532 Responses to Midweek 31st January 2024

  1. Zephir says:

    Wild West ? nope, the dregs of Africa, say it like it is:

    “Wild West Britain: Moment teen attacks passerby with a knife as police arrest 14 and 15-year-old and seize machete after thieves use e-bikes to snatch seven mobile phones from victims in south east London.

    Meanwhile, four teenagers were convicted of two murder charges each after police detectives pieced together a complex case through detailed analysis of CCTV footage.

    Alagie Jobe, 19, Hussain Bah, 19, a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old were convicted of two counts of murder last Friday at Inner London Crown Court.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13028761/Wild-West-Britain-Moment-teen-attacks-passerby-knife-police-arrest-14-15-year-old-seize-machete-thieves-use-e-bikes-snatch-seven-mobile-phones-victims-south-east-London.html

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  2. tomo says:

    She’s wrong – the wokeists wouldn’t recognise Satan if xe scampered up and stuck a red hot trident in their ass…

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  3. tomo says:

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  4. Thoughtful says:

    The seige of Paris enters a new phase as the farmers have begun burning tyres across the Autoroutes. This damages the asphalt deep down meaning that even if they are removed the road cannot be used until it’s repaired.

    https://news.sky.com/story/uk-drivers-warned-over-french-protest-chaos-10351592

    There are rumours of these protests spreading to Ireland and then to England, but we don’t have as many famers here and there are huge agri businesses not small independent farmers.

    There is the possibility of food shortages in the Uk in the not so distant future.

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    • taffman says:

      Message to our so called government and its BBC – Net Zero is killing our Industry and agriculture.
      Scrap the Carbon Tax and Net Zero!
      We never voted for it.

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  5. tomo says:

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  6. Philip_2 says:

    Europe is finished, condemned to death by its deluded, third-rate elites
    By; Alistair Heath, writing in the DT today.

    The continent is incapable of recovering from its present economic, military and demographic crises…
    (excerpt)
    …….there is no way back for a European continent that has embraced nihilism, post-Christian paganism, illiberalism and the politics of envy, that believes that saving the planet requires shutting down successful industries and impoverishing its people, that cannot face down Islamist extremism and anti-Semitism, and that won’t reform its welfare state.
    ….
    The EU population will peak at 453.3 million in two years’ time, then slump to 419.5 million by 2100, despite massive immigration, Eurostat predicts. The population will age drastically, driven by a collapse in the birth rate. Welfare states will implode, with taxes rocketing on the young to pay for healthcare and pensions for the old. The Euro-elites’ only answer, even more migration, will empower potentially dangerous extremists. In France, Germany, Belgium and elsewhere, the failure to integrate many recent migrants, and the ruling class’s answer – to lie that all is well – is paving the way for a cataclysm.

    The gulf in living standards between America and Europe keeps on widening. In the final quarter of 2023, US GDP grew by an annualised 3.3 per cent; the Eurozone grew by zero per cent and the German economy shrank again. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine didn’t help, but Europe shouldn’t have become so dependent on Russian gas.
    ….
    The continent’s high-tax, high regulation model has caused decades of under-performance, and now Emmanuel Macron, the EU and the Dutch and German governments are deliberately shutting down swathes of their agriculture to meet net-zero targets. The Germans are destroying their car industry, and Europe will import Chinese electric vehicles instead. Decades of “industrial strategy” and subsidies have failed to create a world-class European tech industry. The continent’s economic suicide is already triggering an exodus of the best and brightest.
    …..
    It beggars belief that so many of the middle-class British Remainers and Rejoiners, who will help propel Labour to victory this year, are still so unfathomably ignorant about the true state of Europe’s economy and society. Blinded by anti-Tory hatred, obsessed by shiny TGVs and the memories of their pleasant holidays in southern Europe, they assume that things must – just must – be better in Europe.

    Almost all Labour MPs privately believe that the solution to our own lack of growth is to rejoin the single market or customs union, even though these have failed to save Europe’s own economies. How can further increasing our ties with a zero-growth continent or a shrinking German economy do anything for Britain? It can’t
    …..
    Britain is in an appalling state, but so is Europe. The Brexiteers’ Euro-pessimism has been vindicated; the problem is that the establishment refused to use Brexit to break with Brussels’ regulatory philosophy and to reorient our economy away from stagnant EU markets. Britain is therefore increasingly suffering from the same pathologies as Europe, and facing a similar terminal decline. This isn’t an argument for more EU, but one for even less, as well as radical domestic change. Europe’s gradual eclipse is accelerating, and it would be absurd for any British government to consider realigning the country with it.

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    This is a deeply depressing read, but its the best I have read today on what the true situation facing our country is. Its worse than the 1970’s, its also worse than the 1940;s when the elites thought that the answer was ‘a pact with Germany’. Only Churchill gave us hope. The elites thought they would cleanse the environment through what they called ‘eugenics; which is very much like net zero in that it kills people who are not ‘one of them’.

    Thanks to the recent closure of Port Talbot Steelworks; to meet ridiculous and totally made-up net zero targets, we can never again build ships or have any heavy industry, tanks or weapons that require steel. Our elites think the solution is to rejoin the EU if not the first year the second in a next Labour government. For those in the BBC and its media allies, they never left the EU dream of controlling the planet. Its chilling, yet at current rate it will all become true, even if the Conservatives hang on in office, net zero will finish off Europe. UK will be better but not by much. Poverty will be the default, the BBC employed to obscure that we are poorer, less mobile, unhealthy and swamped with hostile immigrants.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/31/europe-is-finished-condemned-third-rate-elites/?li_source=LI&li_medium=for_you

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  7. Flotsam says:

    I was wrong. Stephen Flynn, the HOC SNP leader, didn’t ask questions about Gaza at PMQ’S. Instead his questions were a good old fashioned left wingers hit on bankers bonuses.

    Nicola Sturgeon, what a pathetic specimen. At the Covid Inquiry she says she wished she’d locked down earlier!

    She also said, if I heard correctly, that she hoped Covid would be a political opportunity. What a strange admission.

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  8. tomo says:

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  9. tomo says:

    I’m shocked….

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  10. Eddy Booth says:

    Nine people, including children and police officers, have been taken to hospital after a “corrosive substance” was thrown in south London, police say.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-68161937

    A man was seen fleeing the “horrific incident” at Lessar Avenue, Lambeth.

    A woman and her two young children were taken to hospital for treatment. Three others, believed to have come to their aid, also needed medical help.

    Three police officers, who responded to the incident, sustained what are believed to be minor injuries.

    The Met said no arrest has been made, but that police helicopters were being used in the search for the assailant.

    London Assembly Member Marina Ahmad said on X (formerly Twitter) that there had been a traffic collision “with a man assaulting occupants”

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    So 3 police couldn’t restrain him?

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  11. JohnC says:

    Bristol stabbing: Mother urges parents to search children’s bags
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-68160356

    So we are getting night-time vigils, a bizarre ‘balloon release’ and lots and absolutely buckets of empathy across multiple articles about this stabbing of two white boys.

    No details about who has been arrested of course – and there is a high chance they will be white too. Their colour would have been known before the story was pushed to the top of the agenda and sent out throught the BBC’s TNI agenda-promotion channel to the multitude of small news sites who will promote it further.

    The BBC would have you believe this violence between white boys is the problem blighting our society. When we all know it’s not.

    This is:

    Look at this story.
    Four teens guilty of murdering two 16-year-old boys in south-east London
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-68153614

    They don’t even show it to us : it’s gone straight to regions. Lets see why.

    Apparently 3 people in a car rammed another person off his bike, got out and stabbed him to death repeatedly with ‘sword like knives’. The BBC don’t tell us that bit, they tone it down. Just as they don’t tell us ‘During the attack, which lasted less than a minute, Charlie was stabbed eight times including in the head, penetrating his brain. ‘

    Here he is: Charlie Bartolo. Not black, but of immigrant origin for sure:
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    The reason for this attack was simply the ‘postcode’. These barabrian savages just wanted to murder someone from that area.

    During the attack, one of them accidentally stabbed his ‘friend’ who got back in the car with them. What did they do ?.

    ‘They drove for a mile to Titmuss Avenue and then made the choice to abandon the car and Kearne behind to die on the pavement.’

    This is the scum the BBC should be focussing on. These are the ones destroying our society. But no : they bury it.

    Perhaps the picture of two of those who did it will give us a clue. The other two are too young to be identified.Something else we see regularly which is extremely alarming but which the BBC also ignore.

    Here they are:
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    This is the world the Left are creating.

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  12. Lucy Pevensey says:

    Blood on our hands.GOV.UK
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  13. taffman says:

    When the taffmen in the south were not happy with the “Invasion” they did something about it, but it cost the government a lot of money , a lot of money, although once again we hear the term “Lessons will be learned”.

    Catch it before it disappears……..
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-68158170

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  14. taffman says:

    “Clapham: Nine injured after ‘corrosive substance’ thrown in south London”……………..https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-68161937
    More diversity ?

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  15. JohnC says:

    These black guys inflicting such a violent murder on a random person from another postcode because he is white is a ‘Stephen Lawrence’ racist murder times 10. Just imagine if he had been butchered in the same way.

    Yet this one is buried straight into ‘regions’ where few people see it.

    It’s more racist double standards on an epic scale by the BBC.

    The hypocrisy and double standards of the Left never fail to disgust me.

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  16. Zephir says:

    yep

    and this:

    “Paranoid schizophrenic, 30, who kicked 54-year-old female custody officer to death is FREED – just two years after he was handed indefinite psychiatric hospital order: Victim’s family fury as killer is seen grocery shopping and at a gym”

    Scum from around the world all welcome here

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13030315/humphrey-burke-schizophrenic-freed-hospital-order.html

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  17. Zephir says:

    And this:

    “British girl, 13, is dramatically saved from a forced marriage to her cousin in Pakistan”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13030293/British-girl-13-dramatically-saved-forced-marriage-cousin-Pakistan.html

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  18. Zephir says:

    And this:

    “Mike Freer QUITS: Veteran Tory justice minister stands down after his office faced ‘arson’ attack and he was forced to wear a stab vest – saying ‘I’ve been driven out of politics by death threats – for supporting Israel'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13029929/Mike-Freer-QUITS-Veteran-Tory-justice-minister-arson-attack-stab-vest-death-threats-supporting-Israel.html

    “‘Should you REALLY have to think, am I going to survive the day?’ Mike Freer MP believes only a fluke stopped him being MURDERED. Here he details the decade of intimidation and abuse that has forced him to walk away from politics after 34 years”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13029927/Mike-Freer-MP-stopped-MURDERED-intimidation-abuse.html

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    • Fedup2 says:

      It’s very sad – I’ve not met many MPs – but I did some voluntary work for mr freer who ran a ‘dementia help clinic ‘ in his constituency each year . I took part a couple of times and saw that it did genuine good . I didn’t know much about mr freer but I could see he was do it out of genuine commitment and not for ‘brownie points ‘….

      …so it’s sad to see what’s been done to him …. ( and yes I know he ll probably be thrown out at the election count with the other 300 ) …

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  19. Zephir says:

    Ageism (a “protected characteristic”) against white males is fine at the bbc…and they pay the price:

    “The Ken Bruce backlash goes on… Radio 2 has lost 1.4 million listeners since the veteran broadcaster’s shock departure, figures reveal”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13031151/Ken-Bruce-backlash-Radio-2-lost-million-listeners-veteran-broadcasters-shock-departure-figures-reveal.html

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    • JohnC says:

      Why are WE spending money on an inquiry ?

      In that article I saw:

      ‘I saw women who had been shot in the head many, many times. It seemed like there was an intentional obliteration of these women’s faces. It was clear that these women died in agony.’

      Remember that when you see all the staged pro-Palestinian Getty pictures on the BBC front page.

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  20. Zephir says:

    “Hamas placed booby-trap bombs on the bodies of women killed in their October 7 attack on Israel, inquiry hears

    The All Party Britain-Israel Parliamentary Group heard testimony yesterday. A responder saw a murdered woman with a live grenade placed in her hand.

    Bodies of women killed by Hamas in its attack on Israel on October 7 were booby-trapped with grenades and beheaded, an inquiry at Westminster heard yesterday.

    Women volunteers who collected and cleaned the bodies for burial were forced to flee the morgue many times amid explosion alerts.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13030969/Hamas-placed-booby-trap-bombs-bodies-women-killed-October-7-attack-Israel-inquiry-hears.html

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  21. Zephir says:

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    • Thoughtful says:

      And the red bit believes it has the God given right (literally) to wage war against every single one of them and expects the West to send it’s young men to die on its behalf!
      Time a reality check was forced on it, and it wound it’s neck in somewhat.

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      • Zephir says:

        It has a right to defend itself against those who have a charter that states they wish to eliminate them

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        • Zephir says:

          The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement was issued on August 18, 1988. The Islamic Resistance Movement, also known as the HAMAS, is an extremist fundamentalist Islamic organization operating in the territories under Israeli control. Its Covenant is a comprehensive manifesto comprised of 36 separate articles, all of which promote the basic HAMAS goal of destroying the State of Israel through Jihad (Islamic Holy War). The following are excerpts of the HAMAS Covenant:​​​​​​​​​​​​​
          Anti-Semitic incitement:

          The Day of Judgment will not come about until Moslems fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: ‘O Moslem, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him.” (Article 7)

          “The enemies have been scheming for a long time … and have accumulated huge and influential material wealth. With their money, they took control of the world media… With their money they stirred revolutions in various parts of the globe… They stood behind the French Revolution, the Communist Revolution and most of the revolutions we hear about… With their money they formed secret organizations – such as the Freemasons, Rotary Clubs and the Lions – which are spreading around the world, in order to destroy societies and carry out Zionist interests… They stood behind World War I … and formed the League of Nations through which they could rule the world. They were behind World War II, through which they made huge financial gains… There is no war going on anywhere without them having their finger in it.” (Article 22)

          “Zionism scheming has no end, and after Palestine, they will covet expansion from the Nile to the Euphrates River. When they have finished digesting the area on which they have laid their hand, they will look forward to more expansion. Their scheme has been laid out in the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’.” (Article 32)

          “The HAMAS regards itself the spearhead and the vanguard of the circle of struggle against World Zionism… Islamic groups all over the Arab world should also do the same, since they are best equipped for their future role in the fight against the warmongering Jews.” (Article 32)

          ​Goals of the HAMAS:

          ​”The Islamic Resistance Movement is a distinguished Palestinian movement, whose allegiance is to Allah, and whose way of life is Islam. It strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine.” (Article 6)

          On the destruction of Israel:

          “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.” (Preamble)

          The exclusive Moslem nature of the area:

          “The land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf [Holy Possession] consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgment Day. No one can renounce it or any part, or abandon it or any part of it.” (Article 11)

          “Palestine is an Islamic land… Since this is the case, the Liberation of Palestine is an individual duty for every Moslem wherever he may be.” (Article 13)

          The call to jihad:

          “The day the enemies usurp part of Moslem land, Jihad becomes the individual duty of every Moslem. In the face of the Jews’ usurpation, it is compulsory that the banner of Jihad be raised.” (Article 15)

          “Ranks will close, fighters joining other fighters, and masses everywhere in the Islamic world will come forward in response to the call of duty, loudly proclaiming: ‘Hail to Jihad!’. This cry will reach the heavens and will go on being resounded until liberation is achieved, the invaders vanquished and Allah’s victory comes about.” (Article 33)

          Rejection of a negotiated peace settlement:

          “[Peace] initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement… Those conferences are no more than a means to appoint the infidels as arbitrators in the lands of Islam… There is no solution for the Palestinian problem except by Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are but a waste of time, an exercise in futility.” (Article 13)

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  22. Zephir says:

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  23. Zephir says:

    Remember Labour and Blm ?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      EMILY JONES DAY?

      On 22 March 2020, 7-year-old Emily Grace Jones[3] was stabbed at Queen’s Park in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, while riding her scooter and died shortly afterwards.[4][5] Eltiona Skana, a 30-year-old Albanian woman unknown to the Jones family, was arrested on the scene and later charged with murder.[6][7]
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Emily_Jones

      stabbed = head hacked off

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  24. Zephir says:

    Ross Andrew Parker (19 August 1984 – 21 September 2001), from Peterborough, England, was a seventeen-year-old white English male murdered in an unprovoked racially motivated crime. He bled to death after being stabbed, beaten with a hammer and repeatedly kicked by a gang of British Pakistani men.[3][4][5] The incident occurred in Millfield, Peterborough, ten days after the September 11 attacks.[6]

    In December 2002, Shaied Nazir, Ahmed Ali Awan and Sarfraz Ali were unanimously found guilty of Parker’s murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, each receiving minimum terms ranging from 16 to 18 years. A fourth defendant, Zairaff Mahrad, was cleared of murder and manslaughter.[7]

    A memorial plaque for Parker is located in the Netherton area of Peterborough where a football match is played each year in his memory.

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    • moggiemoo says:

      I’m guessing the members of the jury have since been themselves convicted of anti-muslim, racist hate crime for finding the murdering bastards guilty.

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  25. JohnC says:

    Houthis claim to have hit US merchant ship in Red Sea
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68162927

    Complete with heroic picture:
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    You would never guess in a thousand years that the Houthis are terrorists if all you had to go on was this BBC report. I guarantee it will cheer up all the Muslims who read it and none will be angry at the BBC about what they said.

    There should be rules about how things like this are reported.

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  26. andyjsnape says:

    Clapham attack: Mother and girls among nine injured by ‘corrosive substance’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-68161937

    No mention of this being racist, guess its those people who enrich British society.. time will tell when its reported elsewhere and not on the bbc

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    • Fedup2 says:

      For anoraks of bbc propaganda methods – if this story is gone to the regions by lunchtime we ll know someone called ‘Mohammed’ is involved and there was a feud about someone marrying their own sister …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Witnesses have described a “horrific” scene after a mother and her two girls were doused in their car with a “corrosive substance” in south London.

      “horrific” – or maybe not?
      “corrosive substance” – honour beating?!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Diversity is our strength.

      “Alarm as acid attacks soar by 69% with more women than men affected for first time
      Acid attacks on women have outnumbered attacks on men for the first time, a charity has warned

      Amy-Clare Martin
      Crime Correspondent
      Thursday 19 October 2023 08:32 BST”

      https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/acid-attacks-rise-katie-piper-b2431988.html

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  27. andyjsnape says:

    BBC culture correspondent Charlotte Gallagher
    https://www.gbnews.com/news/bbc-news-presenter-swearing

    Tut tut

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  28. JohnC says:

    Alec Baldwin pleads not guilty to new involuntary manslaughter charge over Halyna Hutchins’s Rust shooting
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68162923

    This whole thing stinks to high heaven – and you can bet this darling of the Trump haters has friends in very important places.

    From the original:
    ‘The FBI recently finished and sent a report to the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office. Officials found that the weapon, meant to be a prop, could not be fired without pulling the trigger.’

    Proving Baldwin is lying.

    Then we learn the FBI actually broke the gun and what do you know, the prosecution dropped the case.

    Now we get:
    ‘New Mexico prosecutors say there is new forensic evidence.’
    Which is:
    ‘They said doing so had revealed that the incident could only have taken place if the trigger had been pulled.’

    So what’s new about that ?.

    The people who handled this prosecution should be up in the dock with Baldwin. As should his lawyers : I read somewhere they bullied them into dropping the case.

    Funny how this stench happens so often around what the Leftists get up to yet the MSM never question any of it.

    The astute reader can of course extrapolate that to how they behaved after the accusations of the rigged election. No questions, no demands for enquiries – they just labelled everyone who suggested it as liars right from the start.

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  29. Zephir says:

    Oh yes, no rigged election, except when the Clinton hag lost:

    “Trump knows he’s an illegitimate president”

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Ah another BBC free day .._ but I’m getting vibes about the coming US election . If president trump were to win – if Obama failed to sufficiently fix the vote – get trumped up convictions for killing the first born or whatever – is the democrat narrative being laid down for the election to have been stolen ?

      Searching the US for evidence of ‘voter fraud ‘? Planting false voters in various states to undermine the vote? Running case after case to challenge the result ?

      I recognise – base on the planning and skill of the 2020 election theft – that it is unlikely to be an open fair election – but just imagine ….
      And imagine that Christian and Katty and orla and Fergal and Clive and huw ( sorry not huw ) will be back on their daily ‘100 days ‘ …. In the way they did for Biden ( or notably didn’t )….

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    • MarkyMark says:

      A stain on the White House carpet!

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  30. Zephir says:

    It’s not insurrection when they do it

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  31. Fedup2 says:

    Reading the accounts of sturgeon at the covid inquiry – I know that there is an element in Scotland which thinks She Can Do No Wrong – the evidence coming out of deletion of evidence – secret committees of ‘friends ‘ – conniving civil servants – taking any opportunity to undermine the British Government – really makes one think what a terrible mistake it was for Blair to set up this ‘governments ‘ …
    Now – incredibly – there is a move for an ‘upper chamber ‘ in Scotland ….. another tax burden of English subsidy ….

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  32. Fedup2 says:

    I’ve been distracted by a 30 minute YouTube of Douglas Murray talking with tucker Carlson from a month ago on ‘loomer ‘…. I think if the Obama regime saw it mr Murray would not be getting a green card ….

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  33. JohnC says:

    Watch: Footage shows last residents’ struggle to leave Ukraine town
    https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-68139178

    I was somewhat shocked to watch this video : it gave a fair overview of what was going on and was not stuffed with cheap empathy and BBC clones pushing themselves in front of the camera to tell us what other people think and putting words in their mouths.

    Not sure how old it is though – from what I saw these seiges progress by Ukranian soldiers being ordered to stay and fight long after their route to withdraw is cut off by the Russians. Shortly after that it all goes quiet because they are all getting killed or captured and we aren’t allowed to know about things like that.

    Then I read the text and – of course – it’s not BBC at all. Someone else did it and gave it to the BBC. Without the usual soulful background piano music.

    Same as everything they put out these days. If they do it themselves, they simply cannot stop themselves from stuffing it with agenda. Anything they put out these days which is half decent was made by someone else.

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  34. Zephir says:

    This is the police bullies picking on an individual on a councilbye law matter, who run a mile when the Palestinian terrorist supporters are running riot around London:

    “How many police officers DOES it take to shut down a gospel singer? New video shows FIVE of Met’s finest jobsworths threatening to arrest Christian singer on Oxford Street as onlookers say ‘shouldn’t you be trying to catch rapists and murderers?'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13029905/How-police-officers-DOES-shut-gospel-singer-New-video-shows-FIVE-Met-constables-threatening-arrest-Christian-singer-Oxford-Street-onlookers-say-shouldnt-trying-catch-rapists-murderers.html

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  35. Deborah says:

    Mike Freer, a good constituency MP. He was very helpful when we had a problem and followed up when Barnet Coucil didn’t do what they said. A real loss to the Party unlike some I could mention.

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    • Terminal Moraine says:

      BBC only 10 hrs late to report it.

      It mentions the near miss with David Amess’ killer but omits the attacks by Muslims Against Crusades that Freer has mentioned previously.

      They’re pushing the generic hate angle. Labour MP has already chipped in talking about “the dangers of social media.” Gone by lunchtime…

      https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-68163968

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  36. Scroblene says:

    A Beeboid’s take on the news…

    In the USA, you have to pass more examinations to be a vet than a doctor

    (Beeboid mutters ‘so what’).

    In Finland, you have to pass more examinations to be a scientist than a vet

    (Beeboid, ‘Yawn’).

    In Switzerland, you have to pass more examinations to be a chemist than a scientist

    (Beeboid, ‘snore…’).

    In the UK, you only have to pay £2,000 to a crook in Calais to be all three professionals when your rubber dinghy hits the Kent Coast…

    (Beeboids dribble ecstasy, squeal and do high-fives all round)!

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  37. MarkyMark says:

    HA HA HA HA HA!

    “Bushra Bibi: Who is the faith healer wife of Pakistani ex-PM Imran Khan?”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68151420

    The woman now known as Bushra Bibi was, in fact, a faith healer with a small following who respected her as a spiritual adviser.

    faith healer – success rate?

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  38. andyjsnape says:

    Student forced to use loan to buy own wheelchair
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c513r2jy1e7o

    “forced”, gunpoint?

    Another campaign brought to you by the bBC

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  39. MarkyMark says:

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  40. Thoughtful says:

    I wouldn’t normally post the financial interviews but this piece of Geo-political analysis is well worth watching for an impartial view of what is going on in the Middle East.

    Netanyahu is so gung ho, he is creating a situation in the Middle East which even America cannot win. It’s quite possible the conscription mooted is in reality to fight in the Middle East and not against Russia at all.

    As many Israeli leaders have boasted, they are the ones who run America and unfortunately since Brexist the useless Tories have allowed Britain to become a puppet state of America.

    Have a watch and realise that the stakes are much bigger than you probably ever imagined.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Rishi to issue Green Cards to all UK citizens!

      “Chancellor Rishi Sunak held a US green card – allowing permanent residence in that country – while he was chancellor, his spokeswoman has said. He returned it in October last year, ahead of his first American trip as a UK government minister.8 Apr 2022”

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  41. MarkyMark says:

    JUST A COSTUME!

    “Diane Abbott walks away after she’s asked to explain Jewish ‘costume’ comment”
    https://www.thejc.com/news/diane-abbott-walks-away-after-shes-asked-to-explain-jewish-costume-comment-k6pu6xbt

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Students at the University of Oxford have voted to replace noisy appreciation with the British Sign Language equivalent – a wave of both hands. Union officers say clapping can be triggering for some students, including those with anxiety. Audience members are being encouraged to use ‘jazz hands’ or a ‘silent wave’.25 Oct 2019

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  42. MarkyMark says:

    Tolerance ….

    The Devil, is he all bad? (Not the nine o’clock news)

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  43. MarkyMark says:

    Ukraine’s security service says it has uncovered corruption in an arms purchase by the military worth about $40m (£31m).

    The SBU said five senior people in the defence ministry and at an arms supplier were being investigated.

    It said the defence officials signed a contract for 100,000 mortar shells in August 2022.

    Payment was made in advance, with some funds transferred abroad, but no arms were ever provided.

    Corruption has been a major stumbling block in Ukraine’s bid to join the European Union.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68120973

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    • JohnC says:

      Most definitely the very tip at the top of the iceberg.

      Apparently a LOT has made it’s way back to the US as well.

      The kind of business which makes you ‘disappear’ if you get nosey. Lets all hope Panorama get bored putting clueless clones into clothes shops and get stuck into this one :-).

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      • MarkyMark says:

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Makes one wonder what satan has in store for Michelle moan – maybe a room full of defective PPE which she has to count for eternity …..
          If ever there was state Tory corruption – there she is …

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  44. AsISeeIt says:

    Bill Wiggin MP and his bypass joins in the grand national tradition of our politics edition

    Zelensky seeks to remove Ukraine’s top general… Valeriy Zaluzhny, commander-in-chief of country’s armed forces, set to lose job amid reports of strained relationship (Telegraph, Tuesday)

    Zelensky U-turns after telling Ukraine’s top general he would be sacked… President keeps Valery Zaluzhny as commander-in-chief of armed forces under pressure from military top brass, amid rumours of growing rift (Times, Wednesday)

    Kremlin mocks Zelensky for attempted sacking of military chief… “One thing remains obvious – the Kyiv regime has a lot of problems, things are not going well there” (Telegraph)

    You say Zelensky, I say Zaluzhny… let’s call the whole thing off

    Brussels has made a last-minute offer to the Hungarian premier to secure his support for for its €50bn of aid to Ukraine… amid frenzied diploamtic efforts to reach a deal (FT)

    As the likelihood of a military coup in Kiev to oust Zelensky looms (other spellings are available, although apparently western foreign policy options other than endless costly proxy-war, are not) regime change now looks to be on the cards in Ukraine.

    Meanwhile, over there at the BBC it looks as though they’ve given up on their cherished notion of regime change at the Kremlin: Vladimir Putin: Many Russians see no alternative candidate as election looms (BBC)

    Them elections, eh? They do seem to rather loom…

    As the election looms, we must be alert to Trump’s threats of vigilante justice (Robert Reich, Guardian)

    Pakistan: Imran Khan convicted on dubious charges as election looms (Irish Legal News – there’s a joke there somewhere)

    In local news: Herefordshire MPs bypass comments come as election looms (Herefordshire Times) – worth quoting the commentary here more fully I feel as the microcosm may well be extrapolated to the macrocosm: I do wonder sometimes how much time and certainly column inches have been wasted on talking about the prospect of a bypass for Hereford.

    Here we see yet another carrot, with MP Sir Bill Wiggin “highlighting the importance of a bypass”.

    When will people realise they have been flogging a dead horse for years? It’s been heated debate for decades, often bandied about around election times but obviously not hot enough to actually result in any realistic outcome. (Andy Morgan, Hereford) – well observed and very well said sir.

    We may as well now segueway to: Sturgeon accused of Covid “crocodile tears” (Telegraph) – what could possibly, we wonder, have prompted her idea to have a little blub when defending her Lockdown era record?

    Good Morning Britain stars cringe watching back Matt Hancock’s ‘tears’ as he claims he ‘lost it altogether’ in 2020 interview… The former health secretary appeared on the ITV show two years ago, leaving viewers confused and some questioning whether he was faking tears as he spoke about the pandemic. (giveaway Metro)

    Good old “nippy sweetie” Nicola, never let it be said she was outdone in any of her covid responses by any Englishman…

    The ex-SNP leader choked up as she rejected claims that she had pushed for fights with Boris Johnson’s government to boost her Scottish independence cause. (Independent)

    Speaking of independence…

    It would be nice think Britain actually had an independent foreign policy of our own: Shapps in talks to send carrier to Red Sea… talks in the US… senior Biden administration officials in Washington (Telegraph)

    Or an independent trade policy of our own: Brexiteer backlash on Sunak’s deal with DUP… because of fears it will hamper Britain’s ability to break free from EU rules (Telegraph)

    Or indeed, an independent legal system of our own: Rishi Sunak has ruled out a radical move to opt out of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) (Indepenedent – the irony of that newspaper title becomes sadly apparent)

    To brighten the mood somewhat one does have options within our press line-up – there’s the jokey blokey Daily Star: Throwing a sickie is good for you… Cheeky duvet day helps slackers be creative

    Then there’s his master’s voice, the Rishi lackey loyalist Daily Express: 5,600 migrants indentified for first Rwanda flights

    I’m visualising the starting line at the Grand National with the massed ranks of a veritable cavalry regiment of hopeful runners and riders, under starter’s orders, and ready to set off over the 30 fences and two laps of the punishing Aintree Racecourse

    We go over now to Peter O’Sullevan in the commentary box

    “And they’re off… it’s the six-foot, bearded Iraqi Boy out in front, leading from Vulnerable and In Need of NHS Treatment… behind him comes Gay Somali, in the Queen’s rainbow colours, and Albanian Peddlar in the sheepskin noseband, now just a nose in front… as they approach the first fence… the Red Wall back bench opposition… all safely over that… but there’s several fallers at the Chair of the House of Lords committee… half the field have pulled up before even reaching the Channel Turn of the European Court… the National this year sponsored by Deliveroo, Uber, Pret a Manger and Ali’s Car Wash & Valet Service of Bradford… the race judge in blinkers of course… there’s bound to be an appeal… now out in front it’s the irish-trained Lone Wolf – ignore him, he’s just a loose riderless horse… as the stewards have got their work cut out for them attempting to coral him safely out of harms way… also interfering with the rest of the field is Bound For Rotherham… his stable lad awarded the top prize for grooming before the start, next come the fillies with the middle eastern owners Love You Longtime and Plenty Dollar out of Modern Slave Trade… very few of the starters are still standing as they come to the final hurdle… and it’s all down to the last fence… fresh from the winner’s enclosure Sir Keir Starmer comes on waving a red flag… but there’s no one left to finish… so it’s race abadoned!” The punters tear up their betting tickets

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  45. MarkyMark says:

    Cambodia: The ‘burning prisons’ fuelled by fast fashion
    Published
    10 hours ago
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68102771

    ……………….

    Meanwhile …
    https://www.theguardian.com/fashion

    Cold snap: what to wear when you’re hibernating
    PR images- comp
    Our styling editor has tips for those domestic days when leaving the house, other than a quick pop to the shops, feels like a stretch

    Melanie Wilkinson

    Fri 12 Jan 2024 06.00 GMT
    https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2024/jan/12/cold-snap-what-to-wear-when-youre-hibernating

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  46. G says:

    The ‘Elite’ (and BBC) go silent when they think the public will be disturbed by any particular change so they conceal it.

    I think the monetary system has taken a big hit over the last few days. Ebay/Amazon demand password change. Can’t log in to my online banking. All simultaneously – yes. Something’s going on/has happened and/or the system is hastily trying to patch the problem up.

    Anybody experiencing same?

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    • Lunchtime Loather says:

      Yes! I can login to my bank but I am now always asked for a One Time Passcode. Rarely happened in the past.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Hi lunchtime – I’m from your bank security department. We are replacing your debit card for security reasons – could you confirm your identity by giving me the long number , your account number , the 3 numbers on the back of the card please – ……..
        It really horrifies me that such a simple evil scam works sometimes …..

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  47. Eddy Booth says:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-london-68164010

    “What we know so far
    A 31-year-old woman and her daughters – aged eight and three – were doused with an alkaline substance on Wednesday evening in an attack in Clapham, south London
    Police believe the woman knows the attacker”

    ie she’s refusing to tell them who did it ?

    “Five police officers also suffered minor injuries and have left hospital”

    Five clowns, if he escaped.

    “Police have launched a manhunt and are asking anyone with information to call 999”

    A manhunt without a wanted poster..

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    • Guest Who says:

      It’s what doesn’t get into the news now that illustrates where the country has sunk.

      https://x.com/bbcpolitics/status/1752972812980044122?s=58
      Keir Starmer clashes with Rishi Sunak over Iceland worker’s mortgage

      If have accepted that all BBC Politics now does is run Labour and now Iceland PR, and a lot of this is Westminster Bubble fluff, but this one piqued interest as it had been referred to elsewhere much earlier.

      Beyond whether Surfer’s claims were accurate at all, the quoted numbers were ridiculous.

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