I wonder how the BBC inquiry into a former employee called Russel Brand is going ? Will it be fully published ? Or the usual commercial secrecy / data protection stuff be used to prevent those still paying for the BBC from knowing the truth ?
Start the Week 25th September 2023
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EU warns Elon Musk that Twitter must comply with fake news laws
https://x.com/guardiannews/status/1706621778632794254?s=20
theguardian.com
Musk’s X platform found to have highest proportion of disinformation posts among large social media players
^^^
‘Found’ by a Panorama ‘investigation feat. Springster in her cubicle?
Speaking of not checking what doesn’t suit…
https://x.com/Ed_Miliband/status/1706332652477849635?s=20
The British people want a plan to cut energy bills, boost wages, and tackle the climate crisis.
That is why Rishi Sunak’s cost-raising, job-destroying, climate-delaying u-turns are such a mistake.
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Odds of any BBC platform checking this claim by the Greta Gurner?
Few in the comments seem to feel this is accurate.
Twitter has a fairly effective fake news detection and counter system.
Remain Central #Rejoin
@remain_central
Tens of thousands marched to #Rejoin this weekend.
62% of the public agree.
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https://x.com/havingagiraf/status/1706584652926812482?s=20
I would suggest one better than having the EU oversee anything any more than Cons, Lab, Limps, Greens, Nats or the EU…
Looks like an advert for Ann Summers
Ch4 has got in Gordo to tap dance with their dancing king.
https://x.com/Channel4News/status/1706404958545891357?s=20
Former PM Gordon Brown has said the countries producing the most oil should pay a 3% levy to help poorer countries deal with the climate crisis.
For broadcast credibility.
#CCBGB
Former PM Gordon Brown has said the countries producing the most oil should pay a 3% levy to help poorer countries deal with the climate crisis.
He spoke to
@krishgm
.
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Ehsan Abdulaziz: Saudi millionaire who said he ‘accidentally tripped and penetrated’ teenage girl cleared of rape
He said it was possible he had semen on his hands from having sex with a 24-year-old woman earlier
Emma Henderson
Wednesday 16 December 2015 10:07
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/millionaire-ehsan-abdulaziz-who-said-he-accidentally-tripped-and-penetrated-teen-is-cleared-of-rape-a6774946.html
Must have really bunged the jury on that one ..
Smarmer’ll give Broon a job?
Reporting Scotland
BBC One Scotland, 29 August 2023
The programme featured a graphic displaying the worsening position of alcohol-related deaths in Scotland. The figures for each year were all clearly and accurately displayed. We do, however, agree that the graph should not have been shown with uneven steps on its axis, and have reminded the programme team of the importance of clarity when reporting statistics.
30/08/2023
https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications
EU Commission used someone called TrustLab to conduct the study. Their blurb: “We’ve been on a mission to make the internet a safer place since the beginning.”
Safe and effective… safe and effective…
Mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham, threatens to sue the Government over the cancellation of HS2. What he will sue for I have no idea. He demonstrates his stupidity and left wing Metropolitan roots by arguing cancellation is a disaster for the North. HS2 might be useful if you want to go to London which will suit s few travellers but it will have very limited use for most.
Does Burnham not realise that HS2 concentrates power into London, it’s more like levelling down. What the North needs is more roads. Anyone travelled on the M6, M60, M62 recently? The congestion is terrible
Suspect he would have tried to sue them when they announced it too……..just a bandwagon jumping, caterpillar-eyebrowed wank.
Flotsam, “Does Burnham not realise that HS2 concentrates power into London, it’s more like levelling down.”
Quite right. It is about already wealthy people having access to cheaper properties in Warwickshire, Lancashire and Cheshire. It should have been built as a 125 speed line, with intervening stations and able to carry freight. Or even better, a new line with terminii at all of the UK’s seaports.
Had a quick check – can’t see anyone else having posted this story on here yet, so here it is (with apologies if I’ve missed it).
I laughed out loud.
Nick Robinson blames ‘news avoiders’ for Today programme’s ratings slump
26 September 2023 • 7:00am
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/26/nick-robinson-bbc-radio-4-today-programme-ratings-slump/
QUOTE
Nick Robinson has blamed the Today programme’s falling ratings on “news avoiders” who no longer want to face the world’s problems.
BBC Radio 4’s flagship news and current affairs show has lost more than a million listeners over the course of the past year.
But Robinson and Amol Rajan, his co-presenter, insisted that the slump was down to a general decline rather than dissatisfaction with Today in particular.
“People just want to avoid the news,” Robinson told Radio Times.
“Market research literally calls them ‘news avoiders’. We will all know people who think ‘I just can’t face the world any more’.”
Rajan pointed to a recent Reuters Institute report that showed a “precipitous drop” in interest.
However, while the Today programme’s audience fell in the first quarter of the year to its lowest audience since 1999 – 5.76 million listeners – ratings for rivals GB News Radio and Times Radio rose over the same period.
Today programme ‘has lost its mojo’
The Reuters report to which Rajan referred, which surveyed people in a range of countries, found that some are turning away from coverage of the war in Ukraine, politics and climate change.
It suggested that “less sensationalist, less negative, and more explanatory approaches” might help to tempt back listeners.
BBC insiders have suggested that the Today programme’s problems run deeper than a general malaise.
“Today has been cut to the bone as part of all the cost-cutting in News, and it no longer has the editorial independence it once had because so many things are centrally commissioned. That shows,” said one former Today employee.
“And the programme has lost its mojo. When was the last time you were gripped by an interview with a member of the Cabinet?
“Mind you, that might be due to the calibre of the Cabinet ministers.”
Robinson and Rajan are now launching The Today Podcast, a spin-off that they hope will bring in a wider audience.
Billed as “the Today programme – unbuttoned”, it will have a more relaxed tone than the main show.
Robinson explained: “Tone is important. Being friendly, not being overly aggressive for the sake of it. It’s optimism, hope, as well as scepticism and scrutiny.
“It’s recognising that people are listening in this incredible, more intimate way. So that you don’t want to just be like: ‘Oh, shut up. Stop shouting at each other.’”
One of the most popular current affairs podcasts is The News Agents, hosted by ex-BBC presenters Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel.
Another is The Rest Is Politics, with Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart.
Robinson suggested that both podcasts follow the same template: “Basically, ‘we listened to the Today programme this morning, and this is what we think about it’.”
Rajan said of The Rest Is Politics: “A lot of people I know listen to that and really like having their own worldview reinforced to them.” Robinson added: “We’re not centrist dads.”
According to Robinson, the influence of podcasts has led to Today interviews “loosening up”.
Rajan said the programme now better reflects the country because it has a range of accents, rather than all the presenters speaking in Received Pronunciation.
Both rejected rumours that the Today presenting team do not get along with one another.
“We’re very different, but you could smell it a mile off if people didn’t get on,” said Robinson.
Rajan said: “I’m full of unashamed love for Today. I’m also full of love for the BBC.
“I read the absolute filth and nonsense that’s written about it, devoid of understanding and context and nuance and all the rest of it, but I actually think there’s a lot to be grateful for.”
UNQUOTE
Thanks Frank
Only Comrade Robinson could get the reason for the demise of today exactly wrong . He should look in mirror more ..
I think his problem might involve looking in the mirror a bit too much!
Fed, it is the lack of balance and Comrade Robinson’s and Comrade JustRemainIn Webb’s and Comrade Mishal Husain’s willingness to break the first rule of radio broadcasting and talk over their interviewees that’s puts people off listening. They need to remember that many or even most of their main audience in the 50 to 70 years of age group all have damaged hearing thanks to pop music. My hearing is intact but I find Comrade Robinson’s interruptions preceeded by or followed by “Forgive me …. ” extremely annoying and it puts me off listening beyond the first half hour.
New boy on business, Will Baines, did not interrupt or talk over his contributors. Neither did the new girl on business, Vivian Nuness, do that yesterday. Felicity Hanna doesn’t do it either.
Up2
I could list the reasons for the fall – having listened for so long ..but no longer … all the techniques …. But I want them to continue to sink their flagship ….
Frank,
“Nick Robinson has blamed the Today programme’s falling ratings on “news avoiders” who no longer want to face the world’s problems.”
If only they’d offer proper news, i.e. factual and broad spectrum and end the ‘cultural’ wars they engage in.
Can you imagine a meeting of the presenters and editors of Today trying to figure out why listening figures are falling like a stone ?
They would have no clue – now the weather
( I was thinking of listening their failures but then I want to destroy the likes of Comrade Robinson , Today and the BBC – not save it )….. in other words comrades – keep that excellent format – keep doing what you are doing ….
G, or offer some politically and socially and scientifically balanced news. I switched off and went back to sleep when Mishal Husain started rabbiting about some popular music yesterday or today – cannot now remember which day or which artiste – completely unnecessary, not important to what is going in the UK or the world.
Biased news avoiders
“Robinson and Rajan are now launching The Today Podcast, a spin-off that they hope will bring in a wider audience.
One of the most popular current affairs podcasts is The News Agents, hosted by ex-BBC presenters Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel.
Another is The Rest Is Politics, with Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart.”
What a shower of utter shite. The world would be a better place without them.
All is relative.
What are the actual numbers?
Why would anyone follow this collection of pompous ideologues to another platform if they were losing audiences where they were/are?
The Bald, The Brown, The Bronzed, The Soused, The Nuts and The Who are hardly a lure.
Twitter exposes his hypocrisy
Every day he walks past a quote that is now a lie and a statue that sheds a tear.
YouGov .. owner …
Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi admits taxpayers paid power bill for his stables
This article is more than 9 years old
MP promises to repay the part of £5,822.27 expenses claim for second home energy bills that relates to electricity for stables
Press Association
Sun 10 Nov 2013 06.46 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/10/nadhim-zahawi-admits-taxpayers-electricity-stables
YouGov
MRDA (“Mandy Rice-Davies applies”)
Robinson is a twerp.
The tweet.
https://x.com/BBCr4today/status/1706327525251596751?s=20
31 people engaged in 21 hrs.
Two Beeboids rummaging in each other’s belly button fluff appears to have limited appeal.
“I am genuinely very excited. I listen to podcasts fanatically.”
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@amolrajan
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@bbcnickrobinson
Episodes drop every Thursday from October 5th.
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Today programme presenter Nick Robinson said: ‘Almost every morning when I walk into the BBC at 4am, I stop and pause and read the words on the George Orwell statue.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8513859/George-Orwells-defence-free-speech-outside-BBCs-HQ-makes-cringe-says-Billy-Bragg.html
Nothing to do with it being let wing tripe? That’s certainly the reason I stopped listening, after about 30 years.
I could not stand the incessant leftist propaganda first thing in the morning, it put me in a bad mood all day. I feel much better now I have given it up.
Another day, another institution to reset:
“British boxing governing body accused of racism, sexism and Islamophobia.” Ch4’s turn to take up the mantle of bringing down the country, sorry — addressing institutional discrimination — as the claims come from two black former referees and a female boxer.
There have only been two black refs for the BBBOFC, so that’s a 100% grievance record — very impressive numbers. The boxer is Ruqsana Begum from Bethnal Green. She reports feeling “attacked and violated” because a ref told her leggings were against the rules. She was still allowed to fight in them, but no matter: some white men somewhere must be made to pay.
Post-BLM resentment, Ch4 activists and another east London Begum (via Bangladesh) who doesn’t seem to like this country much. It all makes for a heady brew and one only wonders where we’ll be in 5 years with this level of destabilisation going on.
(I hope Cindy’s available for another inquiry.)
https://www.channel4.com/news/british-boxing-governing-body-accused-of-racism-sexism-and-islamophobia
“Ruqsana Begum from Bethnal Green. She reports feeling “attacked and violated” because a ref told her leggings were against the rules. She was still allowed to fight in them, ”
that will be this one who is also with some modeling agency
Good find Kaiser, wonder if that’ll be swept under the carpet for the inquisition.
Zoleka Mandela: Nelson Mandela’s granddaughter dies in South Africa at 43
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-66921654
bbc in its elements about a terrorists granddaughter, even a video with the idea person
Mandla Mandela slams UK right-wingers wanting to remove Madiba’s statue in London
https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/mandla-mandela-slams-uk-right-wingers-wanting-to-remove-madibas-statue-in-london-20200619
Channel drowning
“Eritrean migrant, 24, is found dead on Calais beach after falling off a small boat while she tried to cross the Channel to reach the UK”
she?
dont they mean they/them
Whilst leaving France? Macron responsible?
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Dover MP Natalie Elphicke told the Commons that the BBC’s “shocking report” contained the “breath-taking” disclosure of free French public bus services being used to ferry migrants from camps to Dunkirk beaches.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-63229010
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Today the BBC journalists Michael Keohan and Colin Campbell released a shocking report on the channel crossings. It showed people smugglers selling their wares brazenly in the migrant camps and many children living in unsafe and dangerous conditions, as well as—this is breathtaking—a free French public bus service that migrants can use to travel directly from the camps to the Dunkirk departure beaches. Will my right hon. Friend allow a statement on the issue of tackling the small boat crossings and the Government’s response in their work with France?
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2022-10-13a.258.0#g262.1
SACK THEM ALL!
Rachel Reeves on the BBC about all they will do and all costed.
A reply, not from the BBC:
https://x.com/TheTVGrump/status/1706407852707819761?s=20
“Hang on, didn’t you have your Parliamentary credit card taken off you for misuse?”
Quick quiz…….
If you could get to punch one right in the middle of the face, who would it be?
1. Jeremy Vine
2. James O’Brien
3. Alistair Campbell
Stand them in a line?
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https://soldieringon.org/jeremy-vine-soa-ambassador-for-the-inspiration-award/
It’s JOB for me.
can I use a baseball bat??
Vine, all day, every day, and twice as much on Sundays.
Viral Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce clip leads to ‘crazy 24 hours’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66917895
‘A US journalist who captured the first public pictures of Taylor Swift with her rumoured new love interest has said it has been “the craziest 24 hours of my life”.’
Front page BBC new no less.
Another showbusiness non-story which the BBC kidults have wet their panties over.
770 words of immature gushing. Absolutely pathetic.
Here’s the author. I have to say that when I find an article so poor that I feel the need to show who wrote it, it is almost always another BBC female clone:
Mummy and daddy so proud ..
Not BBC but a further NHS update. One that will not feature on the BBC I suspect.
A friend had a dodgy mole and the GP et al. decided to excise it.
He managed to get an appointment at the local hospital and it took place last Saturday morning.
On arrival there were two people at reception with not much to do.
He was booked in. Two other people came along and took him away to answer a few questions and have his weight and height checked. (Why???).
He was then taken by two other people, one a porter, , in a wheelchair, to the operating room. When he pointed out that he could walk, he was told this was not the done thing.
In the operating room, there was a doctor and two nurses. The small operation was carried out under a local anaesthetic.
At the end of the operation, one of the nurses said in terms, ‘there is only one more patient, can we go home after that’. It was by now noon but transpired their shift ran to 6 pm.
I may have missed someone out but my friend reckoned he was seen by about 10 different people when a maximum of two or three in any other setting would have easily sufficed.
I mention this in case readers have the impression that the NHS is drastically understaffed and underfunded.
No diversity nurse?
Does the NHS need any diversity officers at all?
17 February 2023, 4:33pm
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/does-the-nhs-need-any-diversity-officers/
Must have spoilt their day having to deal with tedious punters at all – private clinic in the afternoon £ though eh?£
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/09/ukrainian-whoppers.html#more
https://liveuamap.com/
2022 – December train strikes: Extra walkouts planned over Christmas
6 December 2022
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63867226
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/1564E/production/_127903678_strikes_update_06_12a-nc.png.webp
Interesting … “I live in Telford, in the West Midlands administrative region. To get to London we catch a diesel train (no electrified lines) to Birmingham New Street and change to another train to get to London. To get a HS2 train to London we would have to walk, get a taxi or jump on a bus or tram to get to Curzon Street. Even if the timetables were perfectly aligned the transfer time would wipe out any time saving from the faster train and would make the end to end journey from Telford (or anywhere else going through New Street) to London using HS2 longer than it currently does on existing rail infrastructure. The only people who will see a net benefit in time are those whose journeys start and end in the vicinity of the two stations.”
order-order.com
2053- government to decide whether to build HS2… all money previously wasted in the NHS is now to be thrown into the HS2 toilet ….
In April 2020, the Health Secretary announced that over £13bn of NHS debt would be written off and converted to public dividend capital (PDC). This was part of a wide range of financial measures the Government brought in for health and social care during the current pandemic.
Sluff… I had a similar experience but at the end of all these steps on entry to the theatre a white cotton hat was placed on each participants heads …a bit like Basil Fawlty,s …
Why, no idea.
Whatever happened to Shamima Begum the IS bridge, with the bbc campaigning for its return, and tele tax money spent of podcasts
All gone quite, probably just testing the water to see if the genuine British public would put up with its return to the UK
Friend who inspired Shamima Begum to join IS mocks her as non-believer
Published
22 March
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65031943
Sharmeena Begum, who fled from the UK to Syria two months before Shamima Begum
Sharmeena Begum
Shamima Begum
In Muslim Baby Names the meaning of the name Begum is: Princess. Lady.
I’m Not a Monster wins Best Documentary Podcast at The Ambies awards
May 17, 2021 – 5:09 pm
I’m Not a Monster has won Best Documentary Podcast for the inaugural Podcast Academy Awards for Excellence in Audio, The Ambies.
https://podcastingtoday.co.uk/im-not-a-monster-wins-best-documentary-podcast-at-the-ambies-awards/
I need to start checking my speeeeeeeelllling! 🙂
“Moran lamented how “economically illiterate” the government’s Net Zero changes are, and claimed we should be following the lead of the US… and China:
“You look at the States, where they’re already pumping billions of dollars towards this, you look at China, which is already ahead, actually we had an opportunity – we have still an opportunity – to forge an economy for the future… not only are the Conservatives intent on trashing today’s economy, they seem to want to also trash the future economy as well.”
Apparently China is “already ahead” on climate and Net Zero. This will, of course, be news to anyone living on planet Earth, where China accounted for a whopping 30.9% of carbon emissions in 2021, and is currently rated “highly insufficient” on climateactiontracker.org.”
order-order.com
“And for my next number I’d like to sing …”
Regarding comrade Robinson and Today – I got a bit depressed by the comments( in the telegraph ) which hit the nail on the head people want News not lefty group think propaganda .
Then I thought – it’s ok Fedup – no one from the bbc will read the comments – but if they do they’ll just label it as ‘right wing group think ‘ – which about the calibre of the kidults at the bbc .
But I have a suggestion for today – why not play more music ? Get a DJ in – maybe with a dog – call it ‘Arnold ‘ woof woof ( I bloody can’t stand Tony Blackburn – how’s about jimmy saville ?)
Islam gets a sense of humour ….
Saudi TV mocks Joe Biden & Kamala Harris in viral skithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msT1VpBT0_M
Re comrade Robinson…he should be the DJ.
And sent in in full Crazy World of Arthur Brown mode!!
“Wrong to ban army personnel from giving evidence to housing inquiry – Tory MP”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66924696
Why not put the army up in 4 Star hotels ?
This useless government puts ‘Tom, Dick and Harry’ in them ?
I think you meant ‘Imran, Zahid and Hamza’ there taff.
Table 1: Top 10 baby names for boys and girls, England and Wales, 2021
Rank Boys name Count Change in
rank since
2020 Girls name Count Change in
rank since
2020
1 Noah 4,525 3 Olivia 3,649 0
2 Oliver 4,167 -1 Amelia 3,164 0
3 George 4,141 -1 Isla 2,683 0
4 Arthur 3,766 -1 Ava 2,576 0
5 Muhammad 3,722 0 Ivy 2,245 1
6 Leo 3,465 0 Freya 2,187 6
7 Harry 3,089 1 Lily 2,182 0
8 Oscar 3,071 -1 Florence 2,180 6
9 Archie 2,928 0 Mia 2,168 -4
10 Henry 2,912 1 Willow 2,067 2
Source: Office for National Statistics – Baby names in England and Wales
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/bulletins/babynamesenglandandwales/2021
JohnC
All thanks to the Failed European Union Parliament’s “Open Borders”, the Border Farce , Albanian gangsters and the greedy lefty, NGO barristers “following the money”.
Anyone remember this from eight years ago………….
“David Cameron criticised over migrant ‘swarm’ language” ?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33716501
My message to the Tory Government – We want action, not words.
Labour’s Harriet Harman said “he should remember he is talking about people and not insects” and called the use of “divisive” language a “worrying turn”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33716501
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Ed Davey attacks Tories on cancer care at Lib Dem conference
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-66884938
The BBC are wetting their panties again – this time for the Lib Dem conference. There can’t be a dry pair in the building after the excitement this week.
And of course it’s nothing to do with Lib Dem policies : it;s about using it to attack the Tories. Just look at their ‘headlines’:
Davey says cynicism is one of the worst legacies of the Conservative government.
Davey says voting Conservative is ‘bad for your health’
Davey goes on to criticise the government, saying its 10-year cancer plan announced last year has been “junked”.
Opposing Brexit gets the applause
‘We need to fix our broken relationship with Europe’
Developing country ….
US-China rivalry spurs investment in space tech
Published
15 hours ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66753675
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WASHINGTON —
Whether China is a developing or developed nation has long been a source of debate among researchers and China experts — especially as China has risen to become the world’s second largest economy and a global manufacturing powerhouse.
At the recent summit of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) in Johannesburg, Chinese leader Xi Jinping said “China has been and will always remain a member of [the] developing countries.”
https://www.voanews.com/a/is-china-still-a-developing-country/7244652.html
That 11,000 landing in Lampedusa must be the final wake-up call to get VERY TOUGH on this lark.
that EU utopian dream of free movement ( Schengen) was perfectly framed for this current scenario.
Donald Trump,s more earthy description of these places as ” S***holes has proven to be an accurate prediction.
The bigger worry is that routes via Lampedusa and Calais
are now well oiled machines with insatiable demand for their services.
That burden sharing bunkum is another surefire way to increase the pull factor….the devious French are already “burden sharing”
and we,re mad enough to be paying the chancers.
2017 ….. . . . . . Let us look back in past . . . .
Gaddafi wants EU cash (£4bn) to stop African migrants {bbc.co.uk aug2010}
“Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi says the EU should pay Libya at least 5bn euros (£4bn; $6.3bn) a year to stop illegal African immigration and avoid a ‘black Europe’.
…
‘We don’t know what will happen, what will be the reaction of the white and Christian Europeans faced with this influx of starving and ignorant Africans,’ Col Gaddafi said…
…
He told them that Islam should become the religion of Europe and gave them free copies of the Koran, after he had lectured them for an hour on the freedoms enjoyed by women in Libya.”
Aug 2010 … fast forward … Nov 2016
Migrant crisis: Turkey (Erdogan) threatens EU with new surge (EU Tax Payers are paying Erdogan £2.6 billion) {bbc.co.uk nov2016}
“Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned that he will let hundreds of thousands of migrants travel on to Europe if pushed by the EU.
…
‘Listen to me: these border gates will be opened if you go any further,’ he warned the EU on Friday.”
Sluff – why did they (NGOs?) burn the rubber boats (environmentally a bad idea) when they could just rip a hole in the middle to sink it?
– European Union is using UK’s money to keep African’s from leaving their own country!
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/10/20/weekend-open-thread-166/#comment-875017
18 January 2018 …. Theresa May to promise £44.5m in funding to strengthen UK border controls in France
VIEW COMMENTS
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/emmanuel-macron-uk-visit-theresa-may-to-promise-millions-in-funding-for-uk-border-controls-in-france-a3742986.html
Officials said the £44.5 million cash injection would go towards fencing, CCTV and detection technology in Calais and other ports along the Channel.
Manchester Arena bomber was rescued from Libya by Royal Navy
This article is more than 5 years old
Salman Abedi, who killed 22 people in a suicide attack last year, was saved from civil war in 2014
Press Association
Tue 31 Jul 2018 00.19 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/31/manchester-arena-bomber-was-rescued-from-libya-by-royal-navy
It is understood Abedi’s name was on a list of stranded citizens handed to the crew in charge of the evacuation. The vessel took them to Malta where they caught a flight back to the UK.
merkel “Wir schaffen das”
she invited the world , she started this mess
nobody else invited them
germany should either let them all in or pay for the navy needed to keep them all out
Ed Davey attacks Tories on cancer care at Lib Dem conference
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-66884938
The BBC are wetting their panties again – this time for the Lib Dem conference. There can’t be a dry pair in the building after the excitement this week.
And of course it’s nothing to do with Lib Dem policies : it;s about using it to attack the Tories. Just look at their ‘headlines’:
Davey says cynicism is one of the worst legacies of the Conservative government.
Davey says voting Conservative is ‘bad for your health’
Davey goes on to criticise the government, saying its 10-year cancer plan announced last year has been “junked”.
Opposing Brexit gets the applause
‘We need to fix our broken relationship with Europe’
‘Some activists would love to talk so much more about Brexit – and their conviction it was a terrible mistake.’
‘I have never known UK so badly governed – Davey’
‘Clowns didn’t do it. The Conservatives did’
‘Brexit – the elephant in the conference hall?’
‘Upbeat mood as Lib Dems feel they’ve got mojo back’
‘Why the Lib Dems might be more important than you think’
And at the very start just to sway you into liking Ed Davey before you get spoon fed his rhetoric:
‘Five fun facts about Lib Dem leader’
Featuring:
‘In 1994, he received awards from the Royal Humane Society and the Chief Constable of the British Transport Police after rescuing a woman from the path of an oncoming train at Clapham Junction’
‘Davey is a Notts County FC supporter and a big mushy pea fan’
‘He told Metro that if a bust of him was to be made, he would like recycled tyres to be used’
Barf.
What a ridiculous lovefest. Let’s see what the headlines are when it’s the Tories turn.
The video is the first time I’ve seen Ed Davey speaking. Underwhelming to say the least. A sure sign of a weak person is when they try to raise themselves by lowering others.
Bring back Jo Swinson and her travelling circus. She was amusingly ridiculous.
https://www.rt.com/news/583544-canada-nazi-ukraine-applause/
“Canada has also supported modern-day Nazis in Ukraine itself, by training members of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion on Canadian soil, although Canadian corporate media has in recent years attempted to downplay this.”
Glasgow old news from Glasgow in June
Glasgow Council “You guys have had plenty of time to adapt to our new ULEZ rules
so now the fines start”
.. “Oh really you Glasgow Council have you got any non compliant vehicle ?”
.. “Yes we have, 600 non compliants , so we’ll spend heaps of taxpayers money hiring ones tat are ompliant”
Glasgow City Council has spent almost £100,000 to HIRE vehicles to replace parts of its fleet that do not comply with its low-emission zone (LEZ).
And they fined…themselves… over breaches.
More than 600 of its own vehicles are no longer allowed inside the LEZ.
Glasgow University is to pay £20m in reparations to atone for its historical links to the transatlantic slave trade in what the University of West Indies has described as a “bold, historic” move.23 Aug 2019
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/09/25/27-year-old-footballer-maddy-cusack-dies-and-suddenly-the-media-have-no-curiosity-to-find-out-why/
A 27 year-old footballer, Maddy Cusack, has died.
This has been reported on many news sites, including the BBC.
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/09/25/27-year-old-footballer-maddy-cusack-dies-and-suddenly-the-media-have-no-curiosity-to-find-out-why/
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Lisa Shaw: Presenter’s death due to complications of Covid vaccine
26 August 2021
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-58330796
Migrant crisis: Turkey (Erdogan) threatens EU with new surge (EU Tax Payers are paying Erdogan £2.6 billion) {bbc.co.uk nov2016}
“Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned that he will let hundreds of thousands of migrants travel on to Europe if pushed by the EU.
The English Channel is our natural moat, time it was used to defend our land and borders .
Where is the Royal Navy and where are the Royal Marines ?
Every other minute, someone in the world drowns. These are wasted lives. Preventable deaths.
Drowning is a silent epidemic that claims an estimated 235,000 lives every year, many of them children. But this leading killer isn’t getting the global attention it deserves.
The RNLI is working with global leaders, public health organisations and at-risk communities to help turn the tide. We want to make drowning prevention a priority worldwide and reduce this staggering loss of life.
By raising awareness, conducting research and testing interventions, we can make a difference together.
https://rnli.org/what-we-do/international
Who pays for the RNLI? The people of Great Britain or ….?
Strike action in September
Who is striking and when? Find out the strikes this week and how they will affect you with the UK Strike Action Calendar. Full date listings of all currently planned regional and country-wide strikes. Last updated: Tuesday, 26 September 2023
Today, on Tuesday 26th September 2023, the University Staff (42 Universities), School Support Staff (Scotland), London Mayor's Office for Police and Crime, Tower Hamlet Refuse Workers are taking industrial action.
https://www.strikecalendar.co.uk/
EAT OUT TO HELP RISHI OUT ….
I noticed that one of the teams on University Challenge had the now obligatory tranny on last night. It was a Thai one (most of the teams are about 50% foreign these days), but not a patch on the famous lady boys of Bangkok. I don’t think Alan Partridge would have been fooled for a minute by this one.
Polly Toynbee of the Guardian is a habitual user of dodgy anti-Tory smears but the latest takes some beating.
She argues that VoterID is more or less an unfair Tory trick.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/26/tories-electoral-system-millions-of-voters
Anyone with half a brain would realise that voting for a government is one of the most important powers given to citizens to have their say on how the country is managed and therefore must be beyond reproach.
It’s not particularly difficult or odious and if any individual can’t be arsed to get a voter ID to prove who they are and that they have the right to vote, they probably don’t really deserve a vote anyway.
We all know that certain communities tend to have let’s say unusual voting methods, either being unable to prove who they are through lack of personal traceability or indulging in mass voting carried out by some overseer to ensure they vote the right, or should I say left way.
So people like Toynbee are not concerned with illegal voting they just want it to be made as easy as possible for as many people as possible, regardless of their authenticity to vote Left.
Put simply, they will accept any level of voter fraud to get their desired political outcome.
I don’t see any way that anyone could find issues with voterID, Its the best way to winkle out fraud and deceit and multiple voting by the same individual.
As an example what if it were possible to roll up at any bank, give a false name and withdraw money from that account with no ID?
Its the same argument.
Voting fraud warning in Tower Hamlets ahead of local elections
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/voting-fraud-tower-hamlets-local-elections-lutfur-rahman-kemi-badenoch-b991148.html
Having an honest legitimate voting system isn’t fashionable these days ( see Obama USA ) – but if ‘security ‘ filters out the dumb / non Engleeesh speakers ) that can only be good for the current non democracy ….
.. the was an opinion in one of the papers about someone being Fedup with the 2 party system – I didn’t bother with it because we all know we are in a one party system with no real democracy at all – best example – the last traitor parliament ….
Vote in Wales @ 16!
Join ISIS @ 15!
Have some clue what you are actually talking about @ 25.
Multiculturalism has failed, says Braverman in refugee speech
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-66922119
‘Multiculturalism has failed, she said and “you can see it play out on the streets of cities all over Europe. From Malmo, to Paris, Brussels, to Leicester”‘
Well, it’s taken long enough for somebody to admit it.
Two things I am certain of:
1. The majority of British people will agree with her.
2. She is going to get a massive backlash of hate from the far-Left and the BBC. She will be every dirty label they can think of. Let’s see how long it is before the BBC write something calling her a racist.
No doubt she will get the daily headline attack trick to pressure her to resign. Maybe the Tories will stand up to the BBC this time as we are entering the election madness phase and they know they have to do something to get some respect back from the silent majority.
John
Totally agree.
But I still argue that the leftists use the immigration issue only as a tactic not because they particularly have an axe to grind about it.
Destabilising western society and the market economy. That is the strategy. Unfettered open door mass immigration is just one of their tactics.
Getting western economies to collapse is their strategy, and replacing them with Marxist-socialist states, centrally-controlled, is their overall objective.
Nigel Farage , they were “laughing at him then but they are not laughing now”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-48244663
What we want from Suella Braverman and Rishi Sunak now is action not words.
How many have been deported to Rwanda ?
How many have been deported at all?
…….https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66919416
they were “laughing at him then but they are not laughing now”
That’s what people happened when Bob Monkhouse announced he was going to be a comedian.
I’ll get my coat.
BBC verify says that Sweller tells a right wing think tank that multiculturalism has failed. A right wing think tank…right wing.
When you are far over to the Left, everyone you disagree with is right wing.
That’s the ridiculous situation at the BBC now.
While the pygmies talk about immigration, why not hear from a giant. Who manages also to put a lefty in his place along the way. 50 years old, and still astonishingly prophetic.
Of course, as a previous professor, brigadier, and Urdu speaker, he could take them all to the cleaners without raising a sweat.
Enoch Powell, a taffman and Welsh speaker . The Powells were of Welsh descent and from Radnorshire. He could “see” our future.
As a cult lefty hate figure Enoch’s been doing sterling service for decades.
I came across a YouTube epic (yup, 4 hours!) of him recounting his war service.
Been dipping in and out of it for a week – his delivery is to the modern ear idiosyncratic – but the content takes the listener past that.
Easy to see why the shallow, ignorant half witted lefty loons hate him so much.
Many in-person observations of events 80 years ago delivered with independent minded and unsparing analysis. I were impressed.
When you control the Foghorn.
https://x.com/LBC/status/1706672249103642859?s=20
“..nobody’s overrunning the country.”
There are images from beaches that counter that.
‘You are entitled to have that conversation’ she says to the caller who has been cut off.
Her clearly intolerant, slightly spiteful and patronising attitude together with her general appearance and demeanour are absolutely stereotypical of your left-wing activist.
She blames the reason for all the hotels on the government and their ‘indequate system’ without any mention of the sheer numbers of these people arriving. There will be 56,000 illegals this year just from the small boats which means 220 cases would need to be completed every single working day to keep up – never mind the bulk of people seeking asylum through legal channels.
We will never know what Mervyn might have replied : she cut him off so he could not counter anything she said – yet she was very quick to interrupt him at the start.
It will come as no surprise to know a large part of her career was spent at the BBC.
presumably she would have them in free houses instead of free hotels
Isn’t it a sobering thought, that this time next year, the BBC will be full-on screaming at anyone who is a normal citizen, and votes for any conservative values as the General Election looms.
Ofcom will do bugger all as usual, The dreadful Robinson, (once a Tory), will be yelling and interrupting everyone he dislikes, LBC will melt down with Maitlis, Sopel and for some odd reason only known to themselves, a bloke called Lammy, and the whole shooting match will be a love fest for Starmer, Growler and Abbott, with several unknowns chucked in to make the balance worse!
Seeing the Beeboid dribbling hatred of Ms Braverman’s interesting approach to illegals, they’ve marked their cards far too early, but there again, when did they ever get the timing right!
Still, this time next year, we can all do our bit here I suppose…
George Galloway may not be everyone’s cup of tea but boy, is he an orator. Brings to mind Enoch Powell
“Canada’s Speaker Anthony Rota resigns after Nazi in parliament row”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66930482
“The Speaker of Canada’s House of Commons has resigned after praising a Ukrainian man who fought for a Nazi unit and inviting him to parliament.”
Is is possible that Putin is right in saying they’re de-nazifying Ukraine?🤔
The latest tachographs …. I just noticed
DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communication) makes it possible for enforcement officers to remotely detect possible fraudulent activity.
Taking the spy in the cab to new heights
Wales is having the largest public protest petition ever with hundreds of thousands protesting over the 20mph lunacy.
You would never know if you relied on the BBC for information. Hardly a peep.
Omission of the news of such an historic national event by a mainstream national public news service is deplorable and tells you all you need to know about its agenda and who it is in bed with.
Only too happy to let us know when a few dozen anti brexiteers wave some banners in London of course!
This is the sort of devious behaviour championed by the likes of Trudeau and is a stain on democracy and an open society.
Disinformation most active on X, formerly known as Twitter, EU says
https://x.com/bbcnews/status/1706736174113378425?s=61
#CCBGB Such distain cannot be resisted much longer.
https://x.com/gbnews/status/1706748987137490962?s=61
BBC plummets in popularity as readers switch off from ‘woke lectures’
Clearly hard right types.
[From GB News online]
“… … …
BBC ratings have plummeted because audiences are sick of “woke lectures” from the broadcaster, one former politician has suggested.
It comes as one BBC presenter blames the falling ratings on “news avoiders” who no longer want to face the world’s problems.
Former Brexit Party MEP Rupert Lowe shared his thoughts on social media after Nick Robinson claimed the decline in numbers is not down to listener dissatisfaction, but insiders suggest the Today programme has “lost its mojo”.
“‘News avoiders’ now being blamed for BBC’s plummeting popularity,” Lowe wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
“Nothing to do with people being sick of the woke lectures, of course!”
Over the past year, BBC Radio 4’s flagship news and current affairs show has lost more than a million listeners.”
Note the term “news avoiders” – it will be “DENIERS” next!
The BBC Politics for today is spectacular.
https://x.com/bbcpolitics/status/1706692172383224187?s=61
“Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey pledges two-month cancer treatment guarantee”
And here is the BBC’s US propaganda version.
https://x.com/bbcworld/status/1706723054712504352?s=61
President Joe Biden has made history, joining striking auto workers on the picket line
But, is it… unprecedented?
And by way of msm low life validation….
https://x.com/paulmasonnews/status/1706741258482303364?s=61
Historic moment. Let’s emulate that here ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼
If Poundland did Wolfie Smiffs ….
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66931855
Trump committed fraud in NY, judge finds
“The decision resolves a key claim made by New York’s attorney general in her civil lawsuit against the former president.”
now why would New York’s attorney general be raising civil lawsuits against someone
The administration and justice system in the US is a stinking pond of backscratching lying twats. It is where the whole of the Western World is headed and fully supported by activist media twats pretending to be news sources.
It cannot last as it is built on lies and subterfuge and some pretty horrible human beings.
Right now they are conning the population but as with all things false, the truth will out eventually.
In the immortal words of Cathy Newman…
https://x.com/nickdixoncomic/status/1706784611471106409?s=61
So what you are saying, Matt, is….
Frei with 80K followers got just 38 Likes
cos he mixes up what multiculturalism etc.