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  1. Guest Who says:
    November 29, 2024 at 9:17 am

    Speaking of lack of interest. Or a brain.

    https://x.com/bbcquestiontime/status/1862242112831406457?s=61
    “I’m much more interested in… how we fix the problems we inherited”
    Labour’s Lisa Nandy says immigration has “enriched” UK cities, and problems stem from “arbitrary” migration targets and lack of investment in young British people.

    #ccbgb

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  2. Flotsam says:
    November 29, 2024 at 9:19 am

    The curious thing about the Greg Wallace story is that he worked for TV for so long without any reports of wrondoing. It’s not like Savile where the victims were young people that could be manipulated and intimidated. Wallace’s “victims” were adults. I’ve come across Wallace types before, robust working class, a bit loud.
    Kirsty Wark, a BBC snowflake perhaps?

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  3. AsISeeIt says:
    November 29, 2024 at 9:26 am

    We survey the headlines this morning as the big corporate interest FT treats the latest inward migration to Britain figures in the way that our global warming obsessed Met Office and BBC relish the reporting of warm summer thermometer readings – it’s theoretically a bad thing… but they love it…

    Arrivals jump… Immigration beats record (Financial Times) – just think of all that cheap labour available to the big low pay corporates.

    Gotta admire the spin put on the understimated record-breaking total by the ONS: The big revision… was due to… number of Ukrainians arriving… (FT)

    In other oddly phrased news headlines: ‘I might be dead before a decision is made’: Terminally ill people on assisted dying (BBC) – well, that rather solves your problem, eh?

    In an unusual development these days we find an actual diversity of opinion between national daily titles on this life and death issue. And we don’t get that about the war in Ukraine.

    The Guardian (ceasefire fans in Palestine but gungho warmongers in the Donbas) platforms pro-state-backed-euthenasia MP, the communistic utilitarian Kim ‘Jong’ Leadbeater: ‘We will look back and think, why didn’t this happen sooner’

    Well quite. Think of all the elderly ailing relatives we could have seen a lot less of.

    Bad taste – says the in-the-tank for Labour Daily Mirror – but they have completely ignored the assisted dying vote on their frontpage and are instead punning on the over-spicy TV cookery show sauce: New scandal at the BBC… MasterChef Gregg probed over sexual comments on show – there’s a punishment to fit the crime if ever there was one.

    As one boiled egg said to another “Blimey the water is hot in this pan” to the reply “Wait till they take you out… they smash your egghead in with a spoon”

    BBC in fresh sex scandal – observes the mildly conservative Telegraph – food and sex are best served fresh.

    Naturally, the left-leaning junior poundshop Guardian that is the ‘i’ newspaper is all in favour – despite its prior extreme coronaphobia – no contradiction in its anxiety to see off grandma there then?

    The ‘i’ deploys that old opinion poll trick: UK public backs assisted dying – as MPs vote on landmark bill – no one asked me, how about you?

    But seriously, Esther – to borrow a catchphrase from the BBC’s vintage light-hearted current affairs magazine That’s Life…

    Wot, no Daily Express in the BBC dead tree press online line-up this morning?

    Do your own research I guess…

    Dame Esther’s message to MPs… Please allow us ‘dignity of choice in our lives’ (Daily Express)

    On the opposition benches, so to speak (of the dead tree press) we find the Daily Mail editorial comment: Why MPs MUST press the pause button today on this rushed and ill thought-out assisted dying Bill

    Insurance corporation Norwich Union was rebranded as Aviva

    I’m not sure whether the popularity of Steve Coogan’s comic character Alan Partridge, famously a DJ on Radio Norwich, cast comedic shade on the town and prompted that rebrand.

    Aviva appeals directly to Direct Line investors after £3.3bn offer is rejected (FT)

    I’m teasing of course. Aviva is thrust into the political scandal news today due to: Louise Haigh, the transport secretary, was prosecuted in 2014 after an internal investigation into stolen or missing mobile phones at Aviva, where she worked (Times)

    Or did she really work there – we’ve only got her word for that? What’s true on Rachel Reeves’ LinkedIn CV – and what’s not? (Evening Standard)

    Having attempted to understand the details of her mobile phone scam by reading the press reports this morning Mr AsI is frankly more confused than back in the day when he was watching police procedural series The Wire

    The Wire is an American crime drama television series created and primarily written by American author and former police reporter David Simon for the cable network HBO… with wiretaps and pager clones to infiltrate the security measures… pre-wiretapped disposable cell phones… Despite the critical acclaim, The Wire received poor Nielsen ratings… attributed to the complexity of the plot; a poor time slot; heavy use of esoteric slang… Critics felt the show was testing the attention span of its audience (Thank you Wiki)

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  4. Lucy Pevensey says:
    November 29, 2024 at 9:30 am

    Did somebody say ‘holding power to account’ ?

    “Congress investigates think tank linked to British Labour alleged of plotting to ‘kill Musk’s Twitter’
    Committee demands Centre for Countering Digital Hate to hand over all documents detailing contacts it had with the White House”

    Sorry, Paywall

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/11/26/congress-investigates-left-wing-think-tank-musk-twitter/

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    • MarkyMark says:
      November 29, 2024 at 9:32 am

      “Its chief executive is Imran Ahmed, the former Labour strategist.

      A powerful Republican-led committee in Congress is investigating claims a Left-wing campaign group co-operated with the Biden administration to “kill” X.

      Jim Jordan, chairman of the House judiciary committee, has demanded the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), hand over all documents detailing contacts it had with the White House.

      The move by Mr Jordan earlier this month raised the stakes, with leaders of the group which now operates on both sides of the Atlantic risking jail for contempt of Congress if they refuse to comply.

      The group has links to Britain’s ruling Labour Party, having been launched by Morgan McSweeney, who was appointed the Prime Minister’s chief of staff earlier this month.

      Its chief executive is Imran Ahmed, the former Labour strategist.“

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  5. Zephir says:
    November 29, 2024 at 9:33 am

    Peace in the Middle East.

    Could, or should that be bbc world news.. nope

    Not for the muzzies at the bbc

    Instead: ‘My son is a drug addict, please help’ – the actor breaking a Zambian taboo

    So the muzzies at the bbc do their best

    Lower down the order of their priorities:

    “Ceasefire largely holds but..”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yg1pq1x57o

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  6. Emmanuel Goldstein says:
    November 29, 2024 at 10:14 am

    What has this Gregg Wallace done.
    Was it just ‘banter’ that some wokies got themselves upset about or was it some really nasty things said.

    Also, the fluorescent ex transport minister. It seems from her account that this was a simple mistake that anybody could make so why has she gone. It appears as an overreaction unless there’s more to it than finding a mislaid phone.

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    • Zephir says:
      November 29, 2024 at 10:32 am

      After sending an email of support to the above, jews that are intimidated walking the street.

      I am receiving hundreds of emails from “Sherry Carey” click on the attached, do you remember these photos ?”

      Each time reported as spam then every week from another address.

      Don’t even try to portray youselves as victims.

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  8. G says:
    November 29, 2024 at 10:46 am

    In perspective.

    Government Petition? Right now, 2,891,352.

    Voters voting Libour in the election? 9,708,716.

    https://electionresults.parliament.uk/general-elections/6/political-parties

    Perhaps the balance in numbers are happy witnessing creeping totalitarianism / Communism. If not, where are the “voters now unhappy with Labour”. Perhaps another yarn.

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  9. Althepalerp says:
    November 29, 2024 at 10:49 am

    So apparently the sacked transport minister had a company Blackberry, and wanted a new iPhone which her employer Aviva were dishing out at the time. The contract had another year to go so she thought she’d try to speed it up.
    Just before a colleague reported hers lost and got one.

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  10. Fedup2 says:
    November 29, 2024 at 11:24 am

    Update on the NHS killing bill –

    They’ve been talking for 2 plus hours – to me it looks as more research needs to be done before this Bill is fit for voting on ….

    I reckon they’ll vote against it ….

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  11. Fedup2 says:
    November 29, 2024 at 11:33 am

    Killing Bill update
    Layler Moran – the air head liberal – a completely shambolic speech – apparently she is chair of the health committee – god help us …..

    ( I realise I’ve strayed outside the BBC remit )

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  12. MarkyMark says:
    November 29, 2024 at 11:56 am

    “In 1976, the Labour government sought a loan from the International Monetary Fund to meet deteriorating economic conditions. The Fund demanded large cuts in public spending. After a bitter Cabinet battle, the Cabinet agreed, so ending plans to expand the economy and improve the social services. Many believed that 1976 was also a crisis for democratic socialism, a philosophy which had sought social improvement through economic growth. That philosophy now appeared irrelevant during a period of austerity. ”

    https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/imf-crisis-1976

    James Callaghan’s Labour government had to borrow $3.9 billion[a] from the International Monetary Fund (IMF),[4] with the intention of maintaining the value of sterling.[5] At the time this was the largest loan ever to have been requested from the IMF.[6]

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