234 Responses to Midweek 2nd April 2025

  1. Zephir says:

    Elon Musk says DOGE will investigate ‘strangely wealthy’ lawmakers: ‘Nobody can explain that’

    The ‘Outnumbered’ panel reacts to Musk’s pledge, questioning how lawmakers in Washington, D.C. are able to amass millions in wealth while working on a government salary.

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  2. G.W.F. says:

    BBC’s commitment to moral relativism has a presenter strangle a goat during a documentary with savages.
    All cultures are equal eh.
    Next episode, perhaps, he will report on a culture where he is obliged to shag a goat.

    https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/bbc-host-suffocates-goat-by-hand-to-participate-in-tribal-ritual-most-gruesome-thing-8059078

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  3. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/bbcbreakfast/status/1907491602022510709?s=61
    Tesla sales have plummeted to their lowest level in three years after a backlash against its boss Elon Musk.

    So, nowt to do with msm inspired nut jobs going postal on them and their drivers?

    Does Soros uniquely fund the bbc too?

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  4. atlas_shrugged says:

    Please do not watch this video because twitter/X are reported to be banning the uploading of it:

    It would not do if UK people found out about the new houses planned for the countryside and who are going to be put in these houses:

    https://gettr.com/post/p3jabej113a

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  5. digg says:

    Timothy and Prue do canal boat to Lancaster and hey ho, suddenly it’s all about nasty whitey oppressing blackie.

    This constant dribble of woke shit would be funny if it wasn’t so repetitive.

    Why don’t they investigate oppression over history by black people? For gods sake there are bloody thousands of instances from the zulus and moors to all sorts of North African and middle eastern civilisations.

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  6. taffman says:

    Whatever you say about President Trump , I think that he likes Great Britain…?
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news
    A good thing that we voted for Brexit?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      10% reciprocal tarrif on the UK verses – i think 20% on the Reich EU . I think it could mean that we will be getting more stuff cheaper …

      But DJT didnt go full out on those tarrifs . Only common sense .

      The markets thursday will be going up

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  7. Fedup2 says:

    Ok – prediction. – world markets will rebound after deciding the tariffs are not as bad as thought ( apart from china / Japan ) – the BBC will blame Trump anyway …. Euro down dollar up – pound same … TTK will claim victory after hard discussion. With the Trump regime …

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  8. StewGreen says:

    13K Likes
    “I recently watched a documentary called ‘V for Vendetta’
    about a tyrannical government ultimately overthrown by its own people
    and I think it should be shown in all of our schools.”

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  9. JohnC says:

    Marine Le Pen’s ban has outraged France’s far right – and they may well seek revenge
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx27lg8vp41o

    Just look at the negativity and sneering in this BBC headline.

    The BBC are now so polarised in their extreme-Left agenda, it doesn’t occur to them that THEY should be outraged too. Because it is 100% fascist suppression of democracy. EXACTLY the same as they tried to do to Trump. And what the other Nazis under Hitler did to get absolute power for themselves.

    Here’s his previous article:
    JD Vance’s ominous pitch to Greenland
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3y3vdvdggo

    ‘It was a day in which an acquisitive foreign power had sent an uninvited delegation to the world’s largest island with an uncomfortable message.’

    Amazing how the fact Greenland is one of the Left’s depised white-man’s colonies is suddenly acceptable isn’t it ?.

    The BBC are the very worst kind of hypocrites.

    The author Andrew Harding also writes books where he hand-picks something to write about then goes snooping for his story. Then writes the version of the truth which suits him. A bit like Sopel.

    Here’s one:
    These Are Not Gentle People

    A review from another clearly thick-as-shit reader:
    ‘I read this book and was saddened to find that poor black lives dying in a violent senseless manner still occurs in South Africa with as little concern or serious thought just as it did when I grew up there in the 1970s/1980s. Poor black lives were taken in a brutal manner then with a lack of respect for the human factor of their lives’
    ‘And yes they were murdered most brutally a body that sustains brain damage is usually encountered during an traumatic car accident, these men meet the white brutality of the farmers who might as well as have been a ten truck trailer driving over them for their bodies to have sustained the traumas they did’

    What a shame people like Andrew never write about what the BLACK people do in SA RIGHT NOW- to white people and to each other. A bit of context never goes amiss. Someone I worked with had to travel out there a few years back – and they gave him a training course on how to survive being car-jacked. You don’t read that on the BBC.

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  10. andyjsnape says:

    Trump tariffs are being applied

    Apparently this will cause job losses (apparently)

    Easy get out for this labours governments policies to blame Trump going forward

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  11. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/lnmackenzie1/status/1907465203391860750?s=61
    Once again, the headline obscures the facts of this case. The nurses objected to their colleague sharing a changing room with them because he is *male* not because of his transgender identity. It’s becoming pretty wearisome having to point this out all the time to the media.

    ‘The media’… Jonny Manning, BBC News.

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    • JohnC says:

      A quick check reveals the usual BBC/MSN dweller who also claims credits from The Mirror and Manchester Evening News:
      ME_and_miranda_2_400x400.bmp

      His previous article was ‘Fatal cow attack police inquiry found no crime evidence’
      Should have been ‘Cow gets away with murder’.

      If they want top recognise these people as real ‘women’ they should FORCE them to be allowed into every single place a woman goes. Sport, toilets, everything. They should not be allowed in the ‘Gents’.

      That’s the only way it can be exposed for what an utter farce it is. As it stands, they sweep all these things under the carpet and the activist hypocrites keep quiet.

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  12. AsISeeIt says:

    The big cut-off edition

    Wot, no bakeries?

    Gaza bakeries shut and painkillers on ration after month of Israeli blockade (BBC) – Shoulda released the sausages… when they had the chance.

    On a morning when the Sun promotes: Grand National… 12 pages of top tips & form – Our top TikTok Tariff man Trump is totes promoted in the news brandishing his race card with all the stats of the national runners and riders.

    “Free the ITV Seven” ran that old gag – our BBC takes the image of Tic-Tac man The Donald with his race card SP-like (Starting Prices) tariff league table of nations but makes the cut-off point as we read down the list at that outsider Malaysia. “47 to 24 bar those” – as they used to say in betting. China and the EU are his favourites, so to speak, topping the table.

    Curb Your Enthusiasm the Larry David comedy vehicle which explored its creator’s social anxieties and preocupations to the nth degree for comic effect – included an episode focused on what Larry termed “The Cut-off Time” – in other words past what time of the evening is it too late to make a telephone call?

    Larry’s on screen wife Cheryl [real life spouse of Robert F Kennedy, by the way] cautions him that 10 o’clock is the cut-off. Larry on the contrary insists on 10:30pm as the cut-off, despite Cheryl pointing out that his intended call recipients have kids. It is already 10:20 but Larry doggedly abides by his 10:30 cut-off and makes his call anyway. He receives a frosty reception, is forced to apologise profusely and has to hang up. “How’d that work out for you?” remarks Cheryl, victoriously.

    The saucy old Gruan (photocredit: AP) uses a very similar image of Trump to the BBC online news page, similarly cutting off our view of his league table at the Malay peninsula. However, the Guardian photo also teases a view of the lower reaches of the league table as the president holds it behind his lectern – providing us the percentage numbers for the tariffs but not the names of the countries beyond Malaya.

    We have to resort to the mildly conservative Telegraph for the big reveal, so to speak. What Gruan and BBC were hiding was the all important (you woulda thought for a GB audience?) on the presidential table was the proposed United Kingdom 10% mutual tariff betwixt us and the Trump US.

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  13. andyjsnape says:

    In general, you need 35 years of qualifying contributions to get a full state pension
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53082530

    “£230.25 a week for the full, new flat-rate state pension, external (for those who reached state pension age after April 2016) – a rise of £472 a year” – but your council tax increase will swallow that!

    “In general, you need 35 years of qualifying contributions to get a full state pension.” – or free to illegals that arrive on boats!

    bbc promotion for this government, making out they are doing us a favour

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  14. Zephir says:

    RE the trans debate…

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  15. Fedup2 says:

    Today
    Trump derangement syndrome full on today – with a sneer athon between comrade Robinson and one of the new girls he bullied ….
    Trying to find ‘business ‘ sectors adversely affected by the fair tariffs being applied to the UK – cheddar cheese and whisky ….
    The good thing is that the EU is really upset which can only be a good thing .

    I watched the DjT speech and reciprocal tariffs sound fair to me – but not to the Trump hating BBC .

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  16. Zephir says:

    Paywalled, so set out here:

    “The dirty secret of so many kebab shops that bring in ‘skilled’ migrant labour – DAVID BARRETT reveals horrifying truth of what’s really going on.

    The kebab shop is on a scruffy and traffic-choked road in London’s East End.
    Its garish red exterior – reminiscent of thousands of other fast-food joints around the country – advertises cheap ‘meal deals’ alongside its halal credentials.
    On the menu, helpfully illustrated with photographs, the offers at Al-Farooq Kebabish include one piece of fried chicken and fries for just £2.
    Three chefs were behind the counter on one afternoon this week, tending the rotating doner meat and baking flatbreads.
    No doubt the shop does a solid trade but, at first glance, it does not appear to be a business with international reach.
    However, this unassuming little outlet on Leyton’s Lea Bridge Road has a surprising secret.
    It is one of the Home Office’s licensed sponsors of ‘skilled workers’ which, for payment of a £536 fee, bestows employers with trusted status and an ability to back foreign workers seeking to come to Britain.
    Businesses which take up the role are warned that sponsorship is a ‘privilege, not a right’, and that they must observe a series of ‘duties and responsibilities’ to ensure that immigration laws are properly upheld.

    Each application must still be considered by the Home Office, and carries a further fee, but for many Britons it will come as a surprise that the power to sponsor migrant workers is not reserved for blue-chip companies or even medium-sized firms.
    More than 128,000 businesses populate the Home Office’s list, including many which do not appear to have great financial promise.
    The most recent Companies House accounts for Al-Farooq Kebabish’s parent firm, for example, listed its wealth in ‘capital and reserves’ at a mere £897.
    We can’t say how many migrant workers Al-Farooq Kebabish is sponsoring right now – it might be none – because the owners have so far failed to respond to our enquiries.
    Data obtained under freedom of information by the Centre for Migration Control last month showed that some other kebab businesses had sponsored inexplicably large numbers of workers to come to this country.
    The individual shops were not named, but one in Bradford sponsored 14 migrants and another in Birmingham backed 12. In all, 56 kebab businesses across the country had helped secure papers for foreign labour.
    Do the migrants actually end up working in the jobs detailed in their paperwork? Follow-ups are few and far between, and there is evidence that the skilled worker visa is simply a means of getting into the country in the first place.
    Last month, for example, an official report revealed Britain has witnessed a 100-fold increase in the number of foreign nationals arriving here as ‘skilled workers’ who then claimed to be refugees.
    Asylum applications by these visa-holders jumped from just 53 in 2022 to 5,300 in just the first ten months of last year. And earlier this week the Home Office revealed that visa overstayers – across all the categories of foreign workers, students and visitors – now make up nearly 40 per cent of all asylum claimants.
    Troubling questions around the issue of sponsorship are not confined to food outlets. Far from it.”

    The Home Office maintains a list of roles eligible for foreign applicants through the skilled worker visa. A separate list allows sectors experiencing particular recruitment shortages to pay such workers 20 per cent less than the normal threshold of £38,700 a year for a full-time employee.
    Their minimum pay can be just £30,960 a year, which is about £6,500 below this country’s average salary. Care workers can be paid even less, at £29,000 a year.
    The Home Office’s main skilled worker visa list includes market traders, ‘canine beauticians’ (also known as dog groomers), curtain fitters and, perhaps most bizarrely, ‘teachers of English as a secondary language’. So, the UK is importing workers to teach this country’s native language to foreign students. There are at least a dozen language colleges listed as sponsors.
    ‘It’s absolutely ludicrous that kebab shops are able to import workers under the pretence of being highly skilled,’ Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp tells me. ‘The Government needs to shut that down immediately.
    ‘It’s also utterly ridiculous to be bringing in foreign workers to teach the English language. This madness needs to end.’
    Under the current system, foreign nationals can apply for a job on the skilled worker visa list if they can find a sponsor happy to confirm their labour is required.
    Crucially, the employer is obliged to make only token efforts to seek applicants based in Britain for a role before they can look abroad.
    In 2020, as they redesigned how work visas operate, the Conservatives scrapped the ‘resident labour market test’, which required employers to advertise vacancies on two approved platforms – in newspapers, online or in job centres, for example – for 28 days before being allowed to hire abroad.
    Some Tories now admit this was one of several errors which contributed to net migration – the difference between the numbers of migrants coming to live here long-term and those emigrating – hitting a record 906,000 in the 12 months to June 2023.
    Party leader Kemi Badenoch has admitted that when in government the Conservatives ‘got it wrong’. Yet by several key measures, a very unexpected sector is causing the greatest concern.
    It is not the ubiquitous fast-food restaurants. It is not the crop-picking jobs which have a long history of low pay and poor conditions.
    It is not even the hand car washes where slightly intimidating gangs of young men offer motorists a jet wash and a rub down with a soiled chamois for £10, ‘cash only’.
    Instead, care homes are at the very top of the list when it comes to questionable recruitment practices and exploitation of workers.
    Some have been out-and-out fraudulent in their approach when it comes to hiring overseas staff.
    The Home Office’s independent Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), which helps guide policy, raised concerns at the end of 2023 after it uncovered ‘extremely concerning’ evidence of abuse of the care worker visa system.
    A company which supposedly ran care homes sponsored 498 visas even though it had not provided any services for months, the committee said in a report, while 39 carers were listed as residing in a five-bedroom property.
    Some applicants paid thousands of pounds for forged documents, and one was charged £21,000 by their sponsoring company for a visa, the MAC continued before adding, disturbingly, that ‘some of these migrants were then given children to traffic into the UK’.
    The problem has not gone away. In its latest annual report published last month the Gangmasters & Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA), which is responsible for investigating allegations of illegal activities, described the care sector as an ’emerging threat’ where there has been ‘a notable increase in worker exploitation’.
    In the 12 months to the end of March 2024 the GLAA launched a total of 133 investigations and, incredibly, 46 of those – just over a third – were ‘care-related’.
    The surge is most likely a by-product of the huge numbers of foreign workers who have already been brought in to prop up the care sector.
    Home Office data shows that 158,000 people were handed a ‘health and social care visa’ – a subset of the skilled worker visa route – in 2023, and a further 205,000 visas were given to members of their families so they could also come to the UK.
    That annual total – a staggering 363,000 – fell last year to 123,000, mainly thanks to restrictions belatedly brought in by the previous government.
    However, numbers in the rest of the skilled worker route actually went up by nearly 8,000 last year compared with 2023, hitting 132,700 including dependants. This was despite the Conservatives’ introduction of a higher salary threshold.
    In some cases, at least, the Home Office takes action against transgressors. One prominent example concerned a company that operated 15 care homes across the North East – and led to legal action, which was finalised in the Court of Appeal last month and the Home Office’s revocation upheld.
    Prestwick Care had held a sponsorship licence since 2008 but after a compliance visit from the Home Office in 2022 that licence was withdrawn. At the time, Prestwick employed 857 staff, of whom 219 were foreign nationals, which the company had sponsored.
    The Home Office found evidence that seven workers were undertaking roles that did not match the job description or pay levels disclosed to the Home Office.
    Prestwick’s published accounts boast that it won a ’20-bed two-year NHS contract’ for one of its homes which ended in July 2023.
    So, in the topsy-turvy world of official contracts, a company that had been penalised by one arm of the Government for recruiting discrepancies continued to benefit from a deal with another part of the public sector.
    What can be done about this constant reliance on overseas labour that is so open to abuse and is driving levels of massive net migration? MAC chairman Professor Brian Bell believes that only ‘substantial policy changes’ will lead to a significant fall.
    Care-worker pay should increase by £1 an hour to encourage more UK-based applicants, he has said, because unless the job is made more attractive, ‘I have no idea where the workers to fill the vacancies are going to come from, if not from abroad’.
    Additionally, MAC suggested in October 2023 that the list of jobs where there are shortages – known as the ‘immigration salary list’, which opens them up to cut-price migrants – should be cut from 60 roles to just eight. Today, it still lists 23. Professor Bell suggested that, instead of looking abroad for workers, businesses could do more to recruit people, including hiring foreign workers already here.”

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I have an image of the ‘home office ‘ being completely staffed by foreigners with dodgy identity papers – particularly the vetting department – which is where I’d put people if I was running a criminal enterprise such as that described above .

      … the the swamp turning a collective blind eye to the corruption … particularly plod …third world Britain …

      Btw – the year on year increase in numbers of invaders is way up – pixie blames good weather …..

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    • MarkyMark says:

      ‘It’s absolutely ludicrous that kebab shops are able to import workers under the pretence of being highly skilled,’ Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp tells me. ‘The Government needs to shut that down immediately.
      ‘It’s also utterly ridiculous to be bringing in foreign workers to teach the English language. This madness needs to end.’”

      ………… HA HA HA HAH …. KEBAB AWARDS ……………………….

      Centre for Turkey Studies and Development Ltd – £420.00
      Payment Type: In kind
      Payment Description: One ticket to the British Kebab Awards 2025.
      https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=25377&chamber=house-of-commons

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    • JohnC says:

      Here’s the author David Barret:
      david-barrett.jpeg.256x256_q100_crop-smart.jpg

      A completely normal looking, English, experienced white male.

      I can’t recall ever seeing such a person as the author of all the ridiculous articles I’ve flagged here.

      This is the sort of thing the BBC should be investigating. But instead they are spending all that free money on reports like this:

      Environment Agency orders review into tyre recycling after BBC probe
      https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4grlpyje41o

      Presumably because it’s all part of their ‘climate’ agenda.

      But get this : it’s because of a factory in INDIA !. Nothing to do with the UK.

      And here are the two BBC freaks responsible for it:
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      QyfvUN115qh-P61H7JabhqHvGgHjcN0UbNx0U2RckyBR-dJYfq9okPyZrdVPeOQqRcGFbWWNUKuRQ7bwMNDGMq4uVOcc1Ih4jxhgwZ61bWyuceY1L309_Oe_CwY03Z1HFC8

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    • Guest Who says:

      The Brixton Al-Soylent Kebabish Veggie Burger is to die for, apparently.

      Cazza Lucas might be advised to steer clear, mind.

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  17. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    I think it’s completely fair that we are charging the same 10% tariff as the USA.

    The bbbc must be torn two ways.
    Either praising TTK for getting the 10% (not the EU 20%) or criticising Trump for charging 10% although they will probably find a way to do both.

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  18. Fedup2 says:

    Oh the joy – UK to ‘host ‘ the wimmins’ World Cup ‘soccer ball ‘ in 2035 ….

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  19. JohnC says:

    US tariffs will clearly have economic impact – PM
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn05dge02vzo

    ‘On Wednesday, the US president announced taxes on goods coming into his country including 10% on all UK imports and 20% on those from the European Union.’

    ‘The Conservatives are also claiming the UK has benefited from being outside the EU.’

    Why say ‘The Conservatives are also claiming … ‘ ?. Why not state directly that we have benefited ?. I wonder if the author came up with that or was directed to use those words by the commissars. It deliberately infers it’s just their biased opinion.

    What is puzzling me now is that none of the MSM are talking about the obvious : should we reduce our tariffs so the USA isn’t being unfairly charged ?. I assume they ARE being unfairly charged because nobody is saying they aren’t – and spotting the deliberate omissions is half the task of reading the news these days.

    We are being subjected to the usual whirlwind of anti-Trump inference, innuendos and massive lies by omission now that I have no idea what is actually going on. Which in turn tells me the BBC extreme-Left commissars don’t want me to know.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      JohnC – I understand the US is charging 25% on all car imports – which might affect the foreign owners of the UK car industry …..
      An unbiased news outlet wouid just say that the Donald is doing what is fair – but the bbc is nowhere near being a news outlet any more …

      … I really hope stuff gets dumped on the UK – reducing prices …

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      • JohnC says:

        Here in Thailand the tariffs are ridiculous. A quick look at the stuff from the USA ‘foreign’ aisle shows how crazy the import taxes are. A small jar of Smuckers jam for example is about 5 quid. And there is no similar alternative Thai brand which they are protecting.

        Of course the BBC are not mentioning things like that because whatever they write has to reflect badly on Trump.

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        • Zephir says:

          Yes,
          I mentioned before how expensive Gibson guitars are here and in Europe compared to the US where they are made.

          All down to tarriffs.

          I wouldn’t mind if the UK made guitars of a similar quality aside from hand made one off models.

          They don’t. So the tarriffs are NOT to promote our manufacturers, they are just for spite and profit.

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  20. Thatcherrevolutionary says:

    Think we got off light on the Trump tariffs.

    He could have considered 20% VAT as a tariff on top.

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  21. MarkyMark says:

    TRUMP – HOW DARE HE …. HA HA HA AH AH
    “BRUSSELS, Oct 29 (Reuters) – The European Union has decided to increase tariffs on Chinese-built electric vehicles to as much as 45.3% at the end of its highest profile trade investigation that has divided Europe and prompted retaliation from Beijing.”
    https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/eu-slaps-tariffs-chinese-evs-risking-beijing-payback-2024-10-29/

    ……………

    UK IS A MAD HOUSE
    “New Labour minister believes people can identify as llamas”
    http://www.spectator.co.uk – Steerpike

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  22. MarkyMark says:

    2016 Brexit – we control our borders, 2025 borders open.
    2016 Brexit – we control our VAT rates, 2025 vat rates stay the same.
    …………….
    Brexit & VAT
    A guide for businesses to VAT changes when trading with the EU after Brexit
    1 January 2021. An innocuous date for some, but for UK businesses it marked a change in VAT rules for their dealings with EU businesses.

    The UK no longer has to assume the Principal VAT Directive which controls all VAT regulations for EU Member States. The UK now has full control over its VAT policies and can set, amend or reduce VAT rates as it sees fit. This change shouldn’t make a big difference to UK businesses at the moment. Though future legislation may impact VAT rates in specific sectors.

    https://www.lesserandco.co.uk/brexit/brexit-vat-guide

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  23. tomo says:

    Noooo… that’ll mean Beelzebub Musk will be “subsidised” by the EU.

    Words loosing their meaning

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  24. MarkyMark says:

    “This is modern London, modern Britain. Its just unbelievable.”

    Watch Khan’s CLUELESS Deputy Mayor Almost Break into TEARS When Asked Simple Questions #clueless

    “She’s a moron.
    The question is so clear and simple. It’s “when” ?
    All the waffle in the world, doesn’t help.
    Is that clown really on £147000pa? Her English grammar is below GCSE grade.”

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  25. MarkyMark says:

    The prime minister’s recent pledge to tackle the “flabby” state has brought into focus the growth over the past decade in the number of what used to be called quangos (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations) but now tend to be described as arms-length public bodies.

    …. government public bodies has grown from 474 in January 2015, to 555 in January 2020 and to 603 in January 2025.

    These numbers exclude the three devolved administrations, local authorities, schools, hospitals, police and fire services etc, and so are only a subset of the estimated 10,000 public bodies that exist in the UK

    https://www.icaew.com/insights/viewpoints-on-the-news/2025/mar-2025/chart-of-the-week-quangos

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  26. Loobyloo says:

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/03/teenager-charged-murder-three-attacked-brighton/

    The number of foreign sounding names mentioned in media crime reports exposes the state of immigration in our country.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Teenager charged with murder after three attacked in Brighton
      Police arrest Fabio Botros, 19, after attacks with two knives and a hammer

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    • popeye says:

      “The number of foreign sounding names mentioned in media crime reports exposes the state of immigration in our country”

      The reason Crimewatch, a very popular BBC programme, was scrapped

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  27. taffman says:

    Question :
    Why haven’t our successive governments controlled our borders ? One for the Home Office I suspect ?
    Next time, kick the rabble running our nation out and vote for Reform .
    Our porous border is costing the tax-payer a phenomenal sum of money!

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  28. andyjsnape says:

    bbc has a holiday to the US:-

    Assisted dying: California man invites BBC to witness his death as MPs debate new law
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8rgd4yrz3eo

    The government mouthpiece keep mentioning assisted dying, is this the build up to an announcement by the labour lot as the promotion has been done by the beeb

    The last people I would want in my house, the bbc

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    • Guest Who says:

      Single fare?

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      > Assisted dying: California man invites BBC to witness his death as MPs debate new law

      I wish the MPs would do requests. Who would I choose? That is the question. Would it be Der Starmer, or Mzzzzz Philips, or Mzzzz Thieves, or the online thug Streetingalling …

      Spoit for choice!

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  29. andyjsnape says:

    How Trump’s tariffs might affect you and your money, bbc reports “might”, so might not

    “US tariffs will clearly have economic impact – PM” -bbc/government forget the tax increases by this government to employers, but will blame any jobs losses going forward on Trump and ignore the fact this government is at fault

    “Donald Trump’s decision to impose new tariffs on all goods entering the US is a “major blow to the world economy”, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen has said” – Von der Leyen loses court case in blow to her 2nd-term bid, not exactly someone who we can trust

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  30. MarkyMark says:

    order-order.com comment ”
    Commander Straker
    4m
    So we now have policy driven by a drama, which are told is not based on any one incident but is about a social issue of our time and must be shown in every school says PM.

    Ok interesting, can anyone remember after the screening of “Three Girls” in 2017 about a real case the Rochdale child sex abuse ring. Which ended up with actual convictions, did we have PM or any cabinet minister crying out about the “issue of our time” actually more like issue for the decade but I digress.

    Did anyone demand that this program was shown in every school across the UK? No why? not serious enough, no need to give warnings about “certain type of male predator”

    Odd isn’t it, almost that command in 1984 “and Big Brother’s last and biggest command was to not trust what your eyes showed you but what Big Brother told you””

    https://order-order.com/2025/04/03/labour-cannot-guarantee-all-cabinet-ministers-have-seen-netflix-show-adolescence

    ………………

    https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-rape-gang-inquiry-1
    The Rape Gang Inquiry
    by Rupert Lowe in London, Greater London, United Kingdom

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  31. MarkyMark says:

    “When Liverpool nearly missed out on Salah”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c5y0eper8l1o

    To the tune of ‘Oh Sit Down’ by James, the song’s lyrics are:

    “Mo Salah! Mo Salah! Mo Salah! Running down the wing.

    “Mo Salah la-la-la la-ahh, The Egyptian King!”

    A newer Salah chant, I’ll be Muslim too, was given the seal of approval by the star winger.

    Sung to Dodgy’s ‘Good Enough’, the lyrics are:

    “If he’s good enough for you, he’s good enough for me.

    “If he scores another few, then I’ll be Muslim too.

    “If he’s good enough for you, he’s good enough for me.

    “Sitting in the mosque, that’s where I wanna be!

    “Mo Salah-la-la-la, la-la-la-la-la-la-la.”
    https://talksport.com/football/660139/mohamed-salah-song-liverpool-chant-lyrics/

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  32. Fedup2 says:

    Admin trouble – apparently my password for this site has been leaked . If i suddenly disappear its because i cant log on

       5 likes

  33. andyjsnape says:

    Hello Fedup2

    I normally set my password to “incorrect” on a pc

    As this prompts you when you get it wrong 🙂

       9 likes

  34. Zephir says:

    Deluded twat:

    “Education Secretary urges schools to recruit more male teachers to head off ‘toxic online influences’ after Adolescence drama highlighted ‘defining issue of our time'”

       13 likes

  35. MarkyMark says:

    Heidi Alexander Approves Luton Airport Expansion
    order-order.com

    The white ethnic group makes up 45.2 per cent of the population of Luton meaning there is a non-white majority in the town.

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  36. MarkyMark says:

    Indian overcrowded trains are …. you guessed it … the British Empires fault! HA HA HHA A HAHA HH AH AH

    “The trope interlocked with colonial thinking that railways would foster greater industrialization which in turn would further a capitalist economy. It also aligned with the practical needs of a colonial trading monopoly that needed raw materials for English industries, such as cotton, to be moved swiftly and efficiently from India’s interiors to port towns, from where they could be shipped.”

    Overcrowded Indian trains a relic of colonialism
    https://asiatimes.com/2023/06/overcrowded-indian-trains-a-relic-of-colonialism/#

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  37. Eddy Booth says:

    Russian politician Dmitry Medvedev said:
    “Russia does not need to fuss about new US tariffs – it is better to sit on the shore and wait for the corpse of the European Union to float by”

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  38. MarkyMark says:

    Strong Message Here
    Radio 4, 20 March 2025

    In a discussion about the use of political language around welfare and benefits, it was stated that tax fraud in the UK is thirty times larger than benefit fraud. This is incorrect. In the latest comparable government statistics, overpayments due to benefit fraud were £6.4bn, while overpayments due to tax evasion (illegal non-payment or underpayment of tax) were £5.5bn.

    27/03/2025

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications

    £6.4bn WTF!

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  39. MarkyMark says:

    “Legislation aimed at preventing and reducing the harm of terror attacks at events venues has been given Royal Assent.

    The Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill, also known as Martyn’s Law, requires venues with a capacity of 200 or more to have a plan in place in case of an attack on their premises.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly1vp0wr0go
    Who was Martyn Hett and what is Martyn’s Law?
    ………………….

    Manchester Arena Inquiry: Security ‘did not approach bomber over racism fears’ Published27 October 2020
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-54695580

    …………………..

    have a plan in place in case of an attack on their premises.
    runhidetellcourse.png

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  40. MarkyMark says:

    “No, the UK does not own Chinese water utilities, but rather, Chinese entities, including state-owned banks and investment firms, own stakes in some UK water companies, particularly Thames Water. ”
    Google AI

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  41. MarkyMark says:

    Wonder if Boris was worth it?
    “All transparency requirements have been followed, as set out in the register of members’ financial interests.”
    …………………………..
    Name of donor: Mr David Ross
    Address of donor: private

    Nature and value of benefit in kind (or amount of any donation): accommodation for a private holiday for my partner and me, value £15,000

    Destination of visit: St Vincent and the Grenadines

    Dates of visit: 26 December 2019 to 5 January 2020

    Purpose of visit: private holiday.

    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=10999&chamber=house-of-commons

    ……………..

    “Tony Blair was heavily criticised for accepting holidays as gifts when prime minister. The Labour prime minister joined the Italian politician Silvio Berlusconi in 2004 for a long weekend at his villa on the Italian island of Sardinia, shortly after staying in Barbados, courtesy of Cliff Richard.

    A No 10 spokeswoman said: “All transparency requirements have been followed, as set out in the register of members’ financial interests.”

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  42. Guest Who says:

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-bbc-isnt-even-pretending-to-be-impartial-about-trump/?
    Victoria Derbyshire believes it is sufficient, when interviewing somebody who takes a Trumpish view of the world, simply to screech her idiotic objections and prevent the interviewee from speaking at all.

    Paywall.

    However, isn’t that BBC SOP across all staff?

       11 likes

  43. tomo says:

    High Tech Lammy

    https://x.com/DavidLammy/status/1907743004208541796

    Giving clowns a bad name he is….

       4 likes

  44. StewGreen says:

    local news had a carefully crafted montage piece ostensibly about banning mobile phones in schools
    one lines “sparked by the national conversation about the Netflix film adolescence”
    FFS that is a brainwashing line
    At some points we had statesmanlike footage of Starmer

    BBC effoff with the brainwashing
    Looks like an item that same out of the government nudge unit

       7 likes

  45. atlas_shrugged says:

    Suspected Car bomb goes off in Amsterdam but luckily only gets the driver:

    https://gettr.com/post/p3ji59x7f21

    Karma

       2 likes

  46. Fedup2 says:

    Someone realise the vast majority of teachers is wimmin – lefty wimmin with cats – of 28 000 ? Recruited only 500 teachers had willies ….
    So when that idris thing goes looking for the causes of knife crime – maybe it could be because there are no blokes in schools – plus of course the crap can’t be beaten out of kids any more – they are fire proof

    When I tried to be a school governor I took one look at the staff and the whole woke far left attitude and realised I’d soon be in trouble if I stayed – trouble in the sense of saying something ‘right ‘ – not trying it on if there was a hot girl teacher …..

    Since most school populations are now foreign I wonder how many of those bloke teachers are – er ‘non white ‘ ( excluding PE teachers ) …

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