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  1. Fedup2 says:
    October 31, 2023 at 7:46 am

    Toady
    Chris Bryant – the far left queer soon to be red labour minister rises from the silence – he wants Israel to surrender ( aka cease fire ) …. He chats with our Justin .

    There is a policy on the Left / BBC of treating Islamic Hamas as an equivalent to Israel .

    Meanwhile although Bryant calls for a cease fire he knows and admits Islamic Hamas won’t stop . The twerp ….

    Sometimes when you listen to these people you wonder why they can’t just stick to constituency issues rather than expanding their egos on these issues ….

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    • Sluff says:
      October 31, 2023 at 8:12 am

      It’s a form of porn. Every day the BBC run the exact same story. People in Gaza are fearful, hungry, injured, in hospital, etc etc etc. feargal Keane was at it this morning in the usual gloomy subdued sorrowful tone of voice. There is absolutely no actual news about this and nothing new to say.. It’s just relentless propaganda.

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    • StewGreen says:
      October 31, 2023 at 11:23 pm

      Chris Bryant who used parliamentary privilege to falsely say Farage was connected to Russian dirty money
      And eventually offered an apology so weak it didn’t mention Farage by name.

      WEF lacky ?

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  2. Guest Who says:
    October 31, 2023 at 7:46 am

    Ideological state media employee on civil service employee.

    https://x.com/bbcnickrobinson/status/1719096219232882880?s=61
    Extraordinary. Truly extraordinary. The Cabinet Secretary on his then boss @BorisJohnson during the pandemic : “He cannot lead & we cannot support him…Government isn’t actually that hard but this guy is really making it impossible.”

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    • Guest Who says:
      October 31, 2023 at 7:51 am

      https://x.com/archrose90/status/1719255455107555706?s=61
      According to the “sensible” & “clever” people:
      Marching through the streets saying genocide chants, shouting “Jihad” & “Intifadas” & flaunted murderous paragliding images = too complicated to condemn.
      Suella condemning the above = inflammatory & dangerous rhetoric
      Gaslighting

      BBC gets in, or on, who the bbc needs to have on screen.

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  3. MarkyMark says:
    October 31, 2023 at 7:49 am

    Chinese companies remove ‘Israel’ from digital maps as Xi backs Palestine
    Beijing, ChinaEdited By: Vikrant SinghUpdated: Oct 31, 2023, 10:12 AM IST
    https://www.wionews.com/world/chinese-companies-remove-israel-from-digital-maps-as-xi-backs-palestine-653309

    “In the past, Germany persecuted you. Now, you persecute Palestinians. In this world, do not force others to the corner because you would only be digging your own grave,” wrote the commentator.

    “Jews always talk about how badly they were treated during World War II and throughout history. But you can’t ask why. Otherwise, you are called a racist or that you envy their money,” said another commentator in a Weibo post with over 2,000 likes.

    Chinese media has also been reprimanding the US for standing “on the wrong side of history on Gaza”. Chinese President Xi Jinping himself has thrown his weight behind Palestine.
    ……………….

    As the head of Stalin’s secret police, Nikolai Yezhov (right) oversaw the executions of more than half a million Soviet citizens during the “great purge.”

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  4. vlad says:
    October 31, 2023 at 7:51 am

    Did the BBC report this? If they did, I must have blinked and missed it.

    Dozens of high-profile names from across the political spectrum and across the world, signed something called the Westminster Declaration calling for an end to the censorship of free speech, and sent it to Sleepy Joe, Criminal Joe, Corrupt Joe.

    It should be big news to the unbiased, freedom-loving BBC, but I didn’t hear a murmur about it from them.

    Here are the opening paragraphs:

    “We write as journalists, artists, authors, activists, technologists, and academics to warn of increasing international censorship that threatens to erode centuries-old democratic norms.

    Coming from the left, right, and centre, we are united by our commitment to universal human rights and freedom of speech, and we are all deeply concerned about attempts to label protected speech as ‘misinformation,’ ‘disinformation,’ and other ill-defined terms.

    This abuse of these terms has resulted in the censorship of ordinary people, journalists, and dissidents in countries all over the world.

    Such interference with the right to free speech suppresses valid discussion about matters of urgent public interest, and undermines the foundational principles of representative democracy.

    Across the globe, government actors, social media companies, universities, and NGOs are increasingly working to monitor citizens and rob them of their voices. These large-scale coordinated efforts are sometimes referred to as the ‘Censorship-Industrial Complex.’”

    (…)

    Link to the full text below, and one journalist’s forceful denunciation of the censorship below that.

    https://westminsterdeclaration.org

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  5. tomo says:
    October 31, 2023 at 8:02 am

    Meanwhile – in Birmingham (purportedly)

    – a few questions I have……

    just playing the music would’ve emptied the place

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    • MarkyMark says:
      October 31, 2023 at 8:09 am

      Eco Terrorism – health an safety – halal rats?
      ** bbc chris packham agrees with this and will blow up a pipeline and not get arrested.

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  6. tomo says:
    October 31, 2023 at 8:17 am

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    • vlad says:
      October 31, 2023 at 8:21 am

      Not at all surprising if you understand the rotten UN and the influence of islamic and Arab states within it.

      I hope Gutless Guterres washed his hand after the photo op.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      October 31, 2023 at 8:33 am

      The blindfold goes over our eyes … “Islam is peaceful. Just ask Rafiqi
      Islam, a loving husband, who told his wife that he had a present for
      her, blindfolded her to make it a surprise and then cut off her
      fingers. Then the rest of the Islam family mopped up the blood, while
      Mr. Islam threw her fingers into the trash, and after a few hours took
      her to the hospital where they warned her to tell the doctors that she
      had an accident.”
      …
      “Either we go on playing the game of blindfold and machete, or we take
      off the blindfold, take away the machete and show Mr. Islam the door.”

      Breaking up with Mr. Islam by Daniel Greenfield {sultanknish jun2016}

      http://sultanknish.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/breaking-up-with-mr-islam.html

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  7. tomo says:
    October 31, 2023 at 8:22 am

    I repeat

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  8. Fedup2 says:
    October 31, 2023 at 8:27 am

    Toady

    I wasn’t going to write about it (toady) again but bloody hell – bloody hell – meesh interviewed a blue labour ex health minister who was in office during early Chinese virus ….

    ….meesh didn’t have to get the whip or bondage gear out – all ready for the usual BBC Halloween orgy – nicks’ favourite-

    – instead this blue labour bloke just poured poo on nut nut and number 10 … it was laugh out loud bad – and seldom do you hear anything like the frank stuff this bloke poured out ….

    …. A imagined nut nut at the breakfast table using all those public school things about this bloke being a snitch – but government response to covid ? Either nothing or panic …

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  9. AsISeeIt says:
    October 31, 2023 at 8:43 am

    Despair at ridiculous news edition

    In which we ask – that crisis officially ended? We can confidently reassure readers there’s always another one in the pipeline.

    Cards on the table… long-time BBC broadcast current affairs refusenik, eventually forced to go unlicenced (cue applause hereabouts) Mr AsI had to smile recently when listening to The Weekly Sceptic podcast hosted by Nick Dixon and Toby Young.

    While reviewing the lastest news from the – restarting after a break (no particular urgency or sense of emergency apparent there then) – official UK Covid-19 Inquiry (tag line: ‘Every Story Matters’) our Toby, being the (relatively mild and considered) Lockdown Sceptic that he is, and prone to a somewhat endearing occasional verbal stutter (his brian* sometimes writing a cheque his tongue takes extra time to honour, as they used to say), fell victim to a couple of innocent slips of the tongue before correcting himself on the podcast, to wit twice referring mistakenly to “The Lockdown Inquiry” as opposed to the official title “Covid-19 Inquiry”

    Which amused Mr AsI because it has been transparently clear a priori (as the lawyers put it) that the official Inquiry’s conclusions – albethey to be delivered several years in the distant future – will of course as a natural matter of course come down very much in line with the Sir Keir Starmer formulation for post hoc 2020 Lockdown planning ie “sooner, harder, longer”

    Can you put money on these things? Will bookies take a bet on inquiry outcomes?

    This official Inquiry is no Lockdown Inquiry (as we discern our Toby’s subconscious would have had it – care of his tongue slipping in a distinctly Freudian manner) Oh no, the costs – economic and psychological, moreover the efficacy of attempts at the internal quarrantine of Lockdown versus a virus, will not be up for debate. Heaven forbid the precise origins, validity of this virus “Pandemic” status, or indeed the actual seriousness of threat and true statistical relative lethality of the Covid. No. No. No.

    While our Toby sifts and savours a few sceptical crumbs of cope comfort from the veritable feast of covid alarmism on display at the Inquiry…

    Attitudes were clearly signposted from the start: Watch out, you might catch Covid… at the Covid Inquiry! Officials fear people attending its hearings could contract coronavirus, guidelines suggest… Document published last night urges ‘staff and visitors’ to take lateral flow test… People also told they can wear masks if they feel ‘more comfortable’ doing so (Daily Mail, June 2023)

    Instead (mixing metaphors in a sudden rushed through untested concoction) we have this Inquiry as yet another platform or playground for familiar axes to be ground…

    NHS ‘structural racism’ saw ethnic minority staff not heard on PPE, inquiry told (Independendent)

    There’s a grain of true there. Those masks do make it difficult to hear what the wearer is saying. And our many NHS medics with ethnic minority accents are quite often hard for English-speaking patients to understand.

    UK Covid pandemic inquiry to open as victims’ relatives condemn ‘farce’… if bereaved families are not able to testify. (France 24, with more than a hint of schadenfreude – as the Germans say)

    Opinion: Yes, lockdown was bad for mental health, but not to do it would have been worse… greater freedom would have prevented a lot of psychological harm. However, this doesn’t necessarily mean lockdown was a bad idea, or that the sceptics are right. In fact, less-restrictive lockdown measures may have led to just as many mental health problems, and quite possibly more. (Dr Lucy Foulkes, UCL Psychology & Language Sciences. This article was originally published in The Guardian on 5 July 2021)

    There’s your Inquiry conclusions predicted beforehand in a nutshell.

    And so to today’s media coverage…

    Our flagship coronaphobic title the youth-orientated left-leaning ‘i’ newspaper, despite wars and rumours of war, splashes with: Johnson made it ‘impossible’ for UK to tackle Covid, top adviser says

    That was your poundshop, playground, Guardian... the real genuine article is somewhat more measured but still yet injects its poison in a similar vein with a subsidiary headline: Pressure on Johnson over Covid measures

    Ah, the Guardian, guaranteed to never rest the agenda nor let the narrative on a story wane: Exclusive Anger at appeal for sacked PCs… Black police ‘pressured’ to donate to officers dismissed over stop and search of athletes

    The formerly serious paper of record Times goes with a secondary frontpage story: Vallance’s despair at ‘ridiculous’ Johnson – “Ooh Err Missus!”, as the late great innuendo orientated Frankie Howerd, might have exclaimed. And Vallance a chief scientific advisor – surely he must have seen some odd things in his time?

    And the modern Times also likes to cater for the ladies – Times2: No sex please we’re under 30… It’s a lust drought – but we digress: The long Covid crisis What really works – it ain’t Britain, apparently: Yes, five million are on out-of-work benefits. Here’s the proof… Every month, an official unemployment figure is put out on a press release – and news organisations are primed to cover it. It’s normally about 1.2 million looking for work: the problem, of course, is so few Brits are actually doing so… The true benefits figure is not to be found on a press release, but buried in a password-protected DWP database with a six-month time lag… 5.4 million on out-of-work benefits. As defined by DWP (Fraser Nelson, The Spectator)

    The FT provides one of our treasured little glitch in the matrix moment juxtapositions with the following two reports: Johnson ‘changed direction every day’ as crisis mounted, Covid inquiry learns – it was definitely a gilt-edged official bona fide CRISIS doncha know… beside: Whitehall’s bill for temps and advisors surges 115%… Government spending on temporary workers and consultants soared during the pandemic and has continued to rise since the crisis ended – Your crisis ended? Not to worry. There’ll be another one along soon enough.

    The Telegraph has maintained a lonely mildly Lockdown sceptical editorial line but still enjoys the Covid Inquiry raking over the dead embers of the now demised Johnson regime: No10 ‘tried to strong-arm’ Vallance and Whitty over Cummings saga

    Our mate Matt of the Telegraph dramatically and with a mind to Halloween season conjures the Scottish Play, drawing just the two witches (there’s cutbacks everywhere these days) beside their cauldron: “After summoning the evil spirits we must delete our WhatsApp messages”

    Seems our Nicola and her acolytes could see more clearly into the future than Boris.

    * typo but I left it in as it made me smile.

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  10. Thoughtful says:
    October 31, 2023 at 8:48 am

    Here is Douglas MacGregor exposing the latest fake news coming out of Western media concerning the Dagestan airport incident:

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    • Fedup2 says:
      October 31, 2023 at 9:29 am

      Thoughtful
      Thanks for the video – listening to col mcgregor I always feel even more pessimistic afterward – but an ‘objective ‘ analysis of the current threat to all of us is a horror show …

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  11. Guest Who says:
    October 31, 2023 at 8:51 am

    In which the State Humza Broadcaster gives up pretending.

    https://x.com/bbcscotlandnews/status/1719269997371891957?s=61
    Islamophobia awareness ‘should be taught in every school’

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    • MarkyMark says:
      October 31, 2023 at 9:15 am

      1400+ raped kids say Islam is great and their illegitimate kids will be brought up knowing how islam is great.

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  12. tomo says:
    October 31, 2023 at 8:52 am

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  13. Guest Who says:
    October 31, 2023 at 8:58 am

    At least it has science sorted.

    https://x.com/bbcnews/status/1719248656589639889?s=61
    Why did Norfolk and Suffolk flood after such a dry year?

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    • MarkyMark says:
      October 31, 2023 at 9:16 am

      2016 … Why concrete + rain = flash floods
      Britain’s front gardens are being paved for parking while back gardens become patios. But in Canada and the US, the Depave movement is tearing up hard surfaces

      2
      In towns and cities, flash floods are a growing problem. The concrete jungle can’t soak up rainwater, so in heavy downpours it has nowhere to go except into drains, overloading them and setting off flash floods.

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    • atlas_shrugged says:
      October 31, 2023 at 9:26 am

      bBC crackheads seem incapable of understanding that if you build on a flood-plain this will lead to more flash-flooding – not least in the flood plain.

      I well remember a conversation with a Cranebridge council girlie who was going to be ‘greening’ Cranebridge. Looking at the plans whch seemed to be about building massive numbers of new houses I said the council was allowing building in flood plains. The girlie absolutely denied this was the case. When I mentioned places like Trumpington WATER meadows, or WATERbeach she got very angry with me.

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  14. Guest Who says:
    October 31, 2023 at 9:03 am

    https://x.com/bbcnewsnight/status/1719132200749170715?s=61
    “Welcome to the topsy turvy world of Keir Starmer’s Labour party.”
    James Schneider, former Jeremy Corbyn director of communications, reacts to Andy McDonald’s suspension as a Labour MP after using the phrase “between the river and the sea” at a pro-Palestinian rally.
    #newsnight

    This guy across the media, especially BBC, all the time.

    Seems Champion Ash, Femi or Mad Al not deranged enough to claw back the viewers.

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  15. Scroblene says:
    October 31, 2023 at 9:09 am

    By coincidence, while the awful BBC waffles and yaps about the storm about to kill everyone without a hat, Scrobs remembers that exactly ywenty-three years ago to the day, he wrote off his car in the swollen River Beult on the way home from Canterbury, in the dark!

    As I approached the river, which is normally not much more than a big stream, near the ‘Smarden Bell’ pub, I saw the water over the road, and at the same time, I saw the rear lights of a car going away, so I assumed that they’d got through…

    But I didn’t, and the car stalled right where the bridge was just visible, and it began to move sideways with the pressure of the flow. The water came up to the seats, and I chucked everything I could on the back shelf, and managed to get out!

    Got a bit wet doing that, but waded to safety, and also managed to flag down a good Samaritan in a 4 x 4 who towed me out, but my car was well-dead by then!

    Looking at Google Maps, there must have been acres of ground under water at the time, so these recent rains aren’t a patch on what it was like back then!

    https://www.google.com/maps/@51.1513634,0.6668651,3a,75y,180h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sFbsk10_ABGrPFw08NWFm2Q!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DFbsk10_ABGrPFw08NWFm2Q%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D153.5501%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?authuser=0&entry=ttu

    Now, isn’t that a real story, and much better than the weedy-wokey twaddle peddled by the exitable Beeboids!

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  16. tomo says:
    October 31, 2023 at 9:22 am

    An interesting property scam

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  17. MarkyMark says:
    October 31, 2023 at 9:22 am

    WE ARE ALL STRUGGLING COMRADES …

    His (BORIS JOHNSON) salary was not disclosed but he is likely to get a six-figure sum, with Rees-Mogg paid £350,000 a year and the Tory deputy chair, Lee Anderson, getting £100,000 a year from the channel. GB News is jointly owned by the hedge fund manager Sir Paul Marshall and Legatum, a Dubaibased investment firm co-founded by the GB News chair, Alan McCormick.

    Read more at:https://www.magzter.com/stories/newspaper/The-Guardian/JOHNSON-IN-LINE-FOR-SIXFIGURE-SALARY-AS-EXPM-JOINS-GB-NEWS

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  18. tomo says:
    October 31, 2023 at 9:28 am

    Why do they keep coming?

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  19. JohnC says:
    October 31, 2023 at 9:37 am

    Andy McDonald: Labour suspends MP after speech at pro-Palestinian rally
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67268154

    Absolutely typical BBC for this one.

    This is how they project their bias : they present arguments from both sides, but the ones the BBC agree with (ie that he should not be suspended and did nothing wrong) FAR outweight those saying he is supporting the terrorists.

    I used notepad to cut out all the parts implying he was wrong to use the slogan at a Palestinian rally and also those parts defending and supporting him doing it.

    Words AGAINST him using the Plaestinian chant : 80
    Words DEFENDING/SUPPORTING him using the chant: 264

    That is the BBC bias right there. No lies and both sides represented. But one side is represented much more than the other. And it just happens to be the same side we accuse them of supporting since it started.

    That’s enough proof for me. And it should be for OFCOM.

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  21. tomo says:
    October 31, 2023 at 10:00 am

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  22. tomo says:
    October 31, 2023 at 10:07 am

    Looks a cheerful sort

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    • MarkyMark says:
      October 31, 2023 at 10:10 am

      72 trans 80 year old virgins.

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    • tomo says:
      October 31, 2023 at 10:57 am

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    • TrickCyclist says:
      October 31, 2023 at 11:18 am

      Somebody tell me how that works, how do the 72 virgins for every Muslim martyr get to Paradise? Do I not want to know the answer?

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      • Scroblene says:
        October 31, 2023 at 6:09 pm

        As most of them are over here, in 4* hotels, it’d be around a country’s-worth I suspect!

        Has Rotherham been warned yet?

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    • MarkyMark says:
      October 31, 2023 at 10:17 am

      “According to the Epoch Times, a growing number of studies indicate that individuals may be at a heightened risk of stroke when they receive both COVID-19 and influenza vaccines simultaneously. ….One study, for example, found co-administered vaccines induced lower levels of antibodies, which are believed to protect against illnesses.”

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  25. Emmanuel Goldstein says:
    October 31, 2023 at 10:28 am

    I have never watched any of these I’m a celebrity types of shows and at first thought Nigel should avoid going on one.
    However.
    Nigel is a very clever and persuasive man. I think he will click with a huge number of ‘young’uns’ and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he became a sort of cult hero gaining a massive new following.
    He will tell those watching lots of truths that have been kept away from them by the woke teachers and the likes of the bbbc.
    Most of them will have been told Nigel is a nasty racist but when they hear him for themselves I bet many will see the light.
    It could be good for Nigel financially, politically and in general, good for GB.
    It could be bad for all the woke, virtue signalling, dumb, brainwashed left if Nigel gets some truths out in the open.
    He’s a very intelligent man and I’m sure he will make a success of this if he does it so I’m backing him if he decides to do this.

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  26. andyjsnape says:
    October 31, 2023 at 10:49 am

    bbc reports on a “welsh” doctor

    Israel Gaza: Trapped Welsh doctor tells of ‘terror’ for family
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67271759

    bbc are you being honest here, a Welsh doctor in Gaza? Sounds more like a foreigner to me

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    • Lucy Pevensey says:
      October 31, 2023 at 10:58 am

      We can tell by the common Welsh name – Mohammed

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    • taffman says:
      October 31, 2023 at 11:15 am

      We have a shortage of Doctors in Wales thanks to the Welsh Government .

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    • Lunchtime Loather says:
      October 31, 2023 at 12:02 pm

      Perhaps that explains why, at 08:30 this morning, I was told “All appointments are taken today, call back tomorrow”. I love living in Wales, but….

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      • moggiemoo says:
        October 31, 2023 at 2:58 pm

        My wife had the same response at 8:01am the other week, but in England. It’s bloody ridiculous.

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        • Lucy Pevensey says:
          October 31, 2023 at 3:19 pm

          My GP surgery keeps sending me texts about free vaccines.
          I ignore them as I did last year.
          They were open on a Saturday about a fortnight ago offering Covid & Flu jabs on the same day.

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  27. Flotsam says:
    October 31, 2023 at 11:03 am

    I’ve watched a little bit of the current running Covid enquiry. It seems to me to be am exercise in attacking the Tory Government generally and Boris Johnson individually. The questions put to the mostly Boris hating witnesses are leading and biased. What was surely needed was an enquiry unto the Covid epidemic rather than personal score setting by left wing Civil Servants and Politically aligned witnesses.

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    • tomo says:
      October 31, 2023 at 11:11 am

      I tried … but honestly – it’s a f-ing pisspoor circus and as you say – political to the point of real distraction with zero intent to identify any fails in the public sector.

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  28. taffman says:
    October 31, 2023 at 11:10 am

    Anything happing in Paris ?
    Shooting etc …………

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  29. Lucy Pevensey says:
    October 31, 2023 at 11:11 am

    Let’s hope the man is correct

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  30. andyjsnape says:
    October 31, 2023 at 11:11 am

    GB news currently reporting:-

    French police shoot woman ‘wearing Islamic veil who threatened to blow herself up’ at busy Paris train station
    https://www.gbnews.com/news/world/france-news-paris-police-shoot-woman-israel-palestine-terror?fbclid=IwAR1CTdbJRrpjvS5nnfG9a8B8ZTpTbGTpu5tavCyGEw4hxBw6GD5Zm2kRnFA

    Wonder if the likes of the bbc will report this, and how they report it.
    Eventually the bbc will realise they have to report it when everyone else is reporting it, and they can’t keep quiet about it

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  31. tomo says:
    October 31, 2023 at 11:14 am

    Tell me that XR is an offshoot of the SWP without saying that dreckly

    BLM Croydon branch eh?

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    • Guest Who says:
      October 31, 2023 at 11:21 am

      The subway logo is timing perfection.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      October 31, 2023 at 11:56 am

      Unity by being different – so no unity just confusion?

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      • Scroblene says:
        October 31, 2023 at 6:20 pm

        With the unity of both cheeks of my bum, I can easily ‘fart in their general direction’…

        God, I could have been a poet laureate, but I never had the Latin…

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    • BigBrotherCorporation says:
      October 31, 2023 at 9:04 pm

      “War is peace.
      Freedom is slavery.
      Ignorance is strength.”
      … Diversity is unity?

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  32. markh says:
    October 31, 2023 at 11:23 am

    This is going to be good- Saudi Arabia will be staging the 2034 football World Cup. The BBC won’t know which way to turn- their favourite religion Islam beating hell out of their favourite minority group, gays and trans. I can hear the wet liberals starting to squeal now. Sheikh somebody or other has just said ‘if sportswashing increases my GDP by 1%, bring it on!’ Let the fun begin.

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  33. tomo says:
    October 31, 2023 at 11:25 am

    I’m wonder at the political stripe of the 97 delinquent local councils and why they’ve not been carpeted ….

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  34. TrickCyclist says:
    October 31, 2023 at 11:28 am

    Matthew Perry’s death was still on the BBC telly news yesterday and having just looked on my phone it’s still near the top of their website today.
    I’m sorry for the bloke, he clearly had his problems, but he was one-sixth of the cast of a sitcom that ended 19 years ago. Surely his passing doesn’t merit this amount of news coverage?
    What would we get if someone like Madonna were to die prematurely? A month of mourning?

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    • BigBrotherCorporation says:
      October 31, 2023 at 3:59 pm

      I’m wondering if the prominence given his demise is, in part, due to the fact he was a member of the cast in a sitcom appealing to girls in the teen to twenty something bracket, 20-30 years ago – who would now be women in their early 30s to early 50s, a demographic heavily present in the MSM, and whom would appear to be one of the main groups, if not THE main group of modern MSM consumers?

      It also explains a certain fascination with, for example: age related fertility, the menopause, and the ‘gender pay gap’.

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      • Scroblene says:
        October 31, 2023 at 6:24 pm

        Not many couloured faces in tha cast – maybe they forgot!

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        • BigBrotherCorporation says:
          October 31, 2023 at 9:07 pm

          https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190920-friends-the-show-that-changed-our-idea-of-family

          “It didn’t always get it right – and much has been written about its treatment of certain issues, particularly Chandler’s transgender father. Recently, Kauffman has said the show’s transphobic jokes and portrayal of Helena – played by Kathleen Turner – is the one aspect she’d most like to go back and change.

          Friends managed to be simultaneously progressive and regressive. The show famously lacked diversity – yet featured several interracial relationships matter-of-factly. Too often homosexuality was played for laughs,…”

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  35. Dickie says:
    October 31, 2023 at 11:55 am

    Shouldn’t have had the jab then or should have learnt to swim in a hot tub.

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    • BigBrotherCorporation says:
      October 31, 2023 at 4:00 pm

      Don’t certain cocktails of drugs and/or booze result in a lot of ‘drownings’ in hot baths? I’m sure there have been quite a few ‘celebrities’ go that way in recent decades.

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      • JohnC says:
        October 31, 2023 at 4:12 pm

        Given his history, it is extremely likely it is either a consequence of what he did to himself previously (heart attack/seizure maybe) or more likely something which made him unconscious and he slipped into the water.

        Friends is one of this sitcoms you are supposed to like in their circles. It’s all about people exploring relationships and feelings. Add in the empathy factor that he was another poor, weak, troubled individual and they paint him as one of life’s victims. Hence this totally disproportionate, virtue-signalling response from the shallow, narcissistic modern BBC staff and other luvvies who wet their panties when someone they idolise as famous is in the news.

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      • TrickCyclist says:
        October 31, 2023 at 4:29 pm

        BigBrotherCorporation,
        Celebrity swimming pool deaths would fill a book, I’m surprised it hasn’t been written already (perhaps it has).
        Especially if you don’t limit it to the celebrities themselves but also their relatives and party guests. Just ask Michael Barrymore.

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        • BigBrotherCorporation says:
          October 31, 2023 at 4:54 pm

          Ah yes, the mysterious coke party swimming pool, rent boy death, which will remain forever mysterious and unsolved, but most definitely did not involve anyone at all famous.

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          • JohnC says:
            October 31, 2023 at 5:18 pm

            It’s a fact that most celebrity deaths I see in the news who are not old were brought on by themselves. Usually with drugs.

            Acting attracts shallow people who crave the attention of others. It’s all part of the package which makes them unable to cope with the trials of real life – hence why so many of them use drugs and/or have mental breakdowns.

            The BBC now attracts staff of a sub-level of that same category who are people who would love to be famous but realise they will never be because they don’t have the X factor. Working at the BBC lets them get close to famous people.

            I can’t even begin to imagine how sickening the fawning and creeping around the more famous BBC news staff is like. I saw a clip of Emily Matiss ‘at work’ and she strutted around like she was the Queen.

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  37. tomo says:
    October 31, 2023 at 12:14 pm

    elsewhere Orange Juice spikes

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  39. Terminal Moraine says:
    October 31, 2023 at 12:44 pm

    Thanks to whoever posted about the article “How social media fuelled antisemitic violence in Dagestan, Russia” yesterday.

    “The protest clearly surprised the security forces, so how did the rioters manage to organise and co-ordinate themselves so effectively?”

    They’re not interested in why a rioting mob of violent Muslims is hunting down Jews beyond social media’s role in the matter. Ok on one level it’s just Team Verify doing the only thing they’re capable of doing — browsing the internet in place of any serious analysis that would reveal uncomfortable truths. But it’s a signal of being too scared and stupid to deal with root problems.

    As the saying goes, if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail. The hammer of choice these days being censorship and monitoring of both public and private spaces… a managerial layer of sixth-form head girls sanitising the air wherever they go. Streets cleansed of protests and the internet rid of unpleasant thoughts. Braverman wants to clamp down on ‘hate marches’, as if this will solve much of anything. A multicultural vicar’s tea party on the surface, with a roiling mass of anger and bitterness just underneath.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67269477

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    • MarkyMark says:
      October 31, 2023 at 1:04 pm


      Amazon’s new ad: A response to anti-Muslim rhetoric

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      • JohnC says:
        October 31, 2023 at 2:38 pm

        Only in the utterly fake world of advertising …

        A career choice for those with no conscience whatsoever. You have to be totally at ease with lies.

        I was reading that absolutely none of them are ‘true stories’ – even those who blatantly declare they are using ‘real’ people. Apparently it’s just too difficult because of all the rules and regulations of their unions.

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    • BigBrotherCorporation says:
      October 31, 2023 at 3:48 pm

      Good post TM.

      I’m far from convinced censorship and the banning of ‘hurty words’, like the favoring of certain groups over others, actually achieves anything, other than to breed resentment and seething anger among those censored, monitored, and treated as ‘second class’.

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  40. tomo says:
    October 31, 2023 at 1:44 pm

    Not funny

       5 likes

    • atlas_shrugged says:
      October 31, 2023 at 9:59 pm

      I can’t wait for the bBC to use AI to do a remake of the Iranian Embassy siege. With CRT and DEI it will be a hoot.

         1 likes

  41. tomo says:
    October 31, 2023 at 2:04 pm

    It’s almost like Labour are trying to destroy their own credibility (what’s left of it)

    OOPS

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    • MarkyMark says:
      October 31, 2023 at 2:17 pm

      By far the majority of perpetrators were described as ‘Asian’ by victims, yet throughout the entire
      period, councillors did not engage directly with the Pakistani-heritage community to discuss how
      best they could jointly address the issue.

      Some councillors seemed to think it was a one-off problem,
      which they hoped would go away. Several staff described their nervousness about identifying the
      ethnic origins of perpetrators for fear of being thought racist;

      others remembered clear direction
      from their managers not to do so.
      In December 2009, the Minister of State for Children and Families put the Council’s children’s
      safeguarding services into intervention, following an extremely critical Ofsted report. The Council
      was removed from intervention thirteen months later.

      https://www.rotherham.gov.uk/downloads/file/279/independent-inquiry-into-child-sexual-exploitation-in-rotherham

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  42. tomo says:
    October 31, 2023 at 2:16 pm

    Election Interference

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  44. tomo says:
    October 31, 2023 at 2:55 pm

    no words

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    • Docmarooned says:
      October 31, 2023 at 3:26 pm

      Absolute virtue signalling garbage which has no historical basis.

         20 likes

    • BigBrotherCorporation says:
      October 31, 2023 at 3:28 pm

      Am looking forward to Netflix releasing an ‘accurate portrayal’ of the Owain Glyndyr story, with Idris Elba an obvious shoe in for the lead role, he might need to work on his accent a little though.

      They could call it the ‘Real Prince of Wales’, and they’d be missing a treat if they didn’t include Morgan Freeman as ‘Merlyn’ his wizardly adviser, and Huw Edwards as ‘Lord of the Ring’.

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    • moggiemoo says:
      October 31, 2023 at 3:46 pm

      There are no blacks in Welsh history. There you go, fixed it for you.

         12 likes

    • MarkyMark says:
      October 31, 2023 at 4:39 pm

      Africa started the first fire so is responsible for all climate change.

         7 likes

    • JohnC says:
      October 31, 2023 at 5:25 pm

      Here are the people who ‘made’ Wales. The first I came across entirely at random.

      slate_history.jpg

      Can’t see a single black person in there.

      These liars actually insult and belittle the people who DID build the country with their racism.

         13 likes

      • andyjsnape says:
        October 31, 2023 at 6:17 pm

        Hello JohnC

        The photos in Black & White, maybe this where the students who work at the bbc get confused

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        • Scroblene says:
          October 31, 2023 at 6:31 pm

          Slates were a fabulous export for the Welsh nation!

          I know we always remember coal, but those guys really knew their stuff as well!

          I think I might watch ‘How Green was my valley’ again and remember the slag heaps reaching the kerb around Abertillery…

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          • BigBrotherCorporation says:
            October 31, 2023 at 9:12 pm

            If they’d been working down at the coalface they’d be black…

            Or, would that be ‘blackface’ and therefore a very, very bad thing?

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    • taffman says:
      October 31, 2023 at 5:28 pm

      ‘Now look you’, we taffmen certainly do have a penchant for black pudding .

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    • MarkyMark says:
      October 31, 2023 at 5:35 pm

      BHM … ‘Racist’ Gandhi statue removed from University of Ghana
      Published
      13 December 2018
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-46552614

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  45. andyjsnape says:
    October 31, 2023 at 3:22 pm

    Under the heading of White history month, sorry I was joking. Obviously Black history month

    Just so the kids are educated the bbc way, for CBBC.. https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/quizzes/bp-uk-black-heroes-quiz?collection=black-history-month

    Under the heading
    What a t-shirt, a well cut shirt, and a comb tell us about black lives (although the heading changes to something else, when you click on it (bbc seems to do that alot))
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zk8qp9q

    and more links, but can’t be bothered to repeat the propaganda

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  46. Lucy Pevensey says:
    October 31, 2023 at 3:51 pm

    So that’s what Offa’s dyke was for. To keep out blacks innit.

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  47. Thoughtful says:
    October 31, 2023 at 5:07 pm

    And now the bloodthirsty Nettanyahu says this is a time for war, but that potentially means we here get to die for his blood lust.

    Today he has managed to drop a bomb on a refugee camp killing scores of innocent people. We are told Hamas are in tunnels and bunkers underground and safe from any surface bombing, so if the genuine aim is to destroy Hamas it’s not effective.

    We now have Russia threatening to send troops into Gaza to stop the IDF murdering innocent civilians, however they are not alone as 90% of the world stand with them.

    For all those here who say Hamas are dangerous and need to be destroyed I say this – fine destroy them except this isn’t destroying them, and this is the third of fourth time Israel has done this and they still haven’t destroyed them in the past so it’s demonstrably a failed strategy which is only going to murder innocent people.

    Yes Israel has a right to exist yes Israel has a right to defend itself, but if someone doesn’t stop Nettanyahu it’s highly likely that there won’t be an Israel to defend before long.

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    • StewGreen says:
      October 31, 2023 at 5:13 pm

      “drop a bomb on a refugee camp killing scores of innocent people”
      It’s very naive to take Hamas press releases at face value.

      It might have been a military bunker with no civilians around at all for all we know.

      “refugee camp” is loaded language
      but in the Middle East there, it’s not generally a field with tents.
      rather it’s a place that started as that 70 years ago, but that is now a city with highrise housing etc.

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      • Kaiser says:
        October 31, 2023 at 5:23 pm

        how do you have a “refugee camp” in an “open air prison” full of “refugees”

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      • JohnC says:
        October 31, 2023 at 5:37 pm

        Hamas would absolutely 100% hide behind those people. It’s why they wouldn’t let them leave.

        You can be sure that won’t be mentioned in any BBC reports.

        I still cannot fathom why the Left support these terrorists after what they have done. Israel will kill every Hamas member they can find then give it back to the Muslims.

        Just imagine what the Muslims would do if THEY had the superior weapons and technology. Every Jew in Israel would be long dead and it would be a Muslim state.

           13 likes

        • Docmarooned says:
          October 31, 2023 at 5:55 pm

          I am totally behind John C on this one. Hamas are murdering medieval thugs who do not belong in the 21st century. They are the most intolerant bastards on the planet.

             19 likes

        • JohnC says:
          October 31, 2023 at 6:34 pm

          When I saw the picture, I thought the ‘craters’ looked to be an odd shape.

          I see now on the BBC that Israel claim to have hit a Hamas HQ and destroyed their undergound bunker – which fits in perfectly with what I see.

          So it seems at this point Hamas had a HQ underneath a refugee camp. I wonder how many of the dead are refugees and how many are Hamas. Of course we will never know : the BBC will infer (but not directly say) they are all refugees.

             5 likes

        • Thoughtful says:
          October 31, 2023 at 8:46 pm

          I have no issue with Israel mounting a campaign to fill Hamas,but they have followed this same course of action on three previous occasions always saying Hamas will be wiped out and never actually achieving anything other than the deaths of innocent civilians.

          As I said previous, I don’t have an issue with Israel, nor it’s people, or it’s right to defend itself. It’s few people in power and a clean slate strategy which doesn’t work.

          In the past we weren’t as affected as we will be this time. Our leaders care nothing for us nor our protection – sometimes they don’t appear to even care about their own but this could easily escalate into a nuclear war and I can’t imagine anyone wanting that.

             0 likes

    • Kaiser says:
      October 31, 2023 at 5:21 pm

      maybe russia could give them all asylum if its so bothered

         6 likes

      • JohnC says:
        October 31, 2023 at 5:48 pm

        Russia just want make life as difficult as possible for the Americans.

        Looks like Joe’s policy in Ukraine is actually going to cause war in the Middle East.

        Quite a record for warmongering he has now. He’s proved the bloodbath in Afghanistan wasn’t just bad luck.

           10 likes

      • Dickie says:
        October 31, 2023 at 5:55 pm

        Russia is busy kicking Ukrainian nazi arses at the moment.

           6 likes

        • JohnC says:
          October 31, 2023 at 7:04 pm

          Indeed. All the recent BBC reports are plain anti-Russian propaganda which is what they do when the actual war is going badly.

          I can’t help feeling that we might get some movements to try and end it with Russia keeping what they’ve got. Joe isn’t going to be popular at home if he is funding two wars for other people – and an election is coming up …

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  48. BRISSLES says:
    October 31, 2023 at 5:27 pm

    ???? A sixth former with full facial stubble, yes really. Just watching Pointless where a very Asian man is the son of his white father. I thought I misheard, as he looks older than ‘dad’. He goes on to say he’s a 6th form student who has just been accepted to Oxford.

    Blimey I know girls look older than their years while spotty youths struggle with their bum fluff chins, but a well built bloke with full set is not what I expect someone finishing school to look like. Unless………

       11 likes

    • Scroblene says:
      October 31, 2023 at 6:34 pm

      Did he get as many ‘A’ levels as Prince Charles, Brissles?

      That surely must be a record for a uni-spot – English and Art…

         4 likes

  49. Thoughtful says:
    October 31, 2023 at 5:30 pm

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