341 Responses to Midweek 10th July 2024

  1. JohnC says:

    ‘I’m the best qualified person’: Biden spars with media over candidacy
    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c2v0nzx16gzt

    Here we go. ANOTHER live update article about Joe. And now in the worlds most amazing about-face, the BBC are telling us how he mixed up the names of Kamala and Trump.

    Just look at what they are reporting now:

    ‘Biden dismisses reports about him ending his evenings earlier to defend against public gaffes and negative perceptions of his mental fitness’

    ‘Biden heaps praise on Vice-President Kamala Harris’

    ‘Watch: Biden defends gaffe misnaming Zelensky as Putin’

    I do not have the words to describe how absolutely disgusted I am by the BBC’s far-left , agenda based double standards and rank hypocrisy.

    They have NEVER reported ANYTHING which might suggest Biden has mental issues. EVER. They have been simply ignoring it for years. And now – all of a sudden – they are running daily ‘live updates’ like this. It’s the most disgusting, agenda based double-standards I have ever witnessed.

    Are they doing it as part of their journalistic duty to challenge those in power when they go too far ?. Is their objective to keep the politicians in check ?.

    Of course not. They would have done this a long time ago if that were the case. it is for one single reason : they are in a panic that right-wing Trump might win a free and fair democratic election so they are using their ridiculous power to commit election interference and getting their own preferred candidate in instead.

    Someone should be asking some serious questions about how Bidens dementia has suddenly appeared overnight at the ‘impartial’ BBC.

    Keep going Joe. You are finally doing something good : showing us just how rotten and corrupt the MSM really are.

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    • Guest Who says:

      He’s lost the bloke who once sat two tables away once, and was smitten.

      https://x.com/jonsopel/status/1811520607332212877?s=61

      And now appears to have Tourette’s

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      • JohnC says:

        Sopel was a great loss to the BBC. He embodies every one of their core values to excess.

        He is to the BBC what Lammy is to BLM.

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        • tomo says:

          Biden’s parlous mental state was very apparent in the Democrat POTUS TV selection debates 5 years ago when he was transparently + woodenly parroting (and failing) to parrot the script.

          i well remember being called an “ableist” for daring to question Joe’s stutter.

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          • Fedup2 says:

            Stress worsens the effects of dementia – fact – carers for dementia sufferers are instructed to minimise things which cause more confusion . So sticking Joe in that position will ‘do for him’
            Even the far left Sarah smith had to report this disaster – but it’s okay – it was a ‘one off ‘,again ….

            Putin must look at this and just laugh … the poodles like starmer and macron yap the approved lie …

            The democrats must be looking for something to attack president trump again …

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    • harry142857 says:

      John. You are spot on. Maybe one of the new MPs should be shouting this from the rooftops and calling out the hypocrites that the BBC are, probably emboldened even more now that Labour are in charge.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Today
        Our Justin interviews a Obama mouthpiece who attempts to pivot attention to president trump ‘withdrawing the us from Europe ‘ … which is a lie . President Trump just wants parasite countries in Europe – such as Germany – to pay their way in NATO and not mug the US every year … a stance the enemy BBC won’t recognise – it prefers the lie – so many lies ….

        I can understand why the bbc has to stick to the ludicrous narrative that Biden is mentally sound – because someone might go back and look at his conduct .. back to 2020 and the theft of the election … which he wouid not have been able to engineer … but someone else ….obama …

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    • G says:

      White House:

      ‘Should I press this button to get the shredder to work or is it this red button on this complicated suitcase looking shredder?’

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  2. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/bbcnews/status/1811451715134083172?s=61
    Pressure growing to scrap two-child benefit limit

    Debts being called early; bbc goes vague.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Inevitable that subsidised breeding will be increased – the reds will continue to max out the state credit card – removing the limit will ‘only’ cost £4 000 000 000 a year it seems – and lots more little Mohammed’s …

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  3. Guest Who says:

    Sian highlights something the bbc might not have wanted highlighted.

    https://x.com/sianberry/status/1811516077953699985?s=61
    Today’s Question Time felt different, more serious, and more informative. The audience were a big part of that, as well as an interesting panel. Hope we see many more hours like this next series. There a real place in democracy for this kind of public debate. #BBCQT

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  4. JohnC says:

    Biden stands defiant on critical night – but gaffes mar fightback
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgl75kdm420o

    .. and ANOTHER article on Joe. This is after a ‘live feed’ earlier. And as usual it’s just repeating everything they have already reported as a new front page headline.

    The BBC’s new trick to force people they want rid of to quit. It worked on Boris and all those other Conservatives. Now it’s to stop Trump.

    It’s got to the point of being so obvious, it’s ridiculous. How on Earth are they allowed to get away with it ?. Who is supposed to stop this kind of thing ?. As far as I can tell, it’s the BBC themselves.

    The nearest analogy I can think of to this latest BBC technique is clubbing seals.

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  5. Fedup2 says:

    Today
    The BBC mouthpiece – jenny Kumar – said Joe had an okay press conference despite vice president trump instead of Harris and trump instead of zelenski …..
    The press review didn’t mention what they said about this dementia patient …
    BBC is so tied to their false president – who they’ve lied about for years – that they can’t let him go – which is a good thing ….
    Obama must be deciding when to put the knife in …

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  6. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “We must never forget that the children are our future and without them mankind would become extinct.” “What we need to learn from children isn’t childish. Being with them connects us to the deeper wisdom of life, which is ever-present and only asks to be lived.

      Michael Jackson

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  7. Doobster78 says:

    Now Starmer is PM he isn’t so keen after all on a Bank holiday if the England Men’s Team win the Euros .

    However, contrast that too 2022 when he was calling for a Bank Holiday if the Lionesses won their Euros .

    So easy to Virtue signal and call for anything and everything when you’re not in power isn’t it Kier ,

    Just goes to show , he didn’t really believe in a Bank Holiday for the Lionesses, all it was was a massive virtue signal and yet another attempt to try and make Boris / Tories look bad at the time .

    Playground stuff . But I bet the BBC won’t show Sir Kier the footage of him calling for it 2 years ago because that would show up his double standards and rank hypocrisy and they wouldn’t want that !!!!!

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  8. Flotsam says:

    Smarmer says Biden is on great form, perhaps dementia is infectious? Smarmer refuses to answer questions about Biden’s state of mind at press conference.

    Anyone remember Mr Magoo? The more I see of Biden the more he resembles and sounds like Mr Magoo.

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  9. tomo says:

    We know Miliband is a moron – this is just adding insult to injury

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    • Flotsam says:

      We are unfortunately subject to Government by simpletons.

      Milliband is a moron. Milliband was chosen by Smarmer, what does that say about Smarmer? Has there been any discussion in Cabinet of such an important decision?

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      • tomo says:

        Simpletons often have self awareness – this is something different.

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Starmer is pretty insecure – methinks – it’s why he keeps going on about being ‘working class ‘ – that no longer matters – competence is the real test –
          It’s also why his cabinet is full of what should be – non threats – Lammy – balls – angee – reeves – …. And he knows the reds scheme even more than the blues ….

          Today it’s mahmoods ‘empty the prisons day ‘ …. A crowning achievement of the legal system – judges explaining why someone has to go to prison – then the home office just lets them go … and what is the re offending rate …?

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          • G says:

            I wonder what demographic group will take precedence on release………………..

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            • Fedup2 says:

              Tricky one for the msm – when a released felon goes and kills his ‘ex partner ‘ who picks up the tab for that ?- the blues – presumably ….
              It ‘grooms ‘- conditions us -for the forthcoming granting of residence / citizenship to millions? Of third worlders who the blues let in during their ‘regime ‘( never a government ) ….

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      • MarkyMark says:

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  10. Fedup2 says:

    Seems that the fire at Rouen cathedral was caused by building work … the building company was monsieur Mohammed and sons …the same company who ‘worked on’ notre dame …

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  11. tomo says:

    BBC getting moist on this topic – can we cut their electricity now?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Excellent – end North Sea oil – reduce the tax take – no windfalls – then wonder why there isn’t the money to build nuclear power station …. Clever plan …

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Print more money – demand free stuff – free trade agreement with Palestine.

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  12. AsISeeIt says:

    The gynaeceum that is modern journalism is out in force in the press this morning reinforcing their prior prejudicies: Sophy Ridge Three women killed by a man. Shock but no surprise (‘i’)

    Jenna Coleman Angry woman? Sorry about that. (‘i’)

    Gavin Plumb could have been stopped sooner, says survivor… plotted the kidnap, rape, and murder of Holly Willoughby, he targeted four other women and teenage girls (Charlotte Gallagher, Culture correspondent, BBC)

    And yet from this studiously feminised media of ours we still tend to reflexively hear the word ‘manhunt’: Man’s image released after remains in suitcases found (BBC)

    And Tom Whipple science editor over there at the formerly serious Times casually speaks of: On reflection, narcissium is a young man’s game

    Is narcissium a sex-specific personality type or condition? In this report the science bit – as L’Oreal shampoo adverts would have it – speaks of ‘people’. So is it indeed to be spoken of in headlines as being a young man’s game?

    Sometimes these segueways write themselves – but we’ll come to the football later. Meanwhile, our press would have us believe it’s like the battle of Agincourt out there on our streets… with crossbow bolts flying hither and thither – despite the cops speaking of ‘other weapons’ involved in this case.

    Ban them now! We bought deadly crossbow in 2 minutes (Daily Express)

    And naturally the government says: ‘Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more… In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man, as modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game’s afoot; Follow your spirit: and upon this charge…

    New law on crossbows fast-tracked after murders (‘i’)

    So that’s handguns, sporting target pistols, historical reenactment swords, zombie knives, machetes, disguised knives… it’ll only be a matter of time before they come for out potato peelers and bottle openers

    The reference to greyhounds reminds this reviewer of that infamous rushed, knee-jerk, scare-headline responsive Dangerous Dogs Act 1991: The Act has been widely discredited for failing to address the underlying causes of dog bites and aggressive behaviour (British Vetenary Association)

    And if you’re not interested in the football, look away now…

    Mr AsI contends the Guardian is only interested in sport insofar as it represents a handy playingfield for the exercise of their cherished game of identity politics.

    It’s a good time to celebrate England’s Black football players (Guardian)

    An England star is born… Ollie Watkins, bottom centre, with teammates from Buckland Athletic under-9s five-a-side in Newton Abbot, Devon (Guardian) – and now we’ve been taught not to be colourblind in our appreciation of footballers: … choice of using a photograph of Bukayo Saka to illustrate England’s defeat by Iceland… Delroy Corinaldi, executive director of Black Footballers Partnership, called the use of Saka imagery “divisive” (BBC)

    On the basis that one is now not merely allowed to notice our Ollie’s blackness, but positively encouraged to take note of it – one may perhaps be amused by the fact the Gruan’s caption hardly needed to highlight the position of the young Ollie in the team line-up photo of that team of otherwise noticably rather white young Devonshire footballers.

    And with the open goal presented by the Euros our race-baiters are again banging on about race – given their BBC megaphone.

    Racists waiting for black players to miss… I do feel there are many waiting for a negative moment – former Kick It Out chief Troy Townsend (BBC, 4 days ago)

    The Three Lions team that we will all cheer on this week in the Euros is a symbol of England that we can all be proud of, embodying the multi-ethnic society we share today. (Guardian)

    And let’s hear it for the Three Lions’ WAGs: The love story that drives England’s new goal hero… Post-match pose: Ollie Watkins and Ellie Anderson (Daily Mail) – are we allowed to notice – as former SNP First Minister Humza Yousaf might have put it that our Ellie is rather ‘Why-hhhtttt’!

    EL OF A WOMAN Meet England Euros hero Ollie Watkins’ supportive Wag Ellie Alderson who was seen kissing Three Lions star in the stands… when TV cameras panned to the stands, they caught sight of his beautiful partner, Ellie Alderson… Like any footballer’s Wag, Ellie lives an amazing lifestyle… Fashionista Ellie has a penchant for designer wear and expensive Dior handbags… England’s most famous Wag, former Love Island winner and daughter of Eastenders’ Danny Dyer (The Sun)

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    • Fedup2 says:

      After crossbows are banned surely there is a case for banning men – yes male suicide continues to rise – but perhaps they ( we ) could be given tax incentives to end it – a free ticket to dignitas …
      Sometimes I’m glad I’m not young because a decent boy growing up now – surrounded by tattooed ladies doing their selfies – must just wonder what the hell he is supposed to do – or be …

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      • MarkyMark says:

        “male suicide continues to rise” – men can change to women to end the male dominance.

        …………

        Man legally changes his gender to identify as a woman ‘so he can retire five years earlier’ in Argentina. An Argentinian tax worker who changed his gender on official documents after claiming to identify as female actually did it in order to retire earlier, a relative says.26 Mar 2018

        ……………..

        “Remember, when he changed sex his wife becomes a lesbian”

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  13. tomo says:

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  14. MarkyMark says:

    INSANE MOMENT BIDEN CALLS ZELENSKY “PRESIDENT PUTIN”

    ……………………………………………

    2021 … YOUR COMPLAINT:

    President Trump’s 100 Days President Biden’s 0 Day 

    Dear Winston Smith in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth,

    You covered President Trump’s 100 Days and then produced a Beyond 100 Days to hold power to account.

    Why have you not done the same for President Biden to hold power to account?

    ‘Omission is the greatest form of lie.’ 

    ———-

    Thank you again for contacting us,

    BBC Complaints Team
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints

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    • Fedup2 says:

      4 illegals drown in channel ..but 50 saved – Mrs balls first deaths – will she resign? Do a thoughts and prayers ?

      Let’s hope the survivors went home to France … but you can guess …

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Listen: Nick Ferrari asks a squirming Yvette Cooper if she has taken Syrian refugees into her home
        8 March 2016, 12:00am

        https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/listen-nick-ferrari-asks-a-squirming-yvette-cooper-if-she-has-taken-syrian-refugees-into-her-home/

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      • Ian Rushlow says:

        The BBC describes them as ‘migrants’. How does the BBC know that they were migrants? All we know is that a group of people left France, apparently headed towards England and possibly intending to illegally enter the United Kingdom. They may have been French Special Forces, spies, other alien combatants, criminals escaping justice, those looking to pursue a career in criminality in the UK, or terrorists. Oh yes, nearly forgot, key workers looking to help rescue Our NHS ™ or care sector but who forgot about the legal schemes available for doing so.

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        • MarkyMark says:

          It was the new Green Party using recycled dinghies to save the planet?

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  15. tomo says:

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  16. MarkyMark says:

    Tony Blair to shit in the street as they do in Mumbai ….

    Tony Blair, former UK PM, in Mumbai for Ambani wedding
    Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and a star-studded guest list, including Kim Kardashian and Priyanka Chopra, gather in Mumbai for Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant’s highly anticipated wedding.

    Statesman Web | July 12, 2024 12:10 pm

    ALL CULTURES ARE EQUAL

    India alone accounted for 90 per cent of the people in South Asia and half of the 1.2 billion people in the world that defecated in the open. UNICEF extended the objective of eradicating open defecation to effective solid and liquid waste management in all cities and villages.

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  17. MarkyMark says:

    “At the extremely long subsequent news conference Biden referred to Kamala Harris as “Vice President Trump“. ”
    from order-order.com

    ……………………..

    Keir Starmer says Joe Biden ‘on really good form’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9x8w9pxwllo

    …………………………

    “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984

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  18. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – oh no, it ain’t but then it is, the movement of markets …..

    The BBC, trying to be positive about the change of Government to Labour, claimed “the pound sterling was strong on currency markets.” In actual fact it lost ground against major currencies in overnight trading. But has since ‘gone green’ here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business/market-data

    However, ‘people’ were predicting that by the summer the £ v $ rate would be $1.35+, Thoughtful – late of this parish – among them, and also sterling has not yet reached the heady heights of post-Brexit Euro 1.19. It is very strong against the Japanese yen, at £:Yen 205+ so if you want that new Japanese camera now is the time to buy, even though prices at the UK dealers do not seem to have fallen at all and many ‘Japanese’ cameras are made, not in Japan, but elsewhere in Asia.

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  19. Fedup2 says:

    Polish border guard dies after being hit by a spear thrown through the Belorussian ?fence – I think I’d be a trigger happy border guard now …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      This is what will start the war – not rockets and drones – a spear.

      “EU border guard killed by spear-throwing migrants
      Polish officials believe surge in arrivals through Belarus is the latest tactic in Russia’s hybrid war with the West

      By
      Pawel Kwiecien
      , IN DUBICZE CERKIEWNE
      11 July 2024 • 2:54pm”

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  20. MarkyMark says:

    Tony Blair to take his donkey to India for the Lavish wedding, instead of his wife.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-34336826

    “A donkey is like a housewife. It has to toil all day and, like her, may even have to give up food and water. In fact, the donkey is a shade better, for while the housewife may sometimes complain and walk off to her parents’ home, you’ll never catch the donkey being disloyal to his master,” the Times of India, external quoted the Hindi language textbook as saying.

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  21. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #2 – Biden gaffes but the BBC are still whistling in the dark …

    The President of the USA refering to his VEEP by the name Trump, as MM posted above, is a bit of a concern to JustRemainIn Webb as a presumed anti-former President Trump Beeboid. To reinforce the BBC’s anti-Trump views JustRemainIn Webb interviews a Republican Party turncoat who now supports the Democratic Party (sorry, forgotten name but could be Joe Lewis) who helpfully makes several anti-Trump comments.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Biden endorses TRUMP! HA HA HAHA!

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    • Fedup2 says:

      They are in trouble – once the lie that the 2020 election was ‘fair ‘ was accepted without question – everything afterward is part of the cover up .

      I have no doubt that some day in the future the election theft will be public – it might not be in out time but one day …

      Now they have to stick with Biden – if they’d followed my advice they’d have offed him ages ago with a big state funeral and all the trimmings with a replacement ‘oven ready ‘ and ‘baked in ‘ … now they are scrambling around trying to stop Biden getting fried every time he opens his mouth …

      I wonder if Obama has made a mistake here or is it part of the plan ? He will want a democrat nominee by ‘acclamation ‘ – so I reckon Mrs Obama is ‘clean ‘ enough eh?

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  22. BRISSLES says:

    Watching Starmers press conference in Washington it struck me as to why is it necessary for a press corps at all ? The likes of Rigby, Mason, Hope, get to travel “free” on foreign jaunts just to ask one or two questions at maybe only one conference. Bloody expensive exercise to get a banal reply. Then do a 60 second report to camera !

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    “..I’m slightly amazed at our colleagues (Simon Schama BBC@£200K) ability to get big laughs on gang rape…I’m not much of a feminist but I draw the line at the 3 year old getting raped, and the seven year old getting gang raped in a basement. (audience claps)” – Mark Steyn {youtube The Munk debate @4:46}

    Simon Schama BBC@£200K – I knew I’d seen that name Schama before. This is what Simon said earlier to ignite Mark Steyn’s response ….

    “…I’m just struck by how obsessed by sex these two guys (Farage/Steyn) are, it’s a bit sad really… (audience laughs, Simon smiles)” – Simon Schama (£200K BBC Salary) {youtube The Munk debate @2:00}

    Suggest you watch the whole debate…to form your own opinion of Simon “BBC on 200K” Schama, whose salary is from a TV Tax extracted from people who are struggling in the UK, a license that had 180,000 (near Simon’s Wage) prosecuted due to none payment. And sent 70 people to jail.

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  24. Doobster78 says:

    So 4 dead in the Channel

    Expect tough questions to be asked of Cooper and Starmer from the BBC .

    Blood on their hands !!!!!

    Cos , that’s how it worked for the Tories so only fair 👍

    Yeah right

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  25. Fedup2 says:

    And unelectable … peerage fodder

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  26. Lucy Pevensey says:

    The suspected crossbow murderer & his brother who was Imprisoned for beating someone to death in a road rage incident.

    Kyle & Bradley Clifford

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Is it the poor photography but do these two men look kind of, well, dusky?

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  27. MarkyMark says:

    We just want to be heard.
    We just want equality.
    We want you to change for us.
    We want you to leave this place because it is no longer yours.

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  28. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Has anyone heard any of the news channels ask Biden supporters how he suddenly caught dementia overnight because just about everybody could see ‘Young Mr. Grace’ was going doolally years ago.

    On here it’s been regularly pointed out and his gaffes, spoken, falling on stairs, wandering off, freezing etc have been there for all to see.

    Will they replace him with their ‘Angie’ equivalent Kamala.

    Are we nearing the times when ‘Young Mr. Grace’ will be having an ‘accident’ which stops him running again or will Trump be the one who gets the ‘accident’ as they get more desperate.
    I sincerely hope Trump has a top team of bodyguards to stop any ‘accident’

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Dog assassin? “The Biden’s family pet Commander left the White House last year, one week after a Secret Service agent required medical treatment for a severe bite.22 Feb 2024”

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  29. MarkyMark says:

    Remember how they were going to end Quangos – by creating a new Quango to review Quangos! HA HA HA HAH!

    “Meanwhile, the Labour government has started its search for a new border security commander – a plan it trumpeted in the election as its answer to the migration crisis (despite the job already existing). The role has been advertised at £140,000-£200,000, with a very healthy 27% pension, and location is described as ‘flexible’:

    “Flexible: including, Belfast, Bristol, Cardiff, Durham, Glasgow, Liverpool, Peterborough, Manchester, Solihull, Sheffield, Croydon and London. Regular travel to London (if based nationally) and overseas will be required.””

    from order-order.com

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  30. Sluff says:

    Suddenly, after the election, we are plunged into a Prisons crisis.
    Yet nobody mentioned it during the whole period of the election, even though as I understand it, the statistics were available.
    This can mean only one thing.
    Something else, nothing to do with prisons, is going on that we are not hearing about.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      When it can be said by any country in the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them, my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars, the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive, the rational world is my friend because I am the friend of happiness. When these things can be said, then may that country boast its constitution and government.”
      – – Thomas Paine, Rights of Man – –

      https://bright-spark-mark.blogspot.com/2015/09/a-lasting-grand-design.html

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  31. MarkyMark says:

    “The idea of linguistic relativity, known also as the Whorf hypothesis, the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (/səˌpɪər ˈhwɔːrf/ sə-PEER WHORF), or Whorfianism, is a principle suggesting that the structure of a language influences its speakers’ worldview or cognition, and thus individuals’ languages determine or influence their perceptions of the world.[1]”
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

    “My bruddas don’t dab, we just Vossi bop (ayy)
    I tell your girl to link me at the coffee shop (ayy)
    Gettin’ freaky in the sheets, we’re takin’ body shots (ayy)
    Then I finish with a facial just to top it off (ayy)
    My bruddas don’t dab, we just Vossi bop (ayy)
    I tell your girl to link me at the coffee shop (ayy)
    Gettin’ freaky in the sheets, we’re takin’ body shots (ayy)
    Then I finish with a facial just to top it off (ayy)”

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  32. Sluff says:

    Hypocrite? Moi?

    https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/jul/27/starmer-calls-for-a-bank-holiday-if-england-win-womens-euro-2022-final

    The Guardian clearly thought a positive populist wokeist piece
    would help tab the time. Hahahaha.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Government says extra day off if Lionesses achieve football glory against Germany this Sunday would come with costs”

      costs? FULLY COSTED!

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Just footy – I was going to throw. Pound at the excellent Spain team winning the euro thing – but now I’ve found out the ref is …. French …. Now it’s a sure thing … the only thing surerer wouid have been an argie referee ….

        And if that over rated croc – Kane starts it could be done by 45 minutes …

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  33. MarkyMark says:

    “The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.” – Frank Zappa spoke of this time,

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  34. Zelazek says:

    Sarah Smith’s report on Biden’s press conference was partisan beyond belief. Just a couple of minor gaffes which aren’t important because Biden has always been gaffe-prone.

    Biden called Zelensky Putin. He called his vice president Trump. He said he followed his commander-in-chief. Earlier he said he was f***king the wife of the NATO secretary general.

    Gaffes are not the trivial things Sarah Smith thinks they are. They can be understood as insults or signs of weakness that may provoke our enemies into taking actions they might not otherwise dare to take. Being able to talk lucidly is an absolutely paramount quality in a world leader.

    But it clearly wasn’t just about a couple of gaffes. Biden’s performance was full of mumbling, slurring of words, unfinished sentences that were gibberish anyway, rambling, outbursts of senile anger, confused looks, vacant looks, long silences, and private reveries.

    The BBC tried to imply that if there is an issue, it is an issue about old age and – wait for it – Trump is old too!

    Trump is fit and healthy and mentally sharp. Biden is in serious cognitive decline and is dying before our eyes.

    When this farce comes to an end, as it will soon, the BBC, to be consistent with their previous gaslighting reports, will have to treat it as a surprise, a totally unexpected bolt from the blue. Sarah Smith and all the rest of them are pathetic.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “He called his vice president Trump. ” – BIDEN ENDORSES TRUMP!

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Zelazek, “Being able to talk lucidly is an absolutely paramount quality in a world leader.” And I always think of Boris Johnson when considering that important fact!

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      • Fedup2 says:

        At least Biden is providing comedy gold for the Chinese and Russians – the translation must be …. Challenging …. Just think – all that has to be done is an autocue break down ….

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  35. MarkyMark says:

    “How could you tell how much of it was lies? It might be true that the average human being was better off now than he had been before the Revolution. The only evidence to the contrary was the mute protest in your own bones, the instinctive feeling that the conditions you lived in were intolerable and that at some other time they must have been different. It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness. Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even to the ideals that the Party was trying to achieve. Great areas of it, even for a Party member, were neutral and non-political, a matter of slogging through dreary jobs, fighting for a place on the Tube (YOUTUBE?), darning a worn-out sock, cadging a saccharine tablet, saving a cigarette end. The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering—a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons—a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting—three hundred million people all with the same face.

    The reality was decaying, dingy cities where underfed people shuffled to and fro in leaky shoes, in patched-up nineteenth-century houses that smelt always of cabbage and bad lavatories. He seemed to see a vision of London, vast and ruinous, city of a million dustbins, and mixed up with it was a picture of Mrs Parsons, a woman with lined face and wispy hair, fiddling helplessly with a blocked waste-pipe.”

    https://www.telelib.com/authors/O/OrwellGeorge/prose/NineteenEightyFour/part1sec7.html

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  36. MarkyMark says:

    MOTHER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS!

    “Ms Abbott was unable to answer questions on recommendations made in a key counter-terrorism review in October about how best to prevent London from terror attack.”

    Dermot Murnaghan: “Have you actually read the report?”

    Diane Abbott: “I have.”

    Dermot Murnaghan: “OK. What about the physical resilience?”

    Diane Abbott: “Mmmmmmmmmm. Yes. I mean I think physical resilience. I think that…”

    Dermot Murnaghan: “Yes, well but the specific aspect was he talked about putting up more barriers in light of the Nice attack…”

    Diane Abbott: “Yes, we are now putting up barriers on, erm, bridges and you would think we might have done that before…”

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  37. MarkyMark says:

    Meanwhile Lord Macdonald, Keir Starmer’s predecessor as DPP, made the consequences clear:

    “If you release a big batch of prisoners, some of them will go on to offend….We have the worst recidivism rates in Western Europe. Overall, 25 per cent of people who are released from prison go on to reoffend. Of the juvenile population, it’s over 80 per cent.”

    This is Starmer’s first real crunch with serious cut through and is a political choice – meanwhile CCHQ is populated by tumbleweed (OPPOSITION – HA HA HA HA)

    https://order-order.com/

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  38. MarkyMark says:

    “He corrected the first verbal misstep involving Ukraine’s leader quickly. The second one he didn’t catch, even as some reporters in the room murmured in surprise and several of his top Cabinet secretaries sat stone-faced in the front row of the audience.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgl75kdm420o

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  39. Ian Rushlow says:

    Difficult to think of a greater expert in ignorance than Rory Stewart, a Conservative (sic) so wet that he’s officially categorised as a liquid rather than a solid body.

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  40. MarkyMark says:

    It’s very serious – actors who ignored all other Biden’s errors – now notice one error and say he should step aside or else they won’t give the Party any more money earned by reading scripts and pretending to do stuff.

    “‘Hard to imagine’ Biden serving full term, says Michael Douglas”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c84j12xxz8jo

    Social media has been full of similar sentiments from the likes of Abigail Disney, John Cusack, Stephen King, Rob Reiner and mor

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  41. micknotmike says:

    I was reading the reports of biden’s latest disastrous speeches in and around the nato pow-wow. I noticed that the bbc have a new catchphrase; during a part of the speech about him stepping down, he “Mock-whispered” “Not going to happen”

    “Mock whispering”, that’s a new one. Lets have a look in the dictionary :-

    “Whispering close to the microphone in a creepy, paedo way”.

    He couldn’t sound more sinister if he said that if the little girls let him sniff their hair, he would show them some puppies.

    I’m in my sixties, and it frightens me. Does no-one advise him that this isn’t a good way of putting your point across? Still, the bbc have a nice name for it, so it must be ok.

    I wish a reporter would ask “Mr. biden, do you know what day of the week it is? Or your own name?

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  42. Fedup2 says:

    Mick – as I mentioned earlier – the msm cannot pull out of the collective lie . So I wonder what it will take – behaviour wise – for Biden to be so obviously demented that it cannot be ignored ?
    He has all those characterists so many have seen close up – balance problems – mixed words – haluncinations- probable incontinence – lack of temper control .

    His Obama handlers have done a great job – 1 minimising uncontrolled public exposure – 2 controlling things when he is in public
    But the collective shame or journos is to deny the truth for political reasons because of their irrational hatred and fear of the true president ..

    For some reason presidential campaigns need a lot of Money – but who would seriously be throwing cash as Obama Biden now ?

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  43. MarkyMark says:

    “French president Emmanuel Macron called the mistakes just a slip of the tongue and that Mr Biden was on top of matters.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cml2vyepp9yo

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  44. Fedup2 says:

    Wonderfully disconnected world at one – loads of mouthy red MPs with not a blue in sight – a coal mine up north won’t be drilled because the dodgy court found a reason – no coal – no jobs – some red MP was delighted – then there’s the girls piling into men because of some monster who plotted to abduct a TV presenter – he got life – then there was the excellent idea of letting lots of criminals out of prison for the sake of convenience ….
    Nonsense about ‘the probation service ‘ to handle the freed criminals – yeah – right?

    Eddie Sturton didn’t see the links

    I was waiting for someone to demand Britain supplies better dinghies after 4 invaders drowned – another 50 went back to their home – France …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Invade France to save the dinghy people?!

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    • Doobster78 says:

      He got Life .. great i thought ….

      But, then it came , to serve a min of 15 years !! So NOT life then. This country is NUTS

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      • MarkyMark says:

        2.5 years … “Choudary was convicted of supporting a proscribed organisation on 6 September 2016, and was sentenced to five years and six months in prison. He was released automatically on licence in October 2018 with restrictions on speaking in public or to the media.”

        “Choudary, 51, has served less than half of his sentence and will complete the rest under strict supervision. Up to 25 measures to control him have been prepared, the BBC understands.”

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Let’s see … 15 years – minus x2 time on remand -14 years – 2 years Cat A then down the cats to a nice C in thr country – have the parole over and out at ..6 ?

        After all – didn’t hurt anyone … full of remorse … learnt his lesson … ‘grown up ‘ stable relationship with a prison guard ..bingo ..

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  45. MarkyMark says:

    Before election – “Labour rules out tax rises, claiming all policies are ‘fully costed'”
    https://news.sky.com/video/labour-rules-out-tax-rises-claiming-all-policies-are-fully-costed-13154229

    After election – “Shut down oil fields and import more fuel from Russia plus raise taxes”

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  46. MarkyMark says:

    Electoral interference from a foreign country .. ha ha ah

    “Confirmation from ex-White House staffer Ben Rhodes on the Today programme this morning that David Cameron and his aides asked Obama to say Brexit would put the UK “at the back of the queue” for a trade deal with the US. ”

    https://order-order.com/2018/07/02/cameron-asked-obama-say-uk-back-queue/

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  47. MarkyMark says:

    “He was on Today today and claimed the ignorance of Afghan tribals was beautiful”

    Bacha bāzī (Persian: بچه بازی, lit. ’boy play’)[1] is a practice in which men (sometimes called bacha baz) buy and keep adolescent boys (sometimes called dancing boys) for entertainment and sex.[2][3] It is a custom in Afghanistan and in historical Turkestan[citation needed] and often involves sexual slavery and child prostitution by older men of young adolescent males.[4]

    Bacha bazi was outlawed during the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan period by the Taliban.[5][6][7]The act was punishable by death per Islamic law.[8][9]

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

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  48. tomo says:

    clap … as in STD

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  49. Terminal Moraine says:

    Sopel has a book out in Sept: “Strangeland: How Britain Stopped Making Sense.”

    I wonder if it has a chapter on how large parts of UK media have become propaganda outlets for the Democrat party. I suspect not.

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  50. Terminal Moraine says:

    Justice secretary on freeing thousands of prisoners:

    “Our prisons today create better criminals, not better citizens”… and also… “If we don’t do this we face the collapse of law and order in our country”.

    Right, so more effective criminals in our neighbourhoods will prevent the collapse of law and order. Impeccable logic from Shabana Mahmood, she should get a mention in Sopel’s book.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/czrjkg21ywjt

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Will they be released from 650 MPS close by prisons first?
      Who will look after these people?
      Social care? HA HA HA HAHAHA!

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