532 Responses to Midweek 31st January 2024

  1. Zephir says:

    As alluded to above, for info for Justin Welby and the rest of the rabble thinking these are “asylum seekers”

    “Clapham ‘acid’ attacker Abdul Ezedi snuck into UK in a lorry, was twice told to leave, then committed a sex crime – yet was STILL allowed to stay by claiming he was Christian: Manhunt continues for thug who maimed mother, two daughters… and HIMSELF

    Police are hunting for a sex offender and former asylum seeker for the attack

    Abdul Ezedi is the prime suspect in the Clapham chemical attack

    He is accused of giving a mother and her two daughters life-changing injuries ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13035341/Clapham-acid-attacker-Abdul-Ezedi-snuck-UK-lorry-twice-told-leave-committed-sex-crime-allowed-stay-claiming-Christian-Manhunt-continues-thug-maimed-mother-two-daughters-HIMSELF.html

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    • G says:

      Z,

      Well someone’s got to get him to write a letter of apology to the woman harmed before any thing else…………

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  2. Zephir says:

    As Led Zeppelin said:

    “How Many More Times ? ” ??????????????????

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  3. Zephir says:

    Policies ? not us…

    “Rachel Reeves refuses to answer £28bn question 10 times in cringeworthy interview. The Shadow Chancellor came away bruised after a Paxman-style interview with Sky’s Beth Rigby.

    Rachel Reeves has refused 10 times in a single interview to say whether Labour is standing by its plan to splurge £28billion on green investment.

    The Shadow Chancellor faced a bruising showdown on Sky News, in which Beth Rigby failed to get a firm commitment despite asking again and again.”

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1862240/Rachel-Reeves-10-times-28-billion

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  4. Zephir says:

    Reform UK unveils ex-Labour MP as Rochdale by-election candidate
    Simon Danczuk, a prominent former Labour MP, will stand for Reform UK after the incumbent MP Tony Lloyd passed away two weeks ago.

    Mr Danczuk represented the seat as a Labour MP from 2010 to 2017, helping to expose the grooming gang scandal.

    Speaking following this afternoon’s revelation in The Sun, Mr Danczuk said the town had been neglected by the main political parties.

    He said: “Locally, Labour is failing to protect our people and support local businesses. Nationally, the Conservatives are failing to grow our economy and are leaving our borders open to illegal immigration.

    “Labour refuse to say what they will do if they get into Government. The Tories refuse to do in Government what the public want. One has broken Britain, the other will bankrupt it.”

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1862204/Reform-UK-labour-party-Rochdale-byelection

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  5. Zephir says:

    The news will be a major boost for Reform, who are comfortably beating the LibDems and Green Party to become the country’s third most popular party.

    A recent poll showed the former Brexit Party is now just seven points behind the Tories, though today’s defection shows they can also pick up Labour support.

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  6. tomo says:

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  7. tomo says:

    Nowt to do with the BBC

    The Forrest Gump of Villainy

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  8. tomo says:

    Lower than a snake’s belly

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  9. tomo says:

    Paging Lindsay Hoyle…

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  11. Zephir says:

    If this racist bbc bitch is NOT sacked AND prosecuted for hate crime, I want to know why:

    “Senior BBC employee accused of ‘anti-semitism’ after branding Jews ‘Nazi parasites’ that funded a ‘holohoax’ and calling white people ‘a virus’ in a series of posts on social media”

    One of her posts appeared to peddle the conspiracy theory that the Rothschild family were behind the ‘holohoax’, a term commonly used by Holocaust deniers to suggest the Nazi genocide was fabricated.

    In another post published on January 12, and still not taken down, Ms Queva called Jewish people ‘subcontinental melanin recessive caucAsians of the Synagogue of Satan’.

    A further post on January 13 branded Jews ‘a bunch of thieving squatters’, accusing them of ‘buying and selling those who kidnap from Africa’.

    And in an anti-Semitic rant as recent as yesterday, Queva reportedly wrote that Jews were ‘japhetic AshkeNazi who have no zero blood connection to the land of Palestine or Israel’.

    Ms Queva also allegedly described white people as ‘barbaric’ and ‘bloodthirsty’, the Telegraph reported.

    According to her LinkedIn profile, Ms Queva previously held roles at Disney and NBC, and joined the Corporation in January 2023.

    In other Facebook posts, the BBC employee referred to the UK as the ‘UKKK’ – a reference to the Klu Klux Klan.

    Jewish anti-hate charity Campaign Against Antisemitism said it would refer Queva to the police and write to the BBC.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13035487/Senior-BBC-employee-accused-anti-semitism-branding-Jews-Nazi-parasites-funded-holohoax-calling-white-people-virus-series-posts-social-media.html

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    • tomo says:

      A BBC Fweee! manager turns out to be an unhinged asshole – colour me surprised NOT.

      It was announced years ago that the pisspoor tripe factory that is BBC3 “edgy yoof channel” was to be euthanised.

      It’s a zombie , staggering ever onwards spewing moronic kerrapp onto the airwaves scheduled by trash like Dawn.

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    • maxincony says:

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      • Up2snuff says:

        maxi, I cannot believe you have posted that – you racist, you! Do you not realise that is a micro-aggression?

        And on another topic, where is that apology you owe me?

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  12. Zephir says:

    BBC have stated they will not employ those not committed to diversity and inclusion, well see above…

    Does that inclusion and diversity include white people and Jews ??

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  13. JohnC says:

    US sanctions Israeli settlers over West Bank violence
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68173904

    Oh – that sounds serious. All those settlers sanctioned ?.

    Until you read the article and realise the headline SHOULD have been:
    US sanctions 4 Israeli settlers over West Bank violence

    Yes. Just 4. And it warrants front-page news at the BBC. Whereas the fact that UN members helped Hamas attack from UN sites in Gaza (mentioned in the same Israeli report as those who joined in the terrorist attack) was omitted entirely by the BBC.

    And what devastating impact will it have on their lives ?.
    ‘The sanctions block the individuals from accessing all US property, assets and the American financial system.’

    The BBC want us to think this is a major action against Israel by the USA. When in fact it is utterly insignificant.

    What could we call this type of lie ?. ‘The lie by exaggeration’ ?.

    Whatever it is, it’s deliberately misleading in favour of the BBC’s anti-semetic agenda.

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  14. JohnC says:

    Senior BBC employee accused of ‘anti-semitism’ after branding Jews ‘Nazi parasites’ that funded a ‘holohoax’ and calling white people ‘a virus’ in a series of posts on social media
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13035487/Senior-BBC-employee-accused-anti-semitism-branding-Jews-Nazi-parasites-funded-holohoax-calling-white-people-virus-series-posts-social-media.html

    Here she is. She sums up everything the BBC has become.
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    Lefties would be demanding GB News got shut down if they did something similar.
    Are you there OFCOM ?.

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      When she gets fired could she take that other hate-ist Sweet with her.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        She’d fit very well as the female Muslim bit of Labour Party MPs – although I suspect that when they get they’ll have to ‘out muslim ‘ each other to get the HMG jobs – they obviously never be as good as the Muslim chaps though – since their primary function is to breed …

        I’d sort wonder if the bbc lady had her online rant because of the second bottle of red … but being faithful to her believes she don’t touch the juice – right ?

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  15. tomo says:

    Safety fears mean public can’t question Sadiq Khan in person…

    https://www.mylondon.news/news/safety-fears-mean-public-cant-28548923

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Tomo – I didn’t realise people were allowed to question the emir – but safety trumps accountability show give him a bit of slack … and it’s not as though anyone is gonna detonate an IED next to his armoured Range Rover eh?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Ivory tower ! HA HA HA HA!

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  16. Zephir says:

    BBC racist employee:

    This is the last 6 months of the bbc obsession with racism headlines, at least every 3 to 4 days another headline, sometimes two or three stories about the same issue:

    Racism: More to be done on discrimination – Windrush generation

    Leeds far-right activist guilty of inciting racial hatred

    TV doctor describes ‘barrage of racist abuse’

    Paddington: Nurse struck off over racist comments to colleagues

    Racism activist Stephen Higgins dies after health battle

    Gloucestershire Police almost four times more likely to stop black person

    New Year Honours 2024: Kick It Out chairman made MBE

    King’s Lynn Town: Two arrested over racist chants at match

    PC asked for black mannequin to stamp on – hearing

    ‘I lost everything because I talked about racism’

    Rastafarian soldier wins racism case against Army

    Can the British Royal Family recover from the race row?

    Benjamin Zephaniah on racism, refusing an OBE and football

    Fan jailed for racially abusing Rio Ferdinand

    Racism: Social worker calls experiences exhausting

    Racist abuse will not stop me standing in Bedford – Tory candidate

    Port Vale fan banned after racially abusing player

    Joey Barton’s Anthony Walker murder comments ‘lack sensitivity’

    Greater Manchester Police ‘remains institutionally racist’

    Racism: Abuse being normalised in Wales’ schools – report

    Jack Simpson: Ex-Cardiff City player issues apology for racist language towards team-mate

    Far-right website editor jailed over racial hatred

    Welsh regions and players want ‘strong’ WRU leadership after damning review

    Matthew White: Stephen Lawrence suspect said he had killed before in second attack

    Islamophobia awareness should be taught in every school – report

    Tommy Best: Wales’ forgotten black football pioneer

    Arrest after Birmingham City footballer racially abused at match

    ‘Shameful’ rise in racism against black people, says EU survey

    Bianca Williams – Why I’ve lost confidence in the police

    Racism helped shape my music, composer says

    Jack Simpson: Ex-Cardiff City player charged over alleged use of racist language towards team-mate

    Hull Seahawks investigates allegations of racist abuse during game

    Racism: Mental health impact of profiling and trolls

    Gymnastics racism apology delay a ‘real shame’ – Irish PM

    Ex-RAF cadet behind Nazi graffiti named as Aristedes Haynes

    NHS Grampian launching drive to tackle racism after concerns raised

    Met Police: Ex-officers admit sending racist WhatsApp messages

    Taking the knee origins in Mesopotamia – research

    Port Talbot: Ex-RAF cadet painted mural with Nazi graffiti

    Jacksonville gunman who shot three dead left racist messages – police

    How a protest by black activists in 1963 led to the UK’s first anti-racism laws

    Dunmurry: Anti-racism rally after Nazi flags flown near mosque

    Met Police officer jailed for sending offensive WhatsApp messages

    The argument about prejudice, power, and the disputed idea of “reverse racism”

    Fire service racism: Gloucestershire fire chief apologises

    Former Avon and Somerset Police officer barred over racist comments

    Belfast mosque leader’s worries after Nazi flags flown nearby

    Morecambe: Faith leaders condemn homophobic and racist graffiti

    Port Talbot: Teen in court over Nazi graffiti on mural

    Kelso Cochrane: Trying to unlock the secrets of a 64-year-old racist murder

    Racist football fans need re-educating – manager

    Surrey shop accused of racism removes image of tobacco plantation

    Surrey shop in racism row over tobacco poster

    Tory ‘turmoil’ blamed for slow Islamophobia action

    Racism: We had to face it alone – ex-Wales star Rob Earnshaw

    Peterborough’s Jonson Clarke-Harris calls out racist abuse on Instagram

    Maidenhead student’s harassment continues after racist notes

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    • JohnC says:

      I will guarantee to you 100% that not a single one of those articles from the BBC is about racism against white people.

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  17. Zephir says:

    Apologies for the length above, but I believe it says more about the bbc than me, all these (fifty seven) stories within six months (there are very likely more, these are just from the headlines) and yet they harbour a racist in their midst, what will they do about it ?

    Questions need to be asked considering their favourite obsession as outlined above

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Zephir – I do nt think apologies are needed – it’s a very good point . I wish there was some outfit who professionally monitors all bbc outfit to build the detailed evidence based case against the evil monsters…. Perhaps a Jewish organisation – or the IDF – might build a case – at a least for the deep anti semitism pro Hamas editorial of the BBC .

      We – here – deliver daily anecdotes of what the BbC says/ does and as importantly doesn’t say . I haven’t the time to build an archive … but if only someone could … right marky ?

      BTW – I know it’s peeing in the wind as evidenced by a string of light weight blue labour politicians – but it’s the least to be done eh ?

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      • Zephir says:

        The Campaign Against Anti-Semitism today told Mail Online: ‘These posts are utterly horrific. Racist conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial have no place at our public broadcaster, but what is becoming increasingly tiresome is us having to point this out.

        ‘Barely a week goes by now without some figure at the BBC publishing some inflammatory remark relating to Jews. Something is terribly rotten at the BBC.

        ‘We are filing complaints with the BBC about this individual and reporting the posts to the police, but the time has come for the BBC to step up and confront anti-Semitism in its organisation once and for all.

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  18. tomo says:

    Wonder if the same crews are at work around Calais?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Dover MP Natalie Elphicke told the Commons that the BBC’s “shocking report” contained the “breath-taking” disclosure of free French (MACRON!) public bus services being used to ferry migrants from camps to Dunkirk beaches.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-63229010

      ….

      Today the BBC journalists Michael Keohan and Colin Campbell released a shocking report on the channel crossings. It showed people smugglers selling their wares brazenly in the migrant camps and many children living in unsafe and dangerous conditions, as well as—this is breathtaking—a free French public bus service that migrants can use to travel directly from the camps to the Dunkirk departure beaches. Will my right hon. Friend allow a statement on the issue of tackling the small boat crossings and the Government’s response in their work with France?

      https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2022-10-13a.258.0#g262.1

      SACK THEM ALL!

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  19. Non Snowflake says:

    https://www.aol.co.uk/news/chemical-attacks-linked-male-sense-161943920.html

    Not the BBC (although it’s the kind of thing they would surely show given half a chance).

    Basically a charity called ActionAid UK have stated that this latest acid attack in London is, in their view, caused by a “sense of Male entitlement over women”, rather than the more obvious reasons which are infesting this country.

    For any organisation to use this attack as a gender-baiting issue, whilst clearly ignoring the real issues, is beyond belief, but it shows just how low some organisations stoop in modern Britain.

    Oh and in case you’re wondering, the most recent year where chemical attacks are recorded and gender-verified is 2022. And guess what? In 2022 there were 339 women victims and 317 men victims.

    Not much male entitlement there after all.

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    • G says:

      Non,

      “….some organisations…..”. No, its rife, from the Government down.

      “Oh, the grand old Duke of York,
      He had ten thousand men;
      He marched them up to the top of the hill,
      And he marched them down again.

      When they were up, they were up,
      And when they were down, they were down,
      And when they were only halfway up,
      They were neither up nor down.”

      Takes centuries to convert an inherently violent society to reach a higher level of orderliness, cooperation, culture, honesty, concern and welfare for one’s fellow man. To then tear that down by the introduction of the unworkably bizarre concept that introducing a large volume of human savages into that societies’ midst will improve the ‘lot’ of that society. Can only be a large scale biological experiment.

      Meanwhile, enter reality, physics. Expect an equal and opposite reaction.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Non – after listening to Douglas Murray talking to tucker Carlson – the ‘call out ‘ counter springs to mind . An amorphous’charity ‘ makes some ludicrous claim about the Clapham attack – but who – exactly – in that charity is claiming this ? And what is their evidence .?

      Perhaps if there was more challenge of the individuals coming out with such woke crap we might start to put it back into the rubbish bin where it deserves to be …

      Instead there is no barrier to what these people claim … and wokism grows even more …

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    • tomo says:

      The charity sector is simply rammed with activists and worse…

      – add in the bad actor “not for profits” with malign intent and, I feel -there’s a real problem.

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  20. Zephir says:

    @ Ms Kitty:

    Some more I have been watching

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  21. Guest Who says:

    BBC, meet Elon.

    https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1753275709408080364?s=61

    Elon, meet B… oh, you’ve met?

    “I’ve realized that everything in the news is BS. Everything. There is nothing I can consume on legacy media that I can trust and that is shocking…It makes you wonder how long it’s been going on for…I didn’t realize how much speech was being suppressed.”

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    • tomo says:

      Guest Who

      I saw three decades ago it wasn’t right (MSM) and not one time in the intervening years I can remember have I had cause to give them a break.

      I guess with the rise of the Internet, the sheer quantity of poo pumped increased dramatically and that played into a drop in quality… or something.

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  22. AsISeeIt says:

    Litmus test edition

    Our BBC’s top pick today in their online news page press review, the Guardian, jumps the woke shark, so to speak, with their concoction (or should I say confection, or is it a contortion?) of a headline to the story about the man who the BBC itself describes rather carefully as the: Clapham attacker

    Chemical attack: police hunt injured man (Guardian) – so who exactly is it who is the victim here, eh Guardianistas?

    Remind me… how did that former BBC headline describe some suicide bomb attack in Germany a few years back? Was it something along the lines of: Syrain refugee killed in German bomb explosion – forgive me, Google won’t find the precise wording of it for me, obviously.

    It takes the Daily Express to show the Gruan how it might have phrased today’s headline were it not for their achingly woke tendencies: Police manhunt for chemical suspect with ‘significant injuries’ (Express)

    The Chemical Brothers are an English electronic music duo formed in Manchester in 1989. They were pioneers in bringing the big beat genre to the forefront of pop culture (Thank you Wiki)

    Whereas: Acid attacks are a form of violence, in which acid or another corrosive substance is thrown at a person – usually a woman or a girl – with the intention of maiming, torturing or killing them… Globally, there are approximately 1,500 acid attacks a year… The greatest prevalence is in south Asian countries including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (Thank you Action Aid ‘Changing the world with women and girls’)

    Does our media reporting of this incident pass the Litmus test?

    One notes these subtle little substitutions for gentler wording in our media which suddenly pop up overnight and mysteriously become universal. Do we all recall that morning we first woke up to the term ‘small boats‘? Now all of a sudden we have ‘chemical attack‘ substituted for the far more frightening sounding ‘acid attack‘. The precise chemical composition may well have been a corrosive alkali – but we note how the NGO charity Action Aid was happy enough with the term acid attack for all such incidents.

    Both acids and alkalis are corrosive (Thank you Centres for Disease Control and Prevention)

    What does alkaline mean? Corrosive substance used in Clapham attack… The amount of corrosive substance attacks in the UK has risen in recent years (Evening Standard) – Really? Risen in recent years. Well, I’ll go to the foot of our stairs…

    I’m sure readers hereabouts will already be well versed in details such as: Afghan 35, twice denied asylum before succeeding by claiming to be a Christian (Daily Mail); Nationwide manhunt as MPs call for system to be overhauled after ‘horrific’ assault (Telegraph); Clapham attack suspect Abdul Ezedi convicted of sex offence in 2018… before being granted asylum in 2021 or 2022. (BBC) – sex offence? 2021 or 2022…? Is our asylum system so buggered we don’t even know which year it was?

    …he claimed to have converted to Christianity (BBC) – they’re all at it you know: Liverpool Women’s Hospital bomber had asylum grievance, police say… Al Swealmeen began a conversion to Christianity in 2015, when his asylum appeal rights were exhausted, and was baptised at Liverpool Cathedral in November that year (BBC)

    Well, to be fair some say even that chap Justin Welby claimed to be a Christian – just so he could land the nation’s top Christian job.

    There is a sense that our pro-hyper-immigration politicians won’t ever correct course until the negative effects of their policy directly affect them – perhaps it is just beginning to do that?: Tories call for protection after attacks over pro-Israel stance (Telegraph)

    In further news from Gazza – I said Gazza…

    Don’t make same mistakes as me, Marcus… Legend says troubled Rashford needs our help… Paul Gascoigne yesterday gave his support to Marcus Rashford (Daily Mirror)

    The Rishi lackey loyalist Daily Express leads with: Hunt plotting new 1p National Insurance cut

    Compare that with: Every home in England to be hit by big tax increase in new blow… Payment bombshell to hit from April after local authorities told they can increase council tax by maximum amount, according to reports (Devon Live)

    Millions face stealth tax rise as Tories demand cuts (‘i’)

    1p National Insurance cut, Mr Hunt? No wonder: Eye rolls at work ‘aggressive’ (giveaway Metro)

    Before we close we introduce a new feature I’d like to call Oy vey, my dear

    Tracy-Ann Oberman ‘I’ve heard jaw dropping anti-Jewish talk’ (‘i’)

    Calm down luv, you wanna hear some of the stuff our own left-liberal media say day in day out about us English.

    What does Viktor Orbán hope to achieve? – ponders a discomforted globalist FT – erm… the preservation of Hungary as a nation state of and for the native Hungarians?

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  23. Zephir says:

    And, she is continuing today, despite widespread news reports of her disgusting, racist conduct here and in the US:

    “Senior BBC Three employee who called Jews ‘Nazi parasites’ and referred to a ‘holohoax’ says ‘come at me.. my shoulders are broad’ as she continues to post string of anti-Semitic messages despite backlash”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13037015/Senior-BBC-Three-employee-called-Jews-Nazi-parasites-referred-holohoax-says-come-shoulders-broad-continues-post-string-anti-Semitic-messages-despite-backlash.html

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  24. Zephir says:

    Suggest people do this, you know full well the pile on there would be if the boot was on the other foot

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints/make-a-complaint/#/submit

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  25. MarkyMark says:

    When asked about the fact that the chemical attacker was an illegal immigrant who was granted asylum on his third attempt after a sexual assault conviction, Nokes brushed it off, saying “I think it’s wrong to comment on that“. Instead, the subject turned to the importance of micro-aggressions.
    order-order.com

    …..

    The Home Office is the lead government department for immigration and passports, drugs policy, crime, fire, counter-terrorism and police.

    Responsibilities
    We are responsible for:

    working on the problems caused by illegal drug use
    shaping the alcohol strategy, policy and licensing conditions
    keeping the United Kingdom safe from the threat of terrorism
    reducing and preventing crime, and ensuring people feel safe in their homes and communities
    securing the UK border and controlling immigration
    considering applications to enter and stay in the UK
    issuing passports and visas
    supporting visible, responsible and accountable policing by empowering the public and freeing up the police to fight crime
    fire prevention and rescue

    Priorities

    Our goals are to:

    cut crime and the harm it causes, including cyber-crime and serious and organised crime
    manage civil emergencies within the remit of the Home Office
    protect vulnerable people and communities
    reduce terrorism
    control migration
    provide world-class public services and contribute to prosperity
    maximise the benefits of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union

    https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/about#:~:text=The%20Home%20Office%20is%20the,%2C%20counter%2Dterrorism%20and%20police.

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    • taffman says:

      How about stopping the boats?
      “Stop the boats”!
      Protecting vulnerable people and communities.
      “Protect the people “!
      Conclusion, The Government, like the The Home office is not fit for purpose.
      Vote Reform.

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  26. Fedup2 says:

    Not BBC – but I have a bee in my bonnet about the naming of ‘young people ‘ found guilty of crimes . Today 2 murderers who planned to kill – and killed a girl who was a ‘trannie ?” Have been named at the request of the family and press .

    But I think the time has come for the burden to be reversed – that they should be named – and held accountable – with exceptional cases where there is a real danger if named .

    Every day there are cases of feral 16 year olds who ‘cannot be named for legal reasons ‘. This could be fixed without cost or serious procedural change …..

    It goes toward my instinctive Right Wing ‘personal responsibility ‘ mantra so out of date this century – so far …

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    • popeye says:

      That will be 16-year olds who should be given the vote or who can elect for traumatic surgery to change gender at an even earlier age without parental knowledge but can’t be named in court?

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  27. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – BBC very exercised by ….

    …. the fact that water bills will increase above the rate of inflation. So that’s another botched Conservative Government privatisation and another toothless regulator in OFWAT. I guess the sewage will keep flowing and the BBC-favoured group of wild water swimmin wimmin will have to go through the motions … again!

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  28. Eddy Booth says:

    This influencer, whose always on here , AND my YouTube recommendations, has taken off his sunglasses and sat down…
    Something big must be up.
    Am I finally going to click play and watch him?
    NO 🙂
    More chance of watching a (((doctor))) john Campbell video.

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  29. tomo says:

    That Tucker Carlson – Brett Weinstein piece I posted up thread is the second detailed piece I’ve seen about the goings on in Darien / Panama.

    Tens of thousands of well funded, well fed military age Chinese males who are in / passing through mysterious *transit* camps, surly and uncommunicative towards gwailou, all headed into the USA.

    Inside China I experienced an overall fairly friendly welcome / disinterest but several times a week I saw people who clearly despised / hated whiteys and *really* didn’t care if you noticed.

    A profile starkly at odds with the rest of the human traffic passing… Subjectively those Chinese men seem under-represented in the accounts I’ve seen of US border goings-on and one has to suspect that they have their own methods about when and where they cross ….

    I’m having dark thoughts.

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    • Terminal Moraine says:

      Worth a watch — two journalist brothers embed themselves in the caravan… interesting to see clear & obvious role of UN / NGOs etc in guiding illegal activity.

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    • tomo says:

      Of course racists will be racists (Mining the archives there…)

      The-Yellow-Peril.jpg

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      • Terminal Moraine says:

        Tomo and yet the Guardian’s anglophobia is as crudely drawn and offensive as anything else out there.

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        • Up2snuff says:

          tomo, Chinese migration? It was a real problem in London’s Docklands at the turn of 19th to 20th centuries. I was surprised that in ‘Dickensian’, the last thing I was allowed to watch on iPlayer there was a distinct lack of immigrants. No Chinese sailors in the Docklands scenes and no Jewish Rabbis and no Russian Communist emigres in the other street scenes. It was said that so many Chinese sailors were jumping ship in Docklands that the authorities forcibly made them stay on ship until they reached Liverpool. Hence there are or were communities of Chinese in Liverpool and also Manchester, just down t’road. Immigration controls were started by UK Governemnts and Joseph Conrad wrote a book about it.

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          • tomo says:

            My dad used to talk about Chinatown in Liverpool – and the “crazy stuff” that went on there – he was an apprentice electrician there in the 1940s

            The gangs, the police corruption and widespread lawlessness.

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    • Zephir says:

      Same here, been to China 4 times mostly OK and largely welcoming but

      each time the same some blatantly harrassing me at airports etc, ripped the zip off suitcase, singling me out of a large queue for further examination, obnoxious stares when I dared to put my elbows on the high passport counter etc. and some in the street looking very aggressively at me.

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  30. Eddy Booth says:

    “Everything we know about the search for the Clapham attacker”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68176858

    “Three of the UK’s biggest police forces are at the core of a nationwide hunt for a man accused of an alkali attack on a mother and two young girls in south London on Wednesday.”

    So what, they had the countries entire police force looking for ‘missing’ person Constance Martin last year.

    “The five responding police officers who were injured were taken hospital and later discharged.”

    Not charged then, with letting a suspect get away, despite being mob handed?
    I’d love to see a photo of them.

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    • Zephir says:

      Bet they’ve never been abroad, likely couldn’t fit their backsides in a passport photo booth

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  31. Terminal Moraine says:

    Today’s contribution by the BBC to the deconstruction of western civilisation: “Why Groundhog Day is actually not American” and the below piece, along with the woman quoted for her opinions on brits and tea.

    Not likely in the pipeline: “Do Afghans overidentify with caustic chemicals and sex crimes?”

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    https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240201-the-mythos-of-drinking-tea-what-makes-it-essentially-british

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  32. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #2 – oh no!, what another one? (© Brenda from Bristol)

    Cannot remember now where it occurred in the TOADY prog but as I was in the bathroom 7-7.30 a.m. it may have been in the segment up to 8 a.m. or the half-hour afterwards. The BBC appear to have ‘this thing’, ie. obsession about wimmin American academics and this one did, once again, indeed have a high squeaky voice. A PhD at Cambridge, no less. Not pleasant to listen to and I cannot remember what she was talking about anyway.

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  33. Fedup2 says:

    Up2 – I’m so glad I’m cutting back – and unfortunately coming back to the 3rd world from somewhere much nicer – for a long 21 days …. And it’s Lent next week ….

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Back to the cold and wet, Fed. You know you have missed it! 😉 🙂

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Up2 – very kind – third world looking very third word … I was on a bus and I think one passenger was giving a blow job to another in the upstairs area where the gangs hang out after school … I don’t know if there was an additional cost for that service …

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  34. Zephir says:

    “For of those 25 attacks since 2000, eleven have been carried out by Islamist extremists, and for the 20 attempted assaults the equivalent figure is 15. As the Government’s review of its Prevent programme puts it, “Islamist terrorism remains the primary terrorist threat to the UK”.

    Muslim voices are frequently raised against terrorism. These don’t always get the media projection that they deserve. But the stark fact remains that since 7/7 no mass grassroots campaign has sprung up, least of all in Britain’s mosques, that seeks, first, to condemn terror; second, to insist that policy abroad, let alone foreign affairs, doesn’t justify violence here and, finally, to insist that free speech about religion trumps Islamic blasphemy codes.”

    https://conservativehome.com/2024/02/02/what-would-a-labour-government-do-about-islamist-extremism/

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  35. tomo says:

    A quick scan of The Guardian shows longtime BBC fave Moonbat is innoculated from experiencing irony.

    Given that he’s regularly shown up to perform for billionaire PR toys XR and JSO the berating of plutocrats seems er… rich.

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    • Zephir says:

      Who owns Scotland ?

      “It is claimed that currently 432 private land owners own 50% of the private land in rural Scotland. The latest estimate of Scotland’s population is 5,327,000 , so this means that half of a fundamental resource for the country is owned by 0.008% of the population.
      As a measure of inequality in a modern democracy, this is exceptional and is in need of explanation.

      This remarkable pattern of ownership leads Scotland to be described as having a more concentrated pattern of large scale private land ownership than is found in any other country in the world.”

      https://www.gov.scot/publications/land-reform-review-group-final-report-land-scotland-common-good/pages/61/

      “It is an odd state of affairs that it is easier to find out the ownership of land in 1915 than it is in 2018.

      In the early years of devolution, I tried to persuade the then Scottish Executive to open up land information to the public but there was little appetite. Since then, I made representations to Fergus Ewing and Parliament during the course of the Land Registration (Scotland) Act 2012 to persuade them to increase transparency and access to land information.

      In a meeting with Fergus Ewing and the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland in December 2011, I made the case for this but the Minister could barely disguise his contempt for my suggestions and later, in the course of the passage of the Bill flatly rejected the idea that the public should have free access to land information (See col982 8 Feb 2012 Official Report).

      He also rejected proposals to reveal the beneficial owners of companies that own land although the Government were eventually persuaded to do so in the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016, the provisions of which are yet to come into force.

      If there is a Scheduled Monument located on or near land whose ownership you wish to establish, then a link is provided to the legal documents that are registered in the Register of Sasines. These provide details of the ownership of the land at the time of scheduling.

      In 2012, however, I noticed that Historic Scotland had redacted the ownership information. ”

      http://www.andywightman.com/archives/category/who-owns-scotland

      “Climate-savvy millionaires are buying up huge areas of the Scottish Highlands and transforming how it is managed. These “green lairds,” many of them from overseas, are rekindling debates about who owns Scotland’s land and what they’re doing with it.

      The UK’s largest private landowner is Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen, who owns the global clothing chain Bestseller – and 221,000 acres of Scotland. An additional 100,000 acres belong to Swedish-born sisters Sigrid and Lisbet Rausing, heirs to the Tetra Pak fortune.

      There is, Wightman says, “a level of incomprehension that important assets, which impact upon local economies and the environment, should be just sold to the highest bidder – no questions asked.” ”

      https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/scotland-environment-green-lairds/

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      • Zephir says:

        On 1 March 2018, the Registers of Scotland published an Overseas Company Report and a Statistical Report on the overseas ownership of land in Scotland. Against growing demands for greater transparency in who owns land and property across the world, this is presumably Scotland’s contribution.

        The report reveals the companies registered overseas that own land in Scotland. But this is the tip of the iceberg because it only takes account of land in the modern land register and not the older Sasines register. It doesn’t include any information on how much land is owned overseas (my own research shows that 750,000 acres of Scotland is owned in tax havens posing problems for law enforcement and tax authorities).

        The Sunday Post published details of the findings on 11 March 2018.

        And yet, the public are denied access to this data underlying the Overseas Company report because to obtain the report (see Information Sheet) will cost you an astonishing £1560 (the Statistical report is free to download). Even if you could afford this sum of money, if you wished further details of each of the records, you will need to buy this from Registers of Scotland. It will cost you £30 each and if you wish details of all 1700 companies, that comes to a cool £51,000.

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      • popeye says:

        I believe that a Scottish Duke receives £1 million a year “rent” for otherwise uneconomic land which has wind turbines on it. I wonder what great civil servant negotiated that deal (and what he got out of it)?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Revealed: ‘anti-oligarch’ Ukrainian president’s offshore connections
      This article is more than 2 years old
      Volodymyr Zelenskiy has railed against politicians hiding wealth offshore but failed to disclose links to BVI firm

      https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/03/revealed-anti-oligarch-ukrainian-president-offshore-connections-volodymyr-zelenskiy

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    • Lefty Wright says:

      tomo
      Perhaps Mr Monbiot (never heard of him) doesn’t understand irony.

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  36. Guest Who says:

    Given ‘local media’ now is BBC Democracy driven tripe will not be missed.

    There’s always social med… oh.

    https://x.com/PeteNorth303/status/1753364370858320217?s=20
    I’m sure she’s quite lovely. But she represents the supreme arrogance of the BBC in its presumption that it is best placed, or even well placed, to discern what is and isn’t disinformation, not least being a prolific producer of it. That they would throw this little lamb to the wolves as a defence mechanism is also pretty vile.

    Utterly sussed.

    And #CCBGB for the BBC too.

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  37. tomo says:

    Be interesting to see how the BBC plays this ball…. (crickets? -I’ll get my coat)

    Surkeer got someone else to announce it … yeah, real leadership there.

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  38. tomo says:

    She’d be happier in a KFC uniform?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Dear Marianna Spring (BBC wages paid under threat of prosecution),

      As I’ve had to look at your BBC news and use other sources to determine that your news is not news but selective editorial opinion I’d like to request that I have a refund for the last 4 years plus get the BBC free from now on.

      Please let me know how I can go about this as I am willing to create a full list of articles that I’ve had to investigate plus time taken for me to check your fact checker whilst realising that the BBC intentionally removes news rather than incorrectly report on it, uses images to sway opinion or misleads with the main titles hoping no one reads the full article.

      ‘Omission is the greatest form of lie.’

      CAS-4987700-SY1FTF : BBC NewsWatch says boredom with pro-Brexit march.

      CAS-4844672-N8FDYY: Update on the MP Expenses 2009 scandal in 2018.

      CAS-4939547-J71Z1V: Here’s hoping Ireland do the right thing G.Lineker.

      CAS-4937378-YKMWBJ: BBC not reporting ‘Day of Freedom’ March 06may2018.

      CAS-4906141-BFJQL0: I take offence that presenters promote their books.

      CAS-4892811-C820SC: I am offended that I have to pay the BBC TV Tax.

      CAS-4824332-633N1P: What happened in Italy was not covered …

      CAS-4933135-ZV3V7F: The omission is the most powerful form of lie …

      CAS-6005141-S1V9D1: Not seen a report on the UK Governments Covid19 

      Let me know how to go about resolving the issue of paying for something that wastes my time as I have to check each story rather than rely on its accuracy.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications

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  39. vlad says:

    Sometimes I feel sorry for BBC headline writers.
    Imagine the mental contortions they need to avoid using the word islam after an MP is forced to step down because of islamist threats.

    So they come up with the vague: “Hate faced by MP Mike Freer is attack on democracy, says Downing Street”

    ‘Hate’, eh? Probably them white supremacists again.

    They did the same after the murder of MP David Amess by another islamist, blaming it on some nebulous ‘online hate’.

    So instead, how about:

    Islamofascists force MP to step down after numerous death threats and an arson attack

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68167540

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  40. Eddy Booth says:

    “Footage of Brianna Ghey’s killers being arrested”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-68178352

    “Cheshire Police have released footage of Brianna Ghey’s killers being arrested.”

    Why?
    For entertainment value or something..

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  41. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Nicola Sturgeon told a book conference in 2018 that she keeps a comprehensive diary and may publish it one day

      She told the UK Covid inquiry that she didn’t keep a diary or use work notebooks, can we add contempt of court to the list of charges?”

      ………………………

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  43. Eddy Booth says:

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    Immigrant hunt update

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

    Laugh? I almost bought an HD camera…

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  44. StewGreen says:

    Last night the Mogg Show was on GBNres live for Scunthorpe about Green policies on the steel industy
    video
    as always i scoured Twitter to gather opinions
    There was very little traffic ..little on Facebook either
    (The hours SM was dominated by off-topic comments throwing hate at GBnews and Tories)
    – Mogg started strongly saying crazy green energy policies mean high energy costs for UK steel industry which is killing it.
    He reiterated this throughout the prog

    However some PR people had organised for the last segment to be the local council leader and a 43 year service steel worker
    He bowled a softball
    “I think electrical power from renewables will be cheaper than any other power”
    The council leader replied with his Green Energy Park .. greenDream plan

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Mogg started strongly saying crazy green energy policies mean high energy costs for UK steel industry which is killing it.”

      13 YEARS IN POWER AND 80 SEAT MAJORITY?! ha ha ha ha !

      GREEN MOGG = SHARES IN CHINA UP!

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      • Up2snuff says:

        MM, only eight years in power for the Conservatives. From 2010 to 2015 they were in a Coalition with the Liberals or Liberal Democrats led by Nick Clegg.

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  45. Guest Who says:

    Riding Springster’s coattails is bad enough, but…

    https://x.com/brentleesdcic/status/1753203612920996053?s=61
    I get what you’re saying. I asked her about this myself. She explained that her job is not “to debunk”… it’s to report. BBC news’ role isn’t to educate, it’s to inform.

    …dude, really?

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  46. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/johnsimpsonnews/status/1753457686513922204?s=61
    I like & admire Danny Cohen, but he should realise that his attacks on his ex-colleagues are being used by people who want to destroy the BBC for political reasons. This is today’s Telegraph attack. Yesterday it was something else. And the day before…

    I don’t know Simpo personally, but he comes across as an arrogant, entitled buffoon, and hence not admirable. As is pretending the BBC does not ‘attack’ anyone it feels needs dealing with, often for naked political ideology reasons.

    Why he is paid a fortune from the tvl to issue these further hole digging posts is bizarre.

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