Midweek 25th September 2024

How will the BBC deal with the vote by Labour Party members on the decision to freeze 4000 old people to death every winter ?( the subject will be ‘debated’ at the Conference on Wednesday afternoon after the Great Leaders ‘ Speech … please no more sausage references … oh ok then – knock yourselves out

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  1. Zephir says:

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  2. Zephir says:

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  3. JohnC says:

    They were arrested for posting during the riots – will it change anything?
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr548zdmz3jo

    Another ultra-biased report from Mariliar Spring. This is left-wing fascism Their target here is X and Musk. There is no way this bubble-head is behind this article : it’s the unnamed far-Left activists who direct BBC policy.

    Meanwhile the 3 girls stabbed to death and the 10 others stabbed in an attempt to murder them too was dropped like a hot stone almost immediately by the BBC and any subsequent reports on events are the usual brief, basic facts only articles they use for the agenda stories when they want them under the carpet.

    This is EXACTLY how fascist states are made. It never happens overnight. They get there by inches. And now I see Starmer has transformed into a dictator as soon as he got power. He is quite openly ignoring anything anyone says and telling everyone – even his own oparty – that we are doing what HE wants whether we like it or not.

    And the BBC are absolutely fine with it. I seriously wonder of Starmer will survive his term – and I wonder what violence the far-Left will cause if any attempt is made to remove him.

    You can be sure the attitude of the BBC will be much different to those riots.

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  5. JohnC says:

    ‘Rape me, not my daughters’ – Sudan’s horrific war
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3zq40qq25o

    I was interested to read this article to see how the BBC portray the evil scum doing this. How can they mix their ‘All men are b@stards’ agenda with ‘All black men are innocent victims’ agenda.

    And the answer was this: They introduce the abbreviation ‘RSF’ at the start of the article then throughout the article they are simply called RSF. No pictures, no descriptions whatsoever. They could be green aliens as far as this article is concerned.

    Here’s the reason why. They are black Muslims. The most protected of all.
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  6. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/keir_starmer/status/1839432877261611177?s=61
    My government was elected to change Britain.
    Delivering on our five missions cannot be separated from events beyond our shores – Britain is stronger when we work with others.
    My message to the @UN today is this: we are returning the UK to responsible global leadership.

    #ccbgb

    If he is doing his own social media, he needs sectioning.

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    • Scroblene says:

      Incredible comments there too!

      There’s an Andy T who sums it all up beatifully in a ‘show more’ post!

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    • Zephir says:

      Responsible ? Lammy ??? have you seen the comments he made about an elected American president,
      Starmer ?

      you lying toad

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    • richard D says:

      The arrogance of a twat.

      (Oops – I refer, of course, to TTK)

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  7. Sluff says:

    Turned on Toady at about 0712.
    JustRemainin was having a cosy chat with one of the BBC favourites, Emily Thornberry . It was so cosy I wondered if she had joined the presenting team.

    Next up. Muslim Mischal Hussein was yet again doing yet another mournful intro for a woman in Hezbollah-dominated Lebanon who has been displaced. Get out the hankies. And the sock bucket.

    We’d had enough. Off switch at 0716.

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    • JohnC says:

      I’ve lost count how often I’ve opened up the BBC news page, had a look at the headlines to see what I might check for their extreme bias and just closed it down again in exasberation and disgust.

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    • richard D says:

      I have noticed, over the years, that Mishal Hussain always pops up when there is any negative reporting of Israel, or sob story by a muslim…… but never appears when there is any negative reporting or connotation (few and far between on the BBC) of muslims. Or, she is sidelined from any reports arriving on a day when she actually is newsreading – preferring another newsreader to step- up to the plate for these stories.

      Strange, that.

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  8. Zephir says:

    The colourless, soulless, puritanical far left fascist way of life:

    “Your future pub night out under Labour? No smoking in beer gardens, pricier booze…and don’t forget to drink up before earlier last orders”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13893827/future-pubs-Labour-smoking-pricier-drinks-earlier-orders.html

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  9. Zephir says:

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    • Lucy Pevensey says:

      That’s if Pubs survive. It’s hard to run a business with little patronage.

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      • Zephir says:

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      • Rich says:

        No mention of the far-too-freely available alcohol in corner shops and supermarkets?

        The closure of pubs will only reduce interpersonal social interaction in our society even further than mobiles and social media already have. No sharing of ideas, no ‘mis’ or ‘dis’ information that isn’t controlled. The increase in drink-related health issues and domestic violence hasn’t even been thought about. The public health slant is a ruse.

        A good publican manages a punters consumption of safe drink and mediates any disputes, gets rid of troublemakers, they police their pub. A decent doorman or two, and regulars with a vested interest, help. The majority of drinkers aren’t using wine bars or gastropods, they avoid places with playparks and prosecco. They drink in their family locals, even if they’ve moved away, they talk as they can’t in work or at home, they know where and who to avoid and sometimes they hold their nose a bit to be with mates. ‘Steam’ is released. ‘Spit and sawdust’ pubs still exist, scampi fries instead of paella.

        What will happen? Even more will drink at home and possibly drink more. Others will find cheap booze in lawless backstreet shebeens or vacant flats. No closing-time, open all hours. The paramilitaries here in NI have run them for years, the ones the Albanians and Eastern Europeans will run will make these look like Witherspoons. Smuggled spirits on tick, multipack cans of stolen lager cheaper than water, all other types of criminality prospers.

        Vacant apartment parties or sessions in houses, with kitchens full of knives, what could go wrong? Drunks more spread out, not in town centres or ‘pub streets’, able to drink more and harder to police.

        Levels of anti-social behaviour will increase as will rates of drink- related domestic violence. More pressure on all of our emergency services.

        People in this government live in a world far removed from reality.

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  10. Fedup2 says:

    I was looking forward to seeing the pictures of president trump shaking hands with the 20% UK PM and his tick box racist foreign secretary ( certainly foreign ) .. but no pictures !

    Could it be that president trump didnt want to be in the same room as that dross ?

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  11. Fedup2 says:

    IRA conference today – bring your own balaclava …

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    • Zephir says:

      Wonder if they play pass the parcel as an icebreaker, fastest game in the world in Ireland and Beirut.

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  12. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “UK become a net exported of electricity.” (c) Rishi Sunak

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    • tomo says:

      Of course, the berk cycled there….

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      • Zephir says:

        Beaker, perfect name for him:

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      • Zephir says:

        Beaker, perfect name for him….

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Ed Miliband plays ukulele song about wind turbines

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      • Guest Who says:

        The DES&NZ post thread errs on the #ccbgb

        There’s even a clip of Greta, being ‘interviewed’ by Mehdi Hasan of all people, saying you don’t impose messianic ideologies in a democracy, you persuade the public.

        A pathetic % of a pathetic turnout and protest vote is not a mandate for anything, and certainly not a mutli-trillion £ jolly so he gets a gold star at COP.

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    • Flotsam says:

      High electricity and energy prices are a catastrophe for Britain. There’s no finer way to destroy our economy.

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  13. MarkyMark says:

    UK IS NOW BACK ON THE MAP.

    1st COmment “From the gravy to the pea, let the sausages go free”

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  14. MarkyMark says:

    “Lifted ban on onshore windfarms, banned oil and create a GB Energy”

    “UK to become first major economy to transition to green energy by 2030”

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    • pugnazious says:

      Yeah but…China is the workshop of the world and we’ve exported our manufacturing to them…so it’s our CO2…everytime you buy something from China you’re guilty.

      On the other hand Britian was the workshop of the world exporting industrial revolution goods across the globe and improving lives no end…and Britain is in fact the original sinner….we created climate change being that ‘workshop’…we invented CO2 and killed the planet….but China is entirely innocent and in fact is the world leader in going green…as the BBC is always so keen to tell us for some reason….could it be that as China pumps out so much CO2 and we pump out a neglible amount the BBC has to somehow turn us in to the villains and make China the good guy in order to justify Miliband and Co’s ruination of Britain?

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Any country using Industrialised methods needs to pay UK for using them!
        UK originated it – so need paying!

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  15. tomo says:

    I learned something from the BBC this morning

    Wembley stadium charges a £2.75 “sustainability fee” on every punter ticket sold.

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    • pugnazious says:

      Dare I say this as someone might take it up?…there will be a DEI fee soon…a ‘reparations tax’ on all goods …like VAT….but only on white people…..hang on…we already pay that..or some do…it’s called the BBC licence fee.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      £2.75 “sustainability fee”

      Where does this go?

      Elton John’s Carbon Credit?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Sustainability Fee
      A world-leading, inspirational venue
      https://bookings.wembleytours.com/stadiumtours/covid_faq.htm

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      Sustainability Per Ticket Fee

      As England ’s national stadium, we are fully aware of the impact that large scale events can have on our planet.

      So, in 2024 we will be adding a sustainability fee to the cost of tickets for events held at Wembley Stadium. The additional cost will be £2.75 per ticket.

      We are committed to delivering the highest levels of sustainability at Wembley.

      We proudly became a zero- waste-to-landfill venue in 2010 and were the first sporting venue to achieve the Carbon Trust Triple Standard in 2014. In 2018 we achieved the prestigious ISO 20121 international standard.

      All monies raised from the sustainability fee will enable us to continue with this work and deliver more sustainability projects across the stadium.

      This will ensure Wembley remains a world-leading, inspirational venue at the forefront of sustainable stadia.

      Below are just some of the sustainable initiatives we currently operate across the stadium:

      Long-term use of 100% renewable energy at the stadium
      All lighting is operated on energy efficient LEDs, including Wembley’s arch.
      We use organic fertiliser for pitch maintenance.
      To reduce plastic water bottle consumption and water use, we have installed 16 water bottle refill stations around the stadium and low-flow technologies across our bathrooms.
      We work closely with transport providers to encourage visitors to use lower impact options.

      ……………

      A barber to the stars has called a Premier League ace an “idiot” for sharing a photo of an illegal haircut.

      Tom Baxter cut Newcastle United forward Joelinton’s hair on Friday. The Brazilian footballer then posted an image of the encounter on Instagram.
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-55870959

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      https://www.wembleystadium.com/about/Sustainability-Fee

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  16. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “LABOUR – “we infiltrate the governments” looks a bit like this.

      This is Rachel Kyte. She has been named as the UK’s climate envoy. She previously worked at the UN and The World bank.

      She also sits on the advisory board of the Quadrature Climate Foundation, with a holding company in the Cayman Islands.

      They donated £4 million to the Labour Party.

      Now look at her badges … UN SDGs and is that an extinction rebellion badge?”

      …………….

      US philanthropists vow to raise millions for climate activists
      This article is more than 5 years old
      Fund donates £500,000 to grassroots Extinction Rebellion and other groups, with promise of more to come
      https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/12/us-philanthropists-vow-to-raise-millions-for-climate-activists

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    • Rich says:

      Tomo,

      Mentioned this earlier, if you didn’t laugh ……

      Have a look at the board of Island Green, the ‘UK firm’ behind one of the big solar farms mentioned in this Fail Online article. The other one is Chinese.

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13891491/disturbing-plans-solar-farms-norfolk.html

      Bertie Ahern, the former Irish teashop is their Chairman/ person, and not many of the rest of the board if any are British. Their ‘Green Island’ is Eire.

      They do not give one shit about the UK or how much of it they carpet with their panels.

      Don’t get me started about the level of questionable Irish influence in the British establishment at present, especially in Government. As an Ulster Prod I might actually have a dog in this fight.

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      • tomo says:

        aye – point taken.

        The Irish Republic has quite a collection of crooks operating in cahoots with whores in government.

        The solar crowd happily obfuscate ownership, misdeclare assets, lie about what’s going on wrt generation and also base themselves in tax havens.

        https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2021/09/09/solar-subsidy-farming/

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        • Rich says:

          Tomo,

          You’re right, biggest scam ever.

          On the the Republic thing, their government is even more parochial, corrupt and plagued by nepotism than ours, and the chattering classes have in large symbolically disavowed the church only to replace Catholicism with the new religion of the EU, globalism and all that it entails. In truth although many young Irish are culturally Irish Catholic they are definitely not religiously so and in NI the Unionist parties are much closer in policy to Catholic religious doctrine with regards to abortion, LGBT issues and the family than the likes of Sinn Fein. Deeply held personal convictions and principles are hard to uphold within a nation socially so in flux and supposedly newly open-minded. New ideas are bright and shiny. This fades as the rumblings of rebellion show but the intelligentsia and chattering classes are usually the last to realise this as they benefit most. The Irish establishment are difficult to trust being so full of bien pensants, but my folk have always been deeply sceptical anyway.

          In the UK, the likeminded ‘Irish’ simply seek to undermine. Across the water Socialism replaced the teachings of the church at least a generation ago and the mentality of the oppressed, by the English of course, has politically shaped many Labour politicians as they, and a fair few of the SNP, have Irish heritage. Off the top of my head, Labour’s Sue Gray, her nepo-son MP Liam Conlon, Morgan McSweeney, Pat McFadden and union leader Mick Lynch are all from Irish Nationalist backgrounds, some are openly Republican and all are embroiled in the drama undermining the Labour government at present.

          They are all in extremely influential positions and most definitely do not have our nations best interests at heart.

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    • G says:

      A Mike Yarwood look alike………………

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    • Guest Who says:

      Elton John looking rough in his dotage

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  18. pugnazious says:

    Mishal Husain, as always, gets the anti-Israel gig this morning…talking to the Saudi ambassador.

    Long chat about how terrible Israel is and how the Jews are the problem…what we need is a Palestinian state and everything will be peaceful and lovely. What was missing was the word ‘Hamas’…and of course their intention to destroy Israel and the Jews completely….which is a fly in the ointment of any plan for a Palestinian state as Hamas will not stop attacking Israel until it is wiped out. Odd Husain failed to mention that.

    What else did she fail to mention? Hmmm…oh yeah…Yemen. Given that the Saudi’s war in Yemen and the number of civilians killed there was a prominent part of BBC output campaigning against the war odd not to hear it mentioned…oh..hang on…Husain slips in a question and asks about Yemen and the number of women and children killed….Ambassador says all war is terrible but there is no comparison with Gaza…and Husain just moves on…no more mention of Yemen. One very short question.

    Hmmm…actually there is a direct comparison…from the BBC…

    ‘Saudi Arabia has led a coalition of Arab states in a war against the rebels since 2015 which has devastated Yemen.

    Tens of thousands of civilians, including more than 10,000 children, have been killed or wounded as a direct result of the fighting.

    Millions have been displaced and much of the population stands on the brink of famine.’

    And yet Husain let the ambassador get away with that lie….seems that when Jews are doing it it is worse than Muslims doing it….no comparison.

    Husain also demanded Saudi Arabia impose an oil embargo…saying ‘with so many Palestinans killed and hundreds of Lebanese [defining civilian or terrorist] when will you [impose and embargo]?’

    She committed the BBC to one side there…the Palestinian and Lebanese…or Hamas and Hezbollah if we’re honest.

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  19. AsISeeIt says:

    People familiar with the matter and not for our popular media to pass judgment edition

    One can’t get enough of what the kids term glitches in the matrix – those side by side awkward little juxtapositions of narrative-busting reports which crop up occasionally in our mainstream media.

    The Guardain, apparently somewhat out of favour with the gynaeceum that is BBC News staff for top pick for their online press line-up of late, presents ‘m’learned friend’s’ case for the defence: Starmer calls row over using peer’s flat ‘farcical’

    Hardly the resourceful fact-based defence advocacy summing up speech of an ace lawyer one might expect of a Horace Rumpole or a Perry Mason

    Free-gear Keir KC might have called a good friend as a character witness – but as it turns out they’re all at it: Third minister admits using donor’s home… Wes Streeting hosted a fundraising event… raises questions about the exact extent to which Lord Alli made properties available… and Angela Rayner’s use of a flat in New York (Telegraph) – perhaps Lord Alli, given all that spare property of his, could help somewhat this country’s asylum seeker housing crisis? But we digress.

    Beside the Gruan’s rather lame and dismissive frontpage brief report summing up Starmer’s defence against the current indictment of gross and egregious lefty hypocrisy and potential graft – we have uncomfortably juxtaposed: New York’s mayor charged with taking bribes – the minutiae of the case against Eric Leroy Adams (you guessed it, he’s black) need not trouble us here, suffice to report the briber was the Turkish government and others – the bribee (a detail with which the Graun neglects to sully their frontpage report) is a Democrat.

    The facical (as Sir Keith would put it) case against Adams includes: “sought and accepted improper valuable benefits, such as luxuary international travel, including from wealthy foreign businesspeople… seeking to gain influence over him”… accepting bribes and illegal campaign contributions from foreign sources (Guardian) – thank heavens for that UK passport of your’s, eh Lord Alli? That ten-a-penny widely available on request to all and sundry little item will save our Sir Keir’s bacon.

    Speaking of which: Starmer laughs off calling Israeli hostages ‘sausages’ in Labour conference gaffe (Telegraph)

    And to think they ridiculed: [Liz] Truss probably first crossed over from political fringe figure to meme in the public consciousness with her bizarre delivery of the line “That. Is. A. Disgrace.” about the amount of cheese the country imports (Guardian)

    Our mate Matt in the Telegraph is on top form this morning as he sketches a pair of MPs crossing Westminster Bridge: “The Labour party was right all along. There is a magic money tree and it’s called Lord Alli”

    The beauty of a satirical cartoon is that it can distil into a snappy little vignette notions that take the likes of the Financial Times acres of column to express: Reeves ready to tone down tax raid on rich non-doms… Hopes fade of raising extra £1bn a year… amid Treasury fears that some of the measures may fail to raise money, according to people familiar with the matter – what, you mean Rachel (2 packs of ciggies a day voice) Reeves our first glass ceiling-breaking female chancellor of the exchequer, PPE at the University of Oxford before obtaining a Master of Science degree from the London School of Economics and worked in the Bank of England – she ain’t ‘familiar with the matter’ ?

    Budget rule change risks higher interest rates for longer, Reeves warned – the popular interest left-leaning ‘i’ there goes for the wordy style financial headline more often found in the FT. Suffice to say, as I like to say, Reeves is going on a big borrowing spree and us poor mortgage payers will pick up the tab.

    The coronaphobic ‘i’ newspaper (and our well-funded, judge-led, coronaphobic official public covid inquiry) are fighting a low level asymetric rear guard action: Covid was like a terrorist attack every day, says doctor (‘i’) – and there was me remembering it was more like a middling to bad seasonal cold for 99% of the population. Mind you, it did bust our fragile economy.

    This rear guard action will prove an ultimately doomed effort to deny inevitable eventual defeat to the overwelming (if you’ll excuse the word) encroaching force of sanity, logic and science: Whitty: Covid risk may have been overstated – and; Lockdown critics have proved right Miriam Cates – bravo the Telegraph our lone mainstream voice of sanity on this issue.

    Speaking of ultimately doomed low level asymetric rear guard actions against overwelming encroaching forces – forces with which we really ought to reconcile ourselves…

    Zelensky looks to Biden to back Ukraine ‘victory plan’ (BBC)

    Raw recruits put Ukraine’s battle plans in jepardy (FT)

    Get ready for a logic defying tour de force from the gung-ho neo-con forever-war FT… are you sitting comfortably, you armchair generals, you…

    Kyiv’s forces have inflicted huge losses on the Russian army this year but… – so we’re winning right? But there’s always a ‘but’ but the rate at which they are being killed or injured in combat has left the infantry burnt out. Seasoned soldiers are being replaced mostly by older men with no experience and in poor shape. Their average age is now 45.

    So we’ve inflicted huge losses on the Russians but our army is running out of man power? Remind you of any past conflict and the ultimate outcome of that war, perhaps?

    On a lighter note – model black woman beloved of our Guardianista class: Naomi Campbell banned from being charity trustee (BBC)

    Your Times frontpage pin-up: Dressing down The supermodel… as she was made a knight of France’s Order of Arts and Letters – well, they do say all shall have prizes.

    In a bit of welcome news for our celebs: Fat drug ok in jungle… I’m a Celeb.. get me Ozempic in here! Stars will be allowed jabs… a source said “It’s not for ITV to pass judgment” (The Sun)

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Women to take up the slack?

      “Kyiv’s forces have inflicted huge losses on the Russian army this year but… – so we’re winning right? But there’s always a ‘but’ but the rate at which they are being killed or injured in combat has left the infantry burnt out. Seasoned soldiers are being replaced mostly by older men with no experience and in poor shape. Their average age is now 45.”

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Still no picture of presidenr trump with lammy or TTK …?

      The 2 hour ‘dinner’ between these characters must have been a peach .
      I can imagine presidenr trump with a slide show of comments made about him by lammy and starmer and the rest of the vermin recently ….
      Just before they were told all the lifts are broken and it’s only 70 floors down …

      …. As for TTK – I’m trying my best with the crystal ball to see if there will be a credible opposition in 2029 – whether he is there or not .

      Unlike most PMs ( not truss ) there is a sort of public affection for them after they’ve been around for a while – even a monster like Gordon brown had something

      But starmer ? He wasn’t voted in . He is PM by default ,his party has no time for him . He has no grace or humour or charisma no style and is now ‘baked in ‘ ( ugh ) as another lawyer politician on the make – corrupt bought ….

      So someone please form an opposition and get going – you’ve got 4 years maximum …

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  20. Flotsam says:

    I was speaking with a local recently about his new self build. Apparently in order to get Planning for his house he had to jump through “Sustainable” hoops. One of them was that the heating had to be a heat pump.
    Are all new properties required to have heat pumps? This Green crap now dominates our lives.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Can an old boiler self identify as a heat pump?

      ……………………………………………………………..

      Tony and Cherie Blair saved hundreds of thousands of pounds in property taxes when acquiring a London office building from an offshore company partially owned by a prominent Bahraini minister.

      The former British prime minister and his wife became the owners of a £6.5m office building in 2017 by acquiring a British Virgin Islands (BVI) company controlled by the family of HE Zayed bin Rashid Alzayani, the constitutional monarchy’s current minister for industry, commerce and tourism.

      The deal is revealed in the Pandora papers, a trove of leaked offshore documents. They reveal Alzayani as the secret shareholder of another offshore firm that has spent more than £60m buying UK commercial property over the past nine years, including the Marylebone address sold to the Blairs.

      https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/03/tony-and-cherie-blair-bought-property-via-offshore-firm-and-saved-300000-in-tax

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    • Deborah says:

      One friend about to start a new build, the other a massive renovation and extension both have heat pumps. It was a requirement for both to get planning permission.

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    • BRISSLES says:

      FLOTSAM
      Speaking of “crap” (and totally unrelated).

      Were my fellow over 70s on here aware that once you reach 75 you no longer need to have a colonoscopy ! I was informed of this yesterday.

      Just thought I’d throw that out there.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Brissles – things looking up . On medical things – I read that coloured men are discriminated against in being refused tests for that cancer chaps get – no ifs nor butts – but from my experience as a whitee – I ve been discriminated against as well … oh yeah prostate…

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  21. MarkyMark says:

    BOris has a new book out – which will tell you nothing of what really happened.

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    https://memory-holed-news.blogspot.com/2023/06/youll-never-watch-your-life-slide-out.html

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    • tomo says:

      Straight to the bargain bin + recycling.

      I think the entire print run should be stored in Boris’s house.

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  22. pugnazious says:

    Liz Truss wanted to increase debt in order to increase growth…and she was absolutely hammered…and is now the de facto bad girl example of stupidity and foolishness….as the Guardian says…

    ‘Liz Truss is the gift that keeps on giving’

    Rachel Reeves wants to rewrite the fiscal rules in order to borrow big [sorry…invest] and increase growth…..and she’s applauded and lauded….even though this is a u-turn on the promise Labour made in the manifesto not to do this.

    Oddly the BBC, which absolutely went for Truss and savaged her, hasn’t reported Labour’s dodgy wheeze to cook the books…it’s not debt it’s investment….the Guardian does…

    ‘How Rachel Reeves could release billions more for investment in the budget’

    The Guardian does mention Truss….but she’s still the bad ‘un whilst Reeves is the poster girl making ‘sensible choices’…

    ‘Andrew Goodwin, chief UK economist at the consultancy Oxford Economics, said Truss had spooked markets after undermining the Treasury and the Bank of England, and by announcing large tax cuts that would have done little to boost the long-run potential of the UK economy.

    “If Reeves were to use the extra headroom to boost investment, then I think markets would view that as a sensible choice.”’

    I await with interest the BBC’s interpretation of Reeve’s sleight of hand and manifesto breaking u-turn [yet another one by Labour].

    And on that subject…lol….you may remember the huge furore that Labour set up about non-doms…another u-turn on the books now…this time the BBC is reporting it…and as always separates out the Treasury from ‘Labour’ as if there is a difference[ they did this when claiming the Treasury ‘independently’ checked the state of the economy and found that ‘blackhole’….of course it was told to do this by Reeves, the Chancellor, so hardly independent as she runs it basically]…

    ‘Treasury reconsidering Labour plan for non-dom tax status’
    ‘The Treasury is reconsidering parts of Labour’s manifesto plan for non-domicile tax status over worries that the reforms will bring in less money than expected.

    There is concern that planned changes, which aimed to raise extra money to spend on public services like the NHS, could prompt wealthy foreigners to simply leave the UK.’

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Labour will save 1 billion by removing Vat on private schools.

      1 billion will be needed to build new schools for those leaving private education.

      Labour say – we found money and invested it into public schools!

      1 billion saved + 1 billion invested = 2 billion!

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  23. tomo says:

    Not much hope that a similar numbers of P45s are issued to balance things up a bit?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “37 DANGEROUS PRISONERS ACCIDENTALLY RELEASED TO REDUCE OVERCROWDING

      The Ministry of Justice said 37 people were released in error on 10 September because their offenses for breaching restraining orders were wrongly logged under repealed legislation.

      One of those mistakenly released is understood to have allegedly reoffended and has been charged with ‘intentionally touching’ a woman.

      Despite the error, the Ministry of Justice claimed:

      “Public safety is our first priority. That is why we took decisive action to fix the broken prison system we inherited and keep the most dangerous offenders locked up.”

      Ironically, while they were trying to reduce overcrowding, the UK government was sending people to prison over social media posts about recent riots while releasing people convicted of far more serious offenses.

      Source: Sky News”

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    • Terminal Moraine says:

      “Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has set out plans to crackdown on crime as she said the government would attempt to halve knife offences in a decade.”

      Just empty out the prisons of half the people and quietly mention in small print that you’ve changed your reporting methodology. Job done.

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  24. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Saw this on the Daily Express comments about Question Time.
    I no longer watch it so can’t confirm this.

    last night a reform panelist commentated on the audience, bruce said the audience was equal in representation, she asked reform supporters to put their hand up, 3 people did that, so biased BBC and QT

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  25. tomo says:

    A real collection of Starmerisms…..Ricky’s going to get locked up?

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  26. Fedup2 says:

    The bbc is running a serialisation of the awful Ben £ macintires book on the Iranian embassy siege – what another one ? – but it’s now coloured by the sausage rescue techniques such as skinying up the walls …

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  27. Fedup2 says:

    Two 12 year olds who hacked a 19 year old to death have been sentenced to 8 years minimum – not bad eh ? Can be out by 20? Not named and shamed of course – in case the publicity harms their future – which is a bit different from the victim – who doesn’t have a future at all ….

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    • Zephir says:

      F’@k their welfare:

      The judge added that she could not be sure which of the boys had inflicted a 23cm-deep wound which almost passed all the way through Mr Seesahai’s body.

      In July, the judge rejected a request from media organisations including the Mail to strip the boys of their automatic right to anonymity due to their age.

      Mrs Justice Tipples said the welfare of the boys outweighed the wider public interest and open justice principles

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  28. Terminal Moraine says:

    More BBC campaigning for social media clampdowns: “They were arrested for posting during the riots – will it change anything?”

    Marianna’s still not getting a look-in from Elon, whose continual snubs are clearly sending her into a bit of a tizzy. She has however got counter-terror police head Matt Jukes to chip in and single out X as being “an enormous driver” of riot-friendly posts. Jukes is concerned about the knotty problem of “lawful but awful” posts. Also: “I would say this to Elon Musk if he was here, we were not arresting people for having opinions on immigration. [Police] went and arrested people for threatening to, or inciting others to, burn down mosques or hotels.”

    Really Matt? That’s not what I’ve Verified and I have receipts to show.

    Non-crime hate incidents and the slow creep of legal-but-wrong thoughts are definitely in the crosshairs.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr548zdmz3jo

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  29. Nibor says:

    A bit late but ,

    Yesterday Radio 4 after four o clock a programme about electoral systems .
    One”expert” said there were some anomaly’s about the first past the post system because in the last election Reform and the Green Party got nearly 20% of the votes but only nine mp s .
    Now why did they have to lump the two parties together , as though they got 10% each ?
    Reform got over 17% and we’re third ahead of the Liberals who got a heck of a lot more seats . The anomaly is the unfairness to Reform , not the Green Party .

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  30. Lunchtime Loather says:

    Nice of them both to dress up for the occasion:
    https://rts.org.uk/video/bbc-director-general-tim-davie-cbes-keynote-rts-london-convention-2024

    Rajan with his bling looks like a cross between a drug dealer and a pimp. Davie just looks a mess, as usual.

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  31. Fedup2 says:

    Oh dear poor Phoebe and Anna have got real time for damaging a van goff… looks like the defence failed to have the jury over that damaging a van goff would help the Green crap …
    Now girls try a hunger strike – bit of Darwinism

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    • Emmanuel Goldstein says:

      They should have picked the Andy Warhol Heinz soup picture to throw their soup at.

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  32. tomo says:

    It seems that Isabel Oakeshott has a tale of sausages involving TTK that isn’t just a mis-speaking…

    Wonder if she’s going the full Codswalloper – Banks route?

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    • pugnazious says:

      ‘Is it some sort of sex thing?….’ 4 mins 20 sex….

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      • Guest Who says:

        Still trying to get my head round him seeming surprised that Ch4 and the BBC are so in the tank their only option now is to not mention stuff and hope no one notices.

        I think the blonde lady had a more realistic appreciation.

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      • tomo says:

        I might be reduced to helpless mirth if William Wragg gets a namecheck.

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      • tomo says:

        While people’s sexuality in the present day isn’t that much of an issue – this is something different. I’ve long known that a political and civil service “gay mafia” has been operating for decades(ever?) in Westminster + Whitehall (and I’ve met some of them) – what irks isn’t their private antics – but that they select people for employment in senior positions on the basis of their sexual orientation and “attractiveness” rather than the skills / talent they might bring to to a job. It’s a murky world and those playing this game know well the risks they run and many (like Wragg), “get off” on mad, risky behaviours ….

        Seems possible that “stunning and brave” might get a workout, especially at the BBC + Guardian?

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  33. JohnC says:

    Boys who killed with machete aged 12 are detained
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyvyjym00jpo

    My God, just look at the lengths they are going to now to protect the truth about who is doing all the stabbing:

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    I am 100% certain the ‘artist’ was told not to colour in the boys faces.

    The harilines are a bit of a clue though. She will be told to blur those a bit as well next time.

    Welcome to the new Nazi fascist state. Everything we don’t want you to know or see will be suppressed. Including the people behind it.

    12 months just for turning up to a protest when others got violent !!.

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  34. MarkyMark says:

    HA HA HA HAH!

    BBC search for “WaheedAlli” the Labour Owner – Donor
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=Waheed+Alli

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  35. pugnazious says:

    Warsi has flounced off from the Tory Party….no doubt to much celebration given that her sole contribution seemed to be concerning Islamisation of Britain…..and she always accuses the Tories of Islamophobia but she was only appointed to her positions and to her ‘Baroness’ status because she was Muslim. Most people might judge her to be more Islamist than Tory having resigned once before because the government refused to disarm Israel as she wanted, and given she also thought that we must engage with extremist groups as they, according to her, represent the Muslim community.

    And Warsi was never a Tory. She drew up a list of cons and benefits of joining Labour or the Tories and plumped for the Tories….it was purely self-advantage that directed her choice not politics.

    The BBC’s report of her latest flounce is somewhat dishonest as it fails to report the full nastiness of what she did having given her support for the well known and pretty nasty if not dangerous ‘coconut’ slur that in essence says a Black person is betraying their race. Somehow the BBC forgets to mention that she also posted a picture rubbing in that racist slur….

    2Q==

    Of course if Farage had said something similar and posted a photo it would be huge news and that photo would be front and centre on the website….but Islamist Warsi is allowed to get away with it.

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/09/27/no-baroness-warsi-it-is-not-acceptable-to-call-people-coconuts/

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  36. MarkyMark says:

    Mr “I destroyed the UK” asks Mr “I hate the UK” to stay in the UK as they both sail off to the USA.

    HA HA HA HAH ! BBC!

    “Boris Johnson (loves USA) tried to persuade Prince Harry (loves USA) not to leave his royal life in the UK (release the sausages)”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3e95gyj1wvo

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  37. MarkyMark says:

    Books to sell

    “Unleashed, by Boris Johnson, to be published by William Collins, 10 October”

    Johnson’s ‘hopeless’ bid to persuade Prince Harry to stay
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3e95gyj1wvo

    ……………..

    they work for you

    14 October 2022, received £276,130 from the Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers (CIAB), 701 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 750 Washington DC, 20004-2608 US, for a speaking engagement. Transport and accommodation also provided for me and two members of staff. Hours: 8 hrs 30 mins. (Registered 04 November 2022)
    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10999/boris_johnson/uxbridge_and_south_ruislip/register

    ………………………..

    Amid the many salacious revelations in Prince Harry’s memoir, Spare, one of the most concerning was not about his family. Harry revealed that he killed 25 members of the Taliban while serving in Afghanistan, and that he viewed them like pieces on a chessboard.16 Jan 2023

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  38. tomo says:

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  39. G.W.F. says:

    US will not support Israel against Hezbollah

    https://worldisraelnews.com/pentagon-says-its-not-sharing-intelligence-or-providing-support-for-israel-during-hezbollah-operations/

    Pentagon says it’s not sharing intelligence or providing support for Israel during Hezbollah operations

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  40. MarkyMark says:

    What did Keir Starmer achieve as Director of Public Prosecutions?
    Keir Starmer made the Crown Prosecution Service work for people:

    In his first year in the role, he oversaw the first ever UK prosecution of al-Qaeda terrorists.

    In 2009, he sought a retrial of terrorists involved in a suicide bombing plot that saw them locked behind bars.

    A year later, he brought forward charges against Tory and Labour politicians during the expenses scandal.
    In 2012, he worked with Doreen Lawrence to play a crucial role in bringing the racist killers of her son Stephen to justice.

    When John and Penny Clough’s daughter Jane was murdered after her killer was released on bail, he worked with them to change the law so that no one had to go through what they did – they’re now close friends.

    In 2013, he launched the Victims’ Right to Review, giving victims and bereaved families the right to challenge decisions not to charge suspects or drop cases.

    https://labour.org.uk/updates/stories/keir-starmers-time-as-director-of-public-prosecutions/

    …………..

    Sir Keir criticised measures in the Budget which scrapped the £1m cap on lifetime pensions savings.

    The Telegraph reported, external Sir Keir got a special “tax unregistered” pension scheme when he stood down as Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in 2013.

    Labour says it was standard practice for retiring DPPs to get such a deal.

    But senior Conservative MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith told The Telegraph it made a “mockery” of Labour’s position on the lifetime pension allowance, and was as “close to hypocrisy as it is possible to get”.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65037136

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    • tomo says:

      “Labour sez”

      The first couple of minutes of the Ricky Gervais video above has a segment demonstrating how much of what Starmer says might be honored by the bank….

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  41. Fedup2 says:

    Seems like more oil terrorists have attacked van goff s again this afternoon – maybe the sentence should be doubled each time – now to 4 years …. Vermin

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    • Lucy Pevensey says:

      Maybe they don’t like oil paintings. All artists should use net-zero, watercolour paints only.

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      • Zephir says:

        Yes, that awful polluting linseed oil….

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        • Fedup2 says:

          They must be well off – it gives me the opportunity to gripe about the cost of a ticket £28 plus £2 to put the bag in the cloakroom . It was packed with selfie pests who spend about 3 seconds in front of a work of beauty / genius but just look at their phones .
          The exhibition itself is worth the effort …. I hope the oil vermin get their 2 years …. If only for future generations to be able to see those pictures ….

          New thread coming up at 2100 London time – a place I am glad to be a long long way from …

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  42. richard D says:

    Dame Maggie Smith…….

    To borrow a phrase from the song set to Saint-Saëns’ Symphony No.3…

    “If I had words……”

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  43. MarkyMark says:

    “How McDonald’s Make Men Binge” Rory Sutherland

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  44. MarkyMark says:

    Breakign 3.5 billion news ….

    ‘My liquid BBL went well but I regret it now I know the risks’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgeygelwljxo

    “Cairo hadn’t researched the risks of a liquid BBL before having the procedure”

    NHS TO FIX IT ALL!

    Inquiry after butt lift patients are hospitalised
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1vdgrz2gxxo

    National FGM Support Clinics
    -Female genital mutilation (FGM)
    https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/female-genital-mutilation-fgm/national-fgm-support-clinics/

    BMA defends diversity officers in NHS from Government “culture war” tactics
    by BMA media team
    https://www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/bma-defends-diversity-officers-in-nhs-from-government-culture-war-tactics

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