Will the exchanges between the Islamic republic of our enemy Iran and our Friend Israel become a full scale war ? We know how the Islamic mouthpiece – the BBC will continue to react ..
Midweek 2nd October 2024 Middle East War .
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Looks Like the attempted assassination of that bloke from ‘have i get news for you ‘ is being covered up – there was no sniper – there was no bullet through the taxi windscreen ….
Hislop continues at the breast of the BBC
“The £22bn ‘black hole’ was obvious to anyone who dared to look.
A week on from Rachel Reeves’s big reveal that there is a £22 billion “black hole” in the nation’s finances, what are we to make of the claims and counterclaims and, more importantly, what can we learn?
Frankly, nobody comes out of this smelling of roses. Not the Conservatives who really did leave a lot for the new government to clear up, and were not honest about the challenges ahead. Not Labour, which knew the broad outline of these challenges, but refused to confront them in its manifesto and pre-election statements. And not our institutional framework, which meant that some of the immediate problems were allowed to fester and were obscured in the official data.
Reeves ran through a host of issues, but there were two big ones. The first was the lack of cash available to meet public sector pay settlements of any more than about 2 per cent. The second was that nearly all the estimated £6.4 billion cost of supporting asylum seekers was unfunded, in the sense of not appearing in the Home Office’s departmental budget.”
https://ifs.org.uk/articles/ps22bn-black-hole-was-obvious-anyone-who-dared-look
Warning to our Labour Government , our porous borders are allowing the build-up of a “fifth column” in our nation . “Stop the Boats” and cut immigration, legal or other. before its too late. We are in danger !
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“There is nothing new about the £20bn ‘black hole’
All the important information was at Reeves’s fingertips long before the election was called. Not wanting to talk about it during an election is one thing – but suggesting it is new information is quite another.
The latest assessment, which was carried out less than five months ago, pointed to the departmental spending holes which are about to be presented as shocking information. Not even the headline figure is new: the Institute for Fiscal Studies has been pointing to roughly a £20 billion black hole for months (along with a great many other spending gaps, including in Labour’s manifesto). Former chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s fiscal statements both this year and last suggested that there would be big public spending cuts in the new parliament so he could both lower taxes and meet his financial targets. Bodies such as the OBR have been highlighting this trade-off since it began. It’s a conundrum, yes – but it’s by no means new.”
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/there-is-nothing-new-about-rachel-reevess-20bn-black-hole/
“The £22bn black hole row: Who’s telling the truth?
The £22bn figures reflects the projected overspend on departmental budgets this year, but not all of it can be attributed to the previous government.
“In reality the largest single item of ‘spending pressure’ in the current fiscal year was actually pay awards for public sector workers that the Chancellor had agreed to since taking office earlier this month,” analysts at RBC said.
Pay rises for the public sector, which came in at between five and six per cent, cost the Chancellor £9.4bn, Departments were only given funding for a 2 per cent rise at the last spending review in 2021.
Asylum spending was the third largest contributor at £6.4bn. This resulted from the costs from the Conservative decision to stop processing asylum claimants while doing nothing to budget for the resulting costs.
Rachel Reeves claimed that the last government “covered up the true extent of the crisis and its spending implications.” But Labour did already know about some of the funding pressures.
Back in February Labour pointed to the “eye-watering overspend on asylum support”. James Smith, research director at the Resolution Foundation think-tank, told the Financial Times that Labour “knew there was overspend in the Home Office budget”
https://www.cityam.com/the-22bn-black-hole-row-whos-telling-the-truth/
The Guardian was aflutter with news that Hislop, riding in a black cab, heard what was thought to be a “bullet” shattering the window.
the police have concluded it was probably just a “mechanical fault caused the window to shatter”.
order-order.com
” Labour is telling the biggest lie in politics. It cannot get away with it
To pretend ‘the books’ are worse than expected is not just shameless, it’s an insult to the British public”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/28/labour-is-telling-the-biggest-lie-in-politics-black-hole/
“Labour chooses austerity: the black hole is an illusion”
https://www.counterfire.org/article/labour-chooses-austerity-the-black-hole-is-an-illusion/
“The £22bn ‘black hole’ is no way a hard fact; it is merely a dubious metaphor designed to frighten us, and to justify continuing austerity. “
we will not enter austerity … we will enter a black hole!
HAH AH AH HAHAH A!
“It was with jaw-dropping incredulity that I listened to Sir Keir Starmer’s claim that he had no knowledge of the £22 billion ‘black hole’ in the UK Government’s finances until the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) told him about it after the General Election.
“I have never considered SNP leader John Swinney to be in the mould of Nostradamus but I distinctly remember that during the election campaign he (Mr Swinney) repeatedly stated that there was a £20 billion deficit in UK Government finances and that the Labour Party would continue to inflict austerity on the country after the election. The figures he quoted came from the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) and were in the public domain. If Sir Keir is now trying to indicate that he had no inkling of this he is either being dishonest or incompetent. ”
https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/24547963.keir-starmer-either-lying-completely-incompetent/
WHAT HOLE?
Jeremy Hunt: everyone will be paying more tax after autumn statement 2022
Everyone. Everyone. Everyone.
1,860,000
Theresa May, Former UK PM earned £1.86 million in her 2 years since leaving Downing Street, figures show
500,000
Barry Gardiner defends donations worth £500,000 from Chinese agent
400,000
Matt Hancock, who lost the Tory whip after it was announced he would be appearing on the ITV programme, is still being paid as an independent MP and is rumoured to have been paid £400,000 to appear on the I’m a celebrity.
315,00
Boris Johnson earns £315,000 for 30 minute speech and ‘fireside chat’ in United States
65,040
Chuka Umunna Advisory Board of The Progressive Centre UK think tank (also known as Global Progress)
20,000
Jeremy Corbyn Labour party leader accepted up to £20,000 (about $27,000) for appearances on the Iranian state broadcast network Press TV
18,450
Keir Starmer £18,450 from Harper Collins as an advance payment for a book.
15,000
Boris Johnson Accommodation for a private holiday for my partner and me, value £15,000 Destination of visit: St Vincent and the Grenadines
10,000
Jeremy Hunt £10,000 from Citigroup Centre for speaking at an event on 9 March 2021. Hours: 4 hrs. Fee paid direct to charity. (Charity not mentioned)
5,822
Nadhim Zahawi MP promises to repay the part of £5,822.27 expenses claim for second home energy bills that relates to electricity for stables
2,200
MPs to get £2,200 pay rise from April for ‘dramatically increased’ duties last year
1,950
Philip Hammond accepts £2,000 watch from Saudi sheikh, despite ban on donating expensive gifts
Yours sincerely,
“Keir Starmer is either lying or he’s completely incompetent”
– OR BOTH
DO PEOPLE LEAVING LEBANON COME TO UK TO HATE ISRAEL FROM UK?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqlvzqkgd2eo
“Three British sisters have spoken of their sadness at being forced to flee their home in Lebanon, saying they had “no choice” but to board a flight to the UK.
Amal Zahereddine, 18, and her sisters Yasmine, 17, and Layla, 22, were among British nationals preparing to leave on a UK government charter flight from Beirut to Birmingham.
“Right now there is no way we can stay. The noises, the situation, is just getting very traumatising so we have no choice,” Amal said.”
2024 … “The prime minister has insisted he has always followed the rules and said Labour politicians will no longer take donations like this.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvglk4v7538o
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LESSONS WILL BE LEARNT
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The United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal was a major political scandal that emerged in 2009, concerning expense claims made by members of the British Parliament in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords over the previous years.
“As a peer in the House of Lords, Alli is required to register his interests in line with the parliamentary code of conduct.”
https://www.parliament.uk/business/lords/whos-in-the-house-of-lords/house-of-lords-expenses/
Lord Alli London
Number of days attended 5
That’s right, get your bung in then pull the ladder up.
Quite academic and 53 mins long but has some good points IMHO:
ICMI24: William Collins – “Feminism, Cultural Collapse and the Rise of Authoritarianism in the West”
Very interesting.
@37 – “You are denying my existence.”
Keir Starmer’s top donor Lord Alli under investigation by House of Lords watchdog over ‘non-registration of interests’
The papers are running headlines saying ‘8 IDF soldiers die in Lebanon ‘ – as though soldiers dying in war is ‘unusual ‘ ….
The replies are unkind….
Tony Blair: A woman has a vagina and a man has a penis
Former PM wades into the transgender debate, questioning why politicians had got themselves into a ‘muddle’ on the issue
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/06/17/tony-blair-labour-trans-views-gender-general-election/
They just can’t help lying to us about immigration…not just the costs, economic, cultural and social, but the lies about numbers and medical issues.
They scorned and mocked any idea that thousands of Romanians would flock here courtesy of Blair’s open door….naturally they were ‘wrong’…they always knew they were wrong…they lied and laughed in our faces.
And when Farage dared to raise the issue of health tourism, in particular HIV, he was widely condemned…
‘Ukip leader accused of ‘new level of ignorance’ for remarks as he stakes claim to be Europe minister in a Tory-Ukip coalition’
‘Nigel Farage was accused of stooping to a “new level of ignorance” after he called for people who have tested positive for HIV to be banned from migrating to Britain as a “good start” in controlling the UK’s borders.
Britain’s oldest HIV/Aids charity, the Terrence Higgins Trust, said the Ukip leader should feel “truly ashamed” of himself after showing “an outrageous lack of understanding” over such a sensitive issue.’
And today…Farage proven right….again….
‘Jump in positive diagnoses by over 50 per cent on previous year is largely driven by the number of people contracting the virus abroad
New HIV diagnoses have hit a 15-year high after a surge in the number of cases among migrants coming to England.
More than 6,000 people were diagnosed with HIV in England in 2023, up 51 per cent on the previous year.
The jump in positive cases has largely been driven by the number of people contracting HIV abroad, official data show.
Leading charities said the post-pandemic rise in cases put the UK’s target to prevent new cases of HIV by 2030 “at risk”.’
Not just HIV of course…all those other diseases we thought we had eradicated? They’re back…came across in a rubber dinghy….cheers BBC…..but never mind with all those highly trained doctors paddling their way to us the NHS will surely be able to cope even better.
YOU DECIDE WHERE THE TRUTH LIES…
Further to the “22bn £ black hole” question..
In April Keir Starmer , the current frontman in “Sue Grays” Goverment , asked a question during PMQs. He was then leader of the opposition of course but was very concerned about the plight of the elderly.
He asked “Could P.M. SUNAK confirm that he wasn’t going to remove the winter fuel allowance from pensioners in 2024 in order to fill the 60bn£ hole in his( Sunaks) budget.”
Starmer seemed to know about a much bigger hole at that stage.
Don’t let’s hold our breath hoping for any meaningful response or explanation of that ,as our glorious leader is currently explaining why , despite doing nothing wrong , he is paying back money that has been properly and correctly declared….work that one out? Starmers yes..but..no..but..yes ,thought process shown up in sharp focus.
Still thank goodness we have moved away from that dreadful Tory SLEEZE that everybody hated so much, especially the BBC, who seemed to have moved on so very well and have generally got bored with SLEEZE. Perhaps little Miss Spring could eye up yet another award by doing an in depth Verify programme on Labour donors, then again maybe not…
Too late…
BBC ….
Have you listened to Ep 1 of The Destruction Manual yet?#randyfeltfacesdestructionmanual
The trial of a met police firearms officer who shot dead a coloured Gangster has begun . Must be frightening for the cop to be at the mercy of a jury ….
.. whatever the outcome justice won’t be done – another political trial . If the cop is found guilty who’d blame others who voluntarily carry guns to just put them down and sign up to the woke rainbow agenda ?
I saw this and thought, there has to be a BBC connection..?
I was wrong there is a serious ‘disconnection’ with falling BBC audience at the same time as Welsh Labour fine DINE themselves in utmost splendor (at taxpayer expense). Not far short of Starmer Fiasco we have in England.
The Welsh Labour Government’s spending spree
£15,933 – Zou Zou’s, Manhattan restaurant
£5,158 – Soho House West Hollywood, Members Only Club
£2,912 – http://GoPro.com, a camera website
£1,464 – Typhoon International, a watersports clothing specialist
£256 – Total Wine and More, US alcohol retailer
£2,073 – Les Tabliers, French catering firm
£178 – Ferris Wheelers Backyard – Texan BBQ restaurant
£277 – Celtic Flag Services – flag-making firm
£625 – Mimo Limousine Car Service – Montreal chauffeur car and limo firm
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/10/02/soho-house-and-manhattan-restaurants-how-welsh-labour-splur/
Don’t expect this to be picked up by the BBC. After all they don’t want to loose their Welsh audience. (in freefall).
How many people listen to BBC Radio Wales? This page has the latest official audience figures. All figures quoted include listening across all platforms, including online.
Total listeners just: 371,000 (14.0%)
https://media.info/radio/stations/bbc-radio-wales/listening-figures
Vote 16
Your voice matters. If you’re 16 or 17 years old in May 2021, you can vote for the first time in the Senedd Election.
https://senedd.wales/visit/education-and-youth-engagement/vote-16/
Speaking as a patriotic taffman, scrap the Senedd ( The Welsh Assembly) and the BBC Telly Tax .
Both a waste of money .
Use the money to fund the heating for our pensioners instead.
I wonder how many listen to or watch BBC Alba, their Gaelic service, for all those dozens of Scots who speak only that language?
I asked that question at the Culloden museum. Dual language notices paid for by the Ehewww. When I asked how many people spoke Gaelic there was a kind of resigned shrug.
Divide and conquer.
BBC Scotland is facing new questions over the quality of its content as new data shows viewing figures have fallen sharply.
Only 13% of the population watched the channel each week in 2022, down by five percentage points year-on-year. The audience has fallen by about 38% between 2020 and last year, according to the broadcaster’s annual report.
The smaller audiences mean the costs of the channel per user is considerably higher than the London-produced channels.
It cost 19p per user hour to produce BBC Scotland last year and 31p per user hour to deliver BBC Alba. This compares with 9p per user hour for BBC1 and 7p per user hour for the BBC News channel.
News programme The Nine remains a niche option. On Monday last week it attracted just over 12,000 viewers, about 1% of those watching television at the time, while the STV News at Six that evening was watched by 321,000 viewers, an audience share of 33%.
One BBC Scotland insider told The Times: “There are nights when the programme barely registers as having any sort of audience at all.”
https://dailybusinessgroup.co.uk/2023/07/bbc-scotland-suffers-plunge-in-viewing-figures/
I just saw on Channel 4 news. An interview where an
ex Lebanese Cabinet Minister said that it was
Hezbollah that was responsible for what is
happening in Lebanon right now.
Not in a million years would he be interviewed on
the BBC. Where we have to put up with the blatantly
pro Hamas and Hezbollah foreign women from the Irish
Republic . But to be fair she is one of a plethora of
reporters and presenters at the BBC with the same view
point,
BBC confronts neo-Nazi who gave UK rioters arson tips
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8l9gpp8yro
“We will not let the internet serve as a haven for those seeking to sow division in our communities,” says the spokesperson.
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Police telling Muslims to store their weapons at the mosque. Lovely.
https://x.com/EC2man/status/1819783542093865197?lang=en
This being the biased BBC website.
BBC 1 6 pm news. First story. Israel? Nope. Tory leadership? Nope. TTK paying back freebies? Definitely not.
No. An ‘investigative’ BBC reporter has tracked down in Finland a guy responsible for inciting the ‘riots’ a few weeks back after the Southport stabbings.
Is this really, really the main news? Or just another biased BBC attempt to paint anyone opposing open door mass immigration as a Far Right neo Nazi and potential terrorist?
Marky. You beat me to it by seconds. But I’ve written it now.
Woah! POC Person!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8l9gpp8yro
I wish I hadn’t clicked on your link cos it led me to read this
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxd0121q1do
‘Queer joy’ ffs
They never give up..
“support each other during difficult days of filming.”
“as he struggles with an eating disorder”
“Kit Connor and Joe Locke, who play boyfriends Nick and Charlie, say it’s hard getting used to kissing your friend on camera”
“Yasmin Finney’s character, Elle, who is transgender, will be shown starting a sexual relationship with her on-screen boyfriend Tao (William Gao).”
“I like to think young people really see themselves in the characters, and that’s why it connects.”
Stuff – it sort of signifies the mindset of the woke bbc kidukts . The Middle East is on the brink ( as usual ) the world could go into a big war or even a big recession caused by huge oil price rises .
Yet because someone has done their job in the news room they present a trivial story as a headline ….
Glad I don’t really bother any more ….
Seems to me that the Israelis are missing a trick. None of this bombing of Iran is needed.
Just empty the jails and deposit the Palestinians in Iran. Since Iran is so keen in supporting the Palestinians then let them have them.
Ditto for the Houthis.
Rinse and repeat for each missile outrage.
According to the BBC, the democratic Israelis are the bad guys, while the fascistic, terroristic, islamistic Iranians are the good guys.
Remember how the BBC report news … terrorist is victim …
“I am not kidding. @BBCNews website leaves the impression the Syrian suicide bomber as a victim in a ‘German blast’.” – Tarek Fatah 24jul2016
https://x.com/TarekFatah/status/757442737037770752
ITV local newsPR prog on Tuesday
#PRasNews for charity called @CurriculumBlack
‘Britain should be ashamed only 10% of pupils take a Black History module”
…doh it’s kind of weird and racist to choose subjects by skincolour
I don’t think there are that many black people in the ITV Calendar South region
(It’s Black History month but the item didn’t mention that)
Albino kids need more shows on African TV!
You know when you hear a BBC story and think ‘what’s that all about ?” . Let me get this straight – the great leader has taken large amounts of bungs from his boyfriend – all legal – all within the rules . But now he is giving stuff back or the money equivalent ?
Why ?
There’s no impropriety – it’s okay – he needed help – as did his ‘wife ‘ ….
Yet the bbc offers no explanation why this has happened .
To me giving the stuff back proves guilt beyond the benefit of all reasonable doubt . Are other cabinet minister who took bungs also going to give them back ? Why ? If it’s all within the rules ….
And did he get a donation to help him give those bungs back ?
I’m sure I heard a discussion by one of those security specialists asking about what would happen if someone fired missiles at londonistan ? The bbc type was a standard airhead who should have gently reminded the dolt about the V1s and V2s fired by a member of the EU at londonistan @1944 onward … ( was it 1943?) – I know one landed about 500 yards from my home ….
T
The answer to the question was bomber command used bunker busters to flatten launch sites ..
A long but useful piece from the DT about the attitude of the BBC to hezbollah –
STARTS
What exactly is Hezbollah? The BBC does not seem to be 100 per cent sure, especially when it allows guests on its news programmes to claim unchallenged that the Iran-backed terrorist organisation is “rational” and “cautious”.
Given the widespread condemnation of the BBC for refusing to describe Hamas as “terrorists” in the wake of Oct 7 attacks on Israel, you would be forgiven for thinking its news team would have sought to avoid entering a similar storm over its reporting on Hezbollah (especially as those on the Left also often accuse it of being pro-Israel). But in the days since the deadly pager attacks on Hezbollah’s high command and the assassination of its leader Hassan Nasrallah, followed by Israel’s incursion into Lebanon and the subsequent Iranian missile attack, the BBC has exposed itself to similar criticism.
A BBC News article published on Monday reporting Israel’s ground attacks on Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon made no mention of the fact that Hezbollah is a terror group and formally proscribed as such in Britain. Neither did a subsequent article reporting Tehran’s rocket attack on Tuesday, “Iran launches more than 180 ballistic missiles at Israel”, refer to Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation.
Critics believe that the BBC’s reporting on Hezbollah suggests that executives have failed to pay sufficient attention to the Asserson Report – published by former director of BBC TV Danny Cohen – that presented a litany of examples of how the corporation has allegedly reported the events of October 7 onwards with bias against Israel.
Lord Mann, the Labour peer and the Government’s independent adviser on anti-Semitism, says the report should have sent “shockwaves in the BBC.”
“Hezbollah is a terror organisation and should always be reported as such,” he says. “They almost treated them as an army rather than a terror organisation that is armed. Iran have just proved that it is a proxy for them, so there’s no ambiguity.”
The latest criticisms fall into two main categories. The first is that Hezbollah and its leaders are routinely described and discussed as if they were a legitimate political party or without reference to their motives or stated aims. One example of this, predating the past week’s hostilities, was when Hezbollah fired a rocket that hit a football pitch in the Golan Heights, killing 12 Druze children in July. The original headline read “Nine dead in attack on Israel-occupied Golan” while the report included Hezbollah’s denial of responsibility, despite the fact Hezbollah had claimed responsibility but retracted their statement after the victims was revealed as Druze, rather than Jewish. A BBC spokesman said of that incident: “This was a breaking news story that developed line by line as details were confirmed and new lines emerged. We routinely change headlines as more information becomes available. The BBC is committed to reporting the Israel-Gaza war impartially, with no agenda and to the highest standards of journalism.”
A Q&A piece on the BBC website refers to Hezbollah as a “heavily armed militant and political movement”. Hezbollah was proscribed as a terror group in Britain in 2019, a status that the article acknowledges with the later statement that “The group is designated as a terrorist organisation by Western states, Israel and Gulf Arab states”. As the BBC is a public service broadcaster, however, many would assume it was relevant to mention that the UK specifically designates Hezbollah this way, rather than just “the West”.
Similarly, the BBC’s refusal to routinely refer to Hezbollah as a terror organisation in its reporting leaves unanswered questions about the corporation’s stance on the group’s legitimacy and credibility, similar to the concerns raised about the corporation’s reporting on Hamas in the wake of the Oct 7 massacre.
A spokesman for the BBC said: “Where editorially relevant, we refer to Hezbollah as a proscribed terrorist organisation by governments including the UK government.”
BBC reports have referred to “the armed group Hezbollah” which “is also a strong ally of the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad”. That seemingly neutral phrase cuts to the heart of the criticism. Being a strong ally of the Syrian president meant being directly involved in a brutally oppressive regime that is responsible for vast numbers of deaths in the region. As British-Lebanese journalist and filmmaker Oz Katerji pointed out on X following the death of its Nasrallah:
A BBC profile of Nasrallah makes no mention of the violence and punitive repression of Hezbollah inside Lebanon – indeed it stresses Hezbollah’s role in the school and health system of southern Lebanon as if this was a legitimating factor for its existence – or its ideology or indeed that it has been complicit in the death of so many Syrians. Similarly, reports on the escalation of the conflict routinely leave out contextual facts such as the regularity with which it has fired rockets into Israel, estimated at 8,000 since Oct 7, not to mention the many thousands it has launched in the past two decades.
The Campaign Against Antisemitism, which monitors the BBC’s reporting, says: “The BBC is stubbornly failing to describe Hezbollah in legally accurate terms. Using any other descriptor risks legitimising or downplaying the actions and rhetoric of this and other terror groups. British Jews should be able to expect better from our national broadcaster.”
“This does damage to Britain and the BBC,” says Lord Mann. “There is a major crisis of leadership at the top of the BBC. In times of war across the world, BBC News has been a critical outlet for accurate reporting and what is coming across is damaging that significantly. We need to put the context of where Hezbollah has come from. Hezbollah hasn’t ‘just’ started figuring rockets into Israel or causing problems in Lebanon or Syria.”
The second theme of criticism of the BBC’s reporting is that it has provided a platform for strident pro-Hezbollah apologists without challenge in a “news” context rather than as part of a debate. The most glaring of these is the repeated appearances of the Iranian lecturer Mohammad Marandi, of the University of Tehran, who was interviewed from Beirut on the Today programme on Oct 1 – for which the BBC had to issue an apology after presenter Mishal Husain failed to challenge his rant claiming that Israel was carrying out a “holocaust” in Gaza and a separate “genocide” in Lebanon. Despite the BBC’s admission, he turned up again on the BBC News Channel saying, among other things, completely unchallenged: “The Israeli regime has been carrying out a genocide in Gaza. It has been carrying out genocidal attacks in Lebanon. The US and British governments are just as guilty of these war crimes as Netanyahu.”
Marandi then accused the newsreader of acting as a spokeswoman for the US and Israeli government. He said that the Iranians could “destroy” Israel, adding: “The Israelis had better know their place. It’s time to end the genocide. It’s time to end the Holocaust.”
The historian and author Simon Schama wrote on X: “BBC asked the same Iranian professor they habitually go to – actually a servile apologist for the misogynist-theocratic tyranny… got his standard exterminationist antisemitic abuse about ‘chosen people’.”
When asked about Marandi, a BBC spokesman said: “Mohammed Marandi was interviewed to gain an understanding of the view from Iran, and what their response is likely to be. This was a live interview and he was challenged during the course of the interview, and the Israeli position was reflected. However, we accept we should have continued to challenge his language throughout the interview.”
The problem the BBC faces is that if, as its head of news Deborah Turness said in a statement published this week, “So many have come to see impartial reporting as being somehow against them because it does not solely reflect their own view of the conflict” that should not include inviting an apparent apologist for the Iranian regime to complete an anti-Semitic rant on its platforms.
As Iranian rockets flew over and in one case crashed into Jordan on their way to Israel, BBC News was talking to author and Middle East analyst Dr Andreas Krieg, whose opinion that the conflict was Israel’s responsibility for attacking Hezbollah went unchallenged. His description of the war as a one-sided problem was never questioned, including when he said: “The international community has to make sure Israel is not upending the international order as we know it. We’ve been in this course for 12 months now, with constantly red lines being crossed, mostly by the Israelis. Hezbollah and Iran have played it fairly rationally trying to be very cautious and leave off-ramps where they could.” (The dark irony of claiming Iran and Hezbollah have been rational is that in the past week an Iranian TV show claimed Israel used “genies” “cosmic science” and “demons” in war).
“The BBC should be an antidote to extremist opinion,” says Lord Mann. “By all means have heated debates about what should be done, but it should be boringly accurate in the news. I see a lack of understanding of anti-Semitism at the BBC which leads to bias.”
A BBC spokesman said: “The BBC is committed to reporting impartially and to featuring a wide range of different voices in its coverage of the complex political situation in the region. Dr Krieg is an academic who was analysing the military strategies of those involved in the conflict and we would encourage people to watch the interview in its entirety.
“The BBC holds itself to high standards of impartial reporting and rejects any suggestion that our reporting does not convey the true nature of the situation in the Middle East, and its past, present and potential impact on people in the region. This conflict is a challenging and polarising story to cover, and we are dedicated to providing impartial reporting for audiences in the UK and across the world.” ENDS
Wonder how the translations are going … “https://www.bbc.com/arabic”
https://www.bbc.com/arabic/articles/cgj483g5dxdo
audio recording,Gaza Today: “My friend lost her brother in a bombing during a phone call between them.” Our guest in the studio is Maha Al-Astal, duration 32.46
7 hours ago
30:48
audio recording,Gaza Today: “My sister whispered in my ear that her four-year-old child had been killed, so I lost consciousness and was injured in the hospital.” Our guest in the studio is Aya Al-Dahshan, duration 30,48
October 1, 2024
34:07
audio recording,Gaza Today: “With part of his identity, we recognized the remains of my cousin.” Our guest in the studio, Rafqa Mahmoud, duration 34.07
September 30, 2024
37:22
audio recording,Gaza Today: “The children of Gaza have begun to forget letters and numbers due to the lack of education” Studio guest Ahmed Sahmoud and a conversation with his mother in Gaza, duration 37.22
September 29, 2024
https://www.bbc.com/arabic/topics/cljddp5lw0dt
“I am not kidding. @BBCNews website leaves the impression the Syrian suicide bomber as a victim in a ‘German blast’.” – Tarek Fatah 24jul2016
https://x.com/TarekFatah/status/757442737037770752
Nightlife or Pondlife?
The Education minister’s tweet promoting Black History month got 164 Likes
and 618 Replies ..almost 100% disagree with her
.. https://x.com/bphillipsonMP/status/1841134754080469461
CCBGB!
I like this one…
“corby macdonald
@corbymac
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Oct 1
Next month we have #bluehistorymonth with millions of pensioners freezing thanks to #rachelthieves & #freegearkeir taking away #WinterFuelAllowance
@Keir_Starmer
@RachelReevesMP”
Spot on!
Labour “Boris fathered children with different women, ugh !”
Now sounds like Starmer’s name is on a child’s birth certificate
But not his wife’s
Poor women – must have been so drunk
So it’s ‘Two Heir Keir’ now, is it?
Establishment green guru “we lie, our MSM back us up”
Those silly people contradict us
So we have to clamp down on this FREE SPEECH thing”
Can’t find it on the bbc
London news ? nope
“NHS worker mother-of-three, 37, was raped ‘again and again until she died’ while unconscious on a park bench after night out, court hears.
Although it is grainy and at a distance, the CCTV footage shows the defendant engaging in acts of oral penetration.
‘From the footage and the absence of movement by her, Natalie does not appear to have been conscious at the time she was raped, let alone consenting to what the defendant was doing to her.”
Iidow Mohamed, 35
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13917583/Unconscious-mother-raped-died-park-bench.html
bbc London news top stories:
“Mural honouring African health workers unveiled”
“A Metropolitan Police marksman may have been “angry, frustrated and annoyed” when he took the decision to shoot to kill Chris Kaba, a court has heard.”
“BBC London has spoken to a woman about her struggle to report a police officer who was eventually found guilty of gross misconduct for trying to groom her into a sexual relationship.”
‘Took advantage of her’
I’d just call it rape
Probably this one hidden as well, can’t be bothered to even look now:
They are all welcome here are they not ?
“Manhunt launched after woman ‘followed into Tesco toilets and raped’ during horror broad daylight attack in Sheerness, Kent.
The man is described as eastern European, about 30 years old, 5ft 3in tall and wearing a blue tracksuit.”
Let’s get that freedom of movement back eh Starmer ?
Beeg Eeshue, pleeez
Migrant crime data ‘covered up,’ claims Robert Jenrick amid push for transparency.
Only on this site and certain MSM will you hear about it.
In an interview with The Telegraph, Jenrick stated that under the current “lax immigration controls,” the UK is “importing serious and violent crime.”
A recent investigation by the Telegraph revealed that over 700 Albanian migrants who crossed the Channel in small boats had set up a secret Telegram channel to coordinate drug-related activities.
His comments come after various attempts by MPs and campaigners to access such information through parliamentary questions and Freedom of Information (FOI) requests were thwarted. Despite data being available through police and government databases, the Home Office, Ministry of Justice (MoJ), and Office for National Statistics (ONS) have yet to make this information public.
Jenrick argued that publishing this data would mirror the approach taken by Denmark and some US states, which provide detailed breakdowns of crimes by nationality. He pointed out that in Denmark, data shows that nationals from countries such as Kuwait, Tunisia, and Somalia are significantly more likely to commit crimes compared to Danish citizens.
Dozens of Home Office staff under criminal investigation, FoI data shows.
Freedom of information request reveals potential offences include immigration crime, drug offences and fraud.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/15/home-office-staff-under-criminal-investigation-freedom-of-information
Kuensberg admits sending nut nut her coming interview briefing note by mistake . Will nut nut ( borisovich Johnson ) realise it’s a mistake ? Bother reading it ? Publish the briefing note ?
Have any sort of thought process .? Although as I write this i realise his wife will decide – and the answer will be ‘no’
Nut nut – for some reason wants to publicise his book – money I suppose – especially when he sees how well 2TK is doing sucking cash from the boyfriend ….
It might sell his book if it was part of the preface, with entries like:
Remember Starmer was last week, this one will be very different, we won’t be tonguing this ones backside.
If he starts to answer a question with facts just interrupt him.
Even if he answers it, ask again to make it look like he hasn’t answered it.
Level unsubstantiated accusations and wild conspiracies against the Tories by using the preface:
“Some might say” or “sources have suggested.”
Use “what do you have to say to…then pick a “victim” from the public “
STOP PRESS!
https://x.com/politlcsuk/status/1841464943834546228?s=61
🚨 NEW: Rachel Reeves has dyed her hair ginger
Hey, it worked for Rayner.
Done on tax payers ‘ money .
Islamic Ginger?
This is not directly a bbc story – but it’s a cut and paste about a senior met plod ( waste of rations )called ‘Jeff boothe . Jeff – apparently – has a sex addiction . ….
STARTS A senior Metropolitan Police officer sued the force for discrimination after claiming bosses had exposed the fact he was a sex addict.
Jeffrey Boothe, who represented the force at a chief police officers’ conference abroad and whose work involved “planning and implementing initiatives” to increase the number of women in the Met, admitted paying for sex.
At an employment tribunal, the officer accused Scotland Yard of leaking his condition to the media, causing him stress and anxiety and leaving him with “a strong feeling of being persecuted”.
In May 2023, it was revealed that an unnamed “high-flying” officer with a £100,000-a-year salary package had been allowed to keep his job despite using prostitutes, a decision that caused controversy in the London Assembly.
In March this year, Mr Boothe launched his discrimination case against the Met.
A hearing in central London was told the grounds for his original claim consisted of a diagnosis from a doctor of psychology who founded an association to treat sexual addiction back in 2015.
As part of his complaint, Mr Boothe stated that his “ex-partner knew that [he] was suffering from a sex addiction, which had led to him using prostitutes”, the tribunal was told.
He claimed that the alleged leak to the press by the Met of his sex addiction was “unfavourable treatment”.
After his initial claim was refused, Mr Boothe had tried to argue his “disability” fell under the umbrella term of suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), the tribunal heard.
Case dismissed
His case has now been dismissed by a judge who ruled he had lied about OCD after learning he would have “serious difficulties relying on his alleged sex addiction as a disability”.
The latest hearing was told his sex addiction was a consequence of his OCD. Rejecting the latest claim, Employment Judge Pavel Klimov said: “[Mr Boothe] relies on OCD as the relevant mental impairment.
“The only evidence before me as to the existence of the alleged impairment is his say-so in his disability impact statement.”
According to reports last year, payments of hundreds of pounds to sex workers by the unnamed officer were uncovered when anti-corruption officers from the force’s professional standards unit seized his phone over an unrelated matter, which was later dropped.
Instead of going before a gross misconduct board where he could have been sacked, he was given “words of advice”, the lowest form of censure.
He kept his job in 2019 after agreeing to treatment for sex addiction.ENDS
the above report doesn’t include a picture of Jeff – but he is shown elsewhere … and may well get help from the ‘black police association ‘
Gotta try it on for free money eh Jeff ?
You know when you are in 2 minds about something ? Well I’d like there to be a real opposition to the reds in their parliament …but then again I want the blue party fully dead – so a hopeless blue leader would suit my aim – see the problem ?
I’m guessing the dumb cleverley one will get it as the blue will balk at the thought of a coloured girl leading their dead party …but was a dire bunch
‘What I’ve learned from five years of oversharing’ – no, that’s not a quote from Lord ‘help us’ Alli…
That’s Adrian Chiles in the Guardian today, doing some male celebrity angst feature.
We go to the Daily Mail for our daily dose of calm down dear: I told my husband to choose between me and his bossy mother. And he chose HER
The Mirror meanwhile concerns itself with: Get out now… Brits told to flee Lebanon as RAF & Army put on standby… Families from Lebanon land in London – and our BBC frets: Leaving ‘only choice’ say sisters on Beirut flight… Amal Zahereddine, 18, and her sisters Yasmine, 17, and Layla, 22, were among British nationals preparing to leave on a UK government charter flight from Beirut to Birmingham.
If those names in the BBC report and the headscarf adorned ladies in the Mirror’s airport photo are anything more than British passport-holders then you can call me their uncle Bibi the Ayatollah of Bradford.
Everyone knows the last British woman ever to wear a headscarf was the late HM Queen Elizabeth.
Meanwhile the Daily Express has the cheek to foreshadow: Security chiefs fear rise in terror attacks in UK… Middle East crisis could ‘galvanise’ extremists to target British Jews
But remember folks, Diversity is our Strength.
Speaking of diversity… the Tory party leadership race…
The Guardian are no fans of the Tories: Bad jokes, war stories and rehashed rhetoric: key takeaways from the Tory leadership speeches – but in the manner of an Edinburgh Fringe Festival review the Graun conveniently quotes those bad jokes for us. Admittedly the Tory leadership contest is a bit of a clown show.
Tom Tugendhat – seems he emphasised his military credentials so hard he practically came on stage wearing khaki fatigues, medal ribbons and a pith helmet. Things can get pretty hairy behind that desk he flew – what with the paper cuts and the glare from the photocopier.
Joke: “I will defeat Labour and lead us back to power in five years’ time. We all know that this country cannot afford Labour. You can’t afford Labour. I can’t afford Labour. Lord Alli can’t afford Labour.”
Apparently he attempted to warm up the audience – bit of a mistake these days. You wouldn’t catch our comedy pros the likes of Stewart Lee or Jimmy Carr resorting to such naff stage antics: Tugendhat had an awkward start as he tried to get the audience going, saying, “Good morning, conference, let’s try that again”, before leading into a low-energy speech that may have been too dreary to inspire members. (Guardian)
Like a BBC roster the pale and stale is soon followed by the diversity
Kemi Badenoch – if Tommy Atkins Tugendhat wants you to think he’s up for a scrap and an ace military trained decision maker – whether to file a piece of paperwork that lands in his in tray – or discard it as scrap – then our Kemi has the real fighting reputation: She criticised those who claim she “likes to fight” (Guardian)
Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting – according to Elton John
Stage presence sounds a bit dull and downbeat and her gag – if you can call it that missed the mark: “Ministers need to be able to make decisions that aren’t endlessly challenged in the courts. If people don’t like those decisions, there are elections. If the law says the government can’t deport a foreign child abuser, then the law is an ass.”
Robert Jenrick – the Gruan reckons he’s a polished orator but like Irish comic Frank Carson’s catchphrase quip: “You’ve heard them all before, but it’s the way I tell ’em”
He vowed to end illegal migration and repeated his call for Britain to leave the ECHR under a new great reform act that will repeal Tony Blair’s Human Rights Act. (Guardian)
By the time the Tories get back in government there’ll be plenty more to add to that previously unfulfilled wish list – the Islamophobia Law, the Online Anti-Dissindent Legislation, the Prevention of Conservatism Act… and like as not we’ll be back in the EU.
James Cleverly – immediately reaches for the race card: He used the difficulties he’s faced in life – growing up as a “mixed-race kid in Lewisham” before failing to be sent to Baghdad or Basra in the reserves (Guardian)
Seems Cleverly opted not to come on in an awkward apologetic style – but then apologised: opting against the awkward greetings favoured by his rivals… He then issued a contrite apology to members on behalf of his parliamentary colleagues, for letting them down (Guardian)
The joke…
The Joke (Czech: Žert) is Milan Kundera’s first novel, originally published in 1967. It describes how a student’s private joke derails his life… Ludvik was a dashing, witty, and popular student who, like most of his friends, supported the still-young Communist regime… “Optimism is the opium of mankind! A healthy spirit stinks of stupidity! Long live Trotsky!” The girl, under pressure, shared the contents of the letter with others in the Party at school, who did not find it funny. (Thank you Wiki) – Frankly, Mr AsI didn’t even ‘get’ that joke.
Cue James Cleverly “They [Labour] are completely out of their depth, and we need to be ready and we need to hold them to account, not next year or in 2030 or after that but now. And we know the Lib Dems won’t do it. They’re too wet. In the case of Ed Davey, he’s soaking wet.”
Tories ribbing a LibDem for being “wet” – that’s a bit rich.
How’s that old saying go… put them all in a sack, I don’t know who I’d pull out first?
James Cleverly – immediately reaches for the race card: He used the difficulties he’s faced in life – growing up as a “mixed-race kid in Lewisham” before failing to be sent to Baghdad or Basra in the reserves (Guardian)
………………… that problem will no longer be the case for his kids …. …………..
Demography is destiny.
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The UK’s most popular baby names of 2023 have been revealed.
Muhammad held onto the boy’s top spot, while Olivia makes a triumphant return to number one in the girl’s list.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/67694955
“we need to hold them to account, not next year or in 2030 or after that but now.” (c)James Cleverly
Rishi walks out of conference after 5 mins. Walks out of D Day after an hour.
The only way the blue party can win again is to join Reform . But I wouldn’t want Reform tainted by any blue politician . Maybe they can wait for a new generation – another 14? Years whose fingerprints won’t be found in the commons . But personally I’d prefer a revolution ( note to 77 brigade for file )- a democratic lawful revolution – not one which is going to get me 2 years in a starmer political court …
Applies to the Blues and the reds
22 billion black hole
Sadiq Khan …. not checking his employees….
“Lamé will quit at the end of this month and says she feels it’s “the right time” to “move on”, and that it’s been “a real privilege to serve Londoners”. To fail Londoners for eight years…
In her tenure she has:
Overseen London falling down the rankings to become the worst night out in any UK city.
Parroted Sadiq Khan propaganda lines while in a politically impartial role.
Scored a disproportionate pay rise to £160,000. Almost the PM’s salary…
Taken “sick leave” while actually presenting on the BBC.
Recovered from illness to immediately go on annual leave.
Skived committee meetings intended to fix London’s nightlife.
A record unmatched…
UPDATE: Guido hears from GLA sources that since returning to work Lamé has been “totally MIA“. Working for London right till the end…”
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Boris Johnson nears £5m in earnings since leaving office
Published
8 February 2023
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64569598
Boris Johnson’s office receives £1m donation from crypto investor
Published
12 January 2023
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64257007
“The closure of Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station is an historic moment in our energy history.
Today we pay tribute to the workers who powered our country, and recognise the critical role they can play in our energy future.”
https://x.com/Ed_Miliband/status/1841134894778343584
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China has the most coal-fired power plants in the world, with 1,161 operational plants as of July 2024. China’s coal power plants account for more than half of the world’s coal electricity generation. The largest operational coal power plant in China is Datang Tuoketuo, which has a capacity of about 6.1 gigawatts.