275 Responses to Midweek 16th July 2025

  1. MarkyMark says:

    2025… 16 and 17-year-olds to be able to vote in next general election
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c93kkg37n3kt

    2018…Liverpool ‘child asylum seekers’ found to be adults
    Published 8 December 2018
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-46494675

    Date Migrants arrived Boats arrived Boats involved in uncontrolled landings Notes
    9 July 2025 0 0 0
    10 July 2025 573 10 0
    11 July 2025 353 5 0
    12 July 2025 317 6 0
    13 July 2025 132 2 0
    14 July 2025 12 1 0
    15 July 2025 0 0 0
    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats-last-7-days

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  2. MarkyMark says:

    Keir Starmer gives speech at first ever Civil Society Summit

    The Prime Minister will deliver a speech at the government’s first Civil Society Summit, marking a major moment in reshaping how government works with communities.

    ……………….
    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=24831&chamber=house-of-commons

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    • Flotsam says:

      His speech contradicts everything he is doing.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Nobody listens – remember when Corbyn shouted “build bridges not walls” inside a walled compound of Glastonbury? HA HA HAH HAH AH AHAH HA H AHA


        “Look on the wall right over there – there is a message on the wall to Donald Trump (boooooo goes the crowd), build bridges not walls (hooray goes the crowd)”

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  3. Fedup2 says:

    I wonder how many people claiming to be 13/ 14 now will be around at the time of the next general election – if TTK holds one ?

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  4. MarkyMark says:

    “I think it’s really important that 16 and 17-year-olds have the vote, because they’re old enough to go out to work, they’re old enough to pay taxes. I think if you pay in you should have the opportunity to say what you want your money spent on. I’m really pleased that we’re able to bring more young people into our democracy, and give them the chance to have a say over how their taxes are going to be paid and what they’re going to be used.”

    I think if you pay in you should have the opportunity to say what you want your money spent on.

    Date Migrants arrived Boats arrived Boats involved in uncontrolled landings Notes
    9 July 2025 0 0 0
    10 July 2025 573 10 0
    11 July 2025 353 5 0
    12 July 2025 317 6 0
    13 July 2025 132 2 0
    14 July 2025 12 1 0
    15 July 2025 0 0 0

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats-last-7-days

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  5. Flotsam says:

    Votes for 16 year olds? There is no definitive test for age. The Muslim vote has just expanded 200%

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  6. MarkyMark says:

    “And my goodness me(Anna Soubry), she (Halimah Khaled) and members of her (Muslim) community could teach many white British people many a good thing. And if my community, such as as it is, learned more from your community, this country would be a better country.”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/anna-soubry-if-white-british-community-learned-more-from-muslims-then-uk-would-be-a-better-country_uk_59b80b3ce4b027c149e2dd27

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  7. Fedup2 says:

    Here’s a good one from the DT – and I think they might now have someone to fire over the Hamas documentary –

    STARTS When it comes to Israel, no matter how low the BBC sinks, it always finds grim new depths to plumb. Deborah Turness, head of news at the Corporation, has told a staff meeting that Hamas’s government is “different” from its paramilitary wing.
    She made the comments in a meeting called to address the “catastrophic failure” that saw the BBC air the documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone without telling viewers that the narrator was the son of a deputy minister in the Gaza government.
    A leaked video shows Turness claiming that the father was “a member of the Hamas-run government, which is different to being part of the military wing of Hamas”. She adds that “we need to continually remind people of the difference”. It is another slide into the moral morass for an organisation that has spent the two years since the October 7 terrorist attacks assiduously trashing what little reputation it had left as a fair and impartial reporter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
    That reputation will never recover from the Corporation’s decision to continue livestreaming Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury set even as the lead vocalist began leading the crowd in calls for “death, death to the IDF”. The way things are going, Hamas would be well advised to distance itself from the BBC.
    Turness is wrong as a matter of fact and as a matter of law. For years, useful idiots in the British foreign policy arena promoted the fiction that Hamas’s politburo was a separate entity to its paramilitary wing: the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. This allowed the organisation to escape comprehensive proscription.
    That changed in 2021 when the Government concluded that “the approach of distinguishing between the various parts of Hamas is artificial” and that Hamas is “a complex but single terrorist organisation”. A person who invites support for Hamas in the UK, even if they specify only the “political wing”, commits an offence under the Terrorism Act 2000.
    The BBC’s head of news might be expected to know this, but it is not only Turness’s ignorance that is troubling. It is the attempt to downplay the gravity of the editorial failings that put the Gaza documentary on the air and the breach of trust with viewers that it represented. A news organisation that felt sincere remorse over this episode would not be trying to weasel its way out of responsibility.
    The BBC is too rotten to the core with error, arrogance and ideology to be truly contrite, especially when its favourite punching bag is involved. The anti-Israel bias is so systemic that it has become an inextricable part of the Corporation’s identity. It could no sooner give up its hostile framing of Israel than it could ditch the opening theme to The Archers. But a BBC that can’t be even-handed on Israel is a BBC that can no longer be trusted. ENDS

    the hole thing stems from the anti semetism of the BBC – Many of them would have enjoyed watching slaughter of the 7th October – I bet they show it at the Christmas doo s

    The clearest evidence is their refusal to describe Hamas as an Islamic terrorist gang thus opening the door to the bbc being a Hamas propaganda arm – pumping out any Hamas message without verification ..

    The DT has video of turness attempting to justify using a Hamas kid in their video … she must go – wouid be a great scalp for us

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  8. pugnazious says:

    Hamas aren’t terrorists and anyway the Hamas government is not, er, ‘Hamas’…it’s a completely separate entity from the non-terrorists.

    ‘When it comes to Israel, no matter how low the BBC sinks, it always finds grim new depths to plumb. Deborah Turness, head of news at the Corporation, has told a staff meeting that Hamas’s government is “different” from its paramilitary wing.

    She made the comments in a meeting called to address the “catastrophic failure” that saw the BBC air the documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone without telling viewers that the narrator was the son of a deputy minister in the Gaza government.

    A leaked video shows Turness claiming that the father was “a member of the Hamas-run government, which is different to being part of the military wing of Hamas”. She adds that “we need to continually remind people of the difference”. It is another slide into the moral morass for an organisation that has spent the two years since the October 7 terrorist attacks assiduously trashing what little reputation it had left as a fair and impartial reporter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.’

    Sounds familiar….Muslims terrorising us in the name of Islam are not real Muslims we are told…Islam is the religion of peace….totally separate from those wielding the sword in one hand and the Koran in the other.

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  9. Flotsam says:

    interesting that the lowered voting age has been announced when Parliament is right at the end of its session and the day after the last PMQ’s.

    Kids will have to be “educated” about their new rights. Teachers and their Unions are solidly left wing so I can see teaching really being more an indoctrination.

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  10. MarkyMark says:

    Free Glastonbury ticket for every 16year old voter!
    ** includes free migrant for 2 year stay in your house
    *** always read the small print

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  11. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Children given the vote.
    These same children are deemed not mature enough to buy fireworks or superglue, you have to be 18 to do that.
    Not allowed to buy a pint in pubs.

    Almost every day this barmy government comes out with some terrible new way to piss off the majority of the population. Today it’s the vote rigging as most children get brainwashed in school to be raving lefties.
    The growler is changing some voting to proportional representation purely to try and stop Reform.

    Every day something new and awful. Chagos, Afghanistan cover up, Farmers, WFP, NI taxes….so many more very bad decisions.
    TTK and his foreign deals, all rubbish.
    Today he’s signing something with the Germans about immigration. That should stop all the dinghy boys crossing the North Sea from Hamburg to Hull.

    Let’s hope in 2029 at the latest, Nigel does a full 180 on everything this bunch of far left loonies have done.
    First thing, make Brexit 100% out instead of the dogs breakfast the politicians have changed our out vote to.

    By the way, I’ve seen many pictures on the likes of X of a huge mosque fire in Spain, a Notre Dame level fire, yet heard nothing on any news channel.
    Did it happen and if yes, is there a ‘super injunction’ on it?

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  12. vlad says:

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  14. Up2snuff says:

    TWatO Watch #1 – Jonny Dalek Dymond presenting as the Montacutie was long weekending

    Bit of a nightmare for Jonny. The cutaways to pricey BBC correspondents were not heard by the listener on their radios. Maybe BBC Engineering were is a state of high dudgeon over the over-large salaries paid to presenters and took their revenge?

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  15. vlad says:

    The scary case of a white British man detained and intimidated at the border, perhaps for a Fb comment.

    It’s happening increasingly frequently.

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  16. Flotsam says:

    I believe from GBNews the changes to voting age will introduce 10 million new voters, is that right? It seems a lot.

    I’m sorry if I keep harping on about the change but it looks an extraordinary thing to do. It reminds me of the sort of things one used to hear from dictatorial banana republics, we could laugh about stupid Johnny Foreigners and their corrupt regimes. It does in fact look like the sort of thing that used to happen in Nazi Germany. Corruption basically.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Might be more soon….”Twenty-four asylum seekers who claimed they were children after being sent to Liverpool were found to be adults, the city’s council has said.

      The authority said another 15 asylum seekers “should have been identified as children” by the government and accommodated in London instead.

      A Home Office spokesman said age-disputed cases remain “a very challenging area”.”
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-46494675

      “Lawyers know a judicial review will cost a council between £20,000 and £60,000 and use the threat of court to get their client what they want.

      “Fair play to Liverpool for trying to stand up to it. But win or lose, the taxpayer always loses out.”

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  17. MarkyMark says:

    USA…2025…Blastoff! SpaceX launches 26 Starlink satellites from foggy Vandenberg, nails landing

    UK..2025…HS2 trains could now run slower than initially expected when the rail line eventually opens to cut spiralling costs. Mark Wild, chief executive of the government-owned HS2 Ltd, said the flagship high-speed rail project, which is now predicted to cost £100 billion, could open at “reduced running speeds” to save money.20 Jun 2025

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  18. MarkyMark says:

    “Energy which is cheaper, cleaner… collaboration on borders for security.”

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    Date Migrants arrived Boats arrived Boats involved in uncontrolled landings Notes
    10 July 2025 573 10 0
    11 July 2025 353 5 0
    12 July 2025 317 6 0
    13 July 2025 132 2 0
    14 July 2025 12 1 0
    15 July 2025 0 0 0
    16 July 2025 0 0 0
    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats-last-7-days

    While Germany has significantly reduced its direct imports of natural gas from Russia, it still receives Russian gas indirectly through other European countries. Germany’s dependence on Russian gas has decreased drastically since the start of the war in Ukraine, but it hasn’t completely eliminated Russian gas from its energy mix.

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