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Not much news on the subject of the resignation of Victoria Nuland, architecht of the Ukraine coup / revolution and the Ukraine war.
She is one of the characters who I spoke about who had the intention to break up Russia so certain other fellow travellers caould profit from it.
Maybe she has realised the truth that Russia is going to win decisively over Ukraine and she was talking about a Western oriented Western facing Russia in the future maybe realising the absolute economic carnage her and her friend rapacious greed has caused.
We don’t yet know why she resigned, but no doubt it will leak in time .
https://apnews.com/article/state-department-victoria-nuland-retiring-russia-ukraine-b06cfb9ca517f1a7f2e10ee7520e3086
A Moslem war memorial, a very strange idea. How odd to have a war memorial for a particularly divisive religion which aggressively separates people. War memorials are about unity between the fallen of whatever faith, the unity of suffering and death for a cause.
What about the other foreigners that fought the Germans in two World wars? There were Indians, Canadians, South Africans etc, Pakistan didn’t even exist.
Perhaps the intention is to provide an alternative memorial for the pro Gaza rioters to defile
They’ll be putting an asylum seeker, rubber dinghy memorial on the White Cliffs of Dover next.
I would have no objection to a memorial to the Indian Army, who were all volunteers. However, to pick out only the muslim members of the army for a memorial is perverse, and shows how out of touch and brain dead this unconservative “government” really is.
Oh, they are not out of touch. This is intended as a deliberate provocation towards the British people. As Theodore Dalrymple put it:
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
I wonder where they’ll stick it ? Presumably in one of the ‘no go ‘ areas of Tower Hamletistan or Newhamistan …. Or maybe Galloway will campaign for it to be put in rochdalestan ….
..I bet it has 24 hour plod protection …
Statue of Mohammed?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-46552614
“Senedd: Labour, Plaid back keeping new voting system”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-68485848
Don’t waste time and money, just scrap the Welsh Parliament.
I’ve been busy at my allotment most of the day and I’m only just catching up with the budget. Ye gods, it’s stomach churning…
How in the name of all that’s holy can this gutless government excuse spaffing a million of our hard earned quid on a bloody Muzzie war memorial? It’s beneath contempt.
There are memorials to all the Asian forces that contributed, there’s absolutely no need for it. Everybody must see through this. It’s a pathetic gesture of cowardly appeasement to a vociferous, aggressive and dangerous minority. Spineless.
Why not a memorial to all the young white girls that have been raped by Pakistani paedo’ gangs? Or to those blown to bits at various stadiums, arenas and railway stations?
My God, this “Conservative”? government make my flesh crawl.
Kick these useless bastards out…
Jeff – yes – destroy the current regime – maybe they’ve taken big bungs from the Arabs …
Jeff more importantly – are you South or North ? Are things growing ? – I ask because I’m out of Blighty until Holy Easter Week …
I’m in the south. Not much actually growing yet, it’s all preparation at the moment. I grow lots of kales and broccoli, sees me through the winter. Today I’ve been preparing my potato bed and finishing my fruit tree pruning.. Another week and it will be all systems go.
Jeff – thanks very much – I’ve got an overgrown garden so I’d better get my skates on ….
Jeff and Fed, it really has taken off now, hasn’t it! This will be the first real week of getting going!
While we gave up our allotments a few years ago, (gave everything we grew away, so just stopped…), it’s ‘desk-top’ gardening now, in long trays and a patch for the normals like shallots, broad beans, runners etc!
As to be expected, I completely ignore the Beeboids’ stuff on gardening nowadays, they just pander to the leftie ‘agenda’, and even some of the gardening websites are getting a bit too woke as well, so luckily at my tender age, I just get going with what I learned all those years ago!
Seems to work!
(The toms are having to get potted on this weekend – all 130 of them…)
Anyone heard about the meeting in Moscow between the three Palestinian parties with a view to uniting them into one singular party with a different name (thus Israels mistake creating Hamas is destroyed).
Russia has a reasosnably high number of Jewish citizens and some of them occupy senior positions in government. Putin and Netanyahu were on reasonably friendly terms.
Gaza has been an enormous disaster for Israel even if people here are under the delusion the only thing which matters is killing as many Muslims as possible.
Apparantly now world support for Israel basically comes down to just one country, America, but that is changing as American power wanes.
The next problem is Ramadan and Islamic nutcases out of their minds with hate causing some kind of outrage somewhere in the world (so what’s new I hear you say) The problem is the pressure these nutters might put on their leaders.
The more Israel cracks down on Gaza the more the opposition in the world is going to be, and now the Israeli economy is wrecked to such an extent it’s going to take decades to repair. The US is bankrupt and Israel is going to be a much poorer country with likely population flight.
The Abraham accords are now a distant memory and are unlikely to be ressurected. If the world places sanctions on Israel then its doom is sealed.
Sadly for Jews in Israel a return to European countries is going to be very difficult after successive far Left lunatics in power have allowed Islamic anti Semitism to flourish.
Thoughtful – surely european Jews are more likely to go to Israel because of the threat of Muslims ? With police forces infiltrated by Islam and unwilling to protect them .? I recognise I am writing this as a non Jew – but see Islam as our worst enemy ….
And to me – Israel has always been ‘up against it ‘ and is innovative enough to adapt shoukd US support fail … which is tricky for Obama in an election year – even with the fixed vote ….
As for the Islamic unholy month – co ordinated attacks in European cites will only strengthen support for Israel …
Immediately after writing the piece below I wrote one here, only to find I’d been logged out, and the entire piece was lost. It used to be that when you signed back it it would be retained, but it isn’t any more and I’m not writing it all out again !
Happened to me too ! I would leave a half written comment, to find info elsewhere, then on returning my essay had gone. Frustrating, as my careful words had then evaded me !
Just yesterday, Israel accused hundreds of United Nations workers of having ties to militant groups in the Gaza Strip. The claimed 450 employees of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) are active members of terror groups.
Barry Gardiner hides his £500K under the rug – shhhh – not an agent – shhhh – not a bribe.
Ever wondered why the US appears to have gone cold on the Ukraine war now that they are clearly not going to achieve the objectives set out by the greedy Jews in the Democrat party?
They’ve come up with a new scam which you’ve all heard about, but which you didn’t know the details about.
The US (Demonrats) has been talking about siezing the $300Bn of Russian assets held by them, except they now have a new word to make it more palatable, because even they know it’s wrong – liquidating.
They have always claimed that the money is to rebuild Ukraine, but can you recall about what happened with Hilary Clinton and the money to rebuild Haiti after the earthquake. Even the Grauniad had to report on the outrageous corruption of what happened.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/11/haiti-and-the-failed-promise-of-us-aid
This is what is being planned again with the money going to US corporations such as Blackrock (Larry Fink) and very little actually cash going to Ukraine itself.
It was announced by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (Jewish) in South America.
Again I can name names three have been named on this thread already, however doing so puts the site in risk of legal action if I do so.
Thoughtful – do you really mean to use the term ‘greedy Jews ?’ – the implication of your comment is anti semitic .-in my gut reaction as a non Jew – I don’t mind being wrong on this .
Is it only Jews who are greedy ? Or could there be other people who are greedy ?
And surely for the US – Ukraine is a long way away and doesn’t directly affect US interests – compared to the threat to Eastern European states – many of whom have freeloaded on the benefits of US defence spending over decades …
BTW – I’m not sure about dual nationality between say UK/ Israel – or US/ Israel …..
Stop being a woke snowflake Fed, facts don’t care about your feelings, and the use of the tired old Left wing tropes simply don’t work,
To be anti Semitism I would have to be saying ALL Jews are greedy and corrupt whereas this is a group with a core of around 15 – 25 and they share certain characteristics such as being Jewish, Democrat, corrupt, and greedy.
The Ukraine war wasn’t about Ukraine, it was intended to weaken Russia, so it could be broken up and certain parties would then be able to take financial advantage of that natural wealth.
Daniel Hanan wrote of the plan to do this but he of course omitted the underlying motives.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-13074841/DANIEL-HANNAN-Russia-broken-thousand-years-tyrannical-land-purge-gulag-Ivan-Terrible-Conquest-wired-psyche.html
Have you stopped to think given that I have voiced this a number of times that there might be things I know which I can’t say ?
If this was a group of women would you be calling me Sexist? If it was Muslims would I be Islamophobic, if there were mainly gay would I be homophobic?
If the answer to these is no then it can’t be anti semitic either and it’s not !
I, too, would be grateful Thoughtful if you would be less anti-Semitic in your posts about American politics and the Democrat Party. It is not just FedUp2. There are Christians posting on here who love Israel and pray for the peace of Jerusalem as commanded by God in Psalm 122. There are Jews posting on here who maybe highly offended by your anti-Semitism.
It has been noticed by Lucy Pevensey who I think is a Christian. One of the features of this site is its friendliness toward Israel. That even stood out when there were posters on here posting highly racist posts. Things have improved since then, largely thanks to Fed. Greed is not just a Jewish thing, it afflicts all of humankind from birth. I think you need to read a bit more of the New Testament.
Another snowflake with imaginary offence taking. Don’t be making left wing woke accusations if you can’t back them up with facts! Criticisms of certain people who are Jews is not anti Semitism and it is beneath contempt to attempt to silence criticism by use of isms and fake fauxbias.
So put up the evidence of anti Semitism or apologise because there’s none here and like all other groups Jews are not above being criticised when they do wrong.
I Timothy chapter 6 verse 10: “For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” (KJV)
“Corruption is pervasive at all levels of government in Iraq. In 2021, President Barham Salih stated that US$150 billion of oil money had been stolen and smuggled out of Iraq in corrupt deals since the 2003 U.S. invasion.”
Such scenes are not actually unprecedented in Icelandic History, Iceland has always been a nation of immigrants. See: Woodcarvings from the 10th Century depicting events from ‘Bóngobóngðson’s Saga’ in which Africans brought to Iceland by Viking raids attempt to overthrow the Jarl
“The immigrants make their way north, having no desire to assimilate to French culture, but continuing to demand a First World standard of living, even as they flout laws, do not produce, and murder French citizens, such as factory bosses and shopkeepers, as well as the ordinary people who do not welcome them. They are also joined by the immigrants who already reside in Europe, as well as various left-wing and anarchist groups. Across the West, more and more migrants arrive and have children, rapidly growing to outnumber whites. In a matter of months, the white West has been overrun and pro-immigrant governments have been established”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camp_of_the_Saints
DO NOT pander to them with war memorials, give them an inch and:
just like the 1930s believing the bbc muslim lies:
“Jewish students are left feeling ‘absolutely broken’ after being mobbed by 100 pro-Palestine protesters who ‘screamed in their faces and threw orange squash at them’
Jewish group claim they were screamed at and had squash thrown at them”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13165661/Jewish-students-left-feeling-absolutely-broken-mobbed-100-pro-Palestine-protesters-screamed-faces-threw-orange-squash-them.html
Have you seen the wall between Egypt and palestine ?
Even their fellow Islamist dont want these war mongering terrorists, thrown out of Jordan for trying to kill the king, thrown out of Kuwait for supporting the invader Saddan Hussein, thrown out of Syria etc etc.
Supported by the bbc muslims because they are murdering jews
“Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi made his toughest remarks yet on Wednesday, saying the current war was not just aimed at fighting Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, “but also an attempt to push the civilian inhabitants to … migrate to Egypt.” He warned this could wreck peace in the region.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II gave a similar message a day earlier, saying, “No refugees in Jordan, no refugees in Egypt.”
There is a carbuncle barrier like the one above outside King’s College in Cranebridge:
https://democracy.cambridge.gov.uk/ieIssueDetails.aspx?IId=23599&Opt=3
What never occurs to the irresponsible politicians is instead of digging up the whole country to put security eyesores all over the place it may be a bit easier to remove the 30,000+ potential terrorists as a defence of the realm measure.
In the last decade, Saudi Arabia’s approach to the porous frontier with Yemen has gradually shifted from patronage for and cooperation with local tribes to incremental militarization.
January 09, 2020
https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/80745
” The Palestinians began to run a parallel state in Jordan, openly cocking a snook at Jordanian laws, they actually attempted to assasinate Hussein, yes the very same King Hussein who had given them shelter.
Hussein had enough of it and was seeking to kick them out, but was wary of Arab nations intervening, especially Syria, which had no love lost for Jordan. However when the Palestinians hijacked 3 civilian airliners, evacuated the passengers, and blew them up in what was called the Dawson’s Field Hijackings, Hussein had enough.
By September 1970, Jordanian Army surrounded the cities having a signifcant PLO presence, shelled the refugee camps. Syria sent a 10,000 strong unit in support of the Palestinians, however they were thoroughly routed by the Jordanian forces. By July 1971, the Jordanian armed forces kicked out the Palestinians, one by one, and around 2000 fedayeen surrendered, ending the conflict.
It did not end there, the Palestinian refugees moved to Lebanon to seek refuge there. Till then it was one of the more peaceful, liberal countries in the Middle East, with a diverse population of Christians, Sunni, Shias and Druze. The influx of Palestinians tilted the demographics in favor of the Muslims. And soon it led to a conflict between the Maronite Christian forces and the Palestinians, that led to a civil war, which raged for 15 years, devastating the country, left 150,000 dead, and a large scale exodus mostly of Lebanese Christians.
Even after the Taif Agreement of 1989, PLO refused to abide by the terms, and it was after the Battle of Sidon in 1991, that the Lebanese Govt, finally kicked them out.
So as we have seen, that is two fellow Arab nations that had to get into a messy conflict, after taking in the Palestinian refugees.
Other Arab nations have their own issues, Egypt is wary of taking them in as they usually mix with the radical Muslim Brotherhood and sundry Islamists, turning out to be a security risk.
When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, Yasser Arafat backed him, leading to Saudi, Kuwait, and all the Gulf nations totally pissed off. This when they had sheltered most of the Palestinian refugees.
And that comes to Arafat, often hailed as a moderate, wise statesman, another guy on whom the Nobel Peace Prize was wasted.
Yasser Arafat was a bloody, manipulative crook, who was responsible for Black September in Jordan and the Lebanese Civil War. It was only later on that he recognized he could no longer fight Israel, and sought a two state solution. Anyway more on him later.
The fact is Palestinians have been their own worst enemy, led by crooks like Arafat or medieval barbarians like the Hamas. They got too greedy for their own good in Jordan, which had given them asylum, they went to Lebanon and stoked up a civil war there. Would you blame other Arab nations for not taking them in.
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Arab-and-Muslim-countries-hate-the-Palestinians-especially-Egypt-No-Arab-or-Muslim-country-is-willing-to-take-Palestinian-refugees-Do-they-believe-they-are-inferior
Palestinians given refuge in Jordan, what do they do ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson%27s_Field_hijackings
In September 1970, members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) hijacked four airliners bound for New York City and one for London. Three aircraft were forced to land at Dawson’s Field, a remote desert airstrip near Zarqa, Jordan, formerly Royal Air Force Station Zarqa, which then became PFLP’s “Revolutionary Airport”. By the end of the incident, one hijacker had been killed and one injury reported. This was the second instance of mass aircraft hijacking, after an escape from communist Czechoslovakia in 1950.
On 6 September, TWA Flight 741 from Frankfurt (a Boeing 707) and Swissair Flight 100 from Zürich (a Douglas DC-8) were forced to land at Dawson’s Field.[1][2] On the same day, the hijacking of El Al Flight 219 from Amsterdam (another 707) was foiled: hijacker Patrick Argüello was shot and killed, and his partner Leila Khaled was subdued and handed over to British authorities in London. Two PFLP hijackers, who were prevented from boarding the El Al flight, hijacked instead Pan Am Flight 93, a Boeing 747, diverting the large plane first to Beirut and then to Cairo, rather than to the small Jordanian airstrip. On 9 September, a fifth plane, BOAC Flight 775, a Vickers VC10 coming from Bahrain, was hijacked by a PFLP sympathizer and taken to Dawson’s Field in order to pressure the British to free Khaled.
While the majority of the 310 hostages were transferred to Amman and freed on 11 September, the PFLP segregated the flight crews and Jewish passengers, keeping the 56 Jewish hostages in custody, while releasing the non-Jews. Six hostages in particular were kept because they were men and American citizens, not necessarily Jews: Robert Norman Schwartz, a U.S. Defense Department researcher stationed in Thailand; James Lee Woods, Schwartz’s assistant and security detail; Gerald Berkowitz, an American-born Jew and college chemistry professor; Rabbi Avraham Harari-Raful and his brother Rabbi Yosef Harari-Raful, two Sephardi Brooklyn school teachers; and John Hollingsworth, a U.S. State Department employee. Schwartz, whose father was Jewish, was a convert to Catholicism.[3][4][5] On 12 September, prior to their announced deadline, the PFLP used explosives to destroy the empty planes, as they anticipated a counterstrike.[1]
Controls on Immigration – ha ha ha ha
But he can’t eat a bacon sandwich.
“The Drax Energy Company in North Yorkshire, UK, is shifting from coal as
a fuel for electrical generation to wood pellets obtained from the
hardwood forests of the U.S. and Canada. They claim that wood pellets
are a carbon neutral source of energy. This is a big fat lie.”
https://greenchristian.org.uk/drax-in-north-yorkshire-destroying-hardwood-forests-of-the-usa-and-canada/
TOADY Watch #1 – no, it is not getting warmer, Justin
Justin Rowlatt, the BBC’s Climate Editor, is fully signed up to this AGW&CC nonsense and was getting hyperbolic in his statements about the ‘warmest winter ever’. He is quite demented. There is a simple reason why I know it is not the ‘warmest winter ever’; the clothes I have had to wear. Oh and the heating I have had to use. The thermostat does not lie like ‘Copernicus’.
Some winters, the heaviest coats, the padded, down-filled jackets have stayed firmly in the closet and not been used from November to April: the winter of 2019 to 2020 comes to mind. It is the big giveaway that gives the lie to Anthropogenic Global Warming – the clothes that people have to wear. Oh, and also the ice in the bird bath. It has frozen several times in February 2024 so that is why I know it is not the warmest ever February.
Who do you believe, Justin Rowlatt or your lying eyes?
In the World of habitual liars, lying is a useful weapon and is actually promoted by The Koran for instance to further its Islamic cause against non-believers. There really is little difference between this and the output from these climate crazy zealots as long as it supports their end-game. So focussed are they in attaining their desired personal and tribal outcomes they are comfortable with the nonsense pouring from their mouths!
Quiet news day . News item 2 is february was the warmest since records began . And the increasingly rabid justin rowlett said that at current projections unless we all die and emissions the average temperature in june will be 110 degrees .
Now an item about mental health and self harming …
I like weather extremism- it gives us something to moan about other than the cost of green crap standing charges …
West Wales?
Morning after morning of frosts or just above freezing. So I fully understand Global Warming………………. (and the bearers of such ‘News’)
The jokey blokey tabloid Daily Star tops Mr AsI’s review of our media’s Budget coverage: Budget: Blah blah blah blah – yet even the comic book sensibilities of this prize red top must succumb somewhat to the prevailing Budget fever: 8 crisp paragraphs of coverage: page 8
Never mind the inflation rate, the dodgy OBR projections, two consecutive quarters of falling GDP… Mr AsI’s main indicator of plummeting standards yesterday was our BBC’s amusing little typo: ‘Nom-dom’, vaping and tobacco: Key points at-a-glance [my emphasis]
Nom-dom, eh Google? “Search instead for non-dom” – is the polite reply. Oh for the days when the search engine would have barked back “Did you mean non-dom?”
I’m guessing the erroneous ‘Nom-dom’ might have been typed there at the BBC by some person of overseas extraction: Non-doms are individuals whose permanent home, or domicile, is considered to be outside the UK (Gov.UK)
Which category of person, irrespective of their taxation status, ought perhaps to be officially more broadly applied here in the UK – for access to social housing, benefits, free use of the NHS etc etc – fat chance of that under this government, or the next: 1m more immigrants to prop up economy (Telegraph)
Have you heard Rishi Sunak’s new anti-terrorism public awareness campaign slogan?
If you see something that doesn’t look right… See it… Say it… Blame the Far Right
Is ‘See it, say it, sorted’ the most annoying slogan of the century? – asked the Guardian back in 2018
See it, say it, sorted. The slogan is not only vulgar, but an implicit lie – complained Theodore Dalrymple in The Critic: Someone must be very proud of the slogan “See it, say it, sorted”, for it is relayed countless times — ad nauseam, in fact — over public address systems in British trains and stations… what does “sorted” mean in the context of the British police? If the experience of countless millions is anything to go by, it means “sorted” as far as the police are concerned, that is to say an incident is given, often somewhat reluctantly, a crime number.
The fusty old Mr Dalrymple grumbles: It is preceded by “If you see anything that doesn’t look right, call the British Transport Police …” Recently, however, it was changed on at least one train to “If you see anything unusual… Something unusual — like a well-dressed person, for example?
Having got through seven odd seasons of tv’s period drama Mad Men, set in the advertisng world during those heady days of the 1960s, one feels reasonably qualified to help our authorities – be they Tory or Labour – with a more snappy and more cover-all variation of that slogan for use in all envisageable circumstances. I’m doing my Donald Draper presenation bit here… “Blame the Far Right… Sorted!”
Just imagine that motto blarring from every airport, train carriage, tube and railway station PA – London mayor Khan is probably onto it even as you read this
Ukraine in maps: Tracking the war with Russia (BBC By the Visual Journalism Team – last update 21 February)
Russia claims full control of Avdiivka after Ukrainian retreat… Russian forces launch attacks further west of key city as Kremlin congratulates its soldiers on biggest gain since May last year (Guardian)
By many accounts, the Ukrainian retreat was panicked and disorganized, with dozens feared left behind as Russian forces attacked in seemingly endless waves. (Washington Post)
And with friends like these, who needs enemies? ‘No need to apologise’ for leaked call – German ambassador to UK… security breaches which led to a call between top army officials being leaked by Russian sources… Mr Berger hit back at criticism by former UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, who said Germany was “pretty penetrated by Russian intelligence” and “neither secure nor reliable”. (BBC)
Oh Mr Ambassador, you spoil us. Our BBC doing their public service information job here: “I think that is a good lesson for everybody: never use hotel internet if you want to do a secure call,” Mr Berger advised listeners of the Today programme. – hotel internet, eh?
Which for some reason tends to remind this reader of the MPs’ expenses scandal: Jacqui Smith, the former home secretary, today apologised to MPs after she was criticised by a Commons committee for using the second home allowance to fund her family home. She also apologised “unreservedly” for wrongly claiming for the cost of films watched at her family home, including two pornographic films seen by her husband. (Guardian)
And finally, we opened with Mr AsI’s top pick for Budget-related headline of the day care of the Daily Star – but in these strange times of our media’s obsession with trans-genderism, the FT has a corker of a Budget headline for us: Chancellor’s fiscal drag act is all over bar the shouting (Sketch by Henry Mance): “This isn’t amusing anymore!” bellowed the deputy Speaker (FT) – so that’s my cue to get out of here.
” ‘See it, say it, sorted’ the most annoying slogan of the century? “
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Security guard avoided Manchester Arena bomber ‘for fear of being called racist’
This article is more than 3 years old
Kyle Lawler had a ‘bad feeling’ about Salman Abedi but ‘did not have anything to justify that’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/oct/27/security-guard-avoided-manchester-arena-bomber-for-fear-of-being-called-racist
Police and bbc trying something new in crime reporting?
https://x.com/bbcnews/status/1765640659074011301?s=61
Police hunt dangerous man hiding in west London
It’s in color.
https://x.com/bbcnews/status/1765640937475035487?s=61
Woman gets uncombable hair syndrome diagnosis after radio interview
BBC gets…. well, let’s just say #ccbgb
We have nothing to report anymore – all wars and terror ended on 07-08-2024
Funny how the money stops at £75,000 and not £86,584 for MP wages! HA HA HA H!
MPs’ pay & pensions
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-68497303
April 2023 £86,584
WE ARE ALL IN IT TOGETHER …..
https://www.theipsa.org.uk/mp-staffing-business-costs/your-mp/jeremy-hunt/1572
Bought-in services £600.00
Cleaning services £156.00
Equipment – purchase £1,278.36
Hospitality £40.00
Mobile telephone – contract & usage £648.47
Newspapers, journals, magazines £37.80
Pooled staffing services £3,188.00
Postage & couriers £8.95
Rent £2,532.00
Stationery & printing £0.00
TV licence £63.60
Utilities £965.30
Waste disposal, confidential waste & rubbish collection £47.20
Cost Claim Details
Cost Detail Cost Information
Claim reference 60180896-7
MP Jeremy Hunt
Constituency South West Surrey
Financial Year 2023 to 2024
Budget Category Office Costs
Cost Type TV licence
Amount Claimed £63.60
Amount Paid £63.60
Amount Not Paid £0.00
Amount Repaid £0.00
Status Paid
Date 30 April 2023
Short Description
Details TV Licence 40% contribution
First Budget year when I cannot even be bothered to see what it means for me.
Fact is, H.M.S UK was well and truly, and fatally, holed beneath the waterline decades ago. I’m surprised the expression: “Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic” has not been wheeled out………yet.
Jeremy hunt expenses – we are all in it together ….
Utilities
£965.30
Date Detail Amount (£)
April 2023 Gas Feb23 40% contribution £86.35 view details
April 2023 Water Dec-Jun23 contribution £22.79 view details
April 2023 Electric 40% contribution £211.42 view details
April 2023 Gas Mar23 40% contribution £52.28 view details
April 2023 Gas Jan23 40% contribution £76.60 view details
January 2023 40% contribution of gas bill £271.76 view details
January 2023 40% contribution of water bill £23.29 view details
January 2023 40% contribution of electric bill £220.81 view details
https://www.theipsa.org.uk/mp-staffing-business-costs/your-mp/jeremy-hunt/1572
I suppose the SNP is top of the expenses claims …
https://www.mpsexpenses.info/#!/all
1 Apr 2022 — 31 Mar 2023
Total claimed:
£30,033,298.50 *
Number of items claimed for:
147,920
Highest claiming MPs
Includes claims made between 1 Apr 2022 and 31 Mar 2023, excluding repayments
Name Constituency Number of claims Total claimed
SNP Steven Bonnar Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill 431 £131,431.46
Karl McCartney Lincoln 327 £123,383.07
Alison Thewliss Glasgow Central 298 £119,151.65
SNP Stewart McDonald Glasgow South 254 £118,008.28
SNP Dave Doogan Angus 748 £112,152.49
SNP Owen Thompson Midlothian 442 £106,082.94
John Lamont Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk 473 £102,937.08
SNP Ian Blackford Ross, Skye and Lochaber 337 £101,542.43
SNP Amanda Solloway Derby North 615 £101,276.92
SNP Brendan O’Hara Argyll and Bute 506 £99,073.69
Jeremy Hunt expenses … we are all in it together ….
https://www.theipsa.org.uk/mp-staffing-business-costs/your-mp/jeremy-hunt/1572
2020 to 2021
Reward and recognition Total amount paid £1,000.00
https://x.com/kulganofcrydee/status/1765638265598546231?s=61
ROD LIDDLE Verify is latest arm of the BBC to join the corporation’s relentless Israel-bashing… it has become a national disgrace
‘Become’? Rod… it was that long before.
One for Rod?
https://x.com/olilondontv/status/1765433896496197877?s=61
Dozens of armed Hamas gunmen hijack massive humanitarian aid convoy carrying critical supplies for civilians today in the Gaza Strip.
Jeremy Corbyn to invite them to Parliament?!
Meanwhile, at the place many Beeboids go ‘to be free’… taking Eleanor with them…
https://x.com/rebartic/status/1765651460954390732?s=61
Scene at LBC, Exec’s office.
[Knock at the door]
Exec: “Come in”
Ian Payne: “Sir, you wanted to see me?”
Exec: “Ah yes, Ian Plain isn’t it?”
IP: “It’s Ian Payne, Sir”
Exec: “And what do you do here?”
IP: “The 4am slot, Sir”
Exec: “Ah well, I’ve had a complaint about you from someone with the frankly ridiculous name of Thangam Debbonaire.”
IP: “Oh, dear.”
Exec: “This person tells me that you spent an hour discussing whether ‘Rule Britannia’ should be banned.”
IP: “Yes, Sir, it was quite a good hour, Sir.”
Exec: “This person also says that every call you took supported the playing of the song!”
IP: “Yes, Sir, that’s right.”
Exec: “And some of the callers supporting the song were [whispers] black!”
IP: “Yes, we had three of four who were very supportive.”
Exec: “Are you mad, Plain?”
IP: “It’s Payne, Sir”
Exec: “Don’t you know that’s NOT how we do it?”
IP: “But…”
Exec: “But me no buts, you’ll have people thinking that there’s not as much division in the country as we want them to believe.”
IP: “But Sir, they called in, my producer put them through, isn’t that what we do?”
Exec: “Ah, well, I’ve taken care of that. Your producer, Joshua, he’s been fired.”
IP: “What!?”
Exec: “Yes, I’m asking O’Brien’s producer, Eleanor, to work with you for two weeks, she knows exactly how to prevent these balanced and reasonable callers getting through. If they hate the UK and the Tories they get to talk. If they support the UK and the Tories they only get to talk if they sound white, working class and inarticulate. Got it?”
IP: “Yes, Sir, Sorry Sir.”
Exec: “Remember, Plain, we’re here to sow hate and division and keep the plebs depressed, don’t forget that! Dismissed.”
IP: “Yes, Sir. Thank you, Sir. [quietly] Bastard!”
#OLBC
I confess I listened to the BBC today programme to catch Jeremy Hunts interview.
It was difficult because the programme is so very “tabloid”these days and that is very much the style of Mr Amol Rajah ,who conducted the interview with remarks such as his, “some call you the fiscal drag queen” indicating that Amol is still very much in touch with his schoolboy self….I can just imagine all his clever mates laughing at that one….but funnier still was his indignation when Hunt had a few comments about the standards the BBC now think are acceptable. Going into a quick rant about how the listeners were grateful for all the hard work people like him did on the show.
A complete lack of self awareness ,no inclination that he realises the listening figures for him and his show have fallen off a cliff.
I regret tuning in to listen to his angry amateurish display , the best bit was when Amol blurted out that the BBC doesn’t exist ??…well we live in hope.
Night Rate is a diversity hire from the Indy.
He is a joke.
Yogis’ friend
I think Hunt should count himself lucky he didn’t get spanked the meesh one – who I’ve noticed when she loses it a bit her original accent pops up before being smothered by the prep school accent …
Even Dianne Abbott could grasp this
13
Parliament’s £13 billion restoration.
150
HS2 £150 billion, original budget £36 billion.
37
Track and Trace £37 billion – no tracking or tracing where this money went.
1.1
£1.1bn of COVID small business loans identified as fraud
4
£4 billion of unusable PPE bought in first year of pandemic will be burnt “to generate power”
13 + 150 + 37 + 1.1+ 4 = £205 billion
Nuclear reactor = £6 billion
As the weather improves, jut what action is the ‘Tory’ government taking to defend our shores from invasion ?
Thoughts and prayers?
Here’s a thought for people.
Galloway in a recent interview stated that he was a great admirer Yasser Arafat, of the PLO.
Arafat was mentored by the Grand Mufti of Palestine who was a friend and possible advisor to Adolf Hitler who we know met each other on more than one occasion.
Haj Amin Al Husseini not only visited Nazi Germany he also visted the death camp at Auschwitz and approved of what it was intended for. He is listed as one of the archtects of the holocaust.
Galloway is admiring a man who is only one step removed from Adolf Hitler and directly linked to an architect of the holocaust.
Galloway therefore by my reckoning Galloway is at best a Fascist and at worst a Nazi.
https://s.france24.com/media/display/def5c878-0950-11e9-9bdf-005056bff430/w:1280/p:1×1/photo%20merkel%20netanyahou.jpg
George has a remarkable talent for aligning with peeps who fund him.
I will always be in awe of his near overnight move from sucking up to Saddam to sucking up to the Tehran mullahs – quite an amazing achievement.
I think Galloway sees parallels between himself in the 2020’s in the UK. And a corporal in Germany 100 years before him!
Galloway certainly has an appetite for incendiary language when he feels like it. Unfortunately there are pretty much zero folk in the public space who are brave and knowledgeable enough to butt heads with George. I suspect he’s a list of “avoid” people. I’d guess that Douglas Murray might be one….
Like another George, the Moonbat – who seems exceeding careful who he meets on the telly.
Iraq War Debate between Christopher Hitchens and George Galloway
Christopher Hitchens & Charlton Heston – The Gulf War (CNN)
Many Scots say
“See you Jimmy”
some say
“Seig Heil Jimmy”
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-dark-history-of-the-snp/
I notice that according to BBCNews website the fire at the London police station is not being treated as suspicious at the moment. I’m just wondering at which point they might think it suspicious?
A robbery at a fire station would not be reported.
and so it begins
tomo
I would have thought that the police have much more important crimes to crackdown on ?
TV licence next ?
It’s like the ‘crackdowns’ on counterfeit gear they always seem to be engaged in. What does it matter if someone is selling a copy Rolex? If the real things weren’t so outrageously overpriced it wouldn’t be so easy to copy them!
Same with clothing with brands like Timberland selling crap clothing, sticking a badge on it and hiking the price to astronomical levels.
But they pay the Gestapo protection money and they deliver for them as a result. We the people who pay the taxes to fund the Gestapo get nothing from it.
That £££££££ fleet of chartered police helicopters looks hugely underutilized.
Are the police on Commission?
Global US Climate envoy Kerry has just fully revealed what a lunatic out of touch outfit climate czar nutter he really is.
He has suggested that the Russians war against Ukraine would be seen more positively by the World if the Russians pledged to cut emissions!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/john-kerry-says-people-feel-better-about-ukraine-war-russia-reduce-emissions
I am stunned at the idiotic tunnel vision and self agrandissment of this creature who is handed so much global influence and no doubt wads of cash by stupid politicians.
Someone needs to tell him what an overpaid, irrelevant, puffed-up twat he really is and that no one cares what he thinks.
Careful digg, it might be seen as anti Semitic !
TOADY Watch #2 – no one does hypocrisy like the Labour Party and the lefty BBC does
A couple of years ago, Labour and the Lefties at the BBC were incensed when Boris Johnson increased National Insurance to fulfil a Manifesto pledge to provide more funds to fix the deficiencies in Social Care. The uproar went on for a couple of days. Especially driven, I am guessing, by highly paid BBC presenters who would be earning above £50,000 per annum and would be making the biggest contribution from their incomes. Jeremy Hunt, the Chancellor, cuts NI in yesterday’s Budget but there is no applause from Labour and none from the BBC.
I understand – as a result of an article in the Daily Telegraph – that the Muslim loving out going chancellor / MP – had a run in the the Amol Today one ….
But I’d ask –
1 doesn’t he know the sort of treatment / reception the the BBC is going to give any one from his crap party
2 That his crap budget was going to get stick
3 that he and his party has allowed the BBC to think it is running the show ….( when in fact we know it’s the Far Left Woke Enemy Civil Service screwing everything up )
Shame I missed the ding dong …
POT HOLES? NO!
Initial estimates of the cost and duration of the Restoration and Renewal Programme were presented to the Commissions of the two Houses of Parliament in January 2022, by the programme’s Sponsor Body. It was estimated to cost £7 billion to £13 billion, taking 19–28 years, with a decant lasting 12–20 years.
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9945/
On 20 June 2023, the Programme Board “provisionally agreed that the QEII Conference Centre remains the preferred decant location for the House of Lords” (PDF). The conference centre is close to the Palace of Westminster on Broad Sanctuary.
AZ working with the UKHSA — “UKHSA Provides Mortality Data to Big Pharma But Not to the General Public for ‘Commercial Sensitivity Reasons’”
“We have released anonymised aggregate data to manufacturers. This is for their own vaccines to support their obligations to report to MHRA as part of the routine safety surveillance. But these data are commercially sensitive.”
And the FDA wanted 75 years to release the Pfizer trial data in full, until a federal court ruled otherwise.
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/03/07/ukhsa-provides-mortality-data-to-big-pharma-but-not-to-the-general-public-for-commercial-sensitivity-reasons/
Electric cars with electric brakes and electric handbrake, it’s the future….
“Driver of £80k Jaguar I-Pace reveals moment he realised electric vehicle had gone rogue as it raced down motorway before police rammed it (and this isn’t the FIRST time it’s happened).
A driver who was trapped behind the wheel of an out-of-control Jaguar I-Pace has revealed to MailOnline how he cheated death as his car accelerated up to 100mph on the busy M62 motorway without brakes.
Nathan Owen, 31, was on his way back from his first day at a new job when his 2019 electric car started malfunctioning, sparking a huge police operation to bring his car to a stop after 35 minutes of hell.
But he told how his car had also gone rogue on the motorway in December, this time reaching up to 120mph. He claims Jaguar handed him his car back 24 hours after he had taken it in to be looked at.”
“https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13166739/Driver-80k-Jaguar-Pace-reveals-moment-realised-electric-vehicle-gone-rogue-raced-motorway-police-rammed-isnt-time-happened.html
BMW blackout loss of control
There must be similar from Ukrainian side
According to some, 20,000 foreigners from over 50 nationalities are fighting on the Ukrainian side – not much reporting of that.
WWIII has started – Boris to grab a gun and defend the street named after him!
if only
They also came up with the slogan “stronger together”, and I never have got to the bottom of who thought that up and considered it to be suitable.
The slogan orignates from the early part of the last century and it refers to a bundle of sticks which individually can be broken, but tied tightly together into a bundle cannot be broken because they are stronger together.
The latin name for this bundle of sticks is a ‘Fasci’ and is the root of the word Fascism. The slogan stronger together is the slogan of international Fascism and the symbol is the bundle of sticks with an axe.
In America where freedom of speech and thought enabled the true meaning to quickly spread, when Hilary Clinton heard this and began to use it her opponents began calling her “Hitlery” and she quickly stopped.
In the UK all mention of the true origin of this slogan was quickly supressed to protect the Left wing manipulation of peoples emotions following the Islamist Royal Navy bombing of Manchester.
‘I earn £70,000 and can now claim some child benefit’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68448107l
Hooray! BBC celebrating how a “dad of two” benefits scrounger is delighted that his hand out giro is finally in the post.
His wife earns 10k too…
“Personally, I’m a high earner – I make higher than the average person in full-time employment. But as a household, I wouldn’t say we’re high earners.”
Rab C. Nesbitt alive and claiming.
Bloody sponger. Amazed they could not find an effing muslim family.
BBC THINK IT WAS A GREAT IDEA..
Im sat here scratching my head deciding if Jeremy Hunt and the Tory Party are in the real world or completely detatched from reality.
Why in Gods name did they think it was a great idea to give a million pound to the Muslim community to build there own War Memorial.
Every memorial across the UK already covers every religion. Death in battle does not discriminate against race, religion or colour and nor do the Memorials
Where have we got to in this world where we now detatch a specific religion from the rest of the fallen and think they require special treatment. This is political correctness gone to excess
As a veteran myself and someone who has lost distant reletives in the great wars i find this decision by the Government heartbreaking and completely unnecessary.
My comments are not based on racism but on heartbreak
Allah won the war! BBC Verified fact!
ISLAM IS NOT IN COMMAND … BBC FACT.
“Chancellor announces £1 million towards memorial for Muslim soldiers
Sir Sajid Javid, who was among those to call for funding, was seen nodding in acknowledgment of the financial commitment.”
I wonder if she says “BOOM!!!”?
It says ‘I want asylum , a council house for my 7 kids and another for the rest of the family …. ‘
Why would it need to say that? That’s automatic.
He would be nodding, as he was one of the main pushers for this offensive and unnecessary memorial. If he was a true man of principle, he would have paid for it himself. According to reports circulating in 2022, his personal net worth was about £8 million.
https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/sajid-javid-net-worth-20220711
#YouPayTheyPlay
Maybe it’s a memorial to all the Jihadi Shaheeds who fought for Allah?
Dafydd- they must have taken a bung … insane …
Here is a worrying and telling video about the situation in the Middle East where the Iranians have siezed and offloaded a consignment of US owned crude oil from a tanker they siezed in retaliation for the US siezing an Iranian one.
It shows that America is losing its power over the Middle East, I found this shocking to hear, but it would have been inconceivable just a few years ago when Trump was President.
The last third is about the UK economy.
Kuriga kidnap: More than 100 Nigerian pupils abducted
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-68504329
Presume the muslims are at it again, as there is no mention of them being muslims and the bbc wouldn’t want to offend
100 Nigerian pupils
abductedliberated?!Time for Reform………….https://www.reformparty.uk
Hardly a mention on Al Beeb?
I think reform will morph into a Tory party (worse than this one) – little choice at the moment.
. . . . . . . .
Lee Anderson says he is not ruling out defecting to Reform UK
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/27/lee-anderson-says-he-is-not-ruling-out-defecting-to-reform-uk
More new articles from the BBC TV Licensing Blog for the middle of the week:
– TV Licensing Bullies: Putting Pensioners in Fear
– TV Licensing: A Reminder on No Licence Needed (NLN) Declarations
If you haven’t already done so, please download our totally free ebook TV Licensing Laid Bare.
The 70 page book is packed full of information about the harassment and intimidation meted out by the BBC in the name of TV licence enforcement.
If Hunt thinks it’s a good idea to get rid of national insurance the pensioners will have lost out on £2,700 a year. (4% gets £900 so 12% gets £2,700)
It’s all very well saying they got a big pension rise but 8% of a pension, especially the old one which most pensioners are on, isn’t really very much.
If you get the full old pension the rise is a little under £20 and if you pay income tax it’s about £15
The equivalent of a couple of percent to someone on a normal wage.
No news on … The Department for Transport has announced that rail fares are set to rise by an average of 4.9%* on 3 March 2024. To minimise the impact on rail users, this figure is 4.1 percentage points lower than RPI** (a measure of inflation historically used to determine rail prices).
https://www.southernrailway.com/travel-information/plan-your-journey/rail-fares-are-changing
The country is broke in many senses of the word, but bankrupt in this case. We are over 100% of GDP to debt and the interest servicing that debt is rising and will continue to rise.
As an economist I was listening to today pointed out, the world currencies are like a groups of skydivers holding hands in a large circle. You don’t notice they are falling like a stone because they are all falling together, eventually they will crash to the ground with catastrophic consequences.
No one is grateful for the money they receive, they claim they paid into a system and should therefore be entitled to limitless payouts, but the truth is they paid nowhere near enough in, and they voted for catastrophically bad politicians who squandered the national wealth. They went on strike after strike until there was little or no industry left. Then when they retired they stood there with their hands held out but now they couldn’t go on strike.
In terms of NI it is made up of two parts, the employees at 10% (8% after the cut) up to £50270 and employers NI (job tax) at 13.8% with no upper limit.
Getting rid of employees contributions is one thing, but getting rid of employers is another entirely.
Maybe they are all assuming nuclear war will come before the economies crash completely …. But I still think a nuclear exchange is more likely t0 be started by accident than intention … unless the Iranians get a tested bomb of course …
Perhaps they could get our Trident to work.
“🚨 #BREAKING: Biden’s NTSB Chair has just admitted to in a Senate hearing today the “controlled explosion” of the train in East Palestine, Ohio was UNNECESSARY
She says the chemical tank cars had already cooled and stabilized, meaning there was NO risk of an “uncontrolled explosion”
The explosion severely contaminated the waterways and showered the town with toxic materials.
The government has been saying for over a year now that they had no choice to but to blow it up.
White House statement talks about *everything* but the decision to blow it up.
Nord Stream 1?
Trumps fault .
But at least George Monbiot would approve: you know, reintroducing T-Rex and co. into England. First wolves, then bears, then really big carnivores … all to lower our “carbon” footprint, naturally.
Fedup2
that WH statement is top drawer bureaucrat-speak, but DJT doesn’t get a mention. I bet Putin did it.
Interesting one . It seems victor orban is visiting president trump . I bet obamas goons will be all over that one if mr orban is an emissary of president putin and prepping the way for the end of the Ukraine war …. Especially if it was an assassination attempt on zelensky yesterday … although I guess there have been plenty of those in the last couple of years …
Regarding muslim dolls mentioned earlier..
All I know is, the fastest game at their childrens’ parties is pass the parcel.
Euthanise Ofcom anybody?
Surprise .
Er – there needs to be a regulator regulator …
“957 ‘semiautonomous public bodies’ under the remit
of the UK Government employ 700,000 staff, receive Government
funding of £82 billion and spend over £120
billion.”
Click to access Key-Issues-Quangos.pdf
Quis regulat ipsos regulatores?
The Taxpayers’ Alliance lists 957 ‘semiautonomous public bodies’ under the remit
of the UK Government which it estimates
employ 700,000 staff, receive Government
funding of £82 billion and spend over £120
billion.
Click to access Key-Issues-Quangos.pdf
Quangos … plans for a ‘bonfire of the quangos’ included
plans to create 17 new ones!!! HA HA HA HA HAHA !
Click to access Key-Issues-Quangos.pdf