BBC in a tricky position now that has been released that Uk taxpayers have been funding part of it through USAID . perhaps that’s a reason why BBC coverage isn’t as comprehensive as it might being mindful of how interested it has been in vilifying Donald Trump ..
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Defund the BBC. tomo asked at the start of the previous Thread is everyone without a TV Licence receiving threatening letters from TV Licencing. I had another one yesterday and if I actually get a visit will merely hand the ‘Inspector’ through the doorway a copy of my ‘Cease and Desist’ letter.
It is time to defund the BBC!
Yes I got one Saturday – first one in a number of months ..
I’m getting one, sometimes two a month now.
I did do the “I don’t need a TV License” palaver several times but, honestly that didn’t actually stop all the junk mail from Darlington / Crapita
I removed the right of access to my property. They even acknowledged that I had done so. To stop the letters I typed/spoke to their robot.
Anyone that does turn up will get a serious rant. Especially if they admit to watching live TV. I will be happy to shame them for watching the poison that is the bBC.
From the DT – BbC describes Palestinian Muslim terrorist prisoners as ‘hostages ‘
The BBC was forced to make an on-air correction after referring to Palestinian convicts as “hostages”.
The broadcaster was also criticised by Israel after using the terminology for Palestinian prisoners jailed for atrocities committed during the Oct 7 massacre.
START ‘ BBC News had broadcast the report on the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners with an erroneous strap-line across the bottom of the screen. This stated that there were “concerns about the condition of hostages on both sides”.
The strap-line was condemned by the Israeli foreign ministry, which released a statement on X saying: “The BBC strikes again – framing innocent Israeli hostages, brutalised for 491 days, and convicted Palestinian terrorists, guilty of mass murder, as if they’re the same.
“One was kidnapped from home, the other jailed for slaughtering families.”
On Saturday, hostages Eli Sharabi, Ohad Ben Ami and Or Levy were brought to the Red Cross before being reunited with loved ones in Israel.
Mr Sharabi had been held by Hamas for 16 months and was unaware that his wife and daughter had been murdered by Hamas on Oct 7.
Mr Levy was only able to confirm his own wife’s death following his release.
ENDS
President Trump will attend the Super Bowl Sunday night – subject – I think – to security concerns …. I wonder if Elon and JD will go too …?
oops
Chicken nuggets, eh?
Taycans?
really?
£33k each?
Lease returns that wouldn’t sell in the UK?
Freed Israeli hostage was unaware wife and daughters killed, British family says
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8632n81dx3o
This is as close to ’empathy’ for Jews the BBC ever get.
There is none of the ‘She gazed into the sunset as the wind gently blew leaves around her mothers grave’ emotive rubbish we have seen so many times from the likes of Bowen and Fergal Keane when talking about terrorists and their supporters in Gaza.
This is about as awful as it can get for someone. A totally innocent man kidnapped by barbaric Hamas terrorists and turned into a human skeleton whilst living under the worst conditions you can imagine for 416 days then on his release discovering his wife and daughter were murdered in cold blood by those same terrorists.
Where’s you outrage for the injustice of this one Bowen ? .
And where’s your lengthy empathy piece describing the misery of this man Fergal Keane ?.
I feel nothing but contempt for these two anti-semetic far-Left hypocrites. Their morales and ethics disgust me.
Instead the BBC have given this story to a couple of nobodies in Bristol.
The worst terrorist attrocity in living memory which the Left could not hide from us because it was in plain sight and the BBC describe it as:
‘On 7 October Hamas seized 251 hostages and killed about 1,200 people when it attacked Israel, triggering the war.’
That’s it. They were innocent women and children murdered in cold blood BBC.
“BBC News” . No News .
Well, no ‘real’ news that they will tell us all about .
If anyone wants to support the farmers there is a petition which will be debated Monday. Together will also be in Whitehall on the same issue.
Rachael Thieves wants to steal their farms so rocketing food prices which will make the oligarch supermarkets and Billy Goats happy.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700138
If you want to setup a pro farming supermarket or visit one:
https://the-pffa.org/
Seems unlikely that the notionally conservative media will run with this – but if they do – he deserves it
– I suspect that Rayner’s got similar.
I’m still bemused that Deputy PM Rayner can say this:
“We cannot get any worse than a bunch of scum, homophobic, racist, misogynistic, absolute vile … banana republic, vile, nasty, Etonian … piece of scum,” she said at the event, before adding that she had “held back a little”.
And the BBC give her a free ride.
Tells me everything I need to know about them both. Chock full of hate.
I was meeting a friend who was at the Conservative Party conference in 2016 or 2017 in Manchester. As usual there had been a march against racist misogynist etc etc Tories and they had left three mannequins suspended by wire around their necks from a wall opposite the conference centre. Obviously no message in the use of wire around the neck, and to finish off across the chest of each three were the words kill Tory scum. I tapped a Manchester Police Officer on the shoulder and asked him whether those words constituted hate speech. ‘No sir, they are political comment’. There you go and you now know that Tories are racist, misogynist scum. The bBC did not report on the mannequins either.
John when Sir Kier gets booted out this year it will be interesting to see if the party of every equality under the sun has the temerity to appoint yet another white male as leader. Any chance the bBC might comment? No.
questions….
Will he go the full Chris Smith and put it on his CV?
Will Starmer publish his HIV test results and tax returns? HA HAH HA HAH AH AH HAH AH! Has he taken a DNA test to see if he is African?
3rd recent US airline/plane crash in a little over a week:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/8/missing-alaska-plane-found-with-all-10-people-on-board-presumed-dead
Why more young men in Germany are turning to the far-right
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy082dn7rkqo
Another BBC classic. They get ‘far-Right’ in there 25 times and ‘Nazi’ in 7 times. They are throwing these labels around like confetti these days.
What makes someone ‘far-right’ these days ?.
‘ the number of attacks in Germany involving suspects who were asylum seekers – most recently, the fatal stabbing of a toddler and a man in a park in the Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg. Immigration is now Nick and Dominic’s main concern, although they don’t oppose it in all forms.’
and …
‘Dr Rüdiger Maas, from the German think tank the Institute for Generational Research, says parties on the left often focus on themes such as feminism, equality and women’s rights.
“Overall, men don’t see themselves in these themes,” he tells us. “That is why they have a tendency to vote further right.”
Sounds a lot more like ‘Hard Left’ and regular ‘right-wing’ to me than ‘Left and far-right’ as the BBC want us to think.
‘A reaction against “gender ideology” is another issue identified by Tarik Abou-Chadi, a professor of European Politics at the University of Oxford, as feeding far-right support amongst the young’
But the clown of the year award goes to ‘Prof Abou-Chadi’ who ‘believes that the far-right, generally, has become more normalised to the point, “They don’t seem so extreme any more.”‘
What rubbish. The reason they don’t seem so extreme any more is because they are not. It’s the definition of ‘far-right’ by the likes of these academics and the left-wing activists at the BBC who have redefined ‘far right’ as anyone with strong Conservative views so they can use the nasty label on them.
Isn’t is just amazing that so many people are ‘far-right’ according to the BBC and academics who have no clue of the real world – but nobody is ever ‘far-Left’ ?.
I will refer to the BBC as extreme-Left from now for some equivalence to how they classify the Right.
“Donald Trump launched a parting social media salvo at Taylor Swift as he bailed on the Super Bowl early after watching the Chiefs collapse against the Eagles.
The president roasted the pop star for being booed while he was cheered at the New Orleans Superdome in a ruthless post on his Truth Social platform.
Trump shared contrasting videos of the rapturous applause he received compared to the boos Swift received when she was shown on the big screen.
He shared another user’s post with the caption: ‘Trump gets massive cheers at the Super Bowl while Taylor Swift gets booed.'”
Any steel coming into the United States is going to have a 25 per cent tariff,’ he told reporters as they all traveled from Florida to New Orleans, sparking a frenzied rush to publish the news while battling limited reception in the air.
Aluminum, too’ he added, will also be subject to the trade penalties.
This means Trump intends to impose import duties on products in cases where another country has levied duties on American goods.
‘If they are charging us 130% and we’re charging them nothing, it’s not going to stay that way,’ he said.
‘Very simply, it’s if they charge us, we charge them.’
During his election campaign, Trump was outspoken in his plans to bolster the domestic steel industry by introducing tariffs to encourage industries to produce and buy locally.
‘I am totally against the once great and powerful U.S. Steel being bought by a foreign company, Trump said at the time, pledging to make U.S. Steel ‘Strong and Great Again.’
Meanwhile in basket case UK:
“The last few years have been troubling for the British steel industry. High energy costs, a wave of cheap Chinese imports, plant closures, the COVID pandemic and financial struggles have all taken their toll.
Steel is a high energy user and significant carbon emitter. Coal-fired blast furnaces exceed temperatures of 2,000°C and the industry is responsible for around 2% of UK greenhouse gas emissions. The sector faces the challenges of transitioning to greener and more cost-efficient production.
Such challenges are especially acute at the UK’s largest steelworks at Port Talbot in South Wales. Owned by Tata Steel, the site recently closed one coal blast furnace with a second one due to shut in September.
The blast furnaces were said to be losing the company around £1 million a day, and the closures will mean about 3,000 jobs could be lost. They will be replaced by new, more flexible, and “cleaner” electric arc furnaces, which will operate with a much lower workforce. These furnaces use electricity instead of coke to create heat, and are more energy- and space-efficient than blast furnaces.”
“Dominic Cummings has admitted for the first time he orchestrated Boris Johnson’s downfall.
The ex No 10 chief of staff claims he brought down the former Prime Minister because he was “vandalising the country”.
He also took a swipe at Mr Johnson’s wife Carrie and says it was unacceptable for her and her friends to be “controlling Number 10 and with all the madness that entailed.
“We told people to vote for it and we put him in. And then if you put someone in and then they kind of go off the reservation and start actually vandalising the country, well, you’ve obviously got a responsibility to do something about it.
“So my view, and the view of the other people who helped me remove him, was that it’s just an unpleasant task but it’s a cleaning the sewers sort of role. No one wants to spend their time doing something like that, but you’ve got a responsibility to do it.”
Cummings admits his nemesis was not Mr Johnson but his wife, Carrie, to whom he attributes his downfall.
“From her point of view, once we won the election that was it, we’d fulfilled the thing that she wanted, which was her and Boris are now there for four years.
“She knew Boris was obviously not going to be in charge of a lot of things that are happening in the government, because he’s not interested in it. So [she thought], ‘Why would I let Dom be the person in charge? Why shouldn’t it be me [Carrie] and my friends in charge?’ You can sort of see her logic.”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2011891/cummings-it-was-me-boris?int_source=nba
Interesting double standards from the anti Trump bbc and far left:
“Product classification and BTI
How to find the tariff for a specific imported product?
every product imported into the EU is classified under a tariff. The tariff code, also called product code, helps you understand which tariffs apply to your specific product. Accordingly, you first have to identify the tariff code of your product. You can find more information on product classification here.
once you have identified the relevant tariff code for your specific product, you can check the tariff rate in My Trade Assistant
Binding Tariff Information on the tariff classification of goods
the EU’s Binding Tariff Information (BTI) system can identify the right tariff classification for the goods you intend to import. It will thus allow you to understand what customs duty applies to your good, and whether you need an import certificate. Having a BTI decision gives you legal certainty about this tariff classification.
since 1st October 2019, all BTI-related processes are electronic and economic operators have to introduce all new applications electronically. See ‘’ for more information
all BTI decisions already taken can be looked up here.
In general, most imported products are subject to import duties.”
https://trade.ec.europa.eu/access-to-markets/en/content/tariffs-2
Best guitars in my opinion are those such as Gibson and Fender, US made, they cost a fortune in the UK:
“Customs slaps on about 25% when importing to the UK ”
When checking this out I saw this regarding guitars:
“Seriously, the EU taxes are high as f*ck. I’m from Denmark and when we import from outside EU our government adds 38% import taxes + 25% tax that goes straight to our government.
One of the top UK retailers:
This outrage mentioned above, more details here:
“Albanian criminal’s deportation from the UK is halted amid judge’s concerns for his son… after 10-year-old said he didn’t like chicken nuggets from outside Britain.
It would be ‘unduly harsh’ for the 10-year-old boy to be forced to move back with his father due to his sensory issues with different types of food.
The judge allowed the father’s appeal against deportation as a breach of his right to a family life as a result.
Albanian Klevis Disha, 39, came to the UK illegally in February 2001 when he was a 15-year-old unaccompanied child.
He entered under a false name and falsely claimed to have been born in the former Yugoslavia. His asylum claim was rejected, but he secured UK citizenship in 2007 after being granted exceptional leave to remain, and then indefinite leave.
In 2017, he was imprisoned for two years after being caught with £250,000 cash.
Then Home Secretary Priti Patel ordered he should be deported to Albania and stripped of his UK citizenship, but Disha appealed and was backed by a judge at an immigration tribunal. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14378963/Albanian-criminals-deportation-UK-halted-amid-judges-concerns-son-10-year-old-said-didnt-like-chicken-nuggets-outside-Britain.html
We need to deport the moronic, hard left judges to stand even the remotest chance of getting our country back. But I’d say it’s way too late now. They’ll be squealing soon enough when Sharia law sees them targeted.
Hundreds arrested in New Year illegal worker blitz
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1lv153ydm6o
Deported? probably not
They likely get legal aid
Those Tuscan swimming pools aren’t free you know.
LOL…people are very concerned about Elon Musk and the DOGE.
Says Today.
Then admits…well…mostly the Democrat Party.
Who’d a thunk?
Arch hypocrites of the highest degree, each and every one.
Will say and do anything to grasp power.
Today and its three listeners.
All politics is now is noisy, corrupt brain donors shouting hypocrisy yet being given platforms to do so by the msm.
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1888712512323109274?s=61
Democrats: A brilliant hardworking 21-year-old engineer is too young and inexperienced to work on our government systems!!!
Also Democrats: 10-year-olds can know if they’re the opposite sex and can make the decision to chop off their body parts
Also: Labour and their client journalists
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/how-trump-is-halting-the-funding-of-bbc-bias/
TNI and Media Action mentioned.
The latter, iirc, was the one who hired an Iranian to get Boris to funnel £400M to the mullahs.
Which was nice.
https://x.com/procurementfile
@tomo, some elucidation here:
Under the heading of “Business” on the bbc website
‘My rented flat’s black mould is making my son ill’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rq2g0kz1lo
Business??? Surely under Health, or Sympathy heading, or “here to go again” heading
No mould in Grenfell!
No heating bills where most people would like to send TTS and his gruesome rew.
The BBC breakfast program which my wife insists on watching while I choke on my breakfast refers to this because its a Panorama special. She could try opening a window now and again.
No arrest. No job loss. No removal from posts. No consequences.
Hundreds arrested in New Year illegal worker blitz… Enforcement teams raided 828 premises including nail bars, car washes, and restaurants and made 609 arrests (BBC) – sweet talk there from his master’s voice: the government has said… the Home Office said… Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said… (BBC)
Once senses this brief report – which simply reherses an official press release – with many repeated attribution disclaimers – must have stuck in the craw of our BBC and surely signifies little more than a PR stunt on the part of the government.
Not a nugget of hope this government will ever control immigration
Commenters hereabouts doubt how many actual deportations will ensue – and the mildly conservative Telegraph provides a clue as to the difficulty: Chicken nuggets obstruct criminal’s deportation… Son’s picky eating among reasons cited by Albanian fighting to stay in UK… allowed to stay in Britain partly because his son will not eat foreign chicken nuggets… immigration tribunal ruled that it would be “unduly harsh” for the 10-year-old boy to be forced to move to Albania with his father owing to his sensitivity around food
But, but… I thought…
How migration has enriched the UK’s booming food culture… Few industries illustrate the benefits of immigration as clearly as food (Guardian, Tracey McVeigh. This article is more than 8 years old)
Flavours of Home: The refugees forging new lives through food… Sheila Dillon hears stories from refugees in the UK, who are integrating and building new lives through food – while drawing on flavours and memories from their homelands (BBC Radio 4, The Food Programme)
Mark Twain, on reading a mistaken obituary of himself, is reputed to have quipped: “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”
Corporate DEI (Diversity, equity, and inclusion) appears to be alive and kicking, despite Trump & Musk – at least here in the UK
The free corporate adsheet Metro – which makes the ‘fabulous’ masthead claim ‘reaches five million readers every day’ – all give away copies, mind you – this morning suggests: Around the world in 20 Prides – colouring an odd map of the globe in apparently computerised rainbow pixels.
The gynaeceum that is BBC news staff liked that Metro frontpage for their top pick of the print press this morning – despite the lead story: MP’s pals facing the sack over vile chats
As predicted hereabouts by your very own MrAsI, the jokey blokey Daily Star has soon fallen out of favour with our BBC frontpage pickers and dropped down to the ‘and finally’ spot once again.
A run of cover page Donald Trump lampoons caught the BBC’s attention and delivered temporary mid-table respectability – yet suddenly as the cheeky tabloid this morning goes with: Hypocrite alert folks… Biggles 2.0… Jet-set PM splashes £700,000 on foreign travel after mocking Rishi ‘Biggles’ Sunak’s chopper use – it’s back down to the bottom of the stack.
£700,000 on foreign travel… I wonder whether our ace KC can adjudicate for us on the quality of: exhibit A: Albanian chicken nuggets; vis a vis: exhibit B: good old British chicken nuggets?
I’m still attempting to digest the revelation that the nation’s top prosecuting lawyer required voice coaching lessons.
Piggy-eyed Starmer in the reverse Pygmalion position
You’d never have caught Rumpole of the Bailey in a reverse Pygmalion position. “She who must be obeyed” and all that.
All hail Queen Vic: Tatler’s February cover draws back the curtain on the court of Lady Starmer… She has always been fiercely protective of her family’s privacy. But, as Anne McElvoy reveals in Tatler’s February issue, Lady Starmer is no shrinking violet
Starmer becomes first G20 leader to take an HIV test (Metro) – further speculation hereabouts might get the lawyers excited.
** note it does include valid jobs which is odd.
How migration has enriched the UK’s booming food culture… Few industries illustrate the benefits of immigration as clearly as food (Guardian, Tracey McVeigh. This article is more than 8 years old)
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Khyber Pass kebab shop fined over human faeces contamination
Published
23 September 2015
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-34337626
In August, owners Mohammad Abdul Basit and Amjad Bhatti pleaded guilty to breaching food hygiene regulations.
More than 140 people were affected by the outbreak.
@ Asi
” Metro – which makes the ‘fabulous’ masthead claim ‘reaches five million readers every day’”
It probably does, when commuting to London I watched many pick it up, locate the free McDonalds burger voucher, tear this out and throw the paper away.
Some kept it, especially when the tube or train seat looked…soiled, as an ideal free prophylactic.
Morning all.
It’s time for another game of join the dots.
But first, please sit down first.
It is reported, not as far as I can find on the BBC but widely elsewhere, that an Albanian criminal has escaped deportation on the grounds that his son dislikes chicken nuggets in Albania. A judge has ruled this would be contrary to the Yuman Right to a family life. Yes. Really.
This morning it is reported, also not as far as I can find on the BBC but widely elsewhere, that a record 600 immigrants were arrested last month for working illegally.
Here’s the thing. Does anyone believe that ANY of those 600 arrested illegals will actually be deported? All they have to do to remain is to say they don’t like chicken nuggets in their country of origin, and our utterly pathetic woke lefty legal establishment will do the rest and saddle the UK taxpayer with even more costs.
The fact that none of the above appears on the BBC webshite tells you quite a lot.
“dislikes chicken nuggets in Albania”
………………….. 2015/2017 ………………………..
“… there have been 551 asylum claims in Britain from people from other EU countries – like Poland and Spain. All but a handful were turned down – but they cost over £4 million to the British tax payer. So we (Conservative Party 2015) will end this absurdity ….” – Theresa May – Oct2015 – @25:05
551 Asylum Claims @ £4 million?! (£7,259 per claim)
Asylum from Poland and Spain??????
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/12/07/midweek-open-thread-37/comment-page-2/#comment-885505
All these funding revelations in the US and here remind me why the EU, an also generous donor, can’t get anyone ethical to sign off on their accounts.
No wonder Spex & Soot Man is wangling us in by the back door (see what I did there?)
sausages
Please be fair to Andrew Gwynne . He was only
expressing the current policies of Labour where
most of the over 70’s who vote are NOT Labour voters
so wishing them them dead by the next general election
by Gwynne is not really out of step by Labour refusing
the £300 winter fuel allowance to them and other policies.
And the fact that this morning on the BBC breakfast
programme . Every disgusting thing that Gwynne said EXCEPT
his anti- Semitism was reported. BUT you would expect
this from the all but media partners of Hamas in the UK.
“This is absolutely vile behaviour on the part of
@wesstreeting
.
Shah Hussain is a young *gay Muslim*.
He was engaging in very obvious political satire – as a, to repeat, *gay Muslim*.”
Wes has now dogpiled him and got his account suspended.
https://x.com/owenjonesjourno/status/1725091286426792138
https://x.com/wesstreeting/status/1725052505187315922
“No, Albania does not have any McDonald’s restaurants. The last McDonald’s in Albania closed in 2002. ”
……………….
Local fast food chains
Kolonat: A local fast food chain in Albania
Hallall: A Muslim fast food chain in Albania
Qebaptore: A fast food chain in Albania that sells similar food
I’ve felt since the Bliar years that there’s a war on pubs and public meeting places from the left.
They’re looking to up the ante yet again.
They will need to sell an additional:
60,000 pints a year.
Thats 1200 pints a week.
Thats 170 extra pints a day.
I’m in the mood to help them today
Jabs for Jobs!
Pints for Pubs!
“The Government is hitting pubs with higher taxes, and higher costs, at a time when many of them are already struggling to survive. In reality, this Labour government is going to kill the pub off for good, ripping the heart out of local communities and economies – and they won’t come back once they have been destroyed. ”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/12/31/british-pub-wont-ever-recover-from-labours-onslaught/
Maybe if we turned all pubs into Mosques we could end Islamophobia?
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The Quwwat-Ul-Islam Society plans to convert the ground floor and basement of The Hudson Bay on Upton Lane in Forest Gate. The charity hopes to host social clubs for the elderly as well as run fitness classes, youth clubs, parent and toddler sessions, IT skills classes and vocational training.25 Sept 2024
Former pub to become an Islamic community centre
………………
https://quwwatulislam.org/
Welcome to the Quwwat-ul-Islam Society, London
All Praise be to Allah the most Beneficent and the Most Merciful
https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/273219
Activities – how the charity spends its money
Quwwat-Ul-Islam Society Newham London is providing Islamic education in accordance with The Qur`an and Ahadith to the children, adults and elderly people of the local community within the bounds of mosque.
within the bounds of mosque.
within the bounds of mosque.
within the bounds of mosque.
Total expenditure:
£1,075,584
To be fair, not the BBC but the Mail on Line, but it is how it works. Trump was at the Superbowl. The photograph used by the Mail in its headlines shows Trump lit from below, it emphasises his lines, makes him look old. The photograph of Taylor Swift is much more complimentary.
Home working risks ‘hollowing out’ London – mayor
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj3ep20drr0o
Transport for londondistan loosing money?
TfL haemorrhaging cash as I understand it – revenue not covering borrowing and they’re carrying hundreds of seriously overpaid lefty parasites (and train drivers)
Keep disabling / toppling those ULEZ cameras
Home working risks ‘hollowing out’ London – mayor
“Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan outlined concerns about the post-lockdown decline in office working while speaking at an event last week”
2025
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Kings of cocaine: how the Albanian mafia seized control of the UK drugs trade
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/13/kings-of-cocaine-albanian-mafia-uk-drugs-crime
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“We’ve got too many chicken shops in our town centres (London), … We’ve got too many pawn brokers in our town centres (London 2015). We’ve got too many gambling shops in our town centres (London 2015). Elect me (Sadiq Khan) to be the London Mayor and we’ll sort all those three things out. {metro.co.uk aug2015}”
http://metro.co.uk/2015/08/07/labour-mp-sadiq-khan-said-there-are-too-many-chicken-shops-at-chicken-cottage-awards-5331814/#ixzz4nAeOQ7jW
…………..
… wait, Sadiq Khan spoke at the Chicken Cottage Awards in 2012 …
“Here’s the beautiful thing … these are British products, selling Islamic Products, selling Halal Products (Halal – throat cut whilst conscious, slaughtered by Muslim only employee, incantation to animal from a Koran by Muslim only). That is niche and general, but it’s gone main stream. {Sadiq Khan – youtube Chicken Cottage Award Ceremony 2012}”
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BBC trialling articles about zero mains electricity
Tomo wonders if we can put the BBC off grid?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-63059505
On the up side – no “smart” meters either….
No mention of Greta on her boat?
Much debate in the MSM of the water needs of data centres or massive amounts of energy AI uses? No, just fluff about making personal decisions to live on a narrowboat and recycle your socks.
“AI energy demands could soon match the entire electricity consumption of Ireland”
https://www.techspot.com/news/100464-ai-energy-demands-could-soon-match-entire-electricity.html
Every illegal migrant brings their own house and water to the UK – plus new recipies!
Surely some advertising bod can use this barmy decision to allow immigrants to stay in the UK because they prefer the UK chicken nuggets.
Whoever makes them, Macdonald or someone else (I’ve never had them) could truly claim their chicken nuggets are life changers and can give you a much happier life and so on.
We don’t need the old satirical show Spitting Image any more because ‘real life’ is so much more ridiculous. The makers of that show would not believe how absurd things are now and there would be no way they could ‘out-stupid’ the decisions and laws constantly being vomited out by our ‘elite’
The President’s Brain is Missing – Spitting Image #shorts
yeah… radio silence on drooling Joe who didn’t start out with many braincells.
Comment “The best example must be how grown ups are confused about gender. When 5 year olds understand it fully.”
Unsure if, along with the FT, The Economist is part of THE BBC TNI, but it seems likely. Both are cited a lot as gospel.
Certainly many in the USA are, like this clown:
Adam Roberts
Digital editor
Hello from New York
How to cope when Trump is flooding the zone
Bet he and Lurch share a half of soy after a hard day’s TDS.
‘Zone flooding’ is new to me.
Perhaps it could apply to all Strainer and minions have imposed and still are on all and sundry here, mostly not in manifesto, uncounted and barmy?
Guest flooding the zone is a Steve Bannon phrase, refers to the first Trump administration bombarding his opponents with so many actions at once that the dems and liberal media can’t respond to all of them quickly enough.
From the Guest Who link a few posts above, the following is worth highlighting…
How the deep state operates:
“AS THE Trump administration begins reorganizing and cutting major funding to the US Agency for International Development (USAID), revelations are emerging that the organization financed groups, including some media outlets, engaged in smear campaigns and censorship against dissident voices.
The agency, known as a front for US intelligence operations, has financed regime change and other American interests worldwide. It also funds news organizations that are aligned with US foreign policy objectives.
The website Reporters Without Borders, which lamented the Trump cuts to USAID, reported that in 2023 the agency funded 6,200 journalists, 707 non-state news outlets and ‘supported 279 media-sector civil society organizations dedicated to strengthening independent media’.
Recent reporting by journalists such as Sayer Ji of GreenMedInfo, Lee Fang, and Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag of Public News, has linked that funding to the smearing and censoring of independent journalists and platforms within the US and internationally.
‘USAID has long functioned as a geopolitical instrument, using media funding to shape narratives favourable to Western governmental and corporate interests,’ Ji told The Defender.
‘While it presents itself as a development agency, its deep ties to intelligence operations and state-sponsored influence campaigns are well-documented. Media organizations receiving USAID funding are not independent — they are extensions of state power, laundering government-sanctioned narratives under the guise of journalism.’
Ji reported on Substack that BBC Media Action, the BBC’s international charity, received substantial funding from USAID – 8 per cent of its 2023-2024 budget, according to a BBC press statement.
He said BBC Media Action has faced accusations of engaging in censorship under the guise of ‘combating misinformation’ and that it leverages the BBC brand to shape media narratives, including about public health, vaccines and pharmaceutical products.
Ji said this is concerning given that BBC has expanded its influence through projects like the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), a self-described ‘industry partnership’ that worked with Big Tech forms to identify ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’ on their platforms.
Claiming to combat misinformation about Covid-19, TNI’s work has been tied to suppressing viewpoints that contradict the mainstream pharmaceutical and governmental stance on public health, like those of GreenMedInfo and Children’s Health Defense (CHD).
‘The revelations regarding USAID’s funding of BBC Media Action and its role in the Trusted News Initiative (TNI) further solidify what many of us have long suspected: Censorship is no longer a covert operation but a fully integrated transnational enterprise designed to suppress dissent and monopolize narratives,’ Ji said.”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/how-trump-is-halting-the-funding-of-bbc-bias/
Iain LBC guy is the supposed token Tory, but I stopped paying much attention to him when he went loopy.
However his review (edited by me) of a dramockery caught my eye.
“I wonder how many of you watched ‘Brian and Maggie’ on Channel 4. It is a two part drama based on a ling chapter in Rob Burley’s book on the art of political interviewing ‘Why is this Lying Bastard Lying to Me?’ ”
Rob Burley… Rob Burley… sings a bell.
“Michael Dobbs tells me that as the author of the House of Cards he didn’t really have a lot of influence or control over the way the UK and TV series were made. I wonder how much influence Rob Burley, a veteran of TV political interview shows had over ‘Brian and Maggie’. A lot of the producer characters seemed to be almost caricatures.”
Ah, a night of news only Westminster weenies could love, especially as it… isn’t real.
Maybe Rob just shafted the ones he didn’t like?
HA HA HAHA HAH AHA H!
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Two stories from the last week… why are the BBC checking on community anxiety in Sweden but report Southport is looking for positivity? Police still haven’t released details on who the Orebro killer went for, which means the BBC are speculating about the possible effect on immigrants before any official confirmation of motive.
“…the absence of official information has contributed to a feeling of fear and uncertainty among Orebro’s immigrant communities over the past few days.” Unsettled Brits theorising about why they’re likely targets in their own country is verboten and now punishable by imprisonment. No one can be in any doubt about the 2-tier dystopia we’re in.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yer500qw3o
Farmers protest LIVE: Tractor rally to flood Parliament as anger grows over inheritance tax changes.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14379747/farmers-tractors-protest-parliament-inheritance-tax-live-updates.html
Tractor production is UP (c) BBC Verified fact as seen by number of tractors outside Parliament. HA HHA HAHA HAH H AAH
They should go Full French and bring brimming dung spreaders
They’ve proved you don’t have to be French.
My load out preference would be pig shit as that’d annoy all the correct people.
Performance Based Pay? HA HA HAH AHA HAHA!
“Parliamentary watchdog Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) has just announced its recommendation that MP pay increases by 2.8% in 2025/2026. They are currently paid £91,346…
That would push MPs’ pay to £93,904 – £61 million a year for the lot of them. Quite the packet for a glorified councillor…”
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Interesting, what I have alluded to also before:
Starkey maintains RE Southport, what they all miss is the bloodlust.
While everyone focusses on the “isms” eg terrorism.
He quotes Dostoevsky:
“It’s not the “isms” that produce the bloodlust, it’s the bloodlust that produces the isms”
So many just love violence and murder, as can be seen especially in Africa and the Middle East .
Reading through the posts on site this morning, including from Tomo, Zephir, regarding Rupert Lowe’s X comments ‘Woke Waste’ -The Procurement Files and the bizarre and insane report of on an illegal, ex-con, Albanian and his demand for UK citizenship owing to a problem with chicken nuggets. (Can’t believe I’ve just written that – it’s like something from a Monty Python sketch, which to be honest, constitutes everything in this country today) You have to laugh or you’d cry.
The UK is becoming more evil, corrupt and deranged and only works for the greedy elite and the pile of dross that we have accumulated. The rest of us have been made to pay financially, emotionally and physically to sustain their self-absorbed lifestyles.
I think I’ve posted this adage here before….. “Out of the gloom a voice said “Smile and be happy, things could be worse”. So I smiled and was happy and behold, things did get worse.”
MPs’ pay will increase by 5.5% from April
Published 15 March 2024
MPs’ Pay Set to Rise by 2.8%
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