216 Responses to Weekend 17th February 2024

  1. JohnC says:

    Conjoined twins given days to live are proving everyone wrong
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-68145224

    This story is everything we expect from the BBC.

    First thing : the headline makes you wonder how long they have lived if they were given ‘days’. Are they now a few months old and still going ?.

    Nope. They are 7. It’s a complete non-news story.

    Then we learn:

    ‘When the twins were born in Senegal in 2016 ..’
    Oh you might think – it’s a story from Africa.

    Then we learn:
    ‘They have round-the-clock care but go to a mainstream school in south Wales with their friends.’

    Ahh – so they moved from Senegal to Wales and now we are paying for them.

    I wonder how much their father has contributed to the NHS during his life.

    And we wonder why the NHS is in such a state where British people die because they don’t have the resources to cope.

    What’s odd about this article is that these:
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    Are supposed to be the same people as these:
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    I have a feeling the BBC have concentrated on old pictures where they look more cute for maximum empathy.

    Well done Lucy. Just a shame you haven’t got anything better to do than dig up 7 year old agenda stories.
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    You are everything we have come to expect from the BBC.

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    • micknotmike says:

      Two questions for the bimbo :-
      1) Has your car broken down or have you just decided it’s a nice place to cause an accident, parked about four feet from the barrier?
      2) Why do you think readers are in any way interested in what you look like?

      And put those bee-stings away, you’re hardly Carol Kirkwood.

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      It is very important to import these heart tug cases to the UK. Then we can have a huge expensive legal case about separating the twins even over and above the objections of the parents. Remember the twins from Goa?

      Then we can have a very expensive medical operation to separate the twins and after care.

      Then we can have expensive ongoing social service support for the family.

      Kerching, kerching, kerching.

      Sometimes is appears higher powers are at work. The judge who decided to separate the Goa twins, resulting in the death of one of the twins, then lost one of his own twin daughters in a tragic rock climbing accident when a rock fell on her head.

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  4. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/ObserverUK/status/1759126248058753166?s=20
    Italian town in turmoil after far-right mayor bans Muslim prayers

    Import the third world, get Graun editorial. Maybe Khan could send the Met over?

    Maybe an nhs staff outing. They seem merry.

    https://x.com/benobesejecty/status/1758968688382738553?s=61
    Antisemitism is now mainstream enough that it has choreography.
    Perhaps these young British women should ask what sexual abuse the young Jewish women who have been held in captivity by Hamas since they were abducted four months ago have been subjected to?

    That bbc lady on the bike been out lately, mostly peacefully? With the kids.

    https://x.com/markmaycott2/status/1758950997076922637?s=12
    More footage from the Netherlands

    But probably no balanced news. Maybe a FGM line dance in A&E?

    https://x.com/ritapanahi/status/1759126467857027094?
    ‘Nigeria last year witnessed the bloodiest year of Islamist attacks against Christians according to a new report.
    More than 8,000 Christians were killed in 2023…’
    No marches for slaughtered Christians.

    Too much to hope change (not the Labour kind) is in the air?

    https://x.com/kingbobiiv/status/1759126363674489263?s=61
    If our British working classes, our farmers, transporters, factory workers, realised how much power they wield, how much control they have, they could turn this country around in a week. I remember when the lorry drivers went on strike and the country was on its knees. You just all need a plan, need to orchestrate, and you need a clear list of demands. The government needs you all, more than you need them. They won’t listen to your vote. They don’t care ehat you want, whilst they’re still getting what they need. Complaining on social media and voting will get you nowhere. Decisive, removal of services, will being this country to a stand still, and then, they have to listen.

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  5. Sluff says:

    After a late night snoozed through Toady on Sunday but was just enough awake to mention two things.

    The Islamic Broadcasting Corporation was in full flow
    1. I heard someone describe the Rochdale bi-election as a ‘referendum on Palestine’. This may well be true but along the way reveals patches of our once proud country for what they are now – multicultural basket cases foisted on us by wokes, Labour, and spineless Tories.
    2. Some doctor said we should take thousands of injured Gaza children to the UK for treatment. When the presenter gently asked why nearby countries could not do,it, she was met with total guff. Clearly a left activist, using the usual tactic of trying to destabilise the UK by any means possible, in this case loading up the NHS with even longer waits for treatment for indigenous tax-paying citizens.

    So all in all, just a normal Toady on Sunday edition.

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      • taffman says:

        Mail users will move to private delivery companies .
        End of Post Office .
        Simples

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Yes any reduction in the State = good thing …

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        • moggiemoo says:

          Are there any other companies that could handle large scale mail deliveries in the UK?

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          • Fedup2 says:

            Amazon – but the funding wouid need to be based on distance I think – as well as weight….size …. Seems fairer than the socialist system they’ve got now …. Imagine being able to track an important letter ….

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            • atlas_shrugged says:

              Use Mailboxes. Then when you change address you do not need to update any of the hundreds of gov organisations with your latest address.

              This saves a fortune on last mile delivery costs.

              It has another advantage that the guberment can’t send goons round to threaten you.

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        • Thoughtful says:

          Don’t forget Royal Mail and the Post Office are two completely separate companies.

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      • Kinell says:

        Postman is not a job I would like, although I suppose it’s better than walking the streets.

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        • Fedup2 says:

          I did a Christmas job as a postie when I was a student —— I was learning to read …

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  8. Guest Who says:

    Raking in the audience like a TonAmol podcast.

    https://x.com/bbcwomanshour/status/1759140707758178597?s=61
    It was really confusing to me. I was just like: ‘Where do I fit?”
    📺 Actor Kali Reis @KO_Reis86 told @itsanitarani about finding her identity as an Afro-Indigenous woman and why it was so important to centre indigenous women’s stories in True Detective: Night Country ⬇️

    Both are hardly going to stand out in the W1A cubicle gardens.

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  9. Guest Who says:

    Another reeling ‘em in.

    https://x.com/pressgazette/status/1759140705262592286?s=61
    The Independent’s chief international correspondent Bel Trew has spoken of her unease at picking up the Marie Colvin Award when journalists are being killed at an unprecedented rate in Gaza.
    “There’s a bleak feeling inside me right now.”

    So many blue flak jackets. So many standing in the wrong end of a firefight.

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  11. Doublethinker says:

    In the Spectator there is a piece about the way the neo liberals are trying to close down the French equivalent of GB News, C News, which like its UK counterpart has a growing following .
    This is just one more example of the way the globalist neo liberal elite is trying to prevent the people from having a voice and leadership. If no one ever hears or sees opinions other than the approved elite line it is unlikely that any rebellion will be more than a local easily contained affair.
    Examples of the crackdown by the neo liberal elite on the ability of people to communicate freely are numerous, UK On Line Harm Bill, similar legislation in Ireland, Germany , Spain . GB News is certain to be further neutered or even closed down by Ofcom within a year or so.
    If ‘populism’ continues to flourish and threaten the neo liberal elite even after the censorship crackdown , we can expect outlawing of populist parties like the AfD or NR in France followed by state sponsored violence.
    History tells us that elites never give up power without a struggle , there is no reason to believe anything has changed in the 21 st century.

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      GB News will survive. It falls into the category of the ‘Right Containment Strategy’, along with publications such as The Spectator, the Daily Mail, Fox News and others. Essentially they are media outlets where ‘small c’ conservatives (or what the BBC calls Far Right) can have their voices heard and thus let off steam. As long as they don’t wander too far off the reservation, plus they get rid of commentators who are not merely descriptive but prescriptive (e.g. recent culls of Laurence Fox and Calvin Robinson), then they are safe. The appearance of Rishi Sunak on the GB News Town Hall event is an indication of the establishment’s acceptance of GB News, albeit some of the BBC/Labour Party/Guardian reader types don’t understand the game.

      Far from being a threat to the elitists, these media outlets serve a valuable purpose for them if handled correctly. The strategy was explained to me decades ago by a member of the Communist Party GB, who said that one day The Daily Telegraph and Morning Star will have exactly the same opinions, it’s just that they’ll be expressed in different terminology and language, appropriate to the target audience.

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    • Guest Who says:

      One imagines he and George hunt packs.

      Assuming they could meet, or even communicate…

      There’s another of a very polite male white senator being a despicable racist to a black female ‘ban oil’ witness who makes the sainted Jean Pierre seem like Mrs. Rowlatt.

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    • Thoughtful says:

      He’s just devalued the currency by 50% and called the IMF in, are you really sure that’s what you want ?

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  14. Foscari says:

    With all these change of names for the train lines in London
    for virtue signalling. I think that our mayor Sadik Khan
    missed a great opportunity.
    He should of renamed the link between Thamesmead
    through to Battersea and Chelsea . . ” From the river to
    the sea line” It would help the Hamas supporting protesters with
    their marches through London. To know where they are going.
    Perhaps ” The Kaffir line” for the minority indigenous
    population of London. But to show that all religions in the
    capitol are equal. The link between Golders Green and
    Tottenham Hale could be renamed ” The Yiddos line”
    And just to indulge him in his narcissist tendencies. The
    link between Tooting and City Hall. Could be renamed ” The
    Emirs Line .”

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    • Foscari says:

      Just as an appendage. Because I left out one of
      our brethren ethnicities. The Brixton to Notting Hill
      loop line could be renamed ” The Skeng Line” It
      will be easier to find ones way to the Carnival.

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  15. BRISSLES says:

    Normally I like to dip in and out of decent award ceremonies like the Oscars. Sadly I won’t be doing it at the BAFTAs – bloody David Beckham is one of the award givers FFS WHY ?

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  16. Fedup2 says:

    BBC free day -but I see that there was rioting in The Hague last night – excellent news – more the merrier – each time pushing European voters away from the liberal crap and towards right nationalism …. Note to file 77 brigade – do I go further up your target list ? …. Must be a newby monitoring on Sunday morning when this is written ….

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    • taffman says:

      The 77 Brigade, on whose side are they on ?

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      • atlas_shrugged says:

        taffman

        77 brigade are on the same side as the rock-apes at RAF Wyton

        i.e. the ones that spy on us and who know where marxi lives.

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  17. Fedup2 says:

    Piece on the lefty remainer John Curtis in the telegraph – not too interested but a commentator suggested a way of stopping red labour –
    He identifies 50 / 60 real conservatives in the blue Labour Party – they should leave now and join an alliance with reform – this could – might – be enough to fight of a big red labour swing .
    The big bonus might be a party which cares more about the British than foreigners and those evil treaties the UK stupidly signed up to – dump them all – whatever other countries think of us … home first ….

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    • taffman says:

      Fedup2
      “they should leave now and join an alliance with reform – this could – might – be enough to fight of a big red labour swing .”

      IMHO , those red wall voters that the Tories relied on so much in the last GE will now move to ‘Reform’.

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  18. Fedup2 says:

    Cameron going to the Falklands next week – must be money in it – Davy – please stay there …..

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  19. Guest Who says:

    Rosie got a gorgeous headshot?

    https://x.com/cjsnowdon/status/1759174110972637225?s=61
    The answer, according to this article, is basically “nothing”.

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  20. Charlie Farley says:

    BBC in their happy place…..BBC 1 ” Dating Halal Style ” what ? ! ,
    BBC 2 ……And No better with ” Young Master Chef ”
    Programs for our new Masters invading every day !
    So glad I don’t pay or watch their agenda driven output drivel !

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    • taffman says:

      Perhaps the BBC should tell us all the facts about Halal ?

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      • JohnC says:

        Halal meat should be in a seperate, very clearly marked section in the supermarket and have it very clearly marked on the label so people don’t buy it accidentally.

        ‘Current UK law requires all livestock to be stunned before slaughter, so they don’t feel pain at the time of killing. However, there is an exemption from this requirement that permits non-stun slaughter for religious purposes – to meet the demand of Muslim and Jewish communities.’

        ‘The latest Food Standards Agency figures show an estimated 24.5 million animals will be slaughtered without pre-stunning in 2022:
        22 million meat chickens (2.3% of total slaughtered)
        2.7 million sheep (22.6% of total slaughtered)’

        I wonder how many laws Muslim countries have to provide exceptions to Christians for our ‘demands’.

        My estimate is zero.

        We deserve all we get.

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        • Scroblene says:

          Perhaps the RNLI can tell the illegals that when they land, they have to become vegan…

          No ifs, no buts -they’ll just have to put up with cabbage and stuff, because British people do slaughtering the proper way, not the muslim way.

          I’ve got a prawn curry today, and every single prawn was stunned before it was boiled!

          (And I’m having it with gnocchi, as I like Italians and their grub, and also don’t want to think of the plight of all those Chinese workers having to bend down in a foot of muddy water planting rice)!

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        • Ian Rushlow says:

          Pork is available in Lebanon, Egypt, Dubai, Qatar, Indonesia and Albania, to name but some, although you have to buy it in special supermarkets a lot of the time. Plenty of restaurants serving pork dishes in Dubai. Although Muslims are not allowed to eat it, there aren’t usually restrictions on people of other faith’s or tourists eating it (actually, many Albanian Muslims eat it anyway). Many Middle Eastern countries are more tolerant and relaxed than people think. We tend to have a distorted view of it in the UK because of the influence of Pakistan (demographics) and Saudi Arabia (money), rabidly amplified by woke nutjobs and the BBC.

          Absolutely agree it should be labelled in this country though, for those who want it or those who are not bothered, and those who do not want anything to do with it.

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        • atlas_shrugged says:

          My heart went out to all those sheep stuck on that damn boat to Israel that had to turn back because of the mad houthis.

          They should be sent frozen lamb chops and be grateful for them.

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  21. Fedup2 says:

    BBC still being accused of killing one of their ‘second to none ‘ DJs …. Perhaps they’ll have a ‘policy review ‘ and ensure no one can be in a job so long that they get addicted to it …. Sure will do good for the figures …. Destroy the BBC ….

    I’m guessing the coroner will say ‘open verdict ‘ or whatever it is now …….. good opportunity to get another ethnic or queer into the DJ seat though ….

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  22. tomo says:

    Have we got this yet?

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    • pugnazious says:

      How many Chinese did Boris import here so very stealthily with the media also staying silent about it and not questioning it at all? Got to be nearing 200,000….and how many of those are Chinese ‘loyalists’ who will work their way up into crucial tech industry, politics and media?

      With the masses we import here from all around the world the poorest and least educated, least skilled, may cost us billions but the real damage may be done by those highly skilled migrants that we are told are the migrants we really want….the ones who can work their way up into the highest levels of industry, politics, media and society and then sell us out to their homelands and imported ideologies. Just look at second generation Asian politicians in the UK….just where do their real loyalties lie? I don’t think anyone trusts them an inch not to sell us out when the time is right.

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      • tomo says:

        I’m not anti-Chinese but I think we have to weed out the mainlanders who’ve come here for nefarious purposeat the instigation of CCP agencies.

        Who in their right mind would give a pointless twerp like Barry effin Gardener some hundreds of thousands of pounds?

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        • Up2snuff says:

          pug and tomo, I heard the complaints of the ‘refugees/asylum seekers’ voiced on their behalf by the BBC News this morning. Apparently they do not like living in tents on the tropical island of Diego Garcia. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-68326365

          BBC: “A group of asylum seekers on an isolated British island territory have told UN investigators they feel unsafe and forgotten, as they reported sexual assaults and harassment of children, as well as self-harm and suicide attempts.”

          ‘We want to go to an affluent country’ said the BBC News item, if I remembered it correctly from 7 a.m.. That eliminates the UK then; by all accounts we are bust out of sight. And UK society is tough. You will face violence here and according to some people extreme racism. Probably better staying where you are.

          I am told that you are Tamils, what happened to that ‘tiger’ streak that was previously ascribed to Tamils?

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    • Guest Who says:

      Deployed as a honey trap wasn’t going to cut it.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “NEW: San Francisco Appoints First Noncitizen to Serve on Elections Commission.

      Kelly Wong who came to the U.S. in 2019 from China and isn’t legally allowed to vote will be overseeing and creating policy for the San Francisco Department of Elections.

      Wong is immigrant rights advocate who wants to educate other immigrants who don’t speak English about voting process.

      Imagine that people who don’t want to integrate by doing the least and learn the national language will be deciding on the future of an American city.

      Insanity.”

      …………………………

      Rishi Sunak u-turns on proposed ban on Chinese institutes
      Published
      17 May 2023

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65624287

      Rishi Sunak has backtracked on a pledge to shut down 30 Chinese state-sponsored Confucius Institutes across the UK.

      The prime minister pledged to close the cultural schools, which are accused of spreading propaganda and spying on students, during his bid to become Conservative leader last year.

      On Wednesday, the government announced it would be “disproportionate” to ban the institutes.

      Senior Tory MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith called the decision “ridiculous”.

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  23. tomo says:

    BBC rummaging the bottom of the propaganda barrel – again

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    • digg says:

      Don’t know if anyone else remembers paper boys who delivered the morning papers but I have seen paper boys who look more mature than this poser!

      Of course that was back when real journalists covered the news by writing the truth in time for the morning delivery through your letterbox and not self-obsessed activist adolescents writing only what they or their boss want you to read.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        I did a paper round – then a milk round – at weekends – paper round in the week – in londonistan I delivered the evening news and evening standard at night …. Maybe I deserve benefits of compensation or some other handout …

        The rest of the chaps at Eton thought I was a bit strange wot …

        It were ‘ard life ….

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  25. tomo says:

    “senior civil servant”

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  26. atlas_shrugged says:

    “Family calls for tougher laws to punish cyclists after death”
    Telegraph 17-Feb-24

    A man is helping police with their enquiries (in Birmingham)

    So that will be another incident where a ‘man’ is being investigated.

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  27. vlad says:

    It’s nice of the BBC to tell us who their trusted partners are, “Beyond Fake News”.

    That immediately tells us who else we shouldn’t believe, without having to do any tiresome research.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/beyondfakenews/trusted-news-initiative/meet-the-partners/

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  28. tomo says:

    Navalny was a saint

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    • Guest Who says:

      Toenails (yawn) was straight out the traps with what he wanted you to see. This… less so.

      Even Carole Codswallopp is trying to use him to bash the West about Putin.

      Ideologically deranged media is now total.

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  30. pugnazious says:

    Indian news has covered it, Sky covers it, the Washington Post covers it, Reuters covers it….the BBC doesn’t…..rioting by Eritrean migrants in the Netherlands…then again they tried to hide the same rioting here in the UK recently.

    The BBC just doesn’t want you to know that ‘asylum seekers’ are bringing their wars here….much like Kashmir and Gaza play out on our streets for some reason.

    Asylum seekers supposedly fleeing war and conflict bring them here….so you’d think maybe they’re not really asylum seekers in need of sanctuary but just chancers looking for handouts…thus if caught rioting here we should send them straight back to Eritrea….or just not let them in in the first place.

    Not a message the BBC wants you to consider.

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  31. Guest Who says:

    Simpo gets sensitive after pursuing a very singular track to stay in with the hotel bar crowd. Tries to pull a Dr.Shola… goes just as badly.

    https://x.com/sergeantdixie/status/1759175630816485573?s=61
    Investigative journalism is revealing wrongdoing by the state. Had he only done that he would be applauded. But he didn’t. He simply dumped everything on the internet risking lives & state security.
    He isn’t a journalist.

    Neither is Simpo.

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  32. The Mouse says:

    So mayor Khan tells us how diverse Muslims are. He said that some people try to pit the Hindus against the Muslims. What he didn’t mention is that Muslims have problems with Hindus, Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Sikhs, Atheists, LGBTers, cartoonists, anyone who questions their religion, and each other. Yep, they certainly are a very diverse lot in some respects.

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    • Foscari says:

      Mouse- For sure is the fact that Sadik Khan as
      mayor of London . Is a very dangerous “leader” to
      have for the 200,000 Jews in the capitol. The Jews have
      as strong security as they can to protect their
      three and four year olds going to their kindergartens from
      should I say Mr Smith, Mrs Jones, Mr Patel , Mrs McDonald,
      Mr Singh. Mrs Fitzpatrick. Or maybe not these folk.
      BUT they would also like to be helped by the Metropolitan
      Police when necessary .But alas Mr Khan controls the police!
      And I am afraid the security of the Jews is not Mr Khan’s
      number one priority.
      Maybe it’s time for the government of the UK to show
      some balls and either explain to Mr Khan what his duty is. And if there is no reaction. Then the government must take control of the capitol. Of course the BBC TV London programme gives no sucker to the Jews. They
      are there just to the mayors bidding. And the BBC news department is just a media partner of Hamas.

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  33. Guest Who says:

    Mehdi Hasan, still on his tour of msm broadcasters who have yet to gather his less than impartial preferences, retweeted this.

    https://x.com/jeremyscahill/status/1759256716334489628?s=61
    The sociopaths defending Israel’s mass killing of civilians often respond to images of children the IDF murdered by saying, “If Hamas surrenders, this will all end.” Implicit in this position is a belief that Israel killing 13,000+ children is acceptable. Deeply sick people.

    A fellow ‘reporter’. Logic like this, and avoiding relevant context, must surely see him in line for a bbc post.

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  34. Guest Who says:

    Clearly beardie and dipshizzle blonde are banking on the mob eating them last.

    https://x.com/bbcpolitics/status/1759187045698642414?s=61
    “I really see this [hatred of Muslims] in the extreme right wing”
    Countering extremism commissioner Robin Simcox responds to figures showing a rise in Islamophobic incidents

    A Labour/BBC establishment looks set to be awesome.

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