Start the Week 16th June 2025

Like the Labour Government The BBC didn’t want an inquiry into organised Muslim rape Gangs. So it is in a tricky position now that Starmer has announced a statutory inquiry – which can compel people to give evidence. Perhaps the BBC will ignore the inquiry in the same way it ignored Pakistani Islamic paedophile organised rape gangs for years .. and still does …. Please dump the licence …

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309 Responses to Start the Week 16th June 2025

  1. wwfc says:

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  2. tomo says:

    Be cynical about the war photos…..

    careful-accepting.jpg

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    • G says:

      Scale is all wrong. Imagine the person dressed in white on his own to the right of the cockpit actually in it………
      Could a midget fly this plane?

      Things appear larger when looking up a mountain so you judge the size of a sheep ……………..

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  3. tomo says:

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    • tomo says:

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      • Fedup2 says:

        >tomo – thanks – questions need to be asked – such as – how many of these MPs are members of rape gangs – or have ‘connections ‘? – what is the % of voters in their constituencies who are Muslim supporters of rape gangs – or members … ?

        I get the feeling when pixie balls stands up in the commons there won’t be many Marxist MPs in the chamber – just hateful Muslim ones …

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      • MarkyMark says:

        “Five local inquiries, which cannot compel the production of evidence, just will not do. Fifty towns were affected, not five. Bradford, where some of the worst abuse occurred, is refusing to co-operate with any inquiry at all. There has never been an inquiry in Bradford, because the council is refusing to participate.

        https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2025-04-28c.33.0&s=bradford+council+rape+gangs#g34.0

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    • G says:

      Deportation candidates

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  4. tomo says:

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  5. tomo says:

    BBC get ME expert Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on to opine on naughty Israel

    Greg Wallace tomorrow, Fanny Craddock via Ouija

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  6. Guest Who says:

    Might need verifying.

    https://x.com/shaykhsulaiman/status/1934356730067959851?s=61
    BREAKING: PAKISTAN WILL DROP NUKE ON ISRAEL IF ISRAEL USE IT AGAINST IRAN
    Iranian National Security Council member Mohsen Rezaei:
    “Pakistan told Iran that if Israel drops a nuclear bomb in Tehran, we will drop a nuclear bomb on them”

    Worth noting anyway which country’s national ram the BBC, Civil Service and the benches of the commons.

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  7. Eddy Booth says:

    Hard to tell who’s winning the Middle East war from the BBC coverage,.
    So can’t be going too well for their side?

    Got a feeling this random comment sums it all up.

    “When Hamas was getting fucked everyone was saying yeah but just wait till Hezbollah gets into the game, when Hezbollah got fucked everyone said yeah just wait till Iran joins the party.
    What now…”

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  8. Deborah says:

    Probably overtaken by events but remember the starving Gazans? When there was famine in Biafra our tv screens were filled nightly with pot bellied wide-eyed children, often with their wizened mothers with shrivelled breasts which produce no milk. There was usually a fly buzzing round their faces. It is amazing that the BBC doesn’t have those scenes to show of Gazans. As I don’t watch the BBC maybe I missed it

    Israel has gone into Iran because the Iranians were close to having an atomic bomb to drop on Israel. Those Iranian scientists must be brilliant. Israel is only a few miles across and I am wondering how the scientists developed a bomb that respects borders. It doesn’t, you say? Then the Gazans must thank Israel for protecting them.

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  9. StewGreen says:

    41,000 Likes is a lot for a UK tweet
    The posts is not about TR saying he was the first
    It’s about the establishment suppressing this issue
    thus not treating people equally

    TR’s tweet

    If only they listened , I wrote my first leaflet on Muslim rape gangs in 2004 ,
    it made it onto the front page of my local paper.
    Since I opened my mouth on this issue I have faced the full weight of the British establishment in cover up mode.
    They all have dirty hands

    It quotes the Newsnight video where Paxman sneered and tied to shout him down

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  10. JohnC says:

    Israel and Iran attacks continue as leaders warn of further retaliation
    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c2kqkd03xn5t

    ‘This comes after Israel attacked Iran early on Friday, hitting nuclear facilities, military sites and populated areas. Iran has responded with drones and ballistic missiles’

    Just look at the deliberate misrepresenation here by the BBC.

    What ‘populated areas’ did Israel hit BBC ?. Or did they hit specific targets which are IN populated areas ?. More careful BBC wording to infer a lie.

    But of course the fact that those ‘drones and ballistic missiles’ are DELIBERATELY aimed at civilians in major cities is simply not reported. It’s terrorism. It’s a war crime.

    Another example of the disgusting extreme-Left ethics of your typical BBC reporter. They don’t care one bit that they are targetting Israeli civilians.

    I wonder if the ‘reporters’ chose those words themselves or were directed not to criticise Iran by the BBC third floor. The consistency of specific phrases like this across all articles show it is BBC ‘policy’ to lie by omission.

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  11. harry142857 says:

    For us insomniacs.

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  12. JohnC says:

    ‘Nowhere feels safe’: Iranians on life under Israeli attacks
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xgxdr01wro

    These types of articles are very common on the BBC now – and they are always used in support of the BBC agenda.

    It’s yet another one stuffed full of quotations from individuals people being presented as if they reflect the opinion of the whole country. It’s a sleezy, gutter-level technique which as absolutely worthless as ‘news’. Firstly they just use people who say what the BBC want to say but aren’t allowed to and secondly they are perfect stooges because the BBC can edit what they say as much as they like and nobody can prove otherwise.

    This one is meant ot make us think that Iranian people are all decent and caring – much the same as us. To that effect, their ‘quotes’ have been phrased in perfect English so we think we might say the same thing ourselves.

    It started in Gaza and has exploded into general use now on the BBC. They resort to it when telling us the actual truth is inconvenient for what they want us to think. These articles are always loaded with irrelevant empathy to ‘suck us in’ to be on their side.

    ‘”We’ve all wanted to go to smaller cities or villages, anywhere we can go, but each of us has loved ones who can’t leave, and we’re thinking of them,” she said. “What we’re experiencing is not fair to any of us, the people of Iran.”‘

    “We’re all trying to get through these days in fear, exhaustion, and a lot of stress, this is extremely hard and painful.”

    ‘ “I can’t just leave Tehran. I can’t leave my elderly parents who can’t travel far and long and leave the city myself. Besides, I need to show up to work. What can I do now?”‘

    Well perhaps you should not tolerate a government who are a major sponsor of Islamic terrorism in the world and have pledge to utterly wipe out the Jews.

    No sympathy at all for these people. Everything we get from them via the BBC is lies. They are second nature to the Muslims and very carefully calculated by the BBC.

    We should fully support Israel. The UN have utterly failed again and these attacks really are the difference between peace and hundreds of thousands of innocent people eventually being murdered with an atomic bomb. Facts the BBC don’t care about : their extreme-Left agenda is all that matters to them.

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    • Guest Who says:

      It is likely as safe in the proximity of military targets installed in populated civilian areas in Iran, as it is in any kindergarden located in Israel.

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  13. king crimson says:

    JohnC – My favourite line in this article is “This is not my war. I’m not rooting for either side.”

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    • JohnC says:

      lol – that one smacks of a typical BBC edit.

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    • tomo says:

      That’s a sentiment I’ve seen expressed by Gazans – promptly edited out of video reports my MSM

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  14. Guest Who says:

    Usually Toenails is tucked into Labour leaders’ tena pants; who is covering TTK Does Canada other than his personal coterie of videographers?

    Seems even a crafted session of him discovering a British pint has turned out to be as accurate as most of his social media monkeys’ efforts.

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  15. Fedup2 says:

    Today watch – forced my self to listen . Really bad day for the BBC agenda . Ready ? Let’s start . The easy stuff

    1 a survey about net zero Green crap a third of people think it is crap – a hoax – after all that propaganda …. And then – people think Green crap will be hugely expensive – true of course – but the survey company – obviously part of the Green crap industry says it won’t be expensive

    2 Israel – doing a great job at destroying the Iranian regime – they got their top spy and more of the Iranian airforce yesterday …doom depression in the BBC

    3 Rape gangs – the BBC will have to talkabout Muslim Paki rape gangs raping white children to impregnate them for Mohammed

    4 the head of the TTK SIS is to be a girl – uptick – but not a Muslim – down tick … maybe she’ll convert – right 77 brigade?

    So pretty doom and gloom

    Btw – the yanks caught the killer of a democrat politician but have left out the fact that he was hired / worked for the dolt who could have been vice President if Harris had won … v strange ( or not really – it’s the BBC propaganda show ) …

    And comrade Robinson is to ‘interview ‘ campaigners for the inquiry – with pixie – who voted against the inquiry – having to announce it this aftenoon in the Marxist commons – expect their Muslim party to scream and scream ..

    In business more companies are leaving the londonistan market – they are not stupid

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    • Sluff says:

      Fedup
      I note your highly accurate post timed at 0724.
      So you may have missed the full-on Islamic Broadcasting Corporation ‘reporting’ from Iran at around 0735.
      Those awful Jews.
      Over in Iran, women and children have been hurt. Missiles have attacked oil depots. People are packing their cars and leaving Tehran.
      Better get Israel to stop then – and let those peaceable Muslims ….errrr……build their A bomb.
      It’s what the Far Left want.
      And just in case you need a little more proof, how about this.
      ‘Nowhere feels safe’

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8xgxdr01wro

      My continuing thesis. Anything, anything that undermines western market economies and democratic governments gains the support of the Far Left.
      And those young male economic chancers from Iran on the rubberised cross channel ferries now have an extra argument with which to claim asylum, so better let them all in.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “the yanks caught the killer of a democrat politician” – I read somewhere that they had voted against funding migrants?

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  16. vlad says:

    Now let’s see how the BBC covers the ‘Grooming Gangs’ inquiry.

    How will they excuse, minimise, bury, justify, avoid, evade, dodge, dilute, deflect, distract, divert, mislead and obfuscate the biggest scandal in decades?

    For a start, how about we drop the genteel euphemistic ‘Grooming Gangs’, and call them what they are: Muslim Pakistani Racist Paedophile Rape and Torture Gangs.

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  17. Fedup2 says:

    Oh wow – the Anglican bishop of Manchester did a thought for the day excusing paki Muslim rape gangs – they’re not that bad because whites do it – and don’t worry – there’s even more domistic sex offences against children – so don’t worry too much about those gangs ,, an effing Anglican bishop ….

    And then there’s a Muslim ex cps type who says an inquiry will be a waste of time and won’t achieve anything —- he must have skin in the game – or not care about what the victims …

    Btw the useless crime agency is now going to ‘investigate ‘ – yeah right … as useful as the ‘border agency ‘ …

    While all this is going on the Marxist state must be looking for another reason to lock up Tommy Robinson …. Who obviously doesn’t get a mention – or apology ..

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Quran says all kids are up for grabs! Inshallah.

      “It is growing (gang r*pe culture), there’s no doubt about that. A large amount of the growth in my view is about raised awareness.” – Cressida Dick @1:40 {youtube}

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  18. MarkyMark says:

    Supporting Israel is Islamophobic?

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  19. Flotsam says:

    Good of Slippery Smarmer to announce the Pakistani rape gang inquiry when he’s away in Canada for the G7 and on a weekend. I assume he don’t be around for PMQ’s on Wednesday and will avoid some awkward questioning. He treats us as idiots.

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  20. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – Another example of BBC wasting TellyTaxpayers’ cash

    Anna Foster – the new girl – is in Jerusalem (on a BBC ‘jolly’) while Nick Robinson is in London or Salford. A colossal example of BBC wasting resources! There is a perfectly good BBC Middle East correspondent in Jerusalem anyway – Hugo Bashega. So what does Anna Foster do? She interviews Hugo Bashega about events in Israel.

    You could not make it up!

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Up2 – I wouldn’t describe a Hamas propagandist like ‘Hugo’ as ‘good ‘….

      Notice how the bbc never explains why evil Iran won’t let it in there – … bit like Rotherham or Bolton or other sharia ‘towns ‘..

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Fed, maybe, maybe. I just wanted to describe Hugo as already there in Jerusalem. No need to send Anna on her ‘jolly’ at TellyTaxpayers’ expense.

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Yes i know what good meant and if i wasnt enjoying myself listening to comrade robinson dancing around his hand bag over paki rape gangs ive have put a 😎up but i dont really like 😎they seem a bit infantile 😎

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Anna Foster (born 1979) is an English journalist, news reporter and presenter. Since 2025, she has presented the Today programme and presents and reports on location for BBC News. Previously, she presented Drive and other programming on BBC Radio 5 Live, was a regular presenter of the News at One, and was the BBC’s Middle East correspondent in Beirut.

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

      ………………………………

      https://www.bbc.com/aboutthebbc/whoweare/staff
      https://www.bbc.com/aboutthebbc/whoweare/chinny-okolidoh
      Chinny is the BBC’s first Group Director of Diversity & Inclusion. She oversees the full spectrum of Diversity & Inclusion efforts across the Group and around the world.

      Annual remuneration (as at July 2024)
      £220,000 – £224,999

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  21. JohnC says:

    Iran launches fresh missile strikes on Israel as conflict enters fourth day
    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c2kqkd03xn5t

    Just been reading this on the BBC and I do believe that Iran are winning.

    Goes to show how much those ‘experts’ on various independent youtube channels know : they told me that Israel have destroyed many, many valuable military targets since it started.

    They should concentrate on going for civilians with random attacks on the people in major cities if they want the best and most complimentary BBC coverage. It seems it’s not a war crime or anything like that.

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  22. MarkyMark says:

    “Remember when this woman would have been ignored by polite society now it’s morning talk shows ,I miss shame”

    “And in 5 or 10 years time she’ll be doing the circuit again saying how she was used and abused and its all men’s fault.”

    The Controversy Around OnlyF*ns Model Bonnie Blue Exposes This About Our Culture

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    Labour Day 1 – rename grooming gangs to “dousing kids in petrol to stop them telling anyone about being raped 10 times a day” … grooming … mass rape … grooming … mass rape ….

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4ynzppk80o
    Some were doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, while others were threatened with guns, made to watch “brutally violent rapes” and warned they would be next if they told anyone.

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  24. MarkyMark says:

    “According to some customers who spoke to the BBC, this fills a gap left by the real police, who they claim they no longer trust to turn up promptly to a 999 call in their villages.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gr103y3leo

    Most burglaries and car thefts go unsolved. A YouGov survey from last month found that 50% of adults in Great Britain held “not very much confidence” or “no confidence at all” in their local force – up from 42% in 2019.

    The government’s police inspector, Andy Cooke, said in a report in 2023 that confidence in police “hangs by a thread” (although his report last year noted some improvements).

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    • tomo says:

      Funnily enough I overheard two young (early 20s) twerps, covered in tattoos with rearward mounted baseball caps with BMX bikes bragging about burglarising , arrests and court.

      What was notable was the contempt these thickoes had for the whole system – they very obviously felt they could continue thieving with near absolute impunity

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      • moggiemoo says:

        And they were correct in thinking so. Only tweets will get you jailed nowadays. And even then, only if you’re not raving Marxist.

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  25. tomo says:

    Rare… not covered really by the MSM who adore the F1 circus

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  26. MarkyMark says:

    “It was our father that brought you the curry, now the national dish…. we are not here to take part, we are here to take over.”

    “Inshallah”

    Funny how you tolerate or accept something, then it gets thrown into you face.

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  27. pugnazious says:

    Hungarian revolution of 1848…Oban better be careful of what he wishes for….the Russians marched in to rescue the Austrians and crush the revolution. Hmmmm….is the BBC saying Russia will march in today and rescue the EU?
    As ever the BBC’s grasp of both history and logic remain a mystery.

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  28. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    There’s a big oilfield in the North Sea.

    UK and Norway can drill into this big oilfield.

    If the UK pumps it out to the mainland we get it for the cost of extraction.
    We (the fanatics in charge that is) let Norway pump the same oil out and we buy it from them when they ship it to us.

    In what way is this good for the UK. It is more expensive, it’s less green with the extra costs and its Norwegian jobs instead of British jobs.
    All to get the same oil out of the same well.

    Of course, it’s not only oil.
    When we buy a ton of steel from abroad the non green part of the manufacture is not counted but if we made the ton of steel here it would be.
    Barmy Milligram thinks we are getting to net zero by having other Nations do the non green stuff and when we buy it, it doesn’t appear on our net zero spreadsheet.

    How can people be so dumb.
    We are INCREASING the carbon etc by outsourcing and we can all see this except the zealots who are (as typical lefties always are) blind to reason.

    Why doesn’t an interviewer put the two cases for say, a ton of steel made here or in China, written down with all the carbon etc, on a simple two column piece of paper and ask them to explain how it’s ‘greener’

    I can’t recall any interviewer asking that. Some mention it but when the lefty go’s off saying world leaders in green technology, wind power, solar panels and the like, the interviewer never follows up or challenges the daft lefty.

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  29. Eddy Booth says:

    “Change of mood in Israel as Iranian strikes hit residential areas”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2kqkd03xn5t
    10:41
    Hugo Bachega

    “For many Israelis, there is a change in mood. Many felt the country’s sophisticated air defence system was impenetrable, a feeling that has changed since Iran launched its retaliatory attacks”

    Stinks of being a made up propaganda article, I’m sure Israelis are acutely aware there’s vulnerabilities; why else would they head for the shelters.

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    • tomo says:

      The BBC see themselves as the controllers and crafters of the public narrative and, as we know – the craft is deployed to amplify their ideologically prescriptive approach to any given situation….

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Has the BBC moved from news to social engineering …. YES.
        “By 2020, the BBC wants its employees to comprise 50% women, 8% disabled people, 8% lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people and 15% people from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds.{bbc.co.uk 14sep2017}”

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        • Lunchtime Loather says:

          Except for the BBC Board, of course. Very white, very male…

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    • Fedup2 says:

      They also know what the stakes are . I wouldnt let enemy BbC people any where near israel…

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    • Guest Who says:

      Huggie Bear mostly certainly running BBC ‘what we would like it to be’ propaganda for Iran there.

      Likely some of that £400M coming back though other channels from the contingency fund that ran Jez.

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  30. Doublethinker says:

    I urge everyone who can to watch the Heretics podcast with David Betz.
    He absolutely nails the state of our country and he makes a strong case for the likelihood of civil war. The two sides being the ordinary British people v a combination of the elite and Islam.
    He gives many examples of how the first tremors of the war can be felt.

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  31. Fedup2 says:

    So which marxist is going to announce the Paki rape gang U turn ?

    The gob dep PM
    Mrs balls doing her angry face
    Jess Phillips – who i submit is barely qualified to clean toilets ( a job i have done )

    No doubt the marxist speaker will close down any comments and ‘move on ‘as quickly as he can ..

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    • Guest Who says:

      With luck, this one…

      https://x.com/lbc/status/1934529123826700339?s=61

      Might even blab some party secrets as she sifts the party template answers in the notes desperately.

      “…er… don’t mention Campion… oh, that was in bold…”

      What… is…the… point… of employing these overpaid parrots of little brain activity, even as cover when Daddy and Mummy have bailed to look stupid elsewhere… when this is the result?

      It is not even like Nick was playing hardball. This was Toenails lite.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        “Have you actually read the report?”
        326K views 8 years ago

        ………………….

        The Mother of the House is an honorific title given by tradition to the female Member of Parliament of the House of Commons in the United Kingdom with the longest uninterrupted service. Since 5 July 2024 the Mother of the House is Diane Abbott.

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  32. MarkyMark says:

    Maybe we should have help onto Iraq?

    Over 150 Iranian drones cross Iraqi airspace toward Israel
    https://shafaq.com/en/Security/Over-150-Iranian-drones-cross-Iraqi-airspace-toward-Israel

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  33. tomo says:

    GAWD

    I just discovered by accident that “The IT Crowd” is a taught subject in GCSE Media Studies

    elsewhere :

    Labour farming policy mess:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Yes, “The IT Crowd” is often a subject of study within GCSE Media Studies, particularly for the Component 2: Understanding Media Forms and Products, specifically the television section focusing on sitcoms, according to The Warren School. Students will analyze the show, comparing it to other sitcoms like “Friends”. This analysis covers various aspects like media language, representation, media industries, audiences, and their historical/social contexts.

      ………………..

      All episodes of the programme are available to stream in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland on All 4, except the fourth episode of series three, “The Speech”, which was removed from Channels 4’s streaming service on the 4 October 2020 for perceived transphobic themes.

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  36. MarkyMark says:

    Keir Starmer paid £54,718 in tax last year
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgnvqvx7dvo

    HA HA HAA!

    ……………

    Revealed: Keir Starmer billed taxpayer nearly £250,000 for travel expenses at CPS
    ………………

    UK PM Keir Starmer’s travels around the world cost taxpayers a staggering £700,000 in the first three months in office
    ……………..
    Keir Starmer received more clothes worth £16,000
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdd4z9vzdnno

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  37. Fedup2 says:

    I see guido has spotted the ‘today ‘ thought for the day where an anti Christian Anglican bishop effectively said ‘Pakistani rape gangs ain’t too bad because they ( men ) are all at it ‘ … approach
    Im sure the Lord will have a word …

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    • tomo says:

      Where’s the Zeus style thunderbolt when you really need one? (for CofE goons)

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Tomo – I mean – that was ‘thought for the day ‘ godless christless Anglican …. No wonder bishops get bashed …

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        • tomo says:

          I’m a bad person for wanting the studio camera to pick up a bright flash and a big crackle on the mic followed by a slowly clearing cloud of smoke … I suppose.

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  38. MarkyMark says:

    Walker began with a sermon familiar to BBC listeners:

    This is not a pattern of offending confined to any particular ethnic cultural or religious group“. I hope that the forthcoming inquiry will help us find ways to keep young girls safe from the groups of predatory older men whatever their origin but it is a natural human tendency to want to think that such horrendous crimes are only carried out by people who are not like us.”

    https://order-order.com/

    …………….

    Archbishop of Canterbury says Islamic rules are incompatible with Britain’s laws which have Christian values
    Justin Welby said Sharia law should never become part of the UK legal system

    …………………

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  39. tomo says:

    Brillo roasted – he absolutely deserves it

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “You are definitely an Islamophobe.” @1:16
      ……………

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Wow the obscene Andrew neill – ten years ago ? – mr Weston held his corner very well against the ayatollah Neill eh?

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  40. Fedup2 says:

    Charles Moore on bbc anti Israel pro Iran bias

    STARTS BBC reporting of the attacks on Iran contrasts with how the corporation covers the Gaza conflict. On Gaza, it repeatedly complains that journalists are forbidden entry to the area by Israel. This then becomes an excuse for repeating uncritically every line of Hamas and the UN agencies.
    In the case of Iran, the BBC reminds audiences that it is not allowed there, but does not criticise Iran for this. Instead, it concentrates on reporting from Israel, where it tries to make as much of the war damage as possible.
    This leads to a severe imbalance of reporting and analysis. In Israel, there is no chance whatever that the democracy will fall apart. In Iran, there is a serious possibility that the autocratic regime will collapse and its leaders flee or die. In global power politics, this is arguably the biggest news story since the end of the Cold War.

    Yet the BBC muffles the plight of Iran and sets up a sort of moral equivalence in which the two countries “trade blows”. It does not remind us that Israel attacked because it is the policy of Iran to destroy it and it has nearly reached the nuclear capacity to do so. Nor does it mention that most of the Iranian attacks target civilians, whereas none of the Israeli ones do. Its reporting also gives the impression that the effect of Iranian bombing of Israel is devastating. It is horrible all right but, so far at least, largely ineffective.
    The BBC even blames the Israeli government that its citizens are bombed, although it fails to find Israeli victims who endorse this line. Signing off from the scene of an Iranian raid on Bat Yam this morning on the Today programme, Anna Foster complained not about the Iranian raids whose effects she had just seen with her own eyes, but about “what has been a dangerous and provocative raid on Iran”.
    The BBC’s next trick will be to acclaim “peace moves”. It would be beyond satire, but not beyond possibility, that it promotes an offer of talks sponsored by President Putin, slyly endorsed by President Trump. ENDS

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  41. MarkyMark says:

    Is Keir Starmer now right of the far right? HA HA HHA HAH AHAHA !

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  42. Fedup2 says:

    For those with an interest – it seems the outgoing Home Secretary is to make a commons statement around 1530 uk time – get the pop corn and blood pressure monitor ready – I’d advise watching it on parliament TV as the BBC will cut away as soon as it can in the usual biased method ….

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    • MarkyMark says:

      1530 “Lessons will be learnt from the lessons that were learnt when the lessons were not completed, but will be learnt from the lessons of the learnt. Tea, biscuits and free heating during the 5 year investigation which will find everyone in the UK is racist and should move out of the UK in the name of tolerance.” (c) Cooper

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  43. Fedup2 says:

    Nick Ferrari interviews a dolt cabinet minister about the Essex – Kent bridge – she didn’t know the cost – didn’t know where it begins and ends – beyond a car crash – it’s on the mail website … DEI cabinet …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Emma Reynolds
      The Economic Secretary to the Treasury
      https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24868/emma_reynolds/wycombe

      Other offices held in the past
      Member, Bank Resolution (Recapitalisation) Bill [HL] Committee ( 5 Feb 2025 to 11 Feb 2025)
      Member, Finance Bill Committee (22 Jan 2025 to 30 Jan 2025)
      The Parliamentary Secretary, HM Treasury ( 9 Jul 2024 to 14 Jan 2025)
      The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions ( 9 Jul 2024 to 14 Jan 2025)
      Member, Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union (11 Sep 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
      Member, Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union (31 Oct 2016 to 3 May 2017)
      Member, Health and Social Care Committee (26 Oct 2015 to 31 Oct 2016)
      Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government ( 8 May 2015 to 14 Sep 2015)
      Shadow Minister (Housing) ( 7 Oct 2013 to 8 May 2015)
      Shadow Minister (Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs) ( 7 Oct 2010 to 7 Oct 2013)
      Member, Foreign Affairs Committee (12 Jul 2010 to 2 Nov 2010)

      …………

      2. Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP
      Cash Cash Cash Cash
      Monetary Monetary Monetary Monetary

      Managing Director – TheCityUK

      Name of donor: British Council
      Address of donor: San Sebastianello 16, 00187 Roma, Italy

      Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): for my husband and myself, accommodation, travel (excluding flights) and meals with a value of £496. My husband only attended some meals.

      Destination of visit: Siena, Italy

      https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=24868&chamber=house-of-commons

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    • tomo says:

      Well, it could’ve been worse, they could’ve given her an ice cream cone and let her plant it inverted on the top of her head, giggle + drool.

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  44. MarkyMark says:

    “Her report of August 2014 revealed an unprecedented scale of reported child sexual abuse within an urban area of this size over a 16-year period”

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

    11 years ago.
    16 year period.
    Both reports stated that a majority of the known perpetrators were of Pakistani heritage.
    Jayne Senior … but had been met with “indifference and scorn”

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  45. G says:

    Whenever I hear it being said by UK/European politicians/(so-called), Conflict “Experts” that Russia is now an existential threat in the short term for Europe I ask myself the question: Where are all the troops and equipment coming from to enable an attack on the EU/NATO?

    Like most mismanaged countries in the West the population growth is in decline. Russia is no exception. But all the commentators/Governments would have the public believe Putin is currently preparing to invade the West the Baltics in particular. Megalomaniac though he is, Putin is incapable of putting the numbers together. Could TTK/EU’s plans for an EU Army be a distraction to hide/control the public who is becoming mightily pissed of with them all?

    January 2024 :

    https://www.newsweek.com/russia-population-drop-2046-worst-case-scenario-1859384

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Britain’s army would run out of munitions just 10 days into a war, ex-defence minister tells Parliament
      ………………
      Why choose from 56? There are as many possible gender identities as there are people, so why not let people come up with their own categories, … Guardian
      ….

      UK Low on Ammo – Endless ON Genders!

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  46. MarkyMark says:

    Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP, The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley, Labour)

    https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/ea736f39-b624-4366-a7c3-831d990b5eb6?in=15:35:15

    Child exploitation and grooming gangs….

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    IT HAS TAKEN 20 YEARS TO BRING THEM TO JUSTICE … 14 YEARS TORY … 6 YEARS LABOUR …

    https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/ea736f39-b624-4366-a7c3-831d990b5eb6?in=15:35:45

    ……………….

    “The criminality to marginalise a minority …. ”
    ………………..
    https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-rape-gang-inquiry-1

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  47. Fedup2 says:

    In the commons the girls on the front bench look like an identity parade of those concealing paki rape gangs ,….

    No apology – no far right – no dog whistle – Jess Phillips wearing a gag …

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  48. MarkyMark says:

    “Need to investigate hot spots like Bradford.” – Kemi

    Why did she now say Bradford city OF UK CULTURE 2025?
    HA HA HAH AH AH!

    https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/ea736f39-b624-4366-a7c3-831d990b5eb6?in=15:59:28

    “Will every one of the 50 towns be covered, including Bradford who are still refusing to conduct an enquiry.”
    https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/ea736f39-b624-4366-a7c3-831d990b5eb6?in=16:02:34

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