186 Responses to Start the Week 28th April 2025

  1. non-licence payer says:

    First time for months! Defund the bBC! The bBC and democracy are incompatible.

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  2. harry142857 says:

    Congrats.

    From sickipedia.

    “I’ve heard that Kier Starmer likes a good pound”.

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  3. Cooper_Man says:

    Just had a look at the Beeb’s webshite to read the reports on today’s football and saw that this year’s World Snooker Championships have started at the Crucible – something that I used to watch when I had a television but pretty much ignore now.

    Had to laugh when I saw the Beeb’s presenting team this year – Hazel Irvine, Seema Jaswal and Rishi Persad, with reporting from Shabnam Younus-Jewell and Abigail Davis. I wan’t aware that Snooker was popular on the Indian sub-continent. Where are the old white men? Oh yes, providing commentary and insights – because they actually know something about the game!!

    The BBC will never change, so defund it now.

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  4. pugnazious says:

    BBC does a big hit piece on Connor McGregor on 25th April but someone misses [as far as I can see] the big anti-migrant protest in Dublin on the 26th.

    Odd huh?

    McGregor is now getting the Tommy Robinson treatment….

    ‘The Freemasons of Ireland will make a €2,500 (£2,130) donation to charity after its premises in Dublin were used for “grossly inappropriate purposes” when rented out for an interview between Conor McGregor and US commentator Tucker Carlson. ‘

    But this….ignored by the BBC or very definitely down the memory hole already….

    https://x.com/darrengrimes_/status/1916164754097295567

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  5. Deborah says:

    I used to believe what the BBC told me and I used to believe the medicines and vaccines the doctor gave me would do me good. I remember it being the Left wing youth used to demonstrate against ‘big Pharma’. Now the Left seem to embrace the medications and I’m the sceptical one. And when I hear in the MSM the message from the police / the authorities that there is no indication that a car being driven into a crowd wasn’t a terrorist attack, I find it difficult to believe. I blame Tony Blair because he was the politician who had no regard for the truth and didn’t care. (I know earlier politicians probably lied but they usually had to resign if their lying could be proved, Blair was allowed to get away with anything.)

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  6. Sluff says:

    Those bad driving instances have now hit Vancouver.
    The ‘alleged’ perpetrator has had mental health issues (surprise surprise) but there is no mention of his ethnicity or other attributes (also surprise surprise).
    He drove into Philippino festivalgoers.
    Is it purely co-incidence that that country is 90% Christian? A figure mentioned recently in the context of the Pope’s funeral.

    Relevant information is lacking.

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  7. Sluff says:

    The BBC covered the London Marathon.
    An opportunity to note certain statistics.
    I checked the results.

    There were 63 wheelchair trace goers. Out of 56,000.
    That’s a magnificent 0.12% of the total. About the same proportion as Trans folk.
    But, this being the BBC, we just had to have a wheelchair-using presenter, from Blue Peter, who featured in the kids mini marathon.
    Can we expect the BBC to feature other equivalent minorities?
    Trainspotters? A soap based on Barra in the Outer Hebrides?
    Bouldering enthusiasts in the Peak District?
    Their agenda about favoured minorities is just totally desperate.

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    • Deborah says:

      GBNews showed a very short clip of one of the fathers of the one of the girls who was murdered at Southport, running the marathon. Whoever was doing the commentary (not sure whether it was BBC, Sky or GBNews itself). But whoever was commentating was about to say the father of a murdered child, but stopped just before the words tumbled out of her mouth and said something to the effect, the little girl who went to a Taylor Swift activity day and didn’t come back’. The case has finished, the perpetrator in jail. Why couldn’t they just say that the little girls were
      murdered?

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    • vlad says:

      @Sluff
      How about presenters with “far-right” views – or “perfectly sensible” as they used to be called before the leftists took over?

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    • StewGreen says:

      @Sluff yes strange the number is difficult to find
      BTW I’d expect women in wheelchairs to be quite competitive to the men
      but all top 10 ten males came in faster than the fastest female

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  8. Eddy Booth says:

    Déjà vou time:
    “Mayor Ken Sim outlines what is known about the suspect
    He splits this into four points:”
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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2d48erzg7lt

    Very kind of him; I’m not sure i could have understood it unsimplifed..

    “” 1. The suspect, a 30-year-old man, has been arrested and remains in custody

    2. The evidence points to this not being an “act of terrorism”

    3. The individual in question has a significant history of mental health issues

    4. He was known to police for a multitude of mental health interactions

    “Mental health appears to be the underlying issue here and I want to be clear, if anything is to come of this tragedy it has to be change,” Sim adds.

    Both Mayor Ken Sim and acting chief of police, Steve Rai, are now taking questions from the press. We’ll let you know if there are any new developments.”

    Alright, I’ll have a search of this police chief while I’m waiting

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    ” ‘We can’t predict one-offs’ – acting police chief ”

    Clichés continue

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    • JohnC says:

      It’s starting to stink like they are keeping any information about who did it secret until after the election.

      Reminds me of how they hid news of a covid vaccine for a week until AFTER the 2020 election so Trump didn’t benefit from the news.

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    • G says:

      Another job for the Supreme Court? Define, ‘Mental Health Issues’. In the murderers context naturally.

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  9. Sluff says:

    Not BBC but fellow travellers.
    I came across the term ‘High Cholesterol’ and wondered what defined ‘High’.
    So I chanced on the British Heart Foundation website.
    Here is a relevant statement about HDL cholesterol.
    I quote
    HDL cholesterol, 1mmol/L or above for men (who were assigned male at birth), and 1.2mmol/L or above for women (who were assigned female at birth)
    End quote
    https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/risk-factors/high-cholesterol/understanding-your-cholesterol-levels#:~:text=Here%20are%20the%20healthy%20levels,cholesterol%2C%203mmol%2FL%20or%20below

    Setting aside the hopelessly woke BHF that felt the need to even mention it, how gratifying that it appears that Trans women are not women and Trans men are not men when it comes to HDL Cholesterol levels. Did the Supreme Court know this? Has Stonewall noticed?
    Perhaps SirKeer and gutless SirEdDavey would care to comment, while the BBC news intelligentsia reach for the smelling salts..

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  10. Nibor says:

    Not BBC but

    Folks wasting their time in traffic stoppages . .
    Today the biggest was the A14 because of an accident . Hours of innocent peoples lives wasted because the Powers That Be are useless . We need it sorted .
    I propose a radical plan .

    The old stocks should be used .Or new mobile ones . We come to that later .

    Whenever there is a grave discoloration of the road infrastructure in the country , all senior civil servants ( grade 5 and above ) , the senior Highways Agency bods , the senior police traffic enforcement ( or even chief Constable) of the area , the clerk of the works of the local council and all et al etc .

    Basically all those who should be responsible who are well paid , have generous pensions and retire early are made to face up to their failings .

    So when a huge logjam, a national problem occurs , operation Public Servant is enacted .

    Firstly wherever they are , whatever they`re doing , whatever the time of day be it a, PUBLIC holiday , weekend or well past midnight they are brought, by helicopter if necessary to a field near the problem .

    Then there is a big tent erected where they given all resources to tackle the problem . Maps drones communications etc

    To concentrate their minds
    One of them is put in the stocks in a field next to the traffic jam
    for five minutes . The stranded motorists are allowed to gather around .
    He is then freed and another luminary is put there , then after ten minutes another and the process goes on . Hopefully the traffic problem is resolved before the agitated public inflict horrendous punishment on the ones who are paid to serve the public .

    The same goes for roadworks

    All diversity , inclusion and equalities managers can regulate the traffic flow so no one can skip the queue .
    It`s fairness they want isn`t it ?

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  11. Fedup2 says:

    For the record the local man charged with 11 killings in Canada is named as one Kai-Ji Adam Lo…… but there seem no other details ….. such as whether he converted to Islam …..
    Probably details suppressed until after the election – which is today with Carney using the biden Obama counting method to keep the WEF in power ….

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    • MilesHarrington says:

      It’s important to avoid jumping to conclusions before full information is available. If you’re interested in understanding Islam more deeply rather than through media speculation, I found this Tafsir and Reflection on the Quran course really helpful for gaining clearer insight.

      https://simplyislam.academy/course/tafsir-and-reflection-on-the-quran

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Miles – thanks – I read some of their book a long time ago – it’s self evident what the aim of their false ‘religion ‘ is … and it ain’t ‘love one another ‘ …

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      • Loobyloo says:

        The salient point is, people feel that we are never given the full information.

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      • G says:

        Miles H

        Can’t beat living and working in the KSA to help……….understanding…..

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        • Scroblene says:

          As most citizens believe that the BBC is lying to them, the general impression is that when they obscure the facts, it’s clear that any evil coming from foreigners will never be broadcast, so whatever any ‘rational’ piece is written will be assigned to the bin sharpish!

          One always really has to consider that the opposite of a Beeboid message is the real truth, and it certainly isn’t the sort of discussion that British citizens want to think about too often.

          W1AA is an agenda-filled quagmire of leftie lickspittles!

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    • StewGreen says:

      “Kai-Ji Adam Lo is a 30-year-old Vancouver resident charged with eight counts of second-degree murder following a tragic car-ramming attack at the Lapu Lapu Day festival on April 26, 2025. His background includes a history of mental health issues, recent interactions with police and health care professionals, and significant personal tragedies, including his brother’s murder and his mother’s suicide attempt.
      He had no prior criminal record,
      lived in East Vancouver with his mother, and was the registered owner of the vehicle used in the attack.

      Family been in Vancouver 10 years, father died
      Perp’s Facebook account that indicates he is from Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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  12. harry142857 says:

    I wonder what the definition of “resident” is in 2025.

    A 30-year-old man has been charged with eight counts of second degree murder after a car was driven into a crowd at a street festival in Vancouver, Canada.

    The attack at a festival which celebrated Filipino culture left 11 dead and dozens more injured.

    Work to identify some victims was continuing on Sunday evening, and police said the suspect – Kai-Ji Adam Lo, a resident of the city – was likely to be charged with further murders.

    Investigators said the suspect was known to police prior to the attack but ruled out an extremist motive, instead pointing to his history of mental health problems.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g271y53z6o

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    • Loobyloo says:

      I know Vancouver quite well. Relatives emigrated there in the 50s, and I lived there as a student 30 odd years ago. IMO it is the most beautiful city in the world in which to live. They’ve always had high immigration, when I was there it was mostly Chinese and Indian, communities that traditionally work hard and aspire, do well in education etc ( this provided some interesting scenarios with teaching, but that’s a different story). Canadians are also encouraged to be patriotic and look after their beautiful country, unlike us.
      I visited earlier this year. The amount of building has been massive, much of it high rise. Rents are sky high, immigration is huge. The white population is well under 50% at a guess. Apparently they have a big drugs problem (cannabis is legal with stores dotted about – an interesting concept).
      When I was there immigration was so tight – I couldn’t work outside of the uni, and no hope of staying after my student visa expired.
      I suspect that those who immigrate see the riches to be had and are soon dismayed when they see it is out of reach, that they have to live in the suburbs with high rent and employment issues. Like any city I guess. And of course as the diaspora populations increase, their homeland issues rear their ugly heads again..
      Then again I could be wrong about all that!

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    • pugnazious says:

      Mental health eh? Somewhat of a spectrum from stressed to OCD to total murderous psycopath. Just another ‘senseless tragedy’ I guess.

      An easy get-out to explain away and hide awkward issues.

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  13. Fedup2 says:

    Harry – it’s sad we are now conditioned – or ‘groomed ‘ into treating these attacks as academic exercises of propaganda by omission – the toronto star reports that this characters’ brother was murdered a few months ago and as a result his mother attempted suicide. There are also criminal convictions and he is a nut case …
    But the motive remains undisclosed …. Cardiff choir boy is my guess ….

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  14. AsISeeIt says:

    Bravo the government… school uniforms will soon cost us less: The government claims parents will save around £50 per child through the school uniform measures, which it hopes to introduce in September 2026. (reports the girl’s jolly hockey team: Kate McGough, Education producer, BBC & Elaine Dunkley, Education correspondent, BBC)

    But we’ll all be coughing up more tax to pay the teachers: Reeves faces pay demands for teachers and nurses… independent pay review body representing 514,000 teachers has recommended a pay rise of close to 4 per cent… significantly more than the 2.8 per cent the government budgeted for… (Times)

    I’m wondering where I can get meself an ‘independent pay review body’?

    School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB). This body provides recommendations to the Secretary of State for Education and the Prime Minister – thank you AI.

    Or, failing that, get meself a cushy job on one of these quangos: Six-figure pay packets for 1,500 quango staff… in salaries and other benefits, analysis reveals… Labour has vowed to rein in quangos… but has created 27 of its own since coming to power (Telegraph)

    A nice little earner – as Del Boy Trotter might have said.

    The ever-excitable Daily Mail is up in arms – for all the good that will do: So much for a bonfire of the quangos! Figures show 350 bosses earn more than the PM

    By the way, what did we make of Keir Starmer’s St George’s Day speech? I thought his rather admonishing tone implied he was only intending for his audience to fly our St George’s flags at half-mast – like his trousers, when he’s round at Lord Alli’s.

    They do say TTK prefers international affairs

    The Pacific nation of The Philippines is suddenly all over the news.

    Fun with flags

    Beijing seizes tiny sandbank in South China Sea… State broadcaster CCTV released images of four officers, wearing all black and holding the Chinese flag, standing on the disputed reef of Sandy Cay in the Spratly Islands… Both China and the Philippines have staked claims on various islands. The Philippines said later on Sunday that it had landed on three sandbanks, releasing an image of officers holding up their national flag in a pose that mimicked the Chinese photo. (BBC)

    Borderless world, eh?

    And then there was this news story: Suspect charged after Vancouver car ramming leaves 11 dead… attack at the Lapu Lapu Day festival… the city’s tight-knit Filipino community was “grieving” and the attack’s impact will be felt for years to come… Kai-Ji Adam Lo, a resident of the city, appeared in court… (BBC)

    But in case you were wondering: Eleven die in Canada attack on eve of vote… Vancouver’s police chief said… “the darkest day” in the city’s history… “There are many unanswered questions about this horrific crime… impossible to overstate how many lives have been impacted for ever”… officials felt confident the incident was not an act of terrorism (Guardian)

    Western authorities’ definitions of terrorism seem to be a bit elastic these days, eh?

    Can’t a perpetrator do something which terrorises… and at the same time be a bit nutty? Like that mid-century Austrian painter bloke with a toothbrush moustache we teach our kids so much about about.

    Police said the suspect was known to them prior to the attack but ruled out an extremist motive, instead pointing to Mr Lo’s history of mental health problems. (BBC)

    I can still remember a time when the characteristic, comically satirised, example of a person exhibiting a mental health issue was imagining you were Napoleon.

    Speaking of satire… as our BBC exclaims: UK to see warmest April weather in seven years – I’m increasingly convinced the jokey blokey Daily Star is trolling either its readers or the rest of the media: Blowtorch UK… It’s gonna be hotter than Africa

    And there I was thinking it was spring.

    What should Democrats do now? Everyone has a different answer – ponders Kayla Epstein, BBC News, Reporting from Bakersfield, California.

    Our BBC there, presuming not simply to act as pseudo opposition to a foreign President but as a form of think tank and strategy resource for the opposition party.

    Panorama: Did Lloyds Bank Fail My Business? For 15 years, reporter Steve Brodie has been following the cases of dozens of entrepreneurs who say Lloyds Bank failed their businesses and ruined their lives. Some Lloyds customers have made criminal complaints to the police about their former bank, but none have resulted in a full investigation. Lloyds says it has always worked to support business customers who got into difficulties following the financial crash. Now Panorama reveals new documents from inside the bank as well as whistleblower evidence which raises serious questions about the way the bank treated some of its customers. (BBC)

    That’ll be this Lloyds Bank: Don’t use the word ‘widows’, Lloyds chiefs tell staff in new ‘inclusive language’ guidance… at Scottish Widows. Lloyds has issued a list of everyday terms for its 57,000 workers to avoid (Daily Mail)

    Britain’s biggest bank pledges ‘solidarity’ with trans staff. Lloyds executives vow to support colleagues after ‘unsettling day’ at the Supreme Court (Telegraph)

    As our banks go woke, we go broke.

    And finally, as the government nudges us ever closer to a cashless society, a central bank digital currency and digital IDs for all our interactions with the state: Don’t charge your phone in a Chinese electric car, UK defence staff warned… data could be stolen (i paper)

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  15. Guest Who says:

    Don’t know who is writing Labour top floor sound bites, but Ch4 is deffo the place to see them printed.

    https://x.com/channel4news/status/1916556071306465550?s=61
    Andy Burnham: ‘It will take time for Labour changes to be felt by the voters’

    #commentscouldnotbemoreobvious

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    • Guest Who says:

      Gets…. Be… Wierder…

      https://x.com/keir_starmer/status/1916162192526774581?s=61

      Lord Ali hired the girls, and women, who did the Jag ad?

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    • BRISSLES says:

      “It will take time for changes to be felt by the voters….”

      Most of us will be dead by then, and homes taken over by the boat people. That’s the real plan.

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      • moggiemoo says:

        What makes you think they’ll wait until we’re dead?

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      • pugnazious says:

        Not wrong is he?

        ‘Jeremy Clarkson has accused Labour of wanting to ‘ethnically cleanse’ the countryside in order to build ‘new immigrant towns’ over farmland. ‘

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        • Scroblene says:

          Tunbridge Wells is already chucking out ne’er-do-wells into the smaller villages, presumably to make room for the illegals in their own ‘accommodation’.

          Neighbourhood watch schemes are starting in earnest everywhere, to keep an eye on the incoming pikeys and their feral broods.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Brissles, my dear old thing – well it is the cricket season at last – the Metro newspaper has a front page today that accuses ultra-processed foods for killing 18,000 of the UK population a year early! Who-da thunked that? To my mind if you cook carrots and cabbages (‘healthy’ foods all) in a pan on a hob, you would be processing them; if you overcook them and turn them to mush, you would be ultra-processing them. There’s a narrative behind all this hostility towards ultra-processed foods by the BBC and MSM and I do not trust it one bit!

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  16. Guest Who says:

    Always enjoy Sciency stuff on the bbc.

    Here’s Beff’s smarter cousin talking about slag.

    https://x.com/bbcr4today/status/1916753838041686319?s=61
    Industrial waste on the coast of Cumbria is turning into rock in a matter of decades, researchers have found.
    Dr Amanda Owen from the University of Glasgow’s School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, explains how the process happens so quickly.

    I let it run and was treated to a very erudite chap of color explaining how the media cropped suits fir TDS purposes and a very erudite and polite Douglas Murray trying to correct a very rude, gibbering Newsnight talking head.

    Best to garner news in the round, on X.

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  17. pugnazious says:

    https://x.com/ColinBrazierTV/status/1915800338319225299

    The BBC claims it doesn’t have a ‘toxic culture’ in a whitewash review but of course it does…the review is itself part of the problem given that the BBC’s immediate reaction to any problem is to cover it up and brush away criticism.

    The BBC’s extraordinarily bigoted and partisan worldview and its taking of sides be it climate, immigration, race, religion, lockdown or trans issues, is nothing if not toxic compounded by the way it not only takes sides but goes further by trying to discredit, demonise and silence those whose views it finds ‘unacceptable’….for example Douglas Murray.

    The BBC will say ah yes but we let him on to talk…but it was of course more inquisiton and a very hostile one at that…contrast how they treat those who have views they like…it’s all very matey and agreeable. Then to make sure we get the message that Murray’s views are extremist and hateful they wheel in a number of people all who dislike his ‘repulsive’ views and it becomes a ‘two minute hate-fest’ with Murray being absent and unable to reply and defend himself.

    It’s pretty standard BBC practice….give an interview and they will trash you over the next few days[months, years] one way or another.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Pug thanks – mr brazier – a pretty distinguished broadcaster – was another victim of the GbNews purge and another reason I gave up on GBNews – he was ‘allowed ‘ to do short opinion pieces in the style of Jesse Walters on Fox News .

      But of course – if the opinion is unapproved – it’s curtains . He still pops up on X with ‘sensible ‘ views – clearly unacceptable to BBCOFCOM …

      Clearly a lesson for mr Murray – never do a recorded interview with the msm – even with a book to sell ….if I recall -too- mr watt was the character chased in Whitehall when he was recognised for being a BBC droid .

      Another upper class white male clinging to his BBC job by singing the corporate song – before the inevitable replacement by a 23 year old 3rd class PPE girl ….

      Btw – being of working class stock – I didn’t know a ‘third’ was a posh fail ….

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      • BRISSLES says:

        Me too. Why he “left” or was got rid of is astonishing to me. I much preferred him to the shouty (constant hand shaker and weeper) Daubney.

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        • Deborah says:

          I too was saddened that GBNEWS got rid of Colin Brazier, an excellent journalist who presented points of view I usually agreed with. However he was moved from I think it was an 8pm slot to a 4pm slot which isn’t our normal viewing time. I guess that his viewing figures dropped and he was out. A great shame.

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  18. pugnazious says:

    One example of the BBC’s ‘toxic culture’ that it insists doesn’t exist is its reporting and promotion of trans life choices whilst trashing women’s rights….the BBC being a fully-onboard mouthpiece for the grooming of children.

    ‘‘Helen Joyce, director of advocacy at human rights charity Sex Matters, said: “What about all the years when women at the BBC felt that they were threatened, sidelined, insulted and humiliated by the BBC’s unstinting support for the identity claims of men who say they are women?
    “This response is one that those of us who have watched the BBC’s coverage of the supreme court judgment have become very familiar with.’

    The Telegraph reports that the NHS will screen all children who want to change sex for autism given that so many trans apparently suffer this problem…

    ‘ Baroness Cass, found that the mental health conditions were disproportionately common among children and young people with gender dysphoria.’

    Emma Barnett raised the matter with a Labour health minister today and asked in regard to the Telegraph report [after a long bit trying to muddy the waters about the Supreme Court ruling]…

    ‘Have we failed a generation of children?’

    An exocet of a question really….given that the ‘we’ also includes the BBC which has pushed this ideology to very young children and damaged their lives, probably irrepairably.

    The worrying uptick in children claiming to be trans can probably be put down to social contagion and online influences with many having underlying autism problems, or they may be gay, that they seek to ‘solve’ and they lock onto changing gender as the solution…but the BBC, which rants long and hard about social media blaming it for most ills in the world, studiously ignores the fact that many so-called trans children, young, vulnerable and suggestible, may well have been enticed, cajoled and lured into thinking they are trans by people with very dubious intentions on-line….and indeed by BBC educational programmes telling them that there are 100+ genders etc.

    The BBC is a huge part of the problem that has failed, betrayed and damaged, a whole generation of children.

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  19. Up2snuff says:

    The BBC are incorrigible! I use that latter word to mean the BBC are incapable of being reformed. I like to listen to Farming Today on BBC R4. Confession: ancestors were farmers and I have a cousin who was the son of a farmer. I have visited that farm – oop nawth – way back in the 1980s.

    Today the BBC is all Global Warming and Climate Change. Charlotte Smith used that latter phrase several times and her journos used it too. Global Warming and Climate Change has become like a religion to the BBC (and others!) and the BBC appear to want to infect many others among their listeners. Well, I’m not going to be infected. So you can keep ‘Framing the Narrative’ all you like BBC, I am not buying into that malarkey.

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    • taffman says:

      How much are you funding the Telly Tax?

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      • Up2snuff says:

        taffman, this month is the 20th Anniversary of me not paying the TellyTax. At current rates, I have saved (or not spent) nearly £3500. I tended back in 2005 to struggle to find worthwhile things to watch, Newsnight was tolerable, in Paxman days, followed by some Arts programming that rarely used photography for its own sake, despite there being a host of Galleries not far from the BBC HQ and the current D-G, Tim Davie, being responsible for Arts programming on the BBC! Things I miss: Wimbledon Tennis, American football (C5, previously C4), the FA Cup Final and pro-golf although I think the BBC has lost the rights to televise much of the golf.

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        • taffman says:

          “Da iawn”, Up2snuff !
          I say translate from the old British language to Well, Done !

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  20. Jeff says:

    I’ve no idea who this geezer was, but apparently he was very big in the drag world; jiggly Caliente. Still no idea, anyway, he’s recently died…

    However, I’m more interested in the way the BBC web page choose to report this bloke’s demise. Here goes.

    “The Filipina-American transwoman…blah, blah, blah,…caused by the amputation of HER right leg two days prior. SHE was 44.
    HER talent, truth and impact will never be forgotten…”

    I mean, FFS, these eulogies are sooo OTT. This is bloke in a frock, a dodgy wig and far too much make up. It’s not like we’ve just lost Winston Churchill.

    But what really puts my hackles up is the Beeb’s insistence on referring to this geezer by using female pronouns.

    There’s something quite insidiously perverted about them…

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    • JohnC says:

      Now we have finally managed to use our legal brilliance and decide that a man is indeed actually a man if he was delivered with todger, surely the BBC must stop using these ridiculous pronouns ?.

      ‘she : used to refer to a woman, girl, or female animal previously mentioned or easily identified.’

      I suspect they will carry on in one of their usual fits of ‘f*ck you’ spite with their bottom lips stuck as far out as they can manage – but now they are legally wrong to do it.

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  21. tomo says:

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  22. taffman says:

    If you want to stop the invasion – Vote Reform UK !

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  23. Flotsam says:

    Very early Sunday morning on our BBC local radio there was an interview in which someone I assume to be some Democrat commentator set about attacking Donald Trump. The interview went on for about an hour with a completely unchallenged anti Trump diatribe. I didn’t hear the start of it so don’t know who the interviewer or the commentator was. I’ve tried to find the interview on the BBC website without success.

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  24. MarkyMark says:

    “‘Don’t charge your phone in Chinese electric cars’, defence firms tell staff
    Fears over espionage from Beijing have led defence companies to advise staff to exercise caution if they own Chinese-built cars”

    https://inews.co.uk/news/dont-charge-phones-chinese-electric-cars-3660462

    ………………………..

    Which? found the app provided by the company Xiaomi connected to trackers for Facebook and a TikTok ad network. The Xiaomi fryer and another by Aigostar sent people’s personal data to servers in China, although this was flagged in the privacy notice, the consumer testing body found.4 Nov 2024

    ……………………………………….

    British Navy drops custom of employing Chinese servants on warships over fears they may spy for Beijing
    It comes after MI5 spy chief warned China is trying to steal Britain’s nuclear technology secrets from Britain

    ……………………

    Chancellor marks £600m of secure growth for UK economy in Beijing
    https://www.gov.uk/government/news/chancellor-marks-600m-of-secure-growth-for-uk-economy-in-beijing

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  25. Lunchtime Loather says:

    All over the MSM today, except the BBC:
    “BBC must take quicker action when staff step out of line, report says”
    https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/bbc-huw-edwards-jermaine-jenas-gregg-wallace-tim-davie-b1224617.html

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  26. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – yet another correspondent added to the payroll …

    Yunus Mulla is a name I had not heard much of before now, although his fellow Beeboids presenting TOADY often mispronounce his name. First time on radio I thought his name was Eunice Miller and expecting to hear a wimmin, and was left wondering “Has DEI finally caught up with the BBC and have they employed their first Trans employee?” Only a matter of time …..

    Yunus Mulla is apparently the north of England correspondent. The BBC are overmanned and over here. Defund the BBC! Don’t pay the TellyTax.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Yunus is not a newbie . He’s been at BBC Northwest for 8 years
      and was at ITV Calendar from at least 2012
      His wife is Maire Tracey who is 56 and another long term newsroom staffer

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Thanks, Stew, for that info. He has only begun appearing on TOADY recently.

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        • BRISSLES says:

          Well i only learned today that the Chair of the BBC is one Samir Shah (?) an Indian British er person. Do we have any authentically British personage at the head of any of our Institutions anymore ? We’re being overwhelmed and swallowed up from every direction by a diversity regime I was never asked to sign up for.

          With that and the endless armada of boats from frogland I am so very Mrs Pissed off.

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          • MarkyMark says:

            44% Indian 6% British 50% Socialist!

            https://www.bbc.com/aboutthebbc/whoweare/samir-shah

            The Chairman receives fees of £160,000 per annum. The time commitment for the Chair will be at least 3 days per week.

            ……………….

            Independent member of the Committee,
            which is administered by the Department for
            Culture, Media & Sport.
            Member of the Committee, which is
            administered by the Foreign, Commonwealth
            & Development Office.

            Mohit Bakaya (BBC’s Director of Speech and Controller of Radio 4) is Dr Shah’s halfbrother.

            Dr Shah and his wife no longer own a stake in Juniper TV as the company was sold
            on 05.08.24.
            Dr Shah proposes to recuse himself with regards to any decision relating directly to Mohit
            Bakaya that may reach the Board. Audio is central to the BBC’s content portfolio and future
            strategy. As such, it would not be practical or advisable for him as Chairman to recuse himself

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “In a busy and fast changing world of news. It is difficult to think of a type of story that I have not covered.
      I was ‘live’ in Leeds during the terror raids that followed the London Bombings but am equally comfortable performing a bungee jump for a correspondent led feature.”

      https://yunusmulla.co.uk/video-gallery.html

      ……………..

      “MUCH GREATER POWERS….REMOVED 24K …. THE RIGH THING DO.”

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  27. Deborah says:

    I was wondering whether the bin men are still on strike in Birmingham. With the warm weather the whole area must stink, surprised we cannot smell it 100 miles away. I don’t watch the BBC but I have google. The articles it brought up are all (eg BBC, Sky, GBNews, etc all 5 or 6 days old. The news cycle has obviously moved on. Wasn’t the government going to step in, send in the army or something? Nothing on the news.

    Just as linked by smell. I live a few miles from a digester. Usually on warm days (but not at the moment) as soon as I step outside the stench is dreadful. I have been told the smell (nearest I can get to describe it is chemical raspberry flavour). This artificial smell is apparently sent out into the air to hide the really noxious smell of the digester. I have no idea what I’m breathing in. Where are the Just Stop Oil protesters when you need them. Couldn’t they protest that we all have a right to clean air?

    And Bill Gates has persuaded Ed to trial blocking out the sun. Just please leave nature to do what it does best.

       20 likes

    • G says:

      “Where are the Just Stop Oil protesters when you need them. Couldn’t they protest that we all have a right to clean air?”

      Apparently they’re in the US defacing Trump Towers at the moment. Wonder how they got there and who financed that………………

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    • moggiemoo says:

      Nature needs to deal with Ed, stat.

         7 likes

  28. MarkyMark says:

    What Did Muslims Ever Do For Us?

    FGM! Child brides (Peace be upon him/she/zhey)! Acid attacks! Suicide vests! Islamophobia!

    …..

    Welcome to 1001 Inventions – an award-winning UK science and cultural heritage organisation, engaging over 500 million people around the world.
    https://www.1001inventions.com/

       9 likes

    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      It seems that Humza Useless is a complete bullshitter. Who knew?

         13 likes

    • popeye says:

      The problem with Islam compared to Christianity is that we had the Age of Enlightenment in the 15th and 16th centuries when religion gave way to science (Newton, Hook, et al).

      Islam is yet to have their Age of Enlightenment (and proud of it!)

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  29. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Do we think this power outage in Spain, Portugal and parts of France is something cyber?
    It’s odd that it’s such a large power failure.

    If it is a cyber attack I wonder how they will try to cover it up.
    My guess is Power Stations with mental issues (already known to the police of course)

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  30. popeye says:

    Email from BBC asking for my opinion on their future. Only took me 5 minutes to tell them!

    Try it

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    • moggiemoo says:

      I had it a couple of weeks ago. I told them it should be in red to signify shame. Yeah, shame. From the BBC. That’ll happen.

         12 likes

  31. G says:

    This clown was interviewed on R4 this morning on the Business News summary just after 0600.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karan_Bilimoria,_Baron_Bilimoria

    Seems he’s involved with the negotiations for a new Business Treaty with India. Of importance, he said, will be a requirement for the UK to accept more Indians living and working in the UK. He is a British citizen. Wouldn’t know it from what was discussed. But there, if muslim MP’s are looking toward the UK financing a new airport in Pakimuslimstan, anything goes.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “The immigrants make their way north, having no desire to assimilate to French culture, but continuing to demand a First World standard of living, even as they flout laws, do not produce, and murder French citizens, such as factory bosses and shopkeepers, as well as the ordinary people who do not welcome them. They are also joined by the immigrants who already reside in Europe, as well as various left-wing and anarchist groups. Across the West, more and more migrants arrive and have children, rapidly growing to outnumber whites. In a matter of months, the white West has been overrun and pro-immigrant governments have been established, while the white people are ordered to share their houses and flats with the immigrants. The village containing the troops is bombed flat by airplanes of the new French government, referred to only as the “Paris Multiracial Commune”. Within a few years, most Western governments have surrendered.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camp_of_the_Saints

         9 likes

  32. tomo says:

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    elsewhere

    Migrant Democracy apparently

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Newborn kids to get the vote! Do not forget the children!

         9 likes

    • Ian Rushlow says:

      It argues we should give the vote to an extra 4.4 million people – including those who arrived illegally – because restricting voting to British citizens is “colonial”

      Let me correct that for you. What it really means is:
      “It argues we should give the vote to an extra 4.4 million people – including those who arrived illegally – because they are likely to vote Labour”.

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  33. tomo says:

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  34. MarkyMark says:

    Yemen – when Sunni Islam met Shiite Islam – religion of peaces!

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  35. MarkyMark says:

    Some BBC stars behave unacceptably, report says
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cddeq546y3po

    ………….
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20066529
    “One woman alleged she was raped by Savile in his caravan in a car park on BBC premises in 1970. She was 22 years old and had just won a beauty contest.”

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  36. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #2 – Israel on the Defendent’s Bench at the UN’s Court in the Hague today.

    Will Israel get a fair trial? I think the UN are biased against Israel, UNRWA certainly appears to be. Israel have stopped food aid getting into Gaza. Palestians claim that 59 children have died as a result. The BBC to Verify? No, the BBC are persona non grata as far as Israel and Gaza are concerned. Strange thing, you do not find any photos of starving adults or children in the MSM and on the BBC’s web-site.

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  37. non-licence payer says:

    Report in the DT. It is not just in Gaza that the bBC has a problem labeling terrorists, militants and freedom fighters.

    “The Indian government has complained to the BBC for calling the attackers in last week’s Kashmir massacre “militants” rather than “terrorists”.”

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  38. taffman says:

    If you think that the Home Office is ‘Not Fit For Purpose’, please tick the box below .
    Thank you.

       25 likes

  39. pugnazious says:

    Pretty much the case….especially in Labour’s Britain…though you’d never know if you listened to the far too supportive BBC…

    ‘A hedge fund boss who predicted the 2008 housing crash has criticised investors for pulling money out of the US and putting it into Europe.

    Kyle Bass, who was depicted in The Big Short, wrote on X: “Europe is an anti-growth, anti-capitalist, pro-tax, super-regulatory, loose collection of broken economies.”

    He criticised those who were “investing haphazardly in Europe”, with billions poured into French, German and British stocks among others since Donald Trump took office on Jan 5.’

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  40. Rich says:

    The increasingly irrelevant bbbc can’t resist pushing “the message” in their reporting of the power problems on the Iberian peninsula.

    Josh Parry, LGBT and identity reporter, is on the case and he’s caught up with a chum in Spain who found having no phone for a couple of hours “scary”. Luckily Curtis Gladden originally from Liverpool, where, funnily enough, our Josh used to hang out, has his boyfriend Miguel to keep him company as they take the opportunity to get outside to enjoy a drink. Every cloud has its silver sequinned lining then, but real, life-effecting, important issues must be addressed. Will the festival that’s planned for their town tonight still go ahead?

    In another report which again mentions Curt la, out of 6 or 7 Brits spoken to, 3 are gay men. I’m not going to link anything, it’s just pathetic, they’re fuckin’ incessant, thank God I don’t pay for any of their shite.

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  41. Up2snuff says:

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – yes that box looks heavy …..

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/middle_east

    Hard to lift a heavy box of food, if you are a starving Palestinian. Photo at top, 2nd on left.

       8 likes

  42. Guest Who says:

    Ooo… a BBC show recommended by Mad Al.

    https://x.com/campbellclaret/status/1916803448957264025?s=61

    Luckily, no tvl.

       5 likes

  43. vlad says:

    Trump fills the White House lawn with posters of illegals and their heinous crimes.

    The liberal msm are apoplectic, and the BBC are ignoring it so far.

       22 likes

    • moggiemoo says:

      Saying anything here gets you jail time as a far right thug.

         12 likes

      • G.W.F. says:

        It may come to that. I sometime fear that sustained criticism of the BBC will be noticed by TTK and his Trots

           12 likes

      • StewGreen says:

        Winston Marshall was at the White House press conference today
        “Will the Trump administration consider political asylum for British Citizens prosecuted for speech?
        I asked @PressSec Karoline Leavitt and this was her response”

        “It is no something the President has considered, but i will put it to him.”
        https://x.com/MrWinMarshall/status/1916925478461690220

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  44. tomo says:

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    • JohnC says:

      The kind of people supporting Jess Phillips don;t give a shit about right and wrong. They see the one the are politically aligned to and will defend them. No matter what.

      I’ve been seeing a LOT of threads pushed at me on facebook recently which are packed full of Lefties venting hate at the Right – and as usual they write like idiot, spiteful children. I never saw anything like this before Trump won the election. I often go check their profile and it’s always the same : full of nasty leftist memes and anti-Trump rhetoric where each post gets a few ‘likes’ at most.
      But it’s the right who are full hate if you get your news at the BBC. They NEVER go anywhere near this sort of thing – and I’m seeing so much of it, it’s getting quite worrying. These stupid children are being created the steady brainwashing of the media. BBC included.

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  45. JohnC says:

    Canadian party leaders vote as Trump repeats call for nation to become US state
    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cr5d13e4r2rt

    The BBC are now unable to present any sort of balance, fact-based news which people can use to get an honest and realistic impression of the world. They distort everything through their woke, extreme-Left, virtue-signalling world of Liberals who have lived their entire adult-lives in their bizarre group-think bubbles of hypocrisy and fake empathy.

    This is what the BBC want us to believe is at the top of the list of what Canadian voters are voting for:

    ‘As a Filipina Canadian, Maricho says she is grateful that she wasn’t at the festival with her infant on Saturday when a car ploughed through the crowds, killing 11 people including a 5-year-old child.’
    ‘Maricho said the attack would likely have an impact on the polls as people decide which candidate would take mental health treatment most seriously.’

    Another incredible quote which matches the BBC extreme-Left agenda perfectly. It has nothing to with consequences of who Canada has imported. It’s all about treatment of mental health.

    Classic BBC deflection. Meanwhile the complete lack of information on the driver – not even his mugshot. Meanwhile this is the PERFECT story to load up with the extreme BBC empathy. I never read anything like the thick-treacle of purely emotive stuff they are churning out here after the Manchester bombing.

    Here’s the author:
    regan-morris.jpeg.256x256_q100_crop-smart.jpg
    I am sure ‘Regan’ of the BBC also loves to watch romcoms and cries all the way through.

    The BBC now has the same problem as Canada. It is the sum of the people which make it. It cannot be changed unless the people are changed.

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  46. Deborah says:

    I am just wondering what proportion of the cars in Spain and Portugal are electric?

       8 likes

    • Deborah says:

      Mr Google’s AI came up with the answer.

      In 2022, 6.8% of new car registrations were battery-electric, and 7.4% were plug-in hybrid. The government aims to have five million EVs on Spanish roads by 2030.

      If this power outage isn’t sorted soon there will be nurses and doctors who cannot get to work, teachers too. This is the world that the Eurocrats and Bill Gates wants for us.

      Meanwhile at Deborah’s home I came in this evening that we had no water. All part of the same crisis?

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  47. Scroblene says:

    I bought six bags of coal back in February, then decided that I’d had enough of clearing out the ashes in the cold and wet every morning, (like in all temperate countries, the climate scam promoted by the BBC doesn’t take any prisoners), so I bought a new half-decent electric fire, which at least looks as though it has flames, but doesn’t really…

    And now, I have the job of repairing some holes in a south-facing conservatory, and B and Q will be very happy with the hundred and odd notes which will be passed to them today!

    As for drainage, our very own treatment plant in the garden needs servicing…

    What I want to know, is can I claim compensation from TTK, the national grid, foreign coal suppliers, KCC, (twice), the border farce for flooding my county with illegals, and now ferals from other sink places, for all the ‘mental health’ issues I have had to deal with so far this year?

    I’d have thought that I should be on Question Crime for all this, especially as the battery on my electric bike is giving up as well!

       15 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Hello Scroblene – I hope you are well – imagine a blissful day without power ? A blissful day without the BBC – without the internet – without news – but more importantly -without the fridge freezer . ….
      As someone who always fears the worst -I have a ‘grab bag ‘ with basic stuff such as a recharger battery – torches – candles and matches and the like … powdered water …
      The worst thing is not knowing the cause – how wide spread – how long – …. It will happen again …. It will happen in the UK because of milliband ….

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      • Scroblene says:

        Morning Fed! Yes feeling fine and dandy thank you – better news from the docs so raring to go!

        I agree that the UK will almost certainly run into problems next winter, as the manic failure of Milliband’s commercial inadequacies kick in. The recent debacle on the future of Scunthorpe is an example of what will happen to normal citizens when the plug is pulled!

        My Putin stockpile is growing by the week, and as long as I can heat some water with the peat in my last three bags of garden compost, I could easily see a month out – living on dried pasta…

        After many calculations, nerd spreadsheets etc., I have discovered incontrovertible proof that TTK will lose 5,687 seats in LAs this Thursday purely because of Milliband’s ridiculous – even suicidal -stance on the climate scam!

        If I could find a way of publishing these figures, I would, but I can’t so I won’t…;0)

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Scroblene – good to hear – I fear the turn out in those elections will be very small – and that the ‘right ‘ vote will be split between the dead blues and the false reform ….

          I won’t bother -the day after with every party clone claiming victory – if the Marxists do well they’ll push even more demented policies and taxes at us ….

          As for the ‘blackout ‘ im still vexed that everything went – including all the internet – I thought it was more resilient than that – perhaps Elon is the answer ….

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  48. Yasser Dasmibehbi says:

    A Victory for the Left in Canada. Thanks to Trumps buffoonery.
    I like what he is doing in America but he and his advisors do not really understand how the world works.
    His threats against Canada’s sovereignty were stupid. Who gave him advice on this, Mrs Broflovski?

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  49. AsISeeIt says:

    This is not just a cyber-attack, it’s an M&S cyber-attack

    Apropos the Iberian power cuts our freebie giveaway Metro does it best: Pain as Spain mainly off the mains

    And in case you were wondering…

    ‘Everything went off’: How Spain and Portugal’s massive power cut unfolded… Spanish violinist Isaac Bifet went to a rehearsal in the morning at the symphony orchestra in Madrid. But the building was all dark and most of the other orchestra players hadn’t turned up because they were stranded with no transport. (BBC) – oh, the humanity!

    Milkshake tax looms in broader sugar levy – threatens the Times; Starmer plots nanny state ‘latte tax’ Government considers sugar tax on bottled milky drinks (Telegraph)

    Thank you, Labour… for settling an argument – via the tax laws – that I’ve had for years – a latte is nothing more than a coffee-flavoured warm milkshake afterall.

    The left-leaning i paper appears to balk at the increasing scope of this tax: Government sneaks out sugar tax on yoghurt

    Of course in reality this is simply an extention of a Uniparty policy.

    The sugar tax, known formally as the soft drinks industry levy (SDIL), applies to manufacturers and was introduced by the Conservative government in April 2018 as a means to tackle obesity. (BBC)

    The chancellor has drawn up plans to impose a sugar tax on milk and yoghurt-based products for the first time, after concluding that they are damaging public health (Telegraph)

    Ministers to tighten rules on fizzy drinks too (Times)

    Mixed messages on fizz…?

    How a glass of bubbly cuts risk of a heart attack (giveaway Metro); Wine, fizz and a bubbly mood is good for heart… protect the heart from cardiac arrest (Telegraph)

    Champagne-socialised healthcare?

    Sir Keir Starmer signalled last year he was ready to face down “nanny state” accusations… They argue that this will cut obesity and boost the economy through keeping more people in work (Times)

    Meanwhile, down at the supermarket: Hackers cost M&S dear… wiped almost £700mn off the value of the FTSE100 retailer… week of disruption (FT); Food costs surge after minimum wage rise (Telegraph); Supermarkets turn down graduates as vacancies drop… Young people have told the BBC they are finding it harder than ever to get a job… Faisa Ali Tarabi, 24, from Bolton said she had gone through Aldi’s recruitment process only to be told there was no suitable vacancy. (BBC); Food price rises quicken (FT)

    “Attention! Attention! Recessionary Labour budget spill-over in aisle three!”

    And the sixty-four thousand Peseta question is…

    Unusally for our uniparty mainstream media we’re offered multiple choice answers…

    Spain and Portugal thrown into chaos after ‘rare weather event’ leads to mass blackouts… cause still being investigated (i paper)

    Temperature rise is blamed (FT)

    Net Zero blamed… reliance on solar and wind farms… EU insisted there was no indication that it was a cyber-attack (Telegraph)

    Trouble is… can we believe what authorities – if and when they ever get around to explaining to us what really happened?

    Now, about that recent Heathrow power outage…?

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      The Spanish business is probably as a result of green buffoonery, quackery and incompetence. Another possibility is that the system was taken down deliberately by the authorities, to test the impact of a possible cyber or military attack in the event of hostilities with Russia. These sort of exercises are not unknown during wargaming and contingency planning as there is only so much that paper and computer simulations can achieve.

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  50. Fedup2 says:

    Asiseeit
    If anyone needs to look for evidence of the existence of the ‘uni party ‘ – the sugar tax is one – invented by the so called tories – now to be expanded by the reds – double community charge – invested by Gove – expanded by the reds – Green crap – bought in by comrade May – expanded by the reds ….

    … there really doesn’t seem to be a party of the ‘right ‘ at all – reform is a false prophet run by a follower of another false prophet ….

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