Start the Week 17th February 2025

Events are moving so fast that the BBC is having great difficulty running its’ approved propaganda message . But as usual covering up for Muslim terrorism is a given .

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  1. Deborah says:

    Last week I spoke to a left-leaning friend who assured me that because Richi Sunak has a green card, he pays no income tax in the UK. A quick google on what I hope are reliable sites show otherwise. (I am happy to be corrected). I was also walking in a local market town and overheard two women speaking. One was assuring the other that Trump had closed down the entire civil service and nobody in America was being paid (I assume she thought the civil service rather than just everybody). It was the same during last summer’s election, and before. I would hear left leaning people talk about Boris’ lies. If I asked for detail of lies beyond cake there would be a lot of spluttering and claims that as he was a philandered he must have been lying to his women or the other alternative was the Brexit bus.

    It is the same things the Left say over and over. I realise that the people here don’t probably access the same websites and social media as the Far Left. However I suspect much of the misinformation comes from the BBC with its skewed reporting.

    I am now watching the Daily Mail website. So far it doesn’t seem to be overtly anti-Trump but really going after Elon with its hit pieces.

    When I was explaining to a friend last week that the British/Israeli hostage who had been released had been kept in tunnels under the UNWRA building, exclaimed that the BBC hadn’t reported that.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Level Playing Field (c) Boris Johnson – your first has been equalised to Net Zero Deborah! Obama says back of the queue!

      Congrats!

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    • non-licence payer says:

      Deborah I have never understood why Boris was binned on the strength of a report written by the head of ethics of the snivel service which decided that he had lied over the slice of birthday cake. We can ignore the fact that the author had not disclosed a conflict of interest. Blair lies to Parliament and
      460,000 people die in the ensuing war and Blair is knighted.
      If we are signed up to our democratic process we now have to believe that as an article of faith the slice of cake is substantially worse than 460,000 dead. Easy when you have had a lobotomy.

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    • Doublethinker says:

      Sadly Deborah I have been forced to reach the conclusion that most folks are profoundly incurious about the world they live in and are happy to believe whatever the ‘voice of authority’ tells them.
      The Tories did great damage to this country but in the long run the greatest damage was caused by their inability to force the BBC into compliance with its charter. Even Lady Thatcher bottled it when she had the chance back in the 80’s .
      Forty years of BBC bias has taken its toll . My next door neighbour still pays the Licence Fee.

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      The whole cakegate thing never made any sense to me, and I am not Boris’s biggest fan.

      On the fateful day, Boris was allowed to be in Number 10. So was Rishi. So was Carrie Antoinette, as she lived there. So why was a lockdown rule broken when she entered one room in Number 10 bearing cake? I can only assume that after all the fuss, the Met Police thought they would have to get him on something. Good job he didn’t need a voice coach.

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  2. Up2snuff says:

    Well done, Debs

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  3. Zephir says:

    ‘More extremists in the UK than the Middle East’: Counter-extremism analyst warns the UK is becoming a ‘global powerbase’ for radical Islam due to Keir Starmer’s weakness.

    Middle East commentator Amjad Taha says the UK finds itself in ‘the extraordinary position’ of militant Islam spreading on home soil while declining in countries such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

    And he warned that there were ‘more extremists in the UK than the Middle East’ with radical Islamists hiding behind freedom of speech.

    He said there was a rise in sectarian voting and independent candidates seeking election on a pro-Gaza ticket could help lead to Britain becoming a ‘global powerbase’ for radicals.

    Mr Taha, who has 1.6million followers on X and Instagram, raised concerns about what he described as harmful teaching in schools and local communities.

    His claims come as Sir Keir’s Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner launches a new council on Islamophobia, including a potential official definition of the term -and which some critics have suggested could introduce a ‘blasphemy law’.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14402727/Counter-extremism-advisor-warns-UK-powerbase-radical-Islam.html

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  4. Zephir says:

    Dr Taj Hargey, a historian, academic and founder of the Oxford Institute for British Islam, said last week: ‘It is astounding that an unpopular Labour Party is seeking to sacrifice free expression just to placate Islamic fundamentalists.’

    And now British-Bahraini author and social media influencer Mr Taha has voiced concerns about growing radical strains in UK society

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  5. Zephir says:

    Talking of Birmingham, from 2022:

    “Police disperse Muslim group crowding Hindu temple on outskirts of Birmingham

    Footage showing police dispersing a group of Muslim protesters outside a Hindu temple on the outskirts of Birmingham circulated on social media on Tuesday, 20 September.

    This video shows the chanting group surrounding the Durga Bhawan temple in Smethwick, amid a reported rise in tensions between Hindus and Muslims in the UK.”

    https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/police-muslim-hindu-birmingham-clashes-b2172111.html

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  6. Sluff says:

    Watched a bit of the BAFTAs on the BBC.
    There is a rising star category. Presenter David Tennant ran through a list of well known actors/actresses who……..were runners up in that ‘rising star’ category.
    I’d heard of quite a few of them.
    We were then shown a list of actual winners…..most of whom I had never heard of.
    But the funny thing is an awful lot of them were black.

    If I was being cynical I’d wonder if BAFTA has been trying to make political points down the years rather than reward what the market over time regards as the best talent.

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  7. Guest Who says:

    The BBC continues to speak for folk they do not reores3nt.

    https://x.com/bbcworld/status/1891163959719276895?s=61
    Americans protest Elon Musk: ‘He should not be disassembling our democracy’

    Pure propaganda. Oh, and… #ccbgb

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  8. Jeff says:

    Now here’s a strange one…

    Our beloved prime minister has just said that he “is ready and willing” to put UK troops on the ground in Ukraine to help guarantee its security. Um, you see I find this slightly confusing.

    Our borders seem to be wide open with thousands of fighting aged men being taxied across the channel every year. We have no defence.

    Most of us don’t want our troops risking their lives defending some other country’s borders.

    We want them defending ours…

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  9. Deborah says:

    I was just watching Bill Rammell bullying a young female panel member on GBNews. What an odious man. Called the young lady’s figures into question and then rambled on for several minutes producing lots of numbers himself. They may, of course, been correct, and really truly how marvellous the Labour Party are. I have suffered from that technique, first the put down followed by such outrageous data that I don’t know where to start questioning it. Watching it play out on tv, was unpleasant. Bill looks like a bully and behaves like one.

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  10. Zephir says:

    I wonder why ?

    “Birmingham’s New Street is the most crime-ridden neighbourhood in England and Wales, MailOnline can today reveal.

    The equivalent of nearly five people in that tiny zone of Ladywood – an inner-city district home to the city’s main transport hub – were attacked, raped or sexually assaulted every day in 2024.

    Our analysis of crime rates in all 37,000 neighbourhoods is available to view in an interactive map.

    It comes with Britain gripped by a crime epidemic. Labour is under pressure to get tougher on offenders to stop rates spiralling and avoid triggering a backlash among working class voters desperate for a crackdown.

    More than 2.2million violent or sexual crimes reported to police across 2023/24 in England and Wales, according to Government figures. ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14403963/most-dangerous-streets-england-wales-map.html

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    • Rich says:

      The Labour MP for the crime-ridden ‘culturally enriched’ shithole that is Ladywood Birmigham?

      Shabana Mahmood, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice.

      Ffs, you couldn’t make it up.

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  11. Zephir says:

    Within Birmingham, for example, there are 15 instances of Ladywood, although only one covers New Street Station. That district, technically called E01033620, is the violent crime capital.

    Some 1,782 violent or sexual crimes were committed in that one-fifth of a square mile area throughout 2024, data analysed by MailOnline shows.

    This equates to around 8,500 violent crimes per square mile in the area patrolled by West Midlands Police.

    When compared with its more than 1,200 population, this gives a crime rate of 1,441 per 1,000 residents — more than double that of the second-worst neighbourhood in England and Wales, an area in Doncaster (766 per 1,000 residents).

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  12. JohnC says:

    Trump makes first Supreme Court appeal in test of power to fire officials
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgpgeve76qo

    And once again we have a massive lie by omission from the BBC’s extreme-Left activists.

    They write:
    ‘On Saturday, a divided US Court of Appeals in the nation’s capital rejected the Trump administration’s request to overrule the lower court.’
    ‘That has led to the justice department filing an emergency appeal to the conservative-dominated Supreme Court. ‘

    They are heavily implying (but not directly saying) that the first court was fine but the second is biased. They give no details whatsoever about the first court which is suspicious. And when the BBC are suspicious, they are hiding something.

    So a bit of googling and I discover the court was the ‘DC Circuit Court of Appeals’. And a bit more searching discovered this about who they were:

    ‘The appeals court judges who ruled Saturday split in line with the partisan affiliation of the presidents who appointed them, with Biden’s appointees Florence Pan and J. Michelle Childs voting to deny relief to the president at this point and Trump appointee Greg Katsas dissenting.’

    So the BBC SHOULD have labelled the first court as ‘Democrat dominated’.

    How did those Democrats justify it ?:
    ‘And, in an apparent reference to a flood of lawsuits filed in recent days challenging Trump executive orders and other actions, the majority said lifting the TRO at this stage of the litigation was certain to lead to “a deluge” of similar requests in other cases.’

    This is ‘democracy’ Leftist style. Subverting democracy using courts is a nasty way to do business and is a signature of the Left.

    One of the best things about Trump is that he pushes the Left to show us what they are really like. And it’s a very, very ugly thing to behold.

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  13. Fedup2 says:

    JohnC
    The Trump administration must know that the Obama Biden regime has put up a huge barrier to change through the appointment of DEI fruit loops as judges .

    The senate justice committee has entry after entry of dolts being put up – and appointed – by the democrat dominated committee . Add to that the poison of DC and everything will be a fight up to the Supreme Court ….

    I understand that one democrat judge in the Supreme Court is in poor health so with a bit of luck the true president will get to appoint another judge in the next 4 years .

    As for concealing the ‘quality ‘ of judges – par for the course – and is applied in the UK .

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  14. Fedup2 says:

    Today

    The BBC has got the hots for importing thousands more afgees who allegedly ‘worked with special forces ‘ during the time wasted there .

    2000 have been refused entry to the UK – no doubt with their extended families .

    The BBC has their backs ….

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  15. Fedup2 says:

    Today 2

    Comrade Robinson in full sneer over atttampts to apply tax saving methods used by Elon to the UK . Apparently money saved will only be a drop in the ocean – according to Comrade Robinson – so don’t bother – again – very BBC –

    If only we could opt out of throwing tax money to train green prawn farmers in bengal …

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  16. Doublethinker says:

    Today Starmer writes in a Telegraph exclusive that he is prepared to send British troops to defend Ukraine.
    Leaving aside all the military and moral practicalities of this I find it politically interesting. Why choose the Telegraph , why announce it BEFORE meeting the other leaders in Paris?

    It smacks of extreme political desperation. Obviously choosing the Telegraph is aimed at getting the backing of the Tory rank and file voter, and probably Reform voters . Announcing before Paris is trying to portray leadership, a sort Thatcher/Falklands moment.
    The reaction from the DT readership , or at least those who comment, will be very disappointing for Starmer. At least 90% are firmly against and see him as flailing about try to look big.

    If you try to look big , look like a leader, but fail to convince those you aspire to lead , you just diminish yourself further. Starmer is beginning to resemble a small pool of sewage on the doorstep of No 10. Something that Larry the cat walks round with haughty disdain.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Double – I read his stuff and the comments . It’s hard to imagine someone more out of touch with the majority view in Britain .
      He chooses not realise the huge anger at uncontrolled immigration and its ‘ consequences .

      I can’t imagine the boys in the UK military climbing over themselves to get to Ukraine – even if there’s a campaign medal .

      And how much military his Britain got ? 4 battalions ? Maybe 5000 men ?I don’t know . But I do know it’s 1300 miles from London to Kiev – not far to bring the coffins back ….

      There’s no legal way to get rid of Starmer ..

      Btw – it seems starmer is going to see The true president next week … I hope he meets him in the kitchen of the uk embassy ..

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    • Scroblene says:

      My thoughts entirely, Double, and I also thought that if it’s an Iraq/Blair/Campbell moment for Specsaver TTK, he’ll get roasted even more when proper journalistic sites hit the story of how incompetent he is…

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Starmer to lead the attack from day one? With Lord Alli behind him?

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      • BRISSLES says:

        Well he’s got the flack jacket for it ! Something he needs to wear permanently on the rare occasions he’s in this country, y’know- the one he is the 1st Minister of.

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  17. JohnC says:

    US isolation threatens global democracy, warns Major
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gwngxdd1vo

    The BBC are panicking so they have wheeled in globalist John Major to the radio 4 studio then fed him a set of pre-agreed, leading questions so he can respond appropriately and then be quoted for the news.

    His attack on JD Vance was to shoot the messenger and criticise him whilst ignoring the message he gave. Well done Johnny boy.

    ‘Sir John, who was PM from 1990 to 1997, said the gains made since the collapse of the Soviet Union were now being reversed – and that there was “no doubt” Russia would invade elsewhere before long.’
    Did he provide any evidence for that BBC ?. Or is ‘no doubt’ all you need when it fits the agenda ?.

    It seems the BBC like the phrase no doubt:
    ‘”And if they were to succeed with their venture in Ukraine, no doubt they’d be elsewhere before too long.’
    ‘”There is no doubt in my mind that democracy has been in modest decline over the last 18 years.’
    ‘”There is an ugly nationalism growing, mostly from the intolerant right… So it is a very unsettled time.”‘

    There we have it : it’s all the fault of the Right. No mention that they just a reaction to the fascist, nasty Left attempting a global coup of course. Funny how it’s the Right who are intolerant – but it’s the left who have been locking up opposition on politically motivated charges. Tommy Robinson being a prime example of why the Right are angry.

    It’s becoming clear that people like John and the BBC want a supreme EU government who have absolute control over everybody else. First step is to get an Army to enforce their politics. The war in Ukraine has been a huge setback to their ambitions.

    Next week : Gordon Brown. Who is no longer the worst PM we ever had. He – and Theresa May – will be more than happy that Starmer has taken the title.
    Both are still revered by the BBC.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      JohnC – I turned that show on and as soon as I heard Naughtie I got ready to turn it off . Then I heard that major balls was to address the nation .

      As I wrote of it yesterday I found it revolting . The self censorship is obvious now . No mention of the enemy within – the main threat to Europe – us – being Islam – not Putin .

      Yet on Major went – attacking president trump – who campaigned to end the war – I assumed that major just wants continuous war – probably helps his finances …

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Sir John, Major, who was PM from 1990 to 1997, said the gains made since the collapse of the Soviet Union were now being reversed – and that there was “no doubt” Russia would invade elsewhere before long.’

      The delusions, lies and fantasies of these discredited old fools beggars belief. Let’s do the reality check: in three years, at a cost of 100,000 of its men, Russia has managed to gain control of a few hundred square miles of its former territory in almost ideal circumstances i.e. next door, in a place that it knows like the back of its hand, in territory largely occupied by broadly sympathetic ethnic Russians, with short supply lines, against ramshackle military forces with no credible air power, supposedly wrecking its own economy in the process. Yet this apparently hopeless army, derided at every opportunity by the media and pundits, is set to burst forth and rush through Europe like a hot knife through butter? If you believe that, I’ve got a bridge I can sell you, but be careful to avoid the flying pigs when you come to look at it.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        John Major in the day “We need to promote family values”
        John Major in the evening “I’ll be late tonight dear, Edwina needs a hand with her eggs!”

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  18. Fedup2 says:

    Quote of the day – some union type talking about steel

    “Grab the nettle by the horns “ – she really said that …

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  19. AsISeeIt says:

    Those rare souls out there whom one might term grammarians tend to advocate for the term situational irony. They draw a distinction between some merely amusing chain of events or a simple coincidence where the term irony can be misused and the appropriate application of the word.

    A good example of situational irony would be a robbery at a police station or a blaze at fire station.

    Or the popular mid-market national newspaper the Daily Express which has relentlessly campaigned and advocated for months along with Esther Rantzen for so-called assisted dying on the NHS – a campaign happily taken up by the incoming Labour administration – now this morning fretting: Leap in calls to mental health helpline after Labour’s inheritance tax bombshell… FARMERS DRIVEN TO BRINK OF DESPAIR (Daily Express)

    The implication is clearly how our farmers are being driven out to the old barn with a shotgun.

    It’s probably about time Mr AsI reminded the Daily Express how it banded about the masthead slogan: United with the people of Ukraine and flew the old blue and yellow flag up there for months beside that brave knight in armour logo of their’s – referred to as “the little crusader”

    In something of a presage to the present cooling of US enthusiasm for the Ukraine war the Express – long before the fall of Joe Biden – suddenly ditched that slogan and flag.

    If your interest does not lie in footballing analogies – look away now.

    Dour Scots and Liverpool former defender and TV soccer pundit Alan Hansen once remarked to Gary Lineker “Spurs, they always let you down”

    Mr AsI has similarly warned hereabouts how America has a history of pulling out when the going gets tough in a litany of past conflicts – Korea (to some extent) Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan…

    Tottenham Hotspurs’s motto is Audere est Facere (To dare is to do). Mr AsI would update that to read “Flatter to Deceive”

    It’s the hope that kills you – just ask tens of thousands of dead Ukrainians.

    For Spurs a relegation at this point might have proved cathartic. But of course they instead live up my suggested motto “Flatter to Deceive”

    And so it was that in what the Telegraph describes as the: ‘desperation derby’ played between the failing Spurs and the similarly faultering Manchester United: Spurs stun sorry United (Telegraph); Spurred on… Tottenham beat United in battle of crisis clubs (Guardian)

    Of course the failing Britain elected the faultering Starmer.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      The world has gone ‘spursy’….

      I wonder if starmer is playing chess with the offer to put ‘troops in harms way ‘ ( god I hate that term ) knowing that Putin will veto countries that have provided help to Ukraine cannot be ‘peacekeepers ‘ – get the UN to do it …. Get the South Koreans to police the border with the North Koreans on the other side of a 1000 mile fence …

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  20. Sluff says:

    BBC bigging up ‘improverments’ in the NHS.
    On the webshite front page.

    Headlines- Labour fulfills pledge to do an extra 2 million appointments. Waiting lists down.

    But drill down into the text – the junior doctors were on strike the previous year! When of course there were far fewer appointments so the increase implies nothing, as therefore did the Labour pledge. Waiting lists are down from 6.28 million to…….6.24 million that’s 20,000 to you and me. Or a whole 0.3%.

    So. Not really a great performance from our NHS heroes, who btw are still running with less efficiency than before covid despite billions of extra taxpayers money being thrown at them.
    A headline not on the BBC webshite. Though far more telling. And newsworthy.

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  21. Sluff says:

    Just in passing.
    A petition to challenge a piece of classic TTK.

    Defend the freedom to critique Islam – stop ‘Islamophobia’ blasphemy law

    https://www.citizengo.org/en-gb/ot/14805-defend-the-freedom-to-critique-islam—stop–islamophobia–blasphemy-law

    Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is set to create a council that would draw up an official definition of ‘Islamophobia’.

    But the people lined up to be involved are in favour of censoring criticism of Islam.

    Dominic Grieve, who has been recommended to lead the council, commended the APPG definition of Islamophobia. Despite Islam being a religion, it claims that Islamophobia is “rooted in racism and a type of racism which targets Muslimness or perceived Muslimness”. It approves of vaguely worded tests that would allow any criticism of Islam to be branded as Islamophobic.

    Qari Asim, an imam at Leeds mosque, is also shortlisted for the council. He was dismissed as a government advisor on ‘Islamophobia’ in 2022 for campaigning for a ban on UK cinemas showing The Lady of Heaven – a film about Muhammad’s daughter. Asim previously said that “Muslims cherish free speech” but wants to make exceptions to ban speech that Muslims find “distasteful” or “offensive”. He has also said that all depictions of Muhammad should be prohibited

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  22. Sluff says:

    Was watching ‘Unforgotten’ on ITV last night.

    Part of the storyline centres on an illegal Afghan immigrant.
    But here’s the thing.

    The character talks about the people on the rubberised channel ferry he was on.
    He reported 26 men 4 women and 3 children.
    This by definition is in the script of the programme!
    But why would the writer write this?
    I am guessing for a level of authenticity.

    Now those of us who see endless pictures of illegals on boats would probably rate these numbers as approximately valid. Or to put it another way, the script writer is validating what we know to be true from the pictures. Personally I suspect even this over-rates the women and children but no matter.

    Not exactly what the BBC, the Far Left, and the endless refugee support groups would have us believe when they keep trying to guilt us and endlessly focus on ‘all the desperate women and children’ putting their lives at risk fleeing the hellhole that is….France.

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    Starmer is now “enough is enough”….

    2012 … “Two and a half years ago, the coalition governme nt was formed, and we made a clear promise to the British public. After thirteen years of uncontrolled mass immigration, this government would reduce and control immigration.” – Theresa May 2012

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  24. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      ‘He is the best’: Ukrainians praise Boris Johnson as town names street after ‘hero’ British prime minister
      Catherine Neilan May 4, 2022

      A Ukrainian town renamed a street after Boris Johnson in recognition of the UK’s efforts during the war.
      Locals told British media the prime minister, who recently travelled to Ukraine, was “the absolute bomb.”
      “Boris Johnson’s hair is very cool, and he is a cool person and he has a good soul,” one said.

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      • JohnC says:

        They were blissfully unaware that his reason for being there was to sabotage a peace initiative.
        How many tens of thousands of their sons have died as a result of it ?.

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  25. digg says:

    So our leader has announced that he is fully prepared to put British military boots on the ground in a somewhat dodgy foreign country to show solidarity against Russia.

    What this could mean is that he is prepared to put British troops under the ground.

    Can you imagine the uproar if for instance China were to announce that they were prepared to put Chinese troops and weapons on the ground in Russia to show solidarity.

    The man is a grandstanding fool!

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  26. digg says:

    That Streeting bloke on the box spouting about the financial disaster swirling about.

    Every single problem that the Labour Party are having to sort out is due to that fabled Tory “Black hole” apparently so when you see food prices going through the roof, fuel prices going through the roof, hospital and GP waiting lists going into months or even years, yep it’s that old black hole.

    How long they can use it to paper over the disastrous damage that their unhinged plans create before the masses realise it’s bollox god knows!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      BLACKHOLE?

      “MPs’ pay set to increase 2.8% to £93,904 in April”
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c07krpmlnv8o

      MPs’ basic salary is set to rise 2.8% to £93,904 from April, after Parliament’s expenses watchdog decided to link it to wider proposals for the public sector.

      The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) said the rise should reflect government plans for workers such as teachers and NHS staff.

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  27. MarkyMark says:

    Kemi Badenoch delivers speech at ARC conference

    Tory leader Kemi Badenoch delivers a speech this morning at Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference in London.
    The centre-right event was established 18 months ago with the aim of renewing Western conservatism.

    The centre-right ? Far Right? Extremists? HA HA HA HAHA

    ……………………….

    An Albanian criminal was allowed to stay in Britain partly because his son will not eat foreign chicken nuggets, The Telegraph can reveal. An 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.9 Feb 2025

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  28. MarkyMark says:

    Send more money ….. “Ukraine’s security service says it has uncovered corruption in an arms purchase by the military worth about $40m (£31m). The SBU said five senior people in the defence ministry and at an arms supplier were being investigated.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68120973

    …………..

    Ukraine has a border and is worth fighting for!
    The UK has no border and cannot/will not defend it.
    Chicken nuggets give you a right to stay in the UK!

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  29. MarkyMark says:

    “The fear of sticking up for young girls being abused by rape gangs…” (c) Kemi @6:40

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  30. Eddy Booth says:

    ‘Fake bailiffs said they’d take my furniture’

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cglywyjg0kwo

    “Paul, from Northumberland, told BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours it started with a phone call out of the blue.
    I answered the call and he then proceeded to say he was a bailiff and he was ringing because there’d been a county court judgment against me the previous summer in Worcester Crown Court and I owed £2,950 plus his fee of £970,” he said.

    He was then told: “‘The boys and I are going to come round later today to collect furniture from your house to the value of the finding.'”

    Victoria, who lives in Cheshire, was also targeted with the scam.

    When her phone rang, she was told the “enforcement officers” were 40 minutes away and were coming to remove items from her home. ‘

    —————

    Scam proof yourself: just don’t answer the phone, and immediately block numbers.

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  31. tomo says:

    #metoo

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  32. Zephir says:

    Mike Benz: “USAID is effectively a rent-a-riot operation. That raises questions about the Black Lives Matter protests.”

    https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1888054969145651464

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Yvette Cooper sets up ‘Britain’s Doge unit’ to ‘scrutinise every penny’ and cut down on Home Office waste GBNews

      Home Office ‘loses’ 17,000 people whose asylum claims were withdrawn

      Ministers admit losing track of 5,600 asylum claimants

      Home Office to pay influencers to post on TikTok urging migrants not to cross Channel

      Britain spent an estimated £500,000 in the past year storing boats used by migrants to cross the Channel. The government has to keep hold of the small boats for 12 months to give the owner the opportunity to claim them – despite no one coming forward to collect one in the past year.7 Aug 2021

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  35. tomo says:

    Student politician cretin could’ve simply chosen not to comment – poisonous dickhead.

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/17/campaigning-free-lucy-letby-not-right-wes-streeting

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  36. atlas_shrugged says:

    I am buying the Sun newspaper today because they are following the uS lead and outing all the mad spending.

    My favourite is the 15 Porsche electric Chelsea Tractors for Albania.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      UK donated 15 VWs, not Porsches, to Albania as part of prisoner transfer deal 14 February 2025
      https://fullfact.org/online/albania-porsches-prisoner-transfer-deal/

      …………

      his isn’t quite right and is also missing context. The UK did donate 15 electric vehicles, but they were not Porsches, and this was part of a wider deal between the two countries to facilitate the return of Albanian prisoners currently serving sentences in England and Wales.

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      • tomo says:

        MM

        Porsche dealers were (are) desperate to get rid of Taycans …

        Some accounts I read had it that the EVs were a mix… might just be invention by journos (Daily Mail usually the worst offender) seeking to sensationalise – but really, it’s worth an EasyJet flight to Tirana and a couple of days hotel and food to find out.

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    • tomo says:

      The Sun should send someone out to find those Porsches – they must be Taycans?

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      Sun says on pages 8/9 (so it must be true):

      Prawn Crackers

      £500k Fleet of electric Porsches for Albanian jails
      £500k Women’s Affairs director for the military of Jordan
      £5M Transforming feminist funding in Iraq
      £133k Studying shrimp health in Bangladesh
      £44k Studying Thailand’s alcohol policies
      £114M Inclusive green enterprises in India
      £264k Studying disinformation in Ethiopia
      £110k Gender disinformation conference in Kenya
      £9.5M Accountibility and inclusion in the Congo
      £233k Mental health research in Columbia

      UK Spends over £15 Billion/year on overseas aid

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  37. MarkyMark says:

    “China said the revision “sends a wrong… signal to separatist forces advocating for Taiwan independence”, and asked the US to “correct its mistakes”.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyzy300vlzo

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  38. MarkyMark says:

    Iran are flouting their money – rich people will buy them – the money will go on morality police to beat women.

    “It has been dubbed one of the world’s rarest treasure troves of art but few people outside its host country know about it.

    For decades, masterpieces by the likes of Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock have been kept in the basement of a museum in Iran’s capital Tehran, shrouded in mystery. According to estimates in 2018, the collection is worth as much as $3bn.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clye46n565xo

    Islam is known for it’s art !

    Many artworks were deemed inappropriate for public display because of nudity, religious sensitivities or political implications.

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  39. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    I see TTK is keen to send British Troops into the Ukraine/Russia situation.

    I would advise any squaddie being sent there to get themselves lawyered up because in 10 – 20 years time TTK and his lawyer mates may well be after you for some sort of human rights reason (as they are doing to our older squaddies who were sent to N Ireland)

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    • Fedup2 says:

      EG – you’re making the assumption they’ll be coming back – but I reckon starmer knows Putin will veto European ‘peacekeepers ‘ who have been sending weapons against Russia and insist that the UN do it … and no NATO state ….

      .. give it to the Irish – they are good at peace keeping – …

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  40. MarkyMark says:

    “Yvette Cooper sets up ‘Britain’s Doge unit’ to ‘scrutinise every penny’ and cut down on Home Office waste”
    https://www.gbnews.com/politics/yvette-cooper-britains-doge-unit-scrutinise-every-penny-cut-down-home-office-waste

    … MAYBE A RAPE COUNTER ON NUMBER OF GIRLS RAPED AND IGNORED AND BY WHICH PART OF GOV?

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  41. MarkyMark says:

    Starmer to give the UK to Putin to end the war in Ukraine ***
    *** plus 3/4 of Ukraine and the Chagos for free.

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  42. MarkyMark says:

    The BBC know there is a lot of waste in the Government but cannot say it is waste because the Government can stop their funding!

    Impartial!

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  43. MarkyMark says:

    Pledge of two million extra NHS appointments met, PM says

    That period was affected by doctor strikes, however, which would have suppressed the number of available appointments.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4z4vw3p1do#comments

    WE NEED FOR STIRIKES TO END THE CRISIS! HAHA! BANG THOSE PANS TO SAVE THE NHS!

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  44. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Putin has offered to send peace keeping troops to London to help stop all the stabbings, bombings, macheteings and the like.

    Might work!

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  45. micknotmike says:

    I think that Vladimir Putin must have been saying his prayers the other night :-
    “Please Lord, convince me that there is no greater idiot than ex-president zelensky”
    Cometh the hour, cometh the man bearing sausages.

    Funny how he wants to take the uk into a war and pi55 off the USA for the conceivable future; yet the bbc think the is the best thing they’ve ever encountered.

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  46. Fedup2 says:

    I was wondering if there will be a ‘united ‘ press conference after the little panic attack chinwag in Paris Monday afternoon – but the DT claims the krauts have vetoed the dumping of British troop on the Ukraine border ….

    I suppose as part of the talks between Russia and the US at the end of the week they’ll be discussing who gets to have zelenski’s head . ?

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  47. MarkyMark says:

    UK Army to be reduced to 72,500
    Insight
    Published Tuesday, 23 March, 2021

    The existing target of 82,000 personnel, set in 2015, has been scrapped.

    https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/uk-army-to-be-reduced-to-72500/

    The new target of 72,500 continues the downward trajectory of the army’s size at a time when the Government is also laying out an ambitious plan for the armed forces.

    The plans for reduction were criticised ahead of publication by a former chief of the defence staff, Lord Richards of Herstmonceux, who argues “mass still matters”.

    John Healey, the shadow Defence Secretary, suggests the cuts could limit the UK’s ability to fulfil all of its tasks saying “there’s a gulf between the Government’s ambitions and its actions.”

    Prominent American former officials have also expressed disquiet. The former US Defence Secretary, Leon Panetta, said, given the option, he’d retain the force level.

    However, the current head of the army argues “size today actually matters much less. The real currency is capability, utility and relevance and deployability.”

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  48. Fedup2 says:

    YouGov claims 58% favour sending good British soldiers to waste their lives in Ukraine ….. a lie … the Respinse on X is somewhat against – in fact – all against ….

    There is no win – no gain – no benefit – nothing … just like other recent crap …. Lucky we have a small army …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      History
      2000–2010
      Stephan Shakespeare and future UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Nadhim Zahawi formed YouGov in the United Kingdom in May 2000. In 2001, they engaged BBC political analyst Peter Kellner, who became chairman and then, from 2007 to 2016, President.[4][5]

      …..

      Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi admits taxpayers paid power bill for his stables
      This article is more than 11 years old
      MP promises to repay the part of £5,822.27 expenses claim for second home energy bills that relates to electricity for stables

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    • MarkyMark says:

      We can send the 40K terrorists on the UK watch list?

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