261 Responses to Midweek 5th February 2025

    • Fedup2 says:

      There was also ‘something ‘ in Dundalk where a new arrival attempted to abduct a kid – there was an old ‘hue and cry’ because plod did zip ….

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  1. Johnda says:

    From a child bbc presenter who should have been on children’s news round. The limit on payment card for tap payment is 50 euros in Europe that’s £35.00 . Wow where does he get his money changed . It works our an about 1.47 as opposed to real rate of 1.18 clown!!!!

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  2. Sluff says:

    BBC reporting January was the busiest month for the religion that is the NHS.
    98,000 people per day in hospital beds.
    Which is 96% of the total capacity.
    They also go on to mention that nearly 14,000 of those were medically fit to be discharged!!!!!!!
    That’s a ratio I’ve not seen before but there is no BBC Verify follow up. Surely a massive massive scandal. But verify are probably too busy checking how many squares of toilet paper President Trump used and whether he lied about it.

    Time to link NHS and social services you might think but then again it might be easier and quicker to watch paint dry.

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  3. Terminal Moraine says:

    I learnt a new phrase today: “Home Secretary backs knife arches in schools as she warns of ‘growing violence’ caused by social media”.

    Knife arches sound quite agreeable, like a unique architectural feature and certainly much less symbolic of a declining culture than metal detectors. Like diversity bollards, we’ll soon treat them as a normal aspect of modern life. Just part and parcel of living in a country run by idiots.

    https://www.lbc.co.uk/politics/home-secretary-backs-knife-arches-in-schools/

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    • MarkyMark says:

      knife arches – one of the five pillars of Islam

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      Londoners ‘at risk from terrorists on mopeds’ after barriers on bridges widened for cyclists

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Diane Abbott (Shadow Home Secretary – UK Security) not read a major report (Harris Report) on London Attacks. Won her seat with 75% in GE2017.

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  4. non-licence payer says:

    Idle thought but is release of the voice coach news part of an internal squabble within Labour ranks. It is only a matter of time now before someone plunges a proverbial knife in the back of this talentless ‘leader’.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Any Chinese SPy photos? 44788949-9734773-image-a-137_1624916055442.jpg

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      • NW Ninepence says:

        No, but there may be some Iranian spy photos lying around !
        Read the outcome of the trial earlier of Daniel Khalife, the young man from an Iranian family, who as a teenager joined the army. He somehow managed to gain access to unauthorised areas and download information to usb sticks and take photos,which he then passed on to the Iranians. Then contacted MI5, in the hope of working as a double agent for them – He was caught, sent to prison and then escaped under a delivery van, only to be caught again. – did I just make that up? ​
        (It reminds me of Percy Toplis, who although a ‘wrong-un’ made a mockery of the military security and the police of that time.)

        Another incredulous story.
        We all have a right to a normal life – ​don’t we?
        Report in Express:- Benefits cheat begs to be deported from UK to BULGARIA – but £50m he stole still missing.
        – it’s understood that only around £1 million has been recovered so far, and it’s feared that the total amount stolen could exceed £54 million.
        The Mail Online reports Stoyanov, who is on IMMIGRATION BAIL in the UK, has now demanded he has the ‘right to a normal life’
        Speaking through a TRANSLATOR at a confiscation hearing last week, dad-of-three Stoyanov said to the judge: “Why should my wife and children, all of whom have health issues, continue to suffer?. …..”Where is the fairness in that?”
        I wonder where the money could be ​​???

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        • MarkyMark says:

          According to a report published by Al Jazeera, titled “Why are Afghan refugees leaving Iran?,” Afghan refugees are fleeing due to a lack of basic human rights. One Afghan refugee said: “There is no chance for a future in Iran. For the Iranian government, it wasn’t enough that we are Muslims like them. I had to pay bribes to work, and the police were always harassing me.” Another said: “We don’t want our children to face the same problems and racist treatment (as a Muslim in Iran).” {arabnews.com mar2017}

          http://www.arabnews.com/node/1077226

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  5. Terminal Moraine says:

    “A project will highlight the history of drag shows in working class pubs in the 1980s and 90s […] A grant of almost £25,000 has been given by Historic England as part of its Everyday Heritage scheme. Its chief executive Duncan Wilson said it would ‘shine a light’ on the stories of working class people and ‘their extraordinary contributions to our shared history’.”

    Historic England: “We protect, champion and save the places that define who we are and where we’ve come from as a nation.” It really is an obsession.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c805mg4471do

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  6. Zephir says:

    The senior law officer in Keir Starmer’s Labour government said there was a ‘moral’ argument that the UK should pay slavery reparations, praised Just Stop Oil and branded Donald Trump an ‘orange tyrant’.

    Recently rediscovered podcasts recorded by Attorney General Lord Hermer before he became a minister show his outspoken views on a number of contentions issues.

    And they contain positions at odds with those recently expressed by the Prime Minister.

    The former human rights barrister, who worked in the same chambers as Sir Keir, backed the removal of statues of ‘slave owners’ and controversial British Empire figures like Cecil Rhodes, who appropriated a large chunk of southern Africa.

    As recently as 2023 he said that JSO protests who brought chaos and travel misery to the streets of London with a string of high-profile demonstrations were ‘inspiring’ actions by young people ‘concerned about the future of the planet’.

    And in 2020, after Trump lost the US presidency to Joe Biden, he told the podcast the Republican was an ‘orange tyrant’, a ‘coward’ and an ‘autocratic populist’ who ran a government of ‘chaos and hatred’.

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  7. Zephir says:

    The Attorney General said that pledges to ‘stop the boats’ or ‘control our borders’ are ‘de-humanising’, it has been revealed.

    The Times reported that Lord Richard Hermer, who is the Government’s chief legal adviser, made the comments on a podcast in January last year.

    He said he was ‘acutely conscious that slogans such as stop the boats, control our borders, so on and so on, are capable not only of being distracting, but also de-humanising’, according to the newspaper.

    Lord Hermer is a friend of Sir Keir Starmer and was handed a life peerage by the Prime Minister in July so that he could join the Labour Government.

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  8. Fedup2 says:

    Apparently the current leader of the dead blue party is waffling on about making things tough for illegals – her first ‘policy announcement ‘ .. how can they be so stupid as to think anyone – anyone -will vote for them ever again . Vote reform – if only because there’s no one else ..

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Only 11 people have left the country as a direct result of Theresa May’s “go home or face arrest” van advertisements, the scheme’s official evaluation report has revealed.

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      https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/31/go-home-vans-11-leave-britain

      The evaluation report also reveals that 1,561 text messages were received in response to the advert’s invitation to text for free advice and help with travel documents. But unfortunately for the Home Office, 1,034 of the texts were hoax messages which took 17 hours of staff time to deal with.

      The home secretary finally bowed to the wave of criticism last week and announced that the van pilot scheme would not be extended, saying it had been “too much of a blunt instrument”.

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  9. Fedup2 says:

    Excellent news
    Bank of England desperately cuts the interest rate – and value of the £ – to try give that girl from accounts a chance to keep her job …
    And her ‘project destroy the economy ‘ is going full ahead …

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