Midweek 5th June 2024

The 5th of June – the original D Day – but held up because of the weather . During the BBC coverage of the 80th anniversary on the 6th – will there be a reference to ‘climate change ‘? How much will the BBC devalue such a sacred anniversary ? Rest in Peace all those boys whose lives were taken from them to free Europe ..

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  1. Zelazek says:

    Watching Joe Biden produces a strange cocktail of emotions.

    Cognitive decline elicits sympathy and compassion in me for the sufferer. I also feel great sadness that this is the final chapter of life for many of us. I also feel not just some dissatisfaction but anger at the human condition.

    Then I feel irritation that a man who is physically frail and mentally feeble is in the position of leader of the free world. I feel insulted that the media ignores his condition, doesn’t see it as a problem, and expects me not to notice that this man is unfit for office. I feel outrage when this demented wreck of a man embarrasses himself, his country, and the world at our sacred ceremonies. I feel utter hatred for Jill, that evil First Lady of his, whose lust for power and status vastly exceeds her proper wifely care for the dignity of her husband.

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    • Non Snowflake says:

      There are some days when I almost feel sorry for him. The way he’s been used and abused by Gates, Soros and Obama in the last 4 years as a front for their various agendas is scandalous. Everyone with an ounce of intelligence (and access to the internet) knows the election was rigged, with more evidence being revealed all the time. Sometimes Biden is probably aware that he’s the president and sometimes he probably can’t remember his own name.

      It will be interesting to see how they rig their next election and what they plan to do with Biden, as I doubt he’ll have much say in the matter.

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    • tomo says:

      For decades Joe Biden was adjudged by his peers as wholly unfit for the highest office. He didn’t need age related degeneration to do stupid and evil things + lie repeatedly.

      That he’s a dimwitted, corrupt, grasping street thug is born out by the evidence imho.

      He simply being used as a fig leaf for even worse operators – and – he’s OK with that.

      No sympathy here.

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    • digg says:

      And that is what the USA and many of our young have become. Zombies with no ability to see the wood for the trees while they chase their own agenda.

      The UK is on the way to the same hell-hole too.

      It’s a house of cards and will eventually collapse or be wiped out by a stronger nation with a backbone, values and sense of real purpose.

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  2. tomo says:

    impressive loyalty

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  3. Fedup2 says:

    You know that theory that green card has had enough of being PM and just wants to go home to Santa Monica ….

    .. well now he had admitted that not only did he leave the D Day commemoration early – but he did so to do an ITV interview .

    He really does want to lose it . Personally he should stand down and leave right now . Doing that – leaving something of such national importance should be enough to end him , I really hope it does ….

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    • tomo says:

      He really does want to lose it

      So much so, that a cynic might wonder what he’s been promised as reward?

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Tomo – he ll get some UN WEF job – I still go with the theory that he – and the missis – have had enough of this country and wants to go home . He’s a foreigner – he proved that yesterday …
        There’s a residual bit of me that doesn’t want to see the blue party destroyed – but that went yesterday … the least he could have done was to lie and say there was an ‘urgent matter ‘to deal with –
        The other thing is – surely some Spad / staffer should have said – don’t do it – and resigned as a result . Now the event should be told .
        Who wants a PM who doesn’t even stay for something so profound in the national history . ? But that’s what happens when an unelected foreigner gets the job . I’m effing fuming .

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  4. Jeff says:

    Our “ethnic friends” just have to muscle in on everything, don’t they?

    I’ve just seen an advert for one of the well-known ancestry sites which left me a …little bemused…

    There was the well-spoken female voice over, telling us about her great grandfather. He’d been a volunteer firefighter during the London Blitz…we see the familiar scenes of London bombed and ablaze and those brave men standing below crumbling buildings with their hoses, attempting to douse the flames.

    And then we see a photo of this lass’s grandfather…and yes…he’s black. FFS…

    I mean, just leave us alone. This is utter bullshit and indoctrination of the young and historically illiterate.

    Coming soon, the rewriting of the Battle of Britian with an entire squadron of Jamaican Spitfire pilots.

    Well, Winston did refer to these heroes as “The few”.

    In this case…the very few…

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Desperate to be inclusive .. but just peeing white British people off … must be a happy time for coloured actors . I understand that the bbc coverage didn’t manage to insert coloured folk into D Day ,,, unless they used the yanks of course …

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  5. Fedup2 says:

    Meesh is chairing the x7? Debate tonight apparently . I wonder if she will ask Farage about his family again . ? – I don’t think I will watch .. although Farage is a big draw and will put the rest in a box …. Maudent is apparently the blue offering ….

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Fed, noticeble that Mishal’s two colleagues, Nick and Amol, mispronounced her name!

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  6. Fedup2 says:

    Up2
    I missed that – perhaps it’s not all happy happy on ‘today ‘ I’m sure the driven Muslim is an ‘egg shell ‘ job gathering evidence for an inquiry / tribunal when she doesn’t get what she wants …
    I assume events today – such as green card resigning – won’t overtake the debate – but – of course – green card will think saying ‘sorry ‘ means no worries …

    .. god knows what the dwindling membership of the former Conservative Party will think – wouid Margaret thatcher pull away from d day for an ITV effing interview?

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  7. MarkyMark says:

    “Sunak apologises for leaving D-Day events early, calling it a ‘mistake'”
    https://order-order.com

    Sunak says his USA green card and wifes non dom tax setup was just a mistake and when he moves to the UK it will all make sense.

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  8. tomo says:

    I hope Farage uses Sunak’s swerving Normandy on Penny the sword holder later.

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  9. digg says:

    BBC relentless in their hunt to get Sunak and the Conservatives out next month.

    Now they are going after him for “leaving” the D Day commemorations “early”…

    You couldn’t make up the double standards they use. They couldn’t give a toss about D Day where a load of white blokes got topped as it is Nationalistic and against their global view of the UK anyway!

    This is simply a re-run of what they did to oust Johnson.

    They will get more blatant with this shit as election day approaches.

    Turds, the lot of them.

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    • tomo says:

      pfff … maybe the BBC are also providing advisors to Rishi ?

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    • Guest Who says:

      1. No question.

      2. Deserved.

      3. Undoubtedly.

      Rather highlights the dubious wisdom of an establishment, especially media, rammed with Tony Blair’s nose rubbers, in particular from one rather unpleasant little flood plain in SE Asia, running a country with which they have little love and short and contentious history.

      Still, they will soon have the U.K. back to how they left it.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Digg – I disagree – the bbc has no need to nail green card – he has done it to himself – and in the end nut nut did for himself by appointing a labour spy …

      Sunak should just go on the facts …

      And I know politicians don’t give a toss about 18 year old boys ending up in boxes if it furthers their careers . They are politicians first – humans maybe second …

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    • Thatcherrevolutionary says:

      Did they mention Biden shitting his pants and leaving early?

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  10. tomo says:

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  11. MarkyMark says:

    “You said you have the most transparent administration every”
    “It’s true” Obama

    “Not fair to selectively releasing emails.” Trey Gowdy

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  12. MarkyMark says:

    Sunak to stop the boats by going to the French beaches with a knife**

    ** knife recycled from London stabbing.

    “Dover MP Natalie Elphicke told the Commons that the BBC’s “shocking report” contained the “breath-taking” disclosure of free French public bus services being used to ferry migrants from camps to Dunkirk beaches.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-63229010

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  13. friend of yogi bear says:

    HEADS OF STATE..

    I don’t have the greatest regard for SUNAK but even less for BBC coverage of SUNAK and his behaviour.
    BBC “TOP talent” Nick Robinson reached a fever pitch of excitement this morning having spotted that SUNAK was not present with Biden and little Macron and some point yesterday on Normandys beaches. He made such a fuss, pretending to care about vetrans being let down, insulted or whatever.
    Well Nick, you see SUNAK isn’t head of state…The King is and maybe he was taking a break because he’s not well . He was present earlier and if SUNAK had been up with Biden and Macron I’m sure clever Nick would have been first to scream” SUNAK, who does he think he is” on a platform with heads of state no less!

    BBC being impartial as ever?

    To give SUNAK a bit of slack , he might have thought his election chances as would be further damaged by ever being seen with the likes of Biden and Macron. Yuk!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Sunak has hundreds of advisors – not one said this might look bad?

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  14. MarkyMark says:

    Every young person is a Hitler (c) BBC Verified
    “The right could win big in Europe – thanks to young people”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqqq952e3v6o

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  15. MarkyMark says:

    “MPS are not getting to the root of whether in fact the intelligence we were provided with was the real intelligence provided by the intelligence services”
    https://youtubetranscript.com/?v=GBWE7QzADe8

    HA H AHA !Word soup!

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  16. JohnC says:

    Carrying on from yogi’s pal above:

    Rishi Sunak apologises for leaving D-Day events early, calling it a ‘mistake’
    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-politics-69098963

    Does this REALLY warrant a BBC ‘live-update’ main news headline ?.

    They have no less than 7 sub-articles on the same subject to allow them to keep releasing a new headline on the same subject. EXACTLY what they did for the ‘partygate’ debacle.

    That whole column is a hit-job on Sunak with just one positive-PR slot for the Lib Dems.

    Not that I have much sympathy for him of course : he should never have been put in that job. Something else to thank the BBC for. And now their investment of taxpayers money is paying the dividend they expected. A certain Labour victory in the next election.

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  17. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “As Prime Minister, I will turn the dream of owning a home into a reality.”

      . . . . .

      Today the BBC journalists Michael Keohan and Colin Campbell released a shocking report on the channel crossings. It showed people smugglers selling their wares brazenly in the migrant camps and many children living in unsafe and dangerous conditions, as well as—this is breathtaking—a free French public bus service that migrants can use to travel directly from the camps to the Dunkirk departure beaches. Will my right hon. Friend allow a statement on the issue of tackling the small boat crossings and the Government’s response in their work with France?

      https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2022-10-13a.258.0#g262.1

      SACK THEM ALL!

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    • tomo says:

      Keir’s father , the toolmaker – had a cervix, or something

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      • MarkyMark says:

        toolmaker e.g. owns factory where people make tools for him to sell?

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  18. Fedup2 says:

    The disappearance of TVs Dr Michael Mosley is looking more grim by the hour . He was last seen on a very hot Greek island on Wednesday …. If he has been involved in an accident and has not had water he may only have a day left before dehydration kills him …

    But maybe something else happened ….

    I hope he turns up well …

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  19. atlas_shrugged says:

    Conclusive proof of global warming found at Ver-sur-Mer, Normandy:

    6-June-1944: Cold and stormy.
    6-June-2024: Warm and sunny

    (c) bBC Verified Fact 2024

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  20. MarkyMark says:

    “In a Labour government the Attorney General will be Emily Thornberry. In power she would be the government’s chief legal adviser – dealing with questions of international law, human rights and more, as well as superintending the main independent prosecuting departments.”
    order-order.com

    FROM MY EXPERIENCE FROM MY EXPERIENCE
    not people starving

    ** backed by russia to piss USA off – HA HA HA HAHA

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I heard Emily – lady watshername being interviewed the other day and the regal oxygen waste is full on knowing she’s about to get The Big Pension and Glory ….

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Miliband: Thornberry’s ‘white van, flag’ tweet lacked respect
        Published
        21 November 2014
        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30148768

        https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=11656

        2-7 September 2007, to Israel and Palestine with Labour Friends of Israel (LFI). Travel and hospitality paid for by LFI. Accommodation paid for by LFI at a rate discounted through the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Some hospitality provided by the Palestinian Legislative Council/Palestinian Authority. Travel within Israel/Palestine provided by LFI. Some travel within Israel provided by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (Registered 7 September 2007)

        Payment of £1,200 from Mail on Sunday Features for writing an article. Address: Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, London W8 5TS,. Hours: 6 hrs. (Registered 22 July 2011)
        Payment of £100 from Sky News, for newspaper review. Address: BSkyB, Grant Way, Isleworth TW7 5 QD. Hours: 2 hrs plus travel. (Registered 22 July 2011)

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        • Guest Who says:

          After 3 #politicsoftheleastbad nose holds simply because the calibre of opponents put up was insulting despite the incumbent goof being as MP as an MP can be, given what his party has done to the country I dallied with a protest absence but had opted for #NOTA.

          What, was/is the point. They simply get in no matter what.

          Useless, venal, or plain thick if opportunistic gravy boaters all, with zero control over the civil service and, as evidenced above, ‘held to account’ by a media estate that was ratings obsessed but is now full of ideological juveniles in dire complement.

          Senior ministers have always been a joke. How can you be on top of ‘your brief’ when your experience is a PPE from UoKent, Spad and then protest dolly for the Greens before rattling around as a bag carrier in a mould and politics infested HoP? So a certifiable box of rocks handling defence or home office before being transferred to get on top of diversity in agriculture never made any coherent sense.

          And then there are the media outings they so desperately crave.

          On what planet is tasking a brain donor currently on health about foreign policy or, ‘while in the studio’, what some other doofus colleague’s idiot researcher has posted on twitter? Are they really going to offer the killer sound bite or mumbled focus groups approved safe phrase?

          None of it makes a whit of difference. Until now; when those playing the old establishment game are ignoring the new establishment by ramping up the games for petty gains thus allowing the latter to take hold by ignoring once sacred conventions.

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  21. Terminal Moraine says:

    Not BBC but keeping an eye on the left wing press and internal Labour divisions. For example journalist and teacher Jody McIntyre, who is trying to unseat Jess Phillips in Birmingham Yardley. Independent candidates have stepped aside for him.

    In a 2019 video Jody “speaks about growing up with Cerebral palsy, facing discrimination as a disabled person, what led to his conversion to Islam and how he drove to Maritania in order to learn Arabic and memorise the Qur’an.”

    Exploitation comes to mind.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Vote for Palestine to get your bins emptied by your council … HA HA HAHA

      Turkish elections: How Germany became a reservoir of votes for Erdogan
      Nearly half of those voting abroad for the presidential and legislative elections do so from Germany. In 2018, 65% of them voted for the incumbent president.

      By Thomas Wieder (Berlin (Germany) correspondent)
      Published on May 14, 2023, at 1:13 am (Paris), updated on May 14, 2023, at 1:11 pm

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Jody McIntyre

      @jodymcintyremp
      @WorkersPartyGB
      Candidate for Birmingham Yardley.

      Promoted by Jody McIntyre at 498 Coventry Road, Small Heath, B10 0UN.
      crowdfunder.co.uk/p/jodymcintyreJoined March 2024
      1,750 Following
      6,987 Followers

      https://x.com/jodymcintyremp/status/1769849258163724644

      I hereby announce my intention to unseat Labour Friend of Israel and MP for Birmingham Yardley, Jess Phillips.

      The people need a representative who speaks for them!

      https://crowdfunder.co.uk/p/jodymcintyre

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      So lovely to see The Treason Party in full flow:

      “And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate hath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm. So help me God.”

      Bill of Rights 1688/89

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      • MarkyMark says:

        “And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate hath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm. So help me God.”**

        ** terms and conditions apply.
        ** payments received will change these principles

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    • Fedup2 says:

      3 faces of kiddie fiddling?

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  22. MarkyMark says:

    He rots the soul of a nation
    He rots the soul of a nation

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    “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. (Boris Johnson)

    But it cannot survive treason from within.(Theresa May)

    An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. (Anjem Choudary)

    But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.(Jeremy Corbyn)

    For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”

    Marcus Tullius Cicero

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  23. G says:

    Next?

    Comparisons of the EU, and various politicians with Stalin. Then, UK Police Force with the Stasi. Why not?

    Let’s keep going…………

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  24. tomo says:

    Run away, or stay and fight?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      1765 …. **In a republic worthy of name, freedom to publish one ’s thoughts is a citizen’s natural right.** They may use a pen or their voice, and should not be prevented from writing any more than speaking …That is the law in England, a monarchical country, where people are freer than elsewhere because they are more enlightened. – Voltaire, Republican Ideas, 1765

      2018 … In addition to reporting hate crime, please report non-crime hate incidents, **which can include things like offensive or insulting comments, online, in person or in writing**. Hate will not be tolerated in South Yorkshire. Report it and put a stop to it #HateHurtsSY – UK South Yorkshire Police, 2018

      1765 … **In a republic worthy of name, freedom to publish one’s thoughts is a citizen’s natural right.**

      2018 … **which can include things like offensive or insulting comments, online, in person or in writing**

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  26. Fedup2 says:

    Looks like the rishi D Day gaffe is gonna run for a news cycle – and his advisors will be telling him to put on khaki uniform and find some military types – for another photo op gaffe ….

    But to me – leaving the commemoration is beyond a gaffe – its resignation fodder …

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    • tomo says:

      It’s too perverse an action to be credible to meet up with Brand at ITV – of all people…

      Perhaps Rishi is being blackmailed, a la Wragg?

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  27. tomo says:

    Thornberry wouldn’t acknowledge, I’m certain, that the Cuban regime’s cadre of overseas medics is leavened with a large number of state security types to both keep an eye on any runaways and make mischief – according to Venezuelan colleagues who’d seen them in action in their country… the gossip had it that around 25% were malevolent spooks.

    The tubby plank is in the same intellectual group as mastermind Lammy.

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  28. tomo says:

    Labour have a centenarian tranny squaddie up their sleeve?

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  29. MarkyMark says:

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  30. MarkyMark says:

    Green Party want fewer people on the planet?

    “Zack Polanski says the Labour Party “have been complicit in what is happening in Gaza. And it’s worse than that, they’ve been enabling it.””

    order-order.com

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  31. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    What do we think the audience will be like on tonight’s 7 way debate.
    Will it be fairly balanced or will it be a question time audience.

    I suppose we will see if there’s the qt silence after every time Nigel speaks or if there’s at least 15% of them clapping which will show a seventh of the audience representing the 15% of the voters appearing to support Reform on the Polls.

    I fully expect the other 6 all to gang up on our Nigel but he can handle that with ease.

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  32. MarkyMark says:

    “The party said it would improve training for an initial four sectors including health and social care, construction, engineering and IT.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyrre1576n5o

    ….

    More than a fifth of UK adults not looking for work
    Published
    12 March
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68534537

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    • Up2snuff says:

      MM, and yet a Conservative politician, I think, stated that we have low unemployment in the UK and the BBC Presenter (on TOADY, iirc) failed to pick them up on it!

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  33. MarkyMark says:

    Rishi – come join the new conscription army.
    Rishi – ha ha ha, enjoy fighting Russia I’ve got an interview.

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  34. tomo says:

    A short afternoon shopping expedition… 1 lady with a wrap around face visor…

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  36. tomo says:

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    JSO spray wedding attendees with a dye loaded fire extinguisher

    Police simply ignore….

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/07/just-stop-oil-protesters-target-duke-and-duchess-wedding/

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  37. Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

    Yet more BBC publicity for Taylor Swift from the ‘PM’ show on Radio 4. She’s at Murrayfield (rugby stadium) and the weather isn’t looking good ahead of her concert. But who cares?

    Evan Davis was gleefully going with the story about Rishi “dissing” our ex-servicemen by coming home early from France and the D-Day commemorations. He’s more subtle than his predecessor and fellow homosexual Edward “Eddie” Mair but the bias is still there.

    Nothing about all the Biden gaffes of course – we don’t need to know that!

    Smash the BBC into a thousand pieces and scatter them to the wind.

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    • tomo says:

      “Smash the BBC into a thousand pieces and scatter them to the wind.”

      Carthage… do a Carthage on them

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    • StewGreen says:

      BBC PR at six
      Long non-news closing item “Taylor Swift is doing concerts”
      #PRnews

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  38. tomo says:

    We can see Richie’s getting crap advice – are these the culprits?
    They look a bit Wragg-ish?

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    • Up2snuff says:

      tomo, Prof. John Curtice and I would have both advised Rishi Sunak to call a winter General Election. Rishi Sunak would then not have to apologise for leaving the 80th Anniversary D-Day commemoration early for a GE campaign interview. Rishi nust have known that that 80th Anniversary would be important.

      Doh!

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      • Scroblene says:

        Not entirely happy that foreigners don’t really understand the culture and sentiments of real indigenous British Citizens, Uppers.

        They didn’t fight the same way that our British troops did, helped by the Yanks, and several others from the place he came from…

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  39. harry142857 says:

    Oh Canada.

    World Cup Cricket now.

    Johnson
    Dhaliwal
    Singh
    Bajwa
    Kirton
    Movva
    Hayliger
    Zafar
    Sana
    Siddiqui
    Gordon.

    Well done Justin.

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  40. Lucy Pevensey says:

    President Trump speaking in Arizona now addressing illegal mass-immigration.

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    • Scroblene says:

      Biden’s been tucked up in bed now, Lucy!

      He’ll be told about it in the morning no doubt…

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  41. Up2snuff says:

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – again the BBC demeans/casts aspersions on women

    OK, it is Canadian women this time but I object to that because I am related to several Canadian women. They are family, so this is personal BBC! The BBC are implying here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd11ywyg6p0o that Canadian women are too stupid to go to a butcher, buy a chicken, take it home and cook it themselves. Instead they allow themselves to buy convenience pre-cooked chicken at a supermarket where they pay excessive prices. Grrrrrrrr!

    We are blessed in the UK by having a very competitive supermarket sector and women that can cook!

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  42. tomo says:

    David Freiheit is spot-on there.

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  43. Fedup2 says:

    4 weeks to the election – what a slog – but maybe just maybe there might be a shake up ….

    Anyway – another weekend – another thread …

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  44. StewGreen says:

    Labour vs Conservative
    A race to see who likes Britain the least.

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  45. tomo says:

    Simon Webb does Kier Starmer on immigration

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