13 Responses to Midweek 14th May 2025

  1. Loobyloo says:

    Sack Lineker!

    No excuses for the rat emoji…IMO that should be an immediate dismissal, and if they don’t we know that Al Beeb are anti-Semitic.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Loobyloo, here here! The D-G needs to get a control of his organisation. Tim Davie needs to get tough on some individuals and practices within the BBC. Maybe it will be taken away from him or the lack of TellyTax payments will be the undoing of the BBC.

      Defund the BBC.

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      • harry142857 says:

        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39x0133e2wo

        Gary Lineker has deleted an Instagram story post he shared from the group Palestine Lobby, which said: “Zionism explained in two minutes” and featured an illustration of a rat.

        A rat has historically been used as an antisemitic insult, referring to language used by Nazi Germany to characterise Jews.

        Lineker’s agent told the BBC the presenter immediately deleted the post when he learned about the image’s symbolism.

        The charity Campaign Against Antisemitism said it was submitting a complaint to the BBC.

        Lineker’s agent said: “Whilst viewing and reposting a video, Gary did not notice a rodent emoticon added by the author of the post. Although if he had, he would not have made any connection. The repost has been removed.”

        In response to Lineker’s post, Campaign Against Antisemitism posted on X, external: “Nothing to see here. Just Gary Lineker’s Instagram account sharing an anti-Israel video misrepresenting Zionism, complete with a rat emoji.”

        The group added, external that his “continued association with the BBC is untenable. He must go”.

        The BBC, when asked if it had any comment on Lineker’s now-removed post, responded by referring to its guidance on personal use of social media.

        Zionism refers to the movement to create a Jewish state in the Middle East, roughly corresponding to the historical land of Israel, and thus support for the modern state of Israel.

        A spokesperson for the Board of Deputies of British Jews said they felt “the BBC should ask him to leave now rather than allowing him to dictate his own terms”, according to the Daily Mail, external.

        “He has caused great offence with this video – particularly with his egregious use of a rat emoji to illustrate Zionists.”

        BBC News has asked the body about its comments and if it has anything further to add.

        Barrister Simon Myerson KC, who chairs the Leeds Jewish Representative Council, posted a message to the outgoing Match of the Day presenter, external, which said: “Posting racism – bad. Deleting racist post – good. Not acknowledging error when paid enormous amount of public money pa by BBC – pathetic.”

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        • Loobyloo says:

          Lucy Connolly removed her offensive comment regarding a repost but still got 31 months in the clink..
          2 tier justice again..

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    • digg says:

      People in this Country are in prison for severe stretches for far less disgusting online opinions than this Lineker disgusting filth.

      The UK Is certainly becoming a two-tier Marxist non-justice shithole now….

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  2. MarkyMark says:

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  3. MarkyMark says:

    Diane Abbott MP says there is no chance Nigel Farage will be prime minister | People Behind Politics

    Diane Abbott MP says she “never expected” to become the longest-serving female MP. She met Dan Walker in her Hackney North and Stoke Newington constituency, in the latest People Behind Politics episode on 5 News.

    The Labour MP says she thinks Labour’s cuts to disability benefits are “a mistake” and that she doesn’t believe the British public will vote for Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, to be prime minister in a general election.

    She also talks about the influence of Donald Trump’s anti-immigration stance on British politics, and touches on the impact racist abuse has had on her.

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  4. Deborah says:

    On balance I was against assisted dying but watching the faces of the Scottish MPs smiling as they passed the bill has meant I am now sure where I stand. The SMPs don’t understand the enormity of approving killing people. It is not appropriate for them to be smiling and clapping.

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  5. Sluff says:

    Two cheers for ITV news.
    They were reporting from the beaches near Calais and watching the French police…….do absolutely nothing.
    The rubber cross channel ferries are in full flow. The French cops won’t step foot in the water – elf n safety apparently, so all your average male black illegal asylum seeker has to do is paddle. Then the rubber ferry sets off and the French coastguard…….also does absolutely nothing.
    It’s there on the film.
    Don’t we pay the French hundred of millions a year for this ‘service’?
    And yet the intelligentsia still don’t know why people are voting Reform.

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  6. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/leokearse/status/1922237350983164371?s=61
    It’s stuff like this that makes me think I’m in a simulation, with aliens watching to see how much I laugh

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  7. digg says:

    Read this rather long but illustrative article by one of the capitals famous left-winger but right lifestyle contributors to the Guardian’s pool of political propaganda gene pool and it explains the dire state off the libertarian rich lefty view of the world by some of the countries most deluded lefty prat’s….

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/13/poor-donald-trump-luxury-jet-qatar-corrupt

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  8. digg says:

    This odious piece by the odious Owen Jones is a distillation of all that is wrong in the determination of events in Palestine….

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/13/donald-trump-border-intimidation-us-citizens-hasan-piker

    It serves to vilify any attempt to defend the state of Israel to normal behaviour and Green card any attempt to attack Israel.

    What the fuck went wrong in the minds of university students in the UK in the last twenty years or more to make them so bloody unihinged and deranged?

    We used to be a country who could at least identify the real villains rather than side with them.

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  9. Nibor says:

    Well the BBC don`t like it but there is an immigration debate .

    There are plusses and minuses according to the “experts” the BBC reel out .

    Let`s take a look .

    The minus ;

    Increasing the population by immigration

    The country must immediately increase the infrastructure , which the new arrivals have not contributed to .
    Food security is imperilled by more mouths to feed but less land to grow the food .
    Housing is in short supply , the young cannot afford a house
    Wages are lowered and conditions of employment worsens .
    The government spends money on housing the new arrivals .
    The government spends money on translation services .
    The government spends money on benefits .
    The government spends money in propaganda to tell us immigration is a Good Thing .
    The country feels overcrowded .
    People may feel alienated from their neighbourhoods .
    People might seem alienated from the time they live in .
    Special concessions may be given to the new arrivals .
    The government may tailor their policies for the benefit of new arrivals .
    The government should pay to vet the new arrivals .
    The Gramscis use the immigrants as a tool to subvert the country .

    In addition some new individuals might be

    Terrorists
    Criminals
    Feckless
    Have health issues
    Unable or refuse to assimilate
    Actively partake in changing society .

    On the plus side

    They will do the jobs Brits don`t want to do .
    ( Who wants to do those jobs , especially for the money , and do the clerisy want to do those jobs ? )
    Bring skills to the country
    (why dont we have those skills ?)
    Bring diversity and multicultureism to the country
    ( in an age of cheap travel to see a culture in its natural environment is that important ?)
    Other things .
    Feel free to add any other plusses or minuses .

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