426 Responses to Midweek 16th July 2025

  1. MarkyMark says:

    “The war in Ukraine has cost the continent of Africa 7 billion.” What the f**k? Cost them or the tax payer?

    “Government spend is like an accordion. Development at one end and soft power. Between diplomacy. And hard power. Cold war spending was at 7%.”

    International Development Committee
    Wednesday 16 July 2025 Meeting started at 10.00am, ended 12.08pm
    https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/837797e1-e7e7-4629-a6c3-c929a69ab0f4?in=10:03:47


    Witness(es): Rt Hon David Lammy MP, Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office; Nick Dyer, Second Permanent Under-Secretary, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office”

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  2. MarkyMark says:

    Palestine government say they will take in all the London Pro Palestine protesters as UK gov release list of those protesting for Palestine in London. Hamas say “After seeing uk treatment of Lucy Connelly, they worry about reprisals.”

    https://www.newarab.com/news/who-uks-new-pro-palestine-justice-minister

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  3. Fedup2 says:

    The lovely Emma chippy Watson( 35?) has been banned from driving because she was dumb enough to ‘speed ‘ in constabularies where they raise revenue doing people for doing 38 in a 30 …..not sure I’ve ever driven that slow

    – anyway ms Watson ‘legal team ‘ blamed the JKR ( or maybe JFK) – for causation because if JKR hadn’t written those books ms chippy wouldn’t be a millionaire aging actress now ….

    Declaration – never read a JKR book nor seen the films …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The Arresto Momentum spell in the Harry Potter universe is a charm used to slow down the velocity of a moving object or person.

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    • JohnC says:

      I’m fedup (pun) with everyone saying JKR is a champion against all the woke Trans nonsense.

      If you read what she actually says, it’s pure misandry. She doesn’t want man-b@stards being allowed to pretend they are women.

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  4. StewGreen says:

    Great interview by the @CorbettReport of Talkshop contributor Ray Sanders about his work reviewing the quality of the UK MET-Office temperature measurement station network.

    podcast : “Who is Ray Sanders, and why is the UK Met Office scared of him?
    Today, Ray Sanders demonstrates how to raise awareness about anti-scientific shenanigans in government agencies and shows what ordinary people can do to bring about real change.”
    https://corbettreport.com/the-met-office-is-scared-of-ray-sanders/

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  5. MarkyMark says:

    In some German supermarkets they have implemented this system to open the refrigerators. #memes

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  6. Fedup2 says:

    Stew was it the ‘best interview since records began ‘?

    The state of the weather reminds me of the fixation they had in the Middle Ages where some ‘event ‘ could be blamed of sinning or similar ….
    It’s frightening that they profess certainty about the causes of ‘weather ‘ when it is a far too complex creature for all those crap models they used…

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Complex when you ask questions.
      Climate change when they want more money and taxes!

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  7. MarkyMark says:

    Another Inquiry ! More !More! Free biscuits and wifi!

    Reform Calls for Statutory Inquiry Into Secret Afghanistan Scheme
    https://order-order.com/2025/07/16/reform-calls-for-statutory-inquiry-into-secret-afghanistan-scheme/

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  8. MarkyMark says:

    Comment “They went from ‘Release the Files’ to ‘Protect the Philes'”
    Comment “FFS, Trump himself kept talking about it FOR YEARS !!!!!
    His hypocrisy is so insulting.”

    It’s never coming out..

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  9. MarkyMark says:

    Comment “Literally imported a foreign army….”

    Afghan super-injunction sh*tshow…

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  10. Up2snuff says:

    TWatOW Watch #1 – the Labour Party trying to blame the Tories for the Afghan Scandal …..

    … assisted by the BBC. The Chair of some House Committee was allowed to rabbit away by the Montacutie; unusually he was a male. Needless to say this is going to cost the taxpayer. Rachel from Accounts is facing an ever deeper black hole. Already the ambulance chasing lawyers are trying to make claims for damages in Court. 🙁 Needless to say the Labour Party have been in Government for a year and should have dealt with this much sooner. Hopefully, some Civil Service heads will roll for this and have their pensions taken away!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Civil Service heads will roll for this and have their pensions taken away” pension and join an NGO!

      …………..
      Amber Rudd
      Non-Executive Director
      Amber joined the Board on 10 January 2022 and is a member of the Remuneration Committee and the Safety, Environment and Sustainability Committee.
      https://www.centrica.com/who-we-are/leadership/amber-rudd/

      External Appointments:
      Non-Executive Director of Ryanair Holdings plc and Pinwheel, advisor to businesses including Equinor, FGS and Centerview Partners, and is a Trustee of RUSI.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Used to be ‘all politics ends in failure’.

        Now it is ‘all failures become politicians’.

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  11. pugnazious says:

    If you didn’t think the government getting the superinjunction lifted and the information released was political then you’re missing something…Labour’s defence secretary this morning demanding that the media ‘hold the last government to account…both Ben Wallace and in particular Grant Shapps’ and then we have the PM…

    ‘Serious questions for Tories over Afghan data breach – PM’

    The BBC has a timeline of ‘key events’….but what’s missing is this….

    ‘While immigration is one of the most potent political topics, MPs have been deliberately kept in the dark about the Mail’s discovery of the Afghan data blunder – and the decision to devote billions of public money to fixing it by bringing in thousands of Afghans.
    The overall projected cost of £7billion was signed off by Chancellor Rachel Reeves and other senior Cabinet ministers at a Whitehall meeting on October 7 last year, according to official papers shown to the High Court. ‘

    Way way down the page we get this…a judge lifted the superinjunction in may 2024….appealed successfully by Sunak but also kept in place by Labour….

    ‘Labour ministers are also facing questions over why the super-injunction was kept in place.’

    Why is that buried way way down the page where few will read it and instead just note the BBC’s loaded headline? The BBC’s second biggest headline.

    The BBC doing its best to downplay Labour’s part in this and the true cost of importing thousands of Afghans…many, many of them who are not entitled to claim any sort of asylum…..and that of course is just the monetary cost…the social and cultural cost is possibly more damaging long term.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98w2e9leywo

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  12. MarkyMark says:

    Navy are showing cool videos of protecting other countries borders, as our kings says borders do not exist….

    Carrier Strike Group – heading Down Under

    heading Down Under – not to the channel
    heading Down Under – not to the channel

    HMS Prince of Wales operations while in transit from Singapore to Australia ahead of multi-national exercise Talisman Sabre 2025.

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  13. vlad says:

    The Muslim Council of Britain and other islamic groups are censoring, silencing and intimidating honest reporting by the media. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to even report terror attacks.
    The BBC, Starmer and mayor Khunt are all too willing to acquiesce.

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  14. wwfc says:

    three stories on the front page of my local paper and its like this ever day

    Two jailed for 15 years after shots fired in a Birmingham supermarket

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    https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2025/07/16/two-jailed-for-15-years-after-shots-fired-in-a-birmingham-supermarket/

    Fake medical practitioner jailed for causing harm during illegal circumcisions in the West Midlands
    Mohammed Alazawi, aged 54, from Essex, carried out a number of illegal male circumcisions between October 2016 and January 2022 on baby boys and older male children.
    https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2025/07/16/fake-medical-practitioner-jailed-for-causing-harm-during-illegal-circumcisions-in-the-west-midlands/

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    Birmingham driver who killed mother and daughter on Boxing Day was ‘racing’ at up to 84mph

    Mohammed Ibrahim, 25, fled the scene after his BMW 420 – travelling “in convoy” with a BMW X3 – crashed into a quad bike and then hit an MG car containing four generations of the same family
    https://www.expressandstar.com/uk-news/2025/07/16/birmingham-driver-who-killed-mother-and-daughter-on-boxing-day-was-racing-at-up-to-84mph/

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    The mother and daughter

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  15. BRISSLES says:

    Queuing in a very large Tesco today – only 2 manned tills were open and the inevitable long queues ensued – (no one wanted to use self service with piled high trollies)….I fell into conversation with the chap in front, and we tut tutted about the state of the shop, which soon turned into the state of the country. I said there’ll be rioting on the streets before long to which he replied “I can’t wait”. Feeling by now he knew me well enough (!) he enthused on his hatred for Starmer and all things migrant until we reached the conveor belt.

    This shows how we all feel as “one” – complete strangers depressed, frustrated and sick to the teeth of the state of this country and only civil unrest will show those in government the depth of feeling.

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    • digg says:

      You are 100% on target Brissles. The depth of disdain that this Labour Government has for its own indigenous people is both a disgrace and dangerous. They are acting as if they are a mini version of the UN.

      I think having someone from a legal background in charge has been a total disaster.

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    • Scroblene says:

      Had you looked across at a small village in Kent, Brissles, you may have seen a column of steam like an Australian geyser, coming from a lovely neighbour, who was just boiling with disgust at this dreadful government and all its failings with illegals, taxation etc!

      And all I asked her right at the beginning was, ‘Emma, do you like David Gilmour’s music’…?

      (‘Live in Gdansk’ gets played most days – sorry, but, for the higher-brows, the finale from Andre Chenier just sends me off into the clouds, somewhere Emma’s steam has finished up…).

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Why queue when you can just grab what you want and walk out?
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  16. BRISSLES says:

    I see many articles are proclaiming how we should be assisting the “helping” Afghans resettle here. Well, we were helped by the French Resistance during WW2, so how many French and their families did we help to assimilate here back then ??

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Ive decided to take up shop lifting . Sainsburys treats me like one so i might as well go for the high value option ….

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      • Scroblene says:

        Fed, be my guest, we may end up in the same Cat! Nick, with Lucy ConnollyI

        I have to confess that I didn’t scan two carrots I bought at Tesco the other day – completely forgot!

        I believe that a Mr Cohen has left a message on the electric telephone recording contraption…

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        • BRISSLES says:

          Cohen ? Cohen? He died back in the mists of time when Betamax, floppy discs and Sony Walkmans were the entertainment’s of choice – are you walking around with Mr Sheen in hand keeping them polished Scrobs ?

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          • Scroblene says:

            There’s absolutely no truth in the rumours about Mr Sheen and me., Brissles…

            I bet Marky Mark will be able to tell us what eventually happened to Jack Cohen’s daughter!

            Wish she was around here now, London would be a much better place!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Owen jones says all the Afghan tea boys are welcome!

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  17. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    About this Afghanistan cover up.

    Why doesn’t somebody come on the tv and say “Lessons will be learned” so that we can immediately forget about it all (and move on to the next disaster)

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  18. digg says:

    Well.. another lynch mob celebrity sacking….

    We have apparently now reached the point where a “claim” by an unnamed individual of a racial slur is enough to have a public broadcaster go into stage 10 panic and throw someone overboard, allegedly without even bothering to tell them to their face.

    This is not the right thing to do in any World in my opinion it’s plain cowardice!

    Everyone deserves a hearing but it seems like certain allegations are too hot to handle with open discussion and must be handled with instantaneous knee-jerk panic-stricken virtue signalling.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Unless it is a new ‘tier’, excusing just those who have the god of woke on their side, it does not sound legal.

      Or a great precedent.

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      • Scroblene says:

        It’s the Beeboid’s instructions to deflect the lumpen TV tax-payers from TTK’s utter failures as a leader, a ‘minister – of sorts’, and his inability to exhibit any personality of attraction, except utter uselessness.

        Useless Eustace used to be a cartoon character in the red top rags years ago – not a bad moniker for someone so awful at his ‘job’.

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  19. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    I see inflation is admitted to be up at 3.6
    Of course, as it’s gone up it’s nothing to do with Two Tear Rachel.
    Its always other reasons when it goes up, it’s only her when it goes down.

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    • Scroblene says:

      I’ve certainly noticed the hike in shopping prices recently – everything seems to be rounded up to the nearest five pence nowadays!

      Remember when a shilling (5p) increase meant that sod all was bought back then…

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    • non-licence payer says:

      I think that you are referring to Paula in accounts. Paula in honour of another halfwit who ran the Post Office.

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    • Pete says:

      Inflation going up is inevitably and all down to our out of their depth TTK and hopeless Reeves.
      If you put NI up for employers which is costing businesses in the UK millions, they gotta get that money back somewhere and stop employing people or go bust of course,
      But don’t worry, this Government is all about growth! Ha, Never going to happen. Only thing thats going up in the Uk is the size of the invading army.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Goes down due to Rishi Sunak!
      Goes up due to world economics!

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  20. StewGreen says:

    Court news on local ITV newsPR
    The Sheffield school stabber says he was suffering from racially motivated bullying
    Since his dead victim is white, that sounds like he is not British
    The theory is that he is Albanian

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  21. StewGreen says:

    When I switched on ITV+! on my neighbours TV
    a message came up
    saying “THis channelis being monitored for BARB statistics, click to opt out”
    My neighbour says he has never had this n=message before
    It’s just a normal internet connected JVC TV

    Spot some people tweeting about this
    One confirms it was the exact same channel

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  22. Richard Pinder says:

    (1) Question for ChatGPT: How many DSMA-Notices are being used by the British Government to hide their crimes?
    *
    Edited answer from ChatGPT: As of recent reports, five standing DSMA-Notices are known, but exact numbers are rarely published. There is no publicly available evidence proving that DSMA-Notices are used systematically to cover up criminal activity by the British state. However critics argue that the system can be used to suppress embarrassing or politically sensitive information. (like the death of Prince Philip by vaccine induced heart disease, and the Queen by vaccine induced cancer)

    (2) Question for ChatGPT: How many superinjunctions are being used by the British government to hide their crimes?
    *
    Edited answer from ChatGPT: The exact number of superinjunctions currently in place in the UK is not publicly available, and by their nature, superinjunctions are designed to prevent both the publication of certain information and the existence of the injunction itself.

    (3) Question for ChatGPT: How many secret courts are being used by the British government to hide their crimes?
    *
    Edited answer from ChatGPT: Five. 1. Closed Material Proceedings (CMPs) – under the Justice and Security Act 2013. To hide torture allegations involving MI6/MI5 or GCHQ activities, allowing the government to avoid accountability in cases involving potential torture, rendition, or complicity in human rights abuses. 2. Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC). To hide national security risks from immigrants accused of links to terrorism. 3. Family Courts. To hide court proceedings from the public after a child has been put into the ‘care’ of the state. 4. Military Courts and Courts Martial. To hide treason by senior military officers and the court. 5. Intelligence and Surveillance Tribunal (Investigatory Powers Tribunal, or IPT). To hide the crimes and complaints against UK intelligence services MI5, MI6 & GCHQ, by using ‘national security’ as an excuse to hide the crimes.

    (4) Question for ChatGPT: How often is ‘national security’ being used as an excuse by the British government to hide their crimes?
    *
    Edited answer from ChatGPT: The use of “national security” as a justification for secrecy by the British government is a real and complex issue, and while it’s legally codified, it has also been criticised as a cover for misconduct or political embarrassment in some high-profile cases. Several well-documented examples suggest the government has used or tried to use national security as a shield against accountability. MI5 was implicated in knowing about torture by the CIA. The UK tried to suppress key evidence, citing national security, the courts rejected this, and the evidence was released. The UK government used ‘national security’ to justify mass interception programs. After exposure, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal found some activities unlawful. National security has been used to delay or prevent accountability in cases of torture, rendition, surveillance, and complicity with foreign powers. Courts and media have sometimes forced transparency, but only after years of litigation. Liberty, Reprieve and Privacy International have long argued that “national security” is overused to protect the government from embarrassment, rather than actual threats.

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  23. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Looking on the bright side.

    There’s so many immigrants that don’t speak English.
    We are getting tens of thousands of interpreters in so there’s one problem seemingly being sorted.

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    • tomo says:

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      • MarkyMark says:

        650 deportations.

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      • atlas_shrugged says:

        This new bit of suing the UK for rescuing the 7000 Afghans is said to likely cost £1B. My guess at £1M per court case would be more like £7B.

        This is a coup by lawyers. They bring illegals in via secret courts then once in the lawyers have a feeding frenzy manufacturing all kinds pur wee victims.

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Did Sadiq Khan used to be a lawyer?
          Born in Tooting, South London, to a British Pakistani family, Khan earned a law degree from the University of North London. He subsequently worked as a solicitor specialising in human rights issues and chaired the Liberty advocacy group for three years.
          ………
          Sir Keir Starmer criticised over tax free pension scheme
          Published 22 March 2023
          https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65037136

          Sir Keir criticised measures in the Budget which scrapped the £1m cap on lifetime pensions savings.

          The Telegraph reported, external Sir Keir got a special “tax unregistered” pension scheme when he stood down as Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in 2013.

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Atlas – im waiting for the first daytime TV advert from shark partners asking for people to claim – I’ve decided to claim for the car finance thing ( im not stupid i pay cash ) as well as for that ship which unfortunately bought boatloads of feckless coloured folk to Blighty to replace British men killed by the Germans (again )

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          • MarkyMark says:

            Fedup2 – make a claim against the Roman invasion and ask for reparations as your great great great grandparents suffered untold losses. Vatican city is a good place to claim against with all it’s riches!

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  24. harry142857 says:

    I haven’t seen much in the national press, but the five year ban on Pakistan International Airways being barred from landing in the UK has been lifted today, after their pilots were flying on forged licences and crashed a plane killing 97.
    Any application would heed to be vetted and approved.
    Apparently they have improved safety procedures, so that’s all right then.

    What could possibly go wrong???

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  25. popeye says:

    The BBC reports that major failings by Prevent allowed the Southport murders and the killing of David Amess.

    Maybe if Prevent concentrated on the real danger, Muslim extremism, rather than the mythical “far-right” they may actually achieve something.

    It would not surprise me if that schoolgirl who wore the Union Flag dress has been referred by lefty teachers

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    • MarkyMark says:

      What is Prevent?

      “They wanted to put up posters saying the law teachers us right from wrong. I had to say that it wasn’t that long ago that the law said it was illegal to be gay. The law is not about morality, but is thew outcome of debates. ” (c) Woman in Hijab who believes in a man who slept with 6 year old and killed the jews in Medina.

      ………………………….

      Comment “Can you f***ing IMAGINE if those teachers had said the same thing to an immigrant child… Every one of them would be sacked on the spot.”

      You Don’t HAVE a Culture…”Daniel Boland”

      Comment “It’s teaching young British kids that their culture is a bad culture, in their own country.🤦‍♂️”

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  26. Up2snuff says:

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1- The Guardian takes the extremism seriously?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ygzxge630o Seventh down from the top is the Guardian. Top left is British Guyanese businesswoman who tried and succeeded in disrupting Brexit. I wonder if Gina Miller is refering to the PM’s and his Party’s desire to take us back into the EU. “Our country is is at a particular traumatic time in history”. You would know, Gina, as you caused some trauma in the past!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      She does not believe in Country – she believes in the EU Federation.

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  27. MarkyMark says:

    Culture…..

    “Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.[To Hindu priests complaining to him about the prohibition of Sati religious funeral practice of burning widows alive on her husband’s funeral pyre.]”
    ― Charles James Napier
    https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/809652-be-it-so-this-burning-of-widows-is-your-custom

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  28. Pete says:

    Yet another route opens up into the Uk then, they can just ask whoever sorted those forged pilots licences to transfer over to the forged passport desk.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Amir Ali Majid’s 20 years of cases and immigration cases need ”

      “20 years of cases”

      Why do we think this is new?

      2017 … Disability TRUMPS Ability. Now all Amir Ali Majid’s 20 years of cases and immigration cases need to be reviewed … Blind immigration judge ‘had no idea of the law or his own powers’ says panel after 12 out of 13 appeals against his rulings succeed

      “Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association chairman Adrien Berry said: ‘It is hard to see how he first passed the judicial exams and then why it has taken so long for his lack of knowledge to be exposed.”

      http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4939586/Britain-s-second-blind-judge-no-idea-law.html#ixzz4uLDYRfTQ

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  29. tomo says:

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  30. non-licence payer says:

    Paula in accounts will have to deal with the unemployment figures tomorrow. No doubt the bBC will be surprised or find the figures unexpected. As ever if they were to nip over here we could help them with the GCSE economics.

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  31. non-licence payer says:

    Anyone found a socialist yet who has given up their TV licence because of the anti-left bias of the bBC? I hear alot about ‘anti-left bias’ but they all carry on paying.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      On a boat to the uk in 3,2,1…”On board the flight were five deportees from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Cuba and Yemen who have been convicted of crimes ranging from child rape to murder, US Homeland Security Department Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in an online post, external.

      “This flight took individuals so uniquely barbaric that their home countries refused to take them back,” McLaughlin wrote on X.”

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  32. tomo says:

    Swaziland is the New Rwanda

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyze8mvzdgo

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Arsenal urged to put Visit Rwanda ‘financial gains’ aside
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cj45z1yq2nzo
      The African nation’s partnerships with Arsenal, Bayern Munich and Paris St-Germain have come under the spotlight after increased violence in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where authorities say 7,000 people have been killed since January.
      ……………..

      Manchester United – £1,790.00
      Two tickets in the Directors’ Box (including dining) at Old Trafford for Manchester United v Arsenal FC (value is approximate) 1790.00 2024-05-12 2024-05-12 Manchester United Old Trafford, Sir Matt Busby Way, Manchester M16 0RA Manchester United 95489
      https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=25353&chamber=house-of-commons

      Changes to the Register of Members’ Interests
      Keir Starmer

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  33. tomo says:

    Wonder if it’s going on tour?

    I’d pay to see it tried at a full HoC

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  34. JohnC says:

    Labour suspends four MPs after welfare cuts rebellion
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y7zqdwzqyo

    Here we have a story of 7 Labour MP’s who voted against the Fuhrer and thus disobeyed orders.

    Of the 7, 4 got the push and are now ‘independents’ whereas the 4 others had all been given ‘trade envoy’ roles and just got those taken away. But are otherwise unpunished.

    The four booted out:
    Neil Duncan-Jordan
    Brian Leishman
    Chris Hinchliff
    Rachael Maskell
    Complete with pictures. They are all white.

    The other 3 are only named once and there are no pictures. They are:
    Rosena Allin Khan
    Bell Ribeiro-Addy
    Mohammed Yasin
    None of them white.

    Racist double standards are strong in our government today. It’s what happens when they become unaccountable because the MSM (who are supposed to be the democratic check-and-balance) are infested with left-wing activists and now totally unfit for purpose.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Mohammed Yasin

      International visit to Oman between 15 February 2025 and 20 February 2025
      Visit Locations:
      Country: Oman
      Destination: Muscat
      Purpose: to foster relations between the legal professions in the UK and the sultanate of Oman.
      Start Date: 2025-02-15
      End Date: 2025-02-20
      Donors:
      Name: Omani British Lawyer’s Association
      Is Private Individual: False
      Public Address: Al Bathari Building, Al Jami Al Akbar St, Muscat 111, Oman
      Payment Type: Monetary
      Payment Description: Flights (£2,260.19) and hotel accommodation (£1,049.28)

      https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=25649&chamber=house-of-commons

      Azad Government of the State of Jammu & Kashmir – £707.00
      Payment Type: InKind
      Payment Description: Transport was provided for me and up to six other family members during my recent trip to Pakistan
      Value: 707.00

      Name of donor: Speaker’s Office, Government of Pakistan
      Address of donor: Constitution Avenue, G-5/2 Islamabad, Pakistan
      Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Return flights to Pakistan (£941.46) and three nights’ full board accommodation (£286.53), value £1,227.99
      Destination of visit: Pakistan (Islamabad)

      ame of donor: (1) The Great Britain China Centre with sponsorship from Prudential Plc and China International Capital Corporation; (2) All-China Youth Federation
      Address of donor: (1) 15 Belgrave Square, Belgravia, London SW1X 8PS; (2) 10 Qianmen Dongdajie, Dongcheng District, Beijing

      Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): (1) International Flights £1,586.50; (2)

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  35. Pete says:

    TTK lost control of his own party, as well as the country, even with help if the msm who’ll ignore this racism. Msm telling us all this morning we have to let the thousands of Afghans plus their extended families etc come to UK because we can’t trust the Taiiban not to hurt them because the Taliban are a murderous regime, odd though that msn don’t seem particularly concerned that we could be importing the 3rd world Taliban army into the Uk every day across the Channel for all our Government cares.

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  36. Fedup2 says:

    Excellent news

    BBC reports that unemployment is continuing to rise …but does use the word ‘up’ or ‘increasing .. nor does it say the actual number ….
    It is clearly something the BBC doesn’t want to report …. At least the Marxists are growing something – not economy – but unemployment …. And if the hand outs are good – why bother going back to work ….?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “The UK jobs market has weakened further as the number of job vacancies continues to fall and wage growth slows, according to official statistics.
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg754negn75o

      “The number of job vacancies is now at its lowest in 10 years, excluding the plunge seen during the pandemic when lockdowns stopped firms from hiring.””

      NO mention of Rachel from Accounts or Kier or Labour or Tory Austerity in the BBC news.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        With a bit of luck – as the NI effect gets stronger – and Rachel from accounts punishes businesses with more taxes to feed their union friends – the economy will really tank and they won’t be able to borrow anymore money for their ‘plans ‘ = general election in 2026 please …

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        • MarkyMark says:

          As they say in the Leeds Councillor committees in the UK today – Allah Akbar!

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    • JohnC says:

      My cousin recently got made redundant.

      He is claiming jobseekers allowance while he can but has not intention whatsoever of getting another job.

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  37. Nico says:

    Bring out the gimp?

    Anyone ever had a passport expire? If so were you stateless when it did?

    Rochdale rapists who have swerved deportation for well over a decade may finally be deported. The latest reason for not doing so was that they had ripped up their passports and were thus “stateless”. Utter hornswoggle and frightening lack of backbone by our dear leaders.

    Pakistani International Airlines banned for years after safety concerns resulting in a downed aircraft during Ramadan. A Pakistani minister claimed afterwards half their pilots had fake licenses. (makes you wonder about those doctors that build Britain). Same airline sacrifices a goat before a flight.

    Gimp time:

    In exchange for the opportunity to deport their rape obsessed citizens we have agreed to lift the ban on this airline. We have increased aid to Pakistan this year from around 40 million a year to 133 million. Seems we had some leverage there but instead we will allow pilots who do not know which lever to pull to blight our airspace.

    It is getting difficult to cope with the shameful cowering weakness our politicians extend on our behalf, and the emptiness of their juxtaposed rhetoric of strength and keeping Britain “safe”.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Budget Programme budget total by year approved at the Programme level to date.
      Current finacial year – 2025/2026
      £89.3M

      https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk/countries/PK

      Making development assistance more transparent
      Our work is building a safer, healthier, more prosperous world for people in developing countries and in the UK too. This site shows in detail the international development programmes led by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), other government departments and partners.

      ……….

      “…and it shouldn’t have been our high commissioner (UKs) called in by the Pakistani Government to be lectured, we should have pulled in the envoy of Pakistan here and said ‘Stop that right now (protesting by blowing things up), or do without the aid we give you (Pakistan) …'”
      – Christopher Hitchens had a point in 2007

      Episode Broadcast 21st June 2007.

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  38. Fedup2 says:

    I think the next steps with superinjunctions is that the government will get a super injunction for something so ‘tricky ‘ that they won’t tell the court what it is for ….. free country indeed …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      super duppa mega Injuncton for Lucy Connelly.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        One does get a ‘vibe ‘ that there are other superinjunctions floating about …. And now that we have seen how easily it is to conceal a huge failure we know that when it comes to accountability we can whistle for it .

        Britainistan is not a free democracy – it’s now something third world bananery ….

        Will there be a public inquiry into the afgee thing – no – or one so fixed that it’s only worth it to the lawyers …

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Afghan Inquiry will be held by Keith “washing machine sales man” Vaz and Gary “rat fans” Lineker with Rishi “eat out to spread it about” Sunak in charge of finances!

          It will last 10 years and the maths will be produced by Diane Abbott Mother of the UK Parliament.

          ………….

          Critics of super-injunctions have argued that they stifle free speech; that they are ineffective as they can be breached using the Internet and social media; and that the taking out of an injunction can have the unintended consequence of publicising the information more widely, a phenomenon known as the Streisand effect.
          …..
          In October 2020, the New York Post published emails from a laptop owned by Hunter Biden, the son of then Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, detailing an alleged corruption scheme.[35] After internal discussion that debated whether the story may have originated from Russian misinformation and propaganda, Twitter blocked the story from their platform and locked the accounts of those who shared a link to the article, including the New York Post’s own Twitter account, and White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, among others.[36] Researchers at MIT cited the increase of 5,500 shares every 15 minutes to about 10,000 shares shortly after Twitter censored the story, as evidence of the Streisand Effect nearly doubling the attention the story received.[37] Twitter removed the ban the following day.

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  39. MarkyMark says:

    BREAKING FAKE NEWS: Breaking Fake News: “Palestine government say they will take in all the London Pro Palestine protesters as UK gov release list of those protesting for Palestine in London.
    BBC Hamas spokesperson says “After seeing UK treatment of Lucy Connelly, they worry about reprisals.”””

    https://www.newarab.com/news/who-uks-new-pro-palestine-justice-minister

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  40. atlas_shrugged says:

    Oh noes. German leader Merz is coming over to do a deal with Der Starmer.

    More swapping of illegals and tax payer money down the plug-hole I suspect.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      2017 The country has long offered migrants and asylum seekers financial incentives to leave its shores, and until 28 February 2018 it’s prepared to pay out extra.

      Individuals will get €1,000 and families up to €3,000 (£2,650; $3,540) to cover rent or resettlement costs back in their home countries – things like basic kitchen or bathroom facilities.
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42235232

      …………….

      2010 … Merkel says German multicultural society has failed
      Published 17 October 2010

      ……………
      Angela Merkel zanika Nemško zastavo (SEE Ursula von der Leyen
      the NEW LEADER OF THE EU)

      Merkel grabs flag from man in embarrassment!
      …………….
      Germany previously imported around half of its gas from Russia and more than a third of its oil.

      But Russia cut off the country’s gas supply in August, while Germany halted Russian oil imports at the start of the year. 18 January 2023
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64312400

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  41. Fedup2 says:

    The mail on line has done a bit of journalism ( rare ) and looked at the accounts of various BBC favourites who get paid through their ‘production ‘ companies …..to find out who really is the highest earner of taxpayers licence money .

    Now – I admit – I don’t know who most of them are – nor do I care – but when someone called dick osmand gets £3million through his company people deserve to know …

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  42. Fedup2 says:

    I’ve started to trawl through the recently published BBC Annual Report – these – it claims – are its’ aims

    STARTS

    To provide impartial news and information to help people understand and engage with the world around them

    Our goal is to deliver outstanding value to all audiences as a universal public service. And, in doing so, to make a unique and invaluable contribution to the UK’s national life.

    To support learning for people of all ages

    To show the most creative, highest quality and distinctive output and services

    To reflect, represent and serve the diverse communities of all of the United Kingdom’s nations and regions and, in doing so, support the creative economy across the United Kingdom

    To reflect the United Kingdom, its culture and values to the world
    ENDS

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    • Flotsam says:

      The BBC demonstrates the effectiveness of Mission Statements

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “To reflect the United Kingdom, its culture and values to the world”

      Bradford, City of UK Culture 2025

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  43. taffman says:

    Looking at all the news today, where is ‘Panorama’ when you need them ?

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  44. Scroblene says:

    A new TV series, ‘Buck-pass Abbey’ – a classic tale of obfuscation, lying, legal roll-overs, weak individuals, a few more lies chucked in, and a general wish too keep The Great British Public away from an absolute disaster regarding thousands of illegal immigrants!

    Starring the whole of the Blue Labour Cabinet and the whole of the Red Labour Cabinet, plus a few sundry Lib Dems and other oddities…

    Filmed in glorious black and white by any old ‘documentary producer’ the Beeb can rustle up at the drop of a fake rupee!

    Coming to your screen in a few months time, while the ‘recess’ is still in full flow, so they can avoid the flak!

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    • Guest Who says:

      In this episode the entire house, from top to actual workers (definition pending) are on tenterhooks at the possible arrival of a senior walking humiliation. Seems his Jag didn’t turn up.

      https://x.com/politlcsuk/status/1945442360105587001?s=61
      Qu: Kemi Badenoch asks what Keir Starmer will be doing over the summer to “get a grip on the cost of borrowing”

      Starmer again fails to Ans: “They left the most incredible mess, and now they think they can lecture others”

      And yet still idiot media think this serves the public.

      #ccbgb

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  45. AsISeeIt says:

    Bleakly predictable edition

    They do say military intelligence is a contradiction in terms

    Inside the MoD’s shambles… Military culture is rotten on tech, claim defence sources (i paper)

    Afghan Whigs?

    However, your Mr AsI’s rule of thumb is to assume blame is such cases as our present Afghan scandal tends to lie with our liberal-minded politicians and officials…

    The Home Office tried to stop a secret £7bn plan to grant asylum to 24,000 Afghans… James Heappey… who was Armed Foreces minister at the time, was put in charge of the scheme and was accused of using “emotional blackmail” to force it through… defence ministers were accused by colleagues of being “totally incompetent” during high level meetings held in secret (Telegraph)

    The Afghan Whigs are an American rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio. They were active from 1986 to 2001 and have since reformed as a band. – thank you Wiki

    The Whig Party contested power with their rivals, the Tories. The Whigs became the Liberal Party when the faction merged with the Peelites and Radicals in the 1850s – thank you AI

    One notes departmental elements of the former Tory-branded administration are now fighting one another like rats in a barrel so as to pass the buck.

    How’s that bright Tory chap Rishi Sunak doing these days?

    Wind in the Willows

    Rishi Sunak visits Newton-le-Willows to see village spirit… praised the community spirit of a North Yorkshire village during a recent visit… He viewed the recently installed Quoits pitches, which have quickly become a popular addition to the village. (Northern Echo) – Ah, good to hear he’s still looking after some of those unglamorous constituency duties. I suppose the late lamented Norman Tebbit might have said of our Indian heritage former British PM that he has passed the Quiots Test.

    Former PM Rishi Sunak takes job at Goldman Sachs (BBC)

    How’s that side gig working out, Rishi?

    Goldman profits surge… Profits at US bank have risen more than a fifth… a surprise pick-up in investment banking added to record equity trading (FT)

    Any globalist-inspired corporate-crony New World Order WEF-Davos-flavoured advice for us, Rishi?

    Rishi Sunak: A 21st-Century Democratic Alliance. More defense spending is necessary but not enough. We also need cooperation on trade and technology. (Wall Street Journal)

    In further parochial news

    Rapidicus Ridiculous Automobilum Lefticus Actressius Prohibitus

    Emma gets 12 points (Daily Star); Harry Potter actress… Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding (BBC)

    They do say one should separate the art from the artist. I wonder about separating the man from the soufflé?

    Second Masterchef sacking… BBC’s Kitchen Nightmare… Crisis in global hit show as celeb series may not be aired (Mirror)

    Crisis in global hit show? I know Rishi Sunak was warning us about these sort of global crises but let’s not let things get out of proportion here.

    Rishi Sunak: The next decade will be one of the most dangerous yet most transformational periods the world has ever seen. Democratic market states must seize this moment and shape it. If they don’t, it will be the axis of authoritarian states—China, Russia, Iran and North Korea—that takes advantage of this opportunity. (WSJ)

    Wrong type of rain?

    And finally, on a morning when the jokey blokey Daily Star points to: Leaky Bum Time! – for: Drippy Thames Water chief Chris Watson blames rain for an increase in leaks – just days after bringing in hosepipe bans

    So the in-the-tank for Labour Daily Mirror takes care to wipe the arse of our mass-immigration mongers…

    We owed these Afghans loyalty…

    And our generous hospitality is returned with: Afghans’ £1bn blunder compo… (The Sun); Thanks for saving us, now we’ll sue you… Scandal takes bleakly predictable twist as ambulance-chasing lawyers cash in (Mail)

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Rishi Sunak: India glee over new British PM
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-63370153

      Others use colonial references: “Sunak: Ex-India Company set to run Britain,”said The Telegraph, alluding to the firm that controlled large parts of India with its mercenary forces. Dainik Bhaskar, a Hindi-language newspaper, ran the headline: “Another Diwali gift to the nation, Indian-origin Rishi to rule the whites”.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Thames Water’s chief executive has defended bosses getting £770,000 in bonuses despite regulators saying it was not justified,

      https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24784278.thames-water-boss-defends-bonuses-repeats-calls-bill-hikes/

      Chris Weston, who took on the job at Thames Water in January, has called for steep hikes to consumer bills to be approved next week.

      Mr Weston said: “We need to attract talent to this company… If we don’t offer competitive packages, people will not come and work at Thames.”

      “I completely understand that there are customers out there who struggle with their bills,” he added, pointing to bills support offered to about 377,000 customers in the last year.

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      • Sluff says:

        The benchmark for this was surely Fred Goodwin, who, despite bringing his own company to its knees, was still entitled to a performance bonus. I seem to think the Lloyds CEO was in a similar position.
        Which begs the two questions 1. How appallingly do CEOs need to perform in order not to get a bonus and b. Who sets their objectives and why are they not accountable?

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  46. Sluff says:

    I see the BBC have already relegated the biggest scandal of our times- the cost to the taxpayer and our culture of the Afghan data farce- to the bottom of the News webshite.

    Indeed the basic story has disappeared altogether, to be replaced by the ‘you can’t make it up ‘ story of an Afghan previously rejected from being allowed to come to the UK getting resettlement priority after he himself posted some of the names on Facebook.

    He should be charged of course for blackmail but what is the betting he will get ambulance chasing lawyers to sue the government.

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  47. Flotsam says:

    Breaking News

    Labour are giving votes to 16 year olds.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Ms Begum is one of three east London schoolgirls who travelled to Syria in 2015 to support the IS group. She was born in the UK to parents of Bangladeshi heritage and was 15 when she left. She married an Islamic State fighter soon after arriving and went on to have three children, none of whom survived.25 Mar 2024

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-53428191

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  48. JohnC says:

    So two conflicting piieces of evidence. One direct from a terrorist responsible and another from people we have no reason to doubt.

    First:
    ‘Syria leader vows to protect Druze after sectarian violence prompts Israeli strikes’

    Second:
    ‘The fighting escalated and government forces were accused by residents and activists of killing Druze civilians and carrying out extrajudicial executions.’

    So which one do the BBC choose to make the main, front page headline ?. The terrorists murdering civilians or the terrorist leader saying they didn’t ?.

    A tricky choice because they are both Muslims but the minority are the ‘wrong flavour’ and so are being persecuted by the others. They would be ‘oppressed freedom fighters’ in other circumstances but as they are aligned with Israel, the BBC choose to support the side of the terrorists.

    So the terrorist leaders statement is the headline and the claims of executions and murder by his people is hidden somewhere in the text.

    Absolutely disgusting and absolutely typical of the BBC as it is today. They do exactly the same with Hamas whose word they rank higher that that of the properly and democratically elected government of Israel.

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  49. andyjsnape says:

    bbc reports:-

    Voting age to be lowered to 16 across UK by next general election

    All those clueless students

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  50. digg says:

    Labour announces 16 and 17 year olds can vote at next election, coming soon Cows and Sheep will be allowed to vote but because they won’t be able to read the voting slips it will be assumed as intelligent life that they will all want to vote Labour….

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    • MarkyMark says:

      1 vote = 1 year on ukraine front.

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    • moggiemoo says:

      ‘… will be assumed as intelligent life that they will all want to vote Labour….’ Doesn’t that rather disprove the ‘intelligent life’ part?

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Allah Akbar – as they say in the Leeds Councillor meetings (not on Friday due to Prayer times)

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