The State Marxist Broadcaster seems to be conditioning – grooming – their victims( sorry taxpayers ) to more taxes in the next ‘fiscal event’ or budget – in normal language . The Marxist government is to make big announcements on 11 June – so there will be plenty of leaks by the BBC of what is to be inflicted on us …
Weekend 7th June 2025
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The BBC is biased! As the White House Press Secretary said last in the last Thread header. Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian BBC. Defund the BBC!
It is embarrassing to have to rely on a foreign state to point out the short comings of the monopolistic provider of narrative in the UK. Clearly there has been a long term plan to import former members of the stasi from E Germany to close down free speech. They are doing a stunning job. Next up we need all the russkies who used to run the five year plan, and perhaps at the same time we could import a few Russian mafia. Better still shove them in rubber dighies on a French beach and the navy will collect them for free.
The poisonous fat bint comedienne crew officially gains a new member.
She going full Lenny (never go full Lenny) next?
Radio Times
https://www.radiotimes.com › tv › drama
‘So, I did some bad things’ Ilse Koch’s true story | History behind Dawn French ITV biopic…
Guest Who, I am surprised that the Radio Times covers ITV programmes now.
I’m surprised that you are surprised Up2snuff. Why wouldn’t a listings magazine include listings for ITV?
She can join Greta on the barge – all they have to do is release the sausages.
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Actor and comedian Dawn French has had her say on the UK General Election – by urging people to vote tactically to oust the Conservative Government.
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/dawn-french-urges-people-vote-9361239
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During the 2010 general election campaign, French was cited as a supporter of the Labour Party. She supported Keir Starmer during the 2020 Labour leadership election.
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Batten – who led UKIP from 2018 to 2019 – retweeted her post, and insisted he was ‘surprised’ his original tweet ‘triggered so many people’.
Many pointed out that in Christianity, the upside down cross is typically a nod to St. Peter, who requested to be crucified upside down because he didn’t deem himself worthy to die in the same was as Jesus.
However, Batten continued: ‘They haven’t said “she is signifying her reverence for St Peter”. A statement that would have to be defended.
https://metro.co.uk/2020/12/07/anne-hegerty-slams-ex-ukip-leader-for-vicar-of-dibley-satanist-claim-13713819/
Up2 leading the charge – it’s a long determined job to destroy the BBC . So many fronts to fight on – Israel – Green crap – their entitled NHS – vindictive taxing – the Islamic fan club – sexual perversions – you name it … and the state broadcaster compulsory tax itself of course …
Israeli army admits to Gaza strike after BBC Verify investigation
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr7zplv35l1o
So the BBC activist children are kicking and screaming because the Nasty Karoline Leavitt pointed out their appalling coverage and lies about Gaza.
As far as I can gather from the typical disjointed and selected-facts-only style report from BBC Verify, I think the whole point of this article is that one incident which killed ONE palestinian was NOT the gunman near the aid centre and was in fact a shell fired in error by Israel and the didn’t admit it.
So the BBC are actually trying to deflect from the real story and trying to say ‘Israel are liars’ for this irrelevant side-show.
Then I read:
‘Our debunk post was then picked up by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who wrongly claimed that it showed the BBC had retracted its coverage of the aid centre killings.’
‘”The claim the BBC took down a story after reviewing footage is completely wrong. We did not remove any story and we stand by our journalism,” the BBC said in a statement.’
Very careful words again from the BBC and what they mean is that the BBC ‘buried’ their lies how they usually do : they quickly removed it from the news website front pages and sent it into ‘Regions’ where nobody will find it unless they specifically look for it. It’s almost exactly the same as removing it but they do it for exactly this reason – so they can claim they reported it. They do it all the time.
The entire article is intended to make people think she was wrong and the BBC are honest and decent. But when I checked what she actually said, she was talking about the BBC’s reports of Israeli tanks and troops. This incident the BBC have blown up out of all proportion is just a small side-show. So clearly everything else she said was true.
Dirty, lying b@stards.
This article shows the BBC at it’s apalling best. It has lots of their tricks in it:
‘The IDF did not provide evidence for these assertions.’
Neither does Zelensky or Hamas BBC. But you never question what they say.
There is a video from the incident. The BBC write:
‘The footage we reviewed from the Khan Younis blast first began to emerge late on Sunday evening. It showed bloodied bodies surrounded by dust clouds in an area where Palestinians were living in tents. Women and children could be seen running and screaming as they watched injured people carried away.’
Another example of the BBC adding their own descriptions laden with empathy to influence the reader. I don’t specifically see ‘women and children running and screaming’ in that video : the BBC have added that themselves.
Just another example of ‘BBC Verify’s’ keyhole fact-checking. Ignore everything you don’t want to talk about and focus on a small issue as if it is the main story.
Just look at the ‘calibre’ of journalist the BBC now use for such weighty reports:
They are more like 6th-form activists. It’s staggering just how far the once great BBC has fallen.
This is a list of the ‘articles’ by the BAME girl the BBC push in front of the camera for their DEI agenda. They are almost ALL anti-Trump or anti-Israel.
https://muckrack.com/merlyn-thomas/articles
Just as you say in your headline, Fed, this appalling government is using every tactic from the Ladybird Book of Cheating, to get Joe and Joan Public prepared/disengaged/conned etc., into eventually accepting huge tax hikes very soon.
The commercial naivete of the ‘front blench’, (sic), is so apparent now that they are floundering around, giving money to illegal foreigners, wasting it in useless ‘green’ projects, failing in the admin of the NHS and far to many more ways.
The false £22bn ‘deficit’ was their first huge lie, and now they’ve got themselves so wrapped up in their own deceit, the inevitable crisis will emerge by the end of the year at this rate!
Have you noticed that even the far-left BBC Sith Floor apparatchiks are having to re-read their briefings to try and send out more confusing and over-complicated messages to soften up the British Citizens for these eye-watering tax hikes, and, they’re not making a very good fist of it at all. Any diversion, spin etc., is being used to avoid reporting on the inevitable issue that GB Inc. is going down the pan!
Hopes of closure fade as police wrap up Madeleine McCann search (BBC)
As an example of the made-up official narratives our mainstream media spin to us as gospel this long-running crime story whodunnit is a classic.
One needn’t go into the details hereabouts – this isn’t the place – but if one should read up on the case the evidence tends not toward abduction by stranger but rather accidental demise and reputation-saving cover-up (allegedly – one understands the main dramatis personae are very litigious and their lawyers have certainly cowed our formerly rambunctious tabloid press into their way of thinking)
Deep-dive conspiracy theorists – as is their wont – will speak of such inside baseball arcana as “The Tapas 7” in relation to this rabbit warren of a case.
What we (and our main tame lame stream corporate media) should be able to say is that the couple at the centre of this tale are at least guilty of a certain degree of child neglect. But then again they aren’t a pair snaggle-toothed, council estate, white trash, Wayne and Waynetta Slobs, they can safely look down on disapprovingly…
Holiday mother guilty of neglect… who wore a gold necklace with the word “Mum”… could now face a spell in prison. A woman has admitted child neglect after leaving her three young children with a teenage babysitter while she went on holiday to Turkey… **** ****, 24, from County Durham, pleaded guilty to three counts of neglect when she appeared at Darlington Magistrates’ Court… failed in her responsibility as a parent after leaving the children in a one-bedroom flat with a teenager. Chairman of the bench… told her: “Entry point is a custodial sentence because three children were put at risk. The circumstances you left your children in were wholly unacceptable by any standards. You simply put yourself first.” (BBC, 2005)
Single mother Ms ****, 24, from Darlington, Co Durham, was arrested by police at Durham Tees Valley airport on her return to Britain from Turkey last month… last month told the women’s magazine Closer: “Everyone needs to let their hair down. My kids want for nothing. They have a wardrobe full of clothes and an attic full of toys. They come first, I would rather go dressed as a tramp if they needed something. I can’t believe people are saying that I abandoned them.” (Guardian, 2005)
Compare and contrast…
On 3 May [2007] Madeleine, from Rothley, Leicestershire, is on holiday with her family at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz, Portugal. Her parents go for dinner with a group of friends at a restaurant in the complex. Madeleine and her younger brother and sister – twins – stay in the apartment, 100 yards away… The adults had devised a rota system to check on all their children during the evening. When it is the turn of Kate McCann, she discovers her daughter, Madeleine, has gone; [2011] Prime Minister David Cameron asks the Metropolitan Police to help investigate. A two-year review follows. (BBC “Timeline”)
If you’re interested take a look into the evidence. Your Mr AsI is of course a cynical jaded old dog who still thinks The Winslow Boy was guilty (there’s one for the teenagers) his instinctive hunch is that our suitably kow-towed by injunction press – nevertheless as keen to run with the story as always – are now happy to pin it on anyone but the parents: Brueckner’s boast… Cops will never pin Maddie on me… prime suspect (The Sun)
As I say, this story is an exemplum of media “right think” reporting. Set your perameters of officially permitted ideas first – then do your journalism only within those boundaries.
Unless there’s, perhaps, some big paradigm shift.
For further example of strictly enforced official parameters which have been restricting our media: Fears over migrants ‘are a form of terrorism’… Prevent guidance says ‘cultural nationalism’ could require referral for deradiclisation (Telegraph)
I’d better close now (as Jim Morrison of The Doors, more or less, once remarked in the track Soul Kitchen 1967) – I’ve likely talked myself into enough trouble as it is.
Turn me out and I’ll wander baby
Stumblin’ in the neon groves
Fears over migrants ‘are a form of terrorism’
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BBC Last Touched on this story “Afghan murder suspect in Germany was jailed in Greece (convicted of attempted murder in Greece)” {bbc.co.uk dec2016}
Germans were outraged by the murder of Maria L, a student in Freiburg who volunteered for a refugee charity.
He was given a 10 year-sentence but was apparently freed after about 18 months.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38314498
BBC news bulletin yesterday about the election in Scotland….Labour a fantastic win….SNP a good second but must do better. End of bulletin.
Erm….Reform coming from nowhere with little infrastructure behind it and taking a third of the votes? Oh yeah…forgot to mention them.
Reminds you of the BBC’s coverage of UKIP and the European elections…UKIP who? Oh yeah…those Nazis.
Gone very quietly on to the BBC London page.
“Three men charged in connection with arson attacks on two properties and a car linked to Sir Keir Starmer will face trial in April of next year, a court has heard.
Roman Lavrynovych, 21, and Stanislav Carpiuc, 26 appeared together via video link from the high security Belmarsh prison in south-east London.
All three have indicated that they deny the charges and a trial date has been fixed for 27 April 2026.”
Have all 3 denied the charges so they get their moment in court to share a lot more than currently meets the eye. I hope so. It would be very unusual if all 3 of them self-harmed in an Epsteinistic way.
‘All three have indicated that they deny the charges’
Smart money is on their defence lawyers advising these chaps to plead guilty so as to avoid longer custodial sentences – and the inconvenience of a full trial of the evidence.
Your Mr AsI is of course a cynical jaded old dog who still thinks The Winslow Boy was guilty.
Just like Axel Rudakubana.
The fastest trial in history for such a horrific deed and lots of inconvenient coverage avoided.
Next : Ricky Jones. Quick plea change, 2 years suspended and gone from the news by breakfast.
I see the charge is only ‘encouraging violent disorder’ when in fact it was plainly incitement to murder.
And of course he is out on bail until the trial next year when everyone has forgotten about it.
I see the BBC article on Starmers fire is another ‘basic facts only’ affair and they do not go near any of the questions everyone is asking : how did 3 rent-boys know where Starmer lives and which was his car ?.
Very obviously a huge cover-up is going on here for some reason.
No doubt the Britainistan state will be playing plenty of dirty tricks on those characters during such a long bang up time ….probably giving them TTK lawyers … and if they get suicided Putin will get blamed .
The guardian is carrying a story that Britainistan is ‘at war ‘ with Russia …. Looks like the Marxists are engineering an ‘incident ‘ sufficient enough for TTK to distract from the next 3 years of national destruction … social – economic – the lot …
Yup.
Note how we have relentless rheotice from the comedian about how clear it is that Russia do not want peace just before he himself (well, the CIA) make a huge escalation in the conflict.
We are heading for WW3 and it’s us that is causing it. All because the EU want Ukraine and the rest of Europe and Russia to impose their own ideology. Then the rest of the world.
I am absolutely stunned by what is going on. WE are the Nazis now.
Agree bumping them off is going to be too much. So the next plan might be to bribe them. Plead guilty , get a light sentence , no prison time and a large bung .
Or if they are Ukrainians , I read that they were don’t know if it’s true, they could suddenly be wanted back in Kiev for crimes and deported never to be heard of again.
I’m sure that there are plenty of other ways that the state can stop the truth from coming out.
‘they could suddenly be wanted back in Kiev’
Or, as that old comic book German wartime phrase went: “Zzt… off to the Russian front…”
Mouse – notice how victims who are ‘approved’ get trial dates months and months ahead – yet the unapproved targets get their TTK judge TTK straight away …. ?
The Tommy Robinson first hearing is in 4 weeks time – and after the ‘mail’ case the Marxist CPS will have another political trial for him to face …..
The mail appears not to be reporting its’ own case at all …
It will be ‘interesting ‘ as two how courts treat ‘approved ‘ journalistist versus unapproved. Journalists like Tommy Robinson – I think I can guess ….
Shut up, look away, move along there
When Yusuf resigned as chairman of Reform I thought that it might be a positive for the party . It’s early days just 48 hours after he quit but to my surprise the party membership numbers have fallen by about 600., about 0.2% of the total .
It’s an insignificant number , less than the fall when Lowe quit, and it’s only 48 hours since he resigned and there may well yet be an upswing of people joining from those who are relieved he has gone and that Reform isn’t ‘doing a deal with Islam’.
The point which interests me is that the legacy media commentariat think that it’s a ‘ serious blow’ to Reform. They don’t understand , or more likely don’t want to understand , that the reasons why Reform is doing well are; far too much immigration, multiculturalism, loss of British identity , the rise of Islam,Net Zero and Wokism. These issues aren’t going away , they threaten the existence of our country, our way of life , the well being and happiness of our descendants.
The resignation of Yusuf is a positive when viewed against at least three of those issues. All of the other parties have thrust those issues down the electorates throats for decades and they cant credibly abandon them .
If Reform keeps these issue as it’s priorities it will go from strength to strength.
Sunday morning.
I hope that the price that Farage to get Yusef back didn’t involve too many concessions to Islam.
We already have Islamic MPs and Islamic parties. I wonder if such parties have many non Muslims in their ranks or even want them? I expect that unless Labour prostrates itself entirely to Islam such parties will grow and grow. Will we see Christian or strictly secular parties grow in response?
The division of our country continues and where there is division there is discord. Happy days ahead.
Double
Wise words – the uniparty has suppressed the British identity and tried to pervert it into some multicultural crap on the assumption that the British character wasn’t good enough at the outset ( see 300 years of empire )
Their fixation with nonsense like ‘moral high ground ‘ has cost Britain everything since 1914 – and is now leading to an end game of replacement by a determined enemy which only the likes of Reform has the ability to counter –
It must not try to placate Islam as that it impossible – basically Muslims need not apply – go and join the uniparty ….
DT carries a story about the perversion of the ‘prevent ‘ programme originally designed to stop Islamic terrorism ( failed ) so now it’s going for the ‘unapproved ‘ – see 1 below –
Cultural nationalism: ‘Western culture’ is under threat from mass migration and a lack of integration by certain ethnic and cultural groups. •
White/ethno-nationalism: Mass migration from the ‘non-white world’ and
demographic change poses an existential threat to the ‘white race’ and
‘Western culture’ •
White supremacism: The ‘white race is biologically, culturally and spiritually superior to all other races. An alternative form of government, ranging from fascist regimes to ethno-tribalism, should replace Western parliamentary democracy.
( the above is from the prevent site )
So .. if you are a ‘cultural nationalist ‘ you could be a candidate for the prevent programme- you ll get an appointment with someone called ‘femi ‘ or ‘Mohammed ‘ to get you ‘straight ‘…
‘DT carries a story about the perversion of the ‘prevent ‘ programme’
I sense the clue was always there in the name. Islamic terrorism was already an established fact before Prevent was invented. The prevention focus was inevitably soon morphed into the idea of prevention of any backlash from the aggrieved native population.
Sometimes he makes good points but, frankly disappointed in this…
I presume it is in part driven by a succession of private hire cars taking him to and from media appearances?
Maybe we should remove legs to help those who don’t have them?
Dear Mr Hitchens.
In St Petersburg in 2005 I noticed taxis, metro system, buses, trains, and public transport were don’t have in the UK.
And yet the roads were full of old smelly Ladas.
If impoverished Russians wee rage over-riding benefits of private transport, why should we not?
ye-gods….
Send Mohammed cartoons to Afghanistan to aid their understanding of multi cultural society…..
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Bacha bāzī [1] (/ˈbɑːtʃɑːbɑːˈzi/, Pashto and Dari: بچه بازی, lit. ’boy play’) refers to a pederasty practice in Afghanistan in which men exploit and enslave adolescent boys for entertainment and/or sexual abuse.[2][3][4][5] The man exploiting the young boy is called a bacha baz (literally “boy player”).[3] Typically, the bacha baz forces the bacha to dress in women’s clothing and dance for entertainment.[3][6] The practice is reported to continue into the present as of 2025.[7][8][9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacha_bazi
As Carl Benjamin points out in another tweet :
>>> There are 41 million Afghanistanis and 3 million Welsh
Mind you, if we isolated Angelsey and sent them all there – that would be a real spectacle for the ages.
I see the BBC have a story about the amount of foreign aid spent on hotels for migrants.
But no mention about money spent on houses of multiple occupancy. We know the government are pushing more into such houses, they can then claim the win when hotels are not used.
SERCO
ILYAS AKTHAR…..terrorism….skin colour, religion, ideology? Curiously missing.
My weekly porn treat – The week in Westminster – i get off on listening to wee Georgy Roberts (NATO fanboy) and someone called Penelope Mordanf going on about spending our money on ‘defence ‘ —- the same noises that politicians have made in the uniparty for decades ….
With no mention of the Real Threat to Britainistan – the daily invasion ….. no sighting of stopping that – instead they want lovely drones and lovely expensive fighters and boats and stuff … toys for the DEI boys and girls and others
I wouldn’t spend a penny on it until the invasion is crushed …
I wonder what happened to penny mordant after carrying some sword for something …. Is she in the lords now? Actually I care less ….
Update – the penny mordant one lost her Portsmouth seat to a Marxist – wiki says she has never had a real job – studying – philosophy at Reading then becoming a spad type MP – cabinet – usual crap …but still pops up as though she has ‘ authority ‘ ….
Work all your life and pay 35 years of NI contributions.
Receive a pension of £12,000 pa from age 66, soon 67.
OR
Be a young male Muslim economic chancer on a rubberised cross channel ferry. Pay no NI at all.
Receive benefits worth way more than £12,000 pa from the moment you arrive.
To the Far Left, these are morally equivalent.
To the rest of us………..
BBC has the briefest ‘report ‘ on one Ilyas Akhtar – who is charged with being a lone wolf Islamic terrorist – it doesn’t say whether he is the same Ilyas Akhtar as a member of an Islamic paedo racist rape Gang – there must be plenty of them carrying out their…. Hobby …. In the name of Mohammed 🎃
The BBC omitted most of the details – such as ‘Islamic ‘….
A bit more on Mr Akhtar here since the bBC won’t tell us:
https://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/news/thames-valley/news/2025/june/02-06-25/man-charged-with-terrorism-offences–slough/
A gigantic tar pit….
reputations, careers, public perception….
P. Diddy parties – everyone got invited no one attended.
Epstein Island parties – everyone got invited no one attended.
Reform has parted from Lowe, Habib and Yusuf.
Trump has parted from Musk.
All 5 of these post regularly on the likes of X and FB and I agree with just about everything they all say.
When you have Alpha males working together it isn’t really surprising when you get clashes and fall outs and that lot are all big hitters.
That is unlike the Labour Party where they stick together ‘cos they’re all shite and want to cling on to their jobs.
One thing I’ve noticed is they all more or less have kept to their beliefs they had when joining Reform/Trump and although they currently don’t get on they still all have mainstream support from the likes of us on here. I ‘like’ just about everything they all post.
I see it as similar to the Lennon McCartney split where we ended up getting twice the wonderful music.
Ooh, have a word with yourself, Emmanuel…
Lennon and McCartney had some wonderful hits together, but once they separated I think they mainly got by on reputation.
Okay, Lennon had Imagine and McCartney had Live and Let Die and Band on the Run, but they were always immeasurably better together.
And before the split we didn’t have to listen to the pretentious warbling of Yoko and her pitiful whining that somehow pretended to be singing.
Yoko was to The Beatles what Megan is to the royal family.
A talentless pain in the @rse…
Haha,
Agree about Yoko though.
Cheerful people are posting on social media
Seen this recently – took 3 days to sort out.
Tomo – please don’t put fake videos up on this site – surely yoy must know there are no ‘branches ‘ any more – particularly Santander ( im only joking ) …
I understand that Santander is looking to pull out of the UK citing over zealous regulation – similar to the regulation it just put on that victim .
The banks seem to have tightened up as they are more liable for fraud than before – but sure went to extremes with that victim – puter sez ‘no’ …..
Lloyds did this to my daughter less than two weeks ago – infuriating.
Say it’s to help build a Mosque in the lake district! Bingo!
I fear you are correct
They will give you extra money from the gov to help you! Amazing!
And HSBC did it to my son.
When I’d made an appointment to see my bank manager in Rye, (remember them), in 1972, I asked him if I could borrow £50.00, as I wanted to get married…
He was an absolute gentleman, looked at me with a charming, friendly and avuncular expression, and there and then pulled out the Midland Bank’s own cheque book, wrote the sum for me using a pen from an inkwell, and asked me to bank it at the desk, with a lovely smile…
Great chap, even though he’d once written to me personally to explain that our agreement was for me not to go in the red, and I was £3.5.6 overdrawn…
DT on the bbc – enjoy
STARTS Tim Davie struck a gloomy tone when discussing the BBC’s finances on Tuesday, as he renewed calls for extra funding.
“I want proper investment and not begrudging, grinding cuts to the BBC, which you’ve had in the last 10 years, which have just not helped,” the director general said.
The timing of his comments was key.
Davie is currently locked in talks with ministers ahead of the BBC’s Charter renewal in 2027, as he fights for the future of the licence fee.
Bosses in W1A acknowledge that the funding model requires reform in the modern media age.
But how this will affect the BBC’s stretched finances is a critical question as it continues to lose viewers at an alarming rate.
The licence fee has existed in some guise since the BBC’s launch in 1922, when the government decided the new broadcaster should be publicly funded.
This, the corporation says, allows its UK output to remain “free of advertisements and independent of shareholder and political interest”.
While the BBC was initially limited to radio services, the first combined radio and TV licence was issued in 1946 for £2.
Fast-forward to the 21st century and the BBC has transformed from a fledgling broadcaster into a public service behemoth.
Income from the licence fee stood at £3.7bn last year, a significant chunk of the UK’s entertainment and media market, which is valued at around £100bn by PwC.
However, this scale does not tell the full story.
With the emergence of streaming rivals such as Netflix and Disney, as well as social media platforms such as YouTube and TikTok, the BBC is facing an identity crisis.
While the public service broadcaster continues to dominate the UK media space – around 86pc of adults consume its services each week, according to the latest Ofcom figures – it is losing ground.
This is particularly acute among 16 to 24-year-olds, who spend just 5pc of their in-home video time with the BBC, compared to the 23pc for over-35s.
Waning interest has meant lower income as viewers vote with their feet.
The number of households paying the licence fee dropped to 23.9m last year – a 500,000 fall that sucked £80m from the BBC’s budget. The figure is 2.3m lower than the peak of 26.2m between 2017 and 2019.
Cost is likely to be a factor. At £174.50 per year, the licence fee comes in at around £14.50 a month. That compares to £5.99 a month for Netflix’s ad tier, or £12.99 for its standard ad-free service. Disney charges £4.99 with ads and £8.99 without.
While the BBC argues it offers good value for money given the breadth of its service, this is unlikely to win over apathetic youngsters who consider Auntie irrelevant.
The fall in licence fee payers is not the only driving force behind the BBC’s squeezed finances, however. Over the last 15 years, repeated government interventions have taken their toll.
In 2010, George Osborne announced the licence fee would be frozen for seven years at £145.50. Nadine Dorries, the former culture secretary, then froze the levy again in 2022, even as inflation surged.
The fee will now increase in line with inflation until the end of the Charter in 2027, but only after another Tory culture secretary, Lucy Frazer, stepped in to prevent a 9pc – or £15 – rise amid concerns it would fuel the cost of living crisis.
Adding further strain to the budget, the government in 2015 forced the BBC to take over the cost of providing free licence fees to the over-75s, while it also handed over the main burden of funding the World Service.
Analysis shows that government interference, coupled with a decline in licence fee payers, amounts to a real-terms decrease of around 30pc – or £1.4bn – in the broadcaster’s domestic funding over the last 15 years.
Stemming the decline
The question, then, is how to plug the gap.
Davie has been wielding the axe on both staff and programming as he seeks to strip £700m from the BBC’s annual budget.
Yet this whittling down of resources has fuelled anger and concern about the impact on the quality of the broadcaster’s output, with spending on new shows poised to fall by £150m this year.
The BBC has also ramped up enforcement of the licence fee, with 41m warnings sent out in the 2024 financial year – an increase of almost 13pc year on year.
Another method championed by Davie, the former BBC Studios boss, is to boost the broadcaster’s commercial income to help balance the books.
Measures so far have included taking full control of BritBox International, the BBC’s joint streaming venture with ITV, after buying out its rival for £225m.
The BBC has also struck a co-production deal with Disney to air Doctor Who overseas, worth an estimated $100m (£73m).
But other schemes, such as its plan to run adverts around radio and podcast output, have been scrapped in the face of fierce opposition from commercial rivals.
Despite its bold aims, the BBC’s commercial income fell to £1.9bn last year from just over £2bn the year before.
Overall, the BBC is forecasting a £33m deficit for the coming year.
It is against this precarious backdrop that the BBC has entered discussions with the Government.
Ministers have made it clear, however, that reform, or even scrapping, of the licence fee is top of the agenda.
While the licence fee is now lower as a proportion of average household income – 0.46pc last year compared to 0.64pc in 2012 – the levy is facing scrutiny in a world where viewers have a plethora of entertainment options.
What’s more, the licence fee is regressive, with poorer households paying more relative to their income and women disproportionately prosecuted for not paying.
Licence to change
So if the licence fee were to be scrapped, what could take its place?
One option is replacing it with a subscription model, similar to those of streaming services.
However, critics have warned that such a move risks undermining the BBC’s ability to serve its audiences and would limit the scope of its output.
“A subscription funding model would be antithetical to the BBC’s public service mission, necessarily ending universality of access and undermining its breadth of content,” said analysts at Enders Analysis.
Similarly, funding the BBC through advertising has been viewed as a non-starter as it would draw too much money away from the commercial TV and radio sector.
Both Davie and Samir Shah, the BBC chairman, have pushed to retain the licence fee with reforms, acknowledging the shortcomings of a regressive flat tax. But what would this look like?
Lisa Nandy, the Culture Secretary, has pushed back against the idea of funding the BBC through general taxation, saying it would leave the broadcaster exposed to political interference.
Another option is a household tax similar to the one used in Germany.
This would boost the BBC’s income by widening the payment of the licence fee to all households, rather than just those who use its services.
It could also be linked to council tax bands, creating a more progressive system where wealthier households pay more.
Other options under consideration include linking the levy to broadband bills – a measure that would take on particular relevance as Britain prepares to switch off terrestrial TV and move to a streaming-only model.
It is thought that any of these reforms would reduce the rate of evasion, though ministers will no doubt be reluctant to introduce new taxes, especially in light of the upcoming spending review.
In a speech last month, Davie said: “When it comes to funding, we are not asking for the status quo. We want modernisation and reform. But in doing so, we must safeguard universality.”
Alternatively, as the BBC’s Charter comes up for renewal, ministers could opt for a bolder rethink.
The corporation retains its Reithian principles – named after John Reith, the first director-general – to inform, educate and entertain. But in the modern age, does the BBC still need to be all things to all people?
Some industry watchers note that the BBC could drop some of its more peripheral services, such as its education unit Bitesize.
BBC bosses are themselves alive to this possibility, and the broadcaster in March launched its largest ever public survey to ask audiences what they want from the broadcaster in the future.
A more radical view espoused by a number of industry bigwigs is a merger between the UK’s public service broadcasters.
Sir Peter Bazalgette, the former chairman of ITV, says: “There’s no doubt in my mind that there ought to be mergers between domestic broadcasters, not just in England, but right across Europe, in order for those broadcasters to survive and have big enough businesses in their streaming services.”
Speaking at a conference in London this week, Wayne Garvie, Sony Pictures’ international boss, said: “We’ve got five public service broadcasters in Britain. The rest of the world might have one.
“It is unsustainable and the future has got to be, surely, Channel 4 and the BBC coming together.”
The idea of slimming down the BBC or combining it with its rivals will no doubt rankle supporters who view the universality of access as a key tenet of its purpose.
But as competition grows and audiences continue to defect, it is clear the status quo cannot continue.
Instead of trying to do more with less, it may be time for the public service broadcaster to simply do less.ENDS
Look no further for cost savings . Today rugby league cup final. At least 10 commentators. Why? They need to cut back no need for so many people.
Only the Marxists would have the idea of dumping the cost of their BBC on the ‘community charge ‘ – with ‘progressive funding ‘ based on the class of your home . …… sooner or later I suppose councils will be seizing homes where the community charge hadn’t been paid and putting invaders into them ….using plod to do a bit of taser based killing along the way …
“Lisa Nandy, the Culture Secretary, has pushed back against the idea of funding the BBC through general taxation, saying it would leave the broadcaster exposed to political interference.”
Bit late to state the bleeding obvious!
That’s what this great BBBC site is all about – picking holes in left-wing political bias, which is usually around 95% of their output, (figures by others elsewhere here – somewhere)!
I’d also question the quality of the ‘journalism’ they do nowadays. The use of uni-kids telling the taxpayer what to think is ludicrous! Old farts like Bowen will soon be gone, and the new intake of studes will be unwatchable, so Davie had better start thinking of doing what Thompson did, run away to the US, but President Trump may not be so keen on him turning up at CNN or other fogey stations!
Can the BBC explain to me why Universality is so important to them? If those of us , a growing number, who don’t pay the Licence Fee then we reject universality . We don’t want it and don’t want to pay for it.
Of course the truth is that the BBC wants universality because it can then either make more people pay for its services , including those who don’t want it . Or it can justify being paid out of taxation in one form or another.
The population of the country has grown a lot since 2017 , probably by 2 to 5 million. Yet the number of Licence Fee payers has fallen by 2.3 million, so the number of people not paying the LF has increased by nearer to 5 million than 2.3 million.
Whatever method of funding they come up with they still can’t make us watch or listen to their sewer like output. At least not yet!
I would guess you don’t need to book a table at Hawksmoor if you want a meal.
The place will be half empty and may well close down.
The only solution is to become a total vegetarian restaurant powered by windmillls to cater for the section of the population they have not pissed off.
I wonder if the illegals in the Hawksmoor kitchen were worried they’d get a ‘visit ‘…?
Funny old world, bad thing wise.
Greta.
Hawksmoor.
Simon Biles.
Dawn French.
And…
https://x.com/koshercockney/status/1931372279876726827?s=61
The Global News Director of the BBC just said they don’t post things that aren’t confirmed or verified
Well there’s a couple very big lies there in my opinion, proven by their own admission:
1. Their own scandalous “BBC Verify” is literally a method of verifying images and stories AFTER they’ve posted them
2. The retraction post below from the BBC themselves shows that they do post things that were from the wrong location AND the wrong time of day, before they verify it. In the original post they didn’t state it was put out to create the wrong impression.
This notice was put out days after they put out the wrong information, not when they posted it, because they didn’t bother to verify it in the first place.
No just bad PR management, bad BBC PR management
Lucky they are ‘uniquely funded’
“uniquely funded” ?? I think you mean criminally funded surely
Mayfair isn’t the same place as it was when Monopoly meant something!
Something about much, much more money…
(Not English pounds – real money).
One does keep wondering what OFCOM is for.
https://x.com/londonette/status/1931319762568585480?s=61
Shocking misinformation from the BBC’s Global News Director, Jonathan Munro, on whether Hamas controls how local Gazan journalists operate:
Protecting state media gaslighting, presumably.
Now guess what !
Breaking News
Former Reform UK chairman, Zia Yusuf, returns to the party less than 48 hours after resigning.
I wonder who told him he had to.
His 6 year old wife Aisha wanted more toys…..
** is this kind of joke a hate crime in the UK now.?
David Bull on Talk had a great guest on this morning, saying that shouting around and leaving the Reform Party on a polling day was a disgrace!
Too right!
NW
Thanks I thought I read it wrong but they’ve got a Muslim back again – maybe it’s the money he bribes them with – sorry – I mean ‘donations ‘ …. And he’ll get his peerage somewhere along the line ….
Cold again today
Net Zero? That means Global Warming— er—- sorry I meant to write Climate Change which covers everything from A to Z
We are all terrorists and Nazis now ….POLICE- Now you’re a terrorist.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/police-now-youre-130919531
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London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom, has become one of the most ethnically diverse and multicultural cities in the world. Greater London had a population of 8,899,375 at the 2021 census. Around 41% of its population were born outside the UK, and over 300 languages are spoken in the region.
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Does this mean you can ask Muslims to leave concerts now?
China (developing nation needing aid from the UK) has recovered a rocket (like Space X but using their own research – ha ha ha ha ) ….
Comment .. HA AH AH A “I’ve been seeing the same behavior pattern among Americans for several years now,
They start some project expecting to receive some amount of funding and don’t finish it, The Chinese start a project to completion at a tenth of the cost of the Americans and in a very short time,“
“For the BBC, reality is controversial.” HA HA HA HAHAH! World has gone made!
Comment “She really said killing and murder is a part of their way of life and he just noded along to it, wtf”
Comment “The Danish guy should have said “why do YOU lie to your people about who are committing the crimes in their country and then arresting them when they use pattern recognition””
A Scottish colleague of mine predicted this in 1999 after looking at the MSP freshers…
Ban banning!
If white British people become a minority, the Left will be in serious trouble!
by Michale Deacon at DT today…
‘Within the next 40 years, white British people will become a minority in this country. And by the year 2100, they’ll account for only a third of the population. So predicted the academic and commentator Professor Matthew Goodwin in a report this week. And, ever since, I’ve been pondering an intriguing question’….
…So, if white British people become a minority, will Left-wing activists throw all their righteous energies into championing them?
Ethnicity Graph: (showing ethnic English will be a minority by 2060)
‘Perhaps they’ll insist that job adverts give priority to applicants who are white British. And order schools to celebrate White British History Month. And, when political parties are seeking election candidates, demand that they increase white British representation by adopting all-white British shortlists.
Equally, perhaps they’ll call on the BBC to cast white British actors in non-white British roles. And argue that all non-white workers should undergo unconscious bias training, to check that they aren’t harbouring prejudice against the white British community – or, as they’re properly known, People of No Colour.’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/07/if-white-british-people-ethnic-minority-left-trouble/
But I really do hope and pray that the BBC will not exist in 2060 to torment the last few remaining in these Islands. But that may be asking too much if the Liberal luvvies still exist then. Probably not in Islamic law.
1985 … the white minority can sit and makes bets in the betting shop whilst eating a kebab and watch …
“Ahmadis suffer vicious persecution around the world. The main source of fuel for that persecution is in Pakistan, but what happens in Pakistan does not stay in Pakistan.
I know that from my experience in the Yorkshire market town of Batley. In August 1985, when I was 11 years old, my parents organised an inter-faith meeting in the town hall. It was interrupted and disturbed when, according to West Yorkshire police,
more than 1,000 extremists, led by Pakistani hate preachers funded by the Pakistani state, were bused in from around the country.
The mob brutally attacked my English mother and my father, a dermatologist; my eldest brother and I; and a Welsh Ahmadi schoolteacher who was with us. My first cousin, a GP, was by chance driving through the market town that day. He saw the mob and saw his family and friends being attacked, so he stopped. He was recognised, pulled from his vehicle and savagely beaten up.”
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2020-03-12a.177.0&s=islam+batley#g195.0
Obviously Zia Yusuf read my “””comments””” yesterday and came to his senses and decided to rejoin Reform. If Zia has actually made a big contribution to the membership numbers and contributed in other ways to date, then I am happy and thank him. I hope he continues with DOGE Councils in the same way and gets the support he needs. The other added bonus is that there are now other opportunities to fill roles of Chairman and Deputy Leader.
Ben Habib anyone?
Comments from yesterday.
“””So the ex-chairman of Reform Zia Yusuf reckons it was dumb of Reforms newest MP to ask the question about banning the burka to Starmer. All the BBC, lie-bore, “Tory?”, and even a few guests I heard on Talk Radio joined in sycophantically with each other to do Reform down.
Personally I think it was an excellent question for a number of reasons.
1. Starmer (who never answers anything anyway, was dumbfounded, ah, ah, ah, er, er, ah. He was made to feel uncomfortable and shown that he can not think on his feet when things go off-piste. A good idea not to give him any easy patsies to bat back.
2. Starmer always makes a big play of our European friends and colleagues. I would ask him if they have all got it wrong. -Several European countries have enacted laws restricting the wearing of burqas, often in public spaces, or have imposed bans on face coverings more broadly. These include France, Belgium, Denmark, Austria, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, and Luxembourg. Italy and Spain also have regional or localised restrictions.
3. I would expect quite a few people picking up on Lie-bore considering an i.d card. I would want to know what use would an i.d card be for those who won’t show their face.
4. Can we all wear masks or will it be made illegal for some and not for others? What about Antifa and others on protest marchers.
Starmer has a few stock answers – “14 years of Tory rule”. Need to give him more to think about whilst on his feet. The cracks will become more apparent. Prime Minister Questions (and particularly the Answers) is mainly a waste of time but it can make a tool look an even bigger tool.”””
To be honest, I’m not sure what’s going on with Reform.
I’ve read reports that Reform had said Yusuf had been overworking, some suggesting that his resignation was purely over the question of the burka ban put forward by new MP Sarah Pochin, and others report that he had been receiving lots of racists emails etc. from the ‘Far Right’ (I suppose that depends on the source of those reports, – as I thought we were all ‘Far Right ’now)
Personally, I think Reform have been putting out a lot of mixed messages recently.
Surely ‘just a bump in the road’..
However, far more enjoyable is the delicious spectacle of the sliding u turn of another Far Left National Treasure in Dawn French, realising not all of Islington think Oct 7th was just a ‘bad thing’ .
When I heard on the radio that Yusuf had returned to Reform they also said he didn’t leave because of Pochin’s question and would vote/support banning the burka/niqab/whatever.
Late but ,
Thought For Today Radio 4 The Today Programme .
The religious person was against the English language .
Yes to her , it was made the lingua franca of the world by colonialism , thus by tyranny . And it impedes diversity etc .
She loves diversity , yet no mention of the EU , homogeneousing everything they can .
Mention of the Tower of Babel and the apostles speaking in all tongues at Pentecost . That covers the religious bit .
So this language of the victor over the vanquished !?
Well yes it was used by the British in their empire .
But hold on , the most influential country that brought the English language to be the world language last century was the USA .
Who vanquished the British in 1776 .
Perhaps there`s something else about this language , which pushes aside all other putative world languages like French , Spanish , Russian, Arabic, Chinese and Esperanto aside ?
I`ll say it in English – liberty .
It was this language that was foremost in the last century against the evils of regimes that did not use it .
So much so , that in the world non native speakers of the English language who speak it fluently or are learning to speak it fluently vastly outnumber the native English speakers .
And they try to learn it fluently not just in the School classroom but by the street , TV , newspapers and a myriad of other ways . They learn not under duress but by the liberties they can . They love and appreciate the language as something more than just learning any other language .
Is that the language of a oppressor ?
And what organisation has benefitted more than than than the ordinary Joe because the English language is the world language ?
The BBC .
Make them pay from foreign aid?
“The NHS spends a significant amount on translation and interpreting services. In 2019-2020, the total spend reached £65.96 million, including interpretation, BSL, and translation. This includes a 5.7% increase from the previous year. A more recent report showed NHS trusts spent at least £113.97 million on interpreters and translation services between 2019-20 and 2021-22, averaging £725,953 per trust that replied. “
Six killed by Israeli gunfire near Gaza aid site, Hamas officials say
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy5evz4xdklo
‘Dozens of Palestinians have been killed close to the controversial supply centre in Gaza’
And once again statements by a terrorist group ruling their country as a dictatorship are presented as fact by the BBC with the very clear implication they were just innocent civilians because they put this picture up right next to the headline:
Do the BBC really expect us to believe that the people guarding this aid site just shot innocent children ? – because that is what they are directly inferring. It’s the most appalling, cynical lying by inferrence : the context is everything for a story like this.
They always use the first third of the article to repeat what their Muslim, Gazan reporters tell them without question or context then add a single sentence from Israel later. But when Hamas are accused, their response is shown in the same sentence:
‘GHF said it had not been able to distribute food on Saturday because of direct threats from Hamas – something the group has denied.’
Does anyone doubt that to be true ?. Would they stop providing aid for any other reason ?. Why is there no explanation of how Hamas want these aid sites closed down because they can’t steal the aid ?. It’s vital context for these stories and the BBC don’t report it at all.
As usual, there is no ‘without providing evidence’ for anything the terrorists in Hamas say. The BBC report it word for word. I can’t believe just how extreme the reporting about what is going on in Gaza has become.
Another one from this clone who is their ‘Africa’ correspondent. Of course it doesn’t matter where they are when all they are doing is carefully rewording ‘reports’ from their Gazan Muslim sources who will never tell us what Hamas are doing because they will get murdered if they do. Something else the BBC don’t tell us.
The agenda fore the BBC here is to get those aid sites closed down. All of a sudden we don’t hear anything about how all the people in Gaza are starving : it’s suddenly not the issue any more. They want it all back under leftist UN control. The real story here should be about why the UN cannot be trusted.
Go Google Plett-Usher’s husband.
About
Graham Usher was Palestine correspondent for The Economist, Middle East International and al-Ahram English Weekly. He is the author of Dispatches from Palestine (Pluto Press 1999). Google Books
Despite everything going on in the world today, the BBC have THREE articles about the Trump/Musk spat on the front page – and they are trying to link it to as much bad news as they can.
Today they infer that it has caused the ‘biggest ever’ crisis at NASA!.
Trump-Musk row fuels ‘biggest crisis ever’ at Nasa
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c87jq0djw00o
That ‘headline’ is yet another BBC use of a quote from someone else presented as fact.
It’s from: ‘Casey Dreier, chief of space policy for the Pasadena-based Planetary Society, which promotes space exploration’
Nothing to do with any of it. It’s another blatant lie by quotation – which is now the BBC’s favourite way to create grossly misleading headlines from what one person said. They are doing it every day for Gaza now.
Here’s an example of what ‘Casey’ does:
‘We help more people understand the reality of the danger and the importance of protecting the Earth from asteroids, and we help them share this knowledge with family and friends.’
He doesn’t elaborate on what actual use their work is to anybody. He’s a parasite : all they do is talk about what other people are doing.
More disgraceful journalism from the BBC and it shows just how low they are prepared to go to twist a story to their own extreme-Left agenda.
Here’s the author ‘Phallab Ghosh”s claim to fame from wiki (which I expect he wrote himself):
‘Ghosh has broken several important stories, notably the cloned Dolly the sheep having arthritis’
I wonder how he got that scoop.
You belong here – but not in my actual house! Inshallah!
Undocumented dreamer illegal migrants to babysit all political leaders who love this stuff.
Happy .. er .. Pentecost – 50 days after the resurrection … the BBC hasn’t managed to make ‘bells on Sunday ‘ approved DEI yet but give them time ….
That’s one that hasn’t been cancelled yet …..
Im sure TTK and the Charlie Windsor will wish all good Christians a happy Pentecost – like they do with every other ‘religion ‘ – however violent it might be ….
Wouldn’t it be fascinating to see sales figures for: Panini England Lionesses official stickers collection – as vigorously pushed by Sunday Mirror, Sunday People and Star on Sunday: Pick up from WH Smith
Better hurry before they’re all gone: WH Smith to complete sale of high street stores within weeks (a welcome debut hereabouts for the The Grocer ‘the UK’s leading source of grocery retail news, analysis and insight, covering supermarkets, food and drink brands and the wider fmcg sector.’)
Gotta be seen to be pushing that merch…
Nike not selling Women’s World Cup goalkeeper shirts ‘hugely hurtful’, says Mary Earps. Lionesses keeper criticises sportswear giant’s decision to only make outfield kits available to buy. (SportsPro ‘Stay up to date with the latest sports business news and insights’)
Mary Earps goalkeeper shirts to go on sale after Nike U-turn. Company to sell ‘limited’ England, US, France and Netherlands jerseys in response to outcry after Women’s World Cup (Guardian)
And, apparently, albeit in “limited quantities”… they sold like hot cakes: Lionesses: Mary Earps goalkeeper shirts sell out in five minutes on England online store (BBC)
One wonders how many? Sounds like a job for AI Overview ‘a feature in Google Search that use generative AI to provide concise, comprehensive summaries of search queries’
How many lionesses goalkeeper shirts sold, AI Overview?
The limited release of Lionesses goalkeeper shirts, specifically those featuring Mary Earps, sold out very quickly. In one instance, they were sold out within five minutes according to BBC. While a definite number isn’t publicly available, the sales were described as “unprecedented” and “sold out” in “hours” or “minutes”. This was partly due to a previous controversy where no goalkeeper shirts were available during the World Cup, leading to criticism and a demand for the release
In further regime-sponsored astroturfed campaign news…
Deep conversations… The Prince of Wales and Sir David Attenborough discuss marine technology before the premier of his new documentary… Sir David told the Prince “What we have done to the deep ocean floor is just unspeakably awful” (Telegraph) – our mildly conservative broadsheet there.
And under our BBC’s online news page ‘Climate’ thread: Ocean damage unspeakably awful, Attenborough tells prince (BBC)
Meanwhile, bearing in mind its audience’s ‘deep’ preferences for political greenery in general and for an impressive sounding stat, the Guardian on Sunday goes ‘deep’ but goes harder…
Deep trouble… 90% of UK marine reserves bottom trawled… 300 species threatened with extinction… Attenborough wins support to save seabed (Observer)
There’s a lot to ‘support’ this weekend…
Secret Glastonbury: The mystery of the festival’s surprise stars… After the full Glastonbury timetable was published this week, one band’s name was on everybody’s lips. Except no-one knows who they actually are. Patchwork have a prime place on the festival’s line-up – third from the top of the bill on the main Pyramid Stage on the Saturday night. The only thing is, there’s no band called Patchwork. (BBC)
Oh, secret famous band performing under a fake title, how exciting!
Who could this mysterious Patchwork really be?
Who are Patchwork? The main theories include: Pulp… Haim… Mumford and Sons… Oasis… Robbie Williams… Oasis and Robbie Williams (BBC)
I’m making an outside bet on Keir Starmer and his backing group, the three boys from the Ukraine Eurovision entry male voice choir singing a cover of The Door’s Light My Fire [1967]
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Boy, we couldn’t get much higher
Come on, baby, light my fire
Come on, baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire!
The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now, we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
“Mary Earps goalkeeper shirts” – nationalise them and make them free to all school kids with a free school meal.
Glastonbury best speech goes to Jeremy Corbyn ….
“Look on the WALL right over there that SURROUNDS (protects) this wonderful festival (GLASTONBURY). And there’s a message on that wall for President Donald Trump. And you know what it says? Build bridges (MESSAGE ON WALL) not walls. (WALL IS PROTECTING THEM ALL).” Jeremy Corbyn 2017
lastonbury Festivals Events Ltd
Address of donor: Worthy Farm, Pilton, Shepton Mallet BA4 4BY. Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets to Glastonbury, total value £476, given to a member of my family: – Jeremy got in FREE! HA HAH AHAH !
I didn’t realise the woke united were playing Andorra ? On Saturday with the crowd enjoying a rendition of ‘Starmer is a c word ‘ to put some life into a dismal ( normal ) 00 first half … I bet sky had a job filtering that out …
The Greenies can’t do arithmetic… so they lie.
I am familiar with that particular phenomena.
Clap for the NHS and to keep your hands warm!
When the immigrants are the majority and take over do you think they will behave as the immigrants to America did and keep the indigenous Brits in reservations.
I don’t really know how the immigrants who took over Australia and NZ handled them but the Aboriginee and Maori appear to be irrelevant now.
Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes – how governments respond could haunt them for years to come
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r1xl5wgnko
Jazbo’s been busy. He’s been travelling round to interview all the people he knows share his viewpoint then putting all their quotes into this ridiculously long article telling us how bad Israel are.
It’s right down in the gutter with everything else this extreme-Left idiot churns out. There is no balance in it whatsoever. He didn’t quote anyone who says anything bad about Hamas. And much of it is the usual lies presented as things people said – so they are opinions and don’t need to be true.
‘Lawyers I have spoken to believe that there is evidence that Israel followed war crimes, committed by Hamas when it attacked Israel, with very many of its own, including the crime of genocide.’
I wonder how many of those lawyers are called Mohammad.
‘”I’m shaken to my core,” Jan Egeland, the veteran head of the Norwegian Refugee Council and former UN humanitarian chief, told me. “I haven’t seen a population like this being so trapped for such a long period of time in such a small, besieged area. Indiscriminate bombardment, denied journalism, denied healthcare.’
The UN are an absolute disgrace these days. Nobody is getting indiscriminate ‘bombardment’ : they respond to the threats on the ground. No a single mention anywhere in this tripe of how Hamas fight from within civilian groups. Not one.
And denied journalism ???. The BBC have plenty of journalists in there. All Muslims who probably support Hamas and hate the Jews. That kind of bias doesn’t seem to bother the BBC though – in fact they cover it up by getting non-Muslims to rewrite their reports as if they did it themselves.
And just look at this:
“Statements by Netanyahu and his ministers suggest that the object of current operations is to force the Arab population of Gaza to leave by killing and starving them if they stay. These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening.”
Someone should tell this cretin that they CANNOT leave Gaza because nobody wants them. The reason is obvious.
This is another disgraceful far-Left warped version of events from Bowen with very little truth in it and lots of selected opinions. It tells us everything we need to know about the BBC that they allow him to do it.
This trick of presenting the opinions of people who say what the BBC are not allowed to say as very strongly implied truths has got completely out of hand. Something has to be done about these people.
Front page billing
They would reflect the character of the fat oaf better if they used this one:
So Bowen is saying Israel is committing war crimes and genocide…why else would he suggest governments would be haunted by the wrong repsonse? Just a little biased as the BBC demonises Israel around the world. Then again Bowen has pushed this line from the start of the war…but it was a war begun by Hamas which intends to wipe out Israel…and the Jews….Israel is perfectly jusitified therefore in wiping out Hamas….note the difference…Hamas not all Palestinians.
Remember no country wants to take Palestinian refugees thus they are stuck in the war zone unlie other places where refugees flee and leave the warzone. Thsi makes it incredibly difficult for Israel to fight a war whwere Hamas deliberately hides in hospitals, mosques and schools and in refugee camps knowing civilian casualties will result…thus a propaganda win in their eyes for them….with the BBC, and Bowen, as a willing accomplice in peddling the anti-Israel propaganda.
Is Keir watching with his free glasses in his free VIP box with his free body guards? HA HA HAH AH AH!
And it’s why the goons in Brussels have the BBC on their “one click funds transfer” system
Supermarket beef steaks only available to people who buy 50kg of soy mince.
The BBC hates sovereignty and borders and gaslights us that there is no British identity, no British culture…we are a nation of immigrants and you have no right to say the new colonisers don’t belong here. All views expressed by another EU Quisling…..
He’s a bit much – Ireland bought it on itself – I can’t understand how the third world get into it . Do they come from the North via the non border ? I don’t know …..
I wouid have thought it far easier for Ireland to repel invaders than for Britain – if only the channel was 30 miles wide .
I saw the Canadian -Ezra – broadcasting from a huge March / demo in cork yesterday … I think the Irish will deal with the invasion before anyone else does – with catholics and Protestants uniting to fight a far bigger danger …
Get there ?
must be 18 months ago I was reading about Dublin airport where planes were arriving and the travellers were losing their travel docs between the plane door and immigration desk… where they are quickly processed as refugees – the conniving was total – like, -how do you fly to Dublin without ID?
I have absolutely seen same / similar twice
Paris CDG – AF A330 plane from Lagos (normally Terminal 2E) went to 2B or 2F – but no border and no customs – half the passengers furtively skedaddled without luggage.
Old Oslo airport at Fornebu DC8 ! plain white unmarked from Lahore – no customs, no immigration around – at all – all desks unmanned.
No idea who either of them are but I have an overwhelming urge to punch them.