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I found this interesting. https://youtu.be/tA8zz7niOy0?si=YwrTyvtMxLn2vVvH - StewGreen Dec 22, 00:14
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“Jawdropping” propaganda from woke-Supremacist BBC and police https://youtu.be/IMuafLX0xhQ - Greencoat Dec 21, 23:22
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Mantel was a deeply unpleasant, dishonest person. And her books? Next to unreadable. - tomo Dec 21, 23:12
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Trump shooter…….. https://x.com/TonySeruga/status/1870474697676325217 - Lazy Cat Dec 21, 22:39
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And that ‘Let’s get ready to rumble’ announcer is still going. He was doing the Tyson fights back in the… - Lazy Cat Dec 21, 22:35
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It’s time there was a neutral version of the bbbc’s verify.
They could verify verify’s pronouncements and findings to see how they have handled whatever it is they are ‘verifying’ and, if as I believe all of us on here believe that the verify version would be lefty spin, they could give an honest appraisal of the spin which verify puts on their account of the news item.
They could do the same with Ofcom who penalise only right wing comments and articles.
They never go after the left.
Just look at the far left bbbc and what they get away with both by heavily biased articles or leaving out news items that are against their far left agenda.
Many on here like JohnC for example, post numerous examples of bbbc misinformation, disinformation or gaslighting.
If ordinary people can come up with hundreds of examples of left wing bias then some professional body who know what to look for could have a field day.
Wouldn’t it be fantastic if the great man Elon Musk set up something along those lines (as a hobby which I think he would enjoy) (and also buy GB News)
Toby Smith’s free speech group is starting to get organised which is a good thing.
Just as an aside. Rupert Lowe is doing a magnificent job as an MP. I wish he was mine.
Tommy Robinson, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Nigel Farage, Reform party and Tory party stories are now to be checked before publication by:
Bbc vilify.
Channel 4 election special chart by Emily Maitless, taken largely from bbc graphics from the previous month:
TOADY Watch #1 – from yesterday* rubbishing the latest appointments of the President Elect
The greatest controversy for the BBC was of the appointment of Robert Kennedy Jr as President Elect Trump’s Health Secretary. Robert Kennedy was a Covid vaccine critic which puts him beyond the pale BBC-wise. Notwithstanding the death of a BBC Radio presenter from, iirc, the northeast of England just after she received her first Covid injection. The BBC are keen ‘jab berwockies’.
The controversy ran over into this morning’s (Sat) TOADY with the BBC reporting with some relish that US Pharmaceuticals had a bad day on the US stock market yesterday.
* another small internet interruption suffered by your poster yesterday
Lisa Shaw death: Legal action ‘only option’ for husband
Published
5 April 2023
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-65187992
He said: “It’s not in my make-up to turn around and say I want to sue somebody but for almost two years we’ve tried to engage with the government and tried to engage with MPs since Lisa died and not one of them has reached out or engaged with us at all.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dm0ljg4y6o
The BBC want you to believe that masses of Twitter ‘X’ users are moving over to the woke Twitter clone, ‘Bluesky’.
The Guardian are the latest to throw their toys out of the pram and leave Twitter because of it being ‘toxic’.
In reality ‘toxic’ to lefties, is simply having any views posted on a platform that are not far leftist views. Or anyone challenging something they post.
The truth is that trying to push that Bluesky will now take over Twitter is ridiculous.
It’s like saying that because Doncaster ladies’ football team pulled in a crowd of 800 this week, that they will soon regularly have higher attendances than Real Madrid’s men’s team.
I guarantee that the lack of engagement or views the stroppy lefty celeb types get on Bluesky will have almost all of them back on Twitter within weeks.
They’ll all say, “Why should we just let them win?” as their reason for returning (not ego and income, of course).
And they’ll be quitting (when their stupid views are challenged) and then rejoining with hilarious regularity.
Although it’s somewhat poetic that they have left Twitter, after being so happy at hoardes of none wokies getting banned.
And aren’t all those lefties losing it over Trump ugly?
Although that AOC in the colonies is hot.
I reckon I could convince her to be more conservative/right wing (in my fantasy world).
She’s far too pretty to be a woke nutter.
Not sure if this link will work, but she beats the munters we have in Parliament. The main reason I never watch PMQs is because the ugliness of the women makes me feel like I’m going to vomit.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fai-aoc-enjoying-the-sunflowers-v0-lrrybemtivxa1.jpg%3Fs%3D5168fd23b1209bec03f628c8104c480a0cf06d92&rdt=51466
Thanks for posting the pic MM, wouldn’t do it for me (although AOC does it for me).
As long as she promised to not talk and to clean the house afterwards, she’s welcome to come around for a bit of ‘Latino X action’ when the Mrs is out shopping.
I remember seeing this which sums here up nicely …
She’s a waitress come actress.
A “what” actress ?
Oh..
Photoshopped?
Leaked video of dancing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez goes viral
Not ‘arf.
Not good for my blood pressure this. I’m off for a cold shower.
Undoubtedly physically attractive.
But though I am usually a sucker for deep brown eyes, those a mirrors to a very dark, empty space.
Then there’s that voice.
It is being reported (see what I did there) that the site is crashing not due to the ‘swarms’ (their term) headed there, but because those who have arrived are already bitching about each other to the mods.
F’ing hell …. UK is now mad!
“Like many high harm crime types, hate crime incidents are recorded on police systems even when they don’t meet the threshold to be categorised as criminal offences. This serves two important purposes; it helps to build an intelligence picture for police and can ensure that victims can be directed to support services if required.
The systems on which such incidents would be recorded are CRIS/CRIMINT/IIP and PND. Basic and Standard DBS checks would not include information pertaining to non-crime hate reports, but the information may be considered during an Enhanced DBS check.”
https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-does/questions-mayor/find-an-answer/non-crime-hate-incidents
See Trump’s Counter Revolution + Police Visit Telegraph Journalist + Archbishop of Canterbury Resigns
Earlier this week it emerged that 45 police forces recorded 13,200 NCHIs in the 12 months to June this year.
One was recorded against a journalist who was reported to the police for his interview with a ‘deaf and dumb’ scooterist.
Meanwhile in Surrey, police logged a hate incident after a pub asked a couple to leave after accusing them of having sex in the toilets at the venue.
It was alleged they had been the victim of a hate crime, because one of them was transgender.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14090705/Police-logged-hate-incident-pub-trans-customer-sex-toilet.html
https://x.com/VividProwess/status/1857442312248267143
The word “Breaking” is misleading, since the video is from October 2023.
If the word BREAKING in capital letters appears at the start of the tweet , it is is probably hype to mislead you.
David Atherton info
John was held for 20 hours in the presence of a solicitor & banned from going to mosques or Palestinian demos.
I spoke to him at the time he was smeared as having a criminal record or breaking his bail conditions, both were untrue. His distraught wife has cancer.
I was put in touch by a follower & I believe he was never charged.
It is another example of intimidating the public into silence.
This is a very good watch
I heartily recommend, if you are feeling a little down, to have a perusal of “Bluesky” where the wokes are retreating to because they can’t pile on and cancel people for having views they don’t like.
Comedy gold in their little echo chamber: Its sooo good that I think it should just be known as… BS.
I post some of the following gold award winners for sheer wokey stupidity (it was a close contest) :
Regarding the above, yes that’s 13.8 Million views, versus Mr Fuck Yeah
TOADY Watch #2 – from yesterday* rubbishing the latest appointments of the President Elect
This time it wasn’t Robert Kennedy Jr it was the talk show (Fox News) host appointed Secretary of State for Defence, Pete Hesgeth. It is alleged that Hesgeth was involved in a sexual assault in California in 2017. Pete Hesgeth denies those allegations.
* another small internet interruption suffered by your poster yesterday
If I was on Bluesky, I would love to post this…
IS THIS HATE? I HAVE TO KNOW!
Is the emotion of ‘hate ‘ a criminal act?
Thinking of hate is a crime worthy of the police – the act they are not interested in!
Im trying to work out which bit of that “stages of grief ‘ thing the Harris supporters are in now … YouTube is still gloriously full of inaccurate predictions and demented democrats unable to ‘process ‘ reality …..
.. perhaps they thought ( like me ) that every election would be stolen by Obama …
your facts are probably different from “BBC facts”
as tweeted by the BBC cut PR woman Laura
.. https://x.com/LauraPh222/status/1637094267792367616
And the bbc
@pugnazious did you get that the BBC reporter could have opened her report by saying she had had a pervert call from a guy who turned out to be a well known serial pervert call offender
but she didn’t highlight that info ?
instead she kind of buried it.
Lying is a normal part of pushing socialist revolution
eg James O’Brien
Laurence fox is tweeting barrister records saying Strmer is connected to the Southport killers father.
precis “It turns out @Keir_Starmer, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, personally saw to it that the father of Axel Rudakubana – the Southport assassin, was allowed to remain in Britain, twenty years ago.
Nigel Farage knows this, but can’t speak.
Why isn’t the media mentioning it?”
Oh dear… time for speculation, in spades
https://x.com/darrengrimes_/status/1857550474548809985
Woman found dead in car boot named by police
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39nwjygjgro
‘Harshita Brella, 24, from Corby, Northamptonshire, was found by officers in the early hours of Thursday in a vehicle on Brisbane Road, Ilford, east London.’
Another BBC story which will very likely disappear from front-page once an arrest is made.
They will have their fingers crossed that whoever did it was white.
Yes if he is white we will get the endless #Metoo and wimmin aren’t safe on the streets etc etc
It is just amazing though, just how safe they all feel when getting raped and murdered by muslims, blacks and boating benefit thieves….
“Four months after furore, with no sign of any CPS action… Nigel Farage mounts private prosecution against brothers over brutal attack on airport row police.
The Reform UK leader is expected to announce the move tomorrow to highlight what he regards as a ‘two-tier justice system’, in which Right-wing activists are singled out by the courts for harsher treatment.
The furore erupted in July after partial videos of the incident shared online showed an officer kicking 19-year-old Fahir Muhammed Amas during an attempted arrest of him and his brother Amaad.
Tensions were raised further when their lawyer Akhmed Yakoob claimed the fracas had been an ‘attempted assassination’, triggering anti-police protests in the brothers’ home town of Rochdale.
But dramatic CCTV footage then revealed the three police officers had been viciously attacked, leaving a WPC with a broken nose and another officer slumped on the floor just before the Fahir incident.
Four months later, with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) apparently no closer to announcing charges against the brothers, Mr Farage has hired two solicitors to bring a case against them.
A source close to Mr Farage said: ‘It is now November, and no charges have been laid – yet those on the Right of the arguments who said unpleasant things on social media and took to the streets found themselves in jail almost instantly. We have a two-tier justice system in this country’.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14091211/Four-months-furore-no-sign-CPS-action-Nigel-Farage-mounts-private-prosecution-against-brothers-brutal-attack-airport-row-police.html
“Britain has an astonishing 470 DELEGATES at climate change summit that’s a 5,000-mile round-trip flight”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14091247/Keir-Starmer-Britain-delegates-climate-change-Baku.html
And.. the COP 29 wine list for the “elites”
Police refuse to prosecute over swastika sent to Jewish students because it is ‘not offensive enough’ – amid social media hate probe into columnist
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14091359/Police-refuse-prosecute-swastika-sent-Jewish-students.html
Presumably a decision made by a Muslim plod … TTK …
I think all site users would agree that Douglas Murray is a brave and wise chap who can see far into the future . His books have repeatedly warned about the dangers of mass immigration, Islamisation, Wokism , Globalism and the self destruction of the West engineered by its political class.
In the last year he has proved a courageous supporter of Israel and its right to defend itself by taking the fight to those who would destroy it.
But he has always puzzled me and many others by his reluctance , dating back to 2016, to back Trump . The warrior who was doing the real fighting that Douglas advocated. It was as though Douglas wanted Wokism, Islamism and Globalism to be defeated by words alone and thought that Trump was too coarse , too brash to be his champion.
Well I am pleased to report that Douglas has now given Trump his full support and written a long piece in the Telegraph today full of hope about what Trump might be able to achieve.
Perhaps the awful reality of what he has been warning about for so long hit home when he spent months in Israel following the Hamas attack , you can’t win a war unless you are prepared to fight and that words alone are not enough.
Warriors are needed . Israel has many and now in the West we have Trump. How pitiful the UK politicians seem in comparison.
Double – Murray regularly pops up on the sky Australia channel ( the way TV should be ) and was at the Trump win party in Florida .
I, too , can’t understand his reluctance to back Trump . I wonder if Murray is looking for ‘perfection ‘ and Trump isn’t perfect – but he sure is the best we have …..
I think if Murray had been more supportive he’d have a job in the trump government by now …..
Btw – the new White House communications lady looks like box office and will sell lots of popcorn fighting the media swamp …
Murray was good friends with Hitchens – Hitchens said it would be terrible for Trump to be president…. would be my guess …
You wait ages for a Labour-supporting Reach plc red top tabloid to turn up in the BBC online press line-up – and then suddenly two come along at once.
£1bn boost for buses… Labour vows London-style services all over the country (Sunday Mirror)
Enders star’s food bank hell… Broke Cheryl couldn’t afford to eat (Sunday People)
You little people can take the bus – meanwhile we’ll be jetting off to our climate conference in Azerbaijan: Britain has an astonishing 470 delegates at climate change summit that’s a 5,000-mile round-trip flight… Call that Net Zero, Sir Keir! (The Mail on Sunday)
Speaking of first world problems…
How did olive oil become so expensive? (Sunday Times)
A bacterial infection and gangsters – explains Sky News – but that’s no way to talk about Popeye’s girlfriend.
Our new friend AI Overview has the answer – you guessed it: Climate change: A series of years with high temperatures and droughts have reduced the quality and quantity of the olive harvest. Olive trees are sensitive to climate change…
Our favourite current affairs cartoonist is of course Matt in the Telegraph, who goes to work on economics fantasist and fictional résumé writer Rachel Reeves this morning – sketching a couple we take to represent Keir Starmer and his work wife the First Female Chancellor emerging from number 11 Downing Street: “I like my eggs free-range, but I don’t think farmers should be allowed to roam free around London”
This is the agricultural inheritance tax dispute the Sunday Times captions: Farmers v Starmer
Protesting farmers display the slogan: Labour war on countryside
One could also call it Bolsheviks versus the Kulaks
Credit where credit is due.
We can’t help but admire the in-the-tank for Labour Sunday Observer for their frontpage photo picture feature caption – although the Guardian-on-Sunday-style paper shuns the obvious photograph of a procession of those tractors protesting outside the Welsh Labour conference in Llandudno (pity the poor socialists who got the invite to that one – rather than a first class ticket to the Azerbaijan gig) instead the Observer goes with a pic of their man Sir Keir on stage at Llandudno. Nevertheless, kudos to the sub-editor who penned the Welsh flag referencing caption: Here be dragons
And although it pains one somewhat to credit the left-leaning Newman in the Sunday Times, one must award top marks for his cartoon of the famous sculpture Rodan’s Thinker, sitting beside a marble effergy of a burly-looking copper entitled Rodan’s Thought Police
There are those who insist our western culture has stalled. In the arena of arts and entertainment we’ve become stuck for new ideas and are condemned to a descending spiral of poorer and poorer repeats of what’s gone before.
Remember folks, it’s not a conspiracy theory – if it’s true
Ridley Scott: I’ve already started plotting Gladiator III (Sunday Times)
Maybe farmers should protest in cities other than London – maybe concentrate on Manchester and deliver a ‘message ‘ to the bbc at Salford …. Or target farming constituency offices …. Peacefully of course – using some of the bi products from farming ….
“During the protests, farmers have turned signposts upside down and placed them on manure piles in streets across France as well as throwing manure on government buildings. The leaders issued a joint statement, urging the government to clarify its vision for the future of agriculture and express its true intentions.11 Dec 2023”
Perhaps the British farmers should get some training from the French – although it sounds like the NFU is a branch of the Labour Party ( i profess ignorance due mt townidom) ..
Why bother throwing manure over buildings that are already full of it.
The BBC’s offices in Salford are a boring piece of modernistic architecture of no visual merit. Coating them in slurry would actually be an improvement.
Rob
I heard discussion about some ‘award winning ‘ building in Salford ( university ?) which some want to demolish – apparently is is noisy – hot in the summer – cold in the winter and users hated it . But ‘they ‘want it preserved ….because to demolish it would have a big carbon footprint – my life it’s mad mad mad ..
Welsh Government vows to change ‘beliefs and behaviour of the white majority’
Labour’s ant-racist action plan aims to ‘build an inclusive society for all our black, Asian and minority ethnic people’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/16/welsh-government-vows-to-change-beliefs-of-white-majority/
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The report found at least 1,400 underage girls, some as young as 11, had been abused between 1997 and 2013 in the South Yorkshire town.
What followed were disturbing revelations about how these children had been raped, trafficked and intimidated, predominantly by men of Pakistani heritage
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4ynzppk80o
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‘beliefs and behaviour of the white majority’
predominantly by men of Pakistani heritage
‘beliefs and behaviour of the white majority’
predominantly by men of Pakistani heritage
They think it’s just Wales but the same zealots are in power here…and to be fair were pretty dominant in the Tory Party…
‘Welsh Government vows to change ‘beliefs and behaviour of the white majority”
Is that not ‘hate speech’…the determined demonisation of a whole race of people and their culture and beliefs based solely it would seem on their skin colour? Why are these politicians not getting a visit from plod? Why do BBC journalists who push the exact same narratives about ‘whiteness’ not get their collars felt?
If you wish to maintain the integrity of your country and its cultural and social identity you’d better hurry up because they’re rapidly replacing you with a whole new population who don’t give a damn about ‘Britain’.
In 2019 net migration was 180,000….2022 700,000….670,000 in 2023….the OBR expects it to be 350,000/year from now on…but that’s a moderate guestimate.
The illegals are costing us billions but the legals are just as expensive….a large number are not the BBC’s fabled ‘care workers’ but dependents who all need housing, health and schooling and all the other necessities of life handed to them on a plate.
And the BBC’s spin continues to fabricate the message that we need all these workers as we don’t get any from the EU….but the non-EU migrants coming in vastly outnumber those that once came from the EU….and just remember…this was the Tories’ doing…
…And yet the BBC insists we are short of workers.
Britain, and the EU, is being turned into a third world sh*thole helped along by insane green nut zero zealotry and a hatred of its indigenous population.
Conservative – to conserve
Labour – to labour
Green Party – to be green and have all the power of 650 MPS backing!
Thanks Pug for the graphs and the clues.
Here’s the link for future reference. Maybe BBC verify could verify.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration
Here’s a couple of standouts.
Immigration from India. 2019, 72,000. 2023, 250,000.
Immigration from Nigeria 2019, 14,000. 2023 141,000.
Post Brexit, blue Labour just opened the doors.
Most of this is legal!!! But why?
Answers on a postcard, in English please.
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/topics/c2dwqd1zr92t
Human rights commission clear Nigeria army of forced abortions, mass killing of children for northeast
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/cj6kywe78keo
The BBC has been pumping out the hard-core climate messaging during COP…never mind a lot of the world seems to have realised that nut zero is national suicide.
The BBC is well behind the curve and doesn’t seem to understand the economic nor societal impacts of such ideologically driven diktats as they merrily suggest we must start eating insects to save the planet.
Andrew Neil in the Mail gives us a dose of reality….
‘Keir Starmer and his Minister for Green Zealotry (Ed Miliband) made a flying visit to Baku, Azerbaijan, this week where yet another shindig on global warming was being staged. A staggering 470 British officials went along for the ride, suggesting Whitehall really is full of folks with too much time on their hands.
The Prime Minister went in person and mob-handed to impress on everybody how Britain ‘leads the world on climate change’, a typically pathetic and untrue conceit to which British politicians are all too prone to these days. Nobody else agrees or even cares.
To underline his credentials, he even unveiled a new target: Britain will aim to reduce its CO2 emissions by 81 per cent on 1990 levels by 2035. There seems to be no limit to the cost and pain this government is prepared to inflict on ordinary households to allow ministers to grandstand on the world stage.
Starmer would have us believe this is ‘climate leadership’ in action. The only problem is that the rest of the world is already going in the opposite direction to him. The Pied Piper of net zero is bereft of followers, no matter how loudly he blows his pipe.
For a start, almost nobody else who matters bothered to make it to Baku to follow his lead. Not President Biden. Not President Xi of China or Prime Minister Modi of India, whose coal-fired electricity generating stations continue to churn out record CO2 emissions.
Not President Macron of France or Germany’s Chancellor Scholz, who had more pressing matters to attend to on the home front. Even the President of the European Union Commission, Ursula von der Leyen – who’s usually up for a jolly at the drop of a hat – couldn’t be bothered to turn up.
France in fact stopped its environment minister from attending after the host attacked it for ‘colonial crimes’ in the Pacific. Argentina’s President Milei, something of a climate sceptic, allegedly ordered his 80-strong delegation home so they did not have to be involved in agreements with which he did not agree.
No wonder even the Global Green Blob is beginning to wonder aloud if the whole COP process has run its course.
Keir Starmer was the major leader present at COP29, where he stated that Britain will aim to reduce its CO2 emissions by 81 per cent on 1990 levels by 2035
Starmer is the only major leader who still takes these green jamborees seriously, even though it’s clear they’ve descended into a farce. Known as ‘Conference of the Parties’, COP Baku was like the last in the United Arab Emirates – held in a fossil fuel state which has no intention of cutting its oil and gas output.
Fossil fuels account for 90 per cent of Azerbaijan’s exports. Its dictator welcomed delegates by describing its oil and gas reserves as a ‘gift from God’. The local deputy energy minister was caught helping to facilitate oil and gas deals, which was also a feature of the UAE’s COP28. A farce indeed.
En route to Baku, Starmer made three claims: One, securing £1 billion investment in offshore wind is a major step forward in our mission to make the UK a clean energy superpower; Two, it will fire up our industrial heartlands and break down barriers to growth across the country; and three, we will lead the world in industries of the future.
All are untrue. Note he didn’t make a fourth claim – that his dash for renewables would reduce household energy bills by £300 a year before the end of the decade.
It was a pledge made during the election campaign which no longer passes ministers’ lips because it is not going to happen. The Institute of Fiscal Studies calculates household bills will soon rise by another £120 a year in green levies to subsidise the expansion of renewable capacity. Labour politicians must have known at the time that the promised cut was mission impossible.
The extra £1 billion for offshore wind Starmer is so proud of is a mere drop in the North Sea compared to what is required to meet Labour’s target of decarbonising the electricity system by 2030. Tens of billions more will be required in wind turbines and solar panels – and tens of billions more on top of that to build pylons and cables for a national grid which will need to be reconfigured to carry renewables, which are intermittent and unreliable.
The consumer – households and business – will bear the cost. The UK already has some of the highest electricity prices in the developed world to finance subsidies for renewable energy. They are about to get higher. This week the Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm in the Moray Firth became the fourth UK wind farm to collect more than £1 billion in subsidies. It will rake in about £2 billion in the course of its 15-year lifespan.
The Office for Budget Responsibility calculates that subsidies for renewables will add £12 billion to fuel bills for this year alone – and that’s before we include future renewable subsidies and the £100 billion needed to upgrade the national grid for decarbonisation. No wonder industry is either closing down or fleeing to America, where energy prices are a fraction of Britain’s.
We are witnessing another great bout of British deindustrialisation in which, inexplicably, a Labour government is a willing partner. Households, which unlike business cannot flee, will need to get used to tightening their belts for yet higher fuel bills.
The claim that renewables will usher in an era of cheaper electricity prices is one of the great lies of the Green Blob. The other is that renewables will create a plethora of well-paid jobs.
Politicians on the Left and Right have often made this claim, none more so than the hapless Miliband who, a decade ago, promised a million new green jobs by 2030. It is fantasy economics. What Starmer thinks will be the industries of the future – such as carbon capture and storage – are untried and could just as easily be the turkeys of the future.
We now have the latest official data for 2022, which claims there are 600,000 jobs in green industries. But more than half that total includes all manner of jobs – waste collection, double glazing, forestry, water supply, nature protection – which have been around long before climate change and renewables moved up the agenda.
Jobs created by efforts to decarbonise our energy supply and the dash to renewables have risen from under 58,000 in 2014 to around 98,000 in 2022 – an increase more than wiped out by the loss of jobs in industries that could not compete because of our high energy prices.
The Green Blob, of course, has done alright for itself. In 2022 there were 78,000 jobs associated with green charities, lobbies, consultancies and government agencies. Nice work if you can get it, but hardly a career route for unemployed steel, chemical or oil refinery workers. And even if they were tallied, you’re still nowhere near Miliband’s million.
The obsession with net zero is now in retreat almost everywhere bar Britain. It won’t just be America under President Trump that will opt instead to expand its fossil fuel output. Liberal-Left Canada and social democratic Norway are planning to do the same. Only Britain is refusing to grant new oil and gas licences.
Germany, which once led the march to renewables, is pulling back sharply even under its current shaky centre-left coalition. A new centre-right government will take power in Berlin next year even more hostile to net zero. France, secure with its massive fleet of nuclear power stations, was never that keen in the first place. Only Britain has a madness-gripped government which almost seems intent on impoverishing us to reach net zero at any cost.
Starmer said this week that he had no interest in telling people how to live their lives. That was yet another untruth. There is no way he can meet the tougher decarbonisation targets he outlined in Baku without forcing us to switch to electric vehicles, swap our gas boilers for heat pumps and eat less meat. So much for the light footprint he promised he would impose on our lives.
Telling us what to drive, how to heat our homes and what we should eat will make the Government more intrusive than ever, which is probably why it appeals to so much of the Labour Party.
But the Democratic thumping in America last week is a warning of what happens when a governing elite loses touch with the people – a warning that Starmer will ignore as long as he remains in thrall to Miliband, and which might well mark his ultimate downfall.
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“The obsession with net zero is now in retreat almost everywhere bar Britain. It won’t just be America under President Trump that will opt instead to expand its fossil fuel output. Liberal-Left Canada and social democratic Norway are planning to do the same. Only Britain is refusing to grant new oil and gas licences.”
Now though it is Labour themselves that are turning off our lights…and industry, farming, transport, heating…the economy…life in general.
The Tories really, really shagged us leaving no-one to vote for in effect and allowing Labour to win by default.
Reform is the only option. Hope they get their act together and learn from Trump’s surprise at getting elected in 2016…be ready for government from the getgo.
There’s ‘Kickass’…a not-so-super-villain…
And then there’s Jackass….a real super-villain….choking on his own stupidity…
I hope the mother didn’t complain too much, otherwise she might get doorstepped from the plod for a NCHI instituted by one of the attackers.
It is remarkable how the BBC gives Rachel Reeves a complete pass not questioning or challenging her credentials or indeed her competence whilst raking over and disparaging the backgrounds and policies of every Official that Trump nominates for Office in minute detail.
Yep where’s:
CV Gate,
Economist Gate,
Chess “Champion” who came 26th really Gate
and copying wikepedia passages for your book Gate ?
And why does someone move from an “Economist at the Bank of England” to working in admin at the complaints dept at a local Halifax ? You don’t need to be an economist to know something does not add up there..big time.
Starmer and Reeves have skeletons dancing out of closets over the next few weeks
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
― Margaret Thatcher
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/138248-the-problem-with-socialism-is-that-you-eventually-run-out
Zephir:
You are right. It sounds as if the Bank of England showed her the door, and she had to take any job she could get at HBOS. She could not get a job as an economist, which tells us that she is not up to the job.
We know she cannot manage her House of Commons credit card, and had it taken off her, and she cannot budget to live within her means, despite having a massive salary.
Personally I wouldn’t give her a job mopping floors.
Pug, the PM is the First Lord of Treasury so the 30 October 2024 was really TwoTier Keir’s Budget. Rachel Reeves could resign and TwoTier Keir would then be lumbered with the consequences of her, I mean, his Budget. 🙂 He signs it off, anyway. 🙂
Ooops!
Trump is to sue CBS, the New York Times and other purveyors of fake news for defamation, political bias and election interference.
Once he’s destroyed them, perhaps he could turn his attention towards the BBC?
About bloody time too, the partisan biased, behaviour including libel and slander were off the scale and many of these are public funded…
Remind you of anyone ?
And…Harris giving $1 million to her interviewer Winfrey etc etc
And CBS allegedly editing Harris interview answers to make them look better before release and refusing to provide the reasl interview transcripts.
So, where’s the original trancript ??
A statement from 60 minutes:
“Former President Donald Trump is accusing 60 Minutes of deceitful editing of our Oct. 7 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. That is false.
60 Minutes gave an excerpt of our interview to Face the Nation that used a longer section of her answer than that on 60 Minutes. Same question. Same answer. But a different portion of the response.”
CBS admits editing 60 Minutes Kamala Harris interview to make her answer ‘more succinct’.
The network has been embroiled in a bias scandal after it was accused by Donald Trump and his supporters of deliberately editing an interview with the vice-president to make her appear more competent.
In a preview aired a day before the interview, Ms Harris was seen giving a rambling “word salad” answer to a question about Israel.
In the actual interview the following day her answer to the same question was more succinct.
The network, whose boss has previously donated more than $6,000 to the Democrats, also invited viewers to remember that Trump “pulled out of his interview with 60 Minutes and the vice-president participated”.
Network’s admission seized on by Donald Trump who says legal action has started to release full transcript
‘more succinct’
……………………………………………. ‘more succinct’ ……………………..
YOUR COMPLAINT:
President Trump’s 100 Days President Biden’s 0 Day
Dear Winston Smith in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth,
You covered President Trump’s 100 Days and then produced a Beyond 100 Days to hold power to account.
Why have you not done the same for President Biden to hold power to account?
‘Omission is the greatest form of lie.’
———-
Thank you again for contacting us,
BBC Complaints Team
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints
……………………………………………. ‘more succinct’ ……………………..
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook restricting a story about Joe Biden’s son during the 2020 election was based on FBI misinformation warnings.
The New York Post alleged leaked emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop showed the then vice-president was helping his son’s business dealings in Ukraine.
Facebook and Twitter restricted sharing of the article, before reversing course amid allegations of censorship.
Zuckerberg said that getting the decision wrong “sucks”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62688532
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CBS admits editing 60 Minutes Kamala Harris interview to make her answer ‘more succinct’
‘more succinct’ HA HA HA HA HAH AH A
“Biden helping his son’s business deals in Ukraine”. I think the “fictional” laptop showed an email to his wife complaining that Biden took most of his “salary” (a million dollars a year ffs) as board member of the State power company. Not sure what expertise he had to offer and I believe Nancy Pelosi’s son, and another Democrat politician’s son, were also on the board. It is a fact that the Ukrainian State Prosecutor was investigating the company for corruption and Biden, then Vice-President, flew out and threatened the Government (all on video). The Prosecutor was sacked and his replacement dropped the case. A perfect case for one of the BBC’s famed investigative journalists to investigate I would have thought.
BBC SAY WE NEED FOR CHILDREN REPORTERS FROM AFRICA …. KIEV (Reuters) – During his time on the board of one of Ukraine’s largest natural gas companies, Hunter Biden, the son of former U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden, was regarded as a helpful non-executive director with a powerful name, according to people familiar with Biden’s role at the company.
Biden’s role at Burisma Holdings Ltd has come under intense scrutiny following unsupported accusations by U.S. President Donald Trump that Joe Biden improperly tried to help his son’s business interests in Ukraine.
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us-politics/what-hunter-biden-did-on-the-board-of-ukrainian-energy-company-burisma-idUSKBN1WX1P6/
The BBC insists we need immigration and workers in order to boost growth. Not true at all….mass immigration of usually low wage workers reduces productivity.
To boost growth you need to choose the right industries, the right workers, and investment in research and development.
The US has a population which is 100 million people less than the EU’s [and vastly less than China] and yet it has the biggest economy in the world and one that is bigger than the whole of the EU combined.
‘Between 2010 and 2023, the cumulative GDP growth rate reached 34% in the United States, compared with just 21% in the European Union.
This gap can be explained by insufficient investment in new technologies in Europe.
Another reason is the low level of spending on research and development.’
Oh…yeah…and probably helped by their still massive use of fossil fuels.
Mass immigration is not the answer to economic growth…but the BBC knows this…it has other ulterior motives for promoting demographic change on such a massive scale.
From a Theresa May speech …
As Martin Wolf, the chief economics commentator of the financial times, says: ‘The desirability of sizeable immigration is a matter more of values than of economics. It is not a choice between wealth and poverty, but of the sort of country one desires to inhabit.’
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/home-secretary-speech-on-an-immigration-system-that-works-in-the-national-interest
Not a lot of growth when free healthcare, education, housing, social benefits for a whole family are included in the calculation. Not to mention English language lessons.
GDP is often an illusion
eg people lliving in a country with no property bubble
and where child care is done by Grandma and Grandad
can have a higher standard of living than the UK, where we inflated the economy by paying for things like child care when we used to do it for free, so have increased our GDP.
“Not to mention English language lessons.”
………………and translators at the Police Stations.
Pug – im not sure sure about all those population stats – after all – 80 million Americans didn’t vote ‘democrat ‘ in 2024 although they did in 2020 – have 80 million people left the US ?
I hope President Trump appoints an inquiry into 2020 using honest people …..
80m?? current tallies are down by 8 million
76,427,168 Trump 73,734,285 Kamala
that’s about 150m
2020 158m (81,283,501 for Biden)
2016 137m
Yes apparently not all 2024 votes have been counted .. still
@Pugnazious – If we need more workers, how about some family-friendly policies and financial incentives? Instead of castrating boys after brainwashing them into believing they’re girls.
Instead of brainwashing girls that getting married and raising families is so old-hat and that cool modern girls should aspire to be football players, fire-persons and BBC auto-cuties etc.
Instead of making ‘housewife’ and ‘homemaker’ terms of derision?
Instead of turning Woman’s Hour into Wimmins Hour, stuffing it full of agitprop and only giving a platform to woke leftie feminist SJWs?
Instead of promoting abortion and denigrating the Pro-Life movement.
Instead of arresting Christians for offering alternatives or for quietly praying outside abortion clinics?
“Glastonbury 2025 tickets sell out in 35 minutes”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxvn13rg1yo
Glastonbury Festival fined £31,000 after leak of human waste kills protected fish
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/glastonbury-festival-fined-ps31-000-after-leak-of-human-waste-kills-protected-fish-a7047266.html
“Along with the good weather we enjoyed that year, huge crowds of people turned up and just walked in.” He’d started designing a new “super-duper fence” by the Monday after the festival, and didn’t give up on it even when the price rose from £300,000 to £1m. “I knew I had to build it,” Eavis wrote.24 Jun 2020
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-53151990
OMG
Famine, pestilence, are just around the corner.
Warnings of disruption with snow and ice forecast
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c98dgl2rx8lo
Or, as we used to call it, completely normal weather for late Autumn.
A BBC Muslim reporter gets the gig to report ‘indepth’ on the wicked Christians voting for Trump…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20g1zvgj4do
‘As for his appeal to traditionalist Christians, Dr Jones argues that there has been a faith component to the idea of “Making America Great Again”, with the promise of restoring the country’s Christian character.
“His has been a campaign of grievance and loss and nostalgia,” argues Dr Jones, “and that includes nostalgia from a faith perspective.”’
Just one tiny mention of Muslims…
‘The results from Michigan showed a clear lurch towards the Republican Party by Muslim voters in the state, likely the result of the Biden administration’s role in aiding Israel in its war in Gaza. ‘
Interesting that Christians wanting to live by their values and beliefs in their own land is controversial, a ‘nostalgia’ and a grievance….but Muslims moving in and trying to impose their religion upon everyone else is diversity and respect for other cultures.
Where is any such long, long indepth examination of Islam in Britain, how its followers act and what they believe and want..and how they are pandered to by the Establishment?
BRAVE SIR ED DAVEY HINTS AT RESIGNATION….
It has been reported in the media that Sir Ed Davey has appeared on tv talking about “A grave error of judgement”and the need to consider or reflect on matters. At last I thought he has crossed that line and realises his behaviour in the Coalition government and his disastrous time with the Post Office must result in his resignation……
Not a bit of it he is talking about somebody else reflecting on past questionable behaviour and resigning. This time it’s the leader of the Welsh Limp dems (whoever that might be).
Good old Sir Ed ….not just a funny face.
‘Lefties are leaving Twitter, so where will the poor lambs bleat now?’
Lol…we know where they’re going and we’re coming with them…run but you can’t hide from the truth.
Here in West Londonistan, the local council, deeply in debt and needing to raise cash, has inadvertently given the game away big time.
Quote
‘Proposed measures include a £60,000 ‘service reduction’ funding cut to library services.
The plans also suggest the council hopes to raise £100,000 through a roll out of parking controls and 20 miles per hour speed limits’
End quote.
THERE IT IS IN BLACK AND WHITE.
The 20 mph limits are not there for safety or even to reduce pollution or even global warming.
They are criminalising motorists by arbitrarily introducing low speed limits purely to raise cash !!!!!
You might have know this all along, deep down, but here is the cast iron proof.
Create the problem – solve the problem.
Labour plans Meloni-style migrant deals with Kurdistan and Vietnam
https://www.thetimes.com/article/1e5d72f9-94f3-4599-bbcd-80a53f4a9771?shareToken=527642ed0b440614e8b0729acd3b432d
Four men have been jailed for the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-55765213
Douglas Murray’s excellent article in The Telegraph hits the nail on the head, as usual:
“America has abandoned student politics and got serious again. Will Britain follow?
The real issues were not race and abortion but illegal migration, the cost of living and government overreach”
Full article, without the Telegraph paywall:
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/america-abandoned-student-politics-got-200100018.html
“Her campaign seemed to take it for granted that if they annointed a woman as their candidate then women would automatically vote for her – however hollow a vessel she was. They also seemed to think that if they appointed a woman of colour then all black and other minority ethnic communities in America would vote for her. They didn’t. Trump gained in every sector of the minority vote.”
Yes Marky – I saw that – it shows that democrat / the left don’t see individuals – just types – groups …. Their downfall – and I can’t see a change in mindset by 2028/9 … the people were ‘wrong ‘ and need to be corrected ….
But like assuming everyone would vote democrat over baby killing ….which they enthuse about ..
I guess the new BBC head of religion does not like Trump – does he cover Saudi as well? HA HA HA HA AH
https://x.com/AleemMaqbool/status/1231869785916526593
Aleem Maqbool
@AleemMaqbool
Religion Editor, BBC News. Previous postings in the US, Pakistan, Gaza/West Bank and in Egypt #NFFC #NottsCCC
LondonJoined April 2010
3,139 Following
34.4K Followers
Works at one about ‘migration ‘ aka invasion – some lefty describes anyone who cares about the integrity / identity of their own country as “far right “ … the language is so lazy and vile …. I bet says lady has a cat …
@ F2, yep..
I see, so my wife is modelling now, is she?
New job ? give her a treat, change her litterbox or something
I wonder how people will react when the BBC dump ‘bells on Sunday ‘ to be replaced by some mad mullah – screaming from one of their buildings …. ? Must be on the alli Mcbeal wish list ….inshala …
Leeds: Green Party councillor Mothin Ali apologises for Gaza comments
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-68970097
The Green Party said it was fully investigating all of the context around this matter and had nothing further to add at this moment.
fully investigating all of the context
HA HA HA HHAAH
fully investigating all of the context
Oh no…the Aussies want to control immigration and student numbers….a long piece from the BBC basically trying to trash the policy…
”Dreams quashed’: Foreign students and universities fear Australia’s visa cap’
The truth is admitted…they don’t want to go home after finishing their studies…
‘”Their education system is one of the best in the world,” the 21-year-old, from the Indian city of Hyderabad, explains.
After completing her bachelor’s degree at Melbourne’s Monash University in July, she applied for the master’s qualification she needs to become a social worker – the kind of skilled job Australia is desperate to fill amid labour shortages.
“I genuinely want to study here, offer my skills and contribute to society,” she says.’
And…
‘…with the contributions to society made by international students often overlooked, while their post-graduate employment options dry up, there’s growing resentment.
“They go back to their own countries, having spent a tremendous amount of money towards their education and not really reaping the rewards for it.
“They definitely do feel like cash cows.”‘
Not reaping the rewards? You mean not being allowed to move in permanently…but you did get a degree which you can use to the benefit of your own country no? …which no doubt needs social workers etc as well.
In the UK out of 1.4 million visas granted 400,000 went to students, around 600,000 to dependents and asylum seekers…only 200,00 went to actual workers.
All of course need housing, health care and other needs….it’s unsustainable on so many different levels….but as you can see from this article the BBC is still promoting the same old lies and narratives.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c207kgd4l22o
There are too many Indians moving to the Anglosphere over the last year or two. It’s getting ridiculous.
Student visas are being abused. They come to the Anglosphere to study and then never leave. Their intention is not to study for the qualification itself, but for a way to sneak in permanently. It’s dishonest.Canada has been hit really badly with Indian migration. It’s insane what’s happening over there in such a short space of time.
If just 1% of India moved to the UK, it would mean that over 14.5 million of them would move here.
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/india-population/
I’ve met lots of nice Indians, but stay in India please.
You don’t have the right to just take over the Anglosphere.
“Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has grounded 150 pilots over claims they may not hold a valid licence.
Pakistan’s aviation minister told parliament on Wednesday that a large number of commercial pilots hold fake licences or cheated in exams.
It comes as an initial report into a PIA crash that killed 97 people last month found the cause to be human error by the pilot and air traffic control.
Pakistan has a chequered aviation safety record with a number of crashes.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-53182750
chequered ! HA HA HA HAHA H!
Book your flight now….
https://gbhelicopters.com/glastonbury/
Sunak took £16,000 helicopter ride from firm who won huge Government contracts
https://goodlawproject.org/sunak-took-16000-helicopter-ride-from-firm-who-won-huge-government-contracts/
We recently revealed that the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has given huge contracts, worth almost £140m and continuing to grow, to The Phoenix Partnership – a company owned by Frank Hester. Mr Hester recently donated £5 million to the Conservative Party and his firm has separately given £156,000 to the Tories
It’s time conservatives (BIG C and small c) took the fight to the BBC.
Henceforth, every one of them being interviewed by some bolshie beeboid should go on the attack with:
“Well, BBC, how does it feel to have got EVERYTHING wrong about Trump and the election?
How does it feel to be completely out of step with the biggest demographic shift in voting EVER?
How does it feel to be on the wrong side of history… AGAIN?
Sorry, what was your question again?”
WORDS ARE CHEAP.
Boris Johnson ‘looking at’ abolishing TV licence fee for BBC
This article is more than 4 years old
Remarks came amid row over PM’s refusal to look at a picture of a sick boy in hospital
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/09/boris-johnson-looking-at-abolishing-tv-licence-fee-for-bbc
The current shower of Conservatives don’t have the Cojones to take down the BBC.
It takes a mad lad like Trump to look at them in the eye and yell: FAKE NEWS!
Comment 7years ago “While I’m no fan of Trump, I share his dislike of the BBC. The BBC no longer represents the British people’s views, but tries to force it’s own views upon them.”
Trump to BBC News: Here’s another beauty – BBC News
Anyone remember Milo? There’s a clip of him about to be interviewed by the BBC. In the pre-production stage, he sets up his own camera to have a record because he doesn’t trust their devious editing.
When they offer him their make-up person to arrange his hair (or they say “you look fine” – I forget which), he declines, saying: “I’ll do my own hair thank you. I don’t trust you as far as I can throw an f’ing cat; I don’t trust any of you; you’re the BBC, give me a break.”
Now THAT’s the fighting spirit we need, not BoJo clowning around with his mates, seeking their approval.