430 Responses to Midweek 1st May 2024

  1. Zephir says:

    Compare and constrasts, maybe drums need a licence to purchase

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  2. Zephir says:

    Cann’t wait for Scotland’s new visitors to integrate as attached below.

    It was the second tune that I blame on my tinnitus.

    This one challenged Knebworth for sheer volume when I once saw it perfomed saw live in a small village in Scotland in a narrow street.

    Which was why I gave up buying my dad bagpipe records for his birthday when he got a new stereo with bigger speakers.

    1.45 mins in the below, I would recommend you turn your speakers down.

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    • Scroblene says:

      I just cannot understand how they can keep their feet so still!

      Fabulous performances!

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  3. MarkyMark says:

    More Humous?

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  4. MarkyMark says:

    BBC will cut to end … Least we forget how it all works … videos, words, pictures … you don’t get to choose the arrangement …

    Chaos as police stop Hungary migrant train – Gavin Hewitt – BBC -Sep 2015 @53s
    “… the a really distressing incident happened. A women who was carrying a small baby began crying for help (photo of lady carrying baby). One of her companions tried to help her (photo of man with women on track, riot police reaching towards them) Somehow there became a push and a shove with the police. She ended up on the railway lines (by the male refugee dragging her and the baby to the floor, but this is not said) with the riot police trying to pull her back, and this of course inflamed all the other people…”
    -Gavin Hewitt – Sep 2015

    Watch the video and the male refugee (companion trying to help?) drags the women and baby to the floor, by force.

    Even the Mirror (03Sept2015) says “… this refugee couple cradle their tiny baby, after throwing themselves (NO! Male refugee drags women and baby onto train tracks) on train tracks as police try to take them to migrant camps in Hungary”

    Gets better. Two days (05Sept2015) later the Mirror then report it as
    “Refugee who dragged pregnant wife and baby son onto train track did it because ‘death would be better’”

    1. BBC Version uses words and pictures to hide the video version
    2. The Mirror shows the video but uses words to tell a different version

    Can I suggest a little story – “Male refugee forces pregnant women refugee holding child down onto a train track, police drag him away for her safety? Riot police then lift women with child off track with tender arms.”

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  5. MarkyMark says:

    Nottinghamshire’s Conservative PCC Caroline Henry broke a 30mph (48km/h) limit in four locations in the county between March and June 2021. Henry admitted the offences at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court in May. The 52-year-old declined to answer questions on whether she would resign.18 Jul 2022

    On her official PCC website, Henry listed ensuring an “effective and efficient” police response to speeding as one of her priorities.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-62207530

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  6. Fedup2 says:

    I normally post pretty miserable comments – so here – for a change – is a bit of light relief courtesy of the DT – about a coloured BBC ‘presenter ‘…

    STARTS Calling wild African animals by their English names is “jarring”, a Springwatch presenter has said.

    Gillian Burke said she prefers to refer to animals by their traditional Swahili names rather than those commonly used in the BBC’s acclaimed nature programmes.

    But the biologist acknowledged naming animals can be a “useful tool for storytelling”, as is often done by Springwatch with Freya the Golden Eagle among others.

    Writing in BBC Wildlife magazine, Burke said: “The English names for east Africa’s iconic wildlife – so heavily featured in natural history films and in this magazine – jar, at least to my ear.

    “In my own writing, I prefer re-introducing these familiar animals by their Swahili names: ndovu (elephant), twiga (giraffe), fisi (hyena) and my personal favourite, because I used to love how my dad said it, kongoni (hartebeest).”

    Burke said Swahili was itself a combination of other languages and she would have to “dig deeper” to find the “true indigenous animal names”.

    Swahili is regarded as Africa’s most internationally recognised language.

    The presenter grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, and moved to Austria at age 10. She studied biology at Bristol University, afterwards becoming a natural history researcher and later a producer.

    Burke first appeared on Springwatch in 2017 and became a regular presenter alongside Chris Packham, Michaela Strachan, and Megan McCubbin.

    Inequality in naming
    She added: “Perhaps it is this inequality in who gets to do the naming, and the sense that we are unwittingly wielding some form of power by naming wild animals.”

    The presenter did acknowledge that “naming animals is a useful tool for storytelling”.

    She added: “It can help audiences connect with our animal characters and allows us to share experiences on social media.

    “But naming is not just useful for us media luvvies, of course.

    “Pet owners will know that naming is one of the first rituals that marks our bond with our companion animals.

    “In science, the binomial system of Latin names serves as an anchor point.

    “No matter where scientists are in the world, they know they are talking about the same species.

    “All this is well and good, but … what we call living things matters.”ENDS

    🎼Nellie the nvdou said goodbye to the circus 🎼😎( sorry if I misspelt elephant / hefelump )

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    • Fedup2 says:

      If I stay in londonistan much longer I reckon I’ll be speaking polish – swahelli …Farsi … Turkish …

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    • Zelazek says:

      Gillian Burke forgets, or perhaps never knew, that animals like the elephant and the lion were familiar to the Greeks and Romans. Lions only became extinct in Europe less than 2000 years ago. Our English names for these animals derive from the Latin/Greek/Phoenician languages – and those people were naming animals native to their worlds, not exotic creatures from unknown lands in faraway East Africa.

      It was nothing to do with ‘who gets to do the naming’ and ‘wielding power’. That’s just woke gibberish.

      Of course there are some animals native to sub-Saharan African that were not known to Europeans until much later and we now call them by English names. That Gillian Burke prefers the Swahili names is perfectly fine and understandable. She is a black African. But we are white Europeans and we prefer our names, the English names. It doesn’t seem to occur to her that Swahili might jar on our ears as much as English does on hers.

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      • Scroblene says:

        Excellent point, Zel!

        Also, I think I’d always prefer Pamela Stephenson, impersonating Jan Leeming pronouncing African politicians’ names!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Hate crime reported! Mocking other languages!

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  7. StewGreen says:

    GBnews now showing masked Stand Up To Racism mob behaving mild sluggishly blocking cameraman, slashing bus tyres
    whilst the many cops there act rather mildly
    .. Protesters tried constantly to block the camera with their hands
    then one smacked the cameraman on the back of the head.. cops made a half assed attempt to catch him
    Then protesters surged to protect the offenders .. and cops gave up.

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  8. StewGreen says:

    Went to vote .. after 13 hours of voting
    the headcount was 180 voters from 2 villagers
    I put that at maybe 5%
    Some others may have voted by post
    #UKjokeDemocracy

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    • G.W.F. says:

      I intended to vote and read the handful of election leaflets. They consisted of community this and community that and what can be done for the community, so I cut my lawn in defiance of my council’s advice not to mow in May.

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    • Lunchtime Loather says:

      Mrs Loather and I went to vote for a PCC at 9:30pm. We were the 17th and 18th people they had seen that day, out of 200+. Nobody cares.

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  9. StewGreen says:

    GBnews topic now ..lefty comic not condemned, despite making a clear death threat

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    • StewGreen says:

      Campaign Against Antisemitism
      tweet

      His caveated apology was a feeble attempt to mask his bigotry.

      Mr. Baptiste, known for Comedy Central UK and BBC appearances, must face consequences.

      https://twitter.com/antisemitism/status/1786072526960869536

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      • atlas_shrugged says:

        When can we expect the wet police to pay this man a 5am visit, arrest and handcuff him in front of his family, and take him to the station to check his thinking.

        Ah, just saw his photo. Scrub that, it is all about context. Silly me.

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        • StewGreen says:

          The SkyNews tweet about Baptiste now has a Community note
          .. They have locked replies to limit mockery

          Readers added context they thought people might want to know

          Sky News deliberately omits from its reporting that the social media post from Dane Baptiste was a clear and unambiguous death threat made to a Jewish woman.
          All other news agencies have been explicit in their reporting that Baptiste issued a racist death threat.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      BBC produce “I am not a monster or woman hater” podcast.

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  10. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    “John Swinney…….White”

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  11. G.W.F. says:

    Election comment. What is a Mairel race?

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  12. Guest Who says:

    Sopes, Mason, Simpo… all of Labour… what has Trump got to do with anything?

    https://x.com/nickdixoncomic/status/1786112272047198459?s=6
    ‘It’ here means ‘telling the truth’.

    Well, bar pointing out stuff that is obvious outside the bubble.

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  13. Jeff says:

    Another day, another humiliating migrant fiasco. If it’s not the House of Lords or the devious civil servants putting a spoke in the works, then it’s the usual left-wing rent-a-mob types, turning up in organised droves and causing chaos. God, how I despise these people…

    And what do plod do when confronted by these hordes? Well, not a lot actually. It beggars belief.

    If it was a group of patriots celebrating St George’s Day and waving the national flag, then the coppers would have been tooled up and only too ready to baton charge them and maybe even reach for the pepper spray, but not this time.

    No, I’m afraid that this was yet another humiliating fiasco as the mob let down the tyres of the coach that was supposed to remove the migrants and not a single illegal was taken away. God. it’s pitiful.

    You know, these days I often look at my once proud and beautiful country and feel overwhelmingly depressed.

    And later tonight we’ll get the local election results.

    Oh joy…

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    • JohnC says:

      Millions during during 2 world wars to save us from this type of control and fascism.

      Maybe World War 3 will be about uprisings within countries and not Russia after all. The ones who hate us are definitely up for it. They already have the numbers to change government policy through threat of violence. What will they do when they have the numbers to make bigger demands such as Muslim control of somewhere like Wales ?. That’s when the terrorism starts as they try to make whiteys get out. Not for a few years yet – but that’s the lesson history teaches us.

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  14. atlas_shrugged says:

    I have just listened to this so you didn’t have to. It is unbearable, so only listen if you have a strong stomach. Why is it unbearable? Because it is all true:

    Paul Weston – Full Blown Tyranny

    Hard Times for Old England.

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    • Yasser Dasmibehbi says:

      Thanks for posting that Atlas. Paul Weston has never got the recognition he deserves. He talks intelligently and sums things up very well. His one fault is that he can come across as very pessimistic and listening to him can make one feel there is no hope so why bother doing anything. You might as well die.
      He was leading a political party for a while, I forget its name but it got nowhere. I would like to see him to become more involved in politics again. He just needs to be a bit more encouraging to his supporters and acknowledge the progress the fightback is making. Somewhere between the Eeyoreishness of Peter Hitchens and the over-optimism of Dr Steve Turley there is a balance

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    • Loobyloo says:

      Very eloquent, but solutions?

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  15. JohnC says:

    Amit Shah: The quiet, feared strategist behind Modi’s rise
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-68653573

    I’ve noticed for a while that the BBC really hate the BJP and I haven’t read a good word about them on the news page.

    Of course we all know why. Heres’s the reason they are aiming this hit-piece at Amit:

    ‘Critics say he is the driving force behind some of India’s most controversial legislation, including scrapping Kashmir’s partial autonomy- which had been a BJP manifesto pledge for decades – and a new citizenship law that has been described as deeply discriminatory towards Muslims.’

    Described by who BBC ?. The far-left like yourselves and the Muslims ?.

    BBC news is now utterly worthless to me beyond giving me some headlines I can then check elsewhere to get the full truth. Their lies by omission these days are off the scale – but I’ve realised they get away with it because out whole public service is now infested with the same type of Left activists. The police and the civil service are as politically biased as the BBC now. Those who disagree dare not criticise as it will be the end of their careers.

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  16. JohnC says:

    Iran charges journalists after BBC report on teen protester’s death
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnd6k8ggzn2o

    The very next day after complaining how a record number of journalists are working in exile after being deported from the country they are reporting on, the BBC show us this.

    It’s because of this article:
    Secret document says Iran security forces molested and killed teen protester
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68840881

    Another Panorama style judge-and-jury BBC report which is based on a single document they somehow were given. They defend their use of this document with the line:

    ‘There are numerous fake Iranian official documents in circulation, so the BBC spent months checking every detail with multiple sources.’

    ‘EVERY detail with MULTIPLE sources’ BBC ?. What a very ‘Panorama’ statement that is. And which is 100% misleading bullshit. What are these ‘multiple sources’ ?. Other reports derived from the same ‘leaked’ document ?.. Are we supposed to take that as your evidence the report is true ?.

    This is classic BBC. A complete jumble of inferences and conjecture mixed freely with some facts to try and make the reader assume they are ALL facts.

    And isn’t it just amazing how the BBC activists can be so outraged by one death when it fits their agenda but sweep others much closer to home straight under the carpet when it doesn’t.

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  17. Yasser Dasmibehbi says:

    Blackpool South has fallen to the Labour Party rather bigly.
    The good news is That Reform received 17% just a hundred or so votes short of beating the Tories for second place.

    Labour and Reform will be happy. Tories and Lim Dems rather unhappy.
    As for the local elections I don’t read a lot into them.
    Locals Schmokyls as far as I’m concerned.

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    • taffman says:

      Last night? A lot of Tory voter’s did not vote yesterday .
      They went to UKIP instead.

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      Yipee my party won!

      Cranebridgeshire Police and Crime Enabler received 25% turnout. This means my DontVoteParty won yet again. This is a massive vote of no confidence.

      Bring back the Rotten Boroughs so my party can start to have representation again. No candidate in a Rotten Borough can be a member of a political party IMHO.

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  18. Guest Who says:

    Trouble in paradise.

    https://x.com/rhonddabryant/status/1786161776666566767?s=61
    BBC News programme is a complete mess.

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  19. friend of yogi bear says:

    LIES, DAMN LIES AND STATISTICS?

    The BBC are very excited this morning, their hero Sir Keir Strummer has announced the Labour victory in the Blackpool bi-election is “SEISMIC” .

    The swing is 26%.. sounds impressive and the BBC are truly impressed.

    2019 Labour votes for Gordon Marsden 12,557

    Yesterday 2024 By election.

    Labour vote for Chris Wood 10,825…..seismic eh!

    Carry on with the trusted, balanced, impartial reporting bbc.??

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    • Guest Who says:

      BBC Moaning Emole: Labour wins by-election and makes council gains

      Tories are toast, yes, but the BBC’s desperation to avoid any hint the political establishment is too is frankly risible.

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    • StewGreen says:

      @FOYB yes my first thought too
      Radio news came on and the Lincolnshire win omitted to give numbers for Labour (second in PCC race)
      So I went to the Blackpool page and wow they went with % and omitted actually numbers
      so I checked them on Wikipedia and saw the Labour tally had actually DECLINED
      As usual before commenting I searched this page on “Blackpool” and found your comment

      BBC article said this at the top
      “resounding Westminster by-election victory.”
      … Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer hailed his party’s “seismic win”
      Starmer “The swing towards the Labour Party in Blackpool South is truly historic and shows that we are firmly back in the service of working people.”

      —-
      This end line is big deception from the BBC
      BBC political editor Chris Mason said: “What is striking about it is not so much Labour’s victory but the scale of it – 26% is a whopping swing.”

      ,

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  20. Guest Who says:

    The disconnect between the politico media establishment and reality is stark.

    https://x.com/lgb_1962/status/1786275266228089042?s=12
    Readers added context.
    Labour’s Chris Webb received 2,000 less votes than the Labour candidate in 2019.
    The only thing historic is the low turnout. No Tory is switching to Labour they are staying home.

    Here’s the BBC going green.

    https://x.com/greenjennyjones/status/1786024758586261629?s=61

    Here’s Beff wetting herself.

    https://x.com/bethrigby/status/1786066503411921197?s=61

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  21. AsISeeIt says:

    Friday edition in which some pale stale Scots Nat is compulsorily installed… like a climate change activist’s fever dream of a heat pump

    And Skid marks Rishi a net zero

    The low circulation title the Guardian resumes a nice run of topping the BBC online press line-up this morning with a somewhat counter to the current news slate whinge about Net Zero policy: PM to allow oil and gas exploration at site intended for offshore wind… ‘This is a political and cynical stunt that will only backfire’ Chris Skidmore Former net zero tsar

    Scots missed a chance to vote

    Swinney on track to be first minister… expected to be… after his only rival ruled herself out… Kate Forbes… came close to winning last year… said she was persuaded to step aside… (Guardian); …main rival… said she would not enter the race… SNP will probably avoid a… bruising leadership contest (FT); SNP coronation (‘i’) – seems stitch ups are in and democracy is out

    The Times frontpage continues its impersonation of the habits and style of the left-leaning Guardian. Oliver Wright, Policy Editor, laments how we’re now unlikey to see our Merrie England’s home counties completely concreted over: Wrecking ball hits housing plans… Councils… slashed house building targets… It creates a serious obstacle to Sir Keir Starmer’s pledge to build 1.5 million homes within the first term of a Labour government

    No borders they chanted and sure enough there were no boarders on the illegal migrant bus

    Kieren Gair, Home Affairs Editor, sticks it to The Man: Dozens held after migrant barge protest… Police arested 45 people yesterday… shouted “no borders” before the coach left without any migrants on board (Times)

    The formerly serious, formerly grown up Times further complains how our sleeply old west country just ain’t down with the kids: Better the Devon you know: Plymouth prefers nights in to partying… labelled Britain’s most boring city – one assumes the west country has more than enough Eff the Tories partying – what with Glastonbury. Anyway, that old part of the world did spawn young farmers’ favourites The Wurzels

    To the tune of Paloma Blanca

    I am a cider drinker
    I drinks it all of the day
    I am a cider drinker
    It soothes all me troubles away

    To the tune of Brand New Key by Melanie

    … Cuz I got a brand new combine harvester
    An’ I’ll give you the key

    I see our Pretty Penny is going down with the captain, going down with the sinking ship

    Sword weilding tory wont run amok

    Tory leadership race spolier alert – old boiler says she ain’t no new boiler

    Penny Mordaunt said she will continue to support Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister… Mordaunt: I won’t be installed in No 10 like some new boiler (Telegraph) – well, promise not to force heat pumps on us plebs then, luv

    And if all that nonsense wasn’t bad enough… Big Pharma gets let off on a technicality: Families of AstraZeneca Covid vaccine victims end legal fight… abandoned attempts to sue… told that they would be unlikely to succeed… ‘It’s like the Government and AstraZeneca have wriggled off the hook on a technicality’ (Telegraph) – how odd, it’s not like our legal system and all those paid-per-hour lawyers don’t usually like to pursue a case to the bitter end no matter what – if only there were some form of public inquiry that could look into that

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  22. tomo says:

    In my limited experience of the A13 … this doesn’t surprise me…

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Tomo – I saw this on X a couple of days ago and – as a motorcyclist – it really made me shudder …. Riding a bike is the riskiest thing I do – every time it’s like a battle and demands total concentration – otherwise it’s the worst …

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      • tomo says:

        Motorcycle rider, cyclist and driver here…

        I recall a Monday morning on a dialed up section where stone / aggregate trucks were belting along and several scooter riders were weaving in and out like complete mentalists – gave me the shudders

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        • tomo says:

          Gah! autocorrect….. dual section – the trucks were doing nearly 70, packed in, maybe 15 foot apart and the s cooterists were weaving back and forth seemingling oblivious of anyone behind them = madness!

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          • Fedup2 says:

            I used to use the A13 ( business end ) regularly and those in the know viewed any ‘accident’ there as a ‘probable fatal ‘ with a few hours of closed roads ….

            I know this site is about the BBC – but riding a bike / motorbike these days really is death wish territory – I went to the shops today – one motorist tried to kill me – it’s pretty regular ….

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      Volkswagen car registration: B3MMA

      Vehicle details could not be found.

      How come an illegally registered car gets to drive down a major highway with all those ANPR cameras without being stopped. I know there is no enforcement but this person was taking the michael. Lifetime ban from motoring as a minimum!

      We have imported 3rd world driving standards.

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      • StewGreen says:

        People first point out some letters seem altered with tape
        they can show VW Toureg’s with similar numbers
        However the vehicleois a blue Golf estate

        6 months go someone similar as caught

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      • tomo says:

        The Met had an ANPR “party event” in West London (A4 iirc) 4 or 5 years ago and so many got pulled (1000+ I heard) that they had to stop stopping people….

        In my experience of west London there’s rather a lot of furtive Africans driving jalopies likely with the full bingo card of infractions….

        Seems also likely that any attempt to get the feckers off the roads will be labelled waycist.

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  23. Guest Who says:

    JezBo really has established quite the team.

    https://x.com/kulganofcrydee/status/1786281644510282008?s=61
    BBC correspondent says the broadcaster has a pro-Israel bias and should be questioning the ‘facts’ of October 7 – sparking fury among Jewish colleagues

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  24. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      People won’t believe it until it is an ITV film or Netflix series.

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  25. tomo says:

    At what point do the handcuffs put in an appearance?

    Fire-Shot-Capture-199-False-evidence-by-Post-Office-s-expert-contradicted-his-own-report-www-bbc-co.png

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    • Thoughtful says:

      Again be careful of the misdirection of the establishment setting up scapegoats in order to protect itself.

      Every single political party knew of and approved what happened and yet they have all made damn sure none of them are in the firing line by pointing the finger at the little people instead.

      Aside from the utterly useless Gestapo who can now only concentrate on political crime there are also the professional oversight bodies for the lawyers who appear to have done absolutely nothing to investigate the lawyers involved, nor have the judiciary been called to account for how they got it so wrong.

      We know BLiar was aware of the problems of Horizon, and promoted its roll out regardless and then failed to come forward when the issues were clear.
      We know Ed Davey was heavily involved as his brother worked for Cartwright King where he was handed a lucrative ‘consultancy’ after he left office.

      We know the Tories had full knowedge of what was going on and again failed to take any action because a) they’re utterly useless, and b) they approved of what was happening.

      On top of this are the senior civil servants who wrote the directions for the POL directors to prosecute and recover fictious losses they haven’t even been named let alone held to account.

      And then there’s the Satanic Church of Socialism which might have held some kind of enquirey into Paula Vennells but instead tried to offer her the third highest position in the Church the Bishopric of London.

      In short the whole thing is an overt example of the British establishment closing ranks to protect itself and pointing the finger at others in order to avoid attention themselves.

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  26. Guest Who says:

    47 minutes, 3 comments.

    https://x.com/bbcr4today/status/1786273702272770141?s=61

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Isn’t it potentially a big danger for your party that actually the protest vote across the country is now splitting?”

      @amolrajan
      asks Lib Dem Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper, as local election results continue to come in.

      #R4Today

      . . . . . . . .

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutfur_Rahman_(British_politician)

      Mohammad Lutfur Rahman (Bengali: মোহাম্মদ লুৎফুর রহমান) is a Bangladesh-born British politician and former solicitor serving as the directly elected mayor of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets for the Aspire party since 2022, having previously held the post from 2010 to 2015 until being found guilty of electoral fraud and forced to resign.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Guest, Amol = Biased BBC: “stick two fingers up at the Government”

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  27. Fedup2 says:

    Encouraging result for Reform in Blackpool showing that their message is cutting through and the missed coming second by 100 votes …..
    And in Bolton ( or is it Bradford ) it looks like the Muslims are voting for their own tribe – not red labour …. The Muslim party is coming ….

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  28. tomo says:

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  29. Guest Who says:

    News vs. BBC #prasnews

    https://x.com/iainpdooley/status/1786289189060776413?s=61
    Twenty three percent turnout. Lol. This individual has a mandate to do the square root of fooook all.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      23% ha ha ha – maybe she should only get 23% power?

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Guest, in my view Police & Crime Commissioners are a waste of space charged to the increasingly poor UK taxpayer.

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        • MarkyMark says:

          People to blame other people for not doing job for real people.

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        • Guest Who says:

          Here in our leafy corner of a shire there was zero mention of it, even on the local social media pages usually dominated by excitable activists. Not a single candidate in person or leaflet.

          We went for the lolz. No one there. A farce. And a % of a % that will be claimed as a mandate to draw a stupid salary to achieve 4/5 of feck all.

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Crime commissioners – if I recall – were an invention of a certain David Cameron – who has just promised to ‘give ‘ £3 billion – £3 000 000 000? Of borrowed taxpayers’ money to Ukraine – every year until whenever ….

          … I’m guessing his habitual squandering of our money will finally end at the extinction of the blue Labour Party – some suggestions that green card might go to the country in July – but i reckon he’ll go all the way until they are truly kicked out …

          As for crime commissioners – I wonder if anyone achieved anything ?

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          • MarkyMark says:

            “The Panama Papers, 11.5m documents leaked from the offshore agent Mossack Fonseca, reveal the details of how Cameron Sr sheltered Blairmore’s profits with a series of expensive and complicated arrangements.4 Apr 2016”

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      • moggiemoo says:

        Only if she got the full 23% of the vote, was there no opposition?

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  30. Fedup2 says:

    I’m glad that nut nut got turned away from voting because he didn’t have the correct id . It sums him up and follows on from partygate – the laws he made were for others – not him – he’s far too important to have to ‘do laws ‘…

    History isn’t going to be kind to borisavich Johnson ….

    Still looking at a 500 blue labour seat loss

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    • MarkyMark says:

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      • Up2snuff says:

        MM, the illustration to right of Boris Johnson’s head seems to sum up his chaotic lifestyle and his chaotic time as Prime Minister and I would include Brexit in that as well.

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Boris was a chancer – who got a chance and blew it – watch the videos on this page and reflect ….

          “Boris Johnson: Let the British lion roar”
          Published 3 October 2017
          https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41489674

          Boris Johnson: “It is up to us now… to let that lion roar.”

          The foreign secretary told Tory activists the UK “can win the future” and should stop treating the referendum result as if it were “plague of boils”.

          In his speech, he praised Theresa May’s “steadfast” leadership over Europe.

          And he insisted the whole cabinet was united behind her aim of getting a “great Brexit deal”.

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    • StewGreen says:

      It’s suggested that Boris didn’t really “forget” his ID
      rather it was a PR stunt

         3 likes

      • Fedup2 says:

        Maybe he is deluded enough to think he can resurrect the dead blue Labour Party after death …

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  31. JohnC says:

    So the whole premise of the BBC’s ‘Death In Paradise’ was a white man taken out of his comfort zone and forced to work on a tropical island – along all the fun and japes of his discomfort. The classic fish out of water.

    Initially it was fun with the likes of Danny John Jules (cat from red dwarf) and a succession of fit assistants along with some childish but slightly credible mysteries.

    Then the BBC started their magic. They gradually got rid of the famous people to replace them with 100% ethnic blacks with various skills such as being jolly fat girls or super talented young males given a chance to avoid prison by being a policeman !!. But it lost ALL of its wit and charm. The plots became tediously dull. It was like a manager said to some clone script writer – just copy what’s in the others.

    So it turned to complete shit. Like everything else the BBC force their agenda into. And now I discover they are changing the main detective to be a black guy from Eastenders !!. It all shows me those in charge of it now have no clue whatsoever why it was popular.

    The show is now 100% blacks. And the BBC think this is ‘equality’. We MUST get rid of this cancer.

       31 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Has the BBC moved from news to social engineering …. YES.

      “By 2020, the BBC wants its employees to comprise 50% women, 8% disabled people, 8% lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people and 15% people from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds.{bbc.co.uk 14sep2017}”

         10 likes

    • tomo says:

      a manager said to some clone script writer

      and there , you have the BBC in a nutshell if you accept that BBC managers are a huge reason that it is like it is…?

         10 likes

      • JohnC says:

        I’ve come to that conclusion Tomo because I’ve noticed how ALL the reports by the clones are just too similar for it to be chance. Very often I notice some specific way of saying something in a report then I notice the exact same thing in the others.

        It’s clear to me that they have a squad of quota employees drafting all the articles following strict guidelines about what they can and cannot say, then some political commissar in an office in London will review it and tell them to rewrite it so it fits the agenda.

        Very often they all use the same terminology which you don’t notice until you see it across different articles. Then when you think about it, that word or phrase has been very carefully selected to mean something very specific which is ALWAYS to make it fit the agenda. It might be implying something without actually saying it or inferring blame without actually saying it.

        It also means these commissars will be having meetings where they decide BBC policy – such as to support Hamas and what things to avoid mentioning or to cancel specific right-wing people. The minutes of such a meeting would be very interesting to read.

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    • Deborah says:

      When the BBC did Beyond Paradise it lost all its charm. Suddenly there were issues; the relationship between Kris and the girlfriend, whether she was pregnant, the just black female detective. It wasn’t funny any more and all the escapism of a Caribbean island had gone. We tried to watch it and gave up.

      But the last series that we watched set in the Caribbean had grown tired. It may be the last series but I guess there may have been more. The script writing wasn’t as good as earlier series, the plots had grown thin and predictable but they too had just lost their fun. Maybe there are fun things on the BBC these days but as we never watch we may be missing the things that would have us falling off the sofa with laughter.

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      • JohnC says:

        I wondered if it was just me becoming jaded with the BBC label Deborah so I downloaded series 2 to check.

        And I thoroughly enjoyed every episode. It was amusing, lighthearted and a bit of fun. I watched half of one episode of it recently and it was dull with a capital D.

        Bouyed on by my discovery, I also downloaded a very old Father Brown (which the BBC has also turned into boring dross with their agenda). Lo and behold that too was every enjoyable.

        One good thing about getting older is that I can enjoy old TV again as I have forgotten in from the first time.

        Saying that, I found ‘Yus my dear’ with Arthur Mullard to add to my vintage comedy collection hard disk. It’s absolutely terrible – though I never saw it the first time.

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      John:

      You are so right. Death in Paradise was a harmless little detective show, and as you say, the main feature was that the white British detective would gradually adapt to the lifestyle of the odd Anglo-French island.

      I always thought this could not last though, because the British detective always solved the crime, and so acted as a bit of a “white saviour”. So now the BBC replace this character with a black man, and thus prove that they do not understand the very essence of the show.

      It’s all right though, it can now go with the black gay Dr Who as a show I don’t need to watch, It can join ITV’s Midsummer Murders, where every village seems more diverse than Peckham.

      They can offer us this crap to watch, but more fool us if we do.

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  32. friend of yogi bear says:

    Bbc “Top talent” Nick robinson is very, very , excited this morning, behaving and sounding like a teenage boy with his first sight of pornography, the man needs a sedative.
    His lack of self awareness is a laugh out loud feature . He spoke to Lee Anderson in a rather spiteful way and revealing a lack of proper preparation for the interview. Then Robinson spoke of politicians talking to each other on “other channels”he seems unaware of the BBC practice, of BBC colleagues endlessly chatting to each other about their own personal views as being one of the reasons the Today show has significantly fewer listeners this year than last, etc,etc.and so it goes on.
    Labour have not it seems gained voters..no evidence of that yet.
    My prediction is a huge swing , well in excess of 26% in a reduction in the audience for this consistently underperforming bbc rubbish.

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  33. MarkyMark says:

    HA HA HA!

    “Joe Biden calls US allies India and Japan ‘xenophobic’
    Published 5 hours ago”

    US President Joe Biden has called Japan and India “xenophobic”, grouping them together with Russia and China as countries that “don’t want immigrants”.

    His criticism of Japan comes just weeks after he called the US-Japan alliance “unbreakable” during a state visit from Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

    India is also a key US partner, despite US concerns about human rights and religious freedoms there.

    . . . . . . .

    In UK 3 teachers from Batley hide from the religion of peace and say London is not very safe for them now.

    . . . .. .
    The current MP is Kim Leadbeater, a Labour politician, elected in a 2021 by-election by a 323-vote margin.

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    • Loobyloo says:

      My sons are both about to enter the workforce. They see the writing on the wall for this country and would like to get out is possible. One is an engineer so he has a good chance..but where? I think Japan is a good choice! Xenophobic? Cheeky bastard.

         11 likes

      • MarkyMark says:

        ” writing on the wall for this country” – they might just be delaying the fight …

        “According to a 2022 report by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) the country needs at least 7 million foreign workers by 2040 to meet its requirements, most salient among which will be looking after all those old people.7 Jan 2024”

        …………………..

        From a Theresa May speech … As Martin Wolf, the chief economics commentator of the financial times, says: ‘The desirability of sizeable immigration is a matter more of values than of economics. It is not a choice between wealth and poverty, but of the sort of country one desires to inhabit.’

        https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/home-secretary-speech-on-an-immigration-system-that-works-in-the-national-interest

           5 likes

      • Fedup2 says:

        Wise move – best to have a skill usable in other countries ….

           6 likes

        • Scroblene says:

          Back in the sixties, a lot of my friends went off to Australia, South Africa and beyond, to seek their fortune.

          I think I was too much a home-lover to consider this – even though I was a bit scared of even working and living in London, but that did change!

          Nearly all of them came back, except for my old flatmate who stayed in SA, but he had been brought up there, so knew the ropes. I ‘Googled’ his address the other day, and all the houses in his road have 12ft high barbed wire battlements, security gates and a general ‘look’ of fear and trepidation.

          Sod that for a game of soldiers, I think I’d have to keep trying to do a job in the UK, despite the issues we all face nowadays, with a dreadful political future.

          Engineers are in high demand in the UK Loobyloo, Consulting, Contracting, Civils, M and E, Structures etc., and I often wish I’d taken up practical physics! Building had always been in my family, so there wasn’t much deviation from that particular line of duty!

             6 likes

      • Mrs Kitty says:

        Japan’s good, maybe look at Eastern Europe or other Far Eastern places.

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  34. tomo says:

       5 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      ‘What’s a Code of Practice ‘?

      We were a defence firm – we don’t usually take on prosecutions ‘…( but the money was good ) …

      … and it looks like the ‘expert witness’ will be the main target to be thrown under the bus …..

      Listening to it – it wasn’t incompetence – it was corruption / greed – easy money …. Bet it was very good ….

      That inquiry barrister really enjoyed himself – he had a ‘tap in ‘ in footy parlance …

      Excruciating …

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  35. MarkyMark says:

    BBC Story about … “Welcome to #Merky FC, a partnership between adidas and Stormzy.”
    https://www.merkyfc.com/

    . . . . . Stormzy backs a slave trader ……

    Child labour scandal hits Adidas
    This article is more than 23 years old
    Brutality, poor wages and 15-hour days in the Asian sweatshops
    https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/19/jasonburke.theobserver

    twitter_image_markings_base_Untitled-1.png

    ……

    Adidas profits surge as Sunak fails to derail demand for Samba trainers
    Appetite for sportswear brand ‘strong and growing’ despite PM ‘ruining’ the design

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/04/30/adidas-profits-surge-rishi-sunak-demand-samba-trainers/

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  36. MarkyMark says:

    BBC promoting a racist and one sided campaign by Stormzy …. ha ha ha haha ….

    “MERKY FC

    Welcome to #Merky FC, a partnership between adidas and Stormzy. #Merky FC will change the game, providing young people of Black heritage ** with career opportunities from across the football industry* ”

    ** whites need not apply, but you can self identify as black!

    . . . .
    BBC Title “How Stormzy’s #Merky FC is providing opportunities in south London”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/videos/cx8qyrl8g9no
    Real Title “How Stormzy’s #Merky FC is providing BLACKS ONLY opportunities in south London”

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “According to racial equality activist Richard Lapchick, the NBA in 2021 was composed of 73.2 percent black players, 16.8 percent white players, 3.1 percent Latino players of any race, and 0.4 percent Asian players. Additionally, 6.6 percent of the players were classified as either multiracial or “other” races.[2] The league has the highest percentage of black players of any major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.[3]”

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_NBA

         2 likes

  37. MarkyMark says:

    “EastEnders star named as next Death in Paradise lead detective”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6pyw18g12yo

       1 likes

    • Scroblene says:

      “The Paradise Club” was a great series in the late eighties, with the superb Don Henderson and Leslie Grantham – Eastenders’ bad boy!

      I’ve actually got a very poor DVD of the series, but it’s a struggle to watch as the screen wobble is appalling, as is the colour, but the stories were very good!

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  38. MarkyMark says:

    From order-order.com

    6724f7e5-83aa-4147-a651-0023d9a5c50a-6c311c65-7954-421d-a783-0e794c03e7ed

    71283898-5747-4196-bef2-20ded1203630-8223ff69-69f7-4d0c-80f1-040bde133af9

       16 likes

    • Loobyloo says:

      Yes, totally lacklustre choice in my case. Four cheeks of the same arse! How depressing.

         8 likes

  39. Thoughtful says:

    What they are probably not telling is the swing towards independants, and a large number of those are pro Palestine supporters.

    Not all of them but there is a definite swing away from the three main parties towards non aligned independants.

    https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/local-elections-2024-greater-manchester-29104327

    “All the overnight results in Greater Manchester as Labour loses seats with Gaza war a ‘decisive’ factor”

       6 likes

  40. MarkyMark says:

    Lies.jpg

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  41. Fedup2 says:

    There has been a discussion here about the level of coverage being given by the BBC to campus camps in the US – and a prediction ( from me ) that it Was inevitable that it would happen here …
    Guess what ? UCL ( where I studied ) now has tents in the grounds …. They must be removed right now – no ifs no buts ….

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  42. Fedup2 says:

    The BBC has done a propaganda piece called ‘the other war ‘ about the conduct of the IDF in The West Bank after the Muslim slaughters and abductions ….

    It’s fronted by someone called Isobel yeung – who – to me – must be a BBC future ‘star’…
    You can guess the format – sinister background music – plenty of anti Israel allegations – minimal descriptions of the slaughter of 1200 Israeli s …. Very BBC – no wonder the IDF declined to talk to Hamas – BBC

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  43. MarkyMark says:

    CANCEL CULTURE HAS COME TO ENGLAND (Oppressed Masses)

    ……

    Headteacher Gary Kibble apologised to parents for the ‘inappropriate’ use of the cartoons
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9425973/Two-staff-suspended-Batley-blasphemy-row-school.html

       3 likes

  44. harry142857 says:

    This might cheer you up.

    From the Unindependent

    Female presenters lose equal pay claim in legal challenge against BBC

    Martine Croxall and three other senior BBC journalists have failed in their bid to include equal pay as part of wider legal action against the broadcaster.

    However, separate claims for sex and age discrimination will go ahead, an employment tribunal ruled.

    Croxall, Karin Giannone, Kasia Madera and Annita McVeigh launched the claim against the BBC, accusing the broadcaster of a “sham recruitment exercise”.

    The presenters, all between the ages of 48 and 55, claim they were snubbed for chief presenter roles following the merger of the BBC’s News and World News channels.

    Their claim says they failed to land top anchor roles due to a recruitment exercise “rigged” in favour of certain senior presenters before applications opened.

    This is a claim that the broadcaster vehemently denies, and the BBC says it has conducted an internal review into the matter.

    A spokesperson for the BBC said after the ruling: “We are pleased with the result and that the tribunal has accepted our position. We will not be commenting further at this stage.”

    A two-day preliminary hearing in Central London ended on Thursday, and a three-week tribunal to hear the claims in detail will be held in March 2025.

       6 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Equal pay – same as the cleaner and the janitors? That equal pay?

      “BBC says it has conducted an internal review into the matter.”

      “Croxall, McVeigh, Giannone and Madera were given the go-ahead to have their cases heard jointly at that hearing, which the BBC had opposed.”
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68944554

         3 likes

    • atlas_shrugged says:

      Great idea – more old hags to be employed by the bBC.

         5 likes

  45. MarkyMark says:

    Man selected, not elected talks about saving humanity …. “For the first time ever, we have brought together CEOs of world-leading AI companies….

    … with countries most advanced in using it….

    …and representatives from across academia and civil society.

    And while this was only the beginning of the conversation,

    I believe the achievements of this summit will tip the balance in favour of humanity.

    https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/prime-ministers-speech-at-the-ai-safety-summit-2-november-2023

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  46. G says:

    As always in our World, 2 = 2 = 4

    “Hamas and Hezbollah: How Iran Is Secretly Infiltrating Europe”

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20612/hamas-hezbollah-europe

    What do they call themselves:

    “Civil Service Muslim Network”

    https://civilservice.blog.gov.uk/civil-service-muslim-network/

    Likely the Genesis of all recent restrictive legislation as they seek to totally disarm the UK indigenous public.

    Credit where it is due, they’re doing rather well. When the SHTF, innovatively is second nature to the Brits and, as I pointed out to the Home Office recently, When the SHTF, all their legislation will be defenestrated.

       11 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      “Civil Service Muslim Network”
      https://civilservice.blog.gov.uk/civil-service-muslim-network/

      “The Civil Service Muslim Network (CSMN) is the sole cross-government, departmental umbrella network representing and supporting departmental Muslim networks and civil servants.”

      De-mystify Islam and tackle (un)conscious bias.

      Five easy steps to register on KHub for CSMN

      The network co-chairs are Nuzhat Ali (Public Health England) and Ahmed Azam (HMRC), elected in September 2019.

      ….

      Click to access Nuzhat-and-Ahmed-Inclusive-leadership-Sharing-Support-and-Gaining-a-Voice-Through-Active-Staff-Networks-final.pdf

      The survey launched on 10 July 2020 and closed on 16 August 2020.
      Responses from 10% of Muslim staff across the civil service
      Overall 79% of responses came from departments. The remaining responses were from agencies and public bodies which are
      arms-length bodies of these departments.
      94.8% of respondents provided answers to non-mandatory questions
      15.7% provided additional comments where a comment field was provided
      34.6% engaged with the final non-mandatory question (22. Do you have any other comments that you would like to share with
      us about your experience working as a Muslim in the Civil Service or suggestions on how to address any issues you have
      faced?)

      The second highest number of comments (27.5%) were provided on question 4 (Do you have adequate facilities to meet your
      religious requirements (e.g. prayer and ablution facilities) at work?).

      prayer and ablution facilities

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Quick search … “PCS condemns suspension of Civil Service Muslim Network
      On Thursday, the deputy prime minister suspended the Civil Service Muslim Network.

      While civil service networks sit outside of the remit of PCS, it is concerning that Oliver Dowden should suspend a network whose purpose is to represent and support Muslim civil servants. That this has taken place during Ramadan is entirely insensitive.

      Added to government departments such as HMRC claiming that donating to a legitimate humanitarian charity, Medical Aid for Palestine is contrary to civil service values, raises deep concerns of Islamophobia at the heart of government.”

      https://www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/news/pcs-condemns-suspension-civil-service-muslim-network

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  47. MarkyMark says:

    Resized from order-order.com
    https://postimg.cc

    image.jpg

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  48. MarkyMark says:

    “Starmer hails local election results and tells Sunak to make way”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-68609729

    Keir Starmer: It’s wrong to say ‘only women have a cervix’

       4 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      The idiot Starmer comment – made to placate – who ? Is one of the reasons people won’t be switching votes from blue to red – they will declare them ‘ all the same ‘ and do more important stuff –
      I would think that is what the studio pundits will say when the dust settles … but I still reckon on a 150 majority for red Labour when green card finally orders the removal van …

         14 likes

      • MarkyMark says:

        Rishi says his chats with Elon Musk mean he can now join the Tesla board to link USA with India (His father in law).

           4 likes

  49. Terminal Moraine says:

    New promo from BBC Studios for international customers:

    “We’re not here to tell you what to think — we’re made to make you think”.

       4 likes

    • Terminal Moraine says:

      Continuing the international theme…

      BBC US reporter Wendling has a book out this month: “Day of Reckoning — How the Far Right Declared War on Democracy”. His choice of publisher is interesting. From Pluto Press’ blurb:

      “Emerging out of the Marxist tradition, we see ourselves as supporters of what Marx called ‘the real movement that abolishes the present state of things’. Today that movement takes many forms and appears in many different places, but its defining feature is opposition to the current global order, which places profit ahead of people […] we strive to provide a platform for activists and agitators across the globe.”

      Any platform for Marxist agitators has nothing to do with Mike’s day job at the BBC, who are trusted and impartial as per their mission statement.

      https://www.plutobooks.com/about/

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      • MarkyMark says:

        “Pluto Press is a radical political publishing house. Founded in 1969, we are one of the world’s oldest radical publishers, and our focus remains making timely interventions in contemporary struggles.

        Though our collective outlook has developed over time, we proudly identify as anti-capitalist (NOT CHINESE), internationalist (IGNORE CHINA) and politically independent (ONE PARTY TO RULE THEM ALL LIKE IN CHINA).

        https://www.plutobooks.com/about/

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    • MarkyMark says:

      BC Studios Unveils “Made to Make You Think” – First-Ever BBC Brand Campaign, Launching Today on Select BBC Digital Platforms Globally, with Paid Marketing Debuting First in North America
      New Campaign Shines a Spotlight on the BBC’s Mission-Driven Journalism for Audiences Outside the U.K.

      https://www.bbcstudiospressroom.com/press/bbc-studios-unveils-made-to-make-you-think-first-ever-bbc-brand-campaign-launching-today-on-select-bbc-digital-platforms-globally-with-paid-marketing-debuting-first-in-no/

      . . . .

      From 2018
      Has the BBC ever lied to me …. YES.
      “Gavin Hewitt in 2015 replacing video with still photos to hide a nasty refugee pushing a pregnant female refugee and small child onto a train track, the BBC made it look like the border guards were being tough.”

      Has the BBC ever hidden news from me …. YES.
      “May 2018 the Day of Freedom march was not reported on the main website or the main news channel and is not available on the BBC £3.5bn online search page – other news agencies including the Guardian reported it.”

      Has the BBC kept the public in the dark …. YES.
      “We know that the UK MP expenses continues and should be investigated with the £3.5bn BBC New Service every year to keep the MPs on their toes, David Lammy bought a bike for £650 on expenses (Claim Ref:387540/17oct2014) which is blatant misuse of Tax Payer Money. How come the BBC don’t check up each year?”

      Has the BBC ignored politician’s lies …. YES.
      “UK Politicians are on TV shouting austerity and recession but all have taken an 18% pay increase from 2010 to 2018. How can they talk for the people when the live in their own bubble?”

      Has the BBC moved from news to social engineering …. YES.
      “By 2020, the BBC wants its employees to comprise 50% women, 8% disabled people, 8% lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people and 15% people from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds.{bbc.co.uk 14sep2017}”

      Has the BBC let journalist break their guidelines …. YES.
      “Gary ‘£1.75m’ Lineker uses his twitter account to say Brexit is bad, EU is good. But not once has he confronted Jacob Rees-Mogg or Nigel Farage to talk about it. It is a one sided echo chamber.”

         7 likes

    • Lunchtime Loather says:

      Jeremy Vine tries to tell us what to think for several hours a day, five days a week.

         5 likes

    • G says:

      “…….we’re made to make you think our way”. There, that’s corrected it.

         1 likes