294 Responses to Weekend 2nd March 2024

  1. Up2snuff says:

    Coming to the BBC soon?

    The suggestion from Lord Willetts, a conservative peer (please note the small ‘c’), that all 30 year olds should be given a ‘Citizens Inheritance’ of £10,000. As there will be millennials who will be getting that soon they will be happy but those who are past that age, maybe long past it, will be saying to themselves: “It is a breach of my YOOMANS ROIGHTS!” “Where’s that lawyer?”

    In addition, HMG is trying to make the UK less attractive to illegal immigrants, so how does that help to reduce the ‘asylum claims’ from fake refugees? In addition, some claim that the tax burden is the highest for 70 years although I have my doubts about that.

    David Willetts used to be known around Parliament for having two brains. If he has, neither of them are working.

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  2. tomo says:

    Guardian CiF piece incoming

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  3. Fedup2 says:

    The bbc has been repeating the Hamas line about the numbers and causes of deaths at the Gaza aid convoy . Not being a user of bbc news much – I viewed the drone footage on you tube – it depicts the chaos ….

    The bbc – at least – accuses the IDF of not controlling the convoy —- then ups the accusation to the IDF shooting Palestinians …. But the facts ? Impossible …

    That Muslim month thing is coming soon so hizbolah and Hamas – cheers of the same wotsit – to para Galloway – will be trying out new ways to kill Israelis / Jews to celebrate ….

    … I’ve noticed that the bbc has changed the language from the ‘holy month ‘ to something else … I always found the reference to the ‘holy month’ offensive . Easter doesn’t get ‘holy Easter ‘ to one religious group – it very much is…

    … keep going IDF …

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  4. BRISSLES says:

    Ethnics love to tell how mum and dad arrived here with nothing, and dad was a bus driver (yet mum still can’t speak English), and how they worked hard to get where they are now. Most of the migrant politicians tell the same story – constantly. Yet ask them who in their family fought in the last War and there’s a deafening silence.
    Our PM is no different, loving to shout how he is the first non white PM. Well, sorry mate, but you forget, the population didn’t vote for you, it was only through the misfortune of others that you are in that position, otherwise you’d still be a runner up no matter how high your bank balance.

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  5. tomo says:

    Tom Bayliss should’ve got equal billing with Sam Melia ….

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    • StewGreen says:

      The false quote of the judges words
      is rhetorical, rather than truthful

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      • tomo says:

        I had a trivial look around – the court transcript is somewhere out there?

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Yes – but off repeating a false comment by a judge ….

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          • StewGreen says:

            I did google the quote the only thing that came up was the tweet
            It is kind of rooted in truth
            as what was written on the stickers is NOT illegal
            but rather the prosecution argued that Melia deliberately set out to cause racial division .. and that is the offence
            as well as putting stickers on lampposts DAMAGES them in a criminal way
            Though of course no one else ever gets prosecuted for that.

            This is the gotcha you want
            people do point out that the same judge gave someone a suspended sentence for making and distributing child porn

            : https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/man-caught-sex-images-children-12569473
            Reeves, 56 of Trafalgar Road, Dewsbury, admitted three charges of making indecent images and one of extreme pornography.
            Imposing an eight month prison sentence suspended for two years, Judge Tom Bayliss QC told him…
            But he said the best way of stopping his behaviour and protecting the community was to ensure his supervision by the probation service. In addition to the suspended jail term he imposed 30 rehabilitation activity days and 200 hours unpaid work. Reeves must also register as a sex offender for 10 years.

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            • Fedup2 says:

              2 years prison for a political crime – stickers -?a perverted criminal justice system …… very Obama Biden …..
              The appeal against sentence should be straight forward – no way is that prison …

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            • MarkyMark says:

              “Racist activist Sam ” – Jeremy Corbyn was racist and got kicked out of Labour but not arrested! HA HA HA HA!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      ” actually committed a crime”

      1765 …. **In a republic worthy of name, freedom to publish one ’s thoughts is a citizen’s natural right.** They may use a pen or their voice, and should not be prevented from writing any more than speaking …That is the law in England, a monarchical country, where people are freer than elsewhere because they are more enlightened. – Voltaire, Republican Ideas, 1765

      2018 … In addition to reporting hate crime, please report non-crime hate incidents, **which can include things like offensive or insulting comments, online, in person or in writing**. Hate will not be tolerated in South Yorkshire. Report it and put a stop to it #HateHurtsSY – UK South Yorkshire Police, 2018

      2019 …Australia’s highest court has made a landmark ruling that a public servant was lawfully sacked for writing tweets which criticised government policies. The court rejected her claim that she had been denied a right to free speech. – Australia, 2019

      1765 … **In a republic worthy of name, freedom to publish one’s thoughts is a citizen’s natural right.**

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  6. StewGreen says:

    George Galloway MP is driving the outrage bus with his deceptive rhetoric
    ..these tweets got 16K and 9K Likes
    Gaza is the moral centre of the world right now.
    You are either with its children and their mothers or you are with those who are murdering them *
    The prime-ministerial robes of Rishi Sunak hang about him like on a dwarfish thief. **
    Keir Starmer is his accomplice. #Gaza #Starmer #Sunak

    * “with or against us” is the fallacy of the false dichotomy
    ** that’s probably illegal heightism … as well as low class namecalling

    Lickspittle “journalism” is alive but not well.
    Little Rishi Sunak is in office but not in power.
    Only 12% of British people trust their political parties only 9% believe their politicians tell the truth.
    British democracy is in danger alright, but not from me. #RochdaleRevival #GeneralElectionlNow

    cheek there since Galloway won only 16% of the total electorate ..even with suspicious postal voting

    Oh 27K
    This you @RishiSunak ?
    Why don’t you call a General Election you moral and political dwarf?

    Surely that is way more insulting than what Lee Anderson said about Sadiq and Starmer ?

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    • Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

      First the “Bradford Spring”, now the “Rochdale Spring”?

      At least it’s not the Marianna Spring!

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      • Guest Who says:

        Almost certainly got Franz Liebkind on the PR team as Mad Al is in Oz.

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    • pugnazious says:

      Actually it’s not too dissimilar to any BBC report on Gaza….not kidding.

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    • Chevalnoir says:

      Galloway = Joseph (good Jewish name) Goebbels

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  7. StewGreen says:

    WTF a Labour MP.. one that is MP for Gaza more than Leicester

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    • moggiemoo says:

      I thought she was in prison.

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    • Deborah says:

      Claudia Webbe, the MP who is so bright that she didn’t know how to pronounce Belarus when asking a question about that country of Dominic Raab when he was foreign secretary. Her question didn’t make much sense, even when Dominic was able to work it out. She had obviously been given a question drafted by someone else. Probably her general knowledge equals that of David Lammy on Mastermind.

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  8. Despairada says:

    BBC R4 Any Answers, On just now.
    First three phone ins were apparently middle aged probably white women blubbing about Gaza and apparently unconcerned about the coming islamic takeover
    Similar with the emails/texts chosen to read out
    Don’t tell me that these callers are a true cross section of opinion

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  9. tomo says:

    Sue Gray can Foxtrot Oscar we’ve seen this sort of subterfuge before…

    Sue-Gray-citizen-assembly.jpg

    https://www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/article/labour-plans-citizens-assemblies-sue-gray

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    • Richard Pinder says:

      Will the Citizens be Politicians?
      Will the Citizens be appointed by the Labour party?
      Will Citizens assemblies have the power to sack Civil Servants?
      Will Citizens assemblies have the power to abolish quangos?
      Will Citizens assemblies have the power to impose Direct Democracy?
      Will Citizens assemblies have the power to replace Parliament with Direct Democracy?

      And as in the French Revolution, will Citizens assemblies have the power to abolish & chop of the heads of members of the House of Lords?

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      • Thoughtful says:

        It’ll be like ofcom, appoint a few from the centre right and then remove them for some spurious reason because a Leftie complains and throws their toys out of the pram if they aren’t disqualified, and thus it will be wholly Marxist, but paying lipservice to fair and equal representation.

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    • pugnazious says:

      Sounds like the perfect forum for corruption, bullying and intimidation, and the hijacking of democracy by extremists and those with the loudest voices…and we all know that the most zealous and fanatical will be the ones to attend and thus utterly destroy the process and outcomes.

      A small group of extremists prepared to threaten or actually use violence will always defeat the moderate majority.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Just another layer of tyranny ( ‘governmenf ‘) playing power games over a diminishing budget – once created difficult to dump – like the unnnecessary crime commissioners …

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  10. tomo says:

    I wonder if the house troll might score himself?

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    • markh says:

      At no great surprise I scored 100 per cent. I love my country’s past and fear for its future. Why is that far right?

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    • Doublethinker says:

      18 yes 2 no.
      Although the answer to the first question was based on Britain sometime ago I am not sure that I like it much now it’s getting too woke , .too Islamic and too full for me.
      I answered No to the last question. I would have been a very strong yes until Her Majesty died but Charles and Wills are far too woke multiculty and interfering for my taste.
      My other No is that me and my wife are pescatarians , veggies who eat fish from time to time.

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  11. Fedup2 says:

    So often here – we debate this Marxist term ‘far right ‘ which I’d like to ban .i can’t see any of these as Right Wing at all – to me Right wing means low taxes – small government – work or starve – personal responsibility – very basic welfare – small basic NHS – preferential treatment taxpayers and those born in the UK ….i could go on …. Make yer bed and lie in it – want kids ? Pay for them your self –

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    • pugnazious says:

      The BBC loves to use the term, such a useful smear….and yet there is no definition in its editorial guidelines….until they define its meaning they should stop using it so casually and liberally…or illiberally.

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  12. Althepalerp says:

    The Population of Gaza has doubled the last 20 years.
    Even wiping out 30,000 since October the population is still growing.

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  13. Nibor says:

    My sister laments her geography education at school
    She thought Rochdale was up north , not in Gaza .

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    • pugnazious says:

      What’s weird is that it’s actually a mini-Pakistan…twinned with Gaza it would seem.

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  14. Guest Who says:

    An eco blog called ‘desmog’ has this headline:

    Pension Funds Dragging Their Heels on Fossil Fuel Divestments

    Maybe there are god reasons?

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    • tomo says:

      Desmog are desperate nutters

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Guest, yes there are ‘God reasons’ why this whole AGW&CC should be dropped: God created this world with the coal and oil there and according to Him “It is good” (See Genesis). Then God gave creativity to humankind, made in His image, and the ability to create and gain wealth and prosperity. (See Genesis to Deuteronomy and Job and other bits of Scripture) In addition, God has pledged never to flood the world again and in my experience God always keeps His word, His covenants. (See the story of Noah in Genesis again.)

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  15. pugnazious says:

    Oh those dumb, ignorant, primitive, backward Somalians….they’ve had intermittent rains over the last four years and then it came in torrents and there were floods….the BBC’s FOOC tells us that the poor old superstitious savages of Somalia put this down to acts of God or maybe it’s just the ‘weather’…..but what they don’t understand is El Nino…what’s more that this is really ‘climate change’ and they’ll all probably die…of their stupidity. There is no escape from climate change the BBC’s Peter Oborne tells us….and he would be right…unless you can switch off the BBC…..go elsewhere and you might learn in fact Somalia has been getting the same or even slightly more rain averaged over 30 year periods than they were 100 years ago.

    Then we had Paul Adams telling us how Israel is cruelly serving the Palestinians….where is the aid?….The Israelis, he tells us, must understand that they broke Gaza and that they must ‘own it’ and take responsibility….actually Hamas ‘broke Gaza’ and this war is their responsibility.

    Hmmm…well, nice to have his report, however loaded, on conditions in Gaza, but could do without his directions to the Israelis on how they must conduct themselves…hadn’t realised that that was part of an impartial BBC journalist’s remit….now I know.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Apologies, pug, but I have just repeated your post below “But not necessarily in that order.”

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  17. Doublethinker says:

    Just listen to the Telegraph podcast Off Script with host Steve Edington interviewing Robert Tombs , a distinguished historian , about the impact of Islam and mass migration on our country.
    Tombs , who is to the right of most current academics , kept pulling his punches . He would say the present situation of Parliament being cowed by protest / potential riots with MPs threatened etc etc was unprecedented since the 17 th century and therefore serious. Next breath he would say but only a few hot heads were responsible and that most of the protesters were just wanting to have a voice, have their say.
    Then he would say that all previous waves of immigration had been successfully integrated into British society and although they were much , much smaller numerically , he was optimistic that the present wave would be to. At least he didn’t attempt to blame the far right bogey man.
    As in common with every programme/ podcast thst I have seen apart from one, no one dare stray very far from the neo liberal establishment line that it isn’t too bad and will get better! The honourable exception is Peter Whittle’s New Culture Forum which tells it as it is.

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    • Deborah says:

      I am sure someone will correct me if I am wrong, but I think 100,000 Jews came to Britain from Europe to escape the holocaust. Compared to the net migration figure of 700,000 for last year, a mere drop in the ocean. They really were escaping certain death and many remained or remain grateful to this country to their dying day.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Deborah, I had extremely Orthodox Jews living in the house next door in my London days. They even got my father, good Christian that he was, to put light switches on, switch ovens on or off or boil a kettle for them in winter they were that Orthodox! The husband was from the tribe of Levi so the man was ‘a ruler of the local synagogue’. (See various references in Mark’s and Luke’s Gospels to ‘rulers of synagogues’) They used to say to us and anyone else who would listen how proud they were to be British and how grateful they were for Britain to have given them a home. Both parents now dead, as is my father.

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      • Lucy Pevensey says:

        I think it may have been even less than that Debs. The immigration laws where more strict then. There are some big differences between now & then too. Most importantly the Jews that came from Europe were genuine refugees in immediate peril. About 10,000 children (I think) on the kindertransports.
        We shared at least some common heritage with them.

        My mum worked for a Jewish textile business in Cheetham Hill in Manchester after the war. They paid decent wages she said.

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        • Up2snuff says:

          Lucy, that is interesting, the Cheetham Hill thing. I have a Jewish Christian friend, now deceased, who was along with her sister and mother put on the proverbial ‘last train out of Vienna’ by her father who died in one of the Nazi camps. They settled in Manchester and Poldi became a Christian in Manchester. Cannot remember the circumstances of how she reponded to the Gospel or whether her sister and mother became Christians too. She was distantly related, very distantly related, to the late Golda Meir one time Israeli Prime Minister.

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  18. Up2snuff says:

    For the first time in a long time, I caught a few minutes of the BBC’s FOOC (that’s ‘From Our Own Correspondent’ and not a vulgar expression) and the non-Palestinian/non-UN/non-UNRWA BBC Correspondent painted a rather different picture of the events of Thursday around the aid convoy. It was not a picture that the Palestinians would agree with and the usual spokespersons on TOADY and TWatO would present.

    Oh dear! So it is off to Mogadishu (Somalia) where the next BBC correspondent can big up the Climate Change and Global Warming except that he cannot. He asks a local “Is Global Warming and Climate Change the biggest problem for Somalia?” The local replies “No. It is Al-Shabaab.” The BBC will not like to have their favoured AGW&CC replaced by militant Islamists!

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Up2
      It really does sell the ‘approved ‘ versions – all is getting worse – indigenous are great – it was better in the past – …blah …

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      • Up2snuff says:

        I thought the opposite unless you meant to include and missed out the ‘BBC’ at the start of your post. I thought the Correspondents were subtly undermining the approved BBC narrative: Palestinians are great, we believe all that the UN/UNRWA tell us, Israel (especially Netanyahu) and the IDF are bad. Then the one in Mogadishu mentioned El Nino as the cause of the rains, not AGW&CC, before he asked the local about whether AGW&CC and the weather were a big problem for Somalians.

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  19. Richard Pinder says:

    BBC-censorship.jpg

    ‘A Storm Is Coming for The Guilty” Warns Neil Oliver: https://expose-news.com/2024/03/01/a-storm-is-coming-for-the-guilty-warns-neil-oliver

    Mr Bates versus the Post Office (PO): The Reverend Paula Vennells attacks and destroys the lives of 555 Subpostmasters rather than ask Fujitsu for money back for a dud computer.

    Mr Stringer versus the Medicines Healthcare Regulatory Agency (MHRA): Dame June Raine destroys the lives of 555,000 Deplorables rather than ask Big Pharma for money back for a dud vaccine.

    Graham Stringer MP, co-chair of the 25 member APPG on pandemic response and recovery, said “The MHRA oversees a failing system that is slow to act, causing harm to patients and beset with conflicts of interest. We cannot allow it to continue. That’s why we have written to the health select committee calling for an urgent investigation into the MHRA.”

    The APPG has “serious patient safety concerns” and claimed that “far from protecting patients” the MHRA operates in a way that “puts them at serious risk” and believe that the MHRA were aware of heart and clotting issues in February 2021.

    It added that they know from Freedom of Information (FOI) requests cited in a previous letter that the MHRA “does not have a process for the investigation and follow up of a half million individual Yellow Card reports and cannot and does not effectively monitor them.”

    It said that further FOI requests indicate that, in the intervening two-and-a-half years since knowing of post-vaccination myocarditis and pericarditis, the MHRA “has not undertaken any such formal epidemiological studies or instructed Pfizer and Moderna to carry any out.” The letter said that the examples seem to “characterise the regulator’s safety monitoring activity, casting a further dark shadow over the MHRA’s approach to patient safety.”

    The MPs said that it seems the MHRA “is more concerned with putting itself, and perhaps the pharmaceutical industry, first. Protecting itself, one might say, rather than protecting and ensuring patient safety.”

    Earlier in February, the APPG also raised serious concerns in another letter about the MHRA and patient safety, accusing it of causing “needless deaths” and highlighting its apparent conflicts of interest with the pharmaceutical industry. The MHRA is 87% funded by the pharmaceutical companies.

    The APPG said that concerns raised directly with the MHRA had been met with “an habitually dismissive and evasive response”. They singled out Dame June Raine, chief executive of the MHRA, for criticism, saying that she “boasted” of the agency’s transition from “the watchdog to the enabler,” which they said “does little to quell suspicions of conflicts and the implications for patient safety.”

    In response, Dame June Raine, announced she will follow the example set by Paula Vennells, and step down from the post of CEO.

    In 2021, The Telegraph received “a threatening phone call from a senior official at the MHRA warning that it would be banned from future briefings and press notice” if it did not “soften the news” regarding an article implying a causal link between the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and blood clots.

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    • Thoughtful says:

      TO be fair it’s over 700 postmasters and like all computer systems it had bugs, that is not Fujitsus fault bugs are present in all computer systems hence the number of updates to fix them. The problem came in corrupt civil servants under Bliar who first found that if they suspended postmasters and closed their offices they wouldn’t have to pay compensation for the closures. Then they incentivised the Post Office bosses to claw back imaginary losses with hefty bonuses for doing so.

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  20. Doobster78 says:

    Well well well . A bit of Saturday night TV with Mrs Doobster and what do you know .

    The Wheel on BBC , black man first pick to play (random choice) and ends up winning £22k

    ITV Saturday Night Takeaway – The main feature, win the ads … completely random pick from the PREDOMINANTLY White audience is … drum roll ….a Muslim woman who wins the lot …. What are the chances????

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  21. tomo says:

    “Argentina’s BBC” get euthanised…

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  22. tomo says:

    Not the first boat to Dover then?

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  23. JohnC says:

    Screenwriter slams Doctors axing as filming ends
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6pj870xypyo

    ‘A screenwriter has slammed what he called the “disastrous” decision to cut much-loved BBC series Doctors.’

    A front page, lengthy article no less. I wondered what was so ‘disastrous’ about stopping a TV show that the BBC think it is a top news item worth reporting.

    So I go in to checl and it’s nothing more than someone who was feeding from the license-fee payers teat who has got very angry that he and his luvvie friends have been thrown off the gravy train.

    “As a writer on the show for the past 19 years I’m personally impacted along with hundreds by the disastrous decision to axe it.”

    Not disastrous for the people who have been forced to fund you for 19 years though is it Philip.

    Here he is : the one who clearly lives in a complete BBC-style bubble and clearly thinks he is entitled to some of the free money:
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    And here’s the BBC star who spent so much time (and our money) producing this narcissistic non-story:
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    Perhaps if you had produced quality drama it would still be running Philip. What I really suspect though is that it went woke like everything else from the BBC and turned to complete shit full of BAME who can’t act. However as I haven’t been able to watch more than 5 minutes of any BBC output for years now, I can’t be 100% certain.

    Just 99.99%.

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  24. friend of yogi bear says:

    The Sun newspaper is again covering the ” tragic” case involving poor Huw Edwards and his suffering, although yet again they seem to be more interested in some side issue connected with the teenager and his family ,who make up the other side of this story.

    Nonetheless..Well done the BBC, they seem to have apologised for something or other, after only nine months since the teenagers parents first raised the alarm about Huw’s behaviour… I thought all this had previously been covered with the declaration that poor Huw had done nothing illegal…mmm.all seems rather murky.

    I’ve just had an idea , the BBC could put Marianna Spring on this jolly good task, some fact checking and perhaps some news coverage, perhaps top story on all bulletins for a couple of weeks and maybe a feature postscript in Miss Springs “Why does everybody hate her” booklet , etc,etc, where will it end…

    Just more sick leave on £435,000 full pay, I would guess.

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    • Scroblene says:

      I’m still amazed that Sunak and Hunt are ignoring the abolition of the TV tax paid by pensioners, who after all, are probably the most likely people to stay legal and pay up!

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13149567/jeremy-hunt-rishi-sunak-tax-cuts-budget.html

      That three quid a week could go a long way to help oldies (like me), on a limited budget!

      Clearly there aren’t enough votes in the issue, as there has to be some type of older person who actually believes the dross the Beeboids spout, and some may even like the programmes they churn out and have on in their sitting rooms with empty fireplaces…

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Scroblene -hope all well – they are a couple of very rich men doing the job for a hobby – they have no contact with ordinary punters . Even worse than that is they have no ‘common touch ‘ .
        Their only understanding of ordinary punters is briefing sheets and excel graphs ….

        They could do cheap popular things like the TV licence but are too busy losing the next election …

        BTW – I understand Farage is going to the US for Super Tuesday – 15 states – with president trump having won another one today – but that final vote is fixed ……..

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        • Scroblene says:

          Morning Fed! Yup, still on the mend and getting better thank you!

          When you think the Winston Churchill wasn’t at all wealthy compared with Sunak, Strimmer, Hunt et al, he always put the people of the UK first and was a ‘Statesman’ – a term disliked by lefties, and other envious hangers-on who infest the HoC these days.

          The old epithet of rich politicians not knowing the price of a pint of milk still applies to MPs who should know better!

          If Reform made the promise of abolishing the TV tax, they’d get quite a few more votes, but they have to appeal to the very pensioners who still cough up the three quid a week – and they’re not doing that!

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          • Fedup2 says:

            Scroblene – as Reform polls improve the BBC will look for scandal to damage it . And you can be certain some dumb Reform candidate will say something ‘unfortunate ‘ when baited by a Far Left BBC type .

            Reform really does need to exploit any opportunity to advertise itself – and getting Farage on board wouid seem most obvious .

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          • JohnC says:

            The word ‘Patriot’ means racist, far-right terrorist to the Left in the UK now.

            Except if they are Ukranian of course when they are suddenly heroes.

            Such are their absolutely immense double-standards. They just say whatever it suits them to say depending on whether they hate someone or not.

            God help us if we do ever end up fighting for survival – they won’t know what to call us while they hide under their BBC-issue tables.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Scrobie, the BBC have reneged on their commitment to free TV Licences for over 75s and reneged on their commitment to allow use of iPlayer for everyone on catch-up TV.

        You really cannot trust the BBC at all. Ever.

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  25. tomo says:

    two posts on…

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    • JohnC says:

      That first video is exactly the kind which gets ‘fact-checked’ by the Left and only published if they can call it ‘fake’.

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  26. tomo says:

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    • Guest Who says:

      Pretty sure Sunak and Springster are Google AI Bot prototypes whose unsubtle GIGO programming gets a bit obvious.

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  27. AsISeeIt says:

    One begs readers hereabouts indulgence and forgiveness for side-stepping the irrelevances that are the witterings of seat-warmer for Starmer and low-grade managerial manlet Rishi Sunak and his mate Jeremy Hunt – that startled meerkat-looking AI impersonation of a human – and his equally irrelevant up-coming budget

    You say BBC, I say BNN edition

    Hello… anyone at work over there at the BBC?

    Not only has the: Ukraine in maps: Tracking the war with Russia (By the Visual Journalism Team, BBC News) not been updated since 21 February – understandable, I know. As that hoary old taunting football chant goes “You’re only singing when you’re winning”

    But we can add to this sleeping on the job dereliction of duty the fact that the BBC online press review this Sunday includes just a meagre six titles. And one of those is the tail end charlie joker at the bottom of the pack Daily Star Sunday: My name’s Meghan… and I’m a MAYOHOLIC… she even pours it on her porridge & curry – and this afterthought last minute garnish sorry excuse for a story isn’t even about THAT Meghan! Brit Meghan Tompkins… Woman spends £500 a year on ‘crucial’ mayonnaise (Daily Star)

    Heinz invented the slogan ’57 varieties’. At the time, Heinz sold more than 60 foods. Heinz has been linked to the number 57 for more than a century. The company’s “57 varieties” slogan was a key part of its early strategy to attract consumers… How Heinz uses a fake number to keep its brand timeless (CNN)

    Apparently the Heinz (Seriously) Good Mayonnaise addict story is not exclusive – online at least – to the jokey blokey red top: Mayo Madness: Woman Consumes Over 150 Bottles Yearly… In a tale that stretches the boundaries of culinary norms, Megan Tompkins from Risca, south Wales, has confessed to an unparalleled love for mayonnaise… This unusual dietary habit costs her approximately £468 each year, highlighting not just a unique palate but a significant financial commitment to her condiment of choice. (A debut hereabouts for BNN – putting the tabloid story into some suspiciously stilted broadsheet-like language there:‘The People’s Network’ ‘Empowering millions with tomorrow’s answers. Our commitment is to deliver honest, fact-based, and unbiased international reporting that can be trusted. We strive to help citizens address the issues that matter most in their lives. We are the trailblazers, the guardians, and the truth-seekers… News isn’t just about reporting events. It’s about connecting the dots’ – brave words indeed)

    Meanwhile, on a cautionary note, highly critical of this morning’s debutant: BNN Breaking is a news website based in Hong Kong launched in 2022 by Indian-American entrepreneur Gurbaksh Chahal. It has been criticised for posting large numbers of misleading and inaccurate news stories, potentially using AI-driven content aggregation… The BNN Breaking website claims to have an extensive network of reporters on the ground that supply information to major news outlets. However, it has been described by others as a news aggregator, and has also been accused of using artificial intelligence to extract and summarize news from other sources, often resulting in misleading and inaccurate coverage. (Thank you Wiki)

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  28. Thoughtful says:

    Here’s Galloways interview with Sky News in which he tears the interviewer a new one. This is what we want to see of politicians, combative and able to justify their position, but Sunak and company are not politicians, politicians have policies. Sunak is an administrator, an apparatchik and a gasbag who talks but never acts.

    He knows the issue with postal voting fraud, but he is so ineffective he would rather lose the election than intervene and make a positive change. The Tories deserve to lose and lose badly come the election.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      An excellent 7 minute piece – so on Monday David Davies will introduce Galloway to the Commons – the Sky journo was so disarmed as to be embarrassing – no wonder Galloway won’t go near the BBC …
      Will the electoral commission investigate …

      … I think the thing about Sunak being unelected is a point … there’s no public affection for him – or hi damned party

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  29. tomo says:

    This claim seems easy to check…. if you’re Rochdale Council

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    • Emmanuel Goldstein says:

      Tomo, as well as that the turnout was only about half the last one so, half as many people but twice as many postal votes means an increase of getting on for 400%

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  30. tomo says:

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Bet the monitors of this site at 77 brigade have a picture of him by the computer screen …

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  31. tomo says:

    Solar Roads are the future!

    oh….

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  32. atlas_shrugged says:

    bBC World Service program last night:

    Dear Daughter

    (Because we hate sons – unless they are trannies)

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  33. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/bbcnews/status/1764209869320487387?s=61
    Nadiya Hussain: A letter to my bold and bright teenage daughter

    Wonder how much references the far left?

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    • vlad says:

      I read as much as I could bear. A nauseating piece of SJW tosh about all the obstacles she faces being brown and a girl, how Nadiya’s own dream of being PM was squashed and her daughter should ‘hold on to your dreams’ bla bla.

      The BBC put her up to it, probably told her what to write (don’t forget racism and misogyny) and they think it’s worthy of their Home page, of course.

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  34. tomo says:

    Elsewhere….

    You have to assume I reckon that the satellite concerned has a yet to be disclosed big dish or phased array hanging off it – but still, if I were a cellphone network operator I’d be wary…..

    If cellphones move to LEO – a solar flare could be embarrassing.

    LEO Satellite to unmodified smart phone…..

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  35. Guest Who says:

    Note the ‘we’.

    https://x.com/kingbobiiv/status/1764194911283302515?s=61
    Shes absolutely spot on, and the same problem both UK parties face. Whilst it seems like the marches over the war are big, percentage wise of potential voters in the its only about 5%. Its a distraction. They refuse to deal with mass immigration which disproportionately effects the poorest people inf the poorest towns and cities.

    Westminster, W1A… TNI… bubble dwelling idiots. Eaten last, but eaten eventually.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Don’t worry – PM Theresa May will sort it out, she knew what would happen. …..

      Theresa May on immigration … from ‘hard’ line to ‘pink no line’ …

      2012 … “Two and a half years ago, the coalition government was formed, and we made a clear promise to the British public. After thirteen years of uncontrolled mass immigration, this government would reduce and control immigration.” – Theresa May 2012

      2015 … “Because when immigration is too high (no figure given), when the pace of change is too fast, it’s impossible to build a cohesive society.” – Theresa May 2015

      2018 … “Over the years, overall, immigration has been good for the UK. It has brought people with different backgrounds, different outlooks here to the UK,” – Theresa May 2018

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  36. tomo says:

    Coincidence

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  37. atlas_shrugged says:

    On bBC World Service last night:
    Trending – The anti-vax candidate?
    Will Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s view on vaccines blah blah blah

    There then followed a hit piece on Kennedy with such illuminaries as Paul Offit and other major drug pushers. No bias there then.

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  38. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

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  39. Zephir says:

    More brilliant diversity and enrichment:

    “‘You’re going nowhere!’:Fly-tippers tried to dump mountains of rubbish on our land… but we fought back and got the ultimate revenge.

    Adam Beaty, 55, helped by his son, brother and a local gamekeeper, used four seperate vehicles to barricade the culprits in after they tried to flee.

    He made the pair pick up all the rubbish they had dumped in the picturesque village of Meriden, West Midlands, and reload it into their vans.

    They were both Romanian, aged about 40.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13126977/Fly-tippers-mountains-rubbish-land-ultimate-revenge.html

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  40. Zephir says:

    Only whte racism deserves prison from asian judge:

    “Now judge who failed to lock up three pro-Palestine protesters sporting ‘Hamas paragliders’ pictures on their jackets is accused of violating code of conduct in a separate case.

    Judge Tanweer Ikram found the three women, all in their mid-twenties, guilty at Westminster Magistrates Court of inviting support for a proscribed organisation, a charge that can carry up to 14 years behind bars, but did not impose a jail term or community order, saying their lesson had been ‘well-learned’.

    the Court and Tribunals Judiciary code of conduct bars judges from talking about ‘cases they or colleagues hear’, and they are told not to ‘comment on matters of controversy.’

    He was on a WhatsApp group and was sending messages to all his fellow police officers, which were disgustingly racist.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13151061/Now-judge-failed-lock-three-pro-Palestine-protesters-sporting-Hamas-paragliders-pictures-jackets-accused-violating-code-conduct-separate-case.html

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  41. vlad says:

    No, Rishi, the threat to our country is not from Islamists and the Far Right.

    It’s from Muslims and the Left who are allied to them, and who are causing mayhem on our streets on a weekly basis, as well as threatening Parliament, intimidating MPs and rigging elections.

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  42. MarkyMark says:

    Rishi was selected not elected!

    “Corporate society was it’s inevitable destiny, a good life.”

    “Better do as you’re told John.”

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  43. MarkyMark says:

    Birmingham Council cannot look after sick kids … but can do this! HA HA HA HA

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-66848973

    “But the future of our country is about what unites us, not what pulls us apart, which is why it’s important to have representation across the whole of the UK, of everybody that lives here.

    “The reaction has been really, really positive.”

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  44. MarkyMark says:

    Hunt’s sky interview comment ….

    “Isn’t going to make any difference. If you think that we’ll be bribed with our own money, then you’re more of a prick than we thought.”

    https://order-order.com/2024/03/03/hunt-hopes-to-make-some-progress-on-cutting-taxes-in-a-responsible-way/#comments

    “State has a moral duty to leave as much money in people’s pockets.” Jeremy Hunt.

    …..

    Since most claims revolved around MPs’ second homes in London, a panel was established to investigate all claims relating to the “second homes” allowance between 2004 and 2008. Headed by former civil servant Sir Thomas Legg, the panel published its findings on 12 October as MPs returned to Westminster following the summer recess. Each MP received a letter stating whether or not he or she would be required to repay any expenses claimed. Details of voluntary repayments by MPs amounting to almost £500,000 were also officially published.[9]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_parliamentary_expenses_scandal

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  45. MarkyMark says:

    “As of January 2024, China had the largest armed forces in the world by active duty military personnel, with about 2 million active soldiers. India, the United States, North Korea, and Russia rounded out the top five largest armies.23 Jan 2024”

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    PLEASE BUT MORE TRINKEYS FROM CHINA! WE NEED WORLD PEACE UNDER A CHINESE LEADER!

    …………………………

    George Galloway’s Party ….

    “George Galloway, leader of the workers party of Britain and former member of parliament, shared his understanding of democratic process at the second International Forum on Democracy: The Shared Human Values on Thursday. “The form of democracy in western countries is devoid”, Galloway said.”

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Can’t blame George for going where the money is – and needs the money for the -postal vote operation – as do the other parties – although I suspect no amount of postal votes could save blue labour …
      Did George have a slot on RT once ? – actually – who cares …?

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      • MarkyMark says:

        History shows trajectory …

        2022 … “George Galloway has threatened to sue Twitter after the social network labelled his account “Russian state-affiliated media”.

        The former MP, whose radio programme The Mother of All Talk Shows was broadcast on the Russian state-owned Sputnik service as recently as last week, says he will sue Twitter in the next seven days for defamation unless it rescinds the label.

        “I work for NO Russian media. I have 400,000 followers. I’m the leader of a British political party and spent nearly 30 years in the British parliament,” Galloway tweeted on Thursday.”

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  46. vlad says:

    “Terror threat at highest level”
    Must be the far right – who have never planted a single bomb, rammed a van or cut a soldier’s throat.
    The threat is expected to increase over Ramadan which, as we know, is a far-right celebration for Whites.

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  47. Fedup2 says:

    Simon Heffer in the Sunday Telegraph

    STARTS colleague Ben Lawrence wrote in Thursday’s Telegraph about the ‘infantilising’ of Radio 3’s audience, the ditching of two intelligent speech programmes, the blurring of the line between classical and popular music, and the retreat from anything resembling intellectualism or elitism. This has been happening for months, with Radio 3 imitating Classic FM, treating the highest form of music as aural wallpaper.

    I don’t blame Sam Jackson, Radio 3’s controller: I fear he is only obeying orders from the cynical fools who run the BBC, and whose hatred for anything requiring a thinking audience must be smelled to be believed.

    Ben’s article was headlined “Why does Radio 3 hate your mum?”, implying the network’s apparent distaste for a generation (of which I am part) whose interests tended to be more demanding – and who have as much right to be catered for as any group of licence-payers.

    It would have been more accurate to ask, however, “Why does the BBC hate Telegraph readers?” Because the mindset and attitudes that attract people to our brand of quality journalism is repellent now to the whole Corporation.

    One only has to hear any news bulletin, or watch any drama programme, to be bombarded with assumptions held by a bullying minority – itself, hypocritically, a self-determined elite – and by the contempt they feel for those who disagree with them and their constant adoption of the latest insane variant of identity politics.

    The technological possibilities of the internet mean one can listen to classical music stations from around the world that treat people as intelligent, and do not push a patronising agenda.

    The time is surely right for others to re-create what we used to call the Third Programme, and to stop insulting our mums.ENDS

    The comments on the above piece read like this website – we are many …..cancel that licence

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The children I teach are indifferent to the adult world. This defies the experience of thousands of years. A close study of what big people were up to was always the most exciting occupation of youth, but nobody wants to grow up these days and who can blame them? Toys are us. … Time for a return to democracy, individuality, and family. I’ve said my piece. Thank you. {naturalchild.org – john gatto – jan1990}

      http://www.naturalchild.org/guest/john_gatto.html

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  48. Eddy Booth says:

    “Why more parents are losing child benefit”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/64836315

    “Under a policy introduced in 2013, people start losing the benefit once they earn over £50,000 a year.
    You receive £24 a week for one child and £15.90 for each additional child. Those amounts are due to rise to £25.60 and £16.95 a week in April.
    If you earn more than £50,000, your child benefit starts being gradually withdrawn, such that if you earn £60,000, you don’t receive any child benefit at all.”

    Basically a BBC Verify whine about scroungers losing one of their benefits hand outs.

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  49. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Rochdale grooming: ‘I was raped more than 100 times from age 12’
      Published
      21 February
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-68300484

      ……………………………………….

      BBC News (29 August 2014): “A care worker, who worked at children’s homes from 2003–2007, told the BBC men would arrive almost ‘every night’ to collect girls, who escaped using a range of methods and were then usually driven off in taxis.” The abuse included gang rape, forcing children to watch rape, dousing them with petrol …

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploitation_scandal

      “..I’m slightly amazed at our colleagues (Simon Schama BBC@£200K) ability to get big laughs on gang rape…I’m not much of a feminist but I draw the line at the 3 year old getting raped, and the seven year old getting gang raped in a basement. (audience claps)” – Mark Steyn {youtube The Munk debate @4:46}

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