kept families with normal parents etc, but chose to be backward, hence they whinge about us teaching them to do a few of these things!

      And now they do their whingeing over here…

         22 likes

    • TrickCyclist says:

      History.
      Written by the winners. Re-written by the whiners.

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    • Richard Pinder says:

      I think this is possibly what happened.

      ‘Operation Stonehenge’ was a Welsh project carried out in 2600 BC. It involved buying a thousand black slaves from the Egyptian Pharaoh Sneferu. The Egyptians shipped the black slaves up the Nile river to Memphis were the Welsh bought the Black slaves and shipped them to Wales in a boat called the Morgawr. Like the Turks, the Welsh would have loped off the slaves thingamabob before sending them to carry the bluestones from the Preseli Hills to Salisbury Plain. The Welsh would have then buried the Black slaves at Stonehenge. Then 4600 years later, a man from the BBC dug them up and said that Black people built Stonehenge.

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  31. StewGreen says:

    Oh BBC2 is in Scunthorpe at the steel mills , they just described
    “STEEL is an alloy of iron and carbon (2%)”

    Yet medialand think you can make steel without any carbon

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  32. Up2snuff says:

    pug, the BBC are totally signed up to the climate cult so much so that they must be furious at Rishi Sunak.

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  33. Fedup2 says:

    Maybe – rather that sunak undemocratic green crap – people should be told what their bills would be without green crap subsidies and add ons ? You really want to be hit for £100 plus a month just because of failed power companies – levies ( bribes ) and the other corrupt carbon crap ?

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  34. StewGreen says:

    Polls are BS
    But the Yougov poll says few people in any political category reject the pushback

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    currently 48% of LibDems reject it and some are undecided

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  35. Fedup2 says:

    The caretaker king doing stuff in enemy territory ( France ) any one care ? He took his wife with him . Apparently she is ‘the queen ‘ – lol\

    Wonder if they popped down to the underpass ( crime scene )?

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  36. StewGreen says:

    Net Zero row back policy speeches ..plural

    0-20mins The PM’s speech the case FOR a row back

    Minute 21 BBCnews WEF Climate Activist Chris Mason
    does his speech AGAINST the new policy
    “.. Are you panicking about losing the next election? ”

    Minute 23:26 ITVnews WEF Climate Activist Robert Peston
    does his his speech AGAINST the new policy

    “says the UK has had years of under investment and points out the PM promised to deliver stability when he took office – and then asks if he has now “pulled the rug” and is now “undelivering” on stability.”

    Note Peston’s insolent hands in his pockets attitude.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Next some jOURNALISTS put some questions , some activists do their speeches
      Minute 26:50 Christopher Hope of GBnews
      “You mentioned the costs on hard-pressed British families
      How much will these changes save the average British family?
      And why not put net zero to a referendum of the British people ?”
      (BTW The Guardian transcript is bollocks there}

      Sunak says forcing someone off the gas grid to install a heat pump, not a boiler, might cost more than £20,000, including the cost of new insulation needed if a heat pump was being installed.

      On a referendum, he says: “We’ve had enough referendums, quite frankly.”

      Times speech
      Mail question
      The Sun question

      Minute 38 Speech From Pippa Crerar from the Guardian
      “A lot of people will wondering what you are going to do to replace the targets that you are rowing back on today, in order to meet that Net Zero target of 2050
      Can you give a specific idea of how you are going to do that
      What else will you have to change to ensure you still meet your climate targets?
      And you say your daughters are the climate experts in your house
      How are you going to explain to them your decision to water down your climate targets today ?
      and do you think they will buy it ?”
      (BTW The Guardian transcript is bollocks there}

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      • StewGreen says:

        Mirror article :
        “Rishi Sunak’s move to water down key net zero targets has been branded a “moment of shame”
        as Tory in-fighting erupted into the open”

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  37. vlad says:

    Ofcom (Of-commie) just got new powers over social media.

    Be afraid, be very afraid.

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  38. Philip_2 says:

    BBC and the Labour left wanted Brand to be the Youth leader champion!
    As endorsed by none other than Ed Milliband!

    Alison Pearson writes in DT today…

    “Back in 2008 when Brand and Jonathan Ross, a guest on his Radio 2 show, made prank calls to the actor Andrew Sachs (Fawlty Towers’s sublime Manuel). The pair left lewd messages on the 78-year-old’s answerphone about Brand’s relationship with Sachs’s granddaughter Georgina. A “relationship” with Brand back then could last as long as a week, although many girls barely clocked up half an hour. Russell Brand was famously a “five a day” man: that’s sex, not vegetables!

    Russell Brand lost his job at BBC Radio 2 after an avalanche of listener complaints. Commentators on the Right, like your columnist, took the star to task for his horrid behaviour, but there were Left-leaning newspapers and TV channels who defended him. They accused the BBC of caving into “a baying, irrational mob” and generally over-hyping the story when there were far more important things in the world to worry about. “Stop witch-hunting Brand,” ran one headline.

    That supportive piece was in The Guardian. Don’t forget, the Russell Brand of 15 years ago was still putting the libido into liberal. A self-styled social justice warrior, he even won praise in 2015 from an infatuated, doe-eyed Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, who was desperate for some of Brand’s stardust to rub off on his dandruffy shoulders. Labour, generally so censorious about misogyny and inappropriate behavior towards women, gave the man who was named Shagger of the Year (by The Sun) no less.”

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/09/19/brand-conspiracy-theory-own-right/

    Yes, the Left and Guardian reader now hate him. They still want the ‘yoof’ ‘green’ vote does the BBC. They have a vast reserve of so called ‘comedians’, they are all a bit ‘unfunny’ and every bit as ‘sexually explicit’, given the right encouragement.

    Not so long ago another DJ was arrested for sexually permissive behavior, following that long held tradition going back to Jimmy Saville, operation Yew tree revealed an 80 years olds’ ‘Police arrest’ and then excused due to ‘old age’. Anything goes at the BBC and that’s the problem, sexually explicit, provocative and underage is OK. Young girls were encouraged, to meet the BBC **stars**

    I read in another article that the BBC paid for a BBC ‘chauffeur’ to drive teenagers direct to Russell Brands private home for private ‘consumption of 16 years olds’. He was a BBC **star** and that’s what the BBC does to ‘stars’ and gives then everything they ‘need’. Then drops them(!) – but only if they go off script or get arrested. And Russell Brand has gone off script (veered to the right). How dare he, they say, we made him what he is today! And that is true, they did.

    He is not the only one either. ‘Made in the BBC’.

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  39. digg says:

    Question…. Watching yet another of the endless NHS ambulances going to sick people porn programs the BBC love I have to ask….

    Why do the staff in the call centre response units wear full on paramedic uniform. They are simply office staff so what is this trying to say?

    This also affects the police etc. etc. etc.

    Is it a form of solidarnosc or do they just want to attract staff who are fascinated by uniforms?

    Addendum, a bloke calls in cos he is struggling to breathe. The voiceover Says “unable to breath is a category 2 call”

    What the hell is a category 1?

    A dead caller or possibly a trans who has split a false nail?

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    • tomo says:

      I wonder if the call handlers and managers wore their uniforms at the coroner court sessions?

      Even the Guardian’s later slant can’t hide the verdict.

      All too easy to think the arrogant GWAS effectively killed her – a 5 hour delay in attending a dislocated hip being called appropriate by a manager (possibly in a uniform?)

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      • StewGreen says:

        quote “died after being injured .. and ACQUIRING an infection in hospital”

        I read that as the hospital acquired infection killed her
        not the ambulance delay

        “How do you fix a dislocated hip?
        get someone who knows what they are doing to push it back

        NHS website
        “The initial treatment for a hip dislocation is a procedure called a ‘reduction’, where the top of the thigh bone is manually moved back into the socket with pain relief
        The doctor may want to x-ray your hip after the ‘reduction’
        Pain medication may also help to relieve any pain whilst you recover
        You may need on-going Physiotherapy to aid your recovery”

        Must be a low priority for ambulances cos people do wait long time
        In Bristol (same town) they previously kept someone waiting 21 hours Google list

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        • tomo says:

          As I mentioned in a previous thread having dealt with a dislocated hip – there is a time critical element to getting the ball back into the socket – according to the medic I interacted with who was seriously intent on relocating the joint. Swelling at the site can complicate things a lot. I saw the swelling start in the case I dealt with and can easily imagine adding another 4 hours wouldn’t improve matters.

          The hospital decided to amputate the leg – I wonder if that amputation was consequent from the “reduction” procedure being ludicrously delayed.

          I noticed that the GWAS manager didn’t evidence the clinical prioritization applied in this case and the write up didn’t mention the total delay in manipulating the femur back. It may well be that damage at the dislocation site was severe enough to override any following treatment – I do think that if that was the case, then that should’ve been commented on by the coroner.

          iirc just pre-covid there was a GWAS ambulance that turned up for a 999 the next day….

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Clap faster?

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    • StewGreen says:

      TV shows are theatre

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  40. tomo says:

    Been toe-curlingly obvious since the pre-election Democrat TV debates

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    • JohnC says:

      The good thing about these videos is that they highlight just how much the BBC are deliberately not reporting.

      It would be all over the front page every time if it were Trump.

      I watch these then think about the outrageous editing they did and careful wording they wrote to make us think Trump told people to inject disinfectant.

      But of course when OFCOM have the same Leftist ideology as the BBC, they get away with it.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      YOUR COMPLAINT:

      President Trump’s 100 Days President Biden’s 0 Day 

      Dear Winston Smith in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth,

      You covered President Trump’s 100 Days and then produced a Beyond 100 Days to hold power to account.

      Why have you not done the same for President Biden to hold power to account?

      ‘Omission is the greatest form of lie.’ 

      ———-

      Thank you again for contacting us,

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

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    • MarkyMark says:

      80 years
      20 November 1942

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  41. tomo says:

    So Chris is risking huh?

    No great loss really, is it?

    I wonder how the BBC will spin it if he goes even fuller loon than he is already?

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  42. tomo says:

    Parody, reality… – I dunno….

    https://twitter.com/banthebbc/status/1704558909875204382

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    • JohnC says:

      Nearly looks like her :-).

      This is the story. What I find very, very odd is that I can’t find any reports about he/her/it on the BBC. They absolutely love this kind of thing (until the truth comes out of course – then it goes under their very big carpet).

      ‘Ashton-Cirillo also told AFP in a recent interview that she had learned to ’embrace the hate of the Russians’ who have mocked her gender identity.’

      But on he/she/it then said:

      ‘Her voice trembling with rage, Ashton-Crillo hissed: ‘Next week, the teeth of the Russian devils will gnash ever harder, and their rabid mouths will foam in an uncontrollable frenzy as the world will see a favored Kremlin propagandist pay for their crimes.’

      ‘And this puppet of Putin is only the first. Russia’s war criminal propagandist will all be hunted down, and justice will be served as we in Ukraine are led on this mission by faith in God, liberty and complete liberation.’

      This is what the far-Left are REALLY like. Lie through their teeth when it suits them but the hatred and spite is always there – bubbling away beneath the surface. That’s why they are so viscious and brutal when the twitter mob find a target.

      This is what it really looks like:

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  43. JohnC says:

    Poland to stop supplying weapons to Ukraine over grain row
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66873495

    The key to this article is hidden in the middle:

    “We are no longer transferring weapons to Ukraine, because we are now arming Poland with more modern weapons,” Mr Morawiecki said.

    Basically the USA have been bribing/blackmailing everyone else to send all their ‘old’ Russian equipment to Ukraine and buy new American stuff at a ‘special rate’.

    Now the big money is drying up, they are starting to squabble among each other.

    This whole war is one giant bucket of corruption. And Joe Biden is right at the heart of it.

    None of it mentioned by another of the BBC’s finest who wrote it:

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    Who probably just wrote what she was told to write.

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  44. taffman says:

    “20mph Wales speed limit destroying companies, claims boss”
    Taffmen do not like the “green crap”, they are also angry at the “Assembly” wasting money on increasing its members. Save money and scrap the white elephant .

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  45. taffman says:

    It would be good to hear King Charles telling the French off for dumping their crap on the UK’s beaches all because of the EU’s failed “open borders” policy.
    “Stop the boats” Rishi, “Stop the boats” , we are full!

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  46. andyjsnape says:

    Common Travel Area: Calls for rule changes for non-EEA citizens
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-66868408

    Another campaign by the likes of the bbc

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    • Rich says:

      Here’s an idea from someone in Northern Ireland, scrap it all together, of no real benefit to the UK at all.

      Nationalists living just across the border, especially in Donegal, have been draining UK resources in benefits, education and health by using false addresses for years whilst contributing absolutely nothing.

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  47. Fedup2 says:

    Apparently a lefty called ‘Katy seale’ who was in charge of bbc news – has been interviewed by the DT and suggests that a programme called ‘newsnight ‘ should be dumped because only 300 000 people watch it ( as many as that ?) and it costs £13 million a year .
    She also points out that the ‘today ‘ radio show isn’t what it was ….
    ….the article doesn’t mention the reason why BBC current affairs is dying crap – but everyone reading this – and those who commented in the DT know all to well …. Now here is a Caribbean band to play us out ….

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  48. andyjsnape says:

    Anyone for a Chris Packham calendar?

    https://www.chrispackham.co.uk/home

    Full of sh.t 🙂

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