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‘We can’t sell our flat and can’t afford to live in it’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckkvkv32e1ro
I wonder who the we is ?
“Patrick Duffy bought his two-bedroom flat with his partner in 2017,”
Partner? wait for it…
“He says their monthly service charge went from an initial £94 a month to £515 by April 2023 – and, two weeks ago, he was informed that it would rise again, to £646 a month.
“It’s crippling,” says Patrick, who with his partner, Lewis Ryan, owns 60% of the flat in Dalston, east London.”
A pair of poofters – what a surprise..
‘” We put our house on the market but, because of the service charge, our property is not desirable. We can’t sell our flat and we can’t afford to live in it.”
Hahahaha
I’m sure someone wil buy it, if you accept it’s not worth what you thought.
“Lewis says the rising costs cause fear and anxiety”
“Patrick’s partner, Lewis, 40, works for the NHS. They qualified to buy the shared-ownership flat because of his key-worker status but to keep up with the bills he had to start working weekends, until the pressure took its toll on his health and he needed to take time off sick.”
A nation of kidults.
Please note: rates can go down as well as up. In fact service charges are one thing guaranteed not to. Hence avoid such extras. But epic sad face.
Need to straighten the picture! HA HA HA HA HA!
https://x.com/guardiannews/status/1768022117780783565?s=61
Israel broke international law with tank shelling that killed journalist, UN finds
One of those again where clicking on is likely worth it, and not just for the cat.
What the ‘UN finds’ is not helping, given their record.
Going back in history, journalists finding themselves at the wrong end of a tank gunner sight in a war zone always seem to be with the wrong folk at the wrong time.
The CAA has published the report into the failure of the Air Traffic Control system last august . It was the Russians . No actually – it was because NATS failed to plan for a small computer failure leading to a shut down . The ‘on call ‘ engineer was ‘working from home ‘. He couldn’t fix the glitch remotely so had to go to work . It took 90 minutes for him to get to the computer – by which time chaos had descended costing millions of pounds and extreme stress for probably hundreds of thousands of air travellers .
The boss of Ryanair has called for the head of NATS to lose his head …. But don’t worry – lessons will be learnt … there’ll be a ‘culture change ‘… it’s all okay … a government spokesman said ‘ please offer me a bung ‘…
Work life balance indeed.
Let’s try to step back a bit . Can you imagine – in a few years time – looking back at this so called ‘government ‘ banging nails into its’ own coffin Almost be the day ….
… today the imbicile Gove has issued a new definition of extremism – something millions of voters care less about …. There is no legislation – no vote – yet a conservative government does this .
And to cap it all – there is going to be a ‘centre of excellence ‘ whenever you hear that you know it’s a crap idea – please can we have a general election now to get rid of this rubbish regime …..
BTW – if this site suddenly disappears you know either 77 brigade has done it or the new centre for countering extremism – because many of us object to the extremism of the anti British BBC
Excellent news – the new extremist definition will bring in a definition of ‘Far Right ‘. From what I can see any group which expresses support for Britain – shows the national flag – criticises the country being taken over by millions upon millions of foreigners of all types and colours will qualify as Far Right – thus might well include the Reform Party ——
How quick freedom is dying in the UK and only the ‘approved ‘ is acceptable —— big big trouble coming ….
I’m already fed up with this ‘extremism’ non-story!
The Beeboid’s website is so confusing about the ‘issue’ they clearly don’t understand it all either! (They’ll try to, to bash the Redtorys, but that’s a given anyway…)!
Why can’t sane women and men in ‘government’ understand that before we let in all these immigrants with their peculiar, alien habits and ‘religions’, we never bothered about stuff like that, we had enough problems getting food on the table, a half-decent job and the kids brought up properly!
Yup, we’re all here where we are now, but at least Westminster could actually do something to stop the indigenous British people getting swamped by even more dross from shiteholes elsewhere, other than chuck yet another useless idiom into the pot, to appease just about nobody!
Can’t wait for the two tier policing Met to raid Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace and all the far right nationalsits there….
If the government really wanted to ‘challenge extremism ‘ they’d use charity law to take the tax free charity status away from dubious organisations . This would have a real effect rather than some vacuous legally dubious definition …
Racist in charge of Scotland:
“Fury over Police Scotland’s ‘Hate Monster’ campaign: Bizarre advert supporting Humza Yousaf’s new hate crime laws is slammed for suggesting offences are mainly committed by ‘young white men’ from deprived areas”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13197349/humza-yousaf-advert-supporting-new-hate-crime-laws-slammed.html
I still cannot understand why any self-respecting Jock puts up with a foreigner in charge of such a dubious bunch of leftie loonies!
I know I’ve bored everyone here about my time working for a Scottish company back in the eighties, but by golly, they worked us all bloody hard, the directors did the same themselves, and it was the first time I got an eye-watering bonus which set the scene for me to work even harder!
Yes, I agree Scrob’s, however…
It’s far worse than that. We’ve got a useless bloody foreigner in charge of the entire country…and he’s the front man for a highly dubious bunch of leftie loonies…the Conservative government…and he wasn’t even elected.
The Tories are beyond useless and Labour are even worse. It’s a pitiful situation.
We need a clear out from top to bottom…
With the occasional effort by Our NHS staff at Glasgow Airport Arrivals?
Bbc verify = bbc muzzify
Angela Rayner blasts ‘appalling’ comments by Labour donor Dale Vince about Hamas ‘freedom fighters’ just two days after Israel terror attacks… as Tory minister demands party should hand back millions of pounds
Something about being a ‘sandwich short of a pic-nic’, Zephir…
Mind you, would you want to pic-nic in her ‘other’ garden…!
(And not ‘that one’ you awful man..;0)
I wouldn’t touch it with yours 🙂
BBC six o’clock PR & Theatrics Show
“The Wildlife trust say XYZ” counts as news
#PRasNews
pug, Labour, the Left generally and that includes the BBC, are terrified of the Conservative Party. They worry that the Conservative Party might find some truly Conservative policies somewhere, maybe down the back of the sofa at CP Central Office and put them in the Manifesto for the General Election and that people will elect them to Government again. In addition Labour and the Left are extremely envious and jealous of the Conservative Party’s ability to attract donors which is why they want the £10 million to be given back to Frank Hester. Some sections of the MSM will keep the pressure on until the money is returned
A tweet Jeremy Vine suing Joey Barton after he called him a ‘bike nonce’ and accused him of spreading lies about the Covid jab.
Libel and defamation laws are merely tools of the rich and powerful to silence any criticism of them and should be scrapped.
Since people in Britain already have low respect for Vine
how can criticism from Joey Barton loser Vine’s reputation ?
Vine goes around calling people “petrosexuals”
Unless there’s more to it – I’d have thought Vine is only trying to bleed the savings of mr Barton via the fees – what will a judge think of vine being called names ….? How does that damage his reputation or public standing ?
I’m not sure that ‘nonce’ has a contemporary generally accepted definition …. I think it once described a queer . And surely being called a queer these days does not amount to actionable defamation . Maybe Vine is just after an ‘apology ‘….
As for Joey – good luck to him – his views about crap wimmin footy pundits and commentators is well founded …. Blokes footy is for blokes …
The acronym NONCE stands for ‘not on normal courtyard /communal exercise’, apparently first coined at Wakefield jail in Yorkshire.
For protection from other inmates for those who committed crimes against children.
Except it’s just a myth repeated by an ex con.
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/history/shattering-myth-yorkshire-prison-origin-24508927
One theory is it derived from Nance (nancy boy) for gays, another that is much older and derives as an insult to Catholics before emapcipation, and derives from Nuncio who represented the Pope.
If it gets to court – which I strongly doubt will be the case – it will be entertaining for a judge to determine whether ‘nonce’ has a negative connotation sufficient to award damages ….
Keep going Joey ….
And it’s a bit much for a journalist to go to law over ‘upsetting ‘ words – when I’m sure Vine sales close in his programme …
The damages aren’t the issue, they can be quite small, but the bigger issue is the costs of the greedy weasels which can be ruinous.
Are we ‘extremists’ who are a threat to democracy?
If we were to say that Michael Gove was put into a ‘lavender’ marriage with Sarah Vine
and then all the while he was having cocaine and substance fuelled romps with numerous male escorts
If I was a male escort, I’d sue
Came across this via the United With Isreal website.
https://unitedwithisrael.org/how-hamas-fakes-casualty-numbers/?ios_app=true
How Hamas Fakes Casualty Numbers
“The numbers are not real. That much is obvious to anyone who understands how naturally occurring numbers work. The casualties are not overwhelmingly women and children, and the majority may be Hamas fighters,” writes Abraham Wyner, a professor of statistics and data science at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and the report’s author.
No doubt this will be dismissed by our resident anti-semite, as it was written by a Jew in the USA..
Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer the highest ranking Jewish politician in the USA has just called for Netanyahus resignation.
https://www.voanews.com/a/us-senate-leader-schumer-israel-s-netanyahu-has-lost-his-way/7527955.html
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish official in the United States, called on Israel Thursday to hold new elections, saying he believes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost his way” in the country’s bombardment of Gaza.
Schumer, long an ally of the Jewish state, said Netanyahu risks making his country a “pariah” in world affairs.
Since Hamas killed 1,200 people in Israel in a shock October 7 attack and took about 240 people hostage, Israel’s counteroffensive has killed more than 31,000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. The conflict has displaced half the enclave’s 2.1 million people and leveled homes and buildings.
Basically saying the same things I’ve been saying for weeks, so lets see someone try and label Schumer as an anti Semite !
Now that we have the definition of ‘extremism’ how about the definition of ‘far right’
Is it anybody who voted for Brexit?
According to the Biased Bbc Osaurus (Zephir Towers Publications, 2024):
Far right :
Not far wrong
Looks like a November election – which personally suits me well – but the country deserves one right now …. Rishi will spent Christmas 2024 in Santa Monica … assuming – of course – the nuclear exchange hasn’t happened by then …
I have never thought the BBC was free from influence. It was always someones poltical stooge. A tool to be used (claiming independence in name only).. now all our public bodies are CORRUPT. its so bad even the Conservatives do not recognise the problem is a cancer in the body. Tony Blair made it inevitable that we followed the same path in the UK.
its been around for a while: Here is a brief history:
” In 1969, Hillary Clinton wrote a “fawning thesis” on Saul Alinsky. Hillary praised Alinsky, particularly his personality, although she did criticize him too—for not being radical enough. She thought that, at the time, his model for destroying society was too small-scale. As Dinesh D’Souza noted in his movie Hillary’s America, Hillary believed that, to work, Alinsky’s model and tactics had to be enforced by the major organs of government and society—education, the courts, etc. Alinsky originally envisioned his “revolution” being initiated and run by people on the ground, fighting the powers-that-be. Hillary’s vision was to infiltrate the government and society to the point that the “revolution” could be carried out against the people by the powers-that-be.
Meanwhile, Barack Obama’s main “job” before entering politics was as a “community organizer,” a concept created by Alinsky, who advocated his followers create divisions in society and “rub raw the resentments of the people.” In an opinion piece for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Matt Patterson lays out the connections between President Barack Obama and Saul Alinsky. “
https://www.roguereview.net/saul-alinsky-understanding-the-atheist-master-influencer-behind-modern-liberal-politics/
BBC Question time pulling a blinder. They have the Scottish raving nutter on with 3 other lefties and an audience of 100% clapping Liverpool lefty seals which means that whenever the lone, by design, Tory on the panel makes a valid statement it is ignored or vilified and when any of the other lefties on the panel attacks the Tories they get wall to wall clapping.
It is so obviously designed to be biased it’s just staggering.
The BBC are just despicable in their obvious bias. I cannot begin to describe my revulsion for this devious, filthy outfit.
I agree: the whole thing is nauseating, which is why I gave up watching it years ago. I used to call it “the BBC pseudo-democracy”, with David Dimbleby trying to give the impression of political balance; Fiona Bruce is worse, with her entitlement and sanctimony. People talk of the “Overton Window” of permitted discourse on shows like this; a more appropriate analogy would be the “Overton trickle-filter” as a window would be too wide to describe the narrow, approved narratives permitted on this once-watchable garbage.
How can any normal person stand to watch QT ?
It’s theatre for lefties
On the plus side, the older Jewish lady who handed the Scottish William Wallace would-be twat his arse on a platter over the atrocities in Israel needs to be applauded. Needless to say Fiona Bruce did her best in true BBC style to sweep it aside. If these people represent Britain, I am ashamed to be British now.
If you prefer reading to watching TV, just tune in to a political HYS when the troll farm is engaged.
You get the same as the TV but with a generous amount of schoolboy level spite thrown in. It’s so embarassing, I surprised the BBC haven’t done anything to try and tone it down a bit.
As an aside, in the credits for Question Time I notice that the production outfit are Scottish. An obvious red light for the “flavour’ that the program is most likely to be infused with is it not?
Do not worry Digg. The viewing figures are so pitiful I believe that they practically talking in a vacuum of deluded morons.
While the BBC have latched onto the word ‘unhinged’ for Trump and are actually trying to imply that HE is the one with age-related mental issues, they do not report this video:
https://www.gbnews.com/politics/us/joe-biden-embarrassing-blunder-ridden-speech
Just imagine what they would have done if it were Trump slurring like that.
Meanwhile we are nearly at WW3 and this senile cretin has his finger on the red button. He already demonstarted his ‘judgement’ with the blood bath of the Afghanistan withdrawal.
But the BBC are protecting him because of their leftist agenda. I have no words to describe what dirty, corrupt scum these people are. They don’t care what happens to the world : their own ideology is all that matters.
btw: It’s fine to call anybody scum. Angela Rayner – deputy leader of the next government – did it about half the population and the BBC were fine with it.
Katie Hopkins vid points out something other people have said for 6 months
Vine in court described Alex Belfield as the “Jimmy Savile of trolling”.
Ie he compared Belfield to a super NONCE
Then when Joey Barton took the word bike-nonce and applied it to Vine
Vine is outraged
So in court the defence will say
“So Mr Vine calling people nonce is a terrible thing
Yet you publicly called someone else a nonce in court”
I’d have thought Joey would be on solid ground fighting vine …..but as Katie says in the video defamation law has gone mad …
Final rant of the evening….. why does that twat with the moustache on newsnight have to wear headphones while sitting in the studio…. It makes no bloody sense whatsoever!
We are not idiots BBC!
Dan Wootton on Ofcom double standards
“Confected outrage”
Here we are, extremism in a nutshell according to the new guidelines:
“Just Stop Oil is secretly plotting a major expansion this year so it can bring even greater chaos to the country’s streets. During a secret meeting of members, JSO’s top brass unveiled an ambitious new strategy to an audience of more than 100 eco-warriors.
The climate group ominously declared it wanted to bring about “regime change” via a “political revolution” and drew on the godfather of the Russian revolution, Vladimir Lenin, for inspiration.
As part of a revamped strategy, JSO will become part of a new organisation called “Umbrella”, inspired by the Hong Kong democracy demonstrations in 2019 and 2020 where protesters used umbrellas to protect themselves from police.
Umbrella will comprise four parts: JSO; Robin Hood, demanding “economic justice”; Assemble, a group dedicated to setting up a People’s House as an alternative to the House of Commons; and Youth Demand, designed to stand up against the “twin genocides” of the climate crisis and the war in Gaza.”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1877473/just-stop-oil-new-plans-secret-meeting
@ digg, and for the benefit of others:
“Question Time chaos as SNP chief is accused of ‘crocodile tears’ in Gaza shouting match:
SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn was blasted over his pro-ceasefire stance during a tense Question Time episode.
Times columnist Melanie Phillips tore into SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn over Israel and Gaza.
Ms Phillips, who lives part-time in Israel, blasted Mr Flynn’s demand for a ceasefire without Hamas releasing hostages, accusing him of crying “crocodile tears”.
The pro-Israeli columnist said what is happening in Gaza is “tragic”, but said Mr Flynn’s argument is “so distorted, so untrue”.
She claimed that hundreds of aid deliveries are being stopped from going through Gaza “because the food is being stolen by Hamas”, sparking light applause but angry laughter in the audience.
She blasted this reaction, saying: “you laugh because you don’t know! I am telling you”
Host Fiona Bruce intervened to cite the UN, which says not enough trucks are being let in and children are dying of starvation, however Ms Philips accused the UN of being “compromised” by links to Hamas.
When the Times columnist said there are pictures and videos proving her point, Stephen Flynn intervened to accuse the Times columnist of being “outrageous” and fumed: “If you want to talk about pictures Melanie I’m quite happy to send you some videos of civilians being bombed and slaughtered”.
She hit back that Mr Flynn accuses Israel of collective punishment, and condemned his comments on the events of October 7.
In an extraordinary personal attack, she accused the SNP Westminster chief of having “crocodile tears” adding: “Your hypocrisy is epic!”
Amid him trying to shout her down she demanded: “Let me finish! Let me finish!”
“That was merely the start. Hamas and Hezbollah have said they intend to kill every Jew and wipe out the state of Israel. If you had your way and there was a ceasefire now, there would be more pogroms and more slaughters of Israelis.
“The Israelis do not want to kill Palestinians in Gaza it’s the last thing they want. Hamas has made the Gazans into not just human shields but canon fodder!”
She sparked anger from some audience members including shocked gasps when claiming Israel is trying to prevent “a second Holocaust from happening”.
Ms Phillips added: “I don’t think people here understand!”
Turning to the audience she demanded to know: “What do you think Hamas mean when they say we wish to kill every Jew? What do you think they did when they slaughtered 1,200 Israelis and took others hostage with a terrible fate we don’t yet know”.
“Not only that they say they will do it again and again and they mean it.
Turning to Mr Flynn again she ranted: “Why do you swear at this? Why do you dismiss it? Why do you call the defence of mass murder ‘collective punishment’? Would you have called it ‘collective punishment’ when the Allies bombed Germany? You would have said it was a defence against Fascism and Nazism!”
Zephir – thank you for the reproduction . I do wonder why people still bother with that programme – the ritual and rigging is so deep – 4 lefties and a token ‘approved ‘ medium right – a fixed audience – a far left ‘host;’ – repeat .
I think I saw that viewing figures are declining as fast as Newsnight ….
Another point – even with the success of GBNews – there is no response from the BBC apart from hatred – and the use of its regulating arm BBCOFCOM ….
No one from the right is presenting a political show – with a Right tilt ….. lefties often smokescreen the bbc by saying it is biased ‘to the Right ‘ – when they and we know the truth ….
Exposing oneself to the bbc is a sort of self harm – not my cup of tea now ….
Melanie is a doughty warrior of letters. Her sub stack is brilliant. Because she was a leftist , a Guardian columnist no less, who saw the light when she was subject to anti Semitism by colleagues, she knows all their tricks and fights fire with fire. No quarter given. I wish there many more like her.
QT is pure ideological heat over light, and reason alone for the bbc to be shut down.
Rigged from start to end, skewed to push civic discord agenda from deliberately selected guests to filtered audience.
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Flynn was only 8 when ‘Trainspotting’ was made, never got over the chance to star but modeled himself accordingly.
Then went into politics, of a sort, instead.
Angela Rayner wants to see Diane Abbott back as Labour MP
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-68567487
On what planet is this considered to be the top UK headline news ?.
And of course the BBC are now doing their trick of running a new headline on the ‘racist donor comment’ every day to keep the pressure on.
On planet BBC. Where their own agenda and political bias is all they care about.
This whole affair of confected outrage about what a donor said and didn’t mean is much more than just a complete agenda-based farce. It’s a sign of how far gone the politics in our society has really is. The intolerant, nasty Left are at it again and a new form of fascism is being forced upon us.
Boris (with Cummings arm up his backside) fought against it and look what they have done to them both. They are both gone.
It shows how precarious everything is when our last hope is Trump being elected under a system rigged by these same intolerant fascists.
Angie deflecting from the alleged tax fraud . The shape of things to come when that 100 majority slides onto the government benches . The millions of non working welfare junkies will shout ‘we are saved ‘….
I seem to remember that years ago, if you reported anyone you thought was acting fraudulently to the Customs and Excise, they were duty-bound to act and investigate the issue. You had to be pretty certain though…
Surely the same applies to calling on HMRC to look at this one?
‘Revenue Investigations’ are definitely not funny – as told to me by my property-developer boss all those years ago, but I don’t see why anyone in public service should be treated any differently!
Hello Scroblene – it’s got echoes of the department of justice not going after democrats because they know it would be ‘unhealthy ‘…. HMRC isn’t going to go for the Deputy Pm – or even the actual PM who is going to be in charge for the next 5 years …. Similar with the SNP midget …
Thought as much – here yet again, the public sector gets favours while the private sector have to fight for every penny!
Didn’t Beeboids get scrutinised by HMRC when some of their staff were claiming to be self-employed but with just one client?
That is certainly a no-no!
Special Ange gets special treatment though. Take the case of someone who sent her an unpleasant E mail. Most times this is never even investigated but in the case of special Ange it most certainly was, and whilst the E mail in question was certainly not polite it wouldn’t in most people eyes have merited a prosecution let alone a custodial sentence to send the message that Ange is indeed special.
No other public figure or politician receives the special treatment Ange receives, she truly is ‘special’.
Surely this sort of penalty is potentially dangerous. The next person may decide that if an email is likely to get them a prison sentence then they may as well smack the person with a brick.
Employee burnout with 2.7 health conditions edition
Blueberry Hill was an unlikely song to usher rock ‘n’ roll into the cultural fray. The Larry Stock-Al Lewis composition was initially sung by Gene Autry in the 1936 movie The Singing Cowboy… Fats Domino’s Blueberry Hill made rock and roll music a vibrant staple of American popular culture… Antoine “Fats” Domino provided a force for integration and friendly race relations (Library of Congress)
I found my thrill
On Blueberry Hill
BBC: Australian farm grows world’s biggest blueberry – climate change anyone…?
BBC: The specimen is of a new variety developed… to meet consumer demands for larger berries… Brad Hocking says… but recent growing conditions had spurned a bumper crop
S’truth, Brad, mate, how’d ya go?
BBC: After 12 weeks, the berry was this week certified by Guinness World Records as the heaviest ever documented.
Tiffanie Turnbull, BBC News, Sydney: So what does a world-record breaking blueberry taste like?
Well, Sheila, it’s defo like this
Mr Hocking laughs and says he doesn’t know – while tempting, his team decided to save the berry from an immediate end, and instead ate its compatriots.
In further vital news events…
Delayed puppy smuggling crackdown back before MPs (BBC) – and no, a puppy smuggling crackdown isn’t saucy Aussie slang for what’s found inside a drag queen’s knickers
BBC: The new law would allow a ban on importing dogs and cats which are younger than six-months-old… The bill will be debated in Parliament on Friday – nevermind that our MPs can’t for some reason enforce our laws against thousands of young men entering the country illegally year after year
Gotta keep them useless MPs looking busy: Working hours for Commons hit record low under Sunak… Daily business completed in 7 hours… Tories oversee ‘zombie parliament’ (FT); £5k rise for MPs (Daily Star)
To be fair, all our parliamentary political parties did spend an awful lot of time and effort recently really hard at work putting in the hours working on a ceasefire for Gaza.
Of course we can’t single out our parliamentarians as being the only bunch of workshy slackers in the country: 20,000 off work with poor mental health… Growing crisis accounts for two thirds of incapacity benefits, with fears over mounting costs (Times) – of course Mr AsI asserts it was our unrepentant government’s misbegotten Lockdown policies that demoralised the workforce
The average claimant also has 2.7 health conditions… Of all assessments made in the past two years, 69 per cent have involved “mental and behavioural disorders” (Times) – in the past two years… gosh, what do we recall as going on roughly two years back? If only there were some form of an official inquiry that might look into it.
Staff WFH caused air misery for millions… It took 90 minutes for an on-call expert to ‘arrive-on-site’ – complains the giveaway Metro – there’s a form of irony there that thousands of holiday makers found their getaway jaunts disrupted and delayed due to a handful of key workers bunking off from the office for a duvet day
Home truths in air chaos… Engineers working from home worsened the disruption that led the air traffic control system to fail over last year’s August bank holiday weekend, an aviation watchdog review has said (FT)
In further air traffic news
Russia attacks Shapps’ RAF jet by jamming GPS… Outrage as Defence Secretary’s plane suffers 30-minute blackout – yells the Daily Mail – frankly, such a non-story couldn’t happen to a more insignificant nonentity.
No GPS? I guess the pilot would have been forced to fall back on using a map for navigating Shapps’ plane. Hopefully the crew had access to cartographical information rather more up to date than our BBC?
Sometimes these segueways write themselves, as I like to say
Ukraine in maps: Tracking the war with Russia (BBC – last update 21 February)
On the day that our BBC accuses Vladimir Putin of some form of fixing the system: Russia election 2024: Voting begins in election Putin is bound to win – so the Daily Express claims a win, despite their cherished ‘assisted dying’ campaign being quite obviously astroturfed from above by the regime with a nod and a wink from our struggling NHS: Victory! Esther wins Commons debate on right to die (Daily Express) – was it ever really in doubt?
Don’t merge social care with NHS, warns minister (‘i’)
‘Superfluous people’ and the AI revolution – posits the globalist FT – but let’s not go all conspiratorial, not at this time of the morning
Fears for NHS patients net zero drive… Paramedics concerned recharging electric ambulances will delay response times (Telegraph) – electric ambulances…? It’s when they want to put you in the gas ambulances that you want to worry – ahhh… too soon for a holocaust gag?
As night follows day – and as the words of that old song used to insist…
Love and marriage, love and marriage,
Go together like a horse and carriage.
This I tell ya, brother, you can’t have one without the other.
So it seems we can’t ever have any islamic extremism – without the far-right: Gove names Muslim and far-right groups that could face ban (Times)
Far-right groups – are there really such things? Do they advertise for new members? Amusingly in this Times frontpage report, after detailing three dodgy muslim outfits, the home affairs editor finds space somewhat truncated by the time he gets around to naming and shaming the right: The far-right organisations that Gove named were the British National… continued page 4 – so your guess is as good as mine, as they say. But I kinda like the sound of them, so far… British National… hmmmm… I jest of course… [that’s for my 77 Brigade audience]
How’s that Net Zero working out fo’ ya?
Shell dilutes green goals… The oil major has weakened some of its climate targets to allow for expansion of its giant gas business (FT)
Italy outshines Germany… as optimism on the economy grows (FT) – or another way of looking at it – pessimism about the green German economy?
In politics…
Angela Rayner wants to see Diane Abbott back as Labour MP (BBC)
Sometimes these segueways…
How to spot a female psychopath at work (‘i’)
Since we seem to have stumbled into comedy corner – let’s finish up with one of those amusing little awkward juxtapostions of near-adjacent newspaper features we like to observe: Ukraine’s call to arms stirs dread for younger citizens – appears as a report on the frontpage of the FT and meanwhile the prime frontpage ad spot in the pink paper is purchased by some organisation named Vitality and their copy promises: Understand how to prevent employee burnout
Surely the Islamophobic UK GOV and Labour Anti-semitic Party who believe men can have a cervix are extremist groups.
AISI, what I want to know is why I cannot buy cranberry wheats anymore? 🙁 I like cranberry wheats more than I like blueberry wheats but not as much as I like apricot wheats. 🙂
I like the story about the air traffic engineers not being at work on the busiest weekend of the year ….. and taking 90 minutes to get to the puter but not having the password / authority to do anything until another one turned up … it’s very 2024 Britain – with that famous ‘can’t do attitude ‘ now so deep in the ‘culture ‘….
That furlough idea did more damage than the virus ….
So if you are
Working class
White
Male
Live oop north
You are unlikely to have a long life – in fact it’s likely that life expectancy will decline across coming years ….
And since so many choose not to work and prefer watching ‘good morning ‘ suicide rates are also climbing …. Eating too much – taking drugs – being lazy – blaming every one else – also adds to the mix ….
from order-order.com
Lifetime membership – we are all struggling ha ha ha ha ha
“In my capacity as Leader of the Conservative Party, I have accepted Honorary Membership for life of the Carlton Club.
Name of donor: Ellesborough Golf Club
Address of donor: Butlers Cross, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP17 OTZ
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: honorary membership of Ellesborough Golf Club; value for 2015-16 £1,165 p.a.”
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/peer/10777/lord_cameron_of_chipping_norton#register
Name of donor: Matt Roberts Personal Training Ltd
Address of donor: 30 City Road, London EC1Y 2AB
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Discount of £150 per session on 50 sessions of personal training received since April 2013; total value £7,500. I have made a personal donation to a charity of my trainer’s choice.
Beff using ‘what do you say to people like me’, Gruan using ‘activists are calling for’, and the BBC using all its ex staff…
https://x.com/bbcr4today/status/1768556681300942870?s=61
Rishi Sunak and the Conservative party are under scrutiny amid reports it received £5m more in donations from Frank Hester than previously declared.
Tortoise Political Editor Cat Neilan, who first published the report, tells #R4Today the party have not denied the claims.
The ‘not denying’ approach sets a dubious precedent, especially for the BBC’s Ginger Growler Damp Proof Membrane in waiting.
‘I hated being the story’: Sky News’s Beth Rigby on her own Covid Partygate scandal
I’m reminded of a line by dear old Mike Yarwood impersonating Robin Day.
‘Good evening. But I’ll soon put a stop to that!’
On the YouTube – I get ‘pushed ‘ toward some pretty accurate impersonators of Karmela The VP – president in waiting – it shows that not all Americans are dumb . The cackle appears easiest to ‘get ‘….
According to the Biased Bbc Osaurus (Zephir Towers Publications, 2024):
OFCOM :
The militant wing of the BBC
https://x.com/kathyconwom/status/1768565171503456410?s=61
Good grief – she wants to give @Ofcom more powers
Talk about a Stasi State!
That would seem to be another Ms. Khan.
UK GOV is not even implementing the current laws – why now ones?
HA H HA HAH HA HA.
In other news, I am presuming Musk’s rocket made it as it appears not newsworthy.
Yes it was perfect upto the disappearing over the Indian Ocean – I think the flying saucers got it …
Joey Barton has tweeted that vine wants £50k donated to ‘charity ‘ an apology – and all costs paid . He countered with £10 and apology – now vine has upped it to £100k .
Vine must surely cycle very carefully …
“s £50k donated to ‘charity ‘” – which charity? BBC Charity? HA H AH AHAH A
Vine is such a repulsive person. I would certainly let tires down and break his chain if I could.
Double – I think you should hand yourself in to the extremist police before the door comes in at 4am … I will hand myself in too for failing to denounce you to the committee for community safety … it’s coming …
It’s time for the ‘Patronising advice of the week’ competition.
Here my entry.
Drivers told to “take the train” during M25 closure
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4nrd0n7299o
Exactly which train journey do you take as an alternative to the M25 between junctions 10 and 11?
Here’s a clue using local knowledge. There isn’t one.
David Lammy – “Tradesmen to use Tube to save the planet.”
…….but more seriously.
The M25/A3 is a massive strategic junction. They have reduced road capacity at the junction by 50% (two lanes down to one) creating huge tailbacks down the M25. No thought at all about some temporary arrangement. Yet you can go through here and not see anyone working. I drove along the A3 approach from Wisley and saw precisely five workmen (am I supposed to say workpeople these days?). One was in a hole, the other four were watching him! Absolutely true.
And all around my borough of Londonistan, the roads are up as budgets are used before the end of the financial year. 3 way traffic lights. 4 way traffic lights. Huge tailbacks. And no one working. It goes without saying that no potholes are being filled in.
The way roadworks are managed in this country is appalling. Another manifestation of the war on the motorist.
I thought it said something that at the start of PMQs this week starmer paid ‘tribute ‘ to comrade May ( baroness May of Brussels ) whilst the outgoing green card one said nothing about her … says so much …
Woman on top!
Thanks for the traffic report Sluff. I have to go that way in a couple of weeks and now realise why Mr Google is suggesting 2 1/2 hours to do 70 miles. You are better than the BBC.
25MPH IN Wales!
I went in Poundland at 5pm on Wednesday, then I went back at 9:10am on Thursday
Overnight almost every cabinet in the entire shop had been moved
Literally moved to the other side of the shop to completely switch around the layout
Apparently a team of 30 shopfitters had done it over night
There were two columns where they hadn’t quite finished the painting work
Makes you buy more because you have to look for stuff ..
Does Abdul Ezekiel (the alkali attacker) count as a far right statistic because he converted to Christianity.
He can’t be counted on the Islamic side.
So then, another example of far right terrorism.
Abdul Ezedi.
Spellcheck or something but you know who I mean.
they havent found him and its still “alleged” so he is probably off the books in the stats
If you are looking for some peak time viewing tonight c4 has ‘the secret life of biscuits ‘ – it seems not to be a comedy – it clashes with Islamic Hamas propaganda night on the BBC …
@F2 no impersonations here, No AI this is real, truly terrifying she “gets this job because she is black and a woman”:
‘Cackling’ Kamala Harris cements herself as the ‘worst vice president in US history’”
Not a word from the far left biased bbc ?
She keeps on giving – and would be ideal for one of those impersonation shows here – but she is approved and coloured and the next president so can’t go there …. Cackle
REALITY HAS NO PLACE IN POLITICS – BBC VERIFIED – “No, David Lammy: plumbers can’t just hop on the Tube”
25 January 2023, 3:39pm
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/does-david-lammy-want-plumbers-to-take-the-tube/
THE MAN IN LEADING THE COUNTRY HATES THE COUNTRY AND WANTS TO LEAVE IT! HA AH HAHA HAHA!
“Chancellor Rishi Sunak held a US green card – allowing permanent residence in that country – while he was chancellor, his spokeswoman has said.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61044847
The news comes as Mr Sunak faces scrutiny over the revelation that his wife is not liable for UK taxes on her overseas earnings.
HA HA HA HA HA HAHBA! WE ARE ALL EQUAL!
VICTIMHOOD!
Mr Sunak has said it is unfair to attack his wife when she is a “private citizen”, adding: “I’m an elected politician. So I know what I signed up for.”
“To smear my wife to get at me is awful,” he added.
Jimmy heapey – a defence minister resigns and steps down as an MP as blue labour dies …. Running at one a day maybe…..
Omg – the macee Dee computer is down . I can’t order up my daily Mac and fries – omg – I demand compensation – is there counselling ?a help line – I feel sorry for the Albanian delivery guys – all they can do now is deliver the cocaine …. Omg …
Pm to speak to country about this tragedy at 5pm …
Obesity drops by 2%
Who says the BBC are dumbing down on the news?
McDonald’s resolves IT issue for customers in UK
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68573106
Not enough for you? Here’s the clincher.
‘Are you affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.’
You cannot make it up.
Obesity down by 5% in UK for 10 minutes. BBC verified.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/15/doctors-no-such-thing-as-long-covid/
House of cards falling down. Will the uk follow suit.. probably not as our health service is shit anyway.
There is no such thing as long Covid, say health officials
Doctors in Queensland say the condition is no different to any post-viral syndrome
Sarah Knapton,
SCIENCE EDITOR
15 March 2024 • 6:00am
I already have my doubts about Richard Vobes
then his latest video pops ups and it’s with an ex policeman Gary Waterman a YouTuber who has a huge story that there is a grand conspiracy to do with fake company registrations.
I check Waterman’s channel and find he’s pushed a video from a Tik Tok woman “Isn’t it amazing that this Finchley Rd building registered 205,000 companies and these were used by scammers and no media will report it”
“IMPORTANT – Corroborated – The UK Government appear to be involved in fraud against the public”
As is the way all the people commenting are in Waterman’s gang, so praise him
Yet just one guy replies “em it’s false to say it’s not reported. it was in the paper twice in 2016
https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/21352183.derelict-finchley-road-office-home-tens-thousands-firms—unwittingly-linked-mafia-dictators-fraud/
That says that office was a corp registering companies almost all legitimate including companies involving people Like Tony Blair, but a fraction of other registrations were fake companies started by scammers.
Real world stories are not black and white so when people like Waterman say they are, that is suspicious.
RUSSIA … “For the next six years, the illusion of democracy is all but guaranteed to continue”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68505228
………………….
UK …. “Rishi Sunak appointed Prime Minister”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dvv8
Appointed !!! HA HA HA HA! illusion of democracy
Latest finger-wagging admonishment on the BBC webshite- ‘Is your pension contributing to climate change?’ Don’t know, maybe it is. I don’t really care. I shall go and self-flagellate in penance.
Al Gore says go and check and send the money to him directly.
@MarkH is that AnOldieButaGoodie ?
The BBC article is dated 18 Feb 2020
Is your pension contributing to climate change?
— Sustainable finance experts Nina Seega and Steve Waygood explore the connection between your pension and the health of the planet
Retweeted by BBC Ideas May 12, 2020 ..just 4 Likes
tweeted by BBC Weather Feb 19, 2020 ..just 2 Likes
Almost all other tweets of the article get ZERO likes
.. ie The public don’t support green policies