395 Responses to Midweek 21st May 2025

  1. Scroblene says:

    Yeah again… but more solemn now.

    The reaction to Der Starmer’s pathetic and complete roll-over with the awful EU is unravelling by the hour now!

    I’ve seen commentators incandescent with rage about the weakest PM we’ve ever seen – even worse than the appalling Brown – capitulate to the unelected EU scurrilous nomads who are all in it for personal gain, and one which the free-bespectacled twonk in 10, Mohammed Street is expecting to get rich from, when the whole of the UK is in absolute commercial turmoil after years of Labour’s utter failings! He might just as well buy his next house – one that isn’t alight that is – in Brussels.

    I feel so bad about this disastrous man’s marxist ‘policies’; I feel personally hated by labour and their crackpot ideas, all of which are shoved in place to control, but never, ever to contribute to the commercial excellence this country achieved by innovation, hard work, sheer British bloody-mindedness, and pure guts. This idiot man is crucifying Britain, and with a complicit far-left BBC egging him on and puffing him up, we have a real battle on our hands before he’s consigned to history!

    Bring it on!

    (And yes, this comment is one I prepared earlier – thank you Fanny Craddock).

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Scroblene – bloody hell – a full crossing the TTK broadside !

      It cannot carry on ( 77 brigade to note )

      And the threat of 30 months bang ups ain’t gonna fix it …their state won’t be able to deal with mass civil disobedience ..

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      • Scroblene says:

        It’s all from the YouTube, Fed!

        Mike Graham (Talk) and the ex-Chief Inspector nearly exploded on screen this morning! I don’t think I’ve ever seen such rage!

        Living here in Kent is the wrong place to be with so many illegals arriving, and whatever we are told, the cost is getting shoved onto us as poll-tax payers. Reform are now in charge, and they’d better get their priorities in order pretty damned soon!

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        • Flotsam says:

          Smarmer’s quote of the day regarding his EU betrayal, “Britain is on the World stage again”.
          That is of course a total contradiction, after Brexit we were on the World stage, now we’re back in the EU we aren’t. I think, conciously of not, the noxious Smarmer believes he is on the World stage where he thinks he’s entitled to be.

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          • Deborah says:

            What gets Mr D and me, is when that dreadful little man who got someone else to pay for his spectacles, stands there and says that he and is party got a huge mandate from the electorate last year to do x, y or z. He didn’t. This ruddy government got in on the smallest of votes.

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    • G says:

      Scrob,

      He’s not weak.

      He’s the strongest PM we have had for decades of managing deterioration. He is resolutely following the Communist / WEF / UN agenda and he’s therefore 100% committed to achieving their goals. Such a shame he’s not acting for the benefit of the true British.

      Credit where it is due………………

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  2. Fedup2 says:

    The Alison Pearson column

    STARTS When is Mummy’s letter coming?” “Is Mummy’s letter here yet, Daddy?” Over the past week, hope and excitement have been building in the Connolly household. Mummy was coming home! Ray Connolly has done his best to manage his 12-year-old daughter’s expectations, keeping the likely date of the Court of Appeal’s decision as vague as possible, but Holly wouldn’t stop asking. It was disappointing last Thursday when, after several hours of evidence, Lord Justice Holroyde said there would be no decision that day, instead a written ruling would be issued as soon as possible. Just after 10.30am today, on the 284th day of Lucy’s incarceration, “Mummy’s letter”, that much longed-for email, arrived. It was a hammer blow. Devastating. Lucy Connolly had lost her appeal for early release. The three judges had decided that a 31-month sentence for one very nasty, hastily-deleted tweet posted on the day of the Southport massacre by a woman of previously exemplary character was perfectly just and reasonable.
    Normal people, that is the millions of us who don’t inhabit the rarefied legal bubble of the Royal Courts of Justice, were shocked and horrified. What on earth was that poor woman even doing in jail in the first place? Seldom can common sense (and its tender sister, common humanity) and legal opinion have been so estranged. The law was no longer just an ass, it was a whole stable of braying donkeys in horsehair wigs.
    I am ashamed of my country, a country I barely recognise. A country where the judiciary appears to have lost its independence along with its marbles, a country where sentences allow posts on social media to be treated more harshly than physical violence and leniency is extended to bad people if they’re from a protected minority but God help you if you’re white or working class and blaspheme against the liberal deities. A Britain that can treat a Lucy Connolly with such monstrous callousness is, frankly, a frightening place. No one is safe.
    “Shame on them,” said Lucy, who called me from HMP Drake Hall minutes after we got the terrible news. “Those three judges that were sitting there in court should be ashamed of themselves, they are cruel, Allison. Women here in jail, they have made mistakes and you listen to their stories and you think, ‘You are poor, you are vulnerable, you didn’t know better, you made really bad choices, you can be forgiven.’ But those judges, intelligent men, they didn’t make a mistake. It’s cruel and twisted what they did.”
    Lucy always somehow manages to sound chipper, resilient, able to see the funny side of her crazy predicament and determined not to let them break her. But not any more. This time, she was raging. “Absolute rotten b——s. Rotten, dictating b——d judges. They’re keeping me away from my child. It’s three more months without her, and her without me.” At the thought of further separation from her daughter, and the very clear harm it is doing Holly (an innocent child suspended again from school but not worthy of sympathy from that trio of eminent judges), she starts to sob.
    Two days ago, when I asked how she thought the appeal would go, Lucy laughed and said, “I think this Government would keep me in for a hundred years if they could.” It wasn’t funny any more. Lucy did not hesitate to blame the Prime Minister for the judges’ refusal to reduce her sentence.
    As someone who has grown close to the Connolly family, I felt sick hearing the news that she would stay in prison, of course, but sadly not surprised. Since the morning Lucy was arrested last August, surrounded by the infants in her childminding group, pretty much everything that has happened to her stinks to high heaven. Astonishingly, Lucy, a first-time offender and no flight risk, was denied bail, twice (men on rape charges are regularly granted it).

    Lucy pleaded guilty because she believed, if she did so, she’d be out in time for Christmas. At her sentencing, which had the queasy feeling of a Stalinist show trial, Justice Melbourne Inman delivered a woke, worryingly political sermon which began, “It is a strength of our society that it is both diverse and inclusive.” Reading the judgment, it is hard to suppress the thought that Lucy’s views on immigration (shared by a majority of her fellow countrymen) may as well have been in the dock alongside her. Paying precious little attention to Mrs Connolly’s multiple mitigations – a diagnosis of PTSD after her toddler Harry died beside her after catastrophic NHS negligence in 2011, frequent anxiety attacks triggered by the suffering of children, glowing testimonials from Nigerian, Bangladeshi and Jamaican parents who insisted their beloved childminder was not racist – the judge imposed a vastly disproportionate sentence which even horrified experienced lawyers.
    It was the first, but far from the last, indication that Lucy Connolly was a political prisoner. With the Labour Government refusing to tell us key information about the Southport killer in order to preserve the “diversity is our strength” narrative, Keir Starmer warned of “swift action” against “far-Right thugs” and of “no let-up against far-Right violence”. Lucy, a Conservative councillor’s wife, fitted the bill perfectly. The bright, funny, caring 42-year-old from Northampton became a handy head to stick on a spike to deter others who might be tempted to question a weak regime terrified of civil unrest.
    You have to admit the demonisation of Lucy Connolly was a roaring success. A few weeks after she arrived at Peterborough prison, a couple of the officers with whom she had got friendly teased her, “You’re nothing like they said you were, Lucy.” When a startled Lucy asked what they meant, the officers said they’d been warned by the authorities to watch out because that Connolly woman could be violent. “But I’ve never had a fight in my life,” Lucy protested.
    It certainly seems to suit some people for Lucy Connolly to remain a hate figure. “You shouldn’t even be in prison, it’s ridiculous,” a probation officer at Peterborough, told her. This man apparently made that point several times to the governor, although Lucy’s probation officer then changed. In one of her many carefully-argued letters to the governor, protesting her blatantly unfair treatment, Lucy complained of a “corrupt system”.
    The discrimination against this exemplary prisoner continued when she was transferred, at her own request, to Drake Hall in Staffordshire. Since November, Lucy has been entitled to RoTL (Right of Temporary Leave) which would allow her to spend a precious night at home with Holly and Ray, who holds the fort stoically but has bone-marrow failure. Her requests were repeatedly denied. When Lucy’s mother, Heather, asked the Home Office why her daughter wasn’t getting the leave to which she was entitled, the reply came back that she “hadn’t been assessed yet”.
    There is a Kafkaesque quality to this endless denial of Lucy’s human rights. Her probation officers say they can manage her risk in the community, but the authorities ignore them. “It torments her,” says Ray. “The governor says she’s fed up of having to tell Lucy, ‘No’. Like she’s getting her orders from on high.” Yes, exactly like that.
    Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood this week announced that 40,000 prisoners, some of them dangerous, would be allowed to leave prison wearing a tag to free up places. When I told Lucy about this, I could envisage the major eye-roll at the other end of the phone. “I have been entitled to a tag since February,” she sighed. “The prison says I’m deemed unsuitable, but the law says I’m eligible for it. I never get told off, I never fight, I’m polite, I toe the line.” Lucy says they let out prisoners who boast, “‘I‘m going to get my crack pipe, and I am going to rob a granny to pay for drugs.’ And they say I am deemed unsuitable!”
    After I first wrote about Lucy in The Telegraph, she was summoned to the governor’s office to be punished. For the offence of “speaking to the media”, she was told she would once again be denied RoTL. “Don’t blame yourself, Allison, they were never going to give it to me,” Lucy said. “That was a lie.” Prisons expert Ian Acheson points to potentially negligent treatment. “There seem to have been multiple detriments in the way Lucy has been treated in relation to risk in prison [linked] to her ‘notoriety’, including [denial of] RoTL. This obviously contributes to psychological damage as well as potentially impeding a faster release.”
    Doesn’t this sound like mental torture to you? During the Southport riots, to distract from the barbarous slaughter of three little girls in what sounded suspiciously like an Islamist terror attack, it suited the legal and political establishment to demonise Lucy Connolly – as if she were the Myra Hindley of Twitter. Having made her notorious they now use that notoriety as a reason to keep her in prison because of “media interest”. What they really fear, I think, is losing control of her – a free Lucy Connolly is a threat to a weak, authoritarian prime minister who told JD Vance in the Oval Office that he was “very proud” of free speech in Britain. At the time his legal muckers were breaking a butterfly upon a wheel.
    Popular belief that we have a two-tier justice system has grown and the Court of Appeal’s decision that Lucy was an “incredible” witness (they didn’t believe her notably impressive testimony) only pours petrol on that fire. Lucy tells me she will now carefully be watching the case of Ricky Jones, a Labour councillor who was caught on video telling a crowd that “We need to cut their throats and get rid of them.” (But the “their” meant white protesters, so who cares, right?) Unlike Lucy, Jones got bail and won’t stand trial till the end of the summer, a whole year since his alleged offence. Meanwhile, Gary Lineker shares a grossly anti-Semitic tweet – an incitement to racial hatred if ever I saw it – but the TV star is allowed to apologise. It beggars belief that Lucy Connolly should be treated so much more harshly.
    “I was thinking the judges would release her and I might be picking Lucy up from prison today,” Ray Connolly told me wistfully.“ But then I thought, ‘How would the Government do it and save face?’ People are watching around the world.” They are, Ray. Watching in horrified disbelief as “hurty words” are treated like major crimes while judges show unforgivable leniency to major crimes.
    “Whatever you think of what I did,” Lucy says. “I think 10 and a half months inside is long enough.” Most would surely agree with her. Yesterday, prison officers were coming into her cell saying, “Omigod, Lucy, I can’t believe it, we were sure you were leaving.”
    Lucy was deeply upset about the judges’ rejection of her appeal when we spoke. “It’s political, I know that it is, but they’re playing politics with a 12-year-old child.” Never fear, Lucy will come back stronger. “The worst thing has already happened to me, that was Harry dying. So, yes, this is bad, but it’s not the worst.”
    When I spoke to Ray he was still plucking up the courage to tell Holly that Mummy won’t be home for the birthday when she becomes a teenager. I tell Ray to soften the blow by showing Holly the crowdfunder for Lucy and promising her some new summer clothes. Thousands upon thousands of people, including many incredibly generous Telegraph readers, have donated an astonishing £88,000 – some £6,000 in the hours since that appalling and cruel Court of Appeal decision – to help Lucy rebuild her life and to show that they stand against two-tier justice. (You can still donate to Lucy online.)
    “I think they’re putting two fingers up to two-tier Keir,” joked Lucy when I told her about the amazing support for her. There’s a bit of that, undoubtedly, but there are also a huge number of Britons who want to show that we mind deeply that our country has a political prisoner whom the state thinks it can use to suppress free speech. People who are saying they will march on Downing Street if need be.
    “I think this Government would keep me in for a hundred years if they could,” she said. We won’t let that happen to you, dear Lucy, you can count on it.ENDS

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    • Scroblene says:

      Thanks for this, Fed. We really are in a disgraceful position in the UK now.

      A mention of Nigel Farage’s absence was noted a few days ago. Do you think that there are some real, i.e. not marxist, legal challenges being organised against this disgraceful sell-out with the unelected EU barons?

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      • Fedup2 says:

        No Scroblene – TTK can do what he wants – any legal challenge will fail – but shouid someone get lucky he’d just push his sell out through their commons – where it will get overwhelming support in both houses ….

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        • Scroblene says:

          But none of this sell-out was debated in the commons.

          The referendum was huge, and a popular and extensive result, but the debate on the same issue of a pseudo-re-join with the awful EU, in the HoC, didn’t happen!

          It wasn’t allowed, so there’s a quandary for any legal beagles on the right of normality!

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          • G says:

            We have to adjust to the New World in that the public / voters no longer count. Their wishes are irrelevant and even if an overwhelming issue/incident should arise, it will be ignored for the pursuit of the Communist/WEF/UN agenda.

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    • digg says:

      We really need to show the cunts who did this to Lucy that it is evil and not acceptable.

      This needs uproar and marches in the street calling for the heads of the corrupt legal bastards who forced and allowed this travesty of justice and that includes the head utter bastard TTK who is enabling this trial by fire shitshow to happen.

      These people at the top of the Labour legal tree have just lost their fucking minds and turned into the gestapo!

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      • StewGreen says:

        Please lose the swear words , it gives ammunition to people who want to ban this site.

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        • digg says:

          Agreed sorry, I apologise to all but I am just so bloody raging at the total injustice of this travesty of justice by these people who see themselves as the great and good but who are actually just bloody nasty narrow-minded vindictive specimens.

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          • Deborah says:

            I must admit I don’t normally’like’ comments with swear words. However, digg, I am livid too on Lucy Connolly’s behalf. It isn’t that what she did wasn’t wrong. It was. What is wrong is her sentence when compared to the likes of Huw Edwards, the Labour MP, or those two men at Manchester airport. What is wrong is that she isn’t allowed home for the one night. It is those sort of things that make people angry.

            I am also left with the words of Voltaire (although I’m not sure it was really him). ‘I may not like what you say, but will defend to the end your right to say it’. Shouldn’t a far left wing lawyer turned politician live by those words?

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        • moggiemoo says:

          Ah, banning. The left wing answer to anything they can’t control.

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        • Up2snuff says:

          Stew, agree about the bad language.

          How can I post an image of the Daily Mirror frront page of the 21st May on 22nd May? Yes, I know it is not up to date, but the BBC remove their URLs later that day. I probably should have done it yesterday (21st) in the morning. I have it archived on my PC. I tried a copy and paste but this w-site was not having that!

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    • Guest Who says:

      It is all falling apart, as TTK and his X persons tweet away utter lies or delusions faithfully reprinted by the msm.

      https://x.com/sqlblues/status/1925080032835240126?s=61
      Shouldn’t waste police time. Since when did the judiciary lock up people for a single post, quickly regretted and deleted and apologised for? 🙄

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  3. StewGreen says:

    What secret did Brexiteer Patrick O’Flynn know
    On May 7th he was tweeting like normal and since then did some retweets last week
    Now they say he is dead at 59 .. RIP
    “Sudden cancer”

    @SuzanneEvans1 tweeted
    Devastated tonight to hear my much-loved friend @oflynnsocial died this afternoon
    after a short and cruel illness. “

    His May 5th tweet
    Lab’s central offer to voters ATM is to take away the winter fuel allowance from pensioners
    and spend it on putting criminal foreign gatecrashers into Britain into hotels and houses
    with pocket money and preferential healthcare access and legal aid.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      No surprise – killing dissenters …

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      • BRISSLES says:

        That’s truly tragic 😥 has it only just been announced? Watched him many times popping up on various debating political shows. RIP dear man.

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    • StewGreen says:

      “Aged 59, liver cancer, diagnosis to death only three days?”

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      • StewGreen says:

        Apparently it’s a know thing
        Some people suddenly lose weight
        doctors diagnose liver cancer
        and they can die within days

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    • Loobyloo says:

      Shocking

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Stew, maybe related to Covid vaccines?

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  4. Fedup2 says:

    There was no way they wouid let Lucy Connolly out early – and if they can kill her – drive her to despair to suicide her – they will .
    Only America can save us …

    BTW – the msm has already buried this disgrace …

    What happens when criminal courts lose their legitimacy …?

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    • StewGreen says:

      Our local gangster didn’t like a mother speaking up about his crime operations
      So he has had her kidnapped
      To send a signal to others that might speak up

      Does that sum up Starmer and Lucy Connolly case ?

      Then his apologist lawyer mates say of course the judge had to jail her for 3 years ..sentencing guidelines ..blah blah
      FFS to the rest of us it looks like the kind of move a fascist government would make.

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  5. digg says:

    Anyone else sick to the back teeth with TV ads trying to convince us all we now live in Jamaica?

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    • harry142857 says:

      All the voiceovers have what seems to be a South London accent with ethnics that seem to use a silent ‘t’ in the announcements.
      At least give them lessons in pronunciation. So obvious and patronising.

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    • andyjsnape says:

      Hello digg

      and the begging adverts, ie water aid, gaza, sponsor a donkey which someone abroad has tried to kill by overloading with bricks, to be replacement by another donkey who they can do the same to

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  6. atlas_shrugged says:

    US Ends Recommendation of Covid Vaccine Boosters for Most Americans

    https://dailysceptic.org/2025/05/20/us-ends-recommendation-of-covid-vaccine-boosters-for-most-americans/

    In a paper published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, Martin Makary, the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, and Vinay Prasad, the newly appointed head of the FDA’s vaccine division, have unveiled a new policy in which the Government will no longer recommend Covid booster shots for healthy Americans ages 64 and younger.

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  7. StewGreen says:

    If you’re wondering why HIGNFY is woke and sucks, here (see: the video) are two of its writers “Larry and Paul”.
    They’re also in “The Movement Forward” with Carol Vorderman and Femi Oluwole.
    .. Long story short: why are two writers of HIGNFY in a tactical voting alliance with Carol Vorderman and Femi Oluwole?

    .. https://x.com/CharlotteCGill/status/1924914204236251596

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  8. JohnC says:

    UN says no aid yet distributed in Gaza as international pressure on Israel mounts
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crk2264nrn2o

    I notice how the BBC are now at the point they can run unfettered anti-Israel propaganda now without being checked. This article blames Israel 100% for this ‘famine’ and their lies are now ridiculous.

    A HUGE lie by omission here:
    Dujarric said the aid operation was made “complex” as Israel required the UN to “offload supplies on the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing, and reload them separately once they secure our teams’ access from inside the Gaza Strip”.

    Before his long career in the UN, Dujaaric worked for ABC news – who are so biased to the Left, they make the BBC look moderate.
    Once again the BBC are hiding a lie by using a quote so they do not have to question it or reserach if it is true. No mention is made of the very obvious question of why they have to unload it. And of cours eit’s because the answer is inconvenient : the UN are complicit in allowing arms etc to be smuggled to Hamas, just as they were complicit in allowing Hamas to build tunnels under hospitals etc. Facts NEVER mentioned by the BBC.

    But this is the most extreme lie I’ve yet seen – again the UN complicit with the BBC:
    ‘Speaking to the BBC’s Today programme, Mr Fletcher said: “There are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them.”‘
    It’s just amazing how often the BBC use their massive influence to host people like this man. That is the most ridiculous claim I have ever heard – but the BBC repeat it TWICE. They have gone off the scale for this one.

    But the biggest lie of all is that using this latest trick of presenting quotations from extremely biased individuals as virtual fact, there is no mention of how Hamas have stolen all the other aid and are selling it for their own profit. THEY are the ones starving all these people. And they will steal and new aid just the same. The BBC certainly know this – but they print everything he said as if it were true then vaguely question the 14,000 babies lie by mentioning another report later in the article.

    The BIG story here should be about Hamas are stealing the aid and selling it to people who can afford it. If these liars ran that as the big headline and people everywhere started criticising Hamas, they would soon release it because they are relying on the likes of the BBC to get them support.

    It never ceases to amaze me just how far the BBC are prepared to go in the cause of their own agenda. They have no morals, no scruples and don’t care how many of these ‘babies’ die. In fact they welcome it as a chance toblame Israel.

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    • andyjsnape says:

      But maybe the bbc need to see the following:-

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      • JohnC says:

        When your ‘unbiased’ state broadcaster draws such attention from other countries, it should be ringing alarm bells throughout the government and and regulatory body OFCOM.

        The fact it isn’t is as clear evidence as you are going to get that both actually approve of the bias and are ignoring it.

        Just imagine the outrage if the BBC were clearly supporting all of these ‘far-right’ groups rising in popularity across the world. It would have been stamped out years ago.

        We are witnessing a rise in political conditioning the world hasn’t seen since the 1930’s. The Nazis truly are back – and I am sure they don’t even realise what they are. They think it’s different because this time they think they are right to do it.

        Just like every other time.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      JohnC, the reason Israel make the trucks unload and re-load is that they need to check that weapons are not being smuggled to Hamas disguised as ‘food aid’. You are correct in your assertion that Hamas steal food aid. Why do the Biased BBC not know that?

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  9. JohnC says:

    BBC news flash:
    ‘BREAKING: The man who murdered Cher Maximen, who was fatally stabbed in front of her three-year-old daughter at Notting Hill Carnival, has been jailed for life’

    5 days late, but I checked it and sure enough they do not mention his name once. There is no logical reason whatsoever to omit it : the entire story is about him. Same as the article I linked to previously where they pictured the victim, not the killer.

    Maybe it’s because it was ‘Shakeil Thibou’ ?.

    Absolutely shameless BBC omission again. They are running amok now extreme-Left TTK is in charge. They know they are safe whatever they do. Hence how they have abandoned any proper reason at all over Gaza. It’s all 100% agenda now.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Having reviewed the carnival information, it is recorded that although 97 officers were injured and assaulted during the Notting Hill Policing Operation, some of these assaults did not result in injury.”

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  10. andyjsnape says:

    Yesterday the bbc did a promotion for the current lot in government, mentioning about they might do a u-turn on the pensioner heating tax

    PS bbc maybe there wasn’t a big black hole in the finances, if they are on about not penalising all pensioners… just an excuse to tax people more

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  11. AsISeeIt says:

    It’s boring! It’s bland! I love it! – No, that’s not Keir Starmer’s commentary on the regime-central mouthpiece that is today’s Times news editorials.

    Afterall, in a parallel universe reality, with a dud PM like TTK our formerly patriotic ‘Thunderer’ ought to be incandescent with incisive daily criticism. Particularly at a moment when HM’s official opposition in parliamnet is likewise a dud.

    We witness instead fashion editor Harriet Walker on: ‘snore-core’… This season’s hottest look? It’s dull and demure… Yes, it’s neutral, simple and safe… I love it! Welcome to ‘snore-core’ (Times)

    [Labour bigwig fashion supply inquires should be directed care of Lord Alli]

    Trump pushes Britain to spend tens of billions more on defence – is a cleverly presented headline to a rather thin on substance article from the Times

    If you happen to be that rare thing – a vaguely right-leaning immune-to-Trump-derrangement patriotic protect our borders type still persisting with reading the mainstream centrist-dad press – then you might be saying “Too right! The Donald has a point! Cut the foreign aid budget! I love it!”

    The more likely readership, considering the converging with the Guardian feminised liberalism of the present day iteration of the Times, you’ll be vaguely outraged at another small top-up booster dose injection of Trump Derrangement serum.

    Whereas world-weary, heard it all before, jaded news watchers such as our very own friends hereabouts of this parish will resignedly reflect “3% GDP on defence…? That will never happen”

    And the substance of the Times report – such as it is – is very thin gruel indeed: President Trump wants Britain to raise its defence spending… Pentagon chiefs told their UK counterparts that the president would be “happier” if Britain increased its budget… In reality, the UK has relied heavily on the US for years to do the heavy lifting…

    The top frontpage story in the Times has the UK government turning what guns we do still have (essentially we’ll be talking ‘soft power’ ie economic sanctions and international lawfare) onto.. not Russia, not China, not Iran, not North Korea… Israel.

    UK ready to saction top Israelis over Gaza… Leaders warn against breaching international law (Times)

    Soft power, soft target, eh? With little to no come back – unless you count the sacking of Gary Lineker from the BBC as a Zionist-inspired counter sanction. I doubt we’ll discover these handsome young lads were Mossad assets (allegedly): Second Ukrainian in court over ‘arson attacks’ at properties linked to Keir Starmer… Suspect Stanislav Carpiuc is a self-described model who wanted to be ‘the top male’ (GB News)

    Stanislav Carpiuc, originally said to have been Romanian (GB News) – I wonder what could have confused our authorities over his nationality? Is Romania known for their export of physically attractive budding young choir boys to rival the sturdy and manly male voice traditions of Wales perhaps?

    A trend in the mainstream media that really, really, rankles with your Mr AsI is the cynical capture and compliance of the victims of immigrant outrage crimes by the regime.

    I will take care not to reference this young lady’s name since I have complete sympathy with her likely PTS and recognise she is not in any way a free agent in her regime-inspired and controlled distractionary advocacy.

    Here we go again: Southport teacher: I haven’t used a knife since… A primary school teacher who survived the Southport stabbings has called for a ban on pointed kitchen knives… Dame Diana Johnson, the crime and policing minister, said: “We are actively exploring options and persuing changes in this area…to develop next steps on the promotion of rounded tipped knives” (Times)

    Starmer: It’s boring! It’s bland! I love it!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Hi trust society to bubble wrapped society. No more sharp objects or sharp minds.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “UK ready to saction top Israelis over Gaza… Leaders warn against breaching international law (Times)”

      Are we sanctioning Gaza leaders? Also, how come British doctors are working in Gaza and not reducing UK waiting lists?

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  12. atlas_shrugged says:

    Facing the Tyrants — with Dr Sam Bailey

    https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/facing-the-tyrants-with-dr-sam-bailey

    Although Dr Sam was living in NZ, a UK based doctor fraudulently claimed that he was a patient of Dr Sam because he was watching her YouTube videos. This was then used to throw a malicious charge against Dr Sam via the NZ medical council.

    The Process is the Punishment.

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  13. Fedup2 says:

    Excellent – inflation up to 3.5% – and the Marxists fighting amongst themselves about how much tax to put up as they run out of money – the argument is either ‘a lot of tax ‘ ( Rachel) or even more than a lot ( ginger growler ) ….

    The taxes have got to go up so that they can pay plod to go out and tazer 93 year old dementia sufferers with one leg in their care home and kill them ….

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    • Flotsam says:

      They’re running out of “Other People’s Money”

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      • MarkyMark says:

        We can always get an IMF loan?

        James Callaghan’s Labour government had to borrow $3.9 billion[a] from the International Monetary Fund (IMF),[4] with the intention of maintaining the value of sterling.[5] At the time this was the largest loan ever to have been requested from the IMF.[6]
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_sterling_crisis

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    • MarkyMark says:

      All savings wiped out – maybe we can get FREE GLASSES from Lord Alli and free knickers for they wife!

         11 likes

  14. Fedup2 says:

    Today 0810

    Quick switch on – Islamic Hamas / UN propaganda – quick offswitch ….

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  15. Guest Who says:

    This is like the BBC sharing a Reeves tweet.

    https://x.com/metpoliceuk/status/1925069110213214625?s=61

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Guest – as a southerner i was amazed / aghast – years ago when I went into a shop whilst visiting Hull and seeing every thing on sale behind Perspex – with the shop keeper behind Perspex too – pre Covid .

      The shape of things to come – even at Greggs …

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  16. andyjsnape says:

    Paul Adams: Starmer and Lammy sound genuinely angry at Israel
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgnn6ed32eo

    Angry with hamas??????

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Keir and Lammy are Antisemitic like Gary Lineker?

         16 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      “Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer called the suffering in Gaza “intolerable” while addressing MPs on Tuesday”

      1400 raped girls is acceptable!
      1 tweet and jail is good for free speech.

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    • tomo says:

      ngaf what those two get angry about – it’d be performative fury anyway if expressed publicly…. we already know they’re proper shits away from the limelight – get rid sooner rather than later.

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  17. Flotsam says:

    The Chagos Islands will be forced on Mauritius tomorrow complete with a multi million pound sweetener, I hear.
    There does seem to have been some news management going on as it’s been claimed by the Government for the last few weeks that the deal was on the back burner. Now it’s been suddenly announced that it will be signed off tomorrow. Perhaps the Government thinking is that they’ll get all the bad news out of the way in short order. Who knows?

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    • moggiemoo says:

      There’s no chance. For this government bad news is a continuous process, not a one off event.

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  18. Althepalerp says:

    Gary Lineker seems to be ageing very fast.

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  19. Nibor says:

    Is Lucy Connelly the new Dreyfus ?

    Someone write an article –J`accuse .

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  20. Foscari says:

    ” Male models” being arrested for damaging the
    Prime Ministers property.? Can somebody explain it to me?

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  21. MarkyMark says:

    “If we oppose each other, we let Labour win large majorities, and that makes no sense. So we want to come together, we want to co-operate, we want to put the national interest ahead of party pride.” – Jacob Reese Mogg
    https://order-order.com/2025/05/21/watch-jacob-rees-mogg-calls-for-tory-reform-pact/

    14 years of selling the UK and ignoring the people – let us just forget it let them back in like nothing happened…… HA HA HAH HAH A HA …. they are all on cheap London cocaine from Albania drug lords!

    600K UK immigrants lost by the Home Office.
    20K 40k terrorists on watch list.
    3K extreme terrorists on watch list.
    1 Prime Minister who said “Two and a half years ago, the coalition government was formed, and we made a clear promise to the British public. After thirteen years of uncontrolled mass immigration, this government would reduce and control immigration.” – Theresa May 2012

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  22. andyjsnape says:

    Leaked memo reveals Rayner called for tax rises
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnv116qqqyjo

    Leaked so we all know, and have been warned.

    We are now ready and just accept it, because we have been told

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Comedy of fools …

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    • Fedup2 says:

      The tax increases she wants includes the one where mafia consultants refused to work overtime because the tax was making it not worth working … nice one ..

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    “‘Things are getting harder every day’: Gazans face starvation as UN says aid yet to reach civilians”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cjwqqnlgn1vt

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  24. Fedup2 says:

    Predicted PMQ question

    ‘ could the PM explain why 3 queer foreign boys allegedly torched his house and car for no apparent reason ? And what pictures does The Sun have of the Rt Hon Gentleman have ?”

    Order order …. ( the above will never happen )

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    • MarkyMark says:

      KEITH VAZ TO PROVIDE A WASHING MACHINE ALIBI ….
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      “Keith Vaz has been appointed to a parliamentary committee preparing a new law to tackle corruption and money laundering. {dailymail nov2016} The Leicester East MP is currently under investigation by the Metropolitan Police … ”

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  25. Eddy Booth says:

    “Third man charged over fires at homes linked to PM”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8xgg7rr1q8o

    Third man or third rent boy?
    Can’t Kweer Starmer even pay his escort bills?
    Ends up getting fire bombed instead.

    “The incidents are being investigated in a inquiry led by the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command because of the connection with a high-profile public figure, the force said in a statement.”

    Misdirection more like..

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  26. andyjsnape says:

    Gaza baby sent back to war zone after open-heart surgery in Jordan
    reports the bbc

    Headline should be “its all Israels fault”

    PS bbc ask why Jordan doesn’t want any of them??

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Jordan are Islamophobic unlike Gary Lineker who will take everyone into his holiday home in the Caribbean

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  27. MarkyMark says:

    We are all equal….

    “England will be the first country in the world to start vaccinating people against the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhoea.

    It will not be available for everyone. The focus will mainly be on gay and bisexual men with a history of multiple sexual partners or an STI.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cded26z16leo

    Equal… “It will not be available for everyone”

    ……………………

    What is the most common STD in gay men?
    MSM have higher rates of syphilis and make up more than half of all new HIV infections.

    ……………

    The people most affected by gonorrhoea in the UK are those aged 16-to-25, gay and bisexual men, and those of black and Caribbean ancestry.

    The vaccine – which costs around £8 per dose – is value for money when primarily offered to gay and bisexual men, rather than all teenagers.

    HA HA HAH “People will be offered mpox (formerly known as monkeypox), HPV and hepatitis vaccines at the same time.”

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  28. Eddy Booth says:

    BBC not mentioning the Sri Lanka drug smuggler arrest, even though it looks linked to the Georgian one as both flew out from Thailand same day.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14731235/British-woman-Sri-Lanka-drug-smuggling-eaten-jail-food-spicy.html

    “British ‘drugs mule’, 21, speaks from behind bars in Sri Lanka hellhole prison to reveal HER side of the story”

    Basically caught with 2 suitcases full of cannabis, 46 kg.
    Claims she was on a visa run from Thailand, and someone switched the contents of her luggage.

    Incredulous on any level.
    But I guess if she needs the Daily Mail interview money, it’s better than saying nothing.

    “I’m not being allowed my medication for ADHD.”

    Being diagnosed won’t help much over there.

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  29. MarkyMark says:

    Here we go … “Starmer apologises for ‘rude’ answer to Plaid MP”

    https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/e584a866-cd3f-44c2-b6e1-056cd8cfb1aa?in=11:32:45

    “Saville Roberts, addressing Sir Keir, said: “This prime minister once spoke of compassion and dignity for migrants and for defending free movement. Now he talks of an ‘island of strangers’ and ‘taking back control’.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgvvdn30zlo

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    • tomo says:

      scum…..

      confession via projection is a well known phenominon menon

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    • Lunchtime Loather says:

      Unfortunately, LSR is my MP. And she often does! But she is very good at pretending to be Welsh.

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  30. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    It’s looking like the conservatives are a dying party.
    This is their fate because they ignored the voters.

    I would bet that this disgrace of a Labour Party will also die because of the same reason, ignoring the voters.
    As well as that they are destroying everything they touch from Chagos to the Channel, farmers and fishermen, pensioners and savers, businesses NI increases and net stupid zero.
    There’s much more but we all know this.

    It’s possible the public will treat Labour the same way they have the conservatives meaning both parties will disappear.

    The near future is a Reform government with libdem opposition but if Reform don’t deliver they will be replaced with a more right wing party so PM Farage will have to do the things promised such as stop immigration, leave the human rights organisations, stop net zero, leave the eu properly (fully out with absolutely no strings left attached) sort out the left wing judges, police, bbbc, civil service, stop the far left indoctrination in our schools and undo the damage caused by this current worst government since time began.

    There’s a huge amount of work to do from the grooming gangs to the far left civil servants working from home. Lots of prisoners like Lucy to be freed and serious sentences for things like shoplifting.

    I hope PM Farage does this but if not, barring civil war, we will next get a real far right government and it’s all their own (politicians) fault.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      EG
      It’s why I refer to them as the Dead Blue Party – not the Tory party .
      How can they ‘oppose ‘ when they have caused as much damage as the Marxists . At least the Marxists are not pretending to be something else . Blue PM after Blue PM has presided over total failure
      They are not worthy of a single vote … only their personal ambition keep them going – the money – bribes – gongs …

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  31. JohnC says:

    BBC front page headline:

    ‘Israeli officials said 93 trucks entered Gaza on Tuesday but the UN said no aid has been distibuted so far’.

    A direct inference by the BBC that Israel are lying.

    But look at the wording : the two halves of the sentence are disjointed and not directly related. You would not normally phrase something a bit awkwardly like that.

    And the reason is the same as it always is when something reads like this. They have cobbled together very specific weasel words so they can make people believe one of their lies without directly lying.

    The BBC will not admit in any way that Hamas are stealing aid OR using civiliand as human shields because it transforms them from ‘victims’ to ‘terrorists’. The BBC know full well that they are doing both – but they don’t care. They want to encourage a pro-Muslim, anti-Jew sentiment in anyone who reads it.

    What I suspect the real truth that the BBC are covering up in that convoluted headline is that aid has gone into Gaza and Hamas have taken it to get first pickings for the things they can sell. Once they have that, they will let the people have the low value stuff not worth their time to bother with.

    It’s one more ‘clue’ which has made me 100% certain now that the BBC don’t give a shit about whether the people in Gaza are starving or get killed when the IDF fire a rocket at a Hamas gunman hiding among them. All they want to do is make people think it’s Israels fault.

    And that makes them a special kind of scum in my book.

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  32. JohnC says:

    Gaza baby sent back to war zone after open-heart surgery in Jordan
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crk22xm831ko

    So a woman and her baby were treated in Jordan which I assume was a big publicity exercise on their part because their King actually announced they would treat some.

    Then when all the cameras went home, they have sent them back to Gaza. They clearly absolutely don’t want them.

    So do the BBC explain why the other countries in the region will not take Gazan refugees ?.

    Of course not. We get more full-on empathy porn with lines like:

    ‘”My daughter is in a very bad condition that could lead to her death,” says Enas. “She has heart disease. Sometimes she suffocates and turns blue. She can’t continue living in a tent.”‘

    30-year-old Nihaya Bassel:
    ‘Her son, Mohammed, who is just over a year old, suffers from asthma and serious food allergies. She believes her son did not receive the full treatment he deserved.’
    Does she have any medical qualification then BBC ?.

    ‘Nihaya says she has come back from Jordan “empty-handed”; even her son’s medical records were in the bags that the Israeli security forces took away, she says.’
    So f*cking what BBC ?.
    ‘”I got my son to a point where I was very happy to see him like that,” Nihaya says through her tears. “Now they want to bring him back to square one? I don’t want my son to die.”‘

    Clearly the BBC absolutely love stories like this. In what should be an analysis of why nobody wants Gazan Muslim’s in their country they have ignored that completely and written reams of irrelevant empathy rubbish.

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    Are we really supposed to believe any of this bullshit we get about Gaza is in any way impartial and unbiased when it is all written by Gazan Muslim BBC reporters who very likely support Hamas and hate Jews ?.

       17 likes

    • pugnazious says:

      ISRAELS KILL XXX AS THEY BOMB YYY….BUT WHO WERE THEY ATTACKING AND FIGHTING? ALWAYS CURIOUSLY MISSING FROM THE REPORTS.

         10 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Apparently so.

      https://www.cordbusters.co.uk/bbc-boss-reveals-tv-licence-future-reform/?
      “Davie laid out his vision for the BBC’s future, insisting that while the current system needs reform, the principle of everyone contributing something should remain.”

      No matter what.

         7 likes

      • Guest Who says:

        Of course there is also the single handed unquestioned saving of planet by near Demi God Ed Milipede, too.

        https://wretchedhive.substack.com/p/climate-reporters-today-can-just?

        “There are people who are concerned about climate change and want to address the risk they believe it poses. They also understand that it’s important to do so without creating more harm than good. But climate activists don’t truly care about climate change. They just hate fossil fuels. Unfortunately, many climate and energy reporters fall into that latter group, and the line between their advocacy and reporting is often hard to find.”

        See also… now… most things.

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  33. pugnazious says:

    Aah yeah….non-pointy kitchen knives….that’ll stop another Southport…..or maybe the media, schools, politicians and blacktivists should stop feeding Blacks and other Bames so much anti-british, anti-white hate and perhaps they wouldn’t go out attacking young white girls…..which seems to be their preferred method.

       13 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Sporks only!

         3 likes

    • Terminal Moraine says:

      I see it’s referred to as Leanne Lucas’ campaign, when it’s clearly a gov originated programme roping in a young woman to be the current public face of social control. Also both Sky News and ITV have turned off replies on Twitter to their report on “Let’s be blunt”. Media and government know that we know the insane gaslighting going on.

      With extreme irony she’s been told to say “we must continue to talk about knife crime”. Being blunt with your talk on knife crime gets you imprisoned if it’s outside of state-run propaganda.

         10 likes

  34. taffman says:

    Any news about “Crush the gangs and stop the boats”?

       13 likes

  35. Jeff says:

    PMQs is just starting…now is anyone going to ask Starmer the 64 million dollar question? I really don’t think so…

    “Prime minister, what is your relationship with the two “male models”, Roman Lavrynovych and Stanislav Carpiuic, who are charged with arson on your properties?”

    The Profumo scandal of the early 60sl brought down the MacMillan government.

    Poof-gate scandal should bring down Starmer.

    It won’t come from Labour.

    It’ll have to be someone batting for the other side…

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  36. tomo says:

    scum…..

    confession via projection is a well known phenominon menon

       3 likes

  37. The Mouse says:

    The Evening Standard reported that Labour councillor Ricky Jones, 57, was charged with encouraging violent disorder over a speech he made to a crowd in Walthamstow on August 7 2024, last year. The Evening Standard reported that Jones allegedly said to the crowd “we need to cut their throats and get rid of them”.

    His court case is now anticipated to take place in August 2025. a full 1 year after the alleged incident, many other cases of inciting or encouraging violet disorder in 2024 were dealt with in a fraction of the time ! ?

    Incidentally and coincidentally, the court case should start when Parliament is not sitting.

    I wonder if Starmer will make comment on his return in September or will he not have the details of the case?

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  38. Fedup2 says:

    Rupert Lowe asked TTK about Lucy thingy . TTK falsely claimed that the sentencing by the judiciary is ‘independent ‘ …but if I recall when the minor disorders took place TTK demands strong sentences – hence disproving his claim to judicial independence .

    The judgement of the court of appeal has not published yet but im sure it will be very brief and fully supportive of the sentencing labour judge ….

    Never plead guilty – avoid plod at all costs ….

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  39. Fedup2 says:

    If you listen to PMQs you can hear why Britainistan is a failing state – MPs moaning about not being allowed into Hong Kong – or the likes of comrade John McDonald wanting a Muslim ‘constituent ‘ freed from an Egyptian Jail – or some disability campaign wanting more tax payers cash – or the deceitful ‘free breakfast clubs ‘ …
    On and on it goes – not much about the creation of jobs – just the loss of them …. It’s very poor fare … wonder why I still bother ?

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  40. andyjsnape says:

    bbc reports:-

    PM spars with Reform’s Anderson over immigration
    published at 12:33
    12:33
    Lee Anderson, the Reform MP for Ashfield, accuses Starmer of not being transparent about what kinds of migrants his government has deported since coming to power.

    He asks Starmer to spell out many of them are “failed asylum seekers” who came “on small boats or on the backs of lorries”.

    Starmer says the government has “removed” more than 24,000 people – the highest number for nearly a decade – and given law enforcement greater powers.

    More than 24,000 removed, the highest number …. due to the fact that record numbers are arriving daily! So not exactly being honest

    A bit like when this government said they had done 2,000,000 more operations on the NHS – this was because he gave them all a pay rise to go back to work!

       8 likes

  41. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/bbcnews/status/1925143516348359122?s=61
    Israel’s Eurovision result prompts questions over voting

    #ccbgb

       5 likes

  42. MarkyMark says:

    “11% inflation on their watch….Investment … growth figures… wages up … ”

    https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/e584a866-cd3f-44c2-b6e1-056cd8cfb1aa?in=12:04:07

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  43. tomo says:

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  44. MarkyMark says:

    Great picture … 3abf6ec0-363b-11f0-a37a-396a0d1059f3.jpg.webp
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj933dngwlyo

    Fundamentally this is embarrassing for Reeves. She made a big, bold and early call and has reversed it within 10 months.

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  45. tomo says:

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  46. tomo says:

    as replies say – who is that effing clown?

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  47. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    The UK is killing itself doing this net zero while most of the world is not taking part.
    The net zero fanatics say we are leading the world in this and are showing others what to do.

    Why not have this operate in the UK where those who believe in net zero can pay all the extra subsidies (and get £300 cheaper energy as daft Ed milligram says)
    Special fuel deals for those who opt in to the net zero.
    No subsidy charges for homes and businesses who opt out.
    Frack, Drill and mine fuel for the non believers.
    Sun and wind (plus pay subsidies) for the zealots.
    E cars for the fanatics, petrol and diesel for the people.

    With all this going on, if the net zero lot are correct, those of us using the older fuels will realise the virtue signallers are all great and we will want to be like them, just like everybody else in the world will want to be like the UK with the highest prices.

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  48. MarkyMark says:

    Yesterday Lucy Connolly lost her appeal against a 31-month sentence in jail after having pleaded guilty to a charge of inciting racial hatred. Connolly posted one tweet in the aftermath of the Southport killings. Independent MP Rupert Lowe is mounting the case for her in the Commons…

    ………………….

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  49. MarkyMark says:

    “I recently saw two stories on the BBC – one on how we need to have blunt knives so people can’t stab each other, and the other about STIs and the ‘shame’ surrounding them – both exhibit a total ignorance to the root cause of these problems and sum up why we’re falling apart as a country. ”

    ……….. reality ….


    Patrick Christys reflects on visiting immigration tent camps in France

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  50. MarkyMark says:

    “Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation where someone is made to doubt their own perception, sanity, or memories. It’s a tactic often used by abusers to gain control and power over their victims. The term comes from the 1938 play and 1944 film “Gas Light,” where a character tries to drive his wife insane by manipulating situations and denying their reality. ”

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    The Labour Party’s plan to reduce energy bills for households includes saving individuals up to £600 annually through a combination of increased support for the Warm Home Discount and a windfall tax on North Sea oil and gas producers according to Toby Perkins MP. This is part of a broader strategy to address the cost of living crisis and ensure energy bills don’t rise.

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