Start the Week 9th September 2024

Popcorn ready ? Trump v Harris is on Tuesday . The Far Left BBC has already written the script – knock out blow by Harris – a worthy Obama puppet destined for the White House – just don’t count the votes ….

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  1. Fedup2 says:

    Apparently one of the political judges in the TTK starmer court has been the subject of ‘threats ‘ . No further comment ….

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  2. Lazy Cat says:

    Somebody shared an interview with me earlier, from The BBC with Starmer.

    Talk about taking it easy on him. I think Kim Jong Un has harder interviews on NK TV.

    What ridiculous questions.

    Were the protesters racists? Starmer (pretty much) says yes and there is no comeback on this.

    Is he doing enough to tackle the rise of the ‘far right’ (non communists)? Is Britain a racist country?

    Retarded stuff.

    He said the protesters had no legitimate reason to do what that did (most of them were non violent and did nothing but voice legal opinions). Unchallenged again when he paints everyone who took to the streets as ‘far right’ or ‘racists’ (ask him about the BLM riots/’Carnival’ madness why he thinks their ‘incidents’ are legitimate).

    No legitimate reason for people being angry?

    A dead criminal in America is legit it seems.

    Three British girls aren’t legit though.

    Isn’t that about right?

    Honestly, the ‘meda’ is a pathetic joke.

    They are not journalists. They are activists.

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  3. Lazy Cat says:

    Price of Avocados going up 20p in M&S?

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  4. tomo says:

    STARMER-SHIT.jpg

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    • Flotsam says:

      It would have been easy enough for the John Major Conservative Government of the day to change the Law and prevent benefits being given to illegal immigrants, or would it?

      Perhaps the ECHR or European Court of Human Rights would have intervened. John Major was a strong Europhile so may not have wished to do something anti EU.

      Perhaps it was never foreseen that it would become the huge problem that it has.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Was that Keir Starmer post created by secret police working within the BNP ?
      Can’t spell “illegal”
      Put the wrong year .. it was actually 2003

      “The claimants Mr Starmer represented won the case as the judge ruled that the government couldn’t refuse support based on how soon after arrival an asylum claim was made.
      Asylum seekers received support from the government or local authorities for years before 2003.”
      “Asylum seekers who are destitute, or at risk of becoming destitute, are specifically legally entitled to accommodation, living needs and expenses as support under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999”
      “Since 2000, asylum seekers have not been able to claim any (mainstream) benefits in the UK”
      https://fullfact.org/online/keir-starmer-court-illegal-immigrants/

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  5. Guest Who says:

    Recall something similar here not so long ago.

    https://x.com/ever_e_mann/status/1833149475428213199?s=61

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Didn’t feature in the election campaign did it ?

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      • moggiemoo says:

        Why would it matter if it did? Manifestos are just a bunch of statements designed to dupe the masses into voting for the lying bastards that made them. Until these supposed ‘promises’ are enforced by severe penalties in law, nothing will change.

        I should add, nothing will change, for obvious reasons

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Mog
          No it wouldn’t have mattered at all – the tide was coming in …

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          • moggiemoo says:

            ….and it still is, bringing the invading army with it.

            Surkeer will be fine, he has his army, sorry, I mean the (clearly non-politicised) police ‘service’, to protect him. Us? We’re toast.

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  6. Fedup2 says:

    The X wars are continuing – I’ve just seen that John Cleese has announced his departure from twitter , naturally he was corrected as leaving X … I know mr Cleese shares those mental issues endemic in the luvey class so no surprise …

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    • tomo says:

      I followed Cleese on X and I was really starting to think he was loosing it big time – sortof UK’s answer to Stephen King.

      I was disappointed, I’d thought / assumed he was a more informed and rational sort.

      No loss felt here after a couple of years of reading his tweets!

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  7. tomo says:

    Some are thinking – we got Joe in… Kamala’s going to be easy-peasy…

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  8. tomo says:

    Drip, drip, drip….. a shower of pointless drips

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    • tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      David Lammy MP says absent fathers ‘key cause of knife crime’
      Published
      3 October 2012
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19815831

      Former gang member Sheldon Thomas, now a government advisor on youth violence, said he agreed with Mr Lammy “100%”.

      He said his and others’ warnings had fallen on deaf ears for at least 20 years.

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  9. Philip_2 says:

    The BBC’s Israelophobia is even worse than you think
    ‘The Beeb has done many awful things of late. There’s its Brexit-bashing. Its indoctrination of schoolkids with bollocks about ‘white privilege’. Its gratingly woke podcasts, including one asking how ‘white women’ can avoid becoming ‘Karens’. Its transformation of Doctor Who into naff LGBTQ propaganda in an effort to stir the throng from its supposed bigoted stupor. But this – its association with journalists so anti-Israel that one defended a Lebanese reporter who had said ‘Sir Hitler, rise, there are a few people that need to be burned’ – is surely the worst. We’re paying for this fascist-adjacent nonsense?’ (Brendan O’Neill at Spiked).

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/09/09/the-bbcs-israelophobia-is-even-worse-than-you-think/

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “He also wrote that Muslim men were “preying on our children”.

      The trial heard Osborne became “obsessed” with Muslims in the weeks leading up to the attack, having watched the BBC drama Three Girls, about the Rochdale grooming scandal.”

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42910051

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  10. tomo says:

    It wasn’t an hour ago and is clickbaited but – we need more, a lot more.

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  11. andyjsnape says:

    Hamas says Israeli strikes kill 40 in Gaza safe zone
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyx9znxl4eo

    bbc do some reporting for a change. I wonder how many of the 40 the IDF went after were terrorists

    Hamas have a lot to answer for, bbc make them accountable. Lets face it you would if if you didn’t like them and didn’t want to offend the muslims, again similar to President khan is never held accountable – for example knife crime in London on his watch

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    • Guest Who says:

      The BBC have farmed out ‘reporting’.

      https://x.com/k0sher_c0ckney/status/1833384263170818551?s=61

      Also on climate.

      https://x.com/bbcworld/status/1832925979896852688?s=61
      Climate change leaves future of Pacific Islands tourism ‘highly uncertain’

      Can’t wait for their latest insights into Keef and Gang’s latest national interest imposition… ‘Get Thugs Back On Our Streets’.

      Are we still in the full refund stage of the mandate purchase period?

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Kosher🎗🧡
        @K0sher_C0ckney
        Guys. Get a load of this.

        We wake up to classic
        @BBCNews
        bullshit. The audacity.

        You’ve been caught out too many times lads. The jig is up.

        We all know your game now.

        “Hamas says” with ZERO qualification.

        Also notice “Gaza Correspondent”

        So if it’s “Hamas says” from your “Gaza Correspondent” – is your Gaza Correspondent Hamas?

        OR should we just question why Hamas are speaking to him and telling him to spread this ridiculous Propaganda for you?

        We have already heard from the IDF Intelligence that 3 Hamas terrorists were hiding behind civilians in the Humanatarian Zone which is a War Crime, these terrorists were named:

        Summer Tevesh
        Iman Mabukh
        Samer Abu Deka

        According to Military Correspondent
        @Doron_Kadosh

        So
        @BBCNews
        – how is it, that Me, some dopey Jewish bloke that hasn’t even had his morning coffee yet, can find all of that information out in 15 minutes and your Lazy ass reporting is just…

        “hAmAs sAyS sO”

        https://x.com/k0sher_c0ckney/status/1833384263170818551?s=61

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  12. friend of yogi bear says:

    SUCH WONDERFUL NEWS….THE END OF DIRTY STEEL..

    We should all salute those thousands of steel workers who are “sacrificing”their jobs as part of the new governments move to an inspiring Green future.
    Sir Keir is making this tremendous sacrifice as part of his “tough decisions”regime. He can see what is required, he has the vision to understand we must move to a steel and indeed metal free future and “his sacrfice” is to be seen in that light, the rest of us must follow and above all believe.
    These old fashioned industries are dirty and must be shut down, Ed MILLIPEDE can also see so much that the rest of us brainwashed fools can’t, he too embraces the metal free new world.
    So please lend them your support..you know it makes sense.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Meanwhile
      The Red government has been busy thinking up new ways to stress out pensioners. This time it’s a failure to promise free bus travel will remain free ….

      .. I think the next one will be separate treatment of pensioners at GPs and hospitals – put in separate rooms and ignored until they die ….. they started in a hospital last week where someone was discharged and died in the hospital cafe – it took 4 hours? For someone to notice ….

      Any other ideas about getting rid of pensioners ? Please write to TTK at number 10 Mohammed street …

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    • Scroblene says:

      Metal-free world?

      Twonks!

      The plastic versions need fossil fuels, don’t they?

      I’d like to see a plastic battery car, preferably from a hundred yards away, just before it caught fire…

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      Install giant electro-magnets in archways to parliament to strip all MPs of anything made of steel – house keys, car keys, hinges on briefcases, metal zippers, scissors, staplers, knives, fasteners on handbags, nail files, hair clips etc etc

      Then go to work in the building and seize anything made of steel: knives, forks, spoons, fridges, cookers, washing machines, dishwashers, saucepans, I-beams, chairs, tables etc etc.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      throw children into a volcano to stop the Gods being angry!

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  13. atlas_shrugged says:

    Today the scum far-left thug (SFLT) and his 2TK cronies will vote to murder thousands of old grannies.

    What the SFLT never told the British public when he was voting to lock us up and trash the lives of our young children was that every year 50,000 UK people die from respiratory viruses (RSV).

    So why will all these grannies catch viruses? Because they are cold and have turned down their heating so lowering their immunity. Meanwhile the SFLT will enjoy all his heating paid by the tax-payers as will all the enrichers in their 4-star hotels.

    I salute all the labour MPs who will vote to keep the winter heating allowance. Will there be more than five of them?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Atlas – I think it will be as interesting to note those who do not vote as much as those who vote against ….

      … I can’t see TTK – who I understand is now in the US – backing down by putting it off to 2025 as he ( Sue gray ) really is into ‘tough choices ‘…..

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  14. tomo says:

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    • Scroblene says:

      Know the feeling, Mr Musk…

      Been like that here for dozens of years!

      The Gray years are already here too – TTK is an absolute chump for letting her in!

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  15. MarkyMark says:

    Riot in USA over death of criminal – kneel and say mostly peaceful.
    Riot in UK over mass immigration – locked up.

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  16. MarkyMark says:

    Today in the Commons Richard Tice hit out at Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson over the government’s “deeply misguided” VAT hike on private schools. The Reform MP challenged the minister over the impending state school “capacity crisis”, a product of “thousands of children being forced out of independent schools.” Tice making himself a grade A headache already…

    https://order-order.com/

    ………………………

    Bristol City Council’s plan to balance its books when it comes to supporting children with additional needs could exceed the time and money currently proposed.

    If the authority misses its targets for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), the council ‘will be effectively bankrupt’.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4n1z1lxddko

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  17. Guest Who says:

    A classic BBC ‘we’ll just say what is said’ cop out.

    https://x.com/bbcr4today/status/1833404599257960451?s=61
    Labour and Co-op MP Rachael Maskell, who chairs the All Parliamentary Group for Ageing and Older People, tells #R4Today she will be abstaining from the vote on winter fuel payments to ensure older people ‘get the protection they need this winter’.

    No one believes her.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “abstaining from the vote on winter fuel payments” rather than vote against it?

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      • Guest Who says:

        In addition to the cop out, there is the flat out propaganda technique…

        https://x.com/bbcpolitics/status/1833416632003166590?s=61
        Prison release plans spark fears but for ministers it is the only option, @ChrisMasonBBC writes

        Chris shaping up nicely as Toenails 2.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Marky – the politicians’ number one law – self interest . She doesn’t want to upset the whips too much so early in the long 5 years – so she takes the easy option.

        I know this is harsh – but in terms of what they are – they are politicians first – then human beings – then male female …. Then red blue or Muslim …

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  18. tomo says:

    Anybody think that this will happen without some collateral damage?

    The reporting strategy memos have already been on the weekly editorial guidelines meetings?

    Screenshot-2024-09-10-at-08-29-08-Home-BBC-News.png

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    • Guest Who says:

      According to the BBC, it is the only option, to get space for people who write hurty tweets.

      “Machetes and knives may take lives, but words will be crushed like the far right scum they are….”

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      • MarkyMark says:

        “only option” – why not house the prisoners in the pension homes so they can cuddle them and keep the old warm? Everyone wins!

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  19. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    One of the favourite reasons the woke wets give to try and stop some laws they disagree with or want brought in is the old “If it saves one life ….” (or is it if it saves 4,000 lives)

    I’m not hearing them saying this to TTK/Reeves’ new granny killer WFP removal.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      If it saves one life ****

      **** life must be socialist to be saved and others can die for the cause.

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  20. MarkyMark says:

    “Worryingly, a “high proportion” of those released are domestic abusers”
    https://order-order.com/

    Trans women to be released as men!

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I wonder if there will be a prize for the first charged re arrested prisoner -maybe he /she will get the TTK treatment and get the instant 2 year bang up prize …?

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  21. StewGreen says:

    9:04am switch on bingo : Climate change hyperbole.
    Jim Al-Khalili is doing his routine thing; the opposite of a challenging interview as he lines up lines to help his interviewee spread their PR
    “the heatwave in Italy killed 70,000 people across Europe and us overwhelming evidence of Climate Change”
    His guest is arch Met Office Global Warming PR man Peter Scott .

    Bottom line heatwaves rarely kill young fit people. They certainly can tip old almost dead people over the edge
    However the same vulnerable are magnitudes more likely to be tipped over the edge by cold winter weather

    Checking his claim
    ‘heat during summer 2022 in Europe, according to researchers at the Barcelona Institute for Global .
    was estimated to have caused 70,000 deaths in Europe, including 20,000 in Italy’

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    • StewGreen says:

      It’s not a balanced programme at all but rather a sermon from two extremist evangelical preachers

      Very long prog blurb
      Climate scientist Peter Stott on taking on sceptics and modelling our climate impact
      In the summer of 2003, Europe experienced its most intense heatwave on record – one that saw more than 70,000 people lose their lives.
      Experiencing the effects whilst on holiday in Tuscany, climate scientist Peter Stott was struck by the idea that just maybe, he could use a modelling system developed by his team at the UK’s Met Office Hadley Centre, to study extreme weather events such as this very heatwave mathematically; and figure out the extent to which human influences were increasing their probability.

      That’s exactly what he went on to do – and, through this work and more, Peter has helped to shine a light on the causes and effects of climate change.
      His career, predominantly at the Met Office Hadley Centre, has seen him take on climate change sceptics and explain the intricacies of greenhouse gas emissions to global leaders. His work with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change even earned him a share of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

      But the biggest challenge remains: Peter talks to Jim Al-Khalili about whether humanity can adapt quickly enough to deal with the increasingly dangerous effects of our warming world

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      • MarkyMark says:

        “Peter talks to Jim Al-Khalili about whether humanity can adapt quickly enough”

        ………………..

        China accounted for 95% of the world’s new coal power construction activity in 2023, according to the latest annual report from Global Energy Monitor (GEM). Construction began on 70 gigawatts (GW) of new capacity in China, up four-fold since 2019, says GEM’s annual report on the global coal power industry.11 Apr 2024

        India is now catching up to China with new coal capacity proposals, the country long considered to be the isolated global leader in continued coal plant development. In the first half of 2024, India’s 23.5GW of newly proposed coal capacity was nearly two-thirds that of China (38.1GW), compared to just 7% in 2021.7 days ago

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      • Rob in Cheshire says:

        The main problem with “models” is: garbage in, garbage out. I’m off to pull on a jumper.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      The sheer madness of panicking over hot or cold as though it’s never happened before . They are clueless about how the weather works yet alone whether human kind is changing anything – it’s a religion without God .

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    • tomo says:

      I used to think Jim was OK….

      Now I think actually – he’s a gutless fawning PoS.

      His interview with Imperial’s Neil Ferguson (Perfesser Pantsdown) was utterly disgraceful on a scale where the cringe meter bent its needle.

      He’s even toned down his reporting and commentary on nuclear power – doubtless at the behest of the godawful shit producers at the BBC.

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  22. JohnC says:

    Chris Mason: Prison release plans spark fears but for ministers it is the only option
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0qekv319jgo

    ‘Man described by judge as the ‘least involved’ in riot jailed for a year’
    ‘Steaming drunk’ former soldier pushed police shield, waved arms, was lewd and ‘vocal’, but as ‘a party’ to disorder ‘has to be imprisoned’’

    I was stunned to learn that anyone even attending these protests – whether they broke any law or not – is being sent to prison. He got a full year for just being there !!.

    Se we are freeing thousands of convicted, real criminals and scumbags to make space for people like this.

    What could possibly go on ?.

    Everything about this smacks of Nazi fascism. That would be far-right ‘National Socialists’ according to the recent BBC reports.

    I wonder when the Nazis were first called ‘far-right’. I’ll bet my hat nobody said it at any time while they were in power. It is a label the Leftist academics have applied years later to shift the ideological blame.

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    Of the 215 prisoner deaths, 160 are suspected or confirmed to be due to COVID-19. The remaining 55 deaths are believed to be due to other causes, although the individuals had tested positive for COVID-19. Of the 91 individuals under probation supervision who have died, 83 are suspected or confirmed to be due to COVID-19 with the remaining 8 believed to be due to other causes, but where the individual has tested positive for COVID-19.

    https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hmpps-covid-19-statistics-january-2023/hm-prison-and-probation-service-covid-19-statistics-january-2023#deaths

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  24. MarkyMark says:

    The contract for the Bibby Stockholm barge, which houses asylum seekers off the coast of Dorset, will not be renewed past January, the Home Office has announced.

    Extending the use of the barge, which is moored off Portland, would have cost more than £20m next year.

    The three-storey vessel has capacity for up to 500 men, aged from 18 to 65.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg640n3372q

    boat%20(2).jpg

    £22m
    Bibby Stockholm: Barge to house asylum seekers in Portland costs taxpayers £22m | ITV News West Country.14 Dec 2023

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  25. JohnC says:

    US election polls: Who is ahead – Harris or Trump?
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4x71znwxdo

    If the BBC run this headline, you can be 100% certain they have a poll which says Harris is in the lead.

    Obama forced dementia-Joe out because Trump was leading in the polls. A fact the BBC very carefully hid from us.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Right now, the polls are very tight in the seven battleground states, which makes it hard to know who is really leading the race. There are fewer state polls than national polls so we have less data to work with and every poll has a margin of error that means the numbers could be higher or lower.”

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      • JohnC says:

        That’s a classic BBC article there Marky:

        They have a big graphic showing Kamal leading 47% to 44% – but it’s just the result of one poll.

        Then they allude to the actual truth somewhere later in the article where only those who bother to read it all will learn it.

        What should we call that way they lie ?.
        Maybe ‘The lie by misplaced emphasis’.

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  26. AsISeeIt says:

    There are those who might dismiss the announcement of new Oasis gigs as nothing more than cynical old has-beens, with nothing new or creative to say, simply cashing in on their old hits – hits which on reflection weren’t really that great first time around.

    Meanwhile: Emily Maitlis says Andrew ‘lost respect’ after interview… “I think there is unfinished business,” the journalist told BBC News. “It isn’t some nice, neat ending.” (BBC)

    Meantime, Kalama is our Spice Girl: Kamala Harris visits spice shop known for hating and slamming Republicans, calls for end of ‘divisiveness’ (New York Post)

    The vice president was greeted by cheers at Penzeys Spices in Pittsburgh on Saturday, as she went around shaking hands, taking selfies and hugging shoppers — including embracing one tearful local — in the store… She peddled a message of unity… “Look, it’s time to turn the page on the divisiveness. It’s time to bring our country together, chart a new way forward.” (Fox News)

    Would you care for some partizan vitriol with your cinnamon? A sprinkling of anti-conservative spite with your black pepper? A soupçon of Marxist ideology to add colour to the chili powder, perhaps?

    From the environment, to racism/discrimination, to health, to saving our democracy at home and growing it abroad, half the time Republicans are intentionally blocking the solution to the problems we face. The other half of the time they are the problem we face. (Penzys Spices: ‘About Us’ tab on their website – in fact is keen to tell us ‘About Republicans’)

    It goes on: The truth of our time is we’ve arrived at the point where there’s no way to respect the nonsense the Republican Party is promoting and have any hope of overcoming the problems we as a nation and we as a planet face. Given the choice between saving America and planet Earth or saving the feelings of Republican voters, we are choosing to side with saving our country and our world. I’m sorry it’s come to this. (Penzys) – but I only popped in for small pot of Chipotle peppers…

    I actually like and respect most of you guys. Sure, there are a growing number that are there for the racism… Remember when your distrust of big city types, and your deep rooted beliefs in paying your debts, respecting your marriage, raising kids willing to serve, honoring your word, and going to church every week had you voting for Donald Trump over Joe Biden all because Biden’s son had a computer? Or how you couldn’t vote for Hillary because she was over-prepared and used emails? (Penzys) – Hey, leave my kids and my marriage out of it, will you! Can we just put the politics to one side for just one moment and let me pay for the bay leaves and salt-free Italian-style seasoning and let me get out of here?

    If on the other hand you still want the best spices and don’t need us to respect what you now vote for to be our customer… but it sure would be nice to get back to a time where Republicans were equal defenders of equality, the environment, and democracy. We look forward to that day. Thanks for reading. Thanks for being here, Bill (Penzys) – Yeah, sure. You have a nice day now.

    Getting back to the regular hurly-burly of the British press…

    Our old mate Matt in the Telegraph is happily back bang on target with a cartoon of Friar Tuck and Robin Hood (what could be more English a gag than that?) “Surprisingly, Robin nobody likes your plan to steal from pensioners and give to train drivers”

    Frankly, being rather a fiscally-minded conservative, Mr AsI approves of people coming to think about our tax and spend choices in this robbing Peter to pay Paul way.

    Star Idris: Tackling knife crime for the sake of all our kids (Daily Mirror) – which adds an item to our relatively newly minted feature spot – You guessed it, he’s black.

    Our Idris was for one hot minute touted as a new James Bond – the moment passed. And perhaps Mr AsI won’t afterall be required to deploy his ‘You guessed it, he’s black’ in the case of the new 007?

    No, we don’t need a gay James Bond – insists Zing Tsjeng in the ‘i’ newspaper: Most of us prefer watching shows with interesting and inventive ideas over unimaginative remakes, reboots or all-too-obvious cash grabs (Gallagher brothers and Ms Maitlis consider yourselves duly dissed there) – So says our Ms Zing. Would it be a racialist remark (and under 2-K-Starmer illegal) to suggest her name is not a million miles away from sounding like that of an exotic Bond villian… or on the other hand an exotic Bond girl perhaps? I’ll risk it – afterall, you only live twice.

    So tell us Ms Zing, what has prompted this gay Bond debate?

    Daniel Craig attends the ‘Queer’ photo call during the 81st Venice International Film Festival… Questions are lobbed while the “talent” – as they’re known in the biz – must gamely field queries that sometimes bear little relation to the movie they’re trying to promote… “Do you think there could be a gay James Bond?” Craig was asked, prompting a disbelieving laugh and an extravagant eye roll from the former 007 star… I don’t think I’m alone when I say that LGBTQ people like myself… (‘i’) – bang goes the charmingly exotic notion of Ms Zing as the Bond ‘girl’. More the Rosa Klebb?

    Why should onscreen representation of our community begin and end with rebooting tired old franchises? Why should actors – from any marginalised group, come to think of it – have to squeeze into roles and paths already well-trodden by their white, straight, or male predecessors? (‘i’) – she says, fairly reasonably.

    That highly prized postion of James Bond actor – just like Yvette Cooper’s “exceptional leader” to head her ‘UK Border Security Command’ remains to be appointed. Or perhaps ‘cast’ is the term for both hirees – given the theatrical performance that will inevitably be required of both.

    Close observation of a newspaper title’s daily frontpage over a period of months and years will tend to impress on one something of the editorial lines persued. One nicknames the ‘i’ newspaper the poundshop junior Guardian for its youth-orientated left-leaning narratives. Not so long ago one characterised this title as the most coronaphobic of newspapers – a paradoxical editorial policy taken, despite its youthful orientation. Although it may be argued the ‘i’ simply prioritised our health and safety with its presistent coronaphobia – and afterall it was more or less illegal NOT to be coronaphobic back then. Whereas our authorities regard other phobias – such as islamophobia – in quite the opposite regard and increasingly illegal. But we digress.

    A nasty little trait of the ‘i’ is their anti-family tendency. This morning we’re told: At 30, I was told I would regret not having children. At 65, I couldn’t be happier (‘i’) – calm down dear – there you go Rachel Reeves – there’s one happy OAP – not coming after you with pitchforks and flaming torches.

    Pensioners in poverty: 770,000 set to lose winter fuel payments (‘i’)

    And I’ll say this for the ‘i’ they are pretty frank about our manipulation at the hands of our left-leaning elite media celebrity mafia: Power couple The rise of the Clooneys – friends with Starmer and shaping elections (‘i’)

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Who is to be the border commander ? Presumably one of the ‘command team ‘ in charge of the Met …. The emir must favour a Muslim commissioner so dump the current one to border command and put in a Mohammed of the Met …. Inshala ….
      I don’t know if paddy power is running a book …

         10 likes

      • MarkyMark says:

        https://www.gov.uk/government/news/home-secretary-launches-new-border-security-command

        Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has today set out the first steps to establishing a new UK Border Security Command (BSC).

        Rapid recruitment for an exceptional leader used to working in complex and challenging environments, for example, at senior levels of policing, intelligence or the military, will kick off tomorrow (Monday 8 July), with the new recruit expected to take
        up their post in the coming weeks.

        (Monday 8 July),

        The Home Secretary will have further calls this week with European interior ministers and with the Director General of Europol to discuss strengthening security cooperation.

        ………………………………………..

        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

           3 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Idris is creating his own escape Island – 0 stabbings .

      “Idris Elba ‘dreams big’ with Sierra Leone eco-city plan for Sherbro Island Published 17 March”

         2 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Electoral interference??!! “Power couple The rise of the Clooneys – friends with Starmer and shaping elections (‘i’)”

         3 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      “At 30, I was told I would regret not having children. At 65, I couldn’t be happier ”

      – the future is for those who turn up.

         6 likes

    • tomo says:

      Was Amal Alamuddin a stablemate of TTK at lefty legal hothouse Doughty Street Chambers?

      I didn’t realise Amal represented Yulia Tymoshenko until just now… – I bet she (Amal) doesn’t like being asked about that.

      Has TTK still got a place at the Rockefeller run Trilateral Commission? – it’s prominently missing from his Wikipedia entry…

         3 likes

    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      It’s good to know that all that was wrong with Hunter Biden was that he had a computer, and all that Hillary Clinton did was use email. I’m glad that all that nonsense about bribery, corruption, drug use and using insecure private servers has been cleared up. Just remember to vote Democrat, alive or dead, illegal immigrant or not, all votes count. Some more than once.

      It’s all right when they do it.

         3 likes

  27. MarkyMark says:

    More than 1,700 prisoners start being released early because of overcrowding
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c62rygz20gjt

    …………..

    The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure. The Home Office plays a fundamental role in the security and economic prosperity of the UK.
    https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/about

    ……………..

    The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe
    The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe
    The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe
    The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe
    The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe
    The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe

       7 likes

  28. MarkyMark says:

    Commennt “If one single person is Robbed, Raped Murdered by this action
    Then the gang leader responsible is Starmer

    .

    His Government pre-planned, aided and abetted the crime by this mass release

    No fake risk, impact assessment or human rights Lie can protect this government

    .

    Because Starmer has broken his oath to the King

    The first dutyof the government is to “keep citizens safe and the country secure” .

    He’s failed on both”

    https://order-order.com/2024/09/10/over-1700-prisoners-walk-free-as-prisons-hit-breaking-point/#comments

       11 likes

  29. MarkyMark says:

    HA HA HA HA HA!

    “Moreover, the Focac summit skated around some of the more sensitive and contentious environmental issues – such as the regular accusations that big Chinese vessels engage in over-fishing, leaving little for the local artisanal boats to catch.

    Chinese are the good guys! HA HA HA HA!

    Corbyn donned white tie and tails (did he hire them or does he keep a set of his own in some secret attic?) to attend the state banquet for Xi. He gave no support to the scattered protesters, even though they needed him badly to gain media exposure against Xi’s drum-banging cheerleaders. Corbyn had a private meeting with Xi, in which he claimed to have raised human rights issues. One must wonder how much time these received in the half-hour meeting, in which he also begged China to stop sending Britain so much steel and gave fulsome praise to China’s record in fighting fascism in the Second World War and its “huge achievement in helping more than 600 million of its people out of poverty.”
    https://commentcentral.co.uk/corbyn-and-china-a-long-march-into-silence-and-shame

       3 likes

  30. MarkyMark says:

    4fe2d88f-405e-4007-af30-a09463c576fb-1c930a49-2a01-4288-921e-ba90845045bb

       17 likes

  31. MarkyMark says:

    “Maitlis says Andrew ‘lost respect’ after interview”
    BBC IS A FORCE FOR GOOD IN THE WORLD! HA HA HAH AH !
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyn7ylgj5lo

       4 likes

  32. Square-Eyed says:

    Who cares? It seems the United Kingdom will shortly lose its national sovereignty.

    https://www.thegoldreport.com/news/world-governments-to-swear-fealty-to-un

    Did anybody ask Parliament, or the King, or us even? As usual the devil is in the detail.

       8 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      “At the conference, world leaders will sign Pact for the Future, an accord in which member states will pledge their allegiance to the UN as a central, unifying government. ”

      https://www.thegoldreport.com/news/world-governments-to-swear-fealty-to-un

      Action 1. We will take bold, ambitious, accelerated, just and transformative actions to implement the
      2030 Agenda, achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and leave no one behind.

      Action 2. We will place the eradication of poverty at the centre of our efforts to achieve the 2030
      Agenda.

      Action 3. We will end hunger, eliminate food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition

      Action 4. We will close the SDG financing gap in developing countries

      Action 5. We will ensure that the multilateral trading system continues to be an engine for sustainable
      development.

      Action 6. We will invest in people to end poverty and strengthen trust and social cohesion

      Action 7. We will strengthen our efforts to build peaceful, just and inclusive societies for sustainable
      development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive
      institutions at all levels and uphold human rights and fundamental freedoms

      Action 8. We will achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls as crucial
      contribution to progress across all the Sustainable Development Goals and targets

      Action 9. We will strengthen our actions to address climate change.

      Action 10. We will accelerate our efforts to restore, protect, conserve and sustainably use the
      environment.

      Action 11. We will protect and promote culture and sport as integral components of sustainable
      development

      Action 12. We will plan for the future and strengthen our collective efforts to turbocharge the full
      implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by 2030 and beyond.

      Action 13. We will redouble our efforts to build and sustain peaceful, inclusive and just societies and
      address the root causes of conflicts.

      Action 14. We will protect all civilians in armed conflict.

      Action 15. We will ensure people affected by humanitarian emergencies receive the support they
      need.

      Action 16. We will promote cooperation and understanding between Member States, defuse tensions,
      seek the pacific settlement of disputes and resolve conflicts.

      Action 17. We will fulfil our obligation to comply with the decisions and uphold the mandate of the
      International Court of Justice in any case to which our State is a party.

      Action 18. We will build and sustain peace.

      Action 19. We will accelerate the implementation of our commitments on women, peace and security.

      Action 20. We will accelerate the implementation of our commitments on youth, peace and security.

      Action 21. We will address adverse climate and environmental impacts that could contribute to the
      onset or escalation of conflict.

      Action 22. We will adapt peace operations to better respond to existing challenges and new realities.

      Action 23. We will address the serious impact of threats to maritime security and safety

      Action 24. We will pursue a future free from terrorism

      Action 25. We will prevent and combat transnational organized crime and related illicit financial
      flows.

      Action 26. We will steadfastly advance our efforts to achieve the goal of a world free of nuclear
      weapons

      Action 27. We will uphold our disarmament obligations and commitments

      Action 28. We will address the potential risks and seize the opportunities associated with new and
      emerging technologies.

      Action 29. We will address the potential risks posed by the misuse of digital technologies, including
      information and communication technologies and artificial intelligence.


      ..

      Action 60. We will strengthen the governance of outer space to foster its peaceful, safe, and sustainable
      uses for the benefit of all humanity

         4 likes

      • moggiemoo says:

        Action 61. We will ensure that we, along with anybody we like, will make large amounts of money from the above whilst ignoring any Action we feel shouldn’t apply to us.

           7 likes

  33. Fedup2 says:

    It seems there’s no ‘softening ‘ by the great leader on the £1.4 billion he is going to save by cancelling winter payments and killing 4000 old people .

    It seems 880 000 who could claim the pension credit and get the payment haven’t done so – if they did it would cost £3.8 billion on the welfare budget .

    Now I’m no fan of welfare – but claiming that pension credit thing is the best weapon against the great leader that is available .

    Already a lot more have claimed since the great leader declared his plan to freeze the old to death – and many more should – …every supermarket checkout should give out a leaflet to someone looking 65 plus – on buses – in clubs – claim

       11 likes

    • Eddy Booth says:

      £28 billion gets doled out yearly, in Personal Independence Payments (PIP), 100 % not means tested.
      How about scrapping that, and and anyone needing extra help can claim so called Universal Credit which was expensively set up to supposedly simplify things.

         8 likes

  34. vlad says:

    Oh yes.

       6 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      The BBC has said on-screen presenters are “regularly reminded” of its guidelines relating to clothing, after an incident in which Gary Lineker appeared to breach those rules by wearing outfits from his own fashion range.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c877nnxplepo

      https://www.next.co.uk/edited/fashion/men/gary-lineker-edit

      gary1-data.jpg

      Gary Lineker’s back with his latest menswear edit!
      From formal separates to casual styles, discover the pieces selected by Gary for spring.

      ………………………

      Gary Lineker ditches his Next own-brand collection to present the Euros after being accused of flouting BBC advertising rules
      By Matt Strudwick

      Published: 09:14, 19 June 2024 | Updated: 09:22, 19 June 2024

      e-mail
      78

      View comments
      Gary Lineker last night ditched his Next-own brand collection to present the Euros after he was accused of flouting BBC advertising rules.

      The £1.35-million-a-year broadcaster, 63, wore a dark olive open-collared shirt as he introduced the Portugal v Czech Republic game.

      MailOnline checked Lineker’s clothing range on Next’s website and it does not appear to be from the collection.

         2 likes

  35. Eddy Booth says:

    No show trials today?

    No mention of Carbon footprint, net zero, or sheer pointlessness from the BBC here, it’s all so jolly and exciting :

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c93p0nr69xzt

    “Blast-off! Four astronauts leave Earth for first privately-funded spacewalk”

    0e40abb0-6f54-11ef-8c1a-df523ba43a9a.jpg

       6 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Here’s what the blob has told the Tel to write so Rach can ‘quote’ herself in it.

      https://x.com/RachelReevesMP/status/1833398867720560949
      This Labour Government was elected on a clear mandate of change. That change can only happen by fixing the foundations of our economy.

      She is getting SLAUGHTERED in the comments, as should any media running such stuff with no hint it is pure lies.

      How the media runs this with their famous ‘analysis’ will be fascinating.

         8 likes

      • MarkyMark says:

        “fixing the foundations of our economy.” – 22% pay rise to everyone!

           4 likes

      • MarkyMark says:

        Everyone is Crisp Sales man … “Alex Scott was given a telling off by the BBC after she promoted a clothes brand while on duty for the broadcaster during the World Cup in 2022”

        https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13545869/gary-lineker-ditches-brand-euro-2024-flouting-bbc-advertising-rules.html

           4 likes

      • Guest Who says:

        Here’s Lammy going solo
        https://x.com/DavidLammy/status/1833151045016424567
        We are restoring our reputation overseas by building global partnerships and navigating today’s threats and opportunities pragmatically.
        These reviews strengthen our ability to drive growth and deliver a joined-up approach to international development.

        Like Mercs for Mercs in Africa, and Goodness Gracious Me Goes to the Moon or ED’s One trillion £ Giveaway?

        #CCBGB

           9 likes

        • MarkyMark says:

          https://www.gov.uk/government/news/foreign-secretary-launches-expert-reviews-to-strengthen-uks-global-impact-and-expertise

          Professor Ngaire Woods, Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government and Professor of Global Economic Governance at the University of Oxford

          Baroness Minouche Shafik, former Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Development and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England

          Sir Martin Donnelly, former Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Trade and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

          14 years to create a plan …. expected to be delivered by the end of the year,</strong)

          …………………….

          Aid to China from the UK fell to approximately £48 million in 2021-22 – down from £82 million in 2019 – and it is expected to continue to decline rapidly in future, according to the aid watchdog.13 Jul 2023

          …………………….

          UK payments to Iran will not count toward aid budget
          The United Kingdom government's promise that the debt repayment, vital to securing the release of hostage Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, would be used for humanitarian goods, had prompted worries it might place further pressure on the aid budget.

          By William Worley // 25 March 2022

             2 likes

        • Terminal Moraine says:

          ‘Joined-up approach to international development’ = funnelling UK money abroad

          ‘Navigating threats’ = criminal sentences for people who complain about it

             4 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      4000 old people died of the cold sending this rocket into space!?

         5 likes

    • G says:

      Eddy,

      “Hideously White’……….

         3 likes

  36. MarkyMark says:

    “Revealed: Poverty-stricken workers who made the Next jacket worn by Gary Lineker on his BBC Euros show are paid just 44p an hour”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13583819/workers-jacket-worn-Gary-Lineker-BBC-Euros-paid-just-44p-hour.html

    86738631-13583819-image-a-15_1719695736812.jpg

    Lineker, who is paid £1.35million a year by the BBC to front Match Of The Day, previously fought back tears and spoke of the ‘inhumane’ poverty he witnessed in Bangladesh during a film for Sport Relief;

    … Branding experts told this newspaper his Next deal may be worth about £2million.

    … workers who made the Next jacket worn by Gary Lineker on his BBC Euros show are paid just 44p an hour

    … Branding experts told this newspaper his Next deal may be worth about £2million.

    … workers who made the Next jacket worn by Gary Lineker on his BBC Euros show are paid just 44p an hour

       5 likes

  37. Eddy Booth says:

    “Starmer tells unions ‘we won’t be reckless’ with money ahead of winter fuel vote”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5y3n56eg9rt

    A live article for Stalin to repeat what he’s already said endless times.

    “Starmer says government will have to take difficult decisions”
    Etc etc

       11 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      “Starmer says government will have to take difficult decisions”

      …………

      difficult decisions FOR YOU .. NOT FOR THEM

      ……………………

      Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi admits taxpayers paid power bill for his stables
      This article is more than 10 years old
      MP promises to repay the part of £5,822.27 expenses claim for second home energy bills that relates to electricity for stableshttps://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/10/nadhim-zahawi-admits-taxpayers-electricity-stables

      £5,822.27 expenses claim

      £5,822.27 expenses claim

      £5,822.27 expenses claim

      stables (not his grandmother)
      stables(not his grandmother)
      stables(not his grandmother)

      “Some 340 MPs, including government ministers, have used the parliamentary expenses system to recoup the cost of heating their second homes, it was reported.”

         5 likes

  38. StewGreen says:

    Simon asks why the establishment say dead naming is wrong except for obvious exceptions like TR

    TR uses a non de plume cos initially he was an activist and needed to protect his children

    Our local BBC has staff with artificial names like Kofi Smiles, and Priti Mistri

       11 likes

  39. Terminal Moraine says:

    Not BBC but Guardian — “World Afro Day campaign urges MPs to update Equality Act to make afro hair a protected characteristic”.

    “The World Afro Day (WAD) campaign has written an open letter to MPs, calling on them to vote for the recognition and prevention of afro hair discrimination by updating the Equality Act 2010 to make afro hair a protected characteristic […] the ‘omission of hair as a protected characteristic from the law has facilitated everyday discrimination and the normalisation of afro hair as inferior in every sphere of life’”.

    Discrimination that must exist only in a strange Guardianland where people have never seen the BBC website, watched any TV, bought a sofa etc etc…

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/10/mel-b-britons-world-afro-day-hair-discrimination-parliament-equality

       5 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Anna’s Blog – Afro Hair Discrimination in Schools and the Workplace. In 2017, 15-year-old Ruby Williams was repeatedly sent home from school due to her natural hair being ‘against uniform policy’, and ‘blocking other pupils from seeing the whiteboard’.

      ‘blocking other pupils from seeing the whiteboard’.
      ‘blocking other pupils from seeing the whiteboard’.

      WHITE BOARDS ARE RACIST!

         5 likes

  40. Guest Who says:

    Endless hapless ministers being quoted on wibble is not cutting it, especially from pure client media.

    https://x.com/Channel4News/status/1833448338382877129Channel 4 News
    Downing Street says the cabinet is united behind the decision to cut winter fuel payments. But Rachael Maskell, a Labour MP who has led criticism of the planned cuts and says she plans to abstain, says it is important to “protect older people this winter”.

    Especially in a pathetically obvious joint attempt to rally the troops on killing oldies (not working) and distract from all the other ‘tough choices’ on fiscal idiocy to keep fellow juvenile ideologues in politics, media and activism happy, at home and abroad.

       6 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      “protect older people this winter”. – old people to say they hate mass immigration = old people in prison nice and warm for winter!

         7 likes

  41. MarkyMark says:

    “Some 340 MPs, including government ministers, have used the parliamentary expenses system to recoup the cost of heating their second homes, it was reported.”
    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/10/nadhim-zahawi-admits-taxpayers-electricity-stables

    “However I have made a mistake with my electricity claims.”

    Sun 10 Nov 2013 06.46 GMT

       6 likes

  42. MarkyMark says:

    WE WILL ALL STRUGGLE COMRADES … ALLL ….

    “MPs have come under attack for claiming £200,000 of taxpayers’ money to cover the cost of their energy bills.

    Some 340 MPs, including Government ministers, have used the parliamentary expenses system to recoup the cost of heating their second homes, according to the Sunday Mirror.

    Bills costing more than £1,000 were submitted by 41 MPs while 78 made claims for £500 in the 12 months up to March this year, its analysis found.

    The claims do not break any parliamentary rules but come at a time of heightened tensions over the spiralling cost of gas and electricity.”
    https://www.standard.co.uk/panewsfeeds/mps-attacked-over-energy-expenses-8919363.html

       4 likes

  43. MarkyMark says:

    Watch Congress live
    Watch Congress sessions live from 8-11 September 2024.
    You can find recordings of each session on our YouTube channel the following day.

    https://www.tuc.org.uk/Congress2024/congress-live

    ……………………..

    Councils have a ‘collective hole’ of £4bn in their finances, says Unison
    A Unison report published today (9 September) has found that councils across England, Scotland and Wales, have a collective “hole” in their finances, amounting to £4 billion for the coming financial year.

    https://www.letsrecycle.com/news/councils-have-a-collective-hole-of-4bn-in-their-finances-says-unison/

       2 likes

  44. JohnC says:

    Ex-partner who killed Ugandan athlete dies from burns
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2e8el7wxlo

    ‘Ndiema was to face charges as police said they were treating Cheptegei’s death as murder, with the former boyfriend named as the main suspect.’
    Wow, some top-notch detectives in Kenya. Sound sliek they were not quite sure.

    ‘Attacks on women have become a major concern in Kenya. In 2022 at least 34% of women said they had experienced physical violence, according to a national survey.’
    Oh the poor women. Always the victims. What an easy life the men have.

    Oh, hang on:
    Homicide versus Femicide!! How many men and women in Kenya are victims of murder annually?
    Year Male Female
    2021 2,090 706

    Sorry, I forgot : the BBC activists don’t care about Kenyan men at all. Unless whitey killed them of course.

       5 likes

  45. Guest Who says:

    The whole media> Govt> Councils> activists> media> circle jerk BS is now well established, even if no one not an idiot, crook or employed by these on £150k+ is buying the smoke and mirrors any more.

    From:
    https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/09/09/the-bus-sized-battery-farms-threatening-to-blight-britains-countryside/

    Not about Ed’s ‘secret’ Trillion, but…

    I read today that Councils are facing a ‘black hole’ –
    https://www.ft.com/content/76c5fd20-04da-4651-8740-e52d21d04541of £4.3 Billion.

    Exactly the same as the ‘Electricity Superhighway’ that is proposed for Aberdeen to Yorkshire.

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/13/electricity-superhighway-scotland-england-ofgem-eastern-green-link-cable

    Had sundry Governments not blown the budget on green dreams, this sum – at 2024 costs [no idea if it’ll come in below or above £10 billion] – could have assists councils.
    I asked my supplier about green electrons – t seems they do not employ an elf or a gnome or a sprite to sit at the start of ‘my’ wires, rebuffing ‘non-green’ electrons. Surprise. Maybe ask the Council who is employed to check all their electrons, and how they can tell the difference?
    Auto

    Our ‘green council’, who spaffed millions on #NetZero had a ‘green executive’ who is now a Green MP, obsessed by Gaza. And spaffing more than Ed.

    She is a rosy cheeked brain donor who should not be let out unsupervised. But got elected anyway.

       6 likes

  46. Fedup2 says:

    From The Guardian – a BBC propagandist has been sacked – a mate writes this –

    STARTS Kate Lamble is not a household name like Emily Maitlis or Andrew Marr, other former BBC journalists. Having risen through the ranks of specialist science journalism, Lamble has never presented a primetime show. For the past seven years, Lamble has covered the Grenfell Tower inquiry – listening to hours and hours of often heartbreaking testimony – until last week, two days after the inquiry published its final report, when she announced she had been made redundant and would be leaving the BBC.

    Among more than 1,000 comments on her post on X, seen 1.5m times, was one from the survivors’ group Grenfell United. “It saddens us to see this huge error by the BBC, Kate has supported the Grenfell cause from the beginning and made our story more accessible to the public.” Lamble is understood to have decided to be “totally open” about her involuntary departure as she worried these people would think she had chosen to walk away.

    The role of the media is far from central to Grenfell, but it is important – the tragedy was in large part about missed warnings and attention not being paid. Among the very many lessons to be learned, it seems that one – the importance of local and specialist journalism – has already been forgotten. And not just by commercial news outlets chasing ever-diminishing profits, and running from irrelevancy, but by Britain’s public broadcaster.

    Lamble is just one of more than 100 journalists to leave the BBC since plans to save a further £500m from the BBC News budget were announced last November. The director-general, Tim Davie – who is being grilled today in parliament over Huw Edwards and the future of the BBC – said in March that the BBC needed to make annual savings of £700m a year following a decline in its income of about 30% between 2010 and 2020. Like the NHS – another complex organisation tasked with providing a universal service – fewer resources has meant “difficult decisions”.

    The priority in news has been to try to follow audiences from broadcast TV, down 11% over five years, to digital. In essence, this has meant fewer investigative deep-dives in audio and TV, and more work online from BBC Verify. So more people to explain the line taken by that day’s news bulletins, more talking heads on a sofa – and fewer to spend years gaining the trust of traumatised people and understanding the technical details of cladding and local governance. A joke among her colleagues was that Lamble was the kind of journalist who could wear a T-shirt printed with: “I think you’ll find it’s more complicated than that.”

    To be fair to the BBC, these decisions in an industry that is always undergoing change are not easy or straightforward. BBC management argues that TikTok videos on daily news are essential if it is to win over younger viewers, while Newsnight’s viewing figures have gone up since most of the journalists were sacked to make way for a debate show. But at the heart of this is an agenda that sees the news in simple “top-line” terms – often the same perspective as that taken by rivals – is less interested in stories that take time and effort to report.

    The BBC has also been forced to make up for the failings of commercial news businesses running local newspapers – £8m a year of its licence fee is now used to fund 150 “local democracy” reporters, covering local politics, who are employed by regional news organisations. At the same time, the BBC has just announced a further 115 editorial and production job cuts in the regions and devolved nations, according to Press Gazette.

    Speaking on the day the final Grenfell inquiry report was published, Ed Daffarn, a survivor and founder member of Grenfell United, told the BBC Radio 4 Media Show that the community had been “lucky” when he first started blogging in the hope-filled early days of the internet, because a local reporter for the Kensington & Chelsea Chronicle reported on their complaints about unsafe housing. The title was then closed down by Trinity Mirror in 2014, three years before the devastating fire, and, said Daffarn: “sadly … the focus on kind of very local issues was diluted, and we lost that ability to, even on a very local level, have our voice heard”.

    At the start of party conference season, the BBC has highlighted the fact that previous Conservative governments have forced it to shoulder more of the cost of the World Service (which used to be funded by the Foreign Office) alongside the local democracy jobs. The latter comes as Davie announced a net loss of 500 jobs across all public service departments earlier this year, not just in news. The pressures that bear upon the organisation are real. But if management prioritises its commercial future at the expense of its public service present, who among us will remember what is so special and distinctive about the BBC? For all the well-known and well-paid presenters on BBC TV and radio, the heart of the BBC are the legions of lesser-known producers and fixers slogging away on relatively low salaries on stories that they think make a difference. We will miss them when they’ve gone.

    Jane Martinson is a Guardian columnistENDS

       2 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      I dealt with this on Saturday
      when I pointed out that directly after her last Grenfell podcast project finished , she was saying she was taking redundancy
      .. leading the Twitterati to assume she been sacked
      but that is contradicted by her 2022 tweet saying that she had a NEW job but wouldn’t start it until her Grenfell podcast had finished

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         1 likes

      • StewGreen says:

        #LondonSupremacist #GreenSupremacist BBC
        already recruited a new BAME “London girl” that day
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           4 likes

        • MarkyMark says:

          Our core benefits in the UK include a pension scheme, life assurance and accident benefit. Our flexible benefits scheme, myChoices, allows you to build a package personal to you, including health cover, the option to buy or sell annual leave, gym membership, electric vehicles, cycle to work, plus discounted products and services via myDeals.

          https://careers.bbc.co.uk/content/Working-at-BBC/?locale=en_GB

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  47. StewGreen says:

    Andrew Neil tweets
    Rate of UK unemployment falls to 4.1%, down from 4.2% in the previous three months.
    Sterling rises against dollar. Growth in pay outpaces inflation.
    … As Starmer and Reeves never stop telling us, it really is the most appalling economic inheritance ever.

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      … As Starmer and Reeves never stop telling us, it really is the most appalling economic inheritance ever.

      It will be soon.

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  48. MarkyMark says:

    “Rewrite the rules of economy.”

    “So much of our crumbling public realm.”

    Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer delivers speech at TUC

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  49. StewGreen says:

    since Global warming has made the weatherbso cold an windy, my work today is cancelled, So I have a chance to actually read my email

    The Rationalist Association invite me to their weekend festival in 2 weeks time
    £158 for 2 days of speakers

    what RATIONAL people can I see ?

    Sat 21 September10:30am – 11:15am
    The Life and Philosophy of Sadiq Khan
    Leading thinkers and politicians look back and explore what led them to their philosophy and what they have learnt from life.

    words end with a testimonial
    “Sadiq Khan has shown the world that transformative green politics is possible.” – Justin Trudeau,
    https://howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/london/programme

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    • StewGreen says:

      Oh 4pm Co-leader of the Green Party Carla Denyer,
      author and campaigner Guy Shrubsole and macro policy lead at Deloitte Socrates Mokkas
      debate green capitalism.

      Yawn

      6pm “Who should hold the next prime minister to account?
      Our best hope lies with the Green Party.” – George Monbiot

      £158/ticket !!!

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      • MarkyMark says:

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      • StewGreen says:

        I see what they are doing.. the establishment PROTECTING the public by rounding up all the deviants you wouldn’t want to bump into, and locking them in a field, for that weekend

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      • StewGreen says:

        Anti-capitalism and Palestine are sprinled throughout the programme.
        Here are few of the other standout items

        Saturday
        2pm film Decarbonise: The Road to Net Zero
        A panel of leading global climate scientists including Jennifer Wilcox assemble to consider the most promising,

        5pm How Islam Built the Modern World

        Sunday
        4pm Nadhim Zahawi: The Boy from Baghdad
        5:30pm John Bercow, Nadhim Zahawi ‘who are the real Progressives’ ?

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        • MarkyMark says:

          The Boy from Baghdad: The new 2024 memoir of a personal, political and professional journey from Iraq to Westminster MP

          “Born and raised in Baghdad, Nadhim Zahawi arrived in the UK aged 12, having been forced to flee Iraq with his family, under threat from Saddam Hussein’s regime.”

          ……………………….

          Expenses …

          £159.00
          Date Detail Amount (£)
          September 2023 Yearly TV Licence fee for constituency office £159.00 view details

          https://www.theipsa.org.uk/mp-staffing-business-costs/your-mp/nadhim-zahawi/4113

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      A rational choice would be to save £158. That is the course of action I shall be taking.

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