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 ….
Start the Week 9th September 2024
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Speaking on LBC yesterday, Starmer laid out his definition of a working person he would shield from tax rises: ‘people who earn their living,’ he said, who ‘rely on our [public] services and don’t really have the ability to write a cheque when they get into trouble.’
It’s the kind of answer that leads to more questions. In the UK practically everyone (regardless of how well-off they are) will be dependent on certain public services, including the NHS which is the only practical way to access an ambulance or certain emergency services.
The ability to write a cheque when in trouble might not be a sign of your income level, but how much cash a person has on hand at any given time. Does a person with a multi-million-pound property, whose cash is eaten up by a large mortgage every month, fit this definition?
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-does-keir-starmer-think-a-working-person-is/
Millennial voters: What’s a cheque?
Millennial voters: What’s work? What’s labour?
HMP Hurty Feelings.
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1765 …. **In a republic worthy of name, freedom to publish one ’s thoughts is a citizen’s natural right.** They may use a pen or their voice, and should not be prevented from writing any more than speaking …That is the law in England, a monarchical country, where people are freer than elsewhere because they are more enlightened. – Voltaire, Republican Ideas, 1765
2018 … In addition to reporting hate crime, please report non-crime hate incidents, **which can include things like offensive or insulting comments, online, in person or in writing**. Hate will not be tolerated in South Yorkshire. Report it and put a stop to it #HateHurtsSY – UK South Yorkshire Police, 2018
1765 … **In a republic worthy of name, freedom to publish one’s thoughts is a citizen’s natural right.**
2018 … **which can include things like offensive or insulting comments, online, in person or in writing**
The first tranny of the season appeared on University Challenge last night. Better than some the have had in the past. It seems you get better trannies under a Labour government. Makes you proud to be British.
Not representing the PEOPLE – Democracy.
“a. : government by the people. especially : rule of the majority. b. : a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.3 Sept 2024”
“Tory MP says spending more on pensioners will ‘bankrupt the country'”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5y3n56eg9rt?post=asset%3A774f7b76-405b-4977-aff2-3c910ee9dde2#post
Jeremy Hunt: everyone will be paying more tax after autumn statement 2022
Everyone. Everyone. Everyone.
1,860,000
Theresa May, Former UK PM earned £1.86 million in her 2 years since leaving Downing Street, figures show
500,000
Barry Gardiner defends donations worth £500,000 from Chinese agent
400,000
Matt Hancock, who lost the Tory whip after it was announced he would be appearing on the ITV programme, is still being paid as an independent MP and is rumoured to have been paid £400,000 to appear on the I’m a celebrity.
315,00
Boris Johnson earns £315,000 for 30 minute speech and ‘fireside chat’ in United States
65,040
Chuka Umunna Advisory Board of The Progressive Centre UK think tank (also known as Global Progress)
20,000
Jeremy Corbyn Labour party leader accepted up to £20,000 (about $27,000) for appearances on the Iranian state broadcast network Press TV
18,450
Keir Starmer £18,450 from Harper Collins as an advance payment for a book.
15,000
Boris Johnson Accommodation for a private holiday for my partner and me, value £15,000 Destination of visit: St Vincent and the Grenadines
10,000
Jeremy Hunt £10,000 from Citigroup Centre for speaking at an event on 9 March 2021. Hours: 4 hrs. Fee paid direct to charity. (Charity not mentioned)
5,822
Nadhim Zahawi MP promises to repay the part of £5,822.27 expenses claim for second home energy bills that relates to electricity for stables
2,200
MPs to get £2,200 pay rise from April for ‘dramatically increased’ duties last year
1,950
Philip Hammond accepts £2,000 watch from Saudi sheikh, despite ban on donating expensive gifts
bbc puts its spin on someone who thinks they are above the law:-
Miami officers pull Tyreek Hill from car, bodycam video shows
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gqnvj1v8lo
Not wearing a seatbelt
“US media reported that Mr Hill was given citations for careless driving and failing to wear a seatbelt.”
GB News owner buys Spectator magazine for £100m
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8l35xl1l2o
The bbc isn’t keen, as its “a right-leaning magazine”
That’s one special edition of the magazine! 100m!
Brillo Neil gets to re-home more stray Romanian dogs in his French chateau?
The obvious is that the boss of the Spectator is Andrew Neil and he hates GBnews
Bit of needle in that buy then?
22 billion black hole…….“Great British Energy will be backed by a capitalisation of £8.3 billion of new money over this Parliament.
In recognition of Scotland’s leading role in the UK’s clean energy revolution, Great British Energy will be headquartered and run from Scotland.”
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/introducing-great-british-energy/great-british-energy-founding-statement
new money?
What is “new money”?
Money conjured out of thin air by Ed Groundnuts Miliband.
The vote to confirm the killing of 4000 old people proves the uni party exists . Reds voting for a welfare cut and blues voting to keep it ?
I wonder how many reds voted against the great leader and are currently under house arrest pending transport to the Sue gray gulag …?
Set up Great British Energy, a publicly-owned clean power company, to cut bills for good and boost energy security, paid for by a windfall tax on oil and gas giants.
https://labour.org.uk/change/first-steps-for-change/
The Greens all voted to freeze the pensioners then?
A big salute to the only labour MP with any moral fibre:
John Trickett voted against the Winter Fuel Allowance cut.
All the MPs who voted for the cut – 347 of them – were scum far-left Grannie killing thugs (SFLGKT)
4.4. Job creation
Where coal power once drove local economies for generations in this country, clean energy can do the same for future generations. Through its 5 functions (see sections 6.1 to 6.5), Great British Energy will boost the number of skilled jobs in this essential industry and in its growing UK supply chain.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/introducing-great-british-energy/great-british-energy-founding-statement
Compare and contrast.
An extensive report detailing alleged BBC bias in its reporting on Gaza and the BBC ignores it. The moment a report comes out that is critical of Tory Suella Braverman the BBC healdines with it…and turns the headline into a lie….
‘Braverman wrong to slam Met over rally – report’
Hmmm…was she ‘wrong’? No….the report complains [and its basically the police reporting on themselves] that she should have complained in private. The BBC cheering on a line that it itself would never follow having a long history of lambasting the police at every moment…indeed the BBC is lambasting American police right now, what’s new?, for arresting a black man…only note…there’s not a word about ‘racism’….
‘Miami officers pull Tyreek Hill from car, bodycam video shows’
The report doesn’t give the full exchange, you need to watch the video, and the police are made to look overly aggressive when the full exchange shows Tyree being obstructive and obnoxious.
The main cop sounds as if he’s an immigrant from south of the border, the others are black.
If these officers had been white and talked white the BBC would already be dusting off the banners….but it was American cops being American cops…as were those black officers who beat up a black guy a while back…naturally they were ‘racist’ because they’d imbibed the cool juice from whitey.
The BBC clearly shapes its reports to suit an agenda…just ignore claims of anti-Semitism in regard to its own reporting, slam the Tory, and edit out the ‘racism’ claims that the BBC always has on hand ready to deploy and accuse at any moment when it suits.
MPs back cuts to winter fuel payments in Commons vote
Conservative motion to strike down plan is defeated but more than 50 Labour MPs abstain
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/sep/10/mps-back-cuts-to-winter-fuel-payments
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“So a PM who went to court to argue that migrants have rights to benefits does not feel pensioners deserve the same even though they have worked and contributed. Imagine the uproar if it had been the foreign aid budget cut or or a cut to the billions we are paying in bills for heat, food etc in hotels.”
order-order.com
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I find the use of ‘we’ especially by media, seldom valid, but in this case I’ll concede.
https://www.thefp.com/p/friedman-when-we-started-to-lie?
I watched as the goal of mainstream journalism shifted from describing reality to ushering readers to the correct political conclusion.
Today, with few exceptions, the UK MSM utterly conspired to see the latest Labour idiocy passed with minimal damage to the project.
The 2017 AP Stylebook features about 200 new or revised entries and a comprehensive index. The AP Stylebook is a writing and editing reference in newsrooms, classrooms and corporate offices worldwide. ISBN: 978-0-917360-66-4. {apstylebook}
“The Associated Press (AP) is an independent, not-for-profit news cooperative headquartered in New York City. Our teams in over 100 countries tell the world’s stories, from breaking news to investigative reporting. We provide content and services to help engage audiences worldwide, working with companies of all types, from broadcasters to brands.”
– More than half the world’s population sees our content every day.
– Two-thirds of our staffers are journalists.
– Our teams operate in 263 locations worldwide.
And this is why language and words are so important, distort the truth of the words to reflect a world you want to be, rather than the world that is – you get a confused and angry society.
https://www.apstylebook.com/
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/08/21/start-the-week-open-thread-138/comment-page-4/#comment-861738
“The most important thing I saw during my time as a correspondent in the American press, it seemed to me, was happening among my colleagues. The practice of journalism—that is, knowledgeable analysis of messy events on Planet Earth—was being replaced by a kind of aggressive activism that left little room for dissent. The new goal was not to describe reality, but to usher readers to the correct political conclusion, and if this sounds familiar now, it was both new and surprising to the younger version of myself who was lucky to get a job with the AP’s Jerusalem bureau in 2006. ”
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Why ‘nudge’?
It is called ‘nudge’ after the book by Richard Thaler (who went on to win the Nobel prize in economics) and Cass Sunstein which set out how people are not the rational economic actors beloved of conventional economic theory – but can be influenced by “choice architecture” into making better choices in their own interests.
better choices
better choices
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/article/explainer/nudge-unit
These are the 348 MPs who voted to deprive 10 million pensioners of their winter fuel allowance.
Shame on them all.
Jack Abbott (Labour)
Debbie Abrahams (Labour)
Zubir Ahmed (Labour)
Luke Akehurst (Labour)
Sadik Al-Hassan (Labour)
Bayo Alaba (Labour)
Dan Aldridge (Labour)
Heidi Alexander (Labour)
Douglas Alexander (Labour)
Mike Amesbury (Labour)
Callum Anderson (Labour)
Fleur Anderson (Labour)
Tonia Antoniazzi (Labour)
Scott Arthur (Labour)
Jess Asato (Labour)
James Asser (Labour)
Catherine Atkinson (Labour)
Lewis Atkinson (Labour)
Calvin Bailey (Labour)
Olivia Bailey (Labour)
David Baines (Labour)
Alex Baker (Labour)
Richard Baker (Labour)
Alex Ballinger (Labour)
Antonia Bance (Labour)
Paula Barker (Labour)
Lee Barron (Labour)
Alex Barros-Curtis (Labour)
Johanna Baxter (Labour)
Danny Beales (Labour)
Apsana Begum (Independent)
Torsten Bell (Labour)
Siân Berry (Green Party)
Clive Betts (Labour)
Polly Billington (Labour)
Matt Bishop (Labour)
Olivia Blake (Labour)
Rachel Blake (Labour)
Chris Bloore (Labour)
Elsie Blundell (Labour)
Kevin Bonavia (Labour)
Jade Botterill (Labour)
Sureena Brackenridge (Labour)
Jonathan Brash (Labour)
Phil Brickell (Labour)
Chris Bryant (Labour)
Julia Buckley (Labour)
Richard Burgon (Independent)
Maureen Burke (Labour)
David Burton-Sampson (Labour)
Dawn Butler (Labour)
Liam Byrne (Labour)
Ruth Cadbury (Labour)
Nesil Caliskan (Labour)
Markus Campbell-Savours (Labour)
Irene Campbell (Labour)
Juliet Campbell (Labour)
Dan Carden (Labour)
Sam Carling (Labour)
Al Carns (Labour)
Sarah Champion (Labour)
Bambos Charalambous (Labour)
Luke Charters (Labour)
Ellie Chowns (Green Party)
Feryal Clark (Labour)
Ben Coleman (Labour)
Jacob Collier (Labour)
Tom Collins (Labour)
Liam Conlon (Labour)
Sarah Coombes (Labour)
Andrew Cooper (Labour)
Beccy Cooper (Labour)
Deirdre Costigan (Labour)
Pam Cox (Labour)
Jen Craft (Labour)
Mary Creagh (Labour)
Stella Creasy (Labour)
Torcuil Crichton (Labour)
Chris Curtis (Labour)
Janet Daby (Labour)
Nicholas Dakin (Labour)
Ashley Dalton (Labour)
Alex Davies-Jones (Labour)
Jonathan Davies (Labour)
Paul Davies (Labour)
Shaun Davies (Labour)
Marsha De Cordova (Labour)
Josh Dean (Labour)
Kate Dearden (Labour)
Carla Denyer (Green Party)
Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour)
Jim Dickson (Labour)
Anna Dixon (Labour)
Samantha Dixon (Labour)
Helena Dollimore (Labour)
Peter Dowd (Labour)
Rosie Duffield (Labour)
Neil Duncan-Jordan (Labour)
Maria Eagle (Labour)
Sarah Edwards (Labour)
Clive Efford (Labour)
Damien Egan (Labour)
Maya Ellis (Labour)
Florence Eshalomi (Labour)
Bill Esterson (Labour)
Chris Evans (Labour)
Miatta Fahnbulleh (Labour)
Hamish Falconer (Labour)
Linsey Farnsworth (Labour)
Josh Fenton-Glynn (Labour)
Mark Ferguson (Labour)
Patricia Ferguson (Labour)
Natalie Fleet (Labour)
Emma Foody (Labour)
Catherine Fookes (Labour)
Paul Foster (Labour)
Daniel Francis (Labour)
James Frith (Labour)
Gill Furniss (Labour)
Barry Gardiner (Labour)
Allison Gardner (Labour)
Anna Gelderd (Labour)
Alan Gemmell (Labour)
Gill German (Labour)
Tracy Gilbert (Labour)
Preet Kaur Gill (Labour)
Becky Gittins (Labour)
Mary Glindon (Labour)
Ben Goldsborough (Labour)
Jodie Gosling (Labour)
John Grady (Labour)
https://x.com/SamanthaTaghoy/status/1833518509847974339
Marky -thank you for putting that list up . It’s beyond me why these people – who claim to be socialists – many respresenting poor constituencies – could vote that way .
To them £300 isn’t a lot of money – but for those just above the cut off for benefits it’s real damage …
I suppose the great leader will ensure that those who die over the winter won’t have died as a result of ‘cold ‘ …. – come April / May
Died 28 days of having COVID?!
Can’t wait… well, actually can… for the BBC and Sopes and Larry and Strumpet and ted and Alice to sink in to the next big thing.
https://babylonbee.com/news/kamalas-7-debate-demands-revealed?
1. Only questions about what kind of spices she uses when cooking: This is the type of thing Americans want to hear.
2. Moderators must respond to all of Kamala’s answers with “you KNOW das right” or “guuuuuurl, say it!”: Conversely, all of Trump’s answers must be met with boos and hisses.
3. The debate is to be held 3 hours before air time and edited down to her best 7 minutes: It’s standard practice with all Kamala Harris public appearances.
4. She will be awarded extra points for each accent she uses: Being multi-lingual should have its advantages.
5. Trump will be docked speaking time for being white and male: Plus, he’s wealthy, so he’s lucky to even be allowed to speak at all.
6. Jamaal Bowman must be stationed by the fire alarm: Just in case things aren’t going Kamala’s way.
7. She must be given the opportunity to sleep with the moderator the night before: Kamala always has to have her secret weapon up her sleeve.
BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast
BBC Radio 5 Live, Wednesday 3 January 2018
During a phone-in on the programme a contributor, Danielle Tiplady was introduced as a staff nurse. We should have established and made clear on air that she was a political activist.
08/01/2018
https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications/corrections_2018/
Apparently in the VP debates Harris repeated said ‘I am speaking ‘ – to anyone who challenged or interrupted her – trying to be the coloured female victim of whitee …
Meanwhile, closer to home… Verify is out again.
https://x.com/bbcpolitics/status/1833524857197187170?s=61
Will the pensions increase make up for the loss of winter fuel payments?
BBC Verify examines the claims
#ccbgb
Tricky one for the BBC Party to justify 4000 dead pensioners – if the blue party had done it the comrades would have been full on ..
Speaking of Verify.
https://x.com/bbcworld/status/1833577670543573236?s=61
JD Vance repeats baseless claim about Haitian immigrants eating pets
And… go!
If that were so, the PR tossers in Starmer’s posse missed an open goal / trick there then.
If we implement Indian Suttee we can keep the elderly warm, reduce pension costs and share in the Diverse Indian Culture that Rishi likes so much!
Everyone wins! **
** except the elderly.
Labour – cannot stop one boat.
Labour – can remove heating allowances from pensioners.
Once again I ask has anyone got a recommendation for a good ISP?
Up2 – seems that silence provides an answer – personally I use one which doesn’t charge for use in the reich EU but these are becoming rarer …
We have been on plusnet for the last 4 years. No complaints so far. I think it might be best to keep changing every now & then. We left Vodafone when they started to drive their price up.
Not TalkTalk based on customer service
A. It is not possible to determine the total cost of heating the Houses of Parliament. The buildings are heated either by natural gas or electricity, and in neither case is the amount of energy used for heating separately metered.
https://www.parliament.uk/about/sustainability/environmental-faqs/#:~:text=Houses%20of%20Parliament%3F-,A.,used%20for%20heating%20separately%20metered.
Reeves claimed £3,700 in energy support before axing winter fuel payments
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/rachel-reeves-claim-thousands-energy-support-winter-fuel/
‘Chancellor and Labour MPs used over £400k of taxpayer cash to heat their homes’
Can you even begin to imagine how the BBC would have reported this if it were Boris and the Tories ?.
It would certainly have a HYS opened on it and the troll farm would have flooded it with a tidal wave of hate and spite.
But it’s nowhere to be seen : the BBC don’t want us to know.
Kelvin MacKenzie tweets
Jonathan Hall is the terrorist watchdog and a KC and he has effectively said in a bombshell speech that the reason for the summer riots was due to the people not told the background of the Southport killings or the accused.
Basically he blames Starmer and his CPS chums for creating a climate of secrecy and Harris said voids are filled. Either nationwide riots.
He also nails the lie put out by the Prime Minister that people should not speculate online as it could prejudice the case.
Instead Hall urged the judicial arms of government, the police, the public prosecutors, to brief the media.
Had Starmer done do, he implied, the riots would not have happened .
What he said is a must read and it’s clear Starmer has made a very big mistake which will hang round his neck for years.
Hall, the independent reviewer of terrorist legislation, said ; “When matters of high importance happen in the public mind, as far as possible, the police, government and media should level with them.
“ Those institutions will not continue to have the trust that they have had if there is a general sense that things are being hidden which is what the conspiracy theorists depend on”.
Hall said there was “huge, huge interest” in the killings of those three little girls and people quite reasonably wanted to know as much as possible about the massacre.
So all the effing politicians with the exception of Farage tried to stop the public from knowing what happened.
It wasn’t prurience, there was a right to know. Was the killer an Islamist. Could your child be next?
All reasonable questions, denied by Starmer who said don’t ask or you too may get a knock on the door.
Yes – the eternal cloak does no favours in thr internet era – the ‘prejudicing a fair trial ‘ line is just out of date crap when jurors go straight to Google if they want to ….
… people charged must be named …
Why aren’t they embarrassed to death?
We must act now – and make sure she dies!
Add Rayner too
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5r07kw24no
“I get that there are tough decisions ahead, but who on earth thought that punishing pensioners first was a good idea?!”
“Rachel Reeves claimed over £4000 in expenses for heating since 2019.”
“Starmer – you are a disgrace”
“Time for MPs to lose their second home heating allowances. If pensioners are told that they have to help fill the ‘financial hole’ we are in, MPs should too. Labour are a total disgrace and this won’t be forgotten.”
UK? Nope Afghanistan … “When we got out, we’re scared. When we’re on the bus, we’re scared. We don’t dare to take down our masks. We even avoid speaking among ourselves, thinking that if someone from the
TalibanCOVID POLICE/KEIR POLICE/BLM KNEELERS /CLIMATE COMMITEE hears us they could stop and question us,” she says.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgedlz5wx88o
Labour voter hits reality …
It’s argued by some that Smarmer/Labour that Pensioners vote Tory so killing off the winter fuel payment would mean a few less Tory voters so no electoral impact. What Smarmer has forgotten is that everyone has elderly parents or grandparents. They will view this as an attack on their family. There will be consequences and this will run for decades. Smarmer is an exceptionally stupid man.
I think I heard some Labour apologist say the winter fuel cut had been flagged up well before the election. Probably a lie.
Jesus! Have you seen or heard anything of the TUC conference? I think they must have dug up Marx and Lenin, the ultra Communist speeches hark back to the 1960’s. I think they have been emboldened by the Labour victory and self interest, knowing that the Unions are now in control.
They actually did have Keir Stalin today. A standing ovation for Smarmer? What a joke. I couldn’t bear to see or listen to his speech, I can only guess what it was like.