194 Responses to Midweek 11th December 2024

  1. Zephir says:

    “Starmer refuses to say he’ll strip UK citizenship of terrorists fleeing Syria”

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/12/11/politics-latest-news-starmer-badenoch-pmqs-tractor-protest/

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  2. Zephir says:

    “Speaking during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons, Mrs Badenoch said: “The Prime Minister has consistently backed criminals over law abiding British people. He defended terrorists like Hizb ut-Tahrir in the European court. He argued all immigration law had a racist undercurrent. He voted against life sentences for people smugglers.

    “He voted against more than 100 measures to control migration. He even said it was wrong when the Conservatives took away Shamima Begum’s citizenship.

    “Now he has appointed her defence lawyer as his attorney general. Events in Syria mean we may see more small boat arrivals. For once will he take the side of the British people and strip citizenship from jihadi terrorists and supporters of Assad who want to come back and destroy this country?”

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  3. Zephir says:

    I wonder why?

    “NHS calls for midwives specialising in inbred babies – as Labour refuses to back ban on marrying first cousins.

    Midwives and nurses who specialise in genetic conditions caused by inbreeding have been deployed across the NHS to care for blood-related couples who have children.

    MailOnline can reveal multiple NHS employers have advertised for several such roles over the past year-and-a-half, some offering salaries of about £50,000.

    It comes as the devastating health consequences of cousin marriages was highlighted in the House of Commons this week, amid the launch of a new Bill that aims to ban the practice.

    The former Conservative minister Richard Holden, who has tabled the Private Members’ Bill, said such unions have been linked to a higher rate of birth defects.

    ‘Studies show that it is associated with approximately double the rate of birth defects compared to the general population and can reinforce negative structures and control women,’ he told the House of Commons.

    However, some MPs defended the practice. Independent Iqbal Mohamed claimed such unions could ‘build family bonds’ and put families on a ‘more secure financial foothold’, although he too acknowledged the heath risks.
    Labour has indicated it has no plans to ban marriages between first cousins.
    Cousin marriage is popular among certain communities in Britain such as those of Pakistani and Bangladeshi heritage.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14180917/NHS-midwives-specialist-inbreeding-babies-risk-Bill.html

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  4. Althepalerp says:

    Inheritance Tax
    The argument goes it only effects a small amount of estates, Farms or otherwise.
    If they accept the principle is right, why only go after 4%?
    What not tax the majority? No votes in it I guess.

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  5. vlad says:

    Dan Wootton tears into the BBC’s Clive Myrie over Islam report.

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    • BRISSLES says:

      So to be clear. Novarmedia are accusing GBN as being the engine of Islamaphobia. Yet the directors / founders of Novarmedia are regularly invited as guests by GBN for debating purposes !

      I don’t mind being called Islamaphobic. Lock me up – food and heating provided !

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  6. Guest Who says:

    Let’s just say….

    https://x.com/novaramedia/status/1866840585618743458?s=61

    Almost half of all mentions of Islam or Muslims on UK news channels since October 2022 came from a single source, a new report has found, confirming what many have suspected: GB News is an engine of Islamophobia.

    …#CCBGB

    I thought this one would resonate given Champion Ash’s prevalence in W1A studios.

    @Tezzalap
    Almost 75% of all mentions of drag queens on UK news channels comes from the BBC. The BBC is an engine of perversion and degeneracy.

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  7. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    With Saudi Arabia getting the World Cup in 2034 weeks it gives the FA lots of time to stock up on plenty of Stonewall rainbow laces and rainbow armbands.

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  8. Fedup2 says:

    Seems an ‘unfortunate’ consequence of the real presidenr getting elected is the next phase of democrat far left grief – this one is the ‘celebration of the nutter who shot a health care CEO and who is now playing to his ‘fans’ … some ladies with cats think he is ‘hot ‘….
    I don’t think they’ll get to ‘acceptance ‘ any time in the next 4 years … 20 January 2029 …..( if they don’t murder president trump first of course ) – or someone fire the Bid One ….

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    • digg says:

      I think the adoration of the utter coward who murdered the CEO by shooting him in the back before scuttling off like a rat illustrates just how deranged the left and possibly in particular the female left really are in the USA. It reveals an astounding total lack of moral compass. The barbaric events during the Irish “troubles” show what this sort of blind cult intolerance and killer worship can lead too.

      Trump is not going to have an easy ride as this disgusting and evil process takes hold more and more.

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  9. MarkyMark says:

    The 2034 men’s football World Cup will be held in Saudi Arabia
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    In all three decisions just one voting option was available, shrouding the proceedings in controversy.

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    • Lazy Cat says:

      Why not?

      The World Cup is a joke now anyway.

      The World Cup will just end up being ‘our Africans vs your Africans’. We’re already half way there. Modern computer based tactical and performance analysis has deemed that everyone should play the same way.

      Football is now ‘press high up the pitch’ and try to ‘steal’ the ball and quickly counter. Or try to ‘beat the press’ and start your own attack as you break through the ‘high line’

      It all gets rather boring after watching every game being played this way for the last few years.

      I recall the World Cups of distant past.

      The skillful Brazilians with the samba drums and half naked dancing girls in the crowd. Even the fans have changed. All middle class types who managed to get tickets at £3,000 a pop. Not the real fans of years ago.

      The efficient Germans. Like their cars. A little bland but top notch. If nobody wants to win it, they’ll win it.

      The naive Africans. Powerful, fast and skilful. But likely to get 2 red cards for appalling fouls or commit amateur defensive errors.

      The Japanese. Quick, skillful and full of fair play and respect for the referee. Although lightweight and easily dominated physically.

      The Latins. Argentina, Spain and Italy in particular. Skillful, can beat anyone, defensively sound…but can self destruct at any moment in a mass hissy fit. Dirty snide sods too, with their cynical fouling and play acting.

      The French and Dutch. Like Brazil, but more likely to all fall out with each other within their own squafd than do well.

      England. Start badly. Get better. Look like we might do it and then lose on penalties to countries we had wars with or lose in a controversial manner. Or both.

      Scotland. Lose to minnows, beat or draw with good teams, but all too little, too late and out in round 1.

      Yes, the World Cup was great because we had real diversity.

      If globalism means every country’s teams look and play the same way, how is this ‘diverse’?

      World Cup has been pants since about 2002.

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  10. Marco says:

    Sky and the BBC working with the government , no mention of the farmers on there web sites thank heaven for gb news

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  11. pugnazious says:

    The BBC cheerleads anyone who wants to annihilate the fossil fuel motor industry or any price rises on power that would ‘save the planet’….as witnessed recently when the boss of Scottish Power came on and demanded huge rises in prices and massive investment in electrification…it was absolutely crucial in order to ‘save the planet’…not a word of dissent or challenge from the BBC presenter despite such measures clearly being in the electricity industry’s interest…massive profits on the back of them.

    Odd then that Tesla, ie Musk, gets singled out for BBC opprobrium for doing exactly the same thing…the tone of the BBC report is clearly meant to convey that Musk is doing something immoral and wrong…

    ‘Elon Musk’s electric car firm Tesla pushed the government to make petrol car drivers “pay more” in the days after Labour won the general election.

    Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, has waded into British politics openly on social media, predicting “civil war” and criticising prime minister Sir Keir Starmer.

    But behind the scenes his firm was trying to persuade the new government to extend a policy that would boost his firm’s profits.’

    Funny how the BBC hates Musk so much but loves Dale Vince who is just as profiteering and grasping…but allegedly a ‘greenie’.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd0en9mn8mko

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  12. MarkyMark says:

    A man armed with an AK-47 assault rifle waves us down an alley. We’re in a small village in eastern Pakistan, to meet someone who says he can tell us how Sara Sharif’s family managed to hide from police for more than four weeks during an international police hunt.

    He was the one who hid them, he tells us.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2k0y52p5e9o

    ………………………

    The Jihadis Next Door review: Channel 4 was absolutely right to make this film
    https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/jan/20/jihadis-next-door-review-channel-4-isis-abu-rumaysah

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  13. Fedup2 says:

    I wonder if all those ‘celebs ‘ who endorsed Kamala ( remember her ) are now cursed ? J Z and J Lo and diddy Pee and bee yond say all see to be tabloid fodder for something or other – which is nice ….

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    • tomo says:

      It rather looks like Mr Beyonce is deep in doo-doo with his old mate Sean Coombs…

      You can absolutely see why the BBC are not poking around – given their entanglement / investment in the music businees

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  14. pugnazious says:

    Just as the BBC targets Musk and ignores those with a mindset conducive to the BBC worldview it also targets Israel whilst shutting its eyes to others.

    The BBC spent yesterday telling us how the UN [often represented by a Russian voice…the BBC failing to note the Russian interest in Syria] was demanding Israel stop bombing targets in Syria….but somehow the fact that the Americans were busily bombing IS in Syria and Turkey was bombing the Kurds in Syria got totally forgotten.

    Just little Israel then. Odd or not so odd…just the usual UN bigotry and BBC bias.

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  15. pugnazious says:

    BBC still pushing the government line on farm inheritance tax as it tacks onto its reports that ‘the government says the majority of farms will not be affected’…..no mention of any other voices which beg to differ…including Defra itself.

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  16. pugnazious says:

    As the BBC targets Musk for lobbying the government in order to save the planet, lol, it is oddly quiet about the green grabber who made a fortune out of green subsidies and who gave Labour millions so that his ex-wife couldn’t get it in a divorce settlement….how does that go down at the BBC where women’s issues are a hot topic? Seems they’re not too bothered about the climate change hero’s dodgy dealings.

    ‘A green energy tycoon who previously bankrolled Just Stop Oil donated millions of pounds to the Labour Party to reduce the amount he would have to pay his ex-wife in a divorce battle, the High Court has been told.

    Dale Vince, 63, and his former wife Kate Vince, 50, are in dispute over how money should be split following their divorce, which a judge granted on Tuesday.’

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/11/dale-vince-green-tycoon-labour-millions-divorce-payout-ex/

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  17. Guest Who says:

    https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/1987514/bbc-probe-gregg-wallaces?
    EXCLUSIVE: BBC journalists are digging deeper into Gregg Wallace’s behaviour – and are set to uncover a string of new allegations for a Panorama-style show

    All of the above is entirely typical… and makes zero sense in media terms.

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  18. pugnazious says:

    Talking about women’s rights….there’s Woman’s Hour where we get the world from a very bitter point of view.

    Today we hear that women are victims of a wicked level of misogyny at triathlon events…

    ‘A new report from SheRACES and Fund Her Tri UK has found that women triathletes can experience unacceptable harassment at events. It also showed that women competitors struggle with the lack of toilet facilities and changing facilities. Sophie Power is an ultrarunner and founder of SheRACES – she joins Nuala McGovern to tell us more about the report and the change they hope to make.’

    It was traumatic listening to the tales of woe as women, especially women of colour, and especially especially Muslim women, who are treated appallingly. It’s so unfair that men are at the front when races start…and just where are the facilities for women…just where do Muslims get changed? I guess they have the same level of facilities the men have…but they don’t moan.

    Seems remarkably fragile and demanding…never heard of a ‘changing robe’ if you’re shy or Muslim? Muslims want the world to adapt to them rather than them adapt to the world.

    One really annoying listen considering how many thousands of women partake in triathlons and love it and funnily enough seem to cope quite well with doing whatever is necessary without politicising and weaponisng it.

    Shasme the BBC gives such a big platform to the whingers without anyone on to give any counter-arguments.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0025w54

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Comparative male / female suicide numbers might add to the flavour of the discussion . The friend of mine who hanged himself from a tree because his wife who took him to the cleaners – comes to mind – RIP

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      • non-licence payer says:

        Male suicides used to be 2 in 3. It is now 3 in 4.

        The last Government’s major research into suicides was into females suicides only.

        Typical state sexism.

        (I still do not know how the sexual equality act will be promoted should the UK have to go to war again. One people one law)

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  19. Sluff says:

    On the subject of wasteful public expenditure.
    The little girl murdered by her Pakistani heritage parents in Woking after years of social services interventions.
    The father admitted it from the off.
    The evidence was overwhelming.

    So…….why did the court case take EIGHT WEEKS.
    Nice work for the legal profession if you can get it.

    It reminds me of a murder some years ago by a man who murdered someone in church with a sword.
    ‘We’ve got ( insert large number) of detectives on the case’, said a police spokesman.
    The murderer was caught red handed by the entire congregation.

    It’s not the working class versus the middle class any more.
    It’s about the entitled public sector class versus the embattled private sector class

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  20. Zephir says:

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    • digg says:

      The BBC never noticed it!

      Maybe they should add another specialist team to go alongside verify and misinformation called noinformation?

      There is no doubt whatsoever that there is a hotline between the BBC newsroom and Labour HQ.

      What they don’t realise is that every time they pull a “nothing to see here” stroke they get a bit less trusted by loads of new people. Hence they are gradually putting a noose round their own neck.

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    • non-licence payer says:

      “Consult us on inheritance tax, farmers urge PM”

      It has finally made the top half of the UK news page, although you would not have known that there was a demonstration from the head line.

      bBC prejudice.

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  21. Zephir says:

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  22. digg says:

    It’s an amazing feat to get detested by so many people in such a short time that has been achieved by Starmer and Reeves.

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  23. Fedup2 says:

    On X a person claiming to be victor orban says he had an hour long conversation with president Putin yesterday .. I don’t know about you – but I feel the ‘danger ‘ variables building up and up .
    Can only count down the days until the vacuum left by Obama Biden is filled by the regime of President trump …

    40 days …..

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  24. vlad says:

    There’s a new trend among the media in America of cosying up to Trump.
    Until very recently they were hysterically denouncing him as a Hitler / Nazi / fascist.
    Now suddenly it’s all olive branches / unity / kumbaya, we were with you all along etc.
    In the case of Cenk Uygur (below), by some extraordinary intellectual contortions, he’s claiming that he was right all along, that he was always on the same side as the populist right.
    Matt Walsh is having none of it.

    Something similar may happen here, as more and more wake up to the realisation that the populist right were the sane ones all along, and the lefties try to jump on the bandwagon. They should be made to make abject, grovelling apologies before being allowed on board.

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    • moggiemoo says:

      Bugger that, they shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the same.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      The tragedy is that the sane right sat on its’ hands at the last election allowing the great leader into number 10 . We knew it was going to happen – and that the dead blues are directly responsible for it …
      Sunak must be in California by now …. Nut nut think he still means something …. But listening to PMQs – however much the current blue leader spouts – it will always come back to their cowardice for the last 12 years … for which they should be buried .

      And to show how out of touch they are – my MP – Ian Duncan smith asked a question about some foreigner locked up in an Arab jail … im sure the white people who voted for him will be suitably unimpressed …

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  25. Flotsam says:

    Thousands of farmers and tractors in Londonistan to protest today.

    No tractors nicked? Or farmers mugged?

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  26. Loobyloo says:

    From the DT report on the murder of Sara Sharif RIP:

    ‘ Jurors were brought to tears on several occasions as they heard details of Sara’s suffering. Sharif’s own barrister told the court his client was a “scumbag” who “would be in the circles of hell for eternity”.’

    Which says it all. I hope this piece of excrement gets what he deserves, and he almost certainly won’t get long enough in the slammer cos he didn’t mean to kill her he was just giving her a legal punishment (British legal scholar!).

    Even after admitting what he’d done, he had the gall to ask for her to be buried as a Muslim – ie he was more concerned about his religion’s rules than her life. Says it all – what a despicable piece of shit (can’t think of a word band enough).

    I would be surprised if the bbc report that comment – thankfully I don’t listen to them any more. Unfortunately the country is full of people like that and that is why we are finished, shortly to become an Islamic shithole.

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  27. Fedup2 says:

    The reds want to build 4 new prisons . I was listening to a discussion on it today . The ex prison ‘chief ‘ nick hardwick was saying 4 was not enough and they’d by full pretty quick .

    No reason was suggested – not the huge population increase – not the huge diversity – not the third world – but day in day out there are horror cases with evil people being locked up for long periods – more than 10 years .

    Hardwick suggested we ( the state ) find new ways of dealing with criminals …. But never came up with even an idea ….

    Import the third world – fill up the prisons – and there are the TTK political prisoners like Tommy Robinson of course – stuck in the gulag …

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  28. Fedup2 says:

    Damn – Obama / Biden FBI director has resigned . Pity he didn’t have the patience to wait until 20 January – let’s hope he gets to do Federal Time ….

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  29. BRISSLES says:

    Saudi Arabia World Cup 2034. And the amount in millions that David Beckham will get as ambassador / meet & greeter / sponsorship deals will be ………

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  30. StewGreen says:

    If a farming family has 100 acres
    Then when grandparents die the 20% tax means they have 80 acres left after tax
    30 years later the next generation dies that means they have 64 acres left after tax
    30 years later the next generation dies that means they have 51 acres left after tax
    30 years later the next generation dies that means they have 40 acres left after tax
    32, 26, 21, etc

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  31. Fedup2 says:

    And more excellent news – 11000 met civilian support staff to strike because they have to go to work – it’s stressful apparently . Guys – stay at home -permanently – take the unemployment benefits….then cut the met budget …

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  32. Square-Eyed says:

    Does anybody know a good course in the basics of government that we could send Starmer and his pals on?

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  33. Charlie Farley says:

    Millipedes Green Dream going well , Vestas wind turbine makers based on the Isle of Wight are planning to make 300 out of 600 staff redundant , apparently the blades are for off shore use and demand has dramatically dropped or fallen off !……a sad situation for them pre Christmas 😔

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