Midweek 27th September 2023

A leading BBC presenter thinks the reason the flagship ‘today ‘ programme has lost huge numbers of listeners is that they are ‘news deniers’ . It seems he has a fairly low opinion of listeners . Like so many in the BBC – he is right – the audience is wrong . far Left Group Think Rules … but the audience goes away …

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542 Responses to Midweek 27th September 2023

  1. digg says:

    JCB, A Company founded in the UK in the 1940’s revolutionised the plant industry, launching a range of excavators and plant that changed countless industries including construction and farming.

    In the process they created a huge export market bringing millions of pounds of foreign cash into the UK.

    They also became a huge source for job creation in the Midlands and gave secure employment and training to thousands of people.

    They are going on to pioneer the production of low carbon equipment and investing millions in research and development.

    What’s not to like and admire?

    Well, the Guardian don’t like them and why should this be?

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/27/hmrc-investigating-tax-affairs-of-one-of-tory-party-largest-donors-anthony-bamford.

    After the BBC ran this a while back’

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62833837

    In three words Johnson, Tories and Brexit.

    The bosses became personal family friends of Boris, were pro Brexit and also decided to provide funds to the Tory party, much like the unions hand over funds to the Labour Party.

    Being friends with Boris is pretty much a left wing media cardinal sin.

    Hence the Guardian appear to have entered into what feels like a witch hunt…

    I expect more to drip out of this Guardian political campaign with the BBC joining in when they taste blood. Of course it has nothing to do with the upcoming elections does it?

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    • StewGreen says:

      The family are inoculated against mad lefties
      .. by the way they financed the son to start a hydrogen vehicle biz
      and so shout “Green power, green power”

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      • digg says:

        A smart move even if tongue in cheek though Stew?
        Neutralises lots of incoming lefty ammunition, avoids having pink-haired nutters chaining themselves to the factory gates and can be quietly mothballed when the green lunacy runs out of steam or should I say amps.

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  2. Dickie says:

    Wonder if Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland were invited to participate – come to think of it, most western leaders and their acolytes would have felt at home

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/day-dead-neo-nazi-azov-brigade-conducts-torchlight/

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Day of the Dead”: Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade Conducts Torchlight Rallies All Over Ukraine
      By Richard Abelson Sep. 28, 2023 11:00 am257 Comments
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  3. Guest Who says:

    I get countless ‘suggested for you’ posts on FB, often from dubious areas of interest.

    However this, from ‘Music Base Africa’, caught my eye.

    “ 🤣😂Young Nigerian artiste, Small Baddo was taken to UK for a show by an event promoter and after the show he ran away. The young artiste wrote the event promoter on WhatsApp telling him he won’t be returning to Nigeria because “Nigeria is not for him” !

    The event promoter has already been fined £6000 coz Small Baddo’s UK visa has expired. The promoter’s license to bring other artistes to UK might be seized if Small Baddoo doesn’t show up💔💔!”

    The story has an image of Mr. Baddo on what looks like a U.K. train, sneakers up on the chair opposite.

    If verified, this rather undermines claims made by many in politics and associated media pr teams.

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    • harry142857 says:

      Didn’t a load of Ugandan golfers come to Scotland one year to try and win a golf tournament a week before The Open.

      Most disappeared without a trace.

      How gullible are officials allowing such peoe into this island.

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      • Lefty Wright says:

        Perhaps “gullible” is not quite the correct adjective to use. Try using “traitorous” which appears to be more apt.

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    • MarkyMark says:

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      • Lefty Wright says:

        de man on de lef am gibbin de sine ob de debbil wid de right han witch mean “up yors cracker!!

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  4. atlas_shrugged says:

    Was it a doctor, lawyer, or brain surgeon who got a bit upset in Rotterdam?

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    • Thatcherrevolutionary says:

      This had less headlines and airtime than GB News story about ‘misogyny’

      Perfectly summing up the New World Order.

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  5. Dickie says:

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  6. MarkyMark says:

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  7. MarkyMark says:

    Labour suspends activist challenging gender self-identification policy
    This article is more than 5 years old
    David Lewis stood for women’s officer role claiming that he was ‘a woman on Wednesdays’

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/may/23/labour-suspends-activist-challenging-gender-self-identification-policy

    Lewis said he had decided to stand for the role, which party rules say can only be held by a woman, in order to draw attention to Labour’s policy of self-definition, where a person is recognised as a woman if they define themselves as such.

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  8. Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

    You mentioned “kill Whitey” which was uttered by comedian Sophie Duker after Frankie Boyle suggested the idea as part of a (comedy) discussion.

    Well, our Soph’ was on Radio 4’s “My Teenage Diary” today (18:30-19:00) hosted by Rufus Hound. There are a few good shows in this slot now, to give praise where it’s due, but this is not one of them. I don’t find it funny, which is of course simply a matter of personal taste.

    Sophie was quite articulate, though with a very liberal sprinkling of the word “like” as an all-purpose filler. Her diaries covered the period 2004-06, when she was roughly 14-16. She got into Wadham College but regretted being a good schoolgirl and working as she did at that age.

    She reported having written gay male erotica at the time, while admitting to knowing little about the subject. Sophie went to what she abbreviated as “NLCS” – a private school in north London. She joked that it stood for “nobody leaves completely straight.”

    At one point, she described herself as “dancing like there were centipedes in my v@gin@” which got a big laugh from the Radio 4 studio audience. According to Wiki, she identifies as “queer”.

    How very BBC!

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  9. MarkyMark says:

    Laurence Fox in racism row over Meghan Markle on Question Time

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  10. MarkyMark says:

    BBC QT audience member – who will serve coffee in Pret?

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  11. maxincony says:

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    • Nibor says:

      That’s right Maxi , the establishment holds views that JRM doesn’t.

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    • Thoughtful says:

      LOL the only reason people the hopelessly confused and wet foggy Moggy with conservatism is his old Catholic views, but his entire perceived conservatism begins and ends within the scope of the Roman Catholic faith of Pope John Paul.

      Outside of that he is as far to the Left as any other Marxist of his party.

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  12. Eddy Booth says:

    “Gunman kills three in twin Rotterdam shootings – Dutch police”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66954233

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    Why is the Muslim women laughing.
    Even the globalist Daily Mail cropped her out, Guess BBC just too lazy

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  13. BRISSLES says:

    Apologies if this has been previously mentioned. Just watching my recording of this week’s Repair Shop and the first one in is an older black chap and his daughter from London. He has a Black Panther poster for restoration. Then we get the story of racism in the early 70s, the National racist Front, and how he became an activist and teacher of black history, meanwhile Blades is nodding and agreeing – all grist to the mill for him. I bet the BBC wet themselves when this chap applied to appear on the show. They never give up do they.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Why not some African Albino ground bones to look at?

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    • digg says:

      I gave up on it for good this week and I used to like it but could clearly see the creeping diversity shite coming in. Another half decent program ruined and crushed by the mad MSM diversity twats.

      As an aside, I would wager this bloke never actually applied to be on the show, he was “selected” by some rabid BBC type from their cohort of mates and parachuted into the program.

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  14. maxincony says:

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  15. kingkp says:

    As I am a self-professed swivel-eyed loon identifying as a ‘conspiracy theorist’ I would propose this is how the criminal psyops run by our supposed ‘government’ work. They have conditioned the public into accepting there was a pandemic in the first place, there will be another one coming soon and we have to do something to prevent it which involves further restrictions on everyone’s freedom of movement and civil liberties. Firstly there was no pandemic as there is no virus. It’s really that simple. People have now been conditioned to shrug their shoulders and accept the Swedish option as the lesser of two evils. I would use two words to anyone who tries to impose any restrictions on my freedom of movement and my right to say what I think. I think you know what they are.

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  16. Eddy Booth says:

    Rotterdam shooter from a 4chan chat board thread??

    motorAnon
    “>be me
    >legit clairvoyant genius, bordering on predicting the future
    >dont connect with 99.9% of “humans” (normies) because theyre clinically retarded compared to me
    >never had any friends or GFs (women instinctively hate aspie men because we dont fall for their manipulation)
    >go to med school
    >keep getting suspended for 6 months every year in there because “i dunno hes just weird”
    >teachers legit put that in the reports: “he does everything right but hes just weird, he creeps us out when he does X, Y, Z”
    >med school exam commission says they have to suspend me but cant kick me out because i literally didnt do anything wrong
    >takes me 10 years to finish med school
    >become a raging alcoholic every time they suspend me
    >in a blackout drunk stupor I torture one of my rabbits in my own garden and get convicted for it due to a coalburner videotaping it
    >allegedly kick my annoying puppy dog in garden, police raid my home SWAT style like I killed someone
    >police report this to med school, why you might ask? Because the local officer was angry I got off
    >med school exam committe says they refuse to issue my diploma now despite having all points from the curriculum
    >got fired from job because it depended on the diploma
    >destitute
    >hurrrr its your fault for being a degenerate alcoholic”

    https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/436995585

    Real or fake?
    Would fit as to why he only targeted so few, the neighbours who reported him and a medical teacher
    Anyway interesting insight into how Aspergers people may think.
    BBC probably won’t reveal anything for months 👍

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  17. Richard Pinder says:

    In the 1980’s I read a book on Astronomy. It referenced a scientific paper. I went to a reference Library and ordered the paper. Now I go on Google Scholar for scientific papers on many subjects. I searched “mRNA Vaccine Injury”. I got 17,700 papers to read. To many to read so I bought a book called “mRNA Vaccine Toxicity” by Doctors for Covid Ethics, which includes facts about Mass Murder from many of these papers. There are also 3,500 doctors and other scientists looking at the Pfizer documents, which reveal Mass Murder. These documents were mentioned by Naomi Wolf on the Mark Steyn Show. OFCOM insists that any mention of the “Mass Murder” by the establishment is “harmful” to the establishment and should remain under censorship. Mark Stein is taking OFCOM to court. OFCOM and the Trusted News Initiative insist that Big Pharma should be protected from the vaccine injured and mass murder by censorship and the government insist that Big Pharma should be protected from the vaccine injured and mass murder by legal indemnity, and the intelligence services insist that Big Pharma should be protected from the vaccine injured and mass murder by the “Safe and Effective” Propaganda. Any violation of the censorship and the propaganda will be punished with a lie.

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  18. tomo says:

    simples – no off button

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  19. JohnC says:

    Ofcom investigates Dan Wootton and Laurence Fox GB News row after 7,300 complaints
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66952284

    7,300 for that ?????.

    I was suprised Lawrence said it, but it was nowhere near that bad and the woman is vile. It seems HIGHLY unlikely to me because anyone watching would be right-wing anyway and must know what this woman is like if they are bothered enough to complain.

    I am 100% certain this is the work of the same type of activists who infest certain BBC HYS topics and vastly skew the comments in favour of the far-Left.

    No doubt some of them watch it then the word goes out to complain. The Left absolutely despise GB News.

    I keep saying it : the Left are the new Nazis. They are oppressing those they hate purely on ideological grounds. It’s fascism in it’s purest form : the suppression of all opposing opinions.

    It’s no coincidence that they are systematically going after their enemies – with the FULL support of the BBC.

    OFCOM should be investigating who is making the complaints. I saw a thread on social media were people were asking why Wootan was suspended as well – and saw comments like ‘Well, he’s just as bad so he deserves it’.

    Welcome to the brave new world. Get punished just because the Left don’t like you. Just like what the most famous Nazi of all did when he got the power. Just imagine what these people will do if they ever get it.

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  20. Wink1 says:

    John C , I read somewhere that Carol Vorderman , that new socialist convert, was directing her Twitter etc followers to write to OFCOM and complain about Fox and GB News. I absolutely despair at this toxic cancel culture that only seems to work in one political direction.

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    • tomo says:

      I absolutely despise at this toxic cancel culture that only seems to work in one political direction.

      fify

      Just got cancelled for 12 hours by Twitter for saying that American Marxist princess (and Guardian idol) Naomi Klein can FO.

      fwiw – it seems to me that Twitter UK “editorial” is run / policed by people who’ve a UK domestic political agenda.

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      • Charlie Farley says:

        tomo ,
        I have a permanent ban on Twatter for suggesting Dinghys should be Sunk before leaving France , so called free speech has disappeared .
        BBC and OFCOM cheeks of the same Arse ….come back Father Jack !

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      • tomo says:

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Bloomberg Business Week has an article about the team who runs Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page. It’s really no surprise that he doesn’t run it himself for two reasons: It’s important. He uses consultants as well as a full-time staff to make sure that it stays up to date and keeps his 85 million of followers engaged.

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      Wink1

      She of the “thank goodness I am wearing my nightie” videos.

      Yep thank goodness it was wearing its nightie.

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  21. AsISeeIt says:

    Blues and twos edition

    You join us on a morning when Mr AsI (in bad humour) says to our supposedly heroic blue light emergency services: “Shut up. Buck up, and just do the jobs, we thought we’d paid you to do!”

    UK unready as wildfires surge, warns firefighters’ union (BBC) – You know that big shiny red thing with wheels and water hoses that’s parked in your garage – rev it up, drive quick as you like to these bloody grass fires that seemingly everyone has suddenly decided to term ‘Wildfires’ as though we imagined we all lived deep in the parched Aussie Outback – turn the taps on and do your job.

    Heartbreaking tributes to stabbing victim Elianne, 15… Police officers also fought back tears at the scene in Croydon, South London… (Daily Mirror) – if the heat of life in uniform is too much for you, luv… get back to the kitchen

    Numerous tributes have been left where she died. A handwritten note from the London Fire Brigade left at the scene says: “Our heart is broken…” (BBC) – Slow day on the Croydon wildfires front, eh lads? Stay in your lane.

    Officers from the Metropolitan Police held a minute’s silence in Croydon before leaving flowers (BBC) – how about the Met knock off this performative crap, get back out on the beat, do some stop and search to take the knives off the black kids out there busy stabbing one another, and generally nick more villains – wouldn’t that tend to reassure ‘The Community’, as they like to say these days?

    Instead we get almost apologetic taking-the-knee-style obeisance to ‘The community’: Det Ch Insp Rebecca Woodsford, of the Metropolitan Police, said: Elianne’s death had left “many people feeling upset” before thanking “the people of Croydon for the support they have shown us as we have carried out our inquiries in the town centre” (BBC) – rainbow diversity medals all round for solving this open and shut (child’s play) case? Didn’t exactly require the little grey cells of Hercule Poirot, did it?

    Having established Mr AsI’s impatience with our failing, over costly: Families face biggest rise in tax burden since records began (Telegraph) public sector so-called services – and mind you, his heart of stone…

    Perhaps it was this next report which encapsulates the state of the nation in yet another bewildering moment of madness that put him in such bad humour this morning…?

    MORONIC… For 300 years this majestic sycamore graced Hadrian’s wall… until an act of utterly mindless vandalism felled it. Now as the nation reels in disgust, a 16-year-old boy is arrested – Kudos to the Daily Mirror for spotting and headlining this incident which, to my mind at least, symbolically stands emblematic, representative, metaphorically of our deliberately maleducated younger generation caught in the act of committing – while we stand apparently impotent – another mindless scene in the on-going drama of national self-harm.

    And we leave it there with – as we’d like to imagine – English and Scots cops negotiating over who has jurisdiction in this border incident as they search for CCTV evidence, hold a vigil, fight back tears and reassure the local community of the ghosts of black Roman legionairies. Not forgetting to thank them for their cooperation.

    Stop Press: A confession has just come in from a young lad named George Washington – that’s a gag for our American readers – those that still know their history.

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  22. tomo says:

    WHAT’S THAT ABOUT THEN?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      THEY WILL DECIDE WHO YOU CAN TALK TO .. ONLY THEY HAVE THE POWER.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Any of the 448,988 complaints rejected about the show he hosted where a cabal of selected UKphobes made wild claims?

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  23. Guest Who says:

    Newsnight picking and choosing guests.

    https://x.com/bbcnewsnight/status/1707522934904868924?s=61
    “You can’t pick and choose”

    Former Conservative attorney general Dominic Grieve says withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights would “completely foul-up our relations with our European partners”.

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  24. tomo says:

    Hundreds of thousands of migrants and still the Democrats keep dismantling immigration controls….

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    A forlorn homeless youngster was sat on the ground on my street for several hours a couple of days ago (nice area in a small provincial town). I contrast that to expensively dressed obvious migrants lounging around the shopping centre in the afternoons with this year’s cell phones eyeing up the local teenage girls…

    Something’s not right

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    • G says:

      Tomo,
      Given a piece of paper and a pencil, you could not write down a better plan to destroy a country than that the Communists/Democrats are currently applying.

      It cannot be halted – too far gone. Biden in 2020 was pivotal.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      JUST KEEP SHOUTING ….
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  25. G says:

    The UK finances?

    Let’s get things into perspective:
    1. Corporate Debt:
    “As of the beginning of 2021, outstanding corporate debt in the United Kingdom was largely composed of investment grade rather than speculative grade. This was the case for for both financial and non-financial ratings. Companies based in the UK accounted for the second-largest share of corporate debt globally, with 1.64 trillion U.S. dollars in rated debt (excl. tax haven debt).”

    £1.344 Trillion (in 2021 & taking Exchange Rate of: 1 to 1.22)

    https://www.statista.com/statistics/1205749/corporate-debt-rating-type-uk/

    2. Government Debt:
    £2.53 Trillion.
    https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxes/publicspending/bulletins/ukgovernmentdebtanddeficitforeurostatmaast/march2023

    3. Household Debt:
    (2.705$ and, taking Exchange Rate of: 1 to 1.22)
    £2.22 Trillion.

    December 2022 – https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/united-kingdom/household-debt

    Grand Total: £6.094 Trillion.

    Hunt: ‘Everything’s fine with the World’
    Me: We’re Fu*k*d

    Happy days………..

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Dear Darren Henry,

      13
      Parliament’s £13 billion restoration.

      150
      HS2 £150 billion, original budget £36 billion.

      37
      Track and Trace £37 billion – no tracking or tracing where this money went.

      1.1
      £1.1bn of COVID small business loans identified as fraud

      4
      £4 billion of unusable PPE bought in first year of pandemic will be burnt “to generate power”

      13 + 150 + 37 + 1.1+ 4 = £205 billion

      Nuclear reactor = £6 billion

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  26. tomo says:

    A laser cut, full colour printed foamex (plastic) board with a wooden handle is likely around £120 – that plastic banner in the background about the same (maybe extra at London prices)

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    Is Packham paying? – or a rich chum?

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  27. JohnC says:

    Finally a bit of advertising race-replacement which isn’t racist.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Samuel L Jackson: ‘A fullness comes upon me every time I land in Africa’
      https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/oct/20/samuel-l-jackson-interview-enslavement-africa-roots-race-latanya-richardson

      As their hard-hitting TV show Enslaved comes to an end, the star and his wife LaTanya Richardson talk about roots, race, revolution – and how to get rid of ‘the orange man’

      ………………………………….

      In the 20th century, the Jamaican political activist and black nationalist Marcus Garvey, members of the Rastafari movement, and other African Americans supported the concept, but few actually left the United States.

      Back-to-Africa movement

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-Africa_movement

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      • JohnC says:

        Samuel is a bit of a racist for sure.

        Remember when the presenter got his name wrong so Samuel went on for ages about what a racist he was for thinking all black people are the same.

        That’s the kind of inverted-racism BLM is full of.

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Racism in China arises from Chinese history, nationalism, sinicization, and other factors. Racism in modern China has been documented in numerous situations. Ethnic tensions have led to numerous incidents in the country such as the Xinjiang conflict, the ongoing internment and state persecution of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities, the 2010 Tibetan language protest (a protest against the sinicization of Tibet), the 2020 Inner Mongolia protests (a protest against the sinicization of Inner Mongolia), discrimination against Africans in particular and discrimination against Black people in general.

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

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        • TrickCyclist says:

          It happened in real life too?
          In the Ricky Gervais series Extras he got mistaken for Matrix actor Laurence Fishburne and he was portrayed as being pretty placid about it. But I guess that was in the script.

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  28. StewGreen says:

    Megyn Kelly backs Laurence Fox’s parody
    and Steyn agrees

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Lawrence Fox to join ISIS .. C901-FB8-C-1-B72-4-A86-A892-3-B73-DB87-F3-F9.jpg … for a laugh.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Full text … “I listened to the whole segment. You were mad she so easily wrote off the epidemic of men’s suicide, which she absolutely did. She sounded heartless.
      You were making the point of how unattractive it made her to you. You didn’t use the Queen’s English but what she said was far uglier.
      3:30 am · 28 Sep 2023
      ·995K Views”

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  29. MarkyMark says:

    22 August, Gothenburg, a hand grenade exploded in an apartment in Biskopsgården, killing an 8-year-old child Yuusuf Warsame from Birmingham, England. The attack was connected to an ongoing feud between members of Gothenburg’s Somali community,[60][61] as a person who was sentenced for the 2015 Gothenburg pub shooting is registered at the address.[62]

    wiki

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  30. MarkyMark says:

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  31. MarkyMark says:

    Islam still loves slavery …

    “The first report of slave-taking by Boko Haram was on 13 May 2013 when a video was released of Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau saying his group had taken women and children – including teenage girls – hostage in response to the arrest of its members’ wives and children.[5]”
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_21st-century_jihadism

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    • tomo says:

      Are Saudi princes still paying for Ethiopian teenage boys to be castrated and smuggled across the Red Sea to “work” in harems?

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  32. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    I wonder what sentence the lowlife that cut down the tree at Sycamore Gap (now known as Gap) will get.

    If it’s very light then most people will be outraged but if it’s longer (3 years prison) then it will be used to compare with those getting lesser sentences for violent crimes such as gbh.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Chris Packham says we can all become terrorists if we believe in the cause! BBC approved.

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    • Flotsam says:

      A very strange incident. What motivation? It’s not as if the tree was preventing development. The chainsaw used must have been very large, it would take some handling and there would be serious risk of injury or death.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Maybe it’s some sort of legend thing – and some kid wanting to famous….. curse on him …

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    • markh says:

      Sticking with the arborealogist theme, a vigorous application of the birch would seem to be appropriate. Repeat to ensure that the little sh*t can’t walk or sit down for a week.

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      • BRISSLES says:

        Get Garden Rescue on the case. Mature trees can be bought, so perhaps something similar can be planted on the spot. It’s too beautiful a location to let it lay barren.

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        • Emmanuel Goldstein says:

          Apparently the Sycamore tree can grow back but it will obviously take decades.

          I expect they will put a wind turbine up in its place for now.
          Maybe change the name to Stop-Gap.

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    • TrickCyclist says:

      It’s a bit like with murderers. They shouldn’t get life sentences (25 years), they should just have to stay in prison for as long as their victims remain dead.
      Same with this kid. Stick him in jail until the tree has grown back to what it was.

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  33. MarkyMark says:

    Good article by Allison Pearson in the Telegraph today defending GB News, The title and sub-title: ” The establishment can’t stand that GB News exists

    Mistakes made by other new channels and presenters are swiftly brushed under the carpet because they are defended by their herd ”

    Here’s a snippet:

    “GB News came into existence; to represent the views of the silenced and disdained majority who regard reporting on the mainstream broadcast media as so remote from their own life experience it may as well be a branch of science fiction. ”

    Enjoy!

    order-order.com

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  34. MarkyMark says:

    2023 …. Lawerance Fox …. say you don’t want to sleep with a women. Cancelled. Have a guest on who says he does not want to sleep with a woman . Cancelled.

    1765 …. In a republic worthy of name, freedom to publish one’s thoughts is a citizen’s natural right.They may use a pen or their voice, and should not be prevented from writing any more than speaking …That is the law in England, a monarchical country, where people are freer than elsewhere because they are more enlightened. – Voltaire, Republican Ideas, 1765

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  35. taffman says:

    “UK on track for record tax levels, IFS think tank says
    “https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66945729

    Add on to that , mass illegal invasion, Net zero Carbon and HS2. Any Tory voters on this site ?
    There are alternatives …………….
    https://www.reformparty.uk
    https://www.ukip.org/party-policies

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Inflation … The same paycheck covers less goods, services, and bills. It is sometimes referred to as a “hidden tax,” as it leaves taxpayers less well-off due to higher costs and “bracket creep,” while increasing the government’s spending power.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Sadly Taffman – in real life there’s no alternatives ….. I’ll vote reform if it stops them owing their deposits but other wise support my ‘no government party ‘ there’ll be no road so no need to change the speed limit . Everything will be delivered by drone ….stay home – die young ….

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  36. Fedup2 says:

    After Steyn was fired I gave up on GBnews but I wouid not want it ‘gone ‘ even though it’s far to Left Wing for me – and no broadcaster with my views would last a day .

    Anyway what I think is happening is a gradual erosion of GBnews by the Far Left – ie anyone not ‘approved ‘ . So every time a presenter makes an off the cuff remark or exhibits a non approved view the Far Left BBC choir will be on the red phone to their pals at BBCOFCOM and adding to the list of sins .

    I’m not sure what the owners of GBnews are a doing about their aim of buying the telegraph but surely that must factor in too .

    More generally with so called wimmin Tory MPs now yapping like banshees for a cancellation here and there the future of GBNews must be limited – whatever colour version of Labour runs the show next year ….

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Loose Women” show to only have men on it?

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    • micknotmike says:

      Morning Fed,

      I’m with you there, GBnews has become LBC with pictures. I used to listen to LBC all the time, even views I disagreed with, as it’s no use just picking out presenters that you approve of. As soon as Katie Hopkins was oofed out I gave up; I was amazed that Farage lasted as long as he did.
      I remember when Farage was axed( (Or left), O’Brien said “We’ve got our station back.”. That’s the way mate, broaden your outlook by only listening to people like yourself.

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      • BRISSLES says:

        And clearly there is never any news happening in Kent (apart from Dover), and the South East, or the south coast, or the far south west, or Essex, and East Anglia, according to GBN. Yet if a man has a broken toe in Halifax then Anna Riley s l o w l y reports it, or a public response is needed to interest rates rising then Sophie Reaper is in Warrington to s l o w l y report.

        Why is the North so important to GBN ?

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  37. Althepalerp says:

    Just like the Roman Empire, western civilization is slowly coming to an end.

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  38. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    How many of the 7,300 complaints about Fox were from people who actually watched the piece on GBN?

    I’d be surprised if 50 of them had watched it.
    It’s a pile on by the usual lefty mobs. Something they are very good at.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Islam is great!
      Have you read the Koran?
      No! Islam is great!

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    • Scroblene says:

      I think JohnC here recognises them as the ‘troll farm’, EG!

      I guess it’s mainly studes with nothing much to do except ‘protest’, and WFH bods ditto.

      I hardly ever send text messages, as my fingers are like bunches of bananas, but some kid with time on his hands and an iPhone borrowed from his mum can easily chuck out several complaints every minute!

      It all works the other way with me, as directly I see Ofcom getting all ‘victimey’ and ‘offensivey’, then I know the Goblins of Renta-Git are at it again, so believe the opposite!

      Of course, I do that all the time with Beebocratic Dross as well…

      (Do you like those two new words above, I just made them up)!

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  39. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – GB News is bad, boo hiss! Double boo and double hiss!!

    Amol Rajan took so long interviewing the Aussie boss of GB News that the TOADY team forgot about the ‘look at the newspapers’ at 7.40/7.45 a.m. and Amol got in a muddle (for which he later apologised – but not the missing newspaper review) over whether Nigel Farage had been an MP. But that wasn’t the object of the exercise: it was to support ‘the Left’s’ claim the GB News is a dreadful example of ‘the patriarchy’ and is misogynistic.

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    • vlad says:

      The repulsive lefty Rajan is badgering the GB News boss to get Fox and Wootton fired, and positively salivating at the prospect.

      But I wonder if an unintended consequence of all the furore and confected outrage will be to give GB News a lot of free publicity?

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      • Scroblene says:

        No such thing as ‘bad publicity’ is there!

        I wonder if battery acid sales went up after Jo Brand blurted out her usual crap!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      BBC interviews BBC in BBC studio.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000mh72
      This programme is not currently available on BBC iPlayer
      Tony Hall Interview
      BBC media editor Amol Rajan interviews outgoing BBC director general Tony Hall, looking back at his seven years in the role.

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  40. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/calvinrobinson/status/1707663197853880449?s=61

    Very long. Very interesting. Very good.

    I won’t copy paste to give Twitter users a chance to provide the eyeballs needed, and likes, first.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Never perfect, the MSM now is staffed by knee jerk market rate ratings pinheads who know only how or want to deal in black or white, absolutes, with editorial rigging to tune ‘reports’ to fit predetermined outcomes, removing nuance or shades, or context.

      That is bad enough, but they do it, and are allowed to do it in massively hypocritical, partial, dual track ways, based solely on ideological fealty.

      I did not think much of Jo Brand’s attempt at ‘humour’, but felt it actually served to position her effectively. I don’t watch her, or the BBC.

      I thought Fox’s comment was foolish in today’s climate, served his station poorly but having only subsequently discovered the full story can see how it arose. I don’t watch GB either, as I have no TVL.

      That OFCOM is a state quango pawn run by public and interested party paid ex-employees with an as yet unclear % of BBC droids makes it unfit from the off.

      That the whole state system is now stuffed with activist ideologues who can inspire mobs to justify them rigging supposedly impartial decision making on vague rules created specifically to allow this, is a recipe for anarchy.

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  41. Guest Who says:

    Bunter has made points.

    https://x.com/adamboultonTABB/status/1707658638062473446?s=20
    A few points. 1/ I apologized to
    @bethrigby
    and she and Sky accepted it and my explanation. 2/ This did NOT happen on air 3/ but during a short commercial break when I was also acting as floor manager 4/ The issue was whether Beth & @faisalislam could both appear on set. They both did.

    #CCBGB Most singular in nature.

    Next up… Sky screens ‘Burley on the Thuggee Trail’ sporting a lovely scarf.

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  42. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Calvin Robinson has been suspended from GB News.
    I suspect it’s because of his support for Dan Wooton.
    .

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Nazigate: Canada’s top general won’t apologize for applauding Ukrainian Waffen-SS vet
      WYATT REED·SEPTEMBER 28, 2023”

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  43. MarkyMark says:

    “I’m glad to see, actually, that Liz Truss has been quietly reflecting. Not least on who’s to blame… HMT of course. OBR, B of E, IMF… HMV, DFS, AC/DC. I can’t think of an acronym in British public life that hasn’t yet been blamed… except perhaps the IEA.”
    order-order.com

    …………………

    Rishi Sunak has suggested that the English Channel crossings problem is too “complex” to allow him to fulfil his promise to stop the small boats by the next general election.
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-small-boats-braverman-b2396623.html

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