208 Responses to Weekend 12th October 2024

  1. Northern Voter says:

    Hooray, Stop the boats, not P&O stupid.

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  2. BRISSLES says:

    Remember When the Boat Comes In ? Who’d have thought 50 odd years later we’d be dreading when the bloody boats come in !

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  3. non-licence payer says:

    The article below is disingenuous. If you are state salaried or an employee of the bBC then you do need not to worry. It will only be privately employed scum who have to need to worry.

    Why do the bBC never have an informed series of articles about the British apartheid pension system?

    “Why even at 20 you should care about pension changes

    Kevin Peachey
    Cost of living correspondent
    Published
    11 October 2024, 00:01 BST
    1506 Comments
    There is growing speculation that the way pensions are taxed could be changed in the Budget.

    Chancellor Rachel Reeves says she needs to find £22bn and some experts say she could change the system on workplace or private pensions to find some of this money. This is separate from another debate about the state pension.

    There are a number of options which could affect workers getting their first job, those already working, all the way up to those in retirement. This is what could happen and why you should care even if you’re only in your 20s.”

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    • StewGreen says:

      “Cost of living correspondent”
      What’s that ?
      .. “Cost of living CRISIS” was a PR term pushed bly lefties in media land as part of their anti-Tory campaigning

      In reality most people in Britain are pretty affluent compared to what it was like just after WW2

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      • JohnC says:

        The record attendances of the ultra-rip-off Hull fair this year get the word ‘crisis’ well into perspective.

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      • Scroblene says:

        Surely it was the ‘Cost of Covid crisis’?

        Wonder how much the public got back from the multiple furlough scams for a start!

        Nothing beats Gordon Brown raid on private pensions those few years ago, and also how Labour ignored the Equitable Life scandal for ten years before that. Scrobs got clobbered twice.

        The words ‘trustworthy’ and ‘labour government’ don’t ever go together.

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        • atlas_shrugged says:

          Equitable Life brought down by a corrupt legal system and scum far-left thug politicians who say you can’t move the goal-posts.

          Now Rachel Thieves and her merry gang of robbers are moving the goal posts of pensioners whose money is held in trust just so they can loot from them to fund the salaries and costs of thieving lawyers and robbing scum far-left thug politicians.

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          • Fedup2 says:

            Atlas – the plan by the reds to allow a long period before the budget – with loads of leaks / comments causing rightful panic to avoid tax rises is just crazy – and very red – it’s just casual incompetence –
            I don’t think anyone is gauging what the ‘cost ‘ is – such as forced sale of assets or pensions – just on the calculations of massive tax hikes …

            Reeve will look for ‘technical ‘ tax increases on areas of activity people see or understand – such as tax reliefs on pensions – or stamp duty …
            But I’m sure things like the taxes on booze will go sky high – even more than already – so time to hit the bottle now ….

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            • non-licence payer says:

              It is only a matter of time before the tax system will follow the US model. If you have a UK passport you will pay UK tax subject to double taxation treaties.
              It can both raise tax and reduce costs (no tax, no passport, no benefits). It also hits the socialist’s perception of ‘undesirable scum’.

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          • Chevalnoir says:

            …absolutely right on ELAS.
            No one will find out the truth. Ultimate establishment back stabbing cover up

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  4. JohnC says:

    US urges Israel to stop shooting at UN peacekeepers in Lebanon
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2ek2gkp9k2o

    I think we can conclude that the UN are helping Hezbollah in the same way they help Hamas in Gaza. I wonder how many Hezbollah are on the UN payroll. The BBC could probably find out by using the mighty ‘BBC Verify’ to discover how many UN staff went sick the day the pagers popped. But of course they won’t go anywhere near that.

    As I was browsing the news, I discovered this:
    United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1701#:~:text=The%20resolution%20stated%20that%20Israeli,consent%20of%20the%20government%20of

    From 2006.

    ‘The resolution stated that Israeli forces shall withdraw in parallel with the deployment of Lebanese and UNIFIL forces into the southern Lebanon, and established that the Lebanese government should have control over all Lebanese territory, and that “there will be no weapons without the consent of the government of Lebanon and no authority other than that of the government of Lebanon.”

    ‘It was unanimously approved by the United Nations Security Council on 11 August 2006. The Lebanese cabinet unanimously approved the resolution on 12 August 2006.’

    ‘As of 2024, the resolution was not fully implemented. Hezbollah and other armed groups in southern Lebanon have not withdrawn at all; in particular, Hezbollah has since significantly increased their weapons capabilities, amassing approx. 120,000-200,000 munitions (short-range guided ballistic missiles, short- and intermediate-range unguided ballistic missiles, and short- and long-range unguided rockets), and has increased the deployment of its armed forces south of the Litani River, developing tunnels, weapon stashes, airstrips and military installations.’

    So WTF are the UN doing there apart from trying to protect Hezbollah ?. It seems to me that Israel are just implementing the UN resolution so have right on their side – even from the UN position.

    More to the point : why haven’t the BBC told me this when it is extremely relevant to what is going on ?. Why did I have to find it out somewhere else ?.

    I am staggered at what a complete and utter farce the UN has become. And the entire left-wing activist media are fully complicit in covering it up. Like so many things in this world the Left have created, lots of their ‘institutions’ need tearing down and totally reforming.

    With the BBC right at the top of that list.

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  5. JohnC says:

    Trump talks MMA and golf in podcast push for young male voters
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9j43890k7o

    Just read this to see where the sneering and negativity started. It was implicit all the way through, but ‘Mike Wendling’ lost his cool here:

    ‘Von did not push back – and in fact eagerly agreed – when Trump made a host of unsubstantiated and erroneous statements about voting, immigration and the border, including claiming that “hundreds of thousands of murderers” had entered the country.’

    As usual, Trump does not literally mean every single one is a murderer. He means there are lots of murderers in there. It’s the way he speaks. The point of what he is saying is that a lot of murderers have been let into the country and he is right. But of course the BBC won’t go near that either. They nit-pick the literal meaning of his words, not the ‘spirit’ of what he said.

    But the thing which really bugs me about BBC hypocrites such as Mike Wendling are how they NEVER criticise the appalling fake interviews of the Cackler or Sleepy Joe. Or the ‘press conferences’ where nobody is actually allowed to ask a question. It’s ALL prescripted.

    Shame on you BBC. You have no conscience or any real sense of right and wrong. You are all far-left activists.

    Mike is the author of ‘Alt-Right: From 4chan to the White House’. He is obsessed.
    One review comment:
    ‘Biased, misinformation with no context or facts. Shock horror the author is an editor for the “unbiased” BBC.’

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  6. tomo says:

    This was after being suspended for six years on full pay due to taking drugs and offering to supply them at swingers’ parties.

    Six years full pay

    gets worse, a lot worse

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    • Lazy Cat says:

      I don’t think the British public’s opinion of the police has ever been lower than it is now.

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  7. Zephir says:

    The internet has been awash with this for the last few days, but, it’s the internet so I would not normally pay a lot of heed, but it has now reached the MSM in a minor way so…. tinfoil hat time.

    “Evidence of alien life could be revealed next month as NASA filmmaker claims ‘we’ve found it’.
    Simon Holland, who has worked on documentaries for the BBC and NASA-funded projects, said that an Oxford-backed program searching for extraterrestrial signals has quietly identified ‘non-human intelligence in our galaxy.’

    The signal — a five-hour-long burst of radio waves — appeared to be from a region around Proxima Centauri, a star about 4.2 light-years away from Earth. The Oxford team has confirmed they are analyzing the signal but have not revealed the likely source.

    ‘They are looking for details, hence the delay in publishing the news,’ Holland told DailyMail.com of the strange radio signal, which has been hotly debated ever since astronomers first detected it on April 29, 2019. ‘My contact is a senior EU [European Union] radio telescope administrator,’ Holland told DailyMail.com. ‘We have found a non-human extraterrestrial intelligence in our galaxy,’ he said, ‘and people don’t know about it.’

    Breakthrough Listen began as a $100-million nonprofit research project initiated by the Soviet-born Israeli entrepreneur, investor and physicist Yuri Milner in January 2016.

    ‘The signal, instead of being the giant buzz of everything in the universe that we hear through all radio telescopes, was a narrow electromagnetic spectrum,’ he explained. ‘It’s a single point source,’ Holland emphasized in his interview Thursday, meaning that he has been told the signal is unlikely to be local or noise from deep space.

    ‘They found the evidence of a non-human technological signature,’ he said. Holland said that he believes, from his conversations with insiders and his own analysis, that Breakthrough Listen is now in a race against time to beat Chinese government researchers to publication with their earthshattering findings.

    ‘The Chinese might be pipping them to the post, with their, FAST [Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope] program,’ Holland told the Mirror. ‘It’s the largest telescope in the world since Arecibo.’ A curious announcement — almost immediately retracted — from China’s state-backed publication Science and Technology Daily did announce that FAST had discovered an alien signal back in 2022.

    But the notoriously tight-lipped Chinese government has yet to clarify the retraction, or whether FAST, nicknamed ‘Heaven’s Eye,’ was trained on this same BLC-1 signal. Holland said that both Breakthrough Listen and the Chinese government scientists expect to be breaking news of their confirmed signal from an alien civilization soon.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13950399/Evidence-alien-life-revealed-month.html

    Anyone interested, the phrase “immaculate Constellation” is being used a lot also….now there’s a rabbit hole of immense proportions…..

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  8. Doublethinker says:

    With every passing day it looks increasingly likely that Trump is going to win. Lawfare has failed, election rigging is still possible but much harder to deliver than it was in 2020 and a third assassination attempt , even if successful , is most likely to put Vance in the White House.
    It get worse for the Dems. Trump has reportedly got well over a thousand MAGA supporters ready to appoint to senior roles within the deep state . In 2016 he relied on the Republican Party nominees and he got RINOs and anti Trumpers . This allowed the deep state to throttle his Presidency. He has learnt and prepared , the MAGA agenda will not be corrupted by the deep state in his second term.
    Finally, as this campaign demonstrates , the hold of the legacy MSM over the news and its ability to shape public opinion is now much weaker than it was eight years ago because it’s credibility is so much less.
    The Dems and their Globalist puppet masters are in deep trouble.as is the entire Globalist project. They aren’t fleeing to the hills just yet but I bet they have their emergency escape routes ready to go.

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    • Lazy Cat says:

      If there is no cheating this time and Trump wins, I hope he grows a pair and does something about those given ridiculous sentences for ‘January 6’ (the worst terror attack in the history of the universe according to the Dems).

      Some of those sentences are insane.

      Seems you get 150 year sentences in the colonies for chucking a few of Nancy Pelosi’s papers about.

      Maybe where TTK got his ideas from for the ‘riots’, solely attenderd by violent, far right racist thugs?

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  9. JohnC says:

    So the story is that ordinary people in Michigan are concerned about Trump telling them that Harris wants to ban all non-electric cars.

    A quick search also finds headlines from people who agree, such as:
    ‘Don’t trust her flip-flop — Kamala Harris DOES want to ban your gas cars’

    So what headline do the BBC use for this article ?

    ‘Trump electric vehicle attacks hit home for Michigan voters’
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c99vlpkzk4no

    And the whole article is yet another rambling load of biased sniping trying to make you think ‘Trump Bad, CacklerKamala Good’.

    I’ve noticed the BBC have ramped up their negativity towards Trump and abandoned any pretence at all of being unbiased now. Because they know nobody is going to stop them and the stakes are so high.

    Another TDS gem from the BBC’s poison Madeline Halpert : the one who needed anti-depressants when she was 17. Perfect background for the BBC. Another Lefty full of hate.

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  10. JohnC says:

    Japanese atomic bomb survivors win Nobel Peace Prize
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy5y23qgx0qo

    So Obama got it just for being black and now these people got it for not being killed in WW2.

    Nothing political about it – even though Biden has taken us to the brink of another nuclear war.

    My favourite though is still the British Rail porter who got his own plaque on a wall simply for being black. The ultimate act of virtue-signalling by some cretin when BLM was in vogue.

    The Left simply cannot keep their politics out of everything. And they destroy everything they force it into. The prize is a complete joke now.

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      If you want to live a long life then clearly having the atomic bomb dropped on you is better than the covid jab.

      bBC Verified Fact 2024

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      Maybe the millions of people the Japs killed in World War II can get the Nobel prize next time?

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      • Lazy Cat says:

        I’ve met a few Japanese people and found them to be very polite, if a little shy and reserved.

        I don’t think my grandad would approve if he were still with us. I quite fancy some Japanese women and like the reliability of their cars too. He’d have disowned me!

        My grandad, a mild mannered man, would barely talk about WW2, despite being the child I was at the time badgering him half to death to tell me all about it.

        He could keep his cool until ‘Japan’ was ever mentioned, which would result in very bad language (even in front of his grandkids) and my grandma tutting at him.

        “Sadistic! Twisted b… F….b….c!” etc

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  11. JohnC says:

    My Hurricane Diary: The week I nearly lost everything
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqxrly4pg18o

    The week someone didn’t even nearly lose everything.

    Next week:

    How I nearly got killed by a bus.

    A story about someone who was on a pavement when a bus went by.

    By:
    004d7d0f8c192f4dc46e61085d7c54eb

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  12. AsISeeIt says:

    Finding the BBC’s insistance on regaling one with news of Floridian hurricanes, endless Middle Eastern tribal border conflicts and the odd item of anti-Russian propaganda – such are the preoccupations of our national broadcaster – one turns instead to the frontpages of our print press, where one is diverted by another striking instance of what I like to call a calm down dear…

    Vanessa bares all… ‘My love life has been a complete abomination, a catastrophe, an absolute car crash’… read the exclusive interview ahead of her sensational new memoir on pages 8 & 9 (Express)

    Not all that exclusive: Vanessa… My love life’s a complete car crash… exclusive: pages 14 & 15 (Mirror)

    I saw King fly a UFO… Our very own King Chas III was seen piloting a UFO in Nova Scotia in 1975, according to a totally sane Canadian diver in a new Netflix documentary (Daily Star) – a Canadian diver? Was this an under water UFO? Or should that be Canadian driver?

    Having debunked that shenanigans I suppose we must fall back on what our media has curated for us as the supposed news…

    There’s a big new push to turn our minds against the evil Ruskies.

    Exclusive… Alexi Navalny’s prison diaries (Times Magazine)

    Mr AsI scoffed earlier this week at the regime wheeling out their supposed big gun – that towering statesman-like figure – Theresa May. Plus our lawyerish managerial state’s apparent ultimate sanction… the public inquiry…

    Former Prime Minister Theresa May says ‘justice is unlikely’ for Salisbury poisoning victims ahead of Novichok inquiry… In an interview with the BBC’s Crime Next Door: Salisbury Poisonings podcast, Baroness May said of the inquiry: ‘I would hope by the end of it the family and friends… feel it has got to the truth.’ (Daily Mail)

    Theresa May may be somewhat of an acquired taste, meanwhile we all love those lime green, California camp highway patrol sounding wailing little vans – the road traffic manifestation of our NHS – who could forget the frontpage, top of the broadcast news, images of dozens of them parked up outside the hospitals – the convincing pictorial evidence of our overwhelmed NHS back in 2020 [if only there were a presently constituted judge-led public inquiry that could look into that – and by the way, Boris Johnson’s revelation about the China lab leak – but silly me… Oceania is currently at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia]: UK ambulance servcies hacked by Russian gang linked to Kremlin (‘i’)

    The drum beat of the war drum… do you hear it?

    Why would that nasty Putin suddenly pick on our beloved #heart NHS ?

    Incident is revealed today for first time – and is part of a new Russian cyber warfare campaign against UK, in response to use of Western weapons in Ukriane (‘i’) – fair play to the Ruskies then. All’s fair in love and war…

    And this Ukraine war of our’s seems to be going about as well as Vanessa’s love life: a complete abomination, a catastrophe, an absolute car crash

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  13. Guest Who says:

    Ian gets on high horse.

    https://x.com/haveigotnews/status/1844766641059410159?s=61

    Falls off.

    #ccbgb

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  14. Zephir says:

    I see the far left MSM sector are doing their best to avoid holding power to account now it’s in their mates’ hands:

    “Tories criticised after pensioner ‘seen wearing £17k Rolex’ in winter fuel video”

    https://metro.co.uk/2024/10/07/tories-criticised-pensioner-seen-wearing-17k-rolex-winter-fuel-video-21748871/

    I think the bbc et al should shift their favourite phrase to:

    “Holding the shadow cabinet to account”

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  15. Zephir says:

    Or maybe

    “Holding anyone slightly to the right of Leon Trotsky to account”

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  16. Fedup2 says:

    Today watch

    The 0810 – i tuned in specially assuming there’d by an in-depth discussion of the first 100 days of the favoured regime … particularly since the great leader has spoken . But no. Have they done it already ? Or is the bbc practice of only holding the enemy to account in full bloom .

    So – instead at 0810 is a Hamas spokesman call Jeremy lovely Bowen …..
    I’ve managed to filter out the words and just hear the tune . And i have worked out the theme the BBC uses –

    1 intro – report ( claim ) that Israel has slaughtered innocent people –
    2 mention that 40 50 60 000 have been killed – never challenged
    3 broadcast the words of a victim alleging something against Israel – never challenged
    4 broadcast some lefty ‘charity worker’ who accuses Israel of this or that – never challenged
    5 broadcast some Gaza politician to accuse Israel of war crimes – never challenged
    6 have an extremely limited bit with a statement from the IDF – largely sneered at by the likes of Bowen
    7 fail to mention that Islamic terrorists run Gaza and Lebanon
    8 fail to mention Islamic terrorists provide all the propaganda to the BBC and this is never challenged – ever

    Repeat

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  17. JohnC says:

    Israeli attack kills at least 20 people in northern Gaza, medics say, as IDF orders more evacuations
    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn0ew4egegpt

    ‘Ahmad al-Kahlut, director of the agency in northern Gaza, is also quoted by AFP as saying that 18 people had been killed by several strikes, including hits on “eight schools” in the camp that were serving as shelters for displaced people.’

    A MASSIVE lie by omission there by the BBC. They know 100% that Isarel would only hit those schools if they had Hamas in them using civilians as human shields.

    Here they use the trick of claiming it’s something somebody else said – allowing them to print anything at all as if it is truth. And once again the blatant liar they use is the utterly corrupt UN.

    Utterly and totally disgusting lack of ethical reporting by the BBC.

    Keep going IDF. Make the world a better place and get rid of every last one of those stone-age savages.

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  18. Fedup2 says:

    Today
    Desperate for material – meesh has to interview some kidult who has gone to somewhere hot on his own – apart from a team of 6- a helicopter – sat phone and full kit …he bleated and bleated about how tough it was …

    you can imagine him killing people by sheer boredom of tired anecdotes such as being stung by the most lethal stinging thing .

    It was not the second or third most lethal stinging thing – it was the most lethal … he said he lost 10 kilos on the trip – I think I lost 10kilos listening .

    I was waiting for meesh to ask him why he didn’t do something useful – or why waste an effort – why not be a green crap bore in someone else’s country … ?

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  19. JohnC says:

    Watch: Fiery exchange as Boris Johnson asked if he is a ‘liar’
    https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/ckgnlj3g95mo

    Watch the BBC weasel try to close it down once he has been exposed.

    Highly amusing. Well done Boris.

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  20. JohnC says:

    Evening Standard headline:
    Failed asylum seeker who tried to murder postman in horror Tube push jailed for life

    BBC Headline:
    Man jailed for pushing postman on to Tube tracks
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8v4467806o

    No mention anywhere on the BBC that he was a failed asylum seeker.

    And I didn’t see this on the BBC main page at all. I wonder if it went straight to ‘regions’.

    These are the stories which really matter because it could happen to any of us at any time. They murder without reason.

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    • Lazy Cat says:

      ‘Man’ in a BBC headline usually means a non white man did something terrible.

      ‘Youths’ in a BBC headline usually means black teenagers have been doing some stabbing.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Lazy – it’s like a soviet system where everyone listens to the ‘news ‘ but automatically translate the lies and omissions into the truth –
        With a whole load of stuff unreported because it is just so unapproved …. What a sad and deceived country…

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  21. JohnC says:

    … and did anyone see this on the main page ?. Or did it too get immediately buried ?.
    TV host Jay Blades denies coercive behaviour
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y37xvd0lqo

    Most of the other MSM say ‘BBC Presenter Jay Blades …’.
    Not the BBC though. Yet another nasty b@stard who is successful in the BBC floats to the surface for us all to see.

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  22. Zephir says:

    ‘Massively ARROGANT!’ | Patrick Christys FUMES as former BBC producer defends bias without evidence

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    • Fedup2 says:

      BBCOFCOM will be after GBnews again …. An attack on thevBBC cannot be tolerated ….

      But just failing to refer to an Islamic terrorist group as an Islamic terrorist group shows whose side they are on …

      Interesting that the bbc mouthpiece on had the number of pieces Danny cohen had written for the DT – it is 28… John mair – an ex bbc producer – will be seen a lot in the guardian in the future …
      It was worth the 10 minutes – thanks …

      Mair admits not reading the report .. but I agree with him that bbc journos should be allowed into Gaza … and be responsible for their inevitable fate …

      Keep going IDF – let’s hope the ‘generals plan ‘is put into practice

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      • Zephir says:

        Yep,

        Send the bbc girlies into Gaza.

        Unescorted, in mini skirts with tight fitting, low cut blouses.

        Then Lebanon and Iran, if any come back.

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    • taffman says:

      Zephir
      Well spotted!
      Your post here at 9.38 AM
      ‘Massively ARROGANT!’.
      Definitely worth viewing .

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  23. Fedup2 says:

    The DT today provides evidence of Muslim vermin it (the bbc )employs – one of their ‘masterchef’ people put out a 7 October ‘joke ‘

    STARTS A comedian who was a contestant on Celebrity MasterChef has been accused of mocking the Oct 7 massacres.

    Eshaan Akbar posted a message on social media saying that the deadliest day for Jewish civilians since the Holocaust was something “involving hummus and sausages at a music festival”.

    The stand-up comedian and former BBC Asian network presenter wrote that the Hamas massacre led to “self-defence against children and their families resulting in over 45,000 deaths”.

    Mr Akbar, who has written stand-up shows about anti-Asian racism, has been accused of belittling the massacres that took place in 2023.

    His full post on Instagram read: “A year ago today, something mad happened involving hummus and sausages at a music festival that resulted in the self-defence against children and their families resulting in over 45,000 deaths that we in the UK massively helped with! Aren’t we good guys? Big up US!”

    The comedian posted the message on the anniversary of the Hamas massacre ahead of his planned gig at the Top Secret comedy club in London on Oct 9, which served as a preview to his upcoming tour.

    Alongside his stand up, Akbar co-hosted a weekend show on the BBC Asian Network, has appeared in the BBC factual series Pilgrimage, and has also appeared in the Netflix hit Sex Education.

    He was also a contestant on the BBC’s Celebrity MasterChef 2024.ENDS

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    • Zephir says:

      But keeps his muslim anti semitic gob firmly shut regarding Yemen ?

      2022:

      “Yemen: Genocide Emergency.

      The civil war in Yemen continues to devastate the country. An estimated 233,000 people have been killed since the outbreak of hostilities in 2015. Seven years of conflict have decimated the country’s economy, infrastructure, and basic services, creating the world’s most severe humanitarian crisis.

      24.1 million people in Yemen – over 80 percent of the population – require humanitarian assistance. 58 percent of Yemen’s population faces extreme poverty, and over 19 million people require emergency food assistance due to acute levels of food insecurity. The conflict has also triggered an internal displacement crisis: over 4.3 million people have been forced from their homes since 2015.

      Yemen’s conflict has developed into a proxy war between the Iran-backed Houthi rebels and the Yemeni government, which is supported by an international coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The U.S. has backed the Saudi-led coalition. Raytheon sells the Saudis the laser guided missiles that have killed thousands of Yemenis. The separatist Southern Transitional Council and Islamist terrorist groups further complicate the civil war.

      Both warring sides have obstructed humanitarian activity. Houthi authorities have restricted information about COVID-19 and impeded the distribution of vaccines in their areas of control. The Saudi coalition has enforced a blockade of ports since 2016, restricting the delivery of food and medical supplies and contributing to a growing food and healthcare crisis. Mwatana, a Yemeni Human Rights organization, has accused both the Houthi and coalition forces of using starvation as a weapon of war. These blockades of food violate international humanitarian law.

      Both sides in the conflict have repeatedly committed war crimes. Landmines planted by Houthi militias have caused hundreds of civilian deaths. Both Houthi and government forces have inflicted heavy civilian casualties through attacks against hospitals, schools, and residential areas. In January 2022, three coalition airstrikes killed 80 civilians and injured 156.”

      https://www.genocidewatch.com/single-post/yemen-genocide-emergency

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Armed with a copy of the Qur’an in his hand, Akbar addresses some of the myths about Islam, acknowledges that some of it doesn’t make sense, but says that faith still has a place in modern society. It’s a much funnier book than people give it credit for Akbar finds the funnies without the fatwa.”

      https://sohotheatre.com/events/eshaan-akbar-prophet-like-its-hot/#:~:text=Armed%20with%20a%20copy%20of,the%20funnies%20without%20the%20fatwa.

      Jihad Report
      Sep 28, 2024 –
      Oct 04, 2024
      Attacks 29
      Killed 87
      Injured 127
      Suicide Blasts 0
      Countries 12

      https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

      The attack came 33 years after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or religious edict, calling on Muslims to assassinate Rushdie over the publication of The Satanic Verses.

      Some Muslims saw passages in the novel about the Prophet Muhammad as blasphemous.

      Following Khomeini’s fatwa, Rushdie, born in India to a Muslim Kashmiri family, spent nine years in hiding under British police protection.
      https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/24/salman-rushdie-has-lost-sight-in-one-eye-after-attack-says-agent

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  24. Zephir says:

    (Follow on from my previous post)

    Or, any of the following :

    “Middle East and North Africa: More than 45 Armed Conflicts

    This is, in numbers, the most affected region: more than 45 armed conflicts are currently taking place throughout the Middle East and North Africa in the following territories: Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Yemen and Western Sahara.”

    https://geneva-academy.ch/galleries/today-s-armed-conflicts

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  25. Zephir says:

    wa.jpg

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  26. Eddy Booth says:

    ”Fashion, floods and the Northern Lights: Photos of the week”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdrj231e5k2o

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    Britain’s Prince Michael of Kent, the Duke of Kent, the Duchess of Kent and Lord Nicholas Windsor watch as three pipers from the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards play outside Wren House, Kensington Palace, London, to mark the Duke of Kent’s 89th birthday. The Duke is Deputy Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards.’

    An idea to help reduce the £22 billion hole: cancel their welfare handouts and sell that council house.

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  27. Jeff says:

    A number of people seem to be getting over excited at the prospect of Robert Jenrick become Conservative Party leader. Why?

    Okay, he’s making all the usual right sounding noises. “We’ve got to cut immigration”…”We’ll leave the ECHR”…yes great, but I’ve heard all this guff before, particularly when they’re trying to ingratiate themselves with the faithful…

    Jenrick was originally massively pro Europe and vehemently anti Brexit. And although we’re being told how tough he’ll be on immigration and that “He has out-Faraged Farage” I wouldn’t trust him further than I could throw him. At least Nigel has been consistent.

    “We’ll cut immigration to the tens of thousands” Now, let’s see, who else said something like that?…David Cameron…Theresa May…Boris Johnson…etc, etc…

    And at the present moment we’re getting over a million a year.

    Neither he nor Badenoch will do a bloody thing.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Seems popular ….

      ame of donor: Conservative Friends of Israel Ltd (CFI Ltd)
      Address of donor: PO Box 72288, London SW1P 9LB
      Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Air travel, accommodation and hospitality, value £1,700

      https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=25227

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    • BRISSLES says:

      Tens of thousands is to vague and too much. Incoming of tens of thousands each year can be the equivalent of a medium size town created every 12 months ! In 10 years that’s still an obscene amount – and then they BREED !

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    • popeye says:

      Liberals (and those posing as Conservatives) have redefined Blackstone’s Formulation; “It is better that ten rapists, murderers, terrorists and fraudsters be allowed access to 4* accommodation and full benefits than one genuine asylum seeker be made to stay in war-torn France”

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  28. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/newswatchbbc/status/1844789436032209383
    Does presenting the news on location provide added value for viewers – or is it just an unnecessary expense? And what went wrong with the BBC Weather and app this week?

    #ccbgb such as they are.

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  29. atlas_shrugged says:

    Drat – just when I was getting my fake stick-on Angela Merkle fingerprints all ready:

    https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/eu-delay-rollout-new-entry-exit-system-amid-fears-travel-disruption/

    “Delayed indefinitely”

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  30. Guest Who says:

    BBC’s restored brown eyed boy invokes BBC TNI partner citing a renowned media source.

    https://x.com/mehdirhasan/status/1844849250666152421
    Every. Accusation. Is. A. Confession.

    Hopefully the new justice Minister is not a fan of fellow faith Kuffar-bashing nutter Mehdi’s interpretations.

    Now, back to the BBC, a £5B propaganda tool on behalf of….

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  31. Fedup2 says:

    A secret pleasure

    BBC money box – AKA what benefits can I claim

    The presenter – comrade Paul Lewis leads on the removal of the £300 winter payment . No criticism of his comrades in his government of course . Instead he crows about the DWP sending out 120 000 letters to old people on housing benefit who are probably entitled to ‘pensioner credit ‘ ….

    The blues apparently did this last year and had a 25% take up

    There are around 750 000 old people who are entitled to pensioner credit but don’t claim it .

    Anyway – no mention that sending out these letters in Novermber – which might already be cold – nor mention of the frankly insane idea of withdrawing said benefit with only 4 months notice
    No – comrade Lewis fulsome in praise of his comrades – no mention of the £1200 the blues threw at people on benefits last year ….
    Anyway – there might be another 30 000 claimant – leaving only 700 000 to freeze ….

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  32. vlad says:

    The clip below exposes all the major American networks for the shameless, biased, Democrat propaganda outlets they really are.
    ABC, CNN, MSNBC, CBS and all the other rotten acronyms. (The BBC isn’t mentioned but it’s exactly the same rotten mindset.)
    We knew it, of course, but here is hard evidence.
    In one case it’s the editing of Heels-up-Harris’ 60 Minutes interview. Her word salads were so atrocious that the editors had to snip-and-stitch together some sort of vaguely intelligible answers.
    Elsewhere it’s secret interviews with senior editors of other networks, admitting to an all-out commitment to destroying Trump, or, in another case, to always exaggerate climate alarmism.
    And the BBC’s no better.

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  33. wwfc says:

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  34. atlas_shrugged says:

    So lovely to hear that another convicted Albanian murderer wins the right to stay in the UK under ECHR:

    Albanian Murderer Wins Right to Stay in U.K. Under ECHR

    https://dailysceptic.org/2024/10/12/albanian-murderer-wins-right-to-stay-in-u-k-under-echr/

    Time to deport those ECHR judges as enemies of the realm.

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  35. atlas_shrugged says:

    So you’re a robber are you? Jolly Jolly good:

    This could almost be King Charles meeting the looting cabinet of Rachel Thieves and her merry gang of robbers.

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  36. Fedup2 says:

    A coloured girl called val Amos is to be the Amabassador to the US – a post bought by TTKs best mate and benefactor – mr alli …
    No corruption in Blighty eh ?

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  37. Fedup2 says:

    Let’s here it for –
    Kayon Bhola, 29, Paul Maxwell, 24, and Jeremiah Jackson, 24

    All,convicted of raping a 13 year old – they all got a minimum of 11 years – death penalty would save so much money ….

    .. perhaps it was ‘cultural’ …

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  38. atlas_shrugged says:

    Alex Salmond of the Alba Party has died suddenly while speaking in North Macedonia at the age of 69.

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  39. Fedup2 says:

    From the DT – irony

    STARTS Poland will temporarily ban migrants from claiming asylum on its territory, Donald Tusk, the prime minister, said on Saturday.

    Announcing the move, Mr Tusk said that Warsaw “must regain 100 per cent control over who comes to Poland”.ENDS

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  40. pugnazious says:

    Surely a BBC Panorama special on the cards investigating allegations that the cover-up of the origin of covid was done in order to keep China happy, keep them funnelling money here and keep Chinese students funding our universities…and of course cover up the involvement of many Western interests in the lab…such as Fauci himself.

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  41. vlad says:

    Far-left Sky News to shut down, allegedly.

    Excellent, then Far-Left BBC, perhaps?

    Let’s have more Sky News Aus: https://www.youtube.com/@SkyNewsAustralia/featured

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    • pugnazious says:

      What’s the point of Sky News? It’s just a BBC clone so why would anyone in the private sector fund its abysmal output? Then again when you look at the figures the BBC’s News Channel might as well shut up shop…

      ‘The numbers tell a grim story. August saw Mark Austin’s The News Hour limp to a mere 76,000 viewers—less than half the 165,000 who tuned in to BBC News channel at 6pm.’

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I had a figure that it loses £600 million a year – I’m sure the bbc would want to keep it open – but gb news – not so much ….

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    • Lazy Cat says:

      Fully deserved.

      Absolute shitfest of wokeness. Unwatchable smelly, lefty student nonsense .

      Sky News is now so far left, that it makes the BBC look as though their newsreaders are reading straight from the Völkischer Beobachter.

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    • MarkyMark says:

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    • StewGreen says:

      Doubt that SkyNews will close soon
      Feb 5, 2023
      Sky News is “very fortunate” to have “strong backers” in Comcast, which pledged to maintain funding for it to 2028.

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  42. pugnazious says:

    ‘“If there are too many people of other cultures, then the native culture feels threatened,” the Polish prime minister added.’’

    LOL…the BBC reports…sort of…

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx20186mjleo

    ‘Tusk’s pro-EU coalition government surprised many by continuing a hard-line migration policy implemented by the previous right-wing Law and Justice government, which authorised pushbacks and built a 5.5-metre-high steel fence along 186km (115 miles) of its border with Belarus….Warsaw has accused Belarus and Russia of “hybrid warfare”, directing the flow of migrants towards the European Union in a bid to destabilise the bloc. Both countries deny this.’

    But it somehow misses out the rest of what was said…as the Telegraph reports…

    ‘“If someone wants to come to Poland, they must respect Polish standards, Polish customs, they must want to integrate,” Mr Tusk said.

    He said neighbouring Germany, a popular destination for migrants, had “negative experiences” with immigration after ignoring integration. “If there are too many people of other cultures, then the native culture feels threatened,” the Polish prime minister added.’

    Not a message the BBC welcomes…so they just ignore it….or rather hide it from us.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Just imagine – tusk was a bbc pinup boy for the BBC ( huw maybe ) when he was fighting the democracy of brexit – how politicians change their tune …

      Let’s hope there’s a proper scrap in the reich EU …. Although the number of nations fed up with being used as doormats is rapidly increasing in Europe – but the bbc will never say that …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Angela Merkel: German multiculturalism has ‘utterly failed’
      This article is more than 13 years old
      Chancellor’s assertion that onus is on new arrivals to do more to integrate into German society stirs anti-immigration debate

      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/oct/17/angela-merkel-german-multiculturalism-failed

      ……………………….
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      https://bradford2025.co.uk/

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  43. Lazy Cat says:

    Proof of another planet with intelligent life about to be revealed?

    I bet they don’t have leaders who claim expenses for Jaffa Cakes or get free Taylor Swift tickets.

    Beam me up, Scotty, David Icke or whoever.

    Actually, I bet old Lizard People Dave is foaming out of every orifice at the latest news.

    Wonder what his take is? He reckons Saturn is some kind of satanic reptilian hologram projector, so I bet he’s got a good take on this.

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  44. Zephir says:

    As mentioned above, it was noted they could also pick up our transmissions, as we may have from them, but likely only a small amount.

    If it was Sesame Street or the Muppets, no wonder we haven’t heard from them.

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    • Lazy Cat says:

      I can picture it now:

      Zorg: Zarg! Come here. I’m picking up a signal. It says it’s a speech from their leader, Keir Starmer. Let’s listen to him for a minute.

      Zarg: That’s their leader? The poor gits…

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      • Zephir says:

        Or even worse….

        “Biden says hurricane workers received ‘death penalties’ in his latest bizarre gaffe. ”

        https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-3288371/Video-Biden-gaffes-says-hurricane-workers-received-death-penalties.html

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Lord – how can the American people allow that poor demented soul to be commander in chief ? Do they really think his wife or Obama is running the show -? Are are they so groomed by their msn that they just accept it ?

          Assuming that video is real …

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          • Lazy Cat says:

            It’s now got to the point where it’s cruel that they keep wheeling him out to mumble incoherent nonsense, or wander off not knowing where (or who) he is.

            Still, I bet he’s still got a higher IQ than the cackling ‘golf ball through a hose pipe’ lady.

            They keep wheeling him out even though it seems he’s shat himself in public on a few occasions.

            Even when meeting royalty too, allegedly.

            Poor old sod.

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            • vlad says:

              Don’t waste your pity on Biden: he’s a liar, a fraud, a criminal and an imbecile who has brought the USA and the world to the verge of catastrophe.

              He is, directly or indirectly, responsible for Afghanistan, Ukraine, the Middle East, Iran and much besides. (There’s still time for China / Taiwan to kick off, too).

              I delight in any misfortune that befalls him; he deserves 10 times worse.

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  45. pugnazious says:

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    Pathetic BBC anti-Trump piece….extraordinarily long for some reason…you can guess the angle just from the title…mocking and meant to suggest Trump is doing something that’s shady if not sinister…

    ”He’s just a bro’: Trump’s attempts to woo the ‘manosphere”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj9j43890k7o

    But hang on Harris is going for the women….the BBC slips in a short paragraph but then goes quickly back to attacking Trump….

    ‘The Harris campaign is also making a podcast play of its own, aimed at young women. The vice-president recently appeared on the popular sex-and-relationships pod Call Her Daddy, where she too faced less-than-aggressive questioning.’

    But hang on again…we know Trump has been on women only shows…such as the black women’s show that the BBC tried to portray Trump’s appearance on as offensively racist…but also there’s this…

    ‘Donald Trump to Participate in All-Female Fox News Town Hall on ‘Issues Impacting Women’’

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/10/11/donald-trump-participate-female-fox-news-town-hall-issues-impacting-women/

    Odd how the BBC missed that as they try to portray Trump as anti-women.

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  46. pugnazious says:

    So Trump said Fema emergency funds were going to illegal migrants rather than being spent on Americans in the wake of the hurricane.

    The BBC, and all the anti-Trumpers, immediately set out to trash that claim and said that Fema was distributing the money but it was from a completely separate fund from disaster relief and so can’t be considered to be being used wrongly….which is like councils here saying they have set aside so many houses for migrants and so many houses for locals and thus locals do not miss out when migrants get houses ….we set aside 50 houses for locals and locals got 50 houses….thus migrants being given houses doesn’t effect local housing…lol.

    Smoke and mirrors and gaslighting.

    Clearly if the money wasn’t being spent on housing and supporting illegal migrants in the US it would have been available for disaster relief for Americans.

    And odd the BBC forgets that the $650 million is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the ruinous cost of caring for these illegal migrants….New York is rapidly going bust as just that city alone is being soaked for billions by the migrants.

    Where’s the BBC headlines on this?…

    ‘The immigration crisis may bankrupt cities such as New York, Denver and Chicago as federal funds fall short of needs’

    and…

    ‘NYC Mayor Eric Adams Says $2.4 Billion Is Not Enough for Migrant Crisis’

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  47. StewGreen says:

    Vodafone sent me a Green PR message the other day so am checking up on them
    This is their Earth Day Tweet

    Did it get popular traction ?
    1 Like and zero replies FFS
    THeir tweet in May had the same low impact .. https://x.com/vodafoneuknews/status/1788502500309364805
    July ..flat zero impact https://x.com/vodafoneuknews/status/1816476968394649611

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    • StewGreen says:

      The message they sent me the other day was

      We’re not just keeping you connected
      – we’re doing it as sustainably as we can.
      From partnering with Barnardo’s and Good Things Foundation and donating devices to the people who need them most,
      to using 100% renewable electricity across our network.
      We’re committed to helping people and the planet.
      That’s reliable connectivity that cares
      – all on The Nation’s Network.

      UK renewable electricity is NOT sustainable ,
      why ? cos it does not stand on its own two feet, rather it relies on a myriad of subsidies like rigging the system

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      • StewGreen says:

        They say they are green then send you PR saying “you can have a NEW phone every year”

        In their entire history of tweeting Green PR they hardly ever get many likes

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        • Scroblene says:

          Wonder how many mobile phones are designed and manufactured over here, in – say – Droitwich, or Bath…?

          Lorry-loads of Chinese phones arrive here every day, as for some peculiar reason, children go ‘Waaaaaaaaaaaah’ if they can’t have the latest gadget to play mindless games on while waiting for the school bus, and, gormless idiots with Croydon facelifts gibber away about tedious thicko TV and ads for Benidorm, while the various prams they’re pushing get ignored…

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    • tomo says:

      Vodafone were recruiting morons in the 1990s – looks like they didn’t stop

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      • Zephir says:

        They all jump on the sustainability and stop oil bandwagon…

        Unless it stops them having nice new things.

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  48. tomo says:

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  49. Zephir says:

    Ban this man from ever visiting No 10 and throw him in the Bristol channel ?

    Lewis Hamilton

    “Because growing up, I would say I was of Caribbean descent and bi-racial but what I have discovered is how we got the Hamilton name, and there was a slave owner from Scotland – Robert Hamilton – who had a plantation and around 150 slaves”

    https://www.gpfans.com/en/f1-news/92679/lewis-hamilton-slavery-name/

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