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- Daniel Apr 23, 15:14
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“They were a minority of a minority. Got that?” I’m afraid I haven’t got that Up2snuff. What was the minority… - Greencoat Apr 23, 15:07
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The next Pope could well be a black man with conservative views – always an awkward thing for the Left. - Up2snuff Apr 23, 15:00
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Daniel, the BBC treated the 36 Deputies like a majority. They were a minority of a minority. Got that? Zephir… - popeye Apr 23, 14:36
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JohnC “you can’t be racist against a religion”. That, John, is exactly why they are desperate to introduce laws against… - Zephir Apr 23, 14:13
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No misinterpretation, it appears that our Upo2 is, to put it mildly, thick as something or other. Or to put… - Fedup2 Apr 23, 13:53
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The nature of the slaughtered victims was also left out – hindus ? Christians ? An ignored religious war ?… - Nibor Apr 23, 13:47
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Sorry Zephir but whats wrong with Up2 ? I like your posts and I like his posts and click accordingly…
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Nice (not) to think that the Beeboids will glorify their dull insistence on foreign non-values and conveniently wallow in the huge amount of money they have from sheep-like taxpayers bunging them every month…
So glad they get b*****-all from me!
Baaaaah baaaaaaaah………..
Bum Boys Club.
Money buys power…..
“Labour donor was given ‘temporary’ No 10 pass”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86l7xqzze8o
An apposite link!
Of course, there’s no connection between this and the Mark Steyn Cruises!
https://marksteyncruise.com/
I jest, of course! Just couldn’t resist making the colloquial connection.
Looks like a great trip. Wish I could go. It’d be the one type of cruise that could tempt me onto any type of cruise.
P.S. Enjoying “America Alone” and “A Disgrace to the Profession”. Also delighted at the recent Mann developments (even if the existence of any punitive or other damages at all is ridiculous).
I watched the trial last year live on-line, whilst lying in bed post hip-replacement op. In fact, they were entire days of lawyer-watching, with the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry live-stream in the mornings and early to mid-afternoons, followed by a switch to the ridiculous US court at around 4pm.
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“In an essay about America Alone, Christopher Hitchens wrote that “Mark Steyn believes that demography is destiny, and he makes an immensely convincing case,” then detailed many points at which he disagreed with Steyn. Hitchens believed Steyn erred by “considering European Muslim populations as one.”
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Muhammad was the top choice for parents naming their baby boys in England and Wales in 2023, with more than 4,600 children registered with the name.
It has been among the top 10 names for baby boys since 2016, but has now overtaken the previous favourite, Noah, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly4g2v0ej6o
Catchup link to last page on previous thread
Scrobby ! Top dog at last ! No more than you deserve.
bbc reports:-
World braces as Trump set to announce sweeping tariffs
“BRACES” nothing like sensational reporting as if to create turmoil.. but tomorrow nothing will come of it, but keeps the lefties in line
More Trump negative reporting. If this would have been Biden, probably wouldn’t of been mentioned, or the best thing since sliced bread
#defund
It’s OK Andy – “Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the UK must “prepare for the worst”, so we have the best commercial brain already engaged on the case, and we’re sure to come out unscathed!
Hello Scroblene
We need Diane Abacus at times like this 🙂
In the bbc world “The Mother of the house”, apparently
The Great British public flock to their doorsteps to blow a loud collective raspberry at the NHS…
Public satisfaction with NHS hits record low… according to the long-running British Social Attitudes survey. Just 21% said they were satisfied (BBC)
Our BBC explains: Satisfaction rates have dropped sharply since the pandemic – in 2019, 60% were satisfied
Cue your Mr AsI’s little editorial correction: Satisfaction rates have dropped sharply since the
pandemicLOCKDOWNS [which were a policy choice]And there we were back then thinking we’d ‘saved’ the NHS.
Seems even some of our most hallowed and beloved of familiar British institutions have their sell-by date…
WH Smith name to disappear from High Street after sale… it developed a reputation for being run-down and shabby, culminating in a popular social media account WHS_Carpet, which mocked the poor state of its floor coverings. (BBC)
There’s a notion that with the victory of managerialism and corporatisation our popular culture and entertainment has become stuck on repeat – like an old school scratched vinyl record – doomed to replay, reimagine, replicate, reinvent, reprise, sequel, prequel, rerun and redo.
The frontpage of the Guardian this morning celebrates: Fab four… Sam Mendes reveals cast for his Beatles biopics
Mr AsI has often been moved to Shout at the seeming Come Together of Times and Guardian
And so it is this morning as the Times closely duplicates the Gruan’s frontpage feature photo and punning: Get back to back Fab four films… a quartet of Beatles biopics
Why do something completely new and unfamiliar when the industry can bank on the bankable – four times over.
Interestingly, the junior youth-oriented poundshop (WH Smith-busting?) Guardian that is the i paper strikes a note of cynicism: Four overhyped ‘It Boys’ to play the Beatles? Help!
Couldn’t Sam Mendes have cast four black girls (or at least one) in the role of John, Paul, George and Rihanna?
Norwegian Wood… Denmark won’t: Up to Greenland to decide its future, Danish PM tells Trump (BBC)
Here Comes The Sun… and as sure as night follows day: Driest March for more than 60 years in England and Wales (BBC); Sunniest March on record in England (i paper) – I suppose we’ll have to take their word for that. And told to us, mind you, as though it’s a bad thing.
Asiseeit
When I saw the story about a Beatles ‘bio pic ‘ I thought it was an April Fool – particularity seeing who had been cast for the ‘fab 4 ‘…..
Perhaps it might have been better to do a sort of yellow submarine film using AI when they are sadly no longer with us ….
Some of those AI videos of Beatles on YouTube are quite a wonder . Notice how I have refrained from using a Beatles Title – i thought I’d let it be.
Admin note – apologies to any ‘ first ‘ goalhangers that I didn’t put this thread up until the middle of the night – I completely forgot – but at least Scroblene got first …
Morning Fed!
Nobody was more surprised than me to see the magic words, ‘Leave a comment’ as I checked the web this morning – as is my wont while the old corpuscles eventually decide to join up and begin to make the day worth living!
And ‘Here comes the sun’…
Fed Up, apologies for not hanging around the goal of late but in Gary’s terms I have torn my cruciate ligament and in my terms I have been busy/on holiday.
Keep it late tomorrow and punt it up long, I am out until the minimum wage, NI and rates put real gas into the tab and I leave before pud and coffee.
GBNews had on its strap line that the Met Office was warning of wildfires because of the hot (warm?) dry weather we are having. We assumed it was an April Fool joke. But searching other media had the same warning. It was a joke, wasn’t it? I have awoken to green fields covered with a heavy dew.
And a biting East wind, Debs!
It’s the same everywhere apparently, so presumably comes from Norway – like lots of foreigners…
Carol is basking.
https://x.com/carolkirkwood/status/1907324250815393957?s=61
Coolest day since big bang!
Tariffs
Version one – DJT applies tariffs to UK just like any other third world country – TTK expresses regret but it won’t harm the ‘special relationship ‘
Version two DJT singles UK out for no tariffs – a triumph of leadership by TTK showing the ‘strength of the special relationship ‘
PS – subsequently DJ says tariffs were not just imposed because the US is being cheated – but to send a message to the Marxists destroying a close allie …
Further to my post earlier, a bit more stirring by the likes of the bbc:-
“Chris Mason: Jitters, uncertainty and hope as UK awaits Trump tariff decision”
Always negative reporting when anything to do with President Trump! A bit more uncertainty, again and again
So glad I dont fund this propaganda
Excellent news – satisfaction with their NHS rapidly reducing – just another excuse to throw another 20 billion at it for no gain – good pensions though – and an achievement of a self serving
‘Organisation ‘
Don’t forget to clap …..
Hello Fedup2
Surely the NHS are due another payrise/bribe to get them to do their jobs
Andy – they are self serving – eg not working weekends – or when the privateers aren’t doing the private health stuff – and any challenge to the medical mafia can cause real or political harm … like plod – best avoided … unless you are foreign / DEI …
Jitter away, Chrissie.
Today 0810
Our Justin awake over the coming tariffs – interviewing a former Trump advisor . The bbc is behaving as though the tariffs are a surprise – yet DJT has been promising them for ages … and quite rightly as he explained ….
Btw – the Financial Times describes tariffs as the ‘evaporation of US soft power ‘… maybe at last people will see that ‘soft power ‘ is nonsense – a tool for well meaning fools to feel good about themselves by giving away other peoples ‘ money ( yours ) to people who will never thank us and only want more – whilst the donors ( us ) are screwed on higher taxes …
The bbc should be reporting news, not ‘behaving’.
Is that half a dozen easy to see diverse coppers walking up to the ring doorbell?
…who will never thank us and…. then kill us
‘Doesn’t appear to know’
https://x.com/moving_charlie/status/1907108472988033049?s=61
Keir Starmer fails to answer the question about the impact of today’s Stamp Duty increase AND incorrectly claims mortgage rates are lower since he came to power.
Other interpretations are available.
https://x.com/atticrahman/status/1907147578833068118?s=61
Wow, must watch. Labours Farming Minister clueless; just like the other Labour ministers
‘Clueless’ seems… generous.
https://x.com/zflanders38846/status/1907078495462658302?s=61
At least the BBC have hitched to winners.
https://x.com/rupertlowe10/status/1906791550207631660?s=61
‘Transphobic’ toddlers, institutional anti-white racism, British MPs lobbying for Pakistani airport construction.
What the HELL is going on with our country?!
Rather clear there is a clear cause, Rupert, and neither he nor the national broadcaster care.
“‘Transphobic’ toddlers, institutional anti-white racism, British MPs lobbying for Pakistani airport construction.
What the HELL is going on with our country?!”
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Britain is Governed by Minorities for Minorities: David Starkey
Im sure I heard some treasury minister – the one who fraudulently claimed to be a lawyer – saying living standards are starting to improve … bet he claims a lot of expenses …
https://labour.org.uk/about-us/the-cabinet/
reasury
Rachel Reeves Chancellor of the Exchequer
Darren Jones Chief Secretary
Lord (Spencer) Livermore Financial Secretary
James Murray Parliamentary Secretary (Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury)
Emma Reynolds Parliamentary Secretary (Economic Secretary to the Treasury)
Torsten Bell Parliamentary Secretary
Darren jones – no honour – didnt resign for telling lies – Marxist requirement these days – like his boss ..
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Darren Jones
…seen a couple of (softball) interviews with that one, what a wazzock.
The ‘news management ‘ is obvious now as to be embarrassing . For instance – the multiple stabbings in Amsterdam last week is now described by the prosecutors as ‘terrorist ‘ – but doesn’t say what kind … with the suspect remaining un named ( why ) but coming from Ukraine – via Cardiff …..
Renaming stuff is as venal as it is ultimately self defeating.
And relying on msm support no longer works either.
https://x.com/ukhomeoffice/status/1906706494881431720?s=61
#ccbgb
We are all on the same side … HA HA HA HHA HAH AHAH A
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Remember how the BBC report news … terrorist is victim …
“I am not kidding. @BBCNews website leaves the impression the Syrian suicide bomber as a victim in a ‘German blast’.” – Tarek Fatah 24jul2016
https://x.com/TarekFatah/status/757442737037770752
News management. Where 21 degrees is Scorchio and Tottenham again goes #mostlypeaceful
https://x.com/standardnews/status/1907343899330236518?s=61
More BS from the biased bbc:-
The pronatalists who believe Trump’s White House is on their side
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ypdy05jl9o
Just so people dont start to believe Trump, the bbc have put out their side
#defund
Terrorist group?
“Thomas, 29, lives in the east of England, and although his idea of blowing up the world is something of a thought experiment, he is certain about one thing – humans should not have babies, and our species should gradually go extinct.”
Anti-natalists: The people who want you to stop having babies
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-49298720
A population correspondent, apparently.
Via the usual route. LDN via Lagos via Dublin.
I am however transfixed by the name Oswin Kuckles.
https://www.responsesource.com/bulletin/news/bbc-news-gets-a-global-population-correspondent/
Recent news related to BBC News
Darin Graham moves to Skift
David Mercer joins BBC News from Sky News
Jonathan Munro promoted at BBC News
Ewan Somerville makes the move to BBC News
George King joins BBC News
Her Twitter is a mix of Gaza horror and Trump/Musk outrage posts. Does she get her own felt pens or will she have to share Team Verify’s?
The BBC, as ever, motivated by the Five M’s:
Misanthropy
Malthusianism
Misogyny *
Mendacity
Marxism
* against women who become mothers
Last rant of the day, I promise 🙂
Met to cut 1,700 staff to plug £260m ‘black hole’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyq2prpy85o
Sir Sad blames the previous government – but your making the cuts!
President Khan never held accountable by the likes of the bbc.
Just look at knife crime on his watch – do the bbc ever ask him to comment, he stays well away
“Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley was paid £168,664 in total after coming in to lead the Met partway into the financial year, alongside deputy commissioner Lynne Owens on £140,418. Data analysis by City A.M. of the force’s unaudited accounts for 2022/23 showed the Met spent more than £3.15bn of its £4.2bn budget on pay.24 Mar 2024”
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12 February 2025
It is a “ridiculous waste of taxpayers’ money” to pay for police officers who cannot be sacked to sit at home, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce9nedl1n9yo
They do less harm sitting at home / driving a taxi ..
Andy, I thought you meant The Met Office. See my earlier comment about wild fires.
Andy -no no – ranting is free ..
Hello Fedup2
I’m used to paying more, especially under this government
We all know the bbc isn’t biased lol but will they ever do a favourable report on Trump
Become and MP, turn your home into a constituency office and claim heating and costs via expenses! If 70 million people become MPs we can end heating poverty!
Wouldn’t merely “identifying as an MP” be sufficient?
Excellent news – MPs to avoid paying double council tax on second homes by having their expenses increased . The political system is …. Rotten … was gonna use a bad word but realised I’d need to delete myself …
UK 70 year old complains about Labour and gets knock on door – be careful out there and do not listen to nursey kids as they are all transphobic.
Excellent news
Guido reports that because of the Rachel from accounts NI increases more nurseries are to close the marxist education secretary is to open .
Have a kid – bring it up yourself and dont expect the state ( taxpayers) to pay for it – including’breakfast £ clubs’ using your taxes ..
( very right ring of me eh ?)
You have to laugh at some commentators writing their newspaper columns.
Whenever they write about Trump they always start with something like todays Hannan piece in the Daily Mail where he says “Although I despise Trump he’s got this right” or words to that effect.
They can’t just say he’s done good, they have to qualify it by making sure all their woke mates know they hate Trump.
I suppose if they came out and said Trump is excellent they would lose all their lefty virtue signalling kidult crowd they hang about with.
Me, I think Trump is brilliant and would absolutely love it if he were our PM instead of TTK.
Mind, I wonder how we would write about TTK if he ever done something good. Would we say something along the lines of “I can’t stand him but he’s got this right”
I think we’ll never know as he has the knack of always being wrong and his decisions always make things worse.
“Although I love Biden, he’s got this wrong”
Biden’s detailed notecards raise new questions about his age
The saying used to be ‘You’re as old as you feel’. Although in Biden’s case it’s more like ‘You’re ten times as old as the girl whose hair you are sniffing is’.
#EpsteinWasAnIcebergThinkAboutIt
I put a similar comment to my one above on Hannan’s article in the Daily Mail…..and it’s been disappeared.
At the moment I added it, it appeared straight away but when I looked again for any reaction 15 minutes later it wasn’t there.
In my profile it’s also missing from comments in the last 7days.
What was it Trump said about free speech?
9am Orange Man Thick
BBC More or Less lives in the bubbleworld that HATES HATES Trump
so sneers sneers
“Oh he makes out the US is a big oil producer
yet it produces only 13m barrels per day and consumes 20m per day”
.. What they are doing is counting the crude out IMPORTED but then when it is refined and split into petroleum products and re-exported BBC is not fully counting it.
Grok AI says “Yes, the United States is a net exporter of both oil and gas
For oil (meaning total petroleum, which includes crude oil and refined petroleum products like gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel), the U.S. has been a net exporter since 2020”
I guess the US finds it convenient to import crude from Canada
but then for Alaskan oil it export a lot rather than bring it to the US proper
BTW the BBC have really laid off tweeting PR for More or Less recently
I guess that’s after they received a kicking on Covid progs from both Covid-alarmists and Covid-skeptics
The prosecution and banning from political activity of Marine Le Pen is provoking the reactions from the various media outlets that you might expect.
GB News thinks it is an outrageous attack on democracy.
The Spectator thinks it a highly divisive move that many will regard as an attack on democracy .
The Telegraph thinks it will provoke a back lash but that the legal case was sound even if the sentence was severe .
The Times thinks that it is important that politicians don’t regard themselves as above the law.
Basically the more Globalist the outlet the more supportive it is of the sentence handed down.
We on this site have for some time been expecting a steady escalation by the Globalists as Nationalist resistance to their undemocratic rule increases. And it is happening everywhere, USA, Romania, Germany ( with threats to ban the AfD) , Ireland, France , Spain and of course here in the UK as Tories and Labour connive to ban elections.
The big question is how far will they go to maintain their rule? We are already seeing banning of political opposition , censorship, propaganda . How far away is state sponsored violence against protesters?
Can democracy actually remove a ruling elite which holds all the power and which creates , interprets and implements the law to suit its own ends?
Yet…. “Christine Lagarde avoids jail, keeps job after guilty verdict in negligence trial” This article is more than 8 years old
Judges opt not to give any punishment to head of International Monetary Fund, who was given support of IMF board after the verdict
But it decided she should not be punished and that the conviction would not constitute a criminal record.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/19/christine-lagarde-avoids-sentence-despite-guilty-verdict-in-negligence-trial
But it decided she should not be punished and that the conviction would not constitute a criminal record.
Double – I think they’ll engineer terrorism to enable more repressive legislation in the name of ‘ community safety ‘… what do you reckon 77 brigade ….
Then they can chirp that crap about who the biggest threat it from …. ( and taking attention off of routine Islamic terrorism ) …
“the current French Prime Minister, François Bayrou, was involved in a legal case related to the misuse of public funds. In February 2024, Bayrou was acquitted in a trial concerning allegations that his centrist party, MoDem (Democratic Movement), had misused European Parliament funds to pay party staff for work unrelated to parliamentary duties.
While Bayrou himself was cleared due to insufficient evidence of his direct involvement, several members of his party were found guilty and received penalties, including suspended prison sentences and fines.”
If the media didn’t tell you this then they are deceiving you.
2 years ago … THIS WAS OK!
Prince Charles given €3m in cash in bags by Qatari politician, according to report
Money was passed immediately to one of the prince’s charities, says Clarence House
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/25/prince-charles-is-said-to-have-been-given-3m-in-qatari-cash
DominicFrisby tweets
I saw this documentary called Peaky Blinders
and I’m really concerned now about crime in Birmingham
He tried to tell us he had been hired by the BBC yesterday – 1st April …..
MAYBE MPS SHOULD PLAY THIS IN ALL SCHOOSL ACROSS THE NATION .. .HA HA HAH
White Privilege
The patriarchy is real, the proof is here in my song
I’ll sit and mansplain every detail of the things it does wrong
‘Cause I’m a white male, full of shame
My ancestry is evil, and their evil is still not gone
[Outro]
Their evil is still not gone
Their evil is still not gone
Their evil is still not gone
Their evil is still not gone
Their evil is still not gone
Their evil is still not gone
Their evil is still not gone
Their evil is still not gone
Their evil is still not gone
Their evil is still not gone
Their evil is still not gone
Their evil is still not gone
https://genius.com/Sam-fender-white-privilege-lyrics
April 1 was Rachel Fools Day
The day when a number of household bills rise by way more than the inflation rate
Fools voted for Labour
Everyone voted for change! Short changed!
“Will a Lab MP ask about the situation in Birmingham? Or just the new airport in Pakistan?”
https://order-order.com/2025/04/02/pmqs-whos-asking-the-questions-162/#comments
Local radio 12pm no regular newsreader instead the bubbly fat woman presenter has turned up to read the news.
The Telegraph’s Charlotte Gill has dug around and found that UK charity Tender are working to promote Adolescence in schools. With gov funding and lots of luvvies roped in to tackle toxic masculinity:
“We harness the power of drama and the arts to educate children, young people and adults about healthy relationships and embed respectful attitudes and behaviours throughout communities.”
Turns out one of the founders of Tender is Philippa Kaufman KC… an ex-girlfriend of Keir Fuhrer’s. Looks like it’s propaganda all the way down.
Where are you on the pyramid from ‘bragging’ to ‘genocide’?
https://x.com/Michell34044381/status/1906963508958314766
I know Egypt is famous for its pyramids, but isn’t this diagram some sort of subliminal Islamophobic slur on certain groups?
Guess which side is run by the left ?
(there’s a hint in the question)
Throw the bags onto the other side!
In case you are struggling:
“A tale of two pavements: One side of road in Labour-run Birmingham is piled high with rubbish as rats ‘as big as dogs’ run wild – while other side run by Tory council is spotless”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14562107/rats-ginormous-dogs-Birmingham-rat-catcher-destroying-cars-bin-strike.html
PMQs
I wasn’t going to bother – but then I realised I have a secret pleasure in listening the Kemi one blowing it every single week – useless – unable to hit someone as empty as TTK . Really not up to it ….
Same again today ….
Maybe let a transphobic toddler from a nursery lead the conservatives? At least they have an opinion!
BBC old hand showing the mind set of posh bbc types wanting illegals to stay in third world Britain
STARTS A former senior BBC correspondent helped a Pakistani asylum seeker avoid deportation by supporting his human rights claim.
Dr Owen Bennett-Jones – a former Islamabad bureau chief for the BBC – backed the man’s claim that he faced being arrested by security services and imprisoned if he were deported back to Pakistan.
Dr Bennett-Jones, who was the long time host of the World Service’s Newshour programme, used his personal contacts to establish whether the individual’s claims were true, the hearing was told.
The broadcaster said he had been informed the asylum seeker was on a “control list” and would likely be “picked up” on his arrival in Pakistan.
After the former correspondent described the “poor conditions” of prisons in Pakistan in a report provided to the tribunal, the individual was granted refugee status.
An immigration judge found that it would breach the man’s Article 3 rights, which protect against persecution and torture, under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) if he were to return to his home country, where he claimed he was wanted by the Pakistan military for desertion.
The judge overruled the Home Office, which had claimed that “little weight” could be attached to Dr Bennett-Jones’s report as he was “an expert on extremism rather than the Pakistan military”.
‘Arrested, tortured, interrogated’
The Pakistani, who was granted anonymity, came to the UK on a student visa in 2010 after fleeing Pakistan. He applied for leave after his visa ended, with appeals lasting until 2020, when he was told he would be deported.
He then appealed the deportation, saying that he had turned to the Pakistani military for help after the Taliban attempted to recruit him. He said the Taliban told him he would be “of great use to to them” as he had experience working as a radar technician for the Pakistani air force (PAF).
The police refused to help him, so he returned to his PAF base to inform his commanding officer of what had happened. He was then arrested by military police, tortured and interrogated for nine days before being granted a month’s leave – during which he fled to the UK.
The tribunal said: “[He] claims that he is now wanted as a deserter by the PAF and that military officials often visit his family’s home to question them about his whereabouts.”
As a deserter, he faced arrest and court martial if he returned, he said. Dr Bennett-Jones provided the tribunal with a “country expert report”, which the asylum seeker “relied upon” in the proceedings.
The former BBC journalist said: “Having been given [the asylum seeker’s] passport number and CNIC [ID card] number by his lawyer, I enquired from my contacts in Pakistan about [his] status. It turns out that he is on the Passport Control List.”
Dr Bennett-Jones said he managed to obtain this information through “good senior contacts in Pakistan” but could not divulge the names of his sources as it would put them at risk. He said the asylum seeker was “still on the Passport Control List and would therefore be picked up on his arrival in Pakistan”.
‘An impressive CV’
Matthew Hoffman, an upper tribunal judge, rejected the Home Office’s argument that Dr Bennett-Jones was an expert on extremism rather than the Pakistan military. He said: “We find that Dr Bennett-Jones has an impressive CV.”
The judge referred to the fact that Dr Bennett-Jones was a former BBC foreign correspondent and had been the Corporation’s Islamabad bureau chief, as well as his having reported on South Asia for 25 years. He also noted that he ran seminars for British diplomats and civil servants and that he had a PhD.
Judge Hoffman said: “Considering the evidence together in the round and applying the lower standard applicable in protection cases, we are satisfied that the appellant is on the [exit control list].
“We also find that the most likely reason for this is that the [individual] is wanted for desertion from the PAF having not returned from his one month’s leave in early 2010.
“We are satisfied to the lower standard that on return to the country [the man] is likely to be stopped at the airport and arrested pending a court martial. We accept [evidence from] Dr Bennett-Jones’s first report that the likely punishment for desertion is a period of imprisonment.
“We are therefore satisfied that if the [man] was to be arrested and detained on return to Pakistan as a deserter from the PAF, then his removal would breach the UK’s obligations under Article 3 [of the ECHR].”ENDS
End the BBC
Comment “I liked the way Starmer criticised Andrew Tate for ‘indoctrinating’ young males by saying that they need ‘physical fitness, wealth and status’ to be seen as successful in society. When Starmer was asked “who should be a good role model for young boys” he suggested sports personalities…. ya’ know…. people with physical fitness, wealth and status.. 😂😂😂”
Keir Starmer- Free propaganda for schools…
World at one
Leading with the suffering of israeli hostages .
Oh sorry – actually leading with a full islamic hamas propaganda piece against the IDF over a strike on a hamas convoy pretending to be ambulances- seems they left one alive
Keep going IDF .
This has “staged” written through it like Blackpool rock. I just cannot understand why BBC types are unable to join the dots.
Hamas are stage managing these events in which every time there are amazing coincidences like the lone survivor “spokesman who pops up to fill in the background narrative. The BBC are completely taqqia blind.
Islamic BBC – as infiltrated as the rest of the britainistan state ….from their king down ward
Is the charity Tender connected to Starmer ? YES
Was his ex-girlfriend Philippa Kauffman the founder ? NO
but she was on the board from day 1 for 2 years
Keir Starmer lived with Phillipa Kaufmann KC from approximately 1997 to 1999.
Grok “You’re correct that Phillipa Kaufmann’s name appears in the Companies House records for Tender Education and Arts . Specifically, she is listed as a former officer of the charity. According to the records, Phillipa Kaufmann was appointed as a director on January 3, 2003—the same date Tender was incorporated—and resigned on October 31, 2005.
first claimer : https://x.com/Michell34044381/status/1906963508958314766
The account has mentioned the connection dozens of times
from 29th January
https://x.com/Michell34044381/status/1884507217929376161
also Jan 30
Philippa kaufman founded Tender Arts. keir’s ex from the Matrix chambers.
MOPAC fund it, transgender nut jobs in our schools.
I think it’s fraud.
Angela Raynors photgrapher is a director.
MAP Medical Aid for Palestine. On the current list.
Something is up. They r using our 💰
TTK promises not to murder / suicide Tommy Robinson is DJT doesn’t imposes tariffs on stuff produced in the UK by foreign companies …. ( a late illegal April fool )
The Ad Agencies have surpassed themselves – my childhood read of The Famous Five has gone beyond woke in the Great Western Railways ad.
OK a black kid has been inserted into this animated version – fine, but the storyline of them finding an engagement ring, and chasing the owner across the countryside – again OK, all ends well with the owner – a girl, proposing to her fiancee – another girl ! Oh God this endless subliminal messaging never ends. Admittedly you only see the proposal for a fleeting second but enough to push the agenda. Cartoons which little ones will no doubt watch. Unforgivable.
“subliminal messaging”
The BBC does not report news … it generates it (Savile/Brand/Pay Gap) … and is busy changing the country via social engineering …
“By 2020, the BBC wants its employees to comprise 50% women, 8% disabled people, 8% lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people and 15% people from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds.{bbc.co.uk 14sep2017}”
I appreciate it was a number of years back, but did the BBC ever succeed in their plan to reduce the number of women employees to 50%, disabled people down to 8%, LGBTQWERTY to 8%, and black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds down to just 15%? It’s just that those categories still seem even more over-represented these days.
All men self identified as women and now there are too many women!
No: https://www.bbc.com/aboutthebbc/whoweare/bbcboard
catchup with Sunday’s discussion on this topic
GWR – Five and the Thrilling Engagement
“A sad story of an English man learning that the country he lives in is no longer England.”
EXCLUSIVE: Waitrose FIRED ME for my TRADITIONAL VIEWS & Treated Me Like a Criminal. Ben Woods
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That led to Sir Keir cutting in, saying “we’ve had free speech for a very, very long time in the United Kingdom – and it will last for a very, very long time”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgee7rl24ro
I really wish they’d be concise .._I suppose the next thing for him is a contrived criminal allegation followed by the 0500 visit from 6 plod – 10 hours in a cell – an interview under caution – file to the CPS – followed by a political trial with a TTK judge … judge Mohammed somebody of course …
Be good to see Waitrose go under …
Sell up, and move abroad while you still can.
I chose Portugal. Great weather, very safe, low cost of living.
The best thing I ever did.
All – agree – im sort of in the process …
More far left theft and fraud:
“U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer announced on Monday that her department will return over $1 billion in unused COVID-era funding back to the taxpayer amid the Trump administration’s push for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to slash waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government.
In a press release, the Labor Department said $1.4 billion of unspent COVID funding will be “returned to taxpayers through the U.S. Department of Treasury’s General Fund” and added that “action” is “being taken to recover the remaining $2.9 billion.”
“The roughly $4.3 billion was intended for states to use for temporary unemployment insurance during the pandemic,” the press release states. “Instead, several states continued spending millions of dollars despite no longer meeting necessary requirements, which was uncovered in a 2023 audit conducted by the department’s Office of Inspector General.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-labor-department-secures-eye-popping-sum-return-taxpayers-amid-doge-push
“In May last year NHS Test and Trace (NHST&T) was set up with a budget of £22 billion. Since then it has been allocated £15 billion more: totalling £37 billion over two years.”
https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/127/public-accounts-committee/news/150988/unimaginable-cost-of-test-trace-failed-to-deliver-central-promise-of-averting-another-lockdown/
It appears increasingly that the whole “Adolescence” story is one big woke Government Psy-op intended to demonise the white working class, brainwash our children, and prepare the way for further government legislation and control of online activity.
Chilling.
Coronavirus: Peak District drone police criticised for ‘lockdown shaming’ Published 27 March 2020
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-52055201
It said “the message is still not getting through” about stopping the spread of coronavirus, despite government guidance and several police posts.
One Twitter user called it “the worst kind of nanny policing” while others pointed out that the walkers were away from crowds.
A couple of times now, TTK has called the boring woke crap ‘Adolescence’ a documentary which will be shown in schools.
I suggest another documentary they could show, The life of Brian.
The Life of Mohammed – “Aisha runs from the tent aged 6 clutching her teddy (not named Mo) with tears in her eyes. Her 40 year old husband chases here – half dressed.”
TWatO Watch #1 – typical BBC!
Pole position on the news and on TWatO was the attack on five ambulances, a firetruck and a UN vehicle killing 15 people. The IDF say the vehicles were approaching IDF troops suspiciously and without lights. That, say the BBC, is incorrect and they mysteriously have a Palestinian who survived the attack to give an account on radio, there’s a surprise! The BBC believing a Palestinian. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq80x0z2evvo
100% Islamic Hamas terrorist propaganda served up as fact – surely a criminal offence of aiding terrorism …
Really hope DJT has a series of tariffs on top of each other – eg a civil rights tariff – applied to regimes such as Britain which has political courts and restrictions on freedom – another one on countries which won’t control their borders – another one for Marxists like TTK ….
The BBC has now realised Elon Musk will be leaving in May – and making that out to be discord in the Trump cabinet ….anything to rubbish a good president …. Keep going DOGE ..
“Public satisfaction with NHS hits record low”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd9l8v1vy0ko
Quick … “Dynamo thanks NHS for saving his career”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98g1renz30o
Let’s hear it for Hamza Alam, 22, went by the acronym ‘H’ and was an administrator on a Telegram channel sharing terrorist publications.
Remember the real threat to the UK isn’t Islamic terrorists like Hamza – it’s the ‘far right ‘ – yeah right .
There’s also an 18 year old white convert to Islamic terrorism – remember – the real danger is far right terrorism – yeah right …
They gave Adolescence a one star review.
Pie shop ?
BBC TV news bragging about a getting secret news reports out of the Myanmar earthquake district by undercover reporters who ignored the blackout on news by the ruling authorities and entered the region undercover.
The reporter actually used phrases like “we also managed to “slip-in” to local hospitals to speak to injured” – once again against government permissions.
What a dangerous stance to take. It surely puts locals who might unwittingly provide information that would make them targets for punishment by the ruling junta!
How arrogant the BBC has become! They really do see themselves akin to The Lone Ranger when it comes to hounding baddies don’t they?
Try this…can you see him ?
What is there to see?
That car looks a bit wonky, but maybe the bottle of red and the varifocals aren’t helping…
WossIsName? I googled someone with long hair and a hairy chest and Giggle gave me Polly Middlehurst!
Is it Russell Brand in the picture?
Oh Scrobs, try squinting, maybe without the glasses..
being close to Easter I have my suspicions who it might be… or it might be someone who’s fire was lit by a baby…
Aaaah!
Now I see it!
It’s a short wheel-base Austin Allegro with new boy-racer tail fins and an eight-track tape machine!
I knew I’d get it in the end!
You have seen the light
Zephir, the girl on the right has lost one or two fingers from her left hand and she has had a serious accident with her right and the surgeon has has had to re-attach her hand upside down!
The central girl has two cups of tea/coffee/chocolate while the girl on the left in black has none.
I think you may have missed the point…
Zephir, maybe but …..
Easier to see if it is smaller…..now try squinting…
darn I went to all the trouble of creating a resized image
and then found you’d already done it
Wow that is amazing – the mind strikes to recognise it …. Just wow
I was in an old church a couple of years back where they had an ancient picture of Jesus with his eyes closed, if you stared at it long enough the eyes opened, I took a photo of the picture but the phenomena did not work in the photo.
It was like this one, which may work…
I think the car in the background is a fiat 500 chassis with a Mercedes body on it.
I have not posted for a few days as I have been wrestling with ‘just do evil’ new technology called a smartphone.
Chuffing Nora they are nosey parkers. They want to know all my intimate details:
My age, if I am circumcised, how many breasts I would like to self-identify with, what time-zone I feel like being in, my inside leg measurements etc etc.
I feel like I have been data-raped and will need a sit-down with a strong cuppa tea.
Atlas – I share your anguish!
I want to get the little chip thing out of the late Senora’s iPhone, and fit it into the smaller phone I can take with me whenever I’m out walking the dog, in case I trip a*** over head in the process and knock myself out or similar!
But can I find out where the darn thing is?
YouTube may tell me, but, Hellfire, what a palaver…
(She’s four today, and hopefully a damned sight happier than when she was rescued from Romania all those years ago…)!
Scrobs
there should be a little pin hole on one edge of the phone, usually top left, you get the end of a paper clip (or the dedicated poker-in that was provided with the phone, basically a thin rigid wire) , poke it in and the sim card should pop out in a little tray.
Careful where you open the phone because it’s easy for that SIM card to ‘disappear ‘’’ do it on a piece of paper . I’ve always found a safety pin does the job ….
Really looking forward to the Trump Show tonight which I think will be at 2200 londonistan time – I reckon karoline will be the warm up taking the pee out of CNN …
Yep, I recently bought a high resolution mp3 player (brilliant sound quality) but wanted a larger sim card for more songs, I popped it out and it literally flew over my shoulder, took me bloody ages to find it.
I used to have the special pin to do this, but have lost it…
Thanks for the tips though – I’ll give it another go!
Since you are “in vino”, if all else fails, you can use a corkscrew…clockwise with lots of pressure, do share with us how that works out…
It has the added bonus of becoming one of those £1000 fold- out phones at a fraction of the cost.
‘pparently Rachael Thieves has told the 2HomeMPs to relax about the 2Home surcharge because the Gubberment will pick up the tab:
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/04/02/mps-spared-from-second-homes-council-tax-surcharge-as-taxpayer-picks-up-bill/
Another day of 2T justice.
And, it has been reported that the far left Birmingham council under the far left nazis going bankrupts is…der tories fault, according to two-house Rayner, yep
iss der tories innit.