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If immigration is so good for the economy ,
Why did we have an economic crisis in 2008 two years after opening our borders to the East Europeans ?
BBC : investigate .
The Government should declare a state of emergency and set up military channel patrols perhaps SBS, and turn the boats back. There is a possibility that some migrants will die but numbers are dying anyway, in the end there will be a major disaster After a week or two of proper border enforcement the crossings will cease and no one will die. Strong action is the only thing that will put a stop to this ridiculous situation.
The Liar Blair’s Home Office advisor in 2004 on likely EU Economic Immigrants if we did (as most other EU members did NOT) let economic migrants in, was one Jonathan Portes, a supposed economics forecaster. He told Blair c15,000 pa.
He got that a bit wrong then, but even Lord Nigel Farage has him on GBNews to give economic prognostications and commentary. It’s funny but the fool Portes is never queried about this catastrophic error of his.
Seems that Reform picked up 30000 votes in the West Midlands – Andrew Street lost to red labour by just over 1000 votes ….
If nothing else Reform will facilitate the end of blue labour – a Conservative Party helping to kill off a blue socialist one – with 4 years of chaos to come …
“In Urdu, with English subtitles?”
Why bother with subtitles? His voters don’t need them.
London was 36.8% white British at the last census in 2021. It’s over folks.
It is already civil war
The BBC report on Biden’s gaffe about the Japanese being xenophobic because they don’t have mass immigration.
The country of Japan has “ only “ 2.5% immigrants say the BBC .
“ only “ . As though it should be more ? How much more ? Why more ? Where should they come from ?
Let’s take a step back BBC . Our percentage is officially 8% ( probably higher ) . Is that about right or should it be more?
Let’s say it should be 8% . So you think Japan’s should be 8% . Does that mean that 8% of the indigenous Japanese should should be emigrants; 8% in 8% out ?
Is that for the whole world ? 8% must move out of one country into another quickly?
Has that been done peacefully before?
I look forward to a BBC programme on the history of mass movements of people .
Women had best learn their position .
How many postal votes?
Our useless government doesn’t allow the split to be given.
Compare and contrast
In Leeds we’ve seen the NEW Green Party
.. here’s what happened to the OLD Green Party in Rochdale
British (Tolerant of Intolerance) Muslim (Intolerant of tolerance).
British Muslim can wear or not wear a hijab, an Iranian Muslim must wear a hijab or be beaten.
British Muslim can wear or not wear a hijab, a Yemen Muslim must wear a hijab or be beaten.
British Muslim can wear or not wear a hijab, a Saudi Muslim must wear a hijab or be beaten.
British (Tolerant of Intolerance) Muslim (Intolerant of tolerance).
British Muslim can read a Bible or become an Atheist, an Iranian Muslim only read the Koran or be punished.
British Muslim can read a Bible or become an Atheist, a Saudi Muslim only read the Koran or be punished.
British Muslim can read a Bible or become an Atheist, a Yemen Muslim only read the Koran or be punished.
British (Tolerant of Intolerance) Muslim (Intolerant of tolerance).
British Muslim can draw a cartoon and people will laugh, an Islamic Muslim should be careful when drawing cartoons or fellow tolerant Islamists will punish them with honourable stones or lashes of joy.
British (Tolerant of Intolerance) Muslim (Intolerant of tolerance).
Reminds me of satanism, they have already started with gang rapes of children, bombings of young peple attending music concerts, beheadings of British soldiers in London and genocide of jews, to name a few actions of their love of their god.
In fact, it’ts not a love of God, it’s acts of war.
And, to quote Taffman’s oft repeated posts, we are still letting them come in en MASS.
“fleeing war and persecution”
We’re now at Saturday late evening. The BBC are still headlining everything with the local election results and how well Labour has done. Do you get the feeling they are positively basking in the glow and relishing every Tory loss?
Readers may share the latter feeling but the BBC is supposed to be impartial. I do hope no-one at the BBC is spraining their ankles on the champagne bottles on the office floors.
“Thousands line streets of Bury for Lee Rigby’s funeral
12th July 2013
Bury
THOUSANDS of people lined the streets of Bury town centre this morning to pay tribute to Fusilier Lee Rigby.
Prime Minister David Cameron and Mayor of London Boris Johnson were among those who attended the poignant service at Bury Parish Church.
Fusilier Rigby’s family, including wife Rebecca, was joined by about 800 mourners in the church to honour the fallen soldier from Middleton, who was attacked in Woolwich, London, in May.
His two-year-old son, Jack, wore a blue T-shirt featuring a Fusilier beret with a hackle and his dad’s name. On the back were the words: “My daddy my hero”.
Members of the second battalion of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (2RRF), of which Fusilier Rigby was a member, lined Bolton Street as the cortege drove towards the church.
The funeral started at 11am and was led by the Reverend John Findon, Rector of Bury, relayed by a PA system to the crowd outside.
Family friend and fellow member of 2RRF, Sean Sheer, described Fusilier Rigby as a “loving father and a devoted husband” who wore a Westlife T-shirt to work.
A eulogy was given by Lieutenant Colonel Jim Taylor, commanding officer of 2RRF, who praised Fusilier Rigby as “dedicated, professional and incredibly brave”.
He said Fusilier Rigby’s “lifelong ambition” was to be a soldier and he joined the Army in 2006 on his third attempt, becoming a member of 2RRF’s Corps of Drums.
He was posted in several locations, including as a machine gunner in Afghanistan in 2009, and his “final challenge in the Army” was helping to recruit new soldiers in Woolwich.
Lt Col Taylor said: “Today we, his regimental family, salute a fallen comrade, a talented soldier and musician, a larger-than-life character, a loyal friend and brother-in-arms, a gentle soul. Above all, a true Fusilier — daring in all things.
“We all feel his loss keenly. We will remember him with pride always.
”Today, we stand shoulder-to-shoulder with his family and friends. We will continue to do so in the years to come.”
The service included the Collect of the Royal Regiment Of Fusiliers and the thousands of people outside the church joined in the Lord’s Prayer.
The coffin was carried out by drummers from 2RRF, draped in the Union Jack flag and carrying a Fusilier bearskin.
Loud applause broke out from the crowd as the hearse left Bury town centre and went to Middleton Cemetery for a private committal.
On the afternoon of 22 May 2013, a British Army soldier, Fusilier Lee Rigby of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, was attacked and killed by Islamist terrorists Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale[3] near the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, southeast London.[4][5][6][7][8][9]
Rigby was off duty and walking along Wellington Street when he was attacked.[10] Adebolajo and Adebowale ran him down with a car, then used knives and a cleaver to stab and hack him to death.[11] The men dragged Rigby’s body into the road and remained at the scene until police arrived, informing passers-by that they had murdered Rigby to avenge Muslims killed by the British military.[12] Unarmed police arrived at the scene nine minutes after an emergency call was received and set up a cordon. Armed police officers arrived five minutes later. The assailants, armed with a cleaver and brandishing a gun, charged at the police, who fired shots that wounded them both. They were apprehended and taken to separate hospitals.[12] Adebolajo and Adebowale are British of Nigerian descent, were raised as Christians, and converted to Islam.[13]
On 19 December 2013, both of the attackers were found guilty of Rigby’s murder.[14] On 26 February 2014, they were sentenced to life imprisonment, with Adebolajo given a whole life order and Adebowale ordered to serve at least 45 years.[15] The attack was condemned by political and Muslim leaders in the United Kingdom and in the international press.[16][17]
Victim
The soldier killed in the attack was 25-year-old Fusilier Lee James Rigby, (4 July 1987—22 May 2013) a drummer and machine-gunner in the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. Rigby, from Middleton, Greater Manchester, was born in 1987 and had served in Cyprus, Germany, and Afghanistan before becoming a recruiter and assisting with duties in the Tower of London.[18][4][19][20] He was attacked when he was returning to barracks from working at the Tower.[21] Rigby married in 2007 and had a two-year-old son, but had separated from his wife.[22] He was engaged to a new fiancée at the time of his death.[23] A post-mortem examination showed that Rigby died from “multiple incised wounds”.[24]
Rigby supported British Armed Forces charity Help for Heroes[25] and was wearing a hoodie supporting the charity when he was attacked.[26] In the five days after his death the charity received more than £600,000 in donations.[27]
Rigby was given a military funeral at Bury Parish Church on 12 July 2013. The service was attended by several thousand people, including present and former soldiers, the prime minister David Cameron, and Mayor of London Boris Johnson. A private burial service was then held at nearby Middleton Cemetery.[28] The first permanent memorial to him was installed in February 2014 at The Valley, a football stadium less than one mile (two kilometres) from the site of his murder.[29]
Attack
Location of the attack, indicated by the arrow, outside the Royal Artillery Barracks
The attack took place shortly before 14:20 in Wellington Street, and near its junction with John Wilson Street, part of the South Circular Road (A205) in Woolwich, near the perimeter of the Royal Artillery Barracks where Rigby was stationed.[10] Rigby had arrived at Woolwich Arsenal station at 14:10 and was walking along Wellington Street towards the Barracks.[30][31]
While Rigby was crossing the road to get to a shop, two men, who were later identified as Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, drove a Vauxhall Tigra at him at 30 to 40 mph (50 to 65 km/h), knocking him to the ground.[32][33] They attacked Rigby with knives and a cleaver, and attempted to behead him.[10][12][34]
Immediately after the attack, several passers-by stood over Rigby’s body to protect him from further injury.[33] Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, a cub scout leader from Cornwall,[35] disembarked from a passing bus with the intention of rendering first aid, after she saw what she thought was a road accident. On discovering that the victim was dead she engaged one of the assailants in conversation. The man said he was responsible for killing the man on the ground – a British soldier who the attacker claimed had “killed Muslims in Iraq and in Afghanistan”.[36][37] She asked one of the men to hand over his weapons, but he refused.[38]
In a video shot by a bystander, Adebolajo said “The only reason we have killed this man today is because Muslims are dying daily by British soldiers”.[39] Adebolajo also gave a bystander at the scene a handwritten two-page note which set out his justification for his actions.[40][41] The assailants remained at the scene and asked bystanders to call the police.[42] The Metropolitan Police received the first 999 call about an assault at 14:20 and unarmed police were deployed. Subsequent 999 calls said the attackers had a firearm, and armed police were ordered to the scene at 14:24. Unarmed police arrived at 14:29, set up a cordon, and remained behind it.[43] Authorised firearms officers arrived at 14:34. The two men, one brandishing a cleaver and the other a revolver, charged at the police. Armed police fired eight times and both men were wounded.[33][44] They were arrested and taken to separate hospitals. A revolver, knives, and a cleaver were seized at the scene. The victim, Rigby, was pronounced dead and formally identified.[44] The revolver was later determined to be a non-functioning 90-year-old Dutch KNIL 9.4mm.[45] Adebowale pointed the gun at responding armed police officers, who opened fire and shot off one of his thumbs.[46]
Attackers and other suspects
The two men who carried out the attack, Michael Olumide Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Oluwatobi Adebowale, 22,[47] are British of Nigerian descent.[48] Both men were known to British security services.[49]
On 23 May, a man aged 29 and two women aged 31 and 29 were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder.[50] The Metropolitan Police arrested three people aged between 21 and 28 in south-east London, at two separate locations on the evening of 25 May.[51] On 26 May, a 22-year-old male was arrested in Highbury.[50] On 27 May, a 50-year-old male was arrested in Welling.[52] Of the eight people arrested, six were freed on bail, and two released without charge.[53]
Michael Adebolajo
Michael Olumide Adebolajo, born in Lambeth to a Christian family,[35][54] went to Marshalls Park School and Havering Sixth Form College and then went to study sociology at the University of Greenwich. He has a history of involvement in radical Islamist activities and had been arrested at a violent protest and later released.[55] According to Anjem Choudary, a radical Muslim cleric, Adebolajo converted to Islam in 2003 and was linked to the outlawed Islamist group al-Muhajiroun.[47][56] In 2006, Adebolajo was arrested outside the Old Bailey during a protest about the trial of Mizanur Rahman.[57]
In 2009, Adebolajo spoke at a demonstration against the English Defence League and Stop Islamisation of Europe organised by Unite Against Fascism at Harrow Central Mosque. He was recorded saying: “Don’t be scared of them, do not be scared of the police or the cameras. You are here only to please Allah. You’re not here for any other reason, if you are here just for a fight, please leave our ranks. We only want those who are sincere to Allah. Purify your intention.”[58]
In 2010, Adebolajo was arrested in Kenya with five others. He travelled using a British passport in the name Michael Olemendis Ndemolajo.[59] Boniface Mwaniki, head of Kenya’s anti-terrorism unit, said he believed Adebolajo was planning to train with al-Shabaab, a militant group linked to al-Qaeda. He was released to British authorities in Kenya and deported.[59] The British Foreign Office confirmed “a British national was arrested in Kenya in 2010” and was given consular assistance. No charges were filed against Adebolajo.[59][60]
Abu Nusaybah, a friend of Adebolajo, said on BBC’s Newsnight on 25 May that Adebolajo had complained of persistent questioning by the British Security Service (MI5) specifically concerning his knowledge of “certain individuals”. He said Adebolajo alleged that MI5 had asked him to work with them and he had refused.[61][62] He also said Adebolajo claimed he had been tortured and sexually assaulted by Kenyan troops after his arrest.[63]
Adebolajo was released from hospital on 31 May and taken into police custody.[64] The following day he was charged with Rigby’s murder, two charges of attempting to murder police officers, and possession of a firearm.[65] At a court appearance on 3 June, he asked to be known as Mujahid Abu Hamza.[66] On 17 July, Adebolajo lost two of his front teeth while being restrained by five prison officers at Belmarsh Prison.[67]
Michael Adebowale
Michael Oluwatobi Adebowale[68] attended Kidbrooke School,[69] later studying at the University of Greenwich with Michael Adebolajo.[70][71][72] Adebowale’s mother is a probation officer and his father a member of staff at the Nigerian High Commission.[73] His parents separated when he was young and he converted to Islam in 2009, adopting the name Ismael. Adebowale was convicted of drug dealing offences in 2009 and was sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment.[69]
On 28 May, Adebowale was released from hospital and taken to a police station in south London.[74] Police charged him with the murder of Rigby and possession of a firearm.[53]
Just a personal message for all the sex starved miiddled aged women , or all marxist beardy wierded men demanding ” all refugeees welcome here”
have a look at the above.
Not just words.
facts.
One might notice the primarly message with a capital primary letter about “No to islamophobia” capital letter applied , not the same applied to the secondary messsage regarding antisemitism
hmmm
All due respect for you musical tastes,yet on a long commute I prefer to listen listen to someting with at least three dirreferernt interptetions, something with a little more than just a reference to art and it’s various interpretersions and various appreciations, and english of the working class who are happy doing manual work
Good try Eddie but ukelele …..or even worse the banjo, I’m tempted to refer you the half timer performsnce iduring versus Arsenal:
A propos of nothing.
In 1963 just before the Beatles broke, we were still listening to Frank Ifield.
By 1973 we had Meddle, Dark Side of the Moon, and Selling England, among others.
An astonishing transformation.
Here we are 50 years later and there has been little subsequent progress, except that you can now get a computer to play for you.
Punk, new wave, New Romantics, rap, up to the giant solo artists, Sheeran, Adele, Taylor Swift. It’s all been essentially derivative.
I’ve yet to hear anything surpass Steve Hackett’s laid back solo on Firth of Fifth with its counterpoint bass line.
These are refugees
no fighting men, who should be fighting for their countries, no thousands to pay for a boat over here, no i phone etc
“SS St Louis: The ship of Jewish refugees nobody wanted
On 13 May 1939, more than 900 Jews fled Germany aboard a luxury cruise liner, the SS St Louis. They hoped to reach Cuba and then travel to the US – but were turned away in Havana and forced to return to Europe, where more than 250 were killed by the Nazis.
“It was really something to be going on a luxury liner,” says Gisela Feldman. “We didn’t really know where we were heading, or how we would cope when we got there.”
At the age of 90, Feldman still clearly remembers the raw and mixed emotions she felt as a 15-year-old girl boarding the St Louis at Hamburg docks with her mother and younger sister.
“I was always aware of how anxious my mother looked, embarking on such a long journey, on her own with two teenage daughters,” she says.
In the years following the rise to power of Hitler’s Nazi party, ordinary Jewish families like Feldman’s had been left in no doubt about the increasing dangers they were facing.
Compare and contrast
I’ve just been perusing the RNLI annual report.
Try as I might I just could not see a photograph showing this sort of thing, it must have been an oversight by them.
I did note that they have 91 staff earning over £60,000. Not bad for a voluntary organisation. But that’s another story.
Zeph.
This photo must be a fake. According to many BBC reports these boats are full of women and children fleeing persecution and also I cannot make out all the doctors and engineers the refugee council spokesperson mentioned during his BBC interview last week.
I refer readers to my previous post…..
French would definitely take them back.
Is the BBC racist ?
For the first time in it’s history the country is led by a non white but the BBC are trying to oust him .
Doing a pretty good job himself….his fellow travellers didn’t help….the cowards, treacherous backstabbers and remainers who betrayed Boris and led to the rout and terminal decline…they didn’t care about party or country and now it’s come back to haunt them…..the damage Starmer & Co will do to this country will utterly destroy what’s left of it.
The BBC are guilty of extreme racist discrimination and if you scrape through their veneer of hypocrisy, you find a seething mass of nasty, ruthless activists full of hate for the Right.
They used the full weight of the power they have through massive public funding to get Sunak into that job because they know full well he is unlectable to the British public. They are walking a fine line now to discredit him to obliterate the Tories at the next election, but they don’t want him to fall because a real Tory might get the job and upset the apple cart.
I am now assuming the Tories will try to topple Sunak and it will be interesting to watch what the BBC does. I expect they will start promoting Hunt again but will do their best to protect Sunak. Expect a few positive articles about Hunt in the near future.
If you look at Sunak you see a small weedy man with a whiny voice. There is nothing to vote for, unless you are a fan of Mr Bean.
And look behind him and you’ll see that Hunt.
Seems rather counter-productive for environmentalists…their ‘win’ in court might, should , mean a more sensible, rational and slower path to nut zero rather than some ideologically infused charge for glorious green inspired poverty and misery…..
‘The government has been defeated in court – for a second time – for not doing enough to meet its targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Environmental campaigners argued that the energy minister signed off the government’s climate plan without evidence it could be achieved.
The High Court ruled on Friday that the government will now be required to redraft the plan again. ‘
Soooo…‘ the energy minister signed off the government’s climate plan without evidence it could be achieved.’……basically we’re being forced into nut zero without any evidence that the methods chosen will work and the targets are achieveable.
I don’t think anyone needed to go to court to reveal that little gem….it’s been obvious from the start that the measures being implemented would be enormously, vastly, expensive and that the target dates are far too ambitious and that those on lower incomes will suffer disproportionately as transport and energy and other costs increase hugely.
Obvious to anyone who doesn’t rely on the BBC for the truth about nut zero.
North Korean weapons are killing Ukrainians. The implications are far bigger
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68933778
Goodness me : how many elephants are there in THIS room ?.
It strikes me that these days, the BBC have absolutely anybody writing articles on absolutely anything. Even when they are absolutely unqualified to do so for important political topics like this. I presume it started why they gave up hiring people for expertise and went for skin colour and sex instead.
The author Jean MacKenzies other recent contributions are about Scout jamborees, sex festivals and spring onions. Yet here she is wading in with heavyweight political accusations. Here she is. Roughly the same look as every other BBC reporter these days.
She’s even looking left!
Climate change the absolute lie
New Scicensist”
Climate myths: The ‘hockey stick’ graph has been proven wrong
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11646-climate-myths-the-hockey-stick-graph-has-been-proven-wrong/
Daniel Anjorin: Family devastated by loss of ‘most loved and amazing son’
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-68956936
And the great distraction continues.
The story here is about people living among us who are not English and go out early in a morning with a sword and murder people. It could happen to any of us at any time (though FAR more likely if you live in Londonistan).
But this situation is the result of Left-Wing politics and the BBC push those as hard as anybody. So these monumental hypocrites ignore all of that and make it a huge empathy story about a victim. I suspect they are pleased he was black because it fits the ‘victim’ agenda perfectly. They would love to point out the attacker was white, but that is trumped by him being an immigrant.
So no demands to clamp down on others like him, no screaming activists chained to railings at night-time vigils and no headlines on the BBC demanding the law be changed to get rid of these people.
The murderer himself is only mentioned right at the end with:
‘Marcus Arduini Monzo, 36, from Newham, east London, has been charged with murdering Daniel.’.
These people make me sick. They don’t care one bit who murders who. It’s only about their own agenda. Just like all the socialists in history and it’s easy to see how they always end up murdering those they don’t like once they get the power.
https://creation.com/en/videos/the-hockey-stick-graph-is-a
-fraud
The famous graph showing a runaway temperature rise leaves out key climate data. That graph strikes unwarranted fear into millions of people. Watch the entire episode
I was reading something on my phone saying that one reason for the temperature rising is because there is a lot less air pollution than there used to be to absorb the sunlight.
Can’t see the BBC ever mentioning that.
Toady on Sunday. From the Islamic Broadcasting Corporation.
Item 1. The civil war in Sudan. A Muslim country. Immediately followed by….
Item 2. A mosque in the UK which has a marriage bureau. A man was seeking a wife with whom he could pray. A tour of the mosque took place and the Imam started prayers.
Isn’t that nice?
Dangerous conservative dogs act edition
Some people will say… our prospective incoming Labour government intends to gold plate and intensify our already existing ‘hate crime laws’ to such an extent that it will become an illegal act to express any form of conservative views.
Others will reassure us that such concerns lie somewhat in the realm of conspiracy theories.
We will ban sword that killed Daniel – yells the Sunday People – no this not some obscure Old Testiment biblical reference, this is instead: Labour has pledged to force through a swift ban on swords
Goodness, where will that leave top Tory in waiting, Penny Mordaunt? Penny Mordaunt’s sword-wielding role – and other top Coronation moments (BBC)
‘force through a swift ban‘ – just like our many and varied, now near proverbial Dangerous Dogs Act(s)
The Act has been widely discredited for failing to address the underlying causes of dog bites and aggressive behaviour (British Veterinary Association); There is a consensus that the Dangerous Dogs Act of 1991 is in need of reform. It is considered unsafe, inefficient and detrimental to animal welfare (Guardian)
Why, Why, Why Are Some 3-Year-Olds Always Asking “Why?” When they ask why, it means they’re curious and wants to explore it further by talking about it with you. Granted, preschoolers don’t have the vocabulary necessary to initiate a full-on dialogue, nor the language comprehension to understand a lengthy answer.(KinderCare, we’re the experts in educating and caring for children and families)
Why France is finding vegan croissants hard to stomach (BBC)
Northern Ireland: Why Brexit isn’t ‘done’ for some (BBC)
Why mortgage rates are going up, not down (BBC)
Meanwhile, the gynaeceum that is our BBC News staff press pickers, fresh off the back of a long run of putting the Guardian top of their press line-up, feel more comfortable today with the mildly conservative Sunday Telegraph frontpage in their prized pole position: Labour wins in West Midlands and London
A discreditable second place in BBC affections goes to the rather recently Rishi lackey loyalist Express: We’re doomed! ‘Lame duck’ PM loses Tory stronghold… Party in panic as Labour snatches top Mayor job
Blimey, it’s as though Jeeves has turned on Bertie Wooster, or the Admirable Crichton has suddenly done something unadmirable
One doubts that it was the vague reference to that classic BBC comedy Dad’s Army character, corporal Jones’s, catchphrase that won BBC approval for this Tory rag’s headline.
There’s nothing our dull journos (and our dull as ditchwater incoming new Labour PM) do enjoy more than a tired old cliché
Starmer: beaten Sunak should end purgatory of zombie rule (Observer)
Purga… Tory – see what they did there?
Government to get medieval on your ass
From notions of a zombie government our minds wander via the term ‘zombie’ knives back to banned swords and: UK Proposed Ban/Controls on crossbows and “broad head arrows” (a welcome debut hereabouts for Slingshot Forum – a community dedicated to slingshot owners and enthusiasts)
One speculates will Will Shakespeare’s Hamlet perhaps fall foul of the offence archaeologists and PC literary editors’ blue pencils?
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The
slings and arrowsillegal weapons of outrageous fortune…There was a time our English government insisted by law that we practice our archery of a weekend. That was back when they wanted us to repel the invaders from France rather than invite them in.
Speaking of dangerous weapons – sometimes these segueways write themselves…
North Korean weapons are killing Ukrainians. The implications are far bigger (BBC)
Kyiv can use British weapons inside Russia – Cameron (BBC)
And if you’re one of those people blind to the brass-necked hypocrisy there… the BBC is recruiting
Speaking of hypocrisy…
Keir Starmer Our party is for everyone: let’s end these divisions (Observer)
Meanwhile: Labour’s Wes Streeting sparks furious backlash after making incendiary claim that a win for the Tories in the London mayoral election is ‘a win for racists, white supremacists and Islamophobes the world over’ (Mail online)
That there internationalist islam-friendly managerial socialist hyperbole care of our Wes tends to bring us full circle back to the notion that conservative views may well soon be fully outlawed – although considering how evil conservatives are in his mind and how muslim-friendly is our Wes, he’d probably go down the legal blasphemy route – despite his homosexuality.
There’s little in the way of comic asides with which to leaven our flat news diet this weekend.
24,000 vote Binface (Daily Star Sunday) – not funny – more tragedy than comedy.
There’s an odd juxtaposition of sorts on the frontpage of the Sunday Mirror as the title carries a Free National Trust Family Pass – beside: Duke’s estate in disrepair… photos show peeling paintwork… Andrew’s ruin… Prince could be evicted over the crumbling state of Royal Lodge
And there was the Daily Mirror campaigning for: ‘Labour will take action to back renters and ban no-fault evictions once and for all’
New Labour, new rentier class?
New Rayner Bombshell… Neighbour to police: I’d tell court that she was landlady (Mail on Sunday)
The NHS is so totally useless it cannot even assign junior doctors to all the vacancies.
Behind-scenes NHS problems leave new doctors without jobs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-68849847
But can it get any worse? Yes it can.
How about this amazing quote. From the BBC article no less.
‘ under immigration rules the NHS cannot prioritise UK-trained students’
Absolutely totally unbelievable. Yet somehow absolutely totally believable.
Not the BBC
At least five former neighbours to Angela Rayner have told police she did not live in the house she claimed was her home – as one says he will testify in COURT.
A witness in the Angela Rayner ‘two houses’ probe has told police he is willing to give evidence in court that she was the landlady of the property she claims was her home.
Chris Hinett told The Mail on Sunday he’d given a statement to Greater Manchester Police, which is investigating allegations that Ms Rayner broke the law by failing to declare her living arrangements.
This newspaper can reveal that at least six of the Labour deputy leader’s former neighbours in Stockport have been questioned by officers.
Ms Rayner maintains her ex-council house in Vicarage Road was her ‘principal property’, but neighbours say she was actually living at her husband’s house a mile away in Lowndes Lane.
Police are investigating potential breaches of electoral law, a failure to pay capital gains tax and a single-occupancy council tax discount being falsely claimed by Ms Rayner.
She claims legal advice she received exonerates her from any wrongdoing, and has said that if the police find she has broken the law she will stand down as deputy leader.
Vicarage Road neighbours said she moved out in late 2009, before marrying Mark Rayner and moving into his house. They add that she rented out her Vicarage Road property to her brother, Darren Bowen, 46.
Ms Rayner continued to claim the Vicarage Road property as her main residence, which would have allowed her not to pay any capital gains tax on the £48,500 profit she made when she sold the property in 2015.
Last night, Mr Hinett, 64, revealed to this newspaper that he had told police he intervened when Ms Rayner rowed with a neighbour after their son broke her window with his football.
He later saw Ms Rayner sat in her car ‘casing’ the neighbour’s house, adding: ‘She told me she was the landlady of the house and her brother lived there, and he wasn’t strong enough to deal with the likes of us.
‘I have given a statement to the police, and I said to them I am happy to say in court that she told me she was the landlady. If she says she lived at Vicarage Road, I am saying she is a liar.’
A neighbour at Lowndes Lane, Sylvia Hampson, 83, was interviewed by police a second time after The MoS revealed she was a legal witness to a document Ms Rayner signed when she was selling the Vicarage Road property.
Her son, Andrew, 55, has also been interviewed by the police, as has David Murphy, 83, who has lived opposite the Rayners’ former home in Lowndes Lane for more than 20 years.
Mr Murphy said: ‘I used to see her take the kids to school, so I thought she lived at the address. Two police officers wanted to know about her movements.’
Another pensioner on Lowndes Lane, who did not want to give his name, said Ms Rayner told him she lived on the street when she was a prospective parliamentary candidate in Ashton-under-Lyne. At the time, Ms Rayner still owned her Vicarage Road property.
He said: ‘I met her at a charity bash. She told me she lived in Lowndes Lane and told me her door number. I said, ‘That’s four doors away from me.’ ‘
Last night, a Labour spokesman said: ‘Angela has been clear that she will co-operate with any investigation. We remain confident that she has complied with the rules. It’s now appropriate to let the police do their work.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13383333/former-neighbours-Angela-Rayner-testify-court.html?ito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton
Not the BBC. Actually, pure BBC.
https://x.com/mishtal/status/1787019144778432818?s=61
As our university spaces turn into intimidating pro-terrorist encampments – the BBC just published a whitewash about a ‘peaceful and proud’ protest camp at Newcastle University.
Another @bbcnews piece written by an amateur hack who knows nothing and does no research. 1/6 ⬇️⬇️
Ashitha Nagesh
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/ashitha-nagesh-3b518b24
Possibly going for Mayor of KCL too?
Kneel and pray on a bbc mat facing mecca to end islamophbia.
If green card calls an election sooner than later i wonder how much protection the BBC will give to one of its’ own ..?
But i suppose green card will hold out for more bungs for his crew –
I hear the Japanese Prime Minister has sent Rishi Washee a few packets of viagra after he heard about his troubles with his election.
You are Benny Hill and I claim my £5 !
This is a public service announcement.
(There’s nothing about it on the awful BBC, as they’re still screaming and dribbling about the elections).
There is a serious water shortage in Hastings, with many shops and businesses closed, owing to a broken supply near Beauport Park.
This will mean that the infamous Hastings motorbike rally visitors won’t be able to get any food or drinks tomorrow.
It will also mean the we won’t have a whole day of thousands of bikes belting through all the villages at high speeds, making an unholy racket for hours on end!
Sorry about that, but never mind, it’s going to rain later anyway!.
(message ends).
don’t forget
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/05/02/bbcs-weather-map-colours/
The agenda applies everywhere
Love the gal on the left, not so keen on the ‘pavement pizza’ on the right…
Another astonishing piece in the Telegraph today by Kate Andrews of the Spectator , a well known hyperglobalist from the US who is a RINO/ One Nation Tory.
She analyses why the Tories lost and concludes that it was all down to the economic damage done by lockdowns and that there simply hasn’t been enough time for the recovery to get going.
Not a word , not one , about the damage done to the Tory brand of legal and illegal immigration.
Does she really believe what she writes or does she lack the courage to address the immigration / invasion issue? Only a complete idiot would think that immigration wasn’t a major issue and one which will be all consuming in a few years time.
Perhaps when the results of the election for the EU Parliament are known in June even the likes of Kate , and there are so many Tories like her, will realise that immigration is the major issue of our time right across the West and the voters want it stopped by whatever means necessary.
There are two options for the elite, either stop it and have a chance of remaining in power , or, abandon democracy and suppress the wishes of the people.
Double – the idiot pinup boy who was the mayor of the ‘west midlands ‘ warned blue labour against ‘moving to the right ‘…
..such lack of self awareness is the hallmark of blue labour – Street lost be about 1200 votes – I bet if he’d been a bit conservative a few more would have voted for him – but let’s wash them all away and enjoy the faster destruction of big cities under lefties ….
… I wonder what the Emir will come up with next ….?
Colonialists!
Racists!
White Privilege-ists!
what.ever….
They’ll jail a comedian for getting his dog to do a nazi salute [and weirdly it’s still on Youtube] but this is OK….
hezbollah are our friends of Labour!
https://hezbollah.liveuamap.com/
BBC Look North today. No mention today of this on their report on the local elections. This was in Leeds. But they did have an 18 year old, now a councillor in Bradford spout about the ” genocide ” in Gaza.
Look North – towards Mecca?
MONEY AND COOL PLANES! Rishi is living the dream….
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https://www.ft.com/content/30aa8b06-a9ee-4456-b8e1-a369cf6ed84a
When Rishi Sunak attended two Conservative conferences in Wales and Scotland on the same Saturday last April he travelled by private jet — a mode of travel often favoured by the multi-millionaire UK prime minister.
His round-trip was courtesy of an entrepreneur and minor Tory donor called Akhil Tripathi, co-founder of a heavily lossmaking start-up that hopes to sell an anti-snoring device to the NHS.
Later, Sunak sent a handwritten thank you letter expressing his gratitude: “Dear Akhil, thank you for arranging the use of your plane.”
However, the private jet did not belong to Tripathi. Instead he rented the cream-seated Embraer Legacy 500, which the prime minister recorded as a £38,500 gift. A few months after the trip, the entrepreneur became embroiled in a civil fraud case surrounding his start-up.
The episode has prompted questions about the due diligence that Sunak and the Conservative party did on Tripathi before taking his money and giving him access to the prime minister and senior officials.
Emily Thornberry, Labour’s shadow attorney-general, said Sunak and the Conservative party needed to give “a full and honest account” of how the prime minister ended up on the plane.
“They must explain on what basis Mr Tripathi gained access to the highest levels of government, and what checks were made on his background before he did so,” she said.
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https://www.ft.com/content/30aa8b06-a9ee-4456-b8e1-a369cf6ed84a
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Akhil Tripathi
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Provision of air travel to multiple Conservative Party events on 28 April 2023 for me and eight members of staff, value £38,500
Donor status: individual
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=25428
Lord Tripathi of Avios .. wanna bet ?
This aged well….
“Labour conference: Members fill hall with Palestinian flags
Published
25 September 2018”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45634379
“A Turkish man visits Lahore in Pakistan. Describing it as a s**thole, does not do the place justice.
-stinking piles of rubbish in the street
-people defecating in the street
-food prepared in the open air
-completely unsanitary
-lots of Islam”
. . . . . ..
The Best Moments from the Royal Tour of Pakistan 2019
“Kate looked beautiful in Pakistan dress. The materials Pakistani people use to make clothing is gorgeous.
Love the way they respect the culture of the country they are in. They are a class act.”
…..
Two different reviews.
I like Al jazzera – you know where you are with it . It doesn’t pretend to be something it isn’t ( see BBC )
In the 1pm Sunday news the lead news story is Israel banning Al jazzera in Israel . Any broadcaster which is a threat to Israel can be banned – so come on Israel – throw the Hamas BBC out …
Keep going IDF …
BTW – do you notice the losses of IDF personnel is not reported here ? I think – if I recall – it’s 263 dead ….
“Singer Gabrielle considers wearing eyepatch again”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck5k3k19ye6o