368 Responses to Midweek 10th April 2024

  1. Fedup2 says:

    Ok guilty – ive read a long piece in
    the giardian by owen jones on the decline of the west .
    Very dee minus or a soft ‘third’ . Owen writes like hes holding court in a pub impressing the boys with a list of stuff which is making us fail …
    But only mentions in passing the major cause – huge uncontrolled economic migration – whether it be the US southern border – the EU using us a dustbin for its third world rubbish- and politicians not having the strength to Do Something – excluding president trump of course .

    But like so many lefties – bitch bitch about the ‘far right populists’ but no solutions at all ..

    I dont think our new politicak masters – the muslims – will put up with the likes of owen jones for very long ….

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    • moggiemoo says:

      It’s something I agree with them on.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Sky News Press Preview 12/06/16 – Heated Orlando LGBT/Owen Jones walks out

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      • Fedup2 says:

        I think the msin reason the BBC the likes of him – that alibi brown creature et al is that they know theyll make the right noises but not overstate their true views..,

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  2. digg says:

    This is an example of the maniac gutter dregs of the Islamic World we are allowing to enter this Country unchecked.

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/11/man-murdered-passerby-in-hartlepool-over-conflict-in-gaza-court-told

    I hope all the leftie twats and pink-haired harridans who wail for them to be allowed to stay here eventually burn in hell as our country is dragged back to the dark ages by these crazed Neanderthals.

    Will they scream for the human rights of the murdered old man? You bet they won’t… just an unfortunate incident to these deluded cretins.

    They will as bloody usual claim he was having just a phsychotic episode… like every bloody Muslim in the World in fact throughout their lives.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      On 22 March 2020, 7-year-old Emily Grace Jones[3] was stabbed at Queen’s Park in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, while riding her scooter and died shortly afterwards.[4][5] Eltiona Skana, a 30-year-old Albanian woman unknown to the Jones family, was arrested on the scene and later charged with murder.[6][7]
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Emily_Jones

      …..

      JUST A MISUNDERSTANDING….

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  3. tomo says:

    LOS ANGELES, CA — Mourners and curious onlookers alike gathered along the 405 freeway in Southern California to bear witness as Los Angeles Police vehicles slowly escorted a white Ford Bronco hearse containing O.J. Simpson.

    The procession, which traveled at a low speed with law enforcement working to prohibit any other vehicles from getting on the freeway, allowed onlookers to have one final chance to see Simpson being followed by police officers.

    https://babylonbee.com/news/police-slowly-escort-white-hearse-containing-oj-simpson

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    • Guest Who says:

      https://x.com/mrandyngo/status/1778528772918276113?s=61
      CNN reports on the death of OJ Simpson & the BLM version of the 90s that promised riots if he was convicted: “So many people were just happy to see that someone who is…black, could get away with, uh, what other people did in the system as well, too.”

      Doc Shola and Dawn Butler throwing themselves on the hood?

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      • Eddy Booth says:

        I remember a documentary or something, proposing it was his son, a chef, who did it.
        Hence why the glove was too big.
        OJ visited the scene .

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  4. vlad says:

    The BBC ignore rioting in London from their muslim friends.
    Well of course they do, par for the course.
    Anyone still paying the extortion tax should be deeply ashamed of themselves. You are a traitor to your country.

    https://youtu.be/sePFhg9FQ6s

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  5. Zephir says:

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  6. Zephir says:

    Woke-Battle.webp

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  7. Zephir says:

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  8. Guest Who says:

    JezBo has a summary.

    https://x.com/bowenbbc/status/1778300382415925289?s=61
    Deadly Israeli attack on Hamas leader’s family, Eid al-Fitr in Gaza & Israeli soldiers’ views of the war. Plus warnings of Iranian attack on Israel. team is @ProducerKathy @rosenfeld_oren on insta you’ll find cameraman @frederickbscott

    Few respond. Mostly those unhappy he did not go into more detail.

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  9. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/bbcnews/status/1778660003370471808?s=61
    ‘I went to kick the ball and my knee collapsed’

    With luck a happy ending as this blonde gets hired by #bbcverify

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  10. Guest Who says:

    For once, a Getty Image that is justified.

    https://x.com/daveatherton20/status/1778498668242317749?s=61
    Former PC Ali Hassan Ali is i/v’ed by @victoriacook of the BBC where he complains of racism in the @metpoliceuk.
    The inside story is he was always on sick leave & his his probationary period had to be extended with a support plan. He failed to reach Independent Patrol Status.
    He was issued with a Regulation 13 notice where he would have been sacked, but quit instead.
    gettyimages.co.uk/detail/video/m…

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  11. Fedup2 says:

    BBC News

    Sometimes the agenda of the BBC is so obvious as to be embarrassing . For instance – the lead news is a story about a website called wotssap reducing an age limit to 13 . Then there is a story about an awards thing about computer games …
    I’m sure the demographic of R4 is really interested ….

    And then there is criticism of a government minister over something to do with stopping the building of an incinerator in his constituency…. But nothing on the alleged tax fraud by the deputy shadow prime minister …..

    On this one – compare the daily bbc coverage of nut nut and his number 10 gathering (party gate ) and something far more serious – fraud on the taxpayer … fair ? Hardly . An honest broadcaster wouid be after her every day – comrade Robinson not on the case for something so serious . Particularly exploiting the buying of council houses for personal socialist gain …

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  12. tomo says:

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Interesting that the term ‘Tsar’ is often used e.g. here we have a Tax Tsar, there’s Children’s Tsar, a drugs Tsar and so on. It’s not just the Labour Party, the government are also keen on creating Tsars for this, Tsars for that. Anyone with even the vaguest awareness of history will know that the term is synonymous with cruel, out-of-touch, authoritarian rulers, such as the rulers of the Russian Empire pre-1917. So it gives a bit of an insight into the mentality of the politicians and elitists that they think it is appropriate to use this term.

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  13. tomo says:

    For me, all 5 of the present replies don’t show…

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  14. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      It’s just a comedy – dead bodies? Really!

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Funny guy takes self too seriously shock

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        • tomo says:

          Deranged teachers grooming children to take one way trip to chop off penises / breasts isn’t serious?

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          • MarkyMark says:

            Wow! There IS NOT CANCEL CULTURE (c) Owen Jones

            However, he said that Linehan’s involvement would make the show impossible to stage in the current climate.

            “Graham Linehan has spoken out about the resulting fallout after sharing his views opposing the trans rights movement, claiming he was asked to disassociate himself from the Father Ted stage musical.”

            He was suspended from Twitter in 2020 after making a series of controversial remarks about transgender people, but has since been reinstated on the platform.

            However, he said that Linehan’s involvement would make the show impossible to stage in the current climate.

            https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/graham-linehan-father-ted-musical-b2302881.html

            . . . . .

            TRANS VIEW OF HURTY HUMOUR.
            The Trans IT Crowd Episode

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            • Rob in Cheshire says:

              who’s this bloke?

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              • MarkyMark says:

                Comedy writer much loved by BBC then said he didn’t like it when kids have chemical castration to remove penis to end the gender wars.

                Now hated by all!

                “In 2014, Linehan won his fifth BAFTA, for Best Writer, Comedy, for his work on The IT Crowd. He was also nominated for Count Arthur Strong.[17]”
                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Linehan

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  15. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      ** 650 MPS exempt from Tax. 800 Lords Exempt. Rishi’s wife to bay indian taxes not uk taxes and will be exempt. Angela Ryaner to be exempt.

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  16. AsISeeIt says:

    J’Accuse! wrote Emile Zola in righteous indignation…

    Border Force ‘to blame’ for fake stamps – Pieter Snepvangers & Dominic Penna tuck their accusation tentatively within modest scare quotes for the top headline in the mildly conservative Telegraph

    Corporate cronyism – the term used in political discourse to describe a situation in which businesses profit from a close relationship with state power (Thank you Wiki) – appears to have broken down here as the highly state-regulated corporate entity shifts all the blame to the public sector: Royal Mail accuses Government of not doing enough to stop counterfeits entering UK (Telegraph)

    Our BBC requested Getty Images supply a pic to illustrate their version of this story – and a photo of a penny black was returned – I jest of course.

    Mr AsI notices the irony of how our supposedly crime-busting police constabularies now shy away from the word Force, prefering instead to dub themselves a Service, whereas our Home Office subdepartment reponsible for immigration and customs enforcement still yet prefer the big boy title – Force.

    Royal Mail have accused Border Force of failing to prevent counterfeit stamps flooding into Britain from China (Telegraph) – given the fact Border Force can’t even manage to stem the human flood of fully grown fighting age male immigrants daily crossing our notionally highly defensible sea borders… we can’t really blame them for not spotting a few relatively tiny moody philatelic tokens arriving here – perhaps the Chinese are simply posting them over here to Britain?

    Afterall, a postage stamp is no bigger than a… postage stamp.

    I believe it was ace espionage author Ian Le Carré who had a secret service character of his remark something along the lines of “Never underestimate the utility in our tradecraft of the simple postal packet

    If the perforations don’t fit, you have to acquit – there’s one for true crime fans of a philatelic bent

    You may think the Telegraph is more than a little behind the times with their latest revelation of a Downing Street sex scandal: Wilson, his lover and a 50-year secret – one thing is for sure, dear readers – this will not affect the pound in your pocket – there’s one for the teenagers

    Titter ye not

    Old news you say. Meanwhile, talking of old news, the Times this morning publishes frontpage in full colour – where newspapers like to pin-up some totty: …Helen [of Troy] in a 2,000-year-old fresco that was discovered during the filming of a ducmentary about Pompeii

    The Daily Express goes with a near contemporary of Helen of Troy: Stoic Camilla winning hearts of British public

    The Mirror proffers us a pick of: Little Mix Perrie on life and love – just like comic book Superman – she’s wearing her tights under her undies.

    The Gruan, in edgy mood and keen to get down with the kids, goes with: Folk legend Linda Thompson ‘They said I was worse than the Sex Pistols

    The Financial Times is turned on by the notion of a bit of financial malfeasance and succumbs to some yellow jail fever: Vietnam fraud… Troung My Lan… awaits a court hearing at which she was sentenced to death in Ho Chi Min City – the FT loves the scent of fraud in the morning – it smells of headlines – she con you plenty dollar… rip you off long-time: embezelling more than $12bn… eroded the public’s trust in the leadership of the ruling Communist party – and if that doesn’t put you off communism – perhaps it’s just because they weren’t doing it right? Other than Lan, a further 85 other people were charged in the case, including central bank officials – I wonder if any fake British postage stamps turned up in evidence?

    The FT is of course a strong advocate of females in western boadrooms

    Lack of female executives in UK boardrooms ‘appalling’, survey finds (FT)

    Women have raced into the boardroom, but now comes the hard part (FT)

    Former Post Office chief steps down from other board roles… Paula Vennells leaves Morrisons… (FT) – the press ought at least to leave the poor luv in peace to do her shopping

    We return to the mildly conservative Daily Telegraph where on a daily basis they impotently watch the world around us go mental: RSPCA puts snail cruelty in the spotlight; Navy to hire recruits who cannot swim amid staffing shortage

    Even our favourite in-house cartoonist, Matt in the Telegraph, fails to raise so much as a chortle this morning – he does his best with a householder complain to his missus: “After I was sold these fake stamps I swear I heard our Chinese made fridge laughing at me”

    But that joke isn’t funny anymore
    It’s too close to home
    And it’s too near the bone

    [Student favourites The Smiths, 1985]

    ‘Human rights abuses, surveillance and interference are very real threats that we have to be alert to and to deal with‘ – no that’s not the incoming Labour government manifesto… that’s Keir Starmer in the poundshop Guardian that is the ‘i’ newspaper referring to China

    I’m guessing Labour have done some focus group research and found people think they’re weak on defence

    Exclusive: Labour leader intends to boost military spending to 2.5% of GDP (‘i’) – not exactly an exclusive though, is it?

    Starmer UK nuclear deterrant is safe in my hands… Exclusive (Daily Mail)

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    • Fedup2 says:

      The postage stamp thing just tells us that once something is too expensive people will pay for cheaper copies . Personally i think royal mail deserve all they get .
      Sell it to amazon – together with the post office …

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      • tomo says:

        Given that The Post Office has cozy’d up to WH Smith who’ve turned from high street amenity newsagents to motorway services and airport banditry …

        f’em – they’re headed down the route of ransoming rather than retailing.

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      • digg says:

        I wonder if any of these bogus stamps were shifted by post office staff as being pukka? I can imagine the opportunity of some neat deals being pulled by blokes with sacks of dodgy stamps cutting some 50/50 deals with post office staff as being quite possible.

        After all it happened frequently with dodgy fags etc

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  17. MarkyMark says:

    The UK has provided a total of £3.8 billion in official development assistance (ODA) to Syria from 2011 to 2022. ODA is aid intended to promote the economic development and welfare of developing countries. Since 2011, Syria has been one of the largest recipients of UK bilateral ODA in Asia.1 Sept 2023

    Syria and the UK
    https://www.gov.uk/world/syria/news

    . . . . .

    The fight against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq is no longer part of the public consciousness. Nowadays it is not well known that UK airstrikes against Islamic State took place as recently as last month, or that there are still UK forces on the ground in Iraq.

    18 July 2023

    https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/uk-has-reached-watershed-moment-syria

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  18. Fedup2 says:

    I like that story about a third of doctors either leaving the UK or planning too. Gives a clue about the real motivation of the medical mafia .. £

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  19. MarkyMark says:

    Starmer UK nuclear deterrant is safe in my hands… Exclusive (Daily Mail)

    HA HA HA HA!

    Man cannot say if a man has a penis or not!

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  20. MarkyMark says:

    Pay BBC TV Tax – Pay Caroline Lucas for her voice!

    “1. Employment and earnings
    Payments from Guardian News and Media Ltd, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU, for articles:
    12 May 2023, received £134.22 for an article. Hours: 2 hrs. (Registered 21 September 2023)
    27 July 2023, received £100 for an article. Hours: 2 hrs. (Registered 21 September 2023)
    Payment of £100 expected for an article written on 21 September 2023. Hours: 2 hrs. (Registered 21 September 2023)
    Payment of £321.25 expected for an article written on 27

    September 2023. Hours: 2 hrs. (Registered 29 September 2023)
    Payments from the BBC, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London W1A 1AA:

    28 March 2023, received £200 for appearing as a guest and panellist on Any Questions. Hours: approx. 12 hrs including preparation. (Registered 03 May 2023)

    24 October 2023, received £200 for appearing as a guest and panellist on Any Questions. Hours: approx 10 hrs. (Registered 24 November 2023)”

    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=24910

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  21. MarkyMark says:

    Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says she still finds it difficult to keep up with the “hectic” pace of life two years after being released from jail.

    A British-Iranian national, she told BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour she still struggled to think about the future after so long in prison in Iran.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68789656

    …………………………..

    Holding a British passport can be reason enough for the Iranian authorities to question you. If you are detained in Iran, you could face months or years in prison.
    https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/iran

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  22. Nibor says:

    BBC Radio 4 Today programme getting very worried about agricultural land being flooded and unable to produce crops .
    Our food supply is threatened .

    Yes BBC but flooding is temporary. An even greater problem is the land lost permanently due to new housing because of overpopulation: due to mass immigration .

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  23. StewGreen says:

    “Greater Manchester Police has reopened a probe into claims that Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner may have broken electoral law over information she gave about her living situation a decade ago.”
    .. https://talk.tv/top-stories/57874/angela-rayner-labour-greater-manchester-police

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  24. Terminal Moraine says:

    Khan’s going to introduce a tax on crossroads? Or maybe only for the top and left bits, so at least they enjoy cleaner air…

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  25. Lunchtime Loather says:

    Another smiler, second picture: “Mick Antoniw confirmed the decision but was “not happy” with it”. And there he is, with an ear to ear grin. I wonder what he looks like when he is really not happy.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-68788510

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    • MarkyMark says:

      King Charles exempt from Wales’ farming-law prosecution
      Published
      22 hours ago
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-68788510

      . . . . .

      To Hell With the Archbishop of Canterbury {slate.com feb2008}

      In the midst of this dismal verbiage and euphemism, the plain statement—”There’s one law for everybody and that’s all there is to be said”—still stands out like a diamond in a dunghill. It stands out precisely because it is said simply, and because its essential grandeur is intelligible to everybody. Its principles ought to be just as intelligible and accessible to those who don’t yet speak English, in just the same way as the great Lord Mansfield once ruled that, wherever someone might have been born, and whatever he had been through, he could not be subject to slavery once he had set foot on English soil.

      http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2008/02/to_hell_with_the_archbishop_of_canterbury.html

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    • Nibor says:

      The monarch cannot prosecute himself, as in Rex v Rex .

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  26. Terminal Moraine says:

    BBC France: “There are renewed concerns over levels of violence in French schools after two young teenagers were the victims of attacks, one of them fatal.”

    See if you can spot the common thread in ‘school’ violence, as the BBC can’t bring themselves to join the dots.

    In Montpellier, a 14yr old muslim girl is in a coma after a beating by other muslims at school — she’d been bullied and called an ‘unbeliever’ for over two years for wearing non-Islamic clothing. Only the BBC (and from what I can see no one else) reports that since then however, “Samara’s mother read out a statement accusing the far-right of trying to use the attack to their own advantage. My daughter is a practising pious Muslim […] Please do not use us to sully the name of our religion”.

    Sounds like the local Imam has decided to get involved. Either that or the BBC are doing a bit of creative editing. It’s the same result either way.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68744255

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “A Muslim shopkeeper was brutally murdered in Glasgow Thursday, hours after wishing his Christian customers a happy Easter on Facebook, in what police are treating as a religiously motivated crime. Police arrested a 32-year-old Muslim suspect in connection with the killing.26 Mar 2016”

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  27. StewGreen says:

    Lefties “Oh the Mail has apologised for saying Abdul Ezedi was supported by the Church of England”

    They omit the context that the victim IS connected to the Church of England
    And the perp Abdul Ezedi attended the BAPTIST church in Jarrow
    Minister Roy Merrin (now retired 84) supported Abdul Ezedi’s asylum application.
    Photos show him doing the baptism

    2019 news “Rev Roy Merrin, who was the voluntary full-time minister of Jarrow Baptist Church from 1993 to 2016 will receive Maundy money from the Queen today”

    Mail did an article about the Baptist church https://twitter.com/UKAndNIasOne/status/177291069614714107

    Judge William O’Hanlon ruled there was “compelling evidence” Abdul Ezedi’s conversion being genuine, therefore granted him asylum.

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  28. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/leng_cath/status/1778728704035754080?s=61
    Well this is smashing.
    I’m torn between wanting Charlie to come out and say something at work, and enjoying the excoriating anonymous commentary.
    ‘How did the BBC get the trans debate so wrong? | The Spectator’

    Saying stuff at work at W1A can go one of two ways.

    The Bellamy Way or The JezBo Way.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Man arrested after damage done to Eric Gill statue at BBC headquarters
      Published
      20 May 2023

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65655332

      Gill died in 1940, but in 1989 a biography was published detailing diary entries in which he described sex abuse committed against his two eldest daughters, an incestuous relationship with his sister, and sex acts carried out on his dog.

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  29. Guest Who says:

    TDS a winner still.

    https://x.com/thenewsagents/status/1778702092510650694?s=61
    “Show them Donald Trump. Every time the American public is reminded of who he is and how he behaves – his numbers drop.”
    Congressman @RepBrendanBoyle
    says President Biden 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 partake in TV election debates.

    BS and 1 comment per hour.

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    • JohnC says:

      I will be amazed if they allow a one-on-one, unscripted debate between Biden and Trump.

      And when they don’t, you can be sure the BBC will not question it.

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      • Rob in Cheshire says:

        John:

        It can’t happen. Brandon is simply not up to it. They can jack him up on meds, but they soon wear off. They will have to come up with a BS reason to avoid a debate, such as he won’t debate with an “insurrectionist”. The bottom line is that when something can’t happen, it won’t.

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  30. JohnC says:

    Africa’s week in pictures: 5-11 April 2024
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68789320

    Goodness me, a super-strength agenda article form the BBC.

    It has everything. The word ‘Muslim’ in there 6 times (but the word stab does not appear once), 10 year old Mogadisgu boys having a great time playing with toy AK47’s ready for when they get real ones next year and lots of black people just being wonderful – including the womens football team.

    Of course they get a ‘free Palestine’ picture in there. But the one which really made me laugh was the ‘equestrian show-jumping competition’ which has fences about 8 inches high. Must have been for ‘special needs’ but the BBC thought that was degrading to blacks so didn’t tell us – and instead they look like retarded children.

    It all looks so wonderful – how come the ones who come here tend to be nasty, cold-blooded murdering drug dealers ?

    It does make you wonder why all of those here don’t want to go back..

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    • Guest Who says:

      There is a message that might be taken here.

      https://x.com/zamisaeric/status/1777946218372517943?s=61
      They’re right. Because once you shiw Europeans some hospitality, they see it as a weakness and want to steal everything.

      It’s part of an interesting thread.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Two members of Senegal’s Baye Fall community, a Muslim group whose followers wear colourful clothing, greet each other on Friday in Diourbel as they gather to cook a meal to break their Ramadan fast.”

      A supporter of Ivory Coast’s ex-President Laurant Gbagbo attends at event in Agboville, where the veteran politician said he still had presidential ambitions – despite being currently ineligible to stand.

      The next day in Egypt’s capital, Cairo, a girl learns how to make kahk biscuits being prepared ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr…

      It is one of the biggest celebrations in the Islamic calendar. As the sun rises near Egypt’s pyramids in Giza on Wednesday, people take selfies and wait to attend Eid prayers…

      For Eid prayers in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, people gather at a cricket field at the Ali Muslim Club Ground…

      At a rugby field in the South African city of Cape Town, Muslim volunteers prepare to feed more than 90,000 people for Eid…

      Eid al-Fitr is celebrated at the end of Ramadan, and means “festival of the breaking of the fast”. Here a woman at Eid prayers in Nigeria’s city of Lagos has decorated her hands with henna…

      During the Eid celebrations, people often dress up in new clothes, like these girls in the Senegalese town of Cap Skirring…

      This woman in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, wears white like others in her district who gather for Eid prayers on the beach…

      During the festivities in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, boys play with toy guns given to them for the occassion.

      It is a day for Muslims to relax and recover, here men play cards on the side of the road in Chad’s capital, N’Djamena…

      In Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, people flock to an amusement park – here flying high on eagles, a bird of prey on the country’s coat of arms…

      . . . . .
      Ghana’s vice-president, who is also the presidential candidate of the ruling party, has opposed LGBTQ+ practices, saying they go against his religious faith and the country’s cultural norms.

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    • MarkyMark says:

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      A more mundane outfit is warn by this equestrian for a show-jumping competition in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, on Saturday.

      _133128482_08_somali_reuters_976.jpg.webp

      During the festivities in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, boys play with toy guns given to them for the occassion.

      festivities … toy guns given to them for the occassion.

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  31. Fedup2 says:

    Seems that the bank of england forecasting model is being criticised . The coin used to flip whether inflation is up or down needs replacing with a bigger better coin. And it should be the best of 5 flips not 3 as currently used -also consideration should be given to using tea leaves again …

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  32. Fedup2 says:

    Ukraine has reduced the conscription age to 5 . Children will attend boot camp after nursery .

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Under The Gun: Civilian Women In Ukraine Train For War
      July 12, 2023 10:41 GMT
      By AP
      With Russia’s war on Ukraine now in its 17th month, a survival skills course — including how to shoot weapons — opened for civilians in Kyiv. Of the 2,000 people who signed up, nearly 70 percent are women who are determined to protect not only themselves but their children.

      nearly 70 percent are women who are determined to protect not only themselves but their children.

      nearly 70 percent are women who are determined to protect not only themselves but their children.

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  33. Zephir says:

    @F2

    Surely “velcro bootee camp” ?

    And, judging by the majority of 5 year olds in Stevenage town centre, dummys and buggys also mandatory.

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  34. MarkyMark says:

    United Kingdom/Government debt
    85.4% of GDP (2019)

    . . . . .

    Together with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 73), it authorized the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt to compensate slave owners in the British colonies in the amount of approximately £20 million for the freeing of slaves. Based on a government census of 1 August 1834, more than 40,000 awards to slave owners were issued. Since some of the payments were converted into 3.5% government annuities, they lasted until 2015. Most were sold and the money sent abroad for investment.

    .. .. .. .

    Saudi 0%
    China 0%

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  35. MarkyMark says:

    NHS spring Covid booster jab booking service to open
    Published
    13 hours ago
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-68789711

    . . . . .

    https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-does/questions-mayor/find-an-answer/coronavirus-advertising-spend

    The total spend to date on marketing campaigns related to coronavirus is £87,385.70. £47,108.92 of this has been spent for far on advertising, and £40,276.78 has been spent on all other campaign costs, including production of content.

    £70,717.47 of this was spent on my #LondonTogether campaign, which was launched in March in response to this crisis to support Londoners through the pandemic.

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  36. Zephir says:

    “Angela Rayner skewered over call for Boris Johnson to quit after latest police probe.
    The Labour firebrand demanded the then-PM resign when he was investigated by police over partygate.

    In January 2022 she took to social media platform X to call for Mr Johnson to quit as PM over a Met Police investigation into partygate.

    She said: “Boris Johnson’s Downing Street is under police investigation, how on earth can he think he can stay on as Prime Minister?”

    Opposition politicians highlighted Ms Rayner’s previous tweet after it emerged today that she was under investigation.”

    Former Cabinet minister Simon Clarke MP added: “Hypocrisy is the worst of political sins.”

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1887708/angela-rayner-police-investigation-boris-johnson

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  37. Guest Who says:

    There’s news, and then…

    https://x.com/bbcnews/status/1778786068260671939?s=61
    Gender care review ‘disappointing’, says trans man

    Envy of the world.

       8 likes

  38. tomo says:

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  39. MarkyMark says:

    “A Portuguese man has become the first European citizen jailed under the China-imposed National Security Law in Hong Kong, a law widely criticised by rights groups.

    Joseph John, also known as Wong Kin-chung, holds a Portuguese passport and Hong Kong residency and was previously based in the UK.

    He was arrested for posting pro-independence and anti-China content on social media, after returning to Hong Kong to visit family in 2022”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmj68rv1y4po

    . . . . . .

    3 teachers hide in Batley due to – oh wait – not china – RIshi laws!

    . . . .

    It’s been reported that Hong Kongers with dual nationality have not been able to receive foreign consular assistance as the city’s officials have been enforcing Chinese nationality rules. Beijing does not allow dual citizenship.

    Rights groups and critics of the law say it crushed the political opposition and silenced any dissent in the city.

    . . . . .

    Chancellor announces £1 million towards memorial for Muslim soldiers
    6th March

    . . . .

    On 7 June 2020, the statue was toppled, defaced, and pushed into Bristol Harbour during the George Floyd protests related to the Black Lives Matter movement.

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  40. Fedup2 says:

    So if Iran doesn’t like the idea of attacking Israel Directly – what about an ally ? Can’t be the US . So who is next? What about a small country with next to no military and which is full of Iranian friends … ? One with a weak PM and a weak outgoing government …?
    Can you think of such a failing state ?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “The main Iranian exports are Ethylene Polymers, Crude Petroleum, nuts and Acyclic Alcohols. Iran mostly exports to China, Turkey, Pakistan, UAE, and Germany. The Iranian economy has been impacted by political sanctions, with import and export restrictions imposed by numerous countries.”

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  41. tomo says:

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  42. Zephir says:

    The plot thickens for thick Ange, (there’s a tongue twister for the weekend)

    “Pressure grows on Angela Rayner to quit as Labour deputy leader over housing row police probe – as Keir Starmer refuses three times to say if she should step down if found to have broken election laws”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13301439/Pressure-grows-Angela-Rayner-quit-housing-row-police-probe-Keir-Starmer.html

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    • MarkyMark says:

      MP’s to take maths tests …. and join the front line war in Yemen to end Islamophobia!

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    • Scroblene says:

      Starmer says the same thing about four times! Clearly not sure of what his next move is!

      Wonder why he didn’t say it just once when Cardscratcher got called out in the first place?

      Plod must be having kittens now, but that’s their fault, they’ve got enough bureaucracy in their HQs to try and forget everything!

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Scroblene – sadly it just doesn’t count . The bbc will drop it – there will be no ‘independent inquiry ‘ plod will drop it . It’s the democrats in the US imported to Britain – maybe that will be a characteristic of the coming regime …

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        • Scroblene says:

          Hopefully Fed, there are enough normal rags and readers prepared to keep it all on the front pages!

          Of course, we can forget the beeb/graun bunch, but now Guido and one or two others are still rattling the cage, we might just get a result!

          I need to live in hope at my time of life…

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  43. digg says:

    Just another vibrant day in Mayor Khant’s City with some local diverse figures doing what they do best like the craven cowards they are…

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64287970

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Firearm offences where weapon was fired in London down from pre-pandemic levels”

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64287970

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    • digg says:

      I only just clocked that the BBC sneaked a graph onto the bottom of this piece showing that firearm offences were falling in London (apparently depending on the type of firearm used!)….

      It was not accompanied by any explanation, just tagged on the bottom of the above article in an obvious and crude attempt to try to water down any criticism of the appalling state that London is becoming

      Not much on the people who ended up with bullet holes though.

      So very, very BBC!

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  44. MarkyMark says:

    Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs

    overarching responsibility for the departmental portfolio and oversight of the ministerial team
    Cabinet
    foreign policy and National Security Council (security – at uk borders?)
    strategy (this is vague)
    intelligence policy (ha ha haha)
    honours (give friends medals)

    https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/secretary-of-state-for-foreign-commonwealth-and-development-affairs

    . . . . . .

    Greensill: What is the David Cameron lobbying row about?
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56578838

    However, BBC’s Panorama has obtained a letter from Greensill Capital to the former PM which suggests that he made £3.29m after selling a tranche of Greensill shares in 2019.

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  45. Fedup2 says:

    And the vermin of Liverpool distinguish themselves at the Aintree gg festival – Saturday will see the usual parade of Hamas / Palestinian Flags and protesters attacking races …. Or will it be greens … ? Or queers ?

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    • Scroblene says:

      I’ve put all my Saturday pocket money on Crayonic Cardscratcher refusing at the first jump!

      (Pity she didn’t in the first place, but that was many years ago, and sixteen wasn’t an age to worry about..)!

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  46. tomo says:

    Meanwhile … BBC seem to be ignoring…

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    • MarkyMark says:

      HA HA HA! You believe anything will change? HA HA HA HAH AHAH!

      Neil Kinnock on Brexit: “Democratic Deficit” in the EU is no longer any of your business!

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  47. dafydd says:

    BBC going big Angela Rayner offering to resign if found guilty.

    Do you really believe she would make such a statement without knowing she is safe…I bet she’s already been dropped the wink by the leftie police friends and the MSM she will be found not guilty, just like Starmer was in Durham

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    • Flotsam says:

      Smarmer is coming out with contradictory statements on the Rayner situation. He has previously said that he hasn’t looked at any documents relating to Rayner’s house sale and yet he now says he’s “totally confident” the Police will clear Rayner. Sounds very much like a whitewash has been arranged.

      A few days ago GBNews seems to have arranged a Rayner fan club panel who sang her praises. I have say I couldn’t disagree more, I think she’s a dreadful specimen.

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  48. Guest Who says:

    Wendy is in da house.

    https://x.com/mwendling/status/1778839790411993574?s=61
    Tucker Carlson continues to spread bad information and propaganda; here he has invited Naomi Wolf to repeat her often-discredited theories about Covid vaccines. As for the X system that is supposed to glean truth; there are no Community Notes on this post

    Odd situation where he of all media low lives need checking.

    Given how many pay attention to him vs. those he presumes to check, maybe the community note situation is something he might ponder further?

    Why the national broadcaster of the U.K. sent a blatant partial propagandist to the US is beyond credulity.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Here he is also reeling in the audience.

      https://x.com/mwendling/status/1778842073107517710?s=61
      Many people who believe that vaccines are harmful seem to know lots of people who were allegedly injured by vaccines.
      Meanwhile many people who take more scientific views don’t seem to encounter so many vaccine-injured people.

      Sticking a ponder emoji on that does not constitute objective reporting.

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      • atlas_shrugged says:

        Could it be that the covidiots are the ‘me me me’ types and they don’t have many friends – especially since they have been self isolating with double masks on for the last four years.

        The jaba-jaba maniacs need to get out a bit more, maybe watch a few football matches.

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  49. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/bbcworld/status/1778835881643614247?s=61
    UK doctor’s video diary shows reality inside Gaza hospital

    So, unedited?

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  50. Guest Who says:

    Seems fears are grounded.

    https://x.com/bbcbreaking/status/1778833275580027175?s=61
    Labour’s Angela Rayner says she will “do the right thing and step down” if she has committed a criminal offence over council house claims

    https://x.com/bbcnews/status/1778832548681986385?s=61
    Rayner ‘will do right thing’ in council house row

    Semantics and mixed messages being run.

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    • Guest Who says:

      To me that reads ‘the police will find I mislead everyone but not in a criminal way and the media will run with the latter and kill it’.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Here’s Crick, running the same thing all day.

        https://x.com/michaellcrick/status/1778841932967428178?s=61
        I’m not sure this police investigation into whether Angela Rayner broke electoral law will get very far. When we found on C4 News in Stoke by-election that Ukip leader was registered at address he’d told me he’d never yet visited, Staffs police investigated & dropped the case.

        What happened to multiple houses for financial gain?

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        • harry142857 says:

          Is this crime a civil matter, rather than a ‘criminal’ matter then. F&£king scum, either way. Excuse the anglo saxon.
          Hope she has to get a proper job, but with zero qualifications, it will be difficult.

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        • atlas_shrugged says:

          Every election multiple politicians break the electoral law and there is a ‘special’ procedure for them and they go up before a ‘special’ judge who normally lets them off with every excuse under the sun.

          It is only little old ladies (who oppose abortion) and other campaigners who get done by the electoral law. So much for ‘without fear or favour’.

          Offences under the Representation of the Peoples Act are normally criminal.

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        • Flotsam says:

          The Electoral Register is a joke anyway. There’s loads of incorrect entries, improper entries and unregistered people.

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        • Guest Who says:

          It is well coordinated. #tellitoftenenough

          https://x.com/imogenlemon02/status/1778846854861447184?s=61
          This isn’t about tax, it’s about where she was registered to vote.

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