322 Responses to Midweek 9th April 2025

  1. taffman says:

    First?
    Evening all.
    I’ve not been here for sometime .
    However , “Stop the boats and smash the gangs”.
    Famous last words that will bring down the Liebour government.

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  2. Lucy Pevensey says:

    I’ve had about a week off myself. The government is the gang.

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  3. taffman says:

    “Government considers nationalising British Steel”. We have been there before.
    I sense panic ?…..https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7vnz4jy97no

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  4. atlas_shrugged says:

    Credit Conservative MP Katie Lam for raising the issue in parliament about grooming gangs:

    https://dailysceptic.org/2025/04/08/whats-happened-to-the-rape-gang-inquiries/

    Nil point to Mzzz Jess Philips for deflection and being useless, even trying to blame fathers instead of the people who should be blamed.

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  5. Fedup2 says:

    A point of clarification. When i put up a thread and cant think of anything to say i say ‘over to you ‘

    So as part of this sites’ aim of inclusion i will put up languages familiar to those who are taking over britain – this time its arabic … not sure what the next one will be – there is such a big choice of invader….

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  6. Lucy Pevensey says:

    Теперь вы можете взять управление на себя.

    I’m collaborating

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  7. Lucy Pevensey says:

    It seems they are trying to encourage us to believe digital IDs would help stop the immigration racket. They must KNOW the public don’t like mass-immigration and are trying to get us to associate digital ID’s with something positive. Oh and Labour are the good guys.

    The psychological offensive continues.

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    • taffman says:

      The only thing that will “stop the immigration racket” is to get the Royal Navy to defend our coast . That is what they are for.
      Simples.

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      • JohnC says:

        The ONLY way they will be stopped from crossing is if we take them straight back to the beach in France they set off from. And f*ck the French if they don’t like it : we are already paying them millions to stop the smugglers and they are laughing in our faces at how stupid we are. They have no vested interest at all in preventing them becoming OUR burden.

        Meeting them half-way then safely escorting them to our shore and bussing them to free hotels must be the worst possible way to deter these crossings. Yet that is what we are doing.

        Complete madness.

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        • Mrs Kitty says:

          They’ll only get into another boat. My answer is not for the weak but will deter them getting into the boats in the first place and my recommendation is for drones with explosives to target the boats in french waters plus any non french vessels that attempt to rescue. I consider lives lost as collateral damage because for me it’s very clear that the U.K. is being invaded and it needs to stop.

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      • andyjsnape says:

        Morning Taffman

        Sorry the Royal Navy is busy..

        Royal Navy and RAF shadow Russian ships in UK waters
        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crrd8951klgo

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        • Fedup2 says:

          I think the Russians are in the channel because they can’t believe a failing state wouid leave its’ border open . Why wouid Russia bother with britistan anyway – apart from nuclear submarines getting controlled by an Islamic regime like TTK…?

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        • taffman says:

          andyjsnape
          Increase the spending on defence and expand our armed forces .

          Message to the UK Government – We are in serious trouble!

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          • Nibor says:

            Taffman ,

            His Majesties Government here .

            Message received and ignored .

            Vote Reform

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          • Fedup2 says:

            I forgot an April fool – which if spared i will re use in 2026 – it is the uproar caused the by the replacement of the ‘red arrows ‘ with a set of red drones – powered by renewable energy …. Each one named after a Muslim ‘character ‘ ..

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          • Lucy Pevensey says:

            We are in trouble but what good is a military that includes Muslims? Putting weapons in their hands and teaching them our procedures might be the most foolish act in military history.

            Only God can save us now. We have exposed ourselves to our enemies on every side and thrown away every means of self- defence we had.

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      Vaccinate them on the beaches.

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  8. Flotsam says:

    The Wirral which incorporates places like Birkenhead and Ellesmere Port has up to now been almost a monoculture of British and Irish ancestry white people. I’m informed by my son who lives there that illegal immigrants are being dumped in large numbers. The famous Birkenhead Park has gangs of obviously foreign young men congregating there. There is now pressure on all local services, particularly housing, where there was already problems. It’s obvious that these illegal immigrants are being dispersed around the country, property is relatively cheap which is an incentive for the authorities. Wirral Council is Ultra Left as are the MP’s for the area eg Angela Eagle.

    My view of all this that the Left are using anarchist methods to break down British society and take control of Britain, it’s a coup. First up, ID cards, the only way to determine someone’s status.

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    • Scroblene says:

      In LA dogma, Flots, when new council building is planned, a number of foreigners/immigrants etc., are included in the mix, to create one of their ‘societies’…

      It’s called ‘pepper-potting’, and indigenous citizens who are unlucky enough to have to live there have to suck it up!

      I wonder what Harold Wilson would have thought of his beloved Wirral being invaded like that!

      (Blimey, I never thought I would want to recall those days in a positive light…)

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      • Guest Who says:

        Singapore assigns its social housing to try to prevent ghettoisation, but seems to be struggling to get the ethnic Chinese balance up to scratch if the imports are any guide. The workers from ‘West Asia’ are kept carefully out of the way and if they kick off are gone the next day. It would be unwise for a Malaysian or Indonesian doctor or engineer to attempt a RiB trip across.

        However, here…. the media industry is right on it…

        https://x.com/miqdaad/status/1909269564103246196?s=61
        I wonder why the @Telegraph chose this image of the Birmingham bin strikes – one with an identifiable Muslim woman
        It’s not even subtle…

        Maybe it is a trans bloke off to the casting call to appear opposite David Beckham in the latest Barclays TVC?

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      • BRISSLES says:

        On GBN last night during another endless migration debate, a lefty said illegals stay in hotels for a “short period” then are moved to social housing ! So, all these thousands of young single males are all eventually provided with bachelor pads, given bus passes, tickets to various gigs and access to every benefit we offer. It’s effing obscene. They need putting in internment camps on a remote Scottish island – the pull factor would be no more.

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    • Nico says:

      I used to live in Birkenhead. It is an incredibly deprived area with a substantial deficit in service provision for those already there. They have also dumped them in Hoylake, an arguably much nicer part of The Wirral. They have been housing them in a conservation area hotel for many years. The local mini-market now has a security guard and a stroll along the promenade not as friendly as it was. The council, who complain of having no money have spent 2.4 million on 15 new homes for Afghan refugees, and 10 for the homeless population. There are thousands waiting for social housing on The Wirral..

      From the Wirral Globe..

      According to the decision report, “15 of these properties must be provided to Afghan nationals who have been given settlement status by the UK and have been living in bridging hotels but must now move to settled long-term accommodation.

      “10 properties must be used as temporary accommodation, helping to alleviate significant homelessness pressures in the borough.”

      So the homeless get “temporary” accommodation, the Afghans get “long-term”/ permanent accommodation.

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  9. JohnC says:

    Don’t care about the story, but this has to be right on the limit of how misleading the BBC currently feel safe to get away with:

    ‘Prince Harry’s downgraded security was unjustified, court hears’
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c05nm8d9nd6o

    ‘The Duke of Sussex was “singled out for different, unjustified and inferior treatment” in a decision to downgrade the level of security he receives in the UK, the Court of Appeal has heard.’

    Wow – such assertive statements presented as if they are from some ‘higher authority’ expert presenting facts to the mortals.

    But no. They are from Harry’s lawyer. This one:
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    In an article by this clone:
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    BBC news is now completely worthless if you want any balance in your news.

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    • moggiemoo says:

      Clone? Did you mean clown?

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      • JohnC says:

        The two words are interchangeable where the BBC is concerned.

        But I bet every single one them thinks they are very important and just a bit better than everyone else.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      The lady in the kit is a rising star it seems – got a KC – got silk – represented afgees against the Mod .- usual stuff – they reckon destined for the Blair TTK Supreme Court – I don’t think a Sharia Supreme Court would have a non man on it though …

      Lord Woolf is the chief slug in those chambers £

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  10. AsISeeIt says:

    Two Tier Policing?

    Harry was singled out for inferior security, court told (i paper)

    Ah, that rather handy – one side of the story – editorial short hand: ‘court told’

    Bradford terror suspect ‘holds neo-nazi views’, court told (BBC)
    Dan Wootton tricked colleague into sending intimate pictures, court told (BBC)
    Private school parents must pay ‘fair share’, court told (BBC)

    You get the idea. Our old darlin’ BBC enjoys nothing better than getting up on its hind legs (as Rumpole of the Bailey would have put it) tucking its thumbs into its bar gown, leaning back authoritively to look at the courtroom ceiling, before proceeding to tell one side of a story to the jury… I mean its audience.

    A terror suspect “created an online library of extreme right-wing material” which included Hitler’s Mein Kampf and firearms manuals, a jury has heard… Opening the prosecution case, Ashleigh Metcalfe told the jury… the court was told the contents of a Dropbox folder on the defendant’s phone showed he held “racist, anti-semitic, homophobic and neo-Nazi” views. (BBC) – and, of course, they can do you for that these days.

    A hearing on Tuesday heard that Mr Wootton pretended to be a woman… in online messages with the man who has brought this case, who can’t be named. In written submissions, the individual’s barrister Justin Levinson told the court that Mr Wootton sent the man partially and naked photographs of a woman, as well as a video of a couple having sex, in 2010. (BBC) – and, surprisingly, given all this Trans stuff we hear so much about, they can do you for that these days.

    The government has defended its policy of adding VAT to private school fees, telling the High Court it enhances “the fairness of the tax system overall”. Barristers representing Chancellor Rachel Reeves, as well as HMRC and the Department for Education, said they wanted to raise standards for the 94% of children who attend state schools by making private school parents pay “their fair share”. – and, of course, they can tax you for that these days.

    The Labour-supporting Daily Mirror delivers proof positive – contrary to carping anti-open borders types (see above case 2) – our asylum seekers really are would-be medics: 16-year-old Syrian bomb victim fled to Britain with dreams of becoming a doctor… – not another young aspiring Doctor Who – like that other young chap, who sadly got himself involved somehow or other on the wrong end of a knifing case recently, hopefully.

    …only to be killed on our streets… A cruel life (Mirror)

    …now his family want his body home. The teenager had only been in Huddersfield for days when he was killed in a stabbing in Huddersfield town centre… Ahmad fled war-torn Homs, Syria, after being injured in a bombing. He chose to come to the UK because he believed in the values of human rights, safety, and dignity… Alfie Franco aged 20 of the Park, Kirkburton appeared at Leeds Crown Court earlier today (8 April) charged with his murder. (Yorkshire Live) – no mug shot published – one suspects there’s quite a lot about this story the ‘court’ isn’t being ‘told’

    I’m still mourning the great might have been of those dozens of budding footballers, knifed on our streets as teenagers, who really should now have been surplanting Harry Kane in the England squad and winning us the World Cup.

    To cheer us up we close on a bit of Fun Fayre – if you’ll excuse the pun…

    The Ride Stuff – that’s the in-the-tank for Labour Daily Mirror praising their man Keir – you’ll never guess – not for nationalising British Steel or making plans to drub Nigel… or even for bashing Putin or Trump.

    Keir on a roll… PM Starmer to announce theme park see page 5 (Daily Mirror)

    28,000 jobs (Daily Mirror) – but won’t that draw thousands of workers away from vital ‘Green Jobs’ – the crucial task of building all our wind turbines? Will there be no one left in Britain available to write AI computer programmmes? Or to police our Digital ID databank? Afterall, how many dodgy geezers are really needed employed to hang onto the back of fair ground dodgem cars, attempting to chat up the birds?

    Post-industrial Mancunian post-punk rockers The Fall bemoaned the theme-parkisation of Britain way back when in the track Fortress / DeerPark [1982]

    I took a walk down West 11
    I had to wade through 500 European punks
    In an off-license I rubbed up with some oiks
    Who threw some change on the Asian counter
    And asked polite if that covered two lagers
    A hospital discharge asked me where he could crash
    Have you been to the English Deer Park?
    It’s a large type artist ranch

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    • Guest Who says:

      ‘Court told’ is a very BBC #1degreeofseparationtool

      But getting fooled into sending nekkid images is also very W1A.

      Apparently.

      As for The Mirror, TTK might find ‘Rise of the Resistance’ is a popular attraction as ‘Lammy of the Caribbean’ restricts audience by ethnicity and mass.

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  11. Woodenfish says:

    Net Zero Hero

    When a man leaves home to seek his fortune, that’s an aim
    that everyone can understand: but he has to work, and get stuck
    in, not running down his family and saying that it’s their fault he
    was overpowered by loss or grief: families have problems, as we
    know, but that makes him look like a sort of coward, or a thief.

    And when a girl selects her man, her Dad would like to meet
    and get to know him if he can, before they settle down: but if
    the father-daughter bond has soured, then for spite she might
    refuse to share, and if the fiancé goes along with her, he’s being
    used and looks bad-mannered and… well yes, a coward.

    When the helicopter came, we hear, the tribesmen ran away, hid
    in the rocks, covered their faces with their hands, and cowered:
    killing them, the gunner found, is not so hard with rocket-
    powered grenades, but boasting of it afterwards brings shame
    on fellow-soldiers, makes him seem a Big Mouth, and a coward.

    If Nan and Gramps have passed away, the grandchilden must do
    without; otherwise, a treasure-trove of love and teaching showered
    on them helps them in a thousand ways. So if their Dad prevents it,
    just to feed a grudge or get his way in some dispute that kids
    don’t understand, he’s weak and mean and not much of a man.

    But some say yes OK, he’s dim, but don’t blame him for all the
    things he doesn’t know: the fact he’s slow and tied to someone’s
    apron strings may not be due to being a coward, but simply that
    the voltage level’s low; a lesson one day learned by everyone
    who thinks the way to live a life is by relying on a wife and
    sometimes, intermittently, a little blip of battery power.

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    • BRISSLES says:

      Woody – excellent analogy and so true. Most dad’s want to cast an eye over their daughter’s boyfriend’s, and they’re never good enough. Dads are great. Will the Hariden ever get a conscience in later years. I think not.

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  12. Sluff says:

    Anyone noticed that BBC news programmes morph into a sort of charity appeal? Except that donations are not voluntary but provided by the taxpayer. You know what a taxpayer is? It’s the group the BBC never mention.

    This morning on Toady we had pleas for government intervention to a. Nationalise the steel industry b. Provide a 4 bedroomed house to a family with 4 kids who cannot afford one ( why did they have 4 kids then – a question not asked) and c. Provide support to the video games industry.

    The pleas are unending. The BBC is there to make sure.

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  13. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – the BBC has a real go at the US President in the White House

    The BBC making it plain that they do not like the President of the United States. There are divisions among supporters in the White House, eg. Musk v. Nabarro. The Tarriffs will not work. So what do the BBC do? They ask the Chairman, not the Chief Executive who actually runs the business from day to day, of JD Sports to comment on whether Beeboids will have to pay more for their trainers in future. If you are on a BBC presenter’s salary you can afford whatever price you are asked to pay! The BBC and TOADY are rapidly becoming like the Daily Star of the newspaper world – irrelevant.

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  14. Ian Rushlow says:

    The government/BBC campaign against men and boys continues apace. A propaganda piece on the BBC website informs us that “A third of teachers reported misogyny among pupils last week, survey suggests”. The initial response of most people who have evolved above the level of an amoeba would be ‘What? Why haven’t ALL of them reported misogyny among pupils – did they not receive the memo?’. The article goes out of its way to play Misogyny Bingo, with the predictable collection of characters and clichés: Teachers and parents say they are increasingly worried (tick); Netflix drama Adolescence (double tick); Andrew Tate (tick); Adolescent boy affected by misogyny (tick); teenage girls regularly hear sexist comments (bingo!).

    To illustrate ‘the problem’, we have extensive comments from head teacher Sukhjot Dhami. His photo is a treat – it’s as though a BBC intern has asked AI to create the most clichéd picture possible of a liberal wet dream woke teacher.

    Meanwhile, each week hundreds of young men from some of the most backward, violently misogynistic countries on the planet turn up on the coast and are given the heroes treatment by the government at your expense. But not a word on that, just the tumbleweeds blowing through Westminster and Broadcasting House…

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yr0zw65lro

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  15. JohnC says:

    Evening Standard headine:
    ‘Syrian man who tried to cut wife’s head off in frenzied attack jailed for life’

    BBC Headline:
    ‘Husband jailed for ‘frenzied’ murder of woman’
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgm81kn878go

    This is an extreme story and it’s nowhere to be seen on the BBC news site. I had to search for it after being alerted by the Evening Standard.

    You have to scroll down to near the end of the BBC article before you discover:
    ‘Albaradan arrived in the UK from Syria in 2020, with Ms Alshara and their children arriving the following year.’

    Lies by omission are the greatest, most cynical lies of all.

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    I can’t blame you for it Cloe of the BBC (and Guardian and The Mirror). I’m sure you are just a typist writing what someone else tells you to write. Like all the others.

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  16. StewGreen says:

    9am “@BBCRadio4 ‘s More or Less absolutely ripping into Trump on tariffs.”

    They laid it on thick , sneering Orange Man Bad right from the start.
    ‘Oh his trade tariffs are not reciprocal like he says
    rather they are based on the whatever defecit the country has with the US
    Oh Trump’s team claim that it’s more complicated and includes 2 more factors, but when you look they are 0.25 x 4 so cancel each other out anyways
    H’s not playing 3 D chess he’s just thick man collapsing world economy’

    They didn’t mention the countries that have ddone a deal with the US

    The Trade Surplus Switzerland has with the US is 60%
    The tariffs have been set at 30%

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    • StewGreen says:

      Things the prog didn’t mentin
      “tariffs on products that compete with Swiss agriculture, such as dairy, can be much higher—averaging 30.4% for agricultural goods overall, with dairy products reaching up to 137.7% in some cases. ”

      The point is if a tariff is super high, then no one imports the product , therefore it makes the aveage tariff look super low.
      Swiss tariffs on industrial goods average 1.5% .. but that is a charrypick

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    • Flotsam says:

      As I’ve said before, the tariffs make perfect sense for the US. Imports accounted for 15% of American GDP and exports account for 10% of GDP. It’s an almost self contained economy, it doesn’t need cheap Chinese tat competing with it’s own manufacturers. The US has hire and fire employment and far less employment Law which makes for lower cost manufacture and services.

      In the meantime we could do with far fewer imports…………..of illegal immigrants.

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  17. StewGreen says:

    Radio4 is programming by Lefty Mates for Lefty Mates
    a listener just tweeted
    “Listening to the Dimbleby Invisible Hands documentary @BBCRadio4
    just now reminds me how much I *hated* Thatcherism
    Thatcherism has destroyed this country
    – the mentality it legitimised brought out the worst in everyone”

    #HateyLefties

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  18. Fedup2 says:

    Secret addiction – I really enjoy Karoline Leavitt doing the White House press briefings – the MSM realises – now – that it cannot pretend to be an arm of the DNC and sneer it’s’ way along .
    Plus – unlike the DEI of the Biden mafia – she doesn’t need a great big embarrassing file…. And apparently that mop top hasn’t even found a job yet – being what everyone knows she was …

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  19. Fedup2 says:

    Great story about a woman prison governor about to do time for being corrupted by a drug dealer …. But some how I think she’ll get the selective TTK treatment and get a ‘suspended’ and not the Tommy Robinson torture regime …. If he survives what a book that is going to be …although they’ll probably lock him up for that … Tommy mate – go to America – they’re gonna kill you here

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  20. MarkyMark says:

    For the past two years London has been the “cocaine capital” of Europe, but that title has now returned to the Belgian city of Antwerp, according to SCORE group . Only Antwerp and London have been top of the list since the study began.15 Dec 2016
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-38328107

    The research is carried out by analysing waste water, with samples of sewage taken in each area.

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  21. Fedup2 says:

    The picture of 4 wrecked police cars having been involved in a serious ‘collision ‘ does demand details … as in WTF ?

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  22. vlad says:

    Did the BBC show Katie Lam’s speech to Parliament on rape gangs (and lack of government action)?

    Just one extract: “Finally, I would like to read to the House one particular ordeal—just one example of what these children have suffered… Sentencing Mohammed Karrar of Oxford to life in prison, Judge Peter Rook said: “You prepared her for gang anal rape by using a pump to expand her anal passage. You subjected her to gang rape by five or six men. At one point she had four men inside her. A red ball was placed in her mouth to keep her quiet… When she was 12, after raping her, she threatened you with your lock knife. Your reaction was to pick up a baseball bat with a silver metal handle, strike her on the head with it, and then insert the baseball bat inside her vagina.”’

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  23. Nico says:

    Pay your license fee to restore our paedo produced statues..

    BBC unveils restored sculpture by Eric Gill. A matter close to little BBC hearts no doubt.

    I’m quite sure many pieces of art would be thrown in the bin if the character of the maker was known. Caravaggio was hardly an angel. The issue here is that the BBC chose to protect their insurance premiums by not claiming for the damage. Instead, it is stated the “BBC covered the cost”, AKA license fee payers to the tune of £529 175. Maybe Huw could dig deep and make a contribution.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly114y8gn7o

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    • MarkyMark says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      A BBC spokeswoman said: “When the building was subject to serious criminal damage, on two occasions, there were no easy options for addressing the destruction caused.

      …………………

      YET

      ….
      COLSTON REMOVED AND IN MUSEUM? HA HA HAH AH AH

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    • Terminal Moraine says:

      “It’s understood the cost has been covered by the BBC rather than claimed on insurance.”

      How is it understood? Paul Glynn, culture reporter at the BBC finds it all too much work to call the BBC accounts dept and check. Bung another £100 on the licence fee.

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  24. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/bbcpolitics/status/1909910679353430405?s=61
    “Universal could have chosen anywhere in Europe to make this investment”
    Chancellor Rachel Reeves hails the “£50bn benefit to the UK economy” from the planned Universal theme park in Bedford

    The guys behind seem impressed with the BBC PR number as her crowing.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      £50bn – will be Chinese owned like British Steel with Turkish pensions? HA HA HHAH AH AHA H!

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    • Terminal Moraine says:

      “…and could create an estimated 28,000 jobs…”

      Wonder if they’ll be coming from Luton’s finest? Could make for some interesting and vibrant rides.

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    • non-licence payer says:

      Without being too cynical Universal probably worked out that Labour having kebabed the UK economy by time the site starts to operate, the UK will be a cheap tourist location for wealthy continentals (Albanians etc).

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  25. BRISSLES says:

    I think Rachel has /is undergoing an image makeover. The hair is several shades lighter (for a softer look) and make up has clearly upgraded too. All about the “optics”.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Brissles
      At the start of the year I think she went to a ‘smile consultant ‘ to appear light and happy as a backdrop to a failing economy –

      But she ain’t smiling now …. And will have to do an emergency budget soon – especially if the interest rate is cut ..

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  26. MarkyMark says:

    It’s not a replacement or about power…. HA HA HAHAH

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    https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/dec/18/i-had-a-surge-of-power-the-bristol-woman-whose-statue-replaced-edward-colstons

    ‘I had a surge of power’: the Bristol woman whose statue replaced Edward Colston’s

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  27. MarkyMark says:

    In June 2023 the FCDO spent £8,000,000 of UK taxpayers money “to drive efficiencies and cost savings” for the Government of Jordan.

    The 4 year contract could be extended by 2 years with increased funding of £5,000,000.

    The contract was awarded to Development Pathways Ltd

    https://x.com/thewastefiles/status/1889941863492362550

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  28. Philip_2 says:

    As we learn that Some Councils are paying themseleves ‘the ‘going rate’ for running the local tax benefits that have bankrupted more than one Labour left Council (One Liberal and One Conservative run borough in the mix). But its mainly Labour who overspend and pay themselves high rates THAT THEY WOULD NEVER GET IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR.

    Its a Socialists DREAM job. The ONLY job they will ever have as they are unemployable elsewhere, and then try to get ‘reelected’ as saving the nation, whilst actively destroying it.

    UK COUNCIL RICH LIST (2024)
    https://www.taxpayersalliance.com/ten_takeaways_from_town_hall_rich_list_2025

    And of course the BBC are well known for paying themselves well above the going rate using the same principles as ‘stuff the public’ that Labour run Councils use.

    BBC STATE MEDIA BROADCASTER RICH LIST (2024)
    https://www.taxpayersalliance.com/bbc_rich_list_2024

    e.g.

    Leigh Tavaziva, group chief operating officer, saw her remuneration rise by £25,000 to £442,000 in 2023-24, the most of any senior executive.
    Balram Veliath, director, quality, risk and assurance, saw his salary rise by 5 pay bands, from £222,500 in 2022-23 to £247,500 in 2023-24, the most of any senior executive.
    Nick Robinson, of the Today programme, was paid £347,500 in 2023-24, an increase of £70,000 from 2022-23 or 25.2 per cent, the largest increase of any ‘on-air talent’ in cash terms.
    Reeta Chakrabarti of BBC News at One, BBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten received the largest increase in percentage terms from 2022-23, 25.3 per cent or £55,000 to £272,500 in 2023-24.

    The highest paid executive in 2023-24 was Tim Davie, the director general. He received a total of £527,000 in salary and taxable benefits. This included use of a car and driver.[6]
    The highest paid on-air ‘talent’ in 2023-24 was Gary Lineker, with a £1,352,500 salary, the same as he received in 2022-23.
    Jonathan Munro, deputy CEO of news and director of journalism, who received a salary of £287,500, expensed a £8,372….

    You get the picture. A failed state of state QUANGOS and COUNCILS acting in unision (and all supported by the state broadcaster) as the GOLD STANDARD of public services.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Can protect Ukraine border – cannot stop one SMALL(filled with 60 people) boat.

         12 likes

    • tomo says:

      The more council officials get paid, the less you see them on council web content and in the local rag?

      We’ve half a dozen paid more than the Prime Minister in Wiltshire and the Chief Executive keeps a low profile …

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  29. MarkyMark says:

    “British (Chinese-owned business) Steel solution is within reach, minister says”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgrggwxzd2jo

    ………..

    Turkish army pension fund to buy British Steel
    Published 16 August 2019
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgrggwxzd2jo

    ……….

    British Steel Limited is a long steel products business founded in 2016 with assets acquired from Tata Steel Europe by Greybull Capital, then acquired by Jingye Group in 2020
    Tata Steel Europe – “Tata Sons Pvt. Ltd. is the holding company of the Tata Group, headquartered in Mumbai.”
    …………..

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    • pugnazious says:

      Love how the BBC were trying to blame the Trump tariffs when just days before the company was saying it was economically unviable…unless the government pumped in a billion….hmmm…and how long would that last before the begging bowl came out again? Might as well nationalise it if it is so strategically important….at least any income will stay here rather than fill Chinese pockets.

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  30. MarkyMark says:

    “A woman has told how she became pregnant at 15 and married the father in an Islamic wedding following years of abuse while she was in care.

    Her social worker recommended she be allowed to live with the older man and his family, care documents show.

    The woman said she was abused by numerous Asian men while living in a children’s home in the care of Bradford social services.

    Bradford Council admitted she had been let down.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-48106927

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  31. vlad says:

    Earlier I posted Tory MP Katie Lam’s devastating speech in Parliament on rape gangs and the lack of government response, despite their promise to instigate inquiries. (Link to Transcript below.)

    Equally revealing is the response by Labour MP Jess Phillips (Under-Secretary of State for Sweeping Pakistani Muslim Crimes Under the Carpet):

    – “I think it is a shame that she referred to only one sort of child abuse victim… There should be no hierarchy; we are also talking about children raped by their fathers or raped in other circumstances, such as in children’s homes and institutions, over many years. It is a shame that she did not speak about any of their experiences…”

    See what she’s doing? Diverting from, and Diluting, the horror of Pakistani Muslim rape gangs by conflating them with other kinds of sex crimes. It’s called taqiya in Arabic, or ‘deceiving in order to defend Islam’.
    Muslims have had 1400 years to perfect the art, but Labour are catching up fast.

    https://www.parallelparliament.co.uk/mp/jess-phillips/vs/katie-lam

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  32. Fedup2 says:

    X is really on the case with this – particularly on the evil ‘children’s / wimmins minister ‘ – Jess Phillips . Sadly I think Elon will be too busy to engage – but surely the KC who has now had his legs done shouid speak up and out …. But the promise of a gong wouid shut most people up …

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  33. Fedup2 says:

    Economic war broken out ? China selling US bonds dropping the value of? Pressuring the US economy?

    Its all above a simple punter like me but seems pretty frightening..

       7 likes

  34. Althepalerp says:

    Meanwhile.. . Our fiscal headroom continues to be wiped out:

    https://markets.ft.com/data/bonds/tearsheet/summary?s=UK10YG

       5 likes

  35. Doughboy says:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp9yvlvx4jpo

    Funny no picture of the perp in this, I wonder why

       10 likes

  36. MarkyMark says:

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       16 likes

  37. Lucy Pevensey says:

    This looks bad

       7 likes

  38. MarkyMark says:

    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSKX_XbbrF2ZG5uO2ImaVRyaNFA06BVLJ5lIg&s

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  39. MarkyMark says:

    ‘Europe is no ally’ Steve Bannon on Tariffs, Trump, and Total War

    …………..

    Illegal crossings at U.S.-Mexico border down 94% from last year, Border Patrol chief says
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/illegal-crossings-u-s-mexico-border-down-94-percent-border-patrol-chief-says/

    ……………

    Small boats data
    This page shows figures for the last 7 days for irregular migrants attempting to cross the English Channel in small boats without permission to enter the UK.

    Date Migrants arrived Boats arrived Boats involved in uncontrolled landings Notes
    2 April 2025 0 0 0
    3 April 2025 0 0 0
    4 April 2025 154 4 0
    5 April 2025 0 0 0
    6 April 2025 0 0 0
    7 April 2025 0 0 0
    8 April 2025 432 8 0
    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats-last-7-days

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  40. Scroblene says:

    “‘I don’t understand what is going on. What do tariffs mean?’
    Christine Bailey, 68, from Bolton, pictured above said like many people she had seen a lot about tariffs in the news but was not sure what it was all about.

    Tariffs are taxes on stuff that is imported from other countries.

    Donald Trump has said he wants US citizens to buy more American-made products and he’s hoping to do that by making the price of things brought in from other countries more expensive.

    While we don’t know what impact this will have, there are some worries it could affect jobs here, especially for people working in car manufacturing and machinery.

    The cost of items in the shops could go up, and the general uncertainty might make it difficult for the government to meet the economic targets it has set itself.”

    Er…

    …COULD GO UP…

    Stunning investigation and insight by the state crapcaster, already preparing the sixth floor excuses for Thieves’ and TTK’s economic failures.

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  41. Eddy Booth says:

    BBC will be having a cobra style damage limitation meeting tonight, to plan for a possible heafty % rise in the FTSE tomorrow after
    “Trump pauses higher tariffs for dozens of countries, but hikes China rate to 125%”

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Eddy – the US is up a massive 5% – the BBC will congratulate TTK on single handed saving the world economy – all hail the Great Leader …

         9 likes

  42. Philip_2 says:

    The Liberal left. loses it again: ‘Gina Miller’s True and Fair party has been dissolved’
    (excerpt)
    ‘The last time I saw Gina Miller was outside the Supreme Court in 2019, after Baroness Hale, of spider-brooch fame, ruled Boris Johnson’s prorogation of parliament to be “unlawful”
    “Today is not a win for any individual or court,” she said, reading a prepared statement in her trademark Euro-blue blazer. “It’s a win for parliamentary sovereignty.” She said.
    ‘Even after Johnson claimed to have “got Brexit done”, Miller continued campaigning through her True and Fair party, standing as the candidate for Epsom and Ewell at the last general election.

    She was not elected, coming sixth out of the seven candidates and losing her deposit with a 1.5 per cent share of the vote’

    Now it appears that the British-Guiana-born lawyer turned campaigner has finally had enough of politics altogether, after it emerged that True and Fair was dissolved via voluntary strike-off last week. It means the party will not make an appearance at next month’s local elections.

    Could this finally signal the end of Project Fear? Let’s jolly well hope so.’

    And where was the BBC in all this? Totally unbiased they always claim! — yes, they were championing Gina Millar in every TV and radio broadcast they ever made. BBC liked COVID, and that we should (forced) to be vaccinated or die!,- much the same when we campaigned to leave the EU and its main goal EU remains – to cripple the UK.
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/09/the-remoaner-cranks-are-finally-giving-up-brexit-uk/

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  43. tomo says:

    ooops!

    can’t say racist?

    oops-cant-say-racist.png

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    • Philip_2 says:

      Just reading it:
      ‘Speaking on Times Radio, Sir Trevor said: “What the Government is doing on [grooming gangs] is utterly, utterly shameful. Utterly shameful. And it is so obviously political. People in government who are responsible for this, who are in other ways completely decent people, should really be ashamed of themselves.

      “Because it’s so obvious that they’re not doing this because of the demographic of the people involved, as Katie Lam, the Tory MP, said yesterday, largely Pakistani Muslim in background, and also in Labour-held seats and councils who would be offended by it.

      “That’s clearly the reason that they’re not pursuing this. And it is utterly shameful, given what has been done to these children by these men. I cannot tell you how cross I am about it.

      “I think part of the problem is that the centre-Left has put all sorts of barriers around what it can talk about, what it may speak out about’

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  44. Fedup2 says:

    Always got time for Trevor Phillips – one of those few on the left who can produce common sense . Donkeys years ago he used to do ‘the London programme’ on LWT – Which was always Rare good journalism …

    … as for the suppression of the Pakistani rape gang inquiry – any one – non Muslim – non Pakistani – will be fully aware of the disgusting hypocracy of the Islamic Marxist far left . I curse them …. And balls and her gang shouid be ashamed …

    They know the inquiry will find the whole system corrupted ….

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  45. Philip_2 says:

    What happens when the BBC liberal Left luvvies take over an entire county? – totally and completely?. New Zealand did that under Jacinda Aheran, following exactly the WEF recoemmendations and arresting people who did not agree on mass lockdowns and enforced vaccinations on children. Walking in a park could get you arrested. Running any business was impossible using COVID lockdown rules she enforced without mercy. No skills whatsoever other than follow the mass lockdown plan. She excelled and was made a Dame last year by King Charles. She has now left Politics completly as a total failure in NZ prime minister.

    She was the BBC pin up babe. She could do no wrong. She has lead New Zealand to ruin – worse than the UK under Boris. But Starmer may equal that target – but as yet he has not yet locked us all up for fear that he needs some cards to rejoin the EU.

    New Zealand now has serious problems. Go Woke go broke. She’ll probably get a job at the NZ version of the BBC as an independent presenter if she was not so hated.
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/04/09/new-zealand-had-plan-rich-australia-failed-gdp-exodus-jobs/

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  46. pugnazious says:

    Hot off the presses….Eric Gill was the beneficiary of slavery….his statues have been rapidly removed by the BBC….having previously adamantly refused to remove them because he was a paedophile.

    Good to know they spent over £500,000 of licence fee cash restoring the statues rather than on programming when they constantly claim to have no money.

    ‘The BBC said the estimated total costs of the restoration and protective work was £529,715. It’s understood the cost has been covered by the BBC rather than claimed on insurance. ‘

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  47. pugnazious says:

    A highly controversial and devious political decision by Labour and it seems to be totally absent from the BBC website for some reason despite lots and lots of noise about it…not least from Trevor Phillips…

    ‘Labour dropped its plans for five local grooming gang inquiries for fear of offending its Pakistani voters, Sir Trevor Phillips has claimed.

    Sir Trevor, the former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said Labour’s response to the grooming gangs scandal was “utterly shameful” because it was “so obviously political” to avoid offending a particular demographic of voters.’

    And Dan Hodges….

    ‘At the start of the year, Elon Musk launched a sudden and increasingly frenzied attack on the British Government over Muslim rape gangs.

    There had been a cover-up, he charged. Ministers – including the Prime Minister – were complicit.

    Yesterday, though, we saw the ugly truth. For once, Elon Musk was right. There is a cover-up. Ministers are complicit.

    And, as a result, the victims of some of the worst abuses in British history are indeed being denied the justice they deserve.’

    Curious that the BBC is showing such a lack of interest but Phillips’ comment here might reveal the reason…

    ‘…. the move risked providing an “open goal” to Right-wing critics of the party’s policies on immigration.’

    Of course the BBC’s and Labour’s interests ‘intersect’ here…immigration, race, Islam and Labour itself wanting to keep those Muslim votes….the BBC will do what it can to hide the truth, hide the criminals and protect Labour’s Muslim vote.

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