Midweek 18th September 2024

The latest in a long line of BBC sex offenders got a suspended sentence – sending out a sign that it’s okay to abuse . But what is it about the BBC that there are so many who don’t know the difference between right and wrong ? Or was that question just answered .?

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  1. MarkyMark says:

    37 ‘temporary appointments’ were pushed through in Labour’s short initial period, alongside 20 secondments from outside the civil service. DSIT leads the pack with a whopping 12 exceptions alone, including an appointment to the highest pay band from £127,000 to £208,100. This is the system that allowed Labour Together Starmtrooper Jess Sargeant to be appointed as a Deputy Director in the all-knowing Propriety and Constitution Group…

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    • Up2snuff says:

      MM, that photo of Rachel at the Despatch Box really deserves to have her BoE nickname underneath.

      Foghorn.

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  2. JohnC says:

    Israel launches major strikes in southern Lebanon as Hezbollah leader condemns fatal device attacks
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cwyl9048gx8t

    Never in the history of civilisation has the leader of an internationally designated terrorist group been given such a prominent soapbox to freely spread lies and propaganda without correction or comment.

    Where are BBC verify for this one ?.

    Well done BBC. This is a new low even for you.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “freely spread lies and propaganda without correction or comment”

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    • popeye says:

      Firing 500 Iranian-supplied rockets A DAY at random civilian targets is not terrorism; pagers issued to active Hezbollah members which explode is. BBC please verify this dichotomy.

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  3. Zephir says:

    Welcome here…

    “CCTV of three men released after teenage girl and woman ‘raped and sexually assaulted on Brighton beach within moments of each other'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13869447/CCTV-three-men-released-rape-brighton-beach.html

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  4. pugnazious says:

    Times Radio…Glover and Garvey…you can take the girls out of the BBC but you can’t take the BBC out of the girls.

    One of them, they’re just too similar to tell apart, was interviewing ex-FBI James Comey…slightly embarrassing to listen in as it was verging on oozily orgiastic as they bonded in their hatred of Trump…naturally Harris will win and the world will be a better place. Comey was so superior and snooty and insulting that even if I was a democrat voter I might be tempted to vote for Trump….such interviews only go to ironically confirm what so many think about the Swamp and why they’ll vote Trump….he might not be exactly perfect but he’s not Comey & Co.

    Gotta hope Trump wins just to rub their noses in it.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      TONIGHT:
      @maitlis is live from New York. She sits down with
      @comey and asks whether the president has anyone sensible around him to stop impulsive behaviour? #newsnight at 22:30 on
      @BBCTwo

      https://x.com/BBCNewsnight/status/987042455777370112

      asks whether the president has anyone sensible around him to stop impulsive behaviour?

      “asks whether the president BIDEN has anyone sensible around him to stop forgetful behaviour?”

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  5. Zephir says:

    Welcome here…

    “Failed asylum seeker drugged and sexually assaulted vulnerable 14-year-old girl after Home Office ‘didn’t get round to’ deporting him when he was let out of jail.

    Sam Sharma, 34, carried out the horrific abuse on her more than a year after he completed a 14-month prison sentence for spitting, urinating, and hurling racist abuse at police officers, as well as threatening to rape the officers’ family members.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13868689/Failed-asylum-seeker-drugged-sexually-assaulted-vulnerable-girl-Home-Office-deporting.html

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  6. Zephir says:

    Worth watching, I like videos like this:

    “Instant karma for crooks who tried to rob pharmacy as clerk turns out to be jujitsu expert and dishes out some justice!”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13869355/karma-crooks-rob-pharmacy-clerk-jujitsu-exper.html

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  7. MarkyMark says:

    RUSSIA!

    Iran sent hacked Trump documents to Biden campaign, FBI says
    Officials say there is no indication Biden campaign responded to the emails, which offered information stolen from Trump campaign
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/19/iran-sent-hacked-trump-documents-to-biden-campaign-fbi-says

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  8. MarkyMark says:

    “I’m in control, says Starmer after Sue Gray pay leaks”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyvg1y170xo

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  9. MarkyMark says:

    The prime minister has insisted he is “completely in control” after the BBC revealed a row within government over staff pay.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyvg1y170xo

    ………………..

    “Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”
    ― Margaret Thatcher
    https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/57583-being-powerful-is-like-being-a-lady-if-you-have

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  10. markh says:

    Weapons-grade idiot Lewis Hamilton sees racism everywhere and is now upset by ‘stereotypical’ words used by the FIA president who referenced ‘rap’ music in his attempt to reduce swearing in Formula 1. I think the president’s only crime is using ‘rap’ and ‘music’ in the same sentence. This is of course a complete non- story but the BBC have nailed their colours to Hamilton’s mast.

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  11. Fedup2 says:

    6pm tv news – orla girin does a full on goebells style hamas propaganda piece for hizbollah / hamas / Islamic terrorists – 9 minutes worth of nasty Israel …. Shameful – surprised they didn’t give her a pager …..

    Keep going IDF ….

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    • JohnC says:

      I’ll wager the word terrorist was never used.

      This plan is absolute genius on behalf of the Israelis. Minimal possible civilian casualties and 3,000 terrorists taken out of the upcoming war.

      I wonder how many UN employees are now in hospital. We won’t be told of course.

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    • vlad says:

      Get the name right, will you?
      It’s Orla Gurning.
      GURNING, as in strange facial distortions.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        It’s clear that the BBC have a freedom pass from Islamic terrorist groups – but that’s understandable since the regularly publish the terrorists account of event and press releases …
        Poor orla never does happy but there must be one journo who would give a happy account of all those maimed Islamic terrorists …

        Keep going IDF

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Thanks to all who are expressing concern and support for the safety of #BBC teams here in #Ukraine. It is very much appreciated. Thank you for following our reporting on this frightening new war in Europe

          Orla Guerin
          @OrlaGuerin
          Senior International Correspondent
          @BBCNews
          . Dubliner making detours for decades. Never far from a cup of tea. Own views. Retweets not endorsements.
          Joined April 2014
          5,341 Following
          153.4K Followers

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      • BRISSLES says:

        Both wrong. Orla Guerin.

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  12. richard D says:

    Hadn’t thought about that, JohnC – very good point indeed.

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  13. micknotmike says:

    A couple of points I’d pick up, mentioned on the bbc:-

    There’s a new dramatisation from netflix of the maitliss / HRH Prince Andrew interview. I notice that the actress playing maitliss is 42 years old. There’s a bribe taken place there, I’m sure; maitiss is at least fifty years older than that. The picture of her falling out of her low cut top still makes me shudder.

    Interesting how a point is made regarding the girls raped by the harrods’ boss – “They must have known what to expect”.

    Are you seriously telling me that the t4rt who took HRH for all his money and wrecked his life thought that he was taking her home to meet his mum? Give me strength. Two-tier practices have been with us a long time.

    I believe she got over $10 million. I’d sleep with him for that sort of money.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Sopes and Strumpet are wetting themselves over ex BBC colleague O’Brien, of Carl Beech fame, hiding in his studio to blow a raspberry at Nigel Farage from a safe distance.

      Whatever her age in human terms, she is like a spiteful toddler mentally.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Their determination helps me seek justice from those who hurt me and so many others. My goal has always been to show that the rich and powerful are not above the law & must be held accountable.
      https://news.sky.com/story/prince-andrew-accuser-virginia-giuffre-says-she-will-continue-to-expose-the-truth-about-alleged-abuse-12515435

      ……………………
      The out-of-court settlement accepted no liability and Prince Andrew has always strongly rejected claims of wrongdoing.

      But the prince agreed to pay an unspecified amount to Ms Giuffre and to her charity for victims’ rights.

      He also said he “never intended to malign Ms Giuffre’s character” and he recognised she had “suffered both as an established victim of abuse and as a result of unfair public attacks”.

      The duke also pledged to “demonstrate his regret for his association” with the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

      In the wake of the claims, Prince Andrew lost military titles and royal patronages as well as the use of the title His Royal Highness.
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60667111

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    • BRISSLES says:

      I was under the impression HRH wrecked his own life – nobody twisted his arm to be seduced by Jeffrey Epstein.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        “She says he bought her a drink in a nightclub; he said he doesn’t know where the bar is in that club. She says he was sweating heavily as he danced with her; he says he didn’t sweat at all back then because of an obscure medical condition that’s now gone away. She says he slept with her; he said he was at home after taking one of his daughters to a party in a pizza restaurant.”

        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50448579

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  14. Lucy Pevensey says:

    ” TV Licensing PR spin is now saying you are in big trouble if you use an amazon fire stick without a tv licence. ”

    .

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    • MarkyMark says:

      WTF … You can cancel your licence if you no longer:

      watch TV on all channels, like BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Dave and international channels
      watch TV on pay TV services, like Sky, Virgin Media and BT
      watch live TV on streaming services, like YouTube and Amazon Prime Video
      use BBC iPlayer*
      This includes recording and downloading. On any device.

      https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/faqs/FAQ265

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  15. MarkyMark says:

    “I’ve paid you a small fortune.”
    “And this gives you power over me?”
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  16. Flotsam says:

    Smarmer has fully embraced dictator trappings and methods, like a latter day Hitler. He has surrounded himself with a surrogate Himmler, Goebbels, Goering, Bormann.
    The Courts will convict and Jail those that object.
    Lies? No such thing, everything he says is true. Gifts? Well they have to give otherwise they and their businesses are dead.

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  17. MarkyMark says:

    A team of scientists say it is “beyond reasonable doubt” the Covid pandemic started with infected animals sold at a market, rather than a laboratory leak.

    They were analysing hundreds of samples collected from Wuhan, China, in January 2020.

    The results identify a shortlist of animals – including racoon dogs, civets and bamboo rats – as potential sources of the pandemic.

    Despite even highlighting one market stall as a hotspot of both animals and coronavirus, the study cannot provide definitive proof

    is “beyond reasonable doubt”
    study cannot provide definitive proof
    we cannot obtain any higher certainty.

    is “beyond reasonable doubt”
    study cannot provide definitive proof
    we cannot obtain any higher certainty.

    is “beyond reasonable doubt”
    study cannot provide definitive proof
    we cannot obtain any higher certainty.

    “[But] without swabs from the actual animals in the market, which were not collected, we cannot obtain any higher certainty.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8095xjg4po

    And he warned “little or nothing” was being done to limit the live trade in wildlife, and “uncontrolled transmission of animal infections poses a major risk of future pandemics”.

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    • Docmarooned says:

      That team will no doubt be a non biased Chinese group.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Imperial received more than £18m in funding from Chinese military-linked institutes and companies between 2017 and 2022, but since then it has been forced to shut down several joint-ventures as government policy on scientific collaboration has hardened.16 Jun 2024

        https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/neil.ferguson

        My research aims to improve understanding of the epidemiological factors and population processes shaping infectious disease spread in human and animal populations. A key practical focus is the analysis and optimisation of intervention strategies aimed at reducing transmission or disease burden. Much of my work is applied, informing disease control policy-making by public and global health institutions.
        Neil Ferguson

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      I no longer believe a single word coming out of the bBC.

      The wet-market guff will be pure Warlocks.

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  18. MarkyMark says:

    “The motive for the attack was not immediately known. But some observers have expressed concern that nationalist sentiment in China might be spilling into increasing violence against foreigners.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy94qq01qweo

    In June, a man targeted a Japanese mother and her child in the eastern city of Suzhou. That attack was also near a Japanese school and led to the death of a Chinese national who had tried to protect the mother and son.

    Earlier in June, four American teachers were stabbed in the northern city of Jilin.

    ………………………………………………….

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  19. atlas_shrugged says:

    A nice program from Dan Wooton interviewing Bernie Spofforth about her persecution by Der Starmers 2T thugs:

    The people on the panel with Dan are legends too.

    So who was involved in trying to squash Bernie? Was it you 77 brigade, or was it the rock apes at RAF Wyton? If so take a hard look at yourselves in the mirror.

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    • Scroblene says:

      Atlas, my wife’s family was RAF, and the term rock-ape was/is still widely used here!

      Senora O’Blene only told me a year or so ago, that it was a specific RAF term, and not understood by many others, and up to then, I honestly didn’t realise that it was, despite it being part of our ‘language’ for all those years!

      Several other terms spring to mind, but they were from the Middle East years, and of course, it would be raaaaaacist or against some sort of blasted religion, to mention them here!

      I still have one of F.I.L.’s tankards inscribed by The Adastrians as The Sassoon Trophy…

      Best wishes!

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  20. MarkyMark says:

    THE GOV IS NOW A CHARITY???WTF.

    “As Keir Starmer struggles to balance the government’s books – and his staff pay bill – help is at hand: people making voluntary donations to the nation’s coffers.

    Already this year, 18 people have handed over almost £620,000 without the taxman even asking for it, according to figures obtained by the BBC in a freedom of information request.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgdn3134w1o

    Secret gifts from public swell Treasury’s coffers
    swell?
    swell?
    £620,000

    £4 billion of unusable PPE bought in first year of pandemic will be burnt “to generate power”
    10 June 2022
    https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/127/public-accounts-committee/news/171306/4-billion-of-unusable-ppe-bought-in-first-year-of-pandemic-will-be-burnt-to-generate-power/

    swell?
    swell?
    swell?

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  21. Up2snuff says:

    When are Pippa Crerar and Laura Kuenssberg going to get to work on ‘Wardrobe Gate’ a.k.a. ‘Free Gear Keir’? When will that Dynamic Duo get Keir Starmer to resign just like they did with Boris Johnson?

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  22. Fedup2 says:

    Up2
    Even the BBC is having to report on the Sue Gray / expenses corruption . It tries to marginalise it – I don’t think we will see comrade Gray being door stepped – even if the Cabinet Secretary is on the brink of resigning ….

    Amazing how the swamp repeats itself ( see Cummings ) …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      But the central truth here is there is a row at the top of a very new government – and it is important I tell you about that.

      It is my job to try to bring you as clear a sense as I can of what is really going on at the heart of government, warts and all.

      And that is what I – and our wider team – have tried to do here.
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxgdgkew81o

      HA HA HA! THE STORY IS HOW THE BBC ARE ON OUR SIDE! HA AH AHH A!

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  23. Lucy Pevensey says:

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  24. MarkyMark says:

    Article Two of the convention defines genocide as “any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such”:

    Killing members of the group
    22 MURDERED IN MANCHESTER. DO NOT LOOK BACK IN ANGER

    Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
    COVID LOCKDOWN/FURLOUGH/NHS CLAPPING

    Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
    “100 SMALL (BIG) BOATS A DAY”

    Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
    CLIMATE CHANGE

    Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
    FOSTERING

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11108059

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  25. MarkyMark says:

    “Genocide is a crime on a different scale to all other crimes against humanity and implies an intention to completely exterminate the chosen group. Genocide is therefore both the gravest and greatest of the crimes against humanity.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11108059

    …………….

    Labour wanted mass immigration to make UK more multicultural, says former adviser
    Labour threw open Britain’s borders to mass immigration to help socially engineer a “truly multicultural” country, a former Government adviser has revealed.

    By Tom Whitehead and Tomwhitehead
    23 October 2009 • 6:42pm
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/6418456/Labour-wanted-mass-immigration-to-make-UK-more-multicultural-says-former-adviser.html

    Genocide = Labour

    intention to completely exterminate the chosen group
    Labour threw open Britain’s borders to mass immigration to help socially engineer

    intention to completely exterminate the chosen group
    Labour threw open Britain’s borders to mass immigration to help socially engineer

    intention to completely exterminate the chosen group
    Labour threw open Britain’s borders to mass immigration to help socially engineer

    He said Labour’s relaxation of controls was a deliberate plan to “open up the UK to mass migration” but that ministers were nervous and reluctant to discuss such a move publicly for fear it would alienate its “core working class vote”.

    intention to completely exterminate the chosen group
    deliberate plan to “open up the UK to mass migration”

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  26. MarkyMark says:

    hate
    verb
    feel intense dislike for.

    …………………………..

    Hate ‘feel intense dislike for’ crimes can include:

    threatening behaviour
    assault
    robbery
    damage to property
    inciting others to commit hate crimes
    harassment
    online abuse

    https://www.gov.uk/report-hate-crime

    True Vision has been developed so that you can report hate feel intense dislike for crimes online – you do not have to visit a police station to report.
    https://www.report-it.org.uk/your_police_force

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    Sexual Orientation
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    Domestic Abuse
    Bullying and Cyber-Bullying
    Alternative Sub-cultures
    Hate crime services in your local area

    Race or Religion
    The Community Security Trust (National Organisation for Jewish victims)
    TELL MAMA (National Organisation for Muslim Victims)
    Forum Against Islamophobia and Racism (FAIR)
    The Monitoring Group ( The victims have been largely African, Caribbean and Asian people. )
    MuslimLine

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  27. MarkyMark says:

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  28. MarkyMark says:

    UK EDUCATION …

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  29. MarkyMark says:

    Remember – BBC will post all bad news tonight and then move on in the morning! Comrades – all NHS depts are equal!

    “Sir Keir has described the NHS in England as “broken”, but refused to say the same about Wales, despite some waiting times being worse.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly54q7nwjno

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  30. Lucy Pevensey says:

    This is for anyone sick of seeing rainbow-pervert flags, Palestinian flags and Ukranian flags everywhere.

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  31. tomo says:

    NOT TRUE

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  32. tomo says:

    She cannot it seems help herself…..

       9 likes

    • tomo says:

      so, Harris won a primary?

      – imaginary politics from Pelosi

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  33. tomo says:

    No pets eaten, nooo,,,, absolutely not

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    • pugnazious says:

      It was a problem here as swans and carp especially were killed by immigrants….and of course it was frantically denied by the usual suspects.

      ‘The issue of poaching by criminal gangs and by Eastern European migrants fishing for food needs to be tackled by police, an ex-detective has said.

      Former policeman Paul Thomas has been appointed as regional enforcer in Cambridgeshire by the Angling Trust to help crackdown on poaching.

      He said in Cambridgeshire there were particular concerns with migrant anglers from Eastern Europe.’

      And ‘ Swans are being caught and eaten by Eastern European immigrants in Peterborough, who have set up camp alongside the River Nene’

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      • Zephir says:

        They were having barbecues at my local carp lake in Bedfordshire I SAW THEM (I used to do a bit of carp fishing with my son).

        They were catching carp and other native fish and grilling them.

        Carp that cost many thousands to stock.

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  34. pugnazious says:

    Cue outrage and mockery…and fear among the media and political cabal…

    ‘Mr Jenrick said it was a result of the influx of migrants and the sneering attitude of the ‘metropolitan establishment’ toward English identity.

    ‘The combination of unprecedented migration alongside the dismantling of our national culture, non-integrating multiculturalism and the denigration of our identity has presented huge problems,’ he writes.

    ‘It has had a clear impact on our culture, customs and cohesion. Taken together, the attitudes and policies of our metropolitan establishment have weakened English identity. They have put the very idea of England at risk.’

    Times Radio mentioned this…and of course went straight into the BBC’s playbook asking ‘is there an English identity or culture? Is there such a thing as ‘Englishness’ and does mass immigration make us a better ‘English’ or not?’

    They also said it was in the Telegraph but it’s in the Mail…

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13871007/English-identity-threat-mass-immigration-woke-culture-Robert-Jenrick.html

    The BBC has long mocked and sneered at the idea of English identity, culture and values…part of their campaign to make immgration seem a good thing…if you have no identity or culture then you have nothing to lose when invaded by other people who bring with them and then impose their own identity and culture upon the non-existent English.

    A paradox that the BBC celebrates and promotes multiculturalism and yet insists there is no British or English culture or identity.

    Jenrick [in campaign mode of course] is right as immigrants and their indigenous collaborators try to smash and dismantle ‘Britain’ as everything from its art, literature, science, history, even its buildings and white people are declared problematic and in need of erasure….ie ‘decolonisation’ which is code for ethnic cleansing of culture, history and indeed people as the Left admits they want to ‘brown Britain’ and breed the ‘whiteness’ out….’Anglo-Saxons’ already taboo and censored.

    Jenrick went on….

    ‘Mr Jenrick suggests that the suppression of England’s identity was a factor in the summer riots and says it will be impossible to ‘heal our divided nation if we refuse to confront complex issues about identity’.

    He says that years of ‘inter-communal violence, radicalisation and diminishing trust in our communities… came to a head during the summer riots’, adding that: ‘As a consequence, a frank discussion is needed about the state of the nation [and] the state of England, in particular – as England is where most of the rioting occurred, and it was the St George’s flag that some misappropriated.’

    Mr Jenrick warns that – as elsewhere in Europe – this country could fall prey to the ‘ugly politics’ of the far-Right unless action is taken to address the crisis and bring immigration under control. His intervention looks set to energise the moribund Tory leadership contest, which has so far failed to catch the public’s imagination.’

    Certain to rattle a few cages.

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  35. non-licence payer says:

    “Volunteers dying as Russia’s war dead tops 70,000”

    The bBC headline on Ukraine. The headline looked wrong by a factor of at least three or four. Then all is revealed lower down in the article: “We have identified the names of 70,112 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine, but the actual number is believed to be considerably higher.” Get the headline right.

    Cheap self aggrandising journalism by a cheap aggrandising organisation.

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  36. non-licence payer says:

    “Volunteers dying as Russia’s war dead tops 70,000”

    The bBC headline on Ukraine. The headline looked wrong by a factor of at least three or four. Then all is revealed lower down in the article: “We have identified the names of 70,112 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine, but the actual number is believed to be considerably higher.” Get the headline right.

    Cheap self aggrandising journalism by a cheap aggrandising organisation.

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  37. Zephir says:

    What is wrong with these far left wokists ? do they not realise they are worse than those they criticise ?

    “Pathetic gesture politics! Fury as Rachel Reeves orders the REMOVAL of all pictures of men in the lavish 11 Downing Street state room in favour of artworks of or by women.

    Ms Reeves told an all-female reception at No 11 this week: ‘This is King James behind me, but next week the artwork in this room is going to change.

    ‘Every picture in this room is either going to be of a woman or by a woman – and we’re also going to have a statue in this room of (suffragist) Millicent Fawcett, who did so much for the rights of women.’

    King James II, who is posing in a suit of armour, is likely to be relegated to a storage room. Most other paintings around the large room currently feature men.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13871147/Pathetic-gesture-politics-Fury-Rachel-Reeves-orders-REMOVAL-pictures-men-lavish-11-Downing-Street-state-room-favour-artworks-women.html

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Zephir – how dare you criticise the Great Leaders ‘ chancellor – of course all men should be removed – perhaps to be replaced with cuddly cats ( female of course ) … or flowers …..

      It’s got echoes of the actions of the mad Gordon brown only having pictures of famous Scots in number 10 – Tommy docherty or bill shankley …..

      2 months in and the reds have lost it …

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  38. Fedup2 says:

    Today watch

    I wanted to know if the world is finally at war again – so switched on ‘today ‘ – I found that the `great Leader is being criticised for taking an executive box at the arsenal instead of a seat in the stands with the plebs paying -?£80 a game ?

    Of course the Great Leader should have his own executive box – he works hard to kill 4000 old people each winter and lock up people who have done no harm for 2 years …

    All hail the Great Leader and his step mother Susan Gray practicing her witch craft …..

    You can feel the bbc doesn’t want to cover this obvious labour corruption – but knows it has to …. But the smell of hypocrisy is overwhelming ..

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  39. tomo says:

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  40. AsISeeIt says:

    One tends to applaud the jokey blokey Daily Star for the brevity and pithiness of their headlines. But sometimes, regarding the serious nature of the issues of the day, the abbreviation can go a little too far: Hezbo Blitzed

    For some reason, best known to themselves, the FT publish a full colour frontpage pic of a room bedecked in foreign terrorist faction banners where: People watch a live speech by the leader of Hizbollah militant group yesterday in a café in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon“Hey, Abdul, before I sit down to watch the BBC’s Stictly Come Dancing reboot, promise me you ordered this flat screen TV off Amazon… and didn’t buy it for peanuts off some dodgy Jewish-looking fella down the market?”

    Other, more serious and concerned takes, and other spellings of Hizbollah, are apparently, available in our media: Hezbollah chief vows ‘retribution’ against Israel after wave of attacks (Guardian)

    Our BBC aligns with the Graun, spelling-wise, as it goes all pedagogic: What is Hezbollah in Lebanon and will it go to war with Israel? – Nope, pedagogic doesn’t meant that… the word relates to teaching,

    Freebie and the Bean was a 1974 buddy cop black comedy action movie starring James Caan and Alan Arkin. Freebie is trying to get promoted to the vice squad to garner perks for his retirement while the neurotic and fastidious Bean has ambitions to make lieutenant. The film, which had been originally scripted as a serious crime drama, morphed into what is now known as the “buddy-cop” genre due to the bantering, improvisational nature of the acting by Caan and Arkin. Reportedly, by the end of filming, both actors were confused by the purpose of the movie (Thank you Wiki)

    I’m still in control, says Starmer as fued errupts (Telegraph)

    Sue Gray: Frantic molehunt to find No 10 insider who leaked her salary (‘i’) – Oh the irony…

    Sue Gray’s report: Who’s behind the partygate leaks – and why? Some of the Downing Street parties took place almost two years ago – why are we just finding out about them now? It isn’t possible to know who decided to tattle and why they decided to do so now, but it seems worth taking a broader look at the leaking culture in Westminster, how it works, and what it tells us about how our Britain is being run. (Open Democracy, January 2022)

    Meanwhile: Female pianists given priority in contest… being favoured over men under the rules of a major competition.., told, in the case of a tie between a male and a female, to “consider advancing her first” (Telegraph)

    And so finally (here’s one for the teenagers, as I like to say) to misquote Eric Morecambe in his famous piano sketch with guest conductor André Previn (1971 Christmas show)

    “I’m playing all the *right* notes. But I’ve not *necessarily* got all the right lady parts”

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    • moggiemoo says:

      In the British TV series Yes Minister, Sir Humphrey Appleby pointed out that “the Ship of State is the only ship that leaks from the top”.

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  41. tomo says:

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  42. Zephir says:

    Reeves:

    “Last year she published a book on obscure female economists, but later had to apologise after it emerged that parts of it had been plagiarised from other sources, including Wikipedia.”

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  43. tomo says:

    Nowhere on BBC

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    • Jeff says:

      Be fair, tomo, they’ve covered the important stuff…or what’s important to the BBC…

      From their world news web-page…”Trans woman killed in Georgia”

      It would appear that some cross dresser was stabbed to death. Of course, as is to be expected, the Beeb insist on referring to this geezer as “she” and “her”.

      There are other earth shattering stories…”Trump-backed governor denies black Nazi claim”…Then there’s “Kentucky sheriff held over fatal shooting of judge”…and my particular favourite, “Kylie Minogue announces biggest tour in a decade”…Blimey, I wouldn’t want to miss that!

      Strangely, nothing about the Rotterdam knifeman screaming “Allahu akbar”

      It’s all a question of priorities…

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    • MarkyMark says:

      BINS WILL BE HELD HOSTAGE UNTIL GAZA IS FREE!

      Victorious Leeds Green Party councillor shouts ‘Allahu Akbar’ after ‘win for Gaza’
      Mothin Ali said his election was a ‘win for the people of Gaza’ amid signs Muslims are voting on different issues from rest of electorate

      Camilla Turner
      Sunday Political Editor.
      Ben Butcher
      Related Topics
      Green Party, Leeds, Gaza, Palestine, Keir Starmer, Labour Party
      04 May 2024 6:40pm

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  44. friend of yogi bear says:

    BECAUSE SHE’S WORTH IT……..

    There has been a lot of excitement about Sue Grays pay…..l for one can’t understand this, not only does she have to run the country but she has to act as a minder to Labour Govt , frontman,Keir Starmer every hour of every day..Can you imagine the strain on her that must impose , not knowing from one moment to the next what he is going to do . I understand from a close friend that Sue Greys Nick name in Downing Street is “Betty” after Frank Spencers long suffering wife.
    One minute he is accepting free clothes , next his wife is , then off to watch the Gunners.. and always mindful of the tax payer..( of course) goodness knows what else.
    In addition to the main problem, Keir, she has David Lammy, and all those other accident prone operators to constantly monitor.

    I think she is worth every penny……so “Carry on Sue”… mmm that has a ring to it …could be a film title…

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Friend – I totally agree – comrade Susan is worth every penny … I wonder what bungs she gets ….?

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  45. Fedup2 says:

    Careful bias

    ‘Thought for the day
    The speaker is introduced as a ‘catholic commentator ‘ yet when the Muslim apologist ‘moaning sadiqee’ is introduced the bbc has dropped the ‘Muslim ‘ reference trying to make her sound more reasonable defending her evil belief ….

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  46. Sluff says:

    Not really BBC.
    Lots of talk this week about teachers.
    They are being considered for a work from home scheme, a nine day fortnight, and time off.
    This is apparently the plan to address the ‘recruitment crisis’.

    Hers another idea.
    Why not advertise that their pension perk is worth 29% of salary?
    The total remuneration is therefore WAY more than the published salary. An experienced teacher in London can get a £55,000 salary plus the 29% pension value.
    That’s £70,000. And for a job where hardly anyone is ever sacked or made redundant.

    PS the issue for teachers is that many do actually want to teach rather than become an adjunct of social services which adds to peak term time workload making the job pretty undesirable.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      The kids should work from home too so that the roads are clearer and less murdered after school …

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    • Flotsam says:

      Teachers do get sacked but it’s expensive due to aggressive Unions and the cost of Employment Tribunals. They have to be really really bad. More often rubbish teachers get to stay in place because it’s easier for the Head to leave them where they are.

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    • BRISSLES says:

      My niece has been headmistress for a few years now – of an infant primary school in Yorkshire. Her job not only entails the day to day running of a school but now has to deal with truculent parents more and more. Over the years she has seen overall decline in the way children are sent to school, – still wearing nappies, unable to use cutlery, and it’s left to teachers to teach and clean them up ! But equally the guidelines say you can’t touch a child and even administering a plaster to a cut knee requires lengthy form filling. Then there are the parents, many are low lifes who march to the school begging for a fight because their child has been disciplined and they dont like it.
      Honestly? I wouldn’t do her job for all the tea in China.

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  47. Fedup2 says:

    Today
    Jez Bowen has popped up – sadly not issued with a hezblooah pager – our jez says that the Israel attack was a failure because the Muslims had smelt a rat and sent some pagers to Iran ‘for testing ‘ – no win for the IDF at all …

    .. Bowen really is a terrorist mouthpiece …

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    • Zephir says:

      Funny how Ukraine get cheers when they bomb Russia….

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    • Guest Who says:

      JezBo ask any of his contacts why they didn’t warn all the scores/hundreds/thousands of small girls who got their nuts blown off?

      The BBC’s Our Man In A Ditch is a joke, as they are for keeping him in role.

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  48. Fedup2 says:

    Today
    Why would the interview with junior home office minister ‘Jess Phillips ‘ be pre recorded ? … could it be that this fick mouth might say something ‘controversial ‘ ?i reckon . Did the great leader give her a job as a joke ? Is that the best labour can do?
    Amos gave her the easiest of times…

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  49. Zephir says:

    The rapes, sex assaults, muggings, murders etc , I wonder who could have been responsible ?

    “Keir Starmer played key role in blocking Tony Blair’s plan to block asylum seekers’ right to claim benefits 20 years ago

    Keir Starmer played role in overturning attempt to strip asylum seekers’ benefits.

    The then Home Secretary, David Blunkett, tried to use the legislation to deal with visa over-stayers who suddenly claimed asylum and then spent years trying to establish their claim, during which time they were able to claim state benefits.

    The law said that if claimants didn’t apply for asylum ‘as soon as reasonably practicable’ after arriving in the country, they would be ineligible for benefit payments. It was challenged by human rights lawyer Sir Keir in the High Court in 2003, acting on behalf of five asylum seekers on the grounds that it contravened the ‘right to food and shelter’ enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11849361/Keir-Starmer-played-role-blocking-Tony-Blairs-plan-block-asylum-seekers-right-benefits.html

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  50. Fedup2 says:

    If you have a spare £895 you can buy an executive box for the arsenal v Leicester game next Saturday . The website shows that you get champagne on arrival plus a third course meal plus plus ….
    I wonder how much an executive box season ticket costs the great leader ,…..?

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