440 Responses to Midweek 28th August 2024

  1. MarkyMark says:

    Rich socialists “NHS needs more money”
    Rich socialists “…more money from the poor, not their own off shore tax haven monies.”

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  2. MarkyMark says:

    Sir Keir Starmer has said he will include himself in plans to scrap a pensions tax break for high earners if he wins power.

    The Labour leader has pledged to reverse government plans to end the £1m cap on lifetime pensions savings.

    He was accused of hypocrisy by the Conservatives when it emerged he was set to benefit from a similar scheme himself.

    He said he had not taken advantage of the perk and did not want to.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65052706

    WE ARE ALL EQUAL……………….

    The Pensions Increase (Pension Scheme for Keir Starmer QC) Regulations 2013
    Made8th October 2013
    Laid before Parliament9th October 2013
    Coming into force31st October 2013
    The Treasury, in exercise of the power conferred by section 5(2) of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971(1) and now vested in them(2) hereby make the following Regulations:
    https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2588/introduction/made

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  3. MarkyMark says:

    “We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

    It is for these reasons that I regard the decision last year to shift our efforts in space from low to high gear as among the most important decisions that will be made during my incumbency in the office of the presidency. ”

    https://www.rice.edu/jfk-speech

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    Around one in five British people of working age (16-64) are now outside the labour market. Neither in work nor looking for work, they are officially labelled as “economically inactive”.15 Mar 2024

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  4. Eddy Booth says:

    ‘Ants are everywhere’: Labour MP’s tenants reveal condition of flats

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyg1j0lv1go

    BBC doing a good job for once, outing a rich buy to let parasite.

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    “Jas Athwal, the newly-elected MP for Ilford South, owns 15 rental flats, making him the biggest landlord in the House of Commons.
    A Labour MP rents out flats with black mould and ant infestations, the BBC has discovered.

    In one block of seven flats owned by Mr Athwal nearly half the tenants said they had to regularly clean their bathroom ceilings to remove mould.

    The BBC also saw evidence of ant infestations in a number of the seven properties.”

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Eat bugs! Free ECO food! YUmmy!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      FREE TICKETS FOR EVERYONE!

      “Name of donor: Premier League International Holdings Ltd
      Address of donor: Brunel Building, 57 North Wharf Road, London W2 1HQ
      Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Ticket with hospitality to Arsenal’s final football match of season, value £450”

      https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/26439/jas_athwal/ilford_south/register

      6. Land and property portfolio with a value over £100,000 and where indicated, the portfolio provides a rental income of over £10,000 a year
      Type of land/property: Commercial property
      Number of properties: 3
      Location: London
      Ownership details: Co-owned with family member
      Rental income: Yes
      (Registered 24 July 2024)
      Type of land/property: Residential property
      Number of properties: 15
      Location: London
      Ownership details: Co-owned with family member
      Rental income: Yes
      (Registered 24 July 2024)
      Type of land/property: Residential property
      Number of properties: 1
      Location: Bedfordshire
      Ownership details: Co-owned with a family member
      (Registered 24 July 2024)

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  5. tomo says:

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    • Fedup2 says:

      The identity of the author of this piece is known . He and his family have been taken into protective custody . They will be used for medical experiments in due course . Do not ask questions – or you will go to .. 77 brigade to note – death to traitors – death to enemies of the state – long live comrade Stalin – sorry -starmer … typo

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  6. kingkp says:

    An interesting take on the Southport “incident” and the Ukrainian angle.
    https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-coming-collapse-of-britain
    The Titanic has slipped under the water.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “KYIV, Ukraine — One of the handful of F-16 warplanes that Ukraine has received from its Western partners to help fight Russia’s invasion has crashed, Ukraine’s Army General Staff said Thursday. The pilot died.10 hours ago”

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      • JohnC says:

        The F16’s are another lie we are being fed. They will make no difference at all.

        If they were part of a much larger command and control system like the USA have they would. But they aren’t. They will be gradually destroyed same as all the tanks.

        What is clear is that Zelensky wants to sue for peace and he thinks he has bargaining chips.

        He has none. Russia will either get a guarantee Ukraine will not join NATO or they will take the country up to the Dnipro river. They will accept nothing else.

        All Zelenky is doing is telling us their army is close to collapse.

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  7. Zephir says:

    I saw a Bigfoot in Southport

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  8. MarkyMark says:

    Fact-checking Kamala Harris’s first campaign interview
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy78g4vg3po

    CLAIM: In Thursday’s interview, Ms Harris said she would not ban fracking and maintained that she has “not changed that position”.

    VERDICT: This needs context and could be misleading as Ms Harris has changed her public position on fracking. In 2019, she said she was “in favour of banning fracking.”

    CLAIM: “When we do what we did in the first year of being in office to extend the child tax credit, so that we cut child poverty in America by over 50%.”

    VERDICT: This is somewhat of an exaggeration and needs context. Child poverty rates did fall, but not by “over 50%” and they rose again the year after, so the impact was only temporary.

    CLAIM: “What we’ve already done creating over 300,000 new clean-energy jobs.”

    VERDICT: It is true that a large number of clean energy jobs have been created under the Biden administration, but the exact number is uncertain.

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    • JohnC says:

      I commented the other day about how the BBC ‘fact checkers’ will not say she lied : they call her lies ‘misleading’ when they are nothing of the sort.

      ‘BBC Verify’ is an absolute farce. As I have said many times, BBC news is now just ‘shit for idiots’.

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  9. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/bbcworld/status/1829576523520590297?s=61
    Harris unscathed after walking careful line in first interview

    Has to be a Lurch.

    #ccbgb

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    • Guest Who says:

      Ooo boy.

      https://x.com/bbcworld/status/1829790999809315225?s=61
      Harris has thrived in debates – will her tactics work on Trump?

      This is taking #tellitoftenenough beyond design parameters

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Will BBC verify look at BBC worlds ‘ ‘false claim’ that 1 – Harris has had ‘debates ‘ 2 that she ‘thrived ‘ in them ( no debates ) .

      If I recall – it was 5 weeks from her being nominated to the first and only ‘interview ‘ 27 minutes edited with her boyfriend as a comfort blanket .

      The truth is Obama wants her in the bunker with Joe like last time whilst he fixes the count . I’m amazed everyone doesn’t see it …

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  10. Guest Who says:

    Wonder if The Hill uses Getty too?

    https://x.com/thehill/status/1829571294972563935?s=61

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  11. tomo says:

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  12. tomo says:

    Me: “I think I’ve broken my leg. Can I see a doctor?”

    A&E: “The wait time is currently 8 hours.”

    Me: [whispers] “Death to Israel.”

    A&E: “The doctor will see you now, sir.”

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  13. JohnC says:

    Girl, 14, killed as Russian strike hits Kharkiv playground
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gl8y34389o

    ‘”These streets are exclusively parks with large gatherings of civilians. This is a residential building. This is, again, mass terror against our civilian population.”‘

    If the Russians were going after civilians, there would be a LOT more than one dead.

    Clearly there was something there worth hitting and they hit it.

    These stories are so bare of any facts, they are basically outright propaganda lies by the BBC. Apparently the Russians hit an actual ‘residential building’ and only one civilian is dead !!!. And the BBC are fine with that.

    How many Ukranian troops were killed ?. Of course we aren’t told and we won’t be.

    Zelensky is a total clown. When the BBC present what he says without any scrutiny or checking by the children at ‘BBC verify’, it knocks the BBC down yet another notch in my estimation. Or at least it would if they weren’t already at the lowest ‘Shameless lying hypocrite scumbags’ level.

    This media coverage by the BBC for this war is basically ‘shit for idiots’. So much of it so obviously lies, I wonder how much of everything else I read on the BBC is lies. Right now I assume every article remotely linked to the leftist agenda contains multiple lies by omission. And when I search for them with google, I am usually proved right.

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  14. Fedup2 says:

    Sue Gray must be thinking of ways to soften the image of our great leader – comrade starmer – perhaps visits to abortion clinics or crematoria or abattoir may be on the cards – or he’ll introduce an ‘assisted dying act ‘ at surplus members of the British population- on top of reducing the winter allowance …

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    • Guest Who says:

      Maybe a Massey Ferguson factory being converted from tractors to plowshares?

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  15. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/bbcnews/status/1829782705900318751?s=61
    Telegram: ‘The dark web in your pocket’

    comments could REALLY be going A LOT better

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