13 Responses to Start the Christmas Week 23rd December 2024

  1. JohnC says:
    December 22, 2024 at 9:36 pm

    And here I am : Christmas No. 1 !!!.
    Well, Christmas Eve at least if Fed is still sober enough to start a new thread for Xmas day.

    Anyway, my point is this:

    Just watching the second episode of the new BBC drama ‘Wolf Hall’ about Thomas Cromwell 500 years ago.

    I wrote a comment earlier about how I didn’t realise how many BAME we had. Well – it seems the BBC have done their usual trick of keeping the numbers down for the first episode to get us watching then going full-on agenda. Blacks are everywhere !. One princess had 3 ladies in waiting. 2 were black.

    But the cherry on the cake was the daughter of Cardinal Wolsey:
    ‘Wolsey’s affairs prospered and by 1514 he had become the controlling figure in virtually all matters of state. He also held important ecclesiastical appointments. These included the Archbishop of York—the second most important role in the English church—and that of papal legate. His appointment as a cardinal by Pope Leo X in 1515 gave him precedence over all other English clergy.’

    Here she is:
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    And the amazing thing is that he had this clearly BAME daughter with a woman called ‘Joan Larke’.

    Beyond ridiculous, blatant, racist lies by the BBC. Again. Why do people think that the BBC re-writing history for their own far-Left political agenda is OK ?.

    I would say ‘Enough is enough’ about this bullshit – but apparently that gets me 2 years in prison under creepy Starmer.

    Apart from that, the program is way, way above the quality I expect from the BBC now. So I checked and sure enough they didn’t make it. It was outsourced to ‘Playground Entertainment and Company Pictures’ and I am 100% certain the BAME are directives from the BBC.

    The BBC ‘executive producer’ Polly Hill jumped shift as head of the equally woke ‘ITV drama’ to the BBC. She quit the BBC to move to ITV in 2016 and then moved back again. As you will expect these days, it is a woman.
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    I wonder if Polly knows how she has been instrumental in destroying the quality of British drama.

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    • Deborah says:
      December 22, 2024 at 10:12 pm

      I am reading John C’s first post, and I am watching Wolf Hall at the same time. Cromwell’s daughter has appeared. She doesn’t to be from the global majority (is that the right description?) but she does have an American accent (possibly with a hint of French) but I am terribly confused.

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      • BRISSLES says:
        December 22, 2024 at 10:49 pm

        Also a non white detective in new season of Death in Paradise. The diversity directive that has infected the drama and entertainment production companies continues apace. Sod the fact they may not be any good, just get the number of non white actors in to make the quotient required.
        Started to binge watch the remake Day of the Jackal. Can’t fault Eddy Redmaynes performance but oh dear dear dear, the black female MI6 “operative” can’t act her way out of a paper bag, then there’s her family shooed in and her boss for good measure. AND it’s not just me saying this. I always check viewers comments on IMDB for films and dramas, and I’m not alone in my thoughts. It’s no longer the best actor in casting, it’s making sure there’s equality in skin colour.

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  2. non-licence payer says:
    December 22, 2024 at 9:37 pm

    When will the bBC wake up to the fact that their preferred Government and government is driving the UK into a very hard wall at great speed. Sadly they are so politically arrogant that they are unable to see the wall. Stop paying the tax.

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  3. wwfc says:
    December 22, 2024 at 10:11 pm

    Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all

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  4. StewGreen says:
    December 22, 2024 at 10:14 pm

    BBC presenters “we are IMPARTIAL IMPARTIAL IMPARTIAL”
    BBC presenter Paul Lewis Money tweets
    An interesting list of broadly good things the government has done which (generally) you won’t read elsewhere including £100m for hospices and steps towards improving the justice system.
    Quotes @BylineTimes Dec 20
    🔴All the Big Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About
    You won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks

    FFS the Byline Times is a scurrilous lefty propaganda rag
    For a start The government has imposed hundreds of millions of new National Insurance costs on hospices each year
    So giving back £100m over 2 years is hardly impressive.

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  5. Deborah says:
    December 22, 2024 at 10:22 pm

    I used to be a Covid numbers junky, from watching Valance asking for the next slide please to still regularly checking the UKHSA dashboard.

    But for the last 3 weeks I have a new darling. I keep checking the general election petition. Probably it is the Waspi ladies but the speed of signings has definitely speeded up. As I type on Sunday evening, the petition is just 3 thousand short of 3 million. I know of course it isn’t going to result in a general election but it should make Labour realise the level of the discontent.

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  6. JohnC says:
    December 22, 2024 at 10:44 pm

    Children among dozens killed in Israeli strikes, Gaza officials say
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz9g4yl8j17o

    Here’s a new low:

    The BBC went from telling us Hamas control Gaza and they are designated a terrorist organisation to omitting the ‘terrorist’ bit completely.

    Now they don’t even tell us it is Hamas. They give them full credibility as a duly elected government.

    ‘Gaza’s civil defence agency spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal told the AFP news agency that the school had been repurposed as a shelter for Palestinians displaced by the war.
    One displaced man who had been staying at the school, Abu, told BBC Arabic that the attack came while he was asleep.’

    AFP and BBC. Both utterly untrustworthy. Both are left-wing activist organisations. Either name is a badge of dishonesty for me now.

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  7. Guest Who says:
    December 22, 2024 at 11:11 pm

    There might be a smidge of irony here.

    https://x.com/rrrrnessa/status/1870495794236977278?s=61
    You people are deeply, dangerously unwell and evil. The majority of Muslims have never even heard of Taqiya, let alone practice it.

    She Meesh’s replacement?

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  8. StewGreen says:
    December 23, 2024 at 12:32 am

    BBC “Elon Musk’s curious fixation with Britain ” by Mike Wendling
    is rightly double ratioed and CCBGB’d

    When someone has a concern about something
    and you turn around and say they have a fixation
    That is not proper argument, that is smear , dismissal etc.

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  9. Zephir says:
    December 23, 2024 at 12:37 am

    bbc’s bloody outrageous fixations with muslims, black people, Elon Musk and Donald Trump, for a publicly funded and impartial organisation.

    There, fixed it.

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