421 Responses to Midweek 15th May 2024

  1. Deborah says:

    Just heard on GBNews that the cause of the bug in the water in the South West COULD have been waste from cattle. Is this explanation to encourage people to become vegan? Or is it just be an easy get out by the water company’s PR team? The word used was ‘could’, so it may be it has nothing to do with the cows.

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  2. Northern Voter says:

    No, Deborah, cows chew cud, the bbc and msm are at the other end of the bovine alimentary canal.

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    • JohnC says:

      The Guardian on the left, CNN on the right and the BBC right in the middle.

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  3. tomo says:

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Tomo – we re not too far from ‘approved killings ‘ – no doubt the BBC wouid celebrate ( ‘snigger ‘to quote Croxhall ) the death of someone like Farage or Trump ….

      Heading for trouble ..

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      • G says:

        Daily, increasingly more people (particularly white), slaughtered on the streets of the UK. Focus on the elderly, young women children and other weak groups. Meanwhile, the Home Office islamic contingent search around for more objects to call, “Offensive Weapons” and ban. Two ends to the middle in their desire to render Brits defenceless in preparation for their takeover. Has Rich Sunak approved a hand-over date yet?

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  4. kingkp says:

    Just like the assassination attempt on Fico is highly suspicious so was the attack on Amess. Few questioned the narrative but as in all these cases they use supposed lone nutjobs to cover for their crimes. Of course, in Amess’s case, the killer was a supposedly disgruntled Arab. The usual playbook. Amess was starting to question Government policy on the stabs and lockdowns before his termination. At the Old Bailey, Judge Mr Justice Sweeney said: “This was a murder that struck at the heart of our democracy.” This type of language is a red flag to any self-respecting swivel-eyed conspiracy loon. It’s what the communists running the SED 2.0 in Germany continually pump out on their controlled mainstream media. The AfD is a danger to our democracy.
    Sirhan Sirhan is a classic case of this. A supposed unhinged Palestinian he did not assassinate Robert Kennedy as the bullet that killed him was a contact shot behind the ear and Sirhan was in front of him, never getting closer than six feet to Kennedy. Yet still, his murder by Mossad and the CIA is brushed under the carpet. Such is the power of the controllers.

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      I don’t know who killed RFK, but it is an absolute fact it was not Sirhan Sirhan. RFK was shot from behind at point blank range with a .22 pistol. The only man in that position with a .22 was his “guard”, Thane Eugene Cesar. No-one else could have shot RFK. Sirhan was a patsy.

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  5. JohnC says:

    Rest of the worlds headline:
    Zelensky blames ‘whole world’ for Ukraine’s failures in Kharkov

    BBC’s headline:
    Kharkiv fighting difficult but under control – Zelensky
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4n1nqrv2e8o

    Apparently the comedian says just 2 more free Patriot systems would stop the Russian invasion of Kharkov.

    Of course he’s lying. It might make it more difficult, but the end result is inevitable. They only question is how many die and how much of the city is destroyed first.

    Can’t help but like the little fella can you.

    Here he is when he was an actor:

    It seems the only one interested in discussing any kind of political solution is Putin. Unluckily for Ukraine, it has been deemed that they will fight to the last man.

    I would include women – but since every other Ukranian soldier was a woman before the war started then they all vanished to be replaced by men with beards, I’ll assume I was just being fed another lie.

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  6. Flotsam says:

    A subliminal electioneering message by the BBC, on our local radio station. “Things Will Only Get Better” by D:Ream was played just after one of the much repeated news item, Smarmer’s great new plan for Britain yesterday.
    The close association of the song to Bliar and New Labour must surely be known to the controllers.

    Smarmer’s great new plan, incidentally, was nothing more than a wish list with nothing to actually indicate how his great ideas will be achieved.

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    • Beltane says:

      Actually it was Kinnock, so the memories have poignancy.

      The pre-election landslide bun-struggle was a joy to watch with our Neil, ‘Thumper’ Prescott and Mandy all gigging along like teenies, counting chickens the whiles.

      Faces grew longer as the night progressed – surely the BBC aren’t being prescient here? Cancel the bubbly?

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  7. harry142857 says:

    Oh dear, how sad, never mind.

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    Palestinian student who was ‘full of pride’ at Hamas attacks against Israel claims Home Office revoked her visa ‘on national security grounds’.

    Dana Abuqamar, 19, a law student at the University of Manchester, attended a pro-Palestine protest just one day after Hamas carried out its October 7 attack

    During the demonstration, Ms Abuqamar, president of Manchester Friends of Palestine, was filmed saying she was ‘really full of joy’ and ‘proud that Palestinian resistance has come to this point’.

    She has now claimed that the UK Government has ‘violated her human rights’ by rescinding her student visa on the ‘baseless’ accusation that she is a ‘risk to public safety’.

    The Home Office told MailOnline it does not comment on individual cases and it remains unclear precisely what revoking the visa means for the teenager’s future in Britain.

    In a new video released this week, Ms Abuqamar confirmed she would be appealing the decision and said her remarks in October, which were publicly condemned by policing minister Chris Philp, had been misrepresented.

    ‘My words were taken out of context and they were framed as me supporting harm to innocent civilians, which is completely false and completely untrue,’ she told the Middle East Eye.

    The UK Home Office decided to revoke my student visa following public statements supporting the Palestinian right to exercise under international law to resist oppression and break through the siege that was illegally placed on Gaza for over 16 years.’

    She added: ‘It’s an outrageous claim that the Home Office is making by deeming me a national security threat.

    I am a 19-year-old who has done nothing but go to school and advocate for social justice and try and be an asset to my community.

    ‘So saying I pose a threat to national security is a completely baseless claim.’

    She told the news outlet that her legal team had lodged a ‘human rights appeal’ against the decision.

    Ms Abuqamar, who is in her final year as a law student, said that before coming to Britain she believed ‘freedom of expression is a fundamental human right that’s cherished here.

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    Get here on a plane and out of here.
    Plus all the the terrorist supporters who weren’t born here.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “She has now claimed that the UK Government has ‘violated her human rights’ by rescinding her student visa on the ‘baseless’ accusation that she is a ‘risk to public safety’.”

      “Ms Abuqamar, who is in her final year as a law student, said that before coming to Britain she believed ‘freedom of expression is a fundamental human right that’s cherished here.”

      freedom of expression is a fundamental human right that’s cherished here– but not in GAZA!

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    • Thoughtful says:

      I read this and although I absolutely abhor her views, she should in a free society with freedom of speech have the right to say it, and the state should have no power to intervene. Society should be the ones to judge.

      Freedom of speech means what it says the freedom to express views without the fear of the state exacting violence upon the person as a result.

      We might not like what she said, and I certainly don’t, but she didn’t incite others or invite anyone else to join her in support for a terrorist organisation.

      Is she a threat to National Security? Well as always in these situations we are not party to what the intelligence services know and the evidence they hold on her, and lets face it we can’t trust the UK media to tell the truth even if they know it!

      In my opinion it should be a matter of policy that all student visas are granted on the condition that the holder does not get involved in politics in any way, and that a breach of that would lead to an immediate cancellation of that visa.
      There have been far too many interntational student coming to Britain whose primary motive has been political, in the past and we now have students from China who are political officers from the CCP attending uni to keep watch over their fellows.

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  8. JohnC says:

    Israel troops continue posting abuse footage despite pledge to act
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-69020237

    This is the worst they have got to show us:
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    Caption: ‘A Palestinian detainee pictured with an Israeli flag draped over their back’
    You missed the word ‘terrorist’ before ‘detainee’ there BBC.

    Considering what these people did to Israel, I’m surprised they aren’t just shooting them like vermin.

    Isn’t it amazing what the BBC will ignore when it suits them (such as Hamas fighting from UN bases and using civilians as human shields) but kick up a great big stink over something like this.

    And look at just at how outrageous this abuse is:
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    caption: An Israeli soldier posts a photo of detainees while holding an Israeli flag
    How terrible.

    Well done ‘Merlyn’ of BBC verify. What do you want to do when you grow up ?.
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    What a complete and utter joke ‘BBC Verify’ is. It’s exactly like ‘Panorama’ : it starts with a desired conclusion then tries it’s hardest to prove it.

    What about the hostages BBC ?. What conditions are they being kept in ?. How many are now dead at the hands of their captors ?. Why aren’t you investigating things like that ?.

    These children make me sick.

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  9. Flotsam says:

    There is an interesting aspect to Jewish culture, most Jews are extremely pragmatic towards other faiths and cultures. I seen and experienced this directly. A significant proportion of the Israel are Islamic Arabs, there are even Palestinians living in Israel. Sure, there are tensions but by and large, Jewish Israelis just get on with trading and working alongside the “others”. In contrast, the Islamics are, with exceptions, extremely intolerant.

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    • Deborah says:

      Jewish people assume people are born into a family with faith and expect children to follow that faith. Jews believe Judaism is the Jewish way to G-d but don’t expect others to follow the Jewish faith but the one they were born into. Jews don’t expect people to convert to Judaism.

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      • Thoughtful says:

        Within Judaism voices in the US have criticised how difficult is actually is to convert. Knock and be turned away from the synagogue door three times?

        The New York reform Rabbis have therefore made it a little easier to convert these days though.

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  10. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/kulganofcrydee/status/1791353360114757842?s=61
    BBC boss claims impartial news is ‘increasingly becoming an affront’ to audiences who feel balanced coverage is ‘an attack on their values’ dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1… <What would the BBC organisation know of impartiality?

    So, ‘mostly not impartial’?

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  11. micknotmike says:

    I have a little side-story regarding the media’s treatment of Nixon. It’s not bbc, but it is to do with bias. I was a youngster at the time of the Nixon / Kennedy faceoff, so I can only watch the newsreels of the day. The story goes that during the televised debates, Nixon was placed underneath the biggest (And hottest) lighting rig. He was offered no “touchups” to his makeup and general appearance, whereas Kennedy had a whole team from the tv company dabbing his brow when the camera wasn’t on him, applying fresh makeup and preening his hair. If you watch it, take a look at Nixon. He actually has streams of sweat running through his hair and down his face. Not a good look and quite intentional.
    As I say, not bbc, but it shows that this blatant bias has been running for a long time.
    Crooked Joe (Not my name for him but I like the guy who coined it) will sure as anything find a reason to not appear on any right-leaning tv companies’ debate, and certainly nothing with a live audience.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Mick – that interview is used as an example of how the radio interview won over the TV version ….

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  12. friend of yogi bear says:

    SPEWING EFFLUENT….

    “Top talent” Nick Robinson had a lengthy item this morning on the BBC today programme, which drew my attention. I heard him talking about spewing out effluent, perhaps unsurprisingly I assumed this was the start of some sort of confession from our own dear Nick, well imagine my surprise when it turned out to be an item on Severn-trent Water.
    Ho-hum…well maybe one day!

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  13. tomo says:

    Whiff of desperation? (I’d like to think)

    desperate-kerrapp.jpg

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Remember – the BBC do not do advertisements – non – non at all.

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  14. tomo says:

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    • markh says:

      He’ll never be voted out because he has the immigrant vote. London is lost.

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  15. MarkyMark says:

    Rishi won’t stop one boat entering the UK – but can send a billion to stop Russia entering Ukraine?!

    Starmer cannot say if a man or woman has a penis but can build a better future.

    Ed Davey says he was present on the Post Office board but not there.

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  16. tomo says:

    Meanwhile, they roam our streets….

    https://x.com/GBNEWS/status/1791353318037422097

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    • MarkyMark says:

      They walk well trodden path … “Man who raped child in swimming pool because it was ‘a sexual emergency’ has jail sentence increased on appeal
      Defence lawyers for former Iraqi taxi driver had appealed the initial six-year sentence, saying their client did not know that the 10-year-old victim did not consent

      Adam Withnall
      Wednesday 14 December 2016

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  17. Fedup2 says:

    Today
    There’s a mystery today – French police have shot a ‘man ‘ dead . The ‘man ‘was apparently trying to set fire to a synagogue … it was described as ‘anti semitic ‘ … so it was an attack by a ‘nazi ‘ right ? Or was it by someone else ? With another ‘motivation ‘?
    We don’t know .

    Will we get a clue if the dead ‘man ‘ is named ? Could he – perhaps – be called ‘Mohammed ‘? .. could this suggest it was an attack by Islam ?
    Will we ever be told …? No TV licences please ..

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    • Deborah says:

      And has the BBC reported yet the attack on the Israeli embassy in Stockholm? Mahyar Tousi has and I don’t think he receives any thing like the funding the BBC gets.

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      • Guest Who says:

        ‘Lines to take’ add at least a day.

        If one that suits the narrative cannot be found, they will ignore it.

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  18. MarkyMark says:

    About us (UK Home Office)

    The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure. The Home Office has been at the front line of this endeavour since 1782. As such, the Home Office plays a fundamental role in the security and economic prosperity of the United Kingdom.
    https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/about

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  19. tomo says:

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    • Thoughtful says:

      It’s not that they don’t care, the Tories and the civil service want these migrants to come to Britain. For what reason goodness only knows.

      BTW doesn’t he bear a striking resemblance to Freddie Mercury in that bottom pic?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Buying the rope to hang ourselves.

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  21. AsISeeIt says:

    Where have we heard that before edition

    Our propaganda polluted media mainstream (Mr AsI advises consumers to always boil, filter and distill prior to consumption) brings us somewhat of a dull and colourless flow of slow news day headlines today.

    The BBC rediscovers that almost forgotten war we now take for granted – you’ll remember the one about which the Daily Express once used to daily proclaim frontpage its unity: …with the people of Ukraine.

    For top online news story our BBC goes with: Ukraine’s defence lines stretched as Russian troops advance

    Not to worry, the Biden adminstration has got this: ‘Free world is with you’: Antony Blinken plays guitar in Kyiv bar… Showing solidarity for Ukrainians, the US Secretary of State played the Neil Young song Rockin’ in the Free World (Telegraph)

    Blinken rocks out on a road to nowhere… The Secretary of State delivered remarks to Ukraine this week that paint a rosy scenario defying reality… bitterly ironic protest song, “Rockin’ in the Free World” in a Kyiv bar. His speech Tuesday laying out the U.S. plan for a “Free, Secure, and Prosperous Future for Ukraine” was full of ironies as well, although he’d prefer that we be oblivious to those too… After almost two and a half years of war, the speech announced a “stay the course” approach… Rather than use the recent $60 billion aid package to lay the groundwork for a feasible plan to end the conflict, the speech promised continued U.S. support for unconditional victory and continued efforts to bring Ukraine into NATO, one of the issues that helped to trigger the war in the first place. (Responsible Statecraft)

    More of the status quo, eh? Next up, our very own Dave Cameron with a very British rock twist…?

    Oh here we are and here we are and here we go
    all aboard and we’re hitting the road
    here we go rocking all over the world
    and giddy up and giddy up and get away
    we’re going crazy and we’re going today
    here we go rocking all over the world

    And I like it I like it I like it I like it
    I li-li-li-like it li-li-li-like here we go
    rocking all over the world

    Putin and Xi solidify ties… vowed in Beijing to work together against “destructive and hostile” US pressure (FT); Putin and Xi hail deeper defence ties (Telegraph)

    As for the print press on this slow news day, our BBC summarises their pick of the headlines with: Newspaper review: Hunt’s Labour warning and new Royal images

    Back from a time when the word ‘photoshop’ implied your high street branch of Boots the Chemist: Royal baby boom… Queen Elizabeth cradling Prince Edward… (Times); Revealed after 60 years, unseen photo of four royal mothers (Daily Mail)

    Ah, 1964. A time when Lord Snowdon not Getty Images got all the photocredits and our Queen was about to become the last actual native British-born woman ever to wear a headscarf.

    What the razzmatazz and promises tell you about Labour (Chris Mason, political editor, BBC) – razzmatazz is about the last word that might spring to mind in connection with our adenoidal piggy-eyed recovering personality by-pass victim Keir Starmer – but do tell us all about it Chris…

    It was in a film studio, of all places. There were promises, pamphlets, pledges and no shortage of probably pricey razzmatazz. At the centre of it, near presidential in style, Sir Keir Starmer. (BBC) – boring… wake me up when it’s over

    Scandinavia was always a byword for a liberal relaxed attitude toward sex. And so it is that the junior poundshop Guardian that is the left-leaning ‘i’ newspaper promotes: Sex ed.. What the Danes can teach us

    Things have certainly moved on with these continentals – have you seen Eurovision lately?

    Meanwhile: I’m 36 and sick of being asked if I’m freezing my eggs (‘i’) – calm down dear – now there’s a statement that back in 1964, when four royal mothers were photographed holding their new born babies, would have been more likely taken to be some query about a woman’s basic foodstuffs kitchen refrigeration protocols

    The formerly serious Times: Toyboys v older men? No contest Katie Glass, 43 – all together now… calm down dear

    One roll in the grass could cause days of pet sneezing (Daily Star) – let me elucidate this one: One in 10 dogs and cats facing hay fever hell… caused by an early warm spring

    And it wouldn’t be our BBC if there weren’t some climate change flavoured preferably third-party quote arms length moaning about the weather: Three in five adults in England say extreme weather has had a negative impact on their ability to be physically active, according to new research by Sport England. – this claim, pitched somewhat at the level of gossip – likely boils down to little more than: “I shan’t go out for a jog today, not when it’s raining”

    And it wouldn’t be the frontpage of the corproate globalist FT without a “far-right” or two.

    Netanyahu’s alliance with the far right bodes ill for Israel (FT, November 2022); The far right is moving into Europe’s mainstream… Geert Wilders… Viktor Orbán of Hungary… Giorgia Meloni… The Sweden Democrats… Robert Fico, a populist who dabbles with far-right themes, is back as prime minister of Slovakia (FT, November 2023) – full house – watch this space on that last chap.

    Today the pink paper rolls out the “far-right” warning red light spotlight to alight on Germany: Far-right MP investigated… A corruption investigation into Petr Bystron, an MP for Germany’s far-right AfD party, has been launched (FT) – far-right… got that?

    And there’s more – as comic Jimmy Cricket used to say

    …alleging links to a Kremlin campaign to spread Russian disinformation (FT) – now where have we heard that story plot before?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “…alleging links to a Kremlin campaign to spread Russian disinformation (FT) – now where have we heard that story plot before?”

      Sturgeon ‘appalled’ by Salmond continuing to host show on RT
      Published
      23 February 2022
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-60495467

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Asiseeit – there ll be plenty of material tomorrow after Jez Hunt does his comedy act involving promises to cut taxes – you know – the ones his regime have been increasing across the years to fund benefits give aways and furlough fraud and giving to France to improve dinghy deployment … and … and …
      I suppose he will promise to increase tax thresholds next year to stop the entire country paying 40% tax …or more ( it will be more ) …

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Jeremy Hunt: everyone will be paying more tax after autumn statement 2022

        Everyone. Everyone. Everyone.

        1,860,000
        Theresa May, Former UK PM earned £1.86 million in her 2 years since leaving Downing Street, figures show

        500,000
        Barry Gardiner defends donations worth £500,000 from Chinese agent

        400,000
        Matt Hancock, who lost the Tory whip after it was announced he would be appearing on the ITV programme, is still being paid as an independent MP and is rumoured to have been paid £400,000 to appear on the I’m a celebrity.

        315,00
        Boris Johnson earns £315,000 for 30 minute speech and ‘fireside chat’ in United States

        65,040
        Chuka Umunna Advisory Board of The Progressive Centre UK think tank (also known as Global Progress)

        20,000
        Jeremy Corbyn Labour party leader accepted up to £20,000 (about $27,000) for appearances on the Iranian state broadcast network Press TV

        18,450
        Keir Starmer £18,450 from Harper Collins as an advance payment for a book.

        15,000
        Boris Johnson Accommodation for a private holiday for my partner and me, value £15,000 Destination of visit: St Vincent and the Grenadines

        10,000
        Jeremy Hunt £10,000 from Citigroup Centre for speaking at an event on 9 March 2021. Hours: 4 hrs. Fee paid direct to charity. (Charity not mentioned)

        5,822
        Nadhim Zahawi MP promises to repay the part of £5,822.27 expenses claim for second home energy bills that relates to electricity for stables

        2,200
        MPs to get £2,200 pay rise from April for ‘dramatically increased’ duties last year

        1,950
        Philip Hammond accepts £2,000 watch from Saudi sheikh, despite ban on donating expensive gifts

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  22. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      HA HA HA

      It coincided with a £3 million windfall in bus lane fines for Aberdeen City Council.

      “At least half a million fewer people have visited Aberdeen city centre since new bus gates were installed, shocking new figures reveal.

      Business leaders said “challenged” Union Street traders felt the measures were working against their interests.

      “Footfall in the city centre is very much down from the inception in August when the city introduced the bus gates,” Aberdeen Inspired chief executive Adrian Watson said.

      Experimental traffic laws were used to bring in the bus gates banning most traffic around Market Street, Guild Street and Bridge Street last year.

      It coincided with a £3 million windfall in bus lane fines for Aberdeen City Council.”

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      • atlas_shrugged says:

        The sins of the wicked (Aberdeen City Council) will be visited upon the innocent (i.e. the traders).

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  23. tomo says:

    well, that’s a fresh hot take – eh?

    “Vaccine” damaged? = it’s your fault

    https://x.com/BohemianAtmosp1/status/1791363703490650346

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “So after initially claiming correlation does not imply causation. They are now claiming that research shows that the blood clotting from the “vaccines” is linked to your genes. 🤷‍♂️”

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “The Conservative Govt is bailing out Labour-controlled Lambeth Council for Lambeth’s past disastrous mismanagement of children’s homes, which had resulted in huge compensation bills.
      Another Labour screw up…”

      Conservative Govt is bailing out Labour = TAX PAYER (Not GOVT)

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  24. tomo says:

    meanwhile in Guardianland

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  25. MarkyMark says:

    Why get people to vote for you when you can import a set of voters?

    “📍Newtownmountkennedy
    This should shock everyone in Ireland!
    A military style camp full of strange foreign men in the middle of a rural area.
    The locals left dumbfounded.
    Wake up folks.”
    https://x.com/Mick_O_Keeffe/status/1791226371512910031

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  27. MarkyMark says:

    “If there was an elephant in the room, alongside the enthusiastic off-camera audience whooping and applauding, it was the environmental price tag of this technology.

    We know that AI is more power-hungry than traditional computing tasks, and that the more sophisticated it becomes, the more computing power it requires. There was no mention of sustainability during the evening.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv2xx1xe2evo
    Greta to burn down the AI?!

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  28. Thoughtful says:

    What the hell is this?

    https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/incredible-people-who-won-big-29182974

    “The incredible people who won big at the British Muslim Awards

    The award celebrated the achievements and contributions of the British Muslim community”

    “Greater Manchester won big at the 11th series of the British Muslim Awards. Rochdale’s oldest Mosque,”

    “The other big winners flying the flag for Greater Manchester was the Golden Mosque who took home the coveted title of ‘Mosque of the year’. ”

    “Hera Hussain, also from Manchester, was crowned the leading light of the year for her work in creating the charity, ‘Chayn’ which is a support group that helps victims and survivors of gender-based violence. Hussain was inspired to found CHAYN after she helped a young woman who was experiencing domestic abuse in Pakistan by building a case for asylum in the UK.”

    Words just fail me.

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  29. MarkyMark says:

    “Rebel members have been kicked out of the Scottish Green Party for declaring that “sex is a biological reality”

    https://www.holyrood.com/news/view,scottish-greens-expel-gender-rebels-deemed-threat-to-trans-members

    A total of 13 activists who put their names to it, including office bearers and other persons “of seniority”, were reported to the CCC, triggering a disciplinary investigation.

    . . . . . ..

    “Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion. And the scepticism of our time does not really destroy the beliefs, rather it creates them; gives them their limits and their plain and defiant shape. We who are Liberals once held Liberalism lightly as a truism. Now it has been disputed, and we hold it fiercely as a faith. We who believe in patriotism once thought patriotism to be reasonable, and thought little more about it. Now we know it to be unreasonable, and know it to be right. We who are Christians never knew the great philosophic common sense which inheres in that mystery until the anti-Christian writers pointed it out to us. The great march of mental destruction will go on. Everything will be denied. Everything will become a creed. It is a reasonable position to deny the stones in the street; it will be a religious dogma to assert them. It is a rational thesis that we are all in a dream; it will be a mystical sanity to say that we are all awake. Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer. We shall be left defending, not only the incredible virtues and sanities of human life, but something more incredible still, this huge impossible universe which stares us in the face. We shall fight for visible prodigies as if they were invisible. We shall look on the impossible grass and the skies with a strange courage. We shall be of those who have seen and yet have believed.
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “How is this legal?
      Dude hates humanity like Elon Said.⚠️⚠️⚠️”

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      • Thoughtful says:

        2 Thessalonians:

        2 Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, 2 not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already come. 3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness[a] is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

        5 Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? 6 And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. 7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, 10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

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        • MarkyMark says:

          “He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.”

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          • Thoughtful says:

            Soros has actually done that BTW

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            • MarkyMark says:

              When you have so much money you feel everything you do is for the greater good!

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              • Thoughtful says:

                In his younger Post War days he attended the LSE where he was friends and an admirer of Karl Popper, much of his evil stems from that misguided time in London.

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                • MarkyMark says:

                  Karl Popper defends his position by saying that if we allow unlimited tolerance, intolerance will use its freedom to attack tolerance and destroy it.

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  30. MarkyMark says:

    “Nearly 100 tonnes of UK aid comprising 8,400 shelter coverage kits – temporary shelters made up of plastic sheeting – are the first part of a £2 million package of UK aid to be delivered from Cyprus. The aid will be distributed within Gaza as soon as feasible.2 days ago”

    “Marcus lobbied the UK government to offer free school lunches to kids throughout the summer months as well. Without Marcus’ open letter to the UK government, this would not have resulted in a change in policy. After receiving his MBE, Marcus started a petition on the UK Parliament Petitions website.4 Nov 2023.

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  31. Fedup2 says:

    Got to hand it to the blue regime -its’ DWP chasing carers who work too much and earn too much for benefit money … and it’s been going on for years …

    I was a cared once – this does not effect me directly – but it really is something eh ?

    The State depends on relatives who act as unpaid carers – and sometimes says ‘thanks ‘ but it’s hollow – and a lie …

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  32. Terminal Moraine says:

    Yesterday at Congress the NIH admitted that they had indeed been funding gain of function research at Wuhan prior to C19. This confirms what many have known, and what Fauci had flat out rejected at Senate hearings, calling such an accusation “egregiously incorrect”.

    This is big news, especially so given the crusade that gov and media are on pretending to disseminate only accurate medical info. Somewhat masochistically I like to periodically check on the BBC’s Senior Health and Misinformation reporter. Here’s her latest post on Twitter.

    I am probably not alone in wishing I could get refunded for the years I did pay the licence fee, such is the failure of intelligence.

    —————
    @rachelschraer
    Sobering to realise you’re the same age as Miss McKenzie in Busted’s What I Go to School for
    —————

    https://x.com/rachelschraer/status/1790644316961935519

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  33. MarkyMark says:

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz74ed6yk9lo

    Row erupts over portraits of Australia’s richest woman

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  34. Terminal Moraine says:

    Not on the BBC…?

    —————
    A woman carrying a large knife was arrested yesterday for possession of an offensive weapon in a public place after she was seen brandishing it in Stamford Hill, north London. She allegedly told a Jewish man that he is a “provocation” before specifying “you people, you Jewish…all the trouble you’re creating in the world.”
    —————

    https://x.com/antisemitism/status/1791065598446670205

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  35. Thoughtful says:

    The Sunday Times under 40 rich list has been published and as might be expected it’s full of the ‘creative’ types who moan about social justice and influence their generation.

    I never used to believe in a wealth tax, but I am now a firm convert after realising that it is possible to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions and pay no income tax what so ever, yet still live in Britain and enjoy all the priveledges legally.

    Clever accountants and lawyers making use of tax havens, offshore trusts etc make sure every thing is legal above board and most of all that a minimal amount of tax is paid.

    As Leona Helmsley said – only the little people pay tax.

    Sunak and family increased their wealth last year by a staggering £105 Million and yet they had no legal liability to pay any tax at all on that!

    We the tax paying people are paying their share of the tax burden and that’s just not fair.

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  36. tomo says:

    So who is Ihor Kolomoisky, anyway?

    Born in Dnipro, Ukraine (while it was part of the Soviet Union), Mr Kolomoisky capitalized on the opportunities in the “import-export business” that surfaced with the collapse of the USSR to later become both arguably the wealthiest and the most influential man in Ukraine. He once owned Ukraine’s largest private bank, prior to its state nationalization. He also owned Ukraine’s most influential media company. He even owned Burisma when it employed Hunter Biden (more on this in a moment).

    Curious about Ukraine?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “He (Kolomoisky ) even owned Burisma when it employed Hunter Biden (president Biden’s son)”

      ……………..

      Hunter Biden and Burisma: FBI source charged with lying about Biden bribe claims Published 16 February
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68313086

      ………….
      A Gallery Sells Hunter Bidens. The White House Says It Won’t Know Who’s Buying.
      Hunter Biden’s works are being offered for as much as $500,000 apiece; his art dealer said he would follow ethics guidelines that the Biden administration helped to develop.

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    • Thoughtful says:

      I see you missed out the fact Kolomoisky is an orthodox Jew in case some of the extremists on here bleat about anti Semitism!

      He is one of the most corrupt individuals in the world, so corrupt that despite the Demonrats support for Ukraine he is banned from enterning the USA

      He holds Israeli citizenship along with Cyprus and he bears a resemblance to George Lucas

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

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  37. Lunchtime Loather says:

    I send our friends at the BBC multiple complaints every day. It gives me great satisfaction and something to do, but being placed in the “we ignore you” Annex B I rarely see any kind of response. When doing so I am asked for an email address and rather than using my own I have been using ecu_complaints@contact.bbc.co.uk which is the Executive Complaints Unit’s email address. I can only assume they are receiving all of the “thank you for getting in touch” messages that I am generating.

    However, I’d like to try some other “real” BBC email addresses. Does anybody have any?

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  38. MarkyMark says:

    courted controversy = scottish hate speech
    there is only one truth, that men can have a penis!

    “An NFL star has courted controversy by telling female graduates that one of their most important roles in life will be “homemaker”.

    Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker also criticised abortion and LGBT Pride marches in a speech at Benedictine College, Kansas.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-69021543

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  39. MarkyMark says:

    “Extremist jailed for life over street murder”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crgyggw4z05o

    “”You hoped to frighten the British people and undermine the freedoms they enjoy.””

    She said: “I don’t feel anything, I’ve lost everything.

    ….

    Out in 2 years.
    On BBC “Not a monster podcast” in 1 year.
    On channel 4 Jihadist next door in 3 years.
    Fighting in Gaza in 4 years.

    . . . . .

    The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, fire, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports. Every day, our teams across the UK and beyond deliver outcomes to improve citizens’ lives.
    https://careers.homeoffice.gov.uk/

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    Flow Management Operational Liaison Officer – Immigration Enforcement
    Home Office

    https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?vxsys=4&vxvac=353863
    £34,350 – £41,035

    Benefits
    Learning and development tailored to your role
    An environment with flexible working options
    A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
    A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

    employer (tax payer) contribution of 27%!!!!
    employer (tax payer) contribution of 27%!!!!

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  40. MarkyMark says:

    “Hunt hints at another National Insurance tax cut”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwgd1ngn8xo

    .. . .. . . .. MORE OF THIS ……

    In April 2020, the Health Secretary announced that over £13bn of NHS debt would be written off and converted to public dividend capital (PDC). This was part of a wide range of financial measures the Government brought in for health and social care during the current pandemic.
    https://www.health.org.uk/publications/reports/what-the-13bn-debt-write-off-means-for-the-nhs#

    ec8968d1-827d-4c2c-be0c-d7788eecf909-763e13a1-a726-4d59-bde7-831ae6586661

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  41. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/jonsopel/status/1791433527881355367?s=61
    General booking for my autumn book tour is officially now open! Come and hear me chat about my new book, Strangeland: How Britain Stopped Making Sense.
    I’ll see you there!

    1 per 10mins so far. Early days.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Strangeland: How Britain Stopped Making Sense”

      “The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam”

      The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth-rates, mass immigration and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their own comprehensive change as a society.

      This book is not only an analysis of demographic and political realities, but also an eyewitness account of a continent in self-destruct mode. It includes reporting from across the entire continent, from the places where migrants land to the places they end up, from the people who appear to welcome them in to the places which cannot accept them.

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  42. Fedup2 says:

    World at one – happy day for HamasBBC – bad day for Israel . The pier is open and supplies for Hamas will start to flow – let’s hope there’s a big storm …

    The BBContinues to refer to ‘Hamas fighters ‘ – so they are not terrorists – despite British law saying they are – is the BBC committing a crime of ‘aiding terrorism ‘?

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    • Thoughtful says:

      If Israel had been prepared to supply and administer the aid it could have chosen who to give it to, but it decided not to do that, leaving it to others.

      However knowing what people have told me Hamas is only a few people at the top who basically find some random bloke, stick a rifle in his hands and suddenly he’s “Hamas” – only until he puts it down or gives it back and then he’s a civilian again, making it impossible to fight an enemy like that, unless you kill 2 million people

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  43. Fedup2 says:

    From the DT – BBC to have its own railway .

    STARTS a new rail service between Rochdale and London is being introduced to the benefit of BBC staff working at its northern outpost.

    Plans for a route terminating in Rochdale, nestled in the Pennine Hills 10 miles north of Manchester, will aid those travelling to the BBC’s Media City office in Salford.

    Rochdale, a former mill town of 110,000 people, last had its own rail connection to the capital a quarter of a century ago.

    Passengers from the area will benefit from a new three-hour service along the West Coast Main Line to London Euston, travelling at speeds of up to 125mph.

    FirstGroup, which is behind the proposal, said the service will support around 1.6 million people in the region.

    Operations are planned from 2027 under FirstGroup’s Lumo brand, requiring a fleet of around half a dozen new trains.

    Japan’s Hitachi is expected to be best-placed to secure the procurement contract, having supplied Lumo’s existing five-train fleet from its plant in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham.

    The trains will operate under overhead wires as far as Manchester and be equipped with batteries to complete the last few miles on the unelectrified line to Rochdale.

    At the heart of the plan is the restoration of direct London trains to Manchester Victoria station, once one of Britain’s major rail hubs but in recent years reduced to providing mostly local trains and semi-fast services to other northern cities.

    The service will also stop at Eccles, which FirstGroup said will serve nearby Salford and provide Media City employees with a convenient route to London.

    This will mean they do not have to travel to Piccadilly Station, Manchester’s hub for trains to the capital.

    MediaCity hosts 3,200 employees and is home to BBC Sport, BBC Breakfast, Radio 5 Live and the BBC Philharmonic, as well as children’s and religious programming and local TV and radio.

    The trains, which will offer wi-fi and at-seat catering, will make two more stops before heading to Euston, and are set to make six return journeys a day,

    Lumo, launched in 2021, already operates a service between London and Edinburgh, which it is looking to extend to Glasgow, while sister brand Hull Trains has been operating between London and the Yorkshire city since 2000.

    The company has applied to run the new Rochdale service under open access rules that allow for the launch of new routes not catered to by existing franchises where demand is sufficient.

    Other open access operators include Arriva UK’s Grand Central, which provides services to Sunderland and Bradford from King’s Cross, though several more have fallen by the wayside after proving unviable, including a service from London Marylebone to Wrexham.

    Labour’s plan to renationalise the railways by taking franchises under state ownership as they expire shouldn’t impact the plan, according to FirstGroup, which cited a commitment to retain the open access model in the recent Getting Britain Moving strategy.

    FirstGroup already runs Manchester’s existing express service to London through its Avanti West Coast business.ENDS

    There is another plan for the BBC to have its own motorway and tube line …

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  44. MarkyMark says:

    “What did ICJ ruling mean in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel?”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3g9g63jl17o

    “It did not decide – and this is something where I’m correcting what’s often said in the media… that the claim of genocide was plausible,” said the judge.

    HA HA HA HA

    “It did not decide – and this is something where I’m correcting what’s often said in the media… that the claim of genocide was plausible,” said the judge.

    BBC – “What did ICJ ruling mean in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel?” (suggests not read article)

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  45. Nibor says:

    Today programme Radio 4 , an item about the Roman Catholic church is going to re evaluate reports of sightings of miracles eg statues weeping etc .

    Why is this of interest to the BBC ?

    Well first they can insinuate that it’s all down to social media, and the BBC hates social media , it doesn’t control it so it doesn’t control us .
    Second it can have a sneer at the Catholic Church, telling us the religion communicates by smoke signals .

    [ this happens when a new pope is elected , a long tradition. Doesn’t the BBC tell us that the BBC is a tradition? ]

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  46. tomo says:

    A day doesn’t pass without some cretin fawning over the creep Gates, the BBC seems to manage at least once a week consistently…

    https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1791494076228870583

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