216 Responses to Start the Week 17th March 2025

  1. wwfc says:

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    • StewGreen says:

      That’s Cannon Hills , a Sunday market in Bradford
      .. Despite the Starmer title the same righty accounts tweeted a similar video in May last year when there was the Blue Socialist open borders party in government .
      There are a couple of similar older PR videos from the market
      eg this one in 2023 https://youtu.be/-Li1oqrirpA
      BTW for some reason RadioGenoa has deleted its 2024 tweey

      Is it that different from Sunday markets on the Costa Del Sol which can be very British
      eg in Fuengirola or Torre Molinos ?

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      • Sluff says:

        Also on the Costa del Sol and different from Bradford.
        Various Christian churches which were converted from Mosques.
        And little or no public money needed for multiculturalism, translation services, integration expenses, language learning, knife crime, police protection of schools, litter and fly tipping removal, etc etc etc.
        Thus more money for amazingly good roads, motorways and fast train lines.
        Come to think of it, not a bad option.

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        • Scroblene says:

          Starmerstan doesn’t do options, Sluff, just chucks numbers and meaningless inanities like ‘willing’ around and calling them ‘plans’, which this poor excuse for a government will never do anything about!

          Below is a precis of essays by Sam Ashworth-Hayes.

          “We’re lowering our standards to an appalling level, having to cope with one in ten children growing up in households where no adult is working or even trying to. 30% of social rented households in England have no working age adults in work, therefore blocking houses which could be used for productive members of society.

          Among the most disruptive and expensive people in society, we have 0.7% of the population accounting for 16% of all A&E visits, which cost around £2.5 bn. Many of these visits are down to alcohol or drug abuse.

          Less than 1% of the population comprises habitual criminals, and accounts for around half the jail sentences in England. In 2010, Britain spent £13bn on ‘troubled’ families, (around £110,000 per family).

          The bulk of British people are paying much more tax for all this, with very little in return. The welfare budget is ballooning at the expense of other public services, which is all unsustainable.

          A system which endlessly squeezes the productive to pay for the disruptive few will eventually crumble.

          (And my note, this doesn’t seem to take in illegal immigration)!

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      • digg says:

        Ah but those British people on the Costa Del Sol would be going home after a couple of weeks unlike our roaming visitors from the East….

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        • StewGreen says:

          Costas was always full of British crooks
          Did they then cause much stabbings ? No
          Their criminal business seemed to dodgy Sky cards, timeshare and cannabis smuggling.

          The situations are similar but no racial tensions
          As the Costa foreigners generally bring in money to coastal areas which were generally empty.
          The Spanish traditionally prefer the inland areas, cos the coast in summer is too hot and at other times of the year too windy* , and used to be too vulnerable to pirates.
          (*Costa Del Ventas was the original name)

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    • Flotsam says:

      There’s a car boot sale in Crewe where groups of East European immigrants help themselves to stallholders goods. When the organisers tried to ban some of the offenders they were prevented from doing so on the grounds of it being racist. The looting continues.

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      • Loobyloo says:

        lol!! I’ve been a stall holder at that one… they are at your stall in the dark before you’ve finished unloading your car, and not interested in buying anything unless it’s 5p. I did it for a school PTA, and sold unwanted kids toys. Gave up after a few times.

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        • Fedup2 says:

          I regularly go into local charidee shops and chat to the volunteers – the antics the Eastern Europeans and coloured folk get up to are quite sad – they care less about getting caught as they know the local plod are feckless or tracking down naughty words ….

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    • Guest Who says:

      BBC’s Britain

      https://x.com/bbcr4today/status/1901547128306180294?s=61
      Laura Kenny: Can elite sport damage women’s fertility

      No comments so far.

      Maybe try Tranny Hour? They seem fecund.

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      • digg says:

        Ban elite sport for women? But we would need to ban it for men as well otherwise it won’t be fair on the women will it?

        Could follow it with ban steep stairs for women, ban heavy shopping bags, etc. etc.

        The madness just keeps swirling around!

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      • Docmarooned says:

        Usual totally out of date garbage from the bBBC. It has been known for years that elite female athletes do indeed have hormonal changes that have an effect on fertility so as usual with the lazy activists they employ it is a non story.

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  2. harry142857 says:

    City of Culture, innit? Expect there will be poor animals having their throats cut without the authorities doing anything about it in a few weeks.

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  3. Fedup2 says:

    The non story of a space rescue continues – the 2 marooned astronauts have recorded a message thanking Elon and 47 for the efforts in saving them … juxtapose that with all the fuss and coverage of Apollo 13 …
    The msm must be desperate for the rescue mission to fail so that Elon and 47 can be blamed …

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  4. StewGreen says:

    Quote “On @BBCRadio4 @BBCR4Sunday this morning,
    they visited a moque (in ex-church) & interviewed a Syrian who’d come to the UK as an illegal migrant in a small boat from France after many attempts.
    .. No challenge, no demand to deport,
    just celebrating the criminality of diversity.”

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  5. BRISSLES says:

    On iPlayer the full series of Waking the Dead (start dated 2000 – ended 2011) is currently airing.
    Just started watching, and despite it being 25 years ago, only one cast member is non white – but more interestingly was reading the credits – no ethnic names at all, all good old British names like David, Andrew, John, Sue, Brenda. The days before those at university went on to get jobs at the BBC and ruined it forever.

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  6. JohnC says:

    Front page news at the BBC:
    ‘We are surrounded by an invisible killer. One so common that we barely notice it shortening our lives.’
    ‘It’s causing heart attacks, type 2 diabetes and studies now even link it to dementia.’
    ‘What do you think it could be?’

    Oh my word BBC : what can it be ???.

    ‘The answer is noise – and its impact on the human body goes far beyond damaging hearing.’

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmjdm2m4yjo

    Another utter pile of shit from a BBC idiot more interested in writing about empathy and ‘Sunday Magazine’ type non-stories than anything useful.
    What place in such an article does this have?

    ‘I meet Coco at her fourth-floor flat in the historic Vila de Gràcia area of Barcelona, Spain.
    There’s a bag of freshly picked lemons tied to her door gifted by one neighbour, her fridge contains a tortilla cooked by another and she offers me fancy cakes made by a third neighbour who’s training in patisserie.’

    And WTF is a BBC reporter doing visiting people in Spain for rubbish like this ?.

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    ‘Coco’s health is being damaged by the noise where she lives’

    What evidence do the BBC present for such a claim ?
    ‘She has been “hospitalised twice with chest pain” and “absolutely” thinks noise is causing the stress, which is damaging her health. “There is a physical change that I feel, it does something to your body, for certain,” she says.’

    Proof indeed. I have a feeling the delicate ‘Coco’ has lots of other neurotic issues as well which we aren’t told about because they don’t fit the pre-determined conclusion.

    It turns out it’s just another academic ‘study’ looking to create a crisis from nothing and presumably get more funding. Luckily the BBC idiot repeates everything they say without question.

    It turns out that noise isn’t the killer at all. It’s just daily life stress. And I’m quite sure ‘noise’ is way down the list for what causes that these days.

    Amazing what makes the front page and what doesn’t at the BBC these days.

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      > ‘She has been “hospitalised twice with chest pain”

      Has she been taking the Turkish juice?

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  7. Terminal Moraine says:

    And again the BBC find a voice of sweetness and hope after an atrocity — “British daughter of Gaza hostage says burying father ‘incredibly meaningful'”

    The 83 yr old was a Hamas hostage for 503 days, but was dead within the first few weeks. Now his daughter Sharone says: “Receiving my father’s remains back, and being able to say goodbye to him has really has been incredibly meaningful to me, more than I could ever imagine”. The wife says “he was a great campaigner for peace. He had very good relations with Palestinians and the thing that hurt the most is that they betrayed him”.

    Possibly being killed by terrorists hurt more? But in Medialand having your dad sent home in a body bag is nothing compared to the profound sense of meaningfulness you can emote. Another one blossoming with hope and the spirit of reconciliation after a brutal Islamic slaughter…. another raw propaganda piece from the BBC.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yrv2v4zg6o

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    • Terminal Moraine says:

      From a linked article: “The BBC were with Sharone, a filmmaker and academic, at her home when the ceasefire was announced last month.”

      Ah of course they were. Because no one at the BBC knows any regular people; just peace activists, filmmakers & academics.

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    • JohnC says:

      The BBC are masters at taking the opinion of a single person and presenting it as being the general concensus for everybody.

      But only when it suits them.

      I for one would be more comforted by knowing the evil b@stards who murdered him in cold blood have been removed from the planet in a manner hopefully involving at least as much suffering as they placed on him.
      Mind you, this crap is no surprise considering who it came from:
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      This one is such a complete narcissist, she announces herself as:
      ‘BBC News special correspondent. BAFTA x1, RTS Journalism Awards x4. Former ITV Political Correspondent & UK Editor.’

      And of course is also featured in MSN, Yahoo and The Daily Mirror.

      Absolutely typical member of the BBC ‘news’ staff.

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      • digg says:

        For quite a few more years than I care to remember I have operated a business providing design and web services for an array of small to medium businesses. Over the years, as part of my remit, I have had much contact with various people in the Marketing Departments of these companies.

        I can tell you that in my experience, newer, younger Marketing graduates I have worked with have a very strong instinct for self promotion and choose every possible way to make the marketing material they produce as much about them as the company or its products wherever possible.

        I can only guess that this has been caused by their experience through university and the proliferation of me, me, me business profile websites which they often appear to frequent on a regular basis.

        I believe this same and recent instinct for self promotion is probably most highly evident amongst the striving, newer crop of younger main stream media news staff.

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        • tomo says:

          LinkedIn……

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        • BRISSLES says:

          And there was my Dad telling me it was boastful to blow your own trumpet. Never show-off, never boast and always have good manners, was his mantra.

          He’d have trouble today methinks.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Seems the Sith were cloning their female stormtroopers with Shergar.

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  8. atlas_shrugged says:

    A good show from Dan Wooton:

    In the show the BBC gets a well deserved kicking from the commentator Montgomery Toms. The show also features footage of Christians protesting outside the BBC.

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    • JohnC says:

      If some Muslims turned up and murdered all those Christians in cold blood, would the BBC report it ?.

      Because they don’t when they do it in their third world shitholes.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      a_s, Montogomery Toms is in need of a good Church in London. I would suggest St Helen’s Bishopsgate.

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  9. Deborah says:

    Listening to Wes Streeting being interviewed this evening. He speaks with exactly the same accent as Rachel from accounts. I don’t know what part of London they come from, but it isn’t an accent I have ever come from before. I suggest they both sack the voice coach (it must be the same one training both).

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  10. Deborah says:

    Oh dear, Red Nose Day has been scheduled opposite a football match on ITV and it is providing the excuse that less money will be donated this year. (Nothing about Rachel from accounts taking away WfA, raising minimum wage which businesses can’t afford etc).

    Comments on the Daily Mail website could be going better. Here was the newest one when I looked.

    ‘ Oh who watches this now? I’ll happily donate to charity if I can afford it but not when it’s shoved down my throat by Davina and the gang. It’s just constant, rich people telling us to give to this and that. The show itself is dreadful too, at least give a decent show!’.

    Red Nose Day is well past its sell by date but nobody has had a good new idea at the BBC for years.

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    • BRISSLES says:

      AND most of the money donated goes to ” projects ” abroad.

      Never given and never will. I’ve never given to Children in Need either. What’s happened to all those kids in need when it first began in the 80s ??? Probably part of our Welfare downfall.

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      • JohnC says:

        ‘Every penny goes to children in need’.

        The BBC charity ‘Children in Need’ that is. Who take out more than £6,000,000 for themselves before dishing it out.

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  11. Eddy Booth says:

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  12. Fedup2 says:

    Not the BBC – in the US the annual journalists shindig is a chance for the press to poke fun at politicians . Usually – apparently the president and spokesman attend . But not this time . Karoline Leavitt – press Secretary – has declined to attend – I guess Presidenr Trump will do the same ….

    Why would they go ? The msn despise them – why give them legitimacy by dancing to their tune ? Im sure the msm will make a big thing of this – but hopefully the Trump administration will get on with the job – such as overturning the false Biden pardons

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  13. JohnC says:

    ‘Everything is finished’: Ukrainian troops relive retreat from Kursk
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q198zyppqo

    And just like that – out of nowhere we discover Ukraine have been totally defeated in Kursk.

    BBC Verify have jumped right on the bandwagon and here they are 4 days ago telling us they have verified Ukraine were indeed losing. Of course the rest of us have known that for weeks. But these shameless liars make a point of telling us that Russia took back a lot of territory while Trump was withholding intelligence. They are implying it’s Trumps fault !!. It was over long before Trump did that.

    And of course there is not a single word about who’s fault all that loss of the best equipment we gave them and the tens of thousands of dead men REALLY is. Because it’s the comedian Zelensky’s. He thought he would be able to trade Kursk for huge areas of Ukranian soil. The man is utterly unfit to be in charge – but as Trump rightly says, he is now a dictator. Nobody can remove him.

    Meanwhile Starmer is telling – not asking – Putin that he must start an immediate and unconditional ceasefire. I despair for what we have become : we are a laughing stock.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      How Ukraine’s ‘Ghost of Kyiv’ legendary pilot was born
      Published 1 May 2022
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61285833

      Ukraine’s fighter pilots are vastly outnumbered by the Russians, and have become legendary – thanks in part to the story of an alleged flying ace called the “Ghost of Kyiv”.

      This hero is said to have downed as many as 40 enemy planes – an incredible feat in an arena where Russia controls the skies.

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      • JohnC says:

        I have to say that for every lie I’ve been told by Russia, I’ve seen 10 on the BBC. All of them quoting people like Zelensky as if what they say is fact.

        I wonder if Zelensky’s days are numbered now. I would not be surprised one bit if he simply left the stage just as Biden has and we never hear about him again.

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  14. AsISeeIt says:

    Labour war of words edition

    Let’s kick off with a quick editorial correction: Poorest children missing more school and further behind after Covid – protests the BBC in the guise of Branwen Jeffreys, Education editor.

    Well, our Branwen, I think you’ll find: Poorest children missing more school and further behind after Covid LOCKDOWN, which was a policy choice

    If only we had a well-funded, judge-led, officially constituted, currently sitting, public inquiry that could look into that.

    The mere naming of the seemingly interminable Baroness Heather Carol Hallett touring band show as the “Covd-19 Inquiry” indicates that the crucial question of the efficacy (or otherwise) of Lockdown – the central plank of government policy – will not be adressed. Rather, that question will be side-stepped, marginalised and obfuscated in the vox pop exercise of “Every Story Matters” – Since November 2022, the UK public has been encouraged to submit personal pandemic stories to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry as part of Every Story Matters, the largest public engagement exercise undertaken by a UK public inquiry. Every Story Matters has already received over 56,000 contributions – I thought we should listen to the experts?

    Of course Lockdown was an absolute god send to the public sector. They were loving it. From Tiktok dance routines, to regular pot-banging ceremonies to “I Heart the NHS” posters to extended ‘working’ from home on full pay. Our state-funded managerial class enjoyed the time of their lives.

    Consultants paid more than Covid victims… Consultants assessing Covid vaccine damage claims on behalf of the NHS have been paid millions more than the victims (Telegraph)

    And the arse covering continues…

    Pressure mounts on Labour Minister Lord Patrick Vallance to explain why he ‘rubbished’ spy chief’s Covid lab leak file (Daily Mail)

    The highly coronaphobic i paper breaths a sigh of relief: NHS reforms: Covid-fighting agency to be spared Streeting’s axe

    But what’s this, our Bridget breaking ranks and naming the “L” word for her problems?

    Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson told BBC Panorama Covid had led to a “serious and profound shift” in attitudes to attendance. She said lockdowns had cast “a long shadow” over the life chances of the youngest children. (BBC) – our Ms Phillipson possibly seeing the Tory Lockdown as an excuse for her own misdirected failing education reforms there.

    She could blame Boris and the Tories – if only Sir Keir hadn’t been Mr “Sooner, Harder, Longer”

    Phillipson under fire for bowing to unions… Former Ofsted head accuses Education Secretary of dismantling school system (Telegraph) – thank goodness Labour have now hobbled Ofsted’s ability to criticise failing schools – at the behest of the teacher unions, of course.

    Moves to overhaul the way schools are inspected in England have been criticised by headteachers and teaching unions as “demoralising” and worse than the system they are aiming to replace… The changes by the Ofsted schools inspectorate would replace single judgments such as “outstanding” with a new report card for parents… The leaders of England’s education unions have derided key aspects of the proposals, as did the family of Ruth Perry, the primary school headteacher whose suicide after an “intimidating” Ofsted inspection precipitated Labour’s pledge to scrap the use of headline grades. (Guardian)

    Go on Ms Phillipson, do an NHS England on Ofsted – you know the teacher unions want you to.

    The junior pound shop Guardian that is the i paper is ticking all the right-on lefty boxes this morning.

    Anti-family: Why I can’t stand Mothering Sunday Lucy Mangan

    Anti-British: Avoiding Brits like us in the real Spain – want to avoid meeting British people – you ought to visit Hackney Wick, luv! Or Whitechapel…

    UK MP Rupert Lowe ‘complains’ about London Station Sign Board written in Bengali and not English alone (Times of India)

    Save our Rivers Sewage found in Britain’s first river bathing spots (i paper) – shoulda seen the state of the local municipal baths when I was just a lad.

    The gynaeceum that is BBC news staff like the i paper for their top pick in the BBC print press line-up. Presumably the top headline caught their eye: Labour disability benefits cuts rebellion grows despite No 10 concessions

    An absolute classic journalistic ‘despite’ there.

    The notion of Keir Starmer’s Labour as a genuinely state benefits bill cutting outfit is akin to the notion of a herring attempting to ride a bicycle.

    Anger grows over Starmer’s ‘£675 a month’ disability cuts (Guardian)

    Labour war of words on disability benefits (Times)

    Death of the work ethic (Daily Mail) – your Mr AsI has long contended that Lockdowns demoralised the British workforce. If only we had a well-funded, judge-led, officially constituted, currently sitting… you know the rest.

    The Mail top story continues: With labour at war over benefits cuts, ONE IN FOUR young people consider quitting workforce entirely

    Four in 10 Gen Z workers consider quitting to live on benefits (Telegraph)

    There’s about to be no jobs out there anyway: UK faces recession as employers cut jobs (Telegraph)

    Your Mr AsI contends that Labour’s tax hikes have demoralised the British private sector.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Asiseeit – the Marxist project to destroy the current version of Britain is coming along nicely – it started with the ‘hard choices ‘ narrative – complete with a black hole – then moved on to deeply destructive taxes – and is now being followed up with new taxes – such as the coming wealth tax …. the de -motivation of the population is going really well – everyone has a mental illness and the Marxists have done a great job on screwing up the kids …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      ” Avoiding Brits like us in the real Spain” – Bradford City of UK Culture.

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  15. Fedup2 says:

    Excellent news – Marxists to introduce a wealth tax – are you worth £10 million ? Then they’ll make you pay ‘just a little bit more ‘ tax .. maybe 2% initially – then jump it up to 5% and then 10% – you know the song ….

    … just another bit of the big replacement – more people heading for the US ….

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  16. MarkyMark says:

    Tariffs for Trump bad – Tariffs for EU good.

    “They could uphold the UK’s position – or order the UK to change or drop its ban, in which case Brussels (EU) could ultimately retaliate with tariffs on British exports if ministers refused to comply.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce323q4kej1o

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  17. Sluff says:

    It’s Football Results and quiz time.
    Which game had over twice the attendance of the other?

    Crystal Palace 3 Aston Villa 1
    Accrington Stanley 1 Gillingham 1

    The answer of course is that the MEN’s Accrington v Gillingham league two match (2449) had over twice as many spectators as the WOMEN’s Crystal Palace v Aston Villa Women’s super league match (1130).

    This puts into true context the ridiculous and pathetic agenda by the BBC to position men’s and women’s football as equal – not to mention 6 nations rugby.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      1425 attended the spurs Brighton game on Sunday afternoon – when im listening to commentaries of real games they cut away for ‘match reports ‘. Sometimes they leave the ‘wimmins ‘ bit out which could confuse… anyway the BBC continues to flog this nonsense – but with only 1425 people turning up it’s dead horse …
      … if you ‘do the math ‘ and discount family and er girlfriends of the players there can’t have been too many real punters at all …

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  18. Flotsam says:

    It’s very noticeable that every PR style announcement by Smarmer, Streeting, Reeves etc have a line up of compliant workers in the background, often NHS workers. The subliminal message is that these wonderful workers are backing the Government and every extra pound we pay in tax for them is well deserved. Most of these PR events rightly belong in Parliament but audible opposition isn’t wanted.

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  19. tomo says:

    Mick Martin with a Lancashire accent

    https://x.com/Iromg/status/1900947689468015090

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  20. Foscari says:

    What infuriates me on the BBC or in fact any of the TV
    channels is how many news presenters only real
    attribute is in being to read their autocue fluently.
    They could be presenting the news on a major disaster
    or as in the case of the BBC . When the next large Drag Queen
    event is going to be featured on the BBC, And we all know
    how obsessed the BBC is with Drag Queens,
    Yesterday on the BBC 601 News Channel at 1PM . The
    news presenter was interviewing an on the spot reporter
    in North Macedonia about the fire tragedy where scores of
    young folk were either killed or badly injured. ” Could you
    tell us VERY BRIEFLY what happened?” Was what her autocue
    must of flagged up. There was obviously no Drag Queen
    event to spend several minutes to cover.

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    • harry142857 says:

      Why do reports need to be brief. It’s a 24 hour news channel, FFS. It isn’t a 15 minute slot on the main station.

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  21. atlas_shrugged says:

    From a Gab post by David Kurten:

    David Kurten
    @davidkurten
    17h
    ·
    Understand the language of the enemy:
    🔴Sustainability = Scarcity
    🔴Diversity = Replacement Migration
    🔴Inclusion = Restricted and compelled speech
    🔴Equality = Two-tier justice
    🔴Anti-racist = Anti-white
    🔴Equity = Discrimination against white men

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  22. tomo says:

    Nuts

    This eejit is dangerous

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  23. Fedup2 says:

    Can you imagine the conversation between trump and Putin tomorrow ….

    Putin – what are we going to do about those idiots – TTK and macron “

    Trump – don’t worry – they are just grandstanding – they have no real military … i ll tell them their future ..

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    • digg says:

      Now there’s a thought, any fighting age male who washes up on our shores would need to agree to a minimum of 2 years on the front line in Ukraine in active service to qualify for citizenship?

      Otherwise back home you go,

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    • Square-Eyed says:

      Lance-Field Marshal Starmer on manoeuvres again.

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  24. digg says:

    We will be seeing much more of this sort of pretty baseless left-wing besmirching attack on Trump by the usual media suspects, this time the Guardian….

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/17/trump-golf-taxes

    With no real direct proof this article accuses Trump of ripping off the US public for his own pleasure playing golf.

    Yes he has visited his OWN golf course seven times since becoming President.

    This story is so pathetic and weak and full of innuendo with no real proof I can’t believe how it even stands up!

    It was written for the Guardian by….,

    Mohamad Bazzi…

    “ Bazzi is director of the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, and a journalism professor at New York University. He is the former Middle East bureau chief at Newsday”.

    So the perfect person to write about Trumps lifestyle?

    Tedious and boring and this is just the beginning I suspect.

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    • tomo says:

      The Guardian employs poisonous fools and doesn’t care because Scott Trust

      that’s all

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    • Up2snuff says:

      digg, what is a nominal Muslim doing directing an Armenian (Christian) body? Has Mohamad converted to Christianity?

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  25. tomo says:

    The cluelessness + idiocy, it stings….

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62x6l5g36lo

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    cretins seems way too mild an insult

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  26. Jeff says:

    About the only prog’ I watch these days on the Beeb is Gardener’s World. The new series started on Friday evening and I sat back with my cup of rosy and waited to be indoctrinated. It didn’t take long…

    At least a third of the programme was given over to warning us about “climate change”. You notice that very few people still use the old phrase “global warming”. It would just sound ridiculous, particularly when it’s bloody freezing. Anyway…

    According to Monty and his team everything we grow is appearing earlier with each passing year. They had Adam Frost visiting a garden in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight and exclaiming his amazement at what they’re able to grow and how much earlier things are appearing. However, Ventnor is on the south coast of our most southerly island and is renowned for its microclimate. “We shouldn’t be able to grow these here” he waffled on.

    Fortunately for me I’m not only a keen gardener, I’m also a complete anorak and I’ve kept notes of what I’m growing and what months I’m planting and reaping.

    Back in 1998 (so, a full 27 years ago) I had already planted out my first early potatoes. There’s no chance of that for another fortnight this year. It’s just been too wet and cold.

    I have film of my daffodils in full bloom on March 11th in 1999…not so this season. They’re barely blooming.

    In 1845 Robert Browning penned his classic, Home Thoughts From Abroad, when he extolls the beauty of an English Spring. “Oh to be in England now that April’s there.”

    A little later he remembers his “blossomed pear tree in the hedge…” I too have a pear tree, bought from Woolworths and planted as a twig nearly three decades ago. That will be in flower on time, just the same as Browning wrote about 180 years ago.

    Climate change…

    Utter rollox!

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  27. andyjsnape says:

    Labour’s plan for benefits throws up a bigger dilemma

    “In the next 24 hours and then over the following fortnight up until the Spring Statement, the government is going to talk a lot about a broken welfare system” How does the bbc know its going to talk a lot about the broken welfare system???

    Just proves the bbc is the government mouthpiece

    The biased bbc seems to like this government – not a bad word to say about it

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  28. harry142857 says:

    From Guido – took a lot of pushing !

    Mike Amesbury has done a sit down with GB News’ Gloria De Piero today. He says today is the day of his resignation:

    “As of today I will no longer be the Member of Parliament for Runcorn and Helsby after nearly eight years as an MP.”

    Amesbury adds that he “should have walked away” instead of punching Paul Fellows in the head before continuing to punch him once he had fallen to the ground. He says: “I don’t recognise myself… but it is me and it’s very important that I own that.” The soon-to-be former MP explains his presence outside a pub at two in the morning: “It was a tough time in parliament.” He adds he will have to wear an alcohol tag as part of his sentence. The by-election looms…

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  29. AsISeeIt says:

    BBC News posts to You Tube with a classic journalistic ‘despite’

    US deports hundreds of Venezuelans to supermax prison despite court order

    That’s the way to do it!

    An archetypical and controversial British figure with his origins in the charismatic 16th century Italian puppet Pulcinella, Mr Punch has been performing in the UK for over 350 years.

    Punch dispatches his foes each in turn and squeaks his famous catchphrase: “That’s the way to do it!” The term “pleased as Punch” is derived from Punch and Judy; specifically, Mr. Punch’s characteristic sense of gleeful self-satisfaction.

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  30. Lucy Pevensey says:

    Deform UK not dead enough….. Nigel beats the zombie corpse.

    https://twitter.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1901616964985815494

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  31. Richard Pinder says:

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  32. taffman says:

    Its time that the British Government cancelled the ‘Woke culture’ that has infiltrated into our media and education system . Eliminate it before it eliminates us .
    Next time vote for Reform UK…
    https://www.reformparty.uk

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  33. Fedup2 says:

    US Politics / war

    As well as attacks on Teslas another phenomenon has developed in the US . This is ‘swatting ‘ – which amounts to putting in a false call to police saying someone in a property is shooting at people – thence having the full SWAT response – usually in the middle of the night .

    So far it doesn’t seem that anyone has been killed but will only be a matter of time . It’s as bad as democrats publishing details of raids by ICE to capture illegals – something which will never happen in britainistan of course …

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  34. Lucy Pevensey says:

    Taffman did you not see Nigel’s press conference today? He has literally taken up the woke position.

    If we don’t like Zia and his stranglehold on Reform we are racist.

    Real name Muhammad Ziauddin Yusuf Yaxley-Lennon

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    • taffman says:

      Lucy Pevensey
      No missed it .
      If true, that will be the end of Farage, but beware, dark forces are at work trying to destroy our proud culture with false claims and propaganda.

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      • wwfc says:

        Sixty years ago, a man who was certain to become the Tory leader and then Prime Minister made a speech that ultimately led to his downfall. He should have followed Nigel’s example and remained silent until he attained power. Nigel Farage does not need to commit to mass deportations; he only needs to make the benefit system so difficult for them that they will self-deport.

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        • Lucy Pevensey says:

          Does he need to call us racists? How far will The Deformed party go to prove they are not racist?

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  35. Lucy Pevensey says:

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    • tomo says:

      Politics Joe?

      Shit stirring Paddies who employ a bunch of proper political nutters – some very murky funding / string pullers

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  36. Sluff says:

    BBC coverage of possible welfare reforms.
    Not difficult to work out they are against this.
    They roll out a whole range of hard luck cases, FarLeft Labourites, charidees and the like all expressing concern for hitting ‘the most vulnerable in society’.

    However there is one rather large group who get no coverage at all on the BBC.
    The taxpayers who have to pay for it all.

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  37. Sluff says:

    With all that is going on in the world, just guess what is the second story on the BBC news webshite at the time of writing?

    Drag star The Vivienne died after taking ketamine, family says
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgd0x919q4o

    The argument that the gay trans lobby has totally taken over the BBC wokes is hard indeed to oppose.

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  38. Eddy Booth says:

    “the family felt it was important to share the circumstances of their death.
    …will be working with a substance abuse charity to raise awareness of the dangers of the drug.”

    So important they waited 2 months.
    Exactly why did he need horse strength tranquilizer to blot out his lifestyle?
    Will the BBC ask if being a transvestite is a mental illness and not the happy go lucky lifestyle they endlessly promote.

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  39. Eddy Booth says:

    “The White House says “we’ve never been closer to peace than at this moment” ahead of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin holding talks on Ukraine on Tuesday

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3e4xzd8qq8t

    I’ll guess a peace deal based on – no NATO, control lines become new internationally recognised border, Russian assets unfrozen and sanctions lifted ( those two by the years end.)
    To help sell it to Ukraine:
    Russia hands back Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
    Fast track EU membership

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  40. Lucy Pevensey says:

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    Reform UK
    @reformparty_uk
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    Welcome to Reform UK, Cllr Manzur Hasan!

    * Born in Bangladesh. Lived in Spalding for 15 nearly years.
    Came to The UK as a student.

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  41. Fedup2 says:

    Did i hear it right ? The kennedy files to be published Tuesday … the grassy knoll did it

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  42. Lucy Pevensey says:

    The X-Twitter posts are not showing up again it seems but trying again.

    https://twitter.com/YossiBenYakar/status/1901564169578545546

    Reads;
    “BBC Arabic claims Hamas gave ‘good treatment’ to Israeli hostages—broadcast to millions! Lies! They’re in oxygen-less tunnels, fed stale pita, chained, tortured—no care!

    Do you still watch BBC’s lies for news? Only X for the truth!”

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  43. taffman says:

    Message to the Biased BBC – Deplatform wokeism!

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  44. StewGreen says:

    Channel5 now Police fly on the wall doco from Scunthorpe
    .. “Scunthorpe man” who stabbed people
    has convictions in Romania and Germany.

    Next scene he has handed himself in

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    • StewGreen says:

      The area of ton has mostly been taken over by foreigners
      It seems it’s the old Liberal Club .. (working mens club) looks like it’s been converted into a kebab restaurant
      Event is all on CCTV : The perp lives in a flat above the restaurant and works there
      Seems the restaurant owner or worker went into the flat to get something whilst the perp was out. And then when he gets back he’s angry asking how come they have a key. He pull out a pair of scissors and threatens the boss . Eventually lunges at the boss, Knifing him in the neck
      The rest oif scenes are all white detectives dealing with the suspect through an interpreter
      So UK spending a fortune on foreigner crime and interpreters
      No good outcome for UK .. either guy will go to UK jail or somehow the victim will refuse to testify etc.

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  45. JohnC says:

    Putin urged to prove Russia wants peace ahead of Trump talks
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8rplmk728o

    Goodness me : it’s a long time since I’ve seen an article so deliberately misleading and so full of shameless hypocrisy from the BBC. By their standards, that’s an amazing acievement.

    ‘French President Emmanuel Macron hailed the “courage” of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenksy in agreeing to a ceasefire proposal, and challenged Russia to do the same.’
    Courage ?. He did it because Trump withdrew the military aid until he did.

    ‘”Enough deaths. Enough lives destroyed. Enough destruction. The guns must fall silent,” Macron said in a post on X.’
    What ???. My already low opinion of Macron – and the EU – as hypocrite liars just dropped another 10 notches. How dare they try to take the moral high ground for demanding peace. after what they have done.

    UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy said Putin should agree to a “full and unconditional ceasefire now”
    Excuse me while I get back up after rolling around on the floor laughing. Now the fat racists idiot Lammy is giving Putin ultimatums ?. And of course directly copying the words from Starmer who only said it because the EU told him to ?. Poor old Putin’s sides must be splitting by now. What a joke.

    ‘One of the areas of contention is Russia’s Western Kursk region, where Ukraine launched a military incursion last August and captured some territory.’
    No it isn’t BBC. Russia have taken it back. And they could have at any time – but they let Ukraine keep feeding their best troops in there. It’s no coincidence that they retook it immeediately before negotiations started.

    ‘The peace proposal on the table was discussed by Ukrainian and American delegates in Saudi Arabia last week.’
    ‘After hours locked away in a room, they announced proposals for a 30-day ceasefire, which Ukraine said it was ready to accept.’

    Locked in a room BBC ?. Any evidence of that ?. Ukraine were told what they must do to get USA support and they did it. Why not tell us the truth ?.

    I’m stunned at the complete bullshit in this article. And they end it with :
    ‘France’s President Macron and newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney …’
    The BBC are determined to make us think Carney just won an election. He didn’t. He is the new leader of the encumbent government who will be fighting a real election soon and is currently losing in the polls. An absolutely and completely misleading thing to write.

    An article by another clone:
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    But this one has very obviously been very very carefully directed by the commissars on the third floor.

    Jaqueline Howard – who wrote it – lists herself as a ‘health journalist’ at CNN and her previous article on muckrack is:
    ‘If your dog looks like you, there may be a psychological reason’

    Well qualified to write about such weighty matters by the usual BBC standards these days.

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  46. Eddy Booth says:

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    • taffman says:

      Eddy Booth
      ???

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      • Eddy Booth says:

        coalition of the willing

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        • JohnC says:

          I’ve heard some bullshit management speak in my time but that one by TTK is by far the most ridiculous.

          Even worse, the EU leaders (with someone from Canada trying to fit in) clearly sat around a table, came up with it and all agreed to use it.

          When you see weird wording like that, it means it is deliberate lawyer speak and avoids saying things we don’t even realise. This one appears to be absolutely meaningless.

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        • atlas_shrugged says:

          coalition of the willing > coalition of the killing?

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  47. pugnazious says:

    ‘Many of those [children] questioned perceive that they have no future, that humanity is doomed, and that governments are failing to respond adequately.

    Many feel betrayed, ignored and abandoned by politicians and adults.’

    Apparently there is a mental health crisis amongst young people especially…covid lockdowns added greatly to the epidemic.

    Or did it? The BBC is swift to try and downplay the role lockdowns had on childrens’ mental health and academic achievement levels. The BBC mobilised ‘More or Less’ to try and shut down the lockdown sceptics…but of course they couldn’t deny the truth completely so they fudged it and said ‘we just don’t have the evidence to show if lockdowns had such effects’….but of course there is endless evidence.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00291y1

    The BBC has good reason to try and diisassociate lockdowns and school closures with the epidemic of mental health problems and underachievement at school….one excuse was that such issues existed pre-covid. Hmmm. Yes.

    There was indeed a massive growth in mental health claims….but was this a real issue or one generated by, say, the likes of the BBC which spent years pumping out programmes telling everyone they were mentally ill and to seek help. It was hard to tune into 5 Live and not hear a programme bemoaning the alleged decline of mental health in the population.

    This is the BBC that terrified generations of kids about climate change and continues to do so to this day…

    ‘Many of those questioned perceive that they have no future, that humanity is doomed, and that governments are failing to respond adequately.

    Many feel betrayed, ignored and abandoned by politicians and adults.’

    The BBC that tells Black kids to hate whites and whites to hate themselves, that tells very young children they are not the gender they think they are leading to a lifetime of confusion, pain and self-loathing, that tells kids to hate their parents….the Boomers had it all, stole all thew money and now want to stop you having a good life…the BBC encourages inter-generational conflict, the BBC that tells kids they’re all going to die in a planet apocalypse due to climate change….and of course the BBC that demanded school closures and told kids they were going to die from covid unless they got vaccinated…a huge lie that has really screwed things up.

    It’s not the parents that ‘fuck them up’ it’s the likes of the BBC.

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    • digg says:

      Agreed 100%

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Pug – there is – I think – an added ingredient to the problems of the ‘young ‘ – namely the internet and the need to be in contact with their ‘friends ‘.. I have limited experience of this but judging by the kids reacting – sometimes killing themselves over ‘online bullying ‘ the internet seems pretty toxic to young heads ….

        And all that ‘information ‘ – influencer stuff – adds even more pressure to those susceptible …. I feel glad sometimes to have grown up in simpler more peaceful less perverted times …. We ‘ad it ‘ard though – bread and dripping …. If we were lucky …

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  48. pugnazious says:

    Not a mention of the attackers’ religion despite it being central to the attack…. being ‘motivated by political and religious reasons’….

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2ljglvv842o

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