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  2. StewGreen says:
    November 24, 2024 at 2:54 pm

    882,508 signatures now

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  3. pugnazious says:
    November 24, 2024 at 3:03 pm

    Odd how the BBC keeps giving credibility and airtime to whingers like this…

    ”We knew Christmas before you’ – the Band Aid fallout ‘

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9dl22gz3vlo

    Bandaid did an enormous amount of good but it seems, ala Lammy, ‘white saviours’ are a bit embarrassing and colonial.

    Strangely the BBC isn’t at all concerned about one of its own, Jonathan Dimbleby, who made a film for ITV about famine in Ethiopia…a film that instigated a revolution and a savage dictatorship…as Dimbleby himself noted in 1998…

    ‘I STOOD in the Central Jail in Addis Ababa surrounded by its 640 inmates, all accused of heinous crimes against humanity. One of them pointed at me, saying: “If we are guilty of genocide, Dimbleby, then you should be here with us.” It was a disconcerting moment.

    Twenty five years ago, in 1973, I was responsible for an ITV film called The Unknown Famine which exposed Ethiopia as a crumbling empire stricken by mass starvation. Within Ethiopia the film aroused shame and anger. As a direct result, The Unknown Famine became the catalyst for the overthrow of a feudal emperor in favour of that gruesome dictatorship which soon became synonymous with the name of Mengistu.

    Tens of thousands of young people, intoxicated by the televisual imagery of starvation and the rhetoric of revolution, signed up for Mengistu’s cause and, without a second thought, became footsoldiers for genocide. Within five years the “red terror” – as the slaughter was officially known – accounted for at least 100,000 lives.’

    BBC ‘Royalty’….so maybe best not to ask too many awkward questions.

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  4. Zephir says:
    November 24, 2024 at 3:08 pm

    What happens in the US comes over here…please…and a quote from within

    “Identity politics can only work by telling you who isn’t included”

    ‘The Five’ reacts to the Democratic Party’s election ‘autopsy’

    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/unhinged-election-outcry-reveals-failed-promise-secular-salvation

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  5. MarkyMark says:
    November 24, 2024 at 3:20 pm

    Three guilty of Comic Relief and Children in Need fraud
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    4 August 2010

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    Three people have been convicted of devising a scheme to fraudulently claim more than £500,000 of grants from leading charities.

    Children in Need, Comic Relief and the Big Lottery Fund were all targeted, Isleworth Crown Court was told.

    Kitumbula Mazambi and his wife Mapendo Kasiba, both of London, and his brother Kyalemaninwa Mazambi, of Coventry, were convicted of conspiracy to steal.

    The police said the men had “cynically betrayed” positions of trust.

    ‘Web of deception’

    Kitumbula Mazambi, a biology graduate who arrived in Britain in the mid 1990s, masterminded the fraud.

    After becoming aware of the plethora of small grants available from charities, he worked out a way of avoiding justifying how the money was spent.

    Working with his co-defendants, a network of different bodies were created to maximise the grants they could obtain.

    But a grants officer from the Big Lottery Fund raised the alarm after noticing similarities between a number of different applications.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-10874578

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    Why is Children In Need sitting on a £90million fortune? Charity stashes sum away in investment portfolio instead of handing it out
    Charity also has £2.2million in its accounts up from £900,000 last year
    Spokesman said money being temporarily held and would be given away
    In 2008 BBC faced investigation after keeping £100,000 of charity money
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2793340/why-children-need-sitting-90million-fortune-charity-stashes-sum-away-investment-portfolio-instead-handing-out.html

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    • Zephir says:
      November 24, 2024 at 3:22 pm

      If you need some relief from comedy, Lenny Henry’s the man.

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      • Lazy Cat says:
        November 24, 2024 at 3:27 pm

        Lenny Henry is about as funny as sandpapering your hemorrhoids while ‘Agadoo’ plays on loop and a drunk Diane Abbott sits on your face while reading The Communist Manifesto out loud.

        Or about as funny as any recent BBC ‘comedy’ series.

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  6. Lazy Cat says:
    November 24, 2024 at 3:22 pm

    Close to a Lammy bung now (1 million).

    Allegedly and in Minecraft bloke down the pub told me.

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  7. Zephir says:
    November 24, 2024 at 3:23 pm

    It seems we have our own little sort of general election of the disaffected, should be a million soon.

    And there was me thinking my “honeymoon period” was short…..

    We once decided to never go to bed angry, as all the therapists advise, we were awake for 96 hours.

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