377 Responses to Midweek 13th March 2024

  1. Zephir says:

    This drive for diversity amongst astronauts is getting silly now:

    “Desperate bid to save ponies launched amid fears the breed could become ‘extinct'”

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1877993/dartmoor-ponies-petition-extinct

    I blame Elon Musk, no wonder his rockets keep crashing if ponies are as stubborn as donkeys.

    Although monkeys and dogs are all breathing a sigh of relief no doubt.

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  2. StewGreen says:

    As mentioned on the previous page Melanie Phillips on QT last night tried to give the other side
    saying that it was not true to say there was widespread starvation In Gaza due to Israel
    That firstly Israel allowed lots of aid in, some was stolen by Hamas
    And YouTube videos prove there are lots of full food markets in Gaza
    She’s still trending on Twitter as leftmob pour hate on her,

    It can sound a bit weak to say “oh I’ve seen videos on Twitter”, cos of course they can be old/deceptive etc

    Here’s one

    “This is in Nusseirat, a town in central Gaza Strip, known as a “refugee camp” although it is a built-up town and no refugees live there.
    Nusseirat has so far been less affected by the war.
    I don’t know anything about Hanin’s political affiliations or economic status.”

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Imshin
      @imshin
      Amateur Gaza watcher.

      Following Gaza, as shared by Gazans on social media, since 2018.
      t.me/ImshinJJoined January 2008
      2,667 Following
      63.5K Followers

      “This is an Israeli hostage in Gaza.

      Notice the sandbags. Printed on them: “The people of Japan” and “For free distribution for Palestinian refugees”

      I wonder if Japan knows their sandbags are being used by terrorists underground ?
      #HamasworsethanISIS
      #IsraelUnderAttack”

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    • StewGreen says:

      He gives another example
      .. https://twitter.com/imshin/status/1768532405315334154

      His Tweets seem to show quite a lot
      Taken at face value since they speak of shopping for Iftar during wartime, that indicates they are recent

      Someone else gives examples
      .. https://twitter.com/HappyHardyHar/with_replies

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      • StewGreen says:

        The GBnews Jewish comedian Josh tweets

        I pasted Melanies substack article above. Somehow I was one post too high

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        • Doublethinker says:

          Anyone with what I assume to be an E mail address which includes Stalin is either thick or sinister. Anyone displaying a Palestinian flag is at the very least a proto antisemite if not a fully fledged one.

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  3. MarkyMark says:

    First World Problems … “Nearly all of the yellow box junctions which generate the most fines in Cardiff and London are larger than necessary, the RAC has said.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6pm80g8p5zo

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  4. Fedup2 says:

    Sit down . Prepare for News – a white woman is the new replacement for the Bee Lady on the flagship propaganda show that is ‘today ‘ . Emma Barnett . Lots of stuff about lady problems and all men are bastards – will fit in well ….

    No wonder listening figures are toast …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Keir Starmer to pull out his cervix live on TV?

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    • StewGreen says:

      Emma Barnett went to private school paid for by her father’s profits from running brothels of foreign women.
      He was jailed
      \\Previously convicted of “living off immoral earnings” and subjected to a suspended sentence, in 2008 Barnett’s father was sentenced to immediate imprisonment for keeping brothels and controlling the prostitution of a trafficked woman;
      Barnett’s mother received a suspended sentence for money laundering related to income ..//

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    • Lefty Wright says:

      Mark
      I expect his cervix is a Chinese import. Like everything else these days – including a lot of left wing minds.

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  5. BRISSLES says:

    Thomas Hedley Fairfax Harwood is 27 years old. I mention this about the resident GB News presenter, because I wonder how one so young a couple of years ago got the Freedom of London ! He seems to have a 50 year old head on his shoulders, but I’m finding him irritating now. His use of overlong show off words and shouty passion, to me, is just weird at his age. Or is it just me ? I certainly wouldn’t have relished raising young master Thomas Hedley Fairfax, he must have been one hell of a precocious child. Perhaps being landed with such a name he’s had to fight his way through life !

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  6. Eddy Booth says:

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68573645

    “Squid Game actor O Yeong-su found guilty of sexual misconduct.
    The 79-year-old was charged in 2022 with sexually assaulting a woman twice.

    The assaults took place five years earlier when O was staying
    in a rural area for a theatre performance in 2017, AFP reported the Seongnam Branch of the Suwon District Court as saying.

    The allegations were that he hugged a woman and kissed her on the cheek against her will, the Yonhap news agency reported.”

    I clocked him as a dirty old perv the first time I set eyes on him!
    Unless he’s being set up in the real Squid Games…

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  7. MarkyMark says:

    Wonder how many knew …. but still paid him and carried one …

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  8. Flotsam says:

    Rayner, Capital Gains and HMRC

    I understand HMRC won’t investigate Angela Rayner, I’m extremely surprised. HMRC generally won’t investigate Taxpayers unless they have grounds to. This is because they don’t want to be accused of arbitrarily ‘picking’ on people on a whim. They will investigate if they have evidence to believe there is non payment or if they are tipped-off that there is a non or underpayment. A tip-off from a member of the public (often ex wives) or publicly available information is usually enough to trigger an investigation. Tip-offs are meat and drink to HMRC, reports that Raynor owned and/or lived in two houses and made an undeclared profit surely passes the threshold for investigation.

    We seriously have to wonder why Rayner is not being investigated. A senior figure on the correct (for the Civil Service) political side that will be a leading figure in the next Government. Or it might damage Labour’s election prospects.

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  9. Eddy Booth says:

    “Driver in M53 school bus crash died of natural causes”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-68579736
    “Stephen Shrimpton, 40, collapsed at the wheel as he was driving the coach north on the M53 in Wirral, Merseyside, on 29 September 2023.

    He was taking about 50 children to West Kirby and Calday Grange”

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    Doesn’t look too natural for a 40 year old.
    “Safe and effective” tested for?
    Never is.

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  10. StewGreen says:

    From from what I see Hope not Hate
    are a very hatey Labour front groups
    Judge from leader Nick Lowle’s recent tweets if he is a lefty or a righty

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    • StewGreen says:

      Maya Forstater has written a long thread about just some of the errors in their report
      https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1768423326483960206

      Andy Ngo adds, that they lied about him
      .. https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1768604021487546523

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    • StewGreen says:

      If HnH’s report is supposed to to be about genuine harm caused by extremists
      so why is it focussed on Nigel Farage and GBnews ?

      @Nigel_Farage
      : ‘Hope Not Hate’s ‘State of Hate Report’ mentions me 56 times (more than any other individual),
      GB News is mentioned ‘page after page’, and people could use the word hate ‘as a cover to shut down anyone they disagree with’.

      Then Net Zero Watch point out the report gives false info

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    • StewGreen says:

      On March 14th at 7:30am HnH released their report
      they got 125 Likes
      then their follow up tweets got single digits
      Yet when the rebuttal tweets came the rebutters got 500, 1000, multi thousands of Likes

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  11. StewGreen says:

    @TRobinsonNewEra tweets
    15m ago
    My book ‘Mohammeds Quran’ will be out next week, you’ll understand why they think like this.

    10m ago
    Insane , I’ve literally just received a message from my solicitor saying the @metpoliceuk need me to arrange a date & time to hand myself in to them for interview.
    The #LAWFARE continues

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  12. StewGreen says:

    2001 “islamophobic” story by #BiasedBBC
    Afraid to put one belief system group on the same level as everyone else
    they treat them like lower class people, who can be excused for bad behaviour

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  13. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/ft/status/1768707687817117748?s=61
    South Africa’s infrastructure crisis deepens as Johannesburg taps run dry

    But they have a bangin’ set of lawyers elsewhere.

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  14. Eddy Booth says:

    They’ve risen because they are slowly replacing working tax credits, housing benefits etc

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  15. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/clivemyriebbc/status/1768708282401612039?s=61
    📢 @CliveMyrieBBC is back for a Caribbean Adventure!
    Join Clive on @BBCTwo and @BBCiPlayer for the second series of his travel odyssey as embarks on a deep journey across four islands in Clive Myrie’s Caribbean Adventure

    No word if Justin Rowlatt is joining him.

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  16. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/bbcnews/status/1768708509552554219?s=61
    Mark Drakeford blames drunks for missed A&E target in Wales

    #ccbgb

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  17. StewGreen says:

    lefties don’t regard themselves as extremists
    yet they are always making rigid untrue statements about life, which are at odds with the real world
    Sometimes they collide

    His flailing saying that since the guy was on a motorbike and grabbed it out of his hand, it was a robbery NOT a mugging

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    • Eddy Booth says:

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      “This is the moment a thief stole my mobile phone. Let’s hope the @metpoliceuk find him.’

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  18. Guest Who says:

    Interesting times.

    https://x.com/joebiden/status/1768719842071204122?s=61
    From becoming the first woman to serve as San Francisco’s district attorney, to California’s attorney general, and now serving as vice president—@KamalaHarris has shattered barriers.
    I’m proud to have her on my team.

    https://x.com/theeconomist/status/1768719820009148837?s=61
    For the first time since September, Joe Biden has taken the lead over Donald Trump in our American election poll tracker. See our daily updated numbers and mark key electoral-calendar dates: econ.st/3v9Qpzn 👇

    It’s good to be informed.

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  19. Lefty Wright says:

    pug
    After 8 decades of listening to and loving the music of the likes of Fats Waller,Louis Armstrong,Count Basie,Errol Garner, Fats Domino etc. etc. I still do not know if I am a racist because if I ever bother to view my TV screen I can’t help but notice that almost every TV ad features a non white actor to the extent that one could be forgiven for believing that non white people now constitute the majority UK population which is a prospect that I personally find totally unacceptable. So. Am I a racist?

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