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OK, I will leave a post but if digg come along before my allotted time is up for editing, I’ll give digg a present of first …. as long as he goes for three in a row this week and next weekend. š
Oh a post about the BBC. That will have to be TWoTWeee based with Jonny ‘Dalek’ Dymond presenting and merely being an encourager of Hamas and spokesman for Hamas.
Disgraceful BBC – you should be ashamed!
Only fitting you have the top slot at Christmas Snuffy.
Thanks Fed for your much appreciated work in keeping this site going. And I think we should have an online sweep running as to where you go and what you do when you’re not in the UK .
Happy Christmas (and probably a bit late for Hannakah) but as Dave Allen used to say “May your God go with you”
Brissles my dear old thing, well India’s wimmin won a Test Match in Australia (which England’s men can only dream of), thank you for your support above and support for this site in 2023.
Clue for the sweep you suggested … I seem to recall Fed let slip sometime that it was in the Med somewhere š . OK, that does leave a lot of places to choose from.
Wish you and all the readers, including Maxincony, a very merry and peaceful Christmas!
I had that same message today while trying to log on to my weather site. Youtube was telling me I wasn’t logged on to the internet which was untrue. I accessed this site ok. (typed this post)
I checked a couple of others which seem fine too.
Ah… YouTube noticed that quick enough…..
So this is indeed Christmas and we all made it through to another one. We should be grateful for that if nothing else.
Meanwhile – as the Left continue in their campaign to destroy the civilised world – I would like to wish all my like-minded compatriots here a very happy Christmas and however futile it might be (with elections both sides of the pond and all the corruption in the MSM that entails these days), lets all pray for things to get better next year.
Struth the German mass-circulation weekly Stern from December 23rd, 2020 even imagined offering the BioNTech poison to the baby Jesus:
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/12/24/christmas-2020-in-germany-the-biontech-covid-vaccine-as-mans-gift-to-god/
a_s, well it was designed by an ‘immigrant’ and manufactured by his company, iirc, so it was a bit of woke ‘virtue signalling’ and can be dismissed as such. That said, I’m not averse to the Pharmaceutical industry and have friends and former neighbours who work therein.
Senora O’Blene and I keep all our spare, and old and broken, pairs of spectacles in a drawer by this desk, and today is the one day in the year I can open the drawer and truthfully say….
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A Happy Christmas to all our Readers!
Scrobie, spectacular post as usual. Happy Christams (loud appaluse) Ā© the late Spike Milligna, well known typing error and spilling mistook.
Snuffy, the spirit of Britain’s (and Ireland’s) best comedian lives on – Tahn-kyuo…
Thatās torn it.
Beijing shivers through coldest December on record
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-67818872
And now, over to Justin Rowlatt. LOL.
Itās a double whammy, as despite the BBCās obvious hopes, no āwarmest everā records were broken in the UK yesterday.
Happy Climate Crisis Christmas to all.
Luckilyā¦.
https://x.com/mhehedzherting/status/1739201021505605830?s=61
Not historic, or unprecedented, but possibly still worth a āsince records beganā, if they start at 1998.
Off now on Santa duty. Merry Xmas to all good men, women, children andā¦ others.
Guest Who
“Beijing shivers through coldest December on record”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-67818872
Merry Christmas China but why not “coldest ever “?
One for the climate scientists.
None too warm in southern Sweden either.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/7ZIkbOu7JQA/
Archbishop of Canterbury to highlight suffering in Israel-Gaza war in Christmas Day sermon
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67819072
One thing he will NOT do is criticise Hamas in any way.
I must admit to being stunned by the reaction of the free press during this war.
Despite what they did – and what they are still doing – I don’t recall reading anything at all which criticises Hamas. On the contrary, the BBC have stopped reminding us they are terrorists completely now and treat them like a legitimate government.
Hamas are terrorists from the same mould as ISIS – yet they can fight from inside hospitals, schools and refugee camps and our media (especially the BBC) don’t say a single bad word about them. They either avoid the subject completely and just tell us about the civilians caught in the crossfire or tell us what Israel have done without any attempt to explain why they did it.
I struggle to understand just what is going on here. Why do the Left support Muslims unconditionally ?. They should despise them even more than they despise the Right : they are the ultimate intolerant sexists, racists and homophobes. Middle aged men routinely buy young girls to be their next wife and basically rape them. But none of these extreme misandrists ever mention it.
As far as I can work out, they just make excellent ‘victims’ who can be used against the ones the Left hate with a passion : the Right. They are the ultimate hypocrites.
December 2013 Ten years ago
Happy Christmas to all on biasedbbc. Thanks for keeping me updated on current events and with such eloquence. I love the common-sense approach to topics and read them with interest but also get tickled by the new words that spring up such as ‘enricher’ and ‘leftwaffe’.
A great sardonic read and a daily ‘must do’. Cheers!
A story about voters storming a town hall in Serbia protesting about vote rigging appeared on the BBC site this morning but by 9.30 had vanished.
Why would that be I wonder considering the massive coverage they gave to a similar event in the USA?
Could it be that the protesters were left wing supporters?
Or could it be that the victorious party are a āpopulistā party or āright wingā as the BBC would term it?
I now see that the report has also been memory holed on the Guardian siteā¦
But hereās a link at googled!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/24/thousands-protest-belgrade-demand-annulment-elections-serbia?ref=biztoc.com
Interesting the way there was a huge rewrite of the start of that Serbia story 4 hours after the first version
Unbold denotes the bits tht are common to bother versions
Version 0 says activists were the ACTION
Version 1 says police were the ACTION
Title Serbia protests: Anti-government demonstrators try to storm Belgrade city hall
https://www.newssniffer.co.uk/articles/2589528/diff/0/1
Well the turkey is in the oven and being the sort of girl who gets things ready in advance (like the vegetables), I have time to come here and wish one and all a very happy Xmas.
I would like to thank Fedup2 and all the behind the scenes boys grateful thanks for keeping the site going. I am sure all our blood pressures are better for the letting off of steam that goes on here.
As for the BBC, I hope they could go back to making excellent programmes, which will only happen when they stop being Far Left and Woke.
Mike Graham covers the year of the BBC
actually he goes quite easy on them
Another bit on Doctor Who
pre-Christmas Day 8 a.m. News Watch – I received a pleasant surprise or two ….
I turned on BBC R4 circa 20 minutes to 8 a.m. to find I was in the middle of a sermon. I was amazed to find after the end that it had been from York Minster and it was Archbishop Stephen Cottrell preaching. It was an excellent evangelical, Bible based sermon although I could have done without the ear-ache caused by a modern version of ‘Away in a Manger’ sung by the choir at the end.
Even Sir David Attenborough was in a Christmas mood, not his usual human hating mode when talking about the Robin in ‘Tweet of the Day’.
Looks like the organisers of the anti government protests are going to be billed. Me thinks a leaf out of the new government book would go down well in this country.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/12/23/argentina-marches-costs-president-javier-milei-reforms/
Really didnāt want to do it – but I suffered the Charlie Windsor show – the adulterer was desperate to mention his fondness for Islam – how Israel is evil – and something about that nice putin – instead there was plenty of coloured folk planting trees somewhere hot ā¦.
Bit disappointed by the lack of oil drum bands from Brixton but there was the tick box ensemble of multiculturalism ā¦. No mention of the missis but no doubt she was visiting somewhere diverse ā¦ā¦
Wonder if the next one will be any different – somehow he ll be full woke ā¦
Well , I didnāt think the King did too badly telling us to look after the world rather than mentioning climate change. But things had to be spoiled at the end with the musicians and the schoolchildren who sang nicely but predictably which children were focused on. It was an ITV production.
Mrs S was sat there with her virtue-signalling bingo card.
When she spotted what she thought was a blind child in the front row she screamed āhouseā and āwokeā the rest of us up out of our somewhat alcoholic hazes.
Post of the day, Sluffers!
Ha ha ha!
The little girl was blind, article on the Daily Mail website. She has a brain tumour and has been on regular chemo since she was a baby. After the recording, she and her parents had tea with the Queen.
I’ll watch it on Tooyube later, no licence, no live telly for us.
Why bother Lucy?
We’ve just watched Riverdance, and I’m still amazed at such fabulous dancing! I wish I could tap-dance like those chaps and the girls are so much better…
Better than seeing KC3 farting along with some sort of rowlocks…*
*Rhymes with…
Lucy, #me too, I play by the rules that the BBC have set even though I don’t agree with them. Mind you there is enough to listen to on R4 and I have yet another new movie to watch on DVD.
If King Jugears the Woke exploded on a state visit, I really wouldn’t care. In fact, unless somebody pointed it out in here, I wouldn’t even know it happened.
‘King Jugears the Wokeā
I allow myself a chuckle every Christmas and there it is.
“King’s Christmas message: Charles focuses on shared values in time of conflict”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67819758
“Shared values” mmmmm scratching head………..
Beeby also reports a Christmas eve stabbing in Bermondsey. They know the suspect is a teen and that he was known to the victim but don’t mention the ethnicity of the victim or the suspect.
“Teen arrested after woman stabbed to death in London”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67820028
Well here I am in a post prandial torpor, having quaffed the rest of the 2012 vintage champers into some rather pleasant New Zealand white along with the spread out Xmas feast with a break of a couple of hours between courses.
I also have a bottle of Canadian Ice Wein as a desert accompaniment for later and a jar of potted Stilon with just about ever kind of port imaginable. I once or twice visited the village of Stilton just off the A1 and the old coaching inn has a printed paper telling the tale of how Dick Turpin once stayed there and was surprised by the law, he jumped from an upstairs window (which they show) onto Black Bess and rode off into the night and freedom.
I first bought a potted Stilton there long before it became a popular staple of Christmas, although the jars in those days were much smaller than they are today.
I can absolutely reccomend you visit the Old Bell, although you probably have to book today. an experiencee of the real history of Olde England at its best.
Just for the sake of interest (and fond wishes)
https://thebellstilton.co.uk/
Thoughtful – you know the theme of doom and gloom we share . We try this real life one – Christmas Dinner – the wine bottle opener breaks – there s only one . What are the options ?
1 improvise a knife – take ages and end up in A and E ?
2 google ?
3 Amazon ( tomorrow ?)
4 after situational analysis recall that champagne bottles are self opening ā¦ā¦ use the strategic reserve ā¦..
Port is similarly gifted ā¦.
These days even decent wine is screw top
And you can always push a cork in with your finger.
And as a last resort you can attempt “saberage” providing you do have a decent sword to hand
We used to have one of those openers which had a stabber needle thing which you poked through the cork, then started punmping the thing, until the cork just popped out!
I was always dead scared that the whole shebang would expode, so gave up using it…
I agree that ‘saberage’ is the best way to avoid the tremblings from lack of alcohol though!
My gravy exploded yesterday, serves me right for saying here yesterday that lunch was under control. Something to do with stock overheated in the microwave and using gravy granules. Fortunately in spite of my hair being covered with it, I was unhurt, thank goodness so no need to go to A&E to find the doctors on strike.
Deborah,
This must be a first. I think that you should contact the Guinness Book of Records immediately. Exploding gravy. Iām sure that Fed Up posted last week about the large increase in gas explosions owing to attempts to by pass the meter but could it really be down to exploding gravy?
Any liquid in a microwave can be heated so much that anything added will cause air bubbles to form rapidly like an explosion. Before adding any powder or granules, first just drop a spoon into the liquid.
It was a bit exciting. Moggiemoo, I will take your advice next time.
We’ve all been there Debs! I started the microwave with nothing in it once and set fire to the door!
If you see or hear of an explosion somewhere in Kent in the next half-hour, I’m deep-frying some chips…
Well, it should have been on the news but clearly wasn’t…
I didn’t dry off the chips enough, so the b****y oil leapt up and spilled all over the worktop, and down the front of the brand new washing machine we’d bought and installed only on Saturday!
The dog had a field day, and kept licking up the drips on the floor, and I used up half a kitchen roll, wiping up the mess, which went everywhere!
Lunch was much later than planned, and it took a Bishop’s Finger ale and a bottle of Barefoot Chardonnay to comfort this wounded soul!
I’m sodding well looking forward to the rest of the week, when it’s a prawn sandwich and bugger the blasted stuff in the fridge which Lily the dog will probably get in the end, and that’s another story, as she’s been mewling and puking everywhere up to now, and I can’t work out how to get the solids stains out of the sodding rugs where she sleeps some of the time, and, and, and…
Fed, do you have teetotal neighbours?
It didn’t take long. The King’s speech is available from about 10 different sources. And what a waste.
No encouragement for the nation at all.
Charles appears as a nature-worshipping, one- world- religion merchant. The hat-tips to Jesus were shallow and impotent.
Ukraine ? Gaza ? Hospital Queues ? Nah – coloured folk planting trees ā¦ and I fear the next one will be even more woke ā¦
Thats being charitable to him. I find him an intolerable feeble minded woke moron.
But he did get into Cambridge with two A levels Art and English, or History – whetever!
Even Diane Abbott did that!
Alex Christoforou
Dickie, where was Alex? Florida?
https://www.thepostil.com/who-is-a-jew-race-the-chosen-people-and-biopolitics/
Dickie
Your point ?
Perhaps maxincony would care to comment , over to you maxi …………….
Trippy š
Eddy Booth
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https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1739272467061809340?s=20
tomo
Perhaps our “Strong ” government will do the same ?
Why? It’s not their money, they don’t care, and never will. Threaten to stop their expenses, that might work.
No chance, MM!
They have layers of over-paid flunkies all arranged to take care of all that nonsense!
It’s normal for an MP to double their income on expenses alone, and then they ’employ’ their siblings at a huge rate, so it’s the gravy train (first class) all the way to the next election!
Pensions are weighted on the number of years they’ve turned up at the HoC, and after all those years of doing bugger all, they can sit back and think they’ve ‘done their duty’!
Taking the p**s is my mantra!
(Sorry, not you of course, the rest of them!
Change our government to one that puts Great Britain and its people first, ie,. The Reform Party or UKIP .
Kick the idiots out!
What the Palestinians were up to back in 1930s / 40s
Thoughtful
You are really going to upset marxi posting videos like that. He is going to get distressed enough when he finds out the the nazis and palestinians were best mates.
But just wait till he finds out about the molatov-ribbentrop pact, where his team (the mad-marxists) agreed with the nazis to carve up Europe. That is really going to get his panties in a bunch.
Last night Tim’s camera caught a stranger in his garden
The pope seems rather agile, doesn’t he?
Caught ten minutes of the new ultra-woke Dr Who. RIP, it used to be a good show like much on the BBC but this is utter drivel.
markh
In a nutshell , nudging and brainwashing our kids into ‘wokeism’.
‘Wokeism’ is now endemic in our education system.
A strong government with common sense is required now to stop the rot .
markh,
An evil race called Boomers appear and form an alliance with the Daleks to threaten Earth. Only the Doctor and his merry band of non-binary companions can save wokedom from total destruction.
Think I can pitch this story idea to the BBC?
“White Christmas in Scotland despite warm temperatures”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67815533
“The Met Office also provisionally confirmed the highest daily minimum temperature for Christmas Day on record, at 12.4C.”
Active words “provisionally”
“on record”, what record ?
Highest minimum. Thatās a new one on meā¦
taffman
I couldn’t agree with you more. And for the “record” what about the climate changes for the previous thousands if not millions of years before records began?
Records? My arse.
Lefty
The BBC take us all for fools.
They have been trying to own the language eg āwarmā becomes āhotā cold has become ācoolā , terrorists are now āactivistsā , right is now āfar rightā etc etc . Almost Orwellian, yes ?
Wake up Brits ! We are far too clever for them . Start by cutting the funding from the snakeās head and stop paying the Telly tax.They do not have enough funding or staff to chase all the defaulters .
āSince records beganā¦ in 2018ā sources allege, reportedly, in an historic, unprecedented way.
Some trans activists like to punish people, by falsely reporting them
That first tweet continues
“Five hours later I was released from custody and told no action would be taken against me coz I haven’t committed any crimes, obvz.
The worst part was when they arrested me I was naked except for a towel and still had flippin shampoo in my hair, then had to go get dressed in front of another copper with a bodycam like I’m some kinda terrorist.
They took mugshots, DNA swabs and finger prints too.
I’m taking those psychos back to court at Twixmas so can’t into anymore detail right now. Just wanted to say thankyou everyone for having my back when I was in ze gulag, especially our @Glinner. What an absolute effing farce”
There is some really bad lawfare activity underway, with the authorities utterly complying with abuses of once sensible protections to maintain anonymity in actually serious cases.
Have a near neighbour who has some truly nasty next doors who keep dobbing them in to the benefitsā¦ who keep sending her letters she is to be investigated!
Then there is SWATing in the USA.
There need to be counter consequences and not just to the perps but idiot po po.
The Law of Freedom by Gerrard Winstanley 1652
7. The accuser and accused shall always appear face to face before any officer, that both sides may be heard, and no wrong to either party.
Make The Diggers Great Again
I just love Boxing Day!
It’s the time when I can make a huge racket chucking all the bottles in the bin, begin to tackle a ton of cold meat, try and make my new angle grinder to work, and also surprise myself by reading all the posts I made last night, while outside a bottle of white Rioja and couple of extra-large Glefiddichs…
I imagine there’s a lot of “did I really write that?” going on.
Ha ha ha, MM!
Luckily, there was just the two of us at home yesterday, so I didn’t have to add another self-doubt, the one where you remember saying something rude to someone!
And what does one say to people on the first dog walk?
‘Happy Boxing Day’, or revert to the stupid question, ‘Did you have a nice Christmas’?
Anyway, I’ve got my new angle grinder going and all I need now is the number of my insurance company to see if I can claim for a deeply scoured dining room table…
Shrobleen ā¦ careful what you do with your ānās ā¦ but I wonder if glefiddich does pluralise ā¦..
ā¦. The ordeal of Christmas Day passes – now comes the ordeal of the 2023 āreviewsā where bbc droid continue to rework ā facts ā to fit the narrative ā¦
.. and after the reviews comes the even worse New Year – complete with those resolutions ā¦.
But Iām challenged about resolutions – I desperately want to reduce exposure to the BBC – yet feel a need to bare witness to the continuing demise ā¦. Once huge Christmas figures will now be diminished to ā east Enders ā and strictly as the height of BBC āachievement ā ā¦
Theyāll desperately defend themselves by yapping about āiPlayer ā but the truth is the truth ( but not verify ) ā¦ and itās dying ā¦.
I thought I was being careful, Fed, and seeing something I wrote about Spike Milligan was totally lost on me for several minutes! (Did I tell you he used to live about a dozen miles from here)?
Sorry Uppers, and welcome back by the way!
‘Have a nice Boxing D… ‘
…oh s*d it , I wasn’t going to say that ever again…
Scroblene – I really should nt throw stones ā¦ Also I notice the AI spell check really does have a mind of itsā own – and my typing is often not linked to my thoughts ā¦
.. I can feel an Amazon footy overdose coming on ā¦
As for the footy, Fed, I’ve just heard the noise coming from the local playing field, where the lads always have a dressing-up game on Boxing Day!
One chap was wearing a nightie once, so I hope his wife wasn’t watching…
Fed, apparently KC3 topped the list of viewing figures on ITV(!) with Strictly in second place and Doctor Who third, according to Dalek Dymond on TWatO. How are the mighty fallen! Don’t dem grate Bibbycee get to broadcast KC3 later on? Haven’t got a telly schedule, so don’t know.
Up2 – thx – Iāve just decoded what KC3 is ā¦. I thought it was a long series involving a mad green adulterer and his mum – who he married ā¦.
I’ve never thought that a future king could be crowned when he was a known adulterer.
Rather fu**s up the constitution doesn’t it.
Absolutely desperate stuff with the eco-zealots at the BBC.
They are obviously intensely peeved at not being able to run the desired āwarmest ever Christmas Eve on recordā story they had prepared.
But how to re-use the copy?
So this morning on Toady we had āwarmest Christmas since 2016ā. 2016 !!!!!! FFS.
In other news. Boxing Day set to be coldest day in England sinceā¦ errrā¦ā¦. yesterday.
Oh! What a celebration of ‘blackness’ today for the BBC. Footie referees an all. “It has taken so long to get there”. Where, I ask? The ethnic cleansing led by the BBC is well on the way from its humble beginnings like simply propagandising the intake of blacks. Not Indians nor Chinese mind you. So, let’s get things right. Blacks? About 6% of the population. 6% of footie referees? No, no, no. They want to achieve all referees being black and the BBC are behind them in that aspiration. Another opportunity to squeeze whitee out. That’s blatant ethnic cleansing. Perhaps there is a point here that we all miss?
Role models. The more blacks occupy the position of a role model the more the savages/fatherless feral black children might look up to them and change their ways. The BBC hope. Maybe the black referees can take time out to deal with social matters like drug running and stabbing one another. That might help but I doubt it.
https://x.com/ckellyuap/status/1739447014784717095?s=61
Please get the facts to protect yourself from the Climate Cultists
I will now only be sharing tweets with limited quotes as many need hits for revenue. No loss to those who donāt use Twitter or wish to support them.
Is there such a thing as āgaywashā?
Try this text from a BBC review of 2023
TV presenter Phillip Schofield left This Morning in May following reports of a rift with co-presenter Holly Willoughby. A week later, he admitted having an affair with a younger colleague.
Younger colleague? Yeah, right. Who just happened to be male.
Pictures of the year edition
Some may blame Jacob Rees-Mogg for having drawn attention to the tendency on Question Time a couple of years ago, but this word is unarguably a big favourite with our present crop of journos as a narrative reaffirming latterday junk-culture update of the rather fusty old preposition ‘in spite of‘ or from way back in the era of the shirt and tie black and white BBC ‘notwithstanding‘.
I speak of course of the dread word ‘despite‘ – used in news headlines in circumstances where something has occurred contrary to the prevailing editorial narrative bent – but yet the editor is at pains to remind readers how his cherished narrative still stands.
Goaded by Dimbleby, our Jacob explained, to some tentative audience applause (QT October 2017): “Dear old Auntie… the BBC… how many times have we heard ‘inspite of Brexit’? In spite of Brexit a record 3 million jobs have been created since 2010. In spite of Brexit unemployment is at its lowest level since 1975. In spite of Brexit England defeated the West Indies at Lords.”
“Can you actually specify?” demands Dimbleby.
A request hardly taken to heart in-house by a BBC news department nowadays more than happy to relay ‘20,000 dead’ care of the Hamas-run health ministry – but I digress
“You just have to listen to the news… the audience seems to agree” was Rees-Mogg’s reply.
We’ll have to forgive our Jacob his nostalgic admiration for Caribbean cricket – no longer do those sunny isles produce world quality fast bowlers. Overlook his unreconstructed Thatcherite selling England by the pound economics – gloss over the fact that two-thirds of those new jobs went to immigrants or that millions were shifted off the unemployment balance sheet and onto long-term sick benefits. But nevertheless – or I should say – despite all that – we get his point.
Bringing us up to date here’s the BBC this Christmas with a wonderful seasonal example of the deployment of a narrative reafirming despite – a masterclass in global warming reaffirmation, despite current weather reports: White Christmas in Scotland despite warm temperatures (BBC)
Quite why Getty Images was tapped up by our BBC for a picture of an oriental woman strolling in a snowy landscape as being illustative of snow in Aviemore on Christmas Day confuses – but likey alludes to another cherished BBC editorial agenda (you know the one). Or perhaps it instead alludes to this: Beijing shivers through coldest December on record (BBC) – as counterpart to Miss Saigon taking the high road to Aviemore in the Cairngorms, one was almost expecting a picture of a kilted Harry Lauder roamin’ in the gloamin’ of a frosty Forbidden City – there’s one for the teenagers.
We like a good tabloid pun in a headline: Yule be toasty… turn off the heating – says the Daily Star.
“Turn off the heating and put your coat on, I’m going out to the pub” – as the penny-pinching Scotsman said to his wife.
Speaking of tabloid puns – we like The Sun’s reaction to the royal-adjacent celeb Sarah Ferguson rejoining the nation’s top family at church this Christmas: All is Fergiven
The pound shop left-leaning junior Graun that is the ‘i’ newspaper accumulates many a serious charge laid against it by Mr AsI: Coronaphobia; Starmer-philia; and acting as a vector for many an ourageous feminist outburst – demanding the deployment of a calm down dear in reply.
Given the time of year there’s a rather nasty mean-spirited anti-family Feature statement teased on the frontpage: I preferred Christmas before I had children (‘i’) – even the pagans among us would credit the winter solstice as worthy of a fertility festival.
Instead barren homosexual sci-fi fantasy is to be celebrated: ‘Doctor Who’ Christmas special Ncuti Gatwa is a blaze of charisma (‘i’)
Don’t imagine the ‘i’ is really trangressive or rebellious against authority. The ‘i’ happily does the regime’s bidding: Putin’s grip on power is weakening – this propaganda is important at a moment when facts on the ground instead suggest some serious Western/Ukrainian defeats in the offing
Naturally the BBC plays its part: Russia confirms damage to warship in Black Sea – clutching at good news straws from the Russian front floats the BBC’s boat there – Stalingrad may have fallen to the Soviets signalling the turning of the tide of war but Dr Goebbels says we sank a Russian rowing boat
Old and new left – lower- and middle-brow left – part company on the issue of monarchy this morning.
The Guardian sniggers at the coronation with their frontispiece for the feature: Pictures of the year The most striking images of 2023 – the royal carriage snapped passing that .001% of anti-monarchy protesters in the crowds with their Not My King posters is the Gruan’s fav photograph
However, the blue collar Daily Miror shouts: King of Peace… Charles’ plea for world… Monarch in call for tolerance & respect between faiths as 1,000s die in wars – a worthy headline at this moment of goodwill to all men.
The big-hearted Mirror goes on to celebrate the acceptable face of immigration on their frontpage – sport is represented by Mo Salah in a Liverpool shirt beside what Mr AsI takes to be about the most conservative traditional white family gathering for Christmas picture published in a national newspaper since about 1954: Thank you, UK… for saving us… Gratitude of Ukraine refugees… SAFE Ukrainian family who were welcomed into a home in the UK – is pater familias ‘safe’ from the draft, we wonder? ….despite:
Ukrainian refugees will be drafted to boost troops in war against Russia… President Zelensky will introduce conscription as part of his aim to recruit 500,000 more soldiers… refugees in Europe will be called up to bolster their country’s army, the Ukrainian defence minister has announced. (Times)
It’s up to you not to heed the call-up…
Who knows the plans, or why they were drawn up?
Maybe I want to see the wheat fields
Over Kiev and down to the sea
So sang punk rockers The Clash back in 1980 – before we learned to call it Kyiv – there’s another one for the teenagers
Speaking of migration (or not – as the case may be) – the ‘i’ welcomes leading psephologist Sir John Curtice’s Jonah-like doom-laden electorial prophesy for the Tories: …analysis of all polls from 2023 show Rishi Sunak has been unable to reverse damage done by ‘Partygate’ scandal or the ‘mini-Budget’… Tories facing new election threat from Farage’s party – with nary a mention of hyper-immigration as a factor you’ll notice
The Blair-mentored Keir Starmer may be piggy-eyed but he is not so blind as to ignore the immigration elephant in the room – and to attempt to straf the Tories from the right on the issue: Labour plots alternative to Rwanda asylum plan – announces the Starmer-curious formerly-patriotic Times with obvious excitment given their flourishing bromance with the Labour leader.
Coming soon
Harvest shortage because of mild weather
Food supply at risk due to cold snap
Panic buying ( Getty empty shelve picture )
Sadly – more teenagers die on the roads ( far too many now )
Home sec makes rohypnol ājoke ā again
Churches mysteriously burn ā¦..
Ukraine
A motorcycling friend of mine has just had a refugee Ukrainian lady car driver pull out in front of him, catapulting him down the road and destroying his motorbike. I guess there’s it’s probable she forgot which way to look. To be fair she wasn’t drunk or uninsured and lots of British car drivers cause motorbike accidents.
Generally though I find there’s a lot of poor driving by Asians and blacks, sorry if people find the comment racist but it’s true. Asian taxi drivers in particular are almost universally terrible drivers despite them being ‘professional’.
Flotsam – Iāve been riding my motor scooter in londonistan in the last week and found the driving even more dangerous than normal .
To survive I assume every rider driver is trying to kill me and every time I ask my guardian Angel to be on duty ā¦.
ā¦ personally the foreign L plate scooter delivery types are the most dangerous ā¦.. they have no sense of death ā¦
On the upside – the constant concentration demanded is very good for the brain ā¦
Fedup
Sympathies. I am often in town on two wheels and have to have the same preservation suspicions.
The latest run-in was at a green traffic light with me going straight on and the oncoming killer-driver turning right (into me). He had a green, but no right green filter. He even wanted to start a fight about it.
He was not an invader but a home-grown rock-ape. But thinking about it and backing up Flotsam’s point it was a taxi driver in front that was the first offender.
Atlas – I really do find the need to concentrate from the start to the finish an absolute āmust ā ā¦. I learnt a lot when I was 21 and came off on wet Sunday morning a great help with ālearning āā¦.
But Iāve noticed a lot of kids getting killed in cars in the last month ā¦ I wonder if 18 is too young for a driving licence – but Iām sure it wonāt be changed – I was lucky to fail my driving test first 2 times and even failed the āold ā bike test ( unheard of back in the early 80s) .
Luckily for me Iāve done a number of advanced driving courses – in a car – but the skill transfers to the bike – but nothing stops the 4×4 killers ā¦.
BTW – diff subject but the londonistan evening standard thinks that violent crime in londonistan is now up above pre covid times with at least 40 – thatās 40 – knife āincidents ā a day – presumably counted on the basis of hospital attendance ā¦ certainly death by knife has got to be back to one every 3 days ā¦..
Fedup2, “I wonder if 18 is too young for a driving licence ā but Iām sure it wonāt be changed”
Labour seem to think 16 is old enough to vote, a car crash policy if there ever was one.
17 is the minimum age to drive.
The country of Georgia has suicidal drivers
(I’ve been in well over 100 countries , but not Iran, where the road death tally is huge
Russian men have this “live for today” attitude, so take huge risks)
I wouldn’t know how come the puerile childish meme Nate Higgers is trending
but totalitrian libmob will be the winners
as they try to use it as an excuse to get advertisers to desert Twitter
I see a lot of fake tweets : Like a map which marks Greenland people as black etc.
A Fake police account saying their police dog is called Nate Higgers etc.
Someone posted a theory
Ian Miles Cheong tweeted
“Nate Higgers” is trending because everyone is asking why it’s trending
and condemning the fact that it is.
Self-fulfilling prophecy. Good work everyone.
Do you know how trends work? sigh”
I’ve posted this before. I still think it’s funny.
SO it turns out Londoners are least likely to pay the TV Tax.
Why should white folk bother?
Bottomline whoever posted the image is being deceptive
cos they chose to hide the context https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigray_People%27s_Liberation_Front
Doesn’t mention Tedros
That image was first posted on July 2nd 2016 by people who hate him
no context was given.. It doesn’t call TPLF terrorist
cos it was not always described as that
It is true that Tedros not a medical doctor , and the org has quite a lot of Marxist influence
But the MSM always (?) seems to assign him the honorific title “Doctor” and clearly, the intention is to mislead.
Pretty sweet gig for Tigrayan comrade?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tedros_Adhanom_Ghebreyesus
Seems to rub shoulders with (and be a mouthpiece for) way too many exceeding dodgy people for my taste…
see:
Bill is a huge chum
Just stop farts?
Does anyone remember mad cow disease? Let’s leave our cows free to fart for themselves.
Boxing day footy
The dumb fools are still ā takinv the kneeā despite the fraud and vacuity asdociated with a crap woke movement. The prime commentator ignored it – but you can imagine the ā approved ā rubbish to be vomited out by a sky or bbc mouth on pain of cancellationā¦
The Labour Party’s Twitter account has been hacked?
Replies are obvious
“How about the empty āTurkish barbersā that appear to be laundering moneyā¦?
No?
Well of course not- your voting public wouldnāt like that would they?”
Others point out those candy sho[s are all in London
where Labour control everything
The shops may be dodgy but I fail to see how they are ripping off the taxpayer, as surely they pay rates.
StewGreen
Ditto in taffland.
Add on car washers to that list .
Stew, it was covered by Jonny ‘Dalek’ Dymond on TWatO today. Jonny actually went out onto Oxford Street to investigate. It was claimed that the shops do not pay Business Rates because some/all are overseas owned.
@Up2snuff Is the candy shop thing UK news for TODAY ?
#1 It’s mostly London
#2 It started under Westminster Tories
Labour took control in May 2022
#3 FT broke the story AUGUST 17 2022
spoke of Ā£8m in evaded rates over years
That’s nothing cos that council collects Ā£2.4bn/year
It don’t see how much VAT was evaded
https://archive.is/LkLXn
#4 21 SEP 2022 court judgement closed one company, one declared to owe no rates, one deferred ..then no update
https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/company-linked-oxford-street-candy-25075180
03 MARCH 2022 TORY Westminster Council said it wants to rid central London of ācandy and tat shops
https://www.cityam.com/council-says-it-wants-to-rid-central-london-of-candy-and-tat-shops/
Covid meant many shops were left empty so that fueled growth in candy shops
After Covid it was always likely other shops would come back.
At this rate they’re going to be going backwards soon?
Its driving the taffmen nuts!
I hate to say I told you so but repeat my logical assertion from earlier posts that if slower speeds are safer then for any speed limit a lower one must be even safer.
Personally I find a 10 mph speed limit far too high and dangerous. It would surely be better to have a person carrying a large red flag walking in front of each vehicle, thus around 3 mph, to warn people of the vehicleās imminent arrival.
After all, it has been tried before and used for many years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotive_Acts
Not so much Back to the Future as Forward to the Past.
tomo
The Home Office is definitely “not fit for purpose”. However, we will soon hear their get out phrase “lessons to be learned”.
Unfortunately we do not have politicians with the bottle to sort it out.
Its the Reform Party for my next vote .
I hear from an acquaintance about his son who’s been on the Home Office team for about a year who’s saying that they’re being trained to resist disclosure / transparency across the board – be it MPs or FoI or any media.
There is a formal legal definition of “public interest” – but the poisonous mandarins / goons think it’s simply their whim.
Back in Novemebr Labour got Community Noted for posting a tweet they knew was misleading
Labour’s tweet from April is still there
even though it got Communioty Noted and ratioed 3:1
In April, Labour published an attack ad that had a picture of Rishi Sunak,
and it said: āDo you think adults convicted of sexually assaulting children should go to prison, Rishi Sunak doesnātā
… https://twitter.com/TheGameKat/status/1644295569186377728
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/a-beginners-guide-to-the-great-covid-con-part-1-could-it-happen-again/
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/time-to-start-thinking-the-unthinkable-about-king-charles-iii/