93 Responses to Midweek 28th May 2025

  1. Up2snuff says:

    I will step in first – just on the off-chance – to say the BBC is definitely biased. Biased against Israel. Biased against true Conservatism and the politicians that represent true Conservatism.

    Defund the BBC that is the only way to beat the BBC bias.

    If you have a TV Licence, get rid of it. Your TellyTax is paying for The Montacutie’s long weekends and Emma Barnett’s absences from TOADY. You are also paying for Global Warming and Climate Change Propaganda to be spewed forth by Justin Rowlatt, Climate Editor, and others such as Farming Today’s presenters.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Further to the above: BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – missing newspapers

      More reasons to stop paying the TellyTax:
      1. the BBC is greedy for money, not just to pay Gary’s salary but to pay excessive presenters’, Editors’ & Controllers’ salaries as well.
      2. as an example of this greed, the BBC reneged on the previous agreement that the iPlayer would be available for exclusive use of catch-up TV viewing. To be fair the BBC had to then ‘pay’, effectively lose, the income for free TV Licences for those aged over 75.
      3. BBC Incompetence. They are not able to report news accurately because of their inheritent biases in favour of BAMEs, Palestinians, etc. Another example would be the BBC’s failure to find a reliable newsagent (or reliable employees when the Metro is given out free to commuters on weekdays!) to get all the newspapers every day on their web-site. There appears to be a BBC bias against the Rupert Murdoch owned Sun newspaper. Add that to your list of BBC biases!

      One is forced to wonder what the D-G does all day.

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  2. StewGreen says:

    The BBC’s tweet about 67 yo apparent non-native being a victim cos her 24th floor council flat has mould ..is well ratioed
    .. https://x.com/BBCLondonNews/status/1927247919138103394

    The name seems Somali to me
    However the news articles avoid it
    and Google’s AI says it’s based on the Scottish name Isla … AI fail there.

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    • Scroblene says:

      ​Doesn’t the Far-Left BBC realise that with articles like this, they’re poking the bear?

      If they’re relying on hard-working British Citizens paying the TV tax to concur with this rubbish, they don’t understand that they’re alienating the very people who are least likely to avoid the 179 quid imposition, but are quickly becoming more and more disgusted with foreigners getting benefits which they feel they deserve themselves.

      If this is the case, chucking around non-articles like this, which have been cobbled together by the children of the Islington lefties, then perhaps a few more ‘scoops’ of this nature will lose them far more dosh to waste than they thought…

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  3. harry142857 says:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgv4ddpyddo
    lWhy police released details about Liverpool crash suspect so quickly

    Daniel Sandford
    UK correspondent
    Published
    27 May 2025, 11:52 BST
    After a driver ploughed into crowds during the Liverpool FC victory parade on Monday evening, Merseyside Police said within two hours they had arrested a “53-year-old white British man from the Liverpool area”.

    It was striking how quickly police shared the man’s nationality and ethnicity.

    The decision shows lessons have already been learned from the Southport attacks last summer, when online speculation and disinformation filled a void after the same force released little detail about the 17-year-old they had in custody.

    Usually when a suspect is arrested, police forces in England and Wales just give out the age of the person and where they were arrested.

    But at 19:53 BST, the force emailed out a press release including the suspect’s age, nationality and ethnicity.

    It was a clear attempt to damp down inaccurate speculation on social media that the Ford Galaxy driving into Liverpool fans was part of an Islamist terrorist attack, or was in any way linked to migrants.

    Merseyside Police acted “very, very quickly” to stamp out speculation on social media that had caused “real consternation”, Liverpool mayor Steve Rotheram said.

    By contrast, last summer in the aftermath of the horrific knife attack in Southport in which Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice Da Silva Aguiar were killed, Merseyside Police said very little about the suspect they had arrested.

    This meant that inaccurate social media speculation and deliberate disinformation about the suspect having a Muslim name and being a newly arrived migrant went unchecked.

    A consequence was a riot in Southport within 36 hours of the attack focused on the local mosque, and then further rioting across England, much of it aimed at hotels housing recently arrived asylum seekers.

    The Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana had in fact been born in the UK and had no direct connections to Islamism, though he had downloaded an academic study of an al-Qaeda manual.

    In a report published earlier this month into last summer’s events, His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services said the police service “must do more to communicate online” and “fill the information void with the truth”.

    “Forces must provide a true narrative online to reach people who may be searching for information,” it added.

    The report went on to say: “The police service must communicate the facts. Repeatedly, continuously and effectively as circumstances change and develop.

    “If not, others will take over the narrative with overwhelming amounts of online content. And some of this may be false or harmful to the police response and the communities the police are there to protect.”

    The way Merseyside Police’s communications team responded last night suggests that the force has rapidly adapted its policies since the violent disorder of last summer.

    It means that a clearer picture of what had happened quickly reached people’s phones, TVs and radios and rapidly reduced the disinformation.

    The problem that police forces now face is whether this new approach will lead to confusion in future.

    What will a force do for example if the information about the suspect they are holding is unclear?

    Even more problematically, what will a force do if they arrest someone in similar circumstances who is a recently arrived migrant or who has a clearly Muslim name?

    Last night’s rapid move to correct the narrative may not be as straightforward in different circumstances.

    Helen King, former assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, said: “There will be times when police can confirm quickly. There are other times when it is unclear. These will always be complex and sensitive decisions.”

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    • BRISSLES says:

      And there will be times when the arrested suspect could be Trans – so saying a woman (really a man) or man (really a woman) from Tower Hamlets …. could be fraught with problems ….

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    • R P McMurphy says:

      When the tragic incidents in Southport were reported in a press conference the Chief Constable chaired the proceedings. This time after the incident at the football procession the Assistant Chief Constable held charge.

      Bit of a coincidence both female. DEI appointments ? Back of the queue when a fight kicks off in a pub but right at the front when a promotion comes up.

      Promotions on merit or box ticking ? No wonder we are in such a state.

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  4. Eddy Booth says:

    “Mark Gordon assaulted police on maternity ward, court hears”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2xp5l4r94o

    The retrial of
    “Gordon, 50, and Constance Marten, 38, deny the manslaughter by gross negligence of daughter Victoria, ”

    “Giving evidence, Det Sgt Jones said they had been called to the postnatal ward of West Wales General Hospital after medical staff raised concerns about the identity of a newborn’s parents.”

    So what has a previous incident, years ago in 2017 got to do with this case? They don’t usually disclose a person’s criminal history.
    BBC wouldn’t think to ask

    “The court has heard how a high profile manhunt was launched for Gordon and Marten in January 2023 after they fled their burning car near Bolton, Greater Manchester, and went off grid with Victoria.”

    It was billed as a missing persons at the time, not a manhunt.

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  5. wwfc says:

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    • Scroblene says:

      The first part of this is enlightening WWFC!

      Can’t see TTK’s Far-Left bunch and the BBC ever thinking of a similar ideal…

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    • MarkyMark says:

      He did his part – it was our generation that let it slide without a fight.

      cc2fed47d382b7b940665be3651bd6b3de71c6758f4fd36554837cb23b8f31b9.jpg

      FOR ISLAM, FOR GENDER STUDIES, FOR TOLERANCE OF THE INTOLERANT, TO JOIN A CLUB AND BE UNABLE TO LEAVE, FOR MEN TO WALK INTO A LADIES TOILET DRESSED AS WOMEN! FOR PEACE! FOR PROGRESS! FOR 86 IRANIANS TO APPEAR ON OUR SHORE ESCAPING EU27!
      CHARGE …

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      • G says:

        The reasons why the elite need the public?

        To pay taxes and to bail the Government / banks out when they fail to manage the Country or themselves properly;
        To die for the country/state in wars and conflict as and when required.

        The latter comes around infrequently. The former comes around more often.

        Only solution? Change the political system, Switzerland a good example:
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Switzerland

        Would Farage give the Brits a Swiss type system?

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  6. AsISeeIt says:

    In comedy… and likewise in politics, timing is everything. Some have good timing and some… not so much.

    ‘Driver on drugs’ (Mirror); Liverpool car attacker was ‘high on drugs’ (Express); Parade suspect in drug drive arrest (giveaway Metro); Parade horror driver ‘on drugs’ (Sun); ‘Kop parade driver was on drigs’ (Star)

    Cannabis should not be criminal, says Khan… Decriminalise possession of the drug in small amounts to help police, urges Mayor (Telegraph)

    Everything counts in large amounts – claimed Depeche Mode back in 1985

    Legalize it
    And don’t criticize it
    Legalize it
    And I’ll advertise it
    – insisted Jamaican reggae artist and former Bob Marley band member, Peter Tosh, way back in 1976.

    Liverpool parade suspect was ‘drug driver tailgating ambulance’ (Times)

    Speaking of ambulance chasers… sometimes these segueways write themselves…

    Hundreds of lawyers call for UK sanctions on Israel over Gaza war (BBC)

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  7. Fedup2 says:

    Asiseeit

    In my bit of londonistan you can smell cannabis morning noon and night – some puff it in the street -with an air of ‘defiance ‘ ( although they’d be too thick or foreign to understand that word ) – they are just feral – often with some killer dog .

    Anyway the emir is now effectively instructing plod not to go after cannabis use – something plod has chosen to do for years . Indeed the ‘new DEI plod ‘ are more likely to use or deal cannabis / other drugs that prosecute it .

    I believe if people want to suck plant smoke into their lungs – good luck to them – but if the consequence is harm to others – drug driving – nut jobs -secondary smoke – cancer wards – that’s an impact on me and I don’t want that – but it seems the Emir does ….
    Get them at the school gate – eh emir ….

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  8. Althepalerp says:

    It is SO EASY to save £174.50 a year.

    Just log on to tell them you don’t need their TV licence anymore.

    And that’s it.

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    • andyjsnape says:

      Hello Althepalerp…

      I dont need a licence, and prefer not to tell them either way. No law says I have to inform them

      Happy with Netflix, YouTube, etc etc

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      • Scroblene says:

        Couple of great flicks around at the moment – “Fracture” with Anthony Hopkins, and “Glory” with Denzel Washington!

        (Free on Prime – don’t know about Flicknex…)

        Surprised the far-left BBC don’t promote the latter for some reason!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Or keep paying Huw Edwards!

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  9. Fedup2 says:

    BBC news

    It’s leading with ‘calls ‘ from £senior TTK plod £’ for more Money from us . They want to increase repression of free speech and sending 6 plod to arrest a man for a tweet – as well as sending 2 plod to a care home to taser and kill a 93 year old with one leg .
    No – cut plod pay instead – starting at the top .

    If they’ve got the resources and time to repress dissenters – they are getting too much money …

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  10. pugnazious says:

    Not sure why Tommy Robinson is ‘Far-Right’ especially given that the BBC doesn’t have any editorial guidelines on what ‘Far-Right’ can be defined as…..I guess it’s just critical of Islam, white and working class.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Pug
      Reading the DT account of Tommy Robinson being released the ‘journalist ‘ – presumably very junior – follows the NUJ legal requirement when reporting on him . One – refer to him as a ‘far right activist ‘ in the first sentence . Two – refer to him by his ‘real name ‘ in sentence number 2 . Third – refer to the English Defence League somewhere in the piece .

      In the video he made yesterday outside HMP TTK – Tommy mentioned that in order to prevent the britistan state from being accused of torture the ‘TTK Justice Secretary ‘ has to certify isolation/ segregation every 42 days and the current Muslim one has been regularity doing so .

      Meanwhile a child murdering Cardiff choir boy and his Islamic Gang are running the prison and seriously injuring prison staff …

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  11. andyjsnape says:

    bbc scrapping the barrel “reporting”:-

    Hopes of motherhood crushed after IVF embryos destroyed in Israel’s Gaza offensive
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c15npnzpd08o

    bbc really likes stirring it, and the long time damage it will cause.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Andy – looking at ‘Ethar Shalby’s ‘output – she may well be in the pay / part of the Islamic Hamas terrorist group – she has never reported on the attack on Israel nor mention of hostages – plenty aimed at garnering sympathy of Palestinian / Hamas ‘victims. ‘ though … very BBC

      Keep going IDF .

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    • MarkyMark says:

      ” in the hope of having more children in the future” (So allah has blessed her and she is greedy using) Boris will have kids for you! He can’t keep count!

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  12. pugnazious says:

    Interesting to listen to Campbell’s phone-in on Liverpool in which he managed to slip in an attack on social media, the ‘Far-Right'[alleged] and Farage[of course].

    We heard later from the Nagger that the ominous threat of Fascism stalking the land now would make our grandfathers quake and on Campbell we heard that an unnamed politician after the Southport attack had indulged in ‘extreme Far-Right messaging’…this was of course smearing Farage for his truth telling.

    We heard that the Far-Right wanted the latest attack to be a brown person and were disappointed it wasn’t. Hmmm…the BBC was desperate for it to be a white person…which is telling in itself.

    Campbell naturally blames social media, that appalling cesspool where too many people get their news….which is why we need the BBC with its fair and balanced coverage…because we need facts and honesty. And why would that be the BBC then? We just had the BBC telling the world a very dangerous lie that 14,000 babies would die in Gaza within 48 hours due to the Jews….and indeed Campbell’s own show which is a cesspool of its very own kind.

    A Labour MP from Liverpool claimed that ‘hatred and division’ were caused by the Far-Right….isn’t the Far-Right a backlash created by the Far-Left’s importation of millions of people who hate us and of whom so many actually take up violence against us…such as stabbing to death of three young girls etc etc etc? The ‘Far-Right’ is a monster created by the Far-Left.

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  13. Fedup2 says:

    Pug
    Presumably when the ‘white man ‘ is charged his identity will be revealed and his family moved to whether the TT`k state is hiding the Welsh choir boy child killers’ family -….

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    • Scroblene says:

      ‘Sources say’ that TTK knew perfectly well about the Stockport killer’s family, as he dealt with their case to stay in the UK years ago!

      Can’t remember where I saw that, but it was an accredited press statement. Perhaps Verify could find out – it’d make a great story…

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      • StewGreen says:

        It’s easy to check such wild conspiracy theories by asking Grok AI
        “Given the lack of substantiated evidence and official denials, the claim that Starmer acted for the Rudakubana family should be treated as unproven and likely false.”
        “Viral social media claims and some online speculation have suggested that Starmer, a former human rights lawyer, represented the father of Axel Rudakubana, the Southport stabbing suspect, in an asylum case in the early 2000s. However, these claims have been firmly denied by Downing Street and other reliable sources”

        One righty journo went right into it and concluded
        #1 if a strong link existed between Keir Starmer and Alphonse Rudakubana, it would have already been exposed with accompanying evidence
        #2 it is possible that a weak link exists between the Rudakubana’s and Keir Starmer prior to 29th July 2024, but that link is either indirect or superficial to the Southport attack.
        https://charliebentleyastor.substack.com/p/starmer-southport-accomplice

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  14. Guest Who says:

    BBC Moaning Emole:

    King Charles says Canada is ‘strong and free’

    Just like the BBC says the U.K. is under TTK.

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  15. Jeff says:

    A little opportunistic posing by London’s runt mayor, Sadiq Khan…

    He wants the “possession of small quantities of cannabis to be decriminalised”. This is just complete BS. In any logical sense it already has been.

    Of course, this brings him great kudos with the Caribbean community, who are always griping about something, while in reality, achieving sweet FA.

    There are areas of our capital city when, at any time of the day or night, the sickly scent of this foul weed is nauseating to the nostrils. No one takes a blind bit of notice. Standards have really plummeted…

    So, the police turn a blind eye to cannabis, shop lifting, driving without insurance, muggings and burglary.

    Mind you, if you put up a feisty Tweet…

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  16. friend of yogi bear says:

    BIG BRAIN CHARLIE…

    Top Labour thinker Lord Charlie Faulkner has been amusing many people this morning , having been given a platform to spout his deepest thoughts, he has announced that legalizing cannabis is a great idea. (possession only, you understand) .

    According to Big brain Charlie , we must stop black people being harassed over cannabis use in particular ,as there is absolutely no evidence that they use it more than any other group and it creates a lot of bad feeling, further that there is no evidence that cannabis is a “gateway drug”, something ,or other about skunk cannabis being different but no detail as to why,how,etc,that might be a policing problem in any practical sense.
    It clearly made perfect sense to a man as clever as Big brain Charlie..I confess I struggled to follow much of it but I am so thick that I have always misunderstood how this man was ever the Lord Chancellor and stupidly I had fallen for the ridiculous story that he was appointed (by Tony Blair) only because he had been the Prime minister’s flatmate when they were both young barristers.

    I hasten to add that could not be true , obviously such a thing would never happen.

    I hope we hear a great deal more from Charlie , he talks a great deal of sense I’m sure and if only I was a clever chap I could understand it…… I will keep trying.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      https://www.theyworkforyou.com/peer/12847/lord_faulkner_of_worcester

      12847.jpg

      Currently held offices
      Member, Ecclesiastical Committee (Joint Committee) (since 31 Oct 2024)
      Member, Services Committee (since 31 Jan 2024)
      Member, Built Environment Committee (since 31 Jan 2023)
      Member, Lord Speaker’s Advisory Panel on Works of Art (since 6 Mar 2017)
      Deputy Speaker (Lords) (since 18 Dec 2008)
      Deputy Chairman of Committees (since 13 Nov 2007)

      “Cannabis constitutes two thirds of the illegal drugs detected, and certainly affects driving behaviour for a period after its consumption, resulting in impaired co-ordination, visual perception, tracking and vigilance. Cannabis can stay in the body for up to 28 days, but obviously does not impair driver performance for anything like that amount of time. Roadside detection devices are being developed, although the diversity of the drugs being used makes it difficult to produce a single breathalyser-type test.

      People generally accept that they should not drink and drive but probably are unaware of the effects of drugs, both illegal and prescribed, on their driving ability. Millions of people regularly take drugs such as anti-depressants, painkillers, antihistamines and cough mixtures, all of which can have a sedative effect, and yet most of those people probably believe that it is totally safe for them to drive after taking them.”

      https://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=2003-04-04a.1617.0&s=cannabis+speaker%3A12847#g1620.0

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  17. Fedup2 says:

    Not bbc – quiet news day – telegraph has story about life as a 6’4’ male – like me . Apparently tall people suffer .

    Im think as registering as ‘disabled ‘ by being tall – i fancy a free car paid by you tax payers . Then you can fit a charger thing as I want an electric one as they are more expensive .

    I then will apply for every benefit under the sun and fleece yoy taxpayers for everything I can . I deserve it . How I’ve suffered …( the small people disease is real by the way)

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    • MarkyMark says:

      You’re head is in the clouds – most of the time! HA HAHA!
      Enjoy the benefits!

      ……………

      “No, the King does not receive a Winter Fuel Payment. Winter Fuel Payments are specifically for households with individuals above a certain age (born on or before September 21, 1959, for the 2025/2026 winter), who receive certain qualifying benefits like Pension Credit, Universal Credit, or other income-based benefits. The King, as the sovereign, does not qualify for these benefits. ” Google AI

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    • BRISSLES says:

      Fed you are not disabled – take heart you are a desired rarity in this world of 5’9 and under chaps. Women love a man to look up to,’ wear heels instead of flats,who are able to reach the back of the top shelf in the supermarket !

      One of my bros is 6’2 (I’m 5″7) and I get enveloped in a manly hug when we meet.

      Tall men stride and are dashing in a suit – think Wills (and Harry) Laurence Fox.
      No Fed you are not disabled, quite the opposite.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Yeah yeah Brissles but I feeeeel disadvantaged so I must be due something …. Maybe I need to colour up or something . ?
        Im such a victim that I have to have a business class seat when I fly .. where’s me benefits …?

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      • digg says:

        Puts me in mind of this….

        https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ad/52/5c/ad525c15cc92429fc16499001c37c680.jpg

        I’m afraid I’m a bit more Corbett that Cleese though….

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        • BRISSLES says:

          Lol! Those were the days.

          As for benefits I worked non-stop from leaving school to retirement, and apart from a 3 week window of moving area with parents in 1968 when I was entitled to £3.25 per week unemployment, I’ve never had a penny from the state. No widow pension – no kids so no benefits there. All that’s happened is I’m providing everyone from the workshy, the sick, and the government with money !
          The childless singles have always been up against it.

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          • Fedup2 says:

            I think if I was stupid enough to be a ‘careers teacher ‘( wonder what they are called now ?) I’d spend my time convincing kids to avoid any career and be a ‘neet ‘ … or ‘ influencer ‘ …. Certainly any ‘job ‘ where you don’t have to get up in the morning – or at all – has to be attractive .

            I’d also want my own carer to do the shopping or collect the food delivery / drugs ….

            It’s absolutely vital to breed any self respect or self reliance out of young people – and train them on how to do a postal vote for more benefits / mosques ….

            Btw – do people on benefits have their TV licence paid for them ?

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  18. MarkyMark says:

    HA HA! UK Law and order in one image … 0fb1f625-47b3-4788-9031-5fe43d5ad981-a357a5cd-8d81-48df-a1b4-16a59c926911

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  19. Althepalerp says:

    Is the Child a Jew?

    In which case we don’t have the recourses to deal with it.

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  20. Up2snuff says:

    The BBC did report Tommy Robinson’s release from prison after all.
    BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk › news › articles › c9q0147e4yxo
    Tommy Robinson released from prison after sentence reduced
    1 day agoFar-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, also known as Tommy Robinson, has been released from prison. The 42-year-old, jailed for contempt of court in October, left HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes …

    Note the ‘Far Right’ and the real name! 😉 🙂

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  21. MarkyMark says:

    “Sir Rod Stewart got a huge surprise on stage when he was presented with the lifetime achievement award by his children. The father-of-eight seemed shocked to be introduced to the stage by five of his own grown-up kids. “I’m absolutely flabbergasted,” said Sir Rod. “I didn’t know they were here – my children.””

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c071mk5081do
    ……………
    2025 …. Rod Stewart: Tories should stand down and give Labour a go Published 27 January 2023
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64417054
    ……………
    1975 … Rod Stewart left the UK and made his home in Los Angeles in 1975 to avoid the 83% tax on top earners that existed in Britain at the time. Toto Wolff was accused of being a tax exile by Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner.
    …………

    WE ARE ALL EQUAL AND CAN LEAVE … IF WE HAVE ENOUGH MONEY…. HA HA HAH A

    Tom Jones moved to Los Angeles for tax purposes following the election of Harold Wilson as British prime minister in 1974, who put income tax up to 83% for top earners.

    Brian Cox became a tax exile in the 1980s, settling in New York City.

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

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  22. digg says:

    BBC running with rolling footage of huge mobs of healthy-looking smiling Palestinians helping themselves to shit loads of boxes of food as the trucks roll in, not even waiting for them to stop.

    So what is it BBC… are the population of Gaza all about to succumb to famine or was that more helpful “News” malarky for a certain armed pressure group?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “The UN said the videos from Rafah were “heartbreaking” and that it had a detailed plan ready to get enough aid to the “desperate population” of 2.1 million.

      The UN and many aid groups have refused to co-operate with GHF’s plans, which they say contradict humanitarian principles and appear to “weaponise aid”.”

      The UN and many aid groups have refused to co-operate with GHF’s plans – SO THEY ARE CAUSING THE PROBLEMS? HA HAH AHA HAHAH!
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gep705527o

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  23. Fedup2 says:

    Looks like the treasury is planning to steal people saving for their company pensions in the coming ‘ fiscal event ‘ …. So those on the brink of retiring / taking their company pension may well be running for the exit now …

    I always thought pensions were things wise people – able to sacrifice some of their income until they retire … but now it seems to be a cash cow which Rachel from accounts can plunder without consequences ….

    Im not personally affected by this – I’ve pulled my pension pot already . I saw her coming . But because of ‘complexities ‘ the pension company took a year to start paying out. Something I didn’t factor in but had ‘contingencies ‘ for …

    They must be working on the spin for the winter fuel climb down … I still think they are vindictive enough to reduce it to £200 to give it to everyone without means testing … but they are so mad / stupid that it’s very hard to take a wild guess at what they will do …

    We’ve still got a long couple of years to suffer before they are thrown out … with that inevitable trip to the iMF to beg for money …

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  24. MarkyMark says:

    “The NHS has launched a £500 million framework agreement to help public sector organizations, including the NHS, decarbonize their estates. This framework, facilitated by NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS), aims to support the NHS in achieving its net-zero ambitions. The NHS is committed to reaching net-zero for emissions it controls directly (the NHS Carbon Footprint) by 2040. ”

    From order-order.com

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    • Philip_2 says:

      In reply to MarkyMark (above). The NHS is being used, as are all public bodies. The BBC is part of that same narrative. But what does it all mean?

      As the UN and WHO believe the biggest source of emissions is anything ‘alive’ such as Farm Animals and People (stinky lower class people they do not like) then its clear that the NHS can be used to ‘rid people’ of whoever can sign up to (Suicide via legalised Euthanasia NHS drugs – to reduce their personal tax on society and hence NHS funding can be ‘improved’. Death being cheap.

      Net zero means eventually removing all other ‘expendables’ such as;
      Reduce ‘Cattle and Sheep farming ‘which would (they say) also enable net zero targets!!!

      https://www.iamexpat.nl/expat-info/dutch-news/everything-about-governments-nitrogen-policy-and-dutch-farmers-protests
      As the DUTCH have protested, The UK has just decided to do the same via Inheritance tax and a tax on Livestock (which produce Co2 as do people).

      THE attack on natural Gas emissions is about to get worse in the UK.
      But that also means Agricultural farms producing food using any kind of ‘fertlizer; which is based on Animal such as Chicken manure or pig slurry or horse-manure even as its all based on Nitrogen fertilizer that they also want to ban. So in short starvation, will reduce overall the huge cost of the NHS and public bodies by reducing the population. And ban all industry linked to ‘life preservation’ as it may encourage you to think that there is NO CLIMATE EMERGENCY. That CARBON is a basic building block of LIFE, and is not TOXIC and is how plants (all plants bar Mushrooms) grow.

      In fact ALL food production, is linked back to having CO2 in various quantities which is linked back to the population and food supply. Mentioned in video below…

      I watched this video from an acclaimed Danish professor that declared thanks to good Danish food farming practices (Denmark can feed itself, over three times over and the LEFT (in Europe) want to cripple all this agriculture – and cripple itself – as we seem to be doing with this continued drive to net zero -(which he states is an impossibility anyway). He has the leftish clans in Denmark as well, but the UK is the ONLY daft nation to FULLY IMPLEMENT ALL UN RULINGS (untested and unquestioned). Denmark not so much.

      What the video here ignore the man in the iron arms. That is unexplained, but a medical marvel nonetheless. NHS would hate to fund that, far easier to just kill people off.

      Note the YOUTUBE ‘UN warning’ on any climate dissent from the UN lobby groups. A warning to us that ‘climate change is real’ when the Carbon footprint is a meaningless footprint linked to ID cards and nations states to pay the EU for any ‘industry; they do not approve of. Make your won mind up. its a long video, but you get the ‘jist’ that food is vital to us all throughout history. Without it we starve. the alternative is become more efficient, not less…

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      • MarkyMark says:

        YouTube Warning …
        “Climate change
        United Nations • Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. Human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.”

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    • andyjsnape says:

      Hello MarkyMark

      Maybe the NHS could adopt the same to heat its buildings:-

      Redditch Crematorium begins to heat town pool
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-23104502

      Surely the NHS has enough bodies to dispose of

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Hi andyjsnape – careful what you wish for … Perverse incentives – they will burn people alive to heat the pool! Blood scandal will be small fry!

        ……………………

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

        The results of a perverse incentive scheme are also sometimes called cobra effects, where people are incentivized to make a problem worse. This name was coined by economist Horst Siebert based on an anecdote taken from the British Raj.[2][3] The British government, concerned about the number of venomous cobras in Delhi, offered a bounty for every dead cobra. Initially, this was a successful strategy; large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward. Eventually, however, people began to breed cobras for the income. When the government became aware of this, the reward program was scrapped. The cobra breeders set their snakes free, leading to an overall increase in the wild cobra population.[4][5]

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      • Philip_2 says:

        ‘Solyent Green’, next!, one imagines Andy. All those Carbon emissions recycled (rolled over) into food, so that apparently net zero equals = death directly. Job done.

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  25. pugnazious says:

    Thank the Lord for the BBC and Woman’s Hour standing up for females everywhere as they take the Natural History Museum to task for using male birds to ‘prop up the patriarchy’….that wicked patriarchy that has closed our ears to birdsong!

    As the presenter gushed….that’s sooo interesting.

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  26. wwfc says:

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  27. MarkyMark says:

    Sounds familiar…..

    “China’s ambassador to Australia has warned the Albanese government against its trying to forcibly take back control of the strategically significant Port of Darwin – calling it ‘ethically questionable’.

    During the federal election campaign, both Labor and the Coalition promised to return the port to Australian ownership after the Northern Territory government brokered a $506million deal to lease the port for 99 years to Chinese firm Landbridge in 2015.

    The Labor government has said it is searching for a local buyer but would ‘directly intervene’ to broker a deal if necessary – though it is not clear how.”
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14751905/China-Australia-port-Darwin-Albanese.html

    ………….

    Comment “China would never allow us to Lease one of their ports, what’s wrong with our weak government’s are they being paid off?”

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  28. MarkyMark says:

    “For my part, I’ve made sustainable markets my priority for 2020. I’ve told my teams to align whit the efforts” 2:47

    HA HA HA! Changed his portfolio and moaned at his staff – everyone can do this! HA HA HAH AH AHHA!

    Prince Charles Delivers Heartfelt Speech on the Environment in Davos 44,719 views 22 Jan 2020

    Comment “any leader speaking at Davos should be considered comprimised. God Save us FROM THE KING.”

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  29. Fedup2 says:

    Sometimes listening to the BBC news one does a double take . On world at one they interviewed an economics professor who apparently had advised both nut nut Johnson and Green card Rishi …

    The ‘professor’ said he had no idea which way the British economy is going to go in the time of the Marxists . That’s when I did the double take .

    Perhaps he isn’t noticing an ever growing tax take from an ever fewer – as intelligent wealthy people upsticks and go somewhere betterer ….

    Public spending is crushing any economy there was . Add huge energy costs and increasing labour costs and you’ve got a proper mess – whatever happens outside britainistan ….

    Im not an economist or a professor – but how can the fool not see that ? He wasn’t challenged on it … and he sounded like he was on the powder ..

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    • MarkyMark says:

      He had no idea back then either I imagine … even with control of policy ….”apparently had advised both nut nut Johnson and Green card Rishi”

      …………………… Rishi promised FREE UNLIMITED ENERGY …….. Boris promised Saudi of Wind ……. Keir says FREE SAUSAGES ………

      “UK become a net exported of electricity.” (c) Rishi Sunak

      Hundreds of UK scientists and academics urge Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to prevent any new oil and gas field development
      by Cambridge Zero on 28 March 2023
      https://www.zero.cam.ac.uk/who-we-are/blog/news/hundreds-uk-scientists-and-academics-urge-prime-minister-rishi-sunak-prevent

      channel all our efforts into renewable energy

      channel all our efforts into renewable energy

      channel all our efforts into renewable energy

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    • Lunchtime Loather says:

      My question would be, with the greatest respect, why were you listening to their guff? 😉

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      • MarkyMark says:

        BBC has become a source of comedy – moral lectures from Gary Lineker and Huw Edwards!

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Lunch – from time to time i force myself to listen to the enemy . At the moment im curious about the propaganda stance of the ‘Liverpool incident ‘,which has been treated like a normal Islamic terrorist attack but wasn’t ….

        The britistan state knows that when the next full on Islamic terrorist horror attack happens numbers of good British people will protest about what is being done to them in a range of reaction ….
        And TTK and his regime are desperate to control it – at the moment through fear – see Lucy Connolly – Tommy Robinson up to the TTK plod using techniques last used on the miners …

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        • Guest Who says:

          The whole thing is steered by activists, media or, lowest on the pond scale, media activists.

          https://x.com/dpjhodges/status/1927698021652852810?s=61
          The on-line peddlers of hate were desperate for Liverpool to be an Islamist terror attack. They claim to want the truth. But what they really crave is division, disorder and chaos

          As an X Person, when this one dropped into threads, it was noticeable that most were saying it didn’t make sense.

          The only ones howling isms were clowns like Femi and Narinder, with an eye to a Vile Gob Slot.

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  30. atlas_shrugged says:

    Yipee – about bleeding time

    RFK Jr. ends coronavirus shot recommendation for healthy children, pregnant women

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05/27/covid-vaccine-children-recommendation-rfk/

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  31. wwfc says:

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  32. pugnazious says:

    Real reporting on the economy as a result of Wrecker Reeves’ budget…van sales plunge and company cars being returned in record numbers…not BBC obviously….

    ‘New van sales have been declining in recent months, with April 2025 seeing the fifth consecutive month of a year-on-year drop. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) reported a 14.9% decline in new LCV registrations, leading to the weakest April performance since 2020. The decline was particularly pronounced in large vans, with registrations falling by 22.9%’

    ‘Record returns of company cars through redundancy blamed on Chancellor ‘
    ‘Record levels of returned vehicles from staff, who have been made redundant, are being blamed on the Chancellor.

    Chancellor Rachel Reeves increased employer’s national insurance contributions (NICs) from 13.8% to 15% in her Autumn Budget, reduced the NIC threshold from £9,100 to £5,000 and increased the minimum wage, all with affect from last month (April).

    “The pigeons are clearly coming home to roost,” said Andrew Leech, founder of Tamworth-based Fleet Evolution and head of Mercia Fleet Management.

    “Following on from Rachel Reeves’ misguided first Budget, which she said would not affect ‘working people’, we have seen record levels of returned vehicles due to redundancies of working people.”’

    The BBC seems more concerned about factories in China effected by Trump’s tariffs than factories here under threat due to Reeves’ budget…but hey….good news….

    ‘The UK economy is forecast to grow slightly more than previously expected in 2025, but the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that the Chancellor must stick to her rules on tax and spending.

    In its annual health-check for the economy, the IMF predicted growth of 1.2% this year, rising to 1.4% in 2026.

    It said an economic recovery was “under way” after a boost in the first three months of the year.’

    Buuuut…yeah…no..we can trust the IMF….

    ‘The forecast from the influential body comes just over a month after it downgraded its expectations for the UK from 1.6% in 2025 to 1.1%.’

    Guess the chicken bones just fall how they fall…some days you win, some days you lose.

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  33. pugnazious says:

    Lol…looking through a book called ‘Timelines of Everything’ which relates how everything from language, art, science, industry, agriculture, politics, sport, culture and civilisation etc developed, and in over 300 pages there’s barely a mention of sub-Saharan Africa…one double page spread which tells us they had some rich and sizeable empires like the Zulus…but there’s not a mention of anything they invented or developed….they only come of any note when they fall victim to colonisation …by whites and Muslims…of course they had their own colonisation…how else did they get their own empires? The Zulus basically stole South Africa…and we took it from them.

    There is basically, in regard to the complete spectrum of human development, essentially no Black history….apart from that made up by the BBC.

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    • Richard Pinder says:

      Sub-Saharan Africa is a story of cultural appropriation of the people of Neolithic Egypt to the occupant of the Tardis.

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  34. Deborah says:

    GBNews showed a clip of Starmer meeting the senior police officers in Liverpool and I think Lisa Nandy was there too. I can only presume it was in response to being found out for his visit to Stockport lasting 19 seconds. Never have I seen something so staged. I presume the meeting lasted only 10 seconds longer than when the cameras stopped rolling, ie a meeting lasting no longer than 5 minutes. I couldn’t stay in the room for more than 5 seconds.

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  35. Althepalerp says:

    So, we had a road traffic collision in Liverpool by a so called drug driver.
    Tragic for all involved, but no one died.
    People die everyday on the roads.

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  36. Eddy Booth says:

    BBC claim police won’t release his name because he hasn’t been charged yet.
    They could easy get around that by charging him with the drug driving, for starters.
    Like that Wimbledon school,range rover crash driver, took well over a year to reveal her name.

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  37. Fedup2 says:

    Al
    I reckon they are doing a dry run for the next Islamic ‘one off ‘ attack – as well as placating the oh so chippy – oh so sensitive Liverpool people who have a culture of ‘victimhood ‘ …. Nasty ain’t i …

    If the ‘suspect ‘ turns out to be an import or a convert they’ll need to rewrite the script …

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      “EXCLUSIVE Driver ‘who ploughed through Liverpool victory parade is a married father-of-three businessman’: Neighbours at ‘suspect’s £300,000 detached home’ tell of their shock as police continue to quiz 53-year-old over attack that hurt dozens”

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14758615/Driver-Liverpool-victory-parade-married-father.html

      “Neighbours of the company director – who lives in a smart, £300,000 four-bedroomed detached property on a neat estate – described him as a ‘straight family man’ with ‘well-behaved children’ who must have ‘panicked in the moment.'”

      Weed made him paranoid is stil my bet

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  38. vlad says:

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  39. JohnC says:

    Dozens injured by Israeli gunfire as crowds overwhelmed Gaza aid site, UN says
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyz4mzww1ro

    I’ve been following this for a few days because when I first saw the story about this because it struck me as huge : it basically states that the UN are so corrupt with regard to aid and Hamas that they cannot be trusted.

    This should have been front page news and the catalyst for complete reform of the UN. There should be uprorar at what this publicly funded group has become. The pressure on them from the MSM should be immense and whoever is in charge should have the honour to resign.
    But I also thought that when we learned how Hamas are fighting from UN hospitals, schools and refugee centres. I have been somewhat stunned that the BBC never ever dwell on those facts. They always just put in in quotes as something Israel said and is probably not true.

    So here we have some aid into Gaza which is guaranteed corruption-free and what do the BBC have to say about it ?.

    They quote the people responsible for this mess in the first place:
    ‘The UN and many aid groups have refused to co-operate with GHF’s plans, which they say contradict humanitarian principles and appear to “weaponise aid”.’
    It seems the ‘fundamental humanitarian principles’ are that people collecting aid must show ID to prove they are not members of Hamas.

    So here we have an aid group which Hama s certainly don’t want and SHOULD be extremely embarassing for the UN. The next thing we suddenly get violence at these sites with no explanation of what actually happened. Would these poor-but-good innocent civilians the BBC keep telling us about do such a thing ?. Not without some members of Hamas in there I’m sure. They want to get back to where the UN ‘give’ the aid to them.

    And we get:
    ‘The US and Israeli governments have said it is preventing aid from being stolen by Hamas, which the armed group denies doing.’
    Hamas are terrorists FFS. What are the BBC doing giving them equivalence to the US and Israeli governments ?. There is PLENTY of evidence that Hamas are doing it – but the BBC ignore it.

    And of course STILL no mention of how much aid was sent in during the ceasefire or any quesations about where it has all gone from the BBC.

    We MUST rid ourselves of this cancer which is the BBC. It is trying hard to destroy everything and everyone it disagrees with to create their global extreme-Left utopia. Which history has taught us inevitably ends up with them trying to remove everyone who does not share their ideology with prisons, then camps and finally firing squads.

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