Start the Week 5th May 2025

This week includes the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe . During those war years the BBC worked in the interests of the UK . Not any more .

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222 Responses to Start the Week 5th May 2025

  1. non-licence payer says:

    What is going on. It cannot be me again. I am speechless….

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  2. Fedup2 says:

    It’s okay non – just send me the usual ‘fee’ …😳

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  3. wwfc says:

    The BBC are wetting themselves with excitement that for the first time a none white will win the snooker world championship

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  4. digg says:

    tetley tea commercial…. Middle Eastern looking couple…Lady announces ….. I am ovulating….

    What in gods name are they trying to do?

    This is just fucking total fuckwit madness,

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    • Scroblene says:

      Wwfc – that’s because of the coloured balls?

      Digg – Ovalating is usually around the start of the cricket season, so Uppers will be on soon, no doubt chatting up Brissles – lucky man…

      Apart from this banter, I’ve just watched ‘Ocean’s Eleven’, and am off to rob a casino!

      Be back in ten years time!

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Tetley is owned by the Indian corporation, Tata.
      Not sure what they are trying to do, but pretty certain it won’t be ‘in God’s name’.

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  5. Nibor says:

    Slightly BBC related.

    No one who is charged and up before the courts should have a free interpreter at our expense.

    Why should anyone come to someone else’s country and commit a crime then receive largesse in any way?

    If they’ve been living here for years but isolated themselves in a ghetto community then that community can stump up for interpreters.

    Justice isn’t just for criminals, it’s also fairness for victims and the working taxpayer.

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  6. Fedup2 says:

    The security services have carried raids to distract from Lucy dog whistle ‘Powell getting fired for mouthing off about how she cares less for raped young girls but cares more about political points scoring .
    \plod is asking the public not to speculate on the targets of the Islamic Iranians but it would be good if it did to distract away for the council elections and Lucy dog whistle Powell …

    …anyone making unapproved X comments will get the full force of the law and a TTK court with complementary 30 month imprisonment with suicide watch …

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  7. JonathanR says:

    Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That’s not democracy—it’s tyranny in disguise.

    What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD—which took second in the recent election—but rather the establishment’s deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes.

    Germany should reverse course.

    https://x.com/SecRubio/status/1918344238468649055

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    • Sluff says:

      Wasn’t it Red Ken Livingstione who once said that if voting changed anything they would ban it.
      Turns out he wasn’t quite right but not far off.

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  8. JonathanR says:

    The AfD is the most popular party in Germany, and by far the most representative of East Germany. Now the bureaucrats try to destroy it.
    The West tore down the Berlin Wall together. And it has been rebuilt—not by the Soviets or the Russians, but by the German establishment.
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    https://x.com/JDVance/status/1918403354922799463

    This will happen to Reform. The elite do not like opposition.

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  9. Fedup2 says:

    Today watch

    Plenty of squirrel stories to take away attention on Lucy dog whistle Powell – looks like she is lucky because of the bank holiday –
    A lot of people were expecting distraction stuff – it ranges from the arrest of Iranians to trump threatening tariffs on foreign films …. Then there is the Emir Windsor leading the VE commemorations ….

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    • Scroblene says:

      Morning Fed,

      The Beeboids are just accepting Powell’s ‘non-apology’ as if it was fair and proper. Others disagree of course, and if they continue to refer it to a very wrong statement made ‘in the heat of the debate’, then they’re complicit in ignoring a huge disgrace being forced on vulnerable children by foreigners! (‘Heat of debate’, s*d off, it was just a one to one discussion with someone far better at debate than she’ll ever be)!

      But there again, what did we expect, it’s a Labour politician, and one who clearly cannot control her spite like most of them on Labour’s pitiful ‘front bench’.

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    • Sluff says:

      Reading the 2021 census, I note that in Manchester 36% gave their religion as Christian, and 22% gave it as Muslim. The figures at the 2011 census were 49% and 15% respectively.
      Do you think this might have a teeny weeny impact on the outpourings of the said MP and her commitment to certain gropes, sorry I mean groups?

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Fed, Amol was doing a really good impression of Jonny (Disconnected) Dymond this morning in the first fifteen minutes of TOADY. He was ‘Dalek’ ing for all that Amol is worth, which is not a lot!

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Up2 – I just can’t listen – he always sounds like he is trying to sell a crap second hand car ….. in fact I can’t stand hearing any of them – although the new girl is ‘bland bbc ‘ ….a sedative

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  10. AsISeeIt says:

    We recall the embarrassment that was that Blair-inspired Tory, David Cameron’s, lurch to the left that got to be termed “Hug a Hoodie”

    Now how about “Hug a Houthi” from the Guardian this morning? Netanyahu in new threat to Houthis

    Frankly that headline doesn’t sit well beside the adjacent frontpage report in local news: Eight men arrested by anti-terror police (Guardian)

    “Men”, eh? What are we to do with them?

    We can’t help but note the Guardiniasta house-style expunges nationality – whereas the Mail frankly quotes the authorities: ‘Major terror plot by Iran’ is foiled and even the left-leaning i paper: Seven Iranians arrested in UK terror probes, and liberal Times: Eight arrested in terror swoop on Iranians – all naturally reference the dread ‘T’ word and of course name Israel’s sworn enemy…

    Speculation mouted last night that the target may have been a synagogue or another target linked to the Jewish community (Telegraph)

    Authorities are going to be tight-lipped after the initial press release splurge and so the BBC moves on from the story – anxious to draw no conclusions. The report is filed under a passive voice headline with even the gender of the arrestees removed, despite toxic masculinity: Eight arrested in two separate anti-terror operations (BBC)

    What also doesn’t sit well is the frontpage feature photo in the Gruan: A woman receives the body of a relative for a funeral in Khan Younis after an Israeli airstrike on Gaza

    If that were a photograph designed to start a wave of sympathy à la John Simpson, the BBC’s World Affairs Editor, who played a significant role in reporting on the Ethiopian famine of 1984 – which he considered the BBC’s “biggest news story” at the time. He personally covered the famine and witnessed its devastating impact, helping to bring the crisis to a global audience… then perhaps the Gazan woman in the Guardian feature pic today oughtn’t to have been wearing a burka boldly embellished with the logo of French multinational luxury goods company Dior

    Electoral gains by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK have set off something of a debate on the political left – expressed in their media – as to where do we go from here?

    Labour hopes immigration crackdown can halt Reform UK (i paper) – ‘crackdown’ comes across sounding like a ‘dog whistle’ intended to rile up the titles’s left-leaning youth-oriented readership against such a xenophobic lurch… ‘Oh we want to blow that little trumpet now do we?’ (TM Lucy Powell)

    I think the Leader of the House of Commons will find that it was those gangs of chaps of Pakistani heritage who demanded young white working class girls blow their trumpets for them.

    I’m reminded of that vintage Radio 4 celebrity panel game Just a Minute in the days when it was hosted by Nicholas Parsons. Presented with the subject matter ‘Blowing your own trumpet’ regular guest Kenneth Williams began his 60 seconds – without hesitation, repetition or deviation – in that marvellous Cockney affectation of his with the amusing declaration: “Personally, I like doin’ it!”

    Mention of classic quiz shows – and of deviation – brings to mind University Challenge and quizmaster Bamber Gascoigne who I recall introduced to his teams of rival eager college student eggheads for their starter for ten the tongue in cheek quip: “Now for a round on deviations, but not the sort you’re thinking of!”

    But I deviate from my thread…

    Starmer urged to avoid ‘simplistic’ lurch to the right after Reform success – pleads the Guardian

    You’d have thought the FT editorial line would be wary of a strategy dependent on higher taxes or excessive government borrowing. However: Pressure on Starmer to reverse benefits cuts after local election rout (FT)

    What to do eh, Keir?

    My mind goes to those anarchic comic sketch performers such as the Monty Python boys or Spike Milligan. Once their absurdist punchline-less sketches had run their course Spike’s troupe of actors would shuffle off stage chanting “What are we gonna do next?” whereas for distraction the Pythons would have Graham Chapman come on dressed as a British army colonel insisting “Stop that! It’s getting silly!”

    And right on cue the gungho Express splashes with: ‘Please don’t give up your Ukraine support now’… 99-year-old war veteran who fought the Nazis thanks Britain but urges…

    Our BBC online press pickers explain: Another 99-year-old graces the front page of the Daily Express on Monday. The paper quotes a Ukrainian veteran who fought alongside Allied Forces 80 years ago who has “pleaded” for Britain not to give up on its support for his country in its war with Russia. (BBC)

    Farage to be hit with ‘Putin fawning’ claim… Labour will ramp up its attacks… Party officials hoping to use international summits… to highlight differences between Sir Keir Starmer and the Reform leader (Telegraph) – yep, let’s talk more belligerence toward Russia on the world stage so as to barrage Farage at home.

    At this point we’ve already thrown everything at Putin – from Pussy Riot to cluster bombs…

    But you never can tell… Give it another push… Just one more effort might just halt the Ruskies and topple Putin…

    This morning’s Guardian obliges: ‘I still have hope’ Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova on Russia and rebellion

    I’ll hum it, you play it, luv.

    Currently she lives outside Russia, but does not disclose where for safety reasons. (New York Times) – not that she’s a CIA asset of course.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Asiseeit – from my recollection – it’s a bit tricky bringing Ukraine into the VE Day celebrations because quite a few of them were enthusiastic Nazi supporters including manning – or personning – concentration camps …. But I guess since they are currently ‘the goodies ‘ the BBC will airbrush that bit out of the narrative .

      I have to say it. I have profound gratitude for what the WW2 generation went through and suffered . But somehow the current establishment – from the royals to the politicians to the BBC – are unworthy of commemorating it . So many of them despise the British that it seems hypocritical . But that’s just me …
      And after ward we will suffer the whole VJ reprise complete with the anti nuclear ‘debate ‘…. … I’d have dropped one on Berlin if it had been ready…..

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      • Ian Rushlow says:

        Well, it was a long time ago. Not only have the BBC ‘forgotten’ the enthusiastic participation of Ukrainian police auxiliaries and local fascist militia in, say, the massacre of Jews at Babi Yar, they’ve also ‘forgotten’ which country did most of the fighting to liberate Europe. WW2 was won with British ingenuity and bravery, American money, and Russian blood.

        Combined US military & civilian deaths: 418,500
        Combined UK military & civilian deaths: 450,700
        Combined Soviet military & civilian deaths: 27,000,000 estimated

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    • G says:

      ““Men”, eh? What are we to do with them?”

      Well, at least we are now given their accurate gender – Allah be praised………..

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      • Foscari says:

        We just had my wife’s birthday party and I may be
        having hallucinations. BUT have I heard and seen
        on the BBC a couple of times transgender personalities
        being brought into the VE celebrations?
        I thought i saw, and of course I reiterate I could be
        hallucinating a transgender soul on the VE Antiques
        Road Show yesterday, . And did I see today a photo
        of a WREN from the forties. Being interviewed and appearing
        to being a bloke, this morning. Maybe I have forgotten to take
        my pills. Or my glasses need cleaning.

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  11. tomo says:

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  13. tomo says:

    New product lines at Puma and Adidas incoming?

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  14. popeye says:

    Now that Reform is in charge of so many councils they need to face up to a reality. Like national government, in local councils much power is wielded by senior officials, civic “Sir Humprey Applebys”. Most Reform councillors will be inexperienced and vulnerable to the tactics of committed bureaucrats, mostly liberal, and with an establishment agenda. Like Trump’s first term, they will be hampered at every turn. They need the support of a professional Head Office, but I doubt Reform has the infrastructure or depth of management experience to give them the support they need. This will lead to massive disappointment among their electorate, and they will lose the gains at the next election. An objective, I’m sure, of those self-same bureaucrats and the BBC.

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  15. Fedup2 says:

    Yes popeye – and which Reform council will be first to strike …?

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  16. tomo says:

    Bent / corrupt public employees making money from migrants

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    • Sluff says:

      It think it was Gordon Welshman at Bletchley Park who realised that a good deal of information could be gleaned not from decrypting enigma messages but simply from measuring the amount of messages between locations. It was called traffic analysis.
      You’d think it was pretty simple to spot patterns in asylum applications, challenges, and appeals. But our totally useless Home Office and so-called Justice authorities either cannot or will not make such deductions.

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      • taffman says:

        Sluff
        How many ‘fifth column’ operators are presently employed by our so-called ‘Home Office’ ?
        How many came across the English Channel in small boats, un checked ?

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      • tomo says:

        Sluff, aye… combine that with direction finding …

        Also force all communications to be accessible … kill Skype, kill email to text, kill PC to mobile VoIP. Demand decryption keys for everything – funnel it all in…

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  17. Sluff says:

    Hot news.
    The Vatican has appointed the BBC to oversee the Sistine Chapel voting for a new pope.
    The rumour mill is rife with news that the favourite is now a wheelchair bound child abusing black transgender muslim.
    In the interests of equality, diversity, and inclusion, you understand.

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  18. Deborah says:

    I had an email from the BBC asking me to have my say and complete the survey. I understood some of the Jewish community had received the same and had asked to see ‘less antisemitism’ or ‘fairness on reporting about Israel’ on the BBC. I started to complete it but didn’t get to those sort of questions. The leading questions were loaded and I could see where they were going. Although I have now forgotten exactly what the questions were, they were of the sort, ‘is the BBC the best national broadcaster in the world?’ With options like ‘yes, probably, and almost certainly’. You get the idea. As soon as I realised there were questions whose answers were going to be used by the BBC to say how brilliant people think they are, I stopped the questionnaire.

    Perhaps posters here with a stronger constitution than I have might like to have a go.

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    • popeye says:

      I did that. My replies were excoriating and probably will not be including in the statistics it’s supposed to produce (on a scale of 1 to 5, zero isn’t counted)

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    • taffman says:

      Deborah
      Will Al Beeb email us all with the question “should the Telly Tax be abolished ?”

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      • Ian Rushlow says:

        The multiple choice answers to the question will be:

        (a) No, it should be massively increased to facilitate more diverse and inclusive programming and censorship, plus those opposed to it should be punished.
        (b) No, it should be massively increased to facilitate more diverse and inclusive programming and censorship, plus those opposed to it should be punished.
        (c) No, it should be massively increased to facilitate more diverse and inclusive programming and censorship, plus those opposed to it should be punished.

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  19. BRISSLES says:

    Well things in London need to liven up a bit sharpish. It’s 11.30 and watching the marching bands on all channels, there is only a smattering on the pavements watching them. Endless barriers have only Hi Viz jackets behind them – so where are the expected crowds ? It’ll be a bit embarrassing if they don’t materialise in the next hour. I wonder if the organisers expected the turnout on the scale of a Jubilee or Coronation because they could be wrong.
    I confess I didn’t know about the VE events today until the past few days – and I’m someone who is a news hound.

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  20. Fedup2 says:

    Brissles – londonistan – foreigners and tourists who don’t know the danger – the third world majority have no clue about British history and could care less – as long as the benefits keep coming ….
    Maybe the spitfire which crashed yesterday sums it up ….

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  21. MarkyMark says:

    If voting for a councillor can end Gaza war – why can’t it end the boats?

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    • Lucy Pevensey says:

      MM
      I didn’t expect local councilors would have the ability to stop the invasion. My dislike of Reform grows though.

      Reform zealots couldn’t even take Ben Habib’s congratulatory message at face value. I was listening to an interview he did with Ayaan Hirsi Ali last night. They discussed DEI, multiculturalism and Islamism. Nasty Reform trolls all over the thread spitting insults. Not only at Habib, at anyone. 3 days after their little victories and they can’t just be happy about it. They’ve been horrible like that all along. No manners at all. Reform will probably eat themselves.

      But God uses what he will.

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  22. G says:

    Strange event 2nd May. Met Office announce it was the hottest 1st May Day since records began. No surprise there then. But Monday 5th May, Early May Bank Holiday, no report of the coldest EMBH day since records began. Every opportunity exploited.

    Lop sided for propaganda purposes. So bloody obvious.

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  23. Althepalerp says:

    Please can the New Reform Councils Bus the illegals to “Sanctuary cities and Towns? Could start with Brighton.

    It worked in the US.

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  24. tomo says:

    https:/twitter.com/FarmingUK/status/1919317799790391497

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  25. MarkyMark says:

    “Armed police aren’t watching today’s procession – they’re standing with their backs to it, watching the crowd lining the fence along the Mall as groups of different armed forces march past to a beating drum.”

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c20xzwp0npkt

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  26. Ian Rushlow says:

    Daily meeting of Foreign Office, 77th Brigade and BBC executives…

    “Right chaps, I’m having lunch with some old school chums so we need to keep it short and sweet. Yesterday we pushed a made-up story about Iranian terrorists. Whose turn is it today – China? North Korea? Russia? Trump?”

    “Russia”

    “Okay, sounds good. Anyone got any ideas?”

    “How about, erm, Russian plane approaches within 1000 miles of British air space and RAF have to scramble jet fighters?”

    “That one again? No, I know we’ve run it once a month for the past 10 years but we need something new.”

    “I’ve an idea!”

    “Yes, Carruthers-Jones?”

    “‘Convicted Russian spies attended Brexit event in Parliament’.”

    “Okay… well that was 9 years ago, why raise it now?”

    “Ah, because Nigel Fa… you know the chap, I can’t bear to speak his name… he was responsible for Brexit and now Reform have taken a few wickets in the elections. So, if we push this story, people will think Spies = Brexit = Reform = Russia = Putin is controlling Reform”

    “Hmmm.. I like your thinking. But do you think ordinary people are stupid enough to fall for that?”

    “I don’t know, sir, I’ve never met any ordinary people. But it’s worth a try…”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqj4kze7kvdo

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  27. Eddy Booth says:

    Parking chaos and poo: The price of Mam Tor’s fame

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz0119xgzxyo

    BBC in their element here:
    Kidult mention of poo
    Bored to tears volunteer local litter pickers having a winge
    Eroiding landscape
    Parking nightmares
    No mention of immigration helping drive the overcrowding
    The usual ethnic minority walking groups not shown here.

    Easy solutions: dig some fields up for carparks, have loads of discreet litter bins, with people paid to empty them.
    Plant trees and bushes, instead of the open plan for grouse shooting, that landscape isn’t natural.

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    “Rangers and volunteers have been repairing erosion damage to Mam Tor”

    More volunteering retards , how about paying someone a wage to do it?

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    • Sluff says:

      No mention of the real erosion. The landslide over 20 years ago which wiped out what was the A 625. The anti-car powers have left us with The Snake Pass or the Winlatter Pass- a single track road that’s not even a B Road.
      The modern day efficient routes to get from the big city of Sheffield to the big city of Manchester are thus non-existent.
      The Greens are of course ecstatic.

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  28. Fedup2 says:

    Guess 77 brigade will endure low turn out for VE bashes don’t make it to the msm – I assume the head girl rayworth is doing that condescending thing in the mall… in the absence of Huw ….

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  29. Althepalerp says:

    I do not see many BAME’s on the VE Day event.

    I thought London was full of them?

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      They are nothing to do with the history of Britain, only its future.

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    • popeye says:

      My family and I queued for two hours at Buckingham Palace to pay our respects after the Queen’s death. Just an honest observation, I wasn’t looking for anything to complin about, but, other than stewards and police, in the thousands queuing with us there was ONE “person of colour”. We travelled 85 miles. How far is Brixton?

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  30. AsISeeIt says:

    “Yeah, hello, BBC? Number 10 press office here. Apropos that Telegraph report this morning… ‘Farage to be hit with ‘Putin fawning’ claim… Labour will ramp up its attacks…’ Yeah, can you possibly get the words Russian and Brexit into a headline today? Just to kick things off. As much as possible in the coming weeks. Ta. Yeah, of course. TV Licence renewal no problem at all. No, you say it.. You say it first. Okay then… luv you!”

    BBC: Russian spies attended Brexit event in Parliament (Tom Beal, Chris Bell and Daniel De Simone, BBC News Investigations)

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  31. Jeff says:

    More brilliant policy from President Trump…

    Karoline Leavitt, his particularly tasty blonde spokeswoman, has announced that the Trump administration would NOT recognise June as Pride month.

    “President Trump doesn’t feel as though spending $200 million on festivals for what amounts to less than 7% of the population makes any sense. We’d much rather spend that money on ending the homeless veteran issue.”

    FFS! Don’t you wish we had him here?

    Meanwhile, back in barking mad Blighty, we’ll still be dedicating the whole bloody month to gays, lesbians and an entire spectrum of nancy-boys, fruit-loops and crossdressers.

    And only one day for St George.

    and that’s frowned upon…

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    • tomo says:

      Wesist Twump!

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Who will play Mohammed and Aisha the 6 year old plucky girl who becomes a feminist by wearing a hijab to bed?

        “Cynthia Erivo will swap her Wicked hat for a halo, as she prepares to star in the biblical musical Jesus Christ Superstar at the Hollywood Bowl. Erivo will steer the musical as the messiah herself in early August as part of the 2025 summer season lineup, the Los Angeles Philharmonic announced Tuesday.18 Feb 2025”

        ‘Wow, CynthiaErivo as Jesus at the Hollywood Bowl? That’s going to be incredible! Her talent knows no bounds’ said Zeeshan_Ashfaq7.

        ‘Stunning and brave,’ said daddy18880.

        Others just found it amusing to watch the divided comments.

        ‘Oh. People are going to be so normal about this,’ said MadisonMessiah on X.

        Ohwellbyes joked they enjoyed ‘Watching people having a meltdown over Cynthia Erivo playing Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar.’

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      7% of the population? For a group that cannot reproduce biologically they are sure increasing their numbers quickly. 1 or 2 percent sounds more realistic.

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  32. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

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      Spend to date£2,128,536 (29.98%)

      £7 MILLION!

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  33. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    I’ve heard that milky drinks will be taxed more depending on their sugar content.
    The last time something similar happened (fizzy drinks) manufacturers reduced the amount of sugar they added.

    While I believe this is simply a tax raising measure with the government pretending it’s for our own good there is a similar move they could make which would be far more beneficial.
    They should go after the added salt.

    Manufacturers are adding lots of salt to food which often goes unnoticed. The only tinned food I’ve seen without added salt is tomatoes.
    It’s very very easy to pass the 6mg maximum daily recommendation and this leads to higher blood pressure which causes all sorts of illnesses. Strokes, heart attacks, kidney problems and many other complications are caused by too much salt.

    If a similar tax is put on salt I think the manufacturers would reduce the amounts added which would be a good thing.

    I’m not one for introducing taxes but this one may actually be a good thing. There are hundreds of taxes they could choose to remove so that the public don’t end up paying more tax.

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    • tomo says:

      EG

      unfortunately the salt thing is driven by a bunch of deranged activists for zero salt (one is a batshit crazy MD in south London whose name escapes me)

      me: I think cutting the activists salt intake completely would rid us of one troupe of incorrigible extremist busybodies in less than a month (via hyponatremia).

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      • Mrs Kitty says:

        Had blood tests lasts year because Doctor was worried about my immune system, cholesterol ( that I was worried about) was fine , sugar a little high and salt not high enough. I asked how did I change it, thinking I was going to be getting pills but he just looked at me and said put more salt on your food. I just love my doctor in France.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      As I understand it the sugar tax was bought in by the dead blue party and is now being further weaponised by the Marxists … the uni party …

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  34. vlad says:

    Now that a TV channel has finally produced a doco about the Muslim rape-gangs (only 30 years late), will Naga Munchetty and the BBC inquisition 2TK about whether he watched it, as they did to poor Kemi about Adolescence?

    And will our Dear Leader demand that every man, woman and child be forced to watch it; and that it should be shown in every school in the land to children with their eyes ‘lid-locked’ open so they don’t miss any of the horror?

    (P.S. Naga means snake in some Indian languages.)

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Maybe the documentary will trigger Keir Starmer and 650 MPS … “Darren Osborne, 48, is accused of ploughing into a crowd of worshippers in Finsbury Park, killing Makram Ali, 51, and injuring nine others last year.

      The court heard he became “obsessed” with Muslims and the Rochdale grooming scandal after watching a BBC TV drama.”
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42778184

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  35. atlas_shrugged says:

    An astonishing dereliction of duty from the wet-police and mumsnet:

    https://gettr.com/user/tommyrobinson1

    “Not to bother with it”

    I suspect that UK ladies are really going to start to bother about this soon.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “PLEASE SUPPORT MY LEGAL FUND HERE – http://helptommy.com

      As you all will know by now, I am being hunted down by the political and judicial establishment who want to send me away to prison for FOUR years.

      Unfortunately they have decided to hit me with another ‘contempt of court’ charge, for simply telling the truth about what happened in Almondbury, where a white English boy was wrongfully labelled a racist bully on the back of a schoolground incident with a very troubled young Syrian asylum seeker.

      Do I regret showing the world what really happened in Almondbury? Do I regret exposing the CORRUPTION AND LIES?

      No, no I do not, I have no regrets.

      Telling the truth really has become a revolutionary act.

      MEANWHILE…..

      BBC Arabic journalist who shared anti-Israel tweets wins thousands in tribunal
      Ahmed Rouaba, who suggested Israel is lying in genocide case, is awarded over £14k after colleague’s comments made him appear ‘uncivilised’
      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/04/bbc-arabic-journalist-anti-israel-wins-thousands-tribunal/

      An employment tribunal heard that Safaa Jibara, a colleague, said Ahmed Rouaba’s speech was of a “Bedouin character” after he allegedly shouted at bosses.

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  36. Fedup2 says:

    Yes – all those third world ‘children’ who claim to be 13 when they are 23 – plus the ones outside the school …. Nice combination to threaten British kids …. Right mums?

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  37. taffman says:

    I sense ‘fear and dread’ of the Remain Party emanating from all of the other political parties in Great Britain.

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  38. MarkyMark says:

    Comment “”Borders are not racist.
    Speech is not violence.
    America is good.
    Terrorists are bad.
    Men can never become women.
    Police are not criminals and
    criminals are not victims.”
    – DJT
    I voted for this and it keeps getting better!”

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  40. Fedup2 says:

    Not BBC but X

    I read X fairly regularly – but I’ve noticed a change – maybe the algorthym thing – it seems to feed me comments I don’t agree with – so I get lefty after lefty moaning about Reform or the BBC being biased to the Right – usual lies ….

    .. I have never commented on X – ever – and never will . There is no value in engaging with anyone over anything there ….

    But if the lefty feeds continue – I won’t bother with it at all …

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    • tomo says:

      X does seem to have “weather” – it might just be paranoid me … but when Musk is busy with rockets the lefty tide comes in…. Also, I use several accounts for a variety of purposes and they get very different content …. I’d take some convincing that Musk entirely purged the biased algorithms that prevailed pre purchase – somebody’s switching stuff on occasionally.

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    • JohnC says:

      Funny you should say that Fed because I’ve noticed something similar on facebook where threads have started appearing which are absolutely stuffed with thick-as-shit spiteful Lefty activists.

      I occasionally check their profiles and they are always the same : lots of reposting the usual nasty and complete witless memes (usually anti-Trump) while never getting more then 5 or 6 likes from their ‘mates’.

      One of the signs of a properly obessessed Lefty is when they keep on posting again and again even though nobody likes what they do. They don’t care.

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  41. Fedup2 says:

    For anyone with Amazon Prime – they have ‘conclave ‘ available – free – just a couple of days before the real deal .

    I highly recommend the Robert Harris book too …

    And on Youtube you can find the wonderful ‘ a very british coup ‘ – i can but dream …,

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    • Scroblene says:

      Watched it last evening Fed!

      Superb film, and book too!

      Spent the night having nightmares about smoke and groups of men in red vests…

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Scroblene good hit – im saving it for my flight back to londonistan for a flying visit ….i understand the conclave gets going on Wednesday – I’ve put a bet on that they’ll announce it on day 2 – with the African one as winner or ‘place ‘ … also that an Italian will win it in the final – with VAR deciding in extra time .

        Lord – forgive my flippancy – but the politics of the Vatican seems a long way from the New Testament . I hope the Holy Ghost does the job ….

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  42. MarkyMark says:

    “Flip sequence….” SpaceX Starship SN10 soars, lands for first time!

    “Flip sequence….”

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  43. JonathanR says:

    Seems not everyone is happy in Canada.

    I am starting a County Durham Republican Party to leave England and have an Independent County Durham

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  45. tomo says:

    Some call it a “nutter on the bus” moment

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    • JohnC says:

      You know, I don’t recall any other politician who I simply cannot bear to even look at like I now feel about TTK.

      It happens when you know what absolute lying hypocrites they are : rotten on the inside and don’t give a shit about anyone else. The kind who are cowards but would happily order others to do their dirty work. Even communist Corbyn was a better human being than Kier : at least he said what he genuinely believed.

      Bercow came close. He was scum from the slime at the bottom of the pond.

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  46. tomo says:

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  47. tomo says:

    White is a steaming t…

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  48. JohnC says:

    Russia says all airports in Moscow shut after drone attack
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20xqdn04g3o

    It saddens me to say, but BBC news is now so biased and steeped with agenda, it is completely worthless if you want any kind of balance about what is going on in the world.

    So Ukraine have launched drones against operating civilian airports. What if they hit an aircraft loaded with passengers ?. All the targets there are civilians. This has to be one of the ultimate war-crimes. Yet it’s all discussed as if it’s perfectly fine by the BBC. Yet Zelensky screaming war-crime every time Russia hit something in a civilian area is plastered across the headlines.

    In we get this:
    ‘Ukraine originally made its surprise incursion into Kursk in August 2024 to create a buffer zone and protect Sumy and surrounding areas, while also hoping to use it as a bargaining chip in future negotiations.’

    That is a blatant lie by the BBC trying to downplay the complete disaster of this operation because it was straight from Zelensky. Nobody thought it was a good idea. I have never seen it described as ‘creating a buffer zone’ : it was intended to capture a major road, a big Town and a nuclear power plant. And it totally failed on every count. All they took was some small villages and potato fields.

    Best of though it look who the BBC are using to produce articles like this:

    hafsa-khalil.jpeg.256x256_q100_crop-smart.jpg
    Hafsa Khalil. Who is Spanish and whose previous articles include:
    ‘Scientists claim to have discovered ‘new colour’ no one has seen before’

    It’s hard to imagine how much worse the BBC can get.

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