350 Responses to Start the Week 18th November 2024

  1. StewGreen says:

    GBnews just now “Here’s Praful Nargund from the INDEPENDENT Good Growth Foundation”
    presenter Andrew Pierce ‘hang on you seem to support everything Labour does even though these policies were not in the manifesto’

    As they were speaking viewers then tweeted that he is a Labour guy
    and his foundation is firmly routed in Labour

    So after the break the presenter stated these facts (though didn’t credit Twitter)

    https://twitter.com/NorthernPeasant/status/1858831999085031774

    His own bio says Labour MP candidate https://x.com/akindcaddy/status/1858832731498537226

    They now add
    Lord Alli was a director of that Good Growth Foundation blokes other company Executive Pipeline ltd until this month

    quote at 11:15am Pierce “I just wondered how close you are to the treasury ?”
    PN “I’m INDEPENDENT”

    Then after the break ..Pierce said he was astounded that PN stated that as if no one ould find out he actually stood for Labour .. and lost

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  2. vlad says:

    The BBC seems to have a boundless – some might say prurient – interest in the case of the French woman drugged and abused by her husband. The story is currently splashed across their Home page.
    What a shame they didn’t show a fraction as much interest in a much greater sex scandal nearer home. Namely, grooming gangs in Rochdale and dozens of other towns involving thousands of girls – many underaged.
    I wonder why?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4gpxwd8z1xt

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  3. Fedup2 says:

    DT reports that Ukraine has fired a missile into mother Russia and hit an arms dump – I wonder how many times Putin will let that happen ?
    When he gets fed up I hope the wind isn’t blowing our way ….. and Obama Biden would do nothing …

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    • vlad says:

      Who knows what’s going through O’Biden’s head in allowing missile attacks on Russia? Maybe he just wants to make it as difficult as possible for Trump when he takes over.

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  4. StewGreen says:

    Clarkson “The BBC the mouthpiece of this infernal government”

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  5. Zephir says:

    This should be done on every single university campus in the UK :

    “Powerful moment brave Hamas hostage reveals terrorists sexually assaulted her as she confronts UCLA student who organized Pro-Palestine protests and refuses to look at her.

    “She described the physical toll of her captivity in which she also suffered severe bruising and sexual assault. She told of the moments following her abduction.

    ‘When I was entering Gaza – I saw, 100 percent of civilians celebrating me being taken,’ she said, explaining how she had a broken leg and bruises all over her body.””

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14099399/Freed-Hamas-hostage-Moran-Stella-Yanai-confronts-UCLA-student-Aidan-Doyle.html

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    • Zephir says:

      Let that sink in, deluded, moronic student “activists”, once again:

      “I saw, 100 percent of civilians celebrating me being taken.”

      And a broken leg, NOT just a few pokes then”

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  6. Zephir says:

    The cowardly, bullying bastard, who has made jewish peoples lives a misery at UCLA, and will not even look her in the face:

    “He actually mocked her on X”

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  7. vlad says:

    It’s time conservatives (aka normal people) fought back.

    There is a website called True Vision where members of the public can report ‘hate crime’, and the police are obliged to take some action, if only to record the ‘crime’.

    So far this has been used successfully by the liberal left, but there’s no reason the right shouldn’t use it too.

    Think of all the hate that’s poured out daily by the wokies and the BBC. Think of the hate that’s contained in a certain religious book.

    Plenty of scope for reporting, one would have thought.

    https://www.report-it.org.uk/your_police_force

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    • Zephir says:

      Worth a look, thanks Vlad.

      It cuts both ways, and no one hates like the far left. (Or Mumsnet sometimes)

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  8. Lucy Pevensey says:

    I’m sorry about the weather in London for the Stuck Farmer protesters today.

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    • Zephir says:

      They have to be out working in all weather, cows and sheep need looking after whatever the weather..

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      • Lucy Pevensey says:

        I know they are made of tough stuff but dry weather would have been nice for them today. I was listening to a chap that came all the way down from Northumberland this morning.

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      • vlad says:

        Yes, they’ll be used to bad weather, unlike politicians.
        Starmer and his gang are in Brazil, “saving the planet”.
        Or something.

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  9. Zephir says:

    Reuters:

    “Russia starts making nuclear-resistant mobile bomb shelters”

    https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-begins-mass-production-radiation-resistant-mobile-bomb-shelters-2024-11-19/

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  10. Lucy Pevensey says:

    btw
    The Kingsway in London 1926

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    • Zephir says:

      The first student pro palestinian protest ?

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      1926? Eerily prescient of 2026…
      De-carboning > De-industrialisation > De-populating > Globalism

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      • Zephir says:

        Naaa…

        Look, no cycle lanes, Romanian beggars and pickpockets, machete fights, Jamaican county lines gang warfare, Turkish sex shops, Albanian coke dealers, rolex muggers and phone snatchers, muslims protesting every week and threatening jews, purple haired student tossers with drums, whistles and placards, hardly any English spoken.

        Not a trace of a Radio Two twat on a Penny Farthing bike with a Kodak Brownie camera on his head arguing with horses in the road, and all that methane from nasty farm animals and horses, God forbid.

        Thank goodness for the London we all know and love…

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  11. Lucy Pevensey says:

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  12. Zephir says:

    Oh dear, did they push some wheelie bins and shout in the street ?

    “Hong Kong’s High Court on Tuesday jailed 45 pro-democracy activists for up to 10 years following a landmark national security trial that has damaged the city’s once feisty democracy movement and drawn criticism from the U.S. and other countries.

    Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong said she was “gravely concerned” about the sentences, and called on China to “cease suppression of freedoms of expression, assembly, media and civil society,” in Hong Kong.”

    https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/hundreds-queue-sentencing-47-hong-kong-democrats-2024-11-19/

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  13. MarkyMark says:

    Comments “I WILL STOP BEING A CONSPIRACY
    THEORIST WHEN THE GOVERNMENT STOP CONSPIRING….”

    Comments “”A communist system can be recognised by the fact that it spares the criminals, and criminalises the political opponent” – Alexander Solschenitzyn….”

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  14. Lucy Pevensey says:

    Victoria Derbyshire asks Jeremy Clarkson if he’s at the farmers’ protest because he bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax.

    Clarkson not taking any $h!t from her.
    Watch the 3min clip If you can follow the X link.

    https://x.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1858853384033288622

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    • Zephir says:

      Great interview, the bbc wants to know where will the money come from if not farmers hmm another close look at bbc tax dodgers maybe ?

      2019:

      “BBC to pay out millions to settle historic tax avoidance claims”

      2018

      “Former BBC presenter ordered to pay £400K in unpaid IR35 tax to HMRC”

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    • vlad says:

      Good old Jezza: “Classic BBC”.

      V.D, all girly innocence: “is it?”

      Yes, Victoria, it is. And do you realise just how much we despise you and your pals at the BBC?

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  15. MarkyMark says:

    BBC Verify say hundreds of tractors Sat Nav has been hacked and sent them to London – this was a Russian hack so stay indoors and watch the news.

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  16. Zephir says:

    @ Lucy

    Same story now exposing bbc bias as the suddenly “anti strike” pro far left government mouthpiece.

    Now on a national news site as the number one headline for the country to see:

    “‘Classic BBC!’: Moment Jeremy Clarkson scolds Victoria Derbyshire for ‘biased’ questions as he joins tens of thousands of farmers for protest against Labour’s inheritance tax raid”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14100945/BBC-Jeremy-Clarkson-Victoria-Derbyshire-farming-row.html

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  17. Zephir says:

    Remember, all welcome here

    “Migrant who raped and impregnated 15-year-old virgin after cabin crew blocked his deportation back to Africa is jailed for ten years – as judge reveals victim’s incredible gesture.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14101065/migrant-raped-impregnated-virgin-deportation-Africa-jailed.html

    Anicet Mayela, 41, had been granted asylum in the UK after repeated attempts to deport him reportedly failed.

    a planned deportation flight back to the Congan capital Brazzaville in May 2005 was grounded after Air France cabin crew refused to carry him.

    The Sun said that two days after his release, Mayela joined a campaign to close Campsfield House and was photographed protesting outside with the sign stating: ‘Migrants are not criminals.’

    And….this is him:

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      NOT CRIMINALS? So let me guess what happened:

      It was dark, then he tripped and fell over and accidentally penetrated and inseminated a 15 year-old virgin.

      And he can’t be deported? I am feeling dizzy and a hot flush is coming over me. I may faint and fall on my keyboard. Goodness knows what random words I may end up typing.

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    • Lefty Wright says:

      By definition illegal immigrants ARE criminals or has the law changed so that an illegal act is no longer a crime.
      Personally I wouldn’t risk testing that thesis.

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  18. Fedup2 says:

    Funny how every time the reds are challenged about raising taxes they roll out the bottomless pit that is their NHS – and add an extra 8 million people in 10 years – and we gotta big big problem ….
    Try cutting public spending and won’t need to increase taxes … but neither blue or red would do that ..

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  19. Zephir says:

    Do you remember before the internet, when people thought the cause of stupidity was the lack of access to information ?

    Well, it wasn’t that.

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  20. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    TTK has just been on the TV saying next year pensioners will get a £469 rise. (It may be a few £s either way as I can’t remember the exact amount he said)

    He is giving the amount that a person on the NEW pension gets IF they have paid in for the full number of years. It’s the maximum anybody can possibly get.

    What percentage of pensioners get this sum. Is it 5%
    It’s the pensioners who have only the last few years qualified for the new pension which I would guess is about 15-20% max of the total number of pensioners and it’s only those who have fully paid in who get the full amount.

    He could just as easily have said pensioners will get a £50 rise which will be true for a fair number on the old pension who only get a part of it because they have not paid in the full number of years.

    I wish somebody in the press would tell him the percentage of pensioners who will get this sum he’s quoting and not let him get away with telling the public that every pensioner is getting this £469 rise.

    Even with that rise, take away the WFP, inflation, council tax, bbbc licence (if you pay it) and all the other things only going up they will be worse off so imagine how the majority on a much lower rise will manage.

    He always gets a very easy ride from all the press and lefty Chope is wet and weak with his questions. Any hard question and he just doesn’t answer it.

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  22. Guest Who says:

    https://realclimate.science/2024/11/19/new-bbc-climate-expert/#gsc.tab=0

    Luckily she is fully qualified to be a bbc anything.

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  23. Doc Halliday says:

    Hello all,
    I wondered if this Panorama programme from 2012 was well known these days. “Stadiums of Hate,” made during the run-up to the 2012 Euros jointly hosted by Poland and Ukraine.
    I wonder how Vadim and his fellow members of Patriot of Ukraine are faring now? 12 years later, they’ll still be of fighting age. Are they still a bunch of Nazis, BBC? At one point journalist Chris Rogers remarks on the Sieg Heil salutes: “It was a gesture I would see at every Ukraine game I went to.”
    Half-hour programme (the second ½ is the more interesting), guest appearance by Nick Lowles of Hope Not Hate.
    Worth a look in this age of Biden nuclear peril.

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    • Doc Halliday says:

      Sorry about that, I’m new to this. I thought it would appear as a link not a video that plays automatically. It’s on Dailymotion, not You Tube.

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      • Lucy Pevensey says:

        Doc,
        No worries, I think most people who post here prefer the video to be embedded.

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      • Eddy Booth says:

        Shouldn’t let it play automatically on your device
        Auto Play – off- In browser site settings permissions.

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  24. Lucy Pevensey says:

    So called “Reform” party cancelling people yet again.

    The
    @lotuseaters_com

    Beau Dade was deselected as a candidate by the Reform Party for referring to illegal migrants as “diseased”. It seems Westerfield migrant camp in Essex is rife with Tuberculosis (TB). A follower writes.

    “Hi David, thank you for the excellent reporting!

    “Firstly at Westerfield we all know TB is rampant there but they have been sneaking in nurses over the fields at night so as not to scare the locals.

    “Female staff at the camp are subject to being leered at & make disgusting noises/gestures. The other day a TB positive migrant refused to take his medicine so they had no choice but to isolate him.

    “He moaned & carried on about not having a TV, being on his own & next thing, the police, social services AND a rep from Home Office showed up to discuss his human rights!

    “I’ve personally witnessed groups of men walking in to the TK Maxx and M&S at Braintree Village & stealing clothes & entire rows of meat from the shelves.

    “M&S must lose thousands of pounds a day. I was also in Sainsbury’s in Braintree town centre & saw a bunch of men leering at one of the young girls working in the store (she can only have been 17 or 18).

    “Women are scared to walk around Braintree town centre & all we see now are groups of 6 to 8 men walking around being intimidating.

    “I understand they wish to put more men at Wethersfield & this really scares the locals. Our lovely Essex villages are being destroyed & I am even to scared to walk my dog alone.

    “If there is anything you can do to shed some light on this, we would be grateful.

    “Thank you.”

    TB was first identified in July 2023.
    “RAF base-turned-refugee holding camp reports TB outbreak”

    https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2023/07/28/raf-base-turned-refugee-holding-camp-reports-tb-outbreak/

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  25. Fedup2 says:

    From the DT – Farming and TTK

    STARTS Sir Keir Starmer has claimed that the BBC backed him over the impact of the Government’s tax raid on family farms.

    The Prime Minister said “the vast majority” would be unaffected as he defended the controversial inheritance tax changes at a press conference at the G20 summit in Brazil.

    An article by BBC Verify reported earlier this month that in 2021-22, just 462 inherited farms were worth more than £1 million – the new cap on agricultural property relief (APR) – out of a total of 209,000 farm holdings in the UK.

    In contrast, the Country Land and Business Association estimates that 70,000 farms will be affected by the tax raid.

    Sir Keir told reporters: “All of you can check out what that means in terms of the impact. I think the BBC has already done it.

    “But it means the vast majority of farms are unaffected by this and I think it’s just important we keep making that clear.”

    Earlier on Tuesday, Jeremy Clarkson claimed that 96 per cent of farmers would be affected by the raid as he joined thousands of protesters in Westminster.

    Asked if he thought the former Top Gear presenter was spreading misinformation, Sir Keir said: “I’m not going to get into the business of commenting on what Clarkson says. I think the facts speak for themselves.”

    The BBC was approached for comment.ENDS

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  26. Eddy Booth says:

    BBC getting stick over University Challenge.
    Basically students were instructed to answer starter straight away, dude buzzers can’t answer, question passed to the over team, one player buzzers but pauses for a second or so then answers correctly.
    No, not fast enough says the diversity hire question master.

    The argument being does the “answer promptly” still apply after the question is passed over?

    Q: ‘Of the seven SI-based units from which all other units may be derived, which two have capitalised symbols because they are named after scientists?’

    Not that I watched it , I stopped the day Amol Rajan took over..
    After several decades viewing.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tv/article-14100007/university-challenge-backlash-player-amol-rajan-unfair.html

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    • Lunchtime Loather says:

      I can never decide whether he looks like a pimp or a drug dealer.

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    • Sluff says:

      Last week the Captain of a team answered St Kittis instead of St Kitts. Rajan disallowed it.
      But later in several other answers, the said Captain was clearly shown to have a slight speech impediment such that St Kittis was in all probability linked to that. His team lost.
      Is it just me or is he, as was I think Paxman, slightly easier on Oxbridge teams?

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    • Docmarooned says:

      Rajan is a perfectly obnoxious BBC shit! Have not watched it since the Bamber days. Seem to remember the questions being ludicrously hard then but I have heard it has been dumbed down considerably since then to reflect the current poor university educational standards.

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    • Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

      Volts and Amps ? (Off the top of my head.)

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  27. pugnazious says:

    The BBC finally admit that farmers are angry about Rachel Reeves’ rural raid….they ignored it for ages even as the government said it was preparing for food shortages…and they ignored Clarkson when he said that this was ethnic cleansing of the countryside..in order to make way for new towns built for immigrants.

    Suddenly the BBC, which can’t really ignore the large protest, is reporting it…but doing its best to rubbish the farmers issues with the inheritance laws….as Clarkson notes…butr the BBC doesn’t, lol, report as he says the BBC is the government’s mouthpiece…which is true…

    ‘ He says the BBC was “trotting out that nobody’s affected, Rachel Reeves said so. Since when was the BBC the mouthpiece of this infernal government?”’

    It’s notable how the BBC treats this protest….ignoring it for ages then trashing it…so unlike other protests such as climate or Gaza where the BBC will report for days in the run up to the protest and give the date, the times, the route and location….clearly encouraging people to join in…not so with the farmers.

    Funny how the BBC is so determined to prove the farmers wrong but when someone related to climate change comes on they can spout any amount of dire apocalyptic tosh and not just not get challenged but the presenter will agree with them.

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  28. Eddy Booth says:

    “A soldier, a nurse, a lorry driver and dozens more: who are the men accused over rape and assault of Gisèle Pelicot?”

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/23/a-soldier-a-nurse-a-lorry-driver-and-dozens-more-who-are-the-men-accused-over-and-assault-of-gisele-pelicot

    Looking through them you could also make the headline:
    A Vietnamese boat person, a Mohamed, a Ahmed, a Moroccan,
    an Unaccompanied Minor etc.

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  29. Zephir says:

    I’m disappointed Eddie, I started reading your post and thought it was going to be a joke….

    Anyway, I went to the doctors today with hearing problems, he said, “can you describe the symptoms ?”

    I said, “Homers a big fat yellow bloke and Marge has blue hair”.

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  30. pugnazious says:

    The BBC backs Starmer….and Starmer is happy…

    ‘Sir Keir told reporters: “All of you can check out what that means in terms of the impact. I think the BBC has already done it.

    “But it means the vast majority of farms are unaffected by this and I think it’s just important we keep making that clear.”’

    Nice to have the national broadcaster in your backpocket….expect they won’t be reporting Tommy Robinson’s claims about Southport suspect praying in a mosque in prison….can’t overturn the State narrative about ‘nothing to see here’.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Q1. Can a man have a cervix?
      Q2. What is a working person?

      HA HA HAH AH HAHAH!

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      • Guest Who says:

        Speaker Johnson says “a man cannot become a woman”

        No Blue Sky debate with the chatterati on that one.

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  31. atlas_shrugged says:

    So it is International Men’s Day today. Even more amazing Times Radio brings it up. Time to talk about the fantastic things that men do like unscrew jam jars and stick oil in the car? But no …

    Times radio gets off to a rather gloomy start talking about all the men topping themselves and the 95 thousand men in jail.

    AND THEN some Mad-Cow starts banging on about how every day is men’s day because of the evil patriarchy blah blah blah.

    How about just one day being nice MSM?

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  32. Philip_2 says:

    Letters to Daily telegraph. “I Made a Snowman”

    “First saw this some years ago. Hopefully it gives rise to a giggle …

    It snowed last night…

    8:00 – I made a snowman.

    8:10 – A feminist passed by and asked me why I didn’t make a snowwoman.

    8:15 – So, I made a snowwoman.

    8:17 – My feminist neighbour complained about the snowwoman’s somewhat voluptuous chest, saying it objectified snowwomen everywhere.

    8:20 – The gay couple living nearby threw a hissy fit and moaned it could have been two snowmen instead.

    8:22 – The transgender person asked why I didn’t just make one snow person with detachable parts.

    8:25 – The vegans at the end of the lane complained about my misappropriating a carrot for the nose.

    8:28 – I was then labelled a racist because the snow couple was white.

    8:31 – The Middle Easterner across the road demanded that the snowwoman be covered up.

    8:40 – The Met pitched up in numbers and with gaily flashing lights and cautioned me that someone had been offended.

    8:45 – A news crew from the BBC showed up. I was asked if I knew the difference between snowmen and snowwomen? I replied “Snowballs” and am now called a sexist.

    9:00 – I made the 9 o’clock news as a suspected racist, misogynist, homophobe and general stirrer-upper.

    9:10 – Far-Left protesters offended by absolutely anything and everything marched down the street demanding that I be arrested.

    By noon they had melted

    Moral : There is no moral to this story. It is what we have been compelled to become, all because of snowflakes. ”

    Forwarded, as it made me laugh at this sad time of UK idiots in government. And the State broadcaster behind it all.

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  33. atlas_shrugged says:

    An Afghan culture-enricher stormed a chapel in the Swiss town of Einsiedeln and attacked the beloved Black Madonna statue of the Virgin.

    https://gatesofvienna.net/2024/11/culture-enricher-strips-and-desecrates-the-black-madonna-in-einsiedeln/

    In a statement that could have been written by the BBC the monastery said:

    “We deeply regret this incident and are thinking of the many people whose religious feelings were hurt. Our prayers and thoughts are with them, as well as with the person taken into custody by the police.” The motive for the attack is currently unclear.

    Readers of this site would be able to assist the monastery on a motive.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Paris Attacks: What made Davide Martello​ bring his piano to play John Lennon’s “Imagine”?

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