Weekend 16th March 2024

Are you an extremist for wanting to change or end the BBC and its’ licence ? Does it make you ‘far right ‘ for wanting the BBC to stop pushing its ‘ Far Left anti British agenda ?

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223 Responses to Weekend 16th March 2024

  1. Up2snuff says:

    The BBC will probably be hitting the Conservative Party hard over the next weekend. They are absolutely terrified of the the Conservatives. The BBC are aware that there have been rumblings in the Conservative MPs about the Licence Fee. They are also envious that the Conservatives have wealthy supporters. The BBC are terrified that people will vote ‘with their pocket books’ (a.k.a. wallets and purses) to use an American expression.

    We can expect more calls from the BBC over the weekend for the Conservatives to repay donations from Frank Hester. We can also expect the BBC to attack on the ‘Levelling Up’ front as well. That deficiency of spending was explained on TWatO as being down to Civil Servants not getting the money out (now where have we heard that before?!) and Labour-led Local Authorities not applying for or not approving planning decisions on time.

    It is time to defund the BBC.

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    • Jeff says:

      Oh, do me a favour, you’re living in cloud cuckoo land. “They are absolutely terrified of the Conservatives”. Why?

      These useless, gutless lumps have been in power for nigh on a decade and a half…and done sweet FA to curtail the BBC…

      There have been “rumblings” have there? Blimey, that will have the Beeb’s knees knocking. Look, every so often, a Tory MP will come out tub thumping and getting the Daily Mail readers in a lather by saying something about BBC bias and waffling about defunding them. It’s the same old pantomime year in, year out. And they have done zilch. It ain;t going to happen. You can’t keep falling for it.

      Mind you, if you honestly believe the Tories are about to defund the BBC

      I’ve got a bridge you might be interested in buying…

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      • pugnazious says:

        Yep…the Tories will curb the BBC, curb immigration and curb green zealotry….not. All lies and smoke and mirrors….trick is to make a huge fuss about one small change to please the Right and then quietly to introduce massive changes in the opposite direction ala immigration….lots of noise about Rwanda whilst essentially opening the borders to legal migrants…and in reality doing absolutely nothing to stop the boat invasion.

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        • G says:

          Mere distractions for the Main Event.

          Drumbeats of War: The media and others, including our, Worlds Most Respected, BBC, told to fire up the volume trying to encourage those in, ‘Power'(?) to believe that the ‘Public’ (i.e. them) will all be in favour. I can’t see the direct linkage at present but I guess all will fall into place in due course. Including all those, “Military age young men” being shipped in by our so-called, “Government” ably assisted by the RNLI.

          As always, the only public support for any war will be felt in their pockets. And now, the Government have given themselves the power, whether it be banks or building societies, to steal the public’s money directly.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Jeff, it is only the Conservatives that keep muttering about the BBC but all the other political Parties want to keep the gravy train rolling for the BBC despite the-cost-of-living-crisis! All the other Parties and some Lefty commentators (heard mostly on the BBC!) claim that the BBC are a ‘mouthpiece for the Government’! That is why the BBC are terrified that the Conservative Party might discover some truly Conservative policies somewhere, put them in the GE Manifesto and then carry them out. The Conservatives might force the BBC for example, to restore free TV Licences to the over 75s (or over 70s, maybe) but make the BBC pay for that itself. Or the Conservatives could force the BBC to re-introduce a full iPlayer capability for everyone to watch catch up TV.

        Hope that explanation satisfies you. There is a General Election coming this year.

        Haven’t you noticed?

        Am interested in politics. Am not interested in your bridge. Why not try selling to the Americans?

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      • Banania says:

        The BBC is safe with any of the parties. It is a vital part of Government.

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  2. BRISSLES says:

    I’m here as your wingman again Snuffy ….. well, until someone comes between us ……

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  3. Deborah says:

    There are anti-smoking adverts on GBNews with a lady talking about how she never thought she would get cancer when she started smoking. Don’t get me wrong, I feel very sorry for her, but as I have never smoked and unlikely to start, I am not the target audience. The advert ends with the words ‘up to 2 out of 3 smokers will die of cancer’. I am trying to work out what the words ‘up to’ actually mean. Does it mean no more that 2 out of 3 smokers will die of cancer, or does it mean 1.1 (or less?) smokers will die of cancer. Those pesky words ‘up to’ irritate me. I keep wondering whether this is the government’s Push Unit at work – but those pesky words just irritate.

    Meanwhile I have to admit to being a covid numbers junkie. 1248 people had covid last week according to the government’s UKHSA dashboard. 1212 were admitted (actually it doesn’t say to where – perhaps the lunatic asylum?) last week. So virtually everybody who had covid last week, was admitted to hospital (I am assuming that admittance means that). 185 died, which is about 1 in 6. Something tells me that this figures are a complete waste of time and wonder why on earth they are being collected – and at what cost. Nobody who is a decision maker can be looking at them, otherwise somebody would be told to stop wasting everyone’s time. Perhaps Marianna could get on the case.

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    • StewGreen says:

      I saw those ads on TalkTV
      if they are GBnewstgat means at least government ads are paying GBnews

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      Probably most of the covid testing takes place in old peoples homes. Once positive they can then be moved into hospitals to be given midazolam, remdesivir, nil-by-mouth, or DNR.

      Before we had tests for covid then these folk may have been classified with a respiratory virus and around 50k used to die of this each year. So maybe it will turn out that Covid has been a miraculous ‘cure’ for RSV deaths.

      One scandal in old folks homes is that they are not being given vitamin D – especially since they are never taken out into the sunshine. This would boost immunity, is very cheap and would have much better benefit than daft covid tests.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        a_s, the old folk in Care homes will have been jabbed up to the hilt. If they caught Covid was it from the jab or despite it? Go figure!

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  4. Sluff says:

    OMG
    How many days is it now?
    They are STILL banging on about Dianne Abbott.

    Tonight, coverage of a demo in support of her at Hackney Town Hall. FFS. Speaking on her behalf-Jeremy Corbyn.

    No mention of the fact she is currently suspended from the Labour Party for alleged Antisemitic comments.

    The left. In action. Can we take 5 years of this total c*** from about November onwards?

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    • StewGreen says:

      Lee Anderson had various harassment on Friday
      including a black woman following him around shouting sweary things at him.

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      • vlad says:

        Would that be this piece of ordure?

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Blimey this bloke loves himself – why not just be concise ….life isn’t long enough to watch him …third world rubbish like that coloured woman is a result of what politicians have done to us..

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  5. Nibor says:

    BBC ,
    Your friends at the Department against Transport practised economic sabotage against the British international road transport industry and now its all done by eastern bloc hauliers.
    Their drivers are all white .
    So now the multi racial workforce is replaced by a mono racial workforce .
    The British workforce was talented— for example even though English is the international language of the world many of the British driver’s learnt other languages .
    Such as not just Romanian but gypsy Roma as well .

    Oh well BBC those drivers were only workers which you and the Labour Party hold in such contempt so as long as they pay the telly tax what do you care .

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    • Sluff says:

      Nibor
      To be fair, a work logistics colleague alerted us to the competitiveness of LKW Walter in about 1995. You’ll see their lorries on the road network.
      Return loads, unequal loads of goods across/ under the channel (nett imports) and even the cost of diesel in Europe all contribute. But agree that governments rarely really support business, mainly because neither they nor the civil servants have the remotest idea of how to run one.

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      • Nibor says:

        Sluff ,

        I have hauled for LKW Walters in my time . It’s more a freight forwarder/ consolidater / warehousing concern than just transporter.

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  6. pugnazious says:

    Absolutely true….a well worn devious tactic used by the BBC and fellow travellers is to get ‘deniability’ and a fire-wall between themselves and an obviously suspect story, such as Trump’s dodgy dossier, by getting a source outside the mainstream to publish the ‘controversial’ claims which then allows the MSM to leap in and report the fact such a thing has been published by someone else and then go to town ‘explaining’ everything by themselves publishing every lurid detail so that we, the Public, can ‘understand’ what’s happening….so good of them.

    The reality is that they couldn’t publish it themselves first as it is so dirty and blatantly suspect that it looks like what it is…a hatchet job and a stitch-up…and a respectable organisation like the BBC couldn’t possibly publish that….until someone else puts it out into the public domain after which it’s open season.

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    • JohnC says:

      ‘Some experts think …’
      ‘An insider has told the BBC …’
      ‘The BBC has learned …’
      ‘Critics say …’

      All used regularly by the BBC to justify adding in their own biased opinion by pretending they are quoting someone else’s.

      One of their lowest tricks is when they take something like an anti-Trump book then quote the worst lines from it as if they are fact without any context or background about who is saying them.

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    • Jeff says:

      This is brilliant, I’ve just finished watching it.

      The BBC are using some really nasty organisations and individuals to bring down one man…

      The intrigue, double dealing, scare tactics, bullying and even rape they’ve indulged in, just to get the dirt on Tommy Robinson.

      The BBC are dealing with some really repulsive creatures.

      He must be doing something right…

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  7. JohnC says:

    So hot on the heels of that Dan Wootan interview totally ridiculing the extreme reaction of the Left to Laurence Fox’s comments, we get this 100% hit piece on Laurence by the BBC. There is no reason whatsoever to rehash the story like this except agenda.

    Billie Piper: Actress speaks out over dealing with comments by ex-husband Laurence Fox
    https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68579518

    And in this article, we get links to ‘suggested’ articles which are about Prince Andrew !.

    I think we have finally turned the corner and the BBC (along with all the Lefties) are now going all-out to stop Trump and destroy every prominent Right-wing activist. They now know OFCOM and the MSM are fully complicit. Nothing will be challenged.

    Elsewhere some good news:
    Red Nose Day: ‘Irreplaceable’ Lenny Henry kicks off his last Comic Relief
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68581772

    ‘Davina McCall said her fellow presenter would be “one hundred percent totally and utterly irreplaceable”.’
    As opposed to 80% irreplaceble Davina ?.

    But of course she is wrong. He will be replaced with another selection from the Black/Female/Gay Getty catalogue who – like all the clones who write the news – will not believe they actually got that job because they have always been a bit thick.

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  8. vlad says:

    Another shameful step in the islamic conquest of Britain.
    The Adhan (call to prayer) is chanted in Parliament.
    Soon it will be broadcast from every mosque and not one of our gutless politicians will dare object.

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  9. JohnC says:

    Hungary’s Orban vows surge to right in US and Europe
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68573444

    Not interested in the article. My eyes simply refuse to read the extremeist rubbish the BBC are confident to put out these days.

    But as I scanned it, I noticed this:

    ‘as his supporters headed home, some harangued a lone protester, a young man with a blue European Union flag.’
    ‘without providing evidence’ most definitely applies to YOU for that one BBC.

    And with the vast democratic majority heading for home, who do the BBC interview ?.
    You guessed it: the lone EU supporter.

    And what did he say ?
    ‘We should defend Hungarian sovereignty from Donald Trump and from the Russians, not the European Union,” Peter Csurgo told the BBC.’
    Amazing : exactly on the current message. Just like all those excellent English-speakers in Gaza.

    You are blatant, dirty, shameless liars BBC. You are making these up.

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  10. Fedup2 says:

    Being largely free of the BBC I thought I’d do a little compare and contrast between. The Reuters new site and the childish bbc one . Reuters leads with the decision by Israel to go ahead with the next action again Hamas in the city of Rafa whilst going to Qatar to see about peace talks / hostage freedom .

    Is this on the bbc website? No . It’s all about aid being sent to the Hamas friends of the BbC

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    • JohnC says:

      It says something when even comparing them to Reuters shows how far left the BBC is.

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  11. Zephir says:

    Off topic maybe, although it is connected to the rise in social or anti social media, a self promoting and much younger youtube so called boxer has landed a fight against an almost 60 year old Mike Tyson.

    Assuming the fight is not fixed, he will be destroyed, a 60 year old may have lost fitness but punching power is the last thing Tyson will lose :

    Heavyweight hall of fame legend Mike Tyson will step back into the ring again on July 20 when he faces cruiserweight sensation Jake Paul at AT&T Stadium in Dallas, Texas. You don’t want to miss what goes down in the events leading up to the fight. Check it out!

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  12. Zephir says:

    It must be fixed or the Youtube guy has a death wish, Tyson often knocking opponents out in seconds:

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    • Zephir says:

      Reminds me of that Jonah Lomu person in rugby sometimes sheer power can overcome any clever or artful opponent.

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      • Eddy Booth says:

        If it seems obvious that one side shouldn’t be in a fight, here a 57 year old heavy smoking Tyson, and the promotion try to make it all sound logical by endlessly focusing on a supposed path to victory, like ” the power doesn’t leave you”.
        Beware ⚠️

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        • Zephir says:

          I maintain that one punch from Tyson even at that age and it is over, even at his age.
          One opponent walked out of the ring after one of these single punches and was roundly abused, until he visited hospital and found to have concussion, a fractured eye sock and displaced vertebra

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  13. JohnC says:

    Born on 7 October: Gaza mum’s fight to feed her baby
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68542331

    Another 0% news, 100% empathy article from the BBC intended to pull your sympathy over to the Palestinians.

    The only use for these articles is to look how the author uses BBC tricks to push their agenda. It starts immediately:

    ‘Hamas had launched its attack on Israel, firing thousands of rockets over the border. Israeli jet fighters launched retaliatory attacks soon after.’

    ‘In Khan Younis, Amal had no idea what was going on. She was anxious and terrified and, eight months pregnant, she started bleeding heavily. She had to get to hospital’

    Note the Israeli jets were ‘quite a lot’ after and have nothing whatsoever to do with what she wen tthrough. The BBC have added it here to infer they were part of the cause.

    ‘After a three-hour wait, the first taxi driver could only take her part of the way. The streets were full of people who didn’t know what to do or where to go.’

    So everybody in Gaza just went outside and stood in the street and a taxi with a heavily bleeding pregnant woman could not get through ?. That’s just so odd, I don’t believe it.

    And it goes on and on.

    ‘Noah was lying on the soft carpet, propped up on a big cushion, watching cartoons on TV and swigging milk from his bottle. He’s kicking his legs in the air under the soft glow of fairy lights on the living room wall.’

    It’s not news in any way whatsoever. It’s BBC activists constantly pulling open wounds and showing them to the camera to virtue-signal just much they care about the suffering. Which they don’t.

    If the media had piled the pressure on Hamas from the start by making big headlines of what they are actually doing and why all these civilians continue to suffer, perhaps all their support would collapse and they would have given up by now. But the Left don’t want that. They want to use it against the Jews so they keep on fanning the discontent with Israel while protecting Hamas.

    Once again the Left/BBC have their hands covered in blood.

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    • Zephir says:

      Yep, and I am boycotting Oxfam shops due to their political interference; with posters demanding a ceasfire for terrorists who fire numerous rockets at Israel daily, still have women and children hostages who are still being sexually abused, who are stealing aid from their population and openly and brazenly committed to complete and utter jewish genocide.

      (Whilst ignoring the carnage in Ukraine and other countries around the world)

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      • JohnC says:

        You can be quite sure that the female hostages are being raped as and when the ‘good Muslim’s’ take the fancy.

        What have you heard from the feminists and misandrists at the BBC and Guardian who are normally shouting from the rooftops ?.

        Their silence is deafening and tells us everything we need to know about their ethics. They are activists driven by hatred of white males. They don’t care one bit about anybody elses suffering if they can’t use it for their own agenda. Which sums up the entire Left to me.

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        • Zelazek says:

          Strange how Oxfam find it easy to empathise with Hamas. But then judging from what happened in Haiti, Oxfam aren’t averse to a bit of rape themselves.

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      • vlad says:

        Oxfam has been drifting leftwards for years.

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      • Zelazek says:

        Zephir,

        And what the BBC have always overlooked since 2005 is that EVERY SINGLE ROCKET fired by Hamas indiscriminately at Israeli civilians is a WAR CRIME. That’s about 50,000 war crimes committed by Palestinians just blithely ignored by the BBC.

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        • JohnC says:

          As was Ukraine deliberately shelling civilians in a market.

          But it seems that Ukraine and Hamas are immune from being accused of war-crimes just as blacks and Muslims are immune from being called racists.

          Welcome to the warped world of the Left whose entire output is based on one thing : hatred of the white right.

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  14. Doublethinker says:

    I listened to the latest John Anderson podcast yesterday when his guest was Konstantine Kisin . KK gave a bleak but realistic view of the position in which Britain has descended to.
    But the most notable feature for me was when towards the end Anderson said that twenty years ago he was told by a high ranking member of a Muslim government that no true Muslim could ever support a democracy because it would go against the tenants of Islam and that all good Muslims must favour a theocratic form of government .
    To my surprise both participants seemed to say that they didn’t believe this and that they had both met Muslims who were strongly against theocratic rule. But on further discussion it became apparent to me that these Muslims were very wealthy and supporters of monarchies . They just wanted to hold onto their loot.

    It is worrying that two people like Anderson or Kisin don’t see or dare not say that the threat posed by Islam is universal. There is no prospect of a Islam undergoing a reformation.

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  15. Sluff says:

    And now, time for a game of ‘them and us’.
    Them. Statist organisations like the BBC.
    From The Times
    ‘More than a thousand unionised staff at the Office for National Statistics will vote soon whether to take industrial action over plans to ensure that they are in the office at least two days a week’
    TWO DAYS !!!!!! OMG! The world will end. You cannot make this stuff up.

    Us. The taxpayers.

    PS the air traffic control chaos last year was, a few days ago, partly blamed on staff working from home and so unable to respond on site to the outages.

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  16. Fedup2 says:

    As usual the current regime will cave in ….. really wind them up by cutting their pay / pension if they ‘choose ‘ to do a second job – aka ‘working from home ‘…. Or maybe just ‘down size the ons – unlikely given the size of the ever growing State …

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  17. AsISeeIt says:

    Ladies… hereabouts… you know just how mortifying it can be when you have prepared for weeks for that big event. You arrive perfectly made-up, hair-done, nails polished and manicured, dressed to the nines in that brand new frock – and guess what – you walk in and spot someone wearing the self-same outfit!

    Chelsea v Arsenal: Women’s Super League match delayed by ’embarrassing’ sock clash… The game at Stamford Bridge started 30 minutes late as Arsenal’s white socks were the same colour as the hosts’. (BBC)

    Opportunely, as luck would have it, the Guardian carries a fashion feature, advice of which our lady footballers might perhaps avail themselves: Styling tips for between seasons

    The Daily Telegraph is a midly conservative broadsheet that tracks the cultural demise of Britain; reporting each new establishment woke leftist victory over our cherished British traditions. The title strikes this reader as acting like some enthusiastically gesticulating chap way out from shore in deep waters – and one finds it hard to tell if he even knows whether he’s waving or he’s drowning?

    Like our BBC’s reporting on the Ukraine conflict of late – If there’s a straw to clutch in the losing battles of the culture war, the Telegraph will be sure to clutch it…

    BBC: Secret classes to counter Russian brainwashing in occupied Ukraine… Children at school in Russian-occupied Ukraine (not the school featured in this report), writing “letters of support” to Russian soldiers – A very peculiar non sequitur photo pic chosen to illustrate this rather lame anecdotal propaganda story from our BBC – photo credit Telegram – were one of a really mischievous bent one might observe that asking the usual go-to Getty Images for a snapshot of typical school kids the request will be sure to return too many black and headscarfed youngsters for it to plausibly imitate a classroom deep in the Donbas – even for the BBC’s overly optimistic diverse sensibilities – but I digress

    Where were we? Ah, the fusty old Telegraph clutching at straws: Caitlyn Jenner: Trans women are not women… the formerly male Olympic decathlete and Keeping Up with the Kardashians star, is interviewed by… Sharron Davies in today’s Telegraph Magazine championing womens’ rights to preserve their space in sport

    I have visions of that Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse TV sketch – set in the rarified atmosphere of a gentleman’s club, as our pair of large-eared bewhiskered old duffers peruse their Daily Telegraph and the first remarks: “Have you heard of Caitlyn Jenner?” “Yes” “Is he a Quair?” “Well he certainly looks like a Quair” “Well, if he looks like a Quair, he probably is a Quair” “Probably” “I shall put him down as a Quair!”

    Meanwhile a feature rather more up the dusty old Telegraph’s alley: Latin lovers Sex and seduction in ancient Rome (Telegraph)

    The Guardian, on the contrary, is bang up to date with modern sexual mores – and we should pause here for just a moment to give due kudos to those woke diary planners that have been so careful to seperate Pride Month from Ramadan: The male quest for a bigger bottom (Guardian)

    If ever there were a segueway crying out for a quick calm down dear that was it

    I still want sex but I don’t need marriage Marie Helvin at 71 (Times) – do wait till you’re asked, luv

    It’s a well known phenomenon that the liberal left admire and cherish democracy – just so long as it delivers their desired results

    Russia election: Arrests for vandalism as ballot boxes targeted in Putin vote… Vladimir Putin is certain to win six more years in office after the vote. (BBC)

    Oh that our liberal western proxy war leaders – Sunak and Biden – could boast to be favourites to win such support at their fast approaching elections.

    Russian voters under Putin’s watchful eye… CCTV coverage of voting booths is monitored at Russia’s Central Election Commission Headquarters (Guardian) – and what’s wrong with that…? I thought we liked CCTV. Seems to be a reasonable precaution…

    Tories raise concerns about ‘intimidation’ in Rochdale by-election… Party chairman Richard Holden suggests there might be a need for ‘police presence at polling stations’ to protect voters (Telegraph)

    Drop boxes have become key to election conspiracy theories. Two Democrats just fueled those claims… A woman approaches a drop box in the dark with what appears to be handfuls of ballots. At a different drop box, someone else is seen making multiple trips to insert ballots. At yet another, the same car stops on at least three separate occasions, with different people stepping out and heading to the box. It’s not a trailer for the latest conspiracy movie about rigged elections. Instead, the video footage has become central to a real-world controversy over potential fraud involving ballot drop boxes, a favorite target of right-wing conspiracy theorists since former President Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election. (Associated Press)

    CCTV – coming to a voting booth near you in the near future?

    File this one under the heading – you could have knocked me down with a feather…

    Deliveroo and Uber Eats ‘backdoor’ to UK illegal migration (‘i’) – the left-leaning poundshop Guardian that is the ‘i’ newspaper mean to say illegal immigration – afterall there’s no newly and expensively NHS qualified white English, Scots, Welsh or Northern Irish junior doctors donning fluorescent orange or turquoise jackets with a big insulated satchel and hopping on a bicyle just so as to get a Kiwi or Aussie work visa as their escape route out of this benighted isle.

    Compare and contrast

    Abuse is a daily reality for black women with an opinion by Charlene White (‘i’)

    Billie Piper… on coping with Laurence Fox as father of my boys (Mirror); Billie Piper: Actress speaks out over dealing with comments by ex-husband Laurence Fox (BBC)

    A much bigger embarrassing historic romantic faux pas for the lady must surely have been: Billie Piper says she was ‘shouted at’ over Chris Evans age-gap in ‘terrifying ordeal’… Former Doctor Who actress Billie Piper married Virgin Radio DJ Chris Evans when she was 18-years-old and when he was 35. They divorced in 2007. (Evening Standard); Billie Piper issues three word verdict on ex Johnny Lloyd as she confirms split… Last month, reports emerged that she had separated from the singer, with whom she shares five-year-old daughter, Tallulah, after going through a rough patch in lockdown. (Daily Mail)

    Ah Lockdown…

    To misquote Michael Jackson

    Don’t blame it on the sunshire
    Don’t blame it on the moonlight
    Don’t blame it on good times
    Blame it on the…
    Lockdowns?

    Billie Piper – there’s more problematic old skeletons filling her closet than you can find in a Hull funeral home…

    Hull funeral directors inquiry: All bodies thought to have been identified (BBC)

    And if that gag doesn’t bury this review – my uncle is my aunt and I’m a female decathlete and trash tv star speaking out for women’s rights in a supposedly conservative newspaper

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    • Fedup2 says:

      ASI see it – worth waiting for ! You gave me a snigger with the girl sock clash …. Maybe they should free to wear what they want – after all – team colours is only a ‘male construct ‘ and from what I have seen – male away strips try to impersonate the stewards to wage confusion on the enemy teams ….

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      • Sluff says:

        Hidden away in this hilarious story about socks and football team strips is a serious point.
        Societies need order. Culture is ‘the way we do things round here’. In the UK we drive on the left, as in India and Japan. But in the USA, Canada, and much of Europe they drive on the right. It doesn’t really matter which you choose, but you have to choose one. Otherwise there is chaos. And with order comes economy of scale.
        Multiculturalism is not like that. Anything goes. Everyone’s cultures are equal even if diametrically opposed and have to be supported and funded. But without order you cannot have society and economy of scale. And thus multiculturalism and coherent society is incompatible.
        In how many languages does your local council issue its election instructions?

        Unexpectedly I discovered a possible extra reason why governments may like multiculturalism through mass immigration. A Kenyan aquaintenance in a leadership position points out that back in Kenya if he says something, people automatically obey. In the UK decisions are queried, challenged and questioned. His thesis is that many immigrants arrive from countries with authoritarian regimes, one party dictatorships, military rule, draconian law enforcement. In such circumstances you don’t question, you just do what you are told.
        How easy a life it would be in this country if the government could rely on an increasing proportion of the population to do just that.

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  18. harry142857 says:

    Self proclaimed BBC “expert”.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Those faces in the audience ….. I’m guessing the green crap zealot jumped over the table and cut the truth tellers’ throat …..

      But then – supposing the approved theory is right – that man made produced gases are adversely affecting the global climate . Then we should be at war with any country increasing output – shouldn’t we ?
      And how dare millions in other countries seek to improve their lives by having power and a fresh water supply ? Thus increase nasty gas output all the more ….

      The west is just on a self harm self destruction journey which must be stopped ….

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      • harry142857 says:

        The green crap zealot is George Monbiot, propagandist for himself, the Grauniad and the biased BBC.

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  19. Fedup2 says:

    Ukraine – The West seems to be doing that ‘look the other way ‘ thing when it comes to the progress the Russians are making in taking and keeping ground . No casualty numbers – not much by way of news …..

    … surely if there is a spring offensive leading to a putin victory it’s going to be a bit of a shock as there is no ‘grooming ‘( conditioning ) for the bad news …. But we ll be able to buy official gas and oil again ….

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  20. taffman says:

    Wales gets new First Minister. Why bother ?
    A waste of money and a waste of time .

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    • Sluff says:

      Will it dawn on Welsh voters that Labour has been running the country uninterrupted for the last 20 years?
      Maybe. But the failure of devolution is that the devolved authorities continually and successfully make hay with the ‘don’t blame us, the UK government is starving us of cash’ routine. The elected Mayors play the same trick.
      Unfortunately the Tories are so spineless and apologetic that they just lay down rather than take the fight to the socialists and assertively expose their abject failings.

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    • Lunchtime Loather says:

      Born Guessing. Will we notice any difference? As Galloway would say, two cheeks…

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    • digg says:

      It means the whole of the UK regions now has not one original native of these islands in the top spot.

      Make of that what you will! But I guarantee that this country will be in tatters in 10 years time.

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  21. Zephir says:

    Regarding AsIseet’s comment about the sock crisis in wimmins football.

    In the interests of equality and to save money on different coloured socks, I think they should all play in black stockings, and of course to make it easy to check compliance, they must all wear mini skirts, and to in the interests of health and safety, to help with traction and avoid slips and trips, they must all wear six inch stilleto heels.

    It might possibly help attendance and viewing figures too, a win / win then ?

    Pity Benny Hill is no longer with us I am lead to believe he was an expert in the offside rule so would make a fine referee, and that funny bald man as a linesman would make a dream team in my opinion. The ref should be allowed to slap him if he overules a decision so the crowd understands the final decision.

    We could also play some amusing saxophone music as they followed him running into the tunnel at half time to keep the crowd interested.

    And to help ensure discipline the wimmin team managers should dress in police uniform, and if upset with a decision, be allowed to hit the referee with a spare stilleto shoe and chase him a little.

    And I think 90 minutes of wimmins football on TV is too much for viewers so they should play it back at double speed.

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    • AsISeeIt says:

      “In the interests of equality and to save money on different coloured socks, I think they should all play in black stockings…”

      Funny you should say that…

      The Extreme Football League (X League) is a women’s semi-professional indoor American football league operating in the United States. The league was originally founded in 2009 as the Lingerie Football League (LFL), and later rebranded as the Legends Football League in 2013… The players in the game wore helmets, shoulder pads, elbow pads, knee pads, bras and underwear… Playing style is full-contact… (Thank you Wiki)

      Now for that regular morning cold shower

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Zephir … steady …..

      Onto more important matters – yesterday I could not buy my macee Dee and fries ( not chips ) because of a computer glitch .
      Now today I can’t even order stuff online from sainsburys . I’ve had to send my staff to the shop ( not store ) . The world is ending – this in not acceptable . Is it the Russians ? What’s next – John Lewis unable to deliver ? Shortage of sun dried tomatoes in Calabrian extra virgin olive oil . Disgusted . …

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      • Zephir says:

        I have an intolerance to rapeseed oil, now thanks the the “war in Ukraine” even food labelled as containing sunflower oil may have it replaced by rapeseed oil FFS

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Your intolerance might make you a gove extremist – no government contracts for you – unless you bung them of course …sorry I meant £ lobbying £…

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  22. Zephir says:

    Thanks AsI ! Benny Hill just out of shot I think

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  23. Docmarooned says:

    Eurosport showed this a while back. Only time I have ever been interested in it.

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  24. Zephir says:

    I am still missing the wimmins topless darts and that dwarf on a trampoline doing the weather

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  25. tomo says:

    “Pound shop James O’Brien” beloved of Vile

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  26. atlas_shrugged says:

    This film just could never be aired on the bBC because sugar and spice and all things nice:

    https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1640/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1640/pub/1640/page/24/article/NaN

    Apologies to those not on a Telegraph subscription and just to fill you in the lovely lady was holding a rather scary knife in one of the pictures.

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  27. Lucy Pevensey says:

    The BBC are evil bar stewards but you know that already. BBC documentary discussion begins roughly 13 mins in.

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  28. Fedup2 says:

    The bias of the BBC is clearly shown when it there is a hierarchy of victimhood .

    1Foreign invaders
    2 coloured folk
    3 Muslims
    4 queers
    5 sexual perverts
    6 women
    7 disabled
    8 ‘vulnerable s’

    So the razzle case highlights this – but the race card covers any need for apology …

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  29. tomo says:

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      • Fedup2 says:

        The computer on my Audi A3 went wrong . It cost be £1300 to have it replaced . I had to sell the car because of the Emir of londonistan …. I didn’t get much for it …. Burn that petrol ..

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        • moggiemoo says:

          I live in a city where the car isn’t yet totally vilified but, when it is, we have nothing like the transport links that London has. Life will pretty much stop.

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          • Fedup2 says:

            Moggie – yes the londonistan public transport system is pretty good – the downside is the violence that can breakout at any time of day – the ‘mums’ with the pushchairs and pet babies are the most volatile- in my opinion – …. I’m glad I use my motor scooter – which is also an ‘experience ‘…

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  30. tomo says:

    Applies more to the UK as every day passes…

    I’d be OK with the BBC (and The Guardian) being entirely solar powered.

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  31. tomo says:

    Wales….

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  32. Fedup2 says:

    It’s a bit early but I’d like to wish everyone a happy St Patrick’s Day …. Poor old Eire is suffering from huge numbers of imports – but God save Ireland ….

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  33. Fedup2 says:

    A good night for Islamic Hamas – 200 tons of stuff to keep the war going …. Courtesy of their western supporters ….

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  34. Yasser Dasmibehbi says:

    Here’s some news from the future in BBC style.

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  35. Philip_2 says:

    Rod Liddle has a few words about the BBC Radio 4 with Kirsty Young. The Grand Inquisitor meets the the Labour Party chief propaganda chief who lied to parliament. You would think they have a lot to talk about….
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    This was in ‘The Spectator’ magazine this weekend. Rod Liddle often writes about the BBC and thinks (basically) that it should be closed down, or recycled into a spare tyre.

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    • tomo says:

      imho, Young’s fawning is fake, I reckon all the media luvvies are terrified of her Soho House connection where they all congregate to suck up/pitch for meejah gigs (and more…) – and she knows it….

      You’re “in” or youse out.

      Harvey Weinstein a well known patron at New York Soho House…. Princesses etcetera….

      Reddit are unusually coy (you have to 18+ for “mature content”) about exposing the goings on at the Jones’s places….

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  36. tomo says:

    Surprised BBC presenters aren’t going the same route with hair?

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  37. Thoughtful says:

    The Welsh Labour party has announced they have selected a Black man as their new leader and he has immediately set to work, his first intention is to change the Welsh national anthem. Land of no fathers.

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    • Flotsam says:

      Land of Many Fathers……..and Uncles

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    • Kaiser says:

      lol

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    • BRISSLES says:

      Well that’s the first Minister of Northern Ireland out on a limb. A woman and white ! Who’d ever thought we’d see a time when the other three regions were overseen by non-whites. I never thought I would.

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      • Doublethinker says:

        Plus of course the London runt or are you excluding London the very reasonable grounds that it isn’t British any longer?

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  38. Guest Who says:

    How many ‘PRESS’ jackets are there?

    https://x.com/apostateprophet/status/1769121829648543765?s=61
    This is what happens when a random person who has no idea about the culture tries to participate in the Israel-Palestine conversation. She follows the trend and tries to be praised for defending them but ends up insulting them.

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  39. Zephir says:

    FFS she was not even there…

    “Council officer who got PTSD from helping Grenfell fire victims before she was sacked from her £125,000-a-year role wins £4.6 MILLION in record payout”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13205581/Sacked-council-officer-PTSD-helping-Grenfell-fire-victims-wins-4-6-MILLION.html

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    • Zephir says:

      The £4.6 million award equates to £25 per Hammersmith and Fulham resident. If the payment is not made by the end of this month, it will accrue 8 per cent interest per year, which equates to £302,500.

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  40. Zephir says:

    “Army veterans have long struggled to receive payouts from government compensation schemes despite suffering with severe trauma from their time in warzones.

    Dean Upson, who fought during in Iraq and did two tours of Afghanistan, said when he left the Army in June 2011, he was initially awarded just £3,000 for complex PTSD that was so severe it has left him suicidal and unable to work full-time.

    He eventually received more than £160,000, but it took him four years of working with lawyers.

    And Royal Marine Mark Ormrod, who lost both legs and an arm in a Taliban landmine blast, was offered £214,000 despite having to raise significantly more himself to afford prosthetics which are not available on the NHS”

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  41. Zephir says:

    And the madness continues:

    “Teacher ‘sacked after refusing to treat eight-year-old as a boy’ over concerns for child’s welfare after head ordered her to go along with pupil’s wishes”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13205469/Teacher-sacked-refusing-treat-eight-year-old-boy-concerns-childs-welfare.html

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  42. vlad says:

    Dr Gavin Ashenden warns of the imminent danger of islamic takeover.
    Ashenden was formerly an Anglican Bishop and Chaplain to the Queen.
    He was also a University lecturer, and a keen advocate of ecumenism and interfaith dialogue; so he knows his stuff.
    The sort of warning he gives here – though reasonable, temperate and measured – may soon be illegal.
    For those readers in a hurry, the essential message is in the first few minutes, and the last few.

    SIGNS THAT THE RELIGION OF PEACE IS INTENSIFYING ITS GRIP

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    • Zephir says:

      Amen to that

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    • Banania says:

      That is terrifying.

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    • Zelazek says:

      Ashenden’s analysis is correct and the Islamic Republic of Great Britain isn’t far away.

      The problem is how do we (the native British) prevent that?

      The first thing we must do is recognise that Islam, alone among the major religions, has a doctrine of violence and coercion towards non-believers, and is an all-encompassing, authoritarian political programme that brooks no dissent. It cannot exist within our inherited European culture of free speech and human rights. Left to grow, Islam will eventually destroy all the great things about our society that have taken centuries for us to build and develop.

      Therefore, for our own survival, it cannot be tolerated. Islam must be eradicated from our land and sent back to the Arabian desert from whence it came. That is the harsh solution that our squeamish and cowardly politicians, courts, and media, if they had the balls to even recognise the danger and the threat, need to contemplate. Muslims must be expelled from the UK – and Europe too – one way or the other.

      The building of new mosques must be banned and existing mosques demolished. Muslim immigration must be completely halted. A programme of repatriation of Muslims must be begun and then deportation for recalcitrants. This may be hard on “moderate” Muslims, but there is no other way.

      If hard facts are not faced and these extreme measures not taken, then one of two things will happen: The Islamic Republic of Great Britain will become a reality – or civil war will break out.

      I don’t want either. The most humane solution is to take strong measures NOW.

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  43. Fedup2 says:

    Many of us wonder why the blue labour regime never challenged the Far Left bias of the BBC . Well the current profile of Mickey Gove helps explain .

    Now I knew Gove was a journo before becoming a lefty Tory – but I didn’t realise he worked for the BBC – even for John Humphreys and the Today programme .

    And ‘some say ‘ Gove joined the wrong party – quite so – the awful little xxxx….

    Talking of little xxxxs – it seems some one leaked the details of grant Shapps visit to Ukraine and the Russians might have tried to get him – what a waste of a missile that might have been ….

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  44. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/cameraorguk/status/1769263054238183681?s=61
    There is NO excuse for the BBC to ever uncritically amplify the unevidenced claims and propaganda by Hamas

    They do not need excuses when they have OFCOM

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  45. AsISeeIt says:

    On the surface it seems like they care… but behind the scenes there’s another agenda that is a higher priority for them – in this Sunday edition

    In entertainment news: Game of Thrones creators on why they swapped dragons for aliens (BBC)

    Later, perhaps, we may hear from our little manlet in a tight suit, PM Rishi Sunak – seat-warmer for Starmer and First Lord of the Green Card (to give him his full titles) on why the failing administration he leads swaps focus from the actual real life threat we face from alien islamic terrorists to the fantasy notion of those mythical dragons of the far-right?

    ‘Litany of menace’ as Gaza activists target MPs (Telegraph)

    Of course our politicians will prioritise looking after their own: Home Office unveils £31m security package to protect MPs from threats. Home Secretary James Cleverly said no MP should have to accept that harassment is ‘part of the job’. (Independent)

    Our BBC does love to promote the stories told by the world’s supposed most downtrodden of underdogs and their imagined travails – and I’m not referring to Gaza: Local elections: ‘I got my first death threat before I was elected’… There are fears rising levels of abuse could put people off entering politics

    Beeboid Ben Schofield goes on to present the case for our liberal-minded political class – seemingly united and like-minded across the party divides – they find themselves and many of their ideals and policies suddenly at odds with the population. And they appear to be amazed by this.

    Afterall, be reasonable… if, like our politicians you do happen to be content with our open-border levels of hyper-immigration, the anarcho-tyranny of ULEZ, LTNs and the like, the neo-religious belief in Net Zero, in fact every aspect of Nanny Statism – from the confiscation of historical reenacting medieval broadswords to the outlawing of the so recently formerly promoted alternative to smoking vapes, gender-bending drag queens and Pride parades on the rates – all despite ever-rising Council Tax, combined with ineffective crime control, pot holes, infrastructure collapse, failing schools, a crumbling NHS… well if you’re happy with all that – and by the way our political class certainly seem to be fairly content that they’re on the right track – then why would you ever be moved in some fit of unreasonable frustration to threaten to kill your local councillor or presume to address your constituency MP with some racial or misogynistic epithet?

    Our Ben Schofield interviews a cross section of our local politicians and naturally ticks all the right boxes: Mrs Williams, 35, [Conservative] remembered… “I had threats of violence and sexual violence towards me,” she said… she feared the abuse she faced were attempts to make her views “extinct”… Festus Akinbusoye admitted the “extremely soul destroying” abuse he faced made him question whether he wanted to remain as Bedfordshire’s Conservative police and crime commissioner… Labour councillor Elisa Meschini described how her support for a congestion charge in Cambridge “opened the floodgates…” South Cambridgeshire Liberal Democrat, Peter McDonald, 62, said… “very few people – mostly men” had been “taking up the cudgels against me for anything from a pothole or a planning permission to an industrial development”. “We live in an area with a lot of change and a lot of development and people can get very worked up about that,” he said.

    Read between the lines there and one can begin to see just a hint of the real issues at stake. Inevitably, aside for the £31m of public cash they’ve gifted to themselves for extra security the answer to all this anger directed at our political class is diagnosed – just as night follows day: The Online Safety Act, which became law in October, aims to bring “a new era of internet safety”, according to the government. The LGA welcomed some of its measures but said it could have gone further. (BBC)

    The adults know best. Like Victorian children, angry populations should be seen and not heard – as for the really naughty ones – take their toys away and put them on the naughty step!

    The mildly conservative Sunday Telegraph clutches at straws: Crackdown on rogue councils over 20mph zones and LTNs… Coucils that ignore local opposition… could be stripped of their powers…

    And if you believe that… I’ve a dozen dodgy London ULEZ cameras hidden in secret lock up somewhere within the M25 to sell you…

    The Government must act to stop the undemocratic expansion of Ulez… SIR – The expansion of London’s ultra-low emission zone is an undemocratic imposition… (Telegraph, Letters, August 2023)

    Rishi Sunak ‘overruled from blocking Sadiq Khan’s Ulez expansion’ Legal advice said to have concluded Government block on Ulez expansion would fail if challenged (Evening Standard, August 2023); London ULEZ: Government is ‘legally powerless’ to stop Sadiq Khan’s expansion plans on ‘pet project’ Paul Scully admitted the UK Government had no legal options to challenge the expansion (My London, January 2023)

    This from the same Tory government that could confine us to our homes, shut down half the economy, turn the NHS into a covid-only service – and all that enacted overnight at the stroke of a pen and without any prior precident.

    Meanwhile the Telegraph frets over: Putin’s terrifying Stalin fetish

    Britain should use conscription to deter Russia, urges Nato ally (Telegraph) – that’s not Germany, the US or even Belgium. That’ll be a call from Krisjanis Karins, foreign minister of that histioric defender of liberal democracy and the modern military stalwart that is Latvia – talk about the zeal of the newly converted.

    German court backs pensions for veterans of Latvian SS unit… The ruling by a federal court in Kassel overturns a lower court’s denial of a pension to a former Latvian member of the Waffen-SS and to the widow of another veteran. Disability pensions have been paid to wounded veterans since 1950 (Jewish Telegraphic Agency, December 1998)

    Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia were invited to begin accession talks at the Alliance’s Prague Summit in 2002. On 29 March 2004, they officially became members of the Alliance, making this the largest wave of enlargement in NATO history. (Nato) – and that, folks (just in case you were wondering) is what’s helped upset the Russians.

    That’s Life

    Don’t blame Esther Rantzen: Meta expert: Instagram fuelling rise in suicides… harmful content… “triggering” vulnerable young women and girls… “On the surface it seems like they care… but behind the scenes there’s another agenda that is a higher priority for them” (Observer)

    And on that thought

    Diana crash used in vile euthenasia ad campaign… Princess’s friends condemn ‘cruel exploitation’ as Paris tragedy photo promotes assisted dying (Daily Mail)

    This previously from the same weather vane Daily Mail: ‘Can we just do this now?’ Esther Rantzen’s daughter puts pressure on Rishi Sunak to call a vote on legalising assisted dying saying that Labour pledge to hold one if it wins election will come ‘too late’ for terminally ill telly legend

    Something to cheer us up…

    Farage plots Sunak’s demise (Sunday Express) – and on this Saint Paddy’s Day – we recall vintage Belfast comic Frank Carson, who was apt to remark “You’ve heard them all before, but it’s the way I tell ’em”

    Or perhaps Penny Mordaunt (there’s a Game of Thones-like name) will stick her broadsword in Rishi’s back – before he confiscates it?

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  46. Zephir says:

    Tin foil hat time, or maybe not ?

    “People have no idea how enormous a protest is when in a city of 7 million, 2 million citizens are out in the streets, protesting… the Hong Kong protests of 2019 and early 2020 were HUGE. An unheard of, historical “f**k you” to China on a grand scale. Beijing was getting nervous. The genie appeared to be out of the bottle. Even Hong Kong police force, teachers, professors and civil servants had joined the protests. Students didn’t go to school, stores owned by pro-China owners were vandalised…

    Then all of a sudden, Covid-19 breaks out. The patient zero comes from Wuhan, China. The disease quickly spreads across the world. Dominates the global news cycle, destabilizes the global economy… and all news articles are now about Covid. All everyone talks about is Covid. China finally sweeps down on Hong Kong, curbing the protests, jailing the protest leaders — those who haven’t yet fled abroad, that is. Nobody notices. Nobody pays attention. Because all anyone thinks about is the pandemic.

    The genie of “Free Hong Kong!” went back in the bottle again as soon as the pandemic broke out. Before the call for democracy could spread elsewhere, contaminate other Chinese regions and become more of a headache for the nervous authorities in Beijing. Did the Chinese government deliberately release the virus as a distraction, only for it to spiral out of control? Who knows.”

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  47. Fedup2 says:

    I did notice that the Chinese used the Obama Biden punishment model to imprison protesters for going to government building s – 20 years for shouting words or sitting in the speakers’ chair seems fair don’t it ? …

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  48. Sluff says:

    In between its long and reverential report on fasting children in schools in the UK for Ramadan, Toady on Sunday briefly mentioned that those cuddly lovely Muslims in northern Nigeria, Boko Haram, have just kidnapped hundreds of women and children. These are nearly always Christians, but the reporter was very keen to mention they may have got a few Muslims this time.

    Why was this not plastered all over the main news bulletins? Rather more important than whether a Tory donor said some hurty words about Dianne Abbott in a private meeting five years ago.

    We all know the answer. The Islamic Broadcasting Corporation have a clear aim to portray Muslims only in the most positive of lights. And Muslims overwhelmingly vote Labour.

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